skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The states negotiated terms before they agreed to join. Not having a popular vote is part of the reason why we have a federal system in the first place. People can argue pros and cons, but it's fairly meaningless since we're already in an established deal, and it's very unlikely that the many states will agree to undo that deal.
Online dating and women's hypergamy
> "obviously slow at least without extra effort to setup things like gpu pass-through."

AFAIK unless you have a desktop computer filled with gpus on pciexpress slots there is no way you can use GPU passthrough on multiple VMs.

That kind of defeat the purpose of qubes os no?
I believe they do, but I couldn't confirm, so I didn't mention that.
It's not fresh in my memory, but I recall being extremely annoyed at the Elden Ring wiki around the release of the game; not for lack of being filled out, but the site was just not fun to use.

Truth be told, it appears that Weird Gloop/mediawiki has a bit of a monopoly on wiki platforms that don't suck.
Depends on what part of EU you are in. From older HN threads I learned that in some countries people still pay for sending text messages, so I guess that makes it more likely that some app can become popular there.
Thanks (seriously). Fandom may not be great, but you could have said I don't want to foot the bill, turned off the servers and walked away. Then the community would have lost every thing. Leaving it with Fandom gave Weird Gloop something to start with instead starting from scratch.
Just FYI I signed up and your "Confirm Your Signup" email went into our junk mail (o365)

e: and the magic link doesnt work:
Sorry, we could not authenticate you. Please try again.
Yes and Windows in that time period had massive issues with security and culture. The culture of downloading and running EXEs from the internet quickly caught up to everyone, and not in a good way.

Also the "big idea" is that those applications aren't portable. Now that primary computers for most people are phones, portable applications are much more important.
Doesn't cement early leaders at all, since, the moment you win the prize, there's another one immediately offered for the guy to beat you.
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Windows shipped on DVDs. I'm not sure why you made your comment. Of course a system must support it, and plenty of ~20 year old systems did.
> Can someone explain to me what the difference really is between WASM and older tech like Java Applets, ActiveX, Silverlight and Macromedia Flash

As well as the security model differences other are debating, and WASM being an open standard that is easy to implement and under no control from a commercial entity, there is a significant difference in scope.

WebAssemply is just the runtime that executes byte-code compiled code efficiently. That's it. No large standard run-time (compile in everything you need), no UI manipulation (message passing to JS is how you affect the DOM, and how you ready DOM status back), etc. It odes one thing (crunch numbers, essentially) and does it well.
Also http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
Author here. Would be happy to answer any questions people have. I learned a lot from making this, and think a lot of it would be interesting to others making web apps in Python.
I think I actually like what they are doing. They're using a combination of Stimulus and HTMX, which I think is a more valid approach than the approach that Hey (the email and calendars site) and many others take, where practically every interaction streams HTML over the wire as opposed to what David and his team are doing where it gets the information on page load so that you arent waiting around for content to come over the wire. I think this approach is how HTMX should be used, but it often is used in a similar fashion to how Hey works, and I think that's the major flaw, take what I say with a grain of salt, but I dont think HTMX pushes the idea that you should preload stuff very well.
Are there any valid reasons people might not like this or is it only "regressive stigma?"
If Google were to have the astoundingly poor business sense to secretly allow payment for higher 'organic' search rankings: they'd hopefully at least have the good sense to not blow that secret on a fish as small as Fandom.
Apparently "sabre-toothed" salmon is really a misnomer - more like tusked salmon.

https://news.uoregon.edu/saber-no-more-giant-prehistoric-sal...

Another very cool fossil site in LA is the La Brea Tar Pits museum, which still has tar pits on the museum grounds, and has real sabre-tooths (lions) and other critters like mammoths that got trapped in the tar pits.
Thanks, I had the same problem.
Sure, but over 50% of the assets held by banks in the US are held by five banks.

That’s about double the percentage in 2000. Things have changed a lot and the trend continues.
Caveat: This is in my view not just a technical achievement, it also works because some library authors play nice. And because things where standardized from the get-go, instead of evolving organically/provided much later by users.

I think the main thing that Julia gets right is that there are de-facto standardized interfaces for a lot of things that are actually followed/used.

E.g. in C++ on the other hand, you have a bunch of libraries that bring their own primitives, like all the Matrix classes-- their is no interface for those, and even if their was, it would be a pita to write C++ code that was able to work with a bunch of difference primitives here. So the problem is not only that it would be a lot of work to write C++ code to be "primitive-agnostic" (=> you would basically have to soak your codebase in templates), there are not even common expectations for you to build upon (like: does a matrix class provide rowncnt()? or rowCount()? or size(1)?, or nrow()? => if there is no common ground not even extensive template magic is gonna save your day).

Julia also makes it super easy to write type-agnostic code in general ("dynamically typed"), which is simply not the default and/or extra effort in many other languages.
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You have one chance. Don't screw it up. (2020)
The Lisa User Interface
Three friends and I summited Vulcan Misti in Peru (~19k ft) over 2 days with no altitude training. All of us came from sea level, had 2 days to acclimate staying in the town nearby (~7k ft). This was a year out of college, all of us were D3 athletes so reasonably fit but probably not considered elite level fitness.

The altitude impact was no joke, but for whatever reason it affected all of us to different degrees. I just felt a little more winded than usual, had to take my time a bit but was overall fine, whereas one of the group had a rough go of it, needed frequent breaks and vomited a couple times. The other two were somewhere in between.

So I'm sure being fit helps, but it seems there's more to it than that.
It's hard running and managing wikis, and anyone/org/group that does so outside of the auspices of fandom or similar trash-aggregation hosts should be celebrated. Love this for weirdgloop. On a related note, shoutout to liquipedia[1], which has been a great experience for so long (a number of years I refuse to recognize as it would prove I'm old), and I have always feared the possibility of it moving to or becoming a fandom.

[1]https://liquipedia.net/
"I am not affiliated in any way, financially or otherwise" expands to "I am not affiliated in any way financially or affiliated in any way otherwise [than financially].

Such an general affiliation could include having a friend who works at WPEngine, being a customer of WPEngine, and many other possibilities.

Several wordpress community members have asked for clarity here, and been banned for asking. Matt refuses to provide clarity, apparently because he prefers people to be afraid of having any connection at all to WPEngine.

That is why the article mentions a lawyer: Matt's response to questions is that the questioners should hire a lawyer to figure out what Matt's own wording means. That sounds like a bad faith response to me.

> you don't say you're "affiliated" with someone just because you're a user/customer

A customer affiliation is included in "affiliated in any way", and constitutes a financial affiliation, too. If Matt didn't want people to interpret the checkbox in this way, he should have picked more specific wording and/or answered questions with something better than 'hire a lawyer'.
I'd do pretty much what I do now, to be honest. Although my dev work would be projects that I choose on the schedule I choose rather than the ones required by my job.
VMware ESXi does.
Until retirement, based on personal experience.

Depends on the job, how bad is it really? All jobs are bad in some way in my experience, but I need to earn and I don't have the motivation to do my own thing in a way that would make a comparable lifestyle.
> Most devs are lazy, and would rather sweep complexity under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist until it becomes a real problem they can't ignore anymore.

It's the opposite for me. I would put more effort into Rust, but I'm not going to invest in learning how to write safe rust if my libraries are built on unsafe.
Thanks! That's why I posted this here to see if people would resonate with this or not... I've only worked a couple of weeks on this and I had the same questions!

Can I ask what you ended up building? Is there a website for it?
Shrug. That’s a very different goal. Yes, if you want to leverage a different style your best bet is to train a Lora off a dozen images in that style.

Art made by unskilled randos is always going to blur together. But the question I feel we’re discussing here is whether a dedicated artist can use them for production grade content. And the answer is yes.
It’s also the Japanese Emperor.
Same here.

Prior to my discovery that fandom was bad and a lot of wikis were moving away, I was following so many instances of out dated info in games I was playing due to not realizing that the wiki was no longer maintained since the active contributors had moved elsewhere and updates/patches to the game had rendered the info moot.
The Web is portable, operating systems are not. Windows and Mac, being short-sighted, did this to themselves. Nobody can agree on anything, Microsoft is constantly deprecating UI frameworks, and it's not convenient at all to write local apps.

It's only JUST NOW we have truly portable UI frameworks. And it's only because of the Web.
More or less. Money provides an environment where high achievement becomes possible, it isn't just start up funds.
I actually did file a complaint, but the FCC rejected it for reasons that I were not communicated.
Thanks! Glad you found it funny too! :)
I ran into this issue before when building a magic link system. Seems Microsoft visits the link to check for risks, which in turn nullifies that link before it hits your inbox. Fun times.
Forked Wordpress with less weird leadership?

Like, honestly, a WP-Engine-maintained fork seems like a... not-improbable outcome of all this nonsense.
These are hosted by weirdgloop.org ... but as far as I can tell without a common known good domain it's hard to know if you're looking at a "good" wiki or "bad".
Higher population spreads out the cost of technology making it affordable. Right now 5 workers support every retiring boomer, this will drop to less than 2 in our old age.

Spending time in the wild may be more unlikely as the time required to maintain a lifestyle grows beyond the number of hours in a day.
Pollution has more to do with high intensity resource usage and unpriced negative externality than the # of people who are alive. For example, meat is much more energy intense because you require farmland to not only feed people, but also the cows. It also pollutes more, in addition to being more expensive to buy, but not expensive enough to cover all the damage being done to the environment.

Also, increased efficiency is a form of economic growth. We are after all doing more with less.

Another important thing to consider is that population size allows and enable certain economic activities to exist. For example, I go to theater and do theater activities, but theater can only exist if enough people go to theater. That threshold can be more easily reached if your theater is in a city.

If you want computer to exists, you need a certain amount of specialists dedicated to that. You need a large population because not everyone cares about computing and there are essential tasks that first need to be taken of such as agriculture and grocery stores and trains.

Finally, economic growth is desirable the same reason improving technology is desirable. It enables more capabilities. The bad side is when we abuse these capabilities, not that these capabilities are bad in itself.
I'm pretty sure, given Matt's history of acting erratically and in a way that harms innocent people, that the questions asked were in good faith.

If no legal interpretation of that checkbox would reach that same conclusion, Matt would have just said that, rather than banning the questioner and leaving the question unanswered except for 'contact a lawyer'.

The best way to "solve" the situation would be Matt acknowledging he was in the wrong to harm innocent people, and simply remove the unnecessary checkbox. The only reason it exists is his personal crusade against WPEngine and anyone and anything associated with it "in any way".
It’s not the spoon that bends, it’s the world around it.
Slightly ad hoc funding (which is probably sensible, spread it around):

https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/Weird_Gloop_Limited

Some donations, some ads, and contracts (one so far) with companies that benefit.

It all looks very Wikipedia-like. I wonder if the WMF could be persuaded to throw some of their massive pile of cash in this direction, in the public interest? But then Weird Gloop would probably have to be a non-profit.
I'm sure he's telling the truth.

That said, if I had released a project under a pseudonym and somebody tried to out me as the real author, I'd deny it too.
In a lot of cases older is better.

See also https://github.com/lynxthecat/cake-autorate for an active measurement tool...
Actually I did some very simple search and most results were about my local lake, so I figured that the context was different enough, we'll see.
You and your team made (a good portion of) my childhood. I remember spending nights studying all the potion recipes and enchantment odds. Thanks for all you did
But that’s missing a few steps. First they banned all those technologies saying JavaScript was sufficient, then only later made wasm.

There never was a wasm vs applet debate.
That's just a comparison to Star Trek, which is set in an imaginary universe where things _do_ exceed the speed of light.
> What's the case for higher population?

I don't think you understand the math of this. It's not that anyone wants a higher population, it's that the spectrum is a little screwed up. There's this line in the middle (fertility rate 2.1), and anything to the right of that is "population spirals out of control". Then everything to the left of it is "human extinction in just a few centuries".

We're currently on the "human extinction in a few centuries". And all the arguments that we're not are positively stupid. People seem to think that we're like moose on some island, that "population bounces back" (it does for animals, because their fertility rate never goes below replacement, so when population pressures subside, their populations recover). Every time you ask "what's the case for higher population", you're actually helping to murder our entire species.

If you were rational, you'd be pushing the idea that we need that 2.1 fertility rate, the one that doesn't result in higher population, and doesn't result in human extinction.
Yeah, I mean, look at Elon Musk's buy of Twitter. Morgan Stanley and others secured about US$6bi? That's more on them than on Elon

PS: I am aware that Elon's shares on other companies were used as collateral, but yet...
I suspect it may be bigger than this. Whether FedEx or UPS delivers a package to me, the same porch pirate from a state away is parked off the highway in front of my place. If I scope him from the house, he is leaning back and waiting for the truck. If he sees me going to confront him he puts his chair back all the way and pretends to be asleep even if I bang on his car. He always leaves before the sheriff or troopers get here. Anyway... He always knows if a delivery is over a few hundred dollars. If I had to guess there is likely a middle party that is leaking data to small crime syndicates. Maybe someone here knows what 3rd parties are involved in logistics to these delivery companies.
Abandoned houses with no youthful labor to repair will have little value as a place to live. It’s not like available housing in Montana will change prices near NYC.
Life Won't Wait and 2000 were fun!
Hurricanes Cause Millions More Deaths Than Reported
> Amazon started the serverless age of compute with Lambda

Google App Engine (2008) predates Lambda (2014) by 6 years!
Declarative UIs Are the Future – and the Future Is Comonadic (2018)
Dont give them any ideas
And a complete TCL spec.
Ah I see, yes agreed, we'll update that asap! Thanks
Would you say it is more or less important than gender?
> Thermodynamics applies to closed systems, which the earth in isolation isn't.

Wrong. You're probably conflating the second law of thermodynamics with the whole thing. Obviously, thermodynamics applies to Earth, it was invented here.

> Entropy isn't everyday disorder, it's a specific relationship of microstates and macrostates, and you can't usefully infer things when you switch uses.

No, this is Bolzmann entropy. Entropy is absolutely a measure of disorder, and the fact that you cannot measure a specific value for large complex systems because the calculating framework is too simplistic and only applies to very well defined and artificial assemblies of quantities it does not mean that the concept and intuition do not apply.

Entropy is a measure of disorder or uncertainty. Maybe you disagree with my intuition about it.

But I'm not the only one:

- Shannon Entropy Fits Well Social Risk: Unemployment and Poverty in Large Cities https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8905455

- The Interrelation Poverty-Unemployment from the Theory of Entropy in Modern Societies https://alicia.concytec.gob.pe/vufind/Record/AUTO_bbe82cfd37...
Sell by is entirely unrelated to quality though. It's just how often they think they can get away with. Like the recommendation on a box of baking soda... Put it in your fridge and change it every 30 days. No thanks.
The problem in your example is that you wouldn’t think a picture of a man eating spaghetti taken by a real person would be cool.

You may feel different if it’s, say, art assets in your new favorite video game, frames of a show, or supplementary art assets in some sort of media.
Yeah, the WordPress foundation is just a façade to pay less taxes. If it were a true Foundation worried about its users Matt wouldn't do so much shit
YES! The Inner-Platform Effect is exactly what I was trying to dig up through my fossilized neurons. Thank you.
In any upscale nightclub restroom.
There's a recent rough breakdown of costs and funding in [1]. In short, most funding is from ads. I don't think that takes into account funding for the newer Minecraft or LoL wikis, but it'll either be funded by ads or the game devs.

[1]: https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/Forum:Board_Meeting_-_2024-03-...
The WASM code doesn't have access to the DOM, if you want to have a web app that interacts with the user (intriguing, isn't it?) you'll end up writing a lot of javascript glue code.
Interesting, I'd always assumed people snorted the powder because it's not absorbed if consumed orally, but apparently that's not true. Maybe just it's just for the absorption speed? So... if someone drank industrial quantities of coca tea in one go, it'd be a 2-12 hour cocaine high?
> WASM proved to be secure and JVM did not.

This is an oversimplification — there's nothing about the JVM bytecode architecture making it insecure. In fact, it is quite simpler as an architecture than WASM.

Applets were just too early (you have to remember what the state of tech looked like back then), and the implementation was of poor quality to boot (owing in part to some technical limitations — but not only).

But worst of all, it just felt jank. It wasn't really part of the page, just a little box in it, that had no connection to HTML, the address bar & page history, or really anything else.

The Javascript model rightfully proved superior, but there was no way Sun could have achieved it short of building their own browser with native JVM integration.

Today that looks easy, just fork Chromium. But back then the landscape was Internet Explorer 6 vs the very marginal Mozilla (and later Mozilla Firefox) and proprietary Opera that occasionally proved incompatible with major websites.
> Wouldn't be nice to fail upward like that?

It's almost like the banking system was designed by rich people to suit the needs of rich people or something.

And to tax the poor but that's a more recent component.
The nice thing about being a billionaire is that you can finally care about other things besides making more money. For a period of time, Musk was the richest man in the world. When they drop to second place or below, they have a tradition of saying “Thank you” to the person that surpassed them.
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I use ublock now too, but it's this really annoying feedback loop; people use ad blockers, making the websites less money, so they add more advertisements for the people who don't have ad blockers, and making the website worse and more likely for them to install an ad blocker etc...

I know that running a website isn't free, so I understand the need for ads. Fandom is just a terrible version of it.
> It is critical of the notion that someone without software engineering chops can dictate an appropriate ordering of sub-jobs

This is the exact issue. And people talk past it all the time.

Product designs the specs for a set of changes & proposes a timeline. Engineering breaks that down, perhaps the two sides negotiate on the timeline. Beyond that, Product should generally stay out of the day to day. "I want sub-sub-sub-widget-X first" discussions are what lead to the tension that we see here.
I’ve heard about GLP-1 pills being used for weight loss, and while I haven’t tried them myself, I know they help regulate blood sugar and can suppress appetite, which can be useful for some. It’s important to keep in mind they’re still a medical treatment, so it’s good to speak to a professional before starting.

Personally, I’ve had success with intermittent fasting and HGH therapy. I started HGH treatment due to a deficiency, and it’s made a huge difference for me, especially in terms of energy levels, recovery, and muscle tone. Combining fasting with HGH therapy has really helped me stay on track with my fitness goals, and I feel much more in control of my body and my health.

If you're curious about how hormones like growth hormone and testosterone compare and impact your health, you might find this link helpful: https://medzone.clinic/growth-hormone-vs-testosterone-the-di...
If only that was actually cocaine...
I think it would be more idiomatic to use statements, not expressions. That is, it’s ok to use local variables for intermediate values in a pipeline.
Not Lynx as it doesn't show up the correct layout on comments.

But Dillo works perfectly fine. No JS, no WASM, crazy fast on a n270 netbook.

I can't barely run WASM programs that could be run fine under a Pentium 3-4.