skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The protagonists (literally Protagonist in Snow Crash) got to choose because they're connected, wealthy individuals with relevant skills. It's a very privileged viewpoint.

Nell's folks did not get to choose. The implicit dystopia is that of Nell's folks, who don't have skills, don't have connections, and have no way of getting out of their shitty situation.

The flip side of flexible nationality is if you're unwanted. Can nations choose to eject natural-born citizens who will incur too much medical cost during their lives? Or people who don't fit the nation's norms of sexuality, gender identity, religion, whatever? Can you suddenly find yourself ejected from your nation because an algorithm detects something in your profile?
I've used both. Sqlitestudio is far more powerful, intuitive and easy to use.
Fast and efficient. Flies even in old PCs. In Linux you won't find It in the repositories. You have to download and run a handy installer.
Although it is generally true that aerial photography is used to supplant satellite imagery in these sorts of public map services, I'm pretty confident that the image of BYD factory here is actual satellite imagery.
See my other response above, I think I've identified what part of my argument was unclear.

The update may still have claims in it that you disagree with, but those are specific and (at some point in the future) probably testable.
It's much closer to the SOS. They start with text messaging, which is much easier because it's low bandwidth and tolerant of delays. Voice can also be done at low bandwidth but its a bit harder to ensure things sound smooth. And then data, but I think this will only ever be low bandwidth like internet browsing, not tiktok or facetime. There's probably a reason they aren't boasting about the bandwidth they can achieve...
Meat from grass-fed cows emit more GHG per kg than industry-framed meat. Industry farming is efficient.
If I need an issue prioritized, I'd have a discussion with senior leadership until one of us was convinced of the other's viewpoint, or we understood why we can't agree. For example, if my issue is clearly higher priority than anything else, I should easily be able to demonstrate that to senior leadership, and vice-versa. If we can't agree for a specific reason, we can say "the data is too fuzzy to know either way" and try to minimize risk.

Not all organizations will work like this, but that's a dysfunction that will need to be corrected. In that case, you should do what works (and that will be different for everyone), my particular situation won't apply to your particular situation.
Starlink is the most important military weapon in the world right now. Those civilian organizations have no say when state security is at hand. It's like disarming nuclear rockets because some green guys care about birds. Will not happen.
> But once you have a design set in stone, outsourcing is cheaper than doing it in-house. These companies specialize in producing parts with economies of scale.

Except you need to ship the parts to your factory and still employ QA people who must check whether you got what you paid for.. If the supplier has a bad defect ratio, you must order more parts. It's not as cut-and-dry as you think.

Every time your assembly-line halts, you're paying people for twiddling their thumbs. The more external suppliers you have, the higher the risk.
It's too bad no one in government will ever step up to undo the citizens united ruling. At least we didn't have legal-but-opaque bribery, prior. The difference is substantial when people can't report on where campaign financing comes from without someone first talking too loud about it in a public setting.
> there will be no competitors

Define the time frame. 1 year? Quite likely. 10 years? nothing is less sure ... But in 50 years, I bet SpaceX doesn't even exist anymore. Companies rises and falls and it's always been like this (and the same applies to Empires, Countries or .. Species). It's always a matter of timeframe
The irony is that imgur uses the same consent dialog box design with the same underhanded tactic of several different categories of ”legitimate interest” that each contain dozens of data providers and need to be toggled off individually.
Thanks for the link to The Torment Nexus talk :) I forgot who came up with that
These are metaphors for common events.

You're working for a client who wants some changes, and more changes, and more changes, and is difficult to work with. At some point you may have to fire the client. As a simile, this is like a rubber band being stretched to the breaking point.

Or, the new boss is a very bad manager. Some people quit to move to another job. Each one is a rope snapping. If enough ropes snap - if enough people quit and are not replaced fast enough - then that department can no longer function.

To clarify further, "rubber band to break" is because a rubber band can be stretched and stretched, but not without limit. Once it has reached its limit, it breaks with a snap, and cannot easily be fixed.

For the metaphor "one of the ropes to snap", think of a cargo net carrying a heavy load. Each rope has a different tensile strength, and the load is not perfectly balanced. It's possible for a heavy load to break one rope, but the net still hold because the load shifts onto the other ropes, which have reserve strength. However, this should be a warning, because as more ropes break the less reserve there is, until the net is no longer able to hold the cargo.

I don't know what you mean by "eventually will go wrong" in this context where several senators say that things have already gone wrong.
The food needs to be produced somewhere. If denmark exports, then the food will be missing somewhere. So you do not fix "climate change". You only fix local effects of agriculture. I am not saying it is good or bad. But it def makes denmark poorer.
Interesting historical perspective
If you had to make a guess about these behavioral models, what would it be?
Alright, I stand corrected.

However, this is where our opinions differ. I like task CE (and taskSeq for that matter too). It serves as a good and performant default. It's great to be able to choose the exact behavior of asynchronous code when task CE does not fit.
I can’t believe this is a real problem. Refineries are bombed and stay on fire for days, some places in the world light on fire rubbish all the time, plenty of inefficiencies in heating, transportation, etc.. and the problem is.. cow farts.. yes sure
>we don't know how/why they have the authority

Oh we know damn well. The good old "scream so loud the issue cannot be ignored anymore" issue. Especially with Fong-Jones' background in tech with access to a lot of vocal influencer figures in the field.

Not to mention the big amount of brain-melted teens who immediately assume anything said about anyone who dares to express negative opinions about what the aforementioned teens believe as true and create a supposedly warranted lynch mob against them.
When Starship starts launching customer satellites, it's possible that even the price for customers would be cheap enough to launch and maintain a LEO constellation. But competing requires massive innovation in cheap and fast production of satellites which are very energy efficient and highly capable. Especially, the technology for starshield protecting against cyber warfare in space and the direct to cell capability. This would be the main reason for not emerging a viable competitor for some time. SpaceX has innovation advantage in the satellites, manufacturing, dishes, base stations, software apart from the launch capability.
> And up untill the 1940's spiral fractures in various sports were unknown

The sports were massively less competitive back then, incomparable to todays variant. The sports as a super competitive and popular past time is recent development. If less people do sport and sport itself is less competitive, less people will get injured.

Also, while people were strong, they were not buffed. The robust build, six pack and big muscles is our ideal. Men were basically thin.

> my joke is that the city kids are soft and grey, but the farm kids look good enough to eat, 2 seconds and you see the healthy glow

Fun fact: cities are overall thinner then rural parts.
If you live in the USA, sure. If not, can't get it.
Not really, the argument would be that most successful group would consist of people with various resources, whether it be innate intelligence, motivation, discipline, or inherited wealth/social network.

A group of people whose sole value is social network/wealth is probably not sufficient.

Humans have a limited amount of time and energy to work with, so some mechanism of filtering who or what to place bets on would presumably increase desirable results.

Not too dissimilar from seeking recommendations for a plumber or electrician or romantic partner from a trusted neighbor or family or friend.
There's an interesting dynamic because of the domains, I originally registered with `n1c.bsky.social` because like you say whether I intended to use the service or not it's nice to lock in the name. But then the next level is that it's actually more valuable or makes more sense for me to use it as `n1c.dev` as it's more closely tied to "me".

I am kinda sad that now someone else who isn't me is n1c.bsky but so be it.
I read about the Biogenic Carbon Cycle on the UC Davis website:

"As a by-product of consuming cellulose, cattle belch out methane, there-by returning that carbon sequestered by plants back into the atmosphere. After about ten years, that methane is broken down and converted back to CO2. Once converted to CO2, plants can again perform photosynthesis and fix that carbon back into cellulose. From here, cattle can eat the plants and the cycle begins once again. In essence, the methane belched from cattle is not adding new carbon to the atmosphere. Rather it is part of the natural cycling of carbon through the biogenic carbon cycle."

According to that logic, burning fossil fuels also is not harmful for the environment, because the CO2 eventually gets consumed by plants.
Yeah, desk against the wall is a common setup (except in open-plan offices, where it's desk against a desk). However, when setting up my current home office, I opted for a different layout. It's similar to this:

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/gallery/other/defiant-rea...

but with an L-shaped standing desk from IKEA, with windows on the right side (behind the auxiliary desk), doors on the left, and remaining wall surface filled with random assortment of cabinets and wardrobes.

Having the desk in the middle doubled the usable wall surface area I could put closets and cabinets against. Also, I have something behind the screen for eyes to refocus on, reducing the strain.

(Also, I was totally going for the "Starfleet ready room" style; that's as close as I got. It's really hard to capture the feel without a proper carpet; unfortunately, I have dust mite allergy, so that's off the table.)
The ReasonML workflow continued on as Melange.

https://melange.re
It'll be interesting for sure. similar to requesting Chrome to become separate from Google, there might some law enforcement scenarios where they'll have to split things.
Microsoft Outlook Outage
EU customers receive HTTP 503 errors from outlook.office.com

Microsoft says all systems are up and running, not sure if this is a localized problem or not. Can anyone pitch in?
If you have a domain, you simply a dns record for the Tailscale IP.

You can also run your own dns server, like a pihole or AdGuard, on your Tailscale network. There you define any dns record.
I’m actually complaining about more “advanced” features like hiding text (see my comment above) or zalgoing it.

And of course endless variations of skin color and gender of three people in a pictogram of a family or something, which is purely a product of a specific subculture that doesn’t have anything in common with text/charset.

If unicode cared about characters, which happens to be an evolving but finite set, it would simply include them all, together with exactly two direction specifiers. Instead it created a language/format/tag system within itself to build characters most of which make zero sense to anyone in the world, except for grapheme linguists, if that job title even exists.

It will eventually overengineer itself into a set bigger than the set of all real characters, if not yet.

Practicality and implications of such system is clearly demonstrated by the $subj.
I think a good chart to keep in mind about this discusion is this one: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore

Beef emits 49.89 kg CO2 eq. per 100 grams of protein. Tofu 1.98 kg.
You think it’s awesome that there’s a monopoly? And it’s owned by a single, politically derelict insane man?

I agree the pace of change is amazing. I marvel at everything spacex does. The starship catch was ridiculous.

But no competition always leads somewhere really bad eventually
That would be horrendous and would play right into the advertiser's hands which want you to "just click accept".

Cookies should be categorised as essential and non-essential and the website should specify which laws it is considering when it categorises them as such. The GDPR definition of "legitimate interest" (which is a bit vague but it's not that hard to understand it) should be explicitly clarified so that companies can't claim that a whole swathe of shit they opted you into automatically is "legitimate interest" if they also give you the option to opt out.

At this point they can still attach descriptions to each cookie (hopefully using some standardised interface so you don't have to literally send these with every cookie, localized) and then your browser can still present you with the idiotic: "here's what we would like you to use" interface, but streamline the process with the ability to just opt out of anything which won't outright break the website.

Although this still opens it up for abuse by companies putting things like: "your preference for us not popping up an annoying full-page message every time you visit a new page" into a "non-essential" cookie to incentivise you to just accept them all.

Honestly I think we should just have Joe "Sensible Person" judge company's websites for whether they're being actively malicious in any way and force the closure of any company which is considered actively malicious along with the destruction of all company IP and liquidation of non-IP assets. All the company owners should also be banned from owning/running any other company for 10 years. (only half kidding)
This excuse has been also used in Swedden to forbid trail cameras in public areas unless the government emit a permit. People has been sued because a woman toke a dump in front of the camera. Is unclear to me if this was deliberated or not.

Is a "think on the children", but with women.

The fact is that people in public areas can and should expect to be filmed or appear in the background of a selfie. First because is legal, and second because is unavoidable.

Without the current "male panic", women shouldn't have a problem with appearing in the background of a low quality photo (that in most cases will show a blurred face). Men don't care about it either, and people don't wander around naked in forests typically.

Cameras can have benefits for women also. Will detect presence of wild animals in the area that could be dangerous to women; or criminal activity, like poachers, arsonists or violators. I assume that this is the real problem with the presence of cameras here. That poachers are being filmed

They aren't neither bad or good. Is just a tool. The huge majority of zoologists are normal responsible people that would delete any photo with sensitive personal information and never would filter it to internet.

The fix is to put banners on the area, but then the cameras will be stolen. Or we could also stop to study nature and let everything go to hell.
I have been using sqlitebrowser as well. Fairly satisfied, except for the poor 'export to csv' that seems to fail on respecting csv separations in some cases. Does SQLiteStudio handle this correctly?
Yes but GP said

> Where I live, you can only select from a central, though frequently updated, list of names when naming your child

I was born in such a country too and still have frequent connections there and I can confirm the laws only apply to citizens of said country so indeed immigration creates exceptions to this rule even if they transliterate their name.
> I'm eagerly waiting for the thing that's easy enough for non-coders to use that doesn't make the code-capable maintainers want to cry mercy.

As a former VBasic dev, don't hold your breath!
That can be indeed very confusing when you initially learn the language.
However there are 3 things that can help:

* An auto-formatter (ocamlformat integration in your editor, or ocaml-top) that shows how the actual nesting looks like

* You can add ;; at the end of a top-level function to get a syntax error at a better location

* Use the LSP integration of your editor which will show you where the error is as you type, so you catch the problem early
> It's terrifying because we (in the West) can't seem to motivate ourselves to do anything like this on the same timescale

The sad thing is, we still can if we want to. When Russia throttled down the natural gas pipelines into the EU, it took them mere weeks until the first new floating natural gas terminal was put into operation. And they've collectively dumped an astonishing number of new terminals into the North Sea since then, all at the same time. Germany alone spent $6B in infrastructure investments before that first winter without Russian gas.

We could if we wanted to. But by and large, we don't want to.
I suppose that this is not the right thread to ask about what devices would you use outdoor, but I'll try anyway...

Requisites:

- battery operated

- IP protection

- fast shutter (example: moving objects)

- wifi?

- night mode not important (using it in optimal conditions)

Thanks
Well that’s just assuming alternative paths would have been much better than current situation. Looking at how life played out for many of my classmates even my lowly IC job looks quite good.
Yes, you're right. Off by one error on my part caused by concentrating on the bottom half of figure 1a while trying to visualize this and formulating my question.
I wonder if Arthur T. Murray would count as an influencer?
Gotta wait for our residential citation-fu master to dig that one out, then. A necessary but maybe not sufficient condition for the emergence of such governing structures would be that people grow up rejecting zero-sum status games (including) at the level of tribes. The stopgap solution, constitutional monarchy, fails, because,---? So, I'd say in Gladrus, you already had protestants living in close proximity to Catholics for a handful of centuries .. but the clincher v-a-v the asiatic cases eludes me.

Ime the asiatic cases the "jesus nut" of the system (sovereign, policemen, yeomen, lawyers, judges, etc) are drawn from a single caste. Pace
Manu. Makeup of the branches of government then becomes a emergent symptom. (Compare to western based systems of law.)

Who formed the peacekeeping contingent in Gladrus?
There will be several competitors in 5-10 years. Due to immense military capability of this technology. Same thing happens with GPS.
> For all his faults, and least Trump is willing to lie to his base and promise some sort of change

So "willing to lie" is his only redeeming trait? Poor America! That said, I think he will bring about some sort of change, but it won't be one that really benefits the people who voted for him...
Isn't robot density per 10,000 workers the standard metric used by
the International Federation of Robotics?

https://x.com/orikron/status/1859657159338025418?t=9J4ASQP_M...
I know of at least one other instance. But note that the same is true of English speakers. Becoming literate in English isn't just a matter of learning the alphabet (otherwise a Frenchman automatically qualifies as literate in English simply because he knows the English alphabet). The way literacy is typically assessed is by asking you to read a typical paragraph from say a newspaper and then testing you for reading comprehension. Someone whose native tongue is English, but who for whatever reason has never had the primary/secondary education experience typical in an English speaking country is going to encounter the same sort of difficulty becoming literate in English as you friend in becoming literate in Chinese.

By his own account, it took this man [1] 7 years (during his late 40s/early 50s) achieving English literacy, and that happened in a English speaking country where he encounters English texts on a daily basis (I assume your friend lives & works in the West).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43700153.amp
That would be a dealbreaker for me. I want my sheet's data local only, no matter what security promises are made.
What really stands out to me is the potential for real-world applications, particularly in medicine
I never did choose any single thing in my job, just because of how it could look in my resume.

After +20 years of Linux sysadmin/devops, and because a spinal disc herniation last year, now I'm looking for a job.

99% of job offers, will ask for EKS/Kubernetes now.

It's like the VMware of the years 200[1-9], or like the "Cloud" of the years 201[1-9].

I've always specialized in physical datacenters and servers, being it on-premises, colocation, embedded, etc... so I'm out of the market now, at least in Spain (which always goes like 8 years behind the market).

You can try to avoid it, and it's nice when you save thousands of operational/performance/security/etc issues and dollars to your company across the years, and you look like a guru that goes ahead of industry issue to your boss eyes, but, it will make finding a job... 99% harder.

It doesn't matter if you demonstrate the highest level on Linux, scripting, ansible, networking, security, hardware, performance tuning, high availability, all kind of balancers, switching, routing, firewalls, encryption, backups, monitoring, log management, compliance, architecture, isolation, budget management, team management, provider/customer management, debugging, automation, programming full stack, and a long etc. If you say "I never worked with Kubernetes, but I learn fast", with your best sincerity at the interview, then you're automatically out of the process. No matter if you're talking with human resources, a helper of the CTO, or the CTO. You're out.
Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
What were the main issues you came across? What language would you prefer if you had to start from scratch and had the choice to go with anything else?
Bluesky: Benefits of an Open Network
Thing DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK (2017)
Why do laptops have so little RAM? (2015)
Apparently after about ten years since the blog article was posted nothing really has changed in the RAM capacity department. I won't be surprised if laptop GPU VRAM will surpass the laptop RAM very soon.
Apparently they identify as a robot, not a person.
Apparently Honda IMA (NiMH) 1 and 2nd gen not only lacks active thermal management, it also doesnt have any BALANCE management!?!?!

2006-2011 Honda Civic IMA battery repair WITHOUT buying new cells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGfQchiLtG8

Its almost like Japanese do it on purpose to push BS Hydrogen.
You sanitize at the frontier of what your code controls.

Sending data to a database: parametrized queries to sanitize as it is leaving your control.

Sending to display to the user: sanitized for a browser

Sending to an API: sanitize for whatever rules the API has

Sending to a legacy system: sanitize for it

Writing a file to the system: sanitize the path

The common point is you don't sanitize before you have to send it somewhere. And the advantage of this method is that you limit the chances of getting bit by reflected injections. You interrogate some API you don't control, you may just get malicious content, but you sanitize when sending it so all is good. Because you're sanitizing on output and not on input.