skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that you are missing a beat, insofar as he’s not so much about constructionism (although he was about that, too) as a level below that.

There’s social construction in the format of group consensus and shared narrative, but the “reality” PKD typically picks at is much more basic and fundamental - your perception, your symbol set, your very humanness defining your experience of “objective reality”. He thought that “objective reality” was absolutely inseparable from our perception, that we build a gestalt from fragmented chaos, and that that process can break down. Dick has characters in total isolation lose reality not through divergence with social norms, rather through their perception undergoing some shift - it’s no coincidence that he was into disassociative psychedelics.

The article, if anything, misunderstands Dick, as one of the fundamental aspects of his worlds is that more often than not the problem is the protagonist, who is blind to their own corrosive effects on reality, rather than reality being controlled by sinister entities with purpose and direction.

All of these so-called “realities” (I do agree with you on that aspect) are simulacra, mounted atop a further simulacra, ultimately possibly (Bostrom among others has dented my confidence in “probably”) mounted upon some physical base reality.

But it’s equally likely that we’re a Boltzmann brain having one hell of a hallucination - and that’s far closer to PKD’s ultimate truths than anything as mundane as manufactured “realities”.

Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation was directly inspired by PKD’s work, and explores his notions in quite some detail. It’s a light read, and I highly recommend it.
On the contrary! We force all our blocks to consist of a single statement so that we can always omit the damn parens.
(wingsuits are dangerous!)

Several high-level wingsuit flyers were profiled in a short film called "The New Birdmen". I was struck by the calm rationality most exhibited in their commentary.

But then, many insist on flying extremely close to terrain, and that's where things go sideways. I'm the type who would be perfectly content to never be closer than 10+ meters to terrain, but that's not their mindset. Several pioneers shown in the film suffered deaths, none (apparently) from equipment failure.
I run sudo npm install -g n and then sudo n8.9.4 but I got an error "sudo: n: command not found". How can I use n?
I think it's much easier and more direct to visualize the time-domain as superposition of helical components and the transform as an exploration of what happens when you twist the "cylinder" with varying "intensities". You avoid the vague center-of-mass spike depicted here and start from the get-go with the terms of the transform.
The embarrassing part is that the suggestion fell so flat but that she non the less went through with singing it. She should have read the mood of the crowd better - now it ended up as a blueprint for nightmares of people afraid of speaking to crowds.
By now we all should have realized that all but a tiny fraction of people is illiterate about computers, the internet and their possibilities and dangers.
Also, it must be a low utility move - rejecting stacks of CV's arbitrarily must mean that you end up with poorer teams in the long run.
CHERU JEEVAN (short film) 2018,t
> Can you explain how a decenteralized exchange provides USD?

A major part of the OmiseGo plan is full cash-in/cash-out capabilities via as many ATMs as they can get connected to.

They have access to quite a few thousand ATMs out the gate via strategic investments and partnerships with a number of very large banks in Aisia.

Their parent company is Omise (basically the Asian Stripe) already has a cashflow of $100-$500m/day. FYI They will be switching all their existing business to run on the new dex, so from the get go it will start with a large volume as the test case.

Checkout the OmiseGo white-paper for the main details.
How did no one working at Strava think about the implications of releasing this data? Zero scrutiny? I am sure there are some very interesting locations on there... reading through the twitter thread it would seem so
I'm literally RIGHT NOW writing up an email to the IETF EXTRA mailing list, following up from the email I sent as co-chair to the IETF JMAP mailing list about conflicts for our session in London at IETF101 in March.

We've been working inside the IETF on JMAP since Chicago (IETF98) in March last year.
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"What's so cool about this is its flexibility."

This is something I have never understood.

I am a connoisseur of command line progams. I have used hundreds of them over decades. I write command line programs and scripts every week. It is an obsession. Yet I am embarassed to admit that honestly I have never understood the benefits of flexibility with passing arguments. I never understood the "getopt" movement. I do not use it. All my programs are very simple and straightforward without heaps fo options.

I apologise for being obtuse, but what am I missing?

To anyone who might be offended: I am not criticising flexibility of commandline arguments or its coolness. I just want to understand what are the practical advantages over something more simple and less flexible, like what I prefer. Only if I understand the advantages can I be an advocate for using numerous commandline options and flexibile parsing.

(Theres another post about setenv et al. on the front page right now. For programs that read from environ variables -- which can be a better alternative to using heaps of commandline options IMO -- I just use envdir from daemontools.)
Httpie is my version of Postman and similar services, curl for humans is spot on imho.
Alt+B is not exactly home row friendly (should i use my thumb or ring finger for alt?), and especially switching quickly between Alt+B, Ctrl+F and Alt+F (pinky on ctrl, ring/thumb on alt, long on F and index on B??!) which is one of the most common navigation you do when you want to correct the misspelling of 6 words left and 3 characters forward, then 1 character left again because you accidentally moved 4 characters right instead of 3. Ctrl+Left and then right/left arrow is much easier, more intuitive and works everywhere else, not just linux terminal. Adding shift for selecting while navigating is also super easy. Left/right arrows also have the benefit of being close to up/down arrows which are very useful in multi line inputs.
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The main reason for using PPT is a presentation during a meeting, not to put something out on the web. And you may prefer the feature set from Word or Excel over Google Docs for some tasks, where the resulting documents can easily be emailed or put on a shared drive. Also Office 365 offers online versions of Office, or you could upload to Google Docs.
Huxley and Orwell views are not contradictory. They are complementary and we have both now. Both authors ideas are already a reality.
Which is a safe and friendly exchange according you people?
Just because I'm curious, CygnusEd?
A task easier said than done.

Also, it should be considered that it's impossible to make breaking changes in the LaTeX language otherwise you lost the ability to compile a paper from 30 years ago.

But if you're trying to do something simple, I would say go for pandoc and use whatever format you're comfortable, then convert it to TeX: https://pandoc.org/
Thanks for the recommendation. You mean the movie from 2004?

Also, i remembered another one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to... Can't describe too much without spoilers, but it's lovely and unique.
In some cases where the data is sparse, you can find where individual people live, because the trails sometimes lead back to a starting point. Like this person who runs around the park regularly. Of course you could also just follow them IRL if you were there, so I'm not sure this is a big deal.

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14.20/100.20693/40.99133/ho...
More than half of all people killed by police are white.
Such policies never end well. A university's best chance of relevance long term is to unabashedly pursue the best and the brightest, regardless of race.

This holds in the valley too - merit trumps everything else. There's ample evidence of a (happy) best-in-class workforce affecting bottom lines.
It's pretty easy to find Al-Udeid Air Base, which was secret until the mid 2000s. Some of the other details like patrols, convoy routes, and missile battery locations may not be classified, but are probably things the US military would rather not see online
Ask HN: How to Formulate Privacy Policy and ToS Text Being an Indie Dev?
I'm indie developer, not registered as LLC. What should I write instead of "We, at * Ltd., put great efforts in making sure that your personal information is safe and used properly."

and

"Terms of Use will govern the relationship between you and * Ltd."?

Following some pieces of advice from IH and HN I'm not going to register as a company at the beginning. But I think that terms of service are pretty important even when dealing with beta testers. What do you think?
The next time you read a bullshit article/research on the Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) remember that it isn't necessarily the product of unbiased scientific research. An admissions committee (including professors) that doesn't value merit and objectivity can't be trusted to publish realistic research
Never ever keep coins at an exchange. You have been warned. It's insane to let them hold it.
Anything that uses clear-text passwords has been removed. That is a very clear red-line. Also, anything that uses weak encryption, like P2PTP has also been removed, but a few versions ago. And the ssh defaults are tightened up almost every point release. As soon as a cipher becomes known as "weak", Apple pulls it.
> Those guys were not handed down the word of god from heaven.

No, they wrote down rules to prevent the forms of oppression and protect the means of opposition that they knew from experience.

Has society changed so much in 200 years that armed opposition to the government has become impossible? The US govs failure to control Afghanistan would argue: no.
There are tradeoffs you have to accept. Coinbase used to be great- super user friendly and reliable, and most importantly, FAST. Buying anything from Coinbase now is a joke, and they have repeatedly committed fundamentally unacceptable actions for a company dealing with money and related analogues like, after a transaction was supposed to settle, push out the date that you'll receive your assets.

Unfortunately they are the best when it comes to quickly cashing out, and in terms of buying I have no other alternative that I've used thats reliable. Depending on the asset you might have some luck with Cex.io or others.

Here's a link I found with a quick Google search that might be of value to you: https://99bitcoins.com/buy-bitcoins-debit-card/

Don't ever hold your assets on an exchange for any length of time after acquiring them, counterparty credit risk is no joke.
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I don't get it. Powerpoint is literally perfect. There are no downsides. It's up to you to not overdo the designs and the animations.

Personally, I always use the default theme (Black Calibri text on white background), with no animations or transitions. The included drawing tools are also world class, and help get your point across as long as you don't make it too complex.
To play devil's advocate, some people would say that a rushed game actually exists while a delayed game gets cancelled.

To not play devil's advocate, I really prefer finished games over rushed games.
There's a lot of intersection between class and race when it comes to police violence, and I don't think the phrase "minorities" is sufficient in discussing the issue.
Thank you for this. I had some experience of what you mean in my 20s when a website did relatively well for a few years and I got to experience that kind of restlessness. I’m working harder than ever these days (approaching 40) and working on software from home while the kids are small, it has its ups and downs but more interesting.
> Unfortunately, since your car is in a public place, and your plates are in the open, I don't think place scanning will be ruled unconstitutional.

The question GP asked was a bit different:

> could someone challenge the visible license plate requirement as an illegal tracking device?

In other words, in a world where plate scanning is ubiqitous, have license plates become a tracking device? And if they are a tracking device, is requiring them unconstitutional?
Someone's preparing to include the "blockchain" jargon for a stock bump? Or planning on a "bucks coin" ico?
It's not a good API but no-one uses setenv to communicate among threads.

You'd only do it just before fork/exec and nowadays you can just pass the whole env in the exec call.
Ask HN: Are you using Brave for daily browsing?
Any thoughts and impressions, concerns (privacy, security, etc.)?
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On the one hand, you're right: Humans are a part of nature.

On the other hand, the definition of "natural" is "untouched by humans".
You’d think they would make it easier to buy, the price would end up higher that way and they’d get more fees.

My only thought is maybe they slow down buys to get themselves a look-back period where they can decide to cancel transactions that don’t go their way before filling the order. That would maximize the average revenue per transaction a lot during periods of significant volatility. It would skew profitability upward, at the cost of user experience and goodwill.

Seems like more of a short-term strategy by a company that is trying the milk the crypto craze as much as possible and willing to burn market share in the long run as the fad dies down.

Then again, could just be unicorn growth pains.
At Apple Park (AC 2), the spaceship footprint is still invisible as of the date of this data. Next year it should be clearly visible. (Sorry, off topic with respect to the "military base" in title, just having fun browsing the data).

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#16.00/-122.01101/37.33445/h...
Terrorism is on the rise and is very much alive and well in the USA. The general populous just doesn't recognise it for what it is.

Every time anyone raises the subject from an official or semi-official position, they are practising terrorism. They want you afraid, they need you to be afraid. They will do anything to keep you afraid. All of this is so that you, the people, will be easily managed and controlled and will freely give up both your rights and privileges to be free so that you don't take responsibility for yourself and your decisions.

There maybe one or two small governments somewhere in the world that aren't on this track, but I don't know of any.

Being fully responsible for your decisions and choices is actually not easy for most people and they would rather have others take up that responsibility.

All of our cultures have taken up the "blame game". There are many problems to be faced and it is up to each of us to face them with aplomb and action as we come face to face with them. "Aorta" should be dropped from the English vocabulary as a verb.

As in :

Aorta stop them foreigners from taking our jobs.
Aorta stop those companies from doing the wrong thing.
Aorta may better laws to control those other people.

etc., etc., etc.

So your second last sentence has the truth of it.

> Fear is a business and some people are making bank.

The last should read, all the US presidents would be proud.
> compare with the "modern" way of doing it

The examples you’ve linked implement much larger set of functionality.

They de-serialize arguments into strongly typed values (validating arguments), validate against unknown commands/options, print various help messages, support globalization, support arrays in a single argument, and lots more.

Sure it’s overkill for a simple app with just a couple of options, but once you have sufficiently complex command line interface, this modern way becomes much simpler than what’s possible with C.

Compare with “old school” way of doing it:
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/opts.c
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/opts-globa...
https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/opts-commo...

BTW that thing isn’t even localized, i.e. everything’s US English-only.
A CSIRO news article:

https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/New-course-s...
I dont clearly understand who migt need this, since any SIP account comes with these features (purchase from any voip service provider or host your softswitch like Asterisk, Mizu softswitch or 3CX).
All I see are people looking at places they already know about and seeing that people have used Strava there. If these people already know the locations, so does anyone else who matters.
I have heard from others who move here that they have problems with sleeping. For me, who have grown up here, it is normal and not a problem.

Winters are cold, but except for that it is nice to see the difference in light from day to day this time of year
How does it work with posting short scenes from a movie on YT, and possibly monetising? Is it just a case of the Studio not reacting or there's a grey area where you're able to do it?
Also in the support thread someone complained that they changed order of path so that usr/local/bin/ have priority over usr/bin/.

But I’m not sure it’s that bad. Because this way Apple kind of acknowledge that if someone install something in local they must now what they are doing and this because default for users path.
IMO Portuguese (in Portugal, not Brazil) actually sounds a lot like Russian or Polish at first listen, the accent is very different than other western European romance languages
Classic verge bullshit where they assume everything apple does is innovative and "the future". If you look at the general market you will find things like note8, which adds a hardware button, pixel2 which adds a hardware squeeze detector, gear s3 which adds a physical circular wheel.

I promise you verge will soon publish an article indignantly explaining how every touchscreen needs a notch on the top that looks ugly and obscures viewing area.
I’ll just leave this here

http://tomlr.free.fr/Math%E9matiques/Math%20Complete/Analysi...

Mathematics of the discrete Fourier Transform by Julius O. Smith. (O stands for Orange I hope)
Yes indeed. :)

Most impressive, I think, is that it managed to be so fast and include smooth scrolling.
If they don't have a bank account, presumably they also don't use ATMs.
Taos Ski Area:

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#14.28/-105.45449/36.58046/h...

Heavy straight lines are lifts.
I know, right? I can't believe they dropped rlogin, too!

Yes, I'm being snarky. Dropping it from the standard distribution is a good kick in the butt for anyone backward enough to still rely on plain old ftp in this day and age. Remember passive mode? Remember ascii mode? Oy. Good riddance. Even "telnet" isn't in some base linux systems.

Also it's one "brew install lftp" away for anyone who is really can't get around using it.
> Yes, the guys who wrote the original rules for the country considered gun ownership so essential that they placed it second only to the freedom of expression.

The Articles of Confederation were the original rules of the country.

The base Constitution which replaced them as the rules for the country also didn't include anything about that.

The package of 12 amendments to the Constitution formally proposed after the Constitution was ratified did mention it, but only the third through twelfth of those were ratified fairly quickly by the states. So, it wasn't part of the original rules or the original replacement, and the drafters of the package known as the Bill of Rights put it fourth behind the right to minimal levels of representation in Congress, the right to a Congress without the power to raise its own salary between elections, and freedom of expression, not second behind freedom of expression.

So, aside from being a fallacious appeal to authority, your argument is grounded in falsehoods.
for finding other places:

see OpenStreetMap key:military:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:military

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/military#values
Check mining for Monero on a CPU. The economics still work for that cryptocurrency (it's the one commonly found in Web Ads. maliciously)
There is a huge push in SE Asia to get these people banked asap. Startups like Grab are leading the way. I don't think it will be long as much of the other low hanging fruit is already picked. This is literally one of the last untapped markets.
Quite clearly not allowed as not informed consent to use personal data...
And yet we still get a 11 year old version of Bash. :-)
You likely know your sun sign... It’s based on where the sun was on your birthday.

No, it isn't, for the vast majority of dates in the calendar.
To be honest I'm more concerned personal devices were allowed at these locations. That and somebody posting it on Twitter instead of disclosing it responsibly to the parties involved. Sure it's not his fault, but he doesn't need to make it worse.
It means that you can reliably predict where someone is gong to be, and for many people, that's a huge safety concern.
I think this is not true for single bits this way.
Why should it? Its function is to spit out money and it functions well enough for that.

Obviously they do add features, like topping up phone credit or bill paying. But I would guess nowadays the bankers would rather pay smartphone app developers rather than the ATM developers...
Amazing from today's perspective, but not surprising. With just a few KB of memory, minimalistic rather than modern expressive style was just natural.
Any particular reason why you don't use org-mode's latex export (org-latex-export-to-pdf / C-c C-e l p) directly? It will render math nicely, not as embedded images, etc.
> The problem with Powerpoint is that it is 'not the web'.

But it is!

https://talkjs-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/egbert_talkj...
I'm guessing this is the new pytorch based version of part 1? Been waiting for this to be released so I'm pretty excited.
The details:

The attackers typically use an endoscope so they can attach a cord to the computer and install malware. This makes ATM remotely controllable!

In previous Ploutus.D attacks, the ATM continuously dispensed at a rate of 40 bills every 23 seconds. Once the dispense cycle starts, the only way to stop it is to press cancel on the keypad. Otherwise, the machine is completely emptied of cash.

Jackpotting it is.
The Plan 9 solution always felt really logical imo.
By that definition you can say it's doing it's job even better now!
I`ve just got rid off totally from all that unpleasant feelings after pregnancy. Constant sitting in my case wasn`t a good idea at all. I felt like a giant ballon with constant back pain. 6 months ago I was recommended to get a standing desk for work. With having the one I changed my body position freely and felt more relaxed and concentrated on my work. I also bought a desk riser https://www.primecables.com/p-357448-cab-mt101-all-primecabl... , it's the same construction in fact but only for moving the monitor. Now I feel like a human being without pains and full of energy. I`m glad that there are lots of tools that make our life easier.
Thank you! I wish I could say there was a cohesive thing with tunable parameters inside those demos, but basically each of them is a separate blob of ad-hoc ways of choosing scales, rhythmic patterns, etc.

The modular bit, which is reused across all the demos, is the bit that actually plays noises through Web Audio, and might be worth checking out: https://github.com/andyhall/soundgen

(If it's not obvious, there aren't any pre-made audio samples in the demos, all the noises are built at runtime out of Web Audio oscillators and filters and so on, inside that library.)