skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.livinganthropologically.com/archaeology/guns-ger...

I argue that although Diamond makes interesting points,
his work from Guns Germs and Steel to Collapse is a
distorting disservice to the real historical record.
Diamond claims that the differential success of the
world’s nations is due to the accidents of agriculture,
except when societies “choose to fail.” This claim does
not withstand scrutiny. [...] Unfortunately his
story-telling abilities are so compelling that he has
seduced a generation of college-educated readers.
What I thought was curious about this airport was that yes, it is indeed very small and very basic (the departure lounge included outdoor seating overlooking the tarmac - a small waist-high fence separating you from the apron), but the flights in and out were on brand new 787s!

Easter Island really does feel very remote though. Even though the 787s are jam-packed with tourists, you're flying due-west from Chile for 6 hours to a tiny spec in the middle of the pacific. The in-flight map was mostly just entirely blank the whole time since the island itself is so tiny it didn't really show up!

In the museum there they had some really interesting exhibits about how the original inhabitants used interesting navigation aids to find land - e.g. looking for the directions birds were flying or sea-turtles were swimming, or the sea swell etc. Fascinating stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation#Navigati...
> but you have to also think whether he's biased in wanting to push the view that the next big tech hub is in China, because he's invested in the region.

He puts his money where his mouth is. I made another comment here that it was refreshing as it didn't predict the collapse of China which has been peddled for the past few decades by so-called experts - they could peddle any view they want with no financial repercussion.

Secondly, even if Moritz was biased and published this article for his own gains, it's not as if we (foreigners) have easy access to invest in the region.

> it's very hard to know what to believe, and even more effort to do research. Most people won't be doing it, so it's an effective method to generate hype.

I heartily agree with you here, but you have to admit for every article like this, there are 10x more about the imminent demise of China, so I don't buy the argument that this article's hype will override 'collapse' articles which generate much more clicks.
Yep, lacking Java and .NET support makes it a bit un-appealing to me.

On the other hand, it looks quite interesting and is good to finally be able to know what Pulumi is all about.

Looking forward how it evolves.
No one at the scale of Nikon, Canon, or Fuji is going to come out with new film cameras. Rollei and Hasselblad gave up a few years back, and they, like Leica, were somewhat less dependent on the mass market. Fuji tried a few years back to introduce a new medium format folder (the GF670), which was reportedly pretty nice but just too damn expensive to find a market, not when the world is still awash in a sea of older but still serviceable cameras.
Ah, but teenagers comment on how amazing my music (80s-early 90s) was, and how shit their music is. So I feel a bit justified in saying my tunes were objectively better.
Leather soles don't last forever, unless you only ever wear them indoors. If you live wear it rains or walk on sidewalks a lot, nice leather soles will last less than rubber soles. Also, you probably won't want to resole more than 1-3 times. I love my nice dress shoes but lets not pretend that they are worth it purely on longevity.
Steven Brust, Will Shetterly and others formed the (at least) half-joking "Pre-Joycean Fellowship", emphasizing storytelling over extravagant literary flourishes.

Sounds good to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Joycean_Fellowship
There has been this little discussed massive debt overhang in China. But for comparison, I wish I could find something that compares the US debt overhang. What's the total corporate debt of the US, it must be massive. I guess "Shadow banking" debt is just a part of the debt China has, because cities and regions have large loans too.

This article says for the US, $8.7 trillion, 45% of GDP https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/the-debt-time-bomb-that-keep.... Compare to 168% in China above.
The over-sensationalization is purely the media. It's not coming from the models or the scientists running them. Please don't over generalize your anecdotal experience to an entire field. Especially not with something this important.

The models have consistently undershot the mark: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-science-p...

As for climate disasters, we've had Katrina (2005) - 3rd most intense landfalling storm in the US in 100 years [1], Irma (2017) - the strongest observed in the Atlantic in terms of maximum sustained winds since Wilma [2], Wilma (2005) - the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015 [3], Patricia (2015) - the second-most intense tropical cyclone on record worldwide [4], Harvey (2017) - tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record[5] - which also caused "500 year floods" (3rd time in 3 years [6]). And that's just a sampling.

For a while now, we've gotten a new "hottest month on record" every few months. And we've pretty consistently gotten "hottest year" on record every few years (increasingly every year or every other year). If you go look at Wunderground's calendar view, you can see the historic temperature records for each day - lows and highs. With few exceptions, the records have all been set in the past few decades. With those records have come any number of record breaking heatwaves, many of which have been very deadly. One of the most recent occurred in Pakistan and saw a temperature of 50.2C (122F) in the city of Nawabshah. [7] Seriously, just google the term "record breaking heatwave" and do some reading.

You may not have experienced the extreme effects over-exaggerating TV anchors talked about in your childhood, but the world is experiencing climate effects as bad as the models predicted, or worse. Please don't use your personal anecdotal experience to undercut the validity of climate models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irma
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Wilma
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Patricia
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/29/houst...
[7] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/pakistani-city...
> What's the thing that keeps your interest? What's the change that makes you uninterested?

I think it's the routine of it all. Yet another CRUD app, yet another meaningless "emergency", yet another client/stakeholder tantrum, yet another power play in which I'm a pawn. It's interesting in the first 3-4 months because everything is new (company, software, people) but then it fades away.

> Or... start your own thing that is aligned with your interests?

I've thought about this many times, but I don't think I have what it takes.
There's a few:

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

False Memory by Dean Koontz

Neuromancer by William Gibson
An agency or proper usability testing should provide you insights and ways to correct the usability issues based on the results.
What you describe may work to get feedbacks and new feature requests. But you won't know why a user is not using a feature, where they are struggling, what they don't understand or see.
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Just keep in mind with dogfooding that there is a difference between figuring out how things work and working efficiently/effectively once you have figured out how things work. Dogfooding is really only good for 'testing' the latter, because you already know how everything works better than any normal user would.
IIRC, he claims that foreign aids directly help autocratic rulers stay in place, by giving them means to pay off their vital support. So he says that it clearly prevents uplifting people or teaching them democracy, since they are the first victims of dictatorship.
Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture (2012)
Blockchain: The Colorado Sun to Launch with Former Denver Post ‘A-Team’ Stars
> Basic stuff like named return values no longer work.

If Rust hypothetically wanted to add named return values, I think the way they'd do it is have the compiler check that all codepaths through the function initialize the returns. In general rustc is happy to let you declare uninitialized variables, and even partially initialize them field-by-field, as long as it can prove to itself that everything's fully initialized by the time you read it.
#whut? (headline)
Way to go bro :)
But Jurassic Park theme!
Well, it depends on your needs. I imagine a one time encryption algorithm (ie not intended for reuse) could make good use of security through obfuscation or obscurity. This kind of strategy is essentially meaningless in the context of computers, the internet, and effort-free encryption that is mostly good enough.
Does your average "influencer" make any money or is it just the top 100 or so that will ever see more than a free weekend and a plane ticket in coach?
Okay, but the debt to GDP ratio is much higher in china. See my previous article, China 168% of gdp, us 45% of gdp.
Can it track eye movements? A cheap eye tracker would be awesome so all the window's i'm looking at are in focus.
Is there a reason a Silicon transistor/diode wouldn't work here? I'm assuming it either has something to do with voltage sensitivity or frequency, but older computers like this tended to use fairly high (TTL) logic for signaling.
The US Government subsidizes our oil addiction. If the costs were apparent at the gas tank, a “free market” would correct in a blink.
In what way? Format lock in?
#Windows #Office #MacOS #iOS...
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Thats pretty cool, I was a lifeguard back in 1998 and on a quite day looked out to see a really strange shape in the water, looked like a large triangle but it was the bow of the Carol Anne sinking(W09527), never knew the name until today.
I paddled out but the fishermen had been picked up by another trawler by the time I got out, helped them pick up a pile of fish boxes that kept popping up.
Java is fine
What's a 'good ICO'? I did 2 and didn't get shit for it.
Her consent would also be needed.
226 marketing cookies.
Nope.
> How do we know? We don’t need to

Pulumi looks like clever technology but the complete detachment from the underlying services and associated costs seems like the perfect storm for an extremely expensive disaster.

How does Pulumi keep track of which services are launched, especially during testing/development, and how does it ensure those are shut down once they are no longer needed? How does it determine the optimal size of instances/volumes/etc to launch?
And for others who aren't aware - the standard Visa threshold is 1%. [1] Supposedly with a warning at 0.75% from Visa and at 0.5% from Mastercard.

If you go above that, Visa reserves the option of "potential disqualification from the payment system" [2]. That is, you can be banned from accepting Visa cards ever again.

[1] https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/changes-to-visa-charg...

[2] (see "Chargeback Compliance Program") https://www.citibank.com.sg/gcb/credit_cards/pdf/Fraud_Charg... [PDF]
Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game
Compulsive gaming recognized as disease by WHO
For some reason, javascriptforfunandprofit.com is still unclaimed
Unregulated unofficial loans. They have played a major role in developing China’s economy outside of the rigidly regulated financial sector. However their total value and creditworthiness is not entirely known. The Chinese government doesn’t want to shut down the shadow debt markets wholesale, because of their outsize influence on the economy, but for the same reason they don’t want shadow lending to get too out of hand either. If there is a credit crunch or economic contraction, it will be harder to manage the consequences of unofficial debt than official debt.
This method is just for face recognition. If you're interested in tracking eye movements take a look at face detection + facial landmarks:

https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2017/04/03/facial-landmarks-dl...

And then techniques to localize the center of the eye:

http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/04/simple-accurate-eye-cent...
TFA is a list of examples.

GNU/FSF has a perhaps broader-than-average definition of malware, but the lists are thought-provoking to peruse.
I agree. Dubliners is also (compared to Ulysses) very readable. I'm almost afraid to admit how much several of the stories resonated with me...
How often?
Here's one of my 'test tokens' (KITN):

https://etherscan.io/token/0xd9db1e7eff06dc16347ee2e3f203655...
My understanding of the solution is a little different. The virtue of the cryptography scheme was that by adding pending characters carefully, it became useless to use frequency analysis of single letters. However, what the solution does is look for digraphs - pairs of letters like "th" or "qu" that are common in english. (And, placing low scores to unlikely digraphs like "dx".) Doing two rows at a time is just part of this strategy.
Guerilla testing is a great starting point. Do you usualy give one or multiple scenarios to complete?
Be aware that you are not controlling the environment and the users may be distracted by outside factors. Which may affect some of your metrics (time to perform tasks, success rate...)
I'm still going to use it, though. Is there even any alternative at all?
Here's an 'offical one' that worked (airdropped):

https://etherscan.io/token/0x6a95771d66731e1f59681b9f71f45dc...
Stabilized, not guided, but pretty cool!
To be fair that is a good thing as a long term strategy. They may lack money now but in the future when they could afford it that could pay large premiums. It is why marketers were so focused on youth for marketing - they have less set tastes and more big ticket items in the future.

Most teenagers can't afford a sports car but if you win them over they could wind up buying one when they are older and able to afford it.

I have seen the reverse backfire with traditional news. They would take all sorts of bullshit youth blaming and stupid moral panics and then wonder why people under middle age don't consider them worth reading or watching for free, let alone paying for.
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I agree with most of what you stated however...

> If you go look at Wunderground's calendar view, you can see the historic temperature records for each day - lows and highs. With few exceptions, the records have all been set in the past few decades.

How long have we been tracking these records?
Given how medicine works in the US, that's not a problem, but an opportunity.

US Medicine is for profit, and the money is in reoccuring treatment, not cures. So a never ending battle of cat-and-mouse is the type of R&D phramas would love.

A potential future scenario:

Keep going to your doctor to get a Rx for the latest strain or pay a monthly fee to a Bacteriophage-As-A-Service SV tech company to get the latest delivered right to your door you use in conjunction with a smartphone app.

The latter of which would have operated illegally until sufficiently large enough to hire insider DC lobbyists to gut the FDA.
I continue to regard this as the stupidest geopolitical dispute our reality can safely support.
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"Wi-Fi" covers at least two different frequencies - is the effect observable at both?
Plus a 'flipped litecoin' "Kruhft Coin Classic" (email me for macOS binaries and source, no seed nodes right now). kruhft@icloud.com
Never in all my years of going to the barbers have I ever known anyone do what you've just described in the UK; and if it does happen, then it's certainly not custom in any of the towns I have lived in.

Sometimes people do disappear when it is extremely busy but when they come back (typically an hour or two later) they expect to join the back of the queue. Literally the only time I've seen anyone leave queue and rejoined it where they left was when they were there with their larger family and one of the kids urgently needed the toilet. And even then I've only seen that happen once in the decades (literally!) I've been frequenting barbers.

You can use all of the patronising terms you like to promote your preferred etiquette but if it's not shared with the rest of community then your method simply isn't the "proper way to do it".
Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?
ethernet?
I agree, and I realize from comments this wasn't clear (hard to be precise in a rant). Whatever the abstract point, criminal liability for executives is effective. It's also (imo) just. This is criminal fraud.

I don't know what shareholder accountability would do. It may just further incentivize liability dodging by altering the dept/equity ratios. It just doesn't seem right to me that shareholders continue enjoying the fruits of this crime, with a fine amounting to no more than a daily fluctuation in shareprice.

This is the point I wanted to be clear on: this is not a minor fraud. Certain engine types have had a massive advantage in European markets. These happened to be engines manufactured and used by VW. These engines and the tax regime around them made certain, very popular models viable. This was all based on fraud.

Adding insult to injury, this happens to be a tax regime the vw both authored and defrauded.

1bn/70bn was the cost to shareholders, relative to market cap. VW Has a high loan to equity ratio, so this understates how insignificant the fine was, relative to the financial proceeds from the crime.
Tesla Severance Offer Draws the Line on Worker-Safety Concerns
I had a feeling that was what they were referring to but I don't see why someone operating under current (at the time) tax law should go to jail.
I think it's very important to note the source of this document, as well as any biases that source may have.

For example, this piece was written by GNU, which is by and large a proponent of free software.
Sure, but most people who shouldn't have admin access do not have them already, (if the machine they use is managed). Even with Windows, if you are not in Administrators group, and your try something that requires UAC, tough luck, just like with sudo.

That leaves us with private machines: should the user have the admin access, if it is his private machine? He is the owner after all. If "not yet", who and when will grant it, when the need arises/the user educates himself/etc? Also, how will the user, who is willing to educate himself able to do, when he is not allowed to try and fail?

iOS turned this into a big brother scenario: there is someone else, who has to approve any program that you can run on the device. However, Apple might have objectives and responsibilities that may be different than yours, and they may deny you running an app, that is otherwise perfectly fine (and not just for technical reasons: imagine living in Crimea today, for example). Even on Android, there are things that you may legitimately want to do, but out of the box the system won't let you - you may either need the same signing key that the platform is signed with, or full blown root (backing up the device, for example). Both of these platforms take away possibilities in the name of what the mainstream user supposedly wants, and nobody is going to ask you, whether you are competent to use these features or not. Once you lose these possibilities, they are not going back.
Could we take suppliments to counter-ballance this?
> These tests are a greater part of the "green/carbon reduction" policies that is europe's primary industrial policy of the last decade.

Yes, because greenhouse gases are a bigger threat to people in the long term than NOx. And because everyone agrees on that the actions of the car companies are not so serious.

And because nearly ever manufacturer engaged in such activity you can't then say everyone is going to jail.
Enron's and Arther Anderson's accounting fraud did them in. Reputation, while certainly diminished, did not play a role in their bankruptcy.

Absolutely worth a watch if you have a chance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/
I'd also like to petition to return New Mexico to Mexico.
My company uses 3 stripe accounts on the advice of our stripe representative, so I believe they’re ok with it.
I also am reminded about FTDI's (edit: Windows Update - pushed ) malicious driver/firmware update that bricked the VID/PID of what the driver detected as "counterfeit" FTDI serial to usb transceivers. The resulting change made was to set the VID=0000, PID=0000 thus unbinding the associated drivers from being able to identify the hardware.

Torvalds, within a few days, allowed a kernel patch of usbserial.ko to allow usage from 0000:0000 to rewrite the firmware to fix the devices.

This was an example of a chip company destroying hardware arbitrarily, thus showing another treacherous computing in proprietary software.
Haskell got exceptions in 1999, I think, but your guess about the motivation as "oh, whoops, result types don't scale" is entirely unfounded.

The real issue is this: figuring out how to do exceptions in a lazy language is simply not obvious. Work was needed, e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Even so, exceptions are generally not used for error handling in Haskell, yet life seems to go on. You'll see code using `throwError` or `catchError`, but usually these will just be providing a nice bit of sugar on top of an Either or Maybe type. So it seems like the takeaway should be that Result types do scale, with proper library+language support.
>Do these other countries continue to enjoy WTO Developing Nation Status, which enables a lot of the unfair advantages China enjoys as pointed out by the grandparent comment?

No -- they don't need it as much, as they already climbed the lax-IP/protectionism ladder for centuries to get high.

Now they insist nobody currently lower than them should use the ladder.
As much as I'd like to agree, it's not, as many devices - think smartphones and tablet - doesn't come with ethernet ports; neither do macs any more.

I have some of my home devices wired: tv, console, home server; but for laptops and smartphones, it gets tricky.

It also wouldn't help getting rid of the neighbour's wifi, unless I get some sort of faraday-cage insulation.
Men's fashion just moves at a much slower pace than women's, and things that are sort of out of style are okay for a much longer period.

CBDs and white shoes are definitely on their way out, but it will take years for that to happen, whereas women's fashion changes very quickly.

Source: wife works in production for both men's and women's fashion.
>with several assumptions about the CPU and OS architecture

You aren't going to get a good spin lock without making some assumptions about the hardware and OS. Get new hardware, gotta add a new case.
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Ah well, I always claimed there was no harm in wifi signals .. because I lived surrounded by them for so long and had no issues...

and now I feel sick :)
> By agreeing to rename itself the Republic of North Macedonia the country will replace an interim accord under which it joined the UN 23 years ago as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

> The agreement means Skopje will need to make more than 150 changes to its constitution before Greece brings the pact before its own parliament for ratification – a task replete with challenges for Zaev, who like Tsipras has taken a progressive view on the issue, and faces considerable opposition from nationalists. Macedonia’s president, Gjorge Ivanov, has refused to support the deal, presaging a stormy few months ahead.

Seems silly that a name change means that legal agreements have to be re-ratified.