skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
like... half the people I know who own a single family home generate a good portion of their own electricity.

Sometimes centralization helps efficiency, it's true, but sometimes the opposite, decentralization helps, too... it sure looks like for peak-load in sunny areas, decentralized power generation is cheaper.

I think that for commodity compute, the big players are not a lot more efficient than the big hardware manufacturers. Go to a supermicro, a foxcon, or other ODM server manufacturer, and you'd be surprised how cheap it is to buy actual hardware.

Small companies will scrap for margins that the big players, so far, at least, have laughed at, because so far, most of the market seems to be okay paying these large margins. (I used to be one of those small companies scrapping for those low margins; I am not happily and much more renumeratively employed by a big player, outside of their cloud department)

I personally think that long term, smaller players or in-house hosting will be the way to go for your 'base load' compute resource. I think that paying the margins of the big players makes a lot more sense for your 'peak load'

But, of course, we don't know yet; none of this will shake out until the next serious economic downturn. There isn't a lot of pressure to save money when the economy looks like this.
I watched the first half of it. Hilarious. Definitely recommend.
I wouldn't take credit for James E. Casey's work.
I wrote a lot of code for payments processing at an Indian e-commerce shop & see/make it scale from 100s of QPS to ~200k QPS. Just having the code paths exercised by so many people over a day gives me joy.

One change that I will not forget that made the highest "perceived" impact with a one line change. The payments flow was at a different domain the rest of the site. This meant the users incurred a fresh set of DNS lookup, TCP connection establishment & a SSL handshake cost. The change was to load a "pixel" image from the payments domain a page before. It dropped the first call latency from 550ms to 100ms :-)
The soundtrack of Descent 1 was composed on a Roland SC-88 (or a sister model), which was the "gold standard" Midi hardware module of the era. (Its samples formed the basis of the wavetable synth shipped with Windows 95.) I rendered here the Descent 1 title theme using FatBoy via FluidSynth: https://chris.pacejo.net/temp/descent/D1.ogg

It's good, but compare to a rendering from an actual SC-88: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqrvsy7AeGw (not my rendering, though I do own an SC-88)

There are definitely nuances missing; e.g. 40 s in, when there's just the bass vamp, the SC-88 rendering is far superior in my opinion. At 60 s in, the synth that enters is too loud in the FatBoy rendering.

It's possible – maybe even likely – that these differences are more due to FluidSynth not interpreting all controls and RPNs identically to the SC-88.

Same comparison, only for Descent 2: https://chris.pacejo.net/temp/descent/D2-Title.ogg (FatBoy/FluidSynth)
vs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_uUCBCuUs (SC-55 II) I think the difference here is stark. Though clearly FluidSynth is partly to blame, as the beginning notes aren't even in tune with each other in that rendering.
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See you at the barricades.
The author is just one of these people who has benefited from a system and pretends to care for the underprivileged. And through this article, she makes me feel that she is entitled to success in all her endeavors and if that is not the case, then it’s others fault.

This makes me sick.
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>The concern, as I have often heard it repeated, is that by being so capricious, unbearable and aggressive, the personality type associated with "grievance studies" will ruin any social goodwill held towards academics, along with their reputation for being more right than the average person.

This was William Buckley's theory in God and Man at Yale. Has the gangrene managed to advance since the 1940s without ever killing the patient?
The changelog shows the font is still being tweaked based on real-life feedback:

https://fatboy.site/changelog.html

And if you scroll down, there's an email address:

contact@fatboy.site

So you could try contacting the author about this issue
My idea is to eliminate the physical logistics, not require fast aircraft logistics.
> a determined effort to make a degree unnecessary for respectable middle class careers

This would be welcome, frankly. There are so many careers for which a degree requirement is a gatekeeper, nothing else. Hell, many jobs advertise a requirement for any degree, with no particular preference, which tells you exactly how pertinent the content of the degree is to the job.

As a society we've hyper-focussed on the desirability of university degrees at the expense of every other type of learning or training, and at immense cost. I'd welcome an honest re-appraisal of our priorities and an end to the creeping domination of credentialism.
In Portland, not SF. Place I went to 2 months ago gave me a flag with a number on it. When my order was ready, they brought it out to me.

I went there last night. Looked like there was one guy working by himself. He poured my drink and gave me a buzzer. When my food was ready, I went back to pick it up.

It looked pretty clear that the owners figured the cost of the pager system was cheaper than having a second person working.

This is at an indoor soccer place, where he could have somebody from the front desk help cover when he needs to use the restroom, etc. Cooking is mostly putting stuff into a deep fryer.

At a different restaurant, the pager system still might mean going from cashier, cook, and runner to just cashier and cook.
Mode is the most common meaning for "average" in vernacular English. When someone says "I'm just your average guy," they are not doing math. They're comparing themselves to what the majority (or perceived majority, i.e. plurality) of other people are like.
>If half of the population sees universities as hostile to their beliefs and life why should they vote to continue funding them?

Because it's the academically educated professionals (and upwards in income) who are actually paying most of the taxes?
I was a math major and was taught (as in elementary, middle, and high school), that the "average" is the mean...
Thank you, I don't enjoy writing anything else than code or short texts/comments though.
original interview - http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/astronomer-avi...
Regarding solar power it's currently hard to fulfill all of the requirements

Which is why I mentioned beamed power. Perhaps thin-film solar panels could be used for range/endurance extension. Since these craft are more weight challenged than space challenged, perhaps hydrogen fuel cells could be used instead of batteries?
So why don't some of these restaurants come to South Bay? Sunnyvale and San Jose have like nothing... Way less competition, at least somewhat more affordable
I am very much interested in this. Would you be willing to work with me offline on this? It's an area of research for me that I find fascinating, yet I have difficulty finding information for legitimate reproduction of the techniques that I hear about.
"The digits" in Pi will not give you relevant information.

The universe doesn't care about the base of our numbering system, so if our system was octal the answer would be totally different and equally irrelevant.

If there is a fundamental numbering system, then it's binary, but I don't think it makes much sense to analize the binary (floating point?) representation of Pi.
Can you explain a different between that and the millions of slack/discord etc "chat rooms" of today through which I've met people in real life?
Since you are primed on the question. You should read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. It's a near-future sci-fi book that tackles these sorts of questions.

As a bit of a "spoiler" his solution is a covenant with the citizens. The government will hack all of our computers, will own the IME equivalents of every machine, and in return they will only use this power to hunt down terrorists and mass murderers, people who are looking to leverage technology to build nuclear weapons, bio-weapons, etc.

Things like parallel construction would have to stop though. Or be considered an immediate dismissal.
From what I know about drug users' level of motivation I'd say the dealers will regret using dead drops quickly...
It's about as made up as the validity of studying things like "Contextualizing the Power Relations among Surfers in the Water"
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/108307733196981452...

Someone used their grant to go surfing and concluded it was racist.
You seem to be either unaware of the details of the Grievance Studies project or are deliberately minimizing it.

They didn't target one journal, they targeted multiple. 7 papers were published and 5 others were in the process of being iterated on, all taken seriously. They cited numerous existing papers to jump off of and build their ridiculous premises. Such as the idea that white students should be chained up in class to understand privilege or that obesity is great. These papers were lauded as exciting contributions and one was singled out with an award.

This work is nearly indistinguishable from real papers in the field, and was constructed to justify ridiculous conclusions, working backwards to find precedent in the fields in question. That's what makes them qualify as Grievance Studies. There are no real hypotheses being tested, it's just the academic laundering of ideology.

Do you seriously think someone could spend a year just learning the lingo of a real STEM discipline and get similarly farcical work published? With no real results required? This isn't about real sociology, linguistics, literature or psychology.

The fact that these disciplines are actively trying to break into STEM by claiming a necessity for feminist geography or astronomy really says enough. They're not happy to just sit in their own departments, doing "research" and producing an inbred body of work, they want to compel the hard sciences to take them seriously.

Remember the C+equality parody that went around a few years ago and which ticked off enough gender activists to get it banned from github? Well, they were just lampooning a real thesis someone had written, about how feminism could enrich logic and coding, because masculinity focused too much on rigid categories. This empress already has no clothes.
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I'd say they are a little different. Infowars et al are basically just running their mouths for tabloid headlines. Academics adopting this "alternative epistemology" is more concerning. Stupid blowhards will be stupid blowhards, but the should-be bastions of clarity and reason doing this based on a rejection of all Western philosophy is concerning.
Plus, wouldn't it also attract the attention of the nice guy alien civs? They've been keeping their head down, just developing tech for more thousands of millenia - they probably care about civilizational diversity. The destruction oriented would surely be on the nice guy hit list for destroying all these nice diverse civilizations. So then it's just a question of whether a nice guy attitude would enable better wartech than a destruction oriented attitude.
It's funny that the entire reason that San Francisco really exists is because of the gold rush yet people are upset that the second gold rush is ruining the city.
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This whole comment is about how they didn't do that in any meaningful way, so your rebuttal boils down to "nuh-uh." Point taken, but I remain unpersuaded.
It definitely applies to Mac as well; it's got a full complement of BSD command line goodies.
These things aren't going to go anywhere near a SA-17 site.

They're for taking on ISIS-style insurgencies, not nation-state actors.
Quite poetic that a Google exec talking about the issue she's contributed to (high rents/housing prices) is complaining about it and blaming the failure of her business on it.

Survival of the fittest. Plenty of great restaurants in Tokyo and it's almost as expensive as SF.
I agree, but I'd take work together to find common ground first over work faster. I think in some respects when they work faster or in complete agreement we get things passed that are not in the best interest of the american people/values (Patriot act comes to mind).
> pops of low-frequency radiation, emitting more energy than the sun does in a day

That's an insane amount of energy.
Have you ever actually lived in the SF bay area? What you're describing has become typical of the area's residents.
I know he was a racist but I figured he also might have some good insights. But it jarred me how often the word "race" appears in the text, though the usage may not be what we today consider "racist". I'm not sure if my attitude is an anachronism when I apply it to the text?
A bar closed in my neighborhood and and when I was chatting with them they too blamed the spending habits of the tech crowd. I think if anything, people spend more money on eating out and drinking than the average person. So I don't think it's that people are unwilling to spend it.

I'm not sure it is technology folks or millennials, but I find there are increasing amounts of people who want the "best of" everything...shoes, falafel you name it. People aren't okay with just a "good experience", they want the best experience. As a result, I think there are plenty of people who aren't very forgiving. Especially if you eat out regularly and have a lot of things to compare it to.

Oh yeah and the housing situation is broken.
Dark net marketplaces also compete with clear net marketplaces for benign things

Millions of people know this and routinely check them for good deals, the propaganda machine has failed to make them "scary"
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swift-sh definitely bears looking into, thanks for that!
Oh, fuck off. I'm tired of people who don't get that 'this' is a feature, not a problem. What a skewed perspective of JavaScript some people have gotten over the years :(
Which raises the question: If strong leadership is needed to define the meta-consensus, what use is it that the technical consensus is decentralized?
Interesting that the belief the professors are bringing their ideology into the classroom just shoots up as Republicans get older. Are they remembering their time in college? Maybe it was a bigger real thing in the 70s...
> Like I said, I would appreciate someone explaining why I’m wrong but I’ve been closely following Tor for years and I haven’t seen anything to refute my opinion.

That's gonna be tough, as the network would be broken if we could show you're wrong. Anonymity means you don't know. I've also been closely following for years and haven't seen anything to support your opinion. I believe most Tor nodes are run by aliens and haven't seen anything to refute it. Not saying you shouldn't be cautious about anonymity, aliens, or whatever, but to tell everyone it's non-anonymous, intergalactic, etc and wait to be convinced by your own standards you're wrong doesn't help the practical user.

Curious though, if a popular non-nefarious app that used Tor were to emerge and communicated only on onion services (i.e. no exit nodes) and most users (i.e. non-mobile) were also relays, do you think that would help reduce the percentage of surveillance relays enough to feel comfortable? Or are there any ways that you could feel comfortable in a popular, anonymous, distributed network environment that most participants weren't surveillers?
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An Anti-Enlightenment message would be one. There's a lot to unpack there.
For reference, the SCST project was the software used (back-in-the-day) for high performance block storage over infiniband:

http://scst.sourceforge.net

Looks like it's still an active project too, as there's a new release listed from November 2018.
not always. i'd be happy to throw a little money at hosting a ton of stuff if it served as a load-test for my work. unfortunately, trying to find something to give away that other people will use isn't as easy as one might think
I'm interested, do you have some examples of what kinds of products you are talking about?
In support of last comment, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airlander_-_Mission_Mod...
That sounds ridiculous until you realize that no one is going to pay ~$100 per head every time they go out to eat on a regular basis except for those who have become so wealthy that they have lost all touch with the value of a dollar. I make the rough eauivalent of $175k in San Francisco dollars and if I had to face those prices for a dinner at a mid-range restaurant I simply would not eat out. Restaurants are a luxury that can be easily subsituted with home cooked meals by practically anyone except a Jetset/Road Warrior traveling businessman.

My takeaway from the article is that all "middle class luxury" businesses are slowly being priced out of SF, which is a non-issue for everyone living outside of that bubble but should be of enormous concern to those banking on the future success of the area. Eventually no one will want to move there for a price employers can afford to pay. In the grander scope of things, I'm actually supportive of the concept of fast food and cheap dine-out businesses going under because the habits people form around them are killing us as a people.
> controls and RPNs

Out of curiosity: could you elaborate on what those are? My first guess would be it's something like font hinting but for MIDI
Interestingly I was thinking of her when I made the initial comment - I didn't mention her specifically, in order to avoid spoiling anything, but in my opinion she did not develop at all. Again, I don't want to talk specifically about any further events in the series, but to me, she didn't evolve at all as a character.
I guess Fastly is unicorny, and also counts. Does seem to be the exception not the rule though.
I probably couldn't afford to pay you to change your mind but I could volunteer some time on a project or something in exchange for you answering a few questions that I could turn into an article about your success, perhaps? Win win?
>world's leading expert on that subject

I'm seriously not trying to poke fun but do you mean your mother?
This will probably come across as Get Of My Lawn type of comment.

What I remember most about internet pre Facebook in particular and maybe Pre-smart phones. It was mostly a place for geeks. Geeks wrote blogs or had personal websites. Non geek stuff was more limited. It felt like a place where the geeks that were semi socially outcast kind of ran the place.

Today the internet feels like the real world where the popular people in the real world are the most popular people online. Where all the things that I felt like I escaped from on the net before I can no longer avoid.

I'm not saying that's bad. I think it's awesome that my non tech friends and family can connect and or share their lives and thoughts easily where as before there was a barrier to entry. I'm only pointing out that, at least for me, it changed. It was a place I liked or felt connected to or something, maybe like I was "in the know" or I can't put my finger on it. To now where I have no such feelings.

Maybe it's the same feeling as liking something before it's popular and it loses that feeling of specialness once everyone else is into it. (which is probably a bad feeling to begin with)
Home owners have a selfish incentive to constrain supply to keep prices going up.
Please consider disclosing the issue responsibly by releasing it to the public. Keeping it secret and only telling a select few gives the ability to the said few (which may include Telegram itself) to use the vulnerability maliciously. In addition even if you have disclosed the issue to the Telegram team and Telegram has fixed said vulnerability the same may not be said for any forks of it whose maintainers are not aware of the issue.
Yes, the theory is that rent control causes reduction in inventory. But housing is not an ordinary good and the evidence shows that this theory is incorrect.

New York has had rent control for most of the 20th century with 2 million units still under rent control. Yet it has plenty of development.

And as I point out, housing prices rose slower and housing supply was greater before Costa-Hawkins than they are now.

Furthermore, renters favor rent control while landlords oppose it. So whatever the mechanisms, clearly it benefits renters at the expense of landlords, clearly by reducing housing costs.

And while it is definitely worth adding as much housing as possible, all new housing will price at the top of the market. And at this moment there are thousands of high end units with vacancy in SF and essentially no low priced. So clearly this does not relive pressure on middle or low end housing.

Repealing prop 13 would raise revenue, much of it from large land holders (of which Howard Jarvis was one) so that's nice. It would lower mortgage payments by the amount which property taxes rise thereby converting some mortgage interest into tax revenue. So that's nice. And it makes it easier for new buyers by driving those who can't afford the higher property tax out of their homes. The advantage of this is less clear.

The main problem is that it is difficult for people to believe that which is in their financial interest to disbelieve.
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> 4. Can Postal Inspectors open mail if they feel it may contain something illegal?
First-Class letters and parcels are protected against search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, and, as such, cannot be opened without a search warrant. If there is probable cause to believe the contents of a First-Class letter or parcel violate federal law, Postal Inspectors can obtain a search warrant to open the mailpiece. Other classes of mail do not contain private correspondence, and therefore may be opened without a warrant.

Whoa, that's news to me. I didn't realize that any class of mail besides First class is considered to not contain private correspondence.
I'm not an expert but I think this is a pretty gross mischaracterization of these philosophical bents, sort of like quoting "I think therefore I am" and going about telling people that Descartes was purely a solipsist. There's something to it, but it's not the whole truth, and in a sometimes-violent climate of name-calling (and worse) I think it can be damaging when misinformation is wielded as a club against political opponents like this.
Not his exact words if you watch the video you sourced. Close but missing some key phrases in there that provide context.
Well you're still vulnerable to stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayZwAI8H9jA
Not very capitalist to run a business that is dependent on the employees being able to live in assisted housing.
OpenEBS looked interesting, but it turns out they're spammers. :(

Starred the GitHub repo... and a few minutes later received email spam from them to my personal email (it's in my GitHub profile). :(

Completely lost interest in their project at that point.

Probably best to skip it, as rewarding spammers doesn't lead to good things. :(
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Longest passenger aircraft is 747-8 at 76.3m, as per its Wikipedia article.
the feed the animals are happy to eat is boring and can grow very densely, the food vegans would like to eat (if a lot of people went vegan) would assuredly not just be corn, or wheat, or legumes.
My most 'important' thing was probably a novelty passcode for phones. The important part was the timing of getting it done, as I was low on funds and this allowed me to continue on the path I was onto (still to this day) instead of 'retreating' back home.