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Article is complete trash like most things written by 'technologists' who don't build things themselves.

Technology is only a dark forest to the laggards of the adoption bell-curve. Their only experience with new technology is makes them and their old practices redundant.

Today I played with a testnet Lightning Network node and sent BTC payments in real-time with no middle-men on a p2p network.

Tomorrow I will go to work and play with a microcomputer with an embedded ASIC chip designed specifically to run complex neural nets on embedded devices. I work remotely from Japan for a company in a completely different timezone.

Technology is evolution and not all species are meant to be there in the next generation.
>School was a complete waste of time for myself. The only benefit was for social connections.

With all respect, I’m calling bullshit on this. Social connections were thee only thing you learned? Where did you learn how to read so you could understand the C++ texts you were reading? Who gave you lessons to help with critical thinking so you could understand programming is not a linear process? Hell, who taught you how to count? If you had done none of this, you’d be claiming you self taught since an infant.

Simply casting your entire education to the side is extreme. There may be parts of the system that you disagreed with, perhaps the structure of the school day, but saying it had no benefit makes it sound like a pendejo argument.
It's also more fun. If someone wants an already assembled modular there are 2000 other options.
If you want to understand algorithms, you need a computer science curriculum, not a mathematical curriculum.

Also, unfortunately, its not the recommended order to learn them in.
+1 for Carcassonne, a great board game, they have an iOS app too that is well done, has been slow to match up with other players lately.
What you don't get (or try to spin away) is this:

- the money that China spends at Oxford and at US universities is an attempt to spread the ideology I describe

- inside China (I lived there for many years) there is ZERO ambiguity about the purpose of these soft power programs. it is only wumao working outside China who push the fiction that to object to propaganda programs that are focused on the West is to interfere in Chinese internal affairs.

- this has absolutely nothing to do with respecting the legacy of China inside its own borders. it is about a concerted "Unified Front" that is an open policy of the Chinese gov't and is being pursued using every manner of soft power or sometimes sharp power, but most especially money, outside the borders of China.
Speaking as a python developer who uses Javascript and CSS only when necessary, yes, you are correct. It's not the fact that it's JS/CSS that's annoying to me about such work, and nothing about it gets better if you use python instead.

Not that it's not interesting of them to make this, but really, I had little if any temptation to try it out.

Note that it doesn't necessarily mean I think JS/CSS is _better_ suited, but in any case not worse, and I think the leap from one problem domain to another is much more significant than the leap from one language to another.
Not to mention the metaphor-breaking fact that this suspicion in no way keeps folks from adopting tech... It just generates this vestigial reactionary news cycle while they do.
Depends what you want: If you want to find new processes and compounds that you can patent, then avoiding older patents is essential, as they're prior art.

On the other hand, if you want to find new processes and compounds that aren't patented, then finding a past expired patent covering a part of the process would mean that part of the process is "safe" (not finding one might mean it is safe, or might mean you've overlooked something)
Depends on the pockets. Parkas and khaki pants can fit them for sure -- in the full assembly photo they look tiny too.
"the whole shopping experience is saturated with caprice and uncertainty". So very true. UNLESS I already know what I want. then, it's by far the easiest from checkout to delivery to possible returns. But if you're looking for a "robot toy for 5 year old", good luck.
Warning: I have had three keyboard replacements in two years with my 2016 and 2017 MBPs, and I have been lucky compared to some of my colleagues. I am thinking of switching OFF Mac because the hardware reliability is now so low and each keyboard fix is a week long send it out repair that sometimes wipes all your data. Insane.
Just cancelled my Netflix account. They asked for a reason, I put other, auto playing trailers mean I can't have children in the room.
Facebook already has access to a larger repository of photos going back over a decade and all the years inbetween along with decent face recognition to create a much bigger dataset than resorting to a hashtag challenge. But I guess that wouldn't be newsworthy.
If you drive with a Google device, they know when you're speeding anyway. This is only about adding a user convenience that's about as new as dinosaur dung.
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Poor kid.
I’m not looking to incite a political flame war, but genuinely interested in how the current US government shutdown affects the response to this. The CDC is funded through 2019, but are there “non-essential” services whose absence will be detrimental towards combating a potential crisis like Ebola? Airport screeners? FDA? Research programs?
Huh? There are 1,400 reviews on that page.
Decades of arguments attempting to short-circuit the scientific process, by claiming to show that minds cannot possibly work this way or that way, do not seem to have contributed much, if anything, to our understanding of how they do work. It all seems very self-referential, in that there is a lot of arguing about arguments.
Yet it's on the front page at number 24.

Frankly I look at quantum posts to giggle at the uselessness of it all. Good research maybe, but at least 30 years before anything particularly useful will likely pop up. No?
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This is awful! When these things happen, why don't people name names? What restaurant did this????
There is one difference here though: we have observed parthenogenesis in nature, so we know it can occur. We have not observed anything like a 'flat earth'.
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The original Wired article is here:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/

That was submitted here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952882
My guess is you can just use EXIF metadata and/or picture resolution/sharpness to easily sort old Vs. new. Cameras have come a long way in ten years..
Another problem with the last outbreak is that one of the things Westerners were telling them to do was to stop eating portions of their dead. This is a tradition there, and local shamans started saying they were getting sick because they weren't honoring the tradition.

The last outbreak started from people eating infected bats. I'll have to read up on this one.
Very well said!

I heard someone on the Joe Rogan podcast describe science as faith.

There's nothing in the universe that says gravity today must act like gravity tomorrow. We basically take it on faith that we understand gravity and that it's not changing.

If you're looking for 100% confidence, "I think therefore I am" or simply "I am" is as close as we've come.
Exactly. We'll never be entirely "legacy" free and it will take 30 years or more to replace legacy infrastructure and vehicles.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/sql-copy.html

PostgreSQL COPY can read or write to server files, though it requires superuser permissions.

There is also COPY FROM/TO STDIN/STDOUT, which allows the client to send the files on the same connection.
Is there a subreddit or other aggregator to talk about social software like this?
Why do they need to be Indian? Sure the data would reflect that a plurality of global low wage workers are from India, but there are also plenty of low wage workers who are not ethnically Indian or geographically based in India (such as all of the Americans working on r/beermoney).
OK. But I guess I've been directed to non-counterfeit sellers almost 100 times over the course of several years.
Is [0] the comment you are referring to?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
This is my 1st time trying it. I want the authentic Yorkshire Gold, made for UK flavor standards, not one re-formulated for American taste buds (as some of the reviews allege).
Access to what?
People have a tendency to laugh and ridicule these things. But there is a growing trend of single males in Asia.

For China [0]:

> in a country with 34 million more men than women...

For India [1]:

> has an excess of 37 million males...

The mind absolutely boggles at this combined amount.

Necessity is the mother of all invention as they say. Remember the first mobile phone or remember the first car? Primitive to say the least. Now look at what they can do.

I would wager we are 25-50 years away from deus ex machina bots. I hope to see it in my lifetime.

[0]: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/leftover-men...

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...
This is just stupid. Even if Facebook wanted to do something like this, they have the data. Millions and millions of photos are already time stamped.
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You can’t be big and small to something at the same time the way you can love and hate something at the same time.

Your point about 0 is resonable, but it’s more of a U shape.

Both are intense feelings that will stimulate arousal. In practice, it’s easier to move from love to hate and back to love than it is to move either to apathy — and cycling between them doesn’t involve apathy at all.

And then we have things like disgust, which I would say is more dissimilar to love than hate.
Amazon makes it basically impossible to compare prices by unit of measure (ie $0.94 per gallon or what not). I’ve wanted to make a browser extension to attempt to fix that.

I’ve always suspected this is intentional. But if I could compare prices this way and be confident I’m getting the best deal, I’d buy things on Amazon a lot more.
a larger repository of photos going back over a decade
i think when people focus on optimizing code they slip into a frame of mind where they try to 'optimize' their lives like they are a machine. the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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My bigger concern is just storing it. It sounds like he’s using just a regular powerbank type battery which is li-ion. Letting it sit in a parking lot for a day in the summer then turning it on probably isn’t a very good thermal situation. I wonder if some sort of sealed lead acid might be better. Far more inconvenient for power management though as some sort of circuit would have to be created.
Sure, but the command could've been: "Load this file: <stream of bytes>", rather than "Load this file: <path to file>" which necessarily requires the server to parse the command.
I think it's difficult to give the right answer. For example the daughter of Jordan Peterson had a lot of health issues, but her health issues have been gone once she switched to an all-meat diet [0]. What works well for one person, might not work at all for another I guess.

I personally feel it's best to listen to your body and avoid eating too much sugar, cause we know for sure the harmful effects of eating too much sugar.

Intermittent fasting however seems to have some beneficial effects, so with regards to your diet, you might want to try that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMdqevE88

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDEwblGDz2Y

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMdqevE88
No. Religious societies that ascribe to traditional values will dominate, as they have in the past, and likely always will. Societies that subscribe to regressive norms will eventually die out, as we're seeing in Japan and Europe.
Also look up family rental service.
Agreed, but then most modern languages have 80%+ of all pre 1980 languages.
Companies are usually wary of AGPL. e.g.:

https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
I feel these explanations are always post facto. "Oh they didn't react, it was so obvious, those silly dinosaurs!"

Well a hundred World Changing Mega Hyper Super Switchy Disrupt-o-Trends come along every month. Nobody knows which of them will pan out. Asking a giant company with a stable, reliable way of turning money into more money to drop everything at every rustle in the leaves is not reasonable.
You'd think that with an even bigger gender imbalance and a thriving tech industry, Silicon Valley would be leading the charge... I guess that's why we have VR though.
Cargo pants, right? The modern variant is called “tactical”, and can be found with flat sides rather than bulky pouches. In a dark color the pockets are almost invisible.

Vertx Legacy are my favorite. The thigh pocket has an inner magazine pocket that holds a phone perfectly. Or a backup battery. If you carry two phones, it keeps them from clunking into each other.

https://vertx.com/mens-legacy-pants
And when they'll be at it, maybe they'll flatten Earth and rewire the minds of most of us to think it's a sphere. Why didn't I think about it? ;-)
I'm curious where this question is coming from. If depending on the understanding that Japanese society is, in general, futuristic relative to other societies, I don't believe that's the case. Otherwise, I see no reason why this specific phenomenon might be in the cards for other societies, at least anecdotally speaking.
That is assuming it's Facebook training the algorithm
Yeah, but those aren't subtle questions, they're subtle answers :)
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It’s a bit like the 8 bit computer age: You can get by in a high level view, but the performance might not be enough or you’re missing out on some features where you need direct access.

Given the immense speed of today’s computers, brute force might be enough, though.
It's either this or we don't get raytracing at all. Do you not understand how things develop? They have to start implementing it somewhere and develop the tools and engine to support it, but the hardware doesn't exist for them to do raytracing globally. They have to gain experience and develop practices for implementing it. This is a good first step that will lead to more. How are you not getting this?
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What do you mean by dying out? Can you provide an explanation and/or sources for societies in Europe that you believe are dying out?
While software tools are great the question of the user base is a more difficult one. Should I just set up an instance for my city and go to? What if there are 6 competing instances? Who gets membership? Who controls membership? These questions seem fundamental to "start using decidim" and are unaddressed by the site, which seems to present usage as similar to an individual trying out a new text editor.
Yeah it's bizarre how they keep buying dysfunctional clothing.
>I went on Ebay, found decent UK sellers in less than 5 minutes, and ordered my tea.

I've found myself buying more and more from eBay in the past 12 months. Prices are decent and no whack a mole with sellers. You buy from one seller and can easily tell how long they've been on eBay and a gauge of their reputation.
I used to do IT support for a whole building when I was a undergrad student. One of the professors once had a quote stuck on her door:

"People may forget what you say.
They may forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel."

I was a drop-out college student who attended that small, cheap public university in the middle of nowhere as a last resort because I ran out of options in my country. Studying there was nothing short of life-changing. Long story short, 11 years later, I just earned my doctorate degree not so long ago and working my dream job.

By the way, after graduating from the small state school, I got accepted in a much larger research university that gave me a free ride. But it was that little school that I had to work my ass 20 hours a week for 4 years that feel I owe my big gratitude for. That little school was the one that gave me hope that I could change my life and had professors and faculties that went out of their way to help a no-name international student. The other day, I was offered an internship in a very good place. The international student office told me I couldn't accept it because of the laws or whatever. There came a professor whom I barely talked to. She was then the head of the business school - one of the departments I did IT support for. She offered to go with me to that office to argue with the director of the international office on behalf of me. And she did. And she won. I didn't have to say a word.

I think it was how you make them feel that makes them remember what you did, not the other way around.
In theory yes.

In practice we except the patent to be rejected by a government department which value is measured in number of granted patents, or a special court which is infamous known to favor patents over rejecting them and which previous chief Judge was himself a previous patent lawyer.

The cost of getting a patent invalid is also very minor. There is no requirement to pay back the extracted rent by the time the patent get invalidated. The author also has many chances to rewrite a challenged patent and remove over broad claims. The risk vs reward of making broad claims in patents is evidentially in favor of risk.
Yeah, I know. There's an ongoing process of balkanization of video streaming that started recently.

I just hope all those IP owners get what's coming to them for this failure to cooperate - namely, that all those HD streams get ripped and put on torrents, where people who don't have patience for this bullshit will be looking for them now.
I am using this in userContent.css with Firefox for Mastodon:

@-moz-document domain(mastodon.social) {
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width: 450px !important;
}
}

And this for Tweetdeck:

@-moz-document domain(tweetdeck.twitter.com) {
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width: 500px !important;
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Several things that I am working with now:

1) Doing what is difficult. (Started commenting on here, planning
to share some of my work here and on Reddit).

2) Asking myself whether I am doing the right thing or avoiding it. (That is when you can spend 3 months in refactoring when you really should just make a landing and share the thing everywhere gathering
feedback and iterating along the way)

3) Constant exposure. I am planning to take some work in sales (which I dread). That should help with breaking barriers.

4) Observing the mind. A form of mindfulness approach that warrants its own larger explanation.

Now, I am nearly at the beginning of this journey, but I think I will
be able to figure it all out.

Hope this helps.
>Visual Studio is easily multiple gigs

In June of last year, I had to prepare an offline Visual Studio installer for an isolated environment - the install package (with all available options) weighed in at over 50gb...
Eating portions of their dead? I never heard that. I just heard that they weren’t able to do traditional funerals. Presumably that could be part of the traditional funeral, but I’ve got close friends and family I would have expected to hear that from. Do you have a reference?
By using Indian workers you are helping to provide a living wage for people who really need it, not just for “beer money”.
In CLOS: just call CLASS-SLOTS.

AMOP is one of the best books I've ever read and despite being over a quarter century old (1991) I've still never seen an object system as well designed.
>at least I know what I'm getting

Lorddddd I am holding back laughter right now. Ebay is the original defintion of online scamming and counterfeiting.

The real way to do this would be for someone to buy a bulk order from the manufacturer, import it, and then sell it piecemeal with a social media profile that demonstrates legitness and quality of product.

Ebay's fees and lack of quality control add negative value to this transaction.

Of course one wonders why in 2019 the manufacturer doesn't sell direct to consumer
Now I'm curious about the difference. Can you say which eBay source you used?
I agree. For example in The Netherlands, Amazon is a small player. Almost all popular online retailers there have amazing customer service. Also, by law, they are all required to take back any order, for almost any reason, within 14 days of delivery.
Re: China

"Millions of single Chinese men desperately seeking a wife" [France 24 English, 26 min, 2017]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SboNzluN6Nc

I caught both this report and the one in my parent comment around the same time. The Chinese solution looks to be divided between sex dolls and importing women (though leaning more towards the latter) while the Japanese solution is about sex dolls and rent-a-families (possibly leaning towards the former).
Nearly every place a person can work the product is designed to get people to buy more of it.

Netflix is chips, designed so that you can’t just eat one. Every product from packaging to taste to price to whatever is designed to manipulate us. We should definitely keep businesses in check but ultimately it is our responsibility whether we eat two chips or the whole bag.
I don't think pile is the correct collective noun.
Probably referring to below-replacement birth-rates.
> think about how often tech restricts you versus how often is frees you.

Type systems restrict me every time :)
I guess, but they're not exactly useful when carried around individually in a pocket.