skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MMT sounds awfully like the Magic Pudding [1]. If governments can just print any amount of money they like to pay for everything whence cometh hyperinflation?

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Pudding
"Any predatory civilization would probably have detected us by now simply by analyzing our atmosphere, they reason. Humans, Vakoch said, have been using radar, which can purportedly be detected 70 light-years away, since World War II. Television and radio signals would long ago have signaled our presence to malevolent space ruffians, he said."

That's how he justifies the broadcasting of signals, but take the next logical step: It also indicates either that nobody is listening, or that they're unable or unwilling to contact us, or that they're already in the process of trying. In any case, it's hard to imagine the METI messages would change anything. By that same argument. And I mean why would the intentional/contrived message be any more persuasive than all our "honest" and un-self-conscious messages to each other over the years? Anybody who was curious could have learned everything by now.

I also would like to call out the typical assumption of a "technically-advanced race of aliens" and whatnot. The aliens always seem to be technically advanced, don't they? In other words, like us, but more so. That's a mirror you're looking at, and it's how you recognize something man-made. Homo sapiens is the one with the fetish for techne. It seems the aliens we imagine are always either similar to us (which we like) but better, or else they're dissimilar, and predictably worse/more evil (and tend to look like combinations of creatures from THIS planet that we don't like... insects and reptiles figuring prominently). That's more a mirror of our dislikes, but still a mirror. Aliens are always created in our image, and that shows an embarrassing narcissism & lack of imagination. We're just projecting our hopes & fears. Keep your mind open.

One more nitpick: "We won’t know for about 25 years, assuming the communique is sent at the speed of light."
Pretty good assumption, given that it's not possible to send EM waves at any other speed!
Oh, I should have mentioned somewhere. Credit for putting the notebook together goes to Elliot Saba (https://github.com/staticfloat) :).
The article doesn't show a single non-demo installation.

This thing looks like a giant mechanical kludge. If you put the brake (the paddles in water part) at the top of the tower, you have to pump water up the tower. If you put it at the bottom of the tower, you need a top gearbox with a right-angle bevel drive, a bearing ring supporting the gearbox so it can face the wind, long shafting, and bearings.
Some early power turbines were built that way, but nobody does that any more.

Vertical axis turbines like the Savonius turbine and Darrieus rotor can be used, but they're not very efficient, so you need a big one. They also are hard to shut down in an overspeed condition; they can't change direction, change blade pitch, or tilt upward, so you need a strong emergency brake system. Which is why they're rarely seen any more.

All this outdoor hot water plumbing needs to be well insulated, or you lose most of the heat. So a field of wind turbines, or one unit some distance from where the heat is wanted, is a problem. Moving energy around over wires is so much simpler.

Driving a heat pump mechanically might work better, but that's because heat pumps are far more efficient than heaters. (Moving heat is much cheaper than making it. See [1]). An electric windmill driving a heat pump is probably less hassle.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/06/heat-pumps-work-miracles/
openmeet.io is available.

We could spin up a Django or flask site and build a HN style meetup application.
nit: The Feynman bit is a myth: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.176865...

And Searle is an interesting argument for Griffith's perpsective. Searle rose to fame talking about stuff he knew how to do ("speech acts") and in his later years embarassed himself with bad criticisms of AI, as in the Chinese Room, his garbled continuation of the fallacy of the Philosophical Zombie.
Static Nix: a command line Swiss Army knife
If you think it's a joke you're taking the words far too literally.

"like 1000 times more" is not a full proposal. Yes you would reduce car taxes appropriately. Yes you would figure out the actual amount to balance the budget.
The thing for me, is that I haven't even hit a "dang, I wasted all my weapons and have problems now" point, but the very nature of their breakability makes me hesitate to use them/play the game. It has a chilling effect on my enjoyment of the game, even if the game is balanced and non-frustrating.
I run into this every time I help my kids with their math homework- even for subjects I thought I had learned comprehensively their curriculum covers branches/approaches I've never seen before, down to elementary school work.
The art of writing eBPF programs
> As to why someone would want to run this; there is a case where dual-boot is the only alternative : the practical difficulty, if you're a developer who runs Docker -- it doesn't play well with VirtualBox. https://forums.docker.com/t/running-docker-and-virtualbox-on....

Not quite. That only applies to "Docker for Windows/Mac", while a developer primarily running Linux would presumably run native Docker.

More generally, the actual problem here is that there can generally only be one hypervisor running at a time, since it grabs exclusive control of some system resources. Docker itself isn't a hypervisor, but DfW/M use the native hypervisor of their respective OS (Hyper-V and Hypervisor.Framework, respectively) to run the Linux distro boot2docker (where the actual Docker Engine is ran), and neither of those like to coexist with Virtualbox.

There is also the older Docker Toolbox (for both Windows and macOS) that used Virtualbox as its backing hypervisor, and so will happily coexist with other Vbox VMs.

But all of this is about coexisting hypervisors at the same "level". Some hypervisors (such as KVM) support nested virtualization, in which case you could run any (one) other hypervisor inside a VM managed by that hypervisor. For testing purposes I have ran DfW inside KVM, and it worked fine (if a bit slow).
I'm mostly curious how you got it all set up? Did you install something like CoreOS as the host?
I went back to school for CS, and ended up taking courses starting at Grade 10 math as prereqs so that I could rebuild my math knowledge. Even the start of that was rough, since I hadn't done math in a long, long time. By the end of the course, I was much stronger.

What I'm trying to say is that you've made a good decision by jumping way back. Once thing I realized pretty quickly is that to do well in math, you need to know the prior content pretty well. And for the next thing, the current content pretty. And so on. If you can stay on top of it, it 's a lot less challenging (and more interesting).
Are you sure it will be better?
>Being a staunch environmentalist I obviously loathe most Republicans and hate centrist-dominated Democrats almost as much.

What are your thoughts on the requirement that environmental policies are tied very closely to left economic policies? I'd like the option to vote for string environmental policies but they seem coupled with economic policies that I don't want to vote for.
> the names of all Apache® projects, software products, and their logos are trademarks owned by the Apache Software Foundation on behalf of our project communities. Note that while some Apache project names and logos are registered in the US and various countries, even unregistered names and logos are still trademarks of the ASF and should be treated with respect.

Only trademarks registered with various legal jurisdictions are enforceable, such as the "Apache TinkerPop Gremlin" name you registered. Unregistered marks used by an Apache project are simply claims on the mark, which in many cases are not enforceable. One example is the Apache Groovy project, where its PMC members erroneously claim the exclusive use of "Groovy" for their programming language, when in fact their only valid claim is to "Apache Groovy" (and its previous monikers "org.codehaus.groovy" and "Codehaus Groovy").
Sean Carroll's Mindscape Podcast is good general podcast from a physicist. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/
> What stronger proof is there than direct experience?

Direct experience by a skeptical observer in a controlled environment.

Preferably backed up by a solid, provable null hypothesis and some statistics.
This recipe is very easy, requiring little special technique, and can be made in a big pot:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
There are plenty of times when in/out network is an impossible thing to determine or plan for.

I had an out patient surgery about a year ago and while my doctor and every admin I talked said that everything would be in network, I still had someone sneak in who was supposedly out of network.

Then came the bill of what should have been ~$300 was around $2500. I got that BS waived only by called my doctor's office and talking with them about it. Once we talked it all through, the nurses called the _head management of company that ran the out patient surgery clinic_ in order to get it removed. It feels like people have to do you favors in order to get your actual correct billing.

Our health care system is so royally f'ed in the U.S. It desperately needs fixing and I hope it does before something serious happens to myself or my wife because it's currently feels like gambling with ruination. No $2.5k isn't ruination but health care is the only thing in this country where I go in knowing NOTHING about what my final bill will actually be.
"There is the widespread belief that all of the proposed laws and public outrage is being driven by the misbehavior of two companies. (Hint: Google and Facebook). Many executives believe they shouldn’t be punished for sins of the few."
I wouldn't be so sure. Have you ever been to Powell's in Portland?[0] They seem to consistently liberate me from more cash in one visit than Amazon does in a year.

[0] https://www.powells.com/
John DeFrancis has a section on the Yukaghir love letter in his Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. The provenance of the "letter" is a bit obscure but it comes from a Russian political exile to Siberia around 1892.

"As the young people assembled for the dance, a girl might take a piece of fresh birch bark and start carving with a very sharp knife. The others gathered around and watched the progress of the carving. There was much banter, and guesses were made as to who was being depicted and what was being said. Incorrect guesses were met with derision by the carver, so that eventually all present would arrive at an understanding of the contents."

[...]

"In short, the notorious "love letter" and others like it are nothing more than the semiritualized product of these Yukaghir party games. They must not be thought of as real letters posted to someone who would read them as we do our mail. The Russian observers make clear that the compositions were primarily vehicles whereby young women could publicly express their feelings on the single theme of love and separation in a socially acceptable form before a small circle of friends..."

[...]

"The way in which the meaning of the Yukaghir "letter" was actually transmitted, first to a small circle of intimates at the time of its creation and later to a worldwide audience by a succession of scholars, most closely parallels the way in which the meaning of a highly allegorical medieval painting or of a Bayeaux tapestry originated and was transmitted over time. This analogy suggests that the Yukaghir birchbark carving should be viewed as an example not of writing but of anecdotic art whose message can be understood only to the degree one is in contact with its creator, the situation or culture that produced it, or someone who can interpret it for us."

I strongly recommend DeFrancis, both this book and his book The Chinese Language. He's an excellent writer and his take on the issues of writing in general is fascinating and well thought-out.
> If BMW comes out with a luxury sedan electric car that would be a tesla killer.

Instead they produced the i3 which is ugly as sin, has only 180 mile range even WITH the gas-powered range extender, and underwhelming performance, and the i8 which is an overpriced plug-in hybrid with only 15 miles of electric range.
For my Linear Algebra (http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/), the thing that has held me back has been that the tech changes every few years. I can't keep revising something that I give away for free. In contrast, the LaTeX in which I wrote the book is 98% unchanged since the early 90's.

Perhaps the tech is settling down, I'm not sure.
> Tea came in chests, sugar and potatoes in sacks, there'd be large jars for the shop owner to measure out from. Most things went to the shop in bulk.

It also allowed for easy adulteration of products (ever read old formulary books that were popular back then? They had a ton of "recipes" in them on how to extend or change a product to make more money from it, or sell expired goods, etc).

Imagine bulk flour sold by a company. Shop owner pays some money for it. Then reads how to "extend" the product using wood flour (aka sawdust). The shop owner reaps a much high profit, but the company that milled the flour gets a bad rep.

This kind of thing still goes on today with a variety of products that are sold to the consumer in bulk, especially where the consumer can't easy see what they are getting (or can't test it properly; for instance, it happens with gasoline occasionally).
maybe you use the machine vision and sorting machine to reject that item then, and still send all the uncontaminated items to China?
I provided all the links in the original comment, and the follow-up comment.

The argument I'm making is simple: in the originally submitted article, Ms. Logan is making a claim:

> We dismiss conservative media outlets for their political bias, but we don’t hold liberal media outlets to the same standard. Many journalists who claim to be objective have publicly taken a political stand, saying the urgency of the time justifies a departure from journalistic standards. Yet they ask us to believe their reporting is still unbiased?

Please actually read what was linked and sourced, and see if this isn't just a little bit ironic. She was given special treatment to report a story that conservatives very much wanted to be true. When it turned out not to be, she was spared punishment that one of her very prominent liberal predecessors endured.

Secondly, this didn't happen 15 years ago. The Benghazi story is literally Lara Logan's last significant journalistic piece of note. The fact that you are "too lazy to fact check" is your own issue.
I think this is more geared at pentesters and such, think bsd-backed kali?

I’m not so keen on the VPN by default thing though.. I hope they plan to upstream metasploit back to ports at least.
MWC 2019 is a 5G party and Apple isn't celebrating
It would be cool if you could sue for emotional damages and timecost of resolving the issue when someone fraudulently bills you.
Man, I can remember when Google was still an up-and-coming, underdog-ish and exciting tech company, where working was cool and people and "do not evil" was enshrined.

I was really happy and excited whenever Google announced something new, because it was always so diverse, new, clever and somehow helped the world.

Now things have taken a complete 180 degree turn.
Google has become an ad company, and any innovation serves only to squeeze a little bit more data out of users.
"Don't be evil" got deleted, and Google indeed seems to actively embrace "be evil". They are not even arguing with it anymore - anything that serves to close down the web, force tracking, breaches of privacy and so on...

What changed in google? Any insiders?
Just greed? Did important people leave?
Dang it! See my comment below. :-)
Hello, Patricia from Spain. I typed Tenerife and Gran Canaria and well, all the Canary Islands and I was disappointed not to find them! I lived on each of them (I'm currently in Tenerife).

You two have no friends on the islands?! :D
I like your idea and the website though. As a traveler, I always want to try traditional local dishes.

I hope in the future you'll have more and more contributors.

Wish you all the best!
Apple sure hopes so, but do we know this from data? It seems like there are privacy scandals every week and yet Google seems to be swimming along fine.
It’s much worse with India and Pakistan.

No centralized command and control, little to no fail safes once the physics package is integrated and warmed up, no second strike capability all of this results in a doctrine of tactical deployments with field commanders holding launch responsibilities.

This isn’t the US and Russia where they can obliterate each other conventionally and no one would be able to fire a nuke off unless the leadership calls for it. This could start and end with a field level commander in some valley in Kashmir hitting the button because they can’t get their superiors on the line and some villager claimed they’ve seen a mushroom cloud.
not sure it's trivia. it's pretty straightforward though:

higher bills means more money insurance companies can skim off the top without patients objecting. direct costs are basically pass-throughs to policy holders. the risks are higher but execs are in it for salaries and bonuses, so that exhibits the principle agent problem.
I admit that I'm a huge Tesla fanboy, but I don't trust a single promise that Musk makes.

A $25k Model 3 isn't happening in 3 years, considering the Model 3 has been out for over a year now and the $35k model is nowhere in sight.
I use non-VPN IPSEC on my LAN. Works nicely
Because "I got mine", or maybe not yet, but someday I hope to get mine and you better keep your grubby hands off my imaginary money.
An attack doesn’t need up be direct in order to harm a country’s vital national interests and security. Britain went to war in both WW1 and WW2 despite not suffering direct attacks against its territory. I made the claim that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait could not be allowed up stand, and I firmly believe it.

Having said that, there have been many direct attack’s against the US since WW2.

The 9/11 attacks were an act of naked direct aggression carried out with the explicit support and protection of a nation state - Taliban Afghanistan. If that’s wasn’t an act of war, what is? The rest of NATO certainly thought so.

A Marines barracks was destroyed in Lebanon with the direct support and encouragement if Iran. US warships have been directly attacked in the Persian gulf. Al Qaeda launched a bloody campaign of bombings against US Embassies in Africa in 1998.

Arguably these were due to US activities abroad, but taking action to protect and support allies is, or certainly can be a legitimate national interest. Containing nakedly and self admittedly hostile active powers is a reasonable activity, but it does put you in the firing line.

For the sake of argument, what would you have done about 9/11, or the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?

I’m not blind to many mistakes made in the last century. I think the Korean War was justifiable. On balance the Vietnam War was not. I still have mixed feelings about the second gulf war. Being engaged means you risk making mistakes, that’s for sure, but being disengaged makes you culpable for the evils you fail to prevent or allow to stand.
Gonna check this out, thank you! I tried installing CoreOS a couple years ago and I recall encountering some issues using LXC, but maybe it'll work now :)
New to the k8s scene, but does Minikube support multi-node systems?
Isn't it sad how that's one of the first things popping to mind when we talk about the web platform?
I wonder if Berners-Lee ever anticipated how quick economic interests would ruin everything.
Typical solar thermal installations are a bit more complicated that black buckets and require professionals to install. They usually don't work for free.
Technical users are multiplicators though.
The big advantage of mechanical oscillators vs RC occilators is mechanical ones have very high Q. Q is related to the ratio of resonant energy vs the amount lost per cycle. High Q oscillators allow you to produce spectacularly pure and or accurate signals. That's important for RF applications.

On the other hand RC oscillators can start up very fast. In uS vs milliseconds. Lot of microcontrollers have an internal RC oscillators for that reason. Go to sleep and wake up instantly.

TI's announcement is interesting since external crystals for RF transceivers is a pain point in design and manufacturing. You can have inexplicable variation from one batch of crystals to another. Batch's of IC's. Variations in the PCB material, etc.
Aside from File Access, I haven't seen any of these. PWA is sometimes mentioned on HN but I've never seen one in the wild (I had to look up the term a few weeks ago). Worklets, WebComponents, and Houdini, I never heard of. I'm not the most in the loop person since I'm not a web developer, but you'd think the cool stuff gets at least mentioned, so going with that, the most recent progressive feature that comes to mind is still the PDF reader (other than general maintenance work to keep up with HTML5, which all browsers do, and which I assume MSIE was also doing in the 4 year period mentioned -- or CSS3 or whatever was hot back then).
>I have no idea if what I put down is being applied or not

I'm not sure what you mean here. Obviously not all settings can be applied immediately, so I'm not sure how that's any different from modifying a random .conf file and not seeing the changes in real time.

> or where to look for something

google? At least all the setting are in one place and obeys some hierarchy.
Netflix did a good job outlining their requirements (which are mirroring industry requirements): https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/215...
Note that I do not work for Netflix rather another multinational mass media conglomerate.
From Postgres to Elasticsearch – An OLX Location Service Thriller
Perhaps that’s fine for home users but I’ve lost days of test data thanks to Windows deciding that it’s a good time to update. Windows 10 is not a suitable OS for any kind of professional work IMHO.

Edit: that’s not mentioning how Microsoft’s aggressive telemetry is probably exfiltraring sensitive corporate info unintentionally.
Who ever said that? The ways we store and access information will change away from physical local mechanical access towards electronic remote access - but it remains a library.
”Is there something I'm missing?”

It seems to me that 'zx2c4 just hasn’t come around to reword that paragraph yet.

If Wireguard is good enough for Latacora then I would feel safe using it.

This question has come up before, see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16326421 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848471
Air tap doesn't actually require your finger to be in field of view. Even in the Hololens 1, there is, in fact, a downward-facing camera for gestures whose field-of-camera extends all the way down to your waist.
If you're interested in giving it a go, I could set you up with an OSS plan & some free CPU power - let me know!

everest@fuzzbuzz.io