skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why couldn't you vacuum insulate the electronics and place some kind of radiative cooling on top of them? You'd need the cooler to be able to radiate all the radiative energy coming into the chamber from outside it, plus what the electronics generate. You'd want the thermos type chamber to be reflective to radiation from one side only.

It would depend on how low energy you can get the electronics, plus how efficient your black body cooler is. I have no idea if the latter could be done practically.

Might be a lot easier than high temperature electronics or mechanical alternatives.
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Absolutely. These voices have been called "the superego" but lately you might also hear "the voices of inner critics". In some traditions they are referred to as "the adversary", "the liar", "the devil", "the oppressor". People who fall into the void of schizotypal disorders often hear these voices very literally, and are unable to recognize them as their own inner projections of societal judgements. These internalized voices usually miss the point of what external critics are actually saying. They are echos of other peoples voices, cast in the form of our deepest, most ruthless fears and doubts.

That's not to say that people don't go around actually saying awful bigoted things. They do. They have forever. It's up to each of us to sort through them, to listen to them with courage, to protect and care for ourselves in spite of them. And if we truly care about stopping this pain, it's up to each of us to learn how to avoid reacting to external hate with our own flagrant shit.

People of color and poor people have been listening to bigoted lies and hatred for a long time now.

If you want to learn how to care for yourself in the face of internalized hatred, there are so many leaders who have led the way. Martin Luther King helped me. I've also found a lot of understanding from Krista Tippett's podcast "On Being."

'White people' are now compelled to hear a kind of racialized hatred that many have been largely insulated from until now. Maybe it's the internet? Maybe it's the politics? Either way, hate is out here in force right now and it spares no one, not even white people.
Actually, most file systems let you randomly read and write to files. Usually, they implement this by reading and writing blocks (of 256 bytes or a multiple). One could create file systems with more advanced operations, but most likely, these will be based on the more primitive operations. For example, to add the function to remove 10 bytes from the start of the file, one could read the whole file, block-by-block, and move the data 10 bytes. For a large log file, this will take a long time. Another solution is to have a begin of file offset for all files, this means that some additional information need to be stored with every the file and that this information needs to be accessed with all file operations, resulting in some performance loss for all file operations. Existing programs that access files as blocks of a certain size, might see significant performance penalties when the offset is not a multiple of the block size, because reading the data from one block, needs to read two actual blocks from the underlying medium.

If you often want to strip a logfile from old data, a solution might be to create new logfiles at a regular intervals and delete old logfiles. Or maybe even better, use a database to store the log messages. Gives you query functionality and allows you to perform more advanced operations, as removing certain types of log messages.
He also ran a crazy criminal empire denoted in gold bricks, which seems like a pretty stupid hobby if you invented bitcoin.

It was Hal Finney (and maybe Szabo). It's obvious.
These are big factors. I'm also struck, though, by the short historical view most of these comments have. Back in the day, many people "stayed at home", where that means tending the gardens and fields, tending the cows and pigs, hunting for additional protein, gathering for additional carbs and sugars, doing the washing and getting the water. Pre-Industrial Revolution, this whole "men go to work and earn a wage while women stay home" thing did not exist the way it does now. Servants lived in the houses of the people they served, merchants operated as families, and rural people all devoted significant amounts of time to food production. And there was no real choice "not to work" unless you were rich.
Szabo was a University of Washington compsci undergrad, and then an engineer at Digicash and a certificate authority company (forgot which). Then he went to law school. So he definitely knows how to code, but it's unclear if he's current with it, or perhaps rusty from not doing daily for a long time.

I suspect Hal Finney was behind the Satoshi handle on the original mailing list, and I wouldn't be surprised if he enlisted Szabo to help him write the paper since Szabo was also on that list, is a good writer, and Szabo's Bit Gold concept is pretty close to Bitcoin. But it's most likely Hal who invented Bitcoin's architecture and coded it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
From the article it sounds like most of the harm of false positives from the MRI is the extra stress of the biopsy and/or waiting for biopsy results. As such it feels rational to try to treat the stress/anxiety with well know methods like talk therapy. Prescheduling an appointment for after the MRI/Biopsy might greatly reduce the stress of patients. Of course this runs into the cost "problem".

The rest is pure speculation based on how it appears these procedures are portrayed.

Patients think of the MRI as yes/no for cancer and when comes back as yes they get understandably upset. If instead the MRI biopsy are presented as a single procedure (ideally done together, but money) the MRI is just getting targeting information needed for the biopsy not providing a yes/no decision. If it turns out there is nothing to biopsy the patient gets a happy surprise no-one is ever upset about this. (Again problem of money)
> One might argue intellectuals have an obligation to procreate.

They already did and their kids are building the world's largest and most powerful surveillance and propaganda systems at Facebook and Google. Unfortunately the "G" in FAANG does not stand for "Greenpeace".
I wish I could upvote a 100 times.
That sounds like a nice setup! I unfortunately have an Android but would you mind telling me the name of the plugin?
Note: I've not looked into the details of what square is doing. This comment is on AGPL in general compared to other licenses.

It does make some sense to see AGPL singled out, because it is different from most other free and open source licenses in one major way.

Almost all other free and open source licenses only require you to distribute modified source code of a derivative work you've made if you distribute that derivative work.

If I take code under those licenses, modify it, link it with my own code, and just run the resulting derivative work on my computer, they do not require me to distribute those modifications or my code, no matter what I'm using the program for, or where from, who from, or how I get its input, or what I do with, where I send, or who I give its output.

Not so with AGPL. With AGPL, the requirement to distribute derivative works can be triggered by code running entirely on my computer if it gets its input from and sends its output to people over a network.

That's a huge difference from prior free and open source licenses.
I wish you had said DDG
Have you tried Firefly III?
body: string

:( it's 2019, let me write my post with photos & gifs !!
No, dependency breeds contempt. If he values the relationship he needs to remain independent, i.e. have his own mission in life and not just live for his partner.
I think that could be part of the problem: a necessary reliance on "tools" to take care of our social health. Whereas before a cohesive family or social group took care of the need for it's members' social well-being, now we have a toxic culture of individuality which impels a person to solve all their own problems, aided by a synthetic tool that first off incurs an altogether new cognitive fatigue while at the same time being tuned to turn a profit for someone else.
Where I live it can get so hot in the summer that my AC can't cool the car down if it's been parked outside. Opening the windows doesn't even get all the heat out. Plus I have leather seats so my back fuses to the leather. You can get electric bikes that are assistive, so every pedal you do will feel like you are pedaling downhill even if you are going uphill. Combine that with the sweet breeze lapping at your back, evaporating that back sweat, and I can't imagine a better summer experience.

If you need to wear a suit you are screwed either way. Five minutes standing still outside with a jacket on and you will start getting pit sweat. Just walking out to your car will make you sweat.
Yes, but there are some issues. For pure macOS development it's usually fine, but anything touching the simulator breaks if multiple versions of Xcode try to use it at the same time. I quickly got in the habit of always exiting Xcode before starting a different version.
I couldn't agree more. After Inbox, I've been burned for the last time. Won't be buying into new Google services again.
For all we know the Soviet Vega missions could have introduced airborne microbial life into the high atmosphere. We may have already seeded Venus.
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The Case for Killing the Campfire
Then Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon and Google are illusional as well, given their investment into production code Rust.
As someone from village in a developing world (I don't work there but visit at least once a year) I totally concur with all your sentiments. One of the things that takes some getting used when I am back home is how loosely scheduled days can be. There no such things as invites for lunch of dinner. People just pitch up and a plan is made. Wake in the morning and we supposed to go check on the cows. A cousin arrives as we eating breakfast, next thing it is 12 noon. Its too late now, cows are out grazing. Shrug, tomorrow is another day. No one stressed and it was good to see my cousin. I am not naive enough to think this is how life should be but it is nice break from my city life. We need a balance and of both sorts of lives and we don't have that balance in the city.
I'd say the idea of a directive is also a romantic explanation, since it implies a some sort of planning. The reality is more tautological. The current crop of beings is there... because they made it to this point. There is no deeper reason or value to be assigned to their survival.

A being doesn't want to reproduce in itself, it wants to fulfill needs that compel it to reproduce. A desire for sex, for companionship, for a social role, etc. It's possible to be highly attracted to someone who is infertile because we chase the signs of procreation rather than its actual occurrence. We can rationally plan to make procreation happen but even in this case it is an illusion, we are still chasing some state of mind that leads to procreation.

On the contrary, I am trying to dispel the romanticism here and the hidden additional romantic layer that anthropomorphizes the process of evolution itself by giving it some sort of direction.
well you said it: we know exactly how to heat up mars (greenhouse gases) but its not so clear how to cool down venus. also mars has water.
Defining success as billions of users gets tossed around a lot, but why is that the dogma? If you can make a product smaller than that and have it be profitable, then what's so bad about that? Is it really so hard to manage that apart from Google's gigantic products?

If success is going to be billions of users then yeah, probably do option 1, because nearly nothing is going to get there. Why not have a pipeline to spin these products off or have them survive with lower expectations?
Of course you do that type of testing.

The problem comes about when someone does the following:

- creates python project

- pip install some_package

- import some_package

Turns out some package was already in the path but a different version

- proceeds to test and build with the assumption of some_package @ newer

- all tests pass

- ships project with requirements of some_package @ newer

Someone attempts to use the package but it doesn’t work.
And whose tax money is paying for the schools that are educating those children at the moment? Oh right...

This is a really bad argument. Especially in countries that have a lot more support for parents than the US.
I think your first sentence is a great way to sum up what I was trying to say.

What we have now that we didn't use to have is an actual freedom to choose our path - at least, relative to what we had in the past pre-industrialization.

It is indeed very easy to make a lot of choices that result in loneliness or unhappiness. But at least more of us have those choices.
On Rentals I would disagree. Most rentals today depend on 3: to reclaim the money from the original purchase they force every user to pay, using police and court system as the means to enforce that payment and to prevent theft. Maybe in an anarchy rentals would also be quite successful by centralizing the problem of keeping property safe.

Services like Uber are interesting because they essentially strive to eleminate ownership by eleminating the thing to be owned.
OK, perhaps that was a little intemperate. But "Are you suggesting that because kids can use any app on a phone that all tracking and ads should be banned?" felt a bit like a conversation where someone is arguing against the death penalty and someone else says "Yeah, so you want murderers to go free?" There are lots of other possibilities, and if advertising and tracking is a on a spectrum from respectful to abusive we're currently way, way over towards the abusive end.
You backpedalled from your earlier claim that a car is better than first class rail. It's demonstrably NOT.

Considering your apparent location(England) - a car is the slow option.
We're currently in the process of terraforming earth to make it slightly less habitable.
We'll get there! Edit: https://twitter.com/pfrazee/status/1136710339163238400
According to some theories, space and time arise from causality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets
Wasn't that a Newsweek conclusion? They found some guy named Nakamoto and concluded so. Yay Journalism! https://www.newsweek.com/newsweeks-statement-bitcoin-story-2...
This is exactly what I struggle with every day as I work in the city at 27. It's just a bunch of experiences usually without true depth because of the devaluation of one to one connections in the big hustle and bustle.

Then my parents get older and older and I think is this it, will I just work here until they pass away and also my good friends in other cities or towns aren't as good friends anymore because I can't feasibly visit them all every few months.

So I end up with like 300k, mid 30's, and not many close connections.
The unintended consequences of abstinence-only sex education?
Nuclear Explosively Formed Penetrators
they cant block giving hand (google)
"Unlike Twitter and the other social networks, RSS never tried to capture the social graph, likes, comments, annotations, retweets, and etc of its userbase."

Except when they do, of course. Some places still have comment feeds.

Still, it's an interesting idea.
This was pretty close, but ultimately was too i3-ish for me. I'm also realizing that I could never be as productive with i3 as I am with a mouse or trackpoint -- with a trackpoint I never have to change my hands out of root typing position, whereas to hit any of the key combinations involving the super key, I have to move my left hand to a whole different, scrunched position. Don't know how you guys do it.
Particularly D's stripped down "better C" mode.
European cities also generally use private contractors for construction. The Paris subway expansion, which is proceeding at a fraction of the per-mile cost of New York's Second Avenue subway, is being done by private contractors: https://tunneltalk.com/France-25Oct2018-Grand-ParisExpress-n....
Cool to see Ford's Children make investments into the future.
Somewhat better, maybe. It now allows me to download an area large enough to fit my entire home town. Still doesn't allow an entire country or even more, probably cause of bigger file size / more detail than the competitor i use.

But most importantly: It still requires me to sign into a google account to download an area.
I wouldn't say that increasing business efficiency is necessarily an ethical problem, even if it theoretically eliminates jobs. There's always natural turnover as humanity progresses where certain jobs get eliminated and others get created. I think the key differentiator is to not push that wheel too quickly; it becomes a problem when a whole job field gets disrupted overnight, as opposed to over the course of years where people have the time to transition (and retire and enter the workforce).

In fact, some of the most straightforwardly value-creating companies I've seen are B2B; things like Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/

Other areas that seem to not be (inherently) problematic:

- Embedded

- Tooling

- Communication

- Industrial

- Scientific
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But people are not agreeing about the causes of the problems or the solutions. So if you say "Yeah, but I'm not talking about all white people" you should be able to exchange that to "black" instead and still not be racist for it not to be racist for example.

People are very similar. It is nice to find a common enemy and it is nice to generalize. So on 4chan people analyze and find that black people are the problem and generalize about black people and in certain groups people find that white men are the problem and tend to generalize about white men.
The impact of changing your diet is not all that large. You can wipe out a year of eating vegan with a single transatlantic flight.
You can create multiple Google accounts.
Prepare for a generation of desperate people when they figure out that they actually wanted to have kids but it's too late.
I've been looking at the various open source accounting options recently and I settled on Beancount: http://furius.ca/beancount/

~95% of the reason is the fantastic web interface Fava: https://beancount.github.io/fava/

It's a bit annoying that you have to configure it with Python code but once you set it up it's pleasant to use.

The pain point for me right now is figuring out the counterparty for transactions (e.g. I can see that money went out of my bank account to pay the grocery store but I need to map that to the "Expenses:Groceries" category). It seems I need to use some kind of smart importer or something.

One application I thought got that part quite right was Buchhaltung (which works with Ledger/hledger rather than Beancount): https://github.com/johannesgerer/buchhaltung. It's matching system made that dead easy. Buchhaltung also comes with an AqBanking integration if you live in a country where banks actually provide useful APIs.
Most worthwhile things require some amount of effort.
The Big Bounce! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce

To me it's more satisfying than the idea of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
> Are you talking about Paul Le Roux or Craig Wright?

Neither. I was talking about Satoshi Nakamoto.

It disturbs me that so many people are willing to unmask Satoshi.

More generally: It horrifies me that, when confronted with someone who created something neat and only wanted privacy, everyone's instinct is to deprive them of their privacy. What the fuck, humanity?
Uber gives API Developers 7 day's notice of end of access
I think you're believing in a false dichotomy. You can have a full family experience without doing labor, or working a farm, or a family business. Look at immigrant families from certain parts of the world. When I lived in the Midwest, I interacted with them. Most of them were well educated, and not doing business or laborious work. They were spread apart in different cities, but mostly within driving distance. Culturally, they insisted on maintaining close social ties.

A coworker of mine who is in his 30's (PhD in engineering, doing tech work) is thinking he'll move back to the Midwest where his family is after 2-3 more years here (West coast). He loves it here (especially the weather), but all the niceties in culture and weather here don't compensate for the lack of having family and cousins nearby. His kids will grow up there, just as he did.

(Just in case anyone is wondering, he's not white, and so will be moving back to a much less diverse part of the country).

Having experienced both sides, there are definitely down sides to close family ties, but I view family as a wider spectrum. If your relatives are horrible (or way out of sync with your mindset), then it's much worse than the individualist mindset. But if you get along with them, it's way better than anything you can achieve as an individualist.
Received an email this morning where Uber announced that access to their APIs will be turned off in seven days unless you have an "existing partnership" with them.

Full text:

Uber API Developer,

As part of our ongoing privacy improvements, Uber is upgrading our Developer API program with new access policies for third party applications over the next few weeks.

We’re reaching out to you in advance to let you know that your application will no longer have access to Uber’s public APIs starting June 13th, 2019. Deeplinks into the Uber app will not be affected by this change.

If you have an existing partnership with Uber and believe you have received this message in error, please complete this form.
In the U.S. priority parking is already given to people with disabilities, so the exception already exists and would just need to be extended. People using grandmas hangtag does happen but it's not all that common (and cities could always issue huge tickets for violators to deter bad behavior).
Pickup Ultimate Frisbee is one of my suggestions, as you're right on about this. There is pickup Ultimate everywhere and people are mellow and friendly. You can use pickupultimate.com to look up local games (it's not complete, but a good start). People will happily teach you how to play -- just stand on the sideline & ask questions. Bring a white shirt and a dark shirt and you're ready to go.