skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very common patterns, which are virtually always present in pseudo archaeological theories, which give credence to the conclusions made in the article.

> Do you know of any examples of artefacts produced by "white" cultures that could be considered "out of place" or "too advanced" but are generally not, indicating any such bias?

The point you’re missing here is that comparison on a scale of ‘level of advancement’ is entirely misleading. The things that have traditionally been used to discern ‘advancement’ (ie permanent monumental architecture, steep social and political hierarchy, market-oriented models of goods distribution, etc) are all features of European ways of life at the time of the archaeology’s anthropology’s origins. These disciplines originally served to structure a view of the world that put Europeans at the pinnacle of human potential, and indigenous people more towards the base, not yet having caught up to the Europeans. The common racist associations of indigenous people from colonial outposts with cavemen demonstrates how archaeological evidence has been selectively slotted into racist ideologies, and vice versa. It allowed a rigged scale to be made that justified, and continues to justify, colonial pursuits (unless they are called out and countered).
And I need more Innovation in 3d printing space, most slicer seem to suck.
Yes, but it's the voters' responsibility to understand this. They have no one to blame but themselves. Remember, we're adults now, we aren't children in a playground where we can call for adults to set things right when we screw up. The voters have the ultimate power to choose who runs the government, so the results are their own responsibility.
I am not familiar with nasuni, but the general idea is that once bvckup2 has the block hashes for the source file, it will write only modified blocks to the backup copy.

Block hashes are computed either when the file is first copied to destination (by bvckup2) OR when the exact copy already exists at destination and the backup job is set to do "delta pre-comp" [1].

If in your case the latter applies, you may in fact get away with setting up delta copying without pulling any data off the cloud storage.

[1] https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/topic/1131
In purely audio terms, dynamic range plays a huge part in this. Modern mastering has turned everything into one loud block, there's no room for anything to breathe.

In music, I always found it interesting that it was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" that ushered in a pop music revolution - as it had "quiet-loud-quiet" dynamic.
Quote:

"There is a lot of gold right here on Earth that has not been dug up! Because it is pretty deep underground or whatever. The relevant supply of gold is the stuff that can be extracted economically, not just the stuff that exists. The same thing is even more true hundreds of millions of miles away in outer space. You cannot just send a big dump truck to Psyche 16, shovel some loose gold nuggets into it, and drive it back to your house."
Yes. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956430
> Hull Cladding

Interesting, but after giving it some thought (I actively research steel hull efficiency), doubtful. It's true that gold is highly stable in seawater when not in contact with other metals, however, put it in contact with steal and you have a fairly decent dissimilar metal reaction leading to galvanic corrosion of the hull over time. (1) Gold is very soft, so any impact with common marine debris (logs, scrap, buoys, etc.) may very will penetrate to the steel hull structure, which unless quickly repaired would lead to the above corrosion. In general, hulls are designed to account for 40-50yrs of service life corrosion before needing to be scrapped.

However, this comment made me ask the question of whether or not gold is a good antifouling agent to prevent marine growth. After all, we've all seen shiny non-fouled gold being pulled from ancient ship wrecks. I really can't find much data on gold preventing marine growth, but if successful, cost-effective, and non-toxic (as copper is), that would be a major savings in terms of fuel efficiency for ocean-going vessels.

1. https://blog.samtec.com/post/dissimilar-metals-in-mating-con...
The author is missing the point that many expensive things are expensive because they are rare AND useful.

The wealth comes from prices going down for useful things and new things becoming possible as a result of the lowered costs.

How much of battery costs are the metals? What about rare earths used in electronics? What compromises are made to save costs?
I didn't see "shortage" being used in this article. The industry may be attempting to get by with fewer workers to keep costs down.
That's quite a range for the article title to make such a certain claim of 1.3M.
if you want that kind of joy with erlang, try elixir. it's basically ruby on the erlang vm.
The mobile and web people are probably triggered at this ui lol
> that is burning energy for the sake of maintaining a ledger of fictional possessions.

The original comment is obviously not using "fictional" to mean "intangible", as it is dismissive.

Since you used the word "fictional" as a continuation of the original usage without clarification at the time, one must assume, given the context, that you meant the same thing. Anything else would not be reasonable in context.

But again, nobody outside of this very discussion has ever used "fictional" when they really mean "intangible". "Imaginary" maybe, but not "fictional". I think we both know that this was a post-facto rationalization of your own unnecessarily dismissive comment.
It wouldn't be but that's ok. The intent is for that disagreement to be adjudicated on a case by case basis in the court of law instead of legislated because one size doesn't fit all in this case.
Very good summary!

One quick correction: the equivalent to _checkouts in Mix is to use path dependencies. I often use environment variables to control when to use one or the other and I like the fine grained control more. Here is an example: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/blob/master/mix.exs#...

But in general yes, we are glad to borrow ideas from each other and we should continue doing it!
That is still a huge cut to UA. The quality of education and research will be severely hurt by that cut. Many of the education programs do not make money and that is fine because they provide an important service to the state. That is creating smart people who work in AK rather than leaving AK forever
Is this necessary given that we have 5G on the horizon?
The article's reasoning is mistaken. Nobody knows whether or not reducing the price of gold to $1/ounce would make us much richer or not - because nobody is currently spending serious time thinking of what one could do if gold cost $1/ounce.
Can you elaborate on the source of the cringe? I went to read it based on your description, hoping for a dose of cringe. In the end, I did not detect it.

To me it seemed like a decent introduction to a tool designed to help get people take a look outside of their bubbles.
Houses, yes, but what about the apartment blocks and offices?
DEC actually made a microprocessor implementation of the PDP-11 processor, called LSI-11. It has two chips, and is functionality equivalent to the large thing. Unfortunately, DEC was in a complete disregard of personal computers or workstations at that time, I don't think they made workstations with it. Otherwise it could be another legend in computing history: a PDP-11 workstation! Never happened.

Here's S100 computer board built around this microprocessor with a great introduction to the hardware details. http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/PDP11%20Board/P...
Interesting reads. Thanks
anomie /ˈanəˌmē/ -
noun - lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.

anime
/ˈanəˌmā/ -
noun - a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children.
Hey apankrat, thanks for your software! I used it for personal projects and considered it when I was doing full time IT work.

I didn't end up deploying it because for Hyper-V, performance of the differential scans was really poor, and IIRC there were some issues with cluster shared volumes.

Have you considered adding Windows' resilient change tracking support to bvckup2? I think with RCT and hooking into the API for backup quiescence, you could make this an enterprise grade backup product for SOHO IT needs.
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Superhuman’s superficial fixes do not prevent it from spying on you
At some point there is no substitute for doing. This is why directed practice is such a good method for learning something. It is practice with some theory in mind.
I suppose if I dedicated enough time to it (like a multi-day silent retreat), boredom would eventually come.
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I think the best idea for naming is probably going to be something like giphy or what3words (though their implementation could use work since they're not directly translatable between multiple languages) where a hex address gets encoded in N words which are generally easier for people to grok than N*m (m being 2/4/8 depending on how many hex characters are encoded in which words). Choosing the words is hard though especially as you add more languages.
This election cycle was also pretty wierd. Our choices were basically a mayor and senator that drove anchorage into huge debt or an unknown republican
> The point is to induce boredom

Still doesn't sound like a great idea.
Just wondering which central bank is the first to conclude that it actually is useless and stupid to keep gold reserves and decides to dump their gold to the market first. After which, obviously, we see a crash in gold price rarely seen in the world history. And actually start doing something useful with the unique yellow metal that we collectively have decided that is better to be hidden and not used...
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It's not 100 users though, it's 250 million users and the infrastructure to balance them.

Whether or not you think my anus is more capable than you estimating the cost, for an organisation that relies on soft revenue, this is serious money.
Have we come full circle? Before streaming services, you paid for big cable bundles if you wanted all the shows. Now you will have to pay for several streaming services. You can cherry pick which ones you want, just like the old cable bundles. The only upside for me is that everything will be on demand, unlike the old days of cable.
The pitch that sold me (well, would have sold me if I had the sway to buy a radio when I was a kid..) was the fact that astronauts on the ISS answered on their frequency circa 2007 more often than they do on the internet.
NSFW?
Not with iOS. There is a separate media library API that’s separate from the file access API. You can give an app permission to access your media library without giving it access to the location metadata. The app has to specifically ask for location access to get the metadata.
The dissenting opinion that it has "cleaner" syntax came with no elaboration.
Anyone know if there is a decent and affordable test kit for bedroom or small office?
> the reality is that the default setting in Visual Studio is that the tab key inserts 4 spaces

I don't use VS so I'm not sure about this specific example, but from my experience, if you have to fight all your colleagues' editor defaults, you're going to have a hard time.
This doesn't work so well for video games. Reviews come out saying its thin on content with a score to match and can kill a game before its had a chance to expand.
Developers have started trying to do this more often lately with mixed results, DICE and Blizzard are high profile examples of this.
Blizzards latest World of Warcraft expansion was heavily criticized for the lack of content on release day and has yet to shake the bad blood even after two big content patches.
DICE tried this with Star Wars Battlefront but couldn't keep fans long enough with the limited maps it released with.
As a currency, there's maybe some merit in given scenarios. But all of the "me too, I have $CURRENCY$, it's different this time" doesn't lead to a lot of faith.

It's over-hyped in general. Beyond that, often implemented in was suggested that don't really add much value compared to any number of other less complicated solutions.

If you are in a situation, where you have competing parties not aligned who want to ensure a given transaction is applied, and don't mind the implementation of that transaction being completely public, then blockchain might be the right solution.

If you are wanting to use cryptocurrency for financial transactions, then there is some merit, but in many cases suggested it's effectively a corporatist overload control over currency (such as Facebook's currency suggestion). If it's actual bitcoin or a handful of other alt-coins, at least it's decentralized but not as anonymous as many think. It's also, in general difficult to use without some centralization.

In the end, someone will win in this game. My guess is the banks behind the winner (MasterCard and Visa are backing FB's Libre venture). Given the actions against people with unpopular views (even if they are wrong thinking assholes), it terrifies me. Freedom to exchange property, and currency is a stand in for property, is a big deal and at least as big a deal as speech.
Design considerations.
IDK about y'all but the main page (https://www.cycfi.com/) this post is on has a bunch of interesting audio hardware/software posts. Pretty neat company!
You can still write Crystal wrappers for it, just not using FFI. This looks like it might be polished enough: https://github.com/Papierkorb/bindgen

The bigger issue is that Crystal really needs first-class Windows support before people will use it for GUIs...
> "I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars..."

To be fair, that loan was small compared to the $400+ million his father funneled to him later in tax-evading fake business.

But, yeah, thinking that getting a “small” million-dollar loan would make him look like a everyman turned self-made success is pretty out-of-touch.
People are fixated on $15 because for decades they have seen no increase in the nominal wage for 10 years and no real increase for 50. So, they are more susceptible to the demagoguery of a Bernie Sanders who shouts "$15! $15!" than they would have been if they had been treated with humanity and dignity for the previous 2 generations.
After 2 years of developing at a scrappy design&dev shop, I got a new job that was a big step up at a hip SAAS company. I was in my mid-20s and I still hadn't worked through a lot of my anxiety issues, and I started getting code review from these two intimidating brothers-- one an engineering manager and one a principal dev. Their review style was very terse, and they called out _every instance_ of a syntax 'mistake' I made, and it just made me feel like absolute shit.

It wasn't just me, several of my coworkers felt the same about just getting hammered on by them.

This has kind of permanently changed my approach to code review. I always call out the things I like in a batch of code. I acknowledge that there are some code styles preferences that are arbitrary, but that I have a preference in and it's good to have a consistent codebase. If the person is working for me, or if a coworker took a nasty task that nobody wanted, I thank them for the code with the LGTM.
Wow, this article is horribly researched.

I think my favorite line is - "AT&T is best known as a cell phone company". lolno.

How is this guy involved in any sort of investment/research firm?
Not only that, by expanding the industry - tech has been able to "eat" other industry, due to its inclusiveness.

20 years ago the internet was less than 0.01% of global GDP. Tech will continue eating industries that are structured unfairly.
It would probably be better to address the root problem. Unfortunately replacing governments has a long history of being a very violent and bloody ordeal.
Beeminder is cool, but have you seen the sister project Commits.to?

It's basically "Service Level Indicators" for your GTD queue
If You Don’t Have an Integration Lab, You Will Fail
I guess you’re not familiar with 14.313 MHz...

(It’s been called the 4chan of ham radio)
Printing a dollar bill doesn't require dissipating a dollar's worth of energy. It only costs a few cents. "Printing" a dollar's worth of Bitcoin inherently requires a dollar's worth of energy to be used with no other purpose. That seems like a stark difference to me and the basis for thinking Bitcoin is like a virus. It's the closest thing to the "gray goo" scenario we've seen yet.
Reading through the criticisms my main takeaway is that (1) there's a severe lack of empathy for the segment of the world that doesn't have the luxury of a stable currency and developed financial infrastructure, and (2) there's some extreme misconceptions about both the technology and the economics behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If your main point of opposition is that there's too much "hype" you're being contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
> AFAIK, you're relegated to rather primitive "println debugging" with Elixir - has this been an issue for you in practice?

Not at all. The traditional BEAM way of debugging is the tracing modules. For little things an `IEx.pry()` is often good enough though.
> Seems a pretty big assumption. We have an abundance of silicon, that hasn't sparked any sort of revolution around silicon.

> Gold has some nice properties, but I don't think it is a wonder metal.

I pray to the olfd gods and the new that this comment is in jest, but just in case... the silicon (integrated circuit) chip.
If you are interested in tools for automatizing Data-Oriented design. Check out GeneXus. You design what the user needs from the data, and it automagically builds the normalized tables, the cruds in various languagages and deploys.
Two (more) things I'd like to point out:

Prolog clauses are the same logical relations as in the Relational Model of DBs. ( Cf. Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog )

The next big thing IMO is categorical databases. Go get your mind blown by CQL: https://www.categoricaldata.net/ It's "an open-source implementation of the data migration sketch from" the book "Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory" which went by yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20376325

> The open-source Categorical Query Language (CQL) and integrated development environment (IDE) performs data-related tasks — such as querying, combining, migrating, and evolving databases — using category theory, ...
> This is how basically every union workplace in the US works. The pay-scale becomes very rigid.

How do you address, other than dismissal, the existence of the SAG and other unions for industries with vastly varying pay levels?
I'm on a phone so links are hard, but I'll throw in...

- Woodworking for mere mortals, it's a series that goes into detail about basic things for beginner woodworkers.

- PBS Spacetime, they cover astronomy and cosmology at a nice level for educated laypeople.
Titanium, Lithium and Deuterium are high on my list.
> Yes, but it's the voters' responsibility to understand this

Perhaps, but “X was responsible for understanding that this would be the consequence” and “X was aware that this would be the consequence and actively preferred it” are very different claims.
Has anyone else just stopped reading stories on sites like NYT that block reading if your browser is in private browsing mode?
The fact that there are danger obstacles to the given mode of transportation shouldn't be considered as good enough reason to ban them outright - bicyclists regularly run red lights and stop signs, sometimes even striking and killing pedestrians. Yet, we still create bike lanes and don't ban them outright, because they are good.

Same for trucks, which run over pedestrians and bicyclists with startling regularity.

Same for motorcycles, which kill their drivers with startling regularity.

I don't think "quite dangerous" is valid for banning outright. Maybe "dangerous all of the time no matter what," such as drunk driving, or driving the wrong way on a road, or cycling on the freeway.

Anyway, you can always add regulation. Requiring passengers in cars to wear seatbelts made cars less dangerous. Requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets made motorcycles less dangerous. Giving bicycles bicycle lanes and their own signals made bicycling safer. Etc. Put a speed limit on the bicycle lanes - no faster than 25mph, say. Maybe force e-bike companies to put limiters on the bikes, but that sucks for when they want to ride on the road at whatever speed they can pull off. Then, actually enforce the rules, which I don't know how to go about doing, because the cops in my jurisdiction for example don't give a fuck about neither cars parked in bike lanes (even in "no parking at any time" zones!) or bicyclists sprinting through reds/stop signs.

I say this as someone that owns only 2 wheeled vehicles, motorized or otherwise.
The strength to weight ratio of aluminum was known long before we could mass produce it.

For example, Titanium is superior to aluminum in most weight/strength applications. If we could mass produce it, we'd not use aluminum anymore.

Carbon fiber is even better than Titanium. Again, if it were mass producible, we'd use it for everything.

I can point to materials that, if they were cheaper, we'd make everything out of them. That's because we've researched these materials and know that they have potential applications. Their availability hasn't been a factor in the research, not really.

Gold, AFAIK, doesn't have those same sorts of analogous usages. It doesn't have a "But if it were cheaper" sort of application. Maybe some electronics or nano-scale applications might benefit from it, but I wouldn't think it would be excluded from that research since you are talking about a tiny amount per component (after all, we still use gold to plate electronic leads today).
How about this: you have a load balancer that sends much less traffic to servers that are running slowly (but still a small amount of traffic, so that it recognises when the machine recovers). One backend server has a hardware problem; requests that usually take milliseconds now take seconds; the 99th percentile on that machine is much higher than anywhere else. But it's actually serving a tiny tiny fraction of traffic. Is the value useful in indicating the performance of the service as a whole?
It would be hard again, under your arrangement.
There was that recent post about innovation being a limited resource. Clever is a limited resource. Save your clever for good, insightful architecture, or for when you really need the algorithmic chops. Don't expend it just to impress your coworkers.
Texture is a more informative feature than shape in the datasets used.

TL;DR; Logical reasoning isn't based on a "prepondernace of informative." Human-like image-recognition seems, to me, to quire both sort-of statistical reasoning, which depends on the preponderance of information and logical reasoning, which doesn't (not directly).

That's seems sort-of true but "Informative" has a number of different implication. It seems pretty inevitable that a huge image dataset is going to carry the most data in the form of textures.

The thing, a human being can (often) extract considerable meaning from an image of a stick figure or a black and white outline of a big cat, neither of which involves that much data. Effectively, human image recognition is able to both use texture-qualities as a rough guestimate for the source of an image but also look at the overall image structure and see "differences that make a difference". I mean, I can look at a puzzle piece and determine it probably goes in particular area but that's only one facility, "knowing" what an image "is", involves more.