skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually much more true the other way around: if physics is somehow fundamentally preventing you from fusion ignition, then focusing on engineering or economic issues is a complete waste in money and a dead end. Because while economics and engineering change over time, physics[1] does not. It's like spending money trying to solve the economics challenges of a perpetual motion machine[2].

[1](Although our understanding of physics does.)

[2](...which fusion is not)
Well, they are distinct - there are the peaceful HK protests by huge proportions of the population, and then there are some riots, with indications that they're staged by the triads close to pro-Beijing factions.
> I still run a personal blog on a custom website I built, but every year it feels a bit stranger, and a little rarer. Many people default to Facebook Pages or cookie-cutter Squarespace designs, if they have their own website at all.

Posted on Medium, which is nearly the Facebook equivalent of a blogging site. The author mentions Glitch, for which the first step to getting started is either "clone a project" or start with React, Vue, Ember, Angular, or any other number of nontrivial frameworks. Is this really the same as HTML/CSS into Geocities?

For better or worse (feels like worse), Internet users are becoming consumers of content rather than producers. When this was all still newer (say, 1997-2005), the novelty of having an online presence was still a dominant factor. As that process has become more homogenized and simplified with the rise of social media platforms, there's much less incentive to bother with learning HTML, CSS, and possibly JS just to put some information on a page. Modern social media platforms walk you through profile creation, posting interests and having those lead to like-minded people, contact management, and so on. Everything's just there. I think it's a hard sell to try and walk that back to "just do it yourself" for someone without that mentality, and it's amusing to see people keep trying. For those of us who value personal expression over ease-of-use, personal websites will continue to be preferable.
> Furthermore, you don't lose state

I'd count breaking my back button or otherwise mucking with my browser history as "los[ing] state". Maybe we have different definitions of "you" in mind.
Too late. I have left Dropbox because of their stance on Linux filesystems, price bump with unnecessary features, and the continuous badgering to upgrade to Dropbox business.

It's great change though for those who are still on Dropbox. Their sync is top-notch.
Not taking a side on the over/under for AGI, but perhaps you are also acquainted with this little gem:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/38e6/1d9a65aa483ad0fb4a219f...

Shannon, Minsky, and McCarthy!
>Should the person in SF be paid less because employees in originating country have lower salaries?

So in your view it's fine to pay different amounts of money for the same work?
As a psychiatrist, if I had severe depression I’d choose ECT
That is one confusing title. How about:

My Experience Usuing Emacs While CEO, and Now CTO.
2019.29 Released – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
PGP Packet Library
Hi everyone,

We (https://summitto.com) open-sourced a C++17 based PGP packet library. Using the library, you can create packets, encode and decode packet data and create a PGP key from e.g. a raw elliptic curve point. We've seen quite a lot of bad publicity for PGP lately, but we hope this helps those who are stillf using it. Lo and behold:

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>you 're speaking of a different thing.

No, I was responding to your claim of smartphone technology being the barrier to creativity by the mainstream audience:

>smartphone [...], it just removes most of the optionality for creativity leaving a device that does one thing well: consume mindnumbing amounts of trivial information.[...] But when all that creativity is funneled through single-purpose devices, it evaporates.

That claim assumes that there's a pent up wave of creativity that's being held back by smartphones. However, that misunderstands the fact that new technology doesn't really change the ratio of the people expressing creativity vs those that consume it. There wasn't really any massive creativity to "evaporate"; the desire to "be creative" was never there in the mainstream audience. You can't put the blame on technologies such as smartphones / Gutenberg press / pen & paper.
I am quite confident all the current employees of OpenAI qualify as real people. They certainly have problems and probably a good share of those problems are "real" too.

Of course their priorities may be off and they could be open to be persuaded to work in a different direction. But I don't think that condescension would be very effective for that.
There are SD cards rated for "high endurance" for example https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07B984HJ5 is designed for continuous 24/7 writes such as surveillance cameras. These should have great longevity when used in a RPi.

What I would really like to see is RPi configurations optimized to reduce writes. For example mount the whole SD card read-only, mount a few essential filesystems as ramfs (/var, /tmp, /run), and have, say only one partition like /srv mounted read-write (+ noatime). If you run a webserver, and serve files off /srv you can still update them whenever with no hassle, but when the webserver is otherwise just serving the files, there should be zero writes.
Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
From my reading of your link, it looks like the incident that brought her fame/infamy happened in 2008. That's right during America's obsession with helicopter parenting, so the timeline makes sense.

If you go back to the 1980s, what she did wouldn't have been that remarkable. In that time, kids like me were gone from home for hours, walking or riding bikes for miles away from home, and we didn't have cellphones for our parents to keep tabs on us. Statistics show that crime rates were much higher (they peaked in the mid-70s, and have been falling since); the difference is that Americans just weren't paranoid back then the way they are now.
Some would say Taxation or Sanctions are a form of violence. If I do not adhere to your sanctions, what happens? If I do not pay your taxes, what happens?

Violence, condoned by a state or a group of states.
To make the usual Google joke, because nobody thinks they can get a promotion out of improving QR support?
Good chance that doesn't trickle down to the microSD interface; it seems like the best performance improvements are reserved for the full-size SD cards, likely because they can fit more thermal mass and connection pins in the larger case.
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The problem is that since there's always a switch between Republican and Democrats, each president has a different perspective on the overall NASA mission (plus each one wants to leave a big mark), so they keep changing.

I think what the people actually working there try to do (as it can be seen here) is find a way to fit what they have already done, with what the new mission statement is, so that they won't have to scrap everything they have done, only the limited amount. That's good is some senses (less wasted work), but the result is then usually not the most fitting solution.
Can you confirm if GitLab increased revenue 10x in 2018? A previous profile stated the revenue was $10M in 2017 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/07/21/he...) and this article says it is now $100M. This is a phenomenal achievement, but the valuation ought to be more than $1B at that trajectory.
We've got a few Pi's in office "production" (used as dashboards) and the best solution we've found it to use an SSD drive via USB. Something like a 128GB SSD drive is cheap enough, although it's about as expensive as the Pi itself.
What other approach do you suggest, then, in the extremely common scenario where you have an existing, tedious yet reliable multi-step manual process, and you’d like to automate it?
Ahhh. Finally we understand the genius of "covfefe".
Working for a startup that gave me a blank laptop and told me to set it up the way I liked is wonderful.

I think most Software Engineers don't have to worry as much about the spying, as we have full control over our system.

Corporate users, with locked down machines, however, should be wary.
Show HN: Bundle & minify your Typescript app with TSCC
Or at least support USB boot out-of-the-box. At lease someone could buy a USB 3.1 M.2 enclosure and boot from that if they need the stability and speed without modifying the form-factor or increasing the price.
Well, this is about the surest confirmation that AGI is going to happen within the next few years. Why? Because whenever HN responds with a bunch of negative sentiment, whatever was sharply criticized ends up doing really well: see the post announcing Dropbox or the post announcing Instagram’s acquisition.
Patagonia Grows Every Time It Amplifies Its Social Mission
Yes, but not Shenzhen, I would say , most of them are of a same ethnic called 'Ke Jia', which take a big proportion of population in Cantonese and Fujian area, and Taiwan. they formed a very tight connection as one whole rural community, no matter where they live. they remain like that for over a thousand years. that is their tradition.when i said tight, it means if you were a kejia, you could seek help in UK or US etc from local Kejia gangs, they dont need to know who you are, as long as you are Kejia. so Living in different area will not soften their identity. let alone in HK, where is an important habitat for them.
>OOP is considered by many to be the crown jewel of computer science. The ultimate solution to code organization. The end to all our problems. The only true way to write our programs. Bestowed upon us by the one true God of programming himself…

I've litteraly never met any one praising OOP like this. Even if the intent of this introduction is to overly to make a point, I find it flawed.

> OOP attempts to model everything as a hierarchy of objects
I never heard of anyone trying to use a hierarchy where it wasn't adapted

> The real world has no methods
The real world needs to be modeled into something that can be computed by our human Mathematics. That's the whole point of modeling.

I'm waiting for the 'Functionnal Programming is wrong, let's go back to coding everyting in asm' post in 10 to 20 years
Try an ‘industrial’ flash card. I outfitted my pi with a SwissBit microsd and haven’t had any disk problems since.
I don't understand; that article doesn't seem to be on the list.
Why would it? How do Godel's incompleteness theorems factor in here?

It's a common mistake to think the theorems say more than they really do, or apply in more cases than they really do. AI is simply based on the idea that we can reach at least the level of human intelligence, in artificial software/hardware, which, considering that we ourselves are pure hardware/software and nothing magical, should absolutely be right.
The strategy adapted by the Chinese, due to their small numbers, was to work harder than the next group. Only now are the number of Chinese significant enough to mount a political challenge to the status quo.

Blacks, for all their problems, have the votes to change the system electorally. But while there have been some success, there are strong oppositions from the status quo, and their progress has been hampered by political apathy from within that resulted from push back that slowed or killed further progress.
I think Waterfox meets your requirements. The only telemetry it sends is the version number so it can self-update (I haven't personally verified this).
It could if you are dealing with a government and people who got sick of the violence. Gandhi's tactics work against the the Brits at the time he used them. I rather double Gandhi's tactics would work against 2019 China, Stalin, or a WWII Germany.
The moon program wasn’t solving a “real problem” in any sense, but the offshoot R&D of achieving this practically meaningless feat solved a lot of “real problems” by advancing a lot of technologies.

What makes you think that an AGI program won’t have the same kind of offshoot-technology impact on the world? It’s not like it would go “nothing ... wait for it... AGI”; there’d be a lot of tools, processes, and paradigms developed along the way, and also lesser AIs developed that might solve real problems for e.g. government resource allocation or military strategy, which would have outsized impacts on vulnerable countries and populations.
Blockchain technology will disrupt the PBM-payer-pharmacy relationship
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While this is 'good' for the users of the software, isn't it 'bad' for the software industry?

Community funded projects will never match the salaries that companies like AutoDesk pay their developers.
If it did, how would human brains exist?
So foolish. Not even putting crappy ads on there, yet paying to renew it yearly. What could the logic possibly be? Valve probably wouldn't even entertain it at this point.
TCF wanted $8 or so. I am not a clever man.
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/21/were-cnbc-sources-tesla...
It doesn't, but in my informal tests (I haven't had time to set up a thorough benchmark) real-world usage of an external USB 3.0 SSD (testing with a cheap Kingston SSD, though, and a cheap USB SATA interface) is only marginally faster than a Samsung Evo+ microSD card.
I remember one of the first time the company I work for had a "First gen in tech" event. We had a funny discussion about how, technically, I was part of the target audience. I'm as much of a white western dude as they come, but I'm technically on a green card, my parents are not in the US, I'm the first of my family to be in tech. Checks all the boxes.

In practice I'm definitely NOT the kind of person these things are aimed at. Being a white Canadian dude who just moved a few hours south because the job market was more interesting isn't exactly a life changing experience or even challenging.

Still, if I founded a company, I'd be on that list. Worse, if my children were to found a company, they'd be on that list too, even though they wouldn't have an ounce of hardship (at least from birth situation) or diversity in their bones.
It was attempted. It failed due to a technical issue requiring abort of launch.
I don't know what you're talking about, Elon Musk gets flack for being a jerk, and all the questionable stuff he's done. This narrative that big business is out to get him (eg. that tweet) needs to die.
How Microsoft made it harder to create Windows 10 local accounts
What did you move to? I like Dropbox I just find it crazy that they (or no other company AFAIK) allows me to sync folders on my SD-card on my Android phone.
Will Hearables' Installed Base Reach 72M This Year?
Were CNBC Sources – “Tesla Employees” – Funded by Tslaq?
Solar+wind+storage developers gearing up as hybrid projects edge to market
> so ignoring geopolitics their integration is plausible.

Quite a caveat there, unfortunately :-)
If your motivation is commercial rather than leisure, I suspect the answer lies in what you already know from tech.

It's about marketing. It's about finding a niche. It's about building an audience. It's about luck. It's about presentation. It's about finding a product market fit. It's about failing fast. And somewhere down the list of priorities, you'll need to be competent writer.

Doing what everyone else is doing, and expecting to win by the sheer force of brilliance, is probably a bad plan. Fortunately, 99% of your competitors are following that plan. But it does kind of rely on you writing somewhat cynically. Rather than for love of art.

With this huge caveat that I write for fun, so I'm pontificating. Take what I say with a cellar of salt.
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Looks decent, but pricing is insanely high for the extremely limited set of stats.
By the way, just to be clear, I'm not saying that you shouldn't work on it or that I think the time/money should be spent elsewhere, just that it isn't the be all end all of possible things to work on.
The key is that they believed themselves to be decent, whether they actually were is hardly relevant to the effectiveness of the tactic. The genius of Indian resistance against British rule is that it forced the British to confront the gap between their stated values and what it took to maintain imperial control over India.
I would recommend looking into Nextcloud.
You don't need planes to flap the wings in order to fly.
'It's a crisis': Facebook kitchen staff work multiple jobs to get by
Slate: A Super-Lightweight Annotation Tool for Experts
It was really only a matter of time before Emacs reached sentience. I am surprised this isn't about Emacs reaching out to other editors in a bid to control cyberspace.
Resilio Sync for file sync, with a local NAS and a Hetzner VPN as read-only encrypted peers. SmugMug for sharing photos with family.
It's the other way round for me. I knew my way around the old Blender haven't used it in a while though. Now I dread trying out the new version because it seems to have a completely changed and dumbed down interface.
After fighting with Box for a bit today I'm really happy that Dropbox still exists.
Totally fair, as that's an opinion :) Luckily our customers are happy with the price, and other folks use the open-source (100% free) version. Cheers!
He said it was hypocritical, not immoral.
I would include "The Wedding Merchants" by Caitlin Flanagan for The Atlantic in Feb 2001.

All about how it's not actually traditional for weddings to be the expensive fancy extravaganzas they are today, and who made them that way and how they did it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-wed...
guardrails in terms of policy, if not technical details, are still valuable.

the thing is, there are actually lots of reasons to think AGI cannot be constrained in this way. open AI researchers know this.

so that means, the promise and the charter are irrelevant. open ai will never release a general AI.

but in the meantime, deep learning is still reaping. every day it's being applied to something new and solving real, tangible problems. there's money to be made here, and that is what open AI seems to really be doing. being philosophical and "on top" of the futuristic moral dilemmas, whatever, is just marketing? and in the unlikely event that an AGI is created that can be tamed, great for open ai! if an AGI is created that cannot be tamed, what then? if it's really worth a trillion dollars, is it really just buried, or will the charter simply be rewritten?

you know, this reminds me a lot of all the great physicists working on the atom bomb, thinking it was never going to be used.
I also highly recommend "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. But if you read it, please also consider reading my dissertation "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)" at https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ . My DDC paper discusses how to counter the attack.
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Resilio Sync [1]

1. https://www.resilio.com/individuals-sync/
Yeah, a phone for emergencies is sensible. I mean they don't get to take their smartphone with GPS.
And given this site, I suppose a link to arc/anarki is relevant too:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/apps/news/...
Based on the blog - anyone who shares a IP address (such as inside a company network) would effectively look the same.
If one is a USA citizen one might look at certain state governments in the USA with essentially single party rule (e.g. Utah, Oklahoma) and compare if they are run more efficiently and/or effectively than states with more than one strong party.
Mission Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
I prefer this more regular style of presenting the periodic table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Extended_periodic_tab...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_blocks_spd...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_(metals%E2...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:32-column_periodic_table-...

This one is even more different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Periodic_table_(left_...
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Slack’s new desktop app loads 33 percent faster and uses less RAM
>Japan, Korea, Germany are also in line and also India (with successful space program without immigrants).

This is just plain wrong, in the case of Germany. Germany has a huge immigrant population, and has since WWII when they brought in tons of Turks to be laborers there. There's an enormous Turkish population in Germany, and it's not new. Germany probably would not be where it is now without them.

Japan and Korea don't have many immigrants, it's true, but they were both occupied by the US for some time (and Japan still is, in a way, as is Germany).
It's not just Jewish people, though. Smart people in general emigrate sooner when a country is turning sour.
Doesn't functional programming already provide performance on par with non-functional programming?
We still cannot convincingly model behaviour of even simplest individual organisms whose neural circuitry we know in minute detail.
No, you're exactly right.

If someone sent a letter to me, but they accidentally put your address on it, you would be committing a felony against me if you opened the letter, even though it was delivered to your address.

You would know it wasn't your letter to open by the fact that someone else's name was on it.

Your employer can forbid you from using your work address to receive deliveries (even sending UPS and FedEx packages back when they aren't addressed to the company - or penalizing you for requesting shipments to the company address).

But if they ever interfere with a USPS delivery, or confiscate or destroy and UPS or FedEx delivery, they would be committing mail fraud.

If you are legally employed for a company, and someone sends you a letter via USPS to you business address, and someone at your company interferes with the delivery of that letter to you in any way, they are committing a felony. Doubly so if they open the letter to see what's inside.
> The internet is still weird. It’s just shifted to apps and other communities.

Nah. It's wannabe weird.
How much of this is Azure Computing Credit ? :)
You would have to paint it or print two-color. You can print simple things like signage using a technique called a filament change.
But prices aren't based on fairness, they are based on demand and supply. If there is a supply of workers willing to work at a lower price in areas outside of San Francisco, then it makes sense for a company to purchase their cheaper labor if it supplies the same value as the more expensive labor.
though nextcloud definitely is a lot more than: "a folder to sync your files". but hey, apparently even VC in search of growth sometimes notices that their path is not the best.