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Agreed about the arcana of RR being used against people, but then again, isn’t that how democracy works anyway? Come prepared and do your homework or else you might miss out. It should never be a barrier to participation, but if everyone knows the rules except you, don’t expect to have an easy time.
That is why I am excited about TiltFive - AR TableTop. Restricting the environment to a table (31" by 31") makes the experience more aligned with the existing hardware. Still teathered to a laptop/desktop but you get 110° fov with 720p each eye. Once developers and users get a sense for mixed reality better/more novel applications will get more development. AR productivity software feels revolutionary.
15 years ago the referee had the best view of what was happening on the field. Today they have possibly the worst. Sitting on my couch I have real time access to super HD broadcasting, ability to zoom into a blade of grass across the field, multiple viewing angles, slow motion and replay on demand.

Fans don't want 100% accurate rulings, they just don't want obvious preventable errors in refereeing. It's just that the obvious errors are far easier to spot now, and so technology has to catch up.
Furthermore, postgres has great replication, and a read-replica is trivial to set up. sqlite is amazing (for any embedded database, absolutely) but postgres can't be beat as a go to for server side.
Imagine those numbers for any other thing. We'd have the military out on the streets to stop the slaughter, the HQs of those evil forces raided, their finances cutt of and their 'leaders' brought to a court of justice facing multiple life sentences.
My untested theory re: trams over buses is that trams are predictably less random.

You’re a tourist. You board a bus. Where does the bus go? A: literally anywhere.

You’re a tourist. You board a tram. Where does the tram go? A: where those tracks, that I can see, go.

This is obviously less relevant for non-tourists but I wonder if it’s a factor nevertheless. It’s hard to go disastrously wrong on a tram, whereas on a bus you might find yourself inadvertently half way down the freeway.
Put sqlite in redis.
Last I checked it did not have a a Windows client, so I'm still using OpenVPN. CLI clients are of course next to useless for Windows users. I would really like to use WG instead.
Yes. It is already an issue of AVX2, which has the hilarious problem that the user must try finding a net performance gain between speeding things up and heating the CPU into thermal-throttle... But I think if an on-chip coprocessor can offload a common task and making it more energy efficient, the thermal issue can be avoided. We've already seen successful applications of cryptographic instruction sets / coprocessors, video transcoding, and the number can only get bigger.
The argument is that WeWork can stop losing money at nearly any time it wants by halting new facility growth and focusing on filling what it has, as most of it's losses stem from growth projects. At least, that's the theory. It seems we'll get a chance to see what happens when they try and hit the "pivot to profit" button. Maybe they should have, like, a whole bunch of people help them hit that button really hard? Maybe hit it twice, just to be sure.
Slightly OT: Why does HKMap have to be an actual app and not a browser app/PWA? Does it do something in the background or with the hardware of the phone? Or are websites more easily blocked in HK than the App Store?
Theranos was a supposed Silicon Valley "darling" that couldn't actually convince any Silicon Valley VC firms to invest in it. It was given its credibility and lofty valuation by Betsy DeVos, The Waltons, Rupert Murdoch, The Cox Family, Carlos Slim, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, James Mattis and more.

I'd personally call that a Silicon Valley success story.
We have been using SQLite as a distributed object container for the last few years as part of an industry spec. <http://www1.semi.org/en/ritdb-interplanetary-database-manufa.... Has been working quite well on windows, OS X and Linux. Also java, r, c, js, python clients. We are using MQTT as the transport.
95% of what all hands meetings need are: a clear agenda, time limits, and someone to actually enforce time limits. Come to think of it, all meetings need that. What kind of business are you conducting at your all hands meetings such that RRoR would be helpful? Even Robert’s Rules itself says that the rules shouldn’t just be used for their own sake, because it’s all too possible for rule-making and procedure to get in the way of actually being productive.
I live in Melbourne where cyclists and trams co-exist quite happily. It’s unusual for someone to be hurt by a tram.

Contrast with the carnage that is cars v. bikes in London.
I didn't have cable TV for the past 15 years or so. Just didn't need that all that garbage for the occasional thing I really wanted to see.

Netflix was the simple aggregator through which I could watch what I liked. Hasn't been for a while, though. There are better things to do with my life anyway than consuming movies and shows.
If you're ok trusting a third party (such as an alternative app store), they can build it, send you the binary, you sign it (on Windows or Linux), and install it on the phone.
It's just a technology. There's nothing stopping a company from creating a private blockchain (using trusted nodes) and using it as a backend ledger for their website.

The fuss is that even if Facebook fully decentralizes Libra, they'll probably own an undisclosed amount of it. One entity starting with most of the wealth defeats the purpose of decentralization.
It was illegal to privately own actual gold anywhere in the world as a US citizen between 1933 and 1975. That's absolutely an approach they could take.
> Cars pay for the space they occupy through fuel, excise, and sales taxes.

Your statement is absurd. You're arguing that something should have the right to occupy the public space and deprive others from using it just because the owner bought it and spends money on fuel.
For some reason the article doesn't mention it, but there is a few retracted XEPs for IoT (sensor data[0], provisioning[1], control[2], etc). I think it would be neat if they've incorporated Semantic Sensor Network Ontology[3] and were actually used. But it seems that in practice there are mostly custom and unspecified binary protocols, with inherent TOCTOU issues, awkward integrity checks, and with no security measures (anecdata, based on 7-8 years of dealing with various devices that can be classified as IoT).

Regarding the use of XMPP for it, as pointed in other comments, it indeed looks like unnecessary overhead, but I think it is quite similar to using HTTP for transfer of things other than hypertext: not a perfect fit, but already has good software support, standards, and additional features that are useful. And perhaps more importantly, no wheels to reinvent poorly and hide from customers.

[0] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0323.html

[1] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0324.html

[2] https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0325.html

[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-vocab-ssn-20171019/
Got a link or more details?
Nope, no misunderstanding, you're right! But the promise of crypto is cheap frictionless transactions. We're a long way off.
I had someone recently quit my team for a way better opportunity that my company couldn't provide.

More or less jokingly we showed up with chains on the last day to bind him to the desk :) we allowed him to part after a couple of beers though.

Yes its super painful to lose talent.
You do. We got MRIs on disc at UCLA Santa Monica, free of charge. It's pretty standard.
> But what’s the difference between in stability between an autoscaling+autohealing VM running a 100% kernel-mode application, and a VM hosting a 100% user-mode process (presumably under an init daemon that will autoheal it)?

Running everything (or as much as possible) in Kernel mode has obvious performance benefits, hard to argue against that.

The counter-argument isn't about performance, it's about flexibility. As far as I'm aware, no major cloud providers allow you to run apps in Kernel mode. So if you develop an app on your own hardware, but may eventually deploy it in the cloud, you better put everything in user mode. If you want to switch from one cloud provider to another, it's (relatively) easy if everything is in kernel mode.

Also, while running in Kernel mode is almost certainly faster than user mode, it's probably not that much faster. If your app relies on the network or is heavy on disk I/O, that's where your bottleneck will be, not OS user/kenel mode switching.

In short, running things in Kernel mode may sometimes be a good performance decision, but it's often a bad business decision.
Why not do it?
"flying in combat missions can be the most exciting thing for some people in these (often) rural people's lives"

Is there anything in your sophisticated city life that is more exciting than flying in combat? Or even comparable?
I'd argue that it shouldn't be linked, because it's being used in the wrong context. It would be like linking an music album titled "Outer space" to the Wikipedia article on outer space.
Choices Affect Our Lifestyle
Once in a while, the Champs-Elysées in Paris are closed to cars on Sunday. When there were the yellow-vest protests, a large part of central Paris was closed to cars on Saturday too.

It was pleasant to walk in the streets that time, the city looked more human, with less noise, less honk, less stress. However, some cyclists and escooter drivers are a bit uneducated, many of them don't respect stops or signs, they don't slow down, and would pass at 2 cm from you at 20km/h like you do not exist

Other than that, I'm 100% for banning cars and petrol-based motorcycles from big capital cities around the world.
"indeed probably"

Yeah, "highly likely"
Because any system that lets you modify the rules is inherently broken. There’s some apocrypha involving Kurt Gödel and a loophole in the US Constitution that gets at this point [1]. But it’s really not the system’s fault, it’s the users’ fault. Any rule-making system worth writing home about is exploitable, because that’s the only way it’s useful.

[1] https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/morgenstern.html
You could say so:

> As with these, it is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, possibly the smallest measurable space. But even the number of digits in this digital representation of Graham's number would itself be a number so large that its digital representation cannot be represented in the observable universe. Nor even can the number of digits of that number—and so forth, for a number of times far exceeding the total number of Planck volumes in the observable universe.
Fuel, excise and sales taxes don't come close to covering the cost of car infrastructure, not to mention the environmental externalities generated.
That behaviour was for the old viewer with version 3. The new version 4 one reverts to what GP is saying: you have to open an ebook before you can even access the settings through pressing ESC or right click.

Also the version 4 ebook viewer is step back from the old one, as it stands now. It is slower, more resource hungry and buggier. The only arguable improvement is it now uses a 'flat' theme that doesn't look dated. I'm even considering reverting back to Calibre 3 because of the ebook viewer randomly freezing on large epubs with equations and so on.
This is also why I abandoned my quest for 100% silent computers in favor of going for a still very quiet but pleasant timbre.
yes, but i doubt that cost-parity alone will get people to stop eating meat. there has to be more than that. the popularity of these alternatives is an indicator but not everyone primarily eats burgers.

there is also still the general problem with all processed foods being less healthy than naturally grown foods...
Would something like this help?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/color-enhancer/ipk...
I can't explain it, but it's the algorithm discussed here, if you want to read up on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19474280
We should not be surprised that the environment we find ourselves in is so seemingly well-suited to the flourishing of life. I believe the grandparent post was saying this as a response to the idea that things are too improbably perfectly-suited for us. Far from being a non-sequitur, it is almost stating a tautology. The environment we find ourselves in is the one that has given rise to us, with our ability to think about these things.

I'm sure there is a Douglas Adams passage that illustrates this but I can't remember it.
There's a lot of focus on his phone. If this guy is really cheating it's probably way more sophisticated than that.

There are super tiny hidden in-ear earbuds that would easily go unnoticed unless someone really looks for it. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/E~0AAOSwqABbH4mT/s-l640.jpg Or vibrating devices hidden anywhere else on the body. This paired with some information from the RFID stream, either through some insider or by hacking the Wifi.

As you say there are also lots of other items brought in and worn by the players, looking at the video i see people wearing hats, shades, bags and bulky clothes where you could easily hide all kinds of equipment.
> ironically, i'm more afraid of bicyclists hitting me than cars. they simply do whatever they want.

I’m in Seattle, not NYC, but this is an almost daily nuisance for me, both as a driver and as a pedestrian. Cyclists in general seem to have an attitude like rules and laws don’t apply to them. I see them blowing red lights, disobeying all-way stops, and nearly running over people all the time.
How many people do you think are driving to a Manhattan restaurant or bar? Only 22% of Manhattan households own a car.
That there’s no mixed use zoning kind of says it all. Although, rather adorably, apparently a lot of city planners were inspired by Sim City! [1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-simcity...
> Paypal also dodges issues of "being a bank" (...)

AFAIK Paypal is a bank in the EU.
You learn fast, zürich is not a bad place to bike. I bike with the tram on my daily commute in vienna. Cars are by far a bigger danger on the roads. My experience as a biker in zürich was pleasant, like most things in there, a really nice place to visit...
Very cool! It would be a lot easier to use if the "arm" part had an inverted "T" base to make it more stable on the ground. Although he may have needed to forego that modification to keep maximum efficiency within the competition's rules...
I still find it wild that the CA state legislature is arguably the most progressive state legislature in the country... until someone wants to build some apartments.
I’m confused on what you mean by cloud providers not allowing you to run “in kernel mode.” I know for sure that both MirageOS and Erlang-on-Xen (unikernels) can be easily deployed as AWS AMIs. And even on compute providers less friendly to custom image booting (like DigitalOcean), you can always bootstrap off of a standardized Linux image by just telling it to fetch and kexec(2) your custom kernel binary in the instance’s cloud-init script.
It's not guaranteed the race of the donor is the same as the father, but it's most often going to be the case. The discordant eye colour is not as conclusive as some people think, though. In one study, about 10% of the children of blue eyed parents had brown eyes. The genetics of eye colour isn't as simple as most people think it is.

Of course, if you convince your parents to submit to a DNA test, then sure, the jig is up.

In my day job, I'm a geneticist, and have worked on population genetic typing. There is a fair amount of heterogeneity in any population, so it wouldn't surpise me to see unusual patterns in the data. There's also the fact that consumer DNA tests oversell the granularity that can be gleaned about ancestry.
> Bombing another country is a legitimate act of the state

yes, it can be.

> It's no more an endorsement of "violence"

War _is_ violence.

> conflating legitimate acts of the state with extralegal personal criminality

Well, you're saying that I equate the president's tweets as his personal threats. That's orthogonal to extralegal. It is also irrelevant, for the reasons I'm about to lay out:

The Terms of Service are the basis of a contract for using the site[1]. Unless there is a specific clause for "legitimate acts of state" then its a binary choice. Choosing not to implement them equally is a political choice.

look, its perfectly possibly to not agree with a person, but insist that legal/procedural process is adhered to. The president is a person like any other, and subject to the same legal/procedural process as the rest of us.

[1] well usually.
Money is the fabric of our economic system for thousands of years. Taxis and accommodation are just tiny services build on that fabric.

Facebook is dealing with different powers here.
> In the ideal case I would rather want the least possible amount of memory in the Kernel (and maybe have that all statically allocated) in order to maximize stability and determinism.

A while back, I worked for an embedded systems company that developed real-time OSes, compilers, and debuggers. Everything in the Kernel had to be statically allocated, malloc was simply not allowed. Even user-land programs, which could dynamically allocate memory, had to check the return value of malloc to make sure the memory was actually allocated (malloc returns null if it can't allocate memory).

It was painful to program in this environment, but over time, I grew to love it. Software developers did not feel like they were developing "Soft"-ware; memory, CPU, I/O, interrupts, and even heat dissipation were not infinite resources you could use without care. These restrictions elevated the development process, and made the "developers" feel more like "engineers".
But have you heard of Rayo's number?
All so called self-claimed traditional martial arts masters who oppose the Xu are pathetic in terms of body mass. On a hand-to-hand combat with no rule, body mass works. Joint lock works with equally trained fighters.
I too wish you could side-load, and the reasons for which you can't aren't 100% noble, but I do appreciate the side-effect of improved security. Side-loading from phone to phone would be a hacker's wet dream.
Understood. Yes, it will probably get there eventually.
The nuances Al has brought out around remote working are things I had never heard before.

Unlike folks who are just remote-work fanboys, he has brought a perspective where remote work is more an attractive option for companies and workers alike due to obvious reasons.

Alongside, he has also spoken about where remote does not work well - on an individual level where someone such as him needs that in-person "weekly cadence" with the team.
There is no single thing having or not having which distinguishes people from other animals, the difference is in the degree at which we can use tools/mimic/create mental models etc.
The thing about attracting traditional businesses looking to offer their employees a silicon valley low formality work environment is that such businesses can probably do it themselves with a traditional lease for less than the premium charged by WeWork.

I could be wrong about the above, it might be cheaper or simpler to pay WeWork. But for accounting, law, and finance: Those are industries with high level needs for privacy & confidentiality that would be a problem in a co-working environment. They need work spaces that are separated from other businesses, which obviates the benefits of a mixed co working environment.
1729 has no special meaning for the multiplication algorithm. In the paper Harvey writes:

> In Section 5 we establish (1.3) with the explicit constant K= 1728, and in Section 5.4 we list some optimisations that improve it to K= 8.

> In Section 5, we will simply take d:= 1729 (any constant larger than K would do)
Strangely it turns out that rebinding variables is a really uncommon need, so there's pretty much zero game playing.
Are streaming services killing multiplexes?
SQLite kicks ass. Oh, the horrible things I've attempted to make it do...
What are the alternatives? Even with panspermia life would have had to begin elsewhere. The universe would have been too hot at the Big Bang to support organic molecules if that theory is true. Even with “intelligent design” the intelligence would have its own heritage and origin. The implications of an alternative to abiogenesis seem outside the realm of scientific inquiry entirely. Is the desire here a coherent, detailed narrative for how we went from hot plasma to RNA?
SQLite is even easier to start with -- I'm not trying to say Postgres is not the right choice, but it is certainly a more complex choice.

Postgres is a fantastic database, but most of the time getting started with and using SQLite will be easier. For example -- you'd never have to secure firewall rules to a SQLite instance. Bad defaults (unlikely but possible) or some bad post-install configuration and you've got an exposed server.

I want to emphasize that my point about SQLite being viable for startups was with the assumption of a low-write high read workload -- most of the time queries won't even hit the DB but instead be served by some caching layer. It's also really easy to scale read only versions of your applications horizontally if all you've got to do is ship/swap out DB files (again at this point it might make more sense to look into a bigger DB and just scaling vertically).
As a cyclist I usually had 4 lights on the front, one central main/steady light for illumination and then two bar end lights that showed the edges of my handlebars (visible front and rear) and then either another flashing light either down low at the bottom of my forms or on my helmet. And the similar at the back.

The amount of bus drivers and taxi drivers that chatted to me at the traffic lights and told me that the set up helped them judge my distance was great. I really think it helps people figure where you are and how your bike is moving. Plus if any one of my lights was hidden for a moment, there were 3 more to see. And at worst if one battery went I have more to get me home safely. I ride with lights on at all time.
So... you flagged me because you think I'm making some supposed statement of superiority?

Also, what "purpose" narrative?

Is contradicting the Neo-Darwinist model of life somehow not allowed?

Does contradicting it make me a closet Christian, in your eyes?

Because I don't see an answer in Neo-Darwinism or any religion.

I'm happy not knowing, just as I'm happy to criticize people who claim to know.
> Given enough competing spaces, their customers will simply flock to the ones with the best price and offering.

Just waiting for “Expedia for coworking spaces” to come and commoditize them :)
Making a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch
> 1. Sharing account details. eg four people in a circle of friends, one will have Netflix, another Prime Video, someone else will have Now TV and so on. And each of them will use the others account so all of them get access to all of the services.

Sadly Disney is now lobbying to make that a crime
Beating Std:Visit Without Trying
> Bombing another country is a legitimate act of the state.

You're wading into deep waters here. What makes a state's actions "legitimate"? There are a lot of theories on this.

One of these theories says that a state's legitimacy and sovereignty rests in the will of the people it governs. For example, the U.S declaration of independence states in it's first paragraph "Governments ... deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed". Accordingly, if a state does a thing, and enough people ruled under that state believe it's illegitimate, then it is indeed illegitimate.

Under this principle, criticizing the actions of those that govern you is not unpatriotic or "a political statement" as you say, it's an integral part of government itself.