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Bumboat[0] = a small boat used to ferry supplies to ships moored away from the shore

Spoke-shave [1] = a tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making wheel cart wheel spokes

self-bailer [2] - alternative to hand-bailing

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumboat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokeshave

[2] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=self-bailer
Those surgical masks may not be doing much either due to improper use. As they get wet due to moisture in the breath they become less permeable causing more of the air to be vented out the sides rather than through the membrane. Perhaps this could still decrease the radius of infection even in this suboptimal state.
Same in Belize, I hear from J.McA.
If you have energy that is magnitudes cheaper then you can do things that were not possible before such as terraforming, you could scrub the atmosphere and clean up the oceans.
You could argue that SoftBank alone has greatly impacted #2. Before they came around these types of investments were quite rare.
Check out Scott Galloway on Twitter (https://twitter.com/profgalloway) and his website (linked from his Twitter bio). He's been calling out Uber and We for awhile. He has also had some heated exchanges with SV VCs on Twitter.

In the case of We I think you are being too generous thinking the IPO is only delayed. The S1 pulled the covers back, and I'm not sure it will ever IPO and may end up out of business.

Uber is not in a much better position, as their financials only work by significantly raising prices and/or driverless self-driving coming to market. I think the later is much farther away than people assume.
Yes you will be downvoted heavily for not being a status quo warrior and thinking outside of the box. I will be too. Hacker News generally dislikes any ideas or commentary that sits outside of their media manufactured overton window.

>Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive. The spectating populations must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else seems rather acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

-Guy DeBord
or ERV.
Reminds me of "wild" camping. Used to just be called camping...
Lobste.rs has an interesting system where downvoted need to be accompanied by a reason.
IQ tests in my experience are better for logic, maths and abstract thinking, eg trying to spot the pattern in a series. Other tests which can be used to measure brain abilities, could be the brick test, where you are presented with a brick and have to list all the ways a brick could be used. This is somewhat dependant on life experience of course and its hard to know what someone has seen and thus experienced. Another example of brain function is identifying auditory tones and patterns, some people are better at picking up notes in a section of played music than others. School in some ways and interests is an intelligence test in itself by virtue of the subjects a child wants to study and is good at. So IQ tests are somewhat limited in determining brain function and abilities.
2 - that professor was teaching navigation. I don't think it's a part of their job to judge students on unrelated matter.
> a large utility is not like a private company. We cannot let a large utility fail, and therefore they are more like a government organization than a private company.

I see no way utilities provided by a for-profit company make sense. They are monopolies for services across entire swaths of the population. I can’t select which company I receive power from. In this model paying dividends to shareholders simply means that there was either some service/maintenance cut, or they set their rates too high for their customers.

At best, utilities should be government ran. Their “shareholders” should be those that foot the bill at the end of the day. At worst, at least make them nonprofit entities so that they’ll focus their efforts on bettering the product rather than doing what they can to improve shareholder dividends.
I have home server to host samba share for my needs, also hosting videofiles so I can watch them on my TV.
What would be cases where the add() function need ownership of the x?

What the chance in real life that a function like that cannot simply use a reference?

In my learning Rust, my life became significantly better and easier when I started to references to borrow as much as possible.
Productivity for Developers [slides]
There are street cleaners in Japan. I used to visit Tokyo often and I would go running just before dawn. I saw plenty of people (usually elderly) collecting trash and sweeping up.
As a German I can assure you Denmark is far above the average in Europe in public space cleanliness :-)
Microsoft and Facebook to Lunch Deepfake Detection Challenge
Well, all major browsers now ignore it on password fields so the browser ship has sailed on that one:

> This is the behavior in Firefox (since version 38), Google Chrome (since 34), and Internet Explorer (since version 11). - MDN
Or the parent's comment is a big of exaggeration to downplay the general cleanliness.

Compared to most major global cities it's night and day.

I'd take a hard look on NY, Chicago, L.A, London, Paris, Amsterdam, before I complain like the grandparent about the Japanese situation which is an order of magnitude better...

Tokyo of course is on a league of its own, but here's Osaka Street View, go around, how does it compare to what you read?

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.675107,135.5261238,3a,75y,27...
>Out of curiosity, do people in UK tip?

Not in a fast-food restaurant, no.

You'll often see folks in cafés help out and return their trays, but it's not a guarantee - and in some establishments it's not even possible for you as a customer to do this. At the end of the day, you're paying to sit down - and clearing your table afterwards is priced into the food offer.

Fast food is a bit more of a grey area, since there's not necessarily table service. I'd throw away my rubbish at e.g. Burger King - there's usually bins provided for this purpose.
Sprite Lightning in HD
I can actually speak to this because I was involved with maintenance on a consultant's neural net built in raw java.

What I have to say is this: please don't build your own.
>The modern product of the American university is generally skeptical of anything resembling a meritocracy

A little-known fact about the word "meritocracy"[0] is that it's a recent invention, coined by Baron Young of Dartington[1] in his satirical work[2] outlining how dystopian a society organised as a meritocracy would be.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meritocracy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young,_Baron_Young_of_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
Maybe the explanation is a bit overwrought but it’s a fact that Tokyo is astonishingly clean, and I never once saw someone drop large trash in the street, even though there aren’t bins.

That could be as simple as broken windows theory but the contrast with Brooklyn is striking.

The cultural attitude difference is real to some degree. People tend to smoke while standing in one place, a designated smoking area outside with an ashtray, not walk and smoke. This is a huge difference and reflects a priority on not annoying people around you.

That’s just one of many example I could give of what are obviously and viscerally differences in habit, custom, and perspective about consideration for strangers.
I was in Tokyo and Osaka these last weeks, and China before Tokyo. Landing in Tokyo after China was magical. People didn't shout in public or have their phones blaring. They let people disembark trains instead of just barging in as soon as the train doors open, and they queue neatly for those doors. And yes everything was clean and tidy.

But the touristy area of Osaka was back to being dreadful. People cutting you off while walking, groups stopping in the middle of the way, often with their rolling suitcases blocking more of the path. I noticed there were many Chinese tourists (from the language with which they were shouting at each other..).

I don't agree that the lack of litter is only due to the cleanup. The Japanese in general follow the rules as expected, like I wrote above with queueing and putting their phones on silent mode.
First thing I noticed after leaving the train from the airport to Shinjuku is just how crazy clean everything was. It was certainly impressive and most of the city I visited followed suit. I spent time actively looking for trash with little success, quite different than every other city I've been to in the world. Even unpopulated areas (wilderness, forests, remote parks) you wouldn't expect to see much trash always seem to have trash.

At night time I did see quite a bit of beer cans/bottles around, however, either people or cleanup crews seemed to group them together to make cleanup easier.

If this is due to cleanup operations, I feel other cities around the world should consider such logistics because it makes travel there one of the most pleasant experiences I've had.
Perhaps more or a PCA graph would work, where there is a clear grounding of the math in how you are generating it. Or perhaps a tree structure. I think showing connections is good, just think the timeline at the moment seems very promising.
There is value in knowing there are 2 demographics: most people use apps and don't care how the app handles it's data; indeed the app usually alters the user's behaviour.

Some people run the opposite: they instruct apps and the app had better use the data given in the format given or the user moves to another app (or writes their own).

Someday I hope the second demographic's lifestyle is taught in highschools, because it is socially healthier.
At home, I run:

- A weather station that lives on a pole on the yard. Powered by GopherWX https://github.com/chrissnell/gopherwx

- InfluxDB for weather station

- Heatermeter Barbecue controller

- oauth2_proxy, fronted by Okta, to securely access the BBQ controller while I'm away. This proxy is something that everyone with applications hosted on their home network should look into. Combined with Okta, it's much easier than running VPN.

In the public cloud, I host nginx, which runs a gRPC proxy to the gopherwx at home. I wrote an app to stream live weather from my home station to my desktops and laptops and show it in a toolbar.

nginx in the cloud also hosts a public website displaying my live weather, pulled as JSON over HTTPS from gopherwx at home.
Yes, and there are popular third party analytics platforms that record all activity on a page, which includes not just every key press, but the speed at which it was done, with or without a submission of the form.

Web browsers should never, ever use auto fill unless the user has already entered that information on that domain already. Popular domains that host third party content should never be able to auto fill.
Targeted Memory Reactivation During Sleep Improves Next-Day Problem Solving
It's kind of a class thing though, and not down traditional class lines. There are a lot of families for whom littering would be completely out of the question.
There's usually a 12.5% service charge in restaurants, but I've rarely seen tipping (I'm a foreigner living in London)
Elsevier Rebrands via Oncology Clinical Pathways to ClinicalPath
Which part of Denmark? I am an Aussie living in Sweden but travel to Copenhagen every now and again and haven't noticed any mess
Insert mandatory "Don't forget that [Country other than the US]'s [positive traits] comes at a cost of loss of [american value]" here.

What'll it be this time? Communism? Authoritarianism?
This is a great point I hadn't considered. Interacting with people you do not agree with not only causes one to learn to compromise, but also softens extreme viewpoints.
Like a few other commenters have mentioned, I had a great time trying to work through these problems having seen them in ads on the Red Line in the mid to late 2000s.

For me, these puzzles were what got me to change careers; at that point I was in a non-technical job and didn't have any CS training. Still, I saw these puzzles and was hooked. Figuring out how to even set up a basic coding environment was part of the puzzle for me.

I spent a few weeks on "Strawberry Fields", eventually getting to a brute force solution that passed all the tests. I was about to send it in, and happened to meet one of the ITA folks at a social event. After a few minutes of talking to this gentleman, I realized he was in a completely different intellectual class from me, and that I had to do a lot better than hacking together a solution to a single optimization problem if I really wanted to work in this industry.

I persisted. I kept solving whatever coding problems I could find and rung by rung, climbed my way into some interesting and challenging software and data roles. I bombed plenty of whiteboard interviews along the way.

It sounds funny to write down, but it is not an understatement to say that those ads on the T changed my life!
The cleanliness is impressive, but what impressed me even more was the efficiency.

One morning in Tokyo, I saw construction workers starting to dig up a street. It was a large operation, they were exposing some massive pipes, and there were a few policemen, politely pointing pedestrians to a way around the site.

In the evening I went the same way again, to see how far they had gotten with the digging. However, there was no hole anymore. They were already done, and the street looked like new, with hardly a trace of what had happened.

I felt kinda bad about my place (Germany), where this would have taken at least a week.
Maybe you won't (alas)! He is also a master-level woodworker, but had to stop due to spinal stenosis.

Being a geek, he has his Apple watch set up to remind him to go walk around every hour, and that tends to keep it at bay. But he really can't work in the shop any more.

And honestly (just to brag on my dad a bit more) the way he said goodbye to all that struck me as really impressive. He loved woodworking, but he didn't weep and mourn or go into a depression when he couldn't do it anymore. He just shrugged and said, "Well, I guess it's on to my other hobbies!"

That's how I want to be.
> Besides which, "whoever is mentioned needs to be as great as these three" is your own special rule for which only you are the judge, which is not a particularly convincing argument to anyone but yourself.

If Tanner had meant 'any random historian', he would have said so and used them (and also disagreed with the example I provided of Machiavelli, who is a famous example of this trope). He used the most relevant examples, like Sima Qian and Thucydides, who he writes about extensively elsewhere, and note by the way the context here of the Thucydides Roundtable. It is a basic fact of linguistics that you choose examples to be as central and relevant as possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle). Nor am I sold on the Dunning example. It may be well known to you, but it's not that famous, and Dunning wasn't even from or educated in the South, much less was involved in the Civil War or Reconstruction in any way as a loser.
Our team did have the complicating factor that we were doing private builds - which mean that our source code was in a private subversion repository and then perforce was used to track the brazil primitives and private build decryption key stuff.

Once git support was good enough, leadership was very supportive of an en masse exodus.

I also think my team was pretty junior, which meant they'd never actually seen perforce, so as you say, moving to git was going back to something familiar for nearly everybody.
That's what I'm getting at, the stuff under the hood is what's important, devil in the details and all that. I'm also a quant so every ml algo needs to be tailored so idk
Honest question here: I'm from Italy and here we have problems with fires as well. However, here power lines and district transformers are placed underground except high voltage and ultra high voltage ones, but those are above tree height and rely on much sturdier metal structures.

My understanding is that burying power lines is cheaper in the long run and less prone to failures (trees falling, cars smashing the utility poles, ...). Therefore, why can't this be done in the US and especially California? Or is it already done for new developments? If no, is it because of regulations?
* should a developer be able to hijack browser shortcuts, no. Should a developer be able to disable right click functionality, no.
Alternative title.

People who want to make money kowtow to the opinions of people with money to give them.
> because there are heavy cleanup operations

Glad to see someone finally repeating what I have been saying forever about Japan. It's clean because there is an army of people cleaning the place every single day. Multiple times a day.
Down time is an effortless way to improve your memory
Stones and Apples
A lot of shop and home owners clean the street infront of their land. After a typhoon recently I saw what I assumed was the manager of the Louis Vuitton (or similar) store sweeping the front of the shop as a ton of branches had fallen (probably took him 30 minutes or more, it's a very wide sidewalk).
One person floods a basement with gasoline. Another comes in and throws a lit match on the floor. Who’s responsible for the fire? It’s an interesting question.

At the same time, while it’s statisticslly likely that fires would happen with our without PG&E, we can’t escape the fact that they’ve been responsible for quite a few of them.

Paradise, California, was built very close to the wildlife-urban interface. And our federal forest management practices should be questioned. But, PG&E knew about the specific faulty equipment that ended up sparking the Camp fire.

Why didn’t they prioritize fixing equipment in a dry forest adjacent to a populated area? Why did they pay dividends if so much infrastructure was failing?

They’d have a much easier case to make if they could at least show an attempt to prioritize maintenance, especially in high risk areas. Then we could all say, “accidents happen.” But there’s a pattern with PG&E.

When people die on a highway because of human error, or an “act of god”, it’s one thing. Just as we should except that a massive utility will never have a 0% failure rate. But when a bridge collapses, and people knew the bridge was at risk of collapse, and dividends were paid instead of spending every available dollar on upgrades...
On this note, I've got a few services I'd like to setup locally. I'm curious if I could set them up in a Docker-like fashion, where it's super easy to manage the individual container image - and then run it on some type of home "cloud". I debated reaching for Docker Swarm, but I'm curious:

What might be the easiest way to achieve this? Running a Kube cluster is insane for my needs, I imagine I'd be perfectly happy with a few Pi's running various Docker Containers. However I'm unsure what the easiest way to manage this semi-cloud environment.

edit: Oh yea, forgot Docker Compose existed. That may be the easiest way to manage this, though I've never used it.
It's funny how 'cyber' is listed up there with nuclear, biological and chemical attacks, while I understand that Buffet might not be well versed in technology, I think it's vital that the people running the government be educated on the real cyber threat and what it entails.
Why would you need to disable autocomplete passwords for PCI compliance?
In most places without sensible regulation they'd poison the dog, which opens the slippery slope to escalation. Bavarian law prevents that.
Product Owners Shouldn’t Shy Away from Customer Surveys
So it's not a problem, except when it is. Good to know.

Incidentally, how does that work for mirroring, when all that surrounding text gets mirrored too? (Consider the real example of the lolcats generated by Nvidia's StyleGAN, where the text captions are completely wrong, and will always be wrong, because it looks like Cyrillic - due to the horizontal dataflipping StyleGAN has enabled by default...)
Jumping into an Established Codebase as a Junior Developer
You probably can't name one he hasn't played around with (and I'll admit -- I'm an enabler with this). He certainly has his black belt in C++, JavaScript, and Ruby, but he's crazy about Lisp and has recently gone on a tear with Nim.

He's written his own editor ("I want it the way I want it!") maybe four times in different languages, just because. He's always teasing me for being a vi user ("You're stuck in the 70s!")
> HTTPS directly to your home

Can you elaborate on this? Maybe I misunderstand you, but is there a good way to get HTTPS from your home?
I believe it's solely a cost issue, as California is very large.
I applaud your intent, efforts.

IRL, I've given up. I just nod and smile, make reassuring noises.

In my less dejected moments, I'm in the Belief as Attire camp (h/t LessWrong).

But mostly I now assume Belief as Identity, heavily impacted by one's fear response (or lack thereof).
"self-driving" ones car may become the common parlance before we die
Like a debt collector but specifically for drug money.
Funny, in my state I actually get junk mail and door to door solicitors about switching energy suppliers. They even tout their renewable percentages in their marketing. Markets work if you let them.
I tidy up or not based on whether there's table service. No table service = I do it myself, table service = it's somebody else's problem. I don't think anybody ever taught me this explicitly - it's just something I must have picked up, I suppose?

I don't think it's really all that outrageous to just leave the detritus on the table in either case. But when there's no table service, the tables won't be getting cleared so regularly, so it can make things inconvenient for the other patrons.
Meditation for Programmers
> Not only are the components doing things their own ways, they’re trying to hide what they’re doing as “implementation details”. The fact that a database query requires a database connection never was an implementation detail.

In my opinion this is an implementation detail. A service exposes an interface for CRUD-type operations. The implementation could be any kind of datasource, whether it be a database, RESTful API, filesystem, or mocked data in-memory. Did the author imply that the consumer should be choosing the data source? What about caching? That might be an implementation detail as well -- is it a remote managed cache, a file-persisted cache, or in-memory? what about expiry/invalidation?

This might introduce additional accidental complexity but in my experience building an OOP system correctly has its benefits. An honest question: can FP solve this in a cleaner fashion, with less accidental complexity?
OpenSuse Leap, that acts as a NAS for my other computers.
At home:
Borg backups
jellyfin
x2go

cloud (time4vps 1TB storage node)
borg
calibre
AdGuard

-- home server data drive rsyncs to an internal data drive (XFS to btrfs), btrfs drive takes a snapshot and unmounts when not in use, then important stuff is rsynced to my VPS.
--- home drives backed up with borg for encryption
That's because you separate your trash and put it in bins in your building
How to hack your TV remote with tape to make it user-friendly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Siberia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

Not to mention the whole of human population passing through an ice age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
So, that would be interesting to note who here is in the EU self-hosting w/ their symmetric, low-cost, high-speed ISPs, versus the US, paying $600/mo for a 5 year contract for 10/10 Mbit DIA setup (anecdote).
Its just a few numbers.. actually the test should be run multiple times and take median.

Oh and I ran it more times and it ranged from 2500 to 2900 for multicore score.