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You already revealed yourself when you stated you felt like you had a moral claim to something you have no legal claim to. That's fine, and a perfectly reasonable opinion to have. But by doing so, you have admitted that this is a matter of political ideology. You further accused me of merely having an opposing political bias to what is being conveyed in the article, doubling down on your own assertion that it is in fact about political propaganda. If it were just straight facts, then neither of our political biases would matter. Because if it were straight journalism it wouldn't be framed in such a way that your political leanings mattered.
Outside big cities, driving 10 minutes to work is more human scale than driving 60 minutes in Bay Area. The choice in the US is not really driving vs not driving, but rather about how much.
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I have a bit of trouble performing some tasks that a smaller person could easily do, because when I was weight lifting, I had a few incidents where I pushed or pulled on something as hard as I remembered and ended up breaking it. I trained myself never to push as hard as I absolutely can, because if it takes that much pressure I'm probably doing it wrong.

I don't follow cycling as much as I used to, but in an attempt to keep rich teams from building bicycles out of unobtanium, they put some minimum weight restrictions on the bikes. One of the early results was that some telemetry gear started getting built into these bikes. The biggest one I know of was building a torque meter into the rear wheel. For the cost of a fraction of a percent of power output, it could tell the coach if you're really going all out or dogging it. The difference in those numbers would hint at you being sick, a subtle equipment failure, or an aerodynamics problem.

It should take a certain range of force to open a door, drill a hole, tighten a bolt, or raise a platform. If you are using more than that, something is jammed, your bit is wearing faster than expected, the bolt is cross threaded, or something is stuck on the platform and you're trying to ram it through the roof.

Some tools are very difficult to scale up to high torque situations, but it seems like this data should be available to a robot, via sensors on the power supplies if nothing else.
In practice, the remarkable main issue that often prevent it to replace pen and paper for me, is that it takes too long to start or wake up, while it's almost instant to grab a pen a find a piece of paper.
Is it OK if I plug my (free; use a fake email to sign up if you like) Ansible Crash Course here? Might be useful to some folks.

It'll be getting updated with PDF versions of the material and quizzes soon enough.
That's because:

* They don't have suppression set up

* They're using a conversion tracking platform that is slow

* They're testing the returns conversion hypothesis: you have expressed concrete intent, you have bought the product. If it has 5% return rate, you probably still want it, and there's a 5% chance they need to be in the mix.
Surprise, state monopoly wants to keep their monopoly.
Further aside: Viruses themselves may not even be life!
Are general social networks actually useful though? In mature markets, you have a huge chunk of people that have logged off Facebook permanently.

What matters is the people I want to interact with, and in Seattle they are on Mastodon. Not everyone needs to be on it, and frankly if close to everyone were on it you'd potentially drive away a good subset of users. That being said, by design I can retain my feed of friends on Mastodon without fear of some corporation or eternal spring of new users wrecking it.
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Determinism doesn't preclude the notion that I would be determinedly upset if that happened. In fact, the opposite is true. I would be very upset, because I like my family (most of the time).

This is where the phrases "don't poke the bear" and "don't grab a snake by its tail" come from. People have determined that it is likely to lead to a not-so-fun outcome.

Determinism, essentially, is empathy with nature. It is understanding that living creatures have needs, and when those needs are not met, bad things happen.

To use a light-hearted example. A parent might notice a deterministic pattern, whereby their child begins to cry when it is hungry. Feeding the child to prevent the crying is empathizing with that child.

"Empathizing with the shooter" is a matter of learning what lead the shooter to become a shooter so that you can try and prevent it from happening again. It doesn't mean that the shooting doesn't bother you, or that if someone is about to attack your family that you write it off as "predetermined".

Edit: A better example might be empathizing with an asteroid that is about to destroy the planet. Is being angry that it is on its current path helpful? Not really. Would you be upset if it crashed into Earth? Probably (albeit briefly).

Determinism = Understanding that the asteroid obeys the laws of physics, and looking out for situations that cause an asteroid to begin flying at the Earth so that it's damage can be mitigated, or prevented.
What's the typical onset? (Since I remember <10 years old, I heard some noise and just accepted it as amplifier-like-no-signal-noise, even though regular hearing tests measured above average hearing. Though they don't cover the whole audible spectrum usually :/)
Come on - nowadays most domains are non-".com"... .
Surprisingly nobody has mentioned Perligata yet.

Latin's (or Ancient Greek's, or Hungarian's) ability to reorder words because of inflectional endings is not absolute; you still have things like subordinate clauses and prepositional phrases, even though they're not as ubiquitous as in Romance languages or English. You can reorder things locally, but not over long distances, and some things have to move together.

Interestingly, lots of programming languages have the freedom to reorder big chunks over long distances without altering the meaning, while I've never used a natural language that had that feature. I think the reason for the large-scale freedom is mostly that in programming languages you are usually defining named entities (subroutines, methods, classes, variables, constants, inference rules, predicates, rewrite rules, and whatnot) that the rest of the program interacts with by mentioning their names.

Languages with named arguments allow you to reorder named argument lists freely. My own Bicicleta takes that to somewhat of an extreme and also allows it within "subroutines", depending on dataflow dependencies to drive sequencing.
CyberGhost owner buys PIA for $95.5m to create VPN giant.
Your words of warning are warranted.

I once ran a large stump grinder without hearing protection. A huge mistake. I now have spotty hearing, especially in crowded rooms, and it is a huge disadvantage.

Protect your hearing! Easy to do, so worth the effort.
Silicon Valley and San Francisco are very different.
Lets compare salaries on a city by city basis and adjust those salaries based on the Cost of living in dollars per square foot (cost of a house/condo from Zillow). To calculate the location adjusted salary, we simply multiply the salary by 500 (rough average of $/sq foot) and divide by the cost per square foot in that city.

This comparison makes sense only if your salary is spent on literally nothing else but housing.
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PIA has had a great reputation - this is immediately concerning to me. Does anyone here have opinions on either side of CyberGhost?

I also know the PIA founder sometimes posts here - would love to get some perspective on how this affects existing customers.
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Indeed, we can imagine a past where Greece's learning was as lost as the Maya codices. But we could also imagine a past in which the Academy wasn't chopped down, where the Library at Alexandria wasn't burned but survived until the present day, where Chrysippus's works on logic weren't lost, where Archimedes's invention of the calculus (and whatever else he would have discovered if he hadn't been murdered by Roman soldiers) didn't have to wait until the 18th century, where there was never a Diocletian to condemn the peasantry of half a continent to serfdom for a millennium and a half, where perhaps we could read the literature of Carthage, where Egyptian hieroglyphics were never forgotten, where the Antikythera Mechanism wasn't a dead end but simply an early stage in a long line of calculating mechanisms that continued to develop for centuries.

We could imagine Europe without a Dark Age, and we could imagine a world where the progress of European science did not end even before the Dark Age began. What would that world look like? I don't mean to suggest that it would be a matter of sweetness and light — Athens, too, had its share of slavery, wars of aggression, and political persecution, to say nothing of damned Lacedaemon — but what if intellectual and cultural progress in Europe hadn't halted and even gone backwards for more than a millennium?

Too, Ancient Greek's heyday was not a mere century. Basilios Bessarion, who taught Johannes Argyropoulos in Padova, lived in the 15th century, around the time of the fall of Constantinople. The wrestler Plato was born around 428 BC; his Academy survived until Sulla chopped it down in 84 BCE. Ptolemy didn't live until the second century CE. From Plato's birth to the fall of Constantinople was almost 1900 years. I think that's substantially more than 100 years of really important stuff.
Awesome, perhaps in the future we'll stop wasting our reverence on the great minds of everything from science to literature. Instead, we'll spend it on worshiping people like your brother, who lead the way in mocking anyone who respects intelligence.

Utopia here we come!
I agree with most of that, although as the author I think it's still clickbait in the sense that:

1) clang-format is not really at fault here at all - the same effect could have happened by adding a new header, reordering the headers manually, switching to a system with a different libc version or a different transitive header include tree, etc.

2) The title doesn't tell you wtf is up. You have to get at least half way through the post to figure that out. It's in the vein of "This one food could wreck your health" posts.

That said, other aspects of clickbait are advertising or monetization to profit from the clicks. Except for the crypto mining bot I load into your browser, and which subsequently writes itself to your MBR or UEFI partition, I have no ads, affiliate links, patreon-alikes or other monetization vectors.
Update: turned out I could not log into any website! I cleared cookies, deleted all private data, turned on tracking, ensured cookies were enabled. Not worked. After reinstalling Firefox, I'm back in business. Fwiw, I also have had Firefox lock up twice this week on my laptop. I'm thinking that Firefox just is not as stable as Chrome :(
> I have a theory that this obsession with superheros is part of a greater obsession with continuity. Whether it's TV shows or cinematic universes, people crave a sense of continuity in their narrative.

I have a strong suspicion this part is correct, but that most are unaware of it. Kind of a "you don't miss what you never had" situation. Not so sure about the rest.

Aside from realizing it about myself several years ago, here's some evidence:

* Up above, someone mentioned a couple of failed cinematic universes [0]: Warner/DC and Universal's Monster Universe.

* No one has mentioned a second successful one: The Conjuring Universe.

* The Conjuring Universe did one of the exact same things that the MCU did, that the failed ones did not: Separate films drawn together.

* The MCU's first films were completely standalone, just sharing things like Coulson and Fury as easter eggs, and only later drawn together into the same universe. Until Avengers, it was entirely possible for the casual moviegoer to miss this, creating a low barrier to entry - you didn't have to know the previous film, as you would a sequel. Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America could each draw in a different audience.

* The first "universe" film in the Conjuring, Annabelle, was designed to work standalone instead of as a sequel, same as the first MCU films. Like the MCU, they included callbacks that fans could catch, but nothing important that broke the movie's flow. Again, low barrier to entry for moviegoers who are used to standalone films and don't want to commit themselves to a longer series.

* On the flipside, DC and Monster both announced up front they were creating a cinematic universe, before the first movies were even out. This created a high barrier to entry for casual moviegoers - they knew up front they'd have to see further movies to get the full story.

I think that's the big key, capturing the casual moviegoers with seemingly standalone films, then holding their attention with extended continuity only after they're invested. It's really easy to go see a second movie if you'd already seen the first. Conjuring and MCU both did that well, without creating an initial commitment by announcing multiple films.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577536
The job of the judicial system is to treat all citizen the same. Everyone should be judged equally under the hand of the law.

The Assange case got uniquely handled in every single step. Even a court found that the prosecutor mishandled the case. Proportionally the case used more money than any other case, used stronger legal method than any other case, and did not follow the judicial rules that all cases should follow.

Journalists has asked the prosecutor if the case had a high likelihood to find Assange guilty even without any witnesses. The answer that was consistently given before the US extradition request was yes, the case looked good in the eye of the prosecutor, years in and years out. Now, all suddenly, the answer is no. Now all the sudden the prosecutor say it is hard to convict someone without witnesses.

The behavior demonstrated by the prosecutor is one of a politician system. It gave special attention. It swings with the political winds. Being the targeted of that is torture.
A major BBC story that's been picked up widely being "supressed in the mainstream media" is an odd claim.
Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language.

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
Unpopular Opinion: the core problem with facebook or any social network is the people inhabiting it. I dont think simply offering an alternative with X removed and Y enhanced will solve the problem. Its like the old saying "no matter where you go, there you are..."
Possibly contrarian opinion: I only support "strongly widely available encryption" that gives the user freedom. I don't support using encryption to create authoritarian "walled garden" prisons or as a "security" excuse to take away freedoms of the user (this includes, among other things, DRM.)
Before DoH, you could control and filter DNS queries at your gateway to the Internet. Now you won't be able to do that.

The reason we even want DoH is because we don't want others to control and filter our DNS queries at their gateway when we are on their network.
In my experience, a lot of the companies in the Midwest wouldn't survive if they were paying salaries aligned with big coastal tech. I.e., they exist in the Midwest because they can't exist elsewhere. And the rest are taking advantage of people who don't have the motivation or freedom to move out. (I knew a lot of CS grads in the Midwest who didn't bother applying to coastal companies.)
How do you see this specifically creating AGI?

How would you calculate the loss on a reinforcement learning model that's autonomous?
You don't need a "multi-hundred-dollar GPU" to play modern games. I built my first computer 15 years ago for $500 using a $120 GPU. 10 years ago I upgraded it with a $120 GPU. 4 years ago I upgraded that with a $120 GPU. It should support VR, but I imagine when that tech has matured I'll want to pick up another $120 GPU.
I'm probably doing to do this by hosting a private Mastodon instance in our basement. We already have a private Matrix instance for all of our family chats.
Meaningless buzzword. It doesn't describe the stack - the A in JAM (for API) encompasses all of the server complexity which could be literally any other tech (even a LAMP stack).
Question to HN: is there any UI prototyping / wireframing tool out there than can handle a pen/stylus, the kind of Surface tablets and similar devices come with? I've recently got a Windows device with a pen and I would really love to use it for that purpose. I've tested several web and desktop solutions, and none of them could handle it in any useful way.
They generally reject evolution too. Quite ironic when you consider that anti-vaxxers and proving Darwin correct. You have to admire the ingenuity of idiots to still find new ways to remove themselves from the gene pool.
Ask anyone who has been target of political persecution for several years.
Snap a photo, email it.
B can be A, without A being B ;)

I had this exact example in mind tho FWIW. It is an ongoing research topic whether or not viruses are life, but the analogies/similarity are overall worth noting.

Maybe on a biosphere level, or even on a more micro ecosphere level, all sentient systems really exhibit the same properties as a virus in the local context, for that system, even if entities in that system do not have the consciousness to be able to make that determination. Certainly our effect on the planet Earth since the Industrial Era should make it worth it to endeavour this analysis!
Well in this case there is a video.
That's not even remotely true. I've worked in cloud/web hosting for years and 99% of users are using .com domains. Yes more new users may be registering ccTLDs or gTLDs but that's generally because they're cheap. And because they're so cheap it creates a nuisance as spammers use them. Look a the .xyz tld. It gives you a hugely negative score on any sort of mailbox spam scoring algorithm.
dualshock 4 = 66 dollars (I know you can find it for cheaper, but that's the price on playstation.com)
chromecast ultra = 70 dollars

so I am going to stand by my original comment ;)
it is based on an open source markdown editor https://github.com/nhn/tui.editor

About the codemirror css, it is there because this editor uses it to highlight markdown code
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> Also, when those other streaming services are at least somewhat established there will most likely be content fragmentation soon after, i.e. Microsoft (published) games only on "Project xCloud" etc. like we're seeing in Video Streaming currently.

That's been the norm of the gaming industry for ages. Mario, Sonic, Halo, etc - its always been fragmented. You have to pay for an expensive console to get at the exclusives.

Streaming services have the potential to improve that situation - assuming most are easy to subscribe/unsubscribe as video streaming services.
I'm an American so maybe it's different. 400 miles max, reduced by however long it takes for the computations, doesn't seem like a large distance for me. My VPN provider's closest datacenter is 200 miles from me
With the death of Deadspin and the hollowing out of Sports Illustrated over the last month or so, they are one of the few remaining places that will do this type of in depth sports reporting. However I will point out the target of this piece is not a league, team, player, or anyone that ESPN would have to be afraid of pissing off.
I remember playing Tron (light-cycles!) against GA bots. There was thesis on it in 2001: http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/papers/funes_phd.pdf

I felt there was one large flaw (which I explained at the time) since the experiment ran for a few years, computers kept improving. Problem was, the speed at which the game played accelerated along with cpu speeds. You needed quicker reflexes if your computer was faster. If there's anything to retain from this is, make sure the gameplay speed remains the same, whatever the hardware.
Serious question, what about the general increase of bandwidth usage?

In my mind things like Stadia will increase the amount of data traffic exponentially, even at a low market penetration rate. I think I saw one estimate that it's going to be 120gb on average per hour. Even at 100gb, the extra traffic at scale is going to be insane.

Regardless of if current infrastructure can handle x% market penetration of that kind of usage in a, what, 1 year time? Should the infrastructure even be required for that kind of insanity? We're not talking about life-saving data transportation. We're talking about god damn video games. Or am I way off my whiskey fueled rocker?
Still a useful trait for a self-sustaining AI.

Imagine a robot living in the cloud and paying its bills by offering services like fixing stuck nodes of your infrastructure.
It’s sad to see such obvious Terry Davis tier mental illness get celebrated like this. Schizophrenic rants about black holes containing meaningful coherent “information” are as sane and rational as flat earthers and people who think we never went to the moon. Stop encouraging them, these people are isolated in echo chambers of delusion and urgently need help.
Those are all valid trade offs, but its ignoring the issue raised in the AP.

Like, is an environment like this encouraging bad habbits?

But anyway..

Special hardware: such as? Very few systems can't be downscaled. Situations where you need this special hardware we are talking horizontal multi server setups anyway.

Special workspaces: be less special, improve tooling, improve build operations. Very few setups actually needs centralised configuration.

Large compilations: I'm not sold that a) there is many people with the justifiable need, and b) any real justifiable need is likely going to want on demand autoscaling of the compilation servers, i.e. development won't be local anyway.

I'm not trying to debunk everything you've said. It's a trade off and I've used central dev databases in the past for legacy systems and it worked well for those in the office.

All I can tell you is that iteration speed, testability of code, manual testing and all around team morale was DRASTICALLY improved by stubbing out that bottleneck in newer systems.
You can audit access/key-genesis, easily revoke keys, have stricter rules for giving out keys.

It's a complexity-compartmentalization trade off, that is usually recommended for better IT sec posture. Allows other stuff [IDS - intrusion detection system] to be built on top more easily.

Basically leads to the secrets in the secret vault mentality, so any time you see a secret not in the vault, you can sound the alarm.
Lots of truth here. Having lived in both types of places I can say with certainty that yes, housing is a big difference. But otherwise much is the same and the vastly higher salaries lead to much accelerated retirement savings and wealth generation.

Some very expensive places like nyc allow you to factor out automobile expenses making the rent burden manageable.

Food is a bit more, going out is the same if you figure out where to go, and day to day expenses aren’t too far off either.

I’d say it’s about 20% more overall all things considered.