skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A little predictive power can go very far.

Yeah, but I don't think intelligent people are better at predicting things (weighted by impact). Again, look at the current US president; or at stock traders.

> It was not charisma that cracked Enigma and built the A-bomb.

No, but arguably neither would have been done when they were done if it weren't for a war that started largely due to charisma.

> But united tribes of many hunter-gatherers can be slaughtered by a handful of machine guns produced by boring industrialized societies.

But it's not high relative intelligence that brought us industrialization. Those same people who were later industrialized had had hundreds of thousands of years of hunting-gathering.
> I’ve yet to see any rational or coherent defense of why these (or any) companies should function like democracies.

My experience is that the more someone rambles about "being the only rational one", the more oblivious they actually are.

People want companies to function like democracies, because they feel it's better for the world, or better for them, or both.

The capital don't have to listen to them of course, and the people can then organize and try to enact change in a different way - like voting for particular regulations or something similar.

Since you seem to value "rationality" and power, maybe you should think about how big collectives of people have power, and whether it wouldn't make sense to make some concessions, because otherwise things might get out of control and people like you might end up in a gulag or something.
How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires
> We create our own reality

Try living with long-term chronic pain, disability and flaky mental health. Then tell me it's all in the mind.
I'm paying them, if they don't want to be exploited by me don't accept my money.

> because if you don't let them have a say, and exploit them, you might end up in a gulag, on guillotine or in wherever mass grave Mao put landlords

It always comes down to violence with you people.
Physical-like prices?
A keyboard? How quaint!
Russia is in decline due to the same reasons the USSR declined and fell. The costs of communist oligarchs taking the products of their 'slaves' and wasting them on assorted diseconomies with not enough production feedback.
There is a joke where Ivan says to Modred in Mpscow, "you know that after the next 5 year plan we will all have our own personal aircraft?", Modred then says "Excellent, if we hear they have matches (or toilet paper) in Vladivostok, we can fly there and be first in line!).
Now Putin has imposed a from of the same system that 'overtaxes' by kleptocratic means essentially all the growth the current free 'slaves' create. Thus the amount of work product (money, stuff etc) each of these 'slaves' has at their disposal decreases every year. This is well documented in unofficially reported economic aspects of life. The reported ones are glorious. Military expenditure is essentially a complete waste of money, as it is in the USA, however the USA bears it more easily from it's far far larger base. China is the bear in tha dark that China is readying it's military for - they have nothing to fear from the USA but fear itself. China fears the assembled warheads Russia has - against which it has no defence. Sure it can bomb Russia back, but Russia has it's nor-so-secret cobalt submarines.https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24216/pen...
a few dozen of these could devastate and dender into death zones for 100 years large swathes of China. This will make China think twice about expanding into the Russian far East. Russia has a population in serious decline. Only the Moslem areas are growing. Other Russians are in a devastating decline https://www.fairplanet.org/story/simply-math-no-russians-by-...,
So why does Putin not change? He has the classic Tiger by the tail problem. He and his fellow oligarchs have beggared the Russian economy - how does he unbeggar it?
He can not. He can only hand on until he is inevitably devoured by the tiger - or his own friends when he tries to rein them in!
>Also, while it's probably ok in this usage since it's a 32-bit cpu, it would be better to use atomic access intrinsics or a critical section and memory barriers rather than volatile to make the counter variable "ISR safe".

The dislike for volatile coming from people in higher systems is pretty tiring and unwarranted.

Volatile is a perfectly fine tool on low level mcus.
As someone patiently explained to me 2 yrs ago...

For the ATARI, the "real world" is the present frame, and a fixed set of 4 buttons and 4 directions. This of course is the game pre-programmed into the ALE ROM.

You can take any action, and get the next frame. but you cant "undo" an action, and you cant restart a game from a fixed state (see the Go-Explore controversy). And you cant explore 4 different actions in an interesting frame.

So now, if you learn a network which predicts the next frame, you can enter the world of model-based learning, where we do a simulated move tree roll-out (i.e. not calling the ATARI), try a gazillions moves, and only then select an action and get the next sample.

In a formally defined synthetic domain such as chess or logic programming, it is not clear whether this is helpful. We are simply trading one cpu time (calling the environment) for other cpu time (running our own learned im-precise model of the environment)

Of course DM has a chess function which does codes the rules of the next move. It can return a LOSS if you try an illegal move. But this function is NOT called for the tree roll out.
> I would say the premise that owning something gives you unilateral control over the actions of another person has historically and philosophically been quite controversial

I disagree. It is not historically controversial for the owner of property to decide what is done with it.
How to make wind power sustainable
Sounds like you are involving money. Don't do that.
World first cell phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia
> With that tool, they find that most filesystems drop a lot of error codes:

I recently switched my work notebook to XFS, so looking at this table makes me kinda happy, even if I had bad experiences with XFS in the past (a forced turnoff thanks to a crash in X11 was sufficient to put my system in a unbootable state, trying to recover it with xfs_repair broke it completely; also I suffered with 0-size files randomly appearing after forced reboots quite constantly).

I know for a long time that XFS is probably one of the most well written filesystems for Linux, even if the user case seems to be more focused in servers with uninterrupted power supply than desktops and notebooks.
Same is true for databricks and others as well
FWIW, the Nobel prize in economics isn't a real Nobel per se. The Nobel family was very against it's inclusion in the 60s (it was added by the Swedish Central Bank as a celebration), and is awarded mostly by members of the Mont Pelerin Society for whoever circle jerks neoliberal ideas the best.
Sale is one way the power gets more concentrated or distributed, perhaps unfortunately universal truth in today's world, not only for Urbit galaxies.

I am a galaxy holder and, as the record may show if the record remains intact, all I did was show up and keep coming back, at a time when lots of people were not coming back due to technical issues or whatever other issues.

I'm also not sure what actual power I have as one of these senators, for whatever that's worth (it's not clear to you, it's not clear to us!) although I have heard these galaxies keep going up in value, I will note second that at least as of today, I have not benefited in any way financially from this notion of value that I received.
You're conflating ownership of people with ownership of a tool & voluntary employment. That's a pretty bad-faith argument to make.
> People are choking. Animals are dying.

> This is no ordinary fire. It was lit for you.

> Farmers are clearing land the fastest way they know how to cash in on growing demand for palm oil, which is used in half of all supermarket products, from chocolate to shampoo.
OpenAVN – The world's first decentralized antivirus solution
I don't think that's the precise way people feel. Socialism/etc HAS "failed", and capitalism HAS "succeeded", for certain definitions of failed and succeeded. What people assume is that socialism today would fail (and I agree). But if presented with new facts, e.g. here is a robot that can produce food, gather solar power, and manufacture goods for you, and there is one per household, suddenly the literal definition of socialism can become much more pallatable.
This really depends on what you are doing with your day.

If you're getting up before the sun comes up to plow the fields all day, you'll probably eat more food to account for the amount of calories you burn.

If you're waking up around 8 or 9 to start your remote desk job from home, you can probably get by on a couple small snacks per day, or one meal.

The concept of a desk job is relatively newish, historically speaking. We've been eating a lot longer than desk jobs have been around.

Calories in vs. calories out
What does it offer then if it's no longer a brokerage?
Even during soviet occupation, all of the Baltic countries were already way ahead,compared to the likes of Azerbaijan or Kazachstan. There are many more reasons,such as mentality, culture, geographical location and education that influenced it. Economical model was only one piece of the whole picture.
Cannot think how I missed your reply! Thanks and sorry!

Occupancy sensing is primarily but not only by light. Movement sensing is not used, in part because it would likely not work well from the common low-to-floor positioning of radiator valves, often obstructed by furniture. Sound is not currently used.

You can get a good idea of the tech underpinnings at the open-source site, though there is significant secret sauce on top for the commercial product:

https://github.com/opentrv/

Radbot effectively contains an internal physics model to work out what is going on further into to room. A simple low-pass filter that can be engaged when needed is a big part of that in practice!

Our driving goal is cutting carbon emissions, which goes hand-in-glove with reduction in energy use and also bills. The target for this product is 30% reduction in space heat demand, carbon and £££s.
proceeds to type at 400 wpm...
Nixon also made Vietnamization a high level goal of his presidency. How did that work out?

Propaganda? Latin America is based on caste. If your "revolution" is based on stealing from the Spanish-blooded landowners to feed Amerindian losers who breed like rabbits, you will get opposition. Not much propaganda needed. And when the landowners send their sons to the army officer corps, you will have opposition with actual teeth.
"Crash-consistent applications", not "Crashing applications". This is a great paper which illustrates how a developer's mental model of what a file system does may differ from the reality.
Is that upgrade retroactive?
SAGE also didn’t have any goofy fake control panels with a place to put your liquor

No, but the Weapons Director Console incorporated an ashtray and cigarette lighter on the left side.
Yep, this is exactly it. By the way, even SQL Server can use Kubernetes for HA nowadays.[1]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/tutorial-sql-serv...
Right. And what really backfires is threatening to sue.

In a company large enough to have a legal department, they'll hand you over to it, and basically nothing will get fixed. They'll record your complaints, dates, and times, and stop interacting with you.
I worked on the OS/2 Workplace Shell, Taligent, and Workplace OS. And later the XCP network protocol (and rode the Pervasive Computing division into the ground).

:-(
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So, just because politifact rated the "Henry Ford created the 40-hr workweek" false, doesn't mean that unions were the ones to create it.

As a society, employers were trending towards 40-hr workweeks and weekends. That was already where society was going voluntarily, so the fact that unions got legislation near the end of the trend (when voting it through would've been so much easier) isn't that much of a victory. It was unnecessary and just a play to take credit.
Scientists Find Place on Earth Where Life Does Not Exist
I don't think it is so far fetched. The economy is the product of human interactions, and I think understanding a single human being is more challenging than everything you listed, except maybe consciousness (but perhaps artificial consciousness will be achieved partly by accident).
Microservices are the new components.

After all, the network is the computer.
>>> Princeton University scholar Timothy Searchinger, one of the study's authors, says researchers expect wind speed to continue to increase, he says, which has multiple positive effects.

https://xkcd.com/605/
> I've not heard of SRP before, but it seems like it's trying to solve an already solved problem ...

SRP came out in 2000:

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2945

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...

It's WebAuthN that's the Johnny-come-lately to the auth world.
No, you can only access messages after the upgrade.
Broadly curious, what would your thoughts be if the CLI printed it's guesses, alongside how they could be more explicit? "X is not valid, assuming: [more explicit version of argument goes here]"

This strikes me as the best of both worlds--you're seamlessly educating the user on what is happening and what they could have done instead.
There are two points above that require some care:

First: If the axion exists, its electromagnetic coupling is extremely small.

The axion-photon conversion would be a Primakoff process, which can proceed through a loop. Loops suppress cross-sections drastically. The axion is not electrically charged -- we would know all about them by now (and they could not be the dark matter).

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

If the axion is the mechanism by which the CP problem is resolved and the dark matter is composed of axions, then there are predictions for the strength of the effective axion-photon coupling constant. What is special about the ADMX experiment, and why Quanta is writing about them, is that ADMX is beginning to explore that region in parameter-space in a definitive manner. If both of those conditions are met, there are now masses which the axion cannot have, or ADMX would have seen them.

Second: The weak force is not, in many senses, radically weaker than the electromagnetic force. We don't experience it in our daily lives because the force-mediators (the W and Z) are massive, while the photon is massless. Massive force-mediators severely restrict the distance over which a force can act. The coupling constants of the known forces "run" with energy, and appear to roughly match at the "GUT" scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_unification_energy
It goes even further. Even if you are a third party, it makes sense to use the AWS marketplace to allow enterprises to consolidate billing. ACloudGuru offers its subscriptions on AWS just because it makes procurement easier.
Incorporate in Asia
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I think we can all agree it would be great if the internet became more private, secure, accessible, and decentralized. I hope Urbit provides that because I hope anything provides that. Whether it lives up to its promises will depend on so many factors I'm not interested in getting involved, but I wish you the best of luck. I'll be cheering if you succeed, for what that's worth.
It's the other way around, curl is so good its amost like using the spec. directly
Well, that's not a defining characteristic of English but of most (all?) living, dynamic languages. I have seen it with the languages I speak or have tried to learn (Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese...).
Let’s not forget the extensive links to organized crime (a relatively unique feature of American versus european unions): https://www.iww.org/history/myths/11

The IWW page on this is hilariously forthright.

> First of all, it is a myth that organized crime, including the infamous MAFIA, controls all or even most North American labor unions. (It is true that the Teamsters, International Longshore Association (ILA), Hotel, Bar and Restaurant Workers Union (HERE), Seafarers International Union (SIU), and various Building Trades unions have had to deal with MAFIA corruption). Many AFL-CIO rank & filers have fought long and hard to purge any and all forms of corruption (MAFIA and otherwise) from their unions; it's an ongoing struggle.
If you don’t want to be on the receiving end of violence, how about not exploiting people?
Science and Noah's Ark – Satellite images, radiocarbon dating, 3D scans
In the tech circles I hang out we think of AWS as the next operating system. In 10-15 years it will be mostly invisible to the application programmer due to abstractions built on top of it. This is a new frontier for startups.
> But that's my point: any presentation of history as some appealing narrative leading to a conclusion is wrong

All simplified models are wrong. Some are useful. (And it's very hard to avoid 'appeal' being a critical factor in the popularity of any model or narrative. It acts as a single point of failure in any truth-seeking mechanism, including academia and the like. This of course explains much about the popularity of some contemporary ideas.)
The rise of languages with ML/Pascal inspired syntax means that it will be common again. :)
Inductive cooktops allow for more granular control of heat applied. Can’t compare it to resistive electric cooking.
> There are no browser native SRP implementations and WebCrytpo doesn't support the primitives.

This. Similarly, I looked into the web crypto API yesterday to see if I could use argon2 yet. Nope, and also not scrypt, so no memory-hard standards at all. Heck, it doesn't even do bcrypt. Not sure why I hoped for anything else, but the best thing it has to offer is PBKDF2.

Unless browsers start to support the things actually in use, I guess in-browser crypto is doomed and everything will remain server side or consist of homebrew javascript implementations.
I thought the article was talking about avoiding cloud vendor lock-in by using software that keeps you portable between clouds. (Instead of software that dictates that you buy from a certain cloud provider.)

Couldn't you build your software stack in a cloud-portable way but, at any given time, still have 100% of it on whatever your current cloud provider is? And then switch to another cloud provider from time to time if/when the costs make it worthwhile.
Re reservatol:

The jury is out in terms of its efficacy, or lack thereof. [1,2]

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/resveratrol-the-hype-con...

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/diet-rich-resveratrol-of...

Re. David Sinclair [3]:

"Despite his enthusiasm, published scientific research has not yet demonstrated the molecule works in humans as it does in mice. Sinclair, however, has a considerable financial stake in his claims being proven correct, and has lent his scientific prowess to commercializing possible life extension products such as molecules known as “NAD boosters.”

His financial interests include being listed as an inventor on a patent licensed to Elysium Health, a supplement company that sells a NAD booster in pills for $60 a bottle. He’s also an investor in InsideTracker, the company that he says measured his age."

[3] https://khn.org/news/a-fountain-of-youth-pill-sure-if-youre-...
> Owning a sewing machine and paying someone to use it on your behalf should absolutely bestow you the power to choose what that person makes for you

Let's take a look at this. Your contributions to the end product are:

- Owning a sewing machine

- Paying someone to use it

Their contributions are:

- Making the thing (say, sewing a shirt)

I think there is an inherent tension between thinking about which of these is more valuable. Of course the sewing machine owners and payers are all going “Hey, the sewing machine belongs to us. You got compensated for your work, that should end your involvement with it. You can't tell us kind of clothes we should be making!”; whereas the people who sew the shirts are going “Without our collective work, you're going to be able to sew maybe one shirt a day, and you don't even know how to sew. So listen to us!”.

The increasing interest in unions (FAANG is hardly a good representative of jobs across the software industry, let alone the entire US) seems to indicate that the needle of society in general has moved more too far in advancing interests of the sewing machine, and the people who sew don't have enough of a say in how things are done.
Also makes you wonder how he was going to input that into the computer using voice commands.
Always assume competence is, I think, a good strategy. People are more willing to help if you flatter their ego. And most importantly, sometimes, people really are competent.
This doesn't make any sense. If anything, AMP would be something Google would use to try to prove they are not being anticompetitive. Instead of making publishers integrate directly with them like Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles, they ask publishers to publish in a format that can also be consumed by their competitors (and what's more, is actually consumed by their competitors).
Reading it now and enjoying it a lot. It's destroying one romance in favor of another!
> It always comes down to violence with you people.

As it should. If they don't accept your power, they starve (or not get healthcare if we're talking about contemporary USA).

How is that any less violent? Because when you kill someone by starvation it's less bloody? Your kind are already using violence against us, you're just good at not caring about others or lying to yourself.
Likewise! And thanks to you too!
Is that example in #1 actually your own personal experience and observation or did you just read about it somewhere? Because it's a classic trope that gets trotted out in anti-union literature. I remember an anti-union guy at one of my old jobs who also railed against that exact "wait for the person whose job it is to move that box" example. It seems so eerie to see two different people who had the exact same word-for-word experience. Almost as if they both simply read about it somewhere.

For #2, AFAIK http://levels.fyi is a collection of self-reported anecdotes, and probably skews way high. Nobody's going to go e-brag on the Internet how much they make if they feel their salary is low, but you'll definitely get self-reports from those handful of guys making $500K. Take that site with a grain of salt.
Any recommendation for US credit card with following features:
* Virtual credit card # for online purchase.
* Secure mobile app that get notifications on all spending immediately.
* Any other security features I should consider?
Folks must not know about the simple ways we can solve our problems. Some how I had not heard about this until this year.

Any critics will likely say, well what of the methane. They need to be more curious and do more research [1].

Support your local farms who are taking this approach. One term used to describe it is regenerative agriculture [2]. If you are buying your eggs, meat, and dairy from super markets, you are likely supporting industrial and degenerative practices. Go meet your farmer, you can afford it.

[1] https://www.savory.global/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2015-me...

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

Influential People in this space: Joel Salatin, Allan Savory

Example farms:

- http://www.polyfacefarms.com/

- https://www.maryslandfarm.com/

- https://joyce-farms.com/pages/regenerative-agriculture
Singapore Feels the Strain of Immigration