skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A dollar wasted on trying to educate a moron could be invested in military R&D.

How would you know if that's a dollar better-spent? All humans are pretty bad at flying, yet airplanes are pretty useful. All of technology is spending on the respective meaning of "educating morons." Military R&D is a great example. A weakling with a gun can easily beat a strong sword-wielding knight. In fact, the difference between a strong fighter with a sword and a weakling with a sword is pretty much erased by guns.

> Do you mean Napoleon? Or von Bismarck?

I meant Hitler. Napoleon was a different story, but WWI was also very much a product of Romanticism.

> you outed yourself as a non-European

Well, I'm Jewish.

> You're implying that a hunter-gatherer society, an agricultural society and an industrialized society select for the same traits.

Traits? Have we already established that natural selection in the past ~10000 years since the agricultural revolution has had any significant impact in shaping human society? (To be clear, that was a rhetorical question; no, we have not established that).
Can you elaborate? After your comment I started thinking I must not really get IAM.
> “What has Google ever done for us?”. They have done an awful lot for society, for the web and probably saved it a few times a long time ago. But it is time to also see them as the empire they have become. And empires must fall.
Not picking a side here just commenting.. if a Union is passed then the stock will likely tank washing up benefits for a long time (future value is diminished now that their free cash is not available for value building activities).

You cannot lock in future benefits short of shutting down a company, you can assume future benefits from diligent planning and business operations but it is never guaranteed.
I think unions have been pretty poor at using technology to circumvent corporate spying and interference. If the employer is frustrating attempts by employees to meet and discuss issues, then they should be able to take their discussions online.

An online forum managed by the union is all that would be needed. But crucially, the union would need to be smart about who they give access to and also have good security people analysing usage/IP addresses and the like. Also make users agree to a declaration that they are legitimate users before granting access. If company spy does get access the union should send lawyers after them for accessing a computer system without permission. Of course it wouldn't be perfect, stuff will leak - but it would be a lot more secure that discussing union issues on company premises and on company equipment.

Maybe I'm looking at the issue too simplistically, but I find it odd that in this day and age unions still try to organise and discuss things the way they did decades ago.
Related to the post, some disk and filesystem reliability research in chronological order, including things from the author.

Disks:

An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (2007) https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmet...

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (2007) https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs (2012) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected (2016) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast16/fast16...

Filesystems:

IRON File Systems (how filesystems behave on disk errors) (2005) https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.p...

EIO: Error Handling is Occasionally Correct (2008) https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/...

SQCK: A Declarative File System Checker (2008) https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi08/tech/full_papers...

All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications (2014) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

Filesystem error handling (2017) https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/

Files are fraught with peril (2019) https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

And a DRAM reliability paper, for a more complete picture:

DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study (2009) https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
To a far greater portion of human society than those it was perhaps useful for, if anyone.
Here's a very cool art project done with this tecnology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Aos1Z2htDU
Check it. [1]

A lot of people work at Tlon with a lot of different perspectives on the world. It's not a vehicle for one guy. This is sadly a frequently asked question in itself. [2]

[1]: https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/setup/

[2]: https://urbit.org/faq/#who-is-curtis
I'm English, and would say 'yes that's pretty good' if she were a Canadian 'doing a Scottish accent' at a party or whatever - with some truth and some politeness. But I wouldn't meet her and think 'yep you're Scottish'.

Not that I can claim to have heard representative samples of all Scottish accents (just like 'English' it encompasses far more than one) of course, but something's just 'off' to the extent that I'd actually be surprised if she was introduced as actually Scottish, or assume it had been mucked up by living abroad or whatever.
The assumption there is that if you're down, you'll lose the customer. But that depends on the industry. At least in one industry I've worked in (B2B accountancy and reporting software), the product can be down for a day and it doesn't matter. A few employees at the customer are using our software to produce monthly reports, and if they have to wait until the next day to produce the reports, they're annoyed but they can get on with other work in the meantime. I mean, for sure, it's not ideal, and you'll get emails to complain, but so far nobody has cancelled on us due to something like that. I'm not saying I like the product being down, but I can understand the CEO not wanting to pay extra to invest in redundant infrastructure, it's probably the correct business decision.
Got excited then, because I thought it was a follow up to the Yocto 808 [1]

[1] http://www.e-licktronic.com/en/content/25-yocto-tr808-clone-...
Absolutely love this quote from the article:

> Paraphrasing Monty Python: “What has Google ever done for us?”. They have done an awful lot for society, for the web and probably saved it a few times a long time ago. But it is time to also see them as the empire they have become. And empires must fall.

I think people generally do not understand well enough the far-fetched consequences of a monopoly in the search business. We really need more diversity and competition in this space, not just for quality of results and convenience of services; but for society as a whole.

The article rightly points out that Google is a new "Cambridge Analytica" (even on steroids), we should not passively wait for our democracies to break down because information is controlled by a single private entity. Let's step out of our comfort zones, try new products, support the ones we like!
I sympathise with your point of view and I agree that sometimes mathematicians are not keeping their audience in mind enough. You don't always need completely rigorous proofs for non-mathematicians.

But I think that it's a false dichotomy to only consider "extremely rigorous" or "simplified to the point of being wrong" as the only teaching philosophies. There is a middle ground where you can be somewhat hand-wavy and inexact without getting the conceptual broad strokes wrong.
If it can be used for sex it'll spread like wildfire.
I grew up in Jiangsu province of China. I heard some very nice stories about people in Xinjiang from my neighbours who had worked in Xinjiang for some time. I also heard some very bad stories about certain group of people from Xinjiang. It's hard to agree with you that 'a massive apathy amongst Chinese towards Xinjiang' --- as an ordinary Chinese, I want a peaceful country, and no terrorists, and I love diversity.
Thanks but no thanks.

I don’t trust a browser nor a search engine if an ad imperium paid for it and gives it away for free.

Does the Cliqz browser still disallow plugins, such as ad blockers?
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/rename.2.html

> If newpath already exists, it will be atomically replaced, so that there is no point at which another process attempting to access newpath will find it missing.
No. It's only amazon selling services, not everyone. Amazon is a service provider.
> There are many more reasons,such as mentality, culture, geographical location and education that influenced it.

These traits are the same in Korea, yet there's a drastic difference between South and North.
On private sites I know (in Hungary), being an uploader is a privilege one must earn, by being around for some time, earning the trust of the admins, having good uplink, learning all the rules and formats so all torrents are consistent etc. I guess perhaps about 0.1% of members upload stuff to these trackers. The situation may be different elsewhere.

Context: Torrent is hugely popular in Hungary, basically everyone is a member who uses the internet under ~40 years and is even remotely technical, which means more than a million people (with the single most popular site having over 700k members, with account sharing explicitly allowed). Perhaps not so much for the newest teenager generation (I don't know). Until very recently (and still now) streaming services have been limited contentwise and people just cannot afford to buy all the movies, songs, games etc. with the same ease as in Western Europe / North America.
It's really hard to make generalizations about the Rainbow family et. al. I attended a couple of gatherings a while back, and that's it, so take my anecdotally-derived remarks with that grain of salt...

It's not a movement in the organized political sense, but it could be considered a kind of cultural movement. Many of the people who gather live alternative lifestyles all year 'round, and many of them do eschew the profit-motive as a way of life and ideology, AFAIK. Certainly the gatherings themselves are sans currency. People do some light bartering but it's mostly what you might call (if you had to) a "gifting economy".

The gatherings are not festivals although they are festive. They're more like religious gatherings but without the religion. Although you will religious people there, of all kinds of religions, all getting along.

Referencing your original comment, one thing they're not is disingenuous but they're also not promoting themselves. (No one pays to go to a gathering, all prep and cleanup is done by volunteers.)
It's very inefficient to have a physician do everything in a hospital. Their value is their knowledge and experience. So shunting off other parts of their work not requiring that full expertise to lower level providers will only lead to more people being treated effectively.

I think treating mid-level providers as corporate BS is very reductive and both underestimates these healthcare workers and overestimates physicians.
My understanding of the design is that scarcity and hierarchy facilitates a scalable network, with respect to reputation and spam prevention. If the cost of an identity is non-zero and non-negligible, and the supply of permanent identities is gated through individuals (who don't want to be associated with bad actors, lest their own reputation as good actors become negatively affected), then aren't the actors all incentivized to maintain a collective reputation, positively?

The definition of "feudal" that I found when I went looking for it depends on the definition of feudalism, but also on subjective measures like "outdated" or "old-fashioned."

If you want to argue that scarcity is an outdated mode of thinking, then we can have a different conversation, and I think one that is perhaps not suited for this thread. But perhaps we can agree that if a fixed supply of 4.3 billion Urbit planets ever represents a true scarcity, we should be having a different conversation altogether, as it will have become a runaway success, surpassing far above either yours or my own expectations for it?
These are complex issues and people are willing to discuss them but my comment was about how you straight up compared EU to a communist regime

You are alienating yourself from any reasonable discussion by making such extraordinary and baseless claims that are of no merit but are meant to elicit an emotional response

Arguments like that work in echo chambers but once you step into a discussion that is in good faith you will notice that it is counter productive and doesn't lead to anything useful
From https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/ :

"Urbit's internal opacity persists for two reasons, one good and one bad. The bad reason is just laziness. The good reason is justified fear of premature explanation, which like premature optimization ruins the annealing process.

When you don't know exactly what you're doing, preserve as much ambiguity as possible. For example, a name that means something is a commitment to one specific explanation; a name that means nothing is no commitment at all. A cryptic name is productive procrastination; it lets the hard problem of naming get solved later, and hence better."
Its worth considering that prototype units ran around 6KW and my 90 watts of high CRI LEDs is very bright, so a sulfur bulb in the kitchen could cook the food off waste heat while providing reef aquarium levels of illumination in the sink causing algae blooms. When there's algae growing in your sink you know you have too much kitchen illumination.

A not entirely insane, but only mostly insane, idea would be a dishwasher that had infinitely free energy and an extremely bright light source could clean dishes slowly by using immense amounts of light to grow rapid doubling algae, then cycle to mushroom darkness to eat the algae and food debris. So tens of kilowatts and distilled water for rinsing and you've got a space ship dishwasher. Of course with tens of kilowatts and distilled water, you'd be better off with thermal decomposition and autoclave functionality but maybe bio would be more popular for stylistic or marketing greenwashing purposes. I suppose on a space ship using your dishwasher to generate a couple kilos of O2 per day off food waste would be of some benefit to the life support system.
> also, there should be some limits to who gets to do highly specialized things

That limit exists. It is called supply and demand. There is no need to artificially limit this, if other people want to enter the market.
That book appears (based on the publicly available abstract) to argue that the Central Bank of Sweden funded the Nobel Prize because of ulterior motives. I don't have the knowledge necessary to take a stance on that claim. However, my comment merely argued that the implementation of the Nobel Prize in Economics is such that the prize is awarded in the exact same way as all the other Nobel Prizes; in other words, it's no less reputable than the originals. The book (again, only based on the abstract) doesn't rebut that.

Arguing that the Nobel Prize award process is fundamentally flawed and biased in favor of the mainstream might be valid (I don't have the knowledge to know the answer), but it's not what the comment I replied to was doing.
Changing Google's SERP inline I guess?
I'm more than happy with DuckDuckGo. I would love more specialized search engines. Back in the day I've used several search engines depending the task i needed to perform, from Altavista to Yahoo to Google.
It's not as surprising of you can imagine all the stuff probably going on in the background when you say "<assistant of choice>, play the next episode of Star Trek on my TV"
So basically the quintessential EU version of Google.
If one were to view insurance providers as unnecessary, then any percentage margin can be seen as a leech on the systems.

Saying they are unnecessary would be a misunderstanding of our current system. But to say our current system can be altered to render insurance as we know it today unnecessary is a different thing.
While this is a good intro, a lot of radar work now relies not on square pulses but linear frequency modulated (LFM) waveforms. This greatly expands the number of image formation algorithms you can use, depending on system requirements.
Yes, it is due to restricted supply. But the reason why restricted supply exists, is partially because of the high debt.
Not sure how that could work since most services are based on consumption
I get the point in principle that technology can make new social systems possible, and it seems plausible.

But I don't get what the example you give has to do with making socialism (worker control of corporations) more workable. The major problems of socialism have always seemed to be 2:

1 - how to transition from current society to a socialist one without violent revolution, which usually ends in dictatorships, instead of the radical democracy of socialism.

2 - how to maintain a socialist project in a capitalist world usually focused on destroying it, often with military power.

I don't see how a wonder robot would help with either of these problems. Or, I'm wondering what do you mean by socialism and what problems do you perceive that version of socialism to have that could be fixed by a UBI robot?
yep, we sure need this stuff...small stuff is a lot easier to manage too...
also while not very related, I love the SQRL login idea, which is also decentralized, and also not in any final stage yet (but would allow kinda anonymous login, as in, no identifiable usernames, and would be able to also for example optionally open page on desktop, auth with phone by scanning a qr code, and as such avoid any keyloggers and potentially network sniffers, even (and the app shows info, so can't fake the code either, and even then that'd only hijack a single session, unlike passwords))
Anyone know about RF pollution with these devices? A normal bulb just stops working when it fails, but these seem to have the potential to spew hundreds of watts of noise if they malfunction in the wrong way. I wonder how probable that would be for a large, poorly maintained installation, maybe something on the coast within range of sea spray carried by wind.
It is indeed impossible to evaluate every possibility, especially for humans. Still, midgame fighting is all about evaluating as much as possible and to estimate an unfinished position.

It is not imaginable now that humans will beat a machine in the future, but it is also undeniable that humans progressed from computer go. The evolution of joseki (game patterns considered fair for both players), especially corner joseki are material evidence of that.
Nothing Lasts Forever– Not Even on the Internet
Thanks for downloading the app and for the feedback, I'll think about how to improve the user experience for purchasing / trying before you buy.
So let's say that google fall and you become the new king. Will you allow another competitor in?
I think our relationship with food is profoundly linked to the culture we come from.

For me, food is first and foremost a social experience and something you share : everyday lunch with coworkers, dinners with my family, having two hours lunch with my extended family on the weekends. It would be kind of sad to eat bland food together while we could be enjoying something pleasant.
I'm already degoogling myself, transferring all my emails to tutanota and using firefox with duckduckgo now.
Both spellings are correct ( שיבולת and שבלת ).

Netcan is using the standardized Rules for Spelling without vowel pointers (Niqqud) enacted by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, which is rejected by some Hebrew language purists.

The rules:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktiv_hasar_niqqud
Whenever I'm on a flight and I open my laptop and start coding in vim on my tiling window manager, I always worry that someone is going to freak out that I'm "hacking the plane." It hasn't happened yet, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it did.
I'd love a video on how that ticket gate machine works and why it's so complicated! https://i.imgur.com/56mmt5c.png
It's still not palatable, because when you get your food and charge your phone you still need to decide what to do with your free time and how to convince others to help you. Capitalism is essentially a system of voting on what is important. When food becomes abundant enough to not cost much, everyone will get it independently of the system, same as everyone gets free email now. But capitalism will still be needed to decide what else is important to do. Of course capitalism is not perfect and lots of people still choose to waste their vote on pointless activities like watching sports or reality shows instead of science and space travel, but because unlike socialism the vote is transferable they end up transferring at least part of their vote to useful things.
Nah, two or more search engines all being the product of US big techs won't solve the problem.

EU should have its own search engine. They should subsidize this effort and have Google pay for it.
The problem with FAANG jobs is that while the pay is good, they expect a lot out of you. Look at how Googles offices are designed to keep workers on site. Sure the money is good and the perks are nice, but if you're doing 60 hours a week instead of the 40 that you signed up for then the deal doesn't seem all that good in hindsight.
There was a good talk about how radar (and lasers) are weaponised by police to detect the speed of vehicles (and countermeasures to that) at defcon this year too.

https://youtu.be/vQtLms02PFM

Might be interesting too.
Hey there. I'm relatively new to Docker but I can test this out and let you know. If not, I'll see if there's a way to make it work in a future update. Cheers
>And empires must fall

Why?
It is usually easier to dump costs to the already hefty AWS bill than push a completely new service provider through procurement process.
Just to be clear (see my other comment), I'm not against tools that require a learning curve.

I'm against dishonest advertising with loaded phrases like "sane defaults" (this term has its place, but it's not here) and "for humans" (this term is always a red flag) when the tool invents a load of unconventional, unintuitive syntax.
> Does the Cliqz browser still disallow plugins, such as ad blockers?

Hey, I work on Cliqz' adblocker (open-source here: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/adblocker). Cliqz browser comes built-in with adblocking, anti-tracking, anti-phishing and private search built-in so that users are protected by default.

You can also install another one if you prefer since all Firefox extension are also available from Cliqz! But the one built-in is pretty good already[^1] and we're happy to get more feedback about how we can improve it!

Finally, Cliqz search is also available standalone now so feel free to give it a try! https://beta.cliqz.com/

[^1]: https://whotracks.me/blog/adblockers_performance_study.html
Socialism is essentially only an extension of democracy to the economic system. Since democracy seems to work relatively decently (warts and all) for most prosperous societies, I don't see why human nature is a good argument for saying it's impossible.
Yet, it was the horrible, horrible Europe that Moldbug mythologizes and romanticizes that made virtually all advances in science and technology until a few decades ago.

Ancient Greece produced mechanical computers. Only recently did the great civilizations of China and India overcome Hellenic science & technology. Having Mandarins cataloging the Emperor's property is not a great use of human capital.