skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's saying that GDP is a measure of activity frequently misunderstood as a measure of wealth, and the broken windows fallacy is a conflation of an increase in economic activity with an increase in wealth. Same thing. Put another way, arguments about GDP growth are frequently fallacious, which I agree with.
This is amazing:

https://github.com/jemmybutton/fiziko

There's an excellent blog post by the author with many more illustrations but I can't find it right now. Edit: found it!

https://habr.com/en/post/454376/
So in what sense should we give him a pass for that and not give Intel a pass for things that make them money?
IDK, I'm pretty depressed about the environment, China, ICE, and private oligarchies. Sure 2019 is better that the Middle Ages, but let's be honest. Things are not "actually amazing".
Intel set their embargo date to a day before AMD's embargo date, so early Intel reviews can't include numbers against AMD's next generation CPUs. (That would violate AMD's embargo.)

My thought here was that AMD should have just moved their embargo back... but some reviewers would not have been prepared for that and we'd instead be watching a video about how AMD screwed them and they'll never review an AMD product again.

Intel was smart here. 99% of reviewers will not complain about this. LTT could have waited a day to release their review, but chose not to; exactly what Intel desired. Sure, he called them "chickenshit" but if you want to buy a new CPU today, you have no data about AMD's offering but you do see that Intel's 9th gen products are half the price now.
Yes, software accessibility is an issue in the most pronounced disaster scenarios. But anybody who looks at a device of such exquisite craftsmanship, which is evidently already set up to function, and frets about downloading software after some apocalyptic scenario has missed at least half the point.
This article sounds much like the view of W. Edwards Deming, who called for the elimination of the annual performance appraisal. His rationale was, "The fact is that the system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance."[1]

[1] https://blog.deming.org/2012/10/dr-deming-called-for-the-eli...
>Many, I think, mostly maintenance related. Frequent causes involve old gaskets or cracked fuel lines dripping onto the exhaust manifold, right on the side of the engine.

You're not wrong that fuel does sometimes catch fire but it is very rare for a fuel leak to cause a fire on its own. It usually happens after a fire starts elsewhere.

Fuel system integrity in crashes has been scored in crash tests for a very, very long time (I recall reading about it when I was reviewing some microfiche with crash tests results of 70s pickups) so OEMs have been trying to build secure fuel systems for a long time and have gotten pretty good. With cross flow cylinder head designs (which every engine today has) there is no reason (it would be a waste of material to plumb it) to have fuel on the same side of the engine as the exhaust. The routing between the engine and the vehicle body basically always (i.e. I know of 0 exceptions but can't prove one doesn't exist) go out of their way not to run over exhaust. Fuel systems rarely have gasketed connections, almost everything is sealed with O-rings.

Mature EV designs probably catch on fire less than ICE designs but not really for any of the reasons you specified. Fuel fires mostly come from crash damage to fuel tanks where the crash also leaves the vehicle overturned. Most fires come from electrical systems not related to the drive-train. Even engine fires are rarely fuel, animal nesting debris is a far more common cause.
Brave vs. Duckduckgo: A Detailed Review and Comparison
If this article is to be believed, then there are situations in which KDE is actually more light weight on system resources then XFCE.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-...
On nearly every metric we’re better except hope. Its quite possible to talk yourself into despair and I think your seeing that in action.
For example, I have been closely following the elections, since this will be the first time I can vote, people that make a lot of money are considered enemies of the common person I think this is wrong.
Classics for the People
Through what dark lens is the unrelenting social progress we've made warped to such dystopic proportions? uwu

But the war, climate change, and economic inequality stuff, big true.

Also, increasingly digital society is moving the average person into the world of physically isolated sexless hydrogen that people like me have been in the whole time, which must be difficult. x3 Look to Japan; the future!
Exactly. It’s like a weight lifter throwing in the towel because machinery can lift more.
The minute companies of Massachusetts did constitute a well-armed militia, I would argue in the sense intended by the 2nd Amendment. They were not just gun owners, they were men trained and drilled, often with the leadership of locals who had served in two previous wars.
I assume one could use it to store and read back an offline dump of wikipedia[0] in order to help recreate society.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
I get tired of people blaming social media for societies ills.

Most of these ills existed long before Facebook. Facebook just makes it more apparent. Common people are on twitter, on reddit, on all the big networking sites directly pointing out that "everything is far from okay" and for a certain segment of the successful population of the world, they almost take that as an insult to them personally, because they're doing well and they assumed everyone else was too.

The reality is there are huge segments of the global and even American population that are being largely left behind by our new shiny future.
I think you can walk away from this hating both Linus and Intel if you so choose.

I don't love everything about LTT but I am impressed with the company Linus has built.
Nevertheless the difference is qualitative. A screw driver will never make technicians obsolete.
>On every measurable metric, there has literally never been a better time to be alive and living in America.

Not sure there has ever been a time so many people are in debt with no possibility of being able to repay. Consider 1M student loans go into default every year. That's 1M a year, mostly young people, who will have these loan debts for the rest of their lives with no way out.

That's just 1 area of debt to highlight, but more of these young people will never buy a house, probably not own a car, likely not have families, and die younger than their parents.

To tell these people there has literally never been a better time to be alive is an insult, any time in history was relatively good so long as you had wealth, the same is true today.
> Pretty much every website needs JS to function as intended.

Demonstrably untrue.
FWIW I've had good luck with Nvidia binary drivers on Mint, both the Cinnamon and Mate-based variants.
This is a problem of a culture that is lost in the woods. We are incredibly divided, you're probably not going to know or have much in common with your neighbors. The world seems small, and you're just holding on. We are functionally going down the same cultural road as Russia, with a "fuck it" sort of cynical attitude that leads to excess seeking of dissociation and alcoholism. I have many friends who do absolutely nothing but work, play games and drink.

There are many countries where people have to work with their hands to put food on the table, who are quite happier with their lives individually than people in the US are. There's plenty of ways to look at the problem and actually study the differences from culture to culture - I'd love to see a few of them. My hypothesis is one of the causes is a lack of dynamism caused by economic insecurity. There's n ot a whole lot thats new because there's little appetite for risk. We still have the same 8 restaurants in malls that we've had since the 90s because incumbents make it too difficult to succeed. This is super rambly I admit, but in the US its so fucking depressing.
this is more in line with what i am thinking. maybe our evolution is not complete yet. maybe we will improve? maybe our next step would have us interact with data and information at the speed of computers if not faster. then what?
The first AAA game completely banned in China?
Earth's resources are strained, yes. However, taxing billionaires as you propose wouldn't necessarily pay for all the entitlement spending that the elderly require.

A solution to both of these problems is increasing total factor productivity (aka doing more with less). The big rise in living standards during the post-war boom was largely a result of a huge increase in total factor productivity.

This has petered out since the 1970s and a lot of the 'zero-sum' mentality/nostalgia for a 'Great America'/fighting over a fixed economic pie in the US today is because we haven't been increasing productivity (i.e. there hasn't been enough technological innovation and disruption) at a fast enough rate.
Going too far to the right or left is definitely a threat. The great thing about the US imo is that we are a nation of moderates.

The entire 20th century was a case study on the dangers of far right and far left wing political systems.
I mean it was essentially a mass produced shitbox designed to be affordable to someone living in the economic clusterfuck that was interwar Nazi Germany, you can't expect miracles
"While 'enrolled' at the University, one hundred percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the University would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes, or educational services."
So your tool of choice will be AlphaGo plus an algorithmically generated opening book? That's not meaningfully different from "everyone will bring the best available computer program" and again, it's a task for computer programmers, not Go grandmasters.

Human + computer might still beat computer in Go - this was true for a few years in chess, and even now to some extent in correspondence chess - but what you describe isn't really that.
At the moment received emails are piped to the application where they are then forwarded on as a new email from an AnonAddy domain. So they currently pass SPF and DKIM checks as my DMARC reports show.
>We need REAL open source alternatives to facebook. What are they today?

GNU Social/Mastodon is by far the most widespread today. It's more like Twitter. (Mastodon is a more modern implementation of the GNU Social protocol, which in turn is the descendent of the Identica mess.)

There was also Diaspora, but that never really caught on.
> How many gasoline vehicles spontaneously burst into flame?

Ford recalled 8.7 million cars for spontaneous fire risk.[1] And that's just one case.

It happens more often than you'd think, and coverage of it in media tends to be subdued. Automotive is the largest source of advertising dollars for many media markets.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-26-mn-63066-...
So basically some reviewers are angry because they're "forced" by the market to release reviews before they get all the data or they'll lose out on money. Yet somehow, we're supposed to blame Intel for releasing their product from embargo early in order to make more money.
Good to know. What I find interesting in such conversations is the differences of opinions experienced people have about from where "the magic" is coming.

> To sum up, the cure is not in the pill, it's in the set and setting. The pill just gives you an excuse. You can also use e.g. hypnosis, prayer, drumming, dancing, sweat lodges, or weird breathing, to effect the change you want, just to
name a small sampling of the available modalities.

I feel certain that you have far more background (than my zero) in these other fields, but despite fairly extensive reading on the matter, I have encountered very little that leads me to believe (and much that opposes the idea) that the magnitude of what can be practically achieved by the common man with these other techniques comes anywhere near to what can be achieved with an afternoon of reasonably organized psychedelic usage. To be clear, this isn't to say that I oppose such practices, or claim they have no value - I believe the exact opposite of that, they seem to also be tremendously valuable, but my intuition tells me that psychedelics have way better bang per unit of effort.
To state that one is not a part of the hive on one of the biggest hive sites in the world, is humorous.

You're a bee, dawg.
During times of unrest, stuff happens. Are they average citizens, thugs, rebels or the enemy? Depends on your POV.

Fortunately, the US has strong institutions and balance of powers that make civil unrest, etc a rare event. When there is, actions depend on the situation.

Note that I'm not an advocate of arming one's self against the government in any way. I'm pointing out that the fantasyland of some citizen militia fighting any modern nation-state is absurd.

Examples of things where unrest or rebellion were put down by force:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner%27s_slave_rebellion

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars
LeelaZero is getting stronger than Stockfish though, so the neural net approach certainly seems to be beating brute force.
I think you make a great point. Every generation has their own unique struggles.
This is not really true.

Except for some parts of Africa, the birthrate across the world is declining. The worldwide average is 2.4.

Likely the world's population will start decline in actual terms some time in the 2nd half of the 21st century:
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E
Yup, and I WANTED the typical startup experience when I joined, so I left once I could see there wasn't much traction, plus a few more red flags.
It's not a problem of dark or light. It's a problem that choosing white @ 6500 K as background color is perfectly stupid. Default backgrounds for windows and internet sites should be sepia. That's what do Amazon with Kindle software, very successfully.
We also have politicians in the USA saying that civilization is going to end in 12 years becaue of climate change. Savvy people and organizations are taking advantage of outrage culture to influence viewpoints, but if someone doesn't have the energy to be outraged, they'll probably end up depressed instead.
I’ve got one of installed back home in the outskirts of Milan (near lake Como). It’s the sort of thing you don’t expect to ever need but that might be useful in the one in a billion chance.

It also receives APRS signals, which can be really handy in situations of truly catastrophic disaster.
It covers most of the standard material in an introductory Linear Algebra course. There is one large omission: the textbook completely ignores the notion of change of basis. There is no explanation why this was done, and a guess is that it was overlooked. The book is also very streamlined, and does not have much outside of the standard curriculum (which might be a plus).
Does anyone know exactly what his "bots" were automating? Article is low on that content.
I'm appreciating the time-passing irony in suggesting MATE, given it is a fork of GNOME 2.x and that it had plenty of it's own share of "resource hog" complaints back in its day.
> There are endless possibilities for people who want to get out and actually do something.

If you're wealthy...
I fully understand the scepticism around this product. That said, this section feels incomplete. It would be valuable to assess if there are physical controls to turn off both the camera and microphone or a physical camera cover. I think Facebook wisely chose to include that while similar products like the Nest Hub Max didn't. Even if I distrust Facebook more than Google, the Portal seems to have a clear privacy advantage on the Camera front.
>incumbents make it too difficult to succeed

Or people like the familiar? Restaurants are constantly opening and closing.
Do these AIs actually have much of a strategy? Is the strategy mostly correct evaluations of positions and optimized search?
Beige Book
> It was in that moment we realized playing in unregulated markets is not fun or something we wanted to continue to do. Intermediary risk was something we didn’t account for.

Indeed. This is the really difficult thing about the crypto space: winnings, if you can keep them. And you can't if the house is just going to front-run all your orders.
That may be true but it's no excuse for Ubuntu's gdm + desktop setup refusing to work out of the box without a bunch of command line fiddling.

It's like they didn't QA it at all despite it being a very common setup on an LTS release.
Go still isn't solved (neither is chess), we just have a machine good at knowing which parts of the search space are worth checking.
I overheard my coworker mention the "crackdowns" in Hong Kong. But it's way way worse when NPR does this. Shame.
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT.

For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0][1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...

Edit: changed to English wikipedia pages from Chinese
IIRC, revolutionaries in Russia didn't wait for the proletariat class consciousness to arise on it's own, as it had been predicted by Marx.

The middle class helped spark the revolution hoping that the proletariat would come around eventually.

The fact that the article, and many of the commenters here are mentioning this again makes me wonder if socialist movements have always been primarily middle class movements.
I have always gotten anywhere between no and way-to-much anxiety when using pot, just depends on quantity, setting, etc. I prefer doing it alone, in small amounts. If I'm going to get stoned it's almost definitely alone.

Psychedelics are the same, for me, times like ten. Fortunately I handle it relatively well, and I just let it ride as "part of the experience" when I trip. Usually the uncomfortable parts go away after the peak, and then it's just awesome for hours. The peak is amazing in its own ways too, but there is (for me) no doubt a have anxiety/body buzz that is just uncomfortable as all get-out.
Well, I did most of my "meeting people" before I turned 30, when you have school and work pools to pull from. Now that I'm in my 30s I mostly just communicate with people I already know (though that is not strictly true, as I continue to meet new people all the time)

I use text messages, phone calls and emails primarily. People I continue to keep in touch with are neighbors, family, high school buddies, college buddies, co-workers etc. And I meet new people at the gym, in local music meet ups, etc.

I dunno where you live or who you're interacting with, but I have not had the experience you speak of.
I guess if you can convince someone they were only successful because of their privileged it's easy to see depression as inevitable.
I'm not sure what you mean by "gdb rr". "rr" is a separate debugger that uses the gdb frontend but a different backend. Importantly, it does not utilize breakpoints during the initial program execution, precisely to address your first, second, and fourth points. The third point is still a problem, since it requires the program being debugged to run under rr from the start.
This doesn't seem sustainable, to me. Just basic evolution. As long as some subpopulation has a birth rate above replacement rate, that subpopulation will grow, until the total birth rate at least returns to replacement.

I feel like human culture has still not reached a steady state after the invention of birth control. I don't know what will happen per se, but it seems like the world of the future will have to be more encouraging of parenthood, in some way, than the world of the present. I hope it is a way that is consistent with the model of a modern free Western democracy.
If the computer has a bad algorithm, or if the computer has a low powered CPU, then yes.
Honest question. What is a “hater”?
Well, it’s all relative. Do you have a time period in mind that you would want to live instead of now?
Facebook acquires BeatSaber
> There are endless possibilities for people who want to get out and actually do something.

Yes, there are. Today. But I believe some of the doom and gloom stems from real concern over what will be here when they are older, when children and grandchildren are older. For us who are already old, we may see some change in our lives. For people who are 20 today, the worst case scenarios over the next 50 years are quite bad. Hopefully the world doesn't go to the worst case scenarios. I would love it if all predictions are wrong, and the world continues improving. But I can understand the anxiety over looking out over 80 years of a unknown personal future.
Show HN: Borg Voice Generator
I'm sorry, I don't really follow your comment.

> It is never at someone else's loss but at the discretion of managers based on the value each gives to the organization

Can you expand on this?
Fed’s Brainard argues for capping interest rate levels during the next downturn
This is gonna be a mechanical turk 100% guaranteed
Binance is in Malta, a somewhat corrupt tax haven; are you sure it's illegal there?
I'm actually not sure if we have motorcycles that can accelerate faster than usain bolt. I know the blue fin tuna has more acceleration than any vehicle ever devised by humankind.
None of the three are "just outside regulation." They are so far outside it they invest millions lobbying to change the laws so their illegal activity is no longer considered such.
Don't you see? This is what I'm talking about. What does China have to do with you? How does ICE affect your day to day? Sure there are bad things in the world, but unless you're willing to spend your time and resources fighting them, getting involved at a meaningful level, you are better off focusing on other things. Things you can control.
This comment sounds reasonable, but shows that you don't understand the challenge of Go on computers very well.

Go does not have openings. It has reasonable choices to make, with an insane branching factor, with few moves making much of a difference by themselves. Therefore your database will only extend a few moves, and all of the positions that it winds up with will still be very close to even. So your database confers very little advantage.

If you have alpha-go play itself a thousand times, it is unlikely that by move 10 you will wind up with the same board position twice.

This is exactly the problem that made Go so hard for computers in the first place. Alpha-beta search is useless within practical limitations of computer hardware.

That said in a different game, such as chess, your strategy would work very well indeed. (Which is why all decent computer programs have an opening book.)
Which window manager is that? For i3, the Wayland equivalent (or at least 99% equivalent) is Sway (which I'm using right now over here). For Awesome, there's way-cooler.
Yeah I was wondering that too, I'm just reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_process_automation which makes it sound like robotic process automation, might replicate people interacting with GUI programs? But it's still not clear to me, as to what kind of programs they're using it for.
I'm Ukrainian. I was in Crimea. I have aunt in Crimea. I had no problem with Ukrainian language in Crimea.