skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck, opening a terminal seems like the best way to slack off in a corporate environment, as nobody seems to understand what it is and just assumes it's above their pay grade. But you quickly dispel the illusion when you are just as clueless about what is wrong with their Office 365 as they are.
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Oh, I have no doubt Yarvin's writings could unleash something, if only because they already did. They're a rehashing of what became mainstream opinions following Romanticism [1]. Eugenics [2] was taught in numerous universities at the beginning of the 20th century. Clearly, some people can find Romanticism appealing today for the same reason they found it appealing in the 19th c., and they will find it appealing, yet again in the 23rd. The only defense is knowing how and why it arose the first time around, and why it was ultimately rejected.

If you want to read a book about the struggle of Romanticism and Humanism, read Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism

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

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
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You're of course correct about the brutal coup and how genuinely dark it is a splotch on history (one of many during the time, to be sure). I may have spoken a little clumsily there, but I think that's what makes this black humor. The sad truth is that neither regime really had a fighting chance against the CIA geopolitical regime.
I'm not making an argument from math. I'm not making an argument from first principles.

First the names were feudal. Then the names were changed to not be feudal. This strongly suggests the design was feudal. Yarvin's other writing make it clear it's plausible he'd design a feudally inspired system, as he writes they are superior to democracy.

I'm arguing based on Yarvin's demonstrated intent.

(Citations not repeated because they're exactly the same as my original comment earlier in the tree)
I work with Yocto in my day job. The learning curve is really steep, but I actually like it a lot.

Buildroot a great project with clear goals and good execution. Yocto is flexible to a fault, which makes it a lot more complex. But with that complexity comes a lot of power and fine-grained control over your builds.
Actually, being English might not help.
Software is always a third-party. The builders of the system are not the system itself. There was a great talk at RubyConf last month which touched on this, called "Collective Problem Solving in Music, Science, Art"

We interact with the software through representational interfaces, and just as we learn from it and re-program it, our interactions with the system color our experiences and may in turn also re-program us!

I do not work for Urbit, but I will gladly disclose that I am a stakeholder (galaxy owner) and so will probably have a greater than casual interest in this type of post.
Having been working in many parts of the world, in many different kind of environments - coffee shops, hotels, airports and train stations, restaurants, co-workings, and a lot less common places like public benches, beaches, or post office - I very, very rarely had someone asking me, or even looking what I was up to.

I may have not noticed a curious eye once a while, but not sure it would be able to pick up if I'm spinning up a Kubernetes cluster, or pentesting the nearby bank's network.

Cool feature though!
Mythmaking and mythbusting do not have to be mutually exclusive. If one can recognize the former, the whole can be edifying.
Hm, I don’t think the craigslist analogy works.

For the same reason it’s difficult to argue there’s opportunity for “unbundling Facebook” by launching a new image sharing service, building a news aggregator to compete with newsfeed, building a new messaging app to compete with Messenger, etc.

The main reason I disagree with the premise is security / compliance requirements of large customers (a large percentage of the market). The largest purchasers of AWS-like services prefer to work with as few vendors as necessary to minimize the number of vendors they need to worry about during security audits, contracting, etc.

The other obvious problem is, similar to Facebook, AWS has a “network effect”, in that all AWS services live in the same physical data centers, which results in potentially competing services suffering from higher latency than “native AWS” services which might make it harder to compete.

Consumers did not have the same level of loyalty to Craigslist as business have to AWS.
TL;DR:

Crystals require translational symmetry, therefore, no, not in 3-D space.

In 4-D you can have 5-fold symmetry, and a projection of these onto 3D space makes an arrangement with 5-fold symmetry which make quasi-crystals.

My own experience:

These have been observed in nature in nanoparticles, and are even the energy lowest state (!!). As they grow, however, there is a an energy strain penalty due to lacking translational symmetry that destabilizes them,.
Not all of them, Digital Ocean starts at $15/mo for a 1GB Redis instance.
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Interesting, as it is definitely the classic 3270/5250 font. Your friend must of specified a very "not 3270" font for their terminal emulator.

The most unixy iconic serif monospaced font I can think of would be Sun's Gallant Demi: https://images.app.goo.gl/Nx2wzRvY71DczMVdA

Or more recently, the Golang monospaced fonts: https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts
There's definitively a market for unbundling services from Amazon, but the problem is that people forget what the actual killer feature of AWS is; IAM and Instance Metadata Service.
A rudimentary price comparison tends to show AWS/Azure costs much higher than bare metal or VPS, sometimes an order of magnitude higher, but the reality is more nuanced.

Many people still prefer hosted services because (a) total cost of ownership can be much lower once you factor in the cost of a qualified engineer installing it, ensuring it's online 365/24/7, and keeping it up to date (b) comparisons tend to be apples-to-oranges, since many AWS services are charged on a per-transaction basis. With a VPS, it often appears a lot cheaper by comparison, but you're also paying for a lot of capacity (RAM, CPU, storage) that you're not using, and generally can't use most of the time because you need to reserve enough for peak periods.
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>people who stayed, started earning more

Citation needed on this one.
> What we needed, in this case, is a strong Zero-knowledge proof (without transferring password) system that does mutual authentication on the client & server.

I've not heard of SRP before, but it seems like it's trying to solve an already solved problem, and in a seemingly more complicated manner. The W3C's Web Authentication spec[1,2], on the other hand, looks very promising, and I'm hoping all browser vendors will get behind it once it's finished.

[1] https://webauthn.io

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-1/
It's also a disagreement.

In practice and common language though, the choice of words gives you information about the speaker.
I think it's hard not to like the HTTPie interface if you give it a bit of time. The design is brilliant.
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Could you theoretically have 5-fold symmetry in time crystals, with the 4th dimension being time?
but, if anything, the opposite is true. If I keep dumping a constant amount of heat onto a material it will get hot enough to cool itself.

So a piece of aluminum will be cooler than a piece of iron. The Al might transfer more heat to my fingers than the steel... or it might not (that depends on many more factors than just the conductivity).
During early days of NT, if you wanted a port, you filled in a form and entered partnership where you were responsible for your system-specific code and MS cooperated with you.

Majority of NT/alpha work was done by team at DEC, later Compaq.
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Bandwidth/latency was my first thought too. Still, for higher-level services, it is entirely possible to compete with AWS running on lower-level AWS infrastructure, rendering the network issues moot.
This is the gold standard of CLI tools. Sure, cURL may technically be more capable, but HTTPie is friendier, more memorable, and clearly built with developer UX in mind.
Thanks a lot. We started to redesign the website and you input is very much appreciated and will be implemented, hopefully. Would be good to join one of the mailing lists for those discussions...
I'm old enough to remember 14k, 28k and 56k modems - and while yh internet held great wonder, waiting for pages to load and files to download was really frustrating.

Oh, and having to hangup so my parents could make a phonecall wasn't fun either!

This at least is something that has got orders of magnitudes better, and is very much noticeable. At times I still shake my head in wonder at being able to download a GB in less than 2 mins on a residential FttC connection.
It's not entirely about negotiating personal benefits, but also about collective power and being able to have a meaningful say on how the business is conducted. For example, take Google's DragonFly (censored Chinese search engine) incident. Morally objectionable to the engineering staff, but it required internal collective action to stand up against the smell of money in the management's metaphorical nose.
As far as I know, Europeans used to eat turnips and rutabaga, but in 1700s the potato mostly replaced them due to being cheaper and easier to grow.
It's well-known that the Nazis imported eugenics from Yale and Oxbridge. And eugenics was publicly defended by people all over the political spectrum until 1939. After 1945, it went underground. It never went away.

Moldbug can preach his Carlyleism all he wants. In the end, the unleashing of energy will be due to people researching the genetic basis of intelligence and IVF. The pathological bloviators preach, the unsung soldiers and scientists make things happen.
Actually, the Ukraine shunned Russia by taking EU deal incompatible with free trade agreement with Russia.
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Eugenics emerged in modern times as a Progressive-era policy. It seems kind of vague and perhaps misleading to link it to Romanticism, when actually it follows along the exact same lines as the secular, "scientific" Humanism that you evidently find so appealing.
Counter to what you see touted on this website, unions are not solely about securing additional material benefits for workers. They are and have always been about changing workplaces from top-down, authoritarian models to ones where workers have a say in their company’s work and overall direction. They’re about acknowledging that none of these structures function or accomplish anything without labor and shifting their relations of power to reflect this reality.

So while some tech jobs might be quite cushy, I’ve yet to see any rational or coherent defense of why these (or any) companies should function like dictatorships. It would seems that increasingly, more and more tech workers share this perspective.
Indeed, there's no relationship between OS/2 and NT core, other than historic naming. NT is a cleaner, OO-style reimplementation of many core concepts behind VMS, to sometimes funny extent.

The programming API for use by userland started out as OS/2 though.
Aside- I was talking to a friend who works at a satellite company. He mentioned that one of the forthcoming missions, they are sending up a space-based 3D printer that prints trusses since it's more compact to send up the printer and feedstock than long structural elements. I wonder if you could print your antenna in space to get a larger one (but folding is probably more parsimonious).
>I get that unions might be necessary in industries where workers are actually exploited, to protect said workers. But FAANG engineers are pretty much in the opposite situation. I don't like people creating an us-vs-them situation that doesn't exist

The us-vs-them situation has always existed and it's always been political. It's been the monolith of management vs an individual worker. If you can't imagine anyone but blue collar workers having a union I'd point you to the various unions of Hollywood. If FAANG is as cushy as you say, there's not going to be any contentious labor disputes between management and workers. But unions would balance the power between them.
Having used both for extensive periods of time I just need to say that gentoo is at least an order of magnitude more intuitive.

Yocto is, well, "acceptable" once you get the hang of it but I definitely get where the sentiment is coming from.
> this doesn't exactly sound like 1984

You don't see the parallels between a Minister of Truth dictating what is true versus the plot line of 1984?
Sourcing: I saw this (2015) article in a comment on another article today by tyingq

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675369
Cutler didn't stole files, as they would be pretty useless. But DEC had feathers ruffled because Cutler uprooted a team he picked for his attempt to do a modern rewrite of VMS, which Digital refused to do.

And it was a good team.
At one point I was trying to build a completely minimal system for an already embedded architecture and instead of building a toolchain, target kernel and essentially empty userland I got 4000 build tasks, it was downloading the entire compendium of all imaginable open source software packages out there and projected a finish time of some 3 hours.

At least buildroot isn't that stupid, although of course it is still stuck in "recursive Makefile" hell.
Kind-of alluded to in the article, but if you’re going to unbundle AWS, you’re going to have to figure out how to get the bandwidth 0-rated. One of amazons biggest moats (imo) is that they can realize monumental cost savings on bandwidth while making it very pricy to other service providers. So if you need to architect bandwidth-hungry or “high scale” applications, going outside of AWS becomes way too expensive. Even privatelink tacks on bandwidth charges.

You’d have to look at DB providers like Elastic to see how to do this, I think. But it’s going to involve a very complex and high touch deployment & support environment. This effectively “prices out” certain classes of applications as too expensive for value returned. Again I could be looking at this very wrong, and figuring out how to build profitable unbundled AWS services would be a great business, but it’s hard to see how to successfully execute.
Says an account created 4 months ago to an account created in 2012.
The core concept of the post is that the default wallpaper on the windows 10 Desktop was physically built and then proto graphed.

> Our approach involved a live-action shoot using different variables and customizations. Our core concept wanted to position the logo as a portal into the world behind it. We customized and art directed each image to speak to the timelessness of Windows, and its ability to take us anywhere we want to go. We though the best way to achieve this is to build and shoot it practically.

> So we built the actual Windows logos and brought them to life through our use of inventive camera angles and evocative volumetric lighting. Using a 9k Phase One Camera system, we shot multiple exposures of the Windows logo, and combined those exposures in post to create a fantastic assemblage of volumetric lighting. The aim was to create a huge variety of desktop images, all of them real and practical, which in essence rendered the desktop image timeless.

> The final result was an image what was vivid and tangible, like you could reach into your screen and touch it. The advantage of doing this practically is that we can literally shoot thousands of images, which meant once we had our hero image, we kept shooting and got endless varieties out of each set-up. We wanted to create a whole library of images that can be used throughout multiple Windows applications.

The post also goes into detail on how they implemented all that.
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Is VO_{2}, a metal oxide, really a metal?

This actually annoys me a bit. Without knowings anything about it: it's a ceramic, almost certainly a semiconductor, and since its a semiconductor it can behave electronically like a metal under certain conditions.

Some semiconductors have poor phonon conduction, others quite good (ability to conduct heat).

Some semiconductors have good oxygen vacancy conductivity and poor electronic and hole conductivity. That gives you a transparent conductor.

And most ceramics are brittle. Is VO_{2} brittle?

In short, is this VO_{2} really a metal, or "just" a cool semiconductor?
I don't think Thunderbird is good example here..

It stores inboxes in mbox-like format, then some metadata in very weird .msf format, and on top on that SQLite database for search indexing. And it has some bewildering bugs like mixing up titles and content from two different messages, or slapping on messages date pulled from thin air..
compared to what? Any contiguous plot of 350 million people in the world has similar disparity.
A friend at NSA deliberately uses “the NSA” when speaking about the agency online because of course they do.
If you honestly believe that, I recommend reading the crash test results linked in other comments or finding them on your own. This isn't a hypothetical, it's actually been tested and this "you will die instantly" is complete nonsense.
hmmm how about this:

-M for Method

-B for Body

-RH for Request Header

you know, so you only have to know the first letter and don't have to remmeber arbitary flags?

I know that it is not that easy, but unix tools do have the problem that often the flags don't make sense on the first glance.
Nice to read a well-written article with interesting viewpoints, and then find it's actually written by an expert who has published their research in this area.
While state capitalism is definitely a thing distinct different from free-market capitalism, I do get the sense that the two have some stylistically similar technoutopian overtures, and those overtures carry a lot more impact now when they come from a now top state-capitalist machine.
One of major advantages of GMail is lack of SPAM and phishing.

If the trade-off is that Google accommodates mails sent from badly configured servers and I receive a lot of SPAM, or they drop that mails and limit SPAM, I will go with less SPAM. I know it's not cool for decentralized Internet, but that's the utilitarian reality for me.
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College-educated people who make good salaries have this vision of unions as the silver bullet solution for the working class. I don’t think they know any working class people with union experience, as unions are unquestionably a mixed bag.

For some anecdata, my dad’s a musician and a guy he plays with is a janitor for his full time job, and he is diehard anti-union out of life experience.
Once the full implications of evolutionary biology are grasped, eugenics will inevitably become part of the religion of the future, or of whatever complex of sentiments may in the future take the place of organized religion. It is not merely a sane outlet for human altruism, but is of all outlets for altruism that which is most comprehensive and of longest range.

- Julian S. Huxley (co-founder of UNESCO), 1936
Yes, natural gas is being banned. California has gone crazy.

Inductive cooktops are pretty good - I’ve grown to prefer it over gas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671568
Isn’t this a bit outdated?
I do support along with my usual dev work and interface with users daily. I can't count the amount of times I've heard "I'm pretty sure it's because of..." followed by something completely unrelated, along with a stubborn resolve to not try the professional's recommended solution
You make the very common mistake of assuming a country with a dictator and human rights abuses is automatically a horrible place to be.

Earlier this year I was in Sudan for a few weeks. Hands down the friendliest and kindest people I've ever met on earth. Much, much friendlier than Australians or Canadians.

Open your mind, accept there are other ways to do things, and we can learn to improve our way of doing things. It's not to say these countries are perfect, just better in different ways.

PS I'm Australian/Canadian.
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The author is missing the point pretty hard AFAICT.

> In fact, factory managers ended up routing around the central command center and teletype process by calling up other factory managers and working out potential supply issues.

That's by design. The idea was to run the whole economy like what we'd call agile now. Horizontal communication was a huge part in contrast to the Soviet socialist experiments and the central control was more about figuring out cross unit issues sort of like a Scrum of Scrums.

It was exactly that embracing of horizontal communication in a socialist economy that had the CIA scared. Their own communications talked about not being able to tolerate a "successful socialist experiment".
>China basically promised the people who are now in their 40s and 50s benefits that they will not get.

So just like the west with stagnant wages and pension systems in free fall, while healthcare, education, housing, student debt, etc rises?
Belarus is a craphole because they have a dictator who only cares about farming. But/thus he isn't afraid of dealing with criminals.

Ukraine is a craphole because of corruption not because it liberalized.
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I hear your perspective.

The evolutionary angle isn't the reason why I believe fasting is a good idea - it's just a rebuttle to "there's no way you function well while fasting"... of course you can, it was likely the MO for millions of years of modern human evolution (or 100+ M years for mammals). It's as natural to fast as it is to fornicate.

Rather, my reasons for fasting come from the scientific literature, centered around autophagy, insulin control, sirtuin activation, visceral (organ) fat depletion, and troves of clear lab test results of benefits (albeit most on non human mammals).

Based on many comments here I think folks just haven't caught up with the longevity research of the last 3-4 years.
That article was 8 years ago.

Fast forward to 2019, recently the Belarus' ambassador to Russia said that the presidents of Belarus and Russia approved plans to establish a common government and parliament. [1]

Their plans seem to be progressing. December 8th should be some kind of proclamation about the state of the union.

[1] https://belsat.eu/en/news/lukashenka-putin-agree-on-single-p...
My favourite proof of the (Second) Incompleteness Theorem is the semantic proof due to Jech/Woodin: https://andrescaicedo.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/2ndincompl...

It is easiest to think about in terms of set theory, but it is possible to formalize it in a fragment of second-order arithmetic that is conservative over PA (and this conservativity is provable in PA itself). The beauty of this proof is that it first establishes semantic incompleteness without formalizing a proof system; the connection to syntactic incompleteness only uses the Completeness Theorem, which is of independent interest.
Do not be surprised when you learn the FBI already has that video library. They were investigating Epstein a long time before his arrest.