skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I work all devs on windows users have the default wallpaper.
The misuse of slang is probably the most common indicator that a person is not really a member of the group. Or not even slang, but just using the wrong word. For example of both, I know a businessman who retired recently and decided in retirement to present himself as a laid back ex-hippie (I live in Santa Cruz - a good choice of persona for this area) He grew his hair long and started wearing tie-die. Except, he referred to himself as a "hipster" back in the 60's who did a lot of "psychotropics" instead of psychedelics. It was obvious to me at least that he was never a hippie in the 60's and this was borne out later
Author here. You are completely right. There are a million ways the analogy breaks down: consumer vs enterprise, marketplace vs IaaS... It was more just that looking at the console jogged my memory in a visual way and I do believe there are axes on which AWS doesn't compete well in the long run, i.e., offerings where price is not the primary consideration.
Patrilineally, Yarvin is Jewish.
P-value statements and their unintended(?) consequences
Converting from Keras to PyTorch Lightning
Non-profit doesn't matter. The idea is that we create a replacement for .org and update all the DNS resolvers to prefer it for resolving .org lookups and only use PIR as a legacy fallback.
This Week in KDE: GTK CSD Support and More
The entire point of the article is an ad hominem argument, but ad hominem arguments aren't categorically false. The article argues that his politics influenced the design of the system for the worse, making his politics relevant to his software. Specifically, the article reveals that the initial design of the name system was explicitly modeled on "lockean homesteading theory".
They’re talking about vanadium dioxide’s transition, but it’s still a poorly worded phrase
Looks like his stuff has been known about for some time. What’s kept it from being used before now?
Fascinating! Do you have a source for that?
Is such preservation or reconstruction "an original work of authorship" (17 USC 102(a)), though?

Because it seems that many such interpretations (including the Neues Museum's, though that at least has a credible claim to not be strictly governed by US law) have less to do with copyright and original authorship, and more with the capacity for an empowered extant gatekeeper to continue gatekeeping under colour of law.
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My understanding is they do accept money from local businesses and individuals. Perhaps it is no more or less problematic than a PI publishing something a sponsor doesn’t like or a startup disrupting another company in the same VC portfolio.

EDIT: John Oliver did a bit on this a few years back. Access may be restricted outside USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poL7l-Uk3I8
Labor organization will always fight an uphill battle without parallel communication infrastructure.

I've been curious whether there could be a niche for cobbling together a dedicated network infrastructure for organizing labor. It'd likely be legally fraught, and constantly under siege; but I figure it could be done.

Tenant based encrypted-at-rest data of chat content and schedules. An onboarding knowledgebase mechanism. These are solved problems. The biggest issue would seem to be screening people for trust to keep the Union's affairs from just finding their way back to management or having someone plant proprietary info to end up blowing the entire thing up via eDiscovery and lawsuits.

It's funny how technology seems particularly useless at solving social problems and usually just serves to exacerbate them.
If renters and those who appreciate density are never close to the majority of constituents, how does showing up help?
The ASA's latest recommendations to journals is to ban using "significance" & "significant", & never use any pre-designated p-value in interpreting results. The result is that there can be no tests & no falsifications even of the statistical kind.
This is incorrect. Urbit has two paths for changes, a vote by the senate or a decision by the developers on the git repo. It only adds more ways of making updates, it doesn't fix the the devs can do anything "problem"

https://urbit.org/community/governance/
The majority of apples sold in Belarus are produced in the Netherlands. Storage technology matters.
Com, org, gov, net, edu.

Peasants like us were never meant to have their own domain names.
The transition temperature can be tuned with dopants[0]. And the switching happens from transparent at low temperatures to reflective at higher temperatures.

That said, its highest transmittance is in the infrared, it's not that great in the visible spectrum.

[0] https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/25845/for-your-...
There are many true theorems that couldn’t be fully proved ;)
The pronunciations are no more exclusionary than learning Cyrillic, and the effort pays off.

Oddly, I have never been required to learn Cyrillic to use any of many, many other programming languages out there.
The efficiency claims of these are very nice:

Sulfur Lamp: 100 lumens per watt. [0]

Random LED Light bulb: 88.888 lumens per watt. [1]

~20% improvement.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20030818061414/http://195.178.16...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Equivalent-Light-Bulbs-Non-Dimmab...
Using Event Grid, Azure Keyvault and Azure Functions
-H for request headers

-d for body

-X for method

—-verbose to see response headers

How much “clearer” could curl get?
P-value thresholds: forfeit at your peril. https://errorstatistics.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/mayo-201...
Except for two problems: his understanding of the material is well below that of a first-year history student (he's a layman more than an amateur), and any decent college book or course contains far better references. Second, there is nothing new about his positions. They're a rehashing of the old mainstream, that was rejected over time because of societal and technological changes he doesn't know and certainly doesn't understand. As someone who studied both physics and history in grad school, his writing about history seems to make as much sense to someone who has actually learned that history as the multitude of texts about Reiki and channeling aliens that mention "quantum energy" make sense to someone who has actually studied physics. It only looks interesting (in a serious way) when you know virtually nothing. I read it in the same way I read about Reiki: a sort of curious anthropological entertainment from an epistemology that diverges sharply from science and scholarship. Sort of like a modern person would enjoy reading medieval texts about body humours or the four elements. So it's interesting to me to see the alternative constructions people who have no real scholarship make in order to understand the world around them.
How on earth is the first link in a Google search "cherry picked"?

At least half of those states in your own link are monarchies!

Placing quotes around the archetypal monarchy seems like an act of last resort tbh - as do the repeated insults; so I'll consider this particular micro-debate conceded to me.
Perhaps in a non-dev, office worker environment.
Anybody who's serious about labor organization needs better opsec. Don't talk union on the job. Don't use company equipment to schedule meetings. Don't meet in large groups. Don't post on publicly accessible/searchable networks. Adopt a cell structure.

Management should not know workers are talking union until the workers are organized and on strike. Fuck Taft-Hartley and the NLRB.
Any non-tech firm.
On the bright side, the core CMSIS headers should work with all ARM Cortex-M cores, so you don't get locked into one vendor's HAL to do things like setup interrupts or interact with registers that are common to ARM cores. It also has something approaching first-party support with a permissive license.

I think that the ALLCAPS parts come from acronyms in most cases. Like, NVIC = Nested Vector Interrupt Controller. The naming can get a little bit confusing, but it seems fairly consistent.
What do you expect the EU to do, dissolving companies for the slightest infraction without giving them the opportunity to change their behavior?
Yes. Original series when they went back in time. Scotty showed an earth engineer how to make transparent aluminum.
A frequently overlooked aspect in enterprise is billing, accounting and supplier agreement overhead.

In enterprise, Joe developer can often add / use more AWS services and it just goes on the giant enterprise bill, no questions asked.

If you want to use a third party service, waay more work. Supplier assessment needs to be done (by the department that does that) looking at security, company stability, data sovereignty etc. Procurement get involved to negotiate supplier agreement with the vendor and your project needs a specific budget line item which might require a trip to accounting. To get signoff and justify your vendor selection you might also have to do a stupid internal evaluation thing / bakeoff (even though of course you know the thing you really want) where you build feature matrix and carefully adjust the rows so your preferred vendor gets the most ticks.

All this paperwork can take weeks or months.

While a lot of the AWS service offerings are sub-par compared to alternatives, the technical work of papering over this is usually less risky than dealing with all the internal departments which will delay your project if you try to use another vendor.

I think this is a big driver towards bundling being a win for them.
The cold leftovers can still be highly nutritious to those raised on processed, mythologized, state-endorsed pseudo-history.
Where’s the money gonna come from? We’re talking eventually hundreds of millions of retirees. That’s never happened in human history before.

If making good on pension promises was easy, the CCP would have done it by now.
https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index... some of Fidonet messages collection
>What's fun about this piece is that it puts into perspective how absurd, unworkable, and thoroughly ripped off of Star Trek the Chilean control room was, which is thoroughly entertaining.

Pretty presumptuous, considering how it was never really put into practice before Allende was murdered and Pinochet's brutal regime was installed by the CIA.

Reminds me of a quote:

“The boys of Capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope that no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the twentieth century – without exception – has either been crushed, overthrown, or invaded, or corrupted, perverted, subverted, or destabilized, or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movement – from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the FMLN in Salvador – not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home.
It’s as if the Wright brothers’ first experiments with flying machines all failed because the automobile interests sabotaged each test flight. And then the good and god-fearing folk of the world looked upon this, took notice of the consequences, nodded their collective heads wisely, and intoned solemnly:

Man shall never fly.” – William Blum
You can eat a lot of calories and lose weight.

I have lost weight like that before, but can't maintain a 2 hour a day exercise routine.

I imagine you can't stay on the Appalachian trail forever.

So eventually a bad diet will lap us.
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The recipe exclusion has more to do with the functional aspects limitation of copyright. That is: copyright protects authorship and expression, but not the functional properties of a work.

A recipe's failures under copyright follow both from it being a factual relation (ingredients, quantities, treatment, cooking), and a result (a finished dish or baked good). Neither of these is protected under US copyright law.

See: Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp.
can you explain in simple words.. what exactly is the internet Oracle?
The ASA's P-value project: why it's doing more harm than good
https://errorstatistics.com/2019/11/14/the-asas-p-value-proj...
There are two ways (optimistic, and cynical) to look at why you would want some form of labour organization, even in a situation like being a google engineer.

The optimistic view is that they believe that Google is a great place, capable of doing great things, but hamstrung by their current environment, and that giving labour a stronger voice will let Google do the great things they believe that Google can and should do. For example, they might see that management is not listening (enough) to rank and file feedback about the viability or need of different options leading to Google's endless parade of chat applications. Or they might think that Google is moving into a realm where their internal politics and decisions will begin to become ever more under public scrutiny, and that cleaning it up will lead to greater public acceptance of Google's goals.

The cynical view is that cushyness can always be removed. It's always labour's interest to lock in the benefits they have. And if you could lock it in, you should.
A 1GB hosted Redis instance is $40/mo on Azure (which I’m told is competitive with AWS/GCP) yet a “bare-metal” instance with 1GB of memory (in which you can configure to run Redis yourself) is $5/mo.

Are all hosted infrastructure prices this inflated?
The new cube libraries do include two abstraction layers, though. I agree that the "HAL" libraries can be very confusing because they try to do everything for you with endlessly nesting functions and macros, but the "LL" (Low-Level) ones are closer to the old peripheral driver libraries.
> Every application install should be a union fs. This union fs should be entirely user-mode, so that if an application has 10,000 files, it doesn't take 10,000 round-trips to the OS kernel with the Intel mitigations, context switches, and cache flushes that all brings with it.

I disagree with this, as you've already over-complicated it by assuming some kind of unix-like-scatter-everything-all-over-the-file-tree-for-no-good-reason application installation. Just do what MacOS, RiscOS, DOS, etc did and have applications be a single file (or folder). There, install is just copy, can place it on any media you want, can carry it around with you, keep multiple versions, etc. It even keeps the abstraction of the application actually existing where it appears to exist.
>Everything that is non-STEM is underfunded, it doesn't matter if it is philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, etc.

...

>Science is philosophy.

If you are going to justify philosophy by subsuming science, then you can not consistently claim that it is underfunded. By any reasonable standard, pure scientific research is respectably, if not ideally, funded.

What's missing here, of course, is any consideration for those branches of philosophy that are not science. This strategy of showing the importance of philosophy by invoking the success of science is short-sighted, and does a disservice to fields such as ethics.
That font in modern formats...

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
> As a Hebrew speaker, I wish the "shibboleth" idiom (which is a good one) was translated, rather than transliterated. laoned idioms are inherently exotic, and this one is worth demystifying

Until a few decades ago, it was assumed in educated Protestant society that everyone was familiar with the Bible. So a lot of biblical idioms are still present.
Have you seen NSA Chief Keith Alexander's "Information Dominance Center" in Fort Belvoir, Virginia that was designed to look like the 'Starship Enterprise' spacecraft from Star Trek?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/the-us-...
There was lots of WWIV around but they did not use Fidonet, they used WWIVnet which was not interoperable (different protocols and such). I believe the Renegade code branch of WWIV source was Fidonet capable but it's been too long, memory is very fuzzy.
What fraction of the lifetime cost of lighting is the power, vs. things like the manufacture, installation, maintenance, and disposal? Having a magnetron up there seems like a pain. Also, the noise?
Pretty sure many issuers will give you a card with a PIN if you claim to have trouble paying overseas without it.
I'm under the impression that a lot of people in these comments seem unaware of the history of this project, and how the views of the Yarvin/Moldbug shaped early decisions such as naming and user titles. I'm not under the impression that you speak for HN; I've seen the comment you're replying to fluctuate between 2 and -2... and that's with Tlon employees engaging in the comments without showing good faith (e.g. not identifying themselves). I would call the comment you're replying to controversial, but I don't think it's fair to call the comment "shrieking" or say that it "doesn't really fly here." So far it is getting both upvoted and downvoted, repeatedly.

Yes, he mentioned Che. He dwelled on Mandela. Is 1962 South Africa comparable to 2011 Norway? I feel like that excerpt has 2 purposes, arguing for political violence being equally valid no matter the circumstances of the state you're living in, and race-baiting. He didn't dwell on those examples at random. Do his lines about the natural predisposition of black people towards slavery seem "fairly defensible" to you? I tried to include enough absurd quotes that most folks could find something that would make them understand where this character is coming from, even if they agreed with some small part of his thinkings.
That's not the envisioned use case, I guess. From the actual Kali Release Notes, it's specifically about hiding the more iconic parts of Kali for Pen-Testers (logo mostly). So it's a pretty specific use case being considered here.
Industry and even agriculture decline in Baltics are a major reason for emigration. The old EU countries got cheap labour and killed competition. Do you really think the Ignalina power plant was closed for environmental reasons? And the lack of funds for the trans-baltic railway, was it due to these countries lack of cooperation?
Many of these are equivalent to demanding to speak to the manager in order to get what you want. That can backfire quickly if you’re not careful.

> Present as if you are collecting a paper trail. Prominent indicia of this include notebooks, organized files, and repeatedly asking for specific names, dates, and citations for authority “for my notes.”

I worked at a smaller company where any semi-threatening support requests were escalated up the chain to me. The “I’m taking notes to use against you” trick was a sure-fire way to get your ticket escalated, but it had the reverse effect of what customers expected. Our front-line support was empowered to diagnose customer problems, issue refunds, replace product, and even give customers free upgrades as a token of apology.

However, once the customer threatened us with the note-taking act, we had to be extremely careful about anything that would admit fault, lest they try to use it against us later. Or worse, try to take our statements out of context and tweet them to the world. Once the customer escalated the request, they got slower responses (support wasn’t my primary job), more limited options (minimize potential admissions of fault), and narrowly constrained communications (assume every response will be retweeted out of context to make us look bad).

Before you try these “Dangerous Professional” tricks, please just try to be a decent human with the front-line support staff. They deal with difficult customers all day, and the last thing they want to do is encourage another person to play the difficult customer role to get what they want. The opening example (Xcode visible in dock creating mutual understanding) is very different than sending your demands directly to the company’s general counsel or threatening to take notes for future retaliation. Please don’t use that as option 1 in your communication toolbox.
That isn’t it - this one had serifs. Have an upvote anyway :-)
I have been at pains to tell managing agent that a "upgrading" our security gates to use GSM as trigger to open is not an upgrade from the standard remote. We are just introducing a whole lot more failure points.
> some of their offerings shift from being best-in-class to being very reliable and with a ‘just-ok-but-well-integrated’ user experience.

I would go further and say that some of their experiences are buggy and often non-functional. Ever tried to search for a service in ECS? The results load from the backend, and it's a frontend based search on the backend set. Meaning it will say your service does not exist, but you're only searching on that page * offset.

Then there's the Elastisearch fiasco... https://spun.io/2019/10/10/aws-elasticsearch-a-fundamentally...

There are many examples where basic AWS functionality is broken.
I had issues before were I was 100% convinced to know the issue and gave the supporter a really hard time walking me through the script. Wasn't as pretentious of an asshole anymore after the "this won't work, it has nothing to do with my issue" actually worked.

Nowadays I'm always trying to walk through the steps posted in the self help manuals before I actually call. If you tell them that you already did everything in this manual, they also move on quickly after a couple of questions to double check.
Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, Happiness and Spaghetti Sauce – Ted Talk
Macmillan Publishes a Work of Fiction
Also Seznam (Czech). They have also asorted related services, like video streaming, an auction site, shopping aggregator, etc.
Some people here, it seems, would actually prefer that. I personally don’t, but it is a thing some people want.
I don't know what to say except that as someone who has studied history professionally for some years, Yarvin's history is far more mythologized than the "state-endorsed pseudo-history." Hell, Yarvin's writings were the state-endorsed pseudo-history from about 1820 to 1920.

They read like a text by a Reiki guru about quantum physics. It, too, can be surprising by pointing out that the Newtonian mechanics you learned in high-school is far from the whole story, except that the story they give is just... wrong. I'm not saying one couldn't come to the same position as him while actually knowing history, but he specifically certainly doesn't.
Also, in many dialects of Dutch, including the standard, the long e in the first syllable of Scheveningen is pronounced closer to the English long a than the German long e, and the final -n is silent. So a typical Dutch pronunciation would be (something like) [sxeɪ̯vənɪŋə], vs. German [ʃe̝ːvənɪŋən].
>Have the yellow vests achieved anything?

Yes. Quite a lot. The leadership went from not acknowledging their protests, talking down on them and promising to go on with all the reforms, to want to talk, and taking down certain parts of the laws.
Though that definition is correct (had to look it up) the more common one seems to be "annoyingly slow". at least that's the only one I actually knew or ever heard.
I expect them to levy the 4% fine and if it’s not paid start arresting senior executives. Instead they issue token fines and allow the companies to just keep appealing them indefinitely. No wonder Google’s not taking these complaints even vaguely seriously, why would they?
They probably hear that dozens of times a day.
Torvalds only unleashes his wrath on senior people who should know better. He gives voice to the masses.