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Nice work op. There is some stuff at fast.ai that you might also enjoy. I recently learned about Swift for TensorFlow from one of their videos which modifies Swift to allow for placing attributes over functions and then having the compiler automatically generated the derivatives of those functions.
I'm increasingly of the view that we should have brakes on economic efficiency. The basic human values - friendliness, compassion, fairness, kindness, justice - they all wither and die when a business gets too efficient. They get optimized away in pursuit of that little extra margin.

Part of the reason software jobs are nice and comfortable is of course the pay and the agency, both coming from demand exceeding supply. But a big part of it is also, IMO, that it's impossible to tell how much contribution to the bottomline a developer has on a day-to-day, or hour-to-hour basis. When my coworker and I start talking shit on the job, does that contribute positively or negatively to the ultimate productivity? By how much? Nobody can tell, which is why we can get away with it.

Conversely, in retail or fast-food joints, you can track people's contribution to the bottom line at minute resolution. Which is why they're being treated like slave labor.
Bugreport: You have 2 different 'Heimdall's leading to the same page. Not sure what went wrong but still:

https://selfhostedsource.tech/self-hosted?search=heimdall&li...
"people being shipped off in train cars reminiscent of pre-WWII photos that I have only learned about in school."

There is absolutely no corroborated evidence whatsoever that this happened. Just like the alleged rapes. I'm not saying that these things did not happen, but absolutely no credible evidence on these claims up until now.
I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City
Every hd i ever had and didnt use anymore, i smash a 2 inch nail through it. Thats permanent.
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SMT off might mean not enough spare threads to run the OS telemetry.
Interesting effort.
On the other hand there is a bunch of other more popular and battle tested tools from Apache Airflow to a bioinformatics pipelines managers, such as Nextflow, Snakemake etc.
http://archive.is/EbvEq to get around the obituary paywall
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Doesn't your RDBMS support transactions?
> Most people seem to intrinsically understand that a single browser-making ad company dictating what features a website can or can not use is about that company flexing it's muscles to control things.

But the point made up-thread was that "controlling things" is not intrinsically bad. The problem was that (according to some users) Google was abusing a monopoly position to control things in a way that would be beneficial to itself, but harmful to others. The question the parent to my comment was asking was, beneficial to itself how? You saying that Google is "controlling things" just takes us back to where we started, but doesn't answer the question of what Google stands to gain.

Let me give an example. Suppose by "controlling things" you mean incentivizing ("""forcing""") web developers to create pages that are better because they have lighter scripts and higher security standards for third party content. (In fact, this is what some supporters say Google is doing.) I don't think most people would have a problem with that. So presumably critics have something interesting to say about what "controlling things" really means that explains why it's bad in this particular case.
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Those are in individual cells, and almost certainly all different, so they have little overall effect. This is something that (if it works correctly) affects every cell, in the same way. That's very different.
The figurative equivalent of a million monkeys pressing random keys in an IDE for hundreds of millions of years until it compiles. Rinse and repeat.
Thank you that is great and very worth reading.

Something I've enjoyed as well which is a bit shorter and maybe quicker to digest is the chapter discussing leadership in the Art of Scalability https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Scalability-Architecture-Organi.... The authors have a military background no doubt influenced by DOD doctrine.
It's interesting to see how canned phrases to represent certain concepts can become nonsensical when put together :

> The Deep South was established by English slave lords from Barbados and was styled as a West Indies-style slave society, Woodard notes. It has a very rigid social structure and fights against government regulation that threatens individual liberty. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina are all part of the Deep South.

The pro- slavery rigid society that somehow values individual liberty? Would anyone be able to explain how that works?
> It’s already becoming an unregulated hellscape, where vendors are locked in a race to the bottom, only the least scrupulous survive and it becomes impossible to distinguish come classes of products on quality.

You say this, but if it were actually a problem for people, it's not like they don't have alternatives. I think the evidence of harm here is pretty minimal.
> According to one of my lecturers, who knows both Haskell and is a Category Theorist, and according to some of my fellow students at the time, monads in functional programming should not be seen as strict versions of the category theoretical concept.

Indeed, e.g. lists are monadic, but it is more natural to talk about maps from one list to another, and folding.

But neither is a fundamental monad operation. The natural operation for monads in the example of lists is flatmap, which takes in a function (X -> List Y), and a List X, and returns a List Y. The `map` function is a less powerful sibling of flatmap, and the `fold` operation is more powerful and general than flatmap.

So whereas CT monads distinguish one (admittedly very powerful) notion of composability, monad-like notions in FP may find other notions of composability more natural.

Of course, the main draw of using monads in FP is with the way it quarantines off state and context.
The leasing model (it's not 100% certain from the article that they have been leased) may make sense for disks, if the idea is that after some time they must be necessarily replaced.

Assuming they were leased, since the client returned them (instead of purchasing them), physicial space may have been a reason.
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If you're feeling adventurous, you could try running bcache to speed up HDD access with the SSD.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bcache
I'll throw in a good pair of noise canceling headphones.
Why is there an eight second delay instead of, say, an 0.8 second delay? Or no delay at all?

I mean, if the goal is to make the page display only once it's fully loaded, and the point of amp is to make pages load quickly, eight seconds seems gratuitous. Even slow sites load within eight seconds.

(I don't deliberately use any Google products, so I'm completely unfamiliar with amp.)
Writing to HDD would be considered a suspicious permission for most modules. Like opening network socket or patching another module's namespace.

I don't know exactly how it would work. Maybe modules that request these permissions get extra scrutiny, or users can specify "levels" that different modules can run at. If you specify MyPy to run at the least-priv level, it will fail to install/load if it requests greater capabilities.

I can't really think of any other way around the problem. It is a problem for all other scripting languages, especially nodeJS.
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At this point it’s to save face. Xi’s China and its media basically backed itself into a corner by painting the protests as instigated by foreign-funded terrorists. Accepting the demands would be seen as major backpedaling, and might

- cause PRC citizens to also start demanding accountability

- cause nationalistic protests about kowtowing to what was described as terrorists
The hopeless situation of Carrie Lam fronting the CCP and having to execute its policy, is what drove Hong Kong into the people's revolution of 2019. Under the CCP, local administrators do not need ideas, just obedience. Carrie Lam's misfortune was to be sandwiched between the increasing paranoia of Xi Jin Ping, and the increasing rebelliousness of HKers, and she has no strategy to resolve the two forces.

Except she could have chosen to take the HKer's side. She is after all a HK citizen and its representative even without true election. Seven million rebels can parallelize a city, but pissing off a few thousand bureaucrats in the politburo simply leads to tantrums and rhetorics. If she had done that, HK's economy would not have stalled, HKers would rally behind her, and the whole Two System debate could be channelled into a consultation process that can remain civil and reasonable.

HKers will not forgive her for her missteps and police brutality that led to thousands of arrested and hundreds of maimed/injured/raped/dead. That will always be her legacy.

But HKers can thank her incompetence for triggering the nationalistic feeling of a Hongkonger. The city of immigrants and world refugees has never been so clearly in sync, and the common enemy so in focus.
> In conversation, you'll find that analogies are never the exact event they're being compared to, but something parallel enough to evoke a familiar emotion or memory. This isn't math, but you're approaching it as such.

I'm saying that the comments are barely similar at all. Yes, they both suggest how to do something on linux. That's the only similarity.

> answered with...well, gibberish...and tptacek's reply resonated with me and reminded me of the dropbox comment

But the dropbox comment isn't gibberish...

> What I'd really like to ask though is what your motivation is for mounting such a defense.

Because it annoys me when people misrepresent the comment as a fool who couldn't see the value of Dropbox, too attached to some overly-complex system not applicable to normal users. He clearly did see the value of Dropbox. He said right there that it was "very good" for Windows users. And the mocked point was only one out of three.

> I seriously doubt it has to do with it having "very legitimate points" or you would've brought them up by now.

I didn't bring them up because I thought it was obvious, and it would be a waste of time to list them. But fine, I'll do it.

The post has three points:

The point about cobbling something yourself is a bad point. But it was very strictly limited in scope.

The point about not replacing USB drives is both correct and important.

The point about "not being viral" is agreed to be correct by dhouston, because the viral parts were secret at that time.

So that's two good points out of three.
I think this is a good question. Though we have some tools.

Did you ever faint? I did, definitely wasn’t conscious. Or whenever they dozed me under in thr hospital, not conscious.

In parts of my sleep, I’m not conscious. I now know this because recently my tinnitus became worse and I now here it in my dreams, based on the sound and frequency, I can infer time because of it (my tinnitus, although annoying has a regular multiphonic modulated sine wave quality to it, I could recreate it on a synthesizer, it’s quite beautiful but not 24/7). Also since it is a new development I get really conscious when I hear my tinnitus while I dream. I am conscious for 10 minutes per night.

This has only lasted 3 nights so far, so not much data.

Whenever my dreams do not have tinnitus, I am less conscious. I also notice this in dreams by my tinnitus ebbing away and me losing consciousness. There’s a similar process of losing some consciousness when I become too stoned.

Based on my experience, memory is a crucial part for my conscious experience.
They said they rented the disks, so that probably wasn’t possible.

Renting physical hard drives does seem pretty dumb, though.
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> The pro- slavery rigid society that somehow values individual liberty? Would anyone be able to explain how that works?

It only valued individual liberties for free individuals, like slave owners. Slaves are by definition not free individuals, so the right to individual liberty by definition didn't apply to them.

It's practically tautological if you substitute the word "liberty" with "freedom".
Presumably it valued individual liberty for a very select group of individuals.
Grid prices will go down as demand goes down when people start producing and storing energy themselves. With the cost of solar panels and batteries dropping and production capacity growing exponentially while prices continue to drop, the grid will be less important but still essential to many.

It will also accelerate the demise of coal, gas, and nuclear as they are already too expensive and will have no chance whatsoever in an open market where prices are trending down massively over the next decades. The status quo of course is that they are effectively state protected monopolies currently in many places, which will slow things down in some places and is also the reason you get to pay many times the actual market price per kwh.
re the apple 2 font, yes i instantly recognized the space invaders page in the book to be exactly, or nearly so, the upper case 40-column character set used on the apple 2.

ha, i used the condensed (ie. 80-column) version of this font in my terminal too, and for coding as well. see the xcode theme i made... https://smallduck.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/throwback-xcode-t...
> absolutely no corroborated evidence

There is video and photo evidence from multiple sources on Twitter. There have been extensive reports of victims like British consulate worker Simon Cheng being abducted to the mainland and being tortured. Obviously there wont be any "corroboration" from the PRC state security agency or police...
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> They both have tons of easy boring work at a slow pace.

What the hell made you recommend this to someone with ADHD?
Wondering how copyright infringement applies to Open Source Software. This OS looks a lot like MacOS, making it a free a clone.
Yep, it’s a beta called B389
Some support for this:

1. Brain development of teenagers is not complete.

2. Information available to sub college age kids is not perfect.

If you don't believe in free will, the only question is what combination of mechanics and information serves to produce the observed outcome.
I thought this was the Android-on-desktop? What is that called?
"Large list". There are only Google and Bing. There are no other usable search engines that do the search themselves. (Though, I guess a few days ago there was news about a third search engine trying and kinf of working.)
I predict 10$ is going to happen fairly soon after that. That would be massively disruptive to anything involving the consumption of energy; which is basically most of the world's economy.

It will ignite the next economic boom just like oil and coal did once.
Great write up, thanks. I was intrigued by the "tilt" keymapping on the last line of your posting. https://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/ notes:

> In the early eighties you would have found the Space Invaders cabinet in an arcade right next to the pinball machines. So a "tilt" switch, like you would find in a pinball machine, would not have seemed as strange as it does today. If you shake, slap, or otherwise physically abuse an SI cabinet you will get a TILT message and your game will end.
I'm fascinated that people honestly think that increasing the minimum wage will result in a large amount of job loss. Here's a thread from last month on a story about why this isn't true. A comment from jjoonathan links to an interesting study about how jobs negatively affected by minimum wage increases are disproportionately reported on when compared to jobs benefited by minimum wage increases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630679
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted, as this is a legitimate issue. If the authors want someone else but themselves to contribute to this MacOS clone, they should use a more common language.
Short term demand for EVs will grow faster than old ones can hit the second hand market. They are already super scarce, which means that EVs have awesome second hand market value until the market saturates, which will take decades.
If you like this kind of thing, there's also a faithful re-implementation of the original Elite game, with (readable) source code.

Quoting Wikipedia:

"... around 1999 Christian Pinder developed Elite: The New Kind as a modern PC port of the original BBC Micro version. He achieved a faithful port by reverse-engineering the original assembly written BBC Micro version and recreating a platform neutral C code variant from it, but at David Braben's request this version was withdrawn from distribution in 2003. In September 2014, on Elite's 30th birthday, Ian Bell blessed Elite: The New Kind and re-released it for free on his website. Since then, Elite: The New Kind is also distributed again in version 1.1 by Christian Pinder; a source code mirror is hosted on GitHub."

Link: https://github.com/fesh0r/newkind
I've lived in a VW for 9 years in the Bay Area mid-peninsula area without steady income by expending as little as possible. When you stop buying shit, stop with commuting, stop "errands" and other pointless behaviors, you can focus your time on what you want/need to do.
I think in order to understand Monads you should try to invent them yourself. Try to create a pure IO function in the programming language you know best. Consider the state of the world as input parameter of your function and return a modified version of the worlds state. Then try to compose IO functions and try to write an interface for IO function composition.
There are theories that equate information processing (integration/differentiation) with consciousness.

It maps well with what happens in your brain, where too little or too much functional connectivity maps to loss of consciousness (think anesthesia and epilepsy).
> But the point made up-thread was that "controlling things" is not intrinsically bad

Well that point is wrong. If you can't see how a single, privacy abusing company having dominant control over the web is bad, I can't fucking help you.
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Wouldn't it mean that the lessor would be allowed to sell the drives? I mean if you rent them out, and they are handing the goods back would you just destroy them? Something doesn't sound right here.
From what I understand about GPT-2 you shouldn't expect the story to make coherent sense. It can produce individual responses that are surprisingly appropriate but it doesn't actually have an understanding of anything that is happening.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201912060021.html

The hard drives had been used for data sharing servers at the prefectural government office and were replaced with new ones in the spring.

The prefectural government had deleted the data, but the successful bidder of the hard drives was able to restore them by using special software. The government is trying to locate the remaining nine hard drives, which were also sold online in July to August.

The data servers had been leased from Fujitsu Leasing Co., which commissioned Broadlink Co. to scrap the replaced hard drives.
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"There have been extensive reports of victims like British consulate worker Simon Cheng being abducted to the mainland and being tortured."

Did you even see his interview with the BBC? Legally would not say anything about his hiring of prostitutes. No medical evience of the torture he claimed. The only hard evidence that was provided were CCTV tapes of him going into local massage joint. You would think that if he didn't obtain the services of sex workers he would come out and say it. Interesting that the British also let him go.

I've seen those videos. You have to be kidding if that's sufficient evidence to say they are being shipped off to Chinese black camps. As for the alleged rapes - the evidence is even more lacking. The primary source used is a facebook account using a pseudonym who claims he's an emergency doctor who then says he "swears" that he's telling the truth.

Everyone needs to be held to a basic standard of logic and scrutiny, not a double standard simply because one might agree with the ideals of a group. There are numerous ludicrous claims on the government and police side. But the same stands for protesters as well.
When confidence that anybody else's products work 'as expected' is essentially zero, and doing the right thing comes at a significant extra cost, I think this is reasonable.
There were some good arguments from another user on this topic, but I wanted to also raise another direction.

To have a true democracy, free elections are not the only necessity. You also need wide representation of popular ideas among the candidates of the election; and you need the winning candidate to at least take steps towards enacting the policies that they were elected for.

Income inequality works very strongly at these two steps - gating access to candidates which hold certain political opinions to the election itself; and ensuring that certain campaign promises never get delivered on, regardless of election results.

For an example of the former, compare Gallup poll results on public healthcare to the positions of candidates in any election so far - tough at least 48% if the population has been in favor of a public option for a decade, there has been no candidate for presidential elections that had even offered that.

For the latter, again Healthcare can prove a useful example, comparing Obama's campaign promises of drug price negotiation to the final resulting law proposal, which essentially had no change that could affect the insurance companies' bottom lines.
This. Tried many diets, patterns, IF, etc... Only calorie counting worked and managed to lose 18kg (40 lbs). Calorie counting builds habits, makes you aware of what you eat and is a long term solution (rather than quick fix).

Someone once told me that if you want to lose weight but you tried and failed that means you haven't reached the right mindset yet.
It's not like the source for this one was released, this is a re-enactment rather than the original source. But back then the software was compact enough to allow reverse engineering to the point that you could re-implement it faithfully.
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In Manhattan the taxis seem pretty reasonable to me but that may be an outlier for a variety of reasons.
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