skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Has anyone else noticed a trend where people who tend to have an affinity for Peter Thiel tend to also profess having their mind blown by the ideas of Girard, specifically mimetic theory?

Haven't noticed it, but then again I don't closely follow Thiel.

I do however have read Girard's work for 15 years now, and consider it important. Especially the "Things hidden since the foundations of the world" discussion (the title does not allude to some literal conspiracy theory - it's a quote from the New Testament, Matthew 13:35) made several things about the development of human societies, customs, political systems, and the role of religion and violence, click. (It's however a hefty tome 500+ pages iirc, in the form of a long disccusion/interview with 2 other academics).

>Not to mention that Girard's views on mimetic theory aren't that new to anyone who has kids and wants them to learn from others.

That doesn't dismiss Girard (or any thinker for that matter). When it comes to a thinker, what's important is not whether the surface idea or observation is new, but about how deep is is thought, and how much of its subtleties and variances they have covered.

Girard himself repeatedly gives tons of examples of his mimetic theory expressed in 3 millennia of texts, often not as a mere case of people expressing it without knowing it, but knowingly too.
I don't understand, I thought spinlock is just a busy spin on a CAS (hence the name?). Why would it ever be slower than mutex.

EDIT: ah, I read his previous post, it's all about priority inversion. However, in a typical scenarios most threads are the same priority, aren't they?
There is also the phenomenon that conspiracies tend to be more interesting, and sources without credibility deal in these. And, they can pump out a lot quickly, since they do not fact check. So, more exposure overall. I know a lot of people who start out entertained by them, but soon believe them wholesale. Why read counterpoints to pizzagate when I can read even more theories about how it takes place?
TFA on Slashdot... Takes me back to the good old days of 2007...
Humans, outside cities, were not then dependent on long-distance food transport.

Furthermore, the Roman Empire was not destroyed. It declined over centuries. Catastrophic collapse is an entirely different phenomenon.

It matters which humans. If you mean that after six billion starve, the remnants will have access to substantial remaining infrastructure, OK. Probably the wars won't destroy most of it.
This reminds of me of that xkcd comic about how the decision making process can take longer than just executing both options. It's a struggle discerning what's worth your time and what's an irrelevant shiny object, and that discernment process itself can be a waste of time. https://xkcd.com/1445/
> "Yes because they didn't immigrate. They were ripped from their homes."

Events that occurred well over a century ago. None alive today were "ripped from their homes"; they were born and raised in the US and most know next to nothing of their former homelands.

And immigrants are ripped from their homes as well; they may have chosen to leave their homeland but they are bereft of all they knew.
Every time I see this the amounts get higher and the times get shorter. This was the first:

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/hyundai-motor-group...

Which reads as $34.6 billion in five years time or, $50 billion over the next decade.

I'd take all these figures with a healthy grain of salt, but Hyundai is getting excellent PR mileage out of these announcements.
Well, per the article it affects your searches and similar videos pop up. Maybe they'll get enough traffic to...I don't know. It doesn't seem like YouTube monetization is an achievable goal, right?

Maybe hotlinking? Or some wierd grooming attempt?

But the guy below who suspects it's censor circumvention makes sense- it seems to be something like a dirty CD set to a coloring program.

Children probably aren't the target, but victims still.
> Passing /dev/urandom into perl is equally likely to print “hello world”

I chuckled.
Thank you for the answers, this helps a lot! I will be following a similar path too :)
This is a pointless article. Obviously everyone would prefer fully interpretable models if it was possible to get comparable performance with the leading black box/deep learning approaches. No one chooses to make black box, non-interpretable models, it's simply the fact that the models that give the best performance tend to be black box. There is a lot of work happening on trying to interpret deep learning models, because no one prefers non-interpretable models and being unable to pin point and explain why some prediction was wrong.
Boolean operators and the near keyword were great!
Michael Moore Hits Trump over Qassem Soleimani: Americans Haven't Heard of Him
Ask HN: Any good resources on Systems Thinking/Interaction out there?
The study's implications are far more nuanced than that. If it was about inequality, the monkeys would be outraged that the human researcher has so many cucumbers and grapes.

The study is implying that people/monkeys get agitated only when people/monkeys of their own perceived level/rank/group do better.

For example, you and your brother aren't be agitated because your dad has all the money. That inequality doesn't bother you. But if your dad gave you $10 and your brother $100, I'm sure you'd get upset.

Or if your company's payroll was leaked, you aren't upset that the founder of the company is making so much than you. But if you found out your fellow co-workers made more than you, you'd be pissed.

So the study is implying the inequality issue is more about people seeing other people their own level getting ahead rather than seeing the uber wealthy getting richer. I believe there are other studies in psychology with back this up. But whether you agree with the studies implications is up to you.

Another interesting note is that the people who are most upset at zuckerburg and the new tech billionaires are the elite wealthy whom they surpassed in wealth.
Time is money. I think we'd also have to factor in the opportunity cost. You invested time in getting the tickets, which also denied you something else.

With regards to the tickets, I think the better question is: Will that ~$500 buy me an experience/memory as valuable as seeing Bruce? If, for example, the next thing on your bucket list is say $1500 then it's probably wise to stick with Bruce, and deal with what's next later.
I think you're correct in that this will be the inevitable result. It just won't really be for trust reasons.

You won't want to open up a payment channel to them, but you don't need to. You just need an already open payment channel to someone who is, or (more importantly) there is some route of payment channels between you and them through any number of intermediaries.

There won't be a way to enforce KYC on the network itself, and you don't need trust for this to work.

But because of the inherent cost / time / complexity reduction benefits of just maintaining big channels between large entities, normal people and businesses will inevitably be incentivized to just work through banks to do this. The banks can just hold all their money and handle keeping the channels between themselves open and funded.

And that's where I think you're correct. It leads to a world where KYC can be required easily because the vast majority of legitimate use cases will be through centralized endpoints.
I've been on a mechanical keyboard adventure, and I realized most of them are not for me. I don't have any nostalgia for the 80s keyboards, and I can't stand tall keys anymore.

I am using a low-profile mechanical keyboard (Havit KB390L) and it's the only mechanical keyboard that is usable for me.

However, it's likely my next keyboard will be scissor switch again. I will probably go for Logitech MX Keys, seems to be the best option for premium scissor switch keyboards.
Human beings aren't DNA computers in the sense of the DNA itself processing information, unless you count the feedback and control stuff.
> A pruned observer node could run with just a few hundred dollars of hard drives even at Visa scale!

Each node would need to download 1.4 TB of data per day (500TB / 365) to keep up, and the UTXO set would presumably expand dramatically with a volume increase of that magnitude, making it impracticable to store even a pruned state on a consumer hard drive.
I’ve read all the important contracts I get. Apartment, car, job, etc.
> > People of Iraq were suffering exactly how under Saddam?

> The answer to that question has its own Wikipedia page:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein....

You think that now it is better ?
On the bright side, after worldwide collapse, fossil fuel and CO2 production will naturally plummet.

Provided that doesn't actually trigger an ice age, the earth will shortly become more habitable.
Notes on Text Editing
Recursion by Blake Crouch! Biggest mindf* of the 2010's, hands down.
East Coast vs. West Coast: The Stereotype of the Rude New Yorker
Interesting stuff. I think the CAL proposal shows that one can have all sorts of reasonable requirements around public performance of one's software, and as long as basic use cases remain "free" and there's no discrimination by field of endeavor (e.g. "only cloud companies" must do X, or whatever) or otherwise, there is a case that the conditions are still FLOSS. I wonder how the FSF would treat that license.
Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
> For all its efforts, the money Google earned from its nonadvertising ventures only ever accounted for a mere 15% of their revenue.

15% of Google's revenue is still a quite large business. Having online advertising badly weaken isn't enough to kill the firm, unless they sell the profitable parts to try to bail out the unprofitable core business.

The assumption that Google will collapse is probably still true, but only because most companies don't last long term. The bigger firms often take quite a while to fade though.
Acute stress causes about 30% of cardiac deaths.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18827773
Brian Kernighan, 1972, A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B.

And yeah, I think it's an okay intro to syntax because at least it shows you the minimum boilerplate to get some output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program
Sounds like a webhost.
He ate the albatross soup, then shot himself: why?
That seems like the precedent that is being set by this case. I’m curious if this is a novel ruling.
Right, I'm looking at this more as a potential backend for an email-heavy saas, in which case I think handling bursts without downtime could be pretty important. If you just need a mail server for yourself or a small company, I agree it's not an issue.
> - Change control in fixed bid work is vastly more important than how smart or productive you are.

Care to explain ? don't accept overwhelming changes without adapting the cost ?
Instead of creating a web site you make your data into a archive, sign it with your key and put it anywhere (internet
included, i.e. file sharing services, google mail attachments etc).
You don't have a web site and server hence they can't be taken down.
The original source is available on Wikisource: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%85%8C%E4%B8%AD%E5%BF%97#%...

皇貴妃任娘娘所居之室器物隕落，任娘娘於天啟五年十月初一日所生皇第三子，於是日受驚後遂薨逝

Translates roughly (with the caveat that my Literary Chinese sucks) as:

In the imperial consort Lady Ren's living quarters, things fell down and the emperor's third son she had given birth to on the first day of the tenth month of 1625, having been shocked on that day, subsequently passed away.

The paragraph I took that quote from begins with the description of a dragon sighting four years earlier, which might give you an idea of how reliable that source is.
Have you ever had a project stuck because of you ? something you didn't manage to pull off (that you didn't foresee) ?
The article explains that their fully interpretable model actually got within 1% accuracy of the best black box model. Which was within cross validation error. That was at a data science competition whose explicit goal was to encourage people to explain black box models. They also give other examples of cases where people have used black box models unnecessarily.
Bolide. The area, scale and dispersion of effects in the descriptions is incongruent with a point source explosion of black powder.
> What is this post supposed to prove?

It proves that the compilers for many programming languages emit a lot of instructions and a lot of system calls they could have optimized away theoretically.

This is particularly true when there are lots of "startup routines". When the program to be run is known, almost all of that startup can be found out to not be necessary, and stripped from the final executable.

> Your users are not going to wait shorter for your program because you and your team are taking another year to write, test, and debug it in assembly.

They might, if your program is interactive and is used often enough. Now, writing assembly is not very realistic, but considering a different language with less overhead - is.
Excellent write up
and very readable code.
How to Configure Applications for High Availability in Kubernetes
I care more about what debian thinks than OSI, but yes i do care.

I would read the agreement too, but IANAL nor am i an intellectual property expert. Legal agreements are tricky and can have non-intuitive consequences.
I seriously doubt (3) is a factor. Or if it is, it’s their own stupid fault. Razor, which fixes this idiocy of the original templating engine, has been the recommended approach for longer than Edge has been a thing.
In the sign example, just imagine that the customer made the misspelling in the original order. The sign maker probably isn't going to throw in free services to fix the customer's mistake.
I'm not able to reproduce the authors results (nor reliably ANY result) but you're right. Using `strace -c node -e <code>` I get ~630 syscalls using `console.log("Hello world")` and ~620 syscalls using `process.stdout.write("Hello World");`.

This is on nodejs v13.5.0

EDIT: My previous comment was made using an old version of nodejs, the update halved the number of syscalls from being around ~1350
Good Cop – Bad Cop in Cancer Immunology
In a thousand years, it will be looked back on as we do the Black and Justinian plagues. It will inspire awe: "They knew, and did nothing?"

Humanity, and even civilization, will certainly recover fully within two centuries, three at the outside.

This does not inspire confidence in the immediate future.
Signal could be more tolerable if they did not threaten and harass those who develop third-party clients, citing their unreasoned claims that they somehow "burden" them (1). They cannot demand pull requests if they treat the community like that. Depending on the locale, even frivolous lawsuits can be a real nuisance.

1) https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

Encryption is also not the only thing that matters. Amateurish functionality omissions are really annoying. For example, in 2015, Signal developers removed the option to create, join or leave groups in the desktop client (2), and they apparently haven't still fixed it. They don't want, nor does anyone else. Maybe a less hostile approach towards community would yield better results.

2) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/530

While I agree with you that this Matrix e2ee thing has took way, way too long, let's not pretend that everything happens at time in those walled garden systems...
Most of your books in your must read are... self improvement? The field of self improvement non fiction is widely regarded to be filled with fluff and extra words for little content and purpose. They are the equivalent of listicles and blog post spam.

You can do better.

Books are one of the greatest human achievements. The internet was supposed to be the worlds largest library but that promise has failed.

For a moment, by analogy, do you think you can get 80% of the experience of your fave 2 hour movie by watching every single 5-10 minute review of it? If that sounds absurd, then so does your post to me.
You have a weird definition of "handling". A high-level language performs the same amount of work as the lower-level one - I cannot see a language listed in the blogpost that has failed to display a command in the console.

It's the lower-level languages that, for the sake of efficiency and minimalism, cannot handle systems larger than a hello-world and actual programs written in them without long development times and a mass of bugs that come straight from their inability to abstract when necessary and from their memory management systems that lack sanity and safety. This "simplicity"[0] is often fetishized, and this blog post looks no different to me - look how many overflow bugs in operating system kernels this "simplicity" has caused.

Or, paraphrasing your quote, if your language prevents you from creating most basic abstractions, how can you trust it's doing well on actual programs?

[0] I can agree, writing in a memory unsafe language is simple, as long as it's someone else who maintains the code you wrote, accepts or reroutes all of the bugtickets that happen, and analyzes heisenbugs that come from weird memory corruptions caused by unsafe code.
> Makes a war against them even more difficult.

North Korea could be armed with sticks and stones and war against them would be just as difficult since they are backed by china explicitly and russia implicitly. If china and russia said north korea is on their own, we'd bomb them back to the stone age within a few hours. As long as north korea is back by china and russia, they are pretty much off limits.
How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2019 (With a Million Subscribers)
No there isn't and no it doesn't. ISO 8601 looks like all kinds of things.

- 2020-W01

- 2020-004

- --01-04

are all valid ISO 8601 dates. The spec is huge and not freely available (75 pages, costs around 200usd [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[2] https://www.iso.org/standard/70908.html
I have always thought it first appeared in K&R, but I do not know where I got that from.
I Built a $6M/Year Antiques
JavaScript Quiz: 14 Date Time Questions in JavaScript – Prove Your Knowledge
>> new, almost identical language,

Either it means it's a different language or it's a new language. The ambiguity in interpretation leads to a statement of non-meaningful change (tautology) or a statement of important change. The gracious interpretation is the only thing worth responding to, not quibbling over the possible non-statement.
Cool project! I'll make sure to test it someday.

Thanks for sharing!
> could pen an equation (model) on how to spot a fucking cat or a hotdog without AI? Of course someone could

I had a philosophy lecturer who would vehemently disagree that it is even possible to construct an algorithmic AI to decide what is and isn’t a cat.

For a start, do you mean domestic cats, or the cat family? What about photos, sculptures and other representations?

I mean, is Garfield a cat?

People use statistical machine learning over algorithmic AI because trying to model the real world with algorithms is an endless and often pointless exercise.
Doing Thumbstick Dead Zones Right
Should have put the disclaimer first. This is just a guy betting on Brave trying to write up some imaginary future where Brave causes google to collapse.
> because despite being less accurate, they can have designers who can be held legally accountable and liable

Are you implying you cannot be held accountable for black box models?
Highly recommend the film “Fat Man and Little Boy”. A little melodramatic but an interesting view of Oppenheimer played by Dwight Shultz (Murdock from The A-Team.)
Hey Walter, I'd love some more book recommendations from you. Maybe some sort of favorite lists even? Thanks!
Many Asians and other immigrants often come to the United States without any generational wealth and build from scratch.

An example of someone everyone knows is Sundar Pitchai. The only way out of middle class and to go upwards is education. Not by speculative real estate activities.
Awesome write-up and a great way to dig into the inner-workings of BitTorrent. Nice work!

Glancing at the wiki page for BitTorrent[0], I'm a bit surprised that there isn't more of an effort to create cross-platform libraries and clients using Go or Rust for this. Seems like a perfect use case? For example, synapse [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clien...

[1] https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse
Coming from a video game industry background, I have been running Kakoune in Windows since its early days, but always in a posix environment (cygwin, then WSL).

It was a concious design decision to rely on posix extensively, one reason being that if you do not care about not having posix available, you are probably not that interested in what Kakoune provides.
It also looks uncomfortably like a certain iconic shock image...
https://github.com/owais/dotfiles/blob/master/Makefile

It's a mess and I've not used it for a while (haven't setup a new computer lately) but gets the point across.
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It's a shame how the Pay-to-IP functionality went nowhere (despite the rather insecure implementation back then). If one could pay to a DNS record it would allow for human-friendlier addresses without encouraging address reuse.
Sure, but for heavy/bursty traffic, you can still have downtime while new VMs spin up. Retries might save you or they might make the problem worse, depending on the size and pattern of the burst and how your auto-scaling config interacts with the retry config of various hosts.

It may seem like a nitpick or something not worth worrying about, and for most that's probably the case. But for some businesses it could be a crucial difference. My point is simply that this is a legitimate benefit of serverless that wasn't mentioned above--I didn't think that would be a controversial point.
Aren't there copyright issues with this game? Not that I'm against developing it anyways, but - wouldn't the organizers/leads get into trouble with Ubisoft?
I agree, it’s very difficult to go from my MBP butterfly keys to a mechanical. On top of the enormous amount of travel required, I also would be forced to use a mouse (or external trackpad), which is so much slower than having the touchpad at my thumbs at all times.

Right now, I type quickly on the keyboard, and any time I need to use the pointer all that’s required is a slight rotation of my right hand. Compare that to all the mechanical keyboard folks in my office, who also type quickly, but every cursor interaction is a movement of their entire arm. I don’t understand how they’re okay with that.

Anyone know of a nice low profile mechanical with a built in trackpad?