skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voltaire's Bastards by JR Saul is about all those things and many more. Absolutely amazing book, as are most of his others. Kind of a history of rationality since the 18th C, and how it went so wrong. Also a lot about technocrats, politics, etc etc. (About time I read it again!)

Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics blew my mind. (He sees almost all modern political parties as dominated by this rationalism.) I was embarrassed how much I learnt from this long essay. Even a lot about piano teaching. Worth it for the ancient Chinese anecdote in the footnotes alone.

Richard Sennett The Fall of Public Man is a history of public spaces, living in cities, public politics, political charisma etc, since Paris in the 19th C.

Erving Goffman Presentation of Self in Everyday Life looks at (All these books are very hard to summarise!!) the stages, backstages, performances of life, actual stages, shops, hotels, ranks in organisations, these little worlds with rules and customs, how the rules are subverted, created, evolve.. full of fascinating stories.

EF Schumacher Small is Beautiful - definitely about government, money, society. Economics as if people mattered. When I first read this, I thought the survival of the planet depended on people reading it.

I found Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1729) extremely funny and just as true. How everything depends on the sins of humanity. If we were all virtuous, economies would fall apart etc. Goes in detail into this argument and he's hard to argue with.

Susan Faludi's STIFFED. I learnt so much about modern work, life, society, and being a man from this. A must read.

p.s. and everything by JK Galbraith and C Wright Mills. Good luck!
I’ve been saying for years that it’s like a hashtable, where the key itself is hashed in a predictable quickly retrievable pattern or namespace

This article does not invalidate the idea
I think the poor man’s version of this would be a fixed camera position and using a projector from the rear of the screen.
What are the risks of epidemics that people don't understand?

I don't doubt money influences things, but also I don't buy into what seems like an all or nothing theory here that the only driver is money or some vague "money".

In an capitalist society money will be... everywhere in most every market. It's awfully easy to point that out.
Do you not see a difference between the intricate components of an engine and the welds on a tank as far as complexity?

Is it even possible to discuss anything Elon Musk anymore without 100% praise of his engineering prowess? Every single comment gets down-voted into oblivion, with very few replies. And, due to the "cool off", this prevents any balanced discourse.
Occasionally I have to send emails especially when I have to respond to a customer care response.
But will take a look, I am willing to pay for this(I am already paying for webfaction).
I got a message recently from the (public sector) union I belong to, talking about response and precautions due to the epidemic, and there was not one word about trying to get permission for employees who can work from home to do so. They only talked about those who are required to deal with the public.

While it certainly seems reasonable to prioritize those at the most risk, on the other hand, in my brief experience with a union, it almost seems like they tend to prioritize problems they can't solve and ignore what can actually be done.

Laptops are standard-issue in my agency, so it seems like if the person at the top ordered it, essentially everybody could work remotely for the next month or two.
Trump??? Is that a new Godwin point???

I suggest you read this article:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.10952.pdf

As you can read there it will threaten our ability to detect dangerous objects. As well as other things.

We have optical fibers, common! Do you need to have Netflix in 8K on top of Kilimanjaro?

The issues I have with mars are:

1) the sheer scale of the project(s) (earth has limited ressources)

2) the lack of scientific framework

3) the arguments that it will be useful for survival

4) the very idea of people fleeing earth in time of major existential problems (climate & biodiversity)

So far it just looks to me like a holiday destination for the very rich. But glad if you can point me to some science that contradicts my view.
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That's a valid point, but it does not solve the question.

Obviously the memory throughput will not be as high as with matrix calculations, but the algorithm could still be optimized for the GPU. GPU's can do random access and have large and fast memories. What is the difference in memory lines? 64-bytes vs 128-bytes?
also wim wenders' "Until The End of the World"
might makes right?
Because a trade-in program where you sent the device to Sonos wasn't operationally / financially possible.

There are extra costs with doing this in house (or, I guess, by partnering with a recycling centre) which meant the discount would have been much lower, or perhaps close to 0.

But for an existing customer that did want to trade in, 30% was perhaps acceptable.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but spending time in Germany has changed my view on coins.

See, in the US, coins are kind of useless on their own. You can't pay for anything with only coins, so giving exact change is always an extra step on top of paying with cash. Ugh.

But in the EU, they have €1 and €2 coins, and it's difficult to overstate how much this changes the dynamic. It means that for purchases under ~€10, it's suddenly possible to pay with coins only. It also means that for cash purchases, you can often receive your change as, well, change. So for large purchases, I'll pay with cash only and receive change, which goes in my coin pouch, and for small purchases I'll give exact change in coins only, using them up.

This actually becomes less onerous than paying exclusively with bills, like I do in the US, because you use up your coins naturally instead of collecting them in a jar or something to be counted later.

It also helps that taxes are included in the price label, so a €5.99 purchase will yield €0.01 instead of something in the vicinity of $0.75.
What exactly is included in fzf itself?
I use fzf a lot, but I've never come across these features.
5G Networks and the Imposing Security Threats Demand Quick Reactions
Chromecast audio while it lasts, bubble upnp also works
Elaborating further:

If apple forces ad-notifications to its own category and limits their rate and volume?

Furthermore, if apple enables users to disallow ad-notifications via permissions system?

I'd love to block promotional notifications of some applications which I have to use at the end of the day (e.g. airlines, network carrier, etc.)

This can be a Very Good Thing (TM) in the end.
That's because it was designed specifically to remove more environmentally damaging vehicles from being used. It's purpose was to give people incentives to get them destroyed.

There is no similar environmental incentive here.
My role has always been to put out fires.

Typical examples would be a client says "Oh no, our campaign that was supposed to start next Monday just fell through - we need a solution ASAP!"

or

"Our project is six months past deadline with no end in sight..."

For some, this is an unreasonable situation to find themself in. For me, I look at such situations as opportunities. The client's management is under a ton of pressure to fix things immediately and a lot of the internal friction that exists for the employees doesn't exist for me as an outsider. I'm allowed to stick my finger in the wound.

Still, you're absolutely right that management (and it's not in any way limited to the US - I've helped clients across North America, Europe, and Asia who all had the exact same problems) can be unreasonable. I wish I knew a good solution for that, but the truth is that there's a fairly small percentage of people that are actually good managers and there's an enormous amount of political nonsense where managers try to justify their own existence by carving out little kingdoms for themselves.
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"times" and "of" are doing the same work in the phrase. You just wouldn't say 300% times bigger. The times (or X) implies multiplying, not adding.
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I agree that sometimes organizers get reports about behavior that is actually fine. https://www.bidadance.org/safety/approach which I helped write gives a more comprehensive view on how organizers should handle reports.

A process of "we assume the first person to come to us is completely correct and honest" would be severely vulnerable to abuse.
And I know a few of all kinds of flawed or crazy people, but i would not use them as an example to prove anything

Try reasoning from the other end: is a society of uneducated people likely to be successful in the 21st century?
And what would 2x slower mean?
I was being mildly facetious.
Things like package-lock.json exists just so you can reproduce exact build. Don't vendor your dependencies and you'll be fine with hundreds of React apps in your Dropbox.
That is incredibly insightful. For someone having no knowledge about this field, where would one start if he wants to remove the background from images using programming?
If they can track your phone surely how you pay for the trip is neither here nor there.
Yeah sure, having CAD display on a PC with x11 server hooked to a Unix workstation with dialup is a complete disaster and total waste of resources when compared to uber apps of today like slack
Did you check using a for loop or a while loop?
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I would remove some of the minor warts that remain from earlier versions that will always be in clojure because the devs care so much about backwards compatibility and not breaking userspace. And I would want to see a clojure that targets direct compilation into native binaries that are small and efficient.
There is a world trend to criticise skandinavia (Scandinavian countries are always in the top 10 of best places to live) . The BBC has been for the last 10 years an awful source of it. The hit Scandinavia to divert attention of their own problems. EVVERYTHING they criticise is worst in the UK.
Croquet | Customer Support Engineer | Downtown Los Angeles | Full-Time

Croquet is an SDK that lets you turn any webpage into a real-time shared computer, without having to set up any servers. No matter the complexity of the simulation, every action is bit-identically replicated across all devices. Invite anyone to your shared session with a URL or QR code.

Alan Kay, the father of the personal computer, is a Croquet advisor.

Apply at: https://www.croquet.io/jobs
replace bkg with a whiteboard of complex calculus algos and code functions.. and voila! you got that CTO position!
Can't really get it working. All I see is a white bar in the middle of screen.

https://i.imgur.com/mOWAJwg.png
> only requiring an internet connection.

Oh, so how do you interface with your IP router for this?
Those infections are still recent. The virus takes weeks to kill you.
Seems like an easy variable to adjust for.
> allowing our programs to run on one computer and display the result on another computer on the other side of the world.

I feel sorry for anyone having to use X over a link of that latency. Especially if their internet service has a tendency to go down. How many X clients handle loss of connection better than just terminating?

And are there really that many people using X remote as compared to RDP or Citrix. I would be surprised to find out that remote X is widely used in 2020 (if you can even call it’s brief heyday in the 90s while commercial UNIX was losing its balls to Windows NT due to vendor incompetence).. and I would risk the age discrimination suits and fire the IT team.

X was already an ugly obsolete piece of crap in the 90s when it was foisted upon us by all the major commercial Unix vendors. It should have rightfully died with SGI, Sun, and/or DEC.
I got myself Thinkpad X1 Extreme last year with 16 GB RAM, 256 GB NVME SSD, 8th gen i7 running Linux, so far I'm very satisfied. It can be upgraded fairly easily, I already installed additional 1 TB SSD, and will probably upgrade RAM down the road.

On Linux apart from switching between dedicated Nvidia GPU and integrated, everything worked out of the box for me.
Excerpts from the 2022 Chairman of Harmony answer regarding the Holy See rejection of the Panda chip:

"It is a common misconception that the so called 'Mark of the Beast'
chip has anything to do with money. The Panda chip is nothing more than a pandemic health and contact tracing beacon."

"Because the chip is always available and very secure, a lot of the citizens do choose to use it for payments."

"We find the ideas surrounding cash obsolete. All cash is uniquely identifiable and most major stores just destroy received cash for sanitary reasons and print cash on demand for change."

"Regarding precious metal purchases, the Government does allow purchase, except gold which is required to manufacture the Panda chip and related accessories".
I'm a native English speaker, I don't think I would ever say "two times bigger", sounds like bad grammar. I would read "2x the size" as "twice the size" or "two times the size", but not "add on twice the size".

So I agree with the article, "3.5 times faster (1 hour vs. 3.5 hours)" is perfectly correct, and it is OK to abbreviate "3.5 times" as "3.5x".
I'm skeptic. Forcing people to buy crap they don't need by denying them ways to store cash will probably increase some numbers in some spreadsheets. But is it really a net positive for society? Or are there other reasons that I didn't consider like more people seeking investment options like the stock market?
1000kr/month = $7,93/€7,00

8000kr = $63,40/€55,97
Could a College Degree Save Your Life?
This level of granularity would be great for the contacts permission.

I don’t let any app get my contacts or my phone number anymore. They are too greedy with mine and others now.

If I could choose a subset of my social graph based on context I would.
I’m feeling like a lot of this is more hypothetical than common scenarios that recur.
Bleach has a well studied safety profile too
Gender binaries are social, not scientific
Sure, because those cells that are already pressed into virus copy duty won't survive forever. Corona copies, being enveloped viruses, apparently can leave the host cell without killing it, but once self-infection is blocked the remaining recovery should be hardly more a victory lap.
In layman's response that sounds like that network could use normalization
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It feels to get everything you ever wanted
> But people want to have it both/all three ways: feel good about recycling, get a discount on a future new gadget and sell/give the functioning old device to somebody. Amazing.

The discount in this case is an incentive against the best possible type of recycling, which is precisely to let someone else reuse it as is. Of course, companies tend to hate the good kind of recycling because it limits their profits. Companies are not entitled to infinite growth, nor should we facilitate that sort of expectation, least we end up destroying our own habitat. Well, we probably will, considering the way things are going...

What is actually amazing is that a company would create such an incentive and then pretend to be the good guys, caring about recycling and so on. Even more amazing is that some people are convinced by such low-effort bullshit.
>They can’t just make the material and weld thicker/heavier as that would impact the rocket performance.

I understand. But the stresses that materials and welds can withstand are not unknown variables. We're talking about a pressurized tank here. You aren't going to build a rocket (designed to carry people) that has tolerances so tight that it's touch and go whether it explodes as soon as it's pressurized.
I don't know what "traditional stereo" means to you.

My music is stored on a computer sitting near a TV and a Yamaha receiver, which runs five main speakers and two subwoofers.

There's a powered speaker set hooked to a Chromecast audio in another room, and a cheap old laptop running an old Yamaha receiver with 2 mains and a sub in the living room.

forked-daapd (you'll want the current version out of github) runs on the main computer and has a web interface. It can talk to the Chromecast and the laptop and the main receiver to send the same audio to all of them. Delays can be adjusted.

I hardly ever do that. Instead, I call up music in whatever room I'm in.
History books supply ample citations and experience. Authorities need a regular check. This fact was established in all modern democracies. That these checks don't work for modern technology is because of lacking competency from people responsible. And the fact too many people trying to publish wrongdoing end up in solitary confinement or need to flee the country.
At a lower bound estimate of 30-60x the case fatality rate of flu and some unexplained reinfection mechanism, 'it's just the flu bro' is getting really disingenuous.

A simple way to explain this to simple minded people is: ever heard of international travel and massive sports events being cancelled, and armies getting mobilised because of just the flu? No? That's because that's not what this is.

Poster made it clear that the drug is untested an experimental, but ultimately each individual is responsible for their own wellbeing and should be aware of last-ditch options if things get dire.
Google, Facebook, Amazon ask employees to stay away from HQs to prevent coronav
Matrix multiplication with INT8, INT16 or BFLOAT16 doesn't have that many uses outside Deep Learning.
>This is a solution in search of a problem.

The number of transactions you can fit in 1MB (or whatever the current limit is) is very limited. Right now the biggest challenge with cryptocurrencies is that they do not scale to large numbers of transactions per second. This had resulted in $10 transaction fees and long delays in the past. Companies like bitpay refused to process your transaction on Steam because the exchange rate has changed significantly by the time your transaction has been confirmed on the blockchain. So you ended up missing $0.5 on a $39 transaction. You can decide to transfer the missing amount and pay the $10 transaction fee again or you can get a refund and bitcoin deducts the $10 transaction fee from your refund while bitpay is sending it back. The end result? Steam stopped accepting Bitcoins and so did other companies that year. I'm sure the fees are low again because all the people who wanted to use Bitcoin for day to day transactions have left because no platform accepts bitcoin payments anymore and therefore only the speculators are left who rarely initiate transactions.
We got a system in Norway called Vipps for small transactions that I refuse to take part in but it seems like 99% of the rest of the population are using it.

I've yet to have anyone refuse to pay me via direct bank transfer or me paying them in this way when I ask and explain why I don't use Vipps.
Not sure how Uber works in Sweden but in Kenya you can call a number and give your location and destination and they will send an Uber to you and you can pay the driver in cash.
Yes you can.

You file what's colloquially known as a "John Doe lawsuit", then serve a subpoena to a third party (such as Namecheap) to obtain that information. You then have the information to amend the pleading and proceed against that party.
Thanks, this article made understanding the basics a lot clearer than other things I found recently when looking.
I haven't had to configure an IdP or SP [yet] but application we work with does use SAML to authenticate, and I only have to make small configuration to that application side.
Good to have a better, albeit very basic, understanding at least of what the Shibboleth IdP and SP are doing.
This is a superbly short sighted and harmful perspective.

Education conveys benefits besides merely financial: a technician might receive no financial benefit from knowing about DNA, nuclear fission and distance to Mars. However, these people make life choices informed by their general knowledge, they vote on policy, they act when Covid-19 is in the news.

If we take your perspective far enough, we will have a society of idiot savants that are clueless outside if their narrow speciality.
Great example of how to introduce a sql/mongo query injection in your code.

The string interpolation in findById will open up your whole database to the world, possibly even allowing remote command execution.

Same for the other functions that access MongoDB.

Do not copy / paste random code until you fully understand it.
What Sequoia Capital’s “Black Swan” Memo Means for Unicorn-Hotspots
Then why are we 8 weeks into this and the US has tested approximately no one, while other countries are testing thousands per day? Wtf are these 1500 people doing for 75 hours per week?
Rigetti Computing took a $71M down round
Pseudonymity is not anonymity. Your legal name is not really the most interesting aspect of your identity.
Kind of, yes, but from my understanding of the original system as devised/practised by Luhmann was that the real value of it laid in the connections between the individual notes and the work of actually filing things away in that web of knowledge.

It's trivial to just write everything interesting down in whatever format, but the idea behind Zettelkasten is that by examining each piece of information before slotting it into its proper place in the grand scheme of things made you re-evaluate old notes and consider how things fit together as a whole. This aided memory and improved understanding of the topics.

My gut feeling says the concept is sound. You're not just archiving information, you're piecing together a complex web of knowledge and relating new information to what you already know, which in turn might spur original thought. That might happen with a wiki, but it's not a given.

(It also pre-dates the concept of a wiki ;P)
Like many things (social networking, digital AI assistants, keyboard text prediction) they are creepy because they are closed-off and proprietary and you have fuck all idea what's happening with your data, besides vaguely knowing you're being monitored in a way Orwell could only dream of.

Once you take out the fact that e.g. messages you write are being recorded, your speech is being monitored 24/7 by a microphone in your home, or all your text input is being stored in somebody's server halfway across the world, those technologies could have the potential to be really neat indeed.

One can dream.
It would have to be signed into law, as the title of the thread implies.
Since the existing owner just 'sold' them to Sonos for a 30% coupon and the promise of actually recycling the gear, I'd say no.
Intel flaw impacts most new Intel chipsets
This is not even half the story, the real story is how many people died via this shady entity:
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/crypto-ag-the-missin...
BTW: I often look at profiles on HN.