skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard the same rule with film editing. The editing is never done, you just run out of time.
> Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Ethics of Greed"
" is that large policy changes have social costs "

The 'large policy changes' will have completely varying consequences across the economic spectrum, for good and bad, which is the general problem with centralized planning.

So if the government 'shut down all co2 emitting factories' it might have small consequences here, and terrible consequences over there.

But if the government institutes a 'carbon tax' that makes your 'pet toys' and 'medicine' 10% more expensive, then given the inelasticity in demand and surpluses derived from medicine, people will continue to buy it at the same rate, and possibly buy fewer 'pet toys'. If travel rose by 20%, then maybe we'd see less leisure, fewer business trips, but the 'important trips' would still happen.
For people who can afford cars today -- Why wouldn't they?

I'm not convinced economy of scale applies the same way in this case. Cars (and mattresses, etc) are large and infrequent purchases dominated by preference. Dealerships make most of their money through sketchy financing and tricks.

There's a large class of financially illiterate people who routinely make massive mistakes like monthly income spend planning. Given an extra thousand per month, two hundred more on a car is both feasible and justifiable. Lifestyle creep.

I would agree if the topic was commodities like eggs or rice -- sure, I purchase by efficiency. And I'm not sure about the SV strat and dealerships. It could work in theory, but as of today dealerships are basically fungible and signal the same way as each other. I have no idea how a dealership could signal their lower marginal costs, especially survive in an industry with insane scaling costs.
In my view, people caring is part of politics. The word politics, as I use it, is acquisition, organization and exertion of power. That's directly connected to what peoples' perceptions and incentives are.
The original source of the linked article is a letter by Prof. Sergio Romagnani, sent to the newspaper Corriere Fiorentino, published here on March 15:

https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/firenze/notizie/crona...

As follow-up, they interviewed him, published on March 17:

https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/firenze/notizie/crona...
People complaining about rich countries being environmentally bad really need to get their derrieres up and go see the world outside of tourist traps.

The amount of environmental devastation in poorer countries is unbelievable (to us spoiled Westerners). Rich countries are, in fact, much cleaner in all aspects. This is because people can afford caring about environment and because modern tech is much cleaner than mid-industrial age tech.

I would start listening to these sanctimonous enviro-preachers when they start pushing the REAL polluters to clean up. You know, the Chinese. Or when they get Zulu to give up their goats (you need to visit Serengeti to see what these do to the savanna), or when they ditch their support of warmongers - DU is a heck of a pollutant, and so are burning oil wells.

Telling the western people that they need to live like third-worlders by giving up fruits of civilization is both asinine and idiotic (if the goal is to protect the environment).
The institutions mostly promoted inaction (WHO). And the government does nothing, but censor and provide a mixed message (Lobbyism saying you dont need to social isolate that hard)..

Sorry, you are on your own with this one, when you dont want to rely on the poisoned wells of official news sources.
People wants a united society to save them.

Government = society.
I'd say that fundamentally we are manipulating streams or arrays of numbers. Everything is built on top of that. Each character in a tex is a number. Each pixel is a number. Each sample of sound is a number. For computers how the number ends up being transferred to the puny meatbag is completely incidental.

In more practical terms at least for me, vast majority of stuff I mangle through shell is not really text but structured data, typically either some sort of tree or a table, or something in-between. Sometimes the structure is more ad-hoc, sometimes it is very rigidly defined, but it's still there
Being fair, efficient allocation of capital is important. it creates wealth, which improves human life.

There are definitely lots of bulshit jobs out there, but I wouldn't call quants among the highest tier in terms of waste of human talent. I'd probably look at adtech for that.
We are not prepared, but there was people warning about it.
See this Ted talk from Bill Gates, 5 years ago. It's impressive how the details are similar to coronavirus.

https://youtu.be/6Af6b_wyiwI
The Private Goldman Sachs Coronavirus Meeting Thats Setting the Internet on Fire
I'm afraid that you are onto something here. People misattributing climate change to the poor masses is increasingly common and overpopulation in poor countries is often cited as a reason not to engage in any change of behavior on the rich nations side.
How long is 'long before'. The emergency was notified 20 days after the very first confirmation this was even human communicable, and 7 days after the first published data on morbidity. These are the facts, and the WHO was communicating all of this promptly.

Yes of course the WHO was just a mouthpiece for what the Chinese were saying in the very early days, because the Chinese were the only people with the data. I understand this is frustrating, it's infuriating in fact.

It's only an international emergency when it's international. It was a declaration of fact, not a prediction about the future. The same is true of calling a pandemic, they declared it when it reached the criteria to do so. That's their job, but there seems to be a popular misconception that they should declare a pandemic when there 'might' be a pandemic, but that's not the case.

I have seen this in my professional life. I've come under pressure to declare escalated emergencies because there 'might be' a high level impact, but the agreed SLAs were to declare those only when there is actual impact. There were specific agreed processes for potential high impact issues and we followed them and they worked, but still I've had pressure to break process and escalate inappropriately, sometimes by very senior management. Fortunately my current management are pretty well informed.
taken over the years
This is a bizarre post. You've ignored all of the plagues and catastrophes that humanity has survived. You're forgetting that you're posting messages to a server located somewhere in the world with a latency on the order of seconds. We're doing space stuff at a quicker pace than any other time.

This isn't a rant, it's devoid of any factual thinking and perspective. What you have here is a desperate attempt to be angry at something.
An extra seat? The whole deck.
Surely you can allow specific third party cookies for a specific domain, right? (I don't use safari so I don't know for sure)
Energy is the currency of the future.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly"

I was going to link to its page on Paean to SMAC but it turns out that quote is from "Global Energy Theory", a tech that didn't make it into the final game (but had data set up for it). So there's no write-up about it.

Instead, I'll link to the Paean's "First Time Here?" page: https://paeantosmac.wordpress.com/first-time-here/
Monitor and Punish?
Making the YouTube player more accessible
The repository is just the code. All the other stuff is part of the project, not the repository.

You're right. Just getting the terminology wrong.
It's temporary. The United States and tons of countries have done it before. Central planning helps allocate resources more efficiently in times of crisis.
I hate jq with the power of a million suns. The whole point of text through pipelines is that data can be processed by tools that do not understand it. Formatting it in xml or json (there's no difference) breaks this beautiful orthogonality, and forces all the intermediate tools to deal with whatever the stupid markup du jour happens to be.
This makes total sense. I appreciate an answer from from someone who knows what they're talking about!
Simple internet marketing methods to make a fulltime income working at home
Microsoft does indeed work for and with the NSA. As an ASP they participate in the warrantless PRISM bulk collection program (they were the first!), and they also provide software and services (support) as a direct vendor.
The next episode 35 has some more infos on it, as well.
The review you cite compares yarn 1 to npm and declares yarn 1 the winner. They did not evaluate yarn 2 because they say it does not yet support react native without a plugin.
I think you are correct and overambitious moderators are indeed a problem that fragment communities. t_d, politics and to a degree worldnews are ridiculous instances of this, although there is probably even worse stuff in the underbellies.

I just look at the result and while efforts to manipulate content increases (malicious and manipulative, not moderation), the situation is far, far worse than 5 years ago. Additionally the content has become much more stale.

reddit probably has accurate date, but as a user the impression is pretty obvious.
Hi Mike,

I'm based in London. I'd love to help out. I had a similar idea I was mocking up yesterday when my sister pointed me to your post. I'd be optimistic alongside KPierce that there should be existing solutions that can be leveraged to get something out faster. I'll shoot you an email.
They are when there's little quantitative data to work with.

A lot of people's biggest questions are what the hell "COVID-19 symptoms" and apparently it means just about anything.

I'm suspicious of the 2 week long illness my family has just gotten over. Hit each of us differently. Predominantly nasal mucus, but the kids had some chest congestion, wife had a fever, and I had what felt like a sinus infection and a bit of a dry cough.

None of it particularly severe. Likely not COVID-19, but given the scattershot presentation of the disease in non-critical cases, I'm not ruling it out.
This notion is dangerously pro-totalitarian.

Government=the people who have the power to kill other people and get away with it. No more, no less.
Ibuprofen can be manufactured by almost any company and sold in almost any store. So open competition in the sector drives down prices.

Chloroquine exists in a walled garden where pharmaceutical companies and the government have rigged it so that rent-seeking behavior is the optimal financial strategy.
Free centralized hosting for special TLDs that were supposed to be decentralized through the use of Blockchain. That kind of defeats the purpose of using Blockchain in the first place, doesn't it?
A lot of the solutions already exist. This might be the push to the shove. Also known as the inflection point. Hindsight will prove if this is the moment of the true leap.
I had been reading about cities of Silk Road (Merv, Balkh, Khorasan, Buchara etc). Large, rich cities surrounded mostly by hostle enviroment (desert, dry steppe).

They had always inflow of citizens and stratified social structure.

Wars and plagues opened possibilities for social mobility however. Elites died same as poor people (or more in times of conquest) and that opened possibilities for lower class individuals to move up.
You provision them. How do you create user accounts for 200+ people?

These end users likely do not already have wireguard on their devices so as part of the software rollout you assign them an ip. A /24 gives you enough addresses for over 200 people and a /8 future proofs you for a much larger company size. You can also just spin up different wireguard networks for different departments or even think about using IPV6.

This is the same for any large rollout of technology really. There may be some hands on effort but nothing that couldn't be automated with a spreadsheet and a script.
The normal site on the net doesn't give a rats ass about sanctions.
I don’t know if you have already invested in https://www.starship.xyz ? If you have double down 10 times, if not do it now: touchless delivery is getting big in China.

Just like the famous(?) Chinese hobbyist girl who built a little vehicle to get her groceries, we have a prototype as well, so buy US, ha ha
Our math might need some correction. The statistics I was citing is daily contamination rate of 15-25%, and multiplication by 10 every 16 days (which comes out to a daily contamination rate of 15%). A daily rate of 25% gives you multiplication by 10 every 10.5 days.
>It's not uncommon for one or more of these to have multiple touches per hour for evaluation and adjustment of the parameters

Maybe a stupid question, but why can't this be automated?
In fairness to the OP, there's a lot of cruft in the way terminal work that really isn't necessary any more but need to be there because of backwards compatibility. Such as

- formatting being in-lined via ANSI escape sequences,

- and there's a massive disparity between what escape sequences terminal emulators support,

- control codes being part of the same character set as printable characters,

- changing the behaviour of the TTY requires either terminal emulator support or OS support depending on the behaviour you require because the TTYs are defined partially via kernel drivers (which requires syscalls to alter) and partially by escape sequences,

- and in the case of kernel behaviour, those syscalls vary from one OS to another. Some OS's don't even support from TTY behaviours that other OSs do so you can't even guarantee that logic is cross platform and that you just wrap around specific differences in syscalls,

- resizing terminals UIs can be a nightmare -- often requiring capturing RPC signals and redrawing -- because there's no native layout system for drawing to the TTY,

This isn't meant as a criticism though because there's a lot the general design of terminals gets right (eg the kernel driver for TTY allows us to kill processes over remote shells like SSH and mosh). But I think terminals are one of those things that work "good enough" that most of the ugliness is hidden from everyday users. However if we were to redesign UNIX terminals from the ground up there is a lot of things most engineers would like to change and of lot of places where things could be improved. Like having an out-of-band channel for sending meta-data describing the pipeline but shouldn't be mixed in with the byte stream.
The lore in that game was so fantastic. I wish there hadn't been an IP war over it. These days Hollywood is so desperate for ideas that it could have been a TV series or a film by now otherwise.

My favourite tech quote was MMI (mind-machine interface):

> The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Report on Human Rights"

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The text doesn't do the delivery credit though, the acting as well was often phenomenal.
The only subreddit worth reading about this disease is /r/COVID19

The rest is absolute crap.
Another point that opponents to universal healthcare would claim was that granting access to healthcare services to the entire US population would degrade quality forcing rationing of service. With inequality you can buy your way to good service when you wanted it. However, with universal healthcare, you have to wait in line like everyone else.
All I know is I went with Stripe so I didn’t have to see the PayPal logo (or any logo) in my checkout process

You don’t have to confuse things with an intermediate brand to wait for a user to auth a transaction in their banking app, just leave the timer on the screen until they do it
Chinese supercomputer makes breakthrough in cosmological N-body simulation
The 'it feels worse when lying in bed' is something I can really identify with
O'Reilly subscription, probably?

Turn the book into HTML, serve the HTML on demand and BAM, Book as a Service!
>and much faster to connect and has excellent latency and bandwidth

I have my own ipsec deployment and this argument always seems shaky to me.

Here is how long it takes to establish ipsec connection on my laptop:
https://streamable.com/27des

The cipher suite used is aes256gcm16-prfsha384-ecp384 for IKE and aes256gcm16-ecp384 for ESP which is in line with CNSA https://apps.nsa.gov/iaarchive/programs/iad-initiatives/cnsa... I'm using Strongswan which I highly recommend mostly due to their comprehensive set of tests for virtually every scenario https://www.strongswan.org/testing/testresults/

I did not see any meaningful difference in bandwidth between ipsec and wireguard. As a bonus, ipsec is natively supported by Windows 10.

I don't use OpenVPN which I think is worse in that regard due to packet shuffling between the kernel and userspace but between ipsec and wireshark the only discernible difference for me is the effort in setting it up.
You can't rely on voluntary donations to produce a stable income. A charity doing this would have to vary the amount paid out based on receipts. In hard times, donations and payments will reduce. This will reduce the effectiveness of a UBI in smoothing out recessions.

It will also suffer a death spiral because every donor will know how much every recipient gets.

If I put in 500 each month and get 200, then I'm going to look for a better place to put my donation. Not because the 200 is a bad RoI for me, but because 200 seems like such a pointless sum for everyone to be getting. I'd rather have that money funding cancer research or more pertinently, I'd rather give all 500 of it to people who need it.

Everyone will have their thresholds for what seems "worth it". The lower the payment gets, the fewer donors there will be, and the proportion of the income used for admin will rise.
Hey Kemitime, I'm trying to solve this problem at the moment. I'm looking to have a couple of people leading the singing, with others following on from where they are, with their mics down.
The Existential Inconvenience of Coronavirus
I think you have a very Hollywood view of African societies...
Whenever I search Google for something, the top links are either ads or SEO'd results I don't care about. In both cases, rich companies paid money in order to put those results there. Any information that rises to the top because of money instead of relevance or merit is highly suspect at best due to the conflict of interest. Why would I want to listen to a company sell me its own product? It's safe to assume everything they say is lies.
Climate change: we need to make everyone less well-off in real, tangible terms that will directly affect every part of their lives. Justified by framing it in class-war terms, but with proposals that will make many things that were once available to the masses luxuries for the really rich. It's like it's a simultaneous demonstration both of why many on the right believe fighting climate change is just a left-wing weapon to push their ideology and why the supposed natural audience of the anti-rich populist left, poor and working-class members of society, are "voting against their own interests" and not supporting them.
https://archive.is/XUSjR
Coronavirus lockdown may be over sooner than you think
Sadly the majority of america that is uninsured has universal emergency room healthcare. And that is the most expensive kind. We have probably 100 million Americans on this universal healthcare plan.
Because it is. With enough energy you can make all kinds of problems go away. The industrial revolution was all about unlocking the usage of non-human energy.
There seems to be a misunderstanding of what "cryptographic agility" is, as well. Usually cryptographic agility means the ability to mix-and-match different protocols/options, e.g. use a certain key exchange algorithm with a certain symmetric encryption algorithm and/or MAC/HMAC; keysize, handshakes, options, things - everything can be negotiated by different clients, and sometimes a bad option (or a bad combination of options) can be negotiated. If you've got five key exchange algorithms, ten encryption algorithms with different key and block sizes, and ten MAC/HMAC algorithms - I'll let you calculate how many possible outcomes are there.

Without cryptographic agility, this is not possible. In TLS, you would have a very specific key exchange algorithm with a very specific encryption and auth algorithm.

But this does not mean that versioning is not supported. When some primitive is too old, a V2 API (again with a precise algorithm combination) can be created, and clients and servers can keep using both V1 and V2 for some time.
Alternate between creator and manager roles
Argh, I promised myself I wouldn't come back to this thread actually; debates around this particular subject I've been part of have been tiresome =)

I can assure you that I'm not conflating simple things like user experience vs developer experience. That was the point of the asterisk.

I'm also very positive that the creator of Hypercard and Excel do _not_ think of their creation as appliance.

The whole point of the discussion around computer and computer languages/systems as tool for thought, is presuming that computing can be another form of mass literacy. Let's also not get into whether this should be the case (and my opinion here is less naive that one might think); I'm just saying that this is the debate. At the risk of exaggerating and drawing an imperfect parallel, the medieval monks also considered human language literacy as a "developer" thing, e.g. "reading the Bible is a separate domain to the everyday life of a consumer". And yes, they did make beautiful books as products/appliances. Again, I'm not saying programming languages will ever be useful to learn for the masses; that's another topic of discussion.

I agree very much that there is no general solution, and that tinkerers gotta tinker. Though this is orthogonal to the discussion (FYI I absolutely despise language tinkering/golfing these days; that's why I made sure to talk about this topic without talking about Mu earlier).
I'd offer the Ebola outbreak as a counter-example.
This might be useful for reducing the "reality gap" in robot simulation.
Explain "getting more than their fair share" in precise terms please, taking into account progressive taxation. I'll wait.
I'm not even sure what he's talking about. The Netherlands is not on lockdown, not compared to Spain or Italy for example.

Anywhere people might gather is closed and the public are encouraged to practice 'social distancing'. But the army/police are not in the streets making sure people stay at home.
Bootstrapping to $25k MRR – The VEED Story
I'm confused, what do policy makers have to do with it?
The page has a list of available commands.

It only appears to support fixed width text with super or subscript or double width text for emphasis. No sizing etc. And of course you aren’t going to be able to fit unicodes 65k+ characters in 16k of memory.

It supports text blocks for basic dtp purposes, but there are no commands for tables.
consume less, be moderate, have a healthy lifestyle, avoid civilization and have an abundance of happiness! and MOST important - don't read stupid comments on HN haha
I’ve noticed this arc in myself and my colleagues from time to time: “Oh, you don’t know this thing I just learned?” ... proceeds to lecture condescendingly. I’ve tried to eliminate it in myself, but I’m curious as to the underlying psychology of it. It’s such a damaging behavior.
Here is more information regarding the possible Australia trial:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor...