skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked a town of Grandview, MO, because it was far on the south side of Kansas City metro, and its population stayed completely flat for last 40 years. Seems like a perfect candidate for Strongtowns argument: residential areas are all sprawl, industrial areas are packed together, and looking at its Main Street, it's a stroad[1], which Strongtowns says is "enormously expensive to build and, ultimately, financially unproductive". No population growth means that there is no new development to pay for the old ones, which is what Strongtowns calls a Ponzi scheme[2]

Let's take a look at the budget[3]. Grandview intends to spend $37M, only $1M of which is budgeted for street maintenance, which is more than average in previous years. Are the streets deteriorated and decayed due to lack of maintenance? I spent 5 minutes on Google Streetview, and while the residential streets are far from pristine, I couldn't find a single pothole. I did, however, find road work, repaving a street[4]. This[5] is a representative example.

Is Grandview a bad example? Is it somehow better than average? Is there some magic that makes Grandview work quite fine? No, I don't think so: for all I know, Grandview looks exactly like hundreds of others suburban towns in America that I've seen. This is what bugs me about Strongtowns: for all of its doom prophesying, I haven't yet seen a single town struggling to maintain suburban infrastructure. Failing to meet pension obligations, sure. Overblown salaries for city employees, yep. Large police department with lots of new toys in a town with almost no crime? Sadly, too common. But residential street maintenance killing a budget? Hardly.

[1] - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/3/1/whats-a-stroad-...
[2] - https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
[3] - https://www.grandview.org/home/showdocument?id=9346
[4] - https://goo.gl/maps/6DFjmEVoueoQwD7H9
[5] - https://goo.gl/maps/HWkWMT3GGK8WnNpX8
Cars are noisy, a hazard, and in some ways significantly more limited than horses.

I actually agree with all your points but also recognize there’s a strong prior bias toward what “I know” works or doesn’t today that can preclude the future possibilities.
Hi, thanks for your interest. The main thing I'm after is a "residential" [1] Lisp development system, where applications and tools co-evolve in the same environment.

Most contemporary compile-to-JS languages target the browser, but do not inhabit it. I'm excited about a system that encourages apps and tools to evolve organically together, instead of tools developing separately from applications, which is the status quo.

Other than that, Common Lisp has some really interesting capabilities relative to ClojureScript, and is also fun!

1:http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/interlisp/Interlisp_Reference... section 1.2
Thing is, no society was prepared. You may name Singapore and Japan but after initial success, cases are now spiking there. You may name South Korea and that will be fair, but their success is a continuation of their failures (effectively they are have a techonology-driven totalitarianism, most Westerners would hate to live there, and this results in more pressing problems than there are in any Western country). Even if Russia that declared itself safe (for ridiculous explanations) initially, now has world's 3rd number of new cases daily and appears to be on track to become one of the worst hit countries - it wasn't preparedness, but rather a delay because of deep poverty and low mobility of post population there - so epidemic took a lot of time to get there.

No one was prepared. This is a black swan event, they happen once in a century. If you try to get prepared to every kind of them you'll spend more than if you just absorb the consequences. Trick isn't preparedness, but rather resilience, ability to get up and move on quickly.
The article says:

> In fact, data can be exfiltrated through vibrations at a lowly speed of half a bit per second, making AiR-ViBeR one of the slowest exfiltration methods that Guri and his team have come up with in recent years.

My personal private key has a file size of 3,243 bytes. At the quoted speed, it would take ~14.4 hours to steal assuming that the time spent recording is completely continuous.

A single ASCII character would take 16 seconds to "steal".
Yes, as the interview I linked to was from 2015. Observations from satellites have proven true with regards to CO2's effect on photosynthesis and greening the planet: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
> Imagine for a second, that you declare a region, say 1 square mile, somewhere as almost completely free of all regulations

Any kind of pollution would be acceptable in this 1 square mile? Any kind of price manipulation? There wouldn't be any consumer protections? No worker protections?

Not all regulation is bad. A lot of it exists for good reasons because the profit motive tends to lead to abuses.
It can totally happen. Funding commitments are gone fast when a crisis hits. People start cutting costs and start trying to find ways to reduce expenses. Giving away money it's definitely a bad idea during an economic crisis, so non-profits are hit hard.

Exhibit from the 2009 Financial Crisis: https://publish.illinois.edu/illinoisblj/2009/09/20/the-impa...

A good recent article on the topic: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/As-Coronavirus-Threat/2...
Firefox add-on to always automatically redirect to old.reddit (also works on Firefox for Android)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Dyson was a rather self-deprecating genius.
This 12 minute video explained it pretty well: https://youtu.be/iJ2jDPgvbTY
> If educators were made responsible to ethics committees, as are researchers, such developmentally inappropriate educational misplacement would never be permitted.

This is a recurring theme. For example, when doing education research with a control group. Sometimes, while the study is still in progress, the benefit of the intervention becomes so clearly dramatic, that by IRB standards, continuing to deny the intervention to the control group becomes ethically fraught, suggesting the experiment be stopped. Even though by education standards, the intervention is unlikely to be widely adopted any year soon.

Similarly, part of why science works, is researchers' fears of being embarrassed in front of their peers, by getting things carelessly wrong. This doesn't always exist - my favorite example being astronomy education content that gets the color of the Sun wrong. So there's a question of what community characteristics are needed to support it.

Awareness of ethical issues in education, such as "equity", seems greater now than in decades past.

So looking ahead, might a perception of embarrassment, or of ethical failure, be encouraged and leveraged to improve content and pedagogy? And what might that look like?
Ok, I can't read. My excuse is it was late and I was going to bed :)
I think you're overgeneralizing "people". I for example would be in favor of world-government structures that have actual power.
Did you mean this for the thread about the ACLU? The comment you're replying to is about Tor, which is much smaller.
While i agree with a lot of your response. I also concede that regulatory capture is a serious innovation inhibitor that has a factor in some of your questions re: reactors, 3 days to wire money, etc. The incumbents have gotten too comfortable and lobbied well enough to protect themselves.

Then you also have the current bailouts of airlines, etc. So the incumbents in this case are too big to fail. You'll never get new entrants/innovators in these areas until those issues are solved.
I don't know if you meant this literally but I couldn't find any mention of price ( just the "contact for trial" language which usually translates as "a lot").

Did you find any explicit mention of pricing ?
Everyone knows that there's a huge gap between wanting something to exist, and wanting something to exist, while having the expertise, time, resources, and will, to bring it into existence.

Since you know this as well as I do, I want to ask: what is your motive in asking this question?
Well, timespec does have 34 bits it's not using...
Well it's far more important to have the ACLU working on advocacy and rights for LGBTQ+ where there are demonstrable acts of violence and systemic oppression rather than waste time hand holding individuals who think they should be able purchase an Arsenal of firearms and spread Covid by not obeying and respecting their fellow citizens through their non compliance.

I'd say they are definitely where they need to be.. It's prudent and wise they not be involved with rabble rousers who through their non compliance, indifference, and questioning of authority silently slaughter members of minority communities that this disease adversely affects more than wealthy elites who miss their bed bath and beyond or their tee time.
Do you work for a tech company, or a tech department in a non-tech organisation? Having worked in both, the IT culture are quite different, and you might fit better if you swapped from one to the other. (Of course the politics are very different as well...).
Yeah, it's fair to point out that both New York and San Francisco are thoroughly Democratic in their politics, and yet responded very differently to the crisis.
ACLU changed their policy of supporting everyone against any freedom of speech and freedom of assembly repression by the government AFTER Charlottesville. That only supports the OP's point. That was the point they gave into to pressure from outside groups and gave up their values.

Compromising once is enough to compromise it always and their recent posturing on social media has done nothing to dissuade that this is the case. They've only doubled down and joined the outrage mob driven political system.

I personally don't want to live in a world where every political ideology needs their own legal defence non-profits which only do things for political ends... not for a higher purpose. Largely because they lose tons of credibility in the face of dismissal when they compromise their values for politics.

Credibility is very important in this sort of thing. Plenty of other major human rights groups including Human Rights Watch and the ACLU long defended far-right groups and the world didn't burn down in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.

They did it because they same thing that shuts those 'bad guys' down will be used to bring down the 'good guys'.

I highly recommend the founder of Human Rights Watch's book on this topic when they defended Neo-nazis in the 1970s:

Defending My Enemy: American Nazis in Skokie, Illinois, and the Risks of Freedom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Neier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...

https://www.amazon.com/Defending-My-Enemy-Neier/dp/052508972...
The idea seems cool, but finding information on how to get setup as a company with business chat has proved somewhat elusive for me.
No.

We all joke about 'grazing' but it's a long term habit that will be hard to kick.

And it was never about restaurant eat in meals, it was always about cheap takeaway and cheap frozen dinners.
I don't think that we know where the pandemic started, whether it was bats for sale in the market, or escape from the lab. Maybe it was both.

But I do think that sampling and lab work are important. You just need to be careful. Very, very careful.
bat appears to be listed on something like a dozen different package repositories, and buries the "cargo install" option at the very bottom of the list. exa at least has "cargo install" at the top, but it also lists three other possible sources. Doesn't really make the case that "cargo install" is enough.
All these neat tricks being discussed, and meanwhile I just `date; my_cmd; date` for jobs I want start/end times of. The fact that I can do it with no configuration on all the umpteen boxes I log into is the reason I stick with it.
I'm no expert on creating a CA. The changelog recently has an episode on Let's Encrypt. It covered a lot about how Let's Encrypt got started. Quiet an amazing job, I think you should listen to it or at least read the transcript.

https://changelog.com/podcast/389
brain-computer interface

This one actually is being worked on, and it's a very hard problem. Great high level article of where we're at
https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
> I'm biased but our SaaS just has one price, no annual discount, no messing.

I offer an annual discount for a product of mine, primarily because for a one year plan it only costs me a single transaction cost from my payment processor instead of x12 transaction costs.
Nowadays you need 100MB to really whip the llama’s ass.
QLC with an SLC cache is the SSD equivalent of SMR. They are fine for read-mostly workloads but performance goes completely down the drain when you do random writes.

I've tried QLC drives for cheap cluster storage. It turns out one QLC drive was slower than 4 old HDDs. I had to go back to HDDs until I switched to TLC flash because they were faster. Tail latencies hitting one second on QLC. It's incredible how bad they are. We shouldn't even be calling them SSDs at that point, they don't even remotely live up to the performance expectations you might have from an SSD.
Math hints to this anyway. Isolated cases like Diamond Princess do show around a one percent death rate. And death is a trailing indicator by about 2 weeks. In 2 weeks the number of new daily cases goes up by up to 20x in hot areas. So to get an accurate estimate of cases you'd multiply the number of deaths by 2000. Currently the number of official cases is only 20x the death count. So, the result is not surprising.

This is also somewhat fantastic, as it means 1/6 of the US population has already had the disease, and maybe herd immunity is not a distant dream. (Though if any of this is true then that also means the virus is more contagious than previously thought, and the herd bar is even higher than the 75% experts have been mostly saying).
News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Rust-Written Redox OS Booting the 128-Thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
Ok, “evidence” aside. Let’s talk about biological weapons. The ideal scenario for a weapon would be very different from an ideal evolutionarily for a virus.

Something like Ebola is a great weapon. It is incredibly fatal, and targeted. It takes out the targeted population and burns itself out quickly. It’s contained and destructive.

However something like a Coronavirus spreads too easily. It’s hard to keep from striking back at home. It’s also not deadly enough to be useful militarily. It targets the old and sick (as we’ve observed).

I’m tired of this conspiracy theory. It assumes people who are smart enough to engineer viruses aren’t smart enough to understand weapons. It’s just another Frankenstein tale. The dumb can be appalled by the intellectuals and sleep at night knowing they are righteous.
> Wiping the live entertainment industry off the face of the earth is part of that (sadly)

The industry, yes, which is different from live entertainment in general.

If my local coffee house is allowed to reopen in any capacity, I don't expect the marginal risk of their open mic night happening to be significant.
You're right, America has long given up the notion of what is "for the good of society" in favor of making money. Walking around SF (until recently) meant literally seeing both millionaires and people defecating in the street. It's extreme.

Marc wants to know how to use capitalism and growth (building) to overcome this, when the best outcome might be just realizing how broken capitalism in America is.
Why? Windows is a desktop OS primarily used to get work done. “Mobile first” doesn’t make sense here and just gets in the way (it personally made me give up on the platform and switch to Mac instead).
Teaspoon is one word.
Again - I disagree with the view that they "gave up" their values, and I don't want to live in a world where every political ideology needs its own non-profit, either. I think the ACLU can and should be an organization that defends the right to freedom of speech of everyone regardless of political affiliation.

I'm arguing that their lawsuit in Charlottesville didn't actually serve the goals of protecting civil rights or defending principles which are important to protect other people's civil rights. I'm arguing that the Charlottesville case was different from the Illinois Nazis case - Unite the Right wasn't primarily about speech, it was about violence, and the speech acts that Kessler et al. wanted to do would have worked just fine in the other park, which would have been logistically easier from a public safety perspective. I'm arguing that if Charlottesville's original decision had stood and established precedent that somehow later applied to a "good guy" protest, that would be okay, because of the specific facts of the Charlottesville case.

I'm arguing that the ACLU was right to take on the Illinois Nazis case, and would be right to take it on again today. You don't need to convince me of that. (If the ACLU has somehow managed to get itself into a position where it's not willing to do that anymore and it hasn't convinced people like me that it's learned its lesson from Unite the Right, then they're truly incompetent.)

It is of course a little difficult to separate the idea of protecting civil rights from political ideology: the idea that civil rights are worth protecting is a political ideology itself! But I think the broader point, which I agree with, is that you should be willing to protect the civil rights of people who do not think that civil rights are worth protecting.
I'm not sure how it would suit your workflow, but you could try out PROMPT_COMMAND.

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....

It's executed just before the PS1 prompt is printed.

A nice idea I've seen is to use PROMPT_COMMAND to print the time a command finished (and maybe an indication of its exit status) in low-contrast text at the far right of the terminal. Then that info is there if you want to look for it, but it's not distracting.

Then you could have the best of both worlds, and it would all happen without the need to remember to create fresh prompts.
Almost everyone has a high school diploma, that doesn't make high school useless. I learned things in high school that I used in college and continue to use every day.
They did this change and then rolled it back a few updates later. I don’t understand why someone considered the bottom toolbar to be a problem and why their changes were actually approved and included in the update.
People are by nature curious and eager to build. But we also love stories that are too good to be true.

We gave the lazy guys, good story tellers, all the power, and thereby the power how money flows and works.

Money is such a story: There exists some artificial thing, that can be turned into anything we want. What in reality doesn't exist, unless people work for it. Its seams more a trust relation turned into a fetish.

Obviously the stories turned everything in to giant circus pyramid game to generate more magic stuff, and everybody can have it. Well the poor without power, we keep stupid and poor, we can outsource to them, to do all the work and we all become story tellers.

Technology developed by curious nerdy scientists (also bad story telleres btw), could be used that a few are enough to feed and build for many many story tellers. Looks like magic, money can work for itself, hey more magic.

People who actually do something like women and artist and builders are continiously undervalued in this pyramid system as they are not 'usefull'. The working slaves all produced a lot of useless stuff. And as the majority became lazy guys, hey why change anything that is the way the world 'works'.

No, a little virus shows all was big story. In fact there is no magic stuff. Money is no value in it self. Now the few able to build are somewhere far away and take care of themselves.

Now the undervalued, who do the work are suddenly in high demand. Oh we clap and say thank you, thank you, but giving them power, mmmm do we really have to? Can we not just move on, go back to slavery fast.. Suddenly doing became interesting but hey please help can't do any more. I can generate trillions of magic paper if you want, eh trust me, please help. Lets get back fast to the time when the pyramid system worked, and we have to keep dreaming and move on.

It is likely that, we want to keep going on. Allthough it was just fun for a few. Humans love to continue to follow the path they are used to go.

Money is an invention and the way it flows is an expression of power but without trust it is useless.
It doesn't do anything.

We all need food, a shelter, health, love, relations and a lot curious people solving hard problems, learning what makes a virus go around and how to stop it.

We should start to transform the rules and redefine how money works.
For some this idea is so strange as this is a well known constant from heaven. It is not.

What if we give everybody some of this fuel. As long as you live you get money=trust every week just by existing you don't have to earn it and otherwise starve to death and die on the street. Then you can use your power, your vote to tell who you trust to send you a product or service. Oh but it becomes worthless over time. If you don't spend it, it becomes just paper. So no interest rates, no accumulation not inheriting wealth. Only one will have to pay for it, the earth we all together. What if...

What if we all share our knowlege for free..

Mmm now we have time to think. Some people don't like that. ..The long we think the more they yell to go back back...

A nice little story to good to be true.
Harvard could easily build that out of their own $40,000,000,000 endowment, if their first priority was actually education, rather than protecting their own prestige and the value of their credentials to the elites they mostly serve.
Lot size minimums, frontage, restrictions on height, and on and on...
or, if you're only interested in the time it took for the command to run:

time my_cmd
Right, this is the kind of position I was referring to. The modern ACLU tends to direct their attention towards specific identity groups they feel are most deserving. I don't think they're quite as far along that path as you are - I can't imagine an ACLU representative implying you have a civic duty to unquestioningly accept the government's pandemic control measures - but maybe I'm wrong.
> An organization with rock solid ethics can use these techniques to hack their users brains to get them to more accurately do what is in the purchaser’s best interest.

While I agree that people are far from perfectly rational, I strongly disagree with the viewpoint you are taking here. You do not know what is in the purchaser's best interest. Only they do.

Remember that the maxim that humans are far from perfectly rational applies to you too. If you think you are hacking users brains in their own best interests, is that really true, or has your own brain figured out a fancy rationalization that lets you do what's in your best interests even if it harms others? My money is on the latter.
Yes, I agree entirely.

But the point I'm making is that "host-aware" should be good enough for this type of use. Even though it's still drive-managed, the internal logic in the drive should pass through certain write patterns without interference. And you can make the host aware through feeding in a few parameters; it doesn't necessarily have to interrogate the drive.

In other words, I'm disagreeing with the idea that this big laundry list of things would need to be updated. The filesystem should be sufficient if these drives act in a way that's at all reasonable.
:-) my friend (and also myself) are non native english speakers. lemme fix it. thanks for pointing that out.

i do similar mistakes around "every day" kinda words. spell suggest helps a lot!
Also from the same group, GSMem: exfiltrate data by generating GSM signals using nothing but RAM access patterns.

https://www.usenix.org/node/190937