skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, my original comment implied this unrealistic hypothetical because I wanted to avoid the conversation getting derailed by the inevitable rural fetishists pretending that cities are irredeemable cesspits instead of "what makes modern standards of living possible, for both urban and rural areas".

Don't get me wrong, as much as I prefer dense urbanism, there are plenty of things about sparse living that appeal to me, and I fully understand how many people would choose suburban or rural life. Hell, I'm not even supposed to some degree of subsidization from more efficient communities, just on grounds of diversity and anti-fragility. It just gets frustrating how committed sparsity advocates are to pretending that these lifestyles aren't heavily subsidized. A self-sustaining rural community (despite having its charms) would be appealing to far fewer people than one that gets to have its cake and eat it too, by redistributing some of the societal advantages of urban living (like economic efficiency).
He's right about a lot of things.

But, as far as education goes, if everyone got a degree, then what's the point? it would have no value at all. The whole point of awarding degrees is to separate those who have them from those that don't. How are employers supposed to know who to higher, if everyone has a degree?
I wrap every interactive shell in ‘script’ effectively recording it.

I’ve been tempted to add time logging by something similar to
PS1=“$(date)\r$PS1”
Because I don’t really care about the execution time of current commands but might care historically.
A Timeline of the History of Vaccines
Developers are introverts.Domain-driven design can change it
Their current efforts are focused on getting lots of people released from jails and prisons, since they might catch COVID-19 if they're in jail.
All I can find is the definition, which states that pin one is in the middle of the top at least in the 44 pin package.

http://www.interfacebus.com/ic-package-plcc-dimension-outlin...

No idea on the history though, hopefully someone can enlighten us, Google did not.
A repo for solutions of leetCode and Codility problems
Use case for air gapping technics, despite their small bandwidth:

- very powerful agencies with the aim to get valuable information exists

- they want and do infect as many systems as possible automatically, by sneaking into them by all means avaiable (OS updates, hardware backdoors, zero days, ..), wih the hope of getting to valuable targets eventually (but zombies have a value, too)

- any organization with very sensitive data, high value research or other (smaller) intelligence agency knows that, so they try to have their most sensitive data on air gapped networks or single computers.

- the attackers already drown in information and do not want their virus to be exposed so easy, so air gapping technics will likely be not used normaly to reduce dedection risk (also the are slow and unreliable)

But, now to get the most sensitive informations, all the atackers have to do, is checking if the system is air-gapped. Means, it is likely that it is a high value target.

Now the various technices come into play, so the virus tries to communicate with the outside world in the hope of a also infected device nearby with which it can maybe exchange a few kb.

If he can make a small connection, then a human (or algorithm) can check, if it is really a high value target worth deploying more sophisticated attacks, or just a paranoid hacker trying to protect his personal stuff, or just a old forgotting pc.

In other words, if you have really sensitive data, air gapping it, might be the way to attract attackers in the first place ..

Computer security is hard.
> Nuclear provides guaranteed minimum power production, which is what you actually want.

No, you want power production that meets demand, aka peakers.

Baseline power is only interesting when it's cheaper than peak power.

Your point about weather protection is a good one. Which is best handled through over capacity and interconnection IMO.
It's a problem in most major urban centers. I live in Los Angeles, and it's certainly a problem here.
hey eggy I didn't know you were interested in zig as well, drop a line, contact's in my about profile.
See I don’t get it. If one of these people who get early release so much as go fishing somewhere they can end up back in jail. That seems perverse to me.
Interesting. Watch at 1/3 speed or so to see it in real time. (Self-driving car videos tend to be published sped up, so you don't see the mistakes.)

The key part of this is, how well does it box everything in the environment? That's the first level of data reduction and the one that determines whether the vehicle hits things. It's doing OK. It's not perfect; it often misses short objects, such as dogs, backpacks on the sidewalk, and once a small child in a group about to cross a street. Fireplugs seem to be misclassified as people frequently. Fixed obstacles are represented as many rectangular blocks, which is fine, and it doesn't seem to be missing important ones. No potholes seen; not clear how well it profiles the pavement. This part of the system is mostly LIDAR and geometry, with a bit of classifier. Again, this is the part of the system essential to not hitting stuff.

This is a reasonable approach. Looks like Google's video from 2017. It's way better than the "dump the video into a neural net and get out steering commands" approach, or the "lane following plus anti-rear-ending, and pretend it's self driving" approach, or the 2D view plane boxing seen from some of the early systems.

Predicting what other road users are going to do is the next step. Once you have the world boxed, you're working with a manageable amount of data. A lot of what happens is still determined by geometry. Can a bike fit in that space? Can the car that's backing up get into the parking space without being obstructed by our vehicle? Those are geometry questions.

Only after that does guessing about human intent really become an issue.
> The browser provided an easy-to-program source of cool toys. If it had been harder to program.

It was harder to program though. The amount of gotchas in JavaScript are so high compared to many other popular mainstream programming languages of even that era, and not to mention hou could only use it in a browser, which was severely lacking in functionality compared to native APIs. So the hackers who wanted cool toys already had far better options, which goes to show even if js was much worse it couldn't have done badly.

Although there is not much data that I am aware of about the early websites making cool things with javascript, if we take iOS and Objective C, it wasn't cool hackers filling the app stores with cool toys, but real businesses looking to make money.

Hell, even Mosiac and Netscape didn't want to be cool toys, theh wanted to be real businesses making lots of money.
Maybe link to the actual blog post about doing this instead of this blog post about a blog post about doing this? https://blog.project-insanity.org/2020/04/16/running-postmar...
How's that 60k looking?
DARPA, National Science Foundation, and Craigslist - amongst others...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/half-of-the-tor-projects-fundi... (2017 numbers article)

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tor_Project#Funding

(And people wonder why I'm stocking up on tinfoil millinery supplies...)
I try not to be too cynical, especially when the article was such a call to action, but I am often prone to it as well.

I feel like I do live a life of privilege and as such I must try to exercise that privilege in ways that won't contribute to the systemic problems as best I can--that I don't contribute to a loss of rights, nor a loss of our essential ecosystems. I do my best not to empower those who wield their power and influence to the detriment of others.

When it comes to the internet, I try to keep McLuhan in mind:
> Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.
Wait, Zoox was valued at 175B at one point? Is this true? Can you point me to any resources on this?
Yes. As they're leaving the Broadway tunnel, the map shows crosswalks and lane markings on the side that belong to a street above the tunnel.
You can. If your operation generates profit, but could grow faster by plunking the profit back into growth, the VC thing to do would be to demand you reinvest all profit towards growth. But if your business is losing money and not growing, or if its unit margins are negative à la moviepass, then it doesn't make sense to stick around for a decade.
I’m confused by this... why are layoffs happening so suddenly? Did they recently lose some large corporate sponsors? How many donations have been cut off over the last few months? Do they not have money in the bank?

From my perspective it looks like they have had ongoing financial problems, and are using this as a convenient scapegoat to cut expenses.
!! is more useful than you think. It's substitute last command here, not just up-arrow enter.

See sudo !!.
> There is nothing to fix in the functions you mentioned, and no sane implementation calls memmove() from memcpy().

Thanks. Now I know not to argue with you any more.
Thanks, agree, great book. I think of it as "Why Nations Succeed" instead. Inclusive institutions = economic generativity = non-zero sum. A more philosophical version is https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse-ebo...
Well to do folks can work from home, or not work from vacation homes, have all their needs delivered, and not catch this thing. All the "essential" people will catch it and some will die, and the well off will consider this very cheap, good, proper, and mandatory for economic reasons.

It's hardly worse than the exploitation for profit of the tobacco industry. Known for decades it would maim and kill, but millions invested in, were shareholders, were owners. And they've never been sanctioned. This will be no different. The lower class will take one for the team, again, for the greater good of society so that the better classes can live with minimal inconvenience.

By all rights, essential workers should quit. But they have a boot on their head: landlords and debts. It's economic coercion.
Yeah, but when the practice of this is different with it often being up to regulators what actually is allowed and what isn't. The obvious recent example is that GDPR enforcement is (often intentionally) not strictly following the letter of the law.
Anti-fragility of supply chains is (mostly) orthogonal to the urban/rural question.

Some big parts of why we subsidize rural areas is 1) an emergent property of allowing people to live where they choose and providing a base standard of living for every community, and 2) romanticism for our pastoral past, and an implicit belief that societies should provide the opportunity sparser living with more exposure to nature.

I don't want to brush off these aesthetic concerns as "wrong": the 100% urban megalopolises of science fiction always carry at least a tinge of dystopia, because a desire for nature and open spaces is to some degree hardwired in us. But they have nothing to do with what we're talking about, which is sustainability.

The kind of robustness you're talking about doesn't have a whole lot to do with the urban/rural divide. It's entirely possible to have an almost-universally urban population and still maintain domestic food production, either by changing agricultural practices to fit cities better or at worst by having a "skeleton crew" instead of entire communities (the number of people living in sparse communities right now is _far_ below the minimum number of people we'd need to grow food).

Again, I'm not suggesting we do this, or that there's a clear path from point A to point B. I'm just illustrating how your point is a non sequitur.
Indeed, json maps are not supposed to be ordered so doing anything that depends on the order is bound to fail.

This is the exact reason bencode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode) was invented, and I still believe we can replace all uses of json by bencode and be better off it, because it solves all too common issues:

- bencoding maps are in lexicographical order of the keys, so no confusion possible for hashing/signing (a torrent id is the hash of a bencoding map)

- bencoding is binary friendly, in fact it must be because it stores the pieces hashes of the torrent

Why don't we use bencoding everywhere ?
Yes! Law = code. Law should be turned into code, and made available to everyone. A great current attempt is https://donotpay.com/
Looks like that's for running it on linux via proton, not running on a VM.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. Imagine if your company was going through a financially difficult time, and firing becomes the only path forward. This can greatly impact the team's moral and trust in management. Using the crisis as a scapegoat makes it easier to accept the event.
All-New Mk8 Volkswagen Golf Can Talk to Other Cars (and Objects)
I "stole" data about when my co-workers were starting npm based on when I heard their laptop fans come on.
Office is a mixed bag for this. I have a Visio Pro licence that only allows a single installation. Driving me insane.
Use Bencoding, like bittorrent does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode

As I put in another comment, a torrent id is a hash of a map, where one of the keys contains binary data. bencoding solved that decades ago already.
GP said:

> Waymo's valuation has gone from $175B to $105B to $30B since 2018. Zoox specifically is now laying off engineers.

Waymo.
They said Waymo had that valuation.
To play with. I think I'd enjoy that. Also, the iPhones are cool hardware!

And I've used unlocked bootloader devices before. My threat model allows for that exploit to be performed on me should someone desire it. The utility I gain exceeds the risk = f(likelihood, loss).
IBM introduces “Pointing Stick” (TrackPoint) (1990)
Not a court, but government agencies can and do issue "guidance" documents after receiving feedback. For example, the EPA guidance on Class VI (CO2) injection wells [1] and IRS guidance on 45Q CO2 capture and storage credits [2]

[1] https://www.epa.gov/uic/class-vi-guidance-documents

[2] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-answers-and-a-safe....
Anyone who builds a new product is creating supply ahead of demand.
Cheap credit matters more as to how much of the money goes to the bank vs. the original property owner. When interest rates are higher more of the money goes to the bank, because the monthly mortgage payment each household can afford is the same but now more of it is interest.

Even eliminating banks entirely wouldn't fix it, because if Carol and Dave could pay the equivalent of the higher mortgage payment in rent every month by taking full time jobs, a rich landlord would pay the higher price for the house and then rent it to them, which means they would still get to live in the house by both working full time, until Alice and Bob do the same.

The only real way out of it is to have two houses for two households so they don't both have to bid on the same one.
Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies
The original comment you replied to explicitly mentions "at modern standards of living".
Please let me know as well, either here or via DM. I can definitely look into this.
>>You see it in transportation. Where are the supersonic aircraft? Where are the millions of delivery drones? Where are the high speed trains, the soaring monorails, the hyperloops, and yes, the flying cars?

>Because none of this stuff is economically or physically practical. He seems to want us to live in a science fiction fantasy world.

I'm pretty sure most of that stuff is highly illegal. Make things illegal, and they don't happen. It's that simple. I mean, just look at uber: it's just a glorified taxi company that was able to circumvent the taxi monopoly medallion system (yet, another system that made competition illegal). And, it took a huge army of lobbyists just to make that legal. Such a small innovation requires so much lobbying, it doesn't give hope for any other kind of innovation.

There was a start up in the bay area: all they wanted to do was put a few more buses on the street. It was rejected very quickly and made illegal. Turns out people would rather get buses off the road with all the pollution and traffic that would have saved, rather than allow workers to get to work a little easier.
He didn't have to.

Which was a good thing.

The commenter unironically using Orwellian phrasing like "be sure of the integrity of the device" shows how far we've come.
In that case, we can replace degrees with an IQ test and a personality test and call it a day. Hmmmmmm...
I’ve been having sleep issues lately. The only thing that consistently works is making the room very cold. I’ve tried meditation and less computer time and it didn’t really help, only a colder room did.

If you’re having sleep trouble give it a shot.
Web Audio Echo?
100% it’s politics, it’s self-interest. The reason why we don’t have Musk’s Alien Dreadnought factories throughout the US is related to the reason Elizabeth I rejected weaving machines; the people who have power will not gain enough from it and may even lose. Elizabeth I feared the consequences of creative disruption on her constituents, and the knock on effect that might have had to her tenuous grip on power. Today in the US we see silly policies that are pushed to make a few people rich at the expense of society as a whole. The more we are able to dismantle monopolies, and weaken the capability of incumbent industries to skew legislation in their own favor, the more society will move forward.
Any advice on how to get better at making predictions?
Those were already made years ago at the start of SDC innovation. A few companies are way beyond the worst human drivers now, there's already a massive amount of motor vehicle death caused by intoxication that we should worry about. Not fantasy robodeaths that we can count on one hand.
Great Barrier Reef 'Cloud Brightening' Experiment
Richard Garriott's Ultima Story – Retro Tea Break
* depends on rabbitmq
Hey! It's a Flutter application, so I'm using their concept of Hero animations [1]. It renders a new component (the flight shuttle?) that does the visual animation.

[1] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/animations/hero-anim...
Harvard is subsidized by the federal government and the American taxpayer several ways. It benefits from federal student loan programs. It receives federal research grants. It is allowed to be a tax-exempt institution. And it is allowed to own a tax-exempt endowment. Normal private institutions in America have none of those.
Describing the World: Data Model Patterns (2016)
Transmission via asymptotic carriers isn't a new thing. It's been known for months (e.g. the analysis of the first cluster in Germany) and is one of the main reasons this virus is so problematic.
But think of THE CHILDREN!
What's happened to the price of Las Vegas real estate since Tony bought his section?
How to Track Changes to Files
I like it - uses redis as a broker - supports crontab style periodic tasks.

I've usually had to build a small python cron runner using croniter in previous systems - which I think is a pretty clean solution - it just deferred tasks to rq workers. But having direct support in the lib might be nice.
By the way, recently discovered you can get some of these shortcuts in all input boxes by activating “emacs shortcuts” inside of gnome-tweaks! Was one of the final blockers for getting me from Mac to Linux
I wonder what you think about the necessity of the health insurance industry? Seeing as how apparently it began as a sort of subscription service to keep hospitals afloat when beds were empty... It is a lot to wrap my mind around, but I have the general feeling that insurance drives the prices of health care way up and we would be better if we could all pay out of pocket for most things, but be covered by a true 'risk mitigation' insurance solution that would kick in when indeed we got cancer, or got in a car accident or the like.
Build grid scale batteries too!
How to Sign and Release to the Central Repository with GitHub Actions
I haven't seen a test case, but I wonder if they'd still come out and support unpopular speakers?

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...

That was a classically apt appearance because no doubt a hypothetical Nazi state would ban the ACLU.

I've been personally torn about this myself. I got chewed out once by a professor for advocating that people turn out to oppose David Horowitz. My opinion was that his speech was foul and needed obvious opposition, but I didn't want him shouted down. I thought that his schtick of going to universities promoting "academic freedom" which basically meant being able to tell liberal professors to shut up was dreck. However, he was shouted down and couldn't be heard. I felt bad about that, and agreed with the professor in the end. But, in a way, the dude was getting a taste of his own medicine: he certainly advocated for deplatforming people himself.
They are too dependent on government sponsorship.
80% of their funding comes from the US government in some shape.

I would imagine that a project of that importance deserves to be able to be self-sufficient.
A US$2M budget/year is not that much, (m|b)illionaires making their money from the Internet could easily sponsor the project.

Better yet, having grass-root sponsorship is even more important.
Maybe they need marketing help more than anything else?
> But I don’t see any take on any measures governments have taken to kerb civil rights in the time of the pandemic

Part of it is that I expect that the ACLU doesn't really want to take on cases that are simply going to be moot once the state of emergency ends. I expect that their ears will perk up a little more about things that don't go back to "normal" once everything is done with.

And part of it is probably not wanting court cases to actually go through the courts unless they are sure they can win. If you send a case through to the Supreme Court right now, you may lose and set a really bad precedent.

The ACLU is likely better off fighting by lobbying and getting laws passed rather than using the courts right now.
Those appear to be just PCR tests that tell you if the person has an active infection or not. Those that are negative should get a serology test to see if they were previously infected. The combination of both of those tests would be a true indication of how far this has spread.

Of course, given how infectious this virus is, it's no wonder that half have been infected in the last 1-2 weeks at the shelter. There's probably little to no safety measures in place to help isolate homeless people at that shelter, so it would spread like wildfire.
If I'm understanding it correctly, what this sort of approach will give you is a timestamp in the prompt which is generated when the prompt is printed to the terminal and then doesn't change.

The thing is that the prompt might sit there for minutes or hours before you use it to run a command, so that timestamp doesn't reliably serve as an accurate record of when a command was run.

That's the problem which my approach addresses by updating the timestamp when a command is run.
Lately I’ve been getting into the habit of washing dishes and watching YouTube videos.

It’s lovely. For whatever reason, occupying my brain with my hands makes it easier to relax and focus attentively for an hour. Takes very little willpower.

Occasionally I find a YouTube video here and there, add it to my watch list, and stumble upon it later.

Always thankful when I find something promising.

Thank you.
Reasons You Are Not Achieving Your Goals