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This article has inspired me to make a brick. The regular kind. I have tons of clay and a forge that can melt steel, honestly it just never occured to me so now I have to try!
Somewhat off-topic, but I can't help but note the contradiction of this:

> Prosecutors said that during a search of the house, investigators found a cellphone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk — which they interpreted as “a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection” by law enforcement.

> “As these facts make plain, there should be no question that the defendant is skilled at living in hiding,” the prosecutors wrote.

So was wrapping the phone a dumb idea, or is she skilled at hiding? They should have said something like "she's accustomed to taking extreme measures to live in hiding." Or maybe this article is smashing together two quotes out-of-context.
I knew him well and he was well-liked and professionally well-regarded throughout at least my division of the company. He was a high-energy, tireless guy with great ideas and worked nearly daily with senior-level management, often traveling with them all over the world.

I, along with a whole lot of others, were absolutely dumbstruck by his profound fall from grace.
If you have enterprise IT who can disable WebRTC in your browser settings, you have a helpdesk who can whitelist approved video conferencing tools.
While I’ve added the critique to my reading list, I have yet to finish. I cannot speak to your claim the Illich’s critique is based on what he so desires (“I want a pony”), as opposed to describing a phenomenon of individual emptiness as a side-effect of Western institutions.

I agree if his long-form critique takes the structure you claim, it is of poor quality because claiming desires in not critical of anything.

However, I do disagree with your claim the critique alone is not helpful. A harsh, well formed critique is typically the very first pillar in driving change. Expecting identification and resolution in the same piece is asking too much.

I would argue to say that a critique being invalidated because it somehow must include both framing and describing a phenomenon as well as suggesting changes, each weighted by their feasibility in remedying the systemic woes, is much more fallacious.
Expensive apts are still filling in our expensive neighborhood in LA. From $2500-4000 a month.
Probably the most straightforward route is to choose a system of this type—-either a Lisp or a Smalltalk implementation—-and learn how it behaves.

The source code for both Lisp and Smalltalk implementations is readily available, but may not help you all that much until you’re at least generally familiar with what the features are and what they do. Once you’re familiar with their behavior and with reading Lisp or Smalltalk code, then you can start rummaging through the code and asking questions of the implementors. Implementors of Lisps like CCL and sbcl, and of Smalltalks like Squeak and Pharo are pretty accessible and generally pretty friendly, and they certainly know how the systems work.
No but all they see is parts identified by hashes. How are they supposed to know whether is a Linux distro or a movie?
Look into software-defined radio. An opportunity for you to learn something about FPGAs and ASICs, but good analog design skills are vitally important to make it all work in the end!
Is that abandoned? digging deeper I see the test suite has been down for at least a year.
I'm curious about this as well, and the search box still refers to Pika.dev
That article is very wishy washy with the details but this is the key quote:

> And because the theoretical energy savings of glass recycling appear to be relatively slim, it could mean that actual savings depend on lots of devilish details — how far the glass is shipped, how dispersed are the neighborhoods from which glass is collected, whether people make special car trips to recycling centers, etc.

Glass recycling is only efficient when most parameters are just right to make it economical. That includes local supply and demand of the right kind of inputs/outputs to reduce transportation and collection costs, whether a truck collects the recyclables or if homeless people do it, etc.

The margin for glass recycling is razor thin compared to aluminum so the former is rarely as environmentally friendly as the latter (although I'm excited to see what newer furnace tech can do)
> The stock is trading at 166 times estimated earnings over the next year, 20 times book value and seven times sales.

This will be an unpopular opinion, but there should be more barriers to entry to trading securities on the markets. The hyper democratization of the stock market will only increase the frequency and the magnitude of stock bubbles, which distorts the markets. This is because most people are fad followers. Herd behavior makes markets inefficient.
I've been googling about this same exact issue for the last week seeing if there are any "fixes". damn.
https://www.cnet.com/videos/facebook-built-a-fiber-optic-spe...

has a video that shows this robot in action
You can bet against TSLA with put options, but given its volatility, they are very expensive.
That guy pirated for the glory of being the first to share it with his peers. I wouldn't be surprised if he was willing to pay for that.
Bye? Nothing says commitment like a 35 minutes old throwaway account, like you said ...
You completely missed the point of what I was saying.

The US government should not ban me from choosing to use a crappy entertainment app. Yes, I realize that an app which is owned by a Chinese company who stores its servers and data in China is governed by Chinese laws.

> what is wrong with you guys that you are supporting a totalitarian government?

I'm not. I'm just saying that anything short of a blanket ban on an entertainment product is not tantamount to "supporting a totalitarian government". You are missing all of the shades of gray. You can't post to HackerNews without using {a phone, a computer, and internet connection, etc} which provided revenue to a company in China, which according to your logic "supports the totalitarian government".

Also there is a philosophy called accelerationism[1] which is the inverse of what you propose, but which may get to the end point (freedom from the CCP) faster than your proposed solution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Very impressive. The problem seems much more daunting than what is typically tackled with robotics. Kudos to the team. Does this mean that the electric utilities will be joining the cable tv and telephone utilities in offering internet services or do the economics only work in locales with electric transmission right-of-ways alone?
The studies you cite focus on the use of masks to protect the wearer of the mask. The purpose of masks is not to protect the wearer of the mask but to protect others.

In simple hand-waving terms the mask diffuses the wearer's exhalation reducing the velocity of the air stream and its contained particles, thereby reducing the distance the particles can travel and increasing the odds that the particles drop out of the airstream and onto a surface before they encounter another person.

The diffusive effects of masks does not provide a 100% barrier but given that Covid-19 appears to be predominantly transmitted via airborne particles rather than surface contact, mask wearing can still have a large impact on transmission without being directly protective of the wearer.
I previously worked as Product lead for a homegrown CMS for one of the large media companies. We built a solution to address a myriad of content types (images, videos, voice, news articles, games, etc), For content in all major languages. I like this, and happy to chat if you want to get a perspective.
I hate to be that guy, but who would pay for it? The barebones and dull textbooks we have now came about because their publishers chase government money.

I'm even less hopeful there's a profit from selling to individuals or homeschool groups.
No, the adjustment happens every 2016 blocks. If you lose 99.99% of global hash rate, those 2016 blocks will take a million years, instead of two weeks, to compute.
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Apart from there being a 'right answer', there does appear to be an answer for how many people we will be: the world population is expected to level off at 11 billion or so as global birthrates drop off (mainly as most countries catch up to a transition a few have already gone through). Without substantial changes to our society it seems it will stay there or slowly decline.
>Stability has always been a major driving force in Germany

I just wanted to take that out of context.
The headstart is all the data they've collected by having actual cars, on actual roads, driven by actual humans.

The idea is that gathering this data may be a prerequisite to resolving the bajillions fringe-cases that are currently in the way of level 4 autonomy.
Sounds like a more rigorously engineered form of the Compressed Earth Brick. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Compressed_Earth_Blo...
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Given FBI's history of turning imagined non-crimes into press-releasable criminal cases (eg: agency hand-crafted terror plots, CFAA violations), one could easily wind up with two bad guys to deal with.
Yep, trying to give myself extra time to forget the exact intent of the writing and revisiting it later was my primary approach through school. However the absolute lifesaver since then has been text-to-speech software. Listening to my writing being read back to me makes it absolutely obvious when I used an incorrect word.
In the UK, they do not have the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine. Parallel Reconstruction is not needed to bypass admissibility constraints because those constraints don't exist in the first place.

Parallel Reconstruction is used to avoid scrutiny of the original source of evidence. Even when used to legitimate ends (and I have doubts how often it's used as such), there are fundamental problems with dodging accountability.
What they fail to mention is that you lose the ability to remove unused code, for example when you would otherwise import only some Bootstrap components' JS.

So in the end, their hosted copy might be much larger than if you had hosted an optimized copy yourself.

Using their service, it is also impossible for you to merge small dependencies and your application logic into one file to reduce the number of HTTP requests. The resulting higher number of gets might well make it slower than not using their CDN in the first place.
They don't debunk anything.

The last study you quote says "this highlights the importance of safety practices including face masks and ocular contact precautions in preventing the spread of COVID-19 disease.". Another is a meta-study of very few low quality studies. The osha guidelines are essentially just explaining that respirators are important in some settings, which nobody serious doubts. Another just determines that respirators are more effective than cloth masks. Doh.

Just quoting a bunch of half related studies doesn't make a fact.
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how non-trivial?

https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb-server is prolog but it's well beyond just 'non-trivial'

maybe poke around here: https://github.com/klaussinani/awesome-prolog

it's got a markdown parser linked https://github.com/rla/prolog-markdown
dont have AirPods but had over the ear headphones that had similar rattling issues that were just the result of a small hair getting through the mesh and interacting with the driver
My guess is because in the US, the municipality usually does not own the power-line or pole, and in the instances the municipality does own its electrical lines and poles, it has probably already deployed fiber.

Also, having the fiber mounted lower on the pole means one can repair one or the other in isolation.

The FB method seems like it could be dangerous for repairs, but I would like to see it applied in real life, too.

So, legal and liability issues.
Firms will just keep removing plans that help the poorest users as they work to get ARPU higher. This has to happen anyway because the major firms are under huge mountains of debt.

They cant be allowed to fall, because then the only name in town is reliance, which would be even worse.

What people are forgetting is that 1) Firms already raised prices and 2) that its not about data.

Its about a competitive market. We used to have this, and it even created the thriving VAS industry for a while. That died because of classic rent seeking behavior by telecoms over the VAS firms, killing that entire engine of ingenuity.

Telecom industries are know for bad results (see America, or Australia) when its not structured correctly.

Everyone who is focusing just on prices is unaware of the number of failures and missed opportunities resulting from bad telecom market structures.

Take Net neutrality, given the telcos way, it would have long been lost and rent seeking structures would have grown on top of it - it would recreate the bundled world of cable television over the net.

This means that poor users would never get a chance to look at products which compete purely on features and value - they would look at products that are "Jio Free" or "Vodafone plus", where having a hook up with the ISP is more important than features.

Looking at it in terms of "hey prices are low" is missing the great risk this industry is in.
> today's world of oligopolies and company consolidation

How long until we have to sign a license agreement before we can use an OpAmp? Oh, and the license is only valid for consumer applications. Want to use the OpAmp for enterprise applications? That'll cost you more.

That's if we're lucky. In a darker scenario, all OpAmp designs have been bought by Apple, and you can't even use one if you opened your iPhone because the function has been integrated into the CPU.
Given its huge population which is a growing market, it does make sense putting data centers closer home.

Cheap power and cooling might be a factor, but India is also building huge solar and wind capacities, and not to forget the solar alliance and cross border solar energy exchange/grid.
"I don't understand. If they decide to hire more in India they won't need H-1Bs any more."

That's exactly the point I was trying to make, that the former H-1B individuals will be hired to work at these new facilities in their homeland instead of bringing them to the bay area, as they no longer have physical working spaces here due to Covid-19 office closures and remote WFH for the foreseeable future.

Tech companies can then divest their expensive bay area real estate and shrink their HQ footprints to be a more global workforce and at the same time establish themselves in India and create custom hardware fabs away from Shenzhen and China, with lower cost savings of labor in India.

This will lower their H-1B hiring and talent acquisition costs drastically and the best and most talented H-1B's can instead work from the comfort of their home countries (e.g. India).

Thoughts?
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This already happens. I once had a conversation with a Homeland Security officer at a backyard BBQ, and he said:

"When you see on the news that Police randomly stopped a car and discovered a huge cache of drugs... you don't actually think that's random, do you?"

TBH I had never thought about it before but now I recognize this pattern everywhere.
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> if anything we need to inspire other countries about the benefits of democracy.

I think the US needs to look outward to functional democracies before we try to "inspire" other countries with our broken corruption. What the USA calls lobbying other OECD countries is criminal bribery and all other political dysfunction in the US rolls downhill from there.

I'm not blinded to think "China is doing good stuff", but I'm highly suspicious that we should see ourselves as any better than them right now. We are completely unable to address lots of our own {civil, legal, justice, health, economics, ethics, etc} issues.
The first effect maybe that the increasing dollar creation rate needed to sustain the functioning of American economy may exceed the ability of foreign countries to absorb them.
Brick exteriors do not burn. Brick exteriors are much more rugged to the elements. Brick exteriors do not require maintenance of painting, etc. Brick exterior houses are cheaper to insure. There's lots of reasons for brick exterior than just aesthetics.
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To second your comment, I think non ML folks don't understand how much of an impact dataset curation can have on model performance. More high-quality data will outshine clever network architectures with less data. I've seen it again and again. But the thing is, it's so hard to really curate your data once the dataset has a lot of "dimensionality" to it (sorry couldn't think of a better word...). To be honest, if I were to pick an area of dev-tool I'm most excited about over the next 5 years, this area is probably it.
Also consider that it's not as impressive a list as it rhetorically seems. If you spit into a crowd of people at least 30 years old, you'll probably hit a person who has done at least 10 of them, maybe more.
that has a particularly irritating slant that I've observed in a lot of articles in this space.

literally. it's slanted. Drives me bonkers!

I spend so much time carefully aligning my documents on the scanner bed , and closing the lid as slowly as possible so as not to introduce a draft that will move it... maybe I'm too sensitive about this.
What is CT in this context?
> The adjustment happens every 2 weeks.

...assuming very slow change in hash rate, yes. A rapid increase makes it happen sooner, a rapid loss can stretch it out.
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Love that site, still feels like the old days of the Web to look at the huge list of webcams
Author is trying to convince noone else but himself.

I've added him to my crypto revenge bookmarks, which is full of toxi maxis, salty nocoiners and other crypto nay sayers.

Will taunt in a few decades once bitcoin has successfully eaten the world.
I remember that well. Didn't know the guy but I knew several who did know him before the bust but, oddly enough, very few after.
Ahh, I just remembered another quote I should have mentioned:
"To discover new things, you have to work on ideas that are good but non-obvious; if an idea is obviously good, other people are probably already working on it. One common way for a good idea to be non-obvious is for it to be hidden in the shadow of some mistaken assumption that people are very attached to." http://www.paulgraham.com/nov.html
I've spent most of the last decade making fun of Robinhood, but their expansion to new markets, and user experiences, have been a force of change that I must commend!

I can gladly sell my order flow for in exchange for a more efficient and liquid options market with no commissions, it makes many more theoretical strategies much more viable, and allows for risk management possibilities I could only dream of. The liquidity of course comes from Robinhood users and I rarely use Robinhood myself, but my preferred platforms do charge for options contracts, so there is a use case for some activity on Robinhood if I use many contracts.

The way they monetize user data as a primary business model is novel for a brokerage firm, and very similar to adtech and big tech but with just a few much more lucrative clients that would probably pay even more than they already do for that edge. At the same time, selling client order flow in a nice easy package is probably the only data brokering that seems fair and will survive regulatory scrutiny when user data-property rights gain legislative foothold.
Btw, for anyone interested, here's a good/quick talk by Andrej Kapathy on what it will take to build the next software stack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y57wwucbXR8&t=3s
Same here. I torrented a doz distros but only one logged. Nothing I'm seeding shows up.

My dynamic IP can go a year w/o changing. I have to re-spoof my MAC when I want a new one.
Is there a movement, say Informational Philosophy, that embodies your thought on this? I find it interesting, but philosophers have typically used long form prose to build up their logical theories and arguments.

Your argument seems to be that language is not conducive to our brains forming the graph-like relationships the prose builds up. I do not know have an intimate enough understanding of linguistics to understand if modern theories support this view.
Yes, that is the rub.

In certain locales, it will require the cooperation of several legal entities.
It seems to me that "belief in experts" or not is kind of analogous to the longstanding conflict in Western culture between Catholicism vs. Protestantism.

I mean, philosophically, both sides have good points about fundamental flaws of the other.
Anyone more experienced with fiber deployments--what happens when one of these km-long fibers gets damaged in a storm? Can fiber be easily spliced in the field, or does it have to be substantially replaced?
It's not that small. I can name more Indian startups than Western European startups, and I have never even been to India. Of course everywhere is small compared to the US, but for what it is, India holds its own.
It might reduce BLE range, but would not disable cell service or wi-fi.

https://youtu.be/TkUTUVeuimE

Sounds more like someone who doesn’t know how things actually work, but wants to hide and knows that something like that should be done to radio devices if you want to hide.
Not going to end well...
"(when G. Maxwell arrested)"

Well this is a rather unfortunate name collision. Sorry, Greg.
This would require significant collaboration between banks, seems unlikely.
What's so wrong with a HTTPS REST API call that you need a Zero-Knowledge proof posted on a public mainnet protocol?
I was just on Apple's support page for this exact issue. I ordered my pros on launch day so I was hoping it was a quality control issue from the first batch.

One thing I've noticed is that the rattling noise goes away if I disable noise cancellation. It seems to be an issue with the NC microphones.
China is not a democracy anymore.
If I am accused of a crime, I have the right to face my accusers and contest all of the evidence against me. Parallel construction is deliberately depriving me of that right, by lying in court. The fact that it's common shouldn't make us lose track of that.
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> We have coined the word “meta-circular” to indicate the basic character of this interpreter:
It defines each feature of the defined language by using the corresponding feature of the
defining language.

> For example, when eval is applied to an application expression (lambda
expression, conditional expression, recursive let expression) of the defined language, it
evaluates an application expression (lambda expression, conditional expression, recursive
let expression) in the defining language.

> Similarly, the initial environment defines the basic
functions of the defined language in terms of the same functions in the defining language.

I have no idea why the author thought "meta-circular" was a useful name. I think the weird name has hindered students of interpreted languages like LISP.