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Who's really in power? They're the ones you can't offend. Or else.
Student’s T always seemed odd to me.
I was just pointing out what OP suggested is illegal. Not sure why you need to question my personal choices in life and make up some malicious intent for doing that.
I think we're breaking a record for number of sarcastic comments in a thread.
How do I create a mirror of Github?
What a disgrace. It's really true that those who are actually in power are those you can't talk about (that would be China).
The Houston backlash is just starting to fade. NBA is trying to avoid a repeat of this:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/business/houston-rockets-nba-...
Can you put “Free Palestine” on them?
Student’s T-test/distribution:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student's_t-test
Holy shit. This is some absolutely astonishing levels of idiocy. Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop.

I know this because it was something that became apparent to me when I was a young CTO. Any fully-qualified person, with experience, in their 40s-50s will not take enormous amounts of shit without throwing it right back. Younger, less experienced folks, will not jeopardize their "opportunity" and instead will shovel the shit down the latter. Young people will not push back and instead will seek to make their "sponsor" happy.

While it once hurt my ego to say it, I've come to terms with it, talent has shit all to do with opportunity, most of it is, if not all, is luck.
And yet, those examples do fit. Saudi Arabia has "vastly different levels of wealth" but much less liberalism precisely because of how that wealth was achieved (not through competition, building an internal market, developing a middle class etc, but by digging holes on the ground where basically money comes out in the form of oil - holes which are tied to the owning families).

So the development is still economic it's just not merely about "amount of wealth" but about the process in which the wealth was created too.

A self-made guy with a 1 billion wealth is more likely than not a savvy businessman.

A guy who won 1 billion in the super-lottery is not - even though both have 1 billion.
That’s just a copy-writer or reviewer comment. The actual book is more scholarly, calm and reasoned, starting with a tour of how the economic theory of value evolved and the impact of it on real economic activity.

You would think that by now that the professional wordsmiths writing reviews and book-jacket comments would realize people are developing cognitive immunities and resistances to inflammatory language like that, and that it’s losing its effectiveness.
It's spycraft, a way for US culture and influence to penetrate China. It's deliberate.
Github's site for this has much more detail on the technical aspects of this: https://archiveprogram.github.com/. Their data archival goals are even more ambitious than burying it in the Arctic. The GitHub Archive Program is partnering with Microsoft’s Project Silica to ultimately archive all active public repositories for over 10,000 years, by writing them into quartz glass platters using a femtosecond laser.

Worth considering swapping the submitted link out for the original source, per the HN guidelines. I would suggest the original blog post: https://github.blog/2020-07-16-github-archive-program-the-jo....
Well then allow me to extend a hand from the other side of the aisle and point out that articles like this off and read like love letters to a much more authoritarian era. Often containing words like "value" and "culture" which appear to be little more then a thinly-veiled rebuke of cultural liberty.

In the top posted article here, it's a depressing truth that it's impossible for us to tell what the author means to say until they write more about it, because words like "the west" and "Culture" I've been deeply co-opted by reactionary discourse.

So I'm keeping an open mind, but I definitely want to point out that there's nothing special about Western governments when it comes to a slow slide into fascism.
Given the content of the linked article, I heartily recommend taking a peek at Peter Turchin's work on Secular Cycles (1). He also keeps a blog, where he expands on some of the ideas. Not a light reading, though. The best introduction to his work was a book review at now deleted slatestarcodex - maybe it can be retrieved by internet archive.

Based on the dataset he and his colleagues compiled, civilizations big enough for internal dynamics tend to exhibit these characteristics during their stagnation phase:

* stagnating or declining real wages

* increasing rents

* decrease in social cohesion

* increasing inequality

* increasing urbanization (mostly due to no rural opportunities)

* more people pursuing education, arts and crafts in hopes of joining the elite. This sounds as a plus, until you realize it's caused by inability to keep a decent standard of living in traditional occupations

* sharpening intra-elite competition, leading to a gradual abandonment of previous norms. Dirty tricks become more and more commonplace

* crisis amplification - non-issues turn into crises, challenges turn into disasters

* 'overproduction of elites' leads to increasing corruption and rent seeking

* stagnating wages and increasing corruption leads to strain on public finances

Turchin's contribution lies mainly in providing historical statistics to back these claims, the novel mechanics of 'elite overproduction' and 'elite aspirants', and overlaying a secondary generational cycle, when a clique of elites keep power for too long (30-50 year cycle, think of Boomers in US or WW2 veterans in USSR).

(1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8778747-secular-cycles
This is a big post. I'll point out what is especially interesting in terms of equivalences.

A square matrix on the Booleans is indeed also equivalent to a directed graph, as explained. It is also equivalent to a Chu space [0], specifically a sort of unitary Chu transformation.

We can specialize slightly. Let our square matrices be upper triangular; that is, let the lower triangle not including the diagonal be all 0/false. Then the corresponding graph is a DAG. (Apologies if this was in the article; I saw hints of it, but never the direct statement!) The corresponding Chu space has poset structure. These three facts are all related by fourth fact that the matrix's rows are labels for a topological sorting of the DAG, and the fifth fact that DAGs are equivalent to posets; we obtain a sixth fact that posets are equivalent to upper triangular Boolean matrices.

[0] http://chu.stanford.edu/
Interesting to think about this alongside Long Tien Nguyen and Alan Kay's paper "The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015" (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510649

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf
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This kind of cronyism and disdain for expertise is going to destroy America.
Be aware about a couple of issues in the implementation:

- The Warp handlers are blocked by the use of thread-blocking synchronization primitives (locks, channels) - which might harm performance and can even lead to deadlocks.

- The architecture with "passing work off to a threadpool via a chnanel and waiting for it to complete" is not very resilient, and prone to behave badly under high load. The reason is basically the inifinite queuing - if new requests come in faster than previous ones can be processed the queue length (and thereby the memory footprint of the app) will grow and grow. At some point the application will just be busy serving old queued up requests, which might already have timed out on the client side and potentially even being retried. That's a vicious circle, and you can only get out ot it by shutting down the app. One way to fix this is to limit the queue/channel size and perform load-shedding on requests which can not be enqueued.
Management is only one part of a CTO's job. An effective CTO needs to have strong technical acumen, so that they know what to prioritize, who to empower, and how to effectively communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders and partners. In addition, they need to have credibility in the eyes of the technical teams they lead. This usually comes in the form of past technical accomplishments, but can also be fulfilled via strong credentials, depending on the organization. In the case of Pentagon, which is a very formal organization, credentials will be absolutely necessary, which is why I think this guy is going to be... not very effective at his job.
The technlogy to read microfilm is relatively primitive (I mean you still require lenses and a bright light source but you don't require a computer or advanced electronics).
> Honestly not trying to be snarky.

I'll take that at face value.

> If what you quoted is the dog whistle, what is the decoded message that the in crowd would be hearing?

Both tie closely into bog-standard reactionary and white nationalist rhetoric. The first is a dogwhistle for "the great replacement," or the conspiracy theory that Europeans (meaning, to them, whites) are being intentionally replaced by migrants as a method of control. The latter ties closely to a crowd that calls themselves "white nationalist" but not "white supremacist" -- they insist that they don't believe in the superiority of whites, and only want isolation for "fundamentally different cultures" (by which they mean races). It should be apparent that this is really just white supremacy with more steps, especially if (as this introduction proposes) the European continent functionally becomes the landlord and benevolent overseer of a migrant nation.
You can find yourself on a CBP list if you import counterfeit goods.

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...
Haven't we all made a note app by now?

I spent over a month at "TodoMVC.com" playing with frameworks. After all that I couldn't decide which one I should use and ended up deciding not to use any of them and then made my own.

And I don't use it much either :D

I do look at new ones still though. Some of them have so many features that just the notion of spending the time learning how to use them puts me off.

As I write this I'm looking at 4-5 sheets of paper scattered on my desk with notes scribbled all over them.
In the past 3 years or so, there is a native d3d9 implementation in mesa which is used by wine. There's also vkd3d, which is a wine implementation of dx12 on top of vulkan.

I don't think the real direct3d binaries are used by default anymore, unless you go out of your way to configure it that way.
That’s a possibility, but the build up in explaining those conclusions is in depth and comprehensive. The exploration of the problem space is worth reading, even if you disagree with the conclusions and solution proposals.
The web version has an incredibly obnoxious bug when it comes to using Enter.

On Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 hitting Enter once will not go to the next line. Hit Enter again and it will go down two lines.

Works fine in Chromium but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to use Firefox, especially when Apple pretends to champion privacy...
Assuming you verified you own the mineral rights since deed of property does not necessarily convey deed of mineral rights, which is a costly process in its own right.
The difference is that supporting BLM earns them more money. Supporting Hong Kong loses them money. Don't make the mistake of assuming anyone with the power to make these types of decisions gives a single shit about the humanitarian aspect of any of these things.
A degree doesn’t properly define the skills level of a person. Having some kind of a track record is a lot more helpful. Neither seem to be present (at the surface at least). The only thing that is present is a solid network.

Then again. That does seem to be the single most important asset one can have to get where they want to be.
Whoever his PR people are did a bang-up job on Social Media /SEO by making him say he likes painting little buses as a hobby. This displaced the previous top results for the search term "Boris Bus" (i.e. the bus with the 350 million GBP lie). It was very "Black Mirror".
GPT-3 is more likely to revolutionize its industry the way the flying car didn't than mirror bitcoin's success.
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The memes making fun of the NBA kowtowing to the CCP have been circulating since last year, IIRC. It's a sad state of things.
It's more insidious than that. You can think you've convinced a human whereas you've just spent your energy on a bot. Assuming "political arguments on social media" has any relevance to voted cast, that's a vote for your side which doesn't happen.
This is something that could literally be productionized today.
I disagree. As a French-American married to a Brit, I have to say British women are exceedingly good-looking for the most part.
Taking cold storage to another level.

Short video about the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzI9FNjXQ0o
Pretty sure some cards you can freeze in their app. Most cards can send alerts on transactions, so wouldn’t be hard to automate most of it.

Set up something to sum transactions over x days, and have it test you when it hits the limit.
They're quite supportive of profitable activism.

https://www.nba.com/article/2020/07/03/nba-union-approve-soc...
That app was awesome and it's functionality found its way into the Microsoft Pix app.
Not sure if you've used Elixir, but if so, how would you say it compares to Erlang?

I've spent a single day with Elixir and really liked it (if it was statically typed, I would have stuck with it), but I've only ever seen Erlang code (and stack traces), and honestly, the syntax looks really intimidating.
Hi HN, author here! This post discusses some research I and my colleagues at McGill have been working on recently, borrowing ideas from graph theory and linear algebra to model computation. If any of these topics interests you, feel free drop me an email at bre@ndan.co -- would love to get your feedback about GPGPU compilation, boolean function analysis, abstract rewriting systems or any of the topics discussed. Thanks!
Btw, that was the pricing model that I launched my ecommerce platform with. I only pivoted it to the now common saas subscription after the first year (basically a move of desperation at the time)
How many CFOs do you know that have a degree in Computer Science? Specialization is important in engineering for the same reason it is in finance (and not a lot of engineers are picked as CFO). Engineers _could_ be good at it, but it kind of shows a laughably shallow understanding of finance to think that would work as a rule rather than an exceedingly rare exception.
https://archive.is/7nDfr
how does one swap the link in HN? one can only edit the title text.
The paper of the approach: https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
There was an article recently about people pursuing romantic relationships with chatbots. I thought there was a big HN discussion about it, but the only thing I've been able to find is this WSJ piece

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22833407

(So I think it was some other story on the same topic.)
Little Caesar was a co-founder’s nickname.
There is a big difference between not spoiling the 'america #1' for a big target audience and not talking about human rights violations to avoid being locked out by a government.

One is about the sensitivities of the people buying, one is about a government forcefully taking over a country and that government stopping you from saying anything about it.
You can actually see if the code you contributed made it there. I have an "Arctic Code Vault Contributor" badge in my profile now.
http://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Metal Gear Solid in this thread (although I really enjoy all the indie suggestions).

Each MGS game is essentially an epic interactive movie[^], with individual cutscenes lasting up to an hour.

Granted not everyone likes Kojimas style, but those who do won't regret their time. Best played sequentially from MGS2.

[^] MGS5 is a notable exception as an open-world style game and an abrubt ending, ultimately leading to Kojima leaving Konami. Still good fun and brings some of the stories from earlier games together.
That might not be what you want to hear, but 70k in NYC is a bad salary..

Why wuld you want a side hustles when you can double your salary ? That may not be easy, but it's doable. Side hustles: improves; so you can get a good salary.
Did they include all dependencies?
This is now a republic of oligarchs. They're dividing the government as they see please.
"Try doing Liberia again, this time we'll definitely get all those darkies out!"
Historically it's a what? For some reason Japanese have a cultural tradition of eating KFC on Christmas Eve, did they just lose the culture war?
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> The NBA has a bigger fanbase in China than in the USA.

Só what? Why should that dictate what letters I can or cannot put o the custom jersey I buy myself and pay with my own money?
I'm sorry for the question, but I'm reading this sort of
opinion more and more frequently here:

Do you think the whole world has a right to enter Europe?
Isn't this an amazing form of entitlement?
The blowback in the form of deleterious effects to US culture and free speech seems to outweigh any benefit we are getting.
That happens when you replace a population that lives sustainably (Native Americans) with a population that does not care about sustainability (Modern Americans).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Bison_sk...

Converting material wealth with an intrinsic value (a healthy environment, biodiversity) into abstract wealth without an intrinsic value (a number in a bank account) is really the dumbest thing to do.

Once we are done converting every resource into a money, the resulting balance will surely be very useful to satisfy our needs.

"When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money."
It's a joke between students of quantum mechanics that to get operator from a function according to the principle of least action you have to put "^" above the function name.
Federal agents often wear "Police" because that is the most well recognized word to indicate law enforcement - and works in multiple languages.

The point is to ensure that arrestees know they are law enforcement.

There is no legal requirement to indicate they are police, let alone the specific department they are in. An undercover officer can arrest someone without any badge or marking at all.

> an FBI agent is not allowed to identify as a police officer?

I don't know what gave you that impression. They are law enforcement officers with the jurisdiction to arrest anywhere in the US.
The West has been through this version of the fight before. Can’t draw Muhammad cartoons? Can’t say Free Hong Kong?

I don’t want to see our top institutions buckle like this.

This is a real fight, it keeps popping up. These things are worth protecting.
It's particularly egregious to be promoting yourself as an organization that opposes racism when you are making money selling jerseys and shoes sown by Uygher slaves in concentration camps. There is a systematic government program to rape, forcibly sterilize, and ethnically cleanse this population.

The NBA, together with the stars taking the merchandise contracts need to admit that they have zero problem with racism, genocide, rape, and slavery as long as it's not their own people and as long as they can profit from it. I think the public would respect them more if they did that.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Lebron's gotta eat.
Liberal western values were invented hundreds of years before modern levels of wealth.

Wealth and security has the opposite effect. People take it for granted and that security becomes more important than the western values of liberty, etc.
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Admins (dang, for example) will occasionally notice a request like this and make the change.
I think he is being voted down for many reasons but not for the point you make.

When someone makes statements calling all American racists against non-whites they forget millions of non-white American people they casually toss aside to make their point. In this day and age can we move past that the false premise that all Americans are white?
Curiously enough JavaScript was in fact designed to run on the server too, Netscape LiveWire shipped it in 1995.
The moderators will do it when they see the post. I haven't submitted a link in a really long time, but I don't think the submitter can change it. Makes sense to reserve it for the mods, given the implications of a regular user swapping out the link of a highly visible post.
I said "normally". I don't think anyone considers Linux or httpd "old tech", neither they are "legacy software" that experienced developers are running away from. C might be old as a language, but there are still modern things being built with it. I also said that the issue is not the age itself or the tech stack.
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How has this not been flagged or removed lmao. Dang pls!
great. thanks for sharing.
one e-mails the moderators (contact link in the footer) and asks them to do it.
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Yes, absolutely, and so should you if you're smart.
I find Google Keep convenient it's simple and quick.

Colour coding of notes, pinning notes, add a url to a note all basic stuff I find useful.

The only missing feature is categories but I can do that manually. I add a header like "Tip" for notes I may need for work. Other categories I make up may be "Groceries " or what context the not related to.

I prefer fast and simple over anything needlessly complex I mean it's quick notes not a thesis.
Here's the original article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-13/microsoft...

One of the fascinating parts of this, to me, was this whole thing was about permanence... and at the same time, Nat's home burnt down.
It doesn't have to be surprising to be outrageous.
Effectively, yes. But I attach no greater philosophical significance to that than to say drilling holes is solved because most people can go buy a nice electric drill foR $30-$40. Flying to the moon is solved, too.
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You can't, unless your question is "how do I mirror a github repo?"

I'm currently indexing thousands of GitHub repos for analytics reasons, and if you don't play nice (fetch infrequently), GitHub will throttle/terminate your connection.
Sadly not quite in the same vein, but the Killing field seems rather vicious until you know it's just named after Wilhelm Killing. (EDIT: Sorry, I didn't notice klyrs mentioned it 2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890735 .)
:-) fun. Tnx for sharing.

Bluetooth: tenth-century king Harald Bluetooth united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom. (re: uniting communication protocols)

I guess it's not so surprising bc why the heck is it named after a tooth (had been thinking... the shape of a Bluetooth dongle? Lol) but still, this is a pretty obscure ref.
Asylum is, in fact, a fundamental right. Deciding this is one of the consequences of the liberal / Enlightenment project that supposedly also makes Europe worth preserving.
It's completely off topic, but articles like this one are the reason why I love HackerNews so much and don't tell anyone about it.