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I might be the only person who dislikes traveling. To me, traveling is an expensive way to explore food, museums and maybe some overcrowded landmarks. I went to Paris, Tokyo, and all we did was followed a guidebook of one touristy place after another.

Instead, I prefer to save that money to do something here locally. Maybe go get a nice dinner at the French Laundry. Or rent a convertible and cruise around in Californian weather. Yes, just because it’s local doesn’t mean that it’s any less. If I lived in Paris, I would want to check out my own city thoroughly. Explore corners of Paris every weekend.

Traveling is overrated IMO. I hate the logistics, I somewhat dislike the experience as a whole but maybe some places are fun. Especially like going to Asian cities where it is a whole another world.

Here in America where I live, there is so much stuff to see already. Just do a cross country road trip for 3 weeks. Totally unmatched experience.

Tourists, no matter how “covert”, are basically treated like a commodity and no one really gives a shit about you as a tourist to come and explore the culture.

Tourism was incredible 40 years ago probably when mobility wasn’t that accessible. $400 flights to Asia and Europe has killed it for me just by the virtue of explosion of tourism. I want genuine connection with foreign cultures. Off beaten paths are actually quite beaten up, despite of what you think.
Being a contractor or freelancer has more in common with those sort of businesses.
Wait, you think prism was discontinued?
I’m a former VC-backed founder and I liked the post, but this part made me cringe:

> To be ambitious often means things like wanting to do a Ph.D, become a medical doctor or an astronaut.

Why should it be considered ambitious to do a PhD or become a medical doctor. Those are just slogs that most people can get through if they stick it out... Something is very wrong with our cultural preconceptions around ambition. It’s like real ambition is now so taboo we can’t even talk about it or something... Can anybody explain it to me like I’m 5yo?
"Just wait two more weeks"? A request that's become almost cliché during COVID times.

It doesn't actually matter what the disease does after the summer holidays (an arbitrary point given virus lag times). It's not a dangerous disease. There is no justification for it even now, or even at the beginning, knowing what we know today.
That’s right. I’ve seen arguments over which scheme is better, but the second game’s scheme is definitely more orthodox.

I also keep hearing ME1’s combat described as “clunky” and ME2’s as “smoother”. Without much experience with this type of game, I think I just don’t have the skills to feel the difference.
I’ve only ever been a people manager in a remote only world, but I’ve also successfully ramped up plenty new hires, most of home have been more successful than those who started on in person teams in the same cohort.

I suspect the biggest issue to overcome was ensuring new hires have lots of time carved out for them across the team and ensuring they take advantage of it. When you can go physically knock on someones door you are harder to ignore then an IM or channel message, and it is more natural. Getting the team culture to be responsive to new members took deliberate work, but now it seems to be self perpetuating.

As for coordination, deliberate use of process and tooling helps a lot, but it remains challenging. We seem to get good value from all extra the formal meetings the article mentions, but there is still difficulty making sure everyone is on the same page at the detail level.
Several new treatments have emerged. I just read ICU survival rates are are down nearly 20%.
I once had a friend who was bleeding from a head wound from getting attacked on the street. Not life threatening, but messy.

The complication was that it was 1am, new year’s day (NYE night, an hour after midnight), on Union Square in NYC, and it was raining.

Not ideal conditions in the pre-Uber world.

Had I not had $400 in cash to flag down a limo(!) and dissuade him from his scheduled appointment, she would have spent the next 3 hours bleeding either on the subway or on foot as we walked back to Brooklyn.

Another time, I got stopped on the highway to the Cancun airport driving back from Tulum. The cop kept saying something about how he would have to write me a ticket, over and over again. Eventually it clicked, and I asked “is it okay if I just pay the fine here?”

Sometimes, cash saves the fuckin’ day.
I really hope you are right, but sometimes when people are scared, it feels safer to think of the victim as "the other". Someone which while maybe didn't quite got justice, got what was coming.

This is one time I hope for esprit de corps to prevail, oddly enough.
> Making coffee with a normal espresso machine is so easy. You can learn how to do it in 5 minutes (not barista quality, but at least as good as Nespresso)

This is not correct, also keeping in mind that it doesn't exist a "normal" espresso machine - the setup is espresso machine and grinder.

I'm into espresso, and it takes a lot of effort to make consistent shots.

Independently of the quality (to remove the "snob" factor), Nespresso machines are quite consistent. So if one likes the result, they can stick with that and know what they'll get.

Beginners and/or low-end equipment, produce very inconsistent shots. There's nothing inherently wrong, but that adds a crucial dimension in the comparison.

One may prefer potentially worse but consistent espresso (=Nespresso), than potentially better but wildly inconsistent ones (=beginner+low-end semiautomatic/grinder).
Could someone please explain to me what the value in this article is?

It's written by a 18 year old who has never started a company

So, as someone who has started multiple companies and currently running a profitable albeit small startup, what insights should I get from this article?
It's trivial to use ZFS on NixOS, including on the root partition.

The legal position is that ZFS is open source under a copyleft license but that many people think that it's illegal to bundle it with the Linux kernel because of some (I think unintended) incompatibilities between its license and the Linux kernel's license. Canonical (and some others) disagree, and think that it's legal. It's only the bundling that's at issue - everyone agrees that it's legal to use with Linux once you have both.

See https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-licensing-and-linux for Canonical's opinion.
They had schools before air conditioning. All we had when I was a kid were big oscillating fans on the wall, and that was the 1990’s. I think Georgia will have it easy, because winter will be the real impediment.
Interesting project. Getting a reading in radio spelling is easy to do. But getting correct sentences out of a random predefined length string is way harder.
guess the Judge was honest and didn't accept a bribe
I don't get it. You can unlist your video on youtube, disable the comments, disable related videos etc. and that solves every problem the author talks about. You can even disable monetisation so a user will never see an ad.

You can also go one step further and deliver youtube video through an entirely custom player: https://github.com/videojs/videojs-youtube
Interesting project however clearly I am uncultured swine if these are considered "easy to remember", I wonder if it would work with something more lowbrow. Simpsons anymore?
Why would you want this?

The entire point of UUIDs is I can quickly generate them knowing that they will be universally unique, I don’t need to check for their existence anywhere.

This dramatically increases the likelihood of collision to the point I can almost certainly guarantee that they won’t be unique in any non-trivial context.
More information about this demo from the author in this post: https://redd.it/hs9zqo

//

The link to app: https://thoughts.sushant-kumar.com/<any-word>

Replace <any-word> in the above URL with a word of your choice and AI will try to create a tweet around it. These words could be proper nouns as well. The model is stochastic so if you try the same word multiple time each time the model generates a new tweet.

//
It is surprising! You could throw all the data of the entire human race at a Markov model and it would not sound a tenth as good as even GPT-2. Transformers are simply in a new class.
Just keep the opened bag in the freeze and top up a small container you keep near your coffee machine.
> The US suffers from a strong dollar policy intentionally instituted after 70s inflation that demands that the trade deficit be massive forever. A refusal to print money under those circumstances is just pawning off that debt onto individuals,

Excuse me, the gigantic trade deficit USA has is a product of T bill, and stacks of dollars under pillows being being a preferred saving medium of rich, and middle class all around the world. It will keep increasing even if US will put Tbills with garbage rates on the market, and print dollars completely not backed by anything.

USA needs an enormous shock to shock to change the situation with dollar being overvalued.

They key to it is stopping the profligate govt spending.
I assumed this was meant to target a particular cross-section of people that were security conscious, yet not tech savvy.
Personally I swapped from rbenv to asdf a while back. I don't think there's any real justification for one over another these days, just use the one you're comfortable with :D
> Federal judge's son, 20, is shot dead and her criminal defense attorney husband is critically injured after a gunman disguised as a FedEx driver ambushed their home - four days after she was assigned a case linked to Jeffrey Epstein

> Last week, on July 15, the judge was assigned to a case that had links to late sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

> The case Salas is presiding over involves as ongoing lawsuit brought by Deutsche Bank investors who claim the company made false and misleading statements about its anti-money laundering policies and failed to monitor 'high-risk' customers including convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8539683/amp/Federal...
Moralizing is a race to the bottom. If you think that the existence of life on Earth is the paramount moral good and are e.g. willing to fly on a plane, you are a hypocrite.
Can someone explain to me, what the value of metacomments like this are?
Well I don't own a Nespresso for that reason, so I agree. I drink too much coffee at home. I have several options, because I enjoy different kinds of coffee at different times.

However, I see a lot of Nespresso machines in hotels and it somewhat makes sense, because what else could you put there? A decent Jura would be too expensive, a drip coffee maker not "good enough" (see my post). With an espresso machine, you'd also have to provide a grinder and a barista, because no one would want to spend time learning the setup up on a trip.
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For the people that voted for the mayor it would be "morality free", because they presumably believe it's the right thing to do for some reason
Those are just slogs that most people can get through if they stick it out...

Most adults in the US do not even have a college degree. For their children, aspiring to be a doctor would be incredibly ambitious and an amazing accomplishment.

Acknowledging that these high-prestige professions are very difficult for certain members of society to get into does not make talking about your ambitions "taboo", and I frankly find your comment incredibly out of touch with the average person.
Keep in mind that nature started out with access to a molecular nanoassembler, and then iterated on that technology for billions of years.
Do you mean death rates? vs survival rates?
Portland: Navy veteran gets beaten, video goes viral, he speaks
Couldn’t you yourself learn how to do that, in a foreign language, without knowing what the words mean?
Where is the entropy going?

This still has all eight bytes, from the generated UUID, and looks like it can be converted back into a UUID.
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Which claims are these, could you give some examples, ones from reputable sources please.
The problem with this that there are actually massive cultural and ideological changes been imposed on the western society at this time. We are being dragged to the hard left across multiple institutions. Some of us might not want that

Ignore it and you will be the quintessential lobster slowly being boiled to death.
I am of the believe that if you don't drink the bad coffee you can't appreciate the good one.

For me personally I like any type of coffee, not picky at all. I do mostly drink Turkish because that's what I can make at home. But when here I would just mix the different blends together, not with the purpose of making something special with just too have more coffee
Youtube and Android were acquired by Google, and there are definitely other products that are also the result of an acquisition.
I read the whole thing - delighted. More of a programming "implementer" than a "designer," I have intuited things like this before... And when I was required to learn control theory and simulink (which uses graphs), it grew deeper in me. I had a system of equations with a dozen variables (represnting a medical device and body physiology)... Some measured accurately, some interstitial guesses. I wanted to be able to transform the system around into many forms. I eventually learned Minsky, simulink and modelica, but wanted better tools.

From that experience, one thing I would consider adding to your system is physical units. I independently discovered that physics units (Ohms, inerita, etc.) can be described as a vector. The other thing that is missing is out there and would be a boon is a real-time element for design. So many of the UIs are blocky in their design, meaning you sketch for a while, then press a large, heavy compile button, and wait for your results... To counteract this frustration, I have been undertaking experiments in real-time compiling. Please contact me if you're looking or a co-conspirator! I have been conceiving and part-time developing an environment where you can model systems continuously in real-time (or faster). Each time you make a change, it runs a number of tests and in fact, your changes don't have to be "complete." The system can iterate in the direction you send it and converge to your spec.
Apparently, there's not much info out there about how 9 Fingers was made. I found this [1]. A genetic algorithm takes quite a while to come up with a pic, I wonder how long it took them in 1992! [2]

Kind of related, this series of articles on the vector encoder for Another World [3].

1: http://www.mos6502.com/friday-commodore/9-fingers-the-infamo...

2: https://chriscummins.cc/s/genetics/

3: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/index.html
That, and Nespresso capsules are way overpriced. I owned a Nespresso machine years ago (got it as a present) but couldn't justify the waste. Also, you must order original Nespresso capsules either at the Nespresso shop (of which there's maybe one in every major city at best), or order it online. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but online shopping is no progress for me since it just means I have to wait at home for an unreliable delivery service when I have plenty of shops in walking distance. So when third-party capsules became available, I immediately bought those instead (while they're cheap, they're not nearly as good and varied as original Nespresso capsules, though, IMO). However, one of those third-party capsules melted/stuck in the holder and I had to peel it off using a knife. That of course ruined the machine which now would leak pressure at the place where I used the knife, so I rejoiced and got rid of the machine :)
> non-degradable, hard to recycle piece of plastic

Erm... all nespressos are aluminium.
I have started unsubscribing to any subreddit the moment I notice a post is generating a negative emotion. Nowadays my feed is mostly woodworking, cooking and photography.
That was the first thing that came to my mind too.

For some people there are maybe many different reasons no to go with Google. But the reasons the author put up, are no reason to go with Youtube. It is the cheapest way to host video and then to embed it into your site.
My apartment building recently installed payrange on top of the existing quarter machines.

https://www.payrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PR_Broch...

Only downside is the prices went up a quarter. It is convenient though.
Yes, it's called Elixir with Phoenix :)
I'm confused by this. A million mile battery would make ICEs obsolete today. It would be more cost effective to spend $50k on a Tesla Model 3 than to buy 5 Hyundai i10 and driving those to dust.

A 1 million mile battery is kinda like fusion. Once it happens there is no going back so I don't think that failing to solve this problem is a blow to EVs.
Better yet, why don’t Americans use dollar coins?

Having lived in Japan, I was a big fan of larger denomination coins. In Japan, the smallest bill is worth about $10 USD, and they have coins worth about $1 and $5. Having a pocket full of change could actually get you something nice! I actually treated two of my friends to a night out at our local izakaya for ~$100 with 20 coins.

In an effort to promote the use of different coins and bills in the US, I would take all of the one dollar bills I accumulated over X amount of time, and I would buy $1 coins (Sacajaweas and Susan Bs) and $2 bills so that I could circulate them and try to get people accustomed to them.

I ran into three issueus:

1. Cashiers would give me the wrong change for the $2 bill. They usually treated it like a $1 bill, but at times I got change for a $20.

2. Cashiers would be mildly annoyed that there was not a slot in their register for $2 bills or $1 coins.

3. I actually had one subway worker (at the T in Cambridge) actually throw the coins back at me and yell at me and my friends that she wouldn’t take our “circus money” while pounding the plexiglass. We were all in business causal and (I hope) didn’t look like circus performers, so it was an odd reaction to say the least.

Anyway, I do all of my banking remotely now, so it’s harder to make exchanges like that, but I still do it sometimes.

I really wish my fellow Americans would embrace the use of larger coins and maybe even ditch the penny and maybe even the nickel.
My understanding is that GPT-2 was actually trained on a dataset that was designed to avoid those pitfalls. They followed all the links posted to Reddit that had more than a couple karma, under the theory that the content was at least slightly interesting to some actual humans, as opposed to a giant blob of search keywords or what have you.
It's not easy at all.

By your measure, Professor Ferguson at ICL is an expert in predicting diseases. He's got a big team and has been doing it for more than 20 years. Many published papers. Invited repeatedly to advise world government's due to his expert status. Widely asserted to be the best in his field.

Guess what - it appears every prediction he ever made was wildly wrong. His predictions for COVID were also wildly wrong. His code was released and it was full of severe bugs. He told the world millions would die of COVID and then when they didn't, claimed his expert recommendations had saved them, all in a fraudulent paper that assumed as a prior that the virus in Sweden mysteriously behaved totally differently to everywhere else and that only lockdowns can possibly affect the course of an epidemic (despite knowing that it isn't true).

This guy has been a failure and fraud his entire life. So has his entire field. It's not just him. All the expert epidemiologists produced models that failed to track reality in any way at all.

Yet, he's an expert by any proxy metric you care to pick. His colleagues rally around, his university protects him, Nature magazine published apologetics for him. He's an expert, unless you pick the only test that matters - are his papers correct?

I know it's scary. But decades, perhaps centuries of near sheep-like behaviour towards science and academics has led to their institutions being saturated with incompetence and fraud. They have no working institutional mechanisms to detect or clear it out. That's why so many fields have "skeptic" movements that "deny" the science. Usually they aren't actually science-deniers as painted, they're people who expected the so-called science to actually care about the scientific method and do their sums right. When they discover that it isn't happening they blog about the errors they found, and the next thing they know, they're being demonised by the press and the very self-same scientists they're criticising. Not because they are wrong, but because they are dangerously right.
There is genuine understanding! What there isn't is wide-range coherence, which is not the same thing. The system can clearly generalize patterns, it just has no reliable concept of sticking to them.
Don't assume that something is completely useless just because it isn't targeted directly at you or because you have more experience or knowledge than the author.
Compression rate would be quite high for a mostly static video where nothing much changes from frame to frame, regardless of framerate.
"if you're the CEO, the buck still stops with you." -> Being a founder does not mean being a CEO. You can become CTO, CPO, CMO, or other as a founder.

Of course, CEO is much more prestigious than the other C-level roles. But like you said, it has its own price.
That's part of the joke.
This comment really is not in the spirit of HN. I would not attack the age of the poster and rather attack the merits of their arguments.
>Many of these wont accept immigrants from other backgrounds at all, although they might accept low wage agricultural workers.

This is not true. In the case of Japan, so long as an employer there is willing to sponsor your visa, you'll have no problems immigrating there or becoming a permanent resident.
> It’s like real ambition is now so taboo we can’t even talk about it

Both in the times of the Romans and in the middle ages ambition wouldn't often be talked about since it was seen as a negative thing.

That's not what you meant of course, but I always find it funny how people today seem to think that ambition has always been a virtuous trait or something.
I don’t get “the tyranny of employment”.

For the first 16 years of my working life I went through a number of jobs, only one of which I really liked. This probably says more about me than the employers. I think some of us just aren't suited to working in corporations.
Plain text certainly fixes it, because notes are text and the best tool to handle text is my favorite text editor.
Looks good, the journal's site that is.
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Nespresso do have a recycling program[0]. The recycling bags are free and can be dropped off, again for free. I suppose this might differ from country to country, but in the UK what they propose sounds pretty good?

My housemate had a "proper" coffee machine and it was ok for one cup, but it temperamental. If I packed it too tight it wouldn't work. I couldn't reliably get the same result.

It is also very hands on. Nespresso machines let me make 2 within a few minutes while I prepare breakfast. Start warming up machine, milk in frother, cup under nozzle, press start.

[0] https://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/recycling-initiatives?name=n...
What you said is like cheating on a test by looking up the answers. That doesn't work. The DRC has to find a solution on its own or it will become entirely dependent on western influence.
Yes, it certainly has, but I think it's still based on that traditional syntax-case stuff. So in theory other Schemes could perhaps copy it, if anyone can get all the macrology behind it.
Also in theory it should be possible to express all the advanced Racket stuff in syntax-case.

Do you think it is not possible to express these things in syntax-case? And if so, why?