skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the premise you cite wasn't his view. For Spengler, cultures were attached to a specific location or landscape -- the idea of them spreading doesn't make sense in that context. I also don't recall any discussion of competition. Here's a direct quote:

"A Culture is born in the moment when a great soul awakens out of the proto-spirituality ( dem urseelenhaften Zustande ) of ever childish humanity, and detaches itself, a form from the formless, a bounded and mortal thing from the boundless and enduring. It blooms on the soil of an exactly definable landscape, to which plant-wise it remains bound. It dies when this soul has actualized the full sum of its possibilities in the shape of peoples, languages, dogmas, arts, states, sciences, and reverts into the proto-soul."

Spengler, Oswald. Decline of the West: Volumes 1 and 2 (Kindle Locations 2294-2297). Kindle Edition.
Question, does RH (or other brokers) do internal clearing/matching of orders?

That is, they clear the purchases/sales internally if they can, going to "the stock market" only if they can't fill it? Or that is a big no-no for brokers?
Hivemind that is fully intolerant of others.
I think we're suffering from what France suffered from at the beginning of WWI - peacetime generals (or in this case politicians). For the last 30+ years, the consequences for incompetence and fuck ups in politics have been generally low. The current do-nothing political class is a result of these very weak selective pressures. I don't think we'll see a change until more voters begin to feel the effects of climate change and related issues. Hopefully it will be a positive change to more competent leaders, but it's not looking great based on the last few years.
Thanks. Somehow that doesn't sound as bad, as long as there is reasonable (whatever that means) chance of it working out. Although, logically, it's clear to me that it is harder than working a job. Only way to know is to do it, I guess.

And maybe see a therapist, because this dread of having to work sounds weird now that I put it in writing. And I did it for many years without seeming to suffer too much, at the time at least.
I use Squid on Android. I learned to adjust the options to suit me well. I use my stylus for writing or drawing and use my fingers to lasso objects to move them or resize them. My stylus has an eraser function when I use the back end of the stylus.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steadfasti...
Because without the agreement, they would also have no tax income from Apple, but fewer jobs.
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No, I believe OKRs kill collaboration - nothing more nothing less.

But furthermore I think your comment is suggestive of the "You can't manage what you can't measure" fallacy that underpins OKRs.
"I disagree with that, as long as you have some mathematics background (calculus, a bit of linear algebra), and an understanding of probability theory"

right, so it's not for beginners.
If this is where the open stuff is I can only wonder where the classified stuff is at.
Surely "don't trust everything you read on the Internet" is just a given at this point, especially if it originates on Twitter.
More proof that woke means virtue signalling idiot.
I like the concept of Nespresso but as others have said the waste is the problem. You have to wonder though it seems like a simple problem to solve. In my region a local businessman used potato starch to make "paper" plates. If Nespresso could make biodegradable pod cases that would solve the waste problem.

This article is timely for me I've only just discovered how to make great coffee. I've had a French press and a cheap coffee bean grinder for decades. With a little knowledge I finally made a really good cup of coffee. Nabob beans $4 and a few minutes makes great coffee. It's so great that I went from milky lattes and double-doubles to drinking it black. It's amazing how much a tiny bit of milk or sugar muffles the taste great coffee.

30g coffee beans freshly ground, 450g water, 5 minute brew. It's so simple with a French press no filters no electricity no pressurized steam.
I read a scifi novel once where an advanced civilization had kinda slipped some theoretical physics into a developing civs holy texts, as kind of a bet.
Indeed, I didn't think this was a good move until I found that eBay owns Kijiji. I'm also Canadian and I'm pretty sure Kijiji is way more popular for private buy/sell than Craigslist - at least anecdotally from the people I know.
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And for the benefit of others reading this thread: this is the self-righteous language of an intolerant religion designed to shut down or dismiss rational debate. The only difference is this new brand of fanatic yells "racism" instead "sinner."
with so much knowledge, you need an index. And a large index is a knowledge base. Why not?
> Zip archives are markedly better designed.

Yes and no. They have advantages and drawbacks:

* zip archives don't require seeking through the entire thing to list archive contents

* zip archives can random-access files cheaply

* zip checksums the files themselves (AFAIK tar only checksums the header)

* zip compresses files individually, meaning different files can use different configuration

* the central directory (CD) means you can trade efficiency for very cheap updates: removing a file is just rewriting the CD without that file, likewise to replace a file just tack the new file at the end, then write a new CD with updated offsets

However

* "streaming" zips can lead to schizophrenia as the central directory record does not necessarily match the streamed contents or ordering

* zip only compresses files individually meaning there's no cross-file efficiency to be had (some compression formats have a "solid" archive concept which compresses globally as an opt-in) so tar can compressed better depending on the mix and the compression algorithm (assuming both archives use the same method)

> Also, cpio did evolve at least somewhat. In fact POSIX has a separate archive tool called "pax" (which supports both tar and cpio) which was meant to act as a truce between the tar and cpio factions of Unix vendors. Nobody uses it, as far as I know.

GNU CPIO apparently straights support tar.
Some examples:

1. Futures are contracts agreeing to buy or sell some underlying asset at a future date (or exchange cash as though you did). If I am long a future someone is by definition short that future. Therefore the total net exposure is always zero. It makes no sense to add my long future to your short future and decide that the total exposure is 2.

2. Swaps are contracts where we agree to exchange cashflows based on some reference amount. The most common types of swaps are interest rate swaps and an example might be a fixed-for-floating swap where you agree to pay me fixed interest (say 4%) and I agree to pay you floating interest (say 3 mounth USD LIBOR plus 200bps). The notional of a swap is the amount we use for the calculation of this interest payment. It really isn't an amount that's used for anything else - you don't owe me the notional and neither do I owe you that. It's just a multiplier we use when we transfer the net difference between the two rates. It therefore makes no sense whatsoever to add up the notional of swaps contracts. Also since we exchange the net difference the notional can be pretty large and the net cash payments pretty small.

3. Credit default swaps are similar to IR swaps except one of the legs of the swap pays out based on certain "credit events" (typically defaults and/or downgrades) on an underlying "reference obligation" (usually a corporate or sovereign bond, but can be an ABS or probably some other stuff). Since different CDSs are based on different underlying reference obligations, adding up notionals of different CDSs makes as much sense as if I say I have 10 dollars, 2 matchsticks, a ball of fluff, a ferarri and a dog so you say I have 15 things. Well I suppose so but it doesn't really mean anything since the things themselves are very different in nature.
I'm going to say that flat-earthing is a sort of dividing line for me. If somebody insists on flat-earth with a straight face, I'm going to ask them some questions. It's unclear that any flat-earther would be able to come up with answers that are reasonable, and I think it's reasonable to impute that the person's ability to be reasonable about other things is probably impeded.
I grew up on Moka pot (as most Italian families have) - it truly is a great little device. Making a few modifications to brewing it, it really shines.
It's the beginning of the democratization of the market because they made it easier and more attractive for you to buy meme stocks?
If you're using a coffee machine at home, you get a sink for free as you're probably putting it in your kitchen.

If you're using it in an office, it's going to get used 50x as much, and you want a sink nearby to refill the water, empty the drip tray, and house the cleaning supplies for spills - all of which will happen 50x as often.

And clean mugs will take a trip via the sink/dishwasher anyway....

Only time I've seen coffee machines away from the sink was in cheap shared office space, where different companies shared the same kitchen but didn't share coffee supplies. People shuffling along corridors with perilously full coffee machine drip trays was a regular sight :)
It doesn't seem like a relational database, and eventual consistency is going to make relational constraints problematic.
> Weeks

I'm sorry, but even with things getting rushed through by regulatory agencies, you cannot expect prelim results to convert to treatments in only a matter of weeks.
This is very true to me. That’s why I believe it’s important to know when to skim or even call it quits on an article; particularly when the information on the event is limited and every platform seems to cover it with the same details and slightly different fashion. That way you don’t waste time.
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I saw a guy doing this with fish underneath.
Gives a new meaning to the unbundling of eBay
Easy automated process to send emails with G Forms
How are people getting gpt-3 api keys? Might I have one?
Now is an especially good time to join the OpenCog project. Ben and the folks behind it are just now starting a big push to re-architect big chunks of it, including the AtomSpace. And OpenCogCon was just held as a two day virtual conference, and the entire thing is available on Youtube.

I'd encourage anyone who's interested to join the Opencog Slack and/or Google group and check out what's going on.
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I'm not sure about difference in carbonation pressure, but I did read about installed carbonation systems and at-home mineralising (saving bottles, even for still water for people that drink them) expected to be the next big thing (to about the extent of boiling water taps, I suppose) recently.

e.g. https://mitte.co/ but I'm sure there are competitors (that was the one from the article/ad-itorial)
Thanks for the numbers, which I was aware of, but not exactly. The constant supply of money in Research can do impossible magic. If you look at it from social perspective, all the semiconductor progress in last 20-30 years happened just because people want to send their photo to another people. Finger crossed, but I'm hopeful.
Yup, plus the K-Cup machine is higher profit and lower cost to build than a Nespresso machine. The BoM for Keurig is incredibly low for the selling price, something like $12 on a $130 machine. They flipped the razor and blades model and managed to make massive profit on both the razor and blades. I'm starting to see evidence that Keurig is struggling now however, They have launched much cheaper models and are all over the place looking for hits including ground coffee. I think they realized that they are known for 'meh' coffee and know that that brand wont get them to where they want to be next.
I'm puzzled why my comment got downvoted. Perhaps someone could explain?

I was pointing out that the language the commenter used made it seem like his children's opinions were not taken into consideration.

For simple analogy, imagine if he said "I have a wife myself, and I understand the risks" when insisting that his wife needs to go to a place many consider dangerous.
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This is really impressive
>>Surely a good chunk of kids just got home schooled.

This was before widespread laundry machines and dishwashers. Those "stay at home mothers" worked. School was, and still is, in part a babysitting service. If the kids were to stay at home they would have been helping mom, not asking her for reading lessons.

This was also a time of increasing literacy and education overall. Illiteracy was not uncommon. There is a good chance that many parents were simply not as well educated as their school-age children. Homeschooling is all well and good, unless mom cannot read.
It sounds appealing as an explanation, but so does the general stress argument. I'm skeptical of concrete explanations in general.
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I guess it is to early for that since most women only accidentally drink during the first two months of pregnancy?
Addendum: link for the population numbers of Blacks in the USA. Between 2010 and 2018 the percentage of the population that is Black has risen (as in most other years since early last century). No sign of ongoing genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_d...
Coinbase says it prevented over 1k customers from sending Bitcoin to hackers
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying - OP was worried about Java jobs, maybe I wasn't clear, but I was just pointing out there are other jobs than Java jobs, and I concur Java isn't my first choice for anything, though the money can be good.
Ah, using a VPN seems like it would likely be the culprit for 30+ second load times.

What happens if you don't use that VPN?
In my area (Western Ohio, US) there would be a risk of the children being lifted and carried away (or just sucked dry) by the hordes of mosquitoes that come out in the evenings when it begins to get cool.
I complained when they would only give me twenty last week in Chicago since I always got fifty before and was told this was the reason
If I get my first sale today for $1 and then tomorrow make a sale for $3 I can say my daily revenue is up 200%.

The impressiveness of growth percentages drops off when your base is small.
I never thought about cracking seeds but apparrently based on location and details of the terrain its not impossible:

https://gitlab.com/taleden/MCeed-A
Pandemic just made my lifestyle the default option most people are living now. Lots of time outdoors. Home cooked meals. Avoid most other humans not in my immediate family (wife, kids). My stress levels aren’t any higher. My one casualty is my preferred sport/hobby (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) is not feasible. It’s extremely high contact.
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How multi-language ads can make an impact on your Facebook campaign results?
I thought we were supposed to decolonize our libraries?
The parent showed two good examples why it isn't completely negative: informality signaling and tribal/relevance awareness signaling. The fact that some people aren't part of the tribe doesn't mean that it serves no purpose.

Not all writing has to appeal to or be directed towards everyone.
I can really recommend having a look through the blog Yesterday's Print that's mentioned in the post [1]. It's an excellent collection of some interesting, relatable, and humorous snippets from ca. a hundred years ago.

This one they posted about a year ago stuck with me [2].

The saying, "Life is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap. -- The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, February 21, 1947.

[1] https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/

[2] https://yesterdaysprint.tumblr.com/post/176557878119/the-cin...
We are using a similar concept in production. Rendered videos for online education within programming. It is a limited usecase of course, but brings the same benefits: 1/100 bandwidth; crisp rendered text/content instead of rasterized; Easy editing; and the content is searchable / indexable.

Using html gives us some additional benefits in that we can combine rendered with rasterized content. We also get access to a lot more advanced functionality through the browser context.
And any claim with one, doubly so.
-- Abe Lincoln abe@I-chopped-the-cherry-tree.gov
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good–and completely mindless
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They're incentivised to do this. hCAPTCHA pays them for it.
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Very cool :)
Feature request: can the thickness be a function of the number of pages?
>Our first vectorized proof of concept for animations is a 17 second clip of the Simpsons located here. Keep in mind, our technology is still at a very early stage, and this is much optimization work left to be done.

>https://files.vectorly.io/demo/v0-2-simpsons-250kbps/index.h...

There isn't a raster version to compare to, but that looks noticeably worse than what I'd expect from a raster version. There's a lot of artifacting when there's motion, and the linework looks.... off.

>https://files.vectorly.io/demo/khan-20kbps/index.html

The khan academy one looks much better, although there's still some minor artifacting, eg. when the mouse comes close to the "O" in "O_2" changes a bit.
Ask HN: What is your preferred method of learning new things?
I am CS undergrad. What is the effective method to learn new things ? (CS/Software related)

I am focussed on methodology of learning.
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This seems like an unnecessary barrier to new ideas and innovation. So many of the businesses we rely on started as simple hobbies or games.
The Twitter account takeover was an inside job.

To be fair, the article is just part of a challenge to write 100 blog posts in 100 days. Nothing wrong with writing whatever you want, although the title of the post is still terrible. The question is, why did anyone think this article was worth submitting to HN?
> "Improving the accuracy of our memory for the past could indeed be the best strategy to curb the uncharitable deceptions of the politics of nostalgia."

I agree, and will add that there's been no time like now for ease of improving the accuracy of our impressions of the present, due to the sheer availability of primary sources. Click. Click. Click. It's real easy, man.

As to secondary sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23858477

> "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

Minitrues may still be as active as ever ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895444 ) but reasonable propaganda analysis (PROPANAL) skills help triangulate. See also para 15 for examples of domestic propaganda in the age before social media. (Other sources such as Bernays go further into the details of how one exploited the social graph without automation.)

Compare the analytical outline on para 45, pp 18-20: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/01130770R/PDF/0113077...
I read it as: regardless of Robinhood's volume, their popularity has caused other organizations to restructure their investment opportunities, and that has benefited all users.

It's the same as Tesla making electric cars popular. They don't sell the most cars, but you'd have a hard time arguing they haven't moved electric vehicles forward.
Wait, hmm... maybe if we use the blockchain here we can solve those problems too?
Even if canonical would be wrong it seems that the change that anyone having a interest to sue Canonical over unintended legal technicality is nil.

ZFS on Linux does not break the intention and spirit of the kernel licence.
> (I'm not sure why the submitter substituted the l for I.)

Sounds like they fell victim to your deliberate trolling. Is that not an expected outcome?

I, for one, am amused at the implication that we should trust an inaccessible file:// link...
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StackOverflow tends to attract new developers and newer language frameworks simply because it is a Q&A site.

There are scores of developers out there that don't need beginner level help with their language or use a proprietary language where the help they get is via professional services training, courses, etc. Think whatever SAS or Oracle ERP Apps use under the hood, as an example.

These surveys only purpose is marketing/research for the owner of the survey.
Most of the things I own come from Kijiji, from my phone, bike, furnitures....
I'm from the US and went to public schools in the midwest. The only rooms I can think of that didn't have windows were: the theatres (read big and small auditoriums), and the science labs. Heck, if you had a class on the first floor they usually had doors on the wall with windows leading outside too.
Freezing doesn't keep the taste (in fact it'll pull in the weird "freezer flavors" as other stuff in your freezer offgasses) and the freeze/thaw cycle has a negative affect on the flavor profile.
I apologize if my comments before were a bit on the scathing side. I really am just a bit shocked that this way of reasoning had become commonplace.

I would like to ask you, do you think that somebody could write the article and not have the beliefs you are asserting?

Imagine if I am pushing for some version of universal health care. Most of the rhetoric around such a topic will refer to things like equality, private industry exploiting the people and the poor getting the worst of it. All fairly standard and not necessarily untrue. What would you say to somebody that claims this to be dog whistling to communists. You say, 'no of course that's not he means. He means what he says'. Then they say he's using code words that give these fair normal statements a double meaning that are a signal to those in the know.

I don't see what you can do about this situation. This kind of tactic is really shady. You pass them an unprovable accusation that they can't even defend. But the accusation is usually of something so slanderous that, even if they are absolved of guilt, a certain amount of damage is already done.
This. Those phrases are useful for distinguishing between “I’m giving new information” vs “I’m starting from what I expect to be common knowledge”.

And yes, it’s possible to abuse such phrases but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their place.
That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Wexner, for example, is still protected by media shading lack of investigation of that prime 'sponsor' of Epstein's very well promoted career as a financial genius.

Since this was like a mob hit, I think the global protection racket you refer to as 'the system' is possibly manifesting conflict in 'the commission'. You see this at every level these days. There is a re-alignment going on, it seems, and not everyone is on board. (Just speculation.)
Dell had the Optiplex 5055 for a while - I managed to get three of them before they were mysteriously discontinued. I suspect they will at some point have something like the 5055, but with the newer Ryzen APUs. My main desktop at home is a 5055 SFF with an 8c/16t Ryzen 7 PRO 1700 with 64GB RAM, 256GB NVMe + 1TB SATA SSD, and a Radeon RX550. Very capable machine. The ones I have at work are similar but have the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G APU. Goog "The AMD Store at Dell". It's a whole subsite of dell.com that most of their salespeople don't even know about. However, the only desktops that are showing up atm are the Alienware game boxes. But.. check out Dell's outlet site for refurbed and overstocked stuff - You can get an Opti 5055 with the 2400G and a 3-year warranty for $550.)