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> Capitalism is the private ownership of the means of production.

No, capitalism is a particular real-world economic system that existed in a particular time and place; it is true that private ownership of the means of production is a central element of that system, but it's not it's only feature. Slavery was, in fact, an element of that system identified by the people who identified the system and coined the term capitalism for it, critics like Marx, whom wrote in Capital: “Whilst the cotton industry introduced child-slavery in
England, it gave in the United States a stimulus to the
transformation of the earlier, more or less patriarchal slavery,
into a system of commercial exploitation. In fact, the
veiled slavery of the wage-earners in Europe needed, for its
pedestal, slavery pure and simple in the New World.”

Capitalism, and it's evolution from feudalism, includes the development of commercial, rather than patriarchal, slavery, wherein slaves are chattels rather than, while subordinate, bound up in a system that, at least in tradition and theory, involves mutual-though-asymmetric obligations and responsibilities.
I live in Melbourne. Can I ask what parts of life here felt unsafe? I live out the suburbs in a moderately expensive area and not much happens here at night. Is it "youth gangs" in the city that caused the issue?
Quote: "Interferon beta is commonly used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis."

Now here is my million dollar question. Is there any statistics/data available to view about COVID infections on those people who already receive Interferon beta for their sclerosis? Because that right there it would be the telling sign for this extraordinary claim.
It also makes sense if you disagree with your government
Frankly, this part of the article reads like a bit of a distraction - the author is friendly, and since Keynes' original position is becoming hard to defend, he looks at a different matter which is simply not important compared to the elephant in the room.

Everyone at the time including Keynes himself realized the German issue was the primary issue. The petty authoritarianism that affected E. Europe in the interwar years was a mild headache compared to the nightmare that followed.

Economic aid might have helped with minority rights in the new countries, but I don't think it would have done much beyond that. We would still have had the Great Depression, and we would have gotten the political disaster then.
> You don't need a grinder, you can buy grounded coffee at the right size for espresso in supermarkets.

That's so not true and "snobbery" has nothing to do with it.

The grind size is one of the ways you have for controlling extraction pressure.

You can only tamp so hard on the coffee. If the grind is too large there's no way for you to get the pressure up to 9 bars that's usually given as the espresso range.

Your coffee will taste sour, like a low pressure moka pot would make. Such a low pressure won't be able to extract the oils that make the creme, so it will also look "flat".

Equally if your store pre-ground coffee is ground too small you won't be able to lower the pressure and you'll end up with a bitter tasting, over extracted shot because you're pulling stuff out of the beans you don't want.

Different beans will have different amounts of oil in them, even for the same brand. That oil affects water pressure too.

So there isn't one "perfect" grind size. Every bag of beans is different and needs to be adjusted to keep in the pressure range.

It's not a particularly complex process. Grind size is just a pressure control and pressure affects taste. The grinder has a setting for grind size and a setting for the amount it produces. You just dial them up or down until you get the result you want.

That's before you even consider how freshness affects taste...
Think I ran a basic Rails app via passenger on it around 2010, but it was a hassle setting up and I don't think it got any easier. And running Node is completely off limits on DH shared hosting.
I couldn't get past two headlines before hitting the X in the forner
With the first thing you see being a request to pay (buy in print!!) and the second being a headline like "feminism needs capitalism like a fish needs a bicycle", well, I can't take it too seriously or "different".
If you're ordering coffee from the Nespresso website, just add the Recycling Collection option - it's free.

What happens is simply that, on the day you receive your order, somebody will also come and collect your bag - no need to mess with labels. If you need a bag just order it on the web - it's free with any coffee and you can get multiple ones in one go.

Otherwise, when you go buy the coffee, just bring the bag with you. Actual Nespresso shops will all accept it, popup stands might not. The last option (imho the less convenient) is to print a label then bring the bag to one of those delivery-pickup places like cornershops and petrol stations.
This really made me chuckle. The deadpan delivery coupled with the absurdity of it is just too good.
Yes, surgical and chemical castration undoubtedly reduce sexual interest, sexual performance, and have likely a impact on sex offenders. Removing estrogen and testosterone seems to have an effect on sex offenders recidivism, although it does not work on everyone.

This does not mean estrogen causes aggression. It mean estrogen is as a sex hormone, and sex hormones are connected to behavior which is relevant for recidivism.

> I don't doubt that culture makes small innate differences look much bigger. But that's more philosophical/anthropological, it doesn't tell us much on whether a drug would or wouldn't work at scale.

Understanding biology is needed in order to understand whether a drug would or wouldn't work at scale. Take Oxytocin as an example. A great hormone that makes mothers bond with their child. It has shown to improve prosocial, operate like an anti-depressant, improves trust, make people more generous, and even improve wound healing. It have been considered for use in everything from medicine to vitamin supplements.

More modern research however find that there is a problem. It improves prosocial behavior for the in-group but it also create anti-social behavior towards the out-group. It increases trust with the in-group, and causes fear with the out-group. It make women increase parental behavior and at the same time increase racist behavior, and it makes perfect sense. It a hormone that is connected to the goal of sexual reproduction. It increase behavior that benefit offspring during the first years and it strengthen the bond between mother and the child nearest blood-relatives so that the child has the best likelihood to survive. It also protect the child against non-related individuals who is an increase risk of being a threat.

Understanding what a hormone actually do is critical to understand its medical effect.
Don't forget Stimulus. The next iteration of Turbolinks is also slated to be more forms-friendly.
Sounds like a great email signature to me.
I don't necessarily agree with the following with regards to OpenAI, but it is what I have been told by a few professors and other academics in bioinformatics:

Money is terribly tight in academia, and even at hot think tanks like OpenAI. The difference between a working but not very pretty prototype and a polished product you are willing to be associated with may seem like just a bunch of trivial boilerplate such as documentation or tests.

It is indeed boring work (at least for scientists), but a lot of it. And if the intention is to publish and support something on an ongoing basis, and for widespread use, you probably need to invest 5x to 10x as much time and money.

So in the end most code in academia is hidden because it's hideous, not to hide how they hardcoded all the good jokes GTP-3 comes up with.
I've read about some comedians explaining how to make improvisation work, especially when working in duo: never dismiss any idea, just take it, expand on it, keep the flow going.

Well applicable to "improv" on your own, and also to "brainstorming" meetings: forbidden words "no" and "but..".
I don't agree. I do think certain schools of moralistic thought fall down this path.
But it's not mendatory.
If we relax our need for dichotomy, while encouraging contemplation this is less of a problem.
This is the first language and open source project I have contributed to. I would never have believed that one day my name would land on a page of a programming language site. Thanks to open source, thanks to Gabor, and to all that contributed to making me reach this level.
I thought the point of OpenAI was to democratize AI access. By giving access to everyone, you are leveling the play field. Making it available both to small, big, good and bad actors.

Right now it's only accessible to some actors. And good and evil are relative by definition.
Its the order that fits the mind, when you delete the order it's impossible to remember
From grandparent post:

> 2) read an instruction manual for a novel game that shows up a few years from now (so it can't be replicated from the corpus), and 3) plays that game, and 4) improves at that game, that would be "general" imo.

I would say that learning a new simple language, basic political maneuvering, and coordinated teamwork might be required to play games well in general, if we don't exclude any particular genre of games.

Complex cultural behaviors might not be required to play most games, however.

I think human intelligence is actually not very 'general' because most humans have trouble learning & understanding certain things well. Examples include general relativity and quantum mechanics and, some may argue, even college-level "elementary mathematics".
That last one is (maybe superficially) profound so I went looking for the source.

From a brief search I can't find anything sex-related (Only Anthony Bourdain talking about food wastage)

What are the chances this is a novel "thought"?
I agree with you. Actually I watch news regularly since my childhood and I've also heard the sentence "I don't want to see this (people suffering), this is terrible" Basically this would be actively looking away.

The world is indeed a pretty messed up place and it's sad we need Corona to be reminded of a lot of long-standing issues as they affect also other groups now:

- lack of universal health insurance/insufficient social support systems

- lack of pandemic plans

- precarious living conditions are more prevalent than represented by social/news media

Actually very few news outlets even attempt to give global coverage, BBC is the only one I know of that somehow gets close to this.

Still, I try to consume news more responsibly. I stopped using Google News and instead subscribed to a handful of online papers/magazines that produce quality content.
Yes. If you few-shot prime it with prompts of the form "<paragraph> tag:<tags>" and then just feed it "<novel paragraph> tag:" it'll generate <tags> automatically, just from completion. It does this shockingly well, the paper has specific examples. It can also do fun tricks like condensing a complicated Wikipedia article down to a second grade level, including built in metaphors. An example of this is on the API beta website IIRC.
Probably (unnecessary?) ecological impact and using fossil fuels
Ask HN: Can mesh networks be the saving grace for the next billion users?
For some time now, i've been pondering the idea of how developing countries can use mesh networks to build smarter cities and get the next billion users connected to the internet. Smartphone are now becoming more readily available in developing countries and could be the most cost effective way to build networks of connected devices. This could have massive economic growth potentials for developing nations. Why is this not something that is explored more? Like all things, I understands there are technological limitations and possibly areas of security concerns, but I am missing something crucial here?
Extra processes (workers) consume extra memory, threads do not.
Exactly.

The funny thing is that Flash animations where the more straight-forward way. You create vector animations and export them as such.

Obviously, this is more universal. You can take any input as opposed to something that was vectorized to begin with.
As a programmer but without that much of data science background, could someone explain what is the whole hype/breakthrough of GPT-3? I know it generates content that makes sense, "HTML+CSS" and some other text based stuff.

But in layman terms, what is the huge deal with it?
While I don't think being critical of implemented programs for Covid-19 is too constructive, I think these verdicts are very important. Laws are still valid in a crisis of health. Some will scoff at data protection in times like this, but I think that is missing the larger picture.

I am fairly sure that for most countries the government wouldn't have the authority to declare "social distancing" either, but it still might be smart to follow that advice.

edit: "[...] sharing screenshots of confidential patient data (containing the names, NHS numbers, contact details and case IDs of those who have tested positive for the virus) on Facebook and WhatsApp groups because “shambolic” training"

This is concerning to say the least...
> which isn't as bad as its reputation

What's the best instant coffee out there? I've honestly never had a good one before, but I've only tried instant coffee in Japan.
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Using the word "founder" is ridiculously narcissistic when you are simply starting a business just like millions of people have done before. I try to stay away from people who call themselves that.
I believe, having worked a little bit with GPT-2, that OpenAI is intentionally sabotaging access to their AI algorithm and data. They have started this sabotage with GPT-2 and with GPT-3 they simply didn't open source it.

For GPT-2, their repository (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2) is archived. Which is as good as saying that the project is abandoned and will receive no updates. The project already doesn't compile/run properly. This issue (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/issues/178) could be solved relatively easily by either a one-line code fix, or merging a pull request (https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/pull/244/files). This is not happening and I have a hard time to believe it is on good intentions.

Oh, and by the way, I believe saying "This AI stuff is dangerous to world", the same as politicians saying "We need to check your web history for pedophilia stuff". It's funny how some people don't see the irony in how they oppose one thing and support another that is practically the same.
And link to the ios app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habitcat-track-your-habits/id1...
Not personally, no.
I guess Ben Goldacre would be the person to ask given this study from a few months back

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1259074178952683520
Or don't declare your collection. In fact, as the value of coins continues to rise, I would try to maximize (but not horde) my influx of coins, not willfully exchange them for a less-demand form of currency.

Remember, the concept of supply and demand is still valid even for currency marked with an official denomination. You could think of that marking as the _minimum_ value of the currency, as guaranteed by the state.
"such systems could be deployed around the globe as a means of assisting land managers with detecting illegal activities in real-time."

I doubt the problem is in detecting illegal activities harming the environment.

And deploying iot devices across million km, I highly doubt this is economically viable, even if the devices cost nothing, deploying them would be a huge investment.

Surely satellites can already do a decent job of detecting illegal activities, at scale. Research funding continues going downhill with non sensical investments.
You can try, until they'll block you for not having the ads as they did with the blender channel.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...
I run through about two A4 192 page Moleskin notebooks in a year. Every entry is dated, and back references are essentially in the form of “On $date, I wrote ...”, so the lookup is sub-linear time.
In a recent project I did this using colour. This was an logging/audit interface, where each line may include one or more UUIDs.

For each UUID I 1) truncated it, 2) gave it a background colour based on the UUID itself, and 3) prefixed it with an icon for the object type.

The overall effect was actually pretty good. One could easily scan the list for the same UUIDs based on the colour, and the icon added clarity as to what was being referred to
My CEO tried to explain to me that the "key result" part of OKRs didn't need to be measurable and then cited my colleague's as better examples despite none of them having written anything that could be used to hold them accountable. When I ask him if he's read High Output Management he just says "It's on my reading list". I'm leaving soon.
and yet, it also notifies peers in a professional field.
Yeah, I think it's specifically the modern, secular West that has this terrified, anxious relationship with death. The more religious communities seem to think about it much the same way as they always did, and people on social media keep using this to make clever gotcha arguments about how religious people aren't really "pro life" because they're not desperately freaking out about death and trying to stave it off however they can during the pandemic. Somewhere along the line, the idea that death is an inevitable part of life and that sometimes trying to desperately stop it no matter what is a futile act of hubris became so alien to parts of the population that they can't even understand how anyone could think that way.
Thank you for your article! Also note tom_mellior's corrections above, particularly about datalogs with two head literals. I'm fudging things up also!
An alternative explanation is that, like Google (and every other company out there), the motto doesn't reflect their actual objectives.
I am sure a Border Collie could deal with him no issue and I don't think dogs can get Covid-19.
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Rather a few thousands at least. Most larger companies have that amount of data (if they can use the model is another question).
> A third of college students embrace communism

This sounds a lot scarier when you don't realize that, among the same set, there is all but ubiquitous contempt for "tankies", i.e. the very same Stalinist-style sort of thing you're worried about. Newsmax won't tell you that, because why would they? Keeping you frightened keeps you doomscrolling their ads.

I know about the tankie hate because I know a bunch of the people you're scared of. They're not going to burn your house down or kill you. But they do understand that they're getting a raw deal, and they have a pretty good idea of why and from whom, and they're not willing to take it lying down. Good for them, in my opinion, and seeing as they are getting a raw deal - worse than my own generation did, which is saying a lot - it's with them that my sympathies lie.

Especially in a time when the US federal government is violating its own laws at will, up to and including illegal arrests carried out Gestapo-style with no probable cause and no due process - if you can't tell the difference between a generation of young people defending their interests and the potential collapse of civilization, you really do need to read less Newsmax, because it's making you paranoid.

Mostly the kids are just looking to roll back as much as they can of Reaganism, and they're quite right to want to do so. This forty-year experiment with totally unchecked capitalism has gone on too long. It's past time to curtail and start repairing the damage.

> slavery was capitalist

Well, what else would you call it? Considered in purely economic and thus amoral terms, a chattel slave literally is capital, in the same sense that a mule or, later, a tractor, would be. That's quite literally what I was taught as a child in public grade school, growing up in Mississippi thirty years ago, and if you want to argue that the rural Mississippi school boards of the 1980s had been subverted by communists, that's fine, but you need to know up front that if you do I'm going to start calling you Joe McCarthy and I'm just never going to stop.

In any case, I have a very hard time conceiving of a world in which "slavery is capitalist" is in any way a controversial thought. Are you perhaps confusing it with "capitalism is slavery"? Because you're citing the former, but it's the latter you seem to be arguing against, in the sense that you can be said to be making any argument here at all.

You're right that ranting, on HN and elsewhere, rarely fixes anything. Have you thought about why you're impelled to do so anyway, and whether the impetus is a wholly rational one?
It doesn't matter if there's a historical precedent. Each system is defined by the incentives it sets up. The incentives set up by capitalism are clearly instrumental to the vast expansion of slavery.
Is it still trying to bring back phrenology and "race science"? That's the short list. Quillette had a couple of okay articles, but I didn't want to wade through all the nonsense to find more.
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Why I think FP is getting popular:

* It's old as hell which means is battle proven
* Before it was hard to understand since everything pointed to look at it with a "mathematical view" which not every developer has. Now there are more tutorials and "Blog posts"
* New technologies emerged which follow the pattern with familiar syntax and great tooling.

Right now why should you? I'd say why not? If you already know OOP, FP can give you more ways on think about problems and solutions. Plus, it can give you a competitive advantage over other developers.

It is definitely not a hammer which can nail down everything, but it's a good tool to have around.
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Happy asdf user here. If you're only using ruby, then asdf isn't much better or worse - but asdf is great for supporting other toolchain, like python, crystal, rust, go... AFAIK the asdf ruby plug-in uses rbenv under the hood.
UUID’s should not be used for “security” they aren’t hashes, or suited to be used as encryption keys or any thing else.
They don’t need to be kept secret as part of their trust model.

There should never be a situation in which the disclosure of a UUID breaks the trust or security model of your application your design is wrong.
Yep, but running inference on it at any reasonable performance requires you to have all of it in GPU RAM - Ie. you need a cluster of ~100 high performance GPU's.
Luxshare buys 2 Wistron units
youtube android and earth are acquisitions, Cloud is nothing compared to its competition, GMail is almost 2 decades old.

In the last decade, I can't remember a single innovative google original product, or some copy-cat product that is better than the competition
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I started watching the SICP video series on YouTube last year. Just the substitution model exemplified in the Scheme programs in the first few lectures has had a big effect on how I write Python for the $DAYJOB.

Probably the most fascinating thing to me about programming is being able to learn a new approach and apply it in different languages or contexts.

Note to OP -- watch the SICP video series on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB63C06FAF154F047. Get the book and work at it. It's great.
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Ah yes, those famous provinces of Russia, which but for the intervention of some meddling foreigners would have no language, culture, history, or national identity of their own.