skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I use that monitor to read and write text. Lots and lots of text, very little video. 7 fps is abundantly adequate for reading text if you only interact with it by hitting 'page down' every 30 seconds, and if your typing is accurate enough that 150ms delay between hitting the key and seeing the character doesn't cause errors it's fine for writing text.

I don't need 30, 60, 120, or 144 Hz refresh rates to work with text. It would probably be impossible to see the difference. What I need is contrast and brightness settings to limit eye fatigue, and that's where e-ink would be great.
National Security Letters basically turn any private database into a tool of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter?wprov...

I'm not saying the US is as bad as China, but I roll my eyes when people talk about China forcing its companies to serve the interests of the state. Our government does it all the time and it doesn't require a warrant.
In balance with? The free market is the mechanism for power consolidation, not its opponent. Companies merge and grow until they build a moat big enough to fend off their competitors and then the market enters nash equilibrium.

Growth (or anything chaotic, really) shakes up the stable condition, changes the rules, and lets new entrants compete with Goliath. That's why we covet it so much.
As predicted:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/07/17/the-federal-police-...
Would you please explain a bit further what you mean by politics of science and how it's agains't actually doing science?
To be fair, Remdesivir is an under-patent medicine designed by an American company, it isn't all that outlandish that the USA would procure as much as possible. The "among other things" is doing a _lot_ of heavy lifting in your statement. I do not see any evidence that the USA bought anything that would limit the ability for other countries to develop a vaccine. Only to use Remdesivir as a treatment. Which, I can see both sides of that really.

I also don't have a problem with the USA targeting 300 mil doses through OWS. They simply mean they will buy that many, not that other countries can't buy more etc. As I said, the leading vaccine right now is from a British university and a Swedish/British company funded by the USA (in part). I think it is totally fair for the USA to make a large investment and "pre-order" 300 million doses. If they were ordering 600 million doses and demanding that the patent be transferred to a US company, that would be shady.

But yeah, OWS is certainly part of Trump's re-election campaign. I despise Trump, and I hope OWS is successful well before November. If it gets him re-elected so be it. People are dying.
> NetFlix is a heavy FreeBSD shop, so I'd assume FreeBSD.

Kind of: their edge-cache appliances run FreeBSD. IIRC they run Linux on their Amazon cloud for all their 'internal' stuff.

If you do some searches there's some good presentations on their work on getting encrypted streaming to go Very Fast:

* https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Netflix-...

* https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#numa

* https://netflixtechblog.com/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-co...
It's easy to make decision for other peoples lives without consequences for yourself.
There are several funds and dozens of companies trying to solve this problem (appeared in the last 5 years or so). I would consider searching there.

I'm not even remotely related to biotech stuff, but I'm considering moving there in a couple of years just because it's the most important problem I could possibly be working on.

EDIT: "There" is the ecosystem around Aubrey de Grey (whatever you think of him personally).
Stop calling everyone a nazi, racist, stop calling labor camps "genocide".
Google Maps rolls out directions centered on docked bikeshare journeys
RIP ROP: CET Internals in Windows 20H1
The premise of Libertarianism in this doc is flawed. The idea that fewer laws gives rise to freedom is a Conservative distortion. Fewer laws gives freedom to the most powerful few to do what they like to the rest. The freedom we need for social progress and innovation, is the freedom and rights of the productive class, ie workers, to help society through creative destruction. Their freedom and rights can only be provided through robustly defended and well-crafted economic opportunity laws, including a permissive patent & copyright culture. Since certain Conservative interests will always be opposed to certain creative destructions, when they are too powerful it doesn't happen. That's why autocratic empires don't develop at anywhere near their potential rate, except in the narrow channel they point themselves in (war for Nazi Germany, manufacturing for modern China). That's why the printing press languished in the Han Empire, but lead to the Scientific Revolution in less autocratic/fragmented Europe, where people were able to say heretical anti-establishment stuff by hopping between legal jurisdictions.

In jurisdictions where/when those laws have been well crafted, spectacular social progress has followed:

- in Athens, the crafting of the Solonian Constitution created broader property rights which lead to the renaissance that was Ancient Greece; which was later destroyed by the absolute rule of Alexander's heirs

- in Rome, the crafting of the Law of Twelve Tables lead to the Roman Empire; it was destroyed by Marcus Aurelius when he eliminated the last voting rights, handing hereditary power to his son

- in England, the crafting of Parliament led to the Industrial Revolution because it undid domestic Royal Monopolies; it has been continually eroded by Conservative interests over the centuries, today the UK is not epicenter of economic opportunity

- in the USA, the crafting of the Constitution designed a classless, more equal opportunity society, far from perfect, it nevertheless resulted in unprecedented economic growth resulting in the USA's dominance during the 20th Century; it almost died at the end of the 1800's as the robber barons sought to create monopolies that would define a new Conservative class system based on the wealthy people of that day; today it is under attack again by large companies who are eating/disappearing upstart competitors; Republican policies, and activist Republican judges are eroding antitrust. Libertarians want to disassemble what made America great, whether they know it or not.
I thought 'we' were for 'Net Neutrality'?

Remember, carriers and service providers not allowed to decided what to do based on content?
I might add one more - Norm Abrams of This Old House wrote a book about the construction of his home - "Norm Abram's New House"
Yeah 3.48 billion dollar's worth of paying customers at last count.
I think it is his heavy introvert side, which focuses on reflection and strategy. (In the pseudo-personality type world, "INTJ"). Entrepreneurs are typically ENTP, or ESTP and are extroverted, jump out and figure it out types. They reflect a whole lot less - strategize less - and power through things more.
if you want to hire and retain highly talented folks they would want to work on new tech and product philosophies ?

Doesn’t that benefit the company long term ?

There maybe two distinct markets and Bloomberg can captilize on both perhaps ?

The newer UI could be built as completely new platform “Bloomberg lite“ targeted towards say folks who can only pay 10,000 USD per year or only say currency traders or whatever ?

If interest starts tilting in the favour of newer version you can slowly add features to near parity while moving the older version even more expensive bracket and getting the newer version closer to old pricing ?

If enough people don’t want the new one you try again something different in a couple of years , until you get it right .
Not really an accurate title. The article classifies 89 out of 436 universities as will perish. Most of the article is a condemnation of universities who plan business as normal despite the serious health concerns. Then it goes on to state what factors put universities at risk of shuttering.

All-in-all it does seem like the universities will prefer to lose some percentage of their lives over their livelihoods. On the current path, a 3rd spike seems likely.
I use it to mark pages that I have taken down for good [1]. I have also used 418 ("I'm a teapot") response code on my gopher server to discourage web bots from attempting to index the site.

Edit--added note

[1] For all the good it does. I just checked my logs and I still see requests for pages I marked as "gone" 15 years ago.
GP is referring to the first typewriter in the article, where the katakana has no relation to the English letters they share a key with.
> why do we assume another intelligent being would necessarily follow a linear, sequential conversation?

it's also cool to ask why do we? (...follow linear, sequential conversations?)
Well yeah, but that's not where the money is in selling to hobbyists.

If you want someone to invent something that uses them, you'll have to have them in the hands of people that invent stuff. Maybe you only break even on your small scale sales to hobbyists, but eventually one of those hobbyists will be the one to invent the next big thing.
Sabre would include a lot of companies that are outside the borders of a US subpoena.
Out of curiosity why ducts and not floor pipes for heating? Especially in a climate where you can live without AC if: 1) you make your walls thicker and as you mentioned well insulated---which helps in the winter too! 2) you have "real" blinds on the outside of your windows.
The person you're replying to very specifically said they don't provide access to backend systems.

No entity is going to ignore subpoenas or warrants. They may challenge them for reasons that are applicable to the business.
Success hides problems though. If through some unforeseen means a competitor were to arise in 5-10 years who happened to have a better UI that works for a wider range of people, then spending 35 years saying “They can’t choose anyone but us! Let them eat CLI arguments!” is going to look pretty silly.

If it would cost a tiny, tiny fraction of their revenue to shore up their UI to make it harder for a future competitor to disrupt them, that seems like a worthy use of money.
Nearly all countries are like this AFAICT the US coronavirus deaths figure is around 140k, but the full excess death figure is somewhere around 170k (it's difficult to find good figures, some are here - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm )
One thing I personally find infuriating when talking to people about home projects or renovations is their obsession with "resale value."

It severely limits the scope of what people are willing to do to basically what is trendy on HGTV, etc. that year.
Air conditioning is not as common in New England (where the author is located) as it is in the rest of the country. I would say about a third of projects I worked on in the Northeast did not have air conditioning, and I was working on pretty expensive houses.

Insulation/air-sealing can get you pretty comfortable in New Hampshire.
> which requires a knowledge of the "needs, desired, and problems" of the consumer class

> In practice many capitalists accumulate capital in ways that are unfair and uncompetitive.

I don't think this is the right binary. It's not a choice between "better allocation" or "unfair". In my lifetime I've seen capitalism reward exploitation, cruelty, and abuse, without having some unfair/noncompetitive advantage. Walmart pays domestic employees a non-living wage, and exploits weak labor and environmental laws and "free trade" to produce goods at lower prices, and uses weaknesses in the political system ($$$) to avoid paying taxes. That's pure capitalism working as intended, not dirty trickery.
Your comment sparked my curiosity. Java Random[0] which is used for terraine generation uses only 48 out of the 64 bits of the seed, so there are 2^16 seeds for each possible world.[1]

Apparently only the land/ocean biome generation stage utilises the full seed.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Random.h...

[1] https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition...
It is amazing how slow the data item browser in Eikon is as compared to FLDS. Also, something as simple as HP is hidden in the chart view in Eikon...
Cool piece
I don't think he's that different beyond partisanship. Especially in the YC ecosystem with peers like Balaji Srinivasan. A lot of SV people want to "disrupt" basic foundations of our government like the education system.
I'm the sort of person who would tell that kid to clean up their room. Normalcy is underrated.

As for Voltaire, while I'd buy that guy some wine, the lack of meaningful progress on something at least like CFE from RFC 5984 is somewhat of a barrier. My limited understanding is that its still in development rather than anything near production ready.
I would say the second. Trump supporters in tech companies are certainly subject to (gentle) totalitarian barbarism. I know some people who support Trump privately who would never defend Trump in a work setting. It's simply not worth losing your job over.

I would assume it's worse in academia.
Firefox CSS Hacks Selector
I am beginning to suspect that a patch of soil thinks and behaves like a kind of organism, literally.
This is an excellent example of the potential.

It feels like what I imagined playing in a Star Trek Holodeck would be (well the dialog anyway).
> due to a software limitation

This _is_ a cost cutting measure. They decided not to pay for their software to support red eyes.
Well, it's pretty easy to know if you are in the 4th category.
Recovered.
Should someone that's been infected and recovered from COVID have to wear a mask?
It _was_ too expensive 10 years ago. Technology improvements have brought efficiency up and cost down since then.
I read the book recently. I definitely do not recommend it to anyone who has any symptoms of depression...
> The Importance of Being Earnest

To add to this, in Spanish the title is translated so that it loses all sense of being a pun: "La importancia de llamarse Ernesto". "Ernesto" in Spanish has no correlation with "earnestness", it doesn't sound the same as the Spanish concept, and in general, the title doesn't sound like a pun.

Spanish translators often add a footnote saying something like "this is an untranslatable play on words in the original English".
The language barrier is really making it difficult to see progress in China even for people interested in a particular space.

For example, in just the VR space, if I follow the most popular VR related subreddits and podcasts I often miss important Chinese VR hardware and software. And sometimes the hardware is better than anything available in the US.

I only found out about these cutting edge haptic gloves called Dexmo because I happened upon a review of an American product on an expert blog and the review compared them to a Chinese version.

https://skarredghost.com/2020/04/07/senseglove-vr-haptics-gl...
Embeddings are amazing Want to build visual search using any image dataset?
Rotted wood can be replaced cheaply, and easily. Cracked/crumbling concrete is neither cheap nor easily repaired. The earth moves, and concrete tends to not like that. At some point, cracks will happen.
Culture. I'm no longer interested working for companies where technology is treated as a disrespected cost center.

There's ways to identify such companies. One of the more obvious ones tends to be having a strict dress code (i.e. must wear biz casual).
Re natural numbers, people in our society (a technicist one) seem to forget that "natural numbers" are actually a social construct, there's nothing "natural" about them, they're not "innate"/"pre-existing" in a Platon-like universe of ideas, they only helped us from some-point on to do some technicist stuff (from collecting taxes in Roman times to sending rockets to the Moon in the 1960s) but I'm not sure that the Universe as a whole "cares" so much about them.

We as a species did have the opportunity at some point in our past of not "choosing" the natural numbers way (and of not choosing the principle of non-contradiction more generally speaking), I'm talking about Heraclitus and presumably some other of his disciples, but we chose not to.

As such, we could "meet" an alien society which has chosen the Heraclitus way, or any other way that doesn't involve "separating" stuff into "units" (like natural numbers are), or of thinking about the Universe as "stuff", or any other idea/concept that is not currently in use by our society. In which case all this trouble would have been for nothing, only helps with our existential solipsism as a species.
>We would still have had the Great Depression, and we would have gotten the political disaster then.

I hate to say it, but I have to admit you are probably right.
I haven't run this, so perhaps the behaviour is different to what I'm expecting, but since it uses `XDG_DATA_HOME` (`data_dir` in the `directories` crate) I'd expect it to appear as

/home/alice/.local/share/dijo/habit_record.json

on XDG compliant Linux.
Contrast with Debian's warnings on the topic:

* https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#Warnings
Well, it was due to cost cutting! The point of using an in-house solution was that it was cheaper than buying a reservation system.
Many times it has happens due legal restrictions that developer has in place in his org . It is worse when the publisher is a government body or contracted by one
People on r/wallstreetbets don't have a knack for it, that's just what they want you to think. If you took gave 1000 monkeys RobinHood and let them trade whatever they wanted, a few would be incredibly successful for a few days.

On r/wallstreetbets, you're only seeing the few who are randomly successful for short amounts of time because they are upvoted and the rest are lost in the crowd.
I'm native speaker and I'm currently reading Grande Sertão: Veredas.

The beginning of the book (first 100 pages) is really hard, mostly because it use words that are not commonly used nowadays but also because some of the words are written as spoken. Some people like to read it loud because of this. I've tried myself for some paragraphs and it really made sense to me :)
Right, we should just test on nobody instead.

Of course we're gonna test this on the healthiest, least-likely-to-accidentally-die humans, what's the point?

They explicitly did a pregnancy test on everyone who can be pregnant to preclude the possibility, just in case.
That's not genocide, it's forced assimilation. China is trying to break the stranglehold of Islam. That's tough, as two decades of wars in the Middle East have taught the US.
Not GP, but science is becoming increasingly hierarchical in it's funding mechanisms, placing bigger bets on bigger projects that reflect the perspective of older scientists and the status quo. This pulls funding away from up and coming scientists with new ideas they'd like to try out. Classic increase of risk aversion.
Not complaining about OWS here; but for context it's worth noting that this vaccine was started on jan 10, months before OWS existed. Of course, that was the cheap bit: the research. The clinical trials and scaling unusually quickly will likely be much more expensive; and where that billion will hopefully turn into something useful.
Ambitious. I wonder if they'll have enough momentum to actually pull off something usable without a large, interested user base.
> Harvard law professors don't endorse Trump because he's unfit to lead a parade

Even if you take a more cynical view, and assume that some of them will be selfish, the sort of person who's a tenured law professor at a top university probably values the opinions of their colleagues and peers. And if one of them were to do this, and they got nominated to the supreme court, their peers would see them (correctly) as sellouts, as would, likely, history.

There's nothing sinister here; law professors didn't do it because either (a) they were responsible or (b) they have too much self-respect/self-regard (depending on level of cynicism). Thiel's thesis would only really work if becoming a Supreme Court justice was some sort of all-overriding imperative for lawyers, like Sauron looking for rings.
SenseGlove is working on a “low-cost” force-feedback glove for VR
> While I agree that opensourcing would be unlikely to solve any big problems, you frankly can't know. Someone might come along, especially when we're talking in timespans of decades. Probably not. But maybe.

For as long as the game has an active community and a competitive multiplayer scene, this is not a risk worth taking.

> The argument you're using here about the game depending on MS APIs and such is simply not an argument against releasing, and you know that perfectly.

That is not what I said.

Since this is getting into strawman territory, I will need to stop this discussion here. I recognize that you have very strong ideals about open-source, which I respect, but my priority is the interests of the game's community, so we will just have to agree to disagree.
I love reading about stuff like this!

I had 2 questions perpetually on my mind:

1) The article doesn't go into physical sonic wave communication, like ultrasonic I suppose. Did that ever have applications for submarine comms?

2) I always wonder whether like in the movies, submarines actually have or ever use the audible ping. Of course, it gives away one's position instantly, but does such a ping capability even exist still, on modern submarines?
They probably asked GPT-3 to do the screening.
Here you go:

Stellar Wind, Tempora, Prism.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000001733041/the-pr...

This is a particularly interesting profile of Binney, who worked on stellar wind.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2018/09/13/uk-ma...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23123964

Of course they claimed after being exposed that these programs are legal, but I think lawless is apt as these agencies don't consider the law as a boundary they need to respect.

O tempora, o mores
If all your views line up with the mainstream you’re most definitely not thinking for yourself though. Thiel in fact suggests a question framed in way to force people to think for themselves:

> What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Pakistani pilots allege systemic safety failures
When I was in school in the 00's I had a lot of classes around how to write search queries.

I feel like the way this GPT-3 query was phrased was rather clever, and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw "how to prompt GPT-3" as the assignment itself in the medium-term future.
Gutters help out tremendously with the rain coming off the roof line. Much cheaper than the extra material required for the deeper eaves. Plus, if you're the developer, you charge extra for the gutters anyways.
Nearly all countries have a discrepancy there, if you can find the figures. You can find some for the US here, though not a single, unified figure - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Interestingly enough the weekly UK excess death figures went negative at the end of June, meaning less people died that week than in previous years. Presumably this is due to the huge number of deaths in care homes in previous weeks.
Generative Feedback Explains Distinct Brain Codes for Seen and Mental Images [pdf]
My actual worry about this is 'will I be obsolete as a front-end engineer'. It seems that AI will manage web optimization, and NLP conversational programming, so basically there is no need for a front end engineer. Perhaps I am wrong.
You're right, there's certainly security implications for magic links. Unfortunately for an auth that incorporates hardware keys, I can't think of how you would test behind that without some sort of workaround, but I may be overlooking something.