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> I won't be spirited away to a black site by speaking ill about the president.

Trump started doing that in Portland last week.

Earlier today, he said he plans to expand the program to New York, Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, and a bunch of cities with in blue states.

Apparently, the Chicago PD’s leadership is welcoming it because the mayor “makes them fight with kid gloves” and this will let them ignore state and local regulations.

They also say they’re planning to bypass the state courts because federal courts have harsher sentencing guidelines.
I'm the developer of Zoom Earth. "Live" is shorthand for "near real-time". But, you're right. Most visitors simply want to see their house from space. Which is understandable, but also kinda depressing. They could look at _anywhere in the world in near realtime_, but they wanna see what their roof or garden looks like.

Meteorologists love it though.
Maybe we're getting hung up on the definition of what 'over-communication' means. I don't disagree with you that there's a failure mode here, but as a mindset it's helpful when approaching your interactions with various functions in the business to keep in mind that communicating things that seem 'obvious' to you (because you think about them and talk about them a lot) might be really valuable to share with whoever you're talking to.

An example: I'm meeting with a sales rep who has a customer pushing really hard for a specific feature. It might be a good opportunity to walk them through what the overall strategy is over the next six months to help frame where their feedback might fit into it (or to explain why it doesn't and why we're unlikely to work on it). I might have shared this a month before at an all hands, but I can emphatically say from many past experiences that repeating it is helpful in these scenarios, even though it feels like I'm 'over communicating'

The other things listed out in the article feel like tactics that can help here, but for me 'don't assume everyone has the same information you have' is a really helpful mindset to hold.
Either way:

All of this makes me think the real value for many of a Bloomberg terminal is level 0 access to the insider trading club.

(Yes, I'm a cynical person. No, I'm not saying everyone who has a Bloomberg terminal is doing insider trading.)
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I was going to comment on just the recent use of unmarked federal agents in Portland. I never thought that within the single term of US president things could swing so far. I used to question how it happened in WWI/II, but now I see it first hand.
As a Floridian, I look forward to live viewing death from above, sometime soon.

Hurricane season is one of the few things I like about this state - that and the 15 minutes of not-summer.
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Bloomberg terminal is no longer a physical thing (except for a custom keyboard with integrated fingerprint reader and function keys) and runs on generic Windows.
> Compared to making an effort to hold the typical views? How can it not imply that?

I'm not sure what you mean. Can someone who thinks for themself arrive at "typical views"? If yes, then thinking for yourself does not imply anything about the views one holds.

To look at the other side: do you believe that a q-anon conspiracy theorist "thinks for themselves", or do they just buy into a non-mainstream, but still completely dogmatic, set of views?
Thanks! We render inline on jupyter/colab. I'm not sure about VSCode, but it boils down to whether it can render iframe or not. Try saving one of the colabs (as a .ipynb) from https://gradio.app/ml_examples and passing inline=True to launch()?

I can also try it and let you know :)
Sure, we can't zoom in, but I thought that this was pretty cool. Yeah we've seen photos of the planet from a distance, but printed maps and Google/Apple/et. al.'s map software condition us to forget about how widespread cloud cover is. So, to me, an "average person", it's interesting to see the world "as-is" right now - the various storms around the world, the fact that the cloud cover near my house is something I only ever think about locally but, upon viewing this, is so obviously part of a much, much bigger system that extends thousands of miles beyond my locale, the neat kind of horizontal "line" of clouds stretching around the planet along the equator, etc.

Yeah, I'm not going to spend a lot of time checking this out, but it's still really neat for a few minutes.

Edit: User qeternity responded to your post as well, and I'll also echo their comment about how seeing this whole planet as something that's minutes old building a strong connection/appreciation is another great point.
I’m sure that is true 98% of the time. But buried in the mass that is the other 2% are likely some messages that will be very valuable.
Detto has following features:

- Not just a deep clone, you could wrap anything in any paticular nested object.
- You could watch change.

See usage: https://github.com/iendeavor/detto#usage

Real world example: https://github.com/iendeavor/form-validation.js
Awesome goals, though I don’t love the name. But of course that’s just my opinion.
Jeff Bezos says this exact thing in a slightly different way: "If you don't listen to your customers, you will fail. If you only listen to your customers, you will fail."
The US doesn't have concentration camps with hundreds of thousands of their own citizens.

At most there is Guantanamo and black sites abroad. And at least for Guantanamo the prisoners have a modicum of rights (see Boumedine, though I concede that the current scotus majority is limiting it as much as possible.)
No, and hardly a "position" at that!
You're spot on with it feeling dreamlike. Any short chunk feels like it makes sense, but on the whole it flows together in bizarre ways where it doesn't feel quite like there's underlying structure. I don't think I've ever experienced media that was as reminiscent of the experience of dreaming as GPT-3 generated passages are.

It reminds me of how Deep Dream was the first thing that _really_ reminded me of what psychedelic visuals are like, compared to a "trippy" piece of art. GPT-3 _really_ reminds me of dreaming compared to human attempts at evoking that feeling.
This is a false equivalence.

There is a huge difference between free Western democracies, and totalitarian China, just ask the people of Hong Kong.
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There are many of them out there, but they have a much lower budget than banks, FAANG, and other top tech companies. Because of that they usually have a much smaller reach, and you don't hear about them much.

Computers are everywhere today, and charities do work more efficiently thanks to specialised software as well.

In the UK, for example, you can find a job at a charity on https://www.charityjob.co.uk/, and some need software engineers/web developers.

If you want more of technology-focused companies, one example that comes to my mind is a Little Ripper, life-saving drone https://thelittleripper.com.au/.

Another one, online GP https://www.babylonhealth.com/

They are out there, but sadly they don't have the same reach as corporations. Another debatable reason: to save our planet, all of us need to take action and software can't help here.
How is planet better? Clicking on https://zoom.earth/ takes me directly to the overall imaging of the earth.

Planet seems to take you to a landing page with interesting things to look at. Not that that's bad, but interested to hear what's better about it
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Also, it's good for monitoring wildfires. For example, here are fires currently raging in the Arctic: https://zoom.earth/#view=67.86,151.46,6z/date=2020-07-20,am/...
Downvotes to your post are unwarranted.

Western medical school tends to think that pulmonary fibrosis is incurable, despite the fact you have just provided a practical recipe for post-pneumonia rehabilitation.

Probably what happens is a casual reader just sees a statement that says that "masks make breating harder" and gives you a downvote without further thought. This is what I call a comfortable ignorance.

Kudos for finding the practical way out of this situation.
There is clear regulation in many countries: nazi speech gets you thrown in jail, the rest is mostly fine. See njmerious european countries like Germany that aren't some dystopia hellscape. That reflects a lot of what happens voluntarily today anyway, but it can't of course be formalized into regulatory law in the USA, because such regulation is restricted by the first amendment.

Your panic is unwarranted anyways, because many of those countries do allow free speech restrictions, yet no runaway crazy banning has happened yet. Its just a fictional slippery slope made up to protect hate speech. Words don't protect against tyrany anyways; actually fighting against tyranny does.
They used to be custom machines. Now they are just what you say, software and a keyboard.
In my experience the sysadmins would be running in the opposite direction.
1. Thanks, would love to see what you build :)

2. By default, we only create a localhost link, no share link is created (with the exception of colab as we cannot access localhost there). You can then use that to set up port forwarding etc. Let me know if this answers your question?
Coinbase says it prevented over 1k customers from sending Bitcoin
So why didn't Trump offer a seat to Alan Dershowitz, Captain Underpants himself? As he went to Harvard and was a professor there.

So it is groupthink over morality? Quite the hot take.
I mean, at this level, it's not that different from Google Maps satellite view, right? I can see years/months-old imagery there too.
It's more complicated than that. Most tickets aren't in a GDS, but only in an individual airline's CRS. And a travel agent wouldn't have broad SQL like ability to query. They would need at least 2 of name, record locator, or flight/date. And travel agents don't typically have access to every airline CRS and all GDS systems...some subset is more common.
So to make it look like in the demo, you have to tweak the settings of your terminal?

Perhaps terminals should have cascading style sheets ...
I for one would love to get a live view of the lineup at my nearest grocery store.
I think you'll find that no architect, contractor, etc. is going to care about your house as much as you do. Even if they are the best of the best you aren't their only client, so they have limited time to put towards your project, while you have as much time as you are willing to give it. I often find myself just kind of standing in the middle of a room of my house looking around and thinking through various permutations of how I might rework things to be more functional and aesthetically pleasing. I find this kind of thinking (and eventual action) very enjoyable. You might not, and that's totally fine, but I can't imagine not doing this kind of stuff.
I see how that's important. On the other hand, it's not as big of a deal to spread the virus if everyone has protection from the symptomatic risks. We should still shelter in place, but even turning active cases into carries would reduce loss of life (presuming we continue regular testing so people can KNOW if they are a carrier)
Is GPT-3 the ultimate Oblique Strategy?
Meanwhile, outside of the US, we're looking to hire 30 new TT faculty.
Builders will just skimp where they can to improve their effective profit. Eg:

- not painting the tops of doors
- not grading slabs for drainage
- not following basic instructions about hanging a door
- carelessly filling the drainage channel with mortar when laying bricks
- not cladding a wall properly because you can't easily see it (which then starts leaking water)

I wouldn't undertake a large building project without being very well educated beforehand and allowing significant amounts of time to have your nose in things. Maybe you can get builders which will do a good job without lots of oversight, but there is no way to know this before you sign a contract.

Buying something already built saves a lot of time and effort, and dramatically reduces cognitive load.
I just stumbled over this one independently while researching this topic some more, it's an interesting read, thanks for sharing.

> For readers only interested in an executive summary, our results are the following: For arrays small enough to be kept in L2 cache, the branch-free binary search code is the fastest algorithm. For larger arrays, the Eytzinger layout, combined with the branch-free prefetching search algorithm is the fastest general-purpose layout/search algorithm combination.
Around 1990 I worked for a company called equinet that was basically the "Bloomberg of Australia".

At the time, the Australian stock exchange (ASX) ran its own sharemarket information service called "Jecnet". It was serial dumb terminals connected over phone lines back to an HP minicomputer/mainframe in Sydney. It was extremely popular amongst professional trading houses and institutional investors.

And the stock exchange decided to get out of the market providing information services, so they announced they were shutting down Jecnet.

So all the stockbrokers and institutional investors around Australia who used Jecnet - and there were alot - were going to lose their service. They would all be forced to move to a new system, away from the one they knew well.

And this guy turned up at equinet - I think he had previously worked for the ASX.

What he had done, is written a DOS Modula2 application which was:

-- a little server application which ran on an 80486DX2

-- it listened on a serial port to the ASX price feed which came in at 9600BPS

-- it had a serial controller card installed with 16 serial ports attached

-- it cached the ASX price feed

And here's the kicker - it pretty much exactly replicated the Jecnet functionality and user interface. (that's my recollection anyway)

So what this guy had done is effectively replace the HP minicomputer with a drop in distributed async server that cloned Jecnet.

So equinet bought/licensed this from him and went to all those Jecnet terminal subscribers and said "you don't need to lose Jecnet, we'll just switch the serial connection from the ASX to us". Brilliant success.

And in time many of those terminal users were transitioned to the much more powerful equinet Windows sharemarket information system.

But it was incredible at the time to see this guy essentially replace the entire functionality of the HP minicomputer system with this thing written to run on a 486.
It’s the uncanny valley but for writing.
This is also worth noting not only on the level of aesthetics and experience of a given building, but worth underscoring for consideration, especially for the crowd that thinks that leveling obstacles to increased supply is The Answer™ to housing costs.

Increased supply is one necessary component, but in the same way that developer incentives can more easily push them to substandard suburban construction, urban construction is likely enough to chase something other than your goals.
It seems entirely logical to me to first test on healthy young people. It's a big step forward from mice! You might learn a lot.

But there are quite a few more steps from there to treating the population.
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Yea, and the headline of the article also gave me low expectations.

But the dev does seem to have a proven track record, and the feature plan seems somewhat appealing while not being over ambitious.

It is similar to a lot of distros already though like Arch, Alpine, Void, etc.

Not radical or ambitious like Silverblue, Nix, or Guix.

Seems practical and desktop focused. Ubuntu started that way, so it is possible to succeed with that approach but Ubuntu had millions of dollars at the start and their focus on usability was almost the opposite of this purity focus.
Show HN: Detto – Sync two objects data structure by Proxy feature
Sorry about that I forgot to add `Show HN:` in the title, and post another one again.

Detto (AKA Pokemon ditto) is a library which has following features:

- Not just a deep clone, you could wrap anything in any paticular nested object.
- You could watch change.

See usage: https://github.com/iendeavor/detto#usage

Real world example: https://github.com/iendeavor/form-validation.js
3D doesn't really work that way.

If you want a volumetric display, maybe it will work, but the display itself will need to be the same size as the total volume of depth you want to create, e.g. digital objects can not appear outside the screen.

Due to the fact that eInk is a non-backlit technology, I can't imagine creating a glasses-free stereoscopic effect using eInk.
Sort of like the dice that classical composers used to shuffle the phrases of some of their music.
Honestly I would have thought Sabre would have been streaming their data to TLAs since the 1960s.
> I have a site with 1 mil URLs , nothing big

A million URLs isn't big?
I did an undergraduate project based on the same paper as this (not nearly the same quality, but similar enough if you squint).

The procedural method used for this kind of generation is really powerful -- you usually see L-Systems being used to create basic sort of fractals but these sort of implementations can become pretty smart. For example, you can provide a height map of the terrain, and make it so that the roads find smooth paths down hills.

And then that's before you realise that the buildings themselves can be generated via rules which describe how to make buildings. And then, the layout of rooms in a building, and the layout of furniture in each room. There's some really impressive potential here if a group of people were devoted enough.

Another good paper is: http://peterwonka.net/Publications/pdfs/2006.SG.Mueller.Proc...
The audiobook has some nice extra commentary as well.

That book blew the cover off missions that hadn’t been known to the public at all, so it was a bit controversial at release - the commentary touches on all that.

Red November and The Taking of K129 are also great reads along these lines.
I hadn't thought about that, but looking at pictures of cupolas, that makes sense. Such would play a similar role in thermal regulation as a whole-house attic fan in extracting hot air from the house. I find myself wondering now if a cupola could supplant an attic fan, or if not, complement one enough to reduce the size/power needed.

It seems to me that done right, a cupola would also make a great source of indirect natural light.
Well, I believe it only highlights how fundamental definitions of things like "data" aren't even universally agreed upon in our field.
Thanks for reporting! We'll get the misalignment of the form fixed up for Firefox. The Google sign-in says 'continue to amazoncognito.com' because we're using AWS Cognito as our auth provider, but it looks like there's a way to configure it to be "continue to reflect.run" so we'll look into that!
I'm on the other side of that. Something needs to be done about the violent protests as it's gone way passed "free speech". At some point we have to agree that people are not really trying to enact change, but are just angry and acting out violently (or not peacefully). If it means having to send in "unmarked federal agents" to detain them because the local politicians are abdicating their duty to keeping civility within their territory, then so be it. It really is a far cry from what is happening in China.
Thanks!

That's a great idea, fyi we have a gpt-2 colab demo up, but the interface could be better I agree https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1o_-QIR8yVphfnbNZGYe...
> I've had a flood from a broken washing machine hose before.

Oh, me too! So far my only significant insurance claim, around $70K for repairs in the mid-90s. The leak occurred while the house was unoccupied for a week.

Pro tip: you have to have receipts for all personal-property damage claims, which few people would or could have prior to everything being online. Exception: my insurer did accept a list of all damaged books with the associated cover price.
I don't think anybody had to be a super genius to predict the outcome of the 2016 election. I'd bet a good chunk of road comedians could've told you that in 2016.

Also, I don't think backing a candidate and using their victory to enrich yourself is a particularly brilliant or unique move, at least not one that warrants "listen[ing] to everything he says."

Beyond that, backing a candidate that's (at least arguably) detrimental to a country simply for profit or to prove a point about how smart you are doesn't really engender a lot of respect from me. Leveraging your existing billions to make even more billions might be somewhat impressive but this brings me back to my original question:
Why should I (or anybody) care what Peter Thiel thinks about The Enlightenment or whatever?

This whole thing reads as "here's a grand study of one of our greatest thinkers" despite his main qualification is being rich and litigious.

It's like if I painted a self portrait where I've got angel wings and Dwayne Johnson's physique. It might be fun and pleasing for me, but why would anyone else want to look at it? And why would it end up on the front page of HN?

Sorry I don't mean to be rude but I am still genuinely stuck on
What is the purpose of this document?
and
Why would anyone necessarily care about its content?
I am not suggesting to replace democracy... The thing is that we don't have a democracy in most countries. It's more like the government is throwing a bone to people. Real power comes through lobbying. So in a way, lobbyists have the actual power to elect, and therefore they are the actual electorate in our democracy. The "normal" person is simply just getting his bone as well to keep quiet. And looking at the fact that 40% of USA still support Trump, that may actually be a good thing.