skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whiggish bullshit. Functional code and GC were invented in 1959. Some level of static typing was de rigeur in most application-development languages after assembly and before the scripting boom starting in the late 80s. In Coders At Work Frances Allen bemoaned the effect C's popularity had on automated program analysis since 1970:

> C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine.

"Progress" in CS remains fad-driven pop culture churn.
If this wasn't so, so true, it'd be even funny :(
This must be fairly recent, because about a year ago I bought tickets, got a receipt in my gmail, and it didn't try to upsell me a hotel.
This reminded me of this
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/29/21113812/google-super-bow...
Neat Blockchain Transaction Visualisation
I can understand countefeit Rolexes, Breitling, etc...but why would you bother to buy a counterfeit of a $15 watch?

EDIT: that video is fascinating. The different in beep frequency is a dead give-away, though.
Technically, maybe, but telco's are not interested in that business. They know nothing about hosting user code, have no way to support a gazillion instances of random customers running random code on a gazillion nodes around the world in heat, rain, ice, whatever. How would you stand a chance doing customer support on that?

There's also security; they can't just store/process customer certificates on minimally secured boxes on street corners. Just about any useful code requires some kind of cert or secret or connection string somewhere. Cloud providers require all sorts of physical security restrictions, guards, cameras, sharks with lasers and such in order to host these things.

The way it's working now is telcos are outsourcing it to the cloud providers, and cloud providers are sticking racks in the carriers' metro hubs (with shark/laser requirements). These racks show up like mini regions in cloud providers' portals, so users can deploy VM's there just like any other region. Much lower barrier to entry that way.

Maybe someday you'll get sub-microsecond latency on custom apps from some box hanging on your street, but that's not coming anytime soon AFAIK.
How do you explain your business suddenly failing after you're done transferring your old funds into it?

And isn't it easier to simply cash out XMR you've allegedly mined back in 2014? Long-term held. cost basis zero, capital gains rate 20% max in the US. That's even better than the 21% corporate income tax.
Interesting. Are there better ways of measuring the contribution of manufacturing to the GDP? Or is it simply not possible by definition?
This change isn't done because master is super offensive or racist in the context of git. It's done to show some kind of support to the movement.

Might not much very much, but I think showing you care is something.

If it breaks a bit of shitty tooling that relies on hardcoded values, then I think we can live through that.
Would you agree that a US Senator doubling down[1] that 'having slavery was a necessary evil[2] in order to get rid of it[3]' is correct usage of cognitive dissonance? How does it differ from the incorrect usage?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53550882

[2] I agree with him that it had been a necessary evil to form the original union. I disagree both that formation of that union was necessary, and that slave states joined the union with the intention of abolition.

[3] Luckily, like this senator, the confederate states and contemporary writers said why they seceded. Deepfakes are not an issue when people are willing to go "on the record" with their intent and state of mind.

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As to "different values", I guess I can come up with some for the examples given above:

Exxon - We need oil profit now to fund later development of our green acquisitions

Wall St - Our arbitrages make the system more efficient for everyone else

the MIL complex - Our products only kill and maim baddies. Besides, we build them so we don't have to use them.

the gambling industry - If we were outlawed only criminals (and uncovered derivatives traders?) would gamble. Besides, people have a sure loss when they pay for other forms of entertainment. And we pay for cultural projects legislators don't want in their budgets!

big tobacco - There is controversy over long term costs, but in the short term smoking clearly demonstrates human mastery over fire. (besides, how are workers supposed to bond, and pace themselves, without the smoke break?)

However, the only clearly non-dissonant one I can come up with is "anything people pay me to do is by definition good."
I think there are so many better routing apps for cyclists and walking but everybody defaults to Google Maps. Even people who ask me for advice on cycling routes sends me a Gmaps screenshot as if it's the only navigation app that exists.

Here are some examples I wrote down (I'm also an OSM mapper): https://jakecoppinger.blog/articles/the-best-apps-for-bicycl...

Assuming the future is already here with better navigation, how do we encourage people to use anything but Gmaps? Would love to hear any thoughts :)
What happens if they fly into a building because they don't have the button? It's a management of risks.

Besides, there can be a back-link and information updates for the landing box to manage situations with two or more planes in emergency mode.
MCMLXVII+LXV = MCMLLXXVVII
= MMXXXII

Addition in Roman numerals is dead simple: you do it by just bunching symbols together.
The only difficulty is subtractive notation, which wasn’t really used in Ancient Rome.
Apple didn't want to buy modems from Qualcomm so they supported and bought Intel modems, but Intel failed to develop 5G modem to match 2020 iPhone so Apple make a agreement with Qualcomm (settle lawsuit) to buy Qualcomm's 5G modem chip and concurrently buy Intel's modem department to develop own modems.
The upcoming Flight Simulator 2020 uses Bing Map in a similar way.
C-suite's job is, unfortunately, only to get the shareholders rich, not the employees.
Yeah I like how TAO uses less quotes than JSON so you would need less &quot; when encoding TAO in HTML.
Not only that, but the US political system moving towards a much stronger anti-immigrant stance is literally reversing the brain drain and kicking out the best part of that deal, the smart people.
Intel's problem isn't with money. Intel is a hugely profitable company last time I checked. And It definitely has a lot more money than its challengers, receiving government fund or not. It's quite funny we are so used to this kind of capitalist view that thinks money solves all our issue.
Remington levered up and took on a ton of debt at the wrong time. The owners gambled and lost. It's a shame that people will lose their jobs over this.
A nit pick, I guess, but it’s a square, not a cube.

The edges are interesting. I wonder what part of the image processing results in the irregularity. Some kind of interpolation, I’d guess, but that’s pure speculation.
Your response proves my point. As you are someone who knows that that an accountant saves you enough in taxes to justify the expense, you are a person who has time or resources to strategise their interactions with the tax system.

Many people don't have the luxury of strategising any of their interactions with the tax system. Either because their situation isn't covered by any deductions, or because they don't posses the knowledge, or because they don't possess sufficient free time to investigate.
China Seizes US Consulate in Chengdu, Retaliating for Houston
I always find it easier to find companies once I have a list to work from, even if they're not in the geographic area that I'm looking for
still node based, but open source, in blender land there is sverchok:
http://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/Gallery

probably your closest bet imo. they're honest about the strengths and weaknesses, and while it doesn't have all the conveniences of commercial packages, the script node is there and can bring everything in sverchok and blender to bear in python.
This is a fantastic analogy, and I'm rethinking a few things. Thank you!
People are buying bolt actions like there's no tomorrow. Just not from Remington. Tikka, for instance, has been a sleepy brand here in the US for a while, but their popularity has exploded in recent years.

Remington's owners have stripped away many of the skilled gunsmiths they used to have. A new Remington is not a very well machined firearm, and enthusiasts have found this out and no longer buy their products.
You are somewhat right. Those very arguments are brought up on the Wikipedia page:

> Some question whether defense is a public good. Murray Rothbard argues:

>> "'national defense' is surely not an absolute good with only one unit of supply. It consists of specific resources committed in certain definite and concrete ways—and these resources are necessarily scarce. A ring of defense bases around New York, for example, cuts down the amount possibly available around San Francisco."[14]

> Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Don Lavoie note,

>> "Americans in Alaska and Hawaii could very easily be excluded from the U.S. government's defense perimeter, and doing so might enhance the military value of at least conventional U.S. forces to Americans in the other forty-eight states. But, in general, an additional ICBM in the U.S. arsenal can simultaneously protect everyone within the country without diminishing its services".[15]

Basically, 'public goods' are an important concept, because standard economics suggests that anything that's not a 'public good' can be better provisioned by private, profit seeking actors.

The argument we just brought might suggest that we should privatize the military as well. I did not want to make that argument here, but it's perfectly cromulent.

In practice, how much a given good is a public good is a matter of degree and context.

In most context bread is less of a public good than defense.

But with sufficient effort, you can exclude people living in the same country from defense. Whereas there's little effort required to exclude people from eating your bread.

Similarly to make eg the benefits of nuclear deterrence rivalrous, you need lots of effort or extreme scenarios.

If you have a good or service with a large fixed cost, but a low variable cost, you can discuss about how much it makes sense to treat it as a public vs private good. For example, software or intellectual property in general has almost 0 variable costs, but copyright is a legal invention to make software excludable.

Networks are in-between: the postal service or the phone service or even buses or planes on a schedule have large fixed costs, but when below saturation, they have low variable costs.

I suggest we treat the postal service like we treat buses and planes.
That should be the option (and a socially acceptable one) in all societies IMO. Working until delivery and dumping a newborn to a daycare at 6 months old is insane IMO.
Having a baby is such a crucial and important event in any woman's life that a mandated pre-delivery-full-pay leave seems like a viable mandated right I would whole-heartedly support.
Would you mind sharing where you host your email server?

I have a pet theory that big email platforms care deeply about the IP "neighborhood" the sending email server lives in. So a small email server set up perfectly in Digital Ocean IP space would struggle, while an email server set up OK in (for example) CenturyLink Enterprise IP space would get through.
Cheap materials consistently making shit music = not working
Let me guess，you must come from CN？
Still using foobar2000 here. :)
This is actually a positive to using the app.

I have the original QC 35's and they never originally gave us the option to change the ANC. Only through an update and using the app that they switched it on.

If our headphones didn't use can app, we would still be stuck without being able to modify the ANC level.
You can always cash out "Bitcoin you [allegedly] bought back in 2010", or Monero you mined back in the day so there's no way to even prove its source, and declare that to the IRS. With a cost basis of almost zero, you'll pay long term capital gains tax, 15% or 20%.

BTW when you declare your crypto gains, the IRS not only does not care about the source, there's not even a place on the forms to list the source.

That might change in the future though.
planned bankruptcy

Planned? You realize Cerberus would have made a lot more money if it had been a successful turnaround.
> You haven't described how you will keep them secure.

That is correct. I am pointing out suggested practices for a good backup system for general knowledge. (i.e. I am writing to everyone who is reading this, not just you.) I am not going to cover security, as I have no opinions on best practices.
Foreign weapons manufactueres declare victory once again. Russia seems to be in a military boom.
A person we choose is not nearly as important as the relationship we build
Build another one, then the story goes that you have to build weapons to defend it against "the old systems", as now the cake is all divided and such, and there is no new world to discover on earth but in space.
https://nius.tv is a next-gen news aggregator that uses an AI anchor. The mobile app will be released in October.

For now you can check out news videos here, https://twitter.com/nius_tv or subscribe to their website to get newsletters.

There is also a Medium post detailing the tech and motivation, https://medium.com/@calufa/converting-news-into-video-storie....
Is that an attitude of an over-privileged, pampered SV person? Because it certainly has nothing to do with reality. Maybe you should go traveling for some time and meet people who live in the real world, not a bubble.
Just wanted to say that I read your blog post when it first went around last year, and it made me fall in love with the look and the idea of the f91w. Currently have three, all found in thrift stores. They are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and such an affordable collectable. So, thanks! :)
Except those robotic factories are going to spring up right next to, and in place of, the existing factories and will plug right into the distribution infrastructure that already exists. The path of least resistance is not to bootstrap a completely new manufacturing and distribution system in a completely different place (the US). No matter how tempting it seems from your efficiency point of view, things sprout from existing buds. America chopped off all its buds and is left languishing at the mercy of its suppliers. That was a huge strategic mistake.
Technically we’re selling it to China, not giving it. Notice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_equipment_sale...
> Plenty of factors are helping humans to move on from brand worship

I only buy major brand-named items on Amazon, and only with Amazon as the seller. The one indispensable characteristic of branding, reputation, is more important than ever even though most brands' reputations are in the dumpster. Knock-offs of unknown or unreliable provenance just happen to be even worse. And even when you find a good non-branded item, reputation is still worse as non-branded items seem to change suppliers more regularly than the branded versions, and supply chain integrity is less trustworthy.

In brick & mortar stores I always reach for the generic, in-house brand (assuming the price is lower) knowing that invariably they're made by the same manufacturer as one of the major brands. But contrast that with Amazon's in-house brands, where it's unlikely they source from the same manufacturer as the major brands, and also seem to change suppliers more regularly.

American gun manufacturers have been outsourcing production for years. But that doesn't mean people no longer care about brands. Rather, many of those suppliers have made a name for themselves outright, or improved upon their previously lackluster reputation; those are the brands you often hear about today when people give recommendations.
But the type of pollution does matter. An important question is does it have a greater impact. And given the studies linking health to distance from the freeway, I think that question needs further investigation.
Indeed. Savage Arms has been making high quality bolt actions that cost a lot less (~50% less) than Remington...for a while.
I wear a similar Casio and this article reads like "How did breathing oxygen become a terrorist icon". I mean come on, it's one of the most common watches on the planet. The best correlation the article could come up with is that 1/3rd of people caught with it also had bombs. That's worse than random chance.
> Of course, no, they aren’t down, it’s just that people that absolutely should be going to the hospital aren’t and they’re endangering their lives trying to avoid COVID-19.

Do we have any clear data for this link of causality? Isn't it just one guess among many as to why?

It is unlikely single factor explains the entirety of the changes in these metrics and I actually doubt healthcare usage reluctance will turn out to be the primary factor.
I was cautiously optimistic for Intel, when they bought Altera in 2015. I was also simultaneously worried for innovation in the FPGA industry.

AFAICT Intel has dropped the ball and failed to produce anything particularly amazing as a result of the 2015 acquisition. I would have been all over that.

Did I miss something? Why didn't they run with this.
Get ready for some EU pearl clutching about data again
Not at all, I think those people should be paid, but I think their jobs should be automated. Whether it's true today, or in the near future, we can all agree: those jobs are better done by robots. Those people deserve to live happy lives, and so we should pay them out accordingly, but we don't need to introduce the inefficiency to do so.

Even Walmart is looking at replacing all their cashiers with robots. [1] Do you think assembly workers are immune for some reason? We need to skate to where the puck is going to be, not where its was 30 years ago.

I find the idea of my comment coming from a "pampered, privileged tech worker" perspective interesting, as I'm offering a part of my pay so that the folks doing the mundane, back-breaking work inefficiently, today, could be paid to stay home and look after their families or pursue self-actualization.

[1] https://bgr.com/2020/06/17/walmart-self-checkout-no-cashiers...
The plot by patriarchy is not asking women to stop working during the third trimester. The plot is to ignore those needs and punish women who stop working by not paying them maternity leave or holding their pregnancy against them when they come back to the workforce.
If you use git diffs frequently, I recommend setting up delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta
> The one thing not discussed is how does one hold third party providers to any standard.

Make them post a bond, if they want to do business with you. If your business is sufficiently important (like perhaps government letters might be), they'll post the bond.

How is your example with the jury summons different in the USPS world? How does the FedEx guy differ from the USPS guy?

> Are buildings and individuals now supposed to give out keys to every fly by night contractor in existence that changes every day?

No, why? The situation is basically the same that we already have for packages or very urgent mail. Look at what solutions are employed there.

In practice, you'd provide access to some trusted providers. A new market entrant would have to negotiate access, or arrange last mile services with an existing provider, or refuse to deliver to those areas etc.
It's maybe also possible that some people find it more stressful than their normal routine, and some find it less.
It’s not so obvious that it’s a net positive. Music for instance is way easier to get ahold of now, but we also don’t get to enjoy sophisticated long-form music as much, owing to how there’s no money in making it.
> the fabric of society is in danger of breaking

Really? That is hyperbolic to me, and I was not as interested in reading the rest of his article after that.
I assume it's in quotes because if there were only non-violent protests, it wouldn't drive people to buy guns. Hence "protests".
Page doesn’t load for me. Can anyone summarize?
Footnotes are great when done right.

If you're using footnotes to cite things, you're doing it wrong: inline citations exist. If that's not enough for you, use a different syntax (say, ^[1] instead of ^1). If you're using it to define terms, you're doing it wrong: use a margin note. If that's not enough, you should probably typeset a nice box that makes definitions easy to identify. Footnotes (imo, of course) should only be used as a "here's more information for the curious" and should similarly only appear at the actual foot of a page (I despise endnotes).

My experience is biased towards print and print-like (PDF) use of footnotes, but I don't think it's much of a problem to expect users to click every footnote when provided with a convenient pop-up UI like in the OP, provided that you've clearly defined a convention or pattern of their usage to your readers.

I do wish websites showed footnotes on hover, though... jumping within the page is nonsense and often mucks with URL sharing.
OK, but DoH is a pretty good thing to have. Disabling it comes with its own downsides.
"Renduchintala was one of several key hires from outside Intel, which had been famous in Silicon Valley for developing and promoting talent from within. He was hired as part of a strategy to go after broader markets than the central processing units, or CPUs, the company became known for in the PC era."

I feel like this will go down in history as one of technology's most expensive decisions (that's not a knock on Renduchintala as much as it's my own astonishment at Intel thinking they were safe as recently as 2015).

I'm also a bit saddened by this. It confirms what we all suspected but what I secretly hoped wasn't true.

Intel for over a decade coyly hinted they had aces up their sleeves that would already have been played if they faced more competition. Graphene got kicked around in conversations for a while and then when that turned out to be a no go they talked about black phosphorus.

So after all that, aside from marginal tweaks and pretty meager die shrinks here and there, they were doing.. nothing?.. for ten years?
Claude Shannon defined information in part by its ability to distinguish from noise.

Certain objects are so ubiquitous and their signaling so minimal, it’s to the point of background noise and contextlessness.

The Casio F-91W is one such object.

The monobloc chair is another[1].

The community jokes a CIA analyst looking at a gritty Polaroid of a monobloc will have no ability to discern if the picture was taken in Djibouti or Denmark.

In a certain, Cayce Pollard / William Gibson “CPU” aesthetic, there is cachet and delight in signalling contextlessness - and a small cult has grown around these objects. They collectively call objects that share this anonymous property “monoblocs“ for short and their is a bit of fun in acquiring the most base form (counter to our every instinct!)

I liked your article’s tangent on incompressibility. As, like fluid, noise is incompressible and by reinforcing your F-91W, you have made it doubly so.

[1] http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/04/06/those-white-pl...
I thought that on all Underground lines the driver has to operate a deadmans switch at all times - if released the train stops. Is that not true?
Politics and Pellagra: The Pellagra Epidemic in the U.S. in the Early 1900s[pdf]
Listening for radio frequencies how? Near by the building where the typewriters were being used?
>(being a kind of political endorsement), and from that point Red Guard cells sprung up organically across the country.

This is a massive understatement of what Mao's support and endorsement meant, and understating the "organic” nature of what happened after.