skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently heard about a survey where people on average said that they do want to have 2.something (lets say 2.4, but I don't remember the exact number) kids. I guess it is easier to prevent overshooting, but sometimes life circumstances prevent them from having as many as they wanted. That can be as simple reasons as not finding the right partner, etc.
What you see less often though, is people that want to have 4 or 5 kids, which I think is stigmatized, but it could even out those that don't have kids.
(Rust can absolutely interface with Win32, and Microsoft themselves have implemented bindings to WinRT.)
Right, so you agree that it's better for you to have very limited power and exist without authority, in which case you'd have to confirm to most social norms or suffer consequences, than for authority to exist and for people like you to accede to it?

Because in our system, if you were to accumulate enough authority it wouldn't be in your interest anymore to follow laws.
The achievable clock speed is mostly a function of the pipeline depth and how well the design is optimized, the ISA should have very little impact on it. There are a bunch of high-clocked high-performance ARM chips available because several huge companies have already made large R&D investments into developing them.
Right, this is why Canonical moved Chromium to snaps - It's a ton of effort building Chromium for 20.04, 18.04, and all the intermediate releases every few weeks for a package that's in universe.

It's cheaper/easier for them to publish one version across all of Ubuntu.
I have upvoted you not because I completely agree but because I think the downvotes are unfair and promote some kind of unimind. My point of view: no one is entitled to anything and law should adjust to what is better for society as a whole. I personally don't own any pirated software, video or music. I usually download books and the few I find interesting and actually read I end buying. I think it's good for society to have some protection for creators. That said I do wonder if the nice streaming services we currently have and I happily pay would be available if piracy hadn't forced companies to innovate how to distribute their products.
"Are you an X?" is a fallacious concept made popular by religion.

We are all capable of understanding a variety of viewpoints, and partially agreeing with them.

The more abstract the viewpoint, the more parts are available to where with.

Anarchy is one of the most abstract ideas I'm aware of.
There is more to it but it is also a "cancel culture" moment if there ever was one. I think history will look back on his ousting as part of a mass hysteria, but I don't agree with OP about likening it to the Khmer Rouge (messed up, that)
With the Fourier example, there is a constant amount of information in the system, and so the apparent complexity in the Fourier basis representation is an illusion.

Is that the case with MWI? Is there a constant amount of information at time t and t+1? Note that I see a fundamental equivalence between information and entropy (of the computational sort), and so an exponential growth of computation required to get from t to t+1 is an inescapable theoretical burden.

To put it a different way, MWI seems to reify possibility. But the state of possibility grows exponentially in time, and so the theoretical entities grow exponentially.
> I’m grateful

Herein lies our difference of opinion. I consider it a positive thing that he's changed and grown. But grateful? Wealth-worship is gross and I'm not his dependent.

Again, he's buying what he wants to buy with his money.
Yeah, I thought this was funny too. I literally read the same sentence and thought to myself: "ok, I am definitely not an anarchist.
>Added to this, their economy has boomed due to not having to invest in future generations.

Can you clarify on what you mean by that please? Are you referring to pollution an environmental degradation?
R.e. "external" pressures. This explanation does not seem very efficient. There are tangible benefits to wealth accumulation. Wealth can afford its owner many kinds of different pleasures that are less available to the less wealthy. It also protects from many harms. All organisms in existence are avaricious to some extent or another, because the ancestral environment favors this trait.
Nano is an interesting cryptocurrency, but it’s very benefits are attack vectors. Currently Nano has no way of dealing with a precomputed PoW attack which means a single attacker has the ability to effectively ‘DDOS’ the network. This is briefly discussed in their white paper, and AFAIK I’m the only one to have proposed a complete comprehensive solution to their problem, but the implementation appears to be so complex and would require a network split that the nano team has moved on to less comprehensive mitigations. Currently any actor, including myself with my trivial resources could easily DDOS the entire network, which is a major concern I hold to the cryptocurrency and cannot advocate its usage at least until this has been appropriately addressed.
I don't have any book recommendations to make since API design is more art than science. As such I'd recommend that you beta test the API (route names, payloads, etc) with a few potential users to gauge durability and the ease with which users can intuit. The last thing you want is to release new version quickly or to require users to always refer to your documentation.

Some of these problems can be solved with an SDK (highly recommend, as it can greatly improve developer experience especially in a modern text editor or IDE) or switching to GraphQL (not without its own problems).
Speak for yourself. The pro mouse and mighty mouse fit my (possibly oddly shaped) hands perfectly, and I don't need to curl my little finger under the body of the mouse to grip it, unlike most allegedly ergonomic mice I've used. The entire side of my hand opposite my thumb gets cramps as I try to move all the weight of the ergonomic mouse with my little finger, but the pro mouse is wide enough to rest all four fingers on top and just let friction grip the mouse.

I'm just really tired of allegedly ergonomic mice that only cater to cartoon characters with three fingers and a thumb.
And this is why anarchy can’t and dosen’t work. 10 minutes later it will be replaced by a new feudalism led by people trying to make themselves king to protect their own best interests.

(Edited to a more general statement.)
But is it? If an anarchist society was to come to existence wouldn't it be necessary beforethen for it to be largely accepted?

And also, there are currently existing societies where that dynamic works, so I'm not sure it's that unrealistic.
In reality Anarchism fails to address the fact that people behave different, there are people that is good, respect each other, work hard, look for themselves and their families...while there are others which just don't (pedophiles, rappist, burglars, scammer, etc.). Like there are people that prefer a 9-5 job vs serial entrepreneurs. In a world with such diversity of thoughts is naive to think that humans can behave in reasonable fashion. In a world where we all behave different a set of rules and structure is needed
I think you're scapegoating VC's for normal business practices. The consumer/producer relationship for internet services is distorted by the freemium model. The free access drives consolidation on the best early contender. Once companies have attained a significant amount of market share they can do pretty much anything that they want in regards to user experience. This is particularly important where the magnitude of the user network is directly correlated to the quality of the product. The reciprocity of the consumer/producer relationship dissolves and the network of users can be subjected to major changes without a feasible option for recourse.

This is basically localized forms of market monopolization. The internet is always pro-producer because the user has very little influence in the relationship.
This. I remember playing Theme Park and it was pretty obvious this was a bit of dark humour, especially as the downside to over salting was that you had more people throwing up.

Complaining that a simulation of a theme park is cynical is rather missing the entire point.
639-year-long John Cage organ performance has a long-awaited chord change today
The importance of looking up words you’re unfamiliar with is mentioned in part 2, and unfamiliarity with advanced terminology seems like it’s usually the primary blocker for understanding a paper. At least it usually is for me.

When I try to understand a paper with a lot of terminology I’m new to, I try to translate it into more colloquial, but still precise language.

It’d be cool of there was some sort of software/way authors could add citations for advanced terms that could then be used to “decompress” the paper into an easier to understand but longer version of it. Then they could still write efficiently/describe the paper in the terms they use when working, and people without that context could automatically translate it into something more understandable.

Would also be cool if you could use something like that to measure how many “external dependencies” your paper has so you can then try to minimize them/get rid of unessential ones more easily.
Just remove snap [1] and move on with your life. That's the very first thing I do in every single Ubuntu installation for years (including 20.04), and never had any problem.

At least in my case I don't need / don't want any kind of app store in my system (but I understand this is not for everyone; less technical users may not be inclined to installing .deb packages using command line).

And I still follow this thread [2], hoping one day they will clean up the $HOME/snap directory and fix the performance so gnome-calculator doesn't take several seconds to load, but I'm keeping my hopes low.

[1] https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053
When Your Boss Is Just Not That into You
Thanks. That feels like weird chain of causality. All the bad stuff only disappears when the systems protecting us from them are removed.
Counterpoint: The legal concept of fiduciary responsibility, and actual de facto laws, legally compel the board of directors and executives of for-profit corporations to produce profit for their shareholders.

There are even special laws for officers of publicly traded companies that make this compulsion even more strict add additional criminal charges for failure.

Now, obviously these laws aren't something most corporate officers think about when they get out of bed. But they absolutely do create powerful incentives and drive the culture of large corporations away from any consideration for ethics.
It's not too hard to get passable marks in a subject you don't understand well and then forget most it.

Suppose a given class has a 40/60 applied/theory split. Our hypothetical student is average in some sense and gets 75% on the theory. Now if they get at least 37.5% on the applied portion they barely pass the class.

There are minimum GPA considerations, and you might need at least a C in some classes rather than a D to continue, but it's pretty common to spread the hardest classes out so that you only have one super hard class to focus on each semester, and easier courses and generals will help pad out the Ds on your transcript to maintain a passing GPA. Throw in a retake or two for a couple screw-ups, and you still graduate in 4 years with a whisper of a shadow of an ability to program.

Filtering for high GPAs and whatnot can help (or it might exclude people who had family emergencies or other complicating factors and still know their shit), but in the worst case that's just a measure of the amount of time and dedication spent per course. You also probably need to set a pretty high threshold -- you can bomb all your algorithms, data structures, and applied programming courses and still have a 3.5+ GPA if you do well enough elsewhere.
> How did the Internet get so bad?

The article misses the point. The problem has its root in monetary policy. The problem is supply-side economics.

Money printing and giving control of the money supply to banks has made consumers redundant appendages of the financial system.

Imagine that you're the CEO of a unicorn startup or a big corporation and you constantly deal with investors, banks and customers.
Which of these 3 groups do you derive most of your wealth from? Banks and investors.

Banks print money and loan it out to your investors and your investors use that money to buy your company stock and drive up its price - Also, banks loan your company money directly to buy back its own stock...
As an executive, if you want to maximize your bonus, banks and investors are the only two entities you really care about... Your actual customers are merely appendages; they're merely a useful metric which allows you to get more money from investors and banks.

So long as all the new fiat money enters the economy through big institutions and big investors via bank loans, the consumer will always be an afterthought in the decision-making process.
You're the product because you're not the source of money. Consumers don't have any money. Only institutions have money because they're printing it for free and distributing it among themselves by the trillions.

That's why we need UBI (Universal Basic Income) urgently - That's the only safe way to switch to sane demand-side economics.
My rent is 0.5% the price of an apartment per month (350 eur / mo). So, in 17 years, there are two outcomes:

1. I have no apartment, no money invested, and I have to keep paying rent.

2. I have a 60k euro apartment. Not only do I not have to pay rent ever, I also have the option of selling it and recovering most of my investment. Or I can rent it to generate money. Not to mention I have something to leave behind to my grandchildren so they don't have to spend money on rent.

> Just look at the covid mess. If you're in your 20s or 30s and bought a house and live on credit cards I'd be sweating right now

People who are renting are also sweating right now. Whether or not they bought a house or rent doesn't matter. What matters is that they "live on credit cards".

Or take another example: Silicon Valley. There were are two kinds of people in SV:

1. People who owned homes now rent them at exorbitant prices, or sold them for a huge profit.

2. People who rented were forced to move out or live on the streets.

Owning a home is an investment. Renting is a liability.
I wish Nvidia would put more work into making sure that its stable software packages work together with other stable software. I have a laptop that's more than 1 year old with tensor cores (RTX 2070), but it's still not supported on stable Windows.

I had to install dev channel MS Windows + subsystem for linux 2 + NVidia CUDA 10.2 (an old version of the NVIDIA driver) to be able to run mixed precision training on my NVIDIA card.

I could try to run Linux, but in that case I may not be able to use the newest games that are created for the same NVIDIA card.

The situation is so bad that Jeremy Howard from Fast.AI suggests people to run training models on the cloud even if they put significant amount of money into having their own NVIDIA cards.
Since the Mietendeckel went into effect in February my (already low) rent went down by almost 300€ per month - I have never experienced anything like that anywhere else I lived in. We moved from Tel Aviv to Berlin in late 2013 & even back then we left a crumbling, old 55m 2-room apartment in a worse location that costed more than our current 92m, 3-room apartment in much better state of repair & in a better location (in terms of transit access, schools, environment, noise, etc - the only significant advantage I can think of for our old apartment or neighborhood is that my parents & sisters lived nearby).

According to the first internet resource[0][1] I found (as well as anecdotal data from many people I know in both cities) wages are more or less the same in both (tech workers earn more in Tel Aviv but everyone else earns more in Berlin).

I would say while the situation needs improvement (namely more housing built & faster) it's hardly the worse I've seen & almost everyone I know in other major global cities suffers from a worse housing market.

[0] https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/berlin-germany

[1] https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/tel-aviv-israel
> Dont you see the bars on the windows and doors?

Yup. Captchas are everywhere. Javascript is everywhere.

Finding a website that loads without having to enable javascript or go through captcha is a breath of relief. They do exist.
I have issues with this article and with anarchism, and I agree that some of this is sophomoric (not sure about sophistry though).

However, this article isn't really for you (or me). There are surprisingly many people who think that "anarchists" simply want to see the world burn and are promoting a society where their children are as likely to be murdered while out playing as not. This article is just saying that that's not the case.

It's obviously too hand-wavy to take us beyond that.
I would hope those who report to me feel comfortable, within certain bounds, to make me aware of personal difficulties so I can manage up, downwards and across—likely in the way of managing expectations rather than saddling folks with more work.

Being kind goes a long way in not just being empathetic, but also in keeping employees retained. Everyone, at some point, will face issues that will drag on their performance. I hope I’m extended the same grace eventually.
Requires a Mac to relay messages:

AirMessage leverages the power of your Mac computer in order to route messages to and from Apple's iMessage servers. The server is to be installed on a computer at home, and will pass messages to and from your smartphone to allow the usage of iMessage and other installed services.

https://airmessage.org/help/
What are you using as your search engine?
Read Michael Albert's Parecon for an anarchist answer to these questions. One of many of which Lenin would be proud.
Humans in general are, but a significant enough minority are interested only in power and aquisition. I'm sorry but this is a pipedream.
Dynamic linking and containers aren’t necessarily incompatible, though nobody has combined them well yet.

Of course, half the point of containers is to “vendor” your dependencies — a container-image is the output of a release-management process. So the symbolic reference part of dynamic linking is an undesired goal here: the container is supposed to reference a specific version of its libraries.

But that reference can be just a reference. There’s nothing stopping container-images from being just the app, plus a deterministic formula for hard-linking together the rest of the environment that the app is going to run in, from a content-addressable store/cache that lives on the host.

With a design like this, you’d still only have one libimagemagick.so.6.0.1 on your system (or whatever), just hard-linked under a bunch of different chroots; and so all the containers that wanted to load that library at runtime, would be sharing their mmap(2) regions from the single on-disk copy of the file.
Unexpected electric current that could stabilize fusion reactions discovered
Isn’t that part of what the EFF does?
But most software companies, nowadays, are supported by subscription revenue, so this should be less of a concern than ever before.
That does look more comfortable than the Leatherman -- I wasn't aware Victorinox made multitools. I was a fan of Victorinox in the 80s and 90s so this must have been a more recent addition their lineup.

Also it seems like higher-end Leathermans (similar to the price point of your SwissTool) have more comfortable grips.

https://www.leatherman.com/surge-3.html?dwvar_3_color=10&cgi...
> you might say that this is unrealistic, but for the government to do anything about pollution we needed hundreds of millions of people to protest

Hundreds of millions? The organizers of the biggest climate strikes (September 2019) estimated 7.6 million globally, and that's being generous. It's vastly cheaper, easier and more popular to enforce companies to reduce their pollution from their own funds than to pay to do it for them.
That's funny, I see people behave badly even with the authority all the time.

In general though, most people behave mostly good. The ones that behave badly probably would under any social construct. The people I know that got into trouble with the law were the same ones with antisocial tendencies in grade school.

I don't believe that the threat of government enforcement really encourages a significant proportion of edge cases to behave better.

Due to some unique circumstances, I actually have had the opportunity to see what a relatively anarchist society looks like in low-density areas. It honestly works about the same as it does under more supervision. When the occasional real problems develop, people band together and act as their own police force. What there isn't is a bunch of technicality type laws banning you from doing things that don't affect others.
Is there an algorithm that would facilitate discussion though? Regardless of time sensitivity?
I had totally forgotten about this! For me it wasn't just the extensions. The font in the "Save Download As…" dialog in the Chromium snap, for instance, has been completely broken for me – all characters get displayed as the infamous glyph-not-found block. To make things worse, the dialog by default suggests some random directory deep inside the snap tree as download destination. Good luck navigating to a folder where you'll find your download again, given that you can't read any of the file or folder names…
If covid leads to a long term increase in remote work that itself could lead to a change in demographics as people reduce moving to cities and away from family support networks, which could impact on fertility rates.
Rent is based on supply and demand. Landlord is not going to charge less or more than the market can afford. So no the landlord won’t drop the price because of mortgage. But there’s a lot of people negotiating hundreds of dollars off their rent in toronto because the market is down and if they refuse, the renter can pick just any other place that is cheaper. And its very well possible that those landlords didn’t get a discount on their mortgage if they are locked in.

So it goes both ways.
And for a counter observation I saw lines out of nail/hair salons and bars in Atlanta the day Kemp dropped shelter in place at the beginning of May. I'd say I see 1 in 8 people wearing a mask anywhere that doesn't explicitly require it, and then people mostly wearing them improperly otherwise.
"Qualified immunity" - thank you, that's what I meant to write, not 'sovereign immunity'.
They are hierarchical. All primates are. Agriculture just revealed the need for a level of social structure no other species on Earth could achieve before.

Regarding your follow-up question, maybe there are ways to achieve the same thing with a radically different social structure. The problem with social changes on this scale is that they are extremely disruptive. I'd rather reform and improve iteratively than rewrite the whole code base ;-)
Haha! That’s a bit of a caveat isn’t it?
>> The VC model for funding technology is the root cause of user hostile technology

It's not the root cause but it's along the right path and very close to the root. The root is the monetary system with banks being able to print trillions of dollars and decide who can get that money and who can't... And VCs get a lot of that newly printed money, so do corporations (who provide exits for VCs).
API design in C++ by Martin Reddy is a good text.
> If an anarchist society was to come to existence wouldn't it be necessary beforethen for it to be largely accepted?

I guess so. THAT's the the big IF in that case :-).

> And also, there are currently existing societies where that dynamic works, so I'm not sure it's that unrealistic.

Really? Which societies?