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I've done almost no reading on him, even though I've known of his significance for years, maybe I should.

Do you have an opinion on Peter Thiel? Like, in the big scheme / long run...do you think he's good, evil, chaotic neutral, other?

Googling, this came up:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-moldbug-variations-pein

Leaving aside the hyperbole, propaganda and delusion, there's some interesting tidbits...

> Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.”

> “Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded.

> “Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched the election at his house, I think my hangover lasted into Tuesday. He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully.”

If true, that's quite interesting.

> Yarvin believes there is no such thing as democracy—and Thiel has said as much, as well. Yarvin’s stunted political imagination prizes strict hierarchies—despotisms, monarchies, and experimental new feudalism via a “patchwork” of corporate fiefdoms managed by absolute dictators who might be appointed by a vote of property-owning “shareholders.” Unlike some advocates of Silicon Valley secessionism, Yarvin has never been shy in acknowledging that this amounts to a revolution and would require the forcible overthrow of the established order. He advised, for instance, that the new dictator of California should throw the old elected governor in Alcatraz, and then briskly proceed to pack the government with Google guys.

> It’s worth considering that Thiel is not just another wealthy Trump adviser. He is a contractor for the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and the Homeland Security Department, through his Big Data surveillance startup, Palantir. (The name is a Lord of the Rings reference; like many big race theorists in Silicon Valley Thiel and Yarvin adore J.R.R. Tolkien, which can be read as an epic glorification of a winner-take-all race war. Tolkien’s trilogy also conveniently doubles as a regressive fantasy universe where heroic Nordic souls either gain power by force or come into it via birthright—in both scenarios, a lineage that leaves them untroubled by the irksome niceties of democratic procedure.)

This seems like quite a counter-intuitive situation - very strange bedfellows. I'd think they'd all be aware of it, and also aware that each other are aware of it.

And then there's also Nick Land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land

I think it's worth watching if the media machine ever goes after these relatively obscure people.
It depends on who "we" is.

If "we" want to spend several times as much money for our power, and only start getting it 10+ years from now, "we" can go all in on nukes. But that "we" looks an awful lot like "them" to me.

My expectation is that if CO2 production has not taken a nosedive by 2030, we are looking at a worldwide collapse after mass migration pushes fascist governments into the driver seat, leading directly to global thermonuclear war. (I would welcome being shown wrong.)

The only problem cited for renewables is energy storage, for which we have numerous alternatives that look like they will all work.

Besides gravity storage, with weights that may be lowered into disused mine shafts, underground compressed air, batteries, and molten salt baths, a surprising synthesis is solar panels floating on dam reservoirs.

They operate more efficiently by staying cool, and are easily cleaned without consuming water. They relieve daytime load, and the existing turbines run at night. There is already a grid tap in place.
30 minutes from the gate. Nobody lives beside the gate. We all live in town about another 10km away. I cannot say what my current recall time is, but a 30/60min ride in on a pushbike is unacceptable.

It started snowing today. Soon it will be very cold. Dont see many bikes at -20 with a fresh 10cm covering the bike routes. Snowmobles would be a good not-a-car option. I have seen people come to work on those. They are very dangerous/loud/polluting but at least they dont impinge on bike lanes.
Deezer also open-sourced their source separation library Spleeter [1][2] last year (submitted to ISMIR2019 [3]).

Deezer does not offer an official hosted service but there are unofficial services like Acapella Extractor [4], melody ml [5] and moises [6].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21431071

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228539

[3] http://archives.ismir.net/ismir2019/latebreaking/000036.pdf

[4] https://www.acapella-extractor.com/

[5] https://melody.ml/

[6] https://moises.ai/
Being able to choose your desired mechanical response of the keyboard switches is useful for serious work.
Actually, that's quiet the reason I want to open it.

I know that working on it alone is going to take a lot of time, and there is always someone that knows more than the first one.

I have given away copies already when I started with it...

Users keep sharing it, thanking me and so on...so it has to be useful...

Might do....
The end game is computers that cannot run software that hasn't been signed by the government. The copyright industry invests a lot of money into creating hardware that obeys them instead of their actual users. They aren't actually that important in the long run. Governments are a far bigger threat to computing freedom.

Governments think computers are too powerful and mere citizens should not be allowed to have free and unrestricted computers. Cryptography used to be a military tool but it has been democratized. Everyone has access to high quality, widely available cryptographic software. This means citizens are able to subvert the government by denying it access to information. Governments think they are always justified in everything they do and it's an affront to their power when they experience resistance.

In order to safeguard our freedom, we need to be able to manufacture hardware just as easily as we can write software. Currently, computer hardware manufacturing costs billions and there are very few companies doing it. They are natural targets for regulation and legislation.

We need to be able to make computer hardware at home.
Minimum wage is a threshold for _not_ paying salary (if a candidate is not skillful enough to earn at least a minimum wage -- that worker cannot get a job).

Minimum wage is bad for workers. Increasing minimum wage hurts low-skilled workers even more. Which is a cruel thing to do, especially for a programmer who earns significantly more and is not affected by minimum wage.
Advertising absolutely can generate value. An advertisement might sell someone magic beans that clean your house if you leave them under your kitchen table.

How do you know that advertising provides more value than it takes away?
> Yeah, but no PDB

Can you expand on this?

C:\rust>cargo new demo
Created binary (application) `demo` package

C:\rust>cd demo

C:\rust\demo>cargo build
Compiling demo v0.1.0 (C:\rust\demo)
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 2.28s

C:\rust\demo>dir target\debug
Volume in drive C is Windows 10
Volume Serial Number is B4A6-FEC6

Directory of C:\rust\demo\target\debug

10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> .
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> ..
10/11/2020 02:03 PM 0 .cargo-lock
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> .fingerprint
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> build
10/11/2020 02:03 PM 61 demo.d
10/11/2020 02:03 PM 152,064 demo.exe
10/11/2020 02:03 PM 1,101,824 demo.pdb
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> deps
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> examples
10/11/2020 02:03 PM <DIR> incremental
4 File(s) 1,253,949 bytes
7 Dir(s) 15,995,387,904 bytes free

`demo.pdb` is readily available.
Wild speculation from someone who doesn't do hardware, but I'd guess that it's not so much writing the software as testing it that motivates that. It'd be hard to keep the testing matrix of apps X hardware X driver version from exploding out of control.

Your customers will be hella pissed at you if their favorite game suddenly doesn't work on their system after a driver update. So you need to test a representative sample of previously-working software across all hardware that the updated driver applies to.

That sounds like a nightmare, and a capital-intensive one because you need to keep machines up with all of these cards, both in continuous integration and for interactive debugging.

I can understand the impulse to keep the list of hardware that new driver versions support small.
I remember Some Organization Who You'd Think Would Hate Nukes In Fact Thinking Nukes Are Fine, i just, uh, picked the wrong name.
I think this is an important point, if you look at the warmup run on [1] the Julia CSV readers are slower than many of the R and python packages . It makes the claims of 10-20x faster quite disengenuous in my opinion. A lot of data science work will only read the file on once per session and what these benchmarks actually suggest for that sort of work is not reflected in the title.

[1] https://www.queryverse.org/benchmarks/
I am fascinated by how music was made in the 80s and 90s, all these devices.. but in 2020, whats the benefit of having a such device? Can't a laptop computer replace it all?
I believe he's referring to the fact that someone on a H-1B visa needs to keep the job (or else very quickly find another employer willing to be a H-1B sponsor) in order to remain in the country lawfully. This gives the employer a lot of leverage over the employee.
Metallica IS using this in every single concert they have played after they experimented with them in the Antartica show. AxeFX II, but I saw AxeFX III in a recent photo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6k2ghtbhoU
3:09-7:32.

Megadeth is also using AxeFX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7vzOjzn0Mw

And from there you can extrapolate how common they are.
The thing is, DRY has some downsides. If you've pretty much nailed down the functionality of the old thing, especially if it involves some kind of manual testing/open beta test with users, the last thing you want to do is touch the old code.

I'm not defending them, but sometimes something is good enough and you have to move on.
Sorry but I do not believe government tracing every contact I make is a "legitimate" government power

Further it is unlikely that these companies would have either even attempted, or if attempted would have gotten wide spread compliance with out government mandates they collect said info.

Government (as always) has created this problem
Things are getting obscene at the high end of the treadmill though. Current high-end monitors like 38GN850G and X27 are already plumbing the $2000 price point and the X32 is expected to tip the scale at $3600 MSRP. "Compared to" just going out and buying a TV and using it as a monitor - you could buy a 55" OLED for your PC and a 65" for living room at that price. Or two 55" oleds, replace it in 3 years when it starts having burn-in from years of marathon Starcraft sessions or whatever.

There really isn't a lot to justify a 32" IPS 4K144 over a 48" OLED 4K120 other than burn-in.
A stable API means you will definitely not have to make any modifications, and Linux provides no such guarantees. "Pretty" standard and stable is not the same at all.
My Software Engineer Mission
And they still don't work.
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> Sure, but there's also the mining and purification of silicon to produce solar power. Same with the mining and purification of steel and aluminum to produce windmills.

But a lot of those materials are renewable, or becoming more renewable. Most/all materials are used in dozens of other things that are essential to modern society, so investing in making mining cleaner and making recycling more efficient and cheaper is not optional. The fact that renewables create more demand for materials, and more waste, can be a good thing, as economies of scale can make investments in efficiency and recycling techniques more viable.

In a solar/wind power plant, all of the materials can in principle be reused quickly, given decent recycling technology.

Hell, now we're even building windmills out of wood again, and turns out they're stronger/better than with concrete/steel.

It's not just the fuel that's waste, when decommissioning the power plant you also have a lot of low-level radioactive material that can't easily be recycled/reused. Not a huge problem, but at a fundamental level it's worse than renewables.
You should read Debt: The First 2000 years. This is a common but wrong idea. Barter economies have almost never existed.
Sorry, the two options were nuclear vs. renewables + storage (batteries and hydrogen). I don't think very large methane storage makes much sense; where does the carbon come from?
It’s still relevant when considering, for example, frozen goods. Those usually ship in cold and dark environments.
In fact, at least initially there was a theory that the new outbreak in NZ was caused by frozen foods shipped from China (and that an outbreak in China was caused by frozen food shipped from the US). I haven’t been following so I’m not sure what the results of the investigations were but at least now we know it’s a possibility.
Yea. It felt a little off to me as well. At the end he tried to spin it about him leaning to spend time with his son... by ignoring his son.

I dunno. I just couldn’t empathize with the guy.

Despite that, the story of the octopus was incredible. If they had cut out 100% of the autobiography, I think I’d have enjoyed it more.
Compiler Design in C
Same!

I do it for both the monitor and the TV, with two cheap "Ingared" lamps from IKEA; can recommend.
In the far future though hash digest might be broken (i.e. you could alter the video but make it have the same hash)
Works fine for me on Tor, didn't get any captcha. Maybe its a problem with your particular relay?
I'm willing to bet money that Twitter will start censoring posts from the WHO on this subject (at least until November 3rd).
Yes!!! I was looking at exercise equipment this week and badly wanted to find reviews for when people had been using it for years. That’s where 98% of the useful info is.

Otherwise reviews are pointless things like the packaging quality and shipment speed.
Interestingly I tried to blink that out and ran into a problem: how do I represent a pause or break with blinking? This made me wonder how it would be done with other Morse code transmitters, and though I haven't yet looked it up anywhere it seems to me that Morse code might not be the binary I always assumed it was, but more trinary: dot, dash, break. Something I will look into more now, thanks.
>>>gorhill before the committee so

I 100% could be wrong, but I image that bigger battle would be getting gorhill to agree to go before the committee in the first place....
I find it funny that developers (especially less experienced ones?) are so fascinated with the "big size" of the Linux kernel. I've seen this in various discussions, both online and offline.

By commercial standards, the Linux kernel is really small. The average enterprise application which has been in development for that long (almost 30 years) usually has at least several million lines of code, if not tens of millions or more.

User facing functionality is HUGE in size compared to tech functionality, usually.
There are a few, but mostly don't show transmission, but persistence on objects in hospital settings. That said, most of them seem to exclude the fomite hypothesis.

That said, it is highly unlikely that it is a prominent way to get infected, assuming it occurs: with the numbers of positive people in the world, it would've become known by that.
YC-backed Indian startup Razorpay becomes a unicorn
If I understand the visualization correctly, it is real time. There is a lot of solar PV (rooftops especially) in Oz. Wait for the sun to come up and look again...
Rich kids are now paying to flaunt their lavish lifestyle on TCHIIN app
Exactly. I’d be surprised if it actually takes 30 days, but there’s no point to them quoting something faster.
Yes, for the past 10 years this was a wonderful piece of advice. What leads you to believe it's just as wonderful for the upcoming 10 years? How long are tech stocks going to outperform the market?
The actual name of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, is four characters shorter than "COVID-19 virus".

I suspect that at least some amount of damage was done to our response as a result. I wonder if it made it more difficult for people to understand that this new virus is closely related to SARS-CoV-1. This, in turn, may have made it more difficult for people to use lessons drawn from the 2003 SARS outbreak to guide their response efforts. For example, observe the terminology used here: https://www.healthline.com/health/coronavirus-vs-sars

It is obvious that China has been attempting to compete with (and eventually replace) the United States on the international stage. Does anyone have further political insight into why the acronym "SARS" was essentially suppressed when the World Health Organization chose the COVID-19 name?
Hopefully Trump will re-recognize Taiwan.
Damn, you just made me realise HTML5 is indeed that old.
I’m not sure what the reasons for continuous sync would be, but SongShift will do a manual sync between services for free, and it sounds like I did so to move from Spotify to Apple Music just in time.
Matt Yglesias makes a great point about differing views of environmentalism in his new book: https://www.aei.org/economics/the-case-for-one-billion-ameri....

> The reason I say “eco-pessimist” rather than “environmentalist” is that to me if you’re an environmentalist, it means you’re somebody who takes environmental problems seriously. You are aware of the literature on the problems of air pollution. You’re not saying the Chinese made up climate change. I’m 100 percent on board with that. I think we need to take that seriously. I think we need to invest money in green electricity and in the electrification of our vehicle fleet. But I think if you are smart about environmental problems, you recognize that to resolve climate change, you either need a cataclysmic fall in living standards — and that’s not going to happen — or you need new technologies and a new technological paradigm.

> Still, it is a fundamental difference in worldview. Some people are very driven by a pastoralist notion that we can conserve our way to solving the problem. A billion Americans is not about that. It is about a bigger, richer, more dynamic society.

I think nuclear is part of this difference in world view. Even if windmills and solar are part of the solution in the short term, that’s not going to be enough in the long term. You need keep increasing the amount of available energy. You’re not going to create a Star Trek society without investing in nuclear.
Blockchain would be your best bet, but even that could be scheduled for the future, all depends on context.
How Did We Get Here?
It’s not airgapping per se. The large studios want to ensure they can send out their content pre-release to the various third-party vendors working on a project. Ensuring the vendors meet MPAA guidelines is a mechanism they use to ensure this. It’s not technically an accreditation but it’s usually contractually enforced if you want to work with a large studio.

You can actually read the whole thing:
https://www.motionpictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MP...
What are Algebraic data types, anyways?
Huh? Sweden also has about 10x the inhabitants than Estonia. Why would you not take that into account?
Why is a pro privacy site recommending DDG

Instead they should be using OpenStreetMap
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“You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism”
Not the Quadros used in datacenters. GA100 is on TSMC 7nm according Nvidia themselves: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-ampere-architecture...
Are these conflicting interests? Better bike infrastructure would mean that those who can bike would be off the road, which would mean less congested streets and highways for those who need to drive.

Commuting is also only one occasion you need transportation for. Many local errands (like grocery shopping) could be done on bike and would be cheaper than using your vehicle.
Yep! thats it, thanks!
You need to pick a different name, mate.

Gnutella is an exceptionally notable and influential fully-meshed P2P project by Nullsoft. Know your history, respect the elders :)
> You just wanted to print a warning if the directory doesn't exist.

That code prints a warning if the directory does exist, actually ("-d FILE FILE exists and is a directory"). Did you mean something like:

test -e outfile && echo "trying to overwrite preexisting outfile"

> You didn't want the function to fail.

Uh, I kind of do, actually? If I wanted to discard the exit status I'd write:

test -e outfile && echo "trying to overwrite preexisting outfile" || true;

This is awkward, and suggests a proper if-then operator (perl-6-style `??` collides with globbing, but maybe `&?`?), but it's better then having something like:

mkfoo -o foo && cp -T foo otherfoo
do-something foo bar

mostly-silently mix old and new data together because mkfoo failed and the error code was swallowed.

> So there's no way for shell to really know what you want.

Yep, and if we have to pick one problem, things failing completely in a obvious and also easily-fixable way is usually a much less awful problem to have than silently corrupting data and state, especially when you've opted-in to a mechanism (like errexit) specifically designed to do the former.
You might find this note[1] interesting to read. I would love to see a commercial off the shelf cathode ray tube (CRT) that could do 480 Hz, so please share with us a link if you can find it in your notes.

A CRT monitor, with a refresh rate of 480 Hz, allows just 2 mS (2.083333 mS to be precise) for excitation of the phosphor. As you know, (here is a similar explainer [2]) the phosphor is excited by the arrival of electrons which contribute their kinetic energy when they impact the phosphor to the electron energy of the particular phosphor. When the energy decays back to base level, it emits a photon at a frequency that is characteristic of the band gap between the excited and rest state of the electrons in the outer orbit of the crystal.

The more electrons you can get excited in the phosphor crystal, the brighter the display. But the more electrons in the beam gives the beam more inertia and so rapidly moving it from one side of the screen to the other requires higher voltage potential.

I haven't seen any high refresh rate CRTs but back in college we had a device which was a "flying spot" scanner which had a very fast phosphor but it was enclosed in a black box and basically relied on photographic film for persistence (it was made by a company called "Dicomed"). The shorter the persistence of the phosphor gave it a very high dynamic range of brightness which allowed us to transfer digital photos with a high dynamic range to film without losing fidelity.

I haven't really followed the evolution of cathode ray tubes post the Sony Trinitron era, I would really love to play with the tube you mention, or at a minimum get the engineers specification for it. I'm assuming it was full color? (the Dicomed's screen was a sort of yellowish white and it had three filters that it would place over the screen to scan out a color image).

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/87778main_H-609.pdf

[2] https://www.phosphor-technology.com/how-do-phosphors-work/
This reads as downright petty, to an idiotic degree IMO. It is far too poor quality for HN.

The principles laid out are something that stores should have been adhering to >10 years ago, and is a step in the right direction even if it's late. Of course time will reveal whether they stick to it or not, what's important right now is this intention being made clear, which nobody else has done.
That's good advice. Before you learn how to make a dish, you must learn various ways to ruin a dish. You can read all the books in the world, but only dozens of bad omelettes will teach you how to make a good one.
Why not generate it during the build? Is there a good reason not to do that?
Besides that (I have the same problem), there's the obvious "electron GUN pointed at your face/eyes" problem.