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Maybe we're really talking past another, but for example, last week's announcement for Servo's new home page reads

> The Servo Project is excited to announce that it has found a new home with the Linux Foundation. Servo was incubated inside Mozilla, and served as the proof that important web components such as CSS and rendering could be implemented in Rust, with all its safety, concurrency and speed.

This is clearly written by someone who sees Servo as a showcase for Rust above anything else rather than what tf it is, such as a state-of-the-art rendering engine. But the developers addressed as readers, such as me, care about the state and coverage of the actual layout engine, CSS parsing/matching, rendering and rendering targets, font handling, and the like.

I'm not the only one bringing this up; when the announcement was discussed [1], there were similar sentiments. For me, a programming language is a means to an end for creating machine code, not an end in itself. This focus (and Mozilla and developers walking away from it) also hints at Servo not being all that useful (or incomplete?) for actual rendering; we don't really know. Anyway, the take away for me is that diving into Servo and Rust is probably not worth my time investment.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25125325
Not unlikely, it was a condition.
Is it really shorter?

For all I know this is a false dichotomy. True RNGs don't exist, for one, in a deterministic philosophy.

RNGs are per definition non-deterministic, but algorithms are deterministic--by the definition that I learned. We use floating gates picking up cosmic background radiation or the fallout from radioactive elements to come close to really random. XKCD's butterfly joke applies.

Computable numbers have a computable complexity. For a non-deterministic program the fair comparison to a true RNG would be a programm that outputs all digits of Pi up to infinity, I suppose. Vice-versa, I'm not sure if a pseudo-random number generator couldn't be fit into the equivalent kolmogorov complexity of a 40-digits of PIE.

Are you saying it couldn't be? On the one-hand it is the case that pseudo RNGs simply rely on intractible complexity, which must regularly supercede 40 digits of Pi equivalent to 40 byte key, as opposed to your 4kb RSA key chains and what not.

On the other hand I think your argument is akin to the gamblers fallacy: I have absolutely no clue but I will hope it will not have been a primitive RNG, right?

For reference, here's a simple pseudo RNG taken from TinyPTC example code to produce a TV-noise graphic in a loop

noise = seed;
noise >>= 3;
noise ^= seed;
carry = noise & 1;
noise >>= 1;
seed >>= 1;
seed |= (carry << 30);
noise &= 0xFF;
pixel[index] = (noise<<16) | (noise<<8) | noise;
Not only, they are an authoritarian government with power over milions of employees. These people are going to spend the best 1/3 (or more) of their lives in an autocratic environment where they have no power over decisions that will influence drastically their lives. That's not living in a democracy at all.
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The first paragraph is a gem:

"A program is generally exponentially complicated by the number of notions that it invents for itself. To reduce this complication to a minimum, you have to make the number of notions zero or one, which are two numbers that can be raised to any power without disturbing this concept. Since you cannot achieve much with zero notions, it is my belief that you should base systems on a single notion."
> “Given competing programs whose outputs match our observations, always prefer the shortest.”

I need to know context. Output is necessary, but not sufficient. Is this a stand-alone chat server for some niche voices, or, say, Twitter?
I would recommend studying up on some history. The current generally prevailing peace is not the default state of human nature. Indeed the good thing we have going right now is a very notable exception to the normal order of things: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/pinker-explai... (and there's no guarantee it will continue indefinitely).
In particular, PG's analysis of "conformists" seems heavily colored by the stereotype of jocks and other popular kids bullying the nerds. It's true that there's a set of people who try their hardest to believe what's popular in their social circles, but they aren't doing this to avoid thinking about things. In fact, I'd argue that moral trend followers almost all value intellectual thought and debate; people who don't value that don't engage in abstract discussions about society in the first place.
They're talking about the actual canning process.

When you can using those lids: you melt the sealant due to the high temperature (boiling, or above-boiling using a pressure-canner). The sealant forms an airtight-seal for the can, protecting your jams for literally years even at room temperature.

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For "normies" who don't can, use the grey plastic "Ball Leakproof Lid", which has numerous superior properties for non-canners. In particular: plastic does NOT rust, they're more eminently reusable.

With that being said: cheap one-time-use bands + lids are good for dry goods and non-sealing purposes. If you simply put your cans in the refrigerator, they're sufficient to be reused (as long as they don't rust).
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From the article:

> The logic was simple: If low self-esteem is tied to so many maladaptive responses, to so many forms of underachievement and bad behavior, then surely raising kids’ (and other’s) self-esteem could bring with it untold benefits.

It’s interesting to watch this same logic play out again in the software world under a new name. This time, we’re not increasing self-esteem, we’re attacking “impostor syndrome”.

In both cases the underlying association between feelings of low self-esteem or impostor syndrome and underperformance can be very real. Correcting low self-esteem or impostor syndrome can provide very real benefits. I’m not suggesting that either condition isn’t real.

However, in both cases the popular literature tends to assume that low self-esteem or imposter syndrome are conditions which occur independent of ability or skill level. Instead of teaching people how to teach themselves the skills they need and develop accurate and honest self-assessment techniques, we’ve skipped past the difficult work and simply tried to instill confidence in people. Imposter syndrome literature takes this a step further by implying that no one knows what they’re doing, that everyone is equally bad, and that there are no adults in the room. The goal isn’t just to lift people up, it’s to mentally bring everyone else down.

In both cases the intentions are good, but the end results are mixed. Some times, being able to honestly self-evaluate and accept that one needs to make some improvements is more valuable than short-term soothing of the ego. Obviously it’s not good if people are paralyzed by imposter syndrome or feelings of perpetual inadequacy, but it’s also not good if we try to offset those feelings with arbitrary ego boosts and misleading ideas that everyone is equally incompetent. Instead, we should be giving people skills to accurately self-assess without tying current abilities to their self-worth. Trajectory is more important over the long term, but ironically some of the imposter syndrome literature tends to reduce learning trajectory by telling people that they already have all of the abilities they need to be successful.

It’s a tricky situation. Interesting to read this article and see that it’s hardly a new issue in society.
Thanks. What are the tradeoffs with NVMe sector size? There must be some reason to want 4096 if they added that option. Is there less write amplification as you get closer to the native page size or does the firmware avoid that anyway with its write leveling?
Sci-Hub.se is not blocked; your ISP is blocking you from Sci-Hub.se. I can access it fine; I suggest you take it up with your ISP.

You could try the sci-hub.st or sci-hub.do domains instead; according to Sci-Hub’s Twitter account¹, those are also official domains where Sci-Hub can be located.

Unfortunately, http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/ seems to be inaccessible at the moment, as is https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ which used to show at what site Sci-Hub was currently readable.

(Also, changing the URL is not, IMHO, “hacking”.)

1. https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub/status/1328843913348739074
>you dont have to break https

You do if you want to scrape what you're reading on your mobile devices too, or you need to write an app for every platform (like I mentioned). Safari on iOS won't let you do that.

Copyright is an issue if you're planning on selling this as a service or distributing it as open source (like youtube-dl).
No one is getting rid of his phone, so I hope you mean people get rid of the habit of voting for the center right or center left party because the other one is "so bad".
Roger Ebert said games will never be as worthy as movies
Intel was there. If a company gets far ahead then they start to rest on their laurels and then competitors catch back up. It's cyclical.
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If you want to exhaustively describe the behavior of e.g. Rust 1.25.0, without a formalized model, then the only way to do so it to run it for all kinds of possible (edge-)cases you encounter and document the output.

If all you have as a reference is a bunch of test cases without any underlying reasoning as to why input A leads to output B, then that's not really a useful target to implement against. At that point you can just go the direct route, not bother with any standard and just implement directly against the Rust compiler.
Very well said. Sometimes simplicity carries immense value and reassurance.
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Also, a German retail chain LIDL recently opened its own cloud business so that they can stay away from AWS, for obvious reasons.
It seems to me that self-esteem does have value. Telling yourself you're useless, stupid, etc. eventually becomes self-fulfilling. So why not try to maintain a positive self-view?

That being said, what's seems to have gone wrong is how to build self-esteem. It's simply not a gift given to you by others, or even yourself. Instead, it's something that is earned. It's a muscle that when exercised develops depth and breadth over time. Put another way, you don't develop self-esteem by avoiding adversity; or canceling anything remotely uncomfortable.

You build proper self-esteem by facing the darkness, not closing your eyes and pretending the lights are on. Self-esteem isn't something that's said, it's something you do. Like anything of value you have to put in the work, you have to put in the time. There are no shortcuts.
I feel your example is a good portrayal of a life pretty much well-lived: you made money doing something you enjoy, met tons of people and fed your curiosity.

But according to this essay, you followed a BAD path not innovative enough, and the hidden reason why it's bad is because it will never generate any sort of profit for YC.

Now if you had tried 3 or 4 startups in that same timespan, burned through all your life savings, did not make several millions in the process, and failed all you endeavours, you will be applauded by YC.

Why ? because the more people exist like you, the better it is for them.
Sorry for my comment, I guess I wont waste your time or mine anymore. Good luck with your question, I hope You find the answers You are seeking.
That seems almost certainly true, as at least four of the contributors seem to work there (Amarildo Zeneli, Thomas McClintock, Thomas Dimitri, Jack Papas).

I wonder why they don't just release it as a Susquehanna (rather than "RTOS Holdings") project, as their involvement isn't exactly secret.
Is that feasible? The container for the radioactive fuel must be robust enough to survive a catastrophic failure during launch followed by an an impact on Earth without releasing its contents. Which is possible (RTGs are built that way), but adds a lot of weight.
Or banner ;)
I can't remember which db, but somebody a while back claimed that one of Amazon's "infinitely scalable" dbs was tons of abstraction on top a massive heap of MySQL instances.

I don't trust anything outside core services on AWS. Regardless of whether the rumor I heard is true, it's clear they appreciate quantity over quality.
thanks for correction!
You are wrong to take a congressional judicial report as facts.
I don’t find it surprising given that NPS is a terrible metric. Check out this article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1509/jmkg.71.3.039
I always thought this started with Nathaniel Branden's work on self-esteem [1] in the late 60's parallel to Ayn Rand's work. The impact of both these individuals' ideas on the path America subsequently took is hard to accurately estimate, but it's probably not incorrect to say that it was significant. Both were fierce individualists and opposed anything that even smelled of collectivism on moral (rather than utilitarian) grounds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychology_of_Self-Esteem
I’ve been told it helps protect Taiwan from prc aggression through its allies dependency on the fabrication continuing.
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Hi,

so i made this tool. It's based of reddit data. I basically wanted to create google trends but for content people create/write.
The page is very raw but i think it's the content that matters :D.

I think google trends is great but this is the other side of the coin, also google will never allow any deeper look into their data.

I have some more ideas for more features, but will see how it goes.

enjoy, feedback is welcome.
Painting a Selfie Girl with Maths
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> k6 is a modern load testing tool, building on Load Impact's years of experience in the load and performance testing industry. It provides a clean, approachable scripting API, local and cloud execution, and flexible configuration.

This sounds more like integration testing than unit testing. Something like Google's micro-benchmarking library [1] is more like unit testing.

[1] https://github.com/google/benchmark
Same. If the head rests in particular were concave and could lean back a tiny bit to where my head would not roll onto my neighbor / the aisle / smack the side of the plane I’d be able to sleep on every flight.
I would nominally agree with this logic, but surely the exact same applies when voting? Should people not bother voting because they are just one in a sea of many?
The majority of my "next-day" and "2-day" orders have been late (often cancelled) for months.
HN is working fine; different sub-groups segregate under different topics. People who care about Rust comment under threads about Rust, people who care about science-fiction post comments in threads about science-fiction. And people who care about politics post under threads about politics.

Then the question of "why threads about politics usually have lower quality of comments" is left as an exercise for the reader.
Nah, it was a conscious choice to limit the amount of material in the guide as not to overwhelm the beginner.

The various textbooks on lisp are great and this wasn’t aimed to replace them, but just guide the reader through the initial phase where they may be overwhelmed.
If the pack accelerates out of a corner faster than me due to reduced inertia i will be off the back and can do the rest of the race on my own. That's something i have some experience with, unfortunately. If its a sprint i will lose the sprint. This is all normal mechanics. The only situation it doesn't do anything is in a flat time trial which starts with everyone already at the speed they will hold for the race, which doesn't have any change in road or wind conditions nor
any corners. I doubt a race like that exists. maybe the triatlon comes closest because of the very long distances involved.
Not everything that is true is simple or catchy. Biasing towards it is a trap.

PBS SpaceTime has a good discussion on this topic.

https://youtu.be/xFKgIOX8IRE
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Harry-Potter-esque pricing?

Is that a reference to the difficulty of calculating the cost of visiting all the rides at universal? That's my best guess...
Sounds like Dynamo
That would really show the emperor has no clothes. Next we could have referendums on endless wars, healthcare and outsourcing all the jobs and when both parties still refuse to change anything a lot more of people will realize what's going on.
Yeah, I don't know if that's legally enforceable or not. Yes, they can still threaten legal action.

It seems pretty unlikely to me they will, for software they don't sell anymore, to a project that is not charging any money, and has a pretty niche audience (there aren't that many people that have use of this service).

No?
I'm not sure that follows from the circumstances. There are plenty of instances of the government restricting individual freedoms for the safety of others. Examples include everything from speed limits to prohibitions against developing my own nuclear weapons.

The balancing test is which freedoms for what degree of protection. We collectively make that determination through a system of government.
Tow things.

First, probability is real: it's a construct in one's mind, and minds are just as real as dice or coins. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f6ZLxEWaankRZ2Crv/probabilit...

Second, (and the author may be leading up to this), there's Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference, which he has proven complete: when we apply Occam's razor (where the prior probability of each possible theory drops exponentially with its size), the amount of error a perfect Bayesian makes as they observe event and bet on the next one, ad infinitum, is finite. Roughly proportional to the complexity of the simplest theory that correctly predict the whole sequence of events. It's one of the most convincing proofs that Bayesian reasoning works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff's_theory_of_inducti...

There's just a little snag. Perfect Bayesian reasoning is impossible to compute, so us mortals have to resort to approximations. Just as perfect certainty isn't possible, perfect reasoning is not attainable. Oh well.
Fair. What I meant to say is “hand rolling a way to have consensus on a shared piece of data” by implementing it with a naive gossip system.
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It's easy to tear down, but only a few can build up, and they are the ones who will be able to build up again.
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Nice to see another player in the crowded hosted Jupyter notebooks space!

Still very far from smooth (<10) click experience.

The workflow took a while to get started:

Manually create account (no external auth option such as Github?) -> verify account -> create notebook -> set pw for notebook -> run notebook

I did all that only to find that no required libraries are there.... not even Pandas?

By comparision Google Colab onboarding is much smoother and you know you are getting a working Tensorflow, Pandas, Plotly etc out the box. Sure you pay the privacy tax to Google for this smoothness.

My biases:

- I've installed and maintain Littlest Jupyter Hub instance for teammates at my organization.
- I teach using local Anaconda installation.
- I use myBinder and Google Colab.

If I did not have a smooth experience I would imagine someone starting out would have a harder time.

At the very least you should curate the packages so they run out of the box, without fiddling with requirements.txt, yaml, pip install, conda etc.
What’s the problem with this? Anything that’s scalable is “just an abstraction” on top of a heap of shards/processes/nodes/data centers/whatever.
Some thoughts on the composition:

* "I wrote the case arguing that frequentist interpretations don't work, but algorithmic information theory does": if that's what you are up to here then I think it would be for readers if you stated that up front in some way. And hit me with some kind of summary at the end that makes the concise version of your argument at the end, it's a long article.

* Shorter might be better: There's a lot of stuff in here that I think you can pare out in the probability discussion that maybe isn't adding that much to your argument. I think there is a lot to be gained by assuming a generous reader.

* Betting might be a distraction to your point: This might be confusing the imperfect knowledge of participants in a market with the imperfect knowledge of all the physical forces involved in a physical phenomenon and how that related to the seeming "randomness" of a coin flip for your reader. (The liquidity and stuff.. this is just not related to your point.)

* Don't undermine your point with unrelated assumptions: "I imagine they wouldn’t consider their world unlikely at all: they would just add a new law to their description of physics: all dice, as if by divine intervention, are deemed to exhibit this strange behaviour" this lead me to think that you were just sort of shooing away the whole last X decades of high vs. low energy physics, we collectively certainly don't think that we have the rules correct precisely because of this complication, we find the idea that we need 2 sets of rules improbable and believe that there must be a way to explain everything with a single set of rules. So your mythical dice society probably would consider their dice exception a very unlikely world.. they would be confident they have the world wrong!

A dubious assertion (or at least one that would need a whole lot of explanation) can be an off-ramp for a subset of readers.
Both you and the parent are correct however. The LDP was a wholesale construction by the US, including being proved massive financing and intelligence operations conducted against their opponents. But it was also comprised of former war criminals and members of the fascist regime that led the country into the war that Mishima glorified in the first place.

Having read most of his books and a few biographies, the animating factors behind his politics were a sadism derived from years of abuse at the hands of his family and a self-hatred driven by the homophobia of his time and his failure to be conscripted. There’s very little well-though out critique of any of Japan’s political circumstances in his work. Instead, it’s largely just an appeal to theatricism and violence that he thought would rid him of these feeling of shame.
Are they still using Coral and Codigo as the RPC stack?
"The probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin." I think there is a subtle equivocation going on here.
Considering the overall environmental impact of any personal vehicle on the street, regardless of power source, that seems like a close to impossible task.

Public transit seems like a promising solution, but only goes so far. With the strong automotive industry here in Germany, there is no incentive to get cars off the streets.
> Anyway, the take away for me is that diving into Servo and Rust is probably not worth my time investment.

You're the best judge of your time, but making a claim about Servo and then, in the last sentence of your post, broadening it to all of Rust, is a bit odd. Servo's not even in production, unlike plenty of other Rust code.
Plus there's the irony of an article telling you how to think for yourself.
There's a lot of inertia at Google with regards to Rust. Things are happening slowly there, but they're happening. I'm sure it'll be more public soon, but they didn't miss out on the Rust-grab after Mozilla let the project go, even if they haven't been as public about it.

The fact that both Microsoft and Amazon, Google's major competitors, are investing in Rust means that Google would be quite foolish to not be looking as well.