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I was prescribed steroid (prednisolone) for 2 years by a licensed, famous doctor. He never told me about its ill effects and he didn't taper the does till mid of second year. It didn't help my Crohns much, just kept it suppressed. I am expecting to die early because of this.

So, please don't assume the doctor is always right. Do your due diligence. They are fallible just like us, to be honest, I think they are just engineers working on the human body.
A Finnish company makes these kits for just that: https://bonfoton.com/
Sorry but your estimate is off by 2x-4x (depending on model). You can Google "iPhone bill of materials" for details.
Is he trying to stroke his ego, or is pg trying to signal to potential founders what qualities he is looking for? I would think the latter.
If you ever get a chance to read Moby Dick, you will both a) read one of the greatest works of American literature and b) learn more about the biology and behavior of whales and the 19th-century whaling industry than you can possibly imagine. Great book.
Exploration is a major part of RL already, see AlphaGo for example.
For Enchant [0], we followed the "buy don't build" philosophy a lot in the early years. However, the biggest challenge has been reliability.

For example, a service provider will have a 5H outage without any clear indication about what's going on or when it will get resolved. This leaves us in a difficult position to raise an incident with an unknown ETA where we can do nothing but wait. Then when it's all resolved, we either don't get a post-mortem or a hand-wavy one.

Or a service provider will lose data, which may have been minor to them but critical to our operations. And all we get from them is an "oopsie!"

So over time, we've ended up insourcing mission critical pieces (within reason) since we can engineer solutions with guarantees that are inline with customer expectations and our own targets.

Separately, in some cases, buying and integrating turned out to be a ton more work than what building in house would have been. Because when we build in house, it can be built to meet our full requirements in the first place.. whereas when buying, we may find ourselves working around limitations in the APIs provided to us.

0: https://www.enchant.com - shared inboxes, knowledge bases, live chat
While it's true that the finite age of our universe and the expansion of space explain the paradox in the universe we live in, I don't think those are necessary conditions, nor is the dark sky proof our universe is not infinitely old.

What I feel is the core of the resolution of the paradox is (global or local) conservation of energy. Even in an infinitely large eternal steady state universe, if we assume the total energy of the universe is conserved one cannot have an increase in energy density everywhere at once.

If in this universe stars live forever, you'd have eternal "sources" of energy, and for energy to be conserved you'd need compensatory "sinks" draining energy out of the universe, like black holes which don't increase in size. In which the resolution of the Olbers' paradox would be that most of your lines of sight would end in such a black hole.

If, like is usual in physics, you assume local conservation of energy, stars cannot live forever, so in an eternal steady state universe there must be a mechanism recycling the radiation back into a star. In this case, again every line of your sight would eventually hit a star, but most of the radiation would never reach you, being used underway to make a new star. (This is a blatant violation of the second law of thermodynamics of course, which is the actually issue with eternal steady state universes).
Without even going into why denigrating something as “white” is harmful and counterproductive, the author seems to be arguing that singing in large groups is an occurrence confined solely to white people.

Do I even have to provide a counterexample? Was any thought put into this article at all?
I'm rather looking forward to being bored for the next four years. Unremarkable displays of mere competence. The yawn-inducing functioning of a 'by the book' administrative organization. The dull business of sensible policies and reasonable proposals. Reporters nodding off during pressers. No longer cringing at the thought of checking the news. Not having to check the news anyway. Droning monotones explaining in far too much detail and precision things of little general interest. Sheer bliss...
"in my imagination he has the Nietzsche beard as well."

The Nietzsche beard?

I don't know what image of Nietzsche you have, but he's well known for having a certain style of mustache, not a beard.

"Nietzsche clearly was a great mind. Which was later eaten away by neurosyphilis"

It's not clear that he had syphilis, and there are some arguments that he did not, like these:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nie...

http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/jns/reviews/richard-schain.-the-l...
But one is about the past and one is about the future.

And those items in the past have been heavily investigated, brought to the courts, and due to no evidence, summarily rebuked.

Apples and oranges.

Don’t get me wrong, the world ending in 12 years is a silly thing to say.
Not only that , in many parts of the world (LATAM for example) American institutions are not considered earnest at all, you know they all have underhanded motives.
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We're still transitioning to IPv6, so yes - for now - one needs an IPv4 address to reach the whole Internet.

That doesn't make "You can't run an email server on ipv6" correct.
Batteries are also extremely important for storing solar and wind energy, as it's a substantial cost of solar and wind farms now that producing electricity is so cheap.

Tesla leadership said many times that the battery part of its operation is going at least as if not more important than the car operations over time.
A recent major example of this may not be in the software area. The Boeing 737MAX was started and largely developed under Boeing's first non-engineer MBA oriented CEO. Of course to fix it the engineer CEO left holding the bag with the MAX has been replaced again with a non-engineer leader.

A counter example would be to ask the question if AMD could have navigated it's resurgence if it had not been led by deeply technical CEO, Lisa Su
I won't go that far. But I will say that, contra his earlier writing, pg's recent stuff has a real "feedback in the bubble" feel. It's still treating SV culture as it was fifteen years ago and not really willing to engage with or even nod to the way the industry and its effects on society have evolved.

So e.g. Airbnb is still a hero story about disruption even as it settles into an established power and its inconvenient side effects on things like the real estate industry become apparent.

It's not that he's wrong, or that I even disagree with this particular essay. I just think the world has kinda moved on from this model of innovation and we need to be solving different problems than how to make the next batch of kids rich.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much. Excited to get some good reading done this winter. Do you know of any other, non-ancient sources to look into for Hellenism/Ptolemaic Egypt?
this has a picture of her beer can camera

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/photography/2020/12/lon...
> I value storycraft.

The form of this story has used widely since, and those stories have been incredibly popular with both authors and audiences for well over 100 years now. Implying that a tried-and-true technique of story-telling lies outside of storycraft betrays basic a lack of understanding of the subject.

Story tellers enjoy this form for the challenge of balancing what the omniscient narrator reveals-- too much or too strong in one direction and the whole thing falls flat. Readers enjoy the form because it feels a bit like ski jumping-- the writer provides the momentum and the reader's imagination leaps off the end with all the story's implications flying past.

In fact, Nabokov balanced this same form masterfully in the short story, "Signs and Symbols." The effect there is that the reader leaps off into a level of... well, I don't want to ruin it. :) But it's enough to say that outside of VR I don't think that story could have been effectively written without using the lady-or-the-tiger form.
I'm not sure that every writer has an agenda. When talking about vaccines or other things that generally benefit everyone, I certainly don't have an agenda, and I expect that genuine researchers (probably most of them, just that we don't necessarily know which) are the same. Well, unless you consider decreasing worldsuck to be an agenda.

Actively exposing yourself is also not something I expect to be helpful. I dove into the 5G conspiracy theory and it's not like the statements or the people are retarded. They will bring reasonable-sounding arguments and respond to you in proper language. I needed to dig rather deep and have a really decent understanding of radio-related topics to know that there isn't a grain of truth to it. For example, digging into sources of sources of sources, you discover that the trail runs cold. Does that mean a statement was made up, or that you just can't find it? It's rather hard to prove that a certain paper does not exist (some of the court-submitted documents referenced papers published by reputable organisations and I figured "surely they don't lie to the court, this has to be somewhere?!" It's a huge time sink and I even got help from one of the believers in digging up the reference, but I never found it and they never got back to me). And even if you find the source, how can you tell if it's real if you don't have a basic understanding of the topic yourself? Exposing yourself to the other side mainly helps when you currently believe the conspiracy theory, which is exactly what you're trying to prevent in the first place. If you're susceptible to this sort of thing, I'd not be surprised if this advice gets more people sucked into the wrong things.
My main criticism was claiming Dems support your position. I'm sure there are a few, but not enough to really matter.

Otherwise, I see the extended "election fraud" campaign as an excuse to squeeze out more money for Trump (bad), generate emotional support for the Georgia election (good), and help a guy in Texas get a pardon (lol).
I was hoping they’d discuss CNC Lasers, but it was more about the bin packing.
You're making more of a criticism of advertising as a business model than of free software.

AV1 is supported by Google, sure, but also companies like Netflix and Apple. If Google's business model for YouTube was to charge a subscription fee to everyone like Netflix, wouldn't they still have the same incentive to develop AV1?

This is really commoditize your complement. Which works regardless of the revenue source in the primary market.

https://www.gwern.net/Complement
4) You also learn a ton while trying out different ways to create your own development environment
Incidentally, I would love to read some blog posts/articles about this stuff, if you've ever gotten around to writing them :)
As someone who has been accused of earnestness I have
long maintained that Earnestness-ness-ness is the enemy.
Earnestness minus humor is the enemy of building a scalable community.
Churchill once defined a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject.
To move beyond the early adopters and get through to the late majority we need to work out not how to keep the conversation on track, but how to let our audience develop it and still be able to deliver our punchline.
I would disagree. For example phase is one of the parameters of the grain, so to modulate the phase how come it an invention, but to modulate a filter cut off is not? The same tolerance is inherent part of analogue component, as it is very difficult to achieve exact value of e.g. capacitance, so components are manufactured with different levels of tolerance, so if you simply acknowledge this fact of life in your simulation how is that an invention?
cpio is the better tool for the job in the last example, compared to tar. You don't have to use xargs, for one. It's safer to use `find -0 | cpio -0o` because it can handle weird filenames that contain newlines or other spaces.
What does the South Asian fish comment mean?
I used to, but switched to https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim. It's much faster, doesn't lag the editor at all and has less of an impedance mismatch because it uses Neovim under the hood instead of trying to emulate functionality from scratch.

There are a few reasons why I use a vim plugin instead of vim proper for most day-day work:

1. I do plenty of data science-y stuff that requires support for good visuals. Vim's support here is pretty lackluster and Jupyter's Vim mode sucks. VS Code has a great interactive mode with full autocomplete and a dedicated window that records plots/output history.

2. Language servers and LSP plugins are so much easier to manage. I rarely if ever have to babysit updates and I don't have to install a bunch of system-wide dependencies to get certain ones to build.

3. Making the above (and all other fancy VS Code functionality) work on multiple remote machines is a breeze. The normal Vim workflow would require cloning dotfiles (not a big deal), running setup with something like GNU Stow (almost never installed) and then futzing around with LSP plugins as in 2).

4. Built-in rendering of rich docstrings/doc pages (think Markdown, Sphinx RST). I want to say certain extensions/languages support LaTeX as well, which would be a bear to read in Vim.
Been a lot of headway in the past decade in Passive Audio Monitoring, which is opening up a whole new view of the environments, like the sea. The whole aspect of cheaper tech to make such a set-up is also opening this realm up more to civilian use.

https://www.pamguard.org/
https://www.wwf.org.uk/project/conservationtechnology/acoust...
No, this is a thread about Twitter limiting the degree to which users can interact with misinformation and propaganda from the White House, which you decided was about deplatforming.

Your assertion that Twitter has somehow "deplatformed" half of the electorate, despite even a cursory look at the site showing a vast amount of Republican and pro-Trump content, and the fact that far less than half the country even voted for Trump to begin with, is ridiculous, and it's obvious from your comment history that you're a troll account anyway.

But yes, Parler, Gab, Voat and other alternative platforms were created by right-wingers specifically to have a "safe space" where they could post freely without having their views confronted. They were not deplatformed to those sites, they left for those sites willingly.

Good day AnonDataSci.
This is what you see if you look at the Perceptions of Corruption Index. That only looks at the public sector (not private companies), but one could reasonably assume the two correlate:

https://jakubmarian.com/corruption-perceptions-index-of-euro...
This is great work--thank you for sharing!

I was just wondering which APIs did you prioritize to appear here? Was there a scoring process?
Maybe it would work to put a marker argument (like the IP address as base64) in the URL when there might be snowballing traffic so you can see if it comes back at you. That could be used to send a page with all the links taken out, or just be rate limited.
what's wrong with pirating geoblocked content in this case? if the owner actually believes that piracy == lost sales, this would be a signal that the person might have paid for the content if it were available in their locale.
Catalin Cimpanu is one of the better journalists, and is usually quite good when it comes to technical accuracy.

If the article ever had the quote you included, it appears to have been removed and replaced with a fairly thorough explanation of what’s actually happening. (Perhaps the link has been changed?)

Just to be clear, this would’ve worked decades ago. There’s no inherent need to use CSS3 variables for this. It could’ve just as easily been hidden in a normal property.
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Question: how many Buddhists does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer:

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According to Wikipedia there are only 89 species of cetaceans, including dolphins and porpoises, so it is a short list to compare with.
Isn’t that what DNS is for? I get that 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 is easier to remember than an IPv6 address. But once you use 82.54.132.87 addresses - is it really that different from either saving an IPv6 in your ssh config file, or resolving it with a domain name?
I think it’s a general truth that all software projects tend to end up at the maximum possible complexity. Projects that aren’t inherently complex tend to achieve this by complicated tooling, deploys, and a slew of “special cases” that inevitably slow things down. It’s a special case of Parkinson’s law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion); all these developers need to spend their time on something after all, no-one’s going to code them self out of a job.
I mean it's at least technically quite possible that someone like PG would have a very good intuitive understanding for what works and what doesn't, without this meaning that he is able to systematise this implicit knowledge in such a way that it is empirically solid and/or can be usefully taught to others.

This is similar to the fact that experts are not always the best teachers, or that a rhetorically skilled speaker/writer is not necessarily a competent linguist or literary scientist, or how many great musicians know little about music theory.

Of course, you are correct that many, many other tech bloggers don't back up their claims either (most notoriously the "I did this thing once at company X, it worked ok, and now I'm preaching it as a new gospel (but it hasn't even been a year that we did this and we don't understand the long-term implications of it yet)" blog posts). I think this is in general a real shame because it leads to all the cargo culting madness that's so prevalent in the industry.

In PG's case, I find that most of his blog posts read like post hoc rationalisations based on sweeping generalisations (e.g. that you can be either "earnest" or jovial and funny and not both strikes me as a particularly false dichotomy). Which wouldn't nearly bother me as much if they weren't also often full of thinly veiled contempt for different kinds of people (e.g. people who are actually good at bringing people together). It sometimes reads to me as a sort of "I was bullied/excluded as a nerdy teenager and now I'm gonna show them how much better nerds are and why they will (or at least should) rule the world". In a world where we increasingly realise the dangers of big tech companies making decisions that impact all of us, including people completely outside of the original tech bubble, I don't think this is a very good position to take.
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a lockdown would select for a more communicable strain, not a more virulent strain. the big problem is this virus has morbidity latent to infection incubation and transmission.

these conditions mean that the virus can be 100% lethal and not succuum to the usual dynamics
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I agree with the thesis but if you're taking this approach with vim it's very much worth being aware of how to use the quickfix and/or location buffers so you can easily step between the things that you've found.

If you put a bunch of location-prefixed lines in a vim buffer (either from running a command within vim or by piping to `vim -`) you can get them in your quickfix buffer with `:cbuffer!` and then step between locations with `:cnext` and `:cprev` (one of the few things my top-level .vimrc does is bind these to tab and shift-tab, respectively).
The article doesn't really make it clear that there's an actual result, showing that many two-dimensional packing problems are equivalent to finding real roots of multivariate polynomials, and many problems are ∃ℝ-complete. (∃ℝ-complete is kind of like NP-complete for real numbers. The ∃ℝ complexity class lies between NP and PSPACE.)

The paper shows that various specific problems are ∃ℝ-complete. One such problem is packing simple polygons with at most 8 corners into a square, with rotation and translation. (E.g. cutting polygonal cookies out of dough.) Another is packing objects bounded by segments and hyperbolic curves into a square with translation but not rotation.

Random fact from the paper: there's no agreement on how to pronounce ∃ℝ-complete.

The "Existential Theory of the Reals" is (ambiguiously) the ∃ℝ complexity class, a formal language, and an algorithmic problem. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_theory_of_the_real...

Disclaimer: I didn't know anything about ∃ℝ before looking into this, but thought others might be interested in a bit of background.
Another ridiculous thing of this essay is the outstanding moral character granted to SV founders. For sure, a fraction of them is guided by objectives different than money in their pursuits but that fraction is dwarfed by people in other fields, like academy, social work and NGOs. There is nothing in the startup culture that makes me thing of nobler, more earnest, more enlightened people.
Nietzsche is one of the most widely misinterpreted philosophers.

Whenever someone opines on what Nietzsche "really meant", it's good to take that with a grain of salt, and read what Nietzsche actually wrote for yourself.

In this case, see Nietzsche's essay "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"

https://www.kth.se/social/files/5804ca7ff276547f5c83a592/On%...
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Indeed. Having to sidescroll at any size/zoom is really, really annoying.
Facebook and Twitter are not communities in any meaningful sense, because they are global, and generally speaking meant for "anybody" to talk about "anything" (of course the limits of this generality are exactly what's under discussion). More like a telephone.

The proper analogy to HN's moderation would be the owner of a FB Group kicking someone, which I believe is fine and good. What Facebook and Twitter are doing, and especially as they move beyond the less-controversial "hate speech" to the more controversial "disinformation", is the whole global platform moderating everything, and is veering dangerously close to being... I'm struggling with the word, but something like partisan but less one-dimensional. It's not hard to see this path leading to these global platforms simply causing the speech that occurs on them to match the politics of the people in charge at Facebook and Twitter. And nobody needs to hear for the billionth time about the rights of private companies and the law - we know, so save your keystrokes, please.
yeah I would think long and hard about 2). if I understand correctly, this would be the same as running a tor exit node. not technically illegal in most cases, but could be very stressful/expensive to defend against anyway. not worth it to save a few dollars a month.
I wouldn’t put Catalin Cimpanu in that category. I find his articles to generally be technically-accurate and thorough. Everyone makes mistakes, though, and he’s certainly gotten a lot more popular following his transition to ZDNet. (Perhaps the link was changed? The current article seems to explain the issue accurately and completely; I doubt that was a simple edit.)
Many people think they are buying some sort of security.
Hence the reminder, both for GP and those voting in the thread. Most of the time it doesn't matter so much, but I figured I'd at least try to help preventing an echo chamber here where useless polarized statements are voted on based on how many followers that pole has...