skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't disagree with you, but are you aware of how things were before the vendors you listed existed? it used to be VERY difficult to get anywhere as a musician

If you were any good, I'd say it was the opposite.

You could get signed and live off of 50-100K records sold per year (from Indie labels where you got a bigger share of your sales revenue) globally. You didn't have to compete with anybody in the world that had a guitar or some synth and an audio recorder, only comitted musicians with deals.

The "company screwed me" stories of that era come mainly from suckers that got signed as starry eyed 17 year olds or something into major labels with crappy deals. And even those stories were somewhat overblown when it came to big bands (the company did made millions, but they did get plenty in advances too, enough to buy cars, houses, and support constant parties and a few drug addictions).

Any small indie band/musician in the 80s to 00s has found the mp3/streaming era much worse with regards to industry income.
Not quite the same - but LikeALittle died a quick death when they rebranded to LAL.com - along with changing their amateur-looking Craigslist-simple type site into some overly clean and sharp looking, which didn't fit with the personality of LikeALittle at all; it was the design that killed it, the designers not actually understanding the implications/consequences of the changes they made - so it was luck that their first design went viral, perhaps leadership hired new designers, ignored the initial designer(s) - if they tried to put up a fight at all to the changes, no idea.
I think the answer to your question is: Australia.

I lived in NYC during the first wave. Now I live in Australia, and I have much more freedom than my American friends, by far.

Going hard and going early maximizes both safety and freedom (and has better economic outcomes). Dragging your feet has costs.
Uh ... it does compete with farmed solar? Anyone deciding whether to buy power from the utility or generate their own is doing the analysis to see which “wins” the competition.
Not to be contrarian, because you’re not wrong, but to provide a little additional flavor... I don’t have anything close to perfect recollection but I do have good attention to detail and how problems intersect, and a career-long recognition for it.

I’ve found myself repeatedly in a position similar to the one you describe for your former teammate but where I’d been regurgitating the same information for anyone who’d listen for months on end, often multiple times a day. I was on the newer end of the spectrum so I couldn’t imagine it being brand new information to anyone.

But I had to repeat the same details, including how they related to other recurring problems, for months before I could get any kind of shared understanding of the general problem. And even when I achieved that it would flit out of existence at the presence of any new shiny thing, even as I tried to butt in and explain how the problem was known and how I knew it related to the underlying problem.

People just don’t listen. They might want to. They might even embrace it. But unless they’re targeting the problem you’re trying to raise awareness about it’s all too easy to treat something as novel and all too easy to dismiss a repetitive voice.
This is especially worth considering in light of what recently happened in Texas. Say we get a really good setup: teams of nuclear and process engineers doing the best work of their careers, money is no object when it comes to safety, etc. and build infrastructure safe against once-in-10ky events and everything is executed perfectly.

All of that costs money, and sooner or later some MBA / politician is going to ask why we’re spending so much on something which hasn’t come anywhere near a major event – surely we’d be just as safe spending 10% less and using the money for something else like rewarding shareholders? Setting up governance structures which can resist that kind of pressure for millennia isn’t something we have much experience with.
I use this site a lot for background noise during the day when I could really use some new scenery. Some of the more subtle ones like the airship are really good for working and coding from horseback is a pretty unique experience.

myNoise.net is another good one. More tailored to workday background noise but a bit less interesting.
If YouTube won't give any explanation for these decisions then assuming the worst is entirely fair.
This is fair point. Adding batteries also improves max output (performance).
It's amazing how much of the world operates in this manner. People are stupid and think they're acting on the right course by banning names they don't like and encouraging them to take action. And because their moral positions are so thin, they don't want to be held accountable and they want their money back.
I have serious doubts that the storage and computation components necessary to do full TextToIntent locally would result in an economic product - but, regardless, that isn't a refutation of my point that "smart speakers do provide some value to the average user, and to pretend that they don't undermines the legitimate discussion about privacy".
What's the Longest Possible Wavelength?
> So the name of the game is now storage.

If I look at my own country (Sweden) at what is currently being planned on a political level and invested in, the name of the game is to use fossil fuels under a plethora of different schemes which hides the fact.

The first and primary scheme is to call the energy grid free of fossil fuel if the total amount of renewable energy being exported each year exceed that of imported fossil fueled energy. Find someone willing to buy the energy at some point in year, and you can subtract the numbers from fossil fuel usage during other parts of the year. In order to sustain increased capacity the government uses tax money to invest into better power line connections between countries for higher export and imports.

The second strategy is to use tax money to pay fossil fueled power plants directly, but rather than calling it a subsidy which would have a negative connotation, we call it "reserve energy plan". Fossil fuel plants first get paid for just being a fossil fuel plant that is ready to start the generators at demand, and then they can get paid a second time for any energy they do generate.

The third scheme is to use fossil fuels to create artificial fertilizers, grow and harvest biomass using machines that operate on fossil fuels, transport the biomass on ships that travel on fossil fuels, and then call it carbon neutral when we burn it.

Storage for wind farms (or the much smaller portion of solar that we have) is not being planned, invested or built. It is not being discussed on a political level. No tax money direct to it.

I would like it if storage was cheaper than the above schemes because then maybe they would go away. I do not want tax money to be given fossil fuel. I would prefer if a ultimatum was set in the energy sector so fossil fuels no longer is a possible choice. Under such ultimatum we would find out very quickly which of the choices between storage and nuclear is cheapest, and then it would hopefully see some actually investment.
Why? You can just make mail.example.com resolve to two IPs: an IPv4 and IPv6 address. Nothing wrong with that.
It's fiction, but I really enjoyed the chapters of World War Z [1] from the perspective of the nuclear submarine, and their "oh it seems like the world is ending, we have to wait this out" perspective. Really something that just get's you thinking, and I'm not sure if I feel safer, or more worried that people have been thinking about exactly that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z
I've introduced a few classics to my family over Thanksgivings: Munchkin, Cards Against Humanity, Carcassonne. Eventually we settled on Mahjong; games are quick, the rules are well defined and if enough people want to play we just break out a second set or rotate players through the game.

People would recall and retell twenty-year-old stories how the more cutthroat relatives screwed everyone in Monopoly or Risk, so quick games without elaborate mechanics prevent a lot of hurt feelings.
We need people to keep wearing masks until there is herd immunity for the simple facts that a) you can't tell who is vaccinated or not by sight, and b) social pressure to wear them in public will collapse if X% of people stop wearing them.
Looks nice. I've been recently looking for an expressive language to make an experiment combining two approaches to "cloud native" programming: something like Ballerina[0] combined with something like Dapr[1].

For example: when I instantiate a queue, I get one from my cloud provider, or my local Redis, or my custom C++ implementation. That way, my code would represent my intent, and the actual building pieces could be switched from environment to environment.

Dapr is already pretty close to this, but it's still a little verbose and low level compared to "normal" local programming. Maybe I'll experiment with Passerine for this, since it looks easy enough to tweak with Rust.

[0] https://ballerina.io/

[1] https://dapr.io/
You've made a lot of interesting points, but I disagree with you, let me try to explain why.

I'm generally of the understanding that consciousness is marked by being with reflexivity. That can definitely be applied to non-biological, not classically living entities.

That being said, I deeply disagree with your idea that "any dichotomous distinction between conscious and non-conscious [...] systems on Earth falls apart upon closer inspection". I don't think there's any compelling way to argue this in a way which is coherent, and does not involve breaking down the meanings of words to the point where they become meaningless. This is mostly why I disagree with the author. I find that on close inspection, their argument becomes nonsense in a lot of places. The way the definitions are strained render a lot of them meaningless, and as a result we can't reason with them anymore. That being said, a lot of these words are then used to infer other conclusions.

Your argument, to me, really implies that intelligence necessitates reflexive being, or another interpretation: is synonymous with consciousness. "The sheet could be assigned a kind of consciousness as it seems to be self-modifying" is one example where I see this inference. Simply because something is self modifying does not mean that it is conscious, this to me comes off as a false equivalency. Further, saying that "there is certainly something “like being” slime mold" does not mean that that being also has reflexivity.

I see the points you're making, and you've got a lot of interesting ideas for sure. That being said, I think you've fallen into a similar trap as the author in drawing a false equivalency in a few places.
Blacklist and Whitelist are not 'unnatural' just the opposite, that's why we use terms, because they are natural. 'Darkness' is after all 'opaque', at night we can't see, 'light' is one of the most ancient metaphors for knowledge etc..

It just so happens that it might not map to skin colour very well, but I don't think it's appropriate to change them because there is no connotation.

I buy that in some cases, there is language that can affect people and perception, just not in this case.
"I was too afraid to take a food break or even a bathroom break because I didn't want to be out of earshot of everyone else so they could scheme against me."

I seem to recall hearing about one tournament game where one player got locked in the restroom to prevent him from taking some action---the judges ruled it a legitimate tactic.
You can host it yourself. INN is a server. slrn is one client, but there are lots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNetNews
I’ve also had people spam “approvals” on some projects I maintain to pad their stats. Incredibly annoying to get 100+ notifications for that. I reported one particularly bad offender to GH and they were banned for a day, at least. Their profile readme still brags about how active they are.
ML absolutely can, if you bother to implement it that way. And non-ML systems can be just as opaque. The problem isn't ML per se, it's lazy organisations that don't care.
I think you're right, there are far too many people trying to do good and being led astray by the self-righteousness of a few. Not in the sense of being brainwashed or being influenced by some external force - like the religious right - but simply by the fact that they can't see through the nonsense the rest of us are talking about.
Upvoted and adding relative story from a week ago

It's middle of winter in Europe, old jacket got broken and you can't buy winter jacket because the non-essential shop are closed....
The West isn't going to go to war to stop a genocide.
>Jokes about Congress aside, those chambers are comprised of 535 arguably sentient individuals, not a single hive mind driving the country.

So? Sentient individuals could just as well play the role of neurons (or similar) in a larger groupping - where their own sentiousness (sic?) doesn't matter at that level, it's their collective output that matters...
That would be fine if Linux preserved backwards compatibility, the glibc version change last year meant that some binary packages no longer run.

Something like Netbeans doesn't need a debian package but Eclipse is split into lots of jar files that each depends on some shared libraries.
I just get an Apache-style "Index of /" at the top of an otherwise-blank page, so it definitely looks like things might be broken, but pieces are moving.
You operate your own servers

You use your own encryption
What about the whitespace character?
Tycho wasn't the only one, there's a few others but I forget their names.
> not building enough trust early on with their reports that when a problem comes up, the information they get is biased as they are seen as part of leadership/management and not the team

Could you elaborate on ways to build trust early on? I'm curious and intrigued. Do you have any ideas / systems that you follow to build trust with different kinds of people?
There's a great book called "Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science" by Richard Holmes that is about the period between Newton and Darwin in which science and art were mixed -- you had poets like Coleridge who were amateur chemists (no, he wasn't making his own drugs, to spare the obvious joke given his habits), and chemists like Humphrey Davy who were amateur poets.
In addition to that, the "Social Justice 2.0" system has added a negative mark to the commenter's IP address, lowered his credit score and increased the mortgage payment's social justice tax by 200 bucks that will go to support the underrepresented minorities (after paying the private jet bills for the minorities fund's manager).
I mean I'm sorry but since you posted the graphs:

For a country that is less than half the population, having essentially the same number of daily cases today is perhaps not such a good thing. According to worldometer, Poland has twice as many active cases in total - not per person. Deaths are also comparable.

That's now, but it's more than that:

Up until now, Germany has both lower total cases and deaths (per person) than Poland.

And this, despite having tested almost twice as many people (again, per million) than Poland.

Further, Germany is arguably much more central in terms of international traffic in either direction.

I fail to see how Poland is doing any better than Germany in its response.
The data instead suggests that Germany, despite actually having a first wave in its books (thanks to early testing), is doing much better than Poland up until now.

Who knows how that will change?

But considering Germany's position vis-a-vis Poland in terms of travel, density of population and all that - given the data you provided - Germany is arguably more successful in combating covid by.. well honestly a lot.
>> 'Herd immunity totally relies on vaccinated people not being infectious.'

That's not accurate. Herd immunity only requires a vaccine reduce transmission rate sufficiently that R0 < 1. It doesn't require that R0 = 0.

If the R0 for a vaccinated person = X, such that 0 < X < 1, wearing a mask likely puts it < X. Which is a desirable characteristic.
Do you think the value of Facebook stock is in the tangible worth of their building, or IP?
That's true but the good/bad association is (Western) cultural, not racial.
Only election-truthers and violence peddlers get scared when Twitter deplatforms election-truthers and violence peddlers.

As far as I can tell, serious conservatives haven't been touched.

Watch as Trump supporters use every logical fallacy in the book to avoid this fact.
WU = Western Union?
What would happen if one were to publish a post with the author's full name and home address on such a service?
Yes, quality nuggets can be found even among refuse, but my point was not to discount that potential. Thanks to the length of the manifesto/thought experiment, at least the first half-hours' worth of upvotes were provided because of the absurd premise/worldview, not in spite of it.

If that seems fine to you (speaking royally here), you're in the right place.
Optionplotr – a visual way to understand option trading
Banks are still cheap when it comes to large amounts.
From the README:

> Why not Git/Git-LFS, libgit2, or SVN?

> Disadvantages:

> (Without Git-LFS): Heavy cost with zipping, packing, and delta-compression for larger files

Given the caveat (without Git-LFS) it seems odd to include this in the list

> If not properly tracked, binaries become accidentally part of "base" history

That's a big "if", and not an inherent problem. This could easily be resolved by any good design-focused UI (e.g. SnowTrack), so this seems a poor argument against using Git as a backend.

> Removing older commits is cumbersome due to Gits commit hashing integrity

This (like the first bullet point) does not apply to Git-LFS.

> Complicated rewriting history procedure

What?

> Issues with binaries >4GB on Windows

A known bug in Git-LFS that they're working to fix. There are workarounds provided in the linked tickets (that could be leveraged by a UI / abstraction layer like SnowTrack).

This is the first item in the bullet list that is a real disadvantage of Git LFS, but the workaround for it seems much less effort than developing a new VCS backend from scratch.

> Slow in binary modification detection

I'm not sure if this applies to Git or Git LFS; there's little detail provided. But if it's significant, this is probably the only really compelling disadvantage listed.

> Git uses a restrictive license

And finally we see the real reason for not using Git.

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NOTE: I don't mean to make out that building an alternative VCS to Git is not worth pursuing. Nor that it needs any specific justification. Just that listing a justification that seems (to me) mostly disingenuous is worth pointing out.
Patrons were just the mideival era venture capitalists. But they did it because they had engineering interest themselves.
> US could have done this

No, absent martial law being imposed by the feds, this was never an option. The US federal government is not legally able to do the same things that unitary nations like South Korea and Australia can do on a whim. States delegated certain limited powers to the feds at inception, and reserve many, while affirmatively proscribing the federal government from doing specific things. States in the US are not simply local administrative bodies, they are essentially mini-nations that have out-sourced certain shared services. I’m speaking generally of course but that’s a better way to understand civics in the US vs some other (most?) countries. As a consequence of this system, states bear a lot of responsibility for their own policies. What do you think the tolerance would have been (or still is) for Joe Biden, much less Trump, declaring martial law? About zero, I’d suspect.
The problem with email is that it ported letter writing culture to the internet. A big internal announcement at my company can take days to write and undergoes multiple rounds of review.

Once people have put in that effort they aren’t going to bother redoing the effort for another medium. Meeting notes are the same way.
Doesn’t really seem like a reasonable comparison. If someone doesn’t pay their bills you stop giving them electricity. This is not anywhere close to what happened with the 2008 crisis.

And yes, that’s the point. I don’t want the state to socialize losses, and I don’t want them to say I can’t buy electricity from a wholesaler. People should live with their decisions.
Be careful about diving in and doing too much work yourself as a developer. If you do, sure, your team now has 11 engineers instead of 10. 10% bump!

What can you, as their manager, do to instead increase their productivity by 10%? Likely many things, and this is a lot more sustainable, because otherwise the team gets neglected from a manager support perspective while you're busy working with them.

Of course, find things to do technically to help the team if you want, that's a great idea. But don't assume that the best thing you can do for them is always to do what they are doing.
If you A record it to the existing IP address does it load the site still? My assumption is that it would.
A lot of animals (such as insects) aren't self aware. I still think they have some form of consciousness.

Emergent behaviors by themselves aren't goal-oriented.
There isn't remotely enough storage available to make renewables at all feasible for decarbonization. To put this in perspective 8 Gigawatt hours is just under one minute of storage for the United States' alone.

This is why pointing to the the raw generation costs of intermittent sources is misleading. Generating another 500 MW of solar energy doesn't actually represent any decarbonization if that energy is produced when demand is already saturated.
> Black list and its opposite, white list, associate black with bad and white with good.

>

> The usage of black in “black box” means opaque, not bad.

> So these aren’t the same.

Why did this line of reasoning not apply to the name of the default branch in git? master in that case could easily mean master copy.
I really feel that at some point in the future, we're going to look back on lockdowns with a highly critical eye, and the people who were most vocal about supporting said lockdowns will be coming up with excuses as to why they supported them in the first place.
you may be right, but the point is that it's much more accessible and more music is ultimately produced as a result by a larger amount of artists under the current system versus the previous one. the previous system simply didn't allow those who were not good enough, as you say, to participate at all.
A lot of words that we use are arbitrary anyway. I respect people's preferences for their style of communication, but let's stop pretending that things like blacklist and whitelist are difficult to understand.