skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Problems like this one:

https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arctic-microplastic-pollution....

are an unintended consequence of scale.

I don't have good solutions, and the way our economies are set up discourage population degrowth (see the panic in Europe), and there are many bad, immoral ways to go about it, but so many of our problems are not a problem with technologies employed, but the scale at which they are employed.
It would be cool if they built it into the touchpad in a future generation. I'm guessing once they can figure out fingerprint through the glass on iPhone they'll do it in the touchpad, too.
> True the minimum wage hasn’t kept up. That’s mainly due to exporting manufacturing offshore.

That’s partially true but this trend has been widespread well outside of manufacturing, too. There’s no shortage of companies engaged in wage theft, converting full time positions to contract, changing benefits plans to shift more cost to the workers, etc. in every sector. Programmers are in high demand but even in tech, consider how many companies contract out core competencies or, especially, have things like helpdesk jobs which pay considerably less than they used to and no longer have a promotion path.

There’s been a well-funded push to roll back the New Deal since around the end of WWII. This has included funding libertarian think tanks, religious denominations which encourage self-reliance and distrust of the government, etc. One big factor feeding into demand for cheaper goods is that people are acting rationally in a world where their income lags behind their parents or grandparents at the same age.

Kevin Kruse wrote a book about this a while back which is good for understanding some trends in the 20th century:

http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
Closest thing to Haskell in production I've worked on were pure fp Scala projects
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The book Game of Mates[0] has some detailed examples of this behavior.

[0] https://gameofmates.com/
I thought energy generation is still regional in practice -- loosely, the further it goes, the more expensive -- and private co's deciding to cheap out on weather protections showed the king has no clothes in this case? grid sounds nice and platform-y, but when you zoom in, similar to us telcos: not quite as stable and abundant as the lobbyists advertise for any given region when you look.

as an intuition, a solar panel farm in some isolated arizona desert doesn't help folks in maine. conversely, as neither region has that many local suppliers, a few private businesses making rational personal $ decisions to not supply in critical scenarios will put all citizens at risk when those scenarios happebs.

(written as someone living through periodic wildfires allowed through similar market optimism.)
The 5k iMac was really ahead of it's time in late 2014. I remember reading some technical blog talking about the custom designed driver board for that panel.
The 2015 MacBook pro could drive a 5k panel using two displayport cables (some 5k monitors from that period supported that solution for full resolution at 60Hz), and with modern displayport there should be no problems, but maybe Apple does not really want their computers used as 'dumb' displays anymore...
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No. It was pretty miserable.
Another way to frame it is we have a developed-world population crisis. I agree that still makes "8billion+" a false alarm.

But another way to say it that if we are to lift the materialistic standard of living for the other 4 billion people, there needs to be same or less population of them.
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When you open thinktype, the cursor is in the searchfield, and you see all your notes, sorted by recency. As you type, you see all the notes matching your search. You can write and save full notes directly from the search field.

You can use thinktype for almost any purpose with the right conventions. For example, to use it as a todo app, just use the "TODO" keyword in notes, and you'll find them when you

To use it as a shopping list, write something like "TODO: Buy ..." and search for "todo buy" when you go shopping.

Working towards a launch? Write notes like "project TODO mvp", to be able to search for everything you need to do to have a minimum viable product.

Once you have done a task, replace "TODO" with "DONE". This lets you search for all your achievements.

ThinkType has two sort modes. By default, search results get sorted by match, but you can also sort by priority/recency, which is especially useful if you use it as a todo app like described above. You can toggle between search modes with a button or a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+#).
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I read about half of this post and I've paused there. It screams to me "Let's have a Universal Basic Income" already.

> And one day your wife calls you and tells you the water is off, and there’s nothing you can do; maybe some family member can help you out, or maybe you live without utilities for a week or so until you get paid and start the next pay cycle that much more behind.

These are people with children we are talking about. Why can't there be simple equity for these beings who are facing their demise through no fault of their own? Like seriously, WTF?

I want to support:

- sustainable electronics

- living wages

- right to repair

- removal of slave labor from any supply chain I am involved in

What do I have to do to make this happen?

--

> When I’m trying to explain to my sons how a company decides what to pay someone, it usually goes something like this: A company is looking to pay a person as little as they can and keep them, so a person’s pay is determined by how rare their skills are and how much demand there is for those skills.

> [...]

> This isn’t evil on anyone’s part, and you shouldn’t feel bad about it - I’ve made a lot of choices in my life that led to this point and I have a lot of responsibility in terms of where I find myself.

_Yes it is evil._ I'm sure we cannot exist as a fundamentally secure, sane, healthy, fair, equitable, respectful, productive, diverse, healthy, robust society until this rot is done away with once and for all.
No, what is myopic is demanding that a problem be solved without you having to put any effort into it yourself. To demand that things carry on as normal in the face of oncoming catastrophy.

That is myopic in the extreme.
Every update requires you to redo this. It's so repetitive that I keep a copy of what I want `/etc/sudo` to look like in my homedir and, whenever I get the prompt for a sudo attempt, I instead sudo to cp the file. Then I go on my way with what I was originally intending.has recently sudo'd.

Rote but effective.
You obviously have no idea about ottoman empire; why it rose to power, its tax system as oppose to byzantine empire, why christian states co-operated with ottomans... This will be my last entry under this thread.

Ottoman tax system was favourable in comparison to Byzantine empire. Ottomans and ruling class of Christian states even had marriages between their families for centuries.

Comparing that to the colonies of industrial era West is just fantasy. Both from time & complexity perspective. Plus the cultural/oppression perspective.
For larger shops, the pricing for SaaS platforms like Shopify and friends is less than 0.5% of GMV.

If that's too much, the business has bigger problems that certainly won't be solved by self-hosting or maintaining their own homegrown backend.
I used to own the infamous Kiev 88 TTL with a range of lenses, and while I loved the knock-off design and heft, the build quality was disastrous. The film cassettes leaked light which ruined some films, the transport would jam, and the shutter as well.

I've never been too fond of the softness of the 35mm's, the 120 photos were just that much better. But then digital happened and both lenses and sensors outgrew anything analog.
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Yes, video is processed frame by frame. Video is essentially just a series of images played back at a specific rate. Different formats & protocols work on how to reduce duplicate sections of the frames, but overall processing is always frame by frame. Given that, there are a number of shortcuts you can apply to frames where you don't need to process each frame 100% separately, but that's more an optimization as you are still processing frames.
People learn the wrong lesson from Germany and Zimbabwe. In both cases economic disruption was the problem -- war reparations in the case of Germany, agricultural collapse in the case of Zimbabwe. Hyperinflation was the response of the government, trying to inflate its way out of debts.

It didn't work, but it wouldn't have helped to end the policy, either. The fundamental cause of the economic collapse would still have meant that the supply was weak and demand was inelastic. The zeroes in the currency are just there to make it look scary, but the real problem was much scarier.

The amount of money is largely immaterial. You can go out and add three zeroes to every dollar in every pocket and nothing changes. Governments can do it selectively to nudge the economy one way or the other, and it works pretty well. That's really just the same as borrowing money, and nobody blinks an eye at fractional reserve banking, even though it also causes inflation in exactly the same way.

Hyper-inflation is a permanent boogeyman, but it's not the real problem and people keep taking the wrong lessons. The lesson is to keep people producing, which governments can help by selectively boosting parts of the economy with monetary policy. Learning the right kind of policy is far more involved, but far more useful, than just repeating "Oh no Weimar and Zimbabwe".
And these messaging platforms did not require an exorbitant amount of computing resources to run. They were responsive to keyboard input (no signficant lag), and, as I recall, allowed one to keep a local log of messages sent and received.
Hi,

I loved the article. Are you planning to write any guides/tutorials about reverse engineering games? Seems like you have a lot of practical experience. I (and probably many other people) would be really excited if you started writing about how you do all these in detail with practical examples. I would even be glad to pay for such content.
As a general rule, minority-heavy urban districts spend ~2x the $/student than middle-class white exurban districts in the same state. Definitely true in MA. Go check the numbers for your state, maybe it's an outlier, I don't know.

Money goes less far in the city and they have more issues to deal with, but the $/student is not "inequitable" to borrow a word.
But in many ways the situation described was true, until artificial nitrogen fertilizer was invented. It is apparent that we've been pretty good at improving productivity and efficiency. But use of fertilizer has caused other problems.
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Does `sudo chflags schg /etc/pam.d/sudo` work?
How often has your mother given money to someone else who pretended to be you? Because parents identify their children through biometric authentication. They look at you and can in a matter of split seconds verify that you are actually you. Biometric authentication is the oldest and most sophisticated form of authentication. I can enter my work place and nobody asks me to type in a password at the door because the staff can immediately identify my identity by simply validating my face with their own eyes. It's incredible, trust me.
Nobody claimed otherwise. I was responding to it being "mostly market-driven" which it isn't remotely.
This is silly. If it only cost cents to feed a person, food wouldn't cost dollars.
I've really enjoyed several of Stephenson's books, but 'Diamond Age' was one I couldn't get into. I need to give it another shot.

On the subject of Sci-Fi, there's also a vacuum airship featured in one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels - 'Tarzan at the Earth's Core'. It is of course much less scientific than Stephenson's version though.
I happened to read an article a few weeks back regarding Aluminum-Air batteries, and a potential use in EVs, yet while they might not be ideal for EVs, a potential ability for use in the grid might be convenient.
I thought everybody over 65 in the US got free national healthcare?
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Of course, now people are going to keep an eye on daily utility prices, to avoid life braking bills.
The superiority of a free market with poor regulations!
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Making things illegal is prone to micromanagement. If there are ten thousand industries dependent on CO2 emissions how are you going to pick the non essential ones and only ban the ones that are truly bad for the environment? What's the likely hood that officials will simply misjudge a specific industry? (maybe even on purpose?)

The reasoning behind the carbon tax is simply that every participant can make a decision for themselves. "Do I need CO2 emissions to run my business?" "Does a different business have a greater need to emit CO2 emissions?" This is the type of thinking one is trying to encourage with the introduction of a CO2 tax.
I've aligned my side projects to be climate focused.

I spend a lot of time and money building a website to encourage people to pack less when they travel. My impact may be minimal, but I feel like I'm helping.
academic is about computer science not computer programming. 2 very different things, their "shitty code" is often "good computer science code" and just like it's fine to have single letter variables when reading mathematics, it's the same when reading computer science code. the idea is to get knowledge across which can then be expressed clearly by computer programmers.
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And here's a long list of failed apocalyptic predictions by scientists: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-poca...

Nobel winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that by 2005, it would become clear that the Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's.

Climate scientists can model the climate to a certain degree but they're not all-knowing oracles. They are not qualified to predict future societal collapses, wars or even famines. The idea that a gradual 2.0 °C temperature rise spread over decades would necessarily cause such things just doesn't pass the smell test.
IMO the reason that Rocket Lab is doing an eight tonne rocket is not because of the market for mega constellations. It's because 8 tonnes is about the minimum size for a fully reusable rocket. You need a rocket big enough to launch all the propellant and shields needed for landing and still have room for payload. And so the bigger the rocket, the more margin you have.

Once fully reusable, costs drop dramatically, so I wouldn't be surprised if the price of Neutron is similar to that of Electron. Who would use a small launch vehicle when a medium one is the same price, giving you a lot more room for maneuver propellant.

This is the size of Falcon 9 v1.0, and they once believed full reusability was possible.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFFiubtC3c&feature=youtu.be

Edit: they haven't announced full reusability. But I believe they're working on it.

Edit 2: I still don't believe mega-constellations are the reason for Neutron. It being the minimum size for full reusability could be one, but another explanation is it being the minimum size for human space flight.
This resonates with me as someone who has been homeless for a, thankfully, short period of time. I was given a chance to get back on my feet by someone who was almost as poor as I was, he did have a house and a couch I could sleep on though. Ten years later I have no money worries, and because we remain good friends, neither does he.
> In my lab, the exploit is successfully dumping /etc/shadow in a couple of minutes.

Gee, I hope my machine has more spectre countermeasures enabled than your lab. This is a crucial omission, IMO.
Does anybody know if there's a solution for keychain password copy too? I have a very complicated vpn password that I change often (so I don't remember it), but each day, when connecting to the vpn, I have to open keychain and type my user password to get the vpn password. I couldn't find a way to use touch id for that.
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Also equipment: one thing working with our local mural aid group has really underscores is how many people have, say, a microwave or hot plate but not a working stove or enough capacity to store bulk food purchases. That’s definitely not true of everyone, of course, but it’s a real barrier for some people- especially, say, a newly-single mother who can’t feed an infant rice and beans.
Thank you both for expanding my perspective.
The gaps are a beloved option in i3wm. This project borrow opinions and hotkeys from that project and will likely be more appealing to people who just an _automatic_ tiling WM full time.
If this were anyone else but Rockstar, I'd agree with you.

But Rockstar essentially only have GTA and Red Dead to take care of, it's not like they're making an annual title or something :)
There's always https://honk.me/ if you're feeling youthful
i don't think it's smartphones that are considered luxury items, it's the $1000 iphones when a $50 android will provide all those benefits just fine.
We make a tool for exactly this[0].

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Bias of various forms in the datasets we use can absolutely be a big issue, and this is a pretty good summary of some of those areas. However, I think it's important to look beyond just the data and also look into the assumptions and choices we make regarding models, performance metrics, etc.

I came across a good Twitter thread[1] explaining some of these other types of bias -- a lot of them come down to various ways in which model decisions end up impacting performance on the "long tail" of data (i.e., the less frequent categories and groups) long before they impact the bulk of the distribution. This means overall performance may be minimally impacted (or even improved), but performance for subgroups can be drastically reduced.

Anyway, the thread is definitely worth a read, and it links to many sources for further reading.

[1] https://twitter.com/sarahookr/status/1361373527861915648
I echo the sibling comments to my comment here.

I would further add that in day-to-day code, I don't necessarily write "pure" functions. I use a strategy based on my experiences with Haskell, but spiced with a bit more pragmatism. For any significant bit of code past a couple of screens or so, I almost always have a clean separation between the "business logic" code, and the "IO" code, such that I can plug different "IO" codes into the business logic code trivially.

The business logic code is not technically "pure", in that it calls out to IO code freely. But it means I can swap out the IO code for testing, and drive the business logic with any input I desire in the process. It also lets me test the IO code directly if that is useful/necessary/desirable, without the business logic getting in the way, which it often does!

Theoretically, you could transform this to "pure" code, by gathering everything into one big data structure in the IO code, then feeding it to the business logic, but this often comes with a lot of inconvenience and even performance issues (like gathering expensive things you might need but not using them).

One of the things that Haskell can "put into your fingers" is a sense of what code does IO. Even if you nominally know, you probably don't instinctively know if you've never used a language that rigidly forced you to be correct. It is a common experience for quite a while in Haskell to write a pure function, that calls a pure function, that calls a pure function... that, err... needs to read just a little bit from a file according to the way you've structured things. Whoops. And you learn to restructure things to move the reading back "up" in the code to constrain the purity, even though it's just a "little bit", and over time you get better at not making the mistake in the first place. If you are not trained by Haskell, it is really easy to end up thinking "oh, it's just a little bit of impurity... it'll be fine"... and maybe, in fact, it will. But this still starts to add up. I still write "impure" code... but I do so much more carefully now.
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Actually in my area public transportation is more reliable than driving.

Nothing like being able to play video games during your commute
> It still strikes me as weird that Apple went with Touch ID vs Face ID on the Mac

BTW the face system is so automatic on the phone that I don't think I'd want it for much beyond login. The flow-breaking reminders when installing apps and the explicit requirement of typing sudo are good ways to require deliberate intent for dependent risks. Login, App Store purchases and the like would be OK by me if controlled by face.

All that being said: the Mac camera remains astonishingly terrible (see a recent HN front pager about how bad webcams are in general). Not just low resolution but poor white balance etc. I am not sure it's been upgraded in the last decade.

There is much speculation as to why (no room in the lid, which is plausible); I feel like for some reason this is an issue on which they simply don't care for some reason as they make a lot of fuss about the changes in speaker and microphone. Perhaps it simply is good enough, based on the innumerable Zoom calls I've been on.

Face ID needs more than a better camera, it also needs an IR channel. I do expect that when they finally do get around to upgrading the camera system they will jump ahead to something like the iphone front facing system.