skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The saying “Big nose, big hose” suggests that nose size indicates penile length. However, scientific reports that prove this statement are not available to date.
Walmart’s unannounced cloud gaming service, codenamed Project Storm
Obligatory Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
I have no doubt that Rome will massively increase the producitvity of thousands of companies and developers. But the hard thing in open source is how will you capture some portion of that value. The vast majority of libraries, toolchains and other open source projects out there which has massively increased the developer producitivty are underfunded let alone generate millions of dollars in sales. Rome not only has to find a sustainable way for funding the project as well as figure out a way to 100x the returns of VCs? How is Rome planning to do that?
These are serious bollards, and I think she'd rather move them into Belgium.

Hmm, her husband is Belgian, if moving is involved you're right: he might want them to head into France.

Perhaps they could each move one of them!
So long as your discrimination is targeted at a politically approved "historical oppressor" group, you're fine.
In other words 99th percentile latency is what matters, not utilization. Anyone who's tried to get things done with batch-class resources has probably noticed this as well.

There's a similarity to the overall economy as well. Just in time inventory is certainly efficient but it's incredibly fragile. Just look at how much "damage" is being claimed for a boat that made other boats two weeks late.
A friend nearly got expelled from high school when the VP accused him of hacking grades.

His offense? He had a shortcut to Notepad in his shared folder, which was seen as a scripting tool.
well, some NFTs do have thousands copies, etc. — they're not always unique, but I get your point haha. Maybe they should have done it as a ICO / social coin instead :P
Exposure builds resilience. All shielding does is turn people into hysterics who cannot see through the artifice, and assume everyone is duped by it into being murderous zombies.
Doesn't India have a large population of people who are born and die outside the system, no ID?
I think the secret sauce for fish sticks’ success is tartar sauce.

By themselves fish sticks are meh, but when dipped in tarter sauce, the taste is sublime.

The shape and consistency of fish sticks make it easier to dip in tartar sauce.
From http://www.ulisp.com/show?1AWG:

> Every Lisp object is a two-word cell, representing either a symbol, number, or cons.

(Also, it's fun to see that my article on GC was helpful. :) )
Yet Apple doesn't make the boards themselves. Would them doing that be more efficient vs what they do now? How do you draw the line? Where does your theoretical "stack" start and stop?

I think this is all just a big bag of hindsight bias. If the "winner" does something different then people attribute winning to that thing. Reality tends to be more complex.
Reminder that WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos.
As opposed to the car companies, military contractors, airline manufacturers
A key underlying assumption in Scott’s perspective in “Seeing like a State” is that diversity is critically important to healthy functioning of biological/human/cultural ecosystems. In large computing system fleets we’re often okay with the opposite — simplifying by fiat because the understanding/control of the architect is more important than the diversity of individual machine configurations. Yes, the monoculture could lead to correlated failures (Eg: all machines are vulnerable to the same exploit), but the common perspective is that the simplicity/controllability and efficiency gains are worth it.

I think we might be able to get by with this perspective so long as we’re seeing computers/systems only as inert tools. It’s interesting to consider whether there’s any motivation for that to change, as we move towards more ubiquitous & intelligent computing. (Eg: should IOT devices be thought akin to insects?)
If you don't value your home that much, but somebody else does, then why don't you move?

The reality is that you value the location, just as others value it, and you also value not having to move probably, but you don't want to pay for it.

I think that you should have a right to stay where you are. And more than that, I think that everybody should have that right, be they renter or owner, as housing should be a human right.

However, land is a limited resource. And by limiting its use, you stand to profit handsomely. You may not think of yourself as a land speculator, but if you profit not through your own labor but because you are manipulating access to a scarce resource, land, then that is actual speculation.

If you truly do not care about the speculation and profit, and just want to keep your place and the labor you put into it, then may I suggest a compromise: you can keep your low taxes, while others pay more to support the community, as long as the increase in the value of the land is taxed at 100% at sale. Because unless you are putting labor into improving your house, any increase in value comes only from the increase in value of the land, something that you did not create, and claim that you do not even want.

If you are willing to agree to this, full capture of the land value increase, then I think we can create a reasonable society. But if you insist on profiting without labor and also at the same time denying people access to something that lots of people want, I'm not sure that society can continue for much longer.
I'm on a poor Internet connection and can't read the page but a search indicates that GiveWell is aware of Noora:

https://www.givewell.org/research/incubation-grants/charity-...

It would be interesting to read about how it compares to GiveWell's recommended charities.
We meet for one hour over lunch. In advance, the book club leader assigns about 30 pages to read. It's important that the page volume feels substantial, but also enough that people can complete the reading 30min before the meeting.

As a leader, I purchased the books for everyone using the company credit card and make it clear that it's your book to keep - so take notes, highlight, whatever you want.

The leader facilitates the conversation. Some leaders will post questions in advance on Slack. Other leaders will develop questions on the fly based on the direction of the conversation.

In the best product design and engineering books clubs, people reference specific passages and quotes which spark conversation about implementation within your own shared work.
> Each kilogram of fish sticks produces about 1.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide, which “rivals the climate impact of tofu,” she says. Beef, by comparison, produces over 100 times that amount of carbon dioxide per kilogram

That's an u̶n̶f̶a̶i̶r̶ comparison. (apparently they did consider some of my complaints)

Does it take into account the additional co2 that fishing boats emit? Esp. given that they usually use far more harmful fuels than the gas used on roads.

Comparing a dish to the raw. material is unfair. Fish sticks should be compared to the environmental. impact of beef stir fry or sukiyaki or at the very least, an order of burger and fries (per kg)

Then there is the fact that caloric densities vary. comparisons should be made per portion, not unit weight.

co2 is also a complex topic. There is carbon that is recaptured in replanting crops. Beef also primarily produces methane, so I'm not sure if the co2 impact of beef is the proportional impact in methane or actual co2. Methane has a much shorter term. impact vs co2.

Lastly, trawling has massive ecosystem destroying impacts that don't show up on co2 counters. We must also consider that in sustainability calculations.

All in all, fish sticks might be sustainable, but these back of the napkin numbers are rarely representative of the complex systems that drive climate change.

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to be fair, I love fish. They are healthier, easier to do sustainably than red meat, you need less of it to flavor food and it is easier to use 100% of it vs red meat animals. Lastly, salt water fish have straight up more flavor. (too much for some)

If seafloor trawling is banned and ships are moved over to better refined petroleum products, then fishing can be quite sustainable.
I once had a scammer call me, claiming to be from Microsoft support and trying to convince me to install a RAT. When he asked if I was using Windows or Mac, I replied "Linux." He was aghast, saying that was "illegal" and he would be reporting me for breaking the law unless I complied with his directives. Had a good laugh at that one.
whoa looks super cool! Is Amazon building a managed service for this project? If so that'd be great.
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> If the government consistently makes decisions that are bad for society as a whole, I would posit that it is failing at a critical role.

Ok, but who's fault is that? We are the ones who vote for these people.

> If that is the case, then a certain portion of wealth going to actually good causes rather than the government would be a good thing, not an ethical violation. If the government cannot be relied on to spend the wealth of its people responsibly - if instead it fritters that resource away in power games and appeasement - then avoiding said taxes is not, fundamentally, immoral.

I disagree because fundamentally taxes are used to support public services that benefit society as a whole. Cheating that process is cheating society. You may have the luxury of being able to forego many of those services but a lot of people do not.

> Off the top of my head for other bad and expensive government programs, there's the TSA and other Department of Homeland Security initiatives that fall under the umbrella of Security Theater; the support, both legal and economic, of the private prison industry; arms sales to ethically dubious partners; political vanity projects like the "Bridge to Nowhere"; ideologically driven propaganda (Reefer Madness, anyone?); and straight-up war crimes.

Yes, and I strongly encourage us to use our power in the democratic process to oppose those things. If people really didn't want those things, they would vote for politicians who also didn't support them. The fact that they don't means that they have other priorities in selecting politicians and are willing to compromise on those things.

> Representative government may be a good reflection of the people - I have misgivings about that claim, but I'll let them go - but the people should demand better than a reflection.

I think that's a very strange statement. If we want our government to be better all we have to do is vote for better people even if it is not in our individual best interest. You are demanding that the government be better than the people who elect it, but that very demand can only possibly be implemented by said people!

> I want someone better. I want someone who isn't afraid to make an unpopular decision when it's the right thing to do.

Then vote for that person and encourage others to do so, that's how our society works. You are extremely arrogant to think that you should be able to dictate to society how it should work and then get pissed off when it doesn't listen to you and claim moral superiority by not paying your taxes.
I wonder how the could make cadavers get erections...
Awk is the coolest tool you don't know
Why render headless and repackage the output though?
Can someone tell me how this is different than something like webpack?
I think the point is that there is some real business subsidizing the failed M&As. If a VC lost money on average (mean) with each investment, they’d run out of money, and the problem would self correct.

If a company is able to print unlimited cash, they can use the revenue on unlimited ill-advised acquisitions, and do unbounded damage to the economy.
The Honor Harrington series by David Weber might be of interest. A lot of the strategy revolves around how hard patrolling, monitoring, and communicating (due to the time delay) in space is, and there is a good bit of politics as well.
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> How is Rome planning to do that?

Clearly they have a vision that investors thought was compelling enough to buy into.

Perhaps be patient and see what they announce in the future? This is their day one (zero?)..

If there was an easy answer here, someone else would have already done it.

edit: they (sort of) answer in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039330
I try to isolate and minimize dependencies on Google due to their habit of abruptly banning entire accounts because one of their bots thinks it spotted something slightly odd on a single service that account is using. It's absolutely part of my risk-assessment at work, when selecting which services to use. Their fickle approach to services that aren't ads or search is just part of the problem.

> Surely Google treats their B2B products and B2C products differently, no?

Not differently enough, and I'm not directing enough of our services spending to Google to find out if that gets us over the line where they won't shit all over us without at least giving us a heads-up. Maybe it would be, maybe not, but why risk it when most of what they offer is far from unique and not much better-priced than alternatives, if at all.
Some good points, that have crossed my mind as well. I think I tend to a more pessimistic view of those who strive to become our leaders. Experience seems to show that a more likely outcome is for them to strive desperately to save themselves from the coming disaster at the expense of everyone else rather than looking for ways to avert the disaster. After all, building a floating palace sounds a lot easier than transforming society :-/
It's the section on using this to identify corpses, somehow, that makes me suspect they're gunning for an Ig Nobel.

(In fairness, they do conclude that it's not useful for identifying corpses, obviously.)
The Divinity of Data: AI, the Death of God and the End of Individuality
I concur. My sparse LinkedIn profile shows decades of doing CRUD work for no name companies and I have had recruiters from most of the major tech companies reach out to me. No I couldn’t pass any DS&A tech screen without a lot of preparation.

Even now that I work at one of the Big 5 tech companies, I clearly state that my role is not officially development, I still have recruiters reach out to me from FB for development positions.
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> How is the Earth not entirely made out of Mosquitoes then?

Mosquitoes are a key species, that feed in turn thousands of other animals: fishes, spiders, predatory flies, bugs, bats, frogs, birds, shrews... etc and suffer heavy loses by that. And they are also pollinators. Mosquitoes are connected with everything and will support everything.

So messing with them is notoriously dangerous. Playing football with a nuclear bomb would be safer probably.
I really hope they don't start charging $1 for every time I install Babel through npm.....
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Presidency pushes back; warns those plotting against Buhari govt
India's Covid-19 data is vastly undercounted
I agree with novel marketing, but I'm rather less convinced by the long run implications of what this purports to actually do

The purpose of an NFT, after all, is to create some sort of symbolic representation of something you've paid for, and allow other parties to buy that representation from you without involving any third parties. It doesn't really have any other appeal except as signalling; in this case it supposedly signals your generosity.

Or more specifically, it enables someone to signal that they have donated a lot of money to Noora Health and then try to recover that cash by selling it to someone else who wants to signal that they have donated to Noora Health without the inconvenience of actually donating to Noora Health.

The actual recipient of donations doesn't sound like the sort of entity which needs to be disintermediated from donation signalling, and I'm not sure long run philanthropic expenditure is going to be increased by the notion that you get that money back from some other guy who wants to look like a philanthropist donating to you instead of the cause...
Finally a webhook as a service done right! I've been watching Hookdeck's progress closely and I'm super impressed with what they managed to achieve especially on the CLI side recently. It's exactly what you need to setup a webhook service in development and then seamlessly transition to a full-blown production app with 1000s rps without changing anything.

I've build webhook systems myself in the past and there are so so many issues that you don't think about at first that are difficult to solve correctly like staggering retries, routing, logging is a big one! Really happy that there is now a great service for this. Nice work!
You’ve got the a double negation there. (I.e. you said “don’t” and “irrelevant”, when presumably what you meant to express would either have the “don’t” and “relevant” rather than “irrelevant”, or would lack the “don’t”)

You are wording things very strangely (E.g. “principle of electromagnetic action”, “quantities of motion”). This greatly hinders communication. Are you able to say things in a more normal way?

My guess is you are asking why they believe that the substrate the algorithm is implemented in is irrelevant. This is by nature of what it means to implement an algorithm. The same algorithm implemented faithfully (by which I mean, implemented such that it runs correctly, i.e. as specified) will behave the same regardless of the substrate, because what it means for the algorithm to run correctly is independent of the substrate. If it behaved differently in a different substrate, in that it gave a different output, then it would not be performing/implementing the same algorithm, by virtue of what it means to be implementing an algorithm.
Slightly surprised there's no Pico port, given other M0-based boards that are on the list.
A "local historian" - he likely knows the specific marker and has been walking past it for years.
wait, how do we know it isn't a knockoff?
Are you also in favor of providing musicians (and actors, writers, producers, etc) a lifestyle where they have the freedom to create, and give away their work for free, without going hungry? Where is that money going to come from?
I think the solution is that not every seed value is part of a cycle, but they might lead to a cycle.
Has your past employer perchance switched from a "give what you can" to a subscription "pay X per month" model? The latter has proven to be remarkably unpopular with the public.
So basically using a full word for the tag, if I understand correctly.
> Will this void my warranty or destroy my beloved headphones?
>
> No!
> Boze.app communicates with your headphones in the exact same way that the official Bose Connect app does.

I'm not sure how you can know that the protocol is exactly the same without access to Bose's technical documentation, and extensive testing on all supported models.

Furthermore, it would be Bose that decides what constitutes a violation of their warranty, not you.

This seems borderline unethical to me.
Not paying taxes, using all possible loopholes and paying as little to workers as they could get away with...
Evidence that this isn't a knockoff please.

But also... rarely have I seen both a pro-Communist argument and an anti-Communist argument in the same sentence lol
And yet the “other bets” from Google don’t yet have a hit…

“The next big thing” is super hard work.
> Yes. It works better for making technology.

You haven't proven that at all. You took one instance of Apple disrupting Microsoft's PC dominance and seem to have extended it to an entire worldview (which clearly ignores the entire MS antitrust saga that took place a couple years before Jobs reinvented the company).

> Making existing industries work less well is not going to achieve that.

You haven't proven that. When AT&T was broken up, it unlocked a host of new technologies (answering machines, modems) that Ma Bell was blocking to protect their existing revenue model.
I have this urgency as well. I’ve used reddit most recently to revel in the emotions after finishing Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I also listened to some podcasts about the book. Usually I prefer to talk with people I know, and I accept that they may listen but haven’t just read the book, and so we move on to other topics. To help me process, I make notes as I read:

If it’s an ebook on Kobo I highlight & maybe add a note, then import the notes into Calibre. I also read on mobile, listen with TTS, and listen to audiobooks (mostly fiction there, since I take fewer notes when it’s a strong narrative, and I’ve enjoyed being read to since before I could read). Notes help take the edge of the urge to discuss, and they help me remember for future discussions.

Like others have said, it helps to read what friends and family are reading if you want to share in the experience.
What does digital only mean?
I'm somewhat more optimistic we'll see plenty of charging infrastructure from competing private "networks" than we'd ever see in the US the obvious real infrastructure needed investments put (back) into proper public transportation which would truly benefit the lowest classes (and clean up cities and traffic).

Because we can privatize that charging infrastructure and charge for it and companies can profit from it. Between utility companies, existing parking meter companies (in this city the meters are backed by a public-private partnership and are already "for profit", and this isn't the only city like that), and the many charging network startups there are plenty of for-profit players interested in making a buck or three off charging fees for parking spaces. That's exactly the sort of infrastructure problem that capitalism is more than happy to "solve": a new source for "rent" from people who have few or no other choices. "People are already parking in these spots for hours every day, imagine if we could charge them five, ten, hundred times the raw electric utility costs to also charge their car here." That's going to happen.
Just by curiosity, i grew up in Alveringem ( Belgium, about 30 minutes from Dunkerque. Next to the French border) and still regularly go to Hondschote ( water :p ).

Where did you grew up and are you still regularly there?

Ps. If it's near, here's something unique about the neighborhood: https://www.google.com/amp/s/sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/20...