skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I have that book, the next line is something like "we shall proceed cautiously".
Opera is owned by China
Wouldn’t TLS normally prevent the bad stuff? It seems with this someone can setup a naughty open hotspot at an airport and read otherwise encrypted traffic.
Tiny creatures survive after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberian tundra
Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/JNVaFBI
So first, I would say that the notion of ease of learning a language is a purely relative one, which is what GGP probably meant. It is easy for an Estonian speaker to learn Finnish, a Dane to learn Swedish, etc., but quite difficult for an English speaker to learn Finnish. As another example, Mandarin on its face should be an easy language to learn because the grammar is very simple - there are no tenses, no cases, no gender, no inflection whatsoever. There's tone, sure, but this isn't the difficult part of understanding Mandarin for a native English speaker. Regarding grammar specifically, despite Mandarin seeming to possess a nominally simpler grammar, speakers use patterns that would appear alien to most speakers of European languages. For example, from section on cleft sentences[0]:

他昨天买的是菜

Literally, this means 'He yesterday buy of is vegetable', but the meaning is 'What he bought yesterday is vegetables'. The way the grammar in this sentence corresponds to its meaning may seem unusual to you, but it is effortless and natural to a Mandarin speaker. And these sorts of invisible grammatical features exist in every language. Most European languages descend from a common ancestor, so it is not so noticeable, and instead we notice the grammatical features that are different between languages: cases, gender, tenses, etc. And Esperanto, being based in these languages, also inherits these unnoticed grammatical biases. A Mandarin speaker learning Esperanto would have the same difficulty as an English speaker learning some Mandarin-derived conlang that 'simplified' certain visible grammatical features. Esperantists tout success in speakers of Asian languages learning Esperanto, but there are many more cases of speakers of Asian languages learning English.

Anyway, I don't think things like gender matter so much when it comes to the practical aspect of learning a language, or even mistakes in semantic grammatical features like case or tense. A native speaker isn't going to be unable to understand you because you flub some of the grammar such as the gender of some noun. Consider when you hear non-native English speakers make mistakes - are you unable to understand sentences like 'I go to bank' or 'Yesterday I eat restaurant'?

So these are the two flaws of Esperanto:

1. Esperanto's grammar is still very much Romance + Germanic-like, so ease of learning it is relative to familiarity with languages in those families.

2. To the extent that Esperanto's grammar is simpler, it doesn't particularly matter from a language acquisition perspective.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_grammar
> Soldiers naturally face immense PTSD from harming human beings. There is only one natural end game of this technological progression uninterrupted; soldiers will be coddled by tech to dehumanize the enemy.

I disagree

1. We don't need tech to dehumanize people, you can say that it brings down the barrier of cost to do it to mass but governments can already do this without this tech

2. Assuming tech does make the dehumanizing part easy, this isnt the only "natural" end game. I can easily see how this can help higher ups make more effective decisions and reduce civilian causalities
True, but again, if there exist people who currently rely on street parking and your solution is to raise prices so that new residents could compete for street parking then this still affects old residents. Gentrification is an externality too.

I am not saying we should stop doing everything that has externalities -- clearly we can't do that. It's just important to know that these transactions are not "between consenting adults" that dont affect others. Just because an owner of some land, some developers, and some perspective tenants agree on something doesn't mean it wont negatively affect a bunch of other people. And ignoring a bunch of other people entirely is not the correct choice.
> Most authorities are downplaying natural immunity, despite evidence like this.

OK, I think I can agree with this, I've seen lots of "getting the vaccine provides much better immunity than getting Covid"-type statements that seemed more like conjecture.

> The more widely this spreads, the more people will realize it's ok to rely on natural immunity, and to not blanket demonize those who are unvaccinated.

Is this a serious statement? The problem isn't that natural immunity doesn't keep make you immune, the problem is that "acquiring natural immunity" often results in death, especially for vulnerable populations.
I agree that this is unlikely to start the slippery slope all the way down to plumbing permits. But it's pretty easy to imagine it putting a damper on other large-scale projects that will span administrations. Off the cuff I'd guess this is not what folks building reservoirs, power plants, transmission lines, rail, shipyards, etc want to see. What do you do? Get your permit and wait for a change of party and see if your permit poofs out of existence before breaking ground?
Ah, your original comment said "boonies" which denotes rural areas far outside of a city.
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Err…no one wants their neighborhood to suddenly have a bunch of new unknown people in it, right? You don’t have to be a nimby to be concerned about who you live next to. It’s not a “misconception” in that sense, especially if moving is impossible because of rent control, as you mention.

Perhaps we need better protections around dealing with insufferable neighbors and other neighborhood changes’ negative impacts, and people will object less?
My wife got it either at the grocery store or Home Depot early in. She’s a nurse and worked with covid patients but hadn’t been to work for over two weeks. Those were the only places we had gone otherwise. I got it from her a few days after she showed symptoms.
> ...you can't use that part freely, but that's kind of the point

The irony is that non-copyleft project author/maintainers want to reserve the right to exploit other people's work when they "grow the project into a business", but bellyache when Amazon "exploit" their permissively-licensed work. Freedom for me -- but not for thee.
Or those that go: "its like my day job and there are no idiots stopping me from solving problems!"
Steep learning curve sure, but it's an extremely sharp tool that allows one to work magic once you're comfortable with it. After 1 year of git experience I could trivially do things that I never would have even attempted after a decade of CVS and SVN.
Thank you! Always appreciate links like these
The most effective way to transition from fossil fuels is to make an alternative more economical.

For example, there is the “methanol economy”, in which solar or nuclear energy is used to create syngas from water and CO2. The syngas is then transformed into methanol or other higher energy density fuels. When they are burned, you get the CO2 and water back - it’s a closed cycle, like a battery in an electric car. But, it is practical for air transport propulsion.
We have ruined the internet. :(
Stop using oil, yeah sure. This will just transfer consumption from the most ethical and environmentally sound jurisdiction in the world to the worst.

Ask the town in Quebec that had many people burned alive from a oil train derailment how safe it is.

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT,[1][2] on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 73-car freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the fire and explosion of multiple tank cars. Forty-seven people were killed.[3] More than 30 buildings in the town's centre, roughly half of the downtown area, were destroyed,[2][4] and all but three of the thirty-nine remaining downtown buildings had to be demolished due to petroleum contamination of the townsite.[5] Initial newspaper reports described a 1-kilometre (0.6 mi) blast radius.[6]
~ Wikipedia
I'm sympathetic to this position, but I do wonder: is it actually easier for underperforming employees to hide when they're remote? I feel like, anecdotally, they are pretty good at hiding in person too.

Maybe it makes them try harder to appear busy with real work when people are around to hover over their cubes, but I'm unconvinced that you can really wring blood from a stone.

Maybe around the edges the "personal touch" is enough to inspire (or frighten) an employee in a way that remote communication does not allow, but I've not seen many poor performers actually improve unless they were already personally motivated to do better themselves.
I just upvoted this because I can't believe anyone not on drugs could think of this as a serious name. I thought it was satire but then the blog post seemed serious.
You actually don't need to share your account with friends and family to share access with Tailscale. You can share devices instead: https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/. (I believe the doc is out of date and that this is now a production feature.)

I use this for sharing a media server with family and friends and it works great!
Just use certbot or alternatives, what's the problem?
IPFS is not anonymous and like other p2p protocols shares your ip address. People seeding articles would get legal notices just like torrents now.

There's been a bit of effort to get it working over tor for years now but the fundamental design makes this difficult. Also despite all the money that has poured into filecoin this doesn't seem to be a priority.

This issue is nearly 6 years old:

https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37
Not elections, policymaking. The influence of lobbyists and corporate donations on how laws are formed and applied is well known and substantial.
>expansive
>responsive
We'll do anything to avoid algebra eh?
Similar story here. We modified our expectations and bought a smaller home AND kept the well balanced portfolio. So far so good.
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions
Yep, this is more or less what I meant by post evolution. We are clearly still changing by natural means, but for most of the existence of all living things in the world, change occurred by evolving. Humans change by using technology to intervene, and the rate of change of our intervention mechanisms is so massive that we’ll likely not notice evolution in any meaningful scale ever again.
I'd actually be interested in almost the opposite -- a company that compensates me for all the extra time I put in.
The supplements market is quite tiny ($36bn) compared to the "unregulated market for pharmaceuticals" that most people mean by that phrase ($150bn+).

For me and many, many others, that market serves us far better than the regulated one.

You're cherry-picking supplements quackery and hucksterism out of the 6x larger "unregulated drugs" market on Earth, which exists despite insanely harsh penalties prohibiting it. It would likely be much larger if not illegal.
>It's true that with flight search, competitor results are de-emphasized,

In what sense is Google a competitor with flight/travel businesses?

Google is an advertising company.
Has anyone heard bats making beeping sounds with just your ears? I can sometimes hear what sounds like high pitch computer beeping.
The state uses an enormous amount of open source software.

Ironically it can be really hard to donate to OSS from government entities.

It's actually easy to pay someone for software, but for all these libraries and technologies that are used it's really hard bureaucratically to say, donate $2K a year. Which is still a fraction of the value gained from open source for most places.
Not trying to be a Lisp gatekeeper, I just want to give credit since Common Lisp is such a gigantic standard:

Embeddable Common Lisp is a conforming implementation. It's what it says in the title, pretty much any Common Lisp library and still embeddable in C/C++. Use it with SLIME and all that.

I do like exo-lisps like Fennel, Ferret and Hy. They just have very different goals from the project referenced in this article.
Well now I do. Any stories?
The Colors We Share [video]
Linear Systems still makes JFETs and all sorts of other discrete parts that everyone else stopped making.
Is this recommending that you lie and say you live on this island? If lots of people are doing it with the same island, might some tax agency get wise and audit everyone with that address?

I see how one could, in theory, easily get away with a fake residency while remote working, but sharing the same address with many others and posting about it online seems like asking for trouble.
The problem is that any environment that allows work from home but has a significant percentage of employees in the office regularly will have a very hard time managing, in my experience.

It’s very hard to maintain the discipline of holding online meetings and documenting all important decisions when enough people are colocated. Face to face bandwidth is so much higher that it’s easy to forget there are a lot of people without that exposure.
Moreover, with Liquid Haskell existence...
It certainly sucks for everyone sitting at a neighboring desk.

It's horrific, but I expect this to be "accepted" behavior once we return to office.
Hi, Kragen!

Is Dercuano available as individual HTML pages that can be clicked around (and indexed by search engines)? So far I've only found it as a giant blob (PDF or tar) and I'm wondering why that seems to be its primary presentation.
The Wikipedia article on ivermectin treatment of COVID is just some editor’s opinion. It isn’t properly referenced.

Here are some references:

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
Yeah I agree. I can't think of many examples where this seems to have worked. Very much a chicken and egg problem, but I'd think with enough funds available there would be a way to make it work.
With the advent of the internet and the new generations of Quebecers being mostly online, as well as being generally more educated in english than their parents through standard school curriculum, I expect this to change in the next hundred years. I’m 28 years old now and I welcome this future, being isolated has a great price.
Earthers use BASIC. Cortázar is so obsessed with The Work that he moves protos whenever he can.
> There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox liberal thought.

Leftism (which is what reddit is for the most part) is definitely not orthodox liberalism, for what it’s worth. But reddit’s political discussions have rarely ever progressed past what you might hear in a 9th grade social studies class anyway. Definitely not worth engaging in. And that’s coming from someone who considers themselves a socially progressive liberal.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439839 (also on front page)
Yes writing code, I provide enough actual progress that people must assume I'm either extremely methodical or woefully incompetent. I put in about an hour per job per day. I'm logged-in on slack/teams/etc and disable idle indicators. I use a virtual KVM to switch between laptops as needed. The biggest problem I run into is video meetings occurring at the same time, those I usually just disable video and blame it on internet problems.

Many of these positions are mid-to-senior level in "must have" positions like Data Science or Data Engineering where measuring progress can be difficult for even full-time contributors. I target overly funded growth-mode companies where they're focused on adding unnecessary headcount to work on poorly defined projects.
Changes in price aren’t the only issue with oil pipelines - there are also reliability issues (despite repeated promises from pipeline companies, pipelines leak) and issues around treaty lands.

Oil spills from trucks and trains are much more detectable, meaning residents don’t need to worry about them secretly contaminating water supplies. Pipeline spills are harder to detect, so you don’t necessarily know until oil has already seeped into the ground.

There are a lot of good reasons to stop oil pipeline projects.
Growing for a century and a half, still spoken by fewer people than minor dialects of minor languages.
Loved that reply from the company: "it is typically performed by an alert Master before loading any particular parcel of cargo."
I mean, of course companies don't like copyleft. It was individual developers that I found confusing.
Dropped Reddit in general a few years ago. Much happier. I sometimes read the tech stuff that friends link but otherwise done.
Typically for a freelancer/contractor (as against a consultant) yes but also no. On a nominal hourly or whatever rate you come out ahead, but life can throw you curveballs that mean you don't end up ahead.
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Has Apple added support for web apps yet? They were around for years now, that would be a prerequisite for switching to web.
Several Magic Leap Executives Set to Depart in Leadership Shake-Up
Yeah, quantum parallelism is a resource we exploit.
The next thing to explain is interference.
My wife and I think we got it from movers in NYC. We had become too comfortable around others and overly confident that we wouldn’t get it. I was diagnosed two weeks before my vaccine appointment, it was so frustrating to fail so close to the finish line!
That would seem to lead unavoidably to extremely perverse incentives.
Many employment contracts expressly forbid you from accepting other employment without prior authorization from the company. If his employment contracts contain that provision, then he would definitely be in breach. But... damages would probably be limited to just the salary that the company paid.
Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with cameras, heart rate monitor
Exactly. Anyone is free to continue using subversion but collectively we have decided the learning curve of got is worth the flexibility.
Definitely hope it works out for him. Thank you for the well wishes btw.
You probably already know this but internet outside of the Bay Area is actually really good. We live in the sticks and we can get gigabit.
It does not. It maximizes log-wealth. Maximizing expected wealth gives a strategy which results in $0 a lot of the time but much much more than Kelly occasionally, achieving a higher average wealth. Kelly gives that up, getting far less expectation of actual wealth, but far more expectation of log-wealth (which is -inf at $0 so avoids the $0 results). If you don't believe this, pick any one scenario and actually do the math, take the limits, etc.
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I generally agree with this, but think it falls far outside of the bounds of work (re: "future of work"). I lived in NYC for 13 years, and worked remotely full-time for about 11 of those years. I explicitly lived there because I love the city.

Remote work allows us to live where we want/need and remain productive members of society. I've been working remotely for 20 years, living in wonderful cities the whole time, and I'm not going back any time soon (ideally, ever).
You can find Aaronson's 35 secs explanation of QCs here:
https://www.macleans.ca/society/science/trudeau-versus-the-e...

definitely not something a non-technical person would understand in 35 seconds!
USA cutting off one of the most ethical jurisdictions in the world. Sacrificing energy independence and for what? Endless war and military expense propping up authoritarian governments with ongoing human rights abuses.
10 years is a pretty short time for "this has been always been this way".
Which should mean every company, according to the law (at least in my country, BR)
Pretty much unrelated, but I think pipelines are cool (but fossil fuels aren’t!) - if you want to read about milk and beer pipelines:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport#Other_sys...
Yes, I meant that priorities and metrics changed, not that they intentionally sabotaged one metric in order to "cheat," and directly boost another metric, it just wasn't a priority anymore to optimize for usability. In fact, when you look at it from a market/systems level instead of any individual product or company, it doesn't even need to be one designer or product or company moving A-to-B from "usable" to "moar white space." It could be a totally different company who never optimized for usability who comes in and steals lunch.

>there are a lot of parallels with the lack of care for security

Absolutely, 100%. Same idea.
If you’re looking for new business ideas, this is a good hit list for disruption.
David Hume: Causation
Could be seen borderline fraudulent since no employer signing this kind of contract would reasonably expect this behavior. So that could add a criminal element in addition to the civil damages.
Generally when you're talking about cryptography you don't want to make assumptions that rely on reality working out in the way that's most convenient for you. Presuming that quantum computing can't be any kind of threat is a pretty risky gamble.
Hi Ping! I miss you a lot! The primary representation of Dercuano is a giant blob both to improve the chances that copies of it will survive after I'm dead and to more clearly establish a publication date for purposes of patent prior art. The PDF isn't very good (I hacked together a PDF-rendering script with reportlab in five days before the deadline, and even the CSS for the HTML version is pretty amateurish) but there are a variety of places that can view or archive PDFs but not tarballs of HTML.

There's also an online mirror at https://dercuano.github.io/, which allows linking to pages like https://dercuano.github.io/topics/memory-models.html, but of course that depends on Microsoft's pleasure.

See also http://canonical.org/~kragen/derctuo/ for the sequel.
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What do you mean by "free shit with no stipulations"? As I see it, that would describe permissive licenses, which even allow you to build on software and sell it without giving back via source code. The GPL requires you to abide by some rules and "play fair".
Yeah it’s great to be one of the minority of people who are able to work from home and do Amazon delivery for their meals!
Some people like the status quo and would defend it to the death because they make money off it.
Hey! Are you in Miami by chance!?
Never been to Florida, but from all the cyclists I know, it sounds like the third circle of hell from about May to October. Between the humidity and the bugs and the rain (rain? in the summer? crazy to this west coaster!), I couldn't do it.
ZAngband is, sadly, very dead -- the last release was in 2003. I miss it.

Another wacky, fun (and, sadly, also dead) variant was Steamband, a steampunk-themed variant with completely new classes, races, and monsters: http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html
Next pandemic already happening – targeted disease surveillance can prevent it
Their push for people to use the mobile app has gotten user-hostile to the point of ridiculousness. Some subreddits now just prompt you to either continue in the app or return to the homepage, there's no option to continue in the mobile browser.
Uhh, I'm a real person with a clean record? There's no way for a company to ask the IRS if a person has multiple employers.
I'd say rail is worse, there is the safety issue, but also pollution (diesel exhaust emissions + carbon footprint), and noise pollution.. would much rather a pipeline going through my neighborhood than a railroad.