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Friendly reminder that the real successor of freenode is at https://libera.chat/ , irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS) Including freenode staff.

Everyone has left freenode.net aka irc.com. Andrew Lee (rasengan) promotes his takeover business.
I don't think the article is dismissing the value of internationalization. As the endnote says:

> People often seem dismissive of that value i18n, “everyone speaks English” Well, depends on who your customer base is. Even in the Netherlands where almost everyone speaks some English there are still loads of people who are not especially good at it and much more comfortable with Dutch. This is probably over half the population, and it’s really not just old people.
A UBI that doesn't apply to foreign migrants isn't exactly universal.

Also, the second order impact of oil money appreciating the currency and therefore the reducing the international competitiveness of non-oil industries definitely has a big impact. In contrast, in a UBI situation, GDP still depends on the productivity of the country, not just the wealth generated from a niche (in terms of employment) extractive sector.
I think it's rather about the amounts of data we're talking about. It's not practical to manually select OSM data for the world. An open source project of this size could maybe do it for a bigger city. But this is obviously not limited to a city.

So what does "curate" mean in that sentence?
"If companies should have ransomware insurance, then mandate that companies should have ransomware insurance. Same as how certain organisations require public liability insurance."

This is what I'm saying. It's a far better solution than subsidizing bad security practices w/ tax. Require insurance and the insurance companies will ensure you have decent security practices (or pay a lot more). If you can't afford it for your business, well then your business can't compete in the market.

Obviously the details matter though. It would be rough at first, but eventually insurance companies would have a vested interest in quality security audits.
The Wolf Man
Meyyappan was only charged with making a false statement to a federal agent, to which he pled guilty on January 13. The judge also ordered him to pay a $100,000 fine.

$100,000 ?? Chump change for the PRC, they will pay it secretly.
Then your relatives did not tell you the whole story or should go to court over their taxation. German courts have made it pretty clear that pension income that was taxed when paying must not be taxed again. The decision is from May so you might want to talk to your relatives about that topic again ;).
He hasn't streamed in a few months but RAC has a great setup: https://www.twitch.tv/rac
You probably have more experience to estimate price better, but I guess I'm working off a different premise. I thought the claim to defend is that "if you go far enough into the future, it will be cheap".

A parallel - facial recognition today is a matter of `npm install face-api.js` (or some other library). Advances in hardware and ML architecture design can bring the currently-challenging world of RL to similar levels.

Another way to put my argument is through a question: do you think that even 20 years from now, the cost of a useful RL system will be around $500M (inflation adjusted)?
> One of the developers could not code at all. ... Nice guy though; he was a lot of fun. Just a bad choice of careers (or maybe not, since his salary was a lot higher than mine…)

I've known a few people like this. One guy told me he realized programming wasn't for him after he'd been out in the real world for a year or so, but it just paid so much he didn't know what to do. I know another guy who just goes job to job and lasts about 6 months to a year before getting axed. He's able to do it because there's just so much demand in the market.
Not just uncomfortable. I remember reading that women who are in early stage of pregnancy during that time are more likely to have disabled kids. (Women who know about pregnancy dont have to fast, so it affects early stages the most).
> "The war could only be fought through freedom, through the willingness of millions of ordinary men and women to abandon life. Ordinary heroism drove the Red Army, as it drove the Wehrmacht"

Nice article. I'm always impressed with accounts of what were in the minds of Soviet soldiers. I'd also recommend Nobel's Laureate Svetlana Alexievich book "The unwomanly face of war", a book of interviews with women that fought the war.
As explicitly stated in the title [Gödel 1931] for a system

for the foundation of mathematics.
I believe AmigaOS and BeOS had that, ROX Desktop too? We could replicate the same nowadays via GStreamer, but adoption is hampered by its plug-in system, meaning that most installations are incomplete.
The worst part is I actually have a few SIDs around I intended to use for projects, but because of my chronic disorganization... I couldn't find a couple of them last time I looked. Lying in a pile of parts. I'm sure there are people who would hang me for this :-)
Ask HN: I was hit with a patent troll lawsuit, how do I deal with it?
This particular patent troll has filed lawsuits with at least a dozen of my competitors in the past year. Some were voluntarily dismissed, some ongoing, rest unknown (based on my limited research skills). The patent in question involves downloading a remote database to a mobile device used as a lookup table when scanning a QR code. Yeah...

I'm a one person company and have no idea what to do.
>> At the same time content providers are trying to make it as difficult as possible to 'steal' their videos and images.

Well, screenshot is a thing for images. Video is another story.
> battered womens' shelters, female sports leagues

Violence and sports[0] are each way more than just gametes.

In the case of violence, trans women absolutely get victimised, a lot, both those who have had operations and pass as cis women, and those who have not had operations and get harmed specifically because someone takes offence at their bodies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_transgender_w...

In the case of sports leagues, the International Olympic Committee disagree with you. Testosterone makes an enormous difference to athletic performance, and it can be supplied externally for trans men and suppressed (including by gonadectomy, assuming I’ve understood that part right) in trans women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_sports

Treating it as “eggs = woman, sperm = man” is Highschool biology in the same way that as Newtonian mechanics is Highschool physics — it’s good enough for most people for most purposes, but also wrong in a lot of important ways.

[0] Edit: this word was previously “gametes”, how did I not notice this error?
Actually this very practice is described in the book "The Old Way". The natives in a dry region in Africa would drink massive amounts at a watering hole before setting off for a journey. It was probably more than 2 liters.

I try to take a similar approach when hiking of drinking as much water as I can before starting a hike. In a hot and dry climate you don't end up urinating out as much as you might think.

Exposure to this practice over time in a particular environment might be able to alter gene expression to better support the practice much like the hunter reflex develops with cold exposure. People often make the mistake of thinking their personal modern experience is close to some human limit.

"The Old Way" also points out that persistence hunting (mentioned in this article) could only be used under particular environmental conditions (mud after rain that slows down animals) with a particular animal that overheats more than others so it didn't seem a reliable hunting method.
Wow - thank you for this, TIL.
Years ago I modified the Postgresql source code (8.xx).

It's something I was terrified of doing.

But once I got in there and started poking around, I realized it was just ordinary plain-vanilla C code. Not C++. Just C code.

With my local copy, I started to hack pg_dump to do something special that we wanted at the time. Even after 30 years of coding, I'm not that especially good of a programmer. But I ended up getting our own special version of pg_dump that did what we wanted at the time and it went into production dumping hundreds of gigs of data every day!

But what I'm not, is afraid. I'm not afraid to try anything.

And that's what it takes to do deep, systems level programming.

Don't be afraid.

Those bits are just bits. And it's just code... and most of it was not written by wizards. Just ordinary people like you and me. Don't be afraid man.

Clone the repo and setup a workable build environment and start tinkering and compiling and running to see what happens.

You would be totally shocked to find out what you can actually achieve.

Those books will only go so far.
> Let us also remember, she actually built AND shipped.

It's funny how much further this is than the side projects of so many here (myself included)

For me this is one of those 10,000 things. We can either dismiss it, or share in the joy of learning something new and sharing our own lessons. Teachers learning OBS will be as much of a game changer as teachers moving from overheads to powerpoint, I think.

Also, I feel like this is super indicative of the gate-keeping mentality a lot of IT and tech people have around "not-cutting-edge" technology. Even if it is nothing new, let's be the resource
The Nexus 5 years produced good phones.
Git undo: We can do better
Fine-Tuning Transformers for NLP
> If you cycle the AC on and off every few minutes, neither one will wander much.

The dewpoint will, yes. There's a lot more room for dewpoint to rise than for temperature to rise.

> It will work "harder" but for less time, so averaged over the entire 10 minutes it's probably about the same.

I don't think so.

> The different modes having different dew points was a core part of your original suggestion.

> If you're changing that, and now we're talking about a system where "full on" is an optimal dew point but high air flow, and "energy saving mode" is the same dew point but with low air flow

Neither of those is what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a system whose only mode (unless you want to have an "initial cooldown" mode as well, see below) is what you called "energy saving mode": the dewpoint is set higher than a current A/C unit's "full on" mode, so that it's just low enough for comfort, ahd the A/C runs at much lower power (lower compressor power and lower airflow) continuously to maintain that dewpoint, instead of running "full on" (high compressor power, high airflow) for a while at a lower dewpoint, then cycling completely off for a while and letting the dewpoint get higher than the comfort level.

The point of running in the above "energy saving" mode is that you do it all the time; you never shut the system off. But there might be cases where the system turns off for a while unavoidably (say a power outage) and the house gets well above the temperature and dewpoint target. For that case, the system would have an "initial cooldown" mode, where it does run "full on" for a while (high compressor power, high airflow, dewpoint below optimal) until it senses that it's back to its usual setpoint, then it goes back into "energy saving" mode described above.

Running at the same (low) dewpoint but lower airflow would save some energy (less fan power), but much less than running at a higher dewpoint, since that reduces the amount of dehumidification, and dehumidification is most of the work that the A/C system does.
India does have something akin to basic income for rural households.

Fair, it's not just free money but it is a guarantee of at least 100 days of work a year.

https://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/observatory/mahatma-gandhi-nat...
Buy some dollar would have been awesome advice after Bretton Woods and pretty much up until now. Now we will have a new world currency. The dollar had a good run but it has pumped as far as it can go now on money printing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

https://marketcap.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/WRCurren...

We are in the buildup period for the next currency. What is it we can't be sure, but a world cryptocurrency seems likely.
I don't think it's true though. A lot of jobs you simply can't reduce the hours no matter how advanced you are without corresponding loss in service. There's also serious staffing issues in many blue collar jobs which simply won't be able to be filled by enforcing them to work less hours; there isn't a huge supply of people wanting to do menial labor to pop up to work part time and pick up the slack.

Retail and factory work already has low wages and high turnover, forcing them to try and make up a 20% loss in staffing hours is probably not going to happen over just cutting operating hours and shifting to models designed to work with less staff; retail stores for example may just be open 20% less or be constantly understaffed and understocked.

Or eventually a lot of them just close and the bigger ones absorb the surplus workers to keep full hours.
I think it’s reasonable to iterate and experiment with policy without devolving to extreme positions such as your comment.

We’ve forgiven $3 billion in student loan debt in the US, for various legitimate reasons, without consequence for example. Yes, the US has more power to do this because it’s a reserve currency, and no you can’t do it forever, but there is room to experiment when you’re a nation state.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/06/16/biden-h...
Mostly about generating explanations for the classification/tagging
Yes. Also, most every mammals other than whales _still_ have fur (seals, sea lions, otters, etc), so it's not clear that hairlessness has strong selection pressure.
> regular updates of all its software

NO.

You need security patches.
The current "regular updates" bullshit where the Play Store wants to update and app I updated an hour ago is insane.
Back when started coding, system programming were books like these ones,

https://www.atariarchives.org

https://archive.org/details/pcinternsystempr0000tisc

Granted they are probably too old, but the concepts of what is actually systems programming is there, you can then get hold of an Arduino or Rasperry PI like device and do your own little OS or bare metal game,

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/o...

http://www.science.smith.edu/dftwiki/index.php/Tutorial:_Ass...

Or maybe trying your hand at compilers with https://www.nand2tetris.org or given the similarities of Rust with ML, maybe dive into Tiger Book (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml).

Or maybe

https://www.manning.com/books/rust-in-action

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484258590 (Rust for IoT)
The Firefox flag is "image.jxl.enabled" and the Chrome flag is "enable-jxl", in case anyone else was searching for jpegxl or something instead.
The reason that [Gödel 1931] was influential was that it

claimed to prove incompleteness for a system for the

foundations of mathematics.

1st-order systems such a PA were introduced later and

quickly shown to be inadequate for the foundations of mathematics.
OBS is going to be such a game changer for anyone in education, I feel like it's going to be as big of a leap from over heads to power point
> And yet, there's another big tech company, fruit symbol I think, that has played the long game of continually fine tuning the interaction points to make the integration of their parts more than the whole.

There was a recent article about another concise memo making the case to Steve Jobs for an iOS App Store, which Jobs quickly approved.

So I think the same kind of systems thinking and understanding technological ramifications of decisions at the very top, also played a large role in Apple's success.
Doesn’t affect most of us.
I think it's just a thing that sounds gross to anyone who hasn't tried it, but it's actually very convenient. If I were given a 20 minute break to drive to a restroom, I'd pee in a bottle and take a 19 minute break from driving.
Sure, you say that now. Let's see what will happen to kava.io during the next financial crisis, or simply 20 years from now.

Banking is by no means a simple or safe operation.
> They get to live and work legally in the US and get a salary paid in US dollars.

If this is so good why the need for a UBI for citizens in the first place?
We probably could if we didn't sweat. Sweating (combined with hairless-ness) is a competitive advantage in thermal regulation, that enables long, long runs during hunting (or maybe foraging too, I don't know). But, you lose a lot of water.
Amazon is in an interesting situation. They create the delivery routes, dispatch the drivers, and set the KPIs the drivers need to meet, but if anything bad happens they can say "The driver isn't an Amazon employee so we're not responsible." If a crash occurs you often can't figure out what the contracting company was as the trucks are often unmarked and Amazon won't help as they have plausible deniability that the truck was even performing an Amazon delivery. If a contracting company is identified with a crash it often goes out of business the next day and those records are lost.
> It’s seems like this is kind of related to where bikers (cyclists) pay double for a component to save 100 grams instead of losing a bit of body weight.

Is kind of dumb argument. There is no tradeoff between the two. You can do both of these or neither. The additional weight in equipment will be there regardless of what happens to your bodyweight.
What about meta-data?
I've definitely been burned by inconsistency on Amazon API inconsistency. At least 3 years ago, Cloudformation, Data Pipeline and an EMR specific API all have three differing sets of params for defining an EMR cluster and just because something was supported in one of them didn't mean it was even in the others.
> What’s pernicious about this new organization: whereas the status of a double-breasted banker suit is transparently obvious, the technical arrangement that conspires to give an amazing streaming setup is altogether inscrutable to lay people.

What is truly inscrutable is the decision to adopt this particular style of writing.
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Yes, it is very easy to check that [Gödel 1931] was for a

system for the foundation of mathematics.
Reconstituting T cell receptor selection in-silico
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The most spectacular example of regenerative braking are trains that are used in Scandinavia, heavily loaded with iron ore that is transported to the coast:

"In Scandinavia the Kiruna to Narvik electrified railway carries iron ore on the steeply-graded route from the mines in Kiruna, in the north of Sweden, down to the port of Narvik in Norway to this day. The rail cars are full of thousands of tons of iron ore on the way down to Narvik, and these trains generate large amounts of electricity by regenerative braking, with a maximum recuperative braking force of 750 kN. From Riksgränsen on the national border to the Port of Narvik, the trains use only a fifth of the power they regenerate. The regenerated energy is sufficient to power the empty trains back up to the national border. Any excess energy from the railway is pumped into the power grid to supply homes and businesses in the region, and the railway is a net generator of electricity." (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake#Conversion_... )
El Salvador is the example that proves you wrong. They are using Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin to scale to enormous transaction volume - enough to run an entire country with plenty of room to spare.

Proof of work pays for network security, not Tx volume - the most secure super-computer ever invented.

Transaction processing is a free side-benefit.

With Lightning, TX Processing scales to meet any arbitrary needs.
You can actually `brew search python@` to see the available versions (major/minor only, not patch) and then `brew install python@3.7` to install an older version. Caveat is that this depends on someone having made a separate formula, under the correct versioned naming scheme, and uploaded it to homebrew. There doesn't seem to be a python2 formula, for example.

I think it's a difference in philosophy? Brew does a "good enough" job for the most common use case, supplementing Apple's janky *nix environment with commonly-needed tools, without a built-in package manager. It doesn't try to do complex simultaneous versions... in my (admittedly limited) experience, if you need to do that, you either do that in something like a project-based setup (npm/composer) or in a VM/container with its own packages.

In your situation, when you have multiple pythons running in the same environment, how does anyone given script know which one to call? What's a better way of doing this?
any effort to exemplify the characteristics or dynamics of path tracing is rendered immediately pointless by the gameplays insufferably sadistic nineties era bunny-hop autism as it makes a visible account of the gameplay all but impossible to follow. Path tracing a nauseating speed run holds almost zero value.
Maybe basic income only applies to "first world countries". Maybe there is a notion of plenty that only applies to modern industrial societies with high resource/population ratios. Maybe India just isnt ready?
It hasn't happened in a while that you know of.

There are a lot of rare things that are completely unavailable only in the hands of a sole collector (usually Japanese). Then they'll mail it around to friends under a strict "no dumping rule". They like showing off what they have.

Now of course those "no dumping" rules have been violated over the years and usually to disastrous effect but also you have situations where the rom dump is ALSO only in the hands of a few people.
Leonardo Da Vinci used to write backwards in his notebooks, in order for his ideas and secrets not to be stolen.
The NCAA Lost a Supreme Court Case over How Student-Athletes Are Compensated
1. Plenty of desks are normally in front of shelves anyway.

2. I have an empty bookshelf as my background as a joke about this.
Aldo, note that while Edge has initial support as well, it’s behind a command-like attribute rather than a flag. Not sure why they didn’t just do it like Chromium but I have a suspicion they might want to remove it later and replace it with a JPEG XL image extension like they’ve done recently for AVIF etc. The reason is that this then benefits the entire system.

But regardless. All main browsers but Safari will get it. The jury’s still out on Safari/WebKit.
Even if the electricity were 100% generated by wind farms and solar panels, what a colossal waste of it - rather than helping humanity it goes to feed racks of millions of red hot machines to solve useless hash puzzles all day.

It's like feeding vast amounts of wood into an ever growing fleet of steam engines that just travel in circles all day, and once every 10 minutes one of the trains throws off a piece of gravel or a paint chip that humanity has decided has incredible value due to how hard it was to obtain.
No one is using crypto out of choice for payments. The gigantic transaction fees alone would deter any sane person from using something like bitcoin, and other coins are even less reputable.

The only reasons to use crypto are either for speculation, or for trade where traditional networks can't be used - illegal activities, transfer to/from certain countries.
Please can you do the same for Thief? :P
I do love how you’re just talking in circles. You must think of yourself as very smart, but your refusal to actually engage in the discussion shows you’re just a proudly ignorant troll trying to culture war to stoke a sense of victimization.

I’d wish you’d luck, but I honestly don’t care about irrelevant people.
> Any specialty NAS-oriented distros or OSes (more feature bloat, bigger attack surfaces)

So you recommend ZFS but not TrueNAS? It more or less is FreeBSD with zfs and NAS-oriented defaults+utils. There's not much I'd count as bloat.