skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but I think its not a great sentiment to make towards meditation when it can actually help startup founders. Recharging is key amidst all the chaos big meetings, founder fights, etc. Rechar
That still doesn't answer my question. If hard work had no effect, why would VCs encourage it?
Then hard work increases your chances. What is controversial about this?
These days I avoid Amazon where possible since so often it's just cheap Chinese knockoffs or obviously returned products sold as new.

B&H has been a godsend for tech, especially since there's no tax with their card. Crutchfield/Headphones.com has been great for speaker and audio gear. West Elm has a consistently premium quality for kitchen, home, and furniture items (though furniture is a story of its own, with even better vendors.) Walmart/Target/BestBuy have been good for everything else.

If you're too lazy to figure out yourself which products are quality, Wirecutter, NyMag, and Consumer Reports all perform unbiased testing of multiple products in almost every product segment I can think of.

And for simply next-level quality, nothing beats DIY. Personalize the final product exactly to your specifications, choosing the highest quality or even custom-machined parts with zero cost cutting. Requires time and passion, however.
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by politics.
Cool project! I wonder why they are not using Django Rest Framework. It seems like a great fit here.
I got the baby Klein bottle from Cliff years ago. Nice little nerd tchotchke for the mantelpiece. He also wrote an awesome account of a KGB internet hacking from in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Disney+ also got rid of Love Victor. now on Hulu we get at least some semblance of normative sexuality of queer people.

though your comment sounds more like a threat, maybe just the standard CCP tinged thread though lol
Ed does try to make the distinction between a 'true' conspiracy (ie one that is actually happening) and a 'false' one (one that's just made up, and doesn't actually exist except as in the minds of its believers) - one is possibly justifiable paranoia (for example what Ed showed us about the NSA), the other mass delusion (cough-q-cough)
Cover [0] also has a similar business based on this. They're focused on ADUs too, but their intent seems to be to scale up over time. They're starting at $81k.

I really want a modular home ala Japan in the US, but it just doesn't seem like this market exists yet. It's much faster and efficient to build modules and assemble them onsite than it is to build "from scratch" each time.

[0]: https://buildcover.com/
https://smile.amazon.com/Acme-Klein-Bottle-Handmade-Glass/dp...

I think this is the item.
Sounds great, that definitely sounds like a great meditation practice.
In a fire, you will die long before the structure will collapse
>You don't give any examples for the specific criticism you make (circular logic)

They linked to the Wikipedia page. Which appears to say that the effect found "in vitro" is unobtainable unless you take a massive OD.

Useful drugs have an OD amount that is greater than the effective dose.

https://xkcd.com/1217/

Supposedly larger scale tests are being done, so we'll see.
And you had to install an extension for it.
My only question is; why such project was connected to the internet at all ?
> The secret doesn't have to be kept perfectly, it just has to be made ridiculous.

Better yet, make it a partisan issue. Half of the country will refuse to believe it while the other half will be unable to do anything about it.
Headphones.com is great!
Black Widows are also deadly. They live in woodpiles where I’m from and every year there’s someone who gets bit and is rushed to the ER. They don’t kill instantly but you can die within a day or so (especially children) if not treated.
The French Revolution was mostly a tale of radical actors taking control of the government and then using it to violently get rid of competitors.

Absolutely nothing to do with "the people" holding "government" accountable.
That sucks. Nice write-up of how this scam works, I wasn't aware of the details previously.

Also, if anyone is unaware, this is this Clifford Stoll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll - who wrote this brilliant (and true) book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book) - which is a really good read and perfect for HN.
> Chomsky responds with the typical comment that it would take an unprecedented amount of coordination to have so many people keep the secret that it doesn't even make sense.

That's often the weakest point of conspiracy theories. But I think this argument is exaggerated because it depends entirely on the assumption that 3 letters agencies didn't reach a level of sophistication and didn't accumulate enough know-how over their decades of existence to overcome this kind of human obstacle. Just right off my head I can think of several ways that this risk can and has been minimized: compartmentalization, black mail, child porn accusations (true or otherwise), close monitoring, murder, need to know kept very low, etc.

Also as a counterexample, see Operation Gladio where "stay-behind" units formed a hidden army inside NATO countries unbeknownst to their leaders and were involved in multiple terrorist attacks, massacres and harassment campaigns against "leftist" groups they deemed subversive and also to create a "strategy of tension". This has been going on from the 60s to the 80s and didn't begin to be uncovered until the 90s.

Also see MKUltra and operation Northwoods for actual government conspiracies, which weren't discovered due to the "unprecedented amount of coordination to have so many people keep the secret".
GTFO now. It will become a miserable second-stringers sausage factory if it isn't already.
How and why do authoritarian regimes get toppled?
Ultimately, capturing hearts and minds of people throigh peaceful protests is beneficial. The question is not whether protests always work directly and timely even. Wheteher or not special interests play a role, the result is easier reached when there's at least a larger audience that may become allied or organized better. To me, it's a fallacy to say that on the one hand ideology or protesting even doesn't play a part in political change when they can be greatly exploited by special interests or governments to gain power or better control and order.
I don't know why you criticize this improvement by saying "but who buy ARM Windows". Their improvement is in progress to sell more ARM Windows devices in the future.
I understand this isn't a "one size fits all" statement he's making. I just think meditation can make people sharper for the most part vs. dull. I wanna be as sharp as possible so I'm looking for the opposing views :-)
In one of the carousel of images they show more box layouts [coming soon](https://www.boxabl.com/more/) including a "stair box" with a stair case leading up in the back, but there's no accompanying "upstairs" layout with a hole in the floor, so I think multi story boxes are more of an idea for the investor pitch deck at this point. I think all they are selling right now is the one layout.
Adversarial Attacks Against ASR Systems via Psychoacoustic Hiding
I had some trouble getting it to work on vanilla Ubuntu as well, but then I realised I could just install Pop instead so I did that.
If you want to see what hunter-gatherers are like the first part of the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy" is worth watching. The !Kung also live in the Kalahari. They are desperately poor in material wealth from the modern POV, yet they don't know it. They are incredibly happy (also from the modern POV.)

It's a great movie, well worth watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C7%83Kung_people

- - - -

My question is, How do we get from here to there?

Not how to become hunter-gatherers (there's not enough land for 8,000,000,000+ people to live in the old way) but rather how do we organize ourselves to only have to work ~15 hours a week and still enjoy life?

Bucky Fuller thought that what he called "Design Science Revolution" was a viable path:

> Fuller advocated the design science revolution as an alternative to politics, seeking to optimize planetary resources for the benefit of 100% of humanity. He coined the term synergetics to explain how design science could create rich returns, such as how "energy income" could be harvested from the environment. His main premise was that nature's existing and omnipotent order must be allowed to guide human designs, if they are to survive and thrive as a species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_science_revolution

We have the technology now, but the social and political will seems missing to me.
Now I'm wondering how blackhead removers work and if I want to even think about finding out.
Because they’re ignorant and think it matters.
Not holding the office for life was relatively new changes in the 90s when Deng Xiaoping stepped down (just a bit, he was the paramount leader despite never hold the two highest positions in China. So the step down from Central Military Commission was mostly ceremonial for the next few years or so.)

If you believe that Xi Jinping has Chinese’s best interest at heart, and he believes that in 2018 China was still under turmoil that only he can manage to get them through, and that he was still (relatively) young even now. Then it is conceivable he would step down in a few years or so in his 70s. Yes, it’s best if your President can’t change the constitution at will, but that has never been China and the situation might not be that big of a shift
Free returns. The sellers eat that. It's dumb and lazy buyers buying junk and not holding them accountable for the
> B&H has been a godsend for tech, especially since there's no tax with their card.

Wait, explain this for me?
With what he has revealed, you'll realize that you’ve been monitored this whole time. All of us have.
Sucking, pinching, and/or adhesive.
This seems completely insane to me. How is this possible?

I like Cliff Stoll and have been looking forward to my first Klein bottle purchase for some years now, so I say this without any insinuation Cliff's not telling the whole story: There's got to be more to it than this, right? Can someone really go on Amazon, effectively take over someone's storefront, and completely ransack the place this easily? Because Cliff doesn't have a registered trademark? This seems out of this world absurd.
Posted as text but should be a link post.
Once you have found the contractor to do all that, you’re all the way…and off the end of the runway with two points of failure and no single responsibility when things don’t line up.

And the contractor is only making overhead and profit on half the work of a tiny budget which means that you are not a priority…even if the construction cycle was flat which it isn’t.

The efficiency of the market is why people don’t build this way much. As Heinlein says every generation thinks it invented sex. They think they invented modular housing too I think.
Which is how we get those socialist big government monstrosities like water delivery and sewage handling.
I am not surprised. Bash is notoriously unreadable.
They're still in denial that they have a problem.

Just read the thread on the previous occasion where listings got hijacked on their own fora [0] - its sad to see the sellers so powerless, helpless and just left to themselves.

You really have to wonder why they even bother...

Edit: also, reading that thread you can also get a feel why big brands have completely left AMZN as a platform (like Adidas, Birkenstock are a few i'm aware of).

Possible co-mingling of inventory, hijacked listings... no, just don't bother - of course not each and everyone is a heavyweight as my 2 examples - but do we really need 100s of dropshippers FBA'ing the same crap? I'd rather buy direct at the source than at Amazon these days.

[0] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/review-manipulatio...
Not sure what you're getting at. Are you suggesting that independent discovery is a defense against patents? Or are you clear that it isn't a defense, but just arguing that something from the internet is more likely to be patented than something independently invented in-house? Maybe that's true, but it doesn't really answer the question of

> How is it possible to determine if you've violated a random patent from somewhere on the internet via a small snippet of customized auto-generated code?

The only real answer is a patent search.
How I Made Lowpolygonart.com
Cliff - if you're reading this - you own the images they're using - time to claim copyright with Amazon ....
The B&H PayBoo card gives you a discount on their store equivalent to your state's tax. It's saved me thousands.
It's almost like we can't force them to do things our way.
So they encourage hard work because it makes them money, but not really, because they are only ignorant in thinking that it does, and it's actually entirely luck?

Yeah, this attitude is a mental pretzel more akin to ideology than fact.
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> Because the populations of their cities and suburbs are red (remember, we're talking at the margins here)

That's just demonstrably false. Take a look at this election results map of Texas: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/texas/ . Or this one of Tennessee: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/tennessee/ . Or this one of Arkansas: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/arkansas/ .

In every case the largest cities voted for Biden. Texas is particularly stark because all of the top 4 cities, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin went for Biden.
Absolutely. While there's benefits and drawbacks to every technology, auto-complete in Gmail saves me so much time.

If I'm sending to a relative or family member for example, or even a professional contact, then I'm not going to be lazy and auto-complete. But when someone says "Does that sound good to you?" it's great to push a button that replies "Sounds great, thank you!"

Maybe I would have naturally written "That sounds great, thank you [name]", but what's the difference?
1-year return policy, fast customer support, and no tax! I love them.
Well, it's not strictly regulated and it's a monopoly so...
Direct link to buy one from Cliff Stoll on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Acme-Klein-Bottle-Handmade-Glass/dp/B...

(but you should actually buy from his website)
As another i3 user, Pop shell isn't as good as i3 IMO. In particular, I felt their stacking option was half-backed when I tried it, which was when it came out. The advantage is that it has much better support for stuff Gnome comes with out of the box, which you might have to configure for yourself in i3. At the end of the day, if you are happy with your i3 setup, I see no reason to switch to Pop Shell.
I'm doing that too, just on my other machine that had Ubuntu on it :)
Just woke up so multiple things.

First of all some context. The BEAM community does not engage heavily with these benchmarks compared to a lot of others communities. That means that this code is definitely not optimised. On top of that, benchmarking makes hard to do what the BEAM community love above all else, which is to put the thingy in prod and then tweak the performance based on what you discover there. The reason to do it so much is that the BEAM come equipped for that.

Second point is that as pointed down there, the BEAM optimise heavily for latency and graceful degradation. One important point is that if you look at the std deviation on latency and the latency itself here. They are super low. What this mean is that the BEAM system will still be highly reactive under load. And interactive. But also that we are nowhere near the max load they can deal in this benchmarks!

If you wanted to compare you would need to overload the machine so that this latency climb. A latency so low mean that the machine is not overloaded. It may be at 100% CPU but it is totally coping ok. The BEAM is basically exploiting the machine to its limits better.

The reasons are multiple but basically you should consider that these benchmark for the BEAM are not sweating it. And that means that this load is just a normal day for a BEAM setup, not one that would make you auto scale.

In that light, it is a far different picture, no? Happy to discuss
Probability Markets are interesting in a way Twitter Trends are not
No you aren't. Courts will consider it fair use.
in fact, for urls you can also use resolve() helper
If you are rich, there are a lot of options that are likely to better cater to your richness. Or why build a 50k shed on a million dollar piece of ground?
> And if it involves the military

That's your speculation, are we at war now?

What fuss about Taiwan? we always declare Taiwan is part of China.

By all means what you're saying is "this man wants war, let's fight him".

> "We beat them, so we're better than them". Dumb, but people do think like that.

Maybe because you think like that and assumes people are like you.
Programming was automated in 1950-something, when the first compiler was developed and engineers (actual engineers) could start writing their own programs. The software industry as we know it is a hoax.
Funny, I tried to switch to PopOS a few months ago and my Ethernet card would just not work. I switched over to tether from my phone but after installing a few drivers and it not working I switched back to Ubuntu which just works with my Ethernet card (though I have to install a different driver to get gigabit speeds.) Really not sure what the issue was but I didn’t feel like doing a deep dive when every distro I’ve used in the past decade has had no problems with Ethernet cards on first boot.
It seems like going on the Live Chat with Amazon would help Stoll speak with someone. I've used that several times and they always fixed the issue right away.
This comment lower point to this too in a slightly different way that i deeply agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683999
To be fair, all the vendors I listed do free returns.
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"taxes are what we pay for civilized society" - Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas vs. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100 (1927)
Sad to see you are being downvoted.

I guess some protesters are peaceful, but some are not. Some police are calm but some are violent. Different countries apply different filters in order to get their expected views of Hong Kong.
I don't know why the parent is getting voted down, not buying PRC is good advice. Cheap slave labor is the main factor that allowed PRC to grow into a superpower. Ironically, they developed using Taiwan as their model (with the Taiwanese corporate helping -- Foxconn).

Since the tariffs a lot of goods that used to be made in PRC are now (at least assembled) made in Vietnam. I personally regularly pay more just to avoid PRC goods. And PRC goods only seem like a bargain at first glance. I only buy PRC when there does not appear to be an alternative, but it still feels shameful and dirty.

I only wish that the government keeps raising the tariffs on PRC higher and higher. It is truly a shame it was not done immediately post Tienanmen Square massacre.
That video from Verassium is spot on.
I don’t disagree with you but there’s a reason those creators chose YouTube and aren’t purchasing video hosting for $x/mo and linking people to their website - YT provides free uploading and discovery to everyone, so those creators are available to you just as a million other small creators are available to all 2+ billion YouTube viewers who have their own niches and interests. YouTube’s free-ness and discovery is only possible at this scale, with ads (and the subset of users who convert to paying customers via those ads or purchase YT premium) subsidizing the rest of us with our OSS ad blockers turned on. If google can’t continue to get people to pay for YT premium or show ads that lead to conversions, they won’t turn a profit and won’t be able to provide this global service in its current form.
Legal discovery and other "menial" law tasks are already quite automated.
See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685026
The US has Medicaid, free healthcare for the poor?

The claim was "Canada doesn't have a problem with violent crime, violent policing [ask First Nations folks about that!], or people who are desperate or struggling".

Which I said, is bullshit.
Yes, I’m very much the same. Windows 10 has been getting on my nerves for some time now, and the TPM requirement is the nail in the coffin, I’ll be switching to Linux desktop for my primary machines.
I agree, but stating such things is essentially a conspiracy theory...
I'm ok with the Goose too. The green capped, the red capped I can tolerate, but it can be a bit much for me. Recently tried a so called 'A-One' with extra garlic(pink capped, 500ml) and it has been so so. Won't buy again.
I'm pretty sure in the long run it will actually create more problems, by being a cheap way to generate low quality and buggy code
To err is human. To really mess things up, you need a computer.
yeah i dont understand it either
as a customer or as a seller?
The Addictive Personality Isn't What You Think It Is
> Both behavioral extremes, however, result from a failure in self-regulation. And neuroscience now strongly suggests that such dysregulation plays a key role in addiction. In fact, similar brain circuits are involved in both addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): whether the problem is failing to stop an impulsive action or failing to end a habitual routine, many of the same regions are engaged. It is here that addiction is learned.
Because we want stuff.
The level of coordination required to fake 9/11 seems on a very different level than the level required to wiretap some central points on the internet. And that's not even considering usa basically had a dept of wiretapping (the NSA) already set up or that the nsa's activities actually did leak.
I stumbled upon an unusual policy when trying to order from B&H the first time. They are not open for business on Shabbat (NYC local time), and this includes their online checkout!

I could fill up my cart, but had to come back later to do my purchase.
Regarding headphones.com, I just ordered a pair of HD6xx headphones off drop.com and it was an amazing experience as well.
What's his problem with WASM?

It's not intended as a language to use directly, but rather as a compiler target - allowing for the use of modern languages in a tightly sandboxed environment.

It has huge potential - it's not unreasonable to imagine a future where pages of media content incorporate their own codecs for any image, audio and video formats.

One thing that's an issue in that regard is trust, but there's an issue for that: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1413.
Lol How do you go from a protest to a coup d'état?
I've had over a decade of experience in this industry, ~2-3 with Erlang, ~3 with node, ~3 with Java, ~1 with Go, and a smattering of others (C#, Ruby), plus plenty of others outside of production deployments.

Erlang was as easy as any of them for CRUD apps. I used Cowboy for it, which is comparable to Express (JS) or Gin (Go) in how it approaches things (i.e., simple request/response paradigm, with various helper functions to pull stuff out of the request data, or write into the response data, and easy to insert middleware as, again, just functions). Integrations outside of the app weren't especially painful; admittedly, we didn't have to integrate with an undocumented API whose only integration was via supplied library that was implemented only in Java or similar.

Is your objection just "CRUD apps have to integrate with lots of downstreams, and so for that you want a language that has a huge plethora of libraries to make those integrations easy"? Because in that case "maybe". But that's orthogonal to being a CRUD app; that's simply because you have a bajillion dependencies that have existing libraries.