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History forgets most of the good ones too. We just remember some outliers.

I think his concern is it affecting job prospects, etc. Being recognized after one dies is not appealing to him :-)

(I often look at biographies, and being recognized only years after death is quite common).
>BTW, we are running arch in production, with our own repos.

I believe the ability to deploy from one's own fork is a minimum requirement for a distro of choice. I was wondering, do you have any resources to recommend for how to accomplish this with Arch?
SumatraPDF is my absolutely favourite PDF reader, but I wish the author took security more seriously. At least for a long while there were no official releases for months, if not years, with known crashes in muPDF (for which I think known exploits and patches existed), but since SumatraPDF used a custom muPDF version, it required manual patching. Maybe things are better these days (I see updates are more frequent again), but with PDFs being a big attack vectors these days, it leaves a bit of a sour aftertaste.
I inherently expect an article about education to talk about outcomes for all students, top to bottom, in an even-handed way. During the Sputnik era, the focus was clearly at the top, and then with LBJ, it shifted focus to employability of the bottom, and now since Obama, on equality of outcomes versus improving outcomes. Even this article posits the entire argument on equality, and as much as I’d like to use that ruse to support escape from this disastrous ideology, it does not fit, and it sets their position up for a compromise that even further violates their own intentions. Parents that want school choice need to stand up for themselves and be more honest, as in, “I only care about the best outcomes for my children. If you want equality, you’re going to have to prove to me that equality is the best outcome for my children individually.” The problem is that it’s easy to achieve equality by targeting the bottom, and probably impossible to do so by aiming for the top. This should all have nothing to fo with race, but somehow the unwritten rule of American politics is that everything must be justified in terms of racial equality, and both sides of any argument must start with this premise, even as before, if it belies the true intention. This premise works mostly for self-appointed stewards of one homogenous ‘other’, but does absolutely nothing for the aspirant individual in that group which now finds themselves as the target of their push toward ‘equality’.

So if you’re going to make a case for charter schools, make it directly in terms of what the voters care about. E.g.: They’re cheaper for the taxpayer with better outcomes for their students, better for everybody. Bringing equality and race into the argument is just arguing the other side, which is that ‘better for everybody’ is bad, and instead it must be better for some and worse for others.

To get specific about the legislation, however, which says that charter schools may not use private contractors, we should understand that this eliminates the possibility of venture-funded education startups. Nonprofits can’t leverage the market to achieve the scale that they may need to drive needed innovation. Essentially, for-profits can also leverage losses that investors pay for, and nonprofits can’t. So why prevent investors from paying for schools?

There is a huge counterpoint to this: the nonprofit Khan Academy, and a smaller counterpoint that venture funds have not delivered much to this market so far. If for-profits are being abused more than the capital markets are providing benefit, then that’s something to look into. It’s hard to say that a for-profit that exists on government contracts is anything like a free-market entity. The main issue I have with this is that it reduces the types of choices available by eliminating one possibility. And clearly this is not about how charter schools are organized, but eliminating their possibility by raising objection to a canard.
Good. Regulators shouldn't care about stock prices at all. They should always do the right thing and let the market crash if necessary.
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> This view seems "wild": we should be doing a double take at any view that we live in such a special time.

The thing about exponential growth is that all points seem "wild" with growth.

Humans or AI traveling in space seems like a smaller leap to me than several previous "advancements" like the origin of life itself or the evolution of multicellular organisms.
> In reality what I predict is that languages will become a little bit more "loose", lazy typing, argument defaults will become the norm.

That misses the point completely. Beginners are annoyed at the rigorousness of programming languages, but the rigorousness is there as a helper for correctness.
I feel like these & most arguments try to make kubernetes sound competitive versus other development environments.

But like most posts, it doesn't talk up Kubernetes on it's own terms. Right now we regard it as a platform, a place for building apps, which will continue talking to redis and postgres and memcache as usual.

I've yet to seeuch advocacy of real kubernetes maximalism, of preaching development of cloud native apps. Rather than passing configmaps of configuration, and storing entities in databases, rather than processing commands & returning results, I want to imagine more state externalized into our cloud, I want to imagine more declarative systems where we first declare state and then controllers/operators enact it, as a way of developing our apps. There's a lot of thoughtleadering that limits cloud native development practices to something suitable for platform, but imo we should be embracing & looking at which strengths of architecture we can adopt more broadly, & taking those lessons to our everyday app building. The way of kubernetes has much to each us.

I also think there's a lot of argumentation related to this about having single pane of glass interfaces, about having total systems integration & visibility that the old diy build your own ops stacks & local environments could not offer without enormous effort.
It was so simple internally, they could have ported those tools to a GUI. But GUI's and user interfaces are not something IBM has ever done well (other than command line ones).
Deaths should trend down as tech and safety improve.
Mainframes also have a lot of PCIe channels you can attach GPUs to. IO capacity and hardware offloading has always been the most notable difference between a mainframe and an x86 box.

I wouldn't be surprised if, with some clever programming, one could pipe data from disk directly to GPUs and back to disk without involving the CPUs that run user programs except for the thinnest slice of time.
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The way the slider matches the position of the block as it floats is very satisfying.
Another example we just published is about tweeting from your company's Twitter account from chat. This is a great use-case from chat. https://blog.ab.bot/archive/2021/07/27/tweet-from-chat/

A big benefit is that you don't have to share credentials from the Twitter account, but still make it available to people in your company.
There may be a weak correlation here, but the author doesn't seem to explore it. Other factors to consider when analyzing accidents: Age of driver, Was the driver intoxicated, and (incredibly important for pedestrian accidents) what Time of Day was the accident and what Type of Road was the accident on?

The last time I looked at the data, the 2015 FARS data set, the biggest factor in pedestrian deaths seemed to be pedestrians walking at night along roads without a dedicated sidewalk. This happens in rural areas far more than you may think.
Historically I think you’re mostly correct.

The question that I don’t think we have an answer to (but we see some worrisome trends) is: does this hold up in an era where those odd beliefs aren’t just a footnote somewhere but instead tightly bound to ones identity for the rest of eternity?

Basically, how does social media and “cancel culture” change things, or does it?
Automatically archiving threads after a short time period seems like a good idea, it naturally pushes long form conversations and collaborations into flows designed to handle them (private channels, e-mail discussions, etc)
Any Tcl experts here that have opinions about CI tools, specifically code formatters (like `go fmt` or python's `black`) and other testing tools for use with Tcl?
I find exploring conspiracy ideas to be fun.

I'll trust the science - but I also love science fiction.

When it comes to extreme flooding, I find the foundations of my understanding to be extremely fluid.
Why are SUVs so much more profitable than cars?
How close is it to the real deal in emulating something like a modern mainframe?
What sort of power sources do current powered exoskeletons use, and what sort of runtimes do you get?

That's where I'd foresee the limitations - that you'd end up hefting 80 lbs of battery for 20 minutes of operation.
This is why I've always been confused by HN's comparisons of Signal and Matrix. I see Signal as a replacement to texting/Messenger/WhatsApp (chats focused on one on one or small groups) but I see Matrix as a replacement to Slack/Discord (chats focused on organizations or large groups). I'm not sure why these aren't two different paradigms, but maybe someone sees something I don't. Telegram seems the most in between to me, though there are security reasons I see Signal/Matrix as being better.
> it's not that impressive. They use agent's internal states (LSTM cells, attention outputs, etc.) to predict whether it is early in the episode, or whether the agent is holding an object.

That seems like a decent definition of awareness to me. The agent has learned to encode information about time and its body in its internal state, which then influences its decisions. How else would you define awareness? Qualia or something?
Right now climate situation is not scary enough even for activists in the area -- they spend their time mixing in unrelated social justice issues and protesting nuclear plants. Such frivolous notions will fall off once it becomes clear we actually need to solve concrete problems or die trying.

It is possible for destruction to happen just fast enough for everybody to finally take notice, but not fast enough to preclude geoengineering solutions for good. That's one possible (if not pretty) path to get to a technologically mature stage.

The risk is always that we wake up already in a boiling frog state, or that even when dangers become self-evident for everybody, we still spend time on power games instead of fixing the problems. In that case, well, we kinda deserve it...
How is this not proof of exaggeration? Somebody in the hospital for a broken leg being counted as a "Covid hospitalization" just because they also happened to test positive for Covid means that the numbers are inflated. Period.

Covid is real. Covid numbers are inflated. You're arguing against a fictional "Covid denier" boogeyman which doesn't really exist.
I referred to

'What you’re saying absolutely makes sense. The difficult part is that it requires intentional habit changes and quite honestly, a grieving process at the same time.'

While I have no personal experience with CBT, I'd guess some form of that is needed, if you don't manage to change that behaviour on your own.

As in learning to let go of what is stopping your 'flow'.
Or simply overcoming bad habits.

edit: While I don't know your personal situtation, and don't want to be rude, or 'diss' you in any way, 4 years seems harsh. I would long have quit that, because it would seem ineffective to me. Like talking to a wall, parking meter, or
something like that. Maybe change therapist?
Aliens, 1986: "I have a class-2 rating." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMk-EEyOpE
My word, what a great headline.
If anyone has ANY additional data around the dangers or problems to either people or the environment by large / heavy vehicles, please reach out.

I am preparing arguments for stronger regulation around vehicle size/weight. Focused on non-commercial usage.

Email in profile.
How many native Chinese don’t have WeChat already? WeChat has 1.2B users. China has 1.4B people. I suspect the rest are too old or too young. Basically, it’s impossible to operate in a city without it.
That, or leverage the existing bone. It may even be possible to leverage counter force of the opposing "muscle groups" of nitinol wire using some sort of artificial joint designed to take advantage of it.
As we get deeper into year two, I start thinking that living in a place that necessitates wearing masks may start being evaluated like working in a place that requires a one or two hour commute. To each their own, but… these are life choices (if you can create opportunities to have choices I guess).
Worth noting that ANT financial had major risk and accounting shenanigans and regulators were probably in the right to block the IPO until they were sorted out better.
This is a blogpost from 2016 . However if we switch to more recent times, my experience with AWS ECS and Fargate has been fairly boring. There was a learning curve to get it to work with cloudformation, vpcs, iam and load balancer .
> they are rumored to be buying up real estate en masse, with the strategy of forcing everyone to become renters.

More conspiracy theory then rumor. I haven't seen much evidence other than reddit posts and a small amount of purchasing by private equity in hot markets to counter inflation.
So you want something like `eitherContramap :: (b -> Either ErrMsg a) -> ValidationRule a -> ValidationRule b`

we could define this as follows

eitherContramap f rule = ValidationRule $ \b ->
either failure (validate rule) (f b)
Modern SUVs are increasingly scaring the shit out of me.

I have driven a 2020 Lincoln Navigator and all the drive by wire nonsense completely removes any sensation from the driver that they are in this poorly-balanced 2+ ton death machine.

At least in the 90s you could feel that the Ford Excursion had an 8.1L engine sitting right above of the steering rack. It gave you this visceral sense of the size and heft of the machine. For me, this made me respect the physics a hell of a lot more.

Obviously, fly by wire is kind of mandatory once you get to a certain scale, but that is the entire point of my argument. If cars are getting so big that we have to add the equivalent of MCAS to make them feel more "driveable", then perhaps we are going in the wrong direction in a lot of ways...
what are you talking about? you absolutely can redeem USDT for dollars...
> exclusively consume the cultural products of the West

There's more penetration of western media and products in PRC, but vast majority of consumption is still domestic even among educated. And trends show the young are more nationalistic than ever, especially among those with more exposure to the west.

>North Korean style propaganda embarrassing. The disconnect really cannot be understated.

Yeah, folks are embarassed at the style of propaganda, ran by old cadres from for a bygone era. Not the idea of propaganda itself. They want better, modernized propaganda that effectively reinforces nationalism, especially abroad.
Vehicle weight increased more before pedestrian deaths skyrocketed. His wording is correct, but headline readers will infer that the correlation fits across time, to before smartphone popularity.
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I've noticed that taller vehicles tend to drive much faster in places where pedestrians may be. Being up that high messes up my ability to judge speed making it feel like I'm crawling. I'm really careful and slow in parking lots. Especially when I'm driving my truck. But I see 3 ton SUVs zipping around like sports cars in some parking lots. Absolute insanity.

http://vehicledynamics.com/suvs-why-you-may-drive-fast/
Cool. Still waiting for proper / modern / real parental controls. My 13 y/o nephew wants to chat with his buddies but there’s no real way to make sure he’s not getting weirdos contacting him.
I’m always surprised by how practically every single opinion regarding personal communication is the opposite in hacker news to the mainstream opinion of my “real life” circles.

Use of social networks, slack, emojis, messaging apps, sync vs async communication…

Its not a criticism of any kind, mind you, it’s just very surprising to me.
Don't forget the venerable websocat for testing and scripting websockets!

https://github.com/vi/websocat

Such a useful tool when the need arises, lifesaver.
Yeah this could go bad though there are some mitigations in place. These are relatively low, iirc the full satellites are supposed to burn up in a few years once they go offline without any intervention.
This is the most vapid and content-free article I have ever seen from the nyt. Some guy basically got to publish his intra-company propaganda in exchange for saying vaccines are good.
yeah discord is comfy but bloated and I rarely miss it.. something is heavier in the social feel it creates (I keep saying that people are ban-happy on discord, discord makes tiny realms, not freeform convo chans like on IRC)
I would expect that if deaths increased, injuries probably have increased dramatically in severity alongside that.
"Out of touch with reality" has connotations of hallucinations or psychotic episodes, which I don't think he's demonstrating.

This guy is simply not doing appropriate levels of prior art/background information/competitive research before embarking on a project.

At some level, that's good, because for something that's not been done yet research can be interpreted to suggest it can't be done. But yeah, he takes it much too far.
Same here! Also, for some reason it made me think about what an interesting place the Arctic Ocean is, lol.
> And this is not given -- I have seen in the past many CEOs having no appreciation whatsoever and this leads typically to disrupting developer work and underutilizing their abilities.

That was one of the reasons Microsoft, Google and Facebook grew so fast in the early days.
You act like East Jerusalem is the only place where Israelis are colonizing Palestinian lands. It is common for the Israeli army to show up to some nice land, declare the land a military zone, proceed to kill and evict Palestinians, and then begin construction of a new settlement for new settlers.

But why are we surprised by this? This has been going on since before Israel when terrorist groups like the Haganah and the Levi would terrorize Palestinians to force them to flee. Of course this policy continues because the leaders of these groups later became prime ministers, presidents, and generals.

Israel is a presently criminal state (settler colonialism is a crime) with a criminal and bloody history. We aren’t ostracizing it — we are pointing out the facts and demanding justice.
I hope fifty bucks out of this go toward Element on Android not slapping together separate paragraphs. And another hundred to display images that are larger than 5.5 mb.
LPAR makes LVM a joke.
> To apply border-box to all elements on the page, make sure you have something like this snippet in your stylesheet (a lot of CSS resets will include this anyway)

They will? I didn't realize that.
I haven't been in the industry for a little bit, so I'm sure the tech has evolved, but the versions we evaluated used battery hot-swapping to extend use time. I honestly don't recall how long a single battery ran for. We primarily evaluated them for use for loads that were too light or unwieldy to necessitate a vehicle but which were too heavy for a human worker to regularly lift without risk of injury (so the 75-200lb range)
I just bought a house. The estimates are below market value. I placed offers on 6 properties and none of them closed below list. The listing price is the starting bid price.

Locally, houses are selling on average about 10% over list.

Of the problems in housing prices, I really doubt Zillow is changing anything. Everyone knows the listing prices are garbage, and only work off closing price for comps. The issue is closing dates are 30-60 days behind the current market, which is a long time.

It's essentially impossible to know what a fair offer is today.
Uh, because if you wanna talk about the radii of the spherical shells like that, you need to consider the actual radii, namely the distance from the shell to the center of the Earth.

In your example (which is an exaggeration, FL600 isn't really used for commercial flights), airspace goes from 0 to 18 km above the surface of the Earth. The Earth's radius itself is approximately 6400 km. So airspace is the shell between 6400 km and 6418 km. Starlink operates around 6950 km. That's not "an order of magnitude more", it's completely comparable to airspace, so the space available to the satellites scales with the shell's thickness in almost the same way as airspace does.
Think of it this way: the Earth's radius is ~6400km. Starlink orbits less than 10% higher than that.

Depending on the thickness of the orbital shell there might be significantly more vertical space available, but the surface area isn't much bigger at all. (It's actually only ~18% larger[1].)

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%284%CF%80%28radius+of...
Shaped like a wedge so it can not only slice through pedestrians, but also boxier cars like the Scion xB!
In a sense, a parallel sysplex with remote hosts and storage is a very sophisticated private cloud environment that'll run your CICS transactions a lot like you do with AWS Lambda.
The headline is inaccurate, that is correct. The term "lying" doesn't make sense here.

There's plenty of data that larger vehicles make the driver safer...which is common sense. eg the number of tank drivers that die in accidents when in a tank.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
The author did a great GDC talk about being an indie developer in the brick and mortar, pre-steam days. He talks at one point about how people had to buy a shareware cd from some kiosk, then phone him, argue about the price, mail him a cheque or money order, then wait for a cdrom in the mail to buy a game from him back then, but he made it work and is still going

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stxVBJem3Rs
Sorry, I'm not sure, never tried with a business account.
It's all anecdotal. For example I know many folks who make $$$ doing the boring old thing because it is reliable, it gets results quickly with low risk, the engineers know the tech inside and out, and not many other folks want to work with "boring tech".
OK, I see what you mean, you were just referring to the unintuitive mapping between latitude and position on the map.
This is a great route for just about any kind of tech adjacent creative profession.

Source: me, who is taking part in The Quittening to test out whether it's viable or not.
> Hospitals are full in the UK at the moment.

New Zealand hospitals have been in “crisis” pretty much all year, and we have no Covid. Currently it is due to a respiratory virus called RSV, but there were severe problems in other months too, not due to RSV.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=nz+hospitals+overrun+OR+cr...
You can charge disproportionately more than the resources you put in, since it’s bigger.
Some of this is interesting, such as the social media aspect, but I'd like to understand exactly what your motivation is and where your funding is from.

One of the things few people know about the new "porn addiction" websites, including NoFap and "Fight the New Drug" is that there are connections between these groups and the LDS (ie Mormon) church.

It's less about "addiction" than creating a stigma around pornography use by wrapping it in pseudo-science.

While pornography can be addictive, there are other models than absence and restriction that are shown to help all addiction (not just pornography), and I'm wondering if you'd looked into them, or (frankly) if this is just another LSD-funded scheme to turn people off of the idea of porn.
Just say all refunds are in fiat?