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I use stylish to changes fonts and colors, here's my custom stylesheet

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P.s. I am a slightly colorblind, please don't judge my colors palette
> Fun fact: in the UK the title of this post is a probable libel

Even in the UK, true allegations aren't libel, though in the UK I believe truth is a defense rather than falsity being an element of the prima facie case.
>Sure, it's possible that THIS is the high point and it'll all go down-hill from here, but that's like being a broken clock - if you think every thing will kill you, you will eventually be right.

It's not about present society being a global maximum, it's about present society being a local maximum. The lessons from history are often that things can and do get worse, sometimes for generations, before improving again later. It is absolutely possible (and I would argue probable) that life will get worse for a long while before improving.
If people don't want them, then they don't pay enough (or have other issues - work safety, etc.). That's how the market works...
> Why is it rarer, I wonder?

All crime is down significantly, except murder and gun crime in the last year or two.
Fun fact is that the alternate 1985 in Back to the Future II where Biff ran Hill Valley was actually based on what it would be like with Donald Trump (as the sleazy casino developer) in charge.
Probably more to the point is that humans are using transistors in their designs, so we deliberately confine them to their simple modes. It is an oversimplification to talk about transistors being either "on" or "off" because they technically have all sorts of intermediate states, but with a few exceptions, human designs avoid those intermediate states like the plague, because A: they defy our ability to build logic with them and B: depending on those exact behaviors means we can't mass-manufacture chips because the variance of the exact behaviors will be too high.

In principle one could imagine a processor design that works on these intermediate states that somehow vastly exceeds the computational power of a modern system despite using the same base transistors; in practice we have no idea how to build such a thing, and if we did, we wouldn't know how to build a second one of the same thing reliably either.

Biology lacks this restriction. That doesn't mean it's pure and utter chaos, either, there's bounds on that because it still needs systems to at least be metastable. But where humans engineer almost exclusively with stable systems, biology freely uses metastable systems all over the place. And then, even more remarkably, it deals with the question of how to replicate such a strange system in a way that no modern human engineer ever would by making every instance unique, and still somehow functional.

It's a tough act to follow.
Snowflake is an insulting term for overly sensitive SJWs... but it's also a word for an actual snowflake. No matter how offensive it is to someone, we still need a word for literal snowflakes falling from the clouds.
Hypocrites. Their party has spent the last twelve years taking the american oilfield apart and now wants all the foreign powers to save them from the consequences of their actions.
I have this set, and added it to an old Motorola terminal for patrol cars: https://postimg.cc/N5GLsQ9X
These guys seem to be trolling the entire ecosystem.
Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy one year after buying it
User stylesheets are a relic of Web 1.0, when the web was a series of hyperlinked documents.

The transformation from web page to web application was not compatible with things like user stylesheets.
Yeah, I’ve used Microtik gear, and I never liked their software. I hear the performance has improved a lot though (that was a big selling point of the Ubiquiti gear when I got into it with their hardware acceleration).

I expect I will eventually move to embedded server hardware (even maybe Xeon-D) on a machine running vSphere or something with a router VM and other VMs for stuff I want to run. Just have a few separate NICs and pair it with a separate managed switch (which I already have anyway).
> Nuclear power stations in Newark would become the next Fukushima disaster.

Note, we’re not sure anyone died from radiation from Fukushima. We can be certain more people died from the evacuation though.
Adding some credence is this article from Nat Geo:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...

Delta variant anyone? This is exactly what is going on with the so-called vaccines right now.
Didn't say that he didn't have a car - just that he didn't splurge on buying a new car every 2-4 years, like many of our peers do. I understand their rationale because they want the warranty, but still, trading in your car for something newer ever x years will cost money.

If you can "survive" driving a 10-15 year old car, and have some mechanical aptitude to do regular maintenance, then that's A LOT of money saved.
So you had the beautifully engineered experience of macOS to draw native user experiences from, and then you just threw it out because you wanted parity?

That doesn't make the macOS experience better, it makes it worse.
The lead image is from Teamlab https://www.teamlab.art/

no ar glasses, no 3D. simple projection mapping, the beauty of math and immersive illusions.
"From farming to high finance products and services are substantially more influenced and optimized by specialist professionals than they were in 1990. Increase efficiency like this throughout the national and global economy is how lawnmowers and A/C units can be sold on sale for $100 and still make a profit. "

You can find examples of this, but overall, I dispute the generalization.

I think quality/price improvements have been monumental in some areas, stagnant in others. Computer related products have gone crazy. It's not more for less though, it's "much more for a little more." The market grew a lot and a produces a hell of a lot more. Even that isn't the norm though. More for less, even less for less, are uncommon.

Farming and manufacturing.... None of the capitalisation, gene patents and such of recent generations is anything like basic green revolution tech, in terms of productivity growth. Farming is different. It uses less labour, more capital, but it's not producing much more efficiently. The price of farm produce isn't falling, quality is not rising. Same for most manufacturing, especially basic manufacturing. Most of the last generations' gains were made by employing cheaper employees in cheaper places, not reinventing manufacturing techniques. So, low end, high volume manufactured goods got cheaper, but a car still costs what it costs. Good quality appliances generally do too.

The quality of housing has gone up, but prices are often very high.

Education... we have more and arguably better, but more expensive.

Medicine... same. More and better, but more expensive.

There's a pattern here that's more complex and interesting than the average.
> We certainly do need to increase capacity, but that is mostly due to the surge in population, not any huge mismanagement.

I’ve lived in Texas all my 40+ years and I fully believe it to be mismanagement for a utility to not account for growth. This state is always growing. Growth is neither unexpected or out of the ordinary. They should have a plan for an assumed level of growth with a contingency plan for how to handle their assumption being wrong. They have nothing except outdated and neglected maintenance because of short term thinking, which is only a side effect of mismanagement.
Personally I see it as trying to recreate the banking and financial systems without all the lessons learned from hundreds of years.

Not to to mention anything dealing with money that isn’t reversible or doesn’t have a clear method for recourse is not something I want to put my money into.
Probably political prosecutions (hate speech). Germans are currently much afraid again, so diverging opinions have low tolerance. It is getting uncomfortable again. And it isn't even the party on the right side of the spectrum, those are just dumb and won't get anything done. Authoritarianism has a long culture here and people happily prosecute you for the common good just as well as for nationalistic ambitions.

It is a fundamental fear that people believe they can get rid of if they constrain others.
that's a billion dollar question.

mostly just varied statistical analysis methods.

concurrent play time, mouse clicks, jitter between clicks, viewport size, reaction to 'out-of-cycle' prompts or UI strings (like, say, a GM opening an inventory window on the player screen), click accuracy, click accuracy jitter, time between mouse points -- generally trying to determine whether or not the player actions look something like the player actions of a regular old user.

if your game is one that has an economy you can trace currency pathways and usually find bot-herders that are pooling resources.

some asian MMOs implemented in-game captcha-likes that bother players when they've spent a long time in a specific area (a likely bot condition). "Are you there? Finish this puzzle for a temporary XP boost!" -- the premise actually being "Hey, are you a human?"

training ML methods for this is pretty easy -- get a bunch of known legitimate players and record all the metrics around the ui/ux/input channels , look for similar behavior elsewhere -- when a very-fast or strange outlier appears then (preferably) prompt for a human GM to observer the player in question and perform judgement.
More like a big sign says “Jack may take this wallet, because it belongs to Jack”, and you happen to also be called Jack, even though you're not the Jack the sign was written about, but the sign enforcer only checks that your ID is valid and that you are named Jack.
For me, Sun definitely looks like the most attractive company on that list. (Though Microsoft might well have been a perfectly good job.)

For one thing, you'd have been much more plugged into the coming internet revolution broadly than any of the others. You'd also have been at least connected to the open source world although Sun resisted aspects of it in many ways.

They were also primarily in Silicon Valley unlike the others.
"For something like matching photo hashes, the bar could be lower than e.g. for searching someone's house. The flipside would be that if the warrant is found to be inadequately justified (even in retrospect), no data found in it is available for evidence."

The bar is pretty low already. Anything found by warrant that is found to be defective is thrown out already under the fruit of the poisonous tree theory.

Even if the evidence is thrown out, or if the person is innocent, the process can still ruin people's lives, cost money, etc. I recently had an experience with a trooper letting a dangerous dog charge stand even though he knew it was the wrong charge. That charge carried with it pretrial restrictions. This should be a violation of the 8th amendment's prohibition on unusual punishment. There were a few other issues/rights violation with what he and prosecutors did too. Anyways, nobody cared - they even said they are allowed to leave incorrect charges stand. Unless you spend thousands of dollars on a lawyer, you're screwed. Even if you're right, they will not take you seriously unless you have a lawyer. It generally costs more to defend your innocence than pay the fine for lower level offenses.

Giving the system even more power is just going to lead more innocent people being trampled on. I would guess it's only a matter of time before some parent gets caught in Apple's scanning because they have a naked picture of their baby taking a bath or something.
I know nothing about strokes and who's at risk. Perhaps the website could be improved in that regard because, after reading it, I have no idea if I should buy it for myself or family.
Ideally is an all angle all positions strong fixating /holding easy to adjust levitating desk .
this back position if you don't move for more than half a day could be very painful , i guess is similar with what an astronaut feels in space
That's not imposter syndrome though. That's fear of failure, self doubt concerning your success of accomplishing some new challenge.

Imposter syndrome would involve feeling like all your past achievements were pure luck, you have no merit, and your collegues were going to find out.

There's nuance to the definition; people use the term like they use the term OCD. Not understanding what it actually means. Vanity.
>Apple's new system only scans photos you attempt to upload to their cloud.

And what if in the future they decide they need to scan more than images going to the cloud? What if there is some huge epidemic of child abuse or some other terrible thing and Apple decides they need to do more?

Once you open Pandora's Box you can't close it.
Why not just use google form?
Ask HN: It's 2021 and QuickTime still doesn't export MP4. What is going on?
Every time I do a screen recording, I have to go trough the hassle of converting the video to MP4 on my Apple computer.

Even my iPhone can export to MP4 so I there is no reason for it not to work on my computer.

Come on Apple, please fix this super annoying business crap from the past when you tried to increase QuickTime installs on Microsoft machines by enforcing this now ancient format.

Just get over it.
Amusingly, both those examples used to be common.

Old CRT monitors ran at up to 160-170Hz. Even at lower refresh rates motion was still clear. Key rollover really became a big issue with early USB keyboards and janky membrane setups. Many old keyboards didn't have the issue.

In my opinion, games are at least designed around the lowest common denominator. Very few twitch-shooters are popular now. Most shooters have other characters/classes that let players with disadvantageous equipment still join in on the fun. If everything is a blur playing "Scout" in TF2, you can play "Engineer" instead and let the automated turrets do the work for you.

I think there's a certain Director's Vision gaming setup. Ideally, everyone could play on a big screen, where everything is clear, not muddied by the physical realities of technology.
I moved from Wall St. to the West coast in the 90s. Both paid above average programmer salaries for the time, but S.V. was the place to be for tech. So much going on, so much demand.
Well, then, make sure it has an iPod interface and lots of cup holders.
They verify the person with that name/address hasn’t voted twice, the ink assures the person standing in front of them hasn’t voted twice. Is it necessary? Probably not, but it would be an extra layer of security (and reinforce public trust in the process).
> These are single-statement bug fixes in Java code so it likely would not make sense to try to cut them into multiple commits.

But if the "fix" itself were always only a single statement then it couldn't ever be larger in some cases, and then there wouldn't be have any differences in what people submit to describe. I suppose it comes down to whether one interprets the article's "...looks at single-statement bug fixes in Java..." as "[single-statement] [bug fixes]" or "[single-statement bug] [fixes]". It feels to me like you're reading it as the former, while I think it has to be the latter.

So people could well set out to fix a bug (that the authors somehow know was) caused by a single statement, and when the code is someone else's, that's all they touch; but when it's their own, they also, "while I'm at it", fix a bunch of other stuff they notice while looking for the bug. Because they're familiar with the code, so have the confidence, and feel responsible for it, so they have the desire ("Wow, this is ugly, can't leave this in").

So all those changes together could well be several regular working-branch commits. (Maybe then rolled up into a single merge/rebase commit for PR, Idunno, it wasn't quite clear to me either.)
Annual reminder of Uber missing this goal
Read it again. He doesn't claim she was drunk. He says that she herself implies she was drunk when he said certain things he says he did not say. He further states that people that know her know she doesn't drink that much.
They jump if you paid for a service contract. If you paid for a product, those companies owe you something fit for its intended purpose, and bugs are not that.
Oh God, yet another CSS framework that shits all over HTML. Clearly, we still haven't learned the correct way of writing HTML & CSS.
I guess that's an example in both directions. WD40 formula is secret despite the existence of patents.
They're really not, because it's not an engineering problem.
Neat list.

I have issue with this one in part:

> Not Watching crummy VHS tapes, period

The rewind button actually worked 100% of the time.

I also have an issue with the like for USB. Yes, it’s better than most 90’s tech, but USB-C in its various guises/disguises and it’s horrible relationship with Thunderbolt is a travesty. The cables and ports can’t reliably be distinguished and various things just won’t work, or become unreliable. It’s just so unhelpful to have so many identical specs in in form factor.
We do have ensemble models. Something like

model = NaiveEnsembleModel([model1, model2, ...])
model.fit(my_series)
prediction = model.predict()

Will return an average prediction. Look at RegressionEnsembleModel for an ensemble model which uses a regression model to learn how to combine the individual forecasts.

At the moment Darts doesn't have hierarchical reconciliation methods (if that's what you meant), but it's on the backlog :)
Because the Wall street apparatus wants to milk that fat investiment commisions till they can. Let them feast on western society.
"workers now have to be the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living"

This is extra pronounced for singers, actors etc., but not as much for people such as software engineers. A mediocre programmer that implements functionality that you need is much more valuable for you than a star programmer immersed in his UltraFastXMLParserForHaskell library and does not take side jobs.
Very interesting!

Is there some data on the 'optimal' time from when a stroke starts where intervention would prevent serious impairment? i.e. if you detect a stroke, how many minutes/hours do you have before irreversible damage is caused?

Relatedly, what measures are done when a stroke is detected to minimize damage/impairment?

Also, what's your false positive rate?

Wish you all the best of luck! I've had family members who've had strokes and early detection might have helped them a ton.
> There is no physical server for Ethereum, the Smart Contracts don't exist anywhere.

There is no one physical server. I think this is misleading.
Today they look for child porn, tomorrow it will be "Covid Misinformation" (which is today's terrorism). A blind man with a stick can see it coming.
The main problem is, because of various political idiocies, the US has put effectively no money in basic infrastructure in 50 years - so the lines are old and a lot of the more local base load generation has aged or is aging out of functionality. In addition to this, the power industry was one of the ones that got privatized in the 80's and regulation of it has been remarkably milquetoast outside of a few pushes like after the 2003 blackout.

The Texas problem has to do with ERCOT dodging oversight by keeping its grid separate from the other interconnects and within state lines, so they don't need to actually bother with much national regulation, like investing in heaters on their gas lines to keep the valves from freezing, for instance.
It's interesting, to me, what prompted Forster to write this. From the "themes" section [1] of the Wikipedia page about the story:

In the preface to his Collected Short Stories (1947), Forster wrote that "'The Machine Stops' is a reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H. G. Wells." In The Time Machine, Wells had pictured the childlike Eloi living the life of leisure of Greek gods whilst the working Morlocks lived underground and kept their whole idyllic existence going. In contrast to Wells' political commentary, Forster points to the technology itself as the ultimate controlling force.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Themes
This is pretty much the main point that people bring up. Followed by UX experience.

My work Slack dies at least once every day, and makes my laptop scream if I have VS Code on. I don't want to know what adding 1Pw will do.
> Whenever I cook on gas, I miss the fast-heating of induction for things like pasta or potatoes.

In the UK, every kitchen has a fast-boil kettle (and has done for decades now) and those still boil water faster than an induction hob.
Agreed; it is more competitive, and therefore work should become more specialized. I wonder if it drives unemployment; I expect that it drives people to tasks they are more productive in (and perhaps more interested in, given greater options).

But let's also remember that much of the world doesn't use the Internet. In the US, large segments of the population lack computers (beyond phones) and high speed internet access. I know that during the pandemic, schools in poor districts had the problem that many of their students lacked those tools for remote learning.

And for FWIW, there are exceptions where the absolute best in the world dominate the market, such as in entertainment where the top musical performers, athletes, etc. collect almost all the revenue.
The Opening
You are absolutely correct. It sounds like we have different ideas about the amount of free time required.

When retired or semi-retired (thanks to youthful wealth), you can do a lot of cheap but time consuming things like backpacking overseas, hiking the pacific coast trail, spending a summer diving in Cuba.

Indulging in my hobbies one day a week in between running errands and going to the gym just feels like a watered down version.
I hear that argument a lot in the context of drugs -- you can't patent a natural remedy so there's no big corporation pushing for it's adoption. But concrete is not like that. The reason it's so widely used is precisely because it's easy to use widely. I mean, 2m thick stone walls are surely great if space and energy constraints allow you to put them up ...
sigh So I'm 'proper old' now ? :-P

When can I be 'improper old' ?? :-D
>Ukraine or Russia

How about Vietnamese?
Indeed. Building an AI that matches human intelligence using equal or less mass than a human brain requires one or both of two things to be true: 1. The computational mass efficiency of brain tissue is very far from optimum. Considering the amount of time evolution has been improving upon it, I highly doubt that is true. 2. Most of the brain's computation is not involved in cognition. That may be true. We don't really know.

There are hard limits. No matter how you try you can't perfectly simulate three atoms using two atoms. If it turns out we have to, in software, represent fifty percent of neuronal activity to create consciousness we're in real trouble. A dragonfly can take inputs from thousands of ommatidia and use them to track targets in space using only sixteen neurons. How many transistors would it take us to do the same? Take that ratio and apply it to the 86 billion neurons in the human brain and you have a rough idea of what it will take to create strong AI. The numbers aren't promising.