skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Ripcord page:

"Shareware is coming back, baby."

This is quite amusing. Further down:

"How do I prevent Ripcord from checking for updates before I'm able to open the preferences window to disable it?

As I recall, shareware never did that. It violates the spirit of leaving the user alone, user automonomy.

Shareware sometimes used to provide a way to check for updates, and sometimes allowed for this to be done automatically. But it generally did not try to make network connections without any permission from the user.

Shareware often used to provide contact information for the author so that users could show their appreciation. Authors invited voluntary feedback.

Today authors instead try to perform telemetry and control the use of the software after download through "automatic updates". They seek to gain from users' laziness to change defaults. They want to collect information about users and their usage habits. "Involuntary feedback."

Anyway, his answer is:

"Set the environment variable RIPCORD_ALLOW_UPDATES=0"

How about starting the program while offline, i.e., network interface down.
Nice guess it’s too late to support wish I knew about it earlier. I never got into overrides story though. It seemed like the worst story of the 3
What keeps me worried is how much community immunity is required to stop a virus as spreadable as measles. I think it’s something like 95%. That’s a hard bar to pass for a vaccine or even “natural immunity” through letting it spread. Mixed with the possibility of long covid we could see some scary disease rates for the foreseeable future.
That's sad, but I can see that making sense.
I always answer, and immediately mute and put on speaker. Some will maintain the connection for 30 seconds; others will never disconnect. If it's a real contact, usually they'll say "Hello? Blisterpeanuts? Are you there???" and then I pick up.
Any book recommendations on this topic? Particularly the last point - always crazy to learn how the rich of today made their fortunes from now-illegal means (drug trafficking, slavery, arms dealing, etc.).
They're so high because property tax is grossly unfair there. There are people with $10m homes paying taxes as if valued closer to $100k.
If you were as responsible as you proclaim to be, you'd be doing both.
What platform do you mean? The iOS app lets me select output device. It’s a little icon next to play/pause, kind of half computer screen half bookshelf speaker (monitor/monitor :)

I think I remember seeing this on desktop too but at that point why not use the OS sound mixer?
Wind and solar are cheaper and can be brought online as fast as we can build it... Nuclear has massive startup costs and takes a hella long time to build out. Solar efficiency had been undergoing a an exponential (!!!) drop in price per kilowatt hour. Think of it as Moore's law, but for energy. Comparing solar to nuclear at this point is sorta like saying you don't need one of these gosh darned desktop computers when you've got a perfectly good giant room full of multi million dollar IBM mainframe that you bought just twenty years ago... Exponential price curves should cause one to stay flexible on assumptions.

DOE: Solar hits 6 cents per kWh in 2017, three years ahead of an ambitious goal, down from 28 cents per kWh in 2011.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/sunshot-2030

Solar costs per kWh are unambiguously less than nuclear:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_p...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_p...
> not some innate capacity

i would wager a lot of money that no one here has the capacity to approach John von Neumann, Srinivasa Ramanujan or Terence Tao in a single lifetime of unlimited curiosity and attention.
I know it's not exactly a last name, but... did you try the "standard" name for that number? I can't imagine nobody else thought of signing up like that, so unless the store explicitly blacklisted certain numbers, I'd think it worth a shot.
I believe "revision" is used in British English to mean reviewing or studying.
I was wondering the same thing. What's going on?
I don't know your situation so maybe this actually is an issue for you, but I feel like it's worth pointing out that the 13% tax bracket is only on income beyond $1 million/year
Ship strikes have been increasing over the years now as our ever-growing global economy depends on maritime transport.

The scientists are working on good solutions but it might be too late, too many ships travel too fast these days[0].

They also mention this in the article:

In a study published this year, a research team found that a variety of whales face risk of ship strikes. That was illustrated in May, when two fin whales came to port in San Diego, plastered to the hull of an Australian warship.

But of all whales in the Pacific, grays are the most likely to be struck by ships, the study concluded. “Risk appeared greatest during south- and northbound migration when much of the gray whale population is moving through waters near shore” — places with “high vessel densities,” the study found.

According to a NOAA database, 205 gray whales were killed by vessels between January 2016 and December 2020 in the eastern Pacific.

[0] https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGV...
What I'm curious about is: what happens now?

When everyone starts realizing that vaccines and masks can't fully contain a spread, what's the next logical step to take?

Are people going to insist that you keep wearing your mask, take booster shots and live in fear for the next 50 years or are we going to collectively change our mindset from "Zero COVID" to accepting that COVID is just another risk factor in the world and move on?
While it seems crude, the way we used to do it, the way the Soviets used to do it, the way China does it now, seems to work best for this kind of interest. You invest in a despot let them have their little fiefdom and you let them run what's theirs and you get to take what you think is yours.

Nation-building is hubris. Work with someone local who fits hand-in-glove.

Is the unstable "stability" worth 6T and thousands of soldiers' lives and many tens of thousands traumatized? Not to mention the losses from the locals. What was the human cost of Saddam in power vs the cost after toppling him?
As a mercifully sheltered Brit, what do they smell of?
"The resale value of a second-hand war" is a fantastic phrase! It sounds like a Neil Young lyric. Nicely done.
Ah, the desperate Rust promoter crew enters the Go thread ...

Rust is great for language enthusiats doing hobby projects or for learning. The Rust book is great. Rust has great language features.

Having that said, Rust is the right tool for the job for a very small niche. Basically, if you would have used C++ before and don't need much developer reach or mature libraries. And only for the rare cases you really cannot affort a GC (even though Go's GC is highly optimized).

Go on the other hand, is an industrial strength proven and mature general purpose language. It is the best fit for various kind of networking application. Especially APIs, but also infrastructure where you can live with an GC. CLIs are great with Go as well.

If you're working on a professional grade project (where the GC is acceptable), Go is much superior than Rust in all regards.

Rust is advertised for years and years and didn't have it's breakthrough yet. This empirical fact cannot be ignored. There're reasons for this, of course. Some are:

- Writing Rust consumes so much more mental power with so little gain. That mental energy should be directed to solving the problem.

- Go makes everything besides your problem at hand easy. You can focus on solving your problem, not fighting the Borrow Checker

- Rust's ecosystem is not reliable. Many essential libs are one-man-shows. Version 0.1 everywhere.

- Rust is for and by language enthusiats. If you need to rely on libs for longer than a couple of years it is a hight risk for your project

- In terms of real world performance: Go is so close to Rust that there're very very very few use cases that really need that marginal gain
I don't know how you'd adjudicate it, but I'd bet quite a lot that indiscriminate use of a (tested, safe) vaccine is pretty much always going to be better than not using it.

There's of course no reason to stop at indiscriminate use of it, we should employ whatever vaccine strategy seems to be best (in an empirical sense), and supplement with other measures, I'm going at the banality of the point.
They did a hard pass on that one when their commanders were embezzling their resources and they were expected to defend a nation with shoestrings and no backup or any more resources on the way. It was a suicide mission to not give up, plain and simple.
> Computers are warm rocks we tricked into doing math and it’s a miracle they do anything.

This might be my favorite way to describe programming.
Come on - it was not to enact "revenge". That is hyperbolic editorialization. It was because the Taliban had consistently been harboring Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, had close ties with Al Qaeda (who attacked the US), and they would have granted those same terrorists safe harbor again if left alone. The Taliban continues to maintain close ties with Al Qaeda today (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/taliban-k...), which is why handing them back Afghanistan is an incredible failure of leadership for the US. The rest of your alleged oil-motivated acts all have other motives as well, so I remain unconvinced by your overall argument.
To reinforce this: I remember feeling embarrassed by being described as a “natural” playing guitar.

I also remember feeling humbled by my humility when I took guitar seriously and picked stuff up or figured out technique that astounded people.
MOBA-paced would be so fun. Or, a few servers to choose with different pacing.
Druid is still not ready for prime time though (https://www.areweguiyet.com/). Played with psst for a bit: no keyboard shortcuts, no screenreader support, scrollbar feels 'off', stuff that just works if you use a native toolkit or a browser.

I get that this is early days for this project, but the issues are general for all of these non-browser, non-native UI toolkits. Hopefully we get there though.
You may be right on the latter. Not sure I agree with the former. They're usually on the offer letter or employment contract.
I doubt Biden intended for Afghanis to be hanging on US airplanes as they took off from Kabul.
Isn't this assuming competion doesn't exist? For a fixed pool of rare trading cards or something this logic may hold though.
Puerto Rico and Afghanistan have virtually nothing in common. Puerto Rico is not next to Russia and the Middle East, and doesn't cost hundreds of billions to keep stable.
Saving Whales in the Digital Age - Ocean Science Radio
Interesting, can you give a specific example of using rationalist techniques to solve a relationship problem?
> This thinking has undermined our actions in every major war since then, with the exception of GWI.

Kosovo? Bosnia?
> Better yet would be universal healthcare

True universal healthcare would more than likely save the USA money, not require more spending. That European countries have universal healthcare at all is that after WA2 they couldn’t afford accessible private systems like the USA has been able to dump a lot of money into.

The USA will get universal healthcare when they can no longer afford their crazy healthcare system anymore. So maybe this excessive spending on wars will bring us closer to, not farther away from, universal healthcare.
Im not but can go to us?
Bingo, that's it

I've been thinking about going even simpler, and just building all my synths out of Sine, Triangle, Square and Sawtooth, but for now AKWF is working a treat
Correct.

This achievement then unlocks Privacy technology.

Currently, PII must be stored as plaintext. Required for matching records across systems.

Once UUIDs are used, all data at rest, at the field level, can be encrypted.

cite: Book Translucent Databases 2nd ed.
Animation shows blue whale dodging hundreds of ships while trying to feed
Yes and no. Just like software, it's a craft and people that practice get better. Go meet a struggling writer and you'll see that for yourself. They produce, it's good stuff, and worse people get the good gigs by roll of the dice. Supporting people like that is great.
I moved away from the UK over 10 years ago. I haven't:

* cancelled my UK driving licence

* cancelled my library card

* changed the address on all bank accounts

* cancelled my mobile phone contract

...
I don’t understand, not a user of Airplay - your Mac doesn’t have a way to stream to airplay devices? Why does it come down to the app?
The Taliban were able to recruit replacement officers at a far faster rate than we were. That's largely in part because the Taliban was a closer match to the local values than we were.

If we weren't willing to turn a blind eye to those sorts of things, then we needed to leave sooner. But the secret of conquest and governance is recruitment, and if leaders of that region want the "right" to exploit women and/or children (and that "right" is what allows them to get recruited at speed), then it becomes a necessity to accept that part of their culture as part of our recruitment drives.

We killed a lot of Taliban. They killed a lot of Afghani (some 60,000 Afghans on the government side died). But killing is only one side of the picture: recruitment is the other side. If you can replenish your troops and leaders faster than the enemy can kill them, you'll eventually win.

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We thought we could recruit with money, but as soon as the money stopped flowing (because we were leaving), the entire scheme collapsed. Money isn't a good recruitment tool.

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Alternatively: we chose the wrong side. Perhaps it would have been better to choose the side of the Taliban in the conflict. We went into the conflict simply choosing the "enemies of the Taliban" as our friends, without necessarily thinking about the morals associated with our new friends.

But that's the problem: on the one side is Taliban against child-prostitutes, while on the other, are the warlords who fight against the Taliban to restore child-prostitutes. If we want the warlord's help, then yes, we have to turn a blind eye to it.

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In any case, I'm well aware of the child-prostitute thing. A friend of mine had two tours to Afghanistan, and the local lords offered him some kids personally. So he's quite aware of the culture and told me of it.
Yeh that seems to be what I'm looking for, will look into this more, cheers!
Reading at 2 is well-attested by multiple sources.

The IQ was a case of going back to the original kind of IQ test for children, mental age divided by physical age. At the age of 6 he performed at a level to be expected of a 14 year old on the Stanford-Binet test. At the extremes of these tests, the bell curve approximation. So yes, his IQ was measured that high. But it is not strictly comparable to adult IQ tests.

It should be noted that Terrence Tao's early achievements were well documented because he met Dr Miraca Gross of New South Wales at age 3, who was running a longitudinal study of Australian gifted children. Tao, of course, wound up as the star of the approximately 60 children in the study.
> But allocation heap profiling is still something I struggle with.

Have you tried this one? https://github.com/koute/memory-profiler
Oregon as well.
Keep in mind our opponents were farmers and herders who took up found weaponry. I wonder what their end of the bill looks like. Probably not 6.4 trillion.
You'd rather a promising writer serve dishes than write? Would you say that about someone who could code?
Unreal Tutorial: Making a Pawn that can fly around a spherical planet
Right, no use in talking about it, just let ProPublica “leak” tax techniques two decades late, per usual

Wage earners do have the worst circumstance. The slowest and highest taxed way of getting money and it has a general ceiling. And they don’t have access to half of their earned capital that year to even attempt doing anything with it, Yuck. There is still a lot they can do.
Only if you ignore the fact that viruses compete for hosts.
Finalizers are not guaranteed to run. They're not ersatz destructors.
This uses OpenCore, which does quite a bit of in-memory kernel patching.

Now, the job of a boot-loader is to set up a friendly environment for the OS, so I'm not sure where the line is. But OpenCore goes pretty far!
Unfortunately, the DMCA 1201 court decision that establishes once and for all has yet to occur. EFF continues to pursue it though: https://www.eff.org/cases/green-v-us-department-justice
Sorry for the late reply.

My 100% increase converts to 15-30% at the price point. In the same way you are seeing that 30-40 at the grocery. Restaurants generally run %20-40 food cost.
This video may help convince you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IFTN2Toak
Yeah I’m on prepaid. Good point.
Exactly. Basketcase governments are products of basketcase societies. Go in and topple the government and you now have the impossible task of developing a sustainable high quality government on top of a low quality society/culture.
Your organization probably does not use secure sign on then.
Why would we have to do support bombing runs? What we chose to do could not appear any more embarrassing than letting the ANA get slaughtered/immediately disbanding.
A combination of very few people and high tax income from oil companies- Alaska even pays part of the oil company licenses back to residents.
Lybia, Syria, Panama
Linux Evangelist Turned Dentist, handrolls all IT infra in his dentist practice
so this guy was a software engineer and then he became a dentist, and he decided to do everything stallman style, designing all the dental software and hardware himself on Linux from scratch.

He wrote drivers for the xray machines??!!
In many cases I'd agree with you. But in his case, he had come to the attention of researchers into high IQ by the age of 3, and the stories were recorded when they were still fairly fresh.
I play online games that have variable winrates bc you’re playing with a match made team. If I go on a 5 game win streak, did I improve? Is the game bugged? Nah, I probably got lucky and got good teammates. If I go on a 5 game loss streak, that’s definitely what I’m telling myself.

There’s an element of luck in roguelikes too. It’s part of what makes both types of games compelling. The outcome is uncertain when you sit down to play.

So are there psychological traits that make players likely to mistake this bug? Maybe. But on an individual basis, without aggregated winrate data, how would I know it’s not just a lucky winstreak? Especially when I’m playing a style of game where that’s the point?
> everything I've seen on adversarial attacks against ML models relies on knowing the model or having a way to run the model against attacker-determined input

I thought that actually turned out not to be the case quite a bit of the time. An attack that's trained against one model will often work against different models as well, because the various models, even if trained on different data, will often end up looking at similar features.

I'm not an ML expert though, so maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.
Electric Cars for Everyone? Not Unless They Get Cheaper
The pathetic irony is that intelligence services and dozens of corporations have already done this. So we citizens, err consumers, have all of the downsides and none of the benefits of authenticity.

In addition to the sky faerie grifters, the anti-rationality mentats categorically oppose allowing government to govern.
Blockchains are the new app stores
According to this source, Russia killed 137 Grey Whales in 2019: https://iwc.int/total-catches

Sounds like there might be a simple way to offset the die-off...
> What's the downside?

We don't know what we don't know. That's the downside. You've just taken an experimental drug which has yet to be approved by the FDA, and was designed using novel technology we haven't broadly tested on humans. What's more, the companies providing the shots cannot be held liable for these vaccines.

Who's to say we don't discover issues with mRNA delivery 5 years from now? That risk seems much higher to me than the risk of long COVID for individuals such as yourself (and me).
That was a European problem which Europeans should have solved by themselves. Why did we have to piss abound there when they could have managed it themselves?

Let's say something came up in Puerto Rico... and then we have Europe come in and fix things instead of the US, does that seem the way it should work?
What? The Focus is a compact car and competes with the Civic. They've traded rankings over the years, but the Focus isn't a clear winner. The Fit is in a different class (a subcompact that competed with the Ford Fiesta), and in any case, I was thinking of the Corolla - which is far-and-away better-rated - and
of larger sedans.
Nit: Spotify isn't electron-based.

https://www.quora.com/How-is-JavaScript-used-within-the-Spot...
It’s smart because the despot has already found product-market fit.
What would you replace for x and y? Mathematicians study equations in the abstract. x is just a real number. It's not distance, or time, or velocity. Would you rather they say "real_number" everywhere? And then what would you do when the formula has more than 1? "real_number1" vs "real_number2"?

As to your original criticism, I'll wager that more people in this world will understand f(x) = 5x + 3x^2 than will understand rudimentary code, as it is taught a lot more than programming is. I don't mean anything negative when I say this, but the only people I know who complain about math syntax are programmers. By changing these conventions, you are asking all mathematicians, physicists, chemists, most engineers, economists, etc to change. I will wager that over 95% of them will not prefer your style.

Finally, the trouble with replacing f(x) with Y is that the former tells me I'm dealing with a function. The latter does not. In fact, for many mathematicians, y = 5x + 3x^2 is a constraint, not a function.
Dude. Me too. One of my first, anyways. Hard to remember if it came before or after my forays into FutureBasic.
Doesn't most of this money go back to paying American soldiers and so most of this money goes back into the American economy?
It's hard for us to admit it. My own journey, after spending 7+ years living abroad, and recently completing a (most epic yet) cross-country roadtrip, it is clear that America is in decline due to generations of mal-investment. We've squandered blood and treasure in quixotic and wrong-headed misadventures and dumped gargantuan amounts of money into nothing but destruction. We've been led by bravado and glory, by craven merchants of death, and greedy megacorporations with no scruples. Our political leaders are corrupt, our institutions rotting. We should have printed out all those dollars and just set them on fire for goddsakes.

The partisan bickering over just 1.6 trillion in infrastructure spending, after having lit another 3 trillion on fire to prop up the stock and housing markets for another few years, losing money hand over fist, electric grids going down at the slightest breath, and overall decay and mismanagement of all our common infrastructure...America is past its peak, stumbling now, and all that remains is angry tribalism and finger-pointing. We can't even unite against a deadly enemy that is impossible to love or anthropomorphize--a virus.

We failed to invest in fundamentals for so long....

On some days I find myself, as an American, hoping we split up. We don't really want to live together anymore. We hate each other. Not a dollar for those bastards' kids!
Why? They should be interned, like any other enemy civilians.

This is what happened when the boot was on the other foot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...