skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Noah is talking past the degrowther point: the current highly leveraged, debt-driven system economic system requires growth or else it collapses (total nominal value must be exponential, or else you get depressions). I think degrowthers would be fine if there was "natural growth" due to realized gains in efficiency, but forcing a system to "grow or else" has lots of bad consequences, including: overemphasizing consumerism over conservation, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, malinvestment at a societal scale by forcing retirees to gamble in the stock casino, cronyism and corruption at the source of the money spigot, etc.
EPANET (https://github.com/OpenWaterAnalytics/EPANET & https://www.epa.gov/water-research/epanet )

Chances are the water network that's connect to your home was modelled using this FOSS by the US EPA.

Unfortunately, it was probably done using a commercial tool by Bentley or Innovyze/Autodesk but the underlying modeling engine was from the EPA.
Reading through that, this appears more like a publicity stunt pulled out by the book's author. Who has verified those phone calls?
They took those down after the Sarin gas attacks, but despite that cleanliness prevailed.
I have YouTube premium and love it. I mostly watch it for music videos and technical talks, and love not having ads. Watch some kids shows too with the 5yo.

I nearly always use the web site, even though I have the app on my phone. Full screen browser tab on the desktop just feels more “TV-like” and engaging than staring at the phone screen.
I lived in Port Sunlight in the UK. It's delightful - I don't think it really has or had any planning or social issues. For the first few years there weren't any pubs due to the temperance politics of the founder, but it does now.

The English did planned villages really well.
It's actually not that surprising. Writing media like paper was extremely expensive. Artists too recycled canvasses.

Fun fact: in Italy before the Romans there were people who spoke a language called Etruscan. It remains untranslated to this day because there are so few written samples of it, usually confined the markings on tombs and such. This was U suspect exacerbated by the Gallic sacking of Rome around 387 BC [1]. It's for this reason that the very early history of Rome is fuzzy other than apocryphal tales such as Romulus and Remus.

But the longest Etruscan writing sample was a recycled linen text used as a mummy wrapping in Ptolemaic Egypt [2].

Cheap paper is still a relatively modern invention.

[1]: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/910/the-sack-of-rome-by...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus
Miners are often the ones who won't put up with shit from the authorities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion
tap strap is kind of interesting but i think it's ultimately just as bad if not worse than a keyboard, they are coming out with a new version soon though that fits around your wrist
Your reply (and many others) assumed that I was advocating censorship, but I did not and I am not. All I am advocating is that whatever your idea is should be reflected on your reputation.

I do find it interesting that there is such a strong revulsion to this concept (“ideas I utter are tied to my reputation”) but anonymous speech is an evolutionarily recent development. Humans have done quite well for tens of thousands of years with a complete absence of it. Somehow our current culture can look at the wasteland of human lives and endeavour brought about by unfettered anonymous speech and somehow still still see it as an unalloyed good. Curious.
That idea didn't originate with him.

I can't recall enough of a quote to find it right now, but someone said something like "any story that's good enough to be repeated should be regarded with skepticism'.

It's the sort of thing that might be attributed to Mark Twain or Robert Heinlein, whether or not they said it.
Same, closest I can find is a tunnel to the harbourfront[0]

[0] https://www.realestate.com.au/news/the-list-australias-top-t...
Its not there's no trash, go there at night, especially on the weekends, trash, cig buds, bottles piled on the streets, alleys, etc. It's deep cleaned early in the morning.
I believe industry noticed that 1440p on 75mm width display is overkill (or say there are other points should be improved than resolution). It's good thing for battery and price.
What would it take and how long would it take to turn NYC into a Tokyo with respect to cleanliness via governmental decree?

A counterpoint is Singapore and birthrates. For decades, decades, the government has tried incentivizing the native population to produce more children, and no matter what they do, they still aren't having results. Sometimes the government can only do so much and the rest is up to the people themselves.
In America,the first amendment protects you from government censorship. It doesn’t protect you from censorship that occurs naturally in society or the marketplace.

Freedom of speech means you have freedom from the government. It does not mean you have freedom from societal consequences or that you’re entitled to a platform or audience.

There are many forms of speech which society has decided to censor. We have decided to outlaw libel, slander, perjury, dissemination of child porn or classified info, etc., and we are familiar with many which cause immediate social or business repercussions (generally being an asshole, berating waitstaff, yelling at the top of your lungs in a quiet place, any kind of unwanted speech PN private property, etc.).
re: uber cadence (see also the commercialised open source fork https://temporal.io/ by some of the engineers who designed cadence) -- it isn't a rules engine, the problem it is trying to solve is highly reliable fault-tolerant execution of stateful processes. If that's what is hard about your problem, maybe cadence / temporal could be a good fit.

I am not sure how just how far you can scale cadence / temporal in terms of workflow executions per second, my understanding is that the architecture depends on persisting state that tracks workflow execution progress in some backing database (MySQL, cassandra, postgres, ...). The problem might reduce to how many operations per second you can get the database to perform.

If you are using cadence / temporal, be aware that the SDK doesn't have any understanding or model of things like rules engines or calling external APIs or so on. You'd need to implement all that yourself. You need to manually figure out how to partition your workflow code into side-effect free deterministic code -- which may be potentially executed many times during the same workflow run, if the system needs to replay workflow execution to recover a partial run after losing a worker -- and code that has side effects (actions, invoked by the pure functional workflow code). If you had some existing rules engine in java / go that was deterministic & pure functional, you might be literally able to embed calls to that in workflow code, since replaying execution would be safe.

If there's no serious business case for recovering your failed workflow executions -- unlike e.g. user onboarding or payment processing -- you probably have a much easier problem, or maybe one that is just hard in a different way, where introducing cadence / temporal doesn't help solve what's hard.
This comment assumes there is something redeemable about an autocratic, oppressive government with numerous human rights violations under their belt. “Manning up” is slang for doing the right thing. At what point in time has the CCP exhibited this behavior?
> Facebook, Google, Amazon and Twitter have more institutional power than all elected officials combined.

This isn’t even close to true.

> Who will get to decide what's illegal?

The elected officials, as always. I’m so tired of this thought-terminating question. The democratic system is the piece that always closes that feedback loop. If you ever again need to ask “but who watches the watchers?!??!!” the answer is the voters.
YouTube creators create a new channel for one or two videos or avoid content entirely because they're terrified the algorithm will ruin the good thing they have going if they branch out into a new topic. They do it once and see the hit and never do it again.
A vm inside a vm inside a vm, can’t perform as many operations as the base level machine.

It is not clear that such an old machine is capable of doing “more computation” than your brain does.

I very much doubt that either is capable of emulating the other in real time.
Right. Nice article. Tldr; no, not really, "the scientific method" is rhetoric.

Though i will say that they missed Robert Hooke's essay on the scientific method. I swear no one knows about this (even though Hooke was a founding and seminal member of the English Royal Society) because Hooke sounds insane. Who makes titles like this? I love it:

A scheme, or idea of the present
state of natural philosophy, and how its defects may be remedied by a methodical
proceeding in the making experiments and collecting observations wereby to compile
a natural history, as to the solid basis for the superstructure of philosophy
Media no longer exists to inform, but rather program you. Those yet to learn that lesson have a hard road ahead.
HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)
I don't actually agree that carrying a large amount of money is inherently stupid. It's riskier than not carrying cash, but doing something risky is not the same thing as doing something stupid.

That said even if it was stupid and it was an obvious mistake. Why mention he made a mistake at all? If not to point out that he shares some of the blame because of that mistake?

It might be good advice, but only if it carries an alternative. Pointing out a risk isn't advice, it's a warning. "don't carry large amounts of cash because it might get stolen" vs "electronic transfers between two bank accounts lowers the risk your money will be stolen".

But I assume we both agree but that's not really a helpful piece of advice in this case.
Continuing to brainstorm--

Say, the way some messaging platforms have threads which can branch off of the main channel. Maybe this platform has something like that, too; instantaneous and temporary, where messages disappear N minutes after they're sent. So you can post publicly on the time-delayed cadence, or chat semi-privately in realtime.

I'm not sure if that undermines the desirable properties of the time delay.
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I like how the jargon "memory pressure" has taken over where we once used the logical term "low memory". Computing becoming less accessible before our very eyes!
Were they not acquired by SiriusXM a few years ago?

Which would mean that they weren’t doing too well anyway.
I don't think we're running out of ideas, but rather that each new idea has less impact in a more differentiated economy.

Electric light, and to a lesser extent smartphones, affected every kind and size of business. Everyone used exactly the same invention.

With the focus where it is today (AI, say), it's hard to imagine exactly the same invention being used by everyone without extensive customisation work. A robot that can pick strawberries is not much use in a hair-dresser's salon or on a building site.

Autonomous road-going vehicles are probably the best hope for something that has an economy-wide impact. I'd love to be proven wrong, of course.
It's funny to see Emacs being referred to as "lightweight".
honestly it's 100% AMD that's going to turn this around for intel. AMD has stopped selling mid-market & down-market. their new affordable 5300G chip is unpurchaseable. their gpus are unobtainable in extreme, or radically overpriced.

amd still has a good presence in affordable, good performing latpops. but that's it. everywhere else, they're basically only courting the high end. they got better & immediately stopped trying to serve the mainstream markets.

for example, go try to buy a business class small PC. there was a brief second where one could buy a 1L sized Lenovo with a 4850ge chip, and it was awesome, way better than intel. but AMD very very very quickly withdrew from price-competitive markets.
El Salvador just bought 200 new bitcoins
my personal side project is multiplayer choose your own adventure novels, but I think something like automatic story/rought draft generation would be necessary in order to practically write them, since they get so complicated, though I haven't really worked on that aspect yet, and am also currently side tracked with more short term/monetarily rewarding goals
I came to post the same thing. I regularly donate to NPR, but shame on them for not seeking to corroborate his story. They could try to reach the father or ask to see the phone company’s billing record of the call. They could at least preface the story with a caution.
That’s redefining a project well outside of how it’s generally used. Most projects only have a very general idea of scope, time, and budget before people start. For example remodeling is generally dependent on the conditions of the sub flooring etc which you don’t know before starting.
I used to roll my own code for websockets since the protocol is so simple. Switched to libwebsockets when I had to support TLS since I did not wanted to fiddle with openssl directly.

Overall the experience was good. It's simple, to the point. Configuration of the library is a bit like dark magic though, not much documentation.

> Has anyone used this in a multithreaded implementation

It's an event loop based library, so the point is more to have a single asynchronous main thread that fetches the messages, which you can dispatch to threads for processing if you wish.
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It's been done [1].

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/california-city-ghost-town-i...
Presumably the journalists at NPR did before they published this story... It's not like this was self-published on a blog
Source please. I think you are wrong. Admittedly, Aristotle was big in the 500AD-1500AD, which is when the books of Plato were lost to the West. But apart from this, Plato's always been bigger.
What skunks? What are you talking about? Do you have any evidence to support your claims? Are you just speculating?
Not completely equal but youtube did block "Innocence of Muslims" in multiple countries.
Whoa, thanks! My data was based on the initial announcement.

Judging by this article [1], the bidirectional charging is maybe part of the $1000 "Pro Power" add on.

Either way, sounds like we can get a 100-ish kWh battery backup for $50k.

[1] https://autotrends.org/2021/03/01/what-is-bidirectional-char...
>unbiased = all companies, or unbiased random sampling of companies)

Most indexes are market-cap weighted for a reason. Suppose we weigh each company equally. If you have 90 shitty companies and 10 good companies, but the 10 good companies combined are 10x as big as the 90 shitty companies combined, is it fair to conclude that "companies are shitty"? Suppose the 10 good companies spun themselves out into 100 separate companies, did the quality of companies improve by 5x (10% good to 53% good)?
How we recruit effectively at Text Blaze
How do you like it? How does it compare to Protonmail?

I've seen the name here a little but first time looking them up. The page title "Secure email: Tutanota..." is super similar to "Secure email: Protonmail..." Even the page layout is similar.

And I'm trying to sign up and the whole flow is super similar to Proton. By design?
Ahhh that company was the one that invented multi touch lol.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/everything-you-need-to-kno...
It's amazing how Intel with exclusive access to their own massive fabs has utterly squandered this chips shortage, even in the midst of it all hitching its wagon to the shortest of all TSMC. Stock is just down down down and in 2024 they'll announce another far behind energy guzzler - some turnaround..
I agree. I had 20TB extra space on my NAS, so I spent $100 on an entry-level SSD to do plotting. 200 plots later, it's well-used, but not close to dead. I'll probably put my FFIV game files on it to get faster load times.

In the meantime, my operating cost is running the NAS (which was going to be powered up anyway), and some CPU power to handle the farming (not even noticeable on a Ryzen 3900X).
I would argue that how these platforms are run, including censorship, is helping to elevate the toxicity present.

Good moderation is a difficult problem. Yet there is no substitute for community standards and eyeballs on text to create a reasonable platform for discussion.

None of the automated-system platforms manage it, youtube, facebook, twitter, all have garbage moderation systems.

Censorship resistance has always been a cardinal virtue of online geekdom. Information wants to be free, as the old saying goes. These systems will keep popping up and someone, eventually, may well nail the combination to create an attractive platform for open discourse and draw a major user base away from facebook, reddit, and twitter who are flirting ever more with hushing voices they don't like.
Self-promotion warning, but this is a honest take on what's been working for us and how we run recruiting.

I would love to get your thoughts on what's working for you.
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They are capacity constrained, so they're selling some mix of high profit and....
Oh stop.
If no one will buy the last bottle, doesn't that effectively mean the next to last bottle is the last bottle?
Numbers start with counting. You can build up more kinds of numbers, but tearing down counting into smaller pieces is surprisingly hard. Personally, I think it's good enough to start with any two distinguishable states. You can then keep combining those states in various ways to form the counting numbers. Note that more complex symbols like "1 2 3" are themselves effectively a form of tally, where you are counting the number of angles. You can combine your method with geometry or a clock and call it "measurement" of space and time, respectively.

(Real numbers are my favorite construction because I was enamored with Cantor's diagonal argument when I first learned it. It's quite clever and hints at the magic mathematicians are capable of. Although most mathematicians (algebra peeps) seem to like the classic "root 2 is irrational" proof more.)
In case anyone wants to buy a copy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1982156155
The Complicity of Contribution
This Medium article by the founder of /r/startrek examines the moral dilemma of social media and raises the question of whether or not we sanction immoral or destructive actions by participating.
one thing I would love would be a mandate in the usa for cell carries to offer 20 years of service. We don't need 9g. Frankly 3g worked great for everything I needed and 4g works worse (spotty coverage, quicker battery drain). I can't see the point in 5g or beyond. I don't need to watch 4k videos on a 4 inch screen or whatever but I kind of would like to not have to upgrade a freaking cellphone every three years.
Yes! Finally someone who gets it. Looking for Tor-first paid services to start up. At the end of the day, what Protonmail does just doesn't seem hard. I paid for their service with the mindset that it was temporary to invite better vendors to come along. Looking forward to what's next.
What is your opinion of public/private partnerships? What would you say if the government pressures private organizations to censor individuals? Is that still 'private' censorship? What if partisan government officials take board seats or top management positions at these platforms, and vice versus? Your depiction of First Amendment protections seems incomplete if you don't account for the reality of government by proxy. It's no surprise that the state would externalize its censorship to circumvent civil liberties protections.
Diapers.com Founder Marc Lore Plans to Build Utopian City Telosa
This is my first submission so any pointers or corrections would be appreciated!
This is a good point that introduces more complexity into the problem. Whether or not AI driving flourishes can be determined by more than regulations or manufacturers themselves. If insurance companies decide from their risk calculations that insuring cars with an auto-pilot is too much risk and therefore refuse to insure them, that could also kill self-driving cars.
CCP is sometimes hilariously bad at international PR. This is like a satire scene out of Team America.
Commodore 64 Ads from the 1980s
That article reads like it was written by AI or an 18 year old who never reported on a security issue before. Weird.
Japanese researchers have created an effective vaccine for Alzheimer's disease
Towns will consider absolutely anything to lower costs except building new housing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en....

Sadly, we're at the stage of this "crisis" where parody is the only appropriate response.
Anything that has feedback loops and responds to differences between reality and the plan by favoring reality. I have watched too many Waterfall proponents lead projects to failure because they were too stupid to acknowledge that reality had diverged from expectations.

For software systems, specifically, also anything that encourages early integration. Integrate early, integrate often. A failure to do so means that you've broken your feedback loops or extended them to an arbitrary time in the future so that they have little to no value. You cannot properly verify and validate a system without integrating the major subsystems.

Independent of most of the named processes and the technical discipline, V&V. Verification and validation are critical, ongoing activities that must be part of your work. This largely pushes towards automated testing, formal specs where applicable, and customer collaboration (to get validation of the system at critical junctures).

Waterfall doesn't do any of those things or isolates them (like V&V). It only works on large scale systems if reality matches expectations, which is rare.

My preference is to look towards Lean Software, most of the Agile methods, and the classical methods like Iterative & Incremental and Evolutionary (which were agile before Agile). V-Model is Waterfall-ish but integrates feedback into the system and makes V&V an ongoing activity. I prefer it paired with I&I or Evolutionary for critical systems (my primary domain).
Per worker who lost wages, not per worker across all workers.
To think that this speech took place over 3 decades ago,that only a minority of us are able to see even today the impact of mass broadcast communications channels most people consume daily, it is an impressively well articulated premonition.

Perhaps we need a few more decades for more of us to understand what has been going on. Unless we all get turned into apes before it being too late, then simply unable to understand and even less so stop the destructions of habitats worldwide.
Good on your for tracking their changes. Is there any official way to do this?

My inbox is open for a Tor-first replacement for Protonmail. Checking out https://tutanota.com/ now
So what? These are preventable deaths.
C++ is notorious for each new version introducing a new way of doing things, so I don't think it's a good anti-churn language (plain C is more defensible for that, though I wouldn't use it for other reasons). And there's certainly tool churn in the C++ world. And frankly C++ has been a poor choice for long enough that I don't think "churn" is a good reason to keep using it - I'm not exactly thrilled when I pick up a TCL codebase from 1996, but you can do it and it'll work.
I find BusyBox init perfectly acceptable and small. I use it extensively as init for lightweight containers. It supports just enough init to handle complex or simple config.

Does tini offer something better? On quick glance it seems rather limited.
this is great. thank you