skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the last 130 years there have been two world wars and two global pandemics.

One rationale behind the push for global integration after WW2 and later on with China and the former Soviet Bloc was the idea that such integration would create incentives against a resurgence of war between great powers. It is precisely because another world war would be so disruptive in light of global economic integration that global integration was promoted and pursued in the first place by many policy makers—in order to make such wars less likely to occur.

I suppose the thinking was that the obvious downside—that if a great-power war were to occur, the global economy would be in shambles—was irrelevant given that another world war would likely amount to Armageddon.

In other words, preparing for the contingency of a world war is worse than useless, because the only viable path (both from a utilitarian and from a moral perspective) is to do what is most effective to prevent the occurrence of such a war (which pursuant to this line of thinking includes, of course, making significant investments in defense).
I figure the machines must be draining some sort of psychic energy from humans. While there's no such thing as psychic energy as far as we know, that's because all knowledge of it has been left out of the matrix.
The concept of sacrifice nowadays is very different. "Sacrifice" is eating the opportunity cost of not working for a company with zero moral compass.

What used to be a baseline is now somehow pinnacle of moral strength.

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" is gone.
Yes, and a close relative (oxycodone) is something I’ve had experience with and can confirm it’s quite good at curing the depression. The problem is the permanent brain damage and/or death it will cause when taken long-term. Link < https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/hero...>
Lots of specialised hardware ( networking or storage for instance) uses various flavours of *BSD under the hood, which is reflected in the main enterprise contributors to FreeBSD.
I wonder if all those companies stalking movie downloads and ready to harass you are keeping an eye on IPv6 too.
FizzBuzzCoin?
God, look at the comments. "I can't wait to (describes VR gaming.)" The misunderstanding of technology across the population is so profound it's dumbfounding.
> The advantage of X compared to RDP/VNC/whatever remote desktop protocol is that you transfer only drawing commands, meaning that if you are seeing a static screen no data is transmitted, if only a part of the screen updates only that data is transmitted.

This is true of RDP also. The initial versions of RDP were basically GDI over the wire. Of course it's been expanded since then to include DirectX calls, etc.

> The load on the network is lower.

That is incorrect. RDP is actually usable over an internet link; X11 is far too chatty and ridden with roundtrip latency for that use case. Even VNC does better over the wire than X.
And, what do you imagine are the odds that the person charged with enforcing the rule also made the rule?
fulltitle == [High speed ultrafast laser anisotropic nanostructuring by energy deposition control via near-field enhancement ]

the technique promises 500TB on CD like media
zram is a compressed ram-disk that acts like any other block device, so you can point `mkswap` and `swapon` at it.

zswap is a compressed (memory) cache that uses the frontswap API to evict least recently used pages to a swap device. Evicted pages are not compressed.

zram is more of a general purpose component; whereas zswap is a more specialized component.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/vm/zswap.html
Political “science” can help you understand politics, but it can’t endow you with an expert opinion on which policies to implement. Prioritising or selecting policy agendas is largely an exercise in choosing what to value, and there is no scientifically correct perspective on human values.

Also, if you want to implement a democratic process, then the goals of your policies should be to align with what people want, even if you think people want stupid things. All other forms of government are authoritarian, including technocracies run by “experts”.
LMAO spoilers in the chapter title.
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This certainly needs a (2018) since Earn was bought by Coinbase and doesn't even have this feature anymore.

Edit: (2018) has now been added.
Orkut was also out there and it was wildly more popular than Facebook in some parts of the world.
Or if your ASIC generalizes the problem in a slightly different direction, you end up reinventing TWINKLE and TWIRL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWINKLE
> Zuckerberg is as invested in making the "metaverse" the new future of Facebook as Jobs was with Apple and the iPhone

The obvious distinction being Jobs, with his "one more thing," announced an actual product.
This is HN. Nothing makes sense here. Attacking businesses is frowned upon. One must try to intellectualize horrible behavior, usually by adding links to various studies.
Film: HYPER-REALITY
Was there a point in history where we could handle something as big as covid and without supply chain issues? Skeptical..
That's indicative of underlying aggression and can't be extrapolated to other cultures.
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I'm not sure why there is coding done here.

A ticket for this work has been made at here: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

I'm going to have to ask that the contributors attend the grooming sessions and talk about the business value of this performance enhancement.
How do people have so much time on their hands :(
I've seen that plane at McCarran so many times, but I had no idea about the history behind it. Fascinating article!
Don't forget me. I'm incendiary too!
Not currently. ff02::fb is used, which has link-local scope.
... poverty causes a rise in consumption of bush meat, like bats in Wuhan[1] or primates in central Africa[2]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_origin...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS
The Simplest of Slumbers
Isn’t Earn just a zombie start-up with some over invested VCs at this point? What traction can they demonstrate after years of work and millions in funding?
Minimally breaking solution

1) Require the output of which in non-interactive environments to conform to the behavior a reasonable shell script author is likely to have assumed the specification was based on observations. In the case of historic 'which' that would be to print the absolute path to an executable without any other arguments, or a specific error message and exit status.

2) Allow __interactive__ shells to deviate from that behavior. E.G. with a warning, with alias information, etc.
what's your methodology? The linked section includes stuff like the "2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic", which was "worldwide" but had a death toll of 53 people. Should that be considered a pandemic? If we go with the "Epidemics and pandemics with at least 1 million deaths" table, there's only 6 worldwide pandemics.
>Most people who aren't familiar with trucking understand a tractor-trailer as a single vehicle, because that's what they usually see on the road.

Heh, I was noticing myself that it was kind of hard to follow because the domain ontology (what entities exist and how they relate) wasn't make explicit (like I just did with the previous parenthetical). Would have helped to know that a chassis and container-free trailer are the same thing.

And so I kind of balked when the author said the Flexport CEO:

>>Describes a clear physical problem that everyone can understand, in simple terms that everyone can understand but that don’t talk down to anyone.
> AFAIK the infamous "shake and bake" technique creates racemic meth

the shake and bake method uses "sudafed"/pseudoephedrine. therefore, it will produce d meth

> This is definitely true for meth, where almost every method yields racemic meth

not quite true, because the main precursor pseudoephedrine already had the correct stereochemistry in place. you would actually have to do effort to racemize that asymmetric carbon. But it is true that if your precursors are racemates or not asymmetric and you are not using some fancy asymmetric catalysis or tedious resoltuion your product will be racemic. An example of a racemic meth synthesis that does not involve P2P is direct amination of allylbenzene.
It’s an “equitable distribution” state; property is divided without regard to marital misconduct or fault.
Bots still buffer items. Bot based factories produce when those buffers are low, not strictly when items are needed.

A true on-demand factory would take ages to produce anything, it would basically not be much faster than handcrafting because the iron plates wouldn't start being created until the pipe is needed, and the pipe wouldn't be needed until the steam engine is needed. But it's much slower to make iron plates than pipes, and much slower to make 10 pipes than make a steam engine. Which is why you absolutely need those buffers.
I’ve seen FAANGMULASS a couple of times.
In my country mostly legislation that taxes small business on revenue even over 50% effective rate and prevents from claiming legitimate business expenses. That wiped off thousands of HGV drivers working through their own small business. They got also smeared by the government as tax dodgers without showing any proof that this was ever the case. They of course blamed that on Brexit.
Thanks Much! Just read some of your comments on things today and it seems we have a little in common.
Have you tried VR at 1080p? I understand your point (one number does not adequately represent "quality of experience") but for VR, 1080p is simply not enough due to the distance to the display (pixels are very visible).
Billionaires have massive personal loans (compared to human needs, not compatrd do their owned equity) collateralized by their business equity.
> Sheboygan that went out of business eight minutes ago due to shipping

Even before covid I used to read about consumer companies that have a shipping problem right before Christmas and go out of business. So I can believe that shipping problems on a scale this large will take time to fix. Thank you for your comment.
"Nitrostyrene" is sometimes used to refer to the whole class of chemicals featuring the phenyl-ethylene-nitro linkage. So it's not wrong to call it "the nitrostyrene method". But the specific nitrostyrene that is a precursor to methamphetamine is 1-phenyl-2-nitro-propene, while the parent compound "nitrostyrene" is 1-phenyl-2-nitro-ethene.
The problem is that often the consequences of letting it burn are most felt by innocent bystanders, rather than the people who are meant to be "taught a lesson".
Ubuntu Mono ... I guess I'm basic.

Even though I haven't used linux for coding for roughly a decade
> violent means (wars, revolutions etc).

Also plagues/disease. Currently relevant.
`which` is an extremely commonly used command, has an intuitive name, is a very small program.

Removing it from the standard distribution would be a huge annoyance to everyone who uses it. One more package you have to remember to install on every system to be productive.
There is USB4 but it's limited to higher end motherboards for now.
There are genuine "disruptive innovations" that are not rent seeking, but by and large that is not what we've seen.

Picking on Amazon for a moment, their original "innovation" was a sales and use tax dodge: based in Washington, they were able to sell books to California without having to charge the relevant sales tax upfront. That margin gave huge room to provide free shipping and other customer conveniences. Technically customers were supposed to pay a self-reported use tax but many did not.

The relevant laws have changed since then, but the general point still stands. Does mere tax and legal arbitrage count as rent-seeking? Absolutely.
Thanks for my daily dose of software engineer imposter syndrome.
That's interesting -- do you have a link for some background information?
This is also why cyber security and infosec has been avoided, ceos don't want to spend the money, until something bad happens and they have no choice, and then its way more expensive to fix after the intrusion.
No, it is very generic. See https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-llvm-optimizes-geo..., https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimiza... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207207)

(I remember reading a page with more examples, but cannot find it)
Nobody likes anything. People hate Google, Reddit, etc but they still use it because it provides utility.
Who wants to bet Zuckerberg is the ONLY one within the company that wants this and other employees are rolling their eyes?
LG smart TV, situated behind a DMZ firewall with only update server open works for me.
Age of Empires IV is now available on Steam
Public transit ETAs are often wrong. Is there a better way to predict the bus?
Nice! I read The Economist weekly (the old fashioned way, from the mail), as well as WSJ, WaPo, NYT, Newsweek, probably ~40 articles a day from Memeorandum, whatever dreck gets put on Twitter, here, and Reddit. I've also got a handful of daily newsletters I subscribe to that I usually get through most of, as well. I'm a bit of a news junky. :)

I don't really have time today to compile a list of proposed tax legislation and their sources (or what I think of those plans), but reading through just the Wyden proposal [0], I can already see more of the "this guy agrees with me politically" crowd coming out than any real example of what Wyden bases this plan on. You've got the bill text, a summary of each section, and a summary of the bill, but no "and here's why we think this". Just the usual "WORKING AMERICANS NEED THIS" filler text that every bill has.

My point is that the "filter of politics" is exhausting and not necessary (to this degree). I do not think it's okay to propose legislation without explaining why it will do what you say, rather than some other thing. We're needlessly rushing the process

[0] - https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-unveils-...
I didn’t “take issue” with UBI, I took issue with using UBI to wholly replace other benefits, which is often proposed. I think that would disproportionately hurt people who have a hard time managing money.

I didn’t say whatsoever that they “cause” issues, it’s not a moral or intellectual failing to be bad with money, it’s hard for a lot of people, but I don’t think most deny that there are people who have a lot of trouble managing money.

What do you propose we do with these people? I personally don’t think we should just throw them to the sharks and tell them to figure it out.
Just in time doesn't mean "buffer free". It means eliminating unnecessary buffers.

When Ford ran out of chips (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/ford-slashes-vehicle-product...) because of its "just-in-time" process, Ford was able to give 2-months of notice before shutting down one of its lines.

That means that Ford had a 2-month buffer __in practice__.

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When you go bot-based, you have full control over the size of your buffers at all steps of your Factorio design. At that point, you realize that smaller buffers are more efficient, and that larger-buffers don't do anything.

Ex: if you achieve maximum throughput with buffer-size 20, you leave it at 20-sized buffers. There's no reason to buffer-up 1000x items when 20-sized buffers work out fine.

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Belts force you to buffer everywhere... and proportionally to the size of the belt. A long belt 1000 tiles long would force you to buffer up 7000 (one side) or 14,000 items (double-sided). The size of these buffers are grossly larger than what anyone needs.

The key buffer size is usually 12 (the stack-inserter's grab size). Maybe 24 or 36 so that you have enough buffering to handle 2 or 3 swings of the stack inserter in case those items don't arrive on time (bots "seemingly randomly" run out of power, from the perspective of that assembly machine)... but anything more than that is redundant. Buffer size 50 (minimum size allowed on chests) are used in practice.
The Art of Dark Forest War
Indeed, rural people in less-developed countries are hardly connected to global trade at all.
It's not just libido. It's lethargy, weight gain, lack of mental motivation, brain fog. There's a lot of SSRI side effects.
There are limits to how a virus can both be deadly and contagious.

That leaves out the whole question of incubation time. The scary thing about COVID is that it gives you several days to a week or more to walk around spreading the infection before you even know you have it.

That's why the reaction in the public health sector was so dramatic. It was the sort of thing that could have easily been much worse than it has turned out to be.

And it's still only one or two mutations away from living up to the worst-case fears: a seriously-deadly virus that spreads all over the world before anyone knows what's happening. One that large sectors of the population have already been preconditioned to deprecate or ignore.
I don't know what the situation is now that Blizzard is no longer really Blizzard, but back in the early years of WoW this was - in large part - because almost every other MMO that launched just plain sucked.

Blizzard was to the gaming industry what people often believe Apple is to the hardware industry. They were the only ones that invested in polished UI, coherent UX, etc. and it was so incredibly noticeable.

I'm sure a lot of this was pressure to get something out quickly to make a "WoW killer", which is what gaming media branded basically every MMO that launched after WoW.
Thomas Hobbes got there first, he called curiosity “a lust of the mind“.
Lean manufacturing isn't just about minimizing book inventory and cash tied in inventory. It helps keep production flexible and responsive, and helps identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies. And it reduces risk -- a car manufacturer holding several months of chips is going to lose that investment every time its chip stock gets obsoleted.

I expect that increasing buffers of material work in progress to levels indifferent to the current mess would be very expensive, very risky and have all sorts of secondary effects.
Good lord, you think that's jargon? No, that's table stakes for a discussion. What you're doing here is the equivalent of mouthing off about combustion engines and then admitting you don't know what a piston is.
Gas producers not having themselves marked as critical infrastructure so ERCOT would not kill power to them and the failure of plants to winterize themselves are self-inflicted.
I often here the analogy to sports when it comes to expertise. And if it often applies, but not always.

Epistemology is simply the study of "the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues." [1]
We all do epistemology, all the time, whether we choose to think about it or not. In sports, we have minor leagues, where the stakes are lower. As the political climate (and the unfortunate affect of things like QAnon) demonstrates, the stakes aren't always lower just because epistemology is done poorly.

Something similar can be said of rhetoric. I applaud this article for not falling a trap we have also seen too often recently, the Appeal to Authority [2]. The author judges someone else's argument solely on the merits, rather than that person's background. To steal the original authors metaphor: Babe Ruth still had to go up to the plate and take a swing. Babe Ruth was an expert baseball player because he hit a lot of home runs. It would bizarre if the opposite were true - that is, if Babe Ruth was given a lot of home runs because he was an expert. And yet, we have experts that try to dismiss plausible (perhaps likely, perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless plausible) scenarios without any explanation as to why they choose to do that. [3][4] And it is incumbent of all of us in a free society to be able to read something presented to us and realize, though we may not be experts, even if the conclusion is right, the argument along the way isn't.

> My point is we're all engaged in this kind of desperate project of trying to feel like we're having new important insights, in a world full of people who are much smarter than we are... Partly this is all for the greater good... I would argue "intellectual exercise" is a better term.

I've come to the conclusion that even if it's not read by many people, public professions are still valuable. As an American who is generally more "conservative" but also finds Trump abhorrent, I wish I had written more random internet posts in the summer of 2015 about how, even from a traditional conservative perspective, Trump is terrible, for the World, for the US, and for Conservatism. Perhaps it would have changed a few people's minds. Maybe it wouldn't have changed anyone's minds, but planted a seed of doubt in people's blind faith for that man. I'm a complete amateur when it comes to all the relevant subjects. Yet, it still seems like it would have been a good thing to do.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
3. https://apnews.com/article/who-report-animals-source-covid-1...
4. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-scien...
I dunno there are lots of ways to get to the same place. Maybe send in lots of expensive lobbiests, make sure the law is vague and complicated, then after it is implemented small social media companies can't legally form because they can't hire enough lawyers/provide better services. And the big companies reveal some sort of loophole that formed in the complexity that lets them keep making money with only minor tweaks to their business. The politicians throw up their hands and blame the other politicians/the 1%/the unvaccinated/immigrants/young people/rap music/whatever for why the mess can't be worked out.

The problem around sec. 230 is that large groups of people disagree. Trying to solve that with law is going to be ugly. The politicians aren't going to roll in and make a useful contribution to how algorithms work technically, or civility on the internet. That is hard enough to do with years of experience working with algorithms - without having to run the lobbyist & special interest gauntlet like legislation does.
What a strange, labyrinthine article. No specific claims or facts, just broad, blurry analogies and unfinished thoughts. I'm on his side of the aisle and I can't even make heads or tails of his point. Not sure if this was written while high or generated by AI in a different language and translated.
Nothing is going to kill email.
Especially since it's easy for founders of such large companies to sell their shares, but give themselves fewer shares with greater voting rights… thereby maintaining control while spreading the wealth.
If they are an American company with no presence in EU they can blatantly ignore the privacy laws
It’s also a bit misleading to frame the company on the decreasing margin of one product: because this hides the fact that the margins across the total company have actually increased.

The smartphone market is saturated: if Apple don’t spend to differentiate (from others and their prior models) then there is no reason to upgrade and that is a lost sale. If sales and upgrades are the result of spending more on the device: that’s not a bad strategy - not every product should stagnate and race to the bottom.

And as mentioned earlier, margins across the whole business are up: so there is clearly a positive balance in making the phones more compelling in order to secure those halo purchases.