skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
getting debunkers' attention, these days, is proof enough that the claim is true. this is not even controversial lol. "vaccines" manufacturers itself describe them as rna vectors. modeRNA has it in its name and stock ticker. it's surprising how stupid propagandists are.
The analysis of Cavalry and Iron is fascinating. As is the correlation between MilTech and Phylogeny (cultural similarity between polities).

I was most surprised that the authors had no strong theories about the role of "agricultural productivity". In addition to building armies from agricultural surplus, the ability to feed horses, people, elephants, etc was key to large military campaign. A common defensive technique against large army campaigns included burning agriculture.. for instance Hannibal's invasion of Rome. ie, the agriculture supply-chain itself seems to be a necessary pre-requisite to military campaigns with thousands of troops.
One bit: “the book was better” crowd are a small vocal minority of the people who watch the book inspired movie. Most moviegoers will never have read the book.
Where I live, the state/county defines eligible jurors as registered voters and/or licensed drivers over 18. So 'peers' meaning eligible voters in your community/county. And yes, the system is rightly more about eliminating bias. The process of voir dire is the opportunity for both sides to apply their own test. Also for special cases, and even not so special cases, jury questionnaires are an option[0]. These jury questionnaires can ask all kinds of questions to uncover bias and certainly involve basic comprehension.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_questionnaire
> I will guess your average human emits more hazardous VOCs than a vinyl record.

As I recall, when Benn did the test, putting the record back in its sleeve caused the air quality to go back to normal.

So whatever VOCs he is emitting, I don't think his meter picked them up.

> I'd put this down to "someone thinks something is cool and fun! we have to show them how wrong they are!"

Re-check the part about "how much my peepee hurts". I really want to like vinyls, but I'm never going to buy one if they're basically Forever Chemicals that got grandfathered in by being part of pop culture decades ago. And Benn says in the video that he could stand to make a lot of money if he sold out and had vinyls of his work manufactured.
The Pi hardware may not support multiple render targets or other features in hardware directly but Zink is not required to (and does not always) emit 1 Vulkan API call for each OpenGL API call. It is free to issue as many as are needed to properly emulate the OpenGL API in a conformant way. That being said I don't think this particularly compatibility is in Zink today but there is nothing preventing it from being possible just because the hardware couldn't create the render targets all in one shot.
£295,000 bottle of wine stolen from Spanish restaurant’s cellar
> There can only be a couple thousand threads at the same time.

You can easily have tens of thousands of threads on Linux. Beyond 50 000 or so you may need to adjust some settings using `sysctl`, but after that you should be able to push things much further.

Task counts themselves are also a pretty useless metric. Sure, you can have may fibers doing nothing. But once they start doing something, that may no longer be the case (this of course depends on the workload).

> Threads are really hard to work with - race conditions everywhere. Async doesn't have this.

You can still have race conditions in async code, as race conditions aren't limited to just parallel operations.
Price per volume is considerably lower than grain, material handling is much more complex (grain is essentially a fluid), it doesn't store as well as grain, it has far fewer uses and users, it isn't very standardized: bale size and type, what plants go into the bales, quality changes over time, seasonality, weather sensitivity... etc.
I think websites like Zillow and Redfin play into housing prices because they provide much more transparency to the RE market.

Previously, you had to physically go in to a RE office and look at a binder of homes that are for sale. It was much more difficult to find comps and price houses correctly, resulting in a lot of opportunity to make a living.

Then pre-zillow / post-internet, home buyers still had to talk to a RE agent to get emailed houses.

Now anyone can sign-up, peruse houses and with 1 click, schedule a tour immediately.
yeah but you're replying to my comment tho so that's what I assumed it was "better" than. doesn't make sense to me otherwise (e.g. from just the article why introduce windows at all)
In 1985 you weren't going to refinance to 2.5%. It's a valid comparison at two points in time, I think.
I have a fairly cheap mechanical exercise bike I bought on Amazon (not near it right now, don't have model handy). By mechanical I mean I adjust the resistance myself. As for which videos I watch - kinda just anything in the YouTube app on the quest 2 which is full 360 or 180. I recently found a good video of a ride through Seattle that was about 45 minutes or so (didn't complete the whole thing, I will probably do it again next). Quality obviously varies but I'm not picky.

Also if you are prone to motion sickness in VR you might not like it. You're always at the position of the cameras of whoever was filming so that's a bit odd - but I find it's good enough for me to get into it.

Any 180 video is probably fine too, but I like turning fully around like I'm on a real bike, seeing what was behind behind cyclist.

The weight of the Quest 2 doesn't bother me as long as it's adjusted properly on my head and yeah it gets sweaty but I don't personally care much as long as I take breaks.
macOS reports (and manages) memory usage a bit strangely; with 16GB and an appropriate workload, you’re certainly swapping. Though with a fast SSD, that’s less of an issue than in the past.
From my perspective of implementing algorithms it matters because if I want to follow the spec correctly, I have to deal with them. Even if you don't want to use them, you pay about 10% for pretty much any function that needs special NaN handling (which is most of them). Also, pre AVX-512, these checks make vectorized algorithms way harder to write efficiently.
It seems to pretty consistently break after suspend, with the text looking like an ms-dos machine with bad vram.

I enabled EGL in response to seeing your comment this morning, then found myself having to turn it back off after the very first suspend/resume.
Old School PC Font Pack
I've always wondered how this would work. Surely if it was possible to reasonably implement OpenGL 4.6 on the PI GPU it would already be done through Mesa.
In Catholic Europe it was culturally enforced apart from exceptional situations (like you have to harvest your grain and rain is coming). Sabbath literally means "Saturday" in many central-European languages, so celebrating on Sundays had no Jewish associations. In fact it was the opposite because Jews didn't observed Sundays, so you could be called "a Jew" for not observing Catholic holidays including Sundays.

Feeding animals didn't counted as work, just like nowadays people don't think cooking for your family or brushing your teeth is work.
> is it hard to get the results back out

It's trivially easy to get the results, here's a quick example:

require "async"
require "open-uri"

results = []

Async do |task|
task.async do
results << URI.open("https://httpbin.org/delay/1.6")
end

task.async do
results << URI.open("https://httpbin.org/delay/1.6")
end
end
While wireless solutions have their pluses, ultimately the least aggravating setup in the long run is probably to run a wire.

Consider an HDMI splitter + running HDMI cables to each location you want a display. Normal HDMI cables run up to about 10 metres but there are active cables that can do 100+ metres.
I will definitely check it out thanks!
> I personally feel that large part of my work is really leisure

You're (we're) in a privileged position. Most jobs are drudgery: data entry specialists, cashiers, warehouse workers, assembly line workers, shop assistants. To them, every day at work is the same, and something different happening is a sign of things going wrong.
Well, if the crisis ever ends. Any crisis can in principle lead to a new Detroit, with 40 years of depressed asset values. Assuming that a crash is just a temporary decline requires a selective memory.
Yeah I didn't compute the Bayes factor mostly because I'm on mobile and was heading out the door. But when the prior you are plugging in is "did this person murder their son", you need a pretty hefty likelihood ratio to push that into the territory of "lock this person up for life".

If you have p(D|H) = 0.8 (hit rate) and p(D|H') = 0.05 (false positive), that gives an LR (likelihood ratio) of 16.

But that's if you had like, a perfect detection situation. I'm not a fan, but it's probably enough to push a search into probable cause°, since if you find contraband, you now have field drug tests, which are also kinda crap°°, but it pushes your hypothesis. Then you seize the drugs and have the highly sensitive and selective lab tests of chemical analysis at your disposal. You have a chain of tests updating your prior.

We have no such chain in the cabin test. It's just "dog signaled" -> some other circumstantial evidence -> jury convicts of murder.

° - that's assuming the handler is being unbiased, vs just giving the cops an excuse to search.

°° - field drug tests basically only catch broad classes of molecules or functional groups, when performed correctly. Like drug dogs, often they too are just theater to intimidate/coerce more searching
the point is that even after just 10 years you could've changed your interest rate to be just a third. If you take the lowest possible interest rates for each year in the 30 year period it would be much closer to the rate now than the rate then.
I think you misunderstood my question. Indeed with `DISPLAY=:0 glxgears` I can run something on my screen from a different virtual terminal (perhaps even an ssh session), but what I mean is that my desktop environment takes the PATH environment variable from somewhere and I don't know where. When I run 'josm' in the Alt+F2 dialog, it can't find the command, even though in my bashrc I configured my PATH to include ~/bin/.
I still think there are also questions which are best answered straight, like 'how many bytes does a float have? Do arrays start with 0 or 1 in this language? Is printf of %s with null argument, undefined behaviour, implementation defined or actually standard conforming'.
IMO, 8 and 16 bit posits are way better than the float equivalents, but for 32 and 64 bits, floating point math is easier to analyze.
It isn't clear. I'm sure I wash my clothes more than they did. I suspect dishes to them were rarely washed, while wash every use. Sure I have machines to do the work, but I suspect I spend more as much time, but im getting better quality results.
To me, it's very clear. Drone warfare will be the next big thing after a nuke, and ICBM.

Probably it's the only thing which can shift the power poles from the current nuclear states.
Sadly, it appears that many of the beacons are going away: https://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
I don’t have a problem with the concept of “the metaverse”.

I have a problem with Facebook’s vision of the metaverse.
I went with Orange Pi 3. I would need measure exactly, but with U-Boot compiled without unnecessary things (USB etc.) it starts loading kernel pretty much immediately. In total boot to my graphical application which uses KMS/OpenGL was something around 2 seconds.
The same people that offer loans for cars...
I believe I understand the essay and really liked it.

But it does seem to be at the intersection of more than one interesting theme. That cross section obviously is important to the author, and I feel like I got it.

But I will need to re-read the essay later to see if I can identify each theme more clearly, and then better understand the convergence of ideas the author sees.

For a start, maybe:

- Humans are making a mess of things

- Priding ourselves on the individual internal overcomplicated unreliable maps of the world we each have built, causes a great deal of this harm.

- [EDIT: ADDED] This is a deeply toxic dual breakdown of both rationality and motivation/values.

- Maintaining focus instead on continually getting only the most important things about the world right, would help us think more clearly and effectively.

- Obtaining an explicit understanding of the subconscious values we each individually operate from, would help each us make better choices in terms of values.
That still requires a massive distributed investment in infrastructure to support this. Every game that you want to show off your painting in needs to a) support importing any of these "portable NFT-based items", b) actually implement the models (and any necessary supporting code) for them in their own format, whatever that happens to be, and c) implement restrictions based on checking the ownership of NFTs against some identifier for the actual items.

Again: Every game/environment that you want to bring your NFT-items to has to implement this. And they're not getting paid to do so, because your NFT money is going to whoever is brokering them. Where the hell is the incentive...?
A nice balanced article from the ever-neutral post - what a rag
No, I mean that in contrast to the other side of the discussion (zig’s errors).

And affine types are not here for borrow checking, it’s closer to the opposite. Affine types are a formalisation of RAII, borrow checking is a way to make references memory-safe without runtime overhead which mostly avoids unnecessary (and sometimes impossible requiring allocations & refcounting) copies of affine types.
Why? They gave "it's possible" proof. They rip benefits of doing it first - all good. Now it's time for competition to pick it up, possibly improve on it or fade away Intel style.
> If you find this useful, let me know, and I’ll write another one about helping students who are pair programming.

Just want to say, I found this very useful! This is a problem I’ve been trying to solve recently, with only some limited success. (I also want to second the other comment about providing an RSS feed.)
Condors are not raptors.
I actually much prefer this. When things try to be technology agnostic, or too generic you end up with the lowest common denominator for features.
Is "mathematics" a thing in our physical universe? Many people argue it's an abstract set of constructions with no physical reality in themselves. Sounds kind of outlandish and bizarre according to your criteria.

> Everything is physical and obeys the laws of physics which themselves are governed by the laws of mathematics.

If you define "physical" to mean "literally everything" then of course having something outside of Physics is logically impossible. That is a different definition to the work "physical" that we are working with in terms of the mind. In that case "physical" doesn't mean "literally everything" but rather more like "those things that correspond to an external, verifiable, objective reality". For you, ideas and concepts would be considered physical, but that is not the case for the definition of "physical" I mentioned, which is far more common in both religion and philosophy.

In this case we would say that ideas and concepts are not physical. So an easy answer to your question "Can you give me an example of anything that doesn't exist within this physical universe? I'm not familiar with the concept of a "thing" that isn't physical." would be literally any concept or idea. However since you have a universalist (and thus totally useless) definition of "physical", of course it is impossible for me to argue that there is anything outside of that.

PS. As a doctor in quantum physics myself, I can tell you that statistics and probability is certainly a way of modelling outcomes, and not in any way considered a fundamental element of reality.
(A GPGPU framework, to save others a click.)
Peace. Not having an army sell you into slavery or burn/steal all of your possessions is a precursor for
capital formation
No clue... I could be wrong, but the underlying technology for ActionCable is Web Sockets and I'm not sure what problems async would solve there.
Tesla Sentry Mode live camera on mobile also has a talkback-to-vandal feature
Right, that was being generous, assuming the ideal conditions, double blinded, so that any cues from the handler will only add noise and move the needle towards chance.

In actuality, the police drug dogs are basically just an excuse to get into the vehicle, so they can justify anything they find post-hoc and ignore all other intrusions.
> I hope people understand that the argument the article presents is largely a romanticization of poverty

I think the opposite is the interesting factor here: late-stage capitalism has demonized the ‘grinding poverty’ and ‘unremitting hardship’ of these earlier ages, to keep our present-day noses to the life-destroying grindstone.
That’s not what people mean when they say “Facebook sells user data”.
Does Falcon + Async allow a second request to be processed while the first is blocked on a network call?

For example:

* HTTP request 1 requires information for which we can't respond immediately.. so we hold the connection open and respond in a few seconds.

* Can HTTP request 2 come in at the same time?

EventMachine enabled the above with what they called "streaming responses"
Speaking of examples of food innovation aiding military campaigns, Napoleon's army was responsible for the development of canned food[1].

[1] https://unrealfacts.com/napoleon-bonaparte-role-canned-food-...
> playing one will definitely do a bit of liver damage if you're near it

That sounds a bit exaggerated. There is evidence that occupational exposure to PVC compounds causes liver damage or cancer, and that’s mostly regarding workers in production lines. You’d have to be closely sniffing your record collection for hours on end to get the same effect.

If this was true you’d have entire generations from the 19x0s suffering from liver failure, as vinyl was the only media available, with billions of records sold.
Thinking about it, but writing a book is a large effort, I am not getting any younger and, to be honest, it is a bad idea from an economic point of view. My bestsellers, if you can call them that, sell about 30 copies per year.
I think I use much more utensils, pans and plates than in those times. Cups too. Also I wear clean underpants everyday ( well, this is a small lie ).

I fix and change secondhand clothes, but I do have a sewing machine. Other things I fix were unfanthomable then, some fixes take weeks. My Selectric III for example.
This is how you get to a place where college education is triple the cost of the rest of Europe (and much worse in quality), healthcare is double the cost and much worse in quality, and housing is skyrocketing.

"But I thought subsidizing these things would make them cheaper! Here, take more of my money!!"

Here's a life pro-tip:

When you are spending too much on something, the solution is to spend less, not more.
overton window for males' extermination? nothing that comes out of california can be trusted these days
The Hedonistic Treadmill. We're incredibly richer, but we are wired to always want something nicer.

We can wash our clothes so much easier but we insist on washing them after every wear. The net result is the same amount of time spent washing clothes (but they are always nicer).
It is an intentionally skeuomorphic design, critical to its entertainment value as a toy. A simple box with a play button would not fulfill the same goals.
Drones warfare will really have a big affect on small conflicts, not great power conflicts. Look at the recent Azerbaijan/Armenia war. Drones give the power of having a full fledged air force to small countries.
Thanks! Will do
So I think the value of a signed book (which I agree in itself is dubious) is based in the provable history and scarcity of the artifact. You know that this individual copy of the book you are holding was touched by the author themself. There is something romantic about that, and you have something nobody else has.

With an NFT, your "copy" of the actual work is totally indistinguishable from every other. The whole concept of ownership here is also incredibly abstract.

I'm not saying there will never be a legitimate use case for something like an NFT, but I think we haven't seen it yet.
The edit button goes away after a while - if there is a way to edit after that has happened I’d happily use it.
I am reading Jean Froissart’s Chronicles. It is a fascinating first hand account of English royalty and wars in the 14th century. I think people should also consider the higher classes in those times because they seem to have worked continuously at killing each other. It’s work none the less.
I think you were downvoted because somebody didn't catch your reference.
I don't have a lot of sources and GNU Cash had a problem with importing my bank's output XLS files. So every three months (quarter) I copy paste my transactions into an excel sheet. I have one account that I use for unimportant and small transactions. So all the small transactions get separated from the main accounts which I track meticulously. I categorise transactions and I know exactly how much money I've spent on all the different categories.
I think we just have to rethink what being a good person is. Workers have way wayyy more power than people think, they just need unity and the ability to say 'Fuck you' to the systems and people that harm more than help.

And keep in mind; of course those systems and their people tell you that they help more than harm. UBI is totally not necessary. The market works with minimal intervention if people are able to live fearlessly.
Ask HN: What Internet decentralization techniques do you think are promising?
I am looking for a topic for my master's thesis. I am mainly interested in networks and the concept of decentralization of the Internet. Do you think of any techniques, besides blockchain and DHT, that are worth exploring in this area? Has anything in this topic particularly caught your attention recently?
It's a reflection that 20 years ago the simulation was truly only limited by the graphics and interface hardware.
Wow! I’m the author and this is a really good response. I really appreciate the detail you’ve gone into here.

I’m really thankful to hear your different viewpoints in a respectful manner.

Re: Minecraft. I realize that Minecraft is just an analogy and rather links is a better example of the “decentralized” nature of the metaverse. But I’ll definitely check out Cory’s talks about interop as I admittedly can learn a lot more there.
Not really. In my experience management largely doesn't like it and neither do the employees.

I think it is mostly designed to document issues with low performers to have as evidence for their eventual termination.

I try to use it to improve and there are some suggestions that help and in theory it can better align manager and employee expectations. I use it to explain my long term career goals to my manager so he knows what I need and he can relate to me if he wants me to make any changes to reach the goals of the group and company.
The Internet / Web was an evolving ecosystem of enthusiasts and companies, with academic roots, standards, and years of evolution.

Metaverse is a gimmick, just like Web3 and Second Life, and Microsoft Bob, etc...

Grumble grumble...
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Nice plants!
I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I agree that the marketing and hype behind NFTs are pretty toxic. But I don't think its true that all people even tangentially involved in that space are scam artists or gullible.