skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broadband is one of the primary signifiers of modern oligarchical capitalism, which I personally would argue is the practical end-state of real-world laissez-faire free market deregulation:

A bunch of entrenched supercorps or single large corp that then establishes entry barriers to stifle competition, and then take huge handouts enabled by lobbyists from large governments to further the competitive imbalance with upstarts.

That's why almost every major market in the US is dominated by a cartel of companies if not a monopoly. Even markets that have been "well tuned" to be fairly commodified aren't, like cars (Toyota and GM dominate), and mobile communications (we're almost down to two: AT&T and Verizon, would have been if the T-Mobile merger wasn't shot down), health insurance (down to like UHG and two others), etc etc etc.

Even agriculture, about as decentralized and commodified a market as I can imagine, has ADM and Cargill dominating secondary markets (I am not an expert here that's just what I'm told) in subtle ways and family farms aren't competitive with industrial farming operations.

I'm not going to deny "The Democrats" may be engineering a giveaway, but "The Democrats" are just one of the two public faces of an underlying oligarchical controlling system that either uses "The Republicans" or "The Democrats" to extract what they need from the US government, depending on who is in powers.

If Democrats are in power - extract stimulus money as they use Keynesian economics to stimulate the economy

If Republicans are in power - extract tax cuts as they use Milton Friedman economics / trickle down

Regardless of who is in power - tweak every bill to include barriers to entry and strengthen their market position.
No.

It does not need a 'DAO' because that would be 'DOA'.

Any sort of utility that comes from the Ethereum community ends up being misleading or ultimately a complete scam.
So, roughly 70% are running Catalina or later.

This is pretty good. Macbooks do usually get software updates for many years - as do iPhones and iPads of late.

People who bought early Apple Watches (some of which were very expensive!) didn't get updates past watchOS 4 however, which was sad to see.
This is wrong. The difference between the two is that Restic uses multi-threading and Borg currently doesn't. Both just scan the filesystem and add files to the backup set as they go.
Presumably because, the further you transport electrical energy, the more it is prone to be lost as heat.
This holds a life lesson: you haven't actually "won" until you've managed to get the other party to pay you. Goes in casinos as well as finance and business.

Corollary: the best way to win is the one where others don't care or don't even realise you have won. Try to find a niche others don't care about and find in it regular, small wins. Don't go into a highly contested arena and try to win big. Even if you think you have won, you'll never get paid that way.
Just beware - the expected value of the authors simulated blackjack counting is quite good. This is due in part to the crazy “spread” (the ratio of max bet to min bet) of 100-to-1. This illustrates the profitability of the model well, but it’s unrealistic.

A more typical spread of 10-to-1 ekes out an expected value of ~0.5% (see https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/card-counting/high-...). When I was counting, I could barely hit $15/hr expected value. Hardly worth the effort, I found it very demanding to keep track of the count at Vegas dealer speeds and play perfect blackjack for hours on end.
This is from a preofessor in the Netherlands, 2016
He's giving lots of strategies, other than "Olivine all the things":
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/olivine-weathering-t...

This is a whitepaper from that professor 2017:
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...

His own summarized blogpost, where he is representing the "Olivine Foundation": https://smartstones.nl/the-rate-of-olivine-weathering-an-exp...

So I'm thinking this is probably a good foundation to start from.
How long before someone can convince the US, much less China to olivine their fields?

This is not a fake problem. It's a series of problems. I have edited a previous post in the thread to concede the technical effectiveness of this solution.
How? Apple is spending it’s money to help promote apps on it’s service, i feel like people attack apple whatever they do.

But doesn’t this help defend a 30% app fee, when apple is also paying marketing costs to help the app get more customers through it’s service?
When i was there in 2006-2009, it only existed in theory.

Sure, you could do a 20% project, but you would still be judged only on what you accomplished in you regular role.
I've been watching a lot of films recently. Films started getting better during the 80s, leading to a golden era from 90s to 2000s, I feel CGI has contributed to a drop in quality. Especially in action films

I've also tried to avoid selection bias: I've seen bad (& not funny B-movie bad) films from the 90s

Death Proof is a masterpiece discarding CGI

This isn't to say there aren't good films anymore, there definitely are, CGI isn't what makes them good tho
> "We should straight get the bigger economies to shoulder infra construction in weaker economies no strings attached"

Who is meant by "we" in this sentence? And in what ways do you consider that it's plausible to "get them to shoulder it" in excess of whatever they freely choose to do?

> We’re all extinct anyway if we don’t do it.

Citation needed - the IPCC published worst case scenarios are far from extinction, and especially in the countries which would shoulder the burden the expected damage the local consequences are "very bad" in the sense that a few percent decrease in GDP growth is an enormously large economic damage. It's not clear if spending 5% of GDP on that (or much more, if you expect them to "shoulder the burden" as well) would be worth it for them, since they'll have to invest in local mitigations anyway due to the already accumulated greenhouse gases.

5% of global gross product is a lot. For example, it's more than what the world affords to spend on all kinds of education together. It's far more than what would cost to truly eliminate world hunger and most major diseases. It's an order of magnitude more than what the world has devoted for charitable purposes. It's literally the equivalent of mobilizing 400 million people to work only on that thing - if the expected bad consequences of climate change are e.g. 200 million displaced people, then that's very bad, but it's not worth to have 400 million people devote their lives to prevent 200 million from needing to migrate.
I wonder if Ferrari needs more programmers.
https://archive.md/8TuNX
let me start by saying i love this idea.

> You need to change your view on bookmarks: they are mostly a data source.

ill try to integrate this mental model.

But still this seems far less flexible for me then what is currently set up. I spend very little time maintaining my setup, actually to me its conducive to how i read articles in general. Highlighting for example, if i see something important ill reread the sentence until im sure i understand what of its point/implications. i nearly always have time to highlight something..

> I bookmark and hope I will remember the keywords.

i dont see this as a reliable system. My memory is not perfect.

> Except it's worse, because you'll have wasted time and money creating a complicated knowledge assimilation stack

its no different then your 4 level process just outlined, which even relies on sql, a deal breaker for ~95% of the population. you still have a mental model for your system, same as i do. You're correct on the money aspect. But to me the value far exceeds the cost. The setup is frankly very simple, save article for now or later, read, highlight anything interesting and add my thoughts, those automatically appear anywhere i need them device wise, and spaced reptition is automatically sent to me each morning. I wouldnt switch to manually writing SQL queries of bookmarks and relying on my memory if you paid me.

> It's like new years resolution: you'll give up after a while because of the effort/commitment required

On the contrary.. i rely on simple short habits and system building to be efficient long term. My setup fits both those criteria.

--

But again, this stuff ultimately is a preference, your tone almost seems to suggest everyone should only set bookmarks and search their contents using SQL queries, which is mind boggling to me. Your perspective is appreciated however.
> Let work be work and let people recharge with family and friends if they prefer.

Instead of that, you’ll get HR peddling their Modern Health subscription that they’re paying unknown amounts for.
Price?... Cloudflare is completely Free, so surely it beats AWS on cost?
I stopped investing in SaaS/Cloud silos in 2015 by deleting my Dropbox.
At the time markdown and folders were sufficient to organize my processes. After a while I got tired of the clutter and invested some time to familiarize myself with Emacs and Org-mode. This and Synology sync (or any self-hosted cloud solution) are adequate and future-proof way of managing, collecting and working with information.
Org-mode can be simple and quick, you can export to markdown, pdf, html at any time. Org-mode can be extended and complicated.
And all of this without giving a dime to SaaS bonanza.:)
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Voter fraud.
Yep, I worked directly in ad tech with them. Honestly, I thought it was great. We get better and better hardware available for cheaper and you can always pay more for a different brand and not have ads.
Not quite. I'm not saying that won't happen for anyone. I'm saying that's not the goal, nor would it be necessarily true for the kind of person mentioned.
In general, yes absolutely.

It becomes more questionable when that product is on the backend of hundreds of thousands of engineer-hours dedicated to optimizing engagement. Bit like saying "sorry bud, we don't want your chemical engineering talent in our meth shop unless you are a meth addict, surely you understand self-hosting enables us to make a superior product"
I’ve definitely seen people take credit card cash advances from ATMs in casinos.
You are right to be cynical. I'm looking at the CPUC "Proposed Middle Mile" network that would be funded in California -- and it largely overlaps existing service. The Metropolitan Bay Area would be well-funded with this project, while entire rural areas are not included at all.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=e17e4e...
What're the most recent tls features IE5 supports? Does it even work with non-sha1 certs?
And just recently on here I was talking about how MS is known for backwards compat but we actually observe Linux doing it better
Not really, no. It usually goes like in this thread: Someone had a problem with software X and switched to software Y. Someone else had the opposite experience. It's worth pointing out that Borg and other hash-deduplicating backup tools regularly find faulty hardware where other backup tools wouldn't notice the data getting corrupted (e.g. many people advocate for "plain" backup tools like rsnapshot or just having an rsync cronjob, but all of these are unable to check the integrity of backups). Sometimes, users point to the backup tool (sometimes they're right and it's a bug, but usually it's a bad stick of RAM or a hard drive loosing a few bits here and there).
Notion allows to create much more structured data than Evernote-like apps, which are usually just flat collections of pages. It's kinda a mixture of OneNote with WorkFlowy/Dynalist and some simple spreadsheet capabilities. In other words: nothing new, not perfect and not particularly fast, but conveniently packaged and flexible enough for most people to manage their workflow from a single app
I agree too! It's the BEST!
How much does a solar shade cost?
A couple comments: first, you know full well that your comment is aimed at everyone who considered use of ivermectin, not just “horse paste formulations” - rebranding ivermectin that way was part of the misinformation pushed by CNN and a significant portion of the political left as the COVID culture wars heated up, and it remains wrong still. Ivermectin is correctly described as a Nobel prize winning drug, not “horse paste”. Second, a big reason some people resorted to those particular formulations is because politically biased pharmacy workers were refusing to fill prescriptions people legitimately got from their doctor, which again was a result of the COVID culture war pushed by people calling ivermectin “horse paste”. Third, tone down your aggression. Not only is it inappropriate for this place, but it just weakens your argument further.
GoReleaser v1.0.0 Released
WSL2 itself also runs in a VM
The problem there is that it’s not always obvious ahead of time what does and doesn’t have ads, and that on occasion manufacturers decide to ad advertisements after the fact. Additionally, many people are unaware of the nature of the data being gathered about them, so they’re not actually making an informed decision here.
> - If crunch time is "unavoidable," apologize and pay me for it. 1.5x for every hour over 40 would go a long way towards making me not resent the blundering middle managers that got us into the "we have to release yesterday" situation

This doesn’t really work in practice.

You’d think that forcing the company to pay more to hit a deadline would be a disincentive, but instead it makes crunch time forgivable because the company is paying extra for it. “What are you complaining about? You’re getting time and a half to work those extra 20 hours!”

It also does nothing to address the core problem of overwork leading to burnout. If anything, it lures people deeper into burnout because for many people it’s hard to turn down extra money.

Finally, I haven’t seen good results from offering crunch time pay incentives for many reasons, but the most unexpected is that the incentives are very lopsided across the team. An experienced developer who has young kids at home may not be able to stay late, but an inexperienced junior straight of college with nearly zero external obligations may be able to put in 80 hours of poking around the codebase while racking up huge paychecks for contributing very little. Worst case, the seniors end up with even more work because they have to go back and rework a project that was done by juniors working crunch time while their usual senior/mentor peers were unavailable. The incentives of extra hourly crunch time payouts get weird very quickly.
Microservices, Reasoning about Boundaries
It's an antritrust suit.
“Making money” is not a humane endeavour. Just that.

Helping people, raising a family, being virtuous…

“Making money” is just so void of content.

Companies either exist for human beings or are just despicable.

But this is just my opinion obviously.
Fantastic dive into the applications of graphs, thank you.
Version 1 was from a company named Writely. Google massively refactored and rewrote it afterwards though.
I like hyperbolic feisty writing sometimes just as I like really spicy food sometimes.

Some people never like really spicy food, but that doesn’t mean restaurants shouldn’t serve it.
>Is there a lossless format that's smaller than the original DV? The 1.5TB I have is still annoying to handle.

Been a long time since I dealt with it, I converted all my remaining DV at long last start of the decade, so I might be fuzzy here. But IIRC the DV video codec itself was some 90s-era lossy, and the audio was flat out uncompressed. Before doing anything else I'd try doing something at the filesystem level, like putting it on a ZFS fs with big (at least 1 MB) records and a somewhat more aggressive compression like zstd-3 and see what happens. Even though video and audio is normally a very bad match for general reversible compression, for really old partly raw stuff you might get some level of savings for free which maybe would be good enough. Worth poking anyway since it'd be so lazy, I'd try it myself if I hadn't converted it all already.

For actual reencode, if you want real lossless try taking a look at x265's lossless (and near-lossless) modes [0]. Gonna be bigger than even ultra high quality lossy but should still offer improvement over DV. For the audio probably just use FLAC. You can put both into an mkv. If you can be satisfied with visually lossless then of course you can do much better, but that depends on whether you might want to use it as a source for more editing down the road.

Finally, not sure what you mean by "annoying to handle" but 1.5TB isn't actually that much anymore. Are you sure you can't just throw hardware at it? Even a basic 2TB NVMe SSD right now is <$180 (and that's including a premium from the supply chain shortage, I bought cheaper drives last spring). Entry NVMe drives might be 30-50% the speed of higher end ones, but that still equates to gigabytes per second of sequential r/w which is what you'll be leaning on for video. Compared to the value of your time and futzing with it, just putting it on a stick or two might be worth it, particularly if you then back it up to Backblaze or Glacier or the like.
Right, it's where the mob is and where the journalists and politicians are. They use and watch Twitter very closely and it informs what actions they take. Companies too.
> Imagine all the CO2 of a century of industrial development but also without any of the amenities of modern life.

Most people on earth still live in conditions that are nowhere near the kind of development you are likely enjoying. They are also those who will feel the effects of man-made climate change most.

That is why this argument falls flat. We didn't buy this kind of living standard with some future self-inflicted suffering: your amenities of modern life are bought with the suffering of others.

But the deal is done and over. Now a debt is owed.
I think you should learn to "channel" this desire to communicate in a way that respects the site guidelines. Otherwise, it would be pure chaos.

Read these guidelines, think, breathe, and continue sharing your knowledge. Trust me, a lot of people are eager to read interesting comments. Just do it while respecting these guidelines.
Common Lisp REPL Video
duo has been successful?
Fascinating stuff. I guess CGI probably killed all the creative ways you had to work with materials to get the effects you need like this one.
> Suppose it costs X to do Y

Don't. You can't predict prices like that. Consider that electric cars roll out of the factory having emitted more CO2 than the equivalent combustion vehicle. It takes a lot of miles to break even. If you put a price on the CO2, you may well figure out that combustion engines end up more efficient, because carbon-neutral fuel is close to being economical.

> But then they'd still be better off spending that money to subsidize electric cars or solar panels or something.

This is a huge mistake. Don't pick winners. You don't have better information than the market.
It seems like you’re assuming our current culture stays constant. I’m pretty sure it’s going to change quite drastically after we have our first million+ death heat wave. It’s going to suddenly seem a hell of a lot more tacky to be driving a huge Chevy Tahoe.

Which is to say that things that seem impossible politically might suddenly become very politically possible.
I'll argue that finish was the truly artistic part; the foam trick had probably been done before to "make meat pop out".

It's a beautiful finish on film and survives the packing and unpacking and some rough motion. That's nothing to sneeze at. I'm sure someone with more experience could go into more detail, and would appreciate more education on it myself.
Industry would be more competitive if FAANG were regulated appropriately IMO.

But a lot of comp in tech is benchmarked against FAANG. Specifically if you are a startup trying to hire top 80th-90th percentile people. If their pay fell, I'm pretty confident the top end of industry pay would as well, despite more competition/productivity. Median pay likely unaffected.

Even when you consider the low marginal cost to produce SaaS and similar, the same is true of any competitor. So you'd expect a highly competitive cloud (e.g.) landscape to be low margin despite low cost to provide.

Looking specifically at Azure, AWS, Google Cloud... They become somewhat of a local monopoly over their customers due to costs of switching. The higher barrier/cost to switching to a competitor, the greater pricing power the company has. Even considering that the first choice has a lot of competition.

Anyway, long story short, I think regulation that enables low cost of switching is inevitable in the longer run. As this provides the most competitive landscape, this highest net benefit to society. Would need to be crafted intelligently though.
How about simply turning away the unvaccinated from hospitals for Covid care? Is that less or more humane than holding them under house arrest?

PS: I think arguments justifying such mandates for avoiding overwhelming of hospitals will further enrage anyone who was already against universal healthcare because it becomes yet another avenue for govt/bureaucratic manipulation of people's lives.
Until they catch fire and release that CO2 right back into the atmosphere.

We’ve seen this happen with carbon capture programs already.
Like lust, laziness, envy, pride, and wrath… Avarice is one of the primary wrong impulses. Yes.

What have we done with love, mercy…
> and clear as day you can see the lower part of the actors body come out a hole in the ground

Screencap: https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Aliens_goofs?file=A2blactorholep...

(fixed in the bluray)

from https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Aliens_goofs
Good, cheaper displays for Pi with Kodi.
everything works fine in wsl2 too including the fuse mounts. go golang!
During the TV-fueled boom of no-limit hold’em and around Chris Moneymaker’s WSOP main event win, friends and I would travel every year to Vegas to play in the side games and satellites leading up to the WSOP. Staying in the (now gone) Imperial Palace for $25/night, it was relatively easy to beat the single-table satellites by enough to pay for the flights the first Friday and then grind out an overall profit on the rest of the days.

That’s a special case of “big advantage in skill” in the sense that the WSOP/TV boom drew a bunch of players with way more aspiration than skill/experience and the games were easily beatable by players of typical home game winner level of skill as a result.
32-bit support is not coming back, and nor should it. Having a mix of apps means having both 32-bit and 64-bit copies of system libraries loaded in memory all the time, which is inefficient.

For security reasons, you probably should partition your Mac, run Catalina or Big Sur* on your main partition with your personal stuff, PGP keys, and other important things, and have a separate partition with Mojave for your legacy apps. If those are mostly games, then you may be better off with a Windows partition instead of Mojave, because that would support even more games.

* A1502 does not get Monterey, I think.
I realize that it probably doesn’t pay, but it wouldn’t be that difficult to implement just a form to type queries and a basic html result page that works without javascript.
Windows system backup requires support for correctly handling pretty much every NTFS feature, even (especially) the most obscure ones. While a generic file backup tool works fine for Linux and BSD system backups, it's hopeless for Windows. You need a tool that's specifically designed to do that.
It reminds me a little of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, just a bit more concrete.
In that case, why not just say that unvaccinated people at the hospital because they have COVID will be deprioritized, and dispense with all of the other mandates and stuff with the vaccine?