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There is a really interesting take on Beria in what is possibly the best Stalin's biography ("Court of the Red Tzar"). Apparently, Beria saw himself a successor to Stalin who would put the country onto a milder course, and he was looking forward to redeeming himself in the face of history. There was something to the effect of him saying that his children would get educated at Oxford. And he did not mean it how current Russian elites do it (so that their seed can escape the country they have been destroying), but rather to highlight his appreciation for Western values / education / culture and willingness to learn from the recent WW2 allies and adapt their methods on USSR territory. The whole idea of "my children will study at Oxford" coming from someone like Beria was shocking.

Beria was by all means a horrible person. But Khruschev (or anybody else really that high up the Soviet totem pole) was as much of an executioner and a murderer. It's just that Khruschev has won and he got to make Beria a (justified) boogeyman. Now we know of Khruschev as just an inefficient manager who took off his shoe at UN and not as a person who called arresting 308 people a poor performance for 1936 Moscow or a person who orchestrated bloody repressions in Ukraine.

At the same time, although Beria's activities were pure terror during Stalin's rule, chances are, if Beria did come to power, he'd have been a better ruler than Kruschev from the humanistic perspective (less people would have been murdered and sent to camps, less errors made etc.). But that's a lot of "ifs".

It does sound wild (to me as well), but then there is evidence of USSR
party elites (e.g. Kaganovich) turning from maniacs and terrorists into peaceful bureaucrats overnight upon Stalin's death.
>> Conflating N95 respirators with masks indicates you are not arguing in good faith

Why?

I am not the parent and also not a native English speaker - is it not common to call respirators also "masks"? Does that term refer to surgical masks only? I live in the Czech Republic and the Czech word "maska", which is translated as "mask" (and I assume comes from the same latin origin) is pretty general term used to refer to basically anything that covers something.

If it is not a general term, do people in the US still really use surgical masks with the intention of protecting themselves from Covid? Where I live we would be talking about FFP2 and above, discussing surgical masks as covid protection would be irrelevant because no one wears them (granted, many people do not wear anything). Is it not like that in the US?
> If you see it as a qualified workforce preservation program, then it is quite successful.

No it isn't. This workforce is not innovating can creating new things learning new things. They are working on technology from the past with tools from the pasts and methods from the past.

> (maybe hypersonic missiles? nuclear thermal rockets?)

How about you have your workforce try to build those instead of blowing 2 billion a year on a nothing.

Or how about this crazy idea, this workforce could work at places like SpaceX, Firefly, RocketLab and so on. This crazy thing called private companies.

Where is the billions of $ the government spends to keep a bunch of computer scientist and programmers to spin their wheels? It doesn't exist because it makes no sense. If they want something there is plenty of workforce there to get it.

Giving people pretend work when you could just as well give them real work is literally the dumbest thing I have ever heard. And its nothing but a galaxy brain rationalization of idioitic pork politics.

And if that was even remotely the thinking, it would actually make far, far, far, far more sense to do it for nuclear technology not rocket technology. Yet there the knowledge is getting lost very fast and nobody cares.

Your exploitation makes flat out no sense.
C++ IDEs predate the existence of Java, let alone Java IDEs. Microsoft Visual C++ was excellent for the time, and did most of what you expect a modern IDE to do. In 1993.
For a quick overview of containers I found https://wizardzines.com/zines/containers/ super helpful.
I'm really glad to see that the OP found help, but my experience with depression is that when depression is at its peak, that's when all the work that one puts into organization, productivity and tracking systems goes out the window.

Logging? Journalling? I'm having trouble enough getting out of bed and putting one foot in front of the other. I don't have energy for any of that.

To be clear, I'm not actually in a depressed phase now, but when I was in the past, that was my experience. Anything but the simplest of to-do lists was too much overhead.
YOU are faster with Typescript. Can you accept the fact that certain people are not and do not like Typescript?
You live in a Typescript bubble so you conclude everyone is doing that. Just open a jobs board and see for yourself not everyone is doing Typescript.
Indeed. I used to have cable, over 100 channels for $30 and MythTV hooked up to record whatever I wanted.

To replicate that today I'd need to subscribe to many different services all with separate monthly fees and way less conveniece (a single unified interface through MythTV was magical).

So I don't watch any TV anymore, oh well. More time to code.
Dwarf Fortress is two people + lots of donors but it's my favourite small team.

Single person, Ultima Ratio Regum: https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/games/ultima-ratio-regum/
I agree, but also have to add:
Does any (normal, non digital) art (say picture or sculpture) have any value itself? Besides the value of the material of course.
It is easier to re task someone with 20 years experience building manned rockets to make icbms than someone with 20 years experience in banking
But that sounds exactly like the memory in long/short term memory recurrent neural networks (LSTM RNN)
You’re very much going against the scientific consensus with that statement. General intelligence is exactly what IQ tests measure.
How many have been given the opportunity to do so? Could a pure apprenticeship model without universities (but still with lots of theory) work for engineering professions?
Or the steps to reduce suffering are clear to them. You just don't like the conclusion they drew and don't approve.

There is insufficient affordable housing in the US. We build apartments designed for a nuclear family and expect young single people to get roommates and split the rent and then you see questions on the internet about "How do I deal with this roommate from hell?" and we make horror movies about it like Single White Female and continue to not offer housing options suitable for living alone on a budget.

Since WW2, we've torn down about a million SROs. We now think of SROs as housing for homeless people when it used to be normal market rate housing for single people.

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

Some people are homeless because they left abusive situations. They decided "I would rather sleep outside than continue to put up with this."

But the narrative most people accept is that homeless people are all addicts and crazies and this somehow means it's a personal problem, they aren't trying hard enough, they would rather be high than in shelter.

Addiction is a hard problem to solve no matter your social class. We don't act like "Wealthy rock stars with a drug habit must be wealthy because they take so many drugs." but we conclude that there is a cause and effect relationship between drug use and homelessness.

It's basically prejudice talking.

People on the street tend to be square pegs who have trouble finding a slot that fits them. We've actively eliminated a lot of those oddly shaped slots and then act like "You just don't want to make your life work."

Homeless people aren't necessarily any more or less virtuous or hard working or whatever than anyone else. The fabric of their life came unraveled and they don't know how to readily weave it back together and then the world tells them "The beatings shall continue until morale improves."
As a NixOS user who has (recently!) played with Guix, I don't think ‘battle testing’ is a great reason to prefer Nix.

Guix has an excellent CLI and awesome docs. It's stable and plenty usable. All being in one, high-level language like Scheme makes it seem really easy to hack on, and I think that's part of why its CLI is so good already.

Nix is faster, it supports macOS, and its package collection is much bigger because it's older. But Guix seems great to me, too! If you think you might like it, try it.
Was going to say, a comment on the page was really good but it looks like you just copy and pasted it there. This point, that the premise is not even really examined says a lot, ironically on a site called "overcoming bias."
This is correct. It's tolerance from long term regular drinking.
I worked in finance, racial composition there is similar to tech these days. Hint: white is in the minority.
> Each and every person you admire has poured thousands of hours into some project.

Many millions of people you don't admire has poured thousands of hours into some project as well. Time is necessary but far from enough. The time is the easy part, understanding what you should do with that time is the hard part, that is where almost everyone fall.
I can imagine this is vastly more affordable than a mini elevator?
And its even 100x easier to say 'hey SpaceX build us 1000 rockets' or 'hey firefly' or 'hey relativity' or 'hey rocketlab' or 'hey blueorigin'. Or any other of other places aerospace engineers could work.
In his book(s?), Pinker's conclusion is that we need to learn why things are/were improving, and make sure to do more of that. For things that are improving, that has to be something we were doing very recently. The attitude he pushes against is that everything is terrible and needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
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Definitely don't recommend without knowing yourself, and even then it can be dangerous. I once watched someone try mushrooms for their first time try to harm themselves and thankfully I was there to help them through it, but they had some underlying issues that were unknown and were only exacerbated by the pyschedelics.
I believe it was a Leonard Susskind lecture[1] where he said, if the electromagnetic force were unitary like gravity (not positive and negative) and therefore couldn't be balanced to near-0 in a single object, the force of attraction between two grains of sand at each end of the lecture hall (say, 15 meters) would be 3,000 tonnes. I'm probably butchering the numbers, but the electromagnetic force is wildly strong, and this thought experiment always stuck with me.

Another consequence is that, while black holes can have charge, we don't expect them to in nature—they'll very quickly suck up whatever it takes to balance them from surrounding space.[2]

[1] One of these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQrxduI9Pds1fm91Dmn8x...

[2] Via one of Sean Carroll's "Biggest Ideas in the Universe" videos
Soooo the obvious question... when does the NFT of the “The Billion Dollar Torrent” drop?
I mean if there's actually a real problem with your account, spending an hour on hold might not be wasted time.
Fab story, thank you! I understood up to
"Messages were exchanged over raw TCP. They contained their own application layer sequence number so that streams could resume after disconnection."
Can you go into more details about how the sequence number and resuming after disconnection worked?
Many people are just kinda forced to conform to society, and while we all have to deal with it, depression can at times manifest from making personal and moral compromises to survive when you feel that you have no other choice. It is like pretending to be someone you're not and convincing yourself that you're happy, when deep down you're miserable.
Sure it can be faked.

But but it'll filter out most of such scams which are "online-only".
> I don’t believe objective measures of intelligence don’t tell you all that much about someone.

Unfortunately that's not true. And we have a lot of data that this isn't true.

I recommend reading "The Ape That Understood the Universe" for an overview
https://www.amazon.com/Ape-that-Understood-Universe-Culture/...

Part of the problem here is that people feel qualified to weigh in with their feelings of how they want the world to be, completely ignoring all the evidence and data. It's that type of confident denial of reality that is at the heart of this UC decision

"Well, my uncle Jim is really smart and he was always bad at tests!"

That's basically the level of discourse happening here when making public policy, and it's shameful.
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Absolutely. The older I get, the more I appreciate the deep running connections I have with friends. I never would have thought it mattered as much as it does to me now.
None of my friends who I'd do this with are in the same economic class. Otherwise I think I would have.
Fear may be harmful for creative work.

At the very least it is not obvious whether threatening to fire/firing say 10% of under-performers would improve productivity for complex tasks.

There can be other ways to make people productive e.g., "psychological safety" https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful...
That translation is ambiguous. He said Fressen. Which means eating like an animal, or to gorge/guzzle. So not simply having enough food.
Lite shouldn't even be called hhkb.
It's night and day difference I'm not sure why they made it.

Not sure how $200 is any expensive when it makes you feel comfortable for 10 years. Think about return value than the upfront cost.
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Another way to look at this is, like so many things, a conflict of visions.

Vision one is that college is an elite institution meant to bring together smart, rich, and connected people in a learning and growth environment. This is sort of a perti-dish of success. In this vision, standardized tests bring in the smart people to compliment the rich and connected.

Vision two is that college is an institution for everyone to have a chance to get ahead. It's a natural extension of high school as we move into a period where we depend on knowledge workers. In this vision, standardized tests exclude people from opportunities.

Clearly the UC is adopting vision two. Whether the tests are racist or not is a distraction.

The problem with vision one is basic fairness, especially when public money is involved.

The problem with vision two is that, if we want real success, we do need elite institutions to concentrate a mix of people likely to produce amazing things. And also, I predict that the noble shine of college as a gateway to opportunity will wear off pretty quickly once they cease being elite institutions, and succumb to bureaucratic stupidity and financial recklessness.
With regards to your examples, there is a much simpler solution.

Build a wall around Texas, and give it back to Mexico.

I must say, it is slightly cruel though. I like Mexico, they don’t deserve to be tied into Texas. However, I see it as a necessary evil.
> They invented everything

They also basically employed a gigantic number of PhDs. I don't remember the exact number but at point in time they basically hired a high % of all PhD in the country.

The question is what would all these people have done if not for Bell Labs.

And Bell Labs has nothing to do with SLS. SLS is LITERLLY the opposite of giving freedom to smart people to innovate. Its lets use old technology so we can pork fund the existing contractors.
Elevators of any kind start at the price of a mid-price car and quickly spiral in to the hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on certifications and local ordinances. San Francisco has seismic sensor/seismic stop requirements on top of regular elevators, for example. There is a reason why almost no homes have elevators despite the technology being over a century old.
> It looks like you didn't even try it. In order to do what the GP described, when your bank calls you, you say nothing and answer nothing. You hang up and call back on a number you know.

I did do exactly that. I asked them for a reference that I could give when I call back. They couldn't give me that. I then did try to call them back, and said "someone called me about something just now, what was it?" and they were not able to tell me.

> If the bank can't answer that question, it's time to find another bank.

Thankfully, that's not my normal bank. This was the bank that has by car loan. That's my only interaction with them. It's unlikely I'll have more business with them.

> This does not look like success to me. It looks like failure.

Absolutely. This along with the other issues suggests that they value convenience over security. Also, this is not a small bank we're talking about.

I have never seen issues this bad with other banks, but the problem is that when there are banks that get away with this, that suggests people in general do not make a fuss about it and simply accepts whatever people tell them on the phone. If nothing else, it proves why phone scams work.

If the bank didn't even have an answer when I asked them to authenticate themselves, that suggests very few people even ask.
Pony seems to try and capture something lost by sending physical post. This can technically be done with email, but the mindset is different.
BKK Mobil Oil is a German public health insurance provider, rewalk an exoskeleton system.

https://rewalk.com/blog/rewalk-enters-contract-with-bkk-mobi...

So it's exoskeletons just around the corner.
And they can be carried around, so haven't to be build into that corner.
You may do your own cost comparisons for funding purposes considering the wider market for exoskeleton systems in logistics, construction, etc.
So this is just one example, there are a lot more different exoskeleton systems available.

Now I just have to look up, whether there are already studies, that tell me about probable health-promoting physiotherapeutic effects.
I'm on TG and I'd appreciate such a community, do you mind sharing?
I would assume this is because of Heisenberg. If the Atom does no longer move you should be able to nail it down to a specific position yet at this tinyness we are entering the land of probable positions instead of definite ones so the atom has to disappear so laws of physics still hold.
Thanks a lot! Yeah, people seem to be comparing it to FIDO, which is really cool.

I haven't played with different frequencies at all, but I really want to. Do you have anything in mind?
Well, looks like we are arguing about different things, because precise definition of "freedom" does not exist.
The USSR had homeless, drug addicts, prostitutes and marginalised communities too. It had all the same problems, plus a whole lot more. Admittedly, there were a lot fewer people outside trying to get in though. I'll give you that.
I am really glad you think so! That is pretty much the goal.
Must be nice having a cab service where you live.

That's not an option in large parts of the country.
I don't know if I'm falling here into the pun. !!

Instead of delivering a message once a month/ week you could make the conversation/reply once a month. The key here is to skip the transactional nature of the conversations that are happening around us. Because of the availability of IMs we tend to write back to back questions/texts and waiting only seconds to get a reply. Instead, I liked the letter format where we realise what we have I'm hand and composed it in a thoughtful way. Right?
I see, in that sense yes. If the tboners car has autobraking, it can help. I read it initially as the tbonees car having autobraking, which won't help at all (since there is nothing in front of the tbonees car at any moment for it to sense).

Although, I'm dubious there would be enough time in that scenario to help much. The typical case is someone running a red light and intersecting a car from the other direction, both going full speed. By the time the tbonee car enters the field of the tboner car front sensors they are very close and less than a second from impact. So it'd reduce speed a bit which is good, but won't prevent the hit.

An attentive driver on the other hand, can see far wider than the sensors and has more opportunity to avoid the incident entirely. If paying attention, of course.
Beautiful pics. I wonder why, in a few places, there are pairs of bonding wires connecting the same pads.
Breyer is one of the three liberal justices. If he retires and Biden gets to choose a replacement, it would still be 6-3.
I don't think it's expected or unenlightening. Scientists are scientists; we want to cheer at their wins. Feynman was pretty much self-congratulatory in "Surely you're joking" -- sometimes annoyingly so -- yet we celebrate his anecdotes, we don't skip them.
On some level niche things are more expensive. Sure some of it is the aesthetic, I won't deny it, but without economies of scale and more importantly enough demand to justify a lower price point you end up at higher prices.

Like the Microsoft Trackball that was like $30 way back when but is now $200 for a make it yourself kit. By selling millions of them you can make them in a way someone selling a few thousand could never afford to.
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It's questionable how much that really was von Neumann's actual opinion. It was stated during the peak of McCarthyism, and he had a lot of personal contacts with people who had been impacted by it.

Always very vocally being the most anti-communist person in the room might have been just a defensive strategy.
I don't disagree with anything you said. But I should add or clarify to parent post that there is some difficulty in installing and maintaining infrastructure that affords a company power over the customer. Said power is how they "easily" achieved a monopoly.

I think the focus should be on keeping the market fractured. If content is of poor quality that just means the population is ok with poor quality. There is business to be made on poor quality. /s

Once upon a time I worked as a CSR for a cable company, and a couple customers, old honest people, opened the conversation along the lines "I only come back because, impossible as that might appear, the other company is even worse than you are"
This is not censoring! It just says that the video is not monetizable/limited-ads. Probably because of "R*pe" in the title.