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Some more recent academic work on the CCC recently started reading—The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War: Strange Bedfellows, Routledge [2016]

Partial summary from libgen description:

>This book calls into question the conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial episodes in the Cold War, and tells the story of the CIA's backing of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

>For nearly two decades of the early Cold War, the CIA secretly sponsored some of the world’s most feted writers, philosophers, and scientists as part of a campaign to stop Communism from regaining a foothold in western Europe and Asia. By backing the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA subsidized dozens of prominent magazines, global congresses, annual seminars, and artistic festivals. When this operation―QKOPERA―became public in 1967, it ignited one of the most damaging scandals in CIA history. Ever since, the prevailing assumption has been that the CIA, as the Congress’s paymaster, manipulated a generation of intellectuals into lending their names to pro-American, anti-Communist ideas in exchange for prestigious bylines and plentiful grants. Even today, a cloud hangs over the reputations of many of the intellectuals associated with the Congress.

>This book tells the story of how a small but determined group of anti-Communist intellectuals in America and Western Europe banded together to fight the Soviet Union’s cultural offensive. They enlisted one of the CIA’s earliest recruits to their cause―and they persuaded the CIA to foot their bill with virtually no strings attached. The CIA became a bureaucratic behemoth with an outsized influence on American foreign policy, but it began as a disorganized and unconventional outfit desperate to make inroads on all fronts against a foe many believed would ignite a nuclear war by 1954. When Michael Josselson, a recruit from the CIA’s Berlin office, pitched a proposal for what became the Congress for Cultural Freedom, senior officials were thus willing to gamble $50,000 on the venture. And when the Congress proved effective in enlisting some of the twentieth century’s most prominent intellectuals, senior CIA officials championed QKOPERA as the centerpiece of the Agency’s efforts to woo the non-Communist left.
It's a user fee, which is reasonable way to tax non-basic-needs.
The xkcd is half-right. Cats are ACFs, not FFTs, because they are even functions in polar coordinates, I mean the left half of the cat mirrors the right half, and the two halves merge nicely, without discontinuities. I probably don't want to know what cats look like with the phase components restored.
Amazon service terms include zombie apocalypse
42.10.
"widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization"
> Mental or emotional? Well it doesn't have to be either, it can be both!

haha, exactly! I think I can try to force my thinking into an either/or, when it can be both/and.

> No need to thank me. I am only giving you my justification. You are the one doing the work. :)

I thank people when I feel grateful and I felt grateful :) Kinda like how I apologize when I feel guilty, even if the other person doesn't feel angry at me. I think we're both doing "the work," however one defines it :)
Hey great question! I was wondering that as well!
They're both considered 'functional CSS' libraries.
I used Tachyons after spending 5 minutes trying to figure out the build process for Tailwind and Tachyons worked great for the single site I used it on.
>How do you take a “massive loss” on covered calls being exercised?

The loss comes from the opportunity cost of what you could have sold the underlying asset for. That might or might not be "massive", but the potential is definitely there. At the end of the day you're picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Maybe it even has expected value greater or equal to the advertised APY, but failing to disclose that and/or pretending like it's guaranteed is deceptive. I'd be pissed if I put my money into some sort of "savings account" with 8% APY, then get wiped out next time there's a spike/dip, because it turned out that they were using it to write covered calls.
> All pinball machines offer a replay to a player who beats some specified score. Pre-1986, the replay score was hard wired into the game unless the operator manually re-programmed the software. High Speed changed all that. It was pre-loaded with an algorithm that adjusted the replay score according to the distribution of scores on the specified machine over a specific time interval.

If you’re ever at a pinball arcade and you hear a loud wooden CLONK sound, that’s the “replay knocker”. It’s literally a solenoid that drives a piston into the case of the machine, and it’s intention is to let the entire arcade know “this guy/gal is really good”. Very satisfying sound! And no equivalent in video games.
Reddit is also full of roughly the same 10 jokes recycled endlessly generally with some highly upvoted pun thread hanging off of every single article on top of the entirely expected "r/UnexpectedOffice" mention and the usual "69420/Nice" thread. And that's the content from the actual human beings in between all the trolling and "push polling" by bots in the creative writing exercises on ChoosingBeggars.

I think I need to re-read Amusing Ourselves to Death and see if it still basically holds up in the social media age.
The supreme court recently upheld that people are legally allowed to know the laws that govern them without paying.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1150_7m58.pdf

Only on hackernews would you read a comment saying that its fine for some corporation to hold the copyright on the law of the land.
Large tech companies that are paying hashicorp oodles of money, who get first class support from a really great team.
Prior monopolies invested. Because of tax code. And corporate remits were limited. Probably a few other reasons.

All those guard rails were eliminated. So current monopolies do stock buybacks.

All that excess idle wealth, too much capital chasing too few investments, has to go somewhere. Causing asset bubbles. Stocks, real estate, cryptocurrencies, artwork.

If we want more investment, we have to address idle wealth. Disincentivize hoarding wealth. Keep the money moving. Reduce the impedance mismatch between funds (too big) and investment opportunities (too small); like apply the YC strategy far and wide.
I think there is a difference in intensity with respect to climate change fears.

Climate change is being taught as an existential threat that will certainly destroy your future if action is not taken.

This is taught and messaged to young elementary school children. My friends third graders class recently held climate policy protests with picket signs and everything.

This is a level of pervasive fear is higher than I remember with nuclear winter/UV/ or the fear of the day when I was growing up
What makes you think they will enter monitoring next?
Your concern is 100% valid. The chip that I sent to Ken came from a DX7 motherboard that had seen an extremely rough life and at least one other critical chip on that board was dead. The EGS and OPS are nigh on indestructible, I've seen my share of these by now and they always work, no matter what the state of the rest of the board.

So, figuring that no matter what happens to that board that I will always end up with at least one surplus set of EGS/OPS chips even though they are still good it wasn't a huge decision to sacrifice them, the potential for knowledge gained far outweighs the value of these chips.

I repair DX7's to keep them 'in play', it doesn't really make me any money but it feels good to spend my spare time on getting one of these oldies to 'good as new' state and then to see another super happy musician leave. The stuff I get in return comes in all kinds of states, from still somewhat working to completely dead. I usually have enough spares on hand to quickly swap out some big subsystems to figure out what's broken and then zoom in on the details. Afterwards, a complete disassembly, contact alignment (very critical), aftertouch bar check, cleaning, reassembly and testing, fresh battery and another one good to go.

You can do one in a day or so once you get the hang of it.

The particular board that these chips came out of had me initially entirely stumped. None of my usual revival tricks worked. After swapping out the CPU with a very rare working spare it was clear that it was never going to work again, CPU mysteriously dead. So it had been sitting in my parts bin for the last couple of years when Anthony contacted me and we started talking about his - and mine - DX7 ROM disassembly adventures. I had spent a lot of time on it a while ago, then moved on to making more music rather than working on yet more programming projects.

He talked about the degree of certainty that people have about the insides of the OPS and EGS chips, which prompted me to contact Ken to ask if he would like to have a shot at working with one of these and he happily accepted. Which put the otherwise dust gathering chips to some good use.

So, that's the story behind these chips, in short: no DX7s were harmed in the process of making these posts and hopefully the Gods of Silicon will forgive me the sacrifice made for the potential improvements made to software emulators as well as Anthony's disassembly project, which may well spring a generation of custom ROMS.
Thanks very much, I appreciate the kind words!
I would think that the absolute notes of the sounds are not the relevant metric (that was colored here). I naively imagine it is the relative tonal structure. That is, meaning does not come from particular frequencies, but from the relationship of the frequencies. I wonder, if so, how that might be represented and normalized. Just like we can understand two people speaking with different basic pitches, then add meaning when they add shifts from those basic pitches.

Either way super pretty visualization!
Omicron (The Symbol) in Mathematics
This is the feature that docker-compose lacks but is needed the most.
There should be something like traefik-compose or caddy-compose with simple YAML config. I forget how the traefik labels work all the time.
Could you explain what you mean by this? From their launch at 80, they pretty quickly went up to ~90, then dropped back to 83-84, which is up a few percent for the day. What sort of bump do you expect? (Legitimately, I'm not familiar with this sort of thing)
I was really hoping this was about chemistry or biology...

Then again, 4 commits, 0 forks, 3 watchers... I don't really care what these people get their knickers in a twist about. Someone on the internet is offended, more news at 11.
GPT-2 is the most recent available from OpenAI. Otherwise you'd need to look at EleutherAI's GPT-Neo which comes in various sizes.
Is anyone using Zoom with desktop sharing successfully with Wayland? I started running Nix and cannot figure out how to use zoom desktop sharing. According to zoom it should work just with the full desktop but the button says i can't share at all.

Was thinking maybe i could create a virtual desktop as a pipewire capture device but i wish I could just click the share button inside zoom.

It was cool that i could install zoom from nix-env.
Agree. I was exclusively talking about programming / computer things tutorials. And from my memory, Khan Acadamy always has so much more then just video and text, which is even better! Very short videos help too.
Right but you’re just inventing local government with extra steps now. Lots of local governments have more direct democracy and I’m all for organising that in a caring manner. It just seems super pointless to involve blockchains, NFTs and technologically verified trust chains where you have to manage interpersonal relationships on chain as well as IRL.
It's not clear how eBPF will deal with mTLS. I actually asked that when interviewing at a company using eBPF for observability into Kubernetes the answer was they didn't know.

Yea, if you're getting TLS termination at the load balancer prior to k8s ingress then it's pretty nice.
The bitcoin whitepaper came out in 2009, Ethereum was 2015, a lot of the interesting stuff has been within the last two years.

You may be right in the end, but people with exposure to the industry at risk of disruption are often bad at recognizing it. See Ballmer at Microsoft mocking the iPhone, Blockbuster failing to adapt to Netflix, Borders failing to adapt to Kindle/Amazon etc.

That knowledge can provide context for accuracy, but it can also mislead or bias you against something that's changing rapidly.

> "Correct, centralization and trust represent massive efficiencies."

At a real cost. The web comparison would be decentralized underlying protocols vs. the centralized applications on top of them. "Web3" may allow a way to fix the things that lead to centralization at the application layer with UX that actually works. This is distinct from cryptocurrency, but there's some overlap. ETH cost should get reduced by ETH2 and sharding, the cost is representative of current transaction demand.

I'm not a crypto-anarchist, I think both systems will have complementary purposes. Programmable money is something new, knee-jerk dismissals of "it's all crime" are dumb imo.
Other scientists have pointed out that hospitalizations and deaths are a lagging indicator. Nobody can say it's milder yet. Try again in 6 weeks.
Someone should let smallpox and anthrax in on this knowledge.
In different parts of the world I have experienced these two responses when getting in a Taxi: "Excuse me, please put your seat belt on or I'll have to ask you to get out" and "What about my driving offends you so much that you feel compelled to put on a seatbelt - I'll get you there safely."

Social constructs around rudeness and norms are quite variable and if you're going to be hopping around you need to set your mind to adapt[1].

Rudeness is defined by the intent - and the fact that burping (an action that can be almost entirely non-voluntary) is judged as such an offensive act is really a shame in western culture. If you give me a carbonated beverage I'm going to burp - I don't know why my digestion can't handle carbonated beverages at all but it's simply unavoidable so, while in western cultures, I'm pretty much unable to enjoy seltzer.

1. If you can - I know some folks with misophonia that have serious difficulties. Also, one of my coworkers a while back had a traumatic experience involving gum chewing.
You haven't posted a single piece of evidence for your initial assertions. You continue to post the same studies about increased domestic violence amongst police officers. That is not evidence for your initial statements.
Hard agree, this is very much a “standing on the shoulders of giants” situation. Eelco's group has done amazing work on scope graphs, and we would not have been able to make this without that work as a foundation.
You're completely correct of course. Sorry for the confusion.
People sometimes have unreasonable faith in compilers or libraries. It's a common adage to look at bugs in application code before suspecting these lower layers. That is not the same thing as the lower layers never producing unexpected results. So when people get evidence that a compiler feature may be rough around the edges, they resist it.
Tecnoglass Slides on Reports of Connection to Drug Cartel
The only way right now is to use the demo and download the sounds yourself (you can use the meows from my link to get the same images):

https://soundshader.github.io/?n=4096&img=2048&acf.lr=5&sr=5...
Fake News Is Fake News
Only if the company is looking to really raise a lot of money in the IPO.

The bump and later positive price movements benefits employees and founders a lot, therefore helps in retention and lower compensation costs for new employees etc and also investors who sell .
I didn't mention wanting to use google. I do think it's unfortunate that android users don't have a privacy protecting item tracking solution. Airtags are a wonderful product.
it has a huge impact on static analysis to know that the type is a Box<dyn T> in rust, and you can't (without something else) downcast Box<dyn T> to a specific U.

i don't care about the performance as much the correctness :)
They're inverse operations but as far as I understand that's not the only thing going on with the ACF. Taking the phase out is just taking the real part of the FFT is it not? Regardless where's the correlation?
This is the definition of anecdotal evidence.
Or stuff was attributed to him long after his death that he didn’t really say. Which seems... obvious?
The therapists using AI to make therapy better
Sure, and if we're coming up with hypotheticals, here are some which are far more likely:

* A blockchain could increase the fees for service. Wait, that happens on a daily basis and you have no control over it.

* A blockchain user could fall for an attack. Unlike the Google scenario, there's no way to regain control of your account – time to setup a new one and convince everyone you work with to update.

* The site you're actually trying to use could switch to a different blockchain (which is more likely than only offering login with Google or that being canceled).

* The site you're using could check a list of addresses and ban yours because it's suspected to be associated with fraud

This is why I suggested taking off your salesguy hat and thinking about what this is like for normal people. Switching to a system which has mandatory upfront inconvenience and expense needs to have a big win to be worth it for people. If it's all “you'll find something to do with it later” you'll get adoption like GPG did.

In this case, I think the key thing to consider is why people use Gmail. It's not like you can't run your own email server, but most people don't want to be responsible for something that important.
Does anyone think Bitcoin will recover?
I have been seeing my investments steadily lose money over the past month. does anyone think this will recover or just I just bail? Obviously no one has any way of knowing, but the past month has sucked big time.
The phase is dropped but isn't there more going on? Comparing the signal to itself at various lags? I don't see how just dropping the phase accomplishes that.
Interpreting ACF images:

1. Time progresses from the center to the edge of the circle.

2. Color means note, e.g. A4=432Hz is red, but so is A1, A2 and all other A notes. B is orange, C is yellow, D is green and so on.

3. The amount of fine details is frequency: the higher the frequency, the more fine details you see. If notes of different colors and different frequencies sound simultaneously, e.g. a A2 with a G5, you’ll see a red belt with a few repetitions mixed with a blue belt with 8x more repetitions, so the result will be a purple belt with a fine structure.

For example, on one image below there is a green belt with 10 repetitions. One repetition correponds to 13.5 Hz here (55296 Hz sample rate, 4096 FFT bins), so 10 repetitions is 135 Hz, which corresponds to C3. On another image there is a curious red cross in the center, it’s a red belt with 2 repetitons. That’s 27 Hz, or A0, almost infrasound.
In pure dollars leaving too much on the table is bad, but a nice IPO bump is free marketing for the company. A 20-30% bump means it'll lead in a bunch of news stories, and create some buzz around the company. Of course, this might be less important for a non-consumer oriented company.
Nah, don’t need designers passing along broken, useless CSS that has to be redone anyway.

Let designers focus on designing, developers on developing.
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Where i live we had weekly air siren tests back in the 80ies, i don't think that was ever the case for America but on the projected front-lines the Cold War was very real, and the release of tension that when the wall finally came crusting down and the eastern European countries re-emerged as friends were an powerful event doing my childhood.
Thank you. This will replace my notes app.

One small thing that got me confused. Typing ? in my SO's Android (MS SwiftKey) automatically adds a space after it: "? ". No idea why it does that, but it stops search from working. Maybe skip leading whitespace?
None of them are the same family as other viruses which cause the common cold.

I doubt the top epidemiologists are spreading myths.

The "unusual" cases where covid is causing death might not be enough, no. The fact that it causes people to stay at home however could be.
A whole 4 days! Way better than what Smyte customers got https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/a...

Maybe twitter will be able to provide a week's notice by 2024-25
I like Chakra...mostly. We have ran into some major performance issues with it all over our application though. The docs [1] make it sound like it's a rare issue, but we're not doing anything particularly wild and it became unusable at a point due to these issues. Now, we have a "no Chakra below this point" rule where certain parts of our application are not allows to use Chakra at all and use TailwindCSS + our own custom components instead.

[1] https://chakra-ui.com/docs/comparison#the-runtime-trade-off-...
> then opened it to every Tesla owner in California

Nope. Never happened. 200 invitations to one location, and those invited needed to schedule an appointment to use them. Then the project was killed off.

Appointment-only service isn't what "battery swap" was about. It was supposed to be a service that was more convenient than gas stations or superchargers.

But we all know that swapping $15,000 batteries, roughly 1000lbs or more (aka: the weight of an engine lift) in 10 minutes was never really a viable business model.

> Another notable change at that time was adding the underbody plate[1] for increased fire safety

Oh thanks for reminding me of that. The plate that no longer exists on modern models, yet another broken promise of Mr. Musk.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/ppqqwg/15yr_o...

You know, make a blogpost about how awesome Titanium is as a metal / shield, but SEO it away by a few years to make "Tesla Shield" in Google point you to floor mats. You know, to make the public forget about the entire "Shield" episode entirely and the whole controversy about exploding bottoms of Tesla cars.
The most straightforward option would probably be to write an LSP wrapper around the stack graphs code. One of the people on my team wrote a very “contrib directory” version of that for internal testing, which lets us test our stack graph rules for a new language in something like VS Code before deploying to production. If someone were to write a more polished version of that, that would be a great way to get code nav into any LSP-compatible editor for any language that supports stack graphs.
Collides with Hearst Consolidated Publications. Algorithm reduces entropy quite a bit, not very strong