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MetaMap (formerly Mati), a four-year old, San Francisco-based data marketplace that powers high-trust services in emerging markets, raised $70 million in Series B funding. Tribe Capital led the round with participation from Craft Ventures, Alameda Research (FTX), Jerry Murdock (Founder, Insight Partner), Kunal Bahl (Founder, Snapdeal), and Hussain Baig (Global COO & CIO, HSBC). More here: https://tinyurl.com/metamap-et
2^64 seconds is 584.9 billion years. I think it's pretty safe to kick the can nearly 600 billion years down the road.
No, don't bother with the article; it's "Not even Wrong".

Read and Follow this instead: "Speech given by Dave Packard to HP Managers" - https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-... (they founded Silicon Valley).
Some people have a looser coupling between legality and morality than others, often because they disapprove of some laws (like the crime of sleeping under a bridge, or repairing your own tractor…)
Not a good thing for the employee, good thing for the company.
while I agree with the idea of emails that can't be arbitrarily shutdown, SSN-xx-HERE@citizen.gov sounds like all kinds of awful. It will either be instantly unusable or require a gov approved SPAM filter, both of which are bad. It also seems like a good vector to force a backdoor on all comms.
> Russian wood stoves just use a mass of masonry and have lots of internal baffles to extract the most heat. They burn a large fire at a high temperature to have increased efficiency and extract the most heat into the stone.

Yeah these are called Masonry Heaters [1] in the West. They work by forcing the heat generated through combustion to dump as much of its energy as possible into parts of the heater that live inside the house rather than venting hot air out of a chimney. The goal of an efficient masonry heater is to make sure the exhaust gas is cold so that all the heat energy has been extracted.

> Both types of stove use high temperatures and preheated secondary air to achieve complete combustion. Open fireplaces let 50% of the energy in the wood escape as unburned gases.

The alternative here is to use a catalytic converter to start a secondary reaction and burn exhaust gasses themselves releasing even more heat and resulting in a cleaner burn and fewer harmful exhaust gasses. Modern American wood stoves can come with EPA certifications [2] indicating the use of the catalytic converter or some other technique (say, a secondary burn chamber) to reduce exhaust gasses.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonry_heater
[2]: https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/epa-certified-wood-stoves
> Not dissimilar from university teaching

You...may want to look at the state of the academic job market.
> Nobody will support significant sacrifice to combat climate change

I do. Among other reasons, because the damages will far outweigh the sacrifices, if we don't prevent the worst consequences of climate change. But what we also need is a shift in mindset: Optimize for happiness and not for economic growth.

> The path is straightforward: electrify everything, and make the grid green. There are only three major industries that are difficult to electrify: cement, steel and air travel. Steel & air travel can use hydrogen. For cement, you use low carbon processes to get carbon emissions down to about 10% of previous, and then store the rest. That's just a hundreds of megatonnes, and that is feasible.

Did you read the part about hydrogen in the article?
I would love to see compulsory licensing schemes for audio and video streaming like they have for radio broadcasts. Maybe allow 1 or 2 years of exclusivity, but anything else is fair game to stream by anyone as long as they pay the license fee.
What are you using instead to make such automations?
I have always wondered whether inducing exhaustion through exercise and strainous activities throughout the day could help overcome insomnia.
Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
> Licenses that anyone can get, but are purely graded on a curve in order to protect existing members. Finally we get to the actuarial licenses! Similar licenses would be Michelin star restaurants and wine sommeliers. Only a very small community appreciates these licenses, but the value to those that have them is high via the artificial scarcity. In order to keep them fair they offer the test(s) to anyone, but grade on an absurdly difficult curve to make them essentially random, and then take only the top scorers to preserve their scarcity. The process to get the license is to cram test exams ad infinitum and continue to take the test until you randomly get the top score. They ultimately mean nothing, at least compared to the amount of people who deserve the license vs. those that have them.

If I follow you correctly, this last category is basically all "competitive examinations"? I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss them (maybe that's because I live in France, where competitive examinations are the third national pastime, just behind moaning and striking).

Michelin stars for example are supposed to distinguish the best restaurants, so of course they're going to be competitive! Would you complain that we only give three Olympic medals per event?

These competitions can be useful in case of limited availability (e.g. number of places every year in an elite engineering college), but also just as a signal that you're dealing with the best of the best. For example, if you go to a Boulangerie held by a "Meilleur Ouvrier de France", you know you're going to get some of the best croissants in the world.
You’re the only one who seems to have gotten that :)
Do you feel that salary negotiations are adversarial?

For context: I realize that one-off negotiations (buying a car at a dealership) are strictly adversarial, but negotiations in ongoing relationships (employment) benefit more from sharing information on what you want and why.

For example, you tell the other side that you need 10K extra for planned babysitting expenses and they offer you less, but add paid time off to care for your own child.
The basis for believing this is the inference that because the physical world insofar as we have knowledge of it obeys physicalist principles, so must the human mind.

But we can't really claim to know based on our investigation of the mind itself. If we entertain theories of consciousness like dualism, monism or emergentism, it seems unlikely that we have the categories of understanding and analysis to decisively confirm or deny them.
Will you be flooded with spam messages now that you have published the magic URL?

Some twisted soul could even put sending a message to you via cronrab every minute, and you don't seem to have any way to block it, or filter it from the rest.

I'd say that it's infinitely better to have an opaque an otherwise useless API token in your bash history than to have a URL of a bare and uncontrolled web service in the same bash history, and now on the open internet.

If I were to design a service like that, I'd have an URL like domain.api/username/${token}, where the token can be changed and / or retited, should it become a target of a spam attack. Exporting this token once in the beginning of a shell session should not be hard; SSH even allows you do it with SendEnv.
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful stuff.

Is there a specification of the Forth dialect used in NeWS? Why not use postscript for scripting too?
With a staff, not on it.
Did Alexa made you do that?
The Batman's Riddler Has a Secret Website
Turing Complete User
.dotfiles for macOS
Not sure this is the right place for the question but does anyone have a theory as to when the time has come to short it?

Other than a general meltdown in cryptocurrencies, I mean.
Cheating has no correlation with avatars.

The issues with marketplaces are rare and game companies won't pay for transactions when they already have virtual currencies ( nope, not based on Blockchain).
You're putting a lot of significance on that 'if' as if it weren't a 98.3% chance you were going to live even if you did get covid (not even taking into account differences in demographics). This is about trade-offs, and if the trade-off is living life as normal while still being in the same statistically significant bounds in regards to covid outcomes as those states that institute harsher lockdowns then it is not irrational to choose the former.
> The [Viking's] wealth was built almost entirely by violent plunder of other nations .... Maybe that's why we don't hear so much about the [Vikings]...

Oh wait, we continually hear about the glorious "exploits" of the Vikings.
Oh man, that brings back memories. Roman System Engineering a.k.a. "TimeCube with Tits"! They still have the original promo 'marketing' on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/29490154
> we can’t add Tonya’s iCloud account to the “home”

I've got the same problem with me and my partner. If any Apple engineer happens to read this this would be on my top 3 list of bugs to fix in the Apple ecosystem. The only workaround I'm aware of is creating entirely new Apple IDs.
There are a lot of people, even in this very thread, who will say "don't break backward compatibility!" right up until 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. At SOME point we'll have to let saner people prevail, and actually break backward compatibility. I'm just hoping it happens, you know, sooner rather than later.
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Is there somehow a lack of affordable - and in many cases free - email options that we need a government solution to this?
https://rekt.news/uniswap-v3-lp-rekt/
What distros? Fedora is pretty modern and uses separate /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories.
> They'd have to pool all their intellectual property into a single holding and offer access to all of it at once.

Reading this triggered a (for me) very interesting observation - my feelings about video streaming services are not triggered by the price, but to the scamminess of it:

I've been paying for both Apple Music and Spotify for months - and I know it - and I don't care.

Contrary I did not sign up for HBO Max even at their low offer of around $5/month for life, and it annoys me that I have two video streaming sites already.

I think it is because both Spotify and Apple Music are OK: they contain almost everything I want from commercial music, while the video streaming sites feels like an elaborate scam: pay just as much as I pay for Spotify to an increasing number of services where none of them are good.

I want creators to get paid, but I don't want to support scams, so being somewhat principled I only watch whatever I have on DVD + what is available on the services I subscribe to (and I'm planning to get rid of one) and the few that I bought from Apple.

I can clearly see why people pirate though and if I worked in law enforcement I'd probably do my best to work with something important and useful, not to support large scale scams.
Tech billionaires use their kids to dodge tax
In the real world, Proof of ownership is not done digitally.

Eg. You think https://opensea.io/DisneyCollectibles is really owned by the nft creator?

What would happen with a copyright infringement? Then it's proven it's not his, but it's still on the Blockchain.

It just doesn't work in practice.
That too, that's why it is not cause for panic but still a sign that should not be ignored
No, they are very different. Not unexpectedly, because Guix is not a fork of Nix.

They start to look similar at the level of compiled derivations, but even the builder scripts are different: in Guix they are compiled Guile scripts whereas in Nix they are Bash scripts.
You seem to be stating, with the authority of a highly experienced subject matter expert ("the reality is…"), that disclosing salaries will cause employees to act "irrationally" and "get the entire business derailed".

It's not immediately clear to me what exactly you think the consequences of publishing salaries are, what bad behaviour you think this promotes, and why you suspect this bad behaviour happens. Could you please go into more detail?
There are two properties which are interesting: (1) the heat capacity and (2) the heat conductivity.

Yes, water has a high heat capacity, but a metal + circulating water system also has high heat conductivity[1] which means it releases the heat into the air quickly and doesn't hold heat for long. Stone releases heat more slowly since it doesn't conduct heat so well. Stone has heat capacity about 1/2 of water per unit of mass, but on the other hand the mass of stone in a oven is usually pretty high. I'd side with the author about stone being a better material for holding heat.

[1] For heat holding can probably conflate radiating with general heat conductivity here since the low conductivity results in low radiating heating due to the surface temperature of the heating element being farther from the hot core and closer to the surrounding air to be heated.
They might have found it and then chosen somewhere else to go.
Just so you know, our author's perspective on the Bay Area isn't how everyone experiences it. At best, his criticisms only apply to the city of San Francisco. I've had precisely zero of the things he's mentioned happen to me living in the East Bay.
Unless the wood is moist. Or the logs are too large. Or the wood is of the wrong kind or of bad quality. Or the stove is used incorrectly (ID10T error).
I know next to nothing about a bug’s life, but interesting to consider distress signals being tuned into otherwise solitary creatures. For colony wasp/bee I could see why distress would bring help (bring more venom!) but solitary… maybe it was kin?
I've never tested the rpm, since it's just built by GoReleaser, but it should be straight forward and just work. Let me know if you run into issues.
I don't get how this is a bullshit job.

Gamer #1 likes to play the game. There are some parts he likes more than others.

Gamer #2 comes along and says, OK I will do the parts you don't like, and I'll sell my output to you for $XXX.

Gamer #1 agrees, the transaction takes place, it is entirely voluntary, and both participants find the outcome to be valuable for them.

How is this bullshit?

This is pretty much the reason we have money.

What sounds like bullshit to me is there is some... quasi-socialist I guess? value framework being imposed by some would-be intellectual who's totally uninvolved in the transaction, but thinks he knows better than the ones who are. Fuck that guy, he has no skin in the game.
Man, I grew up lower/lower-middle class, about 30-40% of the median family income, and we had the $80/month cable package plus went to Blockbuster for 5+ rentals per week

I don't think that was unusual, either.
The problem is we don’t have access to the design as it’s closed source?
Wonderful, so I already know what I'll be doing in 2038. If I still live, if civilization is still in place...

Keep the paychecks coming!

Sorry for my cynicism, it's one coping strategy. I'd also prefer to build reliable software, but alas...
Click bait. It’s an old family tree, yes, but not a large one as you might expect. It’s 5 successive generations living 5.7k years ago (still impressive).
I think the issue (as in the what) is that people should always be able to have a fallback option for sending and receiving email that's not at the whim of Google, MS et al.

SSN-xx-HERE@citizen.gov is a how, which may or may not be a good one. For one, here in France, the SSN isn't as important as it seems to be in the US, so its being public is probably less of an issue. This approach would still be bad for spam or whatever.

Another how could be by using the same kind of naming in use elsewhere, as in name.surname.213@citizen.gov. Except that not anyone would be able to randomly open an account. You'd have to go through some kind of agency that would check your ID. This would allow them to expose a way of changing (in case its overrun by spam) or unlocking (in case of lost password) your account safely.

We have a more or less similar thing in France with bank accounts: you have an "opposable right" (as in, undeniable) to have a basic bank account. Not sure if this is a French law or an EU directive, but I think the same could work for email.
I registered neoactuary.com one day as I wanted to start this weird mixture of HN + finance/math etc.
This is exactly how I imagine it would work, albeit with a standard provision being made by Apple and Google as a starting point, something like a universal federated VOIP (they'll come up with a decent brand name for it obvs). If you're on Android you can get UFVOIP in your Google One subscription, or with Apple I'd assume it would be an iCloud+ feature. And then obviously slick contacts integration at the O/S level so that it's seamless to add a new contact - something like when you want to add someone you click "Add Contact" and it gives you a QR code for them to scan on their device to add you.

This could even generate a new relay e-mail for them in the same process so that a single QR code gives them the name and both a unique-to-them phone number and e-mail address to contact you, and adds it to their contacts automatically.

Sharing of contact details could be done by a side-channel:

1) Someone I already know and trust asks to share my contact details to a third party.

2) I get a prompt on my device asking to confirm I want to connect with this new person.

3) A diffie/hellman exchange sets up a secure channel between myself and this new third party.

4) We both confirm we want to add each other.

5) A unique e-mail address and phone number is generated on each device and sent across the channel to the other party.

6) Both parties have now established a new contact for the other party with contact details completely unique to them.

This would entirely resolve a whole class of issues around data protection/harassment/privacy.

If anyone at any time wishes to rescind contact permission they can just burn that contact link. Sure, you could be contacted via someone else that also knows both of you but there's a massive disincentive to pass along your details without your consent - you'll know who passed along your details because they'll be the same unique details you issued to someone else, and you can freely burn their contact link too.
A "foreground service" means 2 things: an unremovable notification is shown to the user in their notification tray AND specifically for ntfy, an additional connection open (additional battery usage) on top of the one engineered by Google.

Although I like seeing things attempt to compete with Google, this can't come close because of the restrictions of Android enacted by Google.
Hopefully this citizens email also comes with severe rules for commercial mail or else it'll soon be flooded with junk.
Yeah, I am mentioning it at Day 11, while debugging the singular house logic: https://zverok.github.io/advent2021/day11.html :)
But we also all need to eat and use a toilet to live. Those seem to be provided by the market to a reasonable degree. Email is also pretty cheap and there's at least some choice among providers, though of course far fewer that food types.
They aren't. It says right on the page that only 20% are actually online.
Additionally the site is now archived and doesn't get any further updates.

A shame really that an university department needs/needed to rely on external funding to digitize the maps it already has and apparently they didn't get enough money and now stopped the effort

Or maybe they didn't stop the effort and only this page is not the "go-to" place anymore. Bit unclear to me
> Lowering salaries of people who make too much is usually a legal impossibility.

What law is this? I have never heard of it in any US jurisdiction.
That url is the demo one. I think the author have his own magic url for personal use
I do not know which definition is used here. But I would call this bullshit, because this is artificial scarcity which is controlled by grindy, non-constructive and typically non-fun work. The makers of the game could just sell the NFT directly instead of requiring other people to waste their time.
arbitrary account shutdown is a known issue with free email. losing your gmail account without explanation and with no recourse can be an awful situation for anyone, especially for vulnerable populations. This leaves the options of forcing private orgs to maintain email addresses or have a gov email for every citizen, both of which have significant drawbacks.
As mentioned, the most popular Soviet spy film is the series ‘Seventeen Moments of Spring’ which is more of a procedural in the approach and certainly aims for a more realistic portrayal—though still with plenty of heroics, of course. A close Western analogue, in terms of the mood, is actually ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ from 1965.

‘The Diamond Arm’/‘Бриллиантовая рука’, which was played to death on Soviet and post-Soviet TV, is in fact a clever inversion of the whole adventure genre that was popular in the 60s and 70s.
Nice. Indeed quite similar. Great minds think alike hehe.

All of your examples include a "!", which is a special character in bash. Sure that works without quoting?
> There are a huge variety of intra-organizational communication systems, to the point where pretty much every large enterprise provider seems to have one (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, etc etc).

That's why I find Delta Chat piggybacking on Push-IMAP such an interesting concept: https://delta.chat
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It is actually the same number of trips on my end at least. Without phone control for my lights, I turn off the lights on the way to the couch, get comfortable in the dark (can't even see all my blankets), then look for the remote in the dark, and then start up a movie. With the phone control for my lights I go to the couch, do all that stuff in the light, and then dim the lights afterwards. The only difference is that I have to paw around for the remote longer in the first scenario.

While there is some resource waste because I'm not going to rip the old lightswitches and copper wires out of my apartment walls and, I dunno, recycle them or something, this doesn't seem to be a fundamental issue. The automated stuff is mostly wireless, so I guess we could save a bit of copper if we were to install it in lieu of switches. So really the issue is that the previous designer didn't correctly separate out UI from underlying functionality, that's their waste not mine!
The article says this happens "systematically", which I interpret to mean regularly and often. That's what I'm asking about. Is it true that this kind of thing happens "systematically", or is it an exaggeration expressing the author's frustration that such things can happen at all?
I really think dang needs to add something to the guidelines about calling stuff clickbait. This is a perfectly reasonable headline.
Wouldn’t there be things that have future values set, like financial/insurance to name a few
painful yes, but isn't that a win? If it's breaking at build time, that means someone's actually /building/ their app. And the fix is easy enough (as long a they don't set it to 32 bit...).

The bigger issue is all the systems that won't be rebuilt (per several sibling comments).

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EDIT: fixed grammar.
More like: This is 20% of the maps in their collection
Correct and I don't use most of such services.

I survived without them before, I will now.

And I have more spare time then, to read, to exercise, to enjoy nature, to code...
So you won’t run out of them. But they are not knowably finite or trustless, so not inherently great money.
Define internet services, or do you mean email service?

There are many decisions that impact the usability and cost of the service. Some people need high volume sending or large mailbox storage. Do you punish people for sending spam? Do you filter spam, if so, how. Do people need public terminals to access the service? Etc.