skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm slowly feeding a budding interest in economics and started with Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. With all the stories and references, I take the basic principles as mostly scientific.
However when I told someone with more background in economics, they made me feel as if I'm reading a heretical book that only tells half the story.

Do you have similar views on that book/author, or if not familiar - do you have any recommended books/courses?

I can't help but feel economics learning comes married to a politics, but it's not clear when reading.
I don't believe there's a town of any note in the United States that wasn't the target of at least one of the 30,000 Soviet nuclear weapons.

I don't think there's a city in the United States that isn't an active target of at least one of the 6,000 current Russian nuclear weapons.
> Note that the following targets don't have usable APIs to properly mitigate the attack, and are thus still vulnerable even with a patched toolchain:

> - macOS before version 10.10 (Yosemite)

> - REDOX

It's funny to me that they chose to include RedoxOS in this security advisory. For those of you serving your customers over RedoxOS in production, beware.
There's something truly magical to me about a self-sufficient "world" you can understand and hold in your head and hand. Where does my water come from? It comes from the rain and these tanks. Where is the power generated? On those solar panels and these batteries. I know the limits of this world; I work with them, not in spite of them.

Having ocean sailed a tiny bit myself, I have such respect for the hundred rabbits crew. Not all of the choices they made are ones I would, but they're respectable and defensible. Moreover, they're explained plainly without judgement: these are their choices and are offered only in the hope they will be useful. And with a playful and vivid tone that is a joy to read.

I dream of a life like this and feel privileged to be able to share in theirs vicariously.
Except in this case the app is the car.
That's a really difficult question. Every aspect of Thich Nhat Hanh I think of, I think of people who are as old as him, or who predeceased him. Hopefully that is my own generational bias.

For example, he was a Zen master whose writings reached a broad audience and provided a modern voice for a tradition where some of the foundational works such as the Platform Sutra are roughly a thousand years old. For other modern Zen voices, there are books such as Three Pillars of Zen, Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Opening the Hand of Thought, and probably many others. (Albert Low is on my to-read list.) All of those are by authors who died before Thich Nhat Than, though.

He also was an activist and an original proponent of "engaged Buddhism," in which compassion is seen to mandate action for social change. I'm sadly ignorant of the current landscape here; the Dalai Lama and Gary Snyder certainly count, but they are both getting on in years.

He also wrote a lot of books that are light on doctrine but very direct, grounded, and gentle, that people have found comforting and supportive in a crisis. For that, many people look to the books of Pema Chödrön, Tara Brach, and Sharon Salzberg, who are at least a little bit younger, but all in their sixties or older.
There is one solution which is very close to what you're describing. Read if you want to ruin the fun for yourself.

https://aditya-sengupta.github.io/coding/2022/01/13/wordle.h...
> Modification to computed work should always generate a warning so the optimization can be applied to the source code, or bugs corrected.

This only works out in very, very limited cases. What if this opportunity only presents itself after inlining? What if it's the result of a macro? Or a C++ template?

Just because the compiler can optimize something out in one case doesn't mean you can just delete it in the code...
Meltdown shouldn’t have required anyone to switch anything since it was a purely Intel hardware bug.

Even saying Spectre causes you to care more about memory safety sounds like marketing fluff. Fixing memory bugs doesn’t even prevent Spectre issues.
Mid 40s, gaming and programming since I was 6, including FPS and RTS (clickclickclickclick), always QWERTY, no RSI. Biological luck of the draw.
I set up Tailscale a little over a week ago, it boggled my mind how easy it was.

I'm using it for personal use at the moment and I'm considering changing to a paid user to my friends and family can access Emby over the internet.

I did have a few dramas getting in to work for my LxC environments but nothing a quick Google resolved for me.
Talk about an overreaction.
I notice that the wording leaves room for some clarification: if Tinder offers to all users the same choice of pricing tiers for different levels of service, but individuals in different communities have a tendency to select different levels, then on average they could appear to pay more, when in fact they requested higher tiers of service.

such "second order price discrimination" is completely legal and quite common.

It's called second order because it's indirect: blue plate special at 5pm is a cheap complete meal. It attracts senior citizens because they are time flexible and prefer to eat early, and have lower budgets, and the restaurant likes it because that's a quiet time so why not fill it with customers. But anybody can buy it.

I'm not saying this is what's happening with Tinder, I'm saying I apply the same cynicism-of-doublespeak to greedy corporations as I've now learned to apply to SJWs.

And if it is what is happening with Tinder, it could be that they priced different tiers on the basis of usage and it turns out that different groups just have different usage profiles.

Or they could have determined which groups have less price elasticity of demand and charged more for services that those groups want. This could be cast as unfair, but is simply charging "what the market will bear"
i am the author and i didn't mean to be wishy-washy about it. i read several of the papers involved and think it's more likely than not that qwerty was designed for fast typing, or at least not designed to type slowly. but i wouldn't say it's a done deal -- the paper i cited gives the most convincing argument, imo, but it didn't move me up to 100% confidence or anything. i didn't want to give the appearance of being too certain, because i'm not.
Reading his book helped me overcome one of the darkest period in my life. Just a few paragraphs in a random book that I picked up. My heart lifted just a little bit, enough for me to carry on living. Peace to you my friend.
I think there's a good analogy to a wedding ceremony I read from DDIA.

"Do you take X? I do. And do you take Y? I do. I now pronounce you X+Y".
> Snowflake is technically far superior to Redshift. The performance and features are somewhere else

From the discussions I’ve had about this before, I think I’m in the minority when I say I’m categorically unimpressed by Snowflakes performance.

Add that to the hideous cost, and the worlds most aggressive sales/account management team and I’ve less than zero desire to ever deal with them again.

> Snowflake is also technically going to always be far superior to Redshift, because AWS is a follower

While this is true, how many businesses actually need or actually utilise the features they’re paying for with things like Snowflake. Sure it’s got separate storage and compute, but how many places have so much data that they need that? I’ve worked with places that were running multi-node data warehouse clusters, that we migrated to a single ClickHouse or Postgres instance and got equivalent or better performance for a fraction of the economic and operational overhead.

> And if you really care about operating cost, you should be running Trino+Minio or Clickhouse onprem or something as your warehouse.

Can’t disagree here, although I’d say it shouldn’t just be relegated to operating cost: CH blows most alternatives out of the water and is available in hosted options now.
Haven’t used Trino recently, last time I used it, it was still called Presto, and it was frustratingly slow, know if it’s improved recently?
So censorship is mandatory now.
Given that the person you are replying to is the author, I'm guessing he probably does not "partly still believe it's true." I'm going to bang on the "give people generous readings" drum here, too: "Jamming is really bad for typing speed" is not "pretty cagey," it's "a humorous comment." (Also, you know, technically correct.)
Bought it mainly for USPS labels but this looks cool!
Oh of course, it's just a sum after all. Reminds me of forgetting the zero roots when solving differential equations.
A great quote from Lincoln:

> From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
List of open source software to analyze data from mass spectrometers.

https://bryanhanson.github.io/FOSS4Spectroscopy
For each 100 people telling us to "just install more solar panels", only 1 person will consider ways to reduce power usage. Instead of scaling our battery banks to our needs, we chose to adapt our needs to the available space for batteries and surface for panels.

The world could stand to learn to apply such habits and mental models more generally.
I'm not sure why you want to spread misinformation about a video game.
What the analogy proposes as that the cog models and tools sort of develop in tandem.

It's a logical step from a hammer to another driver because you have experience with the fundamental tools.

I would say that cognitive models develop more rapidly and we design tools to fill that space, occasionally developing a tool that can expand the space, usually by building on knowns.

Sorry to diminish your trade in particular :) It was the first thing that came to mind.

I hope that makes sense in context.
Where are the mass incarcerations right now? I’m mostly familiar w/ the US, but are people being arrested in droves for not wearing masks or following C19 guidelines? I agree that mass incarceration is a pre-req but don’t think it leads to genocide, while not seeing much mass incarceration.

The risks from C19 go beyond infecting other people. The only way to claim individuality would be if the unvaccinated were willing to bear the cost of hospitalization as well as accept lowest priority for health care. And if optional surgeries, like knee replacements, weren’t put aside to give care to someone unvaccinated.

That’s the problem with saying we all make our own choices and are “independent”. The reality is we are so interconnected that sometimes people can’t get their own way when required to protect the broader group.
For training models, sure.

But I want to serve them, and run things like Vector search engines, and I don’t see a reasonable justification as to why we need to be chained to Python at that point as well.
An era has finished, that's all. Google's corpse will be decomposing for quite a while though. Hopefully they will find their Nadella before they get completely IBM'd.
I assume you both think the paper's methodology is unimpeachable, since otherwise one of you would have said something about that instead of just making ad hominem attacks.
The idea of the Monkey’s Paw / Deal With The Devil when it comes to medicine has a strong pull.

The belief that cures of terrible diseases would come with a terrible price makes it easier to deal with the fact that we don’t have those cures yet.
I think this would only cement those whom can't break out of their own confirmation bias as they spiral into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I remember Jordan Peterson once saying: "A good man is not a harmless man but a man who is dangerous and has it under control."

I would frown to see "out of control" though.
How much does the cost of labor really factor into a 20B factory? Assume 200k fully loaded at 3000 people is 600M a year on labor. That's not nothing but it seems pretty insignificant if you can save enough on the actual buildout of the fab(s).
My reading of the Tipitaka is that it says:

1. There are a lot of gods, as well as demons, etc. Typically the Sanskrit or Pali terms devas and asuras are used untranslated, in part because the ontological categories of different mythologies may not correspond exactly.

2. One of them was first and lives longer than the others. He says he's eternal and created everything else in the universe, but he's mistaken about both of those things.

3. The gods are better off than humans are, and they understand more than ordinary humans, but they still suffer and die; they all die every time the universe ends, which has happened many times.

4. So even the gods need to follow the path of awakening in order to end their suffering, which can lead to awareness that encompasses even the many creations and destructions of the whole universe. Some of the gods follow the Buddha for this reason.

5. But lots of people (and gods) have been able to observe some part of this picture and think they've seen the whole thing, which leads them to beliefs like monotheism, polytheism, atheism, or nihilism.

6. Thinking and debating about the gods and the nature of the universe is just a distraction from the meditation and awakening you need to end your own suffering.

The Tipitaka is much bigger than the small part I've read, so I don't know if I'm accurately representing what it says, and of course it's only one of many Buddhist canons. But I think the overall cosmology is not really a major point of disagreement between the different Buddhist traditions, especially because of point #6.

Still, I don't think it's accurate to describe Buddhism as nontheistic. If you think the devas aren't real you must think that the Tipitaka is at best an extremely unreliable guide to reality, at which point you're really just following whoever your personal guru is, not the teachings of Shakyamuni. Hopefully he's a good guru and not somebody like Baker-roshi.
> The improbable find grew out of an exercise Villaescusa-Navarro gave to Jupiter Ding, a Princeton University undergraduate: Build a neural network that, knowing a galaxy’s properties, can estimate a couple of cosmological attributes.

Jupiter Ding... maybe nominative determinism has something to it [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
I assumed with windows you were already integrating with on premise AD for user management which syncs nicely with Azure

Azure AD I meant just for user / rights management - not full azure for actual storage and everything.
We're talking Microsoft here, they will probably be patching any crap they put out 10 years from now to maintain some enterprise app nobody knows how to update. Even when they gave up on Silverlight it was supported for almost 10 years afterwards.
Especially since all other passengers on the plane were soon going to remove their masks in order to eat.

Masking has become a religion.
Because people aren't lab mice. My favourite example are claims wrt. experiments for the Universal basic income. These experiments always pertain to people who receive more money than previously, but somehow never include a proportional group of people from whom the money is taken away. To do this experiment correctly, you would have to pick a random sample of the population and do the redistribution regardless of what any of the participants want.
Multi-state employment can be quite complex and a lot of startups are struggling with it. I work for a company called Insperity that completely solves this problem (full stop) by taking on full responsibility for payroll taxes and a lot of HR related compliance issues. Some of our success stories include Netflix, Trulia, Workday, Buzzfeed, Hello Fresh etc. Anyone curious about this platform that enables remote work in any state is free to drop me a line--happy to discuss. zac.mutrux@insperity.com
The only cost (AIUI - IANAL) is that if you join the class action, you waive your right to sue them for the same thing at a later date as an individual or as part of another class action lawsuit.
OP here. My office is populated pretty much exclusively with older HP gear. Some resellers offer 2 year warranties making them extremely attractive compared to buying something new.

Mostly I reformat the drives and install Debian on them, which is always an instant 30% speed increase for development work. Can't say I have done a lot of gaming on them. The laptop from the article does have Wolfenstein "The New Order" from 2014 on it that I did for an experiment, and it's surprisingly snappy.

As development machines though, just unbeatable.
What are the key hardware differences between near IR and FT-IR? Could they be overcome with some software assisted analysis?
The over 30s penalty is nothing new with Tinder. Their price for their subscription membership would double for new members over 30. I remember seeing on the Tinder subreddit if you wanted the discount you needed to set your age to 29, and just put in your profile that you were 30 (I didn't do this though)
I don't think "→" necessarily misrepresents the meaning of "->" (though see the objections throughout the thread re: differing ways that languages notate "not equal to.")

The point is that programming isn't just an exercise in semantics. But it is deterministic symbolically.
no, Matrix exposes metadata to only the servers whose users are talking together.
I just stumbled on a self hosted project similar to tailscale: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale which is an open sourced implementation of the Tailscale coordination server. Tailscale "just works" and makes things incredibly easy for personal use, but it's awesome that there are also similar self-hosted options out there
Great book - San Francisco is particular interesting
I was in Validation.
In many ways, this is like saying... we have the right to block Internet access. If you don't like it, you can build your own ISP. In many ways, the barriers being setup by providers is too high. What happens when someone gets blocked from GCP, AWS, Azure, etc, Scaleway, etc. Then they go to host it on their ISP and they get blocked. Let's say that it isn't right-wing content they are blocking, but left-wing once the right gets back into power and they say that the content is linked to socialism or communism. Then the left while whine, and say... but muh free speech, but they had no problem doing it. If the content blatantly violates some law, let's say for example... child porn, snuff films, etc. Then yes, they have a legal obligation. But right now, they are just removing whatever pleases the vocal sensitive group that is offended that someone says something that they don't like. Who cares if people says the earth is flat, that vaccines have 5G chips, or that Bill Gates is a reptillian. The best course of action for any of these challenges is educating society and society can make consciousnesses choices for themselves.
This happens in C because compilers are allowed a wide range of optimisations. I'm just saying it's probably possible to build a low-level language without UB. Of course no one would use it because optimizing compilers are desirable and skipping optimizations just so broken code is handled to spec won't happen.
Undefined signed overflow isn’t great (and it doesn’t help that C’s implicit integer promotion rules are bad), but it’s important because it allows loop optimizations, which really are important cross-platform, eg Intel is fine with loops counting up but PPC would like them to count down.

The problem causing this is that C loops are overspecified. If there was a “for…in” loop that didn’t make you declare and increment a variable, then manual increments could trap on overflow without causing so many problems.
Yup, Pong.
The surprising part is that they were added in a PR, the original documentation didn't have them: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commit/741de7f92745d9549...
This is great. Would love to see something like this packaged as a “homelab cluster distro”!
If you say vaping now, then maybe. But actually smoking once a month I still doubt.
I no longer use emacs, but that's the first thing I change on any new workstation. I hate that windows doesn't support an out of the box config for this.
I've been searching for an article written about 30 years ago that I once read which predicts what the 'computer of the future' would look like. My memory tells me that it was a 'Byte' article.

I seem to remember that it was talking about huge quantities like gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of storage, and gigahertz of CPU speed, and huge displays. And I remember being extremely skeptical about that article, only to admit later that my skepticism was wrong and things really did turn out as predicted by the article.

Perhaps this article was it, except that my memory of it was faulty. It certainly is possible, seeing that I used to be a regular reader of 'Scientific American'. Or maybe the article I'm searching for is still out there, somewhere. I'm open for suggestions.
Hey these are also the folks behind the Orca visual programming language/MIDI sequencer! Its a real weird and cool tool, highly recommend checking it out if you're into experimental electrical music.

http://100r.co/site/orca.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH5GaVU0ed8
Google bans terms like ‘senior citizen,’ ‘dummy variable,’ and ‘black box’
If you’re selling B2B, it might be worth offering both perpetual (with yearly support & maintenance) and monthly subscriptions. Some businesses only want to do one or the other - might as well make it easy for them to give you money!
You didn’t answer my only question.

Also, still sounding like you don’t understand how large systems like Roblox/Twitter/Apple/Facebook/etc are designed, deployed, and maintained-which is fine; most people don’t–but saying they should just move to llamda shows inexperience in these systems. If it is "puzzling" to you, maybe there is something you are missing in your understanding of how these systems work.
What I read is that they had plans for invasions of some western European countries, but not the nuclear-armed ones.
id think more cuban missile crisis than taliban.

the houthis put iranian military assets too close for comfort for the saudis
The old yarn of security; when things are great they ask, "What do we pay you for?", when things are bad they ask, "What do we pay you for?"
I do not develop myself but there are a lot of people who do.

In Photography there are a lot of desktop apps that are custom.
More now than in a long time thanks to Adobe going subscription based.

At least for the time being, in my opinion, a web-based photo
DAW, editor is not practical.

I might be wrong on that already,

But enough photographers feel that way for now that there is money to be made.

The App store has some great independent desktop applications.
> question is simply hand-waved away

I think you misunderstood me. Giving a handful of companies control over the credibility economy is not a solution and is in some ways worse than having no credibility economy at all. These "abuse detection" systems break down when they are perpetrating the abuse. In other words, as central authorities starts choosing who has access to what according to increasingly arbitrary, political, or cultural lines. The problem wasn't really solved because the free and open internet cannot continue to exist under those conditions.

Is it far fetched to assume that a bottom-up system can't also develop a decentralized credibility economy to complement the decentralized network? I think not, and one thing would likely follow the other in due course.