skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you're preaching to the choir. The paltry predictive power of economics as "science" combined with the role economists play as modern-day court astrologers has always made it seem absurd to me.

> The reality is of course that there is plenty of money to deal with most of our massive structural problems.

I'm a fan of Bucky Fuller, he calculated that we could do it with only about $25B in 1970's dollars. The catch is we would have to deploy our resources and technology efficiently (rather than maximizing profit.)

> But who owns that money? The rich who will rather see the world destroyed than give it up.

It seems that way. In any event, the solution will be social and even spiritual (rather than technological.)
> If the government intervenes, it would undermine the free market.

There is no free market in the US. The US economy is cronyism where all the elites play golf together / marry among themselves, trying to only pass the minimum regalation to perpetuate the system / silence the People and where laws is actually to maximize their own interest.

I'm 100% sure a federal Right-to-repair bill will actually strengthen the actual system (ie. bill does the exact opposite of its name)
I like a lot of David Perell's writings. Usually you'll learn at least one thing from each.

www.perell.com
I wish there was something that have stdout in an env variable that is readily usable next time the prompt is available.
2FA is going to be exposed badly by some basic social engineering one day. When I worked in a hospital, 99% of the people dealing with HIPAA protected patient data were doing so on a desktop that sits in an unlocked office or in an open reception area with the duo two factor authentication set to call the landline right next to the desktop.
This is, unwittingly, the most YAML-relevant comment in this thread.
I did see that. I don't see that as a reason to doubt the recommendations of this particular article.

I thought we were talking about direct marketing by pharmaceutical company representatives by the way. It is of course impossible to separate modern medicine from the pharmaceutical industry since many therapies depend directly on them. It's still the doctor's job to figure out which medicines are actually good and what's merely some salesman's product.
Was the screaming guy no paying for some service?
Combinatorics in Music
Do you have any kids? It was obvious that mangoes and apples were causing our toddler to bounce off the walls.
> Communist countries are the most polluted countries in the world.

what world economic system is committing mass ecocide and crossing our planetary boundaries by exhausting natural resources?
I was in kindergarten during this time and the target demographic. We were on the poor side of things, but even I had several power rangers toys and watched it when I could. Toys were so in demand that they were nearly impossible to find. Anytime Walmart, Kmart, or Toy's R Us got a shipment, they'd be gone immediately.
All hardware dies at some point. What if both the Yubikeys die? What if the third one was already dead before and it wasn’t noticed because it wasn’t used recently? This sounds like too deep a maze for I don’t know how much benefit.
Had the same thing happen to me, I know the password, have access to the recovery email but Google won't let me login. Spent months in a support thread with Google and eventually gave up. Still really bummed about it tbh
I have trouble believing that story. An adult, who is also a super genius just says "I was given..." and quits? That's so passive! You have one CD drive and assume that's it, nothing can be done, that's all the resources in the whole company? Don't talk to anyone?
For anyone even aware of Power Rangers (or any other 90s animated pop culture), go spend 44 minutes listening to the How I Built This podcast on Haim Saban.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650524515/power-rangers-haim-...

Guy went from the son of a refuge pencil salesman (his family emigrated from Egypt to Israel when he was a kid, and his dad had to take what work he could get) to being worth $2.5+ B.

Among his other moves, he turned down a deal from Rupert Murdoch to buy his company (the owner of Power Rangers etc), and said he'd only accept a 50/50 joint venture with Fox Kids itself. So he'd own 50% of the combined venture, including the network.

Then he convinces Pat Robertson's son Tim to sell The Family Channel, which had the wide distribution they needed, to them, to convert to Fox Family.

Then he decides it's time to sell, is offered $500 M by Fox for his share. He thinks it's worth more, and asks Fox if they'll agree to sell as well, if he can sell the entire channel.

He ends up finding a deal for $5.3 B to Disney, and walks away with $1.5 B for his stake.
That isn't the cause of the increased homicide rate. The homicide rate will drop as we finally start coming out of the pandemic and it becomes endemic and less deadly. People were cooped up too long. With all the mental health issues in the US and lack of help with that it was bound to happen with all the stress.
It sounds like you and Ebert don't really disagree!
Legally, cars are not industrial equipment. One of the key distinctions appears to be that a hobbyist can modify a car whereas a hobbyist isn't supposed to be modifying cranes, tractors, trains, or the like.

Exactly - the government doesn't go after Subaru when people remove their catalytic converter because the car isn't industrial equipment. The EPA does go after tractor manufacturers and distributors when it is possible to modify a tractor to remove its diesel particulate filters and similar.

https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/tractor-supply-company-inc-s...

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/1998/June/281.html
Everything that freaks people out about TikTok was around with Tumblr
I hadn't seen Wish before. Seems like a great place to start building a modern BBS!
What OSes are compatible?
Doesn't work for me either, after many clicks.

macOS 11.6, Chrome 96.0.4664.55.
I agree with you. I think this discussion started around the time shadowbanning was gradually used on forums to reduce moderation workload.

It seemed somewhat legitimate for a small free to use site mods to try to not get their whole life sunk by dealing with trolls, but if the same behavior is applied to giant entities who have much more incentives to do it at scale, it becomes a different issue altogether. Hidden restrictions on search results or other functionalities would be distopian and something I hope doesn’t get accepted as standard.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/history-of-industria...

WRT windmills, don't take my word for it.
> The planes allow American intelligence operatives to listen to Russian ground commanders’ communications.

This is hard to believe, one would expect Russian commanders use encrypted communications.
The 'At My Last Place ' Problem (2020)
There’s plenty of ways:

1) Get your story on HN front page

2) Get a job at FB, fix issue yourself

3) Install Tinder, drive near FB offices, set search radius to minimum. Try to convince your matches to fix things

4) Buy a 0-day from the dark web, hack into FB and reset the password

5) Become incredibly wealthy, acrue enough FB stock to get a board seat, complain to the CEO
I'll have to give that a shot. Thank you both!
By GC info in my post I mean tracking which registers and stack slots at each safepoint contain object references so the tracing GC can precisely identify all of the GC roots.

Since Wolfram Language uses referencing counting instead, it doesn't need all of that complexity; it just has to insert MemoryAcquire/MemoryRelease at the appropriate spots in the IR.
That binary size is due to the Go runtime also being compiled into it.
Inspection of the game source code
I like to recommend the grammarly extension to my coworkers and they find it very helpful
So who is your news source then? Who is the beacon of truth and reason we must move to?

Not saying I like Tucker, I think he's terrible.
What do you mean by opponent?

The entity choosing the word in a game like Wordle or Hang Man is more like the dungeon master in a game of D&D than an opponent in the traditional sense? They are there to help you have fun.
The different characters known as "splat" ( i.e. # and *) always confused me, I figured they must have come from different programming environments. My first boss called them hash and star, rather than something truly strange like "glob" which I understand came from "globbing" i.e. searching (reflecting it's use as a wildcard in a lot of systems) but I've never heard anybody say or use it in real life like that.
Or government issued email addresses tied to your identity, either as a citizen or as a registered company.

Due to the decentralized nature of email, you can't have inalienable email addresses except within a domain. But you can register your own domain, and then, it is tied to your real identity and you can transfer it between registrars, which may be closer to what you had in mind. Most registrars provide an email relay, so that's probably the best you can get.
I've spent time in the wilderness in various parts of the world and Australia still seems fairly full of insects and birds. Much, much quieter in Europe and the US, for example. Still see a lot of monarch butterflies here in South Australia.
If it would work, then 100% I would do it in a heartbeat. I posted on Blind looking for help, but just got snarky high-school level comments. Have you had experience reaching out via LinkedIn?
If we're on Ebert, I liked that he liked "Knowing" though I wasn't quite as shocked as he was that no one else liked it.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/knowing-2009 (4 of 4)

His defense of his review

https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/love-and-hate-and-kno...

And more defense

https://www.rogerebert.com/answer-man/i-know-im-right-about-...
When I was a kid, it was noteworthy and a real honor if one artist had two top 40 songs at the same time. Right now, fucking fifteen of the hot 100 are some rapper named Gunna who I've never heard of, and so far do not care for.
What numerical year is yawm al qiyamah?

> The year 2050, Friday, the 19th of Dhu Al Hijjah

Well okay then
FreeM – An Open Source Implementation of the M Programming Language
only tangentially related but that phrase is a pet peeve of mine. You are always the product if you are using software - free or paid. Netflix is sure as hell going to use your data the same way youtube would.

The only exception of course is most but not all FOSS.
> However I remember iconic hit songs dropping every single week in the 80s, from multiple genres.

That's probably survivor bias more than anything. Or maybe the '80s just happened to be a strong decade for music. But again, that's dependent upon one's biases- I seem to remember the '90s to be a great era saturated with iconic hits, even if it coincided with accelerated corporatization of the music industry.
It's definitely more complicated than that. I travel a lot, sometimes to places where borders are dotted lines, cities use a script I can't read, but every hill is "charlie-5" or somesutch... VPNs, public terminals, government networks on .mil.<country> domains, etc.

I have been quite impressed with the improvement they've made in the last year or so regarding these locks. It's probably a sudden change when you've been more predictable before that gets flagged.

Only trouble I sometimes run into is Google Search (or Books?) locking me out with increasingly difficult captchas if you keep running searches for 18 hours straight.
I've heard this from a several posts this week. Genuine question: since maintaining GSuite is expect to cost $6/user/month and Fastmail costs $5/user/month, do you really find the $1/user/month in savings worth the trouble of moving email providers and losing Drive/Docs etc.?

I'm planning a move too, but Fastmail's price doesn't strike me as competitive enough compared to Google's price. Amazon WorkMail is $4/user/month and Rackspace Email is $3/user/month.
Well not if you live in California, then you need to buy OEM parts or they won't pass smog
You might find some enjoyment in writing solvers that compete with your friends' solvers?

You could either compete on number of guesses. Or you could fix the hardware (eg a Famicom), and compete on runtime?
It's certainly 'long-form' and certainly 'content'.
One can argue with two points in the article. First one is a flawed notion of Hedonism. Hedonism properly understood is not debauched partying as much as it centers around what Epicurus called Ataraxia. A state of tranquility or calmness, free of fear, pain or suffering. It's more akin to detachedness or avoiding goal-seeking that people today associate with say, Buddhism.

Second point is that it's not so simple to distinguish between what is hedonistic and what is meaningful. The article gives war as an example, but I'd say a lot of people don't find meaning in war at all, they join war because of desperation, thrill-seeking, and self-destructiveness and as an outlet for violence. Which sounds dangerously close to the worst forms of hedonism.
Statistics exists because people who think they have the explanation for a single important data point are very often wrong.

If you could recognize the causal networks behind a complex system the way a toddler can recognize a cat, after being shown very few examples, there would be no need for statistics.

Unfortunately, you can't. (But it doesn't stop lucky guessers thinking they can.)
Oh yeah, I do that all the time - sometimes the volume of data gets higher and there are bottlenecks and such, you know? Much refactoring to be done.
For over a decade I refused to give Google a phone number.

Eventually they locked me out and demanded that I verify my account via SMS using a landline telephone number I hadn't had access to in over 8 years.

Obviously since this was a landline, I could not possibly have given them this phone number for verification purposes and forgotten that I had done so. Evidently they scraped the phone number out of my email; I'd had PacBell e-bills emailed to that gmail address.

Google is unreliable.
Facebook is the same way. If you don't have their cookies, but know your account name and have the recovery email, you still cannot log in after resetting your password unless you are stupid enough to send them a copy of your photo ID.
The effects are how I tested this out; I used FunctionCompile on a function that uses first uses KernelFunction to call a user-defined function that increments a counter, and then calls Sqrt on the function's argument.

When you give it a non-negative argument, the counter increases by one; when you give it a negative argument you get the message of it reverting to the uncompiled evaluation and the counter increases by two.
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I dont think I've met a single person who has used IBM cloud that has anything at all not despicable to say about IBM cloud.
Uses mastadon rather than others (eg github) but gives reasons why. Currently, it's a multi step process it seems;

> I do have to create the mastodon post, right now I just edit the file again and push the changes with the proper id.

> I could create the posts first with the soon-to-be link for the blogpost, but it would be confusing.

> Right now I am thinking about doing some hook with the cli tool `toot` to post the link and do some stuff with sed, echo and then another git push. But meh, manual works too

So, create the blog post, then mastadon post, grab it's id and put it back into jeykll and resubmit.
I agree with morpheuskafka, and I'm almost a couple decades out of college. The industry values buzzwords over actual product. It's embarrassing, if you take the time to think about it. It reminds me of a cargo cult. Maybe if we just throw some blockchain big data AI up, the market will reward us with its riches. The most transformative companies value product over any specific technology. They try to solve the customer's "jobs to be done" by any means necessary, often using tech that is not particularly sexy.
You can also use https://utteranc.es/, which uses GitHub issues for blog comments. This works well for a lot of Jekyll blogs that are already hosted on GitHub Pages.
Most people here don't seem to understand the entire point of this is to stop hardware tampering.

The goal of AMD's SEV and other features is that the only way to compromise the system is to tamper the wires between the CPU die and the IO die, that all data going outside the CPU die is encrypted, an extra hardware TPM chip module let you MITM the keys being sent to the CPU, having the keys stored in the CPU using fTPM, and never plaintext / keys leave or enter the CPU via PCIe or memory bus.

the "chipset" is literally just a PCIe/USB multiplexer these days, the CPU has no access to external hardware until after the firmware has loaded, the firmware has routines for turning on the memory and memory controller, PCIe etc, I don't think people understand just how utterly useless the CPU is without the firmware.
When I first moved to NYC and was on a tight budget, I'd do exactly that: withdraw $100 every week, put it in my pocket and use that money for all expenses.

Physically touching your paper bills and feeling the stack grow smaller every time you pay for something is a sure remedy to overspending.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en

It's clearly not just US that they are not arbitrary. You could argue for countries not listed above it is arbitrary but it is clearly a legally safer option for a US corporation, so not really arbitrary.
Of course, but that's true of everything you can use. Linux has the same excellent printer stack as macOS. Never had any issues with monitors.

I think the biggest difference is that if something goes wrong, the availability and simplicity of documentation is way worse than Windows/Mac for the most part. The upside is that sometimes the level of access you have to bits and pieces lets you fix stuff that wouldn't be possible on other platforms. For the average user that's pretty irrelevant, though.

I don't really buy the general concept that Linux is boobytrapped any more than other OSes.
The opposite, sugar industry colluded for decades to cover up its harmful effects.
Naw they’re only going to be satisfied with no less than her excellency Rachel Maddow
I also use Arch btw, pretty much exclusively for over a decade. Rolling release has that maintenance cost, though. It's way lower than people make it out to be, but it's still there.
While we're talking Ebert, my favourite was his review of The Longest Yard (the remake, with Adam Sandler). The balance that it strikes - to both respect a movie for being entertainment, while also acknowledging that movies (and art) can be so much more than entertainment, is something I feel like a lot of critics (and people) struggle with.

> I often practice a generic approach to film criticism, in which the starting point for a review is the question of what a movie sets out to achieve. "The Longest Yard" more or less achieves what most of the people attending it will expect. Most of its audiences will be satisfied enough when they leave the theater, although few will feel compelled to rent it on video to share with their friends. So, yes, it's a fair example of what it is. I would however be filled with remorse if I did not urge you to consider the underlying melancholy of this review and seek out a movie you could have an interesting conversation about. I have just come from 12 days at Cannes during which several times each day I was reminded that movies can enrich our lives, instead of just helping us get through them.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-longest-yard-2005
Since 4 months old, our son bounced off the walls when given sugary fruits like banana and orange. With a mood crash an hour or two later.
I read a paper somewhere along the line that claimed that DNA itself shows evidence of having evolved - the 3-pair codons that have some error-correcting capacity evolved from single-pair codons. When I write that down it seems wrong, but that's what I remember. Can't recover the paper, however so you don't need to believe me.
> Did you read the entire YAML spec before using it (https://yaml.org/spec/1.2-old/spec.html_?

This feels like an attempt at victim blaming. If you have to read an entire spec from top to bottom to avoid a pitfall in a relatively common operation, maybe something is wrong.

FWIW, I couldn't even find the relevant section in that spec from a quick glance. I probably would have to read a significant portion of that spec just to figure out where it went wrong.
How would you know? You can't see how many points someone else's comment gets.

...that is, unless you have access to the account that posted it.
I toured a very advanced tomato-growing facility last year where people roamed the rows with battery-powered blowers to aid in pollination. Pest-control was in-part handled by strategically released wasps. The entire facility was powered/heated/cooled by a heliostatic field.

At a smaller scale, my parents were pollinating the tomatoes in their car-sized home greenhouse using an electric toothbrush!
The magic is that it’s like you’re listening to two friends have an interesting conversation and you’re the third person listening in.. particularly in this pandemic when so many suffered severe social isolation, this form of podcast is almost therapeutic.