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I a big fan of the idea of future backwards thinking — living in the future, and looking back and seeing what we need to do to get there, and seeing what the blockers are.

This works very well in domains where there are lots of first order effects and where there are small measurable goals.

In ill-defined domains dominates by second or higher order effects and vicious feedback loops, I wonder if it works that well. Let’s say you wanted to live in a world where there’s no homelessness. How would you get there?
In that case, I’d likely suggest you don’t use medical diagnoses in that way. OCD sucks dude. Its kind of like having your nervous system set on fire.
The unexposed aren't at zero risk, but are often quite close.

For example, cervical cancer without HPV infection is extremely rare, but non-zero. Or someone at the party who didn't eat the potato salad could still come down sick by another pathway.

On the other hand, for things like environmental exposures, you're often looking at very small increases in risk over baseline. For example, your increased risk of asthma with a higher increase in particulate matter in the air.
If, like me, you'd never heard of LDL, read this:

https://www.healthline.com/health/high-cholesterol/why-is-ch...
Now someone should make a browser theme to give me back the three rows of Ask Toolbar and other goodies. (I know, that’s the XP era, not 95.)
NVIDIA has GPU grants for research.
Learning to draw and paint (painting is just drawing with paint in a way) the process is exactly like training AI to do anything. You put into your head all these rules and examples (books about art, images that you like etc) and set off. By setting off I mean daily - or more likely throughout the day - doodling and sketching whatever takes your fancy. Yes like training AI models the outputs at first are weird, but you keep the bits that look good and ignore the weird bits you dont want. Iterate and repeat. There are no magic shortcuts, you have to do the work of doing drawing but most importantly (in my opinion) dont throw away all your failures, keep them so you can see how far you’ve come. You have to be prepared also to let go all the notions of consciously learning how to do it, like learning to code for example. You have to let the model keep iterating. I still do a daily sketch (in pencil - simple lines) every day and when I can a painting. Eventually you train the bits of your brain that are involved and those rules get embedded. Now when I do a painting I dont have to think about the rules, they have been hard coded in some algorithm that I cant possibly understand but works. Even I am often amazed at what comes out. @chloegilbertartist on Instagram for some examples. You can see how things vary there, I’m still training the model ;)
An exterior cover can’t keep the whole pack dry in heavy rain. Water can run down your back and soak into the pack that way. Things that really need to stay dry, need a sealed bag.

But you don’t need a liner for the whole pack, either. Cookware and stoves can get wet, and the tent is probably wet anyway if it is raining.

Typically only the food, sleeping bag, and clothes really need to stay dry, so you can just seal those each in their own bag. I kept those things dry for a month in the Pacific Northwest using just regular kitchen trash bags.
I think, what most people want is a pill that makes them less distractable.

Ritalin is that pill. I know a bunch of devs that take it to code through the whole night.

But...!

1. It usually requires a prescription.

2. While it lets you hyper-focus on one task for hours, if you not careful that task could be rearranging your cutlery.
FYI do. not. use. the dialog tag. It may work but it has a host of other issues. I don't even know if it's an accessibility benefit for anyone but it behaves in weird and uncontrollable ways.

Just make a dialog with a div like you've always have been.
Years ago, you used something else instead of Grammarly.
Well, you can check on the working conditions. There's lots of stuff online.

Life is better in Bangladesh now than it used to be. By a lot.
Thanks.

Though it wouldn't call it a wealth transfer. It's wealth creation in both Bangladesh and their customers and investors.
Upvoting because such stuff needs to be discussed, but the final paragraph must be pointed at. It makes claims about the reasons behind FB policies without any evidence. E.g. the same policy decisions might reflect the FB perception of what its users want to discuss in the light of recent events without it being directed by any government official or consideration of their desires. If they leave the total ban of this organization, people won't get full picture of the war, will decide that FB supports russian information suppression tactics and will be angry at FB.
>Simpson, who is a sophomore in electrical engineering at MIT, wore a circuit board with nine lights over a hoodie and was inexplicably grasping a hand full of Play-Doh.

Lucky she wasn't shot.
I completely agree with you. I don't miss Windows and quite despise the UI. Even the modern one. I've been using Macs since several years and the only thing that comes close to a distant second is Gnome. I'm actually quite surprised to see how many actually like Windows 95!
I used to work on a team of two and we skipped code review. It was no reason really, just that we didn't see the benefits outweighing the overhead. That was probably wrong, as a lot of bugs, conflicts, and even some documentation could have been avoided if we had code reviews.

There was an earlier situation where we also skipped code review because the coders were all hotheaded cowboys who worked 5 PM to 5 AM, and this was the kind of thing that would just add tension. Also not necessarily a good idea, but we had a high enough political cost trying to implement a daily stand up.
This reminds me of an exercise from David Allen's "Getting Things Done" called "Mind Sweeping" or "Brain Dumping": https://gettingthingsdone.com/2015/05/podcast-03-david-allen...
Thank you for taking the time to write such a thoughtful analysis.
The geothermal projects in Switzerland (and South Korea) used pressurized water to form cracks within the rock (similar to fracking). Also typical geothermal projects need to be near fault lines since that is where the low hanging fruit is. Since this method will forgo those steps you should greatly minimize the likelihood of triggering an earthquake.
Are graduated spoons allowed ?
Thanks for answering.

Alas, frankly, you sound like a crank.

It's exceptionally easy for a person to devise an encryption system they can't crack. It's exceptionally hard to devise an encryption system others can't crack.

That's why generally cryptosystems are only seen as trustworthy when they have been out in the open and been attacked---without success---by many smart people with a track record of breaking cryptosystems.

Eg do you know how differential cryptanalysis works? Or linear cryptanalysis?

Or assuming you know about RSA, would you be able to figure out which classes of keys are deemed weak without looking it up? (Ie can you repeat this attack?)

Do you know which existing cryptographic systems are vulnerable to quantum computers? And which are not? And why?
Sorry if I've offended you.
Finally! So glad to see a plugin make an earnest attempt on this now. Been using Snap Camera green screen background combined with OBS chroma keying to make it work, but will try this out now.
If there is a war, there would be cable cutting, however, cable cutting is so severe action, that it will require military response.
Now I regret a little bit that I have switched from linux to a macbook
What I Learned After Using an SSH Honeypot for 7 Days
I checked out Scott robertsons “how to draw” at the library and I think it is really good.

However, my main takeaway was that my desire to draw was not big enough for the effort required.

http://scottrobertsonworkshops.com/h2dr/
It is the GPU vendors that create the issue here as always has been for Linux/BSD.

It is not Google the problem.

The GPUs should be standard compliant and not wild west.
> Not to imply western countries are exempt - they also made (and make) use of protectionism in growing their industries. Only after industries matured, would the market be opened, and economic propaganda launched how unrestricted trade was the only way to prosperity (and, by pure chance, this would give the now globally-competitive industries new export markets).

Yes, western countries have often shot themselves in the foot with protectionism. They aren't perfect.
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Doesn’t something like Send Grid or Mailjet work?
I use Nvidia Broadcast, it has the least artifacts and the roll of when blurring is also the best I think, downside it uses a lot of GPU and my RTX2080 fan spins up.
Yes I agree. It’s a very interesting argument, as I’ve been to war in Mosul (Iraq. I’m a reporter) I know very well how the “things” get confused during a civil war, and lots of time the best thing is to choose not to take the best ethical decision but the most correct for that moment only.

This doesn’t mean that it should be overall right and also applied in the future, wartimes require special measures unfortunately. And the situation in even worse during a civil war like this one in Europe.
The science (of political polling) has changed.
Many login walls can be bypassed if you set your user agent to GoogleBot. You may also have to use an IP from Google, which is easier now thanks to GCP.
I agree, I wish backpack manufacturers would just skip the coating. It would save weight and cost, and greatly extend the lifespan. I have multiple really nice packs that I can’t use due to coating grossness, despite being 100% functional otherwise.
What’s even worse is Debian running on 256 MB environment, you’ll need swap or pip will be killed by the OOM reaper.

Linux used to be embedded first but nowadays most Linux distros are strangely oriented toward desktop and don’t work correctly on low memory environments without heavy customization.
A bad climate year in 2040 will kill millions of people. Mark my words. Climate disruption is only getting started we are on an exponential response function between average temp and effects with plenty of hysteresis to come ie. no way back, won't regrow, won't feed...
Not a good idea to harass people because you don't like what their government is doing.
This no nonsense attitude never gets applied to western countries though. Droning weddings is cruel. Yet no one blames that on American citizens
> Ensure your work is fresh and original

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My brain believes two things simultaneously:

* that Windows 95 was the first GUI I used for any extended period of time and that I will naturally think it's the best one for this reason, for the same reason people tend to think things they liked when they were teenagers peaked when they were teenagers; and

* that Windows 95 really did rule - to repurpose Hoare, "not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors"

...and those two could fight each other all day.

Taking off the rose-tinted glasses, I might miss the UI, but I definitely don't miss how unstable it was. 25 years on I can still rattle off a Windows 95 product key off the top of my head as a consequence of reinstalling it so often.
Thanks! No, didn't read about it yet. I'm going to check that.
PyTorch has become the de facto standard for research (meaning cutting edge models often have their sole implementation in PyTorch), and TF has had a much more unstable and uh, baroque API. It should be mentioned that while some of that API mess probably could have been avoided, other parts of it are a consequence of TF's view of computational graphs as static rather than dynamic, which gives it a fundamental performance advantage over PyTorch. (You can think of this as vaguely equivalent to why compiled languages can run faster than interpreted languages.)
Supposedly. But then you wouldn't block cheap ethanol from coming into country, would you?

And see protomyth's comment for more political reasons.
Assuming this works, tech still won't save us alone.

Pure thermal (ie. just energy, no GHG) climate change is right around the corner if energy use keeps going up exponentially and we keep reducing earth's albedo.

Ecosystems are still being obliterated for cattle and mining.

All ghg free electricity will do is buy a few decades to end (and in the west, reverse) growth. Possibly the only thing that will give civilisation a chance to find a solution, but not a solution.

We should be finding ways for people in the west to live more like developing nations and still thrive, not trying to turn developing nations into the west.
One option: Telegram has built -in translation support!

See this article (1) to turn it on - you’ll need to go to settings, language, turn on the feature and select your native language under “do not translate”. After that, long press on a message and choose ‘translate’.

Here on iOS, the built in Apple Translator tells me it can’t translate Ukrainian, on Android may be better.

That’s not too big a problem; the channel linked above is mostly in Russian.

1: https://androidcure.com/translate-messages-in-telegram-on-an...
Here goes my cynical take - maybe you are trying to use HN as a discussion forum? I think it is intended to be used for link aggregation. And cynical comments sometimes can be very helpful. You read some promotion of an app and the comment says "tried it, didn't work, you can achieve the same with notepad, would not recommend". What a useful reply! Hide the link and move on.
A recent podcast interview with Quaise energy's CEO.

https://www.woodmac.com/news/opinion/the-interchange-recharg...
How did they harm capitalism?
Yes, punish the civillians of russia for the decisions of the global oilgarchs.
I love the foaming-at-the-mouth war effort here.

Lest we forget the true words of Hermann Goering,

"voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Please don't do this, if anything you're helping with the propaganda that Ukraine is a "NATO puppet state".
Annoying them enough might push more people to protest.
The softest option of the script is one alert() message once a day, that doesn't seems like harassment, the strictest option is to redirect you to a form on the russian government website, that's more debatable but that's up to you, you can also run custom code.

If you're annoyed/blocked while trying access a website you like because your government is oppressive you might have one more reason to protest.
@dang, This is Russian attack on Ukrainian Unicorn. Can you shadowban awakened bots?
Distressing to say the least. I'm sure plenty of people would agree that these companies need some amount of oversight, but this seems to be entirely the wrong solution. Enforcing real identities online has a cost.

Facebook has already shown they're barely capable of doing it. Name changes are a known nightmare that result in no action, bans, or temporary suspensions from the service. Other cases also prompt for a government issued ID, such as creating a new account and being flagged by the automated system (this happened a non insignificant amount when the Quest was released).

Between technological inability and societal issues, this decision will only make life worse. I sincerely hope they reverse course.
The Raven Paradox
Showing support for Ukraine is good, but blocking Russian visitors can only help Putin make ordinary Russians - which jad no say in his war policies - feel under siege, which is exactly what Putin wants.
We've had plenty of various shocks to the semiconductor industry. So we know it's relatively resilient.
Everyone can do whatever they want stop scolding people for every little thing sometimes people need the feeling of action especially when you are detached and helpless to current events.
Some harass people, the other kill them.
Which one is not a good idea, tell me?
RISC-V actually calls out the posibility of a software filled TLB in it's spec. It's somewhere on my list of things I want to go try and do - to create a small RV32IC core capable of running user, supervisor and machine mode and have a software TLB for paging.
The translation is correct, but it says “[a] protest against the war”. If you want to imply a call to protest, it should be “протестуйте против войны».
Slightly off Topic:
How to geofence ssh? I don't expect where to login from Australia, so I could restrict it
A NATO war would be a nuclear war. Nobody is looking to abuse cyber attribution to start a NATO war.

NATO doesn't want war, thank god.

Look how many wars NATO has ever started or tried to start: zero.
You might also think that the West is oppressing you and that your government's war is justified.
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Dude, they lock you in Russia up if you protest too much. Russia is a full-blown dictatorship now with Internet censorship, state-operated propaganda and other bells'n'whistles.
Stockpiling is a rather straightforward operation. In addition, the benefits of stockpiling are both rivalrous and excludable. Ie stockpiles are not a 'public good'.

So the private sector is perfectly capable of stockpiling, too.
>In short, I'd question why near-poverty while supporting family is unacceptable as a legal minimum. There are a lot of people who don't have a family.

Because most people only choose to start a family once they already have the financial stability to support one.

If the average 20-something male without a family earned more (or there was a drop in the cost of living), he'd be more likely to start a family, do it earlier and have more (and healthier) children.
* if you don't like that their government is starting a war and murderring inocent people.

it might be the only way substantial contrarian views can reach them, since major news media is strongly censored.

I would make it strongly worded and optional, click here to continue if you don't support Putin's war.
Something I've always wondered.

Wouldn't massive scale geothermal end up pumping more heat into the atmosphere that otherwise wouldn't be there?

In contrast, the energy collected by solar and wind generators is from the energy added to Earth by the sun and would be energy in our atmosphere regardless of whether or not we collect it.

But it seems like the heat inside the Earth's core should be fairly well insulated by the lithosphere, and it only slowly leaks out over time. If we start pulling that energy out at a faster rate to generate electricity, could that have a noticeable net increase on total energy under the atmosphere, or is it such an insignificant amount of energy relative to the sun's to not even bother worrying about?
It doesn’t matter it’s a dictatorship they are powerless.
Thank you for this recommendation. I'll probably pick this up for French writing practice!
In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech
On a desktop browser, click the "Plagiarism detected" benefit under one of the plans - the text will show up as a tool tip.

That alone doesn't indicate they collected the 16 billion documents themselves, of course.
Yeah right. They drilled in Strasbourg, France, to get this "free" energy. When they entered production, the city was experiencing an earthquake every month, waking the city at night.
After a magnitude 4 earthquake, they finally shut down the plant.

A town in Germany is devastated also due to geothermal power: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staufen_im_Breisgau
I still fucking love that Win95/Win98/Win2K look and feel. Its no nonsense and perfect in my opinion.
Netra Trataka to be specific(Netra- Eyes). My dad has been practicing yoga for the last 30 odd years(he is 75 this year) survived a near fatal Heart attack(occlusion) but doing well now with the help of couple of stents and Yoga!. This stuff works. For the real.
Of course, since it’s from 2016, it doesn’t mention Dorico, which is the third “big” program alongside Sibelius and Finale. Avid, the owners of Sibelius, laid off most of the core Sibelius developers in 2012, and they were later hired by Steinberg, who now produces Dorico.

IMO this is a pretty smart move by Steinberg, who make Cubase, which is one of the main DAWs used for scoring (and sheet music is still important for scoring). The other DAW commonly used for scoring is Logic.

I ended up purchasing a copy of Dorico Elements. I’m fairly happy with it, but I’ve only ever used Logic, Lilypond, and staff paper to write music before.
I suppose statistically speaking you might be right, though I find it hard to imagine what kind of person is going to risk beatings or years in prison or worse over a minor inconvenience like being unable to view their favourite website.

I think depending on the person this could go either way. Perhaps they feel spurned, isolated, or blamed personally, and respond with anger.
They lock you up in a lot of places for the same reasons. Even in the US or in Europe you might get killed at a protest.

There is people protesting in Russia right now, no matter the risks, I don't see the harm in trying to increase their numbers.
How come no one ever does this when it's America killing innocent civilians? I don't support the war but I'm somewhat amazed at the reaction people are having to it. I don't think the plight of those in the middle east ever reverberated like this
You might remember Warren Buffett offering a billion USD to people who could perfectly predict something called 'March Madness'.

I don't know the details, but it seems to be some kind of American sporting event, and getting everything right was exceedingly unlikely.

You can buy bespoke insurance for this kind of thing. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance

By your logic, Warren Buffett should have been able to buy spend just a dollar or so to buy insurance against someone getting everything right, shouldn't he? After all, the chances were exceedingly small and competition would have driven down the insurance premium?
Yes, but it will be orders of magnitude less than the sum total energy of solar energy across the total surface of the earth.
Price gouging is exactly what makes security profitable!

That's very similar to how peaker plants work. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant
I am currently using KDE with the Reactionary theme [1], which gives my desktop a nice Windows95 look. I love it because the meaning of the buttons on the title bars of windows is very clear, and I know exactly which visual elements can be pressed and which one not.

(Disclaimer: I started using computers in late '80s and used Windows95/98/2000 a lot before moving to full Linux when Windows XP came out, so I was already pretty used to the interface.)

[1] https://store.kde.org/p/1253201/