skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canals are tough because the maintenance of the canal is much harder, and the flow of the canal also makes things tricky.
Dr. Brandi McKuin has done some work here, looks like the best way to do this is to hang the panels suspended on cables over the canals, but that requires a lot of steel and is thus fairly expensive. I don't think we've cracked that nut yet...
This is a great way to convince people that they need to see the records. Talk about your all time backfires.
Using a phrase in a book or a poem is not much stronger than using a single word as a passphrase. Attackers include such phrases in their cracking dictionaries, including variations on spelling and punctuation. After the initial hashing of the candidate passphrase, a five-letter word takes exactly as long as a 100-character lyric from a song.

There are lots of sad stories of people losing funds in the early days of Bitcoin when "brain wallets" were briefly popular. Victims used quote-based passphrases that seemed unguessable.

The threat model is a little different when it includes getting access to your encrypted password-manager database or OpenPGP smart card. But the point stands that a well-known phrase might as well be a dictionary word.
^ small nit - cold panels are more efficient than hot ones, not dry ones!
Wow, fantastic. That's an awesome tip!
"tells staff to avoid activism"

I can't wait until this catches on and professionalism once again rules the workplace. Activism in the workplace is divisive and tiring.
The world didn't burst into flames because most people were agrarian and largely self sufficient. Part of the reason the Great Depression was so devastating was because the economy was more interdependent than ever before.
Around the 3:50 mark: "that's where the beer belly comes in handy" :)
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> We would submit that the simplest explanation for this relationship can be garnered from the known
relationship between borderline personality disorder and extreme, though changeable, expressions of
identity. A large study found that the P factor, which we attempted to approximate here, seemed to perfectly correlate with a latent borderline personality disorder factor (Gluschkoff et al., 2021.). Those who score high in neuroticism are plagued by worry and doubt, including about themselves and even about who they are. Bing high in neuroticism strongly correlates with suffering from depression and anxiety (see Nettle, 2007). The world appears to them as a frightening place, beyond their control, meaning that even their sense of "self" can be unclear. In periods of extreme concern, they deal with this by creating - and expressing - clear and strong identity (Fox, 2020). This ameliorates their negative feelings, at least for a period of time, meaning, as this has been found with religion, that their identity may even become less extreme and conspicuous as they enter a period of relatively mental stability (see Hills et al., 2004). Thus, unnatural coloured hair can be regarded as an expression of, and way of negotiating, high levels of neuroticism.
good points, and even when software is open source and standards exist, incentives may not be there to use them or build anything to last in the commons, so you get every lab writing its own toolkit and science gateway or data portal to publish and live for a few years then perish when the grad student maintainer moves on
It's not needed. Scientists are gentlemen.

E.g. in ~1900 three different people, Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg, discovered the laws of genetics, checked the literature, and found the work of Mendel. Each of them credited Mendel.
I was also reading topology around that age, doesn't mean I understood much if it, lol. In all likelihood you are far smarter than I am.
2013 isn’t even close to the first time crypto recovered from dead.
Have you tried tools like https://webflow.com/ and https://pinegrow.com/

Or ones like https://shuffle.dev/

Shuffle outputs proper tailwind code. I've used it a bit to get projects started.
I'm not going to say that no victim ever fought to be sacrificed, but most commonly their victims were taken from neighboring tribes, and were certainly not willing.

The destruction of the Aztec empire is usually attributed to Cortés, but really he had 500 men, some horses, and some guns/arquebuses. Not quite enough to besiege and overrun an island-fortress with 200,000 inhabitants.

No, his secret weapon was 100,000+ people from neighboring tribes, who were very tired of having the Aztecs raid them for sacrifices and enslavement. This is also why the violence witnessed during the conquering was so brutal that even the Spanish tried to rein them in (without much luck).
Has to be The Feynman Lectures on Physics
442,329 by controlling interest to keep inflation as close to 1.5% as I could (which isn’t always easy).

442,306 by just immediately setting interest at -0.5% and leaving it there entire time. Inflation varied widely, but seemed to correct itself around 12% and -4% and spent a lot of time near 0%.

Can anyone explain an economic theory why that happened, or is the game not reflective of reality?
Quite the opposite, basically no one gets it exactly right the first time, and if you're trying to you're probably doing it wrong. I forget the attribution but there's a famous quote: "Writing is rewriting."
If someone has remote access to your machine, you're already owned.
Multiple times a day sure sounds like the opposite of the definition of "rare"
I don't care one bit for Coinbase or others like Kraken that have to comply with KYC laws. The popularity of these platforms has reduced crypto to just another thing to gamble on. Derivatives and Forex exist already for that.

Even sites that let you trade with cash and giftcards now require multiple levels of ID verification. There are some chinese companies that are not like this though. It's not so much about anonymity but reliance on government structured order and control in order to engage in commerce effectively making crypto a central bank dollar except no deposit insurance and betting on its value is much more volatile and risky.
IIRC the Brave browser is fuzzing "unique id" browser properties (screen resolution, CPU, language, time zone) to spread the users browsing fingerprints wider.
To be fair, Vale is in a much earlier stage of development than either of the others you mentioned.
Heh that’s good. I was just about to write out an angry comment on USDT vs UST when the joke hit.
I think the mechanism of advertising is more fundamental than that, I think it's intimately hooked into the same path as spaced repetition.

I feel Marketing isn't so much crafted to compete with other signals on any merits but rather crafted to compete with recall.

Once a message hooks into an effective spaced repetition pattern it doesn't matter which is the 'better' product; because you'll search first for the one you recall the easiest. At which point it's an entirely different marketing team who tries to make the sale.

My opinion is that some companies craft messages to carry additional product metadata not because it's a necessary component of advertising but because they think it makes it simpler to recall.

I think this is evidenced by more than a handful of marketing campaigns that don't explain their product at all in any meaningful way and yet still enjoy immense popularity.

All that to say I think the worries alluded to by fragmede are justifiable, since the mechanism of impact could involve so little personal agency.
you volunteering to do our mechanical editing now?
I’m not saying that marriage itself is bad, I’m saying that being in a marriage where you cannot freely leave isn’t an alternative to a job you cannot freely leave, which is an exploitation of labor that’s over represented in tech, in response to a poster who questions why tech should be trying to defend their labor. In none of your points have you reasonably addressed the original concern, which is that exploitation of labor does exist in tech, except to argue that it’s okay because of money, or they can enter a marriage that they cannot freely leave without also risking their immigration status and that’s somehow not a concern.
I don't know where I first read it, but here's an article talking about it https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/generational-wealth%3A-why-d...

Apparently this has been the case for long enough that there's even an old Chinese proverb

> Wealth does not pass three generations
IIRC a liter of Coca-Cola contains ~120g of sugar, and they need to add phosphoric acid to make it all go into solution. In fact, so much phosphoric acid that it makes a good de-rusting agent, i.e. any iron oxide (rust) will, after being soaked in Coca-Cola overnight, be converted to iron phosphate, which is easily removed with a light scrub. In addition, regularly consuming that much sugar puts you at high risk for type II diabetes, heart disease due to obesity, liver malfunction, and probably other things.

So no, absolutely do not want to drink what amounts to a toxic industrial solvent... though I did drink the stuff as a teenager before I learned all that, I must admit.

Point being, such advertising only works that effectively if you have a dumbed-down population ignorant of science, math, history and similar matters.

Here's a viable conspiracy theory, on that could very well be true: the attacks on American public education over the past 40 years are part of a deliberate effort to create a dumbed down population more susceptible to manipulation by corporate advertisers and state propagandists.
Ive used UNSET in enums before, to describe things for a one-big-object state in workflows before the relevant step has been run.

I don't think I've used it to describe true or false though. Possibly as a third option, but the names for the options end up well described, not just true and false.

Looking back, I'd much prefer to make lots of types, describing the object along the way. In typescript it would be real easy to describe too, just &-ing the steps' results to be main object along the way
This kind of evangelizing sounds terrifying to me. I'm expecting more of these "whimsical" "fun" UI elements all done in the service of some poorly defined ideal of capital-D Design! The capital D is important.

Please, just stay away from my car accelerator.
I recommend reading "Human Action" by von Mises. It explains a lot of economic concept including central banks and money. Eg. on why any amount of money is always sufficient for any society (assuming it has at least enough precision for the basic needs of the agents).
This ofc is the opposite of what the game was based on.

Another great article into central bank-caused recession is Rothbard's "Economic Depressions: Their Cause and Cure". It had explanation for phenomenas such as why the food sector is not as impacted, during the bust, as some other highly technological, heavy industry sector.

For a more visual concepts, I find Mike Maloney's Hidden Secrets of Money pretty good, although it's not as rigorous as the previous sources.
That old saw is evergreen: If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
Excellent work. Kudos to the author(s). I have been looking for a way to write verified performant practical software for a long time, and CreuSAT is an example of how it can be done using Creusot. Thanks!
I load all the names at once. If this ever became a problem I'd segment them with bloom filters or something like that.

Note that in my applications the names are not known at runtime because comparing the guids is sufficient and these drop downs are not shown to the user but only the designer.

Were I employing this system in a more distributed fashion I might reconsider packing the names with guids understanding of them to be frozen after build.

I'm also considering a method to allow an engineer to limit the scope of key so that the designer is presented with a subset and not aall of the key options when setting the value.
> For one, what does "unset" mean? Does it equal false, because it wasn't enabled? What's the default?

This is a common strawman used to advise against null.

Null only means one thing. Null. It doesn't convey any further meaning. It is a "not set" or "not initialised" state.

It isn't a default, it isn't false, it isn't not enabled.

If you have a user interface tied to this variable. Null means not yet set.

This is entirely logical. The only people getting their knickers in a bunch are those that don't want to admit there is uncertainty and context required to determine what null means in your application.

My advice: don't apply further meaning to null other than null or not set.
I've never found a use for null where undefined wouldn't be simpler to use. Especially with the ?? Operator to set defaults along the way
I worship God, have put my faith in Jesus, and I trust in his divine providence.

If your hope relies on humanity figuring it out and working together, your anxieties are only going to get worse over time.
90% of the world's piston GA fleet is using 80 year old engine designs, so...
I believe GP is talking about the one I linked specifically: https://citymapper.com/
> union leads to highly overpaid employees who are frequently caught not working on the clock

Can you demonstrate this, or provide any evidence for it at all?

The reason I ask this is because you seem to be automatically assuming Union=Bad with no reason to do so.
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Greece and Rome are antecedents to Western civilization, you're literally reading Latin text right now.

Egypt is an indirect antecedent, very well established in the West.

As foundational elements of the Western Canon, they're going to be well known.

The names of the planets are the names of 'Gods'.

Aztec culture was 'discovered' in the Western context, very recently, still not particularly well understood, and not particularly well documented.

You'll also note that each of the Aztec gods presented carried knives with human blood, for 'sacrifice' and 'auto-sacrifice' - their chief concern being of providing human blood and sacrifice, which they did, en masse.

It would be rational to argue that the Aztec religion was thus a 'Death Cult' at least by some purview, which would be viewed as 'more than very scary' by any classical standards, and 'tolerable' only from the most modern perspective wherein we can disassociate ourselves with the act of 'constant sacrifice' from a moral purview and just investigate the culture itself without judgment. And even then, it's hard to ignore; it's deeply unsettling.
That doesn't answer the question, obviously. An open letter shared in a private medium is not public. I get the impression that neither the general public nor Musk himself were the intended audience of the letter.

I find the entire notion of calling for the CEO's ouster with "tact" a bit disingenuous.
Bitcoin difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks (10 min blocks * 2016 = 2 weeks), but ethereum difficulty adjusts every block, so presumably ethereum wouldn't be affected by this.

Even if this did occur to Bitcoin, the community and miners would likely work together to put out a hardfork that adjusts difficulty downward to start the chain.
Hello Kenny - some clarification seems to be needed re: some financial metrics.
1. Gross profit = revenue - COGS
2. COGS = price paid to manufacturer + transportation costs from manufacturer to the warehouse and from warehouse to customer

COGS does not include warehouse rent and utilities - these are operating expenses.

Hopefully this makes it clear that my reply to your other comment was in good faith and not a straw man. The metric you proposed is not a good metric. Amazon cannot function if Gross profit is 0 --- because it would not be able to pay for the rest of the stuff it needs to function: executives, software developers, warehouses. Saying all the expenses not included in COGS are discretionary is just not true - some of theses expenses are essential.
Its source code is also on Sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/
If anyone likes this kind of vibe of old video my dad got me to "acquire" a show called "Jack Hargreave's Old Country" which is the titular man meandering across the English Countryside talking to people.
I just consider it on the same category as proofreading. Even if you are an super-author you still need someone to pond on it. There's nothing wrong on getting input on your texts by humans why would it be different by machines?
Just disable Zopfli which is the most time consuming compression method and typically they compress at an instant.
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I never said anything about specific criminals, only that when it comes to the criminal system minorities are imprisoned earlier and longer for less severe violations of the law, and that talking about the treatment of minorities is not the strong counterpoint originally argued. At most it is a weak comparison where America doesn’t actually look significantly better. If we even looked outside the criminal system (where slavery is legal) the immigration system of the United States is also cruel, with forced family separation and reported forced sterilization procedures.
Something I found recently is Steve Keen's Minsky, and his book The New Economics, which uses Minsky to go through a series of simple models of the modern fiat money system.

http://www.profstevekeen.com/minsky/
Pre-release of Python 3.11 sees a 10%-60% performance gain over Python 3.10
Can't agree with most of the page but the cookie "nonster" section of this site explains one to three of such workaround:s https://www.abarim-publications.com/contact/Copyright_Names....
TL:DR is cloudflare beacon [not to be confused with sizzling bacon&] as well as a hidden method of session storage.
Curtain wall construction had only been invented less than 20 years earlier, and this was the tallest such structure at the time.
Yeah, it's a classic "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" move
Mayans were there from antiquity, so have have quite a bit of archaeological indication.

But it would be exciting to see big new discoveries!
In a sense something like 3Blue1Brown or a good DIY channel is almost a modern equivalent in terms of content but the thing these old documentaries (not to be overly patriotic but often British ones) have that most (almost all, really) YouTube videos have is the expertise and creative bottleneck of being made by a proper TV studio.

Bottleneck I say? From limitation and oversight comes restraint and clever tricks, and that is a good way of making good media.
Archived: https://archive.ph/3ReuV
Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets (2020)
Do any of these articles touch on Brock (of Mighty Ducks fame) being found with a bunch of child porn and stuff?
AGPL doesn't require that $bigCorp give you the changes, only that they give their users the changes. You could get changes from existing users, but they might not be willing or able to help you. You could become a user, but that could be expensive or $bigCorp could just ban you from the service.
I would recommend against Human Action. It's "Austrian" school economics, which is considered heterodox, and it's something that's understandable by a layman but generally not be considered good economics. I fell into the trap when I was in high school of reading Mises and Rothbard et al, I wish I had not.
> But a Slashdot/Sigh/Reddit/Hackernews

What's Sigh? I've searched but can't find anything.
It reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
Yes. People will always demand consumer goods. The problem with deflation is that it incentivizes you to hoard money rather than invest in businesses give out loans. During periods of economic growth with a gold-backed currency, we don't actually see much deflation because the money supply expands when banks naturally give out more loans and people invest a greater percentage of their wealth into equity. The problem comes when there is a recession. People and businesses default on their loans, and lenders are less willing to issue new ones, which effectively contracts the money supply. While it sounds good that your money becomes more valuable, most of the reason for this is that people have less of it.
Sounds like a great way to reduce CO2 emissions!
May the guillotines feast until this language is is no longer spoken.
To say that it is backloaded is misleading.

Yes, technically speaking, the stock only compensation is backloaded. But that is balanced out by a 2 year "signing bonus" that is front loaded an equivalent amount of money, such that you are almost getting a hybrid stock/signing bonus package, so that it is technically the same amount of compensation each year.
Didn't Japan have negative interest rates?
From the FAQ:

> Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time.
Of course, but just because more weight is going into the fuselage doesn't mean the wings are going to "snap off" because the wings are empty. I mean, if the wing tanks aren't needed, surely you could replace them with structure that allows the wings to take the higher loading?

Even in the 747 and A380, the majority of fuel is stored near the wing roots, so the whole idea reads like a non sequitur to me.
The only real way to ensure your data isn't being collected and sold in the course of every single transaction you engage in (cash transactions being somewhat less trackable, however), is to get data privacy laws passed that forbid this activity by retailers, data brokers, and related entities. The EU has the right idea on this.

Ordinary individuals who attempt to use technology to 'go dark' will likely, if they're careful, be able to conceal their online identity from your average stalker type, malicious ex, or seedy credit card fraudster, but certainly not from the likes of Google, Apple, Verizon, or any number of government agencies with access to those outfit's data centers. This is called mass domestic warrantless surveillance and it is illegal under any reasonable interpretation of the US constitution, and certainly shouldn't be allowed by private parties either.

As far as spies, every history of spies I've ever read has one thing in common: they all hide in plain sight, using cover identities of some sort, acting as much like a normal member of society or their organization as possible, and then running off to do their data transfer/nefarious activity in secret only rarely. Notably, mass domestic surveillance isn't a very useful tool for catching such people - it's more about authoritarian snooping on the population, engendering fear of the state as with STASI, as a means of control. That nonsense shouldn't be allowed, and those who promote it are nothing but authoritarian enemies of democratic rule and free expression.
Chinese Officials Are Weaponizing Covid Health Tracker to Block Protests
With added vinegar?
As brutal as it may be, I wonder if we have strong sense of the extent to which people 'believed' in all of it, and even the parents would have been 'proud' to offer their offspring as sacrifice.

At very minimum, there must have been a very desperate cognitive dissonance at the image of one's child wreathing in desperation and pain.

But the Conquistadors brought a lot of unsavoury and brutal authoritarian measures along with them.

So I truly wonder what the locals might have thought about the New Religion, among all the other changes afoot.

It must have been a weird time, like aliens who are a 'bit like us but different' landing in spaceships.
If I recall correctly, the first few ATMs near Wall Street had the same issue. They were too fast and people were suspicious. They had to add in a delay so folks would feel alright using them.
Article from the future? July 1, 2022 :D
I believe it’s not really true for Europe, at least regarding the most wealthy families [0].

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[0]: https://www.fa-mag.com/news/how-to-stay-rich-in-europe--inhe...