skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Wild, runaway, moonshot style success that turns you into a billionaire" is based on luck. No matter how hard you work, that kind of success will always always always require a lot of right time, right place, right audience style luck.

And what would be the purpose of this lesson?

> I would also teach them the old Captain Picard lesson: It is possible to do everything right and still not succeed. That is life.

This is a dumb lesson. There are many things in life where if you make all the right decisions you will succeed. In chess if you make every perfect move you will succeed at winning. Let's take poker as an example, a game with an extreme amount of variance (or what the average person would call luck), if you make every right decision you will succeed over the long term, your profit will be a line with ups and downs that points up and to the right. Don't set dumb goals and success is easy.
Interesting article. This has uni econ shit-lib professor written all over it though. Not discounting that view. I think there's a lot of truth to it but they're pulling a little hard at the teet of: if you're poor, don't blame global capital!

> Only those nations secluded from navigable waters – e.g. Afghanistan, Chad, Mongolia, Bolivia, etc – failed to prosper (note, the high coastal bluffs and lack of coastal protection throughout most of Africa slowed investment in most of the continent)..

> In the age of globalization, everyone could get in on global access, manufacturing, and mass consumption,” writes Zeihan in a chapter titled The Americanization of Trade.
Ignoring the "technicals" when considering questions that have real implications for human beings is usually an rhetorical excuse given to focus on particular implications and ignore other, less favorable ones.
> US FDA goes after e-cigs. What's the conspiracy theory version of this? Are old school tobacco companies paying the government to get rid of their competition or something?

E-cig tobacco comes from the same companies as cigarette tobacco. Heck, e-cigs themselves often come from the same companies: Juul is Altria (ex-Phillip-Morris). There is no competition, simply different channels for the same suppliers.

(Also, the FDA is going after some current combustible tobacco products as well some current e-cigs.)
This is not true. Every power plant that produces waste must pay money into the waste repository fund totaling nearly $50B - which is probably overkill for building a long term facility by a factor of 5 or more.
I have a little experience trying to work with Google in the R&D space at a large pharma. Google and other external R&D agents consistently underestimated the difficulty in getting access to sufficient data from us to employ large scale ML. That data often exists within a pharma's clinical trials, but it's acquired and stored in a way that makes it inaccessible to subsequent mining.

This is a problem for dataminers like me within pharmas too. Most of our clinical trial data is locked up contractually within contract research organizations (CROs) who are responsible for taking specific measurements of it as part of a trial. From what I've seen, dataminers within the company can gain access to only selective bits of that data (one or two features, perhaps) from all the patients in a trial, but never to all the data on each patient, and never data from the trial that spans multiple CROs.

This 'federation' of clinical trial data collection serves the needs of the trial design (and satisfies HIPPA regs), but it makes mining the data or asking new questions of it almost impossible. Too little data is available (and never longitudinal longer-term outcomes, since trial durations are short) to allow mining of more than short-term signals, like immediate response to treatment. Pharmas are unlikely to change that practice, in part because it's easier to federate the analyses and allow the raw data to remain in distributed silos. But federation is also a good way to discourage asking creative yet inessential questions that might later prove awkward or invite lawsuits, since litigation is an omnipresent worry in US healthcare.

How companies like Calico/Google hope to navigate such minefields is a question they have yet to answer successfully.
You're welcome - and thank you!
Target Wake Time (TWT) in 802.11ax could actually substantially increase battery life for devices that need to remain connected and can't modem/deep sleep.
The money comes from advertisers. The advertisers pay Brave and then Brave buys BAT off the open market to distribute to users.
> because of course disk vendors quote everything in the smaller SI units).

SI prefixes should be (and are) the rule rather than the exception. It only made sense to measure ram in base-2 units because they are manufactured according to base-2 addressing.

HDD’s have never used base 2 addressing.

Another example is network media. Serialized data transfer speed is measured in {K,M,G,T}b/s (bits) or B/s (Bytes) where a Gigabit is exactly 1000000000 bits and Gigabyte is exactly 1000000000 bytes.

In the early days of computers ram was extremely scarce and expensive. It was such a limitation that it was usually the very first question you asked about a computer’s capabilities.

I remember in 5th grade asking a fellow student who’s parents had just bought an Atari 800 “How much ‘K’ does it have?”

This intense focus on ram may have led people to assume that it’s odd nomenclature would apply to anything computer related.
I just think of the Nacho Libre movie with Jack Black.
Red Mars doesn't go quite as far, but does look at a world in which multinational corporations are competitive with countries in terms of global power.
macports please
The only thing I don't get is why they didn't try this many years ago. I'm guessing because they might've thought it would break the "core conceit" and the aesthetic and unique differentiator, but in practice everyone has always already been using absurd, unreadable and/or inconvenient workarounds to accomplish this.
"which effectively serves as a protection racket for their customers?"

Governments have the monopoly on sanctioned use of violence. They could choose to outsource that to a 3rd party, such as privateers.
In this case, double encryption is a good idea though. Tailscale is a great way to reduce exposure of your infrastructure from the public internet, but it’s not without flaws. In theory, it should be possible for Tailscale and your SSO provider to add new nodes to your Tailnet. Though I don’t believe this is something that they’re actually willing to do, it’s definitely something to keep in mind if you’re planning on delegating SSH/sudo authentication to Tailscale.
Yeah, I always get the heeby jeebies when I'm about to use a new github repo at work. I tend to add creedence to projects that have loads of stars simply because someone would've complained in the issues section if some nefarious things were afoot. Obviously this isn't foolproof.
I read the beginning sections of each chapter until I understand conceptually what the chapter implements by the end. (I needed more assistance for the initial chapters not knowing what the output of scanning or parsing would be, or where to start, but by the later chapters, it becomes pretty clear what the output of implementing say, classes, is).

Then I would try to implement it on my own without reading, having Chapter 3, the language specs, open in a different tab for reference. I chose Java because (1) I wasn't very familiar with it, and (2) I wanted the option to use their code snippets.

My goal is to pass all of the edge test cases the book mentions. So finally I would read the chapter and take some notes on the different design choices and test cases I missed. The reading is quite fast once you've already implemented because you know what to look for.
It does when it works, but I’ve found it to work less often these days.
>Your theory is that Netflix isn't selling entertainment, they're selling boredom insurance? That somebody might have a sudden, unexpected, and catastrophic need for sitcom reruns that might cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars, so to mitigate that risk they pay Netflix just in case?

Don't put words in my mouth. I never said anything even approaching that.

Netflix sells a service (a pretty useless one, in my view) -- video content -- for which they charge a monthly fee.

Insurance companies sell a service (more useful, in my view) -- covering (or at least reducing) the costs of bad stuff happening -- for which they charge a monthly fee.

One is (at least in my view) more useful than the other, but the business model is the same -- pay a monthly fee for some product/service.

As I said, it's not the model that's the problem, it's those who use it in an exploitative fashion.

Please do go ahead and set up another straw man you can knock down for your own satisfaction, but I won't participate further.

Have a great day!
You probably aren't a fan of Carl Sagan then :-) [1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_and_Billions
The point Zeihan makes is that world trade as we know it a recent invention. It exists purely as a result of the US commitment to protect trade from piracy around the world. Prior to that, the system was one of isolated empires each protecting their own routes.

As the US is largely self-sufficient in energy and will likely start becoming self-sufficient in a great many things, it needs the rest of the world less and less.

Those shipping lines, which mainly benefit the rest of the world, start to look like an expensive relic with each passing year.

All it takes for an end of shipping is for the US to stop protecting shipping lines which mainly benefit foreign governments.
That means that for some age groups, the vaccines are more likely to put you in hospital than keep you out.

The author is an editor of the BMJ and has publicly argued for an individualised approach taking into account the risks and benefits to the individual patient (like all other healthcare) when it comes to these drugs.
What happens if your company gets sued and everything on your phone goes to discovery because it might be work related?
Latvian Army Ready for War? Avg. Infantryman Analysis
Nice! A Medium-like UI is more readable than a "tweet storm".
Ask HN: What's a simple setup for creating an offline LAN?
I'm looking to have a LAN that has some storage and IOT devices connected to each other but can't access the internet (or vice versa). Is there a simple way to do this while still having my computer connect to my internet connection?
I agree, but services you consume should provide their own mocks!

I've written about this on how LocalStack is compensating for the lack of proper mocks from AWS: https://blog.battlefy.com/localstack-is-great-but-should-not...
You can own the farm, or be a share cropper on someone elses farm.
Setting aside the possibility that not all code is actually hosted on GitHub; If your code’s hosted in a GitHub account owned by your company, under terms vetted by legal… but then you sign up personally for copilot and in that capacity you upload the same code to GitHub under terms and conditions your corporate legal team have no visibility into? You might have a problem.
> Really? According to whom? According to you who came up with it just now, so you can justify moving the goalposts? Haha. Nice try.

According to a dictionary. I think if we want to have a meaningful debate, we need to stick to certain established definitions and this includes the meaning of suffering.

How am I moving the goal post?

The topic I'm talking about is that our current global food system and a heavy diet of meat & dairy is considerably contributing towards our biosphere destruction and that this meat & dairy diet causes unnecessary cruelty towards other animals.

> It's just that all that stuff you say is mad.

What is mad about listening to scientists?

What is mad about finding ways to not destroy our biosphere?

What is mad about not killing and exploiting other sentient beings when we don't need to?

Whay is mad about not creating a horrific industry (slaughterhouses) that gives people PTSD?

> I linked to a bunch of those above [...] Vegan diest are not healthy.

Then why do health and nutrition experts disagree with you? Are you a doctor or health expert?
Why does The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics say ""Vegetarian and vegan diets are healthful, may prevent and treat chronic diseases, and are better for the environment"

Why does the UN and IPCC recommend a more plant-based diet?

You linked to the following sites and both of them said there are no real concerns with a vegan diet - just need to ensure you eat plant based foods that have the nutrients you need and supplement accordingly.

1) https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/2528709

"As noted above, a well-planned and carefully followed vegetarian diet can satisfy the nutrient requirements for infants and children, and thus cause no real concern."

2) https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/...

"In choosing to use fortified foods or B12 supplements, vegans are taking their B12 from the same source as every other animal on the planet - micro-organisms - without causing suffering to any sentient being or causing environmental damage.

Vegans using adequate amounts of fortified foods or B12 supplements are much less likely to suffer from B12 deficiency than the typical meat eater. The Institute of Medicine, in setting the US recommended intakes for B12 makes this very clear."

B12 is not produced by animals. We don't have to kill animals to get B12.

So considering all of the above - it's a fact that we don't need meat to survive.

So please answer this question for me:

If we can avoid cruelty and violence towards other sentient beings - why don't we?
Not sure why I am responding since you moved the goal posts from operating efficiency to lifecycle efficiency but even there you are wrong.

To your point re: land use, this is why I said rooftop solar. The roof is already there, the structure is already there, there is zero additional land use and very little opportunity cost for the space. Further, the land use for coal is much broader than the plant area because of mining, transit, and waste heat management. There was a recent post on HN comparing total land usage by prime mover.

Solar is only deadlier per unit than coal if you ignore substantial local health effects that aren’t priced in.[0]

Your implied rate of degradation to go from 20-10 is more than 7%. Even 15-10 is more than 2.5% and again that is an absurd number that contradicts observed performance. You misunderstand what degradation means in this context, to your point.

[0] https://surgery.duke.edu/news/despite-studies-health-effects...
> Nicotine is a drug that does not have therapeutic value.

That is false.

> Nicotine in tobacco brings illness and death to millions of people. Yet nicotine in its pure form has the potential to be a valuable pharmaceutical agent. Nicotine fairly specifically binds to the cholinergic nicotinic gating site on cationic ion channels in receptors throughout the body. This action stimulates the release of a variety of neurotransmitters including especially catecholamines and serotonin. When chronically taken, nicotine may result in: (1) positive reinforcement, (2) negative reinforcement, (3) reduction of body weight, (4) enhancement of performance, and protection against; (5) Parkinson's disease (6) Tourette's disease (7) Alzheimers disease, (8) ulcerative colitis and (9) sleep apnea. The reliability of these effects varies greatly but justifies the search for more therapeutic applications for this interesting compound.[1]

Plus, you even said it yourself: "It has mild nootropic effects, as well as other effects like appetite suppression". Sounds like it could pretty much be therapeutic for cognition and weight loss.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1859921/
"Wild" yeast is a thing in both the cider- and beermaking.

AFAIR it exists in the winemaking too, but it's even rarer.
They're proposing removing most of the nicotine from real cigarettes, too.

I haven't consumed any nicotine in quite some time, but I find the whole thing very obnoxious. (Smoking is a sin, but a pleasure. I'd like the freedom to navigate that choice myself, thank you very much.)
Portland is the most used.

However nowadays it is rare that a Portland based cement is "pure" any Portland based cement may have pozzolanic components, i.e be a "blended" cement but the use of pozolanic components even in relatively large percentages does not make them "real pozzolanic cement" (but they are, when there are large amounts of pozzolanic components what I called "modern pozzolanic cement", the "base" is usually anyway Portland).

"Real pozzolanic cements" are fabricated/created with a different process and from different base materials, they are not really used anymore, exception made for particular restoration works.
A lot of families have two cars and it becomes pretty difficult to explain why one isn't electric when the Leaf is an option and the second car will certainly be bigger.

"If it was they wouldn't be so cheap."
If demand surged, Nissan would make more (barring any specific supply chain constraints). Mass producing cars at competitive prices is Nissan's core competency.

"ill suited to what most people want in a car."
This is the actual problem in my eyes. Americans especially have a lot of frivolous ideas about what a car is supposed to be.
A similar logic can be applied to Google - money comes from advertisers which allows users to use search, gmail, maps, etc for free.
> “I applaud the transparency here,” says Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington

Then on https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s... :

> request access to OPT-175B here

> Pretrained models are all licensed under the OPT-175B License Agreement.

If you want "transparency" and kudos for releasing something "openly", why not just release it actually openly and without some complex license agreement?
I can definitely buy the argument that deglobalization is going to hit a lot of sectors that are increasingly viewed by domestic populations as 'critical' - things like food, medicine, energy, metals, and even computer chips. The pandemic exposed the fragility of global supply chains, just-in-time-manufacturing, and awareness of the results of 40 years of full-on neoliberal globalization policy (see The Rust Belt flipping for Trump in 2016 as evidence of this trend).

I think this is a very healthy development, because trade in goods is best thought of as a way for different countries to benefit from surplus production. There have been historical exceptions like the New World plantation economies set up to supply Europe with rum and sugar, Brazil's rubber plantations, resource extaction in the Congo, etc. but none of these resulted in what you'd call healthy economic development.

China may have the goal of becoming 'the next American Empire' but a more rational view is that the Age of Empires is quickly drawing to a close and there won't be any inheritors of the crown at all.
After the hobbits brought down Mordor (everybody remembers the cute hobbits, no one cares about the rest of the crew), d'ya think the Orcs settled that land and became farmers? How long before the neighbors trusted them? There's this natural suspicion that so much evil, for so long, poisoned the land in ways that infect anyone who lives and works there.
No, Chrome came from WebKit and from KHTML. The code does not belongs to Google at all and they can't re-license it.
It's how we establish existence of consciousness in humans and other animals. What you said doesn't differentiate between worms and humans.
To clarify, I did not blame Microsoft.

IIRC, US government sanctions target specific businesses and individuals in Russia, not all residents of Russia. (They do, and for reasons I cannot fathom, target all residents of Crimea and Ukrainian territories under control of separatists.)

Since no one can truly vet every single user for involvement with sanctioned entities, in the end it is about specific businesses and their legal teams, how they interpret the sanctions.

Some businesses chose to preventively block anyone they suspected of physically being in Russia. They, however, accepted a proof of residence (which those who were lucky to escape and live in another country could generally produce). Microsoft, in what to me personally is the first, doesn't. If this becomes the mainstream interpretation of sanctions globally, I imagine many will have to give up and move back to Russia.
I was actually part of a study on improving that. They selected for some criteria that I'm not privy to, but part of it was being active on the site. Iirc only a few hundred meeting invites went out in total. Some of the questions I was asked were also geared towards validating the problem so they could present it to management and get more manpower on solving it.

Since then I've seen sorting by 'recently most voted' being used by default sometimes, but I still have to read up on the actual results. They're somewhere on meta SO or meta SE.
Yay for 5ghz and Risc-v. Only other thing is ble with actual ble power consumption from Espressif.

Speaking of which, Nordic bought out that WiFi startup late 2020 but have been silent on their WiFi mcu since

https://youtu.be/PLdpg-YXhv0
I should clarify that my desire for iron is in the form of bars that I can work in my blacksmith shop, and iron in that form is hard to find in my experience.

I'm sure chemical-grade iron is available but melting iron powder into ingots in an oxygen-free environment is beyond my capabilities ATM.
I never said anything about coal, and I updated the degradation numbers per your suggestion, but the degradation numbers themselves come from NREL. I think you're confusing the derating due to temperature with degradation. They are additive.
Google Admin is too opaque, but maybe it's intentional to thwart spammers posing as clients. For example, those "Suspicious login" alerts are equally mysterious. It only tells you the IP, and you have to guess why it's suspicious, because it won't tell.
> How about if China decides to fill the power vacuum that the isolationist US leaves.

Zeihan argues that this is impossible on demographic grounds. The after-effects of the One Child Policy and the mass migration from farms to cities ensures a lack of soldiers, a greying population, and economic/military decline. Throw in Xi's unprecedented cult of personality that prevents anyone reporting bad news as the icing on the cake.

The US has nothing to fear from China, so Zeihan says.
> Oh, copilot autocompleted it correctly.

That assumes I once had the knowledge of what is "correct".

I just don't quite remember it right now. Then I rely on Autopilot to complete it.

Sometimes I may not feel sure enough to judge whether Copilot is right. I'll need to dig the documentation anyways.

Other times I'll feel sure. But in how many of those I'll be wrong? And what will be the consequences?
Cue Mock Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKaZ7boiZ4 :)
I have no basis for this other than human insight, but I suspect it didn't happen sooner because Jack didn't want to compete with Ev. It makes sense too if you believe that the internet is an ecosystem and you want to support complimentary products in yours rather than roll your own.
I'm curious, what's really clunky about SSM?

Other than ensuring the pre-requisites are met, and knowing the instance-id, SSM works pretty flawlessly. You can easily write a wrapper that looks up the instance-id from the hostname, if you prefer to use it that way.
I think it's like this: "The end of the world" is not an event, it's a process. That process is just beginning. We're nowhere near "the end of the end".

At least, that's what I think it's trying to say.
Knowingly distributing a faulty product with risk of harm to the user ?
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