skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "...as what had started as a liberating computing movement (personal computing) had turned into a proprietary monster in the form of Microsoft."

Given that most of us today work in server-based software, it must be mentioned that the UNIX server/workstation vendors were equally interested in becoming proprietary monsters of their own, with Sun Microsystems at the top of the heap and charging prices that made even Microsoft server products look attractive. They would've been a Microsoft if they could've and they certainly tried their damndest to do so.
I expect it means more "feudalism" in the sense of relying on frontends that handle things like age verification for you, in those jurisdictions that require it. Perhaps Cloudflare and Netlify will someday offer services.
"Well, the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." - Malcolm Turnbull, Former Australian Prime Minister.

This is their attitude.

They will legislate to achieve the outcome they want. If that means making it criminal to use encryption without backdoors, they will do that. If it means making it criminal to use P2P technology, they will do that.

They have and will use control over mainstream infrastructure (Internet traffic, software distribution channels, etc.). Use of non-mainstream infrastructure will be made increasingly difficult and used as an indicator of guilt.

The more sophisticated the technical workarounds required, the fewer people will be capable of using those workarounds, and even fewer people will be capable of building those workarounds. Fewer people are easier to control.

TrueCrypt, Lavabit, etc.
Yes, I can see how it may come across with a certain level of arrogance. Though I would say it's well intentioned based on the "mistakes" the author said he's made. It's been helpful to me for instance, to read about him getting over writing only "to document" and only when he "was told."
Consider this story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/04/end-of-the-roa...

Do you think that should be allowed? If not, do you think that makes them not count as people either?
Worth mentioning that this is the same design company that blew $35MM on a terrible redesign of Tropicana Orange Juice, which they reverted back within a couple days (but kept the mock orange cap)

https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2015/05/what-to-learn-fro...
Yeah I was not eating mashed potatoes, those historically have been a nightmare for me, right up there with orange juice for guaranteed ruining a couple hours. I was eating roasted potatoes with olive oil and salt. there was a ton of chewing involved so I was eating 5-6 meals of 200-400 calories, which is, of course, what they say I should be doing with regular food also.
I wrote an undergrad paper on this decades ago now so I'm not sure I can explain that very well any more.

We know the Higgs exists now so electroweak symmetry breaking is on pretty good terms. That means at a high enough energy the W and Z bosons will lose their mass and kind of reverse fuse with the Higgs and photon and you'll get SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. In order to get our universe with broken SU(2)xU(1) symmetry and a massive Higgs and W, Z bosons then you really do need the symmetry breaking mechanism.

I cannot explain why that dumps energy into space-time and why that in particular causes the inflation and expansion of the Universe. I think its dependent upon the exact shape of the Higgs "sombrero" potential and we don't know exactly what that looks like. To have a Higgs mechanism breaking the electroweak symmetry without dumping energy into space time though I think is considered not likely. Once you dump the energy from the Higgs mechanism into space-time I think you're fairly guaranteed to get an inflating universe, but here is where I'm just entirely trusting what I've read in words, with no personal connection to math at all (although I do trust that the math exists for this)

Then on the flip side you can use inflation to explain the large scale mass structure in the universe and the globby strands of matter become quantum fluctuations in the pre-inflation universe. Of course I think they're still off by orders and orders of magnitude between theory and reality still(?) but that does lend some plausibility to it all.

The electroweak symmetry breaking is on much more firm ground since we can point at the Higgs particle and it doesn't make a lot of sense except as a broken symmetry. Since we can produce lots and lots of Higgs particles in the LHC now it means that the plausibility of at least some kind of simple inflationary cosmology is pretty high.

There is a real possibility that there are multiple different regions of the universe (and since the universe is presumably infinite that means presumably infinite numbers of regions) where the Higgs potential broke differently and physics is very different there. We find ourselves in a pretty uniform area of the universe, though, which is probably pretty good, and which is likely also explained by inflation. That might be wrong, but at least it needs to be considered seriously. And someone would need to come up with an explanation of why the infinite Universe would freeze uniformly to having exactly one way of breaking the primordial Yang-Mills symmetry across all of it -- it seems more plausible there would be different regions with fundamentally different electroweak symmetry. We find ourselves in one of the regions conducive to complex life because you need things like stellar nucleosynthesis to have anything interesting to talk about. That is all more of a philosophical story though -- except that we know there was one symmetry breaking and it just seems weirder to have only one and not N.
Yes, the agents probably deserve longer sentences than Ulbricht, if only because they misused State power, which is inherently worse than any private activity.

But we should get the authors and participants in the torture regime first.
"graphic design is my passion"
Where did the word 'lazy' come from? Or the suggestion immigrants 'don't work'? My comment was about the scale of immigration into the EU/UK (particularly from sub Saharan Africa where Mo Farah/Hussein Abdi Kahin originated).

Ask any immigrant community whether southern Sweden, UK, US wherever about the criminal underworld and you will hear plenty of 'colourful' stories, not least immensely lucrative traffics and smuggling. A lot of hard working illegal immigrants are exploited by these unsavoury types.
thanks for the suggestion.

the reason to create a BLAST alternative is to gain more granular control over matches.

unless i'm mistaken, BLAST won't help on searches akin to this reg ex: GTC[ATGC]{3,10}AACCGT

(i.e., GTC followed by any sequence of 3-10 nucleotides then ending with AACCGT.)

another way of framing the goal is to enable reg ex searches over genome/protein data.

do you know if anything allows this today?
Not protecting them from anything in particular, or maybe I guess you could say from themselves. Kids commonly have issues with impulse control and general irresponsibility. By 14 they seemed old enough to not immediately lose or break their phones. Not in bed is to try to lay a foundation of good sleep habits. Having the common computer room keeps the sense of 'being in public', which helps the impulse control part as your motivations work differently when you're alone.
> Illegal immigration into the UK from the third world

Ironic, given the UK’s history of illegally colonising and creating a “third world” from their exploitation.
I think we programmers should look after our own, no matter the charge.

Ross
Julian
Martin

Joe biden has the power to pardon these people, we just need to stand as a united front to get our follow programmers the freedom they need.

Makes me sick to see non violent offenders locked up in a violent place.
Depends on how much you charge.
At least you're honest with your comment.
Surely theres is wildlife that depends on the speed of at least some of these bodies of water, right?
I don't see this device really providing any hygiene benefit. If anything it looks like it would be harder to clean than a tote.
Nope. Gotta pay the rent and buy food. No pimps unless you are a prostitute.

There’s no slave debt, it cost a few grands to get somewhere illegally and most people pay that through the money from friends and family and savings.

Once in UK or another rich country you work crazy hours and you make that money back in a month or two. After that you start looking how to improve your own situation and make it worth.

UK or EU is not Dubai, no one takes your passport and make you work like a slave. There are some fringe cases but it’s not how it work for the millions of immigrants.
If you’re going with a friend, make sure they’re extremely good editors. I’ve become a good enough editor but still can’t do my friends’ writing justice. When I know people reasonably well, I understand how they communicate and find myself overlooking some grammatical quirks because I’m used to them. When I work with a near stranger, I can’t overlook anything - the piece either stands on its own or falls flat.

I’m only good enough so your mileage will vary if you’re friends with extremely competent editors. But if you work with a friend and your writing doesn’t improve, you may be working with too good of a friend.
Jellyfin has DV to SDR in the latest release (https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-8-0/). I think it's in their own ffmpeg branch and not yet upstream.
PepsiCo Inc (PEP, Nasdaq) isn't merely a beverage company - as explained in this strategy document - it is a space company. The Pepsi Universe, with respect to its 8 light year characteristic length, reflects the scale of the total addressable market (TAM) that PepsiCo can expand into.

Noted short-seller and equity valuation skeptic Jim Chanos once described the TAM of space companies as infinite, because space itself is infinite. This pessimistic take anchors our low-end fair value estimate of PEP to $infinity / share. Since PEP currently trades at around $170 / share, we believe there is considerable upside to the long term buy and hold investor.
Hey JoeS!

Are women being systematically robbed of personal bodily autonomy in Jakarta, Indonesia?

If not, then they're ahead of the curve compared to what we're up against here in the states.

The rent-a-baby-for-the-carpool game is merely an optimization escalation problem. It's an irrelevant distraction compared to what's happening in the United States.
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I'm 46, I rented plenty from Blockbuster.

I'm just reporting the number of titles they had and the number netflix does.

Definitely you can now get access to almost everything that exists from your own home, including things that were hard to find before, for sure. especially if you know how to and are willing to pirate. (You actually can't currently get Naruto or Gundam on netflix us streaming, can you?)
Why TheGreatReset Is Trending on Twitter
Sunscreens are a recent development in human history. Yes we do have worse ozone layer and more UV gets to us but we also eat like shit. Antioxidants are the original sunscreen and protector from sunburns and skin cancer. If you don't have sunscreen or allergic to it then make sure you consume antioxidants in form of fruits/vegetables/supplements and hydrate with water regularly when you go out.
I agree that brand and marketing is of paramount importance here. But to say this is sophisticated and well-thought is a stretch. It's funny precisely for its lack of sophistication, for how many millions of dollars and countless hours were spent creating something that lacks real value, that's crafted together with the well-meaning exuberance of a teenager trying to look "deep" or earn brownie points.
So they had you right up to the end!

It’s interesting to contrast this with the same company that had the awareness to recognize that basically no one ever types out “Mountain Dew” in its entirety and adopted the _de facto_ name it had acquired in the new millennium: mtn dew.
A factory in China forged the pressure vessel for Vogtle 3 and 4 which are being brought up now.
you do realise that you aren't sterilising anything though right? It's not a crap shoot - it's a unnecessary step since you aren't actually achieving anything. You might as well not do that step
LOL, this is not "sophistication", this is bullshit.

A million(s?) dollar study for a global brand is justified by things like:

* Research to see if the brand logos/names are misunderstood or offensive for a particular market/culture.

* Research regarding brand recognition before/after the proposed changes.

* A lot of design/thought behind how the brand will look in the many communication channels/products that it owns.

There's nothing even close to that in this document. Actually, the first time I saw it posted I thought it was a joke from some internet troll, but no, it turned out to be the real thing.
It also gave Russia the opportunity to use Syria as a testing ground.
Quick question: what is your job about? Are you accomplishing anything meaningful?

Having a job that makes sense to you isn't a bulletproof answer to your problems. But I think that it can help.
I don't think there's really any way around this. It just lowers the maximum amount you can extract via that tax. You have to tax at a rate low enough where it's not worth the expense to get around it in the first place. Maybe this is enough to make a wealth tax altogether not worth it federally (how much does it cost to set up a trust and transfer assets? can't be a lot), I don't know. But I think that's all part of the calculus of whether or not it's reasonable to institute the tax in the first place.
Yes, it is important to write and I wish that many folks I've worked with in the past had been better writers (and readers). I am job searching right now after leaving a very, very meeting heavy culture and one of my top criteria is finding a company that values asynchronous discussion and written communication whenever possible.

I'm totally aligned with the author on the value of writing as a tool for thinking, learning, and exploring and I agree that there are blockers for some folks that make them less likely to stretch their writing muscles, especially in professional settings where the default is often "let's jump on a quick call".

Sadly, the article is poorly written. I don't expect professional-level editing on a personal blog, but I would hope for a higher standard when the piece is written by someone who is building and (presumably) charging money for a course on writing.
People use the term mind-blowing loosely but it really fits here. That’s an utterly astounding, incomprehensible number of stars.

And this image is “roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arms length” of the night sky.
Somebody had a lot of fun making this.
"This product seems to simplify the entire process of home growing,"

Eh, it can be difficult. The most difficult part is sterilization and inoculations/transfers. This doesn't help with that. You can literally hook up a mister to a timer to get the same effect (I know, I've done it as a newbie).

But I agree that people will buy it, as they do many things that aren't truly necessary (doesn't bother me).
The original Wired Magazine story of the investigation and his capture is an amazing read. Really worth the time: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
I don't go to bookshops anymore. Books are just a commodity now, they push the latest product for a few weeks and move on the next.
It is all part of the hype machine.
After a month or so it's like the book never existed at all- it had it's five minutes of fame.
> I agree that immigrants are a good thing. Especially illegal immigrants if they have no way to benefit from tax benefits but are forced to pay into it

This is misstating the situation.

1. People working under the table don't pay taxes.

2. Those who do pay taxes are not earning that much as such not paying much tax

3. They do get benefits. For example CA gave illegal immigrants payments.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-give-cash-pay...

Immigration is complex. Filled with bad faith and misleading arguments from many sides.
Man, this job would be great, if it wasn't for the fucking customers!
Is the 800€ the maximum paid per month since it already reached the cap? Does the company subsidize any of that?
looks like a whole lot of bullshit
The US military itself is a weapon - and that weapon is only as strong and effective as the will of the one wielding it. There was no will to "win" in Afghanistan, to a large extent because nobody had a clear understanding of what that even means. Hence the withdrawal, which is a political defeat. But militarily, you only need to look at the casualty rate to see who had the upper hand in fighting proper.
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Yeah, especially because it’s not free to watch it.
Worth a shot! After visiting it seems more like I'm training the thing rather than the thing helping me, but it's certainly interesting!
Nobody reports to VPOTUS.
I was also thinking of the same thing, which goes to show how great a work of culture jamming[1] it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming “Tactics include editing company logos to critique the respective companies, products or concepts they represent[...]”
Subjectively, I imagine that it did. Northeastern has had a good reputation for as long as I've been aware of it.
Ventusky
As someone who's generally pretty morally relative, and abstractly, I tend to agree. But you miss the point. Call actions what you want but they will land you in jail if you are a citizen of a society which considers them wrong and you are caught performing them. What's interesting in the US is that we acknowledge this limitation of the law and have an ethical escape hatch. The law does not convict you, a jury of your peers does. And they can decide what you did is not wrong even though the law says it's not allowed. Unfortunately (for sympathizers and for your argument in this context) in this case the jury very much decided that the evidence presented in court proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the actions, which the law says are not allowed, were confirmed as wrong (the law applied correctly) and subsequently worthy of punishment. So arguing from a stance of moral relativism is a logical non sequitur and simply not relevant. If you don't think DPR actions were wrong go change the law or somehow move him to your society where he's a hero. Don't pine over how terrible this man's life now is because "he was just a drug lord on the digital streets and didn't technically kill anybody and people use facebook to sell drugs too see this guy is no worse than zuck and and who says breaking laws is even wrong anyway???".
> Right, I must admit I had never heard of email being used for 2FA codes. Is that some kind of standardized protocol or something completely homegrown?

If you don't have 2fa explicitly set up and browse with VPN enabled, you'll frequently get sites that want you to authenticate via email. Amazon does this, for instance.
Your denial of the facts of illegal immigration from third world countries to Europe is unmatched.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/cri...

The rest of your comments here just look like a typical copy-pasta fallacy, simply ignoring the scope of the assertion the parent comment made, to make an unrelated point.

Of course, all is well when somebody denies facts.

> UK or EU is not Dubai, no one takes your passport and make you work like a slave. There are some fringe cases but it’s not how it work for the millions of immigrants.

This is an objectively false assertion, forced labour AKA slavery is a thing in Europe.

https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/17/forced-labour-most-preva...
The Will to Fight
Abuse of state power is like an adult bullying children to steal their lunch money. One-sided and totally despicable.
Before a stampede of the same old repeated anti-crypto responses screaming the same nonsense here, I will give you examples of useful projects out there that have a very high likelihood of surviving.

ENS - Ethereum Name Service is one of the most useful 'web3' projects out there. [0] Over a million domain names already registered on there and counting.

Skiff - An open source, decentralized and end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, GMail, Workspaces etc (that also uses ENS, for sending verified emails). Login with a crypto wallet and store your encrypted files on IPFS.

Crypto Payments - Any related to crypto payments has a great chance of taking off here. For example, it is exactly what Stripe is doing with Twitter for crypto payments [2] for creators, especially with USDC. I'd expect more projects to use USDC for payments in the future which that is part of the 10% of projects that will continue to survive.

[0] https://ens.domains/

[1] https://skiff.com/

[2] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto
Perception is the result. Average SAT score relative to others tells you roughly average IQ difference for the student body.

The rest is bunk. Undergraduates aren’t connecting with famous professors. A faculty team with deep expertise in a particular area is relevant but not in the rankings.
HomePods are in fact context-aware like you want. They will only turn on lights on their room if you say “turn on the lights.”
Wow, thanks for the tip! I had no idea that's even a thing, and I have the perfect spot to put one. I can't believe I didn't think to even look these up. Part of my hesitation with a chest freezer was where I'd put it, because I'd almost certainly need to keep it outside (which means building an enclosure, getting power to it, etc).

Thanks!
Yeah in this example, the water is never stopped. Not even the flow rate, It's just held back for a moment to create a convenient potential energy situation.
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhyi1DjGti8 Is something that could be built near a bus stop near my house and not negatively impact anyone outside of the initial construction.
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You don't even need the tub, just a fruiting block and a sprayer. For oysters many places this machine is just way overkill.
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We know the agents presenting evidence against him were crooks. How can any of the evidence against him not be fatally tainted? How can anything said by a judge who admitted such "evidence" be credited?

The whole investigation and trial, all told, were a shitshow. I cannot trust any of the process, so cannot conclude anything about Ulbricht from it. The most we can say is that chances are he was guilty of something just from how deep he was in the middle of it all. But I would give the agents longer sentences.
I think just making any significant change to one's diet can, in the short term anyway, have noticable positive effects, especially depending on what the previous diet looked like. But over time those effects tend to level off and eventually into net-negative consequences from whatever's being restricted out. I can definitely see that being the case for a prolonged potato only diet.

I also think the best long term strategy is to focus first on eating plenty of nutrient dense, minimally processed foods which will naturally tend to crowd out the junk. Junk being anything consisting mostly of the cheap subsidized ingredients like wheat, corn, and soy.
They already can if your car and utility supports it.