skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The entire tradition of thought around natural law and limits on the legitimate scope of the state have simply disappeared in Australia".

The problem is that natural law needs some source, this source has to come from somewhere and majority has to agree that they like the source.

For ages the source was obvious in "the West" - it was God all mighty armed with the Bible. Now God is gone, replaced with the believe that rational people will do much better job than some possibly made up person living in the clouds.

And it turned out that the source of the natural law is the government. In theory government is democratically elected, unfortunately democratic process degraded because of the modern manipulation techniques, social media that caused even further move from making election choices by using reasoning to emotions. Those who has money, they win, as all that political marketing costs a lot.

We live in the times of emodecmocracy, who can stir the emotions, attract in this way people wins, even if underneath they have ideas like censorship - obviously with the noble cause, to remove from discussion bad people, ale those anti-vax, anti-gay, anti-renewables, anti-reduce-meet-consumption, etc. people. Bad, bad people, but the law is the same for everyone and good people can suddenly become bad people if this suits someone's interest.

Now people are waking up since they have to give away the content of their mailbox on request of some corporations who happens to own a few MPs, judges and prosecutors.
Wonderful. The federal government built massive projects along the Colorado River. Arizona and Southern California got subsidized water and electricity. It took a very few years for the population of Arizona and Southern California to decide that they were sturdy pioneers and that what the US needed was less government. How many years of Mississippi/Missouri basin water before they resume quoting Ronald Reagan on "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936; Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination in 1964; and Ronald Reagan came to political prominence as a speaker for Goldwater.
The experiment whit the clock didn't work for me. I see no noticeable delay when looking back to the second hand. Maybe I do something wrong?

Small anecdote: long ago in my teens I had a period where I didn't sleep for days due to an illness. One of the more freakish thing I experienced was a moment where I was watching television on the couch, stood and walk away but for about a few seconds my vision was frozen. Still seeing a frame of the orientation of me sitting down looking at the tv even though I already had a completely different orientation.
Very interesting historical article, originally published in (1995)

Glad to say that both Craford and Holonyak are still with us
Your argument would prove that almost all jobs are lousy and only provide the legal minimum required for pay, safety, etc.

In Singapore our legal minimum wage is 0. However good luck finding anyone working for 0 dollars.

I would suggest checking why jobs exceed the legal minimum, and how we can ensure more people can have better jobs.

(My view is perfectly compatible with there being some crappy jobs, and some people even taking those crappy jobs.)
DeepMind's Perceiver AR: a step toward more AI efficiency
There is also a audiobook on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R55gdpgwQQ
"The Earth is round: yes or no?"

:)
I also have it since beta -- and no phone associated.
Losing a password would lock them out of all previous emails but they would be able resume use of the account
Yes, but still, the file system would do more decompression than needed, and that will cost performance (CPU and caching)
The basis of the law disagrees with you - the likely consequence of me stealing something is being forced to compensate you for it. It's redress the economic harm. I'm not saying all economic damage is illegitimate, but I'm saying economic damage can be a legitimate cause for something to be illegal.
I don't think anyone has much of a problem with a legal system that restricts itself to contract enforcement.
My current company uses it and that is not a bad choice. I prefer nomad which I have used since 2016.

I have spent the past couple weeks working with kustomize since I do not like helm and while it gets the job done I think Tanka would be better.

We are on GKE which makes things a lot easier and I personally would not choose to run my own cluster.

(disclaimer: i worked at hashi for 4 months in 2020 but not related to nomad)
I think Apple would have to be stupid to block booting other operating systems on the devices they already have sold. This could easily lead to lawsuit, similar to one that Sony had when they removed OtherOS functionality from PlayStation 3.
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Not sure if you will see this but, yes, I do see it as solving some problems I have. They aren't necessarily problems a monorepo "doesn't solve", and could have other solutions, I'm just saying Josh is a powerful complement to the monorepo design and helps smooth out some issues.

Choosing a monorepo vs many-repos is a tradeoff, there are consequences to choosing a monorepo, many solvable, and a tool like this just provides robust solutions to a couple of them, is what I'm saying.

Actually one very common use case Josh solves that I've had in the past is "Merge a repository into another, while developers keep using the original as if nothing happens." This is important to keep teams moving while a migration happens. I have this problem right now at work; two repos that want to be one repo, one smaller and one bigger. You can use git filter-history to do this but Josh is significantly more powerful, and most importantly the team whose repository got "merged away" (i.e. got merged into the bigger repository) can keep working on their repository as if nothing happened, and you can eventually switch them over to the main repo. Normally you have to stop the whole train at once and move people over while some poor bastard has to surgically modify the git repository after they take the git repository down. But Josh allows to you to merge and incrementally migrate that repository, because you can now view one repository as a "workspace" of another. It's sort of like the difference between taking an optimistic lock vs a normal wait lock, in my mind. Josh lets you do "optimistic locking" when merging two repositories, rather than making every team stop -- serializing -- while it happens.

Another common case is "I need to mirror a subset of my proprietary repository onto GitHub." Actually "I need to mirror subset X" in general. This is another monorepo problem that, while not super complex, is actually really nice to solve in this way because bidirectionality means people who patch the mirror downstream can still have their changes merged upstream. This isn't always possible for QA/workflow purposes (e.g. their downstream change could break something upstream, so many people choose to instead apply it the other way around), but it's something I've experimented with. Not unthinkable.

I do think it's a very promising project with many real world applications. I'm still figuring out how best to organize and use it, just like we do with git.
No. It's working so well for us. I love it.
Part of this is just giving labels to what happens when we are glued to screens and addictive apps and internet media, isn't it? It strikes me as something that is partly happening to me too, I can't really put down the addictive medias available. Of course things in professional or personal life may suffer when you have an addiction. Of course medication could help one control it, etc.
For the lazy: the above referenced page by @slorber only had 1.3MB of resources to load (with JS enabled).
Or how a tonne of kids (including my friends as I was a kid too) used to diagnose everyone and ourselves with “depression” back in the forums and MySpace days. Sure some of us ended up with real diagnoses, like myself (after some pretty severe impact from it), but a non zero amount of it seemed to be about being trendy and fitting in with the group and zeitgeist. This appears similar. Humans like pattern matching, and young people have enough knowledge about mental health topics to be “dangerous” in this case.

This is a long winded way of me saying I agree, and this doesn’t seem like a particularly new phenomenon.
Fantastic article. For auditory learners like me, this is an iconic talk in the OG “Advanced Topics in Programming Languages” series that Google used to do: https://youtu.be/h0OkptwfX4g

It goes all the way from parametric polymorphism, up through Curry-Howard, and winds up at Girard-Reynolds. It was what got me passionate about type theory as a young lad.
Fortunately, I have a "fixer", who is extremely familiar with these vehicles (it's basically all he does), so he would be able to get me some proper units, and would be well aware if I am being overcharged. Indeed, just looked at his site (that I built for him), he does have a replacement unit for sale for ~800 euro (with VAT).
It’s this kind of content that reminds me that if social media censors were actually interested in keeping safe people with mental problems, they wouldn’t police content so much as they would prevent such people from using their poisonous systems.
>> There simply must be a way to change how Google handles two-factor authentication which does not constantly lock out poor people who use the public library to access their email. It must be possible to make it so we do not constantly reach these dead-ends where Google tells patrons to endlessly loop through “I don’t have my phone” and “Try another way” until their account becomes locked permanently due to too many failed attempts.

Why is Google making it hard for the poor to access their email in these times?

it’s not like google just launched today. They have the data of these users, who use internet from public libraries.
At work; no.

Personal; I use docker-compose on VMs
We just had a classic example of the ridiculous car centric US govt.

They are about to pass a bill to reduce emissions.

It gives EVs $7500 in tax credits and it extends the amount of tax credits companies like Tesla and GM can get.

But they eliminated the tax credit (which was set upto $900) for eBikes.

I cant think of a more backwards action.
This is really awesome. Thank you for sharing this.

One of my ideas lately has been to upgrade FaaS to a full on server after a set amount of traffic. Or said differently, a dedicated server spin up that serves the same app as callable functions ala scalable RPC and upgrade to a dedicated instance composed of said functions. The best of both worlds.

Combine the scale to zero of Serverless combined with the scalability and capacity of a dedicated server.
Real world grid scale solar + storage is not cheaper, and humanity doesn't even have the battery capacity and won't for some time longer.

And speaking of regional poisoning, I guess all of those heavy metal mines in poorer countries creating some quite dystopian scenes of large scale ecological destruction leading to total ecosystem collapse are OK because "NIMBY"! Can't wait to 10X that, especially when I remember that the energy density of nuclear fuels is so insanely high that the mining impact for powering all of humanity on it is something like 50X less than powering all of humanity on lithium batteries!
It’s an absolutely catastrophic experience, that they clearly don’t take seriously.

Regulation solves this. I hate to say that, as so much of tech regulation is a ham-fisted disaster that misunderstands the problem and creates even bigger ones, but this is really a very serious problem that can ruin lives, and regulators really should step in here.

I’ve known a couple of people who have been through this experience, and one in particular who not only couldn’t get back in to their account - but had no way of knowing if someone else was able to get in to the account later. They’ll never know. It will never be possible to know. The kicker is that they could never have their data deleted due to the same problem. And no amount of help or time spent with chat support ever changed anything.
I think you're missing the possibility (and unfortunately, I would say the inevitability) of backsliding. I don't think we need anything adapting as near as much as we need people to "hold the line" or "stop loss."

For me, the perfect concrete case of this was here reading about youtube-dl being removed for Github. It became clear to me that a not-insignificant number of professionals in this space absolutely equated "deleted from Github" as "literally gone forever such that no one could have it again."

People will forget about the idea of free software and taking a copy of the code home with you as an important idea to be preserved, unless the FSF et al remain.
China Consumer Confidence Implodes
> Even if it was a million years it wouldn't matter.

This take is absurd. Humanity barely exists for a few thousand years and you somehow assume that it's feasible and economically justifiable to create a health and security hazard that will exist until the end of times.

And all for what? Because you want to shave off a few cents from an energy bill?
There are some patent dictionaries based on how US courts defined terms. For example (over a decade old): http://www.pubpat.org/garrod-glossaries.htm

The USPTO also had a glossary pilot program at some point, but it ended and I guess was not considered useful: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/glossary-initiativ...

I think patent attorneys and agents could avoid most of this problem if they wrote better. I'm a patent examiner (and this post only represents my own opinion, not that of the USPTO or US govt.), but it seems to me that patent applications are typically written quickly. Clearly defining terms is an afterthought, particularly given that many attorneys and agents see value in being vague.

Yes, maybe their explicit definition could cause them trouble later, but I think the lack of an explicit definition is more likely to cause trouble. I have examined applications with useful explicit definitions, or a reference to a preferred dictionary. I also examined one application where the applicant redefined a term contrary to its normal meaning in the middle of the specification, and that redefinition was critical to understanding the claims. I personally think all special definitions should go in an easy-to-find section.

Edit: I'll also use this opportunity to make a shameless plug for my patent claim analyzer, which will identify a lot of ambiguous language in patent claims.
It is not uncommon for unhoused people to lose all their possessions, so even if purchasing multiple hardware security keys wasn't a huge financial hurdle, the recovery model I use (Yubikey on my keychain, two in my safe, mail one to my parents) falls apart for those on the margins of society. If email is an essential service in modern society, recovering access to it from some first principle of identity is essential. I don't have an easy answer for how to do that, but I also don't have a trillion dollar market cap.
That's Las Vegas, NM
One item in the article is:

+ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 1392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil).

That's new to me. I didn't know wikipedia had adopted lua for its templates.
What changed is that we're starting to learn about the breadth of needs by people with different lives and opportunity sets, and feel at least a desire to talk through potential solutions for a subset of people who opt into it.

If the worst thing that people could commit in this discussion is hypocrisy, I'm sure they're willing to step over that line.
Experience Capture Experience Creation
setup an alternative identity system - even state wide one. phone 2fa is extremely poor identification system - it's convenient, but that's pretty much it.
It sounds like we have two bad ideas here ...
Apple actively helped Asahi Linux by changing the boot process. NVidia actively works against Linux by using things like the GPL condom. Nvidia is like that kid that is forced by a teacher to do something and then proceeds to do it in the most shitheaded way but just enough for it to work while actively working against the spirit of the request of the teacher.

Apple in contrast has helped Asahi Linux for literally no reason. It wasn't requiest, it wasn't even required. It just made life easier for Asahi Linux.
I have a 7th gen X1 Carbon and everything, including the fingerprint reader, worked out of the box with Fedora.
Seventeen steps to safer C code (2011)
The Great Bank Robbery
For all of human history across every culture, parents would do what they could to keep their kids away from “bad influences”. You move to certain areas, go to certain places, are members of certain organizations etc. which serve to socialize your kids with kids from families that have shared values. You don’t talk to strangers.

With the internet and especially media like TikTok parents are exposing their kids to untold bad influences, etc.

It’s no wonder so many kids think they have mental disorders or any of the other mind viruses going around.
Oh cool, I didn't know this.

I agree that they shouldn't be banned; I just also like my idea of helping yourself to a free one if it's clearly been discarded and not taken care of. :)
> much of it seems very difficult to falsify

It's quite straightforward, albeit involved (as in technically easy, but takes time) to falsify. You have to work with a licensed medical professional who will evaluate traits, strengths, and difficulties, and to what extent they impact functioning as a person in society. Basically, are they "well-adjusted"? If they make it through school, college and adulthood without a ton of struggling, therapy, possibly meds, you can almost certainly rule out neurodivergence (at the very least, it won't be clinically significant )
Time and Regret
Not when those options are designed to crowd out the old thing, which is what I believe the strategy from Red Hat et al is.
This is such a trip down memory lane. The iBook G4 was a bit of a pain to set up with ubuntu, but once you got it going it was pretty fool proof. I think I ran a machine on it until 12.04 where they stopped supporting PPC officially.
The army corps of engineers killed Louisiana’s ability to create land by taming the mighty Mississippi River. The river used to change direction and spew sediment into the barrier islands. For the past 100 years the barrier island have been shrinking due to sediment loss.[1]

I saw a documentary recently about canals that will be used to direct sediment into the barrier islands before it reaches the Gulf.

>Until this USGS study was undertaken, environmental managers thought that the principal cause of barrier island erosion was rising sea level. Now, we know that both the longshore movement of sediment and the general absence of sand-sized sediment is the principal cause of the islands' instability. The sediments underlying coastal Louisiana are made up mostly of silts and muds which do not contribute to the building of beaches, dunes, and spits—geomorphic features associated with healthy barrier islands. In addition, long-shore currents redistribute the available sand from headland areas to embayments, depriving shorelines of much needed sand.

[1]https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/barrier-islands/
I was trying to imply once water sourcing becomes a major issues, basic needs for residents will become hard. Agriculture is small % but if water is a problem, there will be some exodus of people/corps. That’s where the big gdp hits would likely come from
The idea that the image comes in "upside down" has always seemed incorrect to me. Isn't it more likely that this is essentially a configuration variable that is initialized undefined, and then set correctly based on comparing the input to other systems (inner ear etc.)? Is there any evidence that it is ever set "incorrectly"? i.e. a baby reaching up instead of down for something?

Edit: to clarify, I'm saying I don't see any reason to think anything in the vision system ever "expects" light from the world's up direction to come in at the top of the retina. Surely the developing brain doesn't know what orientation or flip to expect, and the whole system is constructed based on initial inputs. It was never upside-down.
It's supposed to be easy to get a library card! The threat of an out-of-towner getting a local library card is nothing like a stranger getting access to your inbox.
> This elderly woman, looked to be in her 70s, might lose the roof over her head, due to being unable to log into her Google account, because she lost her old phone and with it, her phone number.

I think the real issue is outside of Google's reach. You shouldn't have to lose the roof over your head just because you don't have access to your emails. Sure, it sucks that Google doesn't care if these people lose their access to Gmail. But I don't see how Google has a greater responsibility than the state/government in this.
fair point, we'll consider
My favorite visual trick is the chess board illusion. People straight up think you're lying. Even when you draw a line between the boxes with the color and your eyes adjust in real time, I've had people tell me it's a gif or I'm doing some other trick.
imagine trying to create an infinitely scalable system that is bound by aws account limits
Wow, this is excellent! At a previous job, we had been using k8s + knative to spin up containers on demand, and likewise were unhappy with the delays. Spawner seems excellent.

One question: have you had to do any custom container builds on demand, and if so, have you had to deal with large "kitchen sink" containers (e.g. a Python base image with a few larger packages installed from PyPI, plus some system packages like Postgres client)? We would run up against extremely long build image times using tools like kaniko, and caching would typically have only a limited benefit.

I was experimenting using Nix to maybe solve some of these problems, but never got far enough to run a speed test, and then left the job before finishing. But it seems to me some sort of algorithm like Nixery uses (https://nixery.dev) to generate cacheable layers with completely repeatable builds and nothing extraneous would help.

Maybe that's not a problem you had to solve, but if it is, I'd love your thoughts.
Good! Have fun, you'll learn more about your DS than you ever wanted to know. I've rebuilt a DS bit-by-bit while it was in use and I would have much rather had the time to do things in a more planned manner. Engine rebuild is a nice chapter in its own right, the 21 is the best engine and you could get a junked engine and rebuild that at leisure, they are very doable.
As the rep for a product: I wouldn't recommend bashing someone's project by calling it a "little toy". It works for them regardless if it looks as "fancy" as yours. Not a positive look for you or your project if this is how you're going to treat others.
> It's predecessor product had huge insurance claims due to failing connections after 10+ years.

Those were PB/Polybutylene pipes.
Why is Burnout so common among developers?
> 1. Is it really so complicated?

Depends. Are you a >500 Developer org with many services? Then it's easy compared to what's out there. Anything less than that I'd say it's complex and you'd be better off using a PaaS

> 2. Is that complexity incidental or essential?

Depends. If you're going to do simple things forever then it's an overkill. But if you expect to grow in unknown ways in the future and don't want to waste your time doing bunch of migrations in the future then it's essential.

> 3. Could we get away with a simpler set of abstractions for 90% of applications?

Maybe? Heroku, AppEngine, CloudFoundry tried, but didn't go too far. Let's see what new crop of PaaS offerings are able to do
Make it a choice. It sure sounds like the patrons of this library would opt in.