skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most history books endorse some version of this theory. It's not some libertarian revision, and it has absolutely nothing to do with communism (which didn't exist in any recognizable form anywhere in the world until the 19th Century and not in China until the 20th)

There are two main downsides to centralization.

1) A single ruler means the whims of that ruler can have major impacts on the development of society. When the Ming abandoned their treasure fleets, there was no alternative power to step in and continue expanding maritime commerce. The emperor was so powerful that their monopoly on trade decided the course of history for the whole region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages

2) A unipolar power structure inherently seeks to maintain the status quo. When you have a dynasty that already has unquestioned authority within its borders while also having no plausible rivals outside them (at the time of the "great divergence" the Mongols had ceased to be a threat), ANY change leads to a loss of status and power for the ruling elite. Any commercial activity or technological advance was measured by whether it benefitted the emperor or hindered him.

None of this is to say that there weren't substantial downsides to the decentralized mess of European politics. In earlier time periods, the centralized model helped China to be the richest region on earth while Europe was one of the poorest, but post-Renaissance, competition between European states drove innovation and pressured those states to expand or die. Both of which led to Portuguese ships sailing into Guangzhou in 1513 rather than Ming ships sailing into Lisbon.
I read that page, and that sounds like a MERV 16 filter than attaches to a third party fan coil. I can’t tell how it’s any different from, say, an Aprilaire 216 plus its (very cheap) housing, along with smart home integration and a pretty logo, minus the transparent pricing.
Writing code is the foundational layer. When I graduated, my soft skills were better than the average computer science grad. It helped me to get out gnarly situations, but the truth of the matter was, my code sucked and without mentorship, it would continue to suck.
Not that two failed launch attempts are all that big a deal in the grand scheme, but they just add more evidence to the already weighty pile that says that SLS is a bad rocket and a dead-end path.
Once is a mistake, twice is a habit. Cloudflair can't set a precedent and just announce it isn't one.
> OTOH App store transactions are a relatively big money laundering risk

To a longtime indie developer???

We're not talking about huge sums of money here. One month's income for a little indie App Store developer. More or less (probably less) the amount of a software engineer's monthly paycheck.

And what's Apple's "evidence" for money laundering in these cases anyway? It always turns out to be nothing, and payments are eventually restored, but the developer is deprived of cash flow for a month or several with no explanation ever.

Anyway, for developer accounts that Apple terminates (again without explanation), I believe that Apple simply confiscates the money and never pays what it owes to the developer.
The Cloudflare posting was by Matthew Prince, who's an officer of a public company. Misleading the public about the company would be unlawful for him.

The blog posting says, in part, that unprecedented things were posted to Kiwi Farms, and that they've contacted the police in several jurisdictions about these things. The police keeps records, so if that were a lie it would be the kind to be very easily shown to be false in front of a judge. It would also be simple to avoid that kind of specific sentence in the blog posting, so you may be quite confident that the statement is true.

Which then means that Cloudflare will stand by its customers through any shitstorm, except if the shitstorm manages to goad the customer into doing something that warrants contacting the police.
> with the addendum "and I'm bad, therefore, not protecting KiwiFarms is hypocritical."

Is that the takeaway people have from this article? My reading wasn't that the author is advocating that Kiwi Farms should have been left up. They're asking for DDoS sites to be added to the ban list.

The "hypocrisy" that they keep bringing up is Cloudflare's claim that inaction in these instances is a neutral stance, and that in actuality Cloudflare is an active participant in helping these sites stay online.
My Side of the Mountain - this was basically my ideal personality as a kid - independent and self sufficient, able to build anything I need and live off the land. My point of view is significantly different now, but I still dream of a life like this.
I was looking for such a minified heat pump as well, no luck.
European conditions aren't normal though - given adequate time new sources will be brought online and a new normal will be established. The prices can't and won't stay as high as they are projected to be under crisis conditions, new supply is less expensive than that.
I’ve read Hop on Pop, Green Eggs and Ham and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish at least 50 times each. As a kid, I really enjoyed the rhyming, the zany drawings and some of the fantastic creatures like the wump (a 7+ hump camel) and the yink (that likes to wink and drink pink ink).

I read The Wizard of Oz at least 5 times and the whole 12 books series three times. I read several Choose your own adventure books dozens of times (I particularly liked, Journey to the Year 3000), and the full set of Death Gate Cycle three times plus parts of a fourth in the Chinese translation. There were probably several Zelazny books and some of Anne Rice’s vampire books I made it through three times as well. All of these books were world-expanding or exploring ideas that were new to me in some way.

I definitely tended to do a lot more rereading as a kid and even as a teenager than as an adult.
First heard about program synthesis myself thanks to William Byrd's demo at the end of "The Most Beautiful Program[...]", https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc @ 1:17:15
Haven't reread Zen in a few years need to add that to my todo list.
1984 - I've probably read this 20 times. Each time it seems more relevant, but also more quaint. It feels more and more like we're heading to that society, but in quite a different way.

The Hobbit - Quite an enjoyable story.

Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? - Pure madness. What is real?

Call of Cthulhu, Dunwich Horror - HP Lovecraft

Quite a few of the Philip K Dick shorts.

I think I've probably read most of my books twice. I always feel that the second reading really seals it in my mind!
If Dropbox‘ Execs knowingly deny victims their help by ignoring calls for removal, yes.

That shouldn‘t be such a surprise.
> Let's be fair... 99% of your users will never find your app if it's not directly on the play store.

99% of app users get an app by clicking on a link that was sent/recommended to them.

So more accurate to say "100% of users will never find your app on a store if it's not directly on a store."

I work on health/social service apps for state and local municipalities. The conversation about putting them on the stores ends when we explain that the stores don't allow such apps. Which is a blessing in disguise ans PWAs are far superior in most every way.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid -- I keep finding some new ideas for me explore every time I read it (especially given that I re-read it every 7 years or so).

The Hobbit -- it was a gift from a friend in my second or third grade and I'm still drawn to read it from time to time many years later.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement -- a well described process improvement progression in the format of a novel. It keeps reminding me that focusing on local optimizations can (and likely will) lower the overall performance of the system.
It definitely depends on the client. If the team is crunching to hit a deadline and I'm saying, "Sorry, I'm at my weekly cap, so I'm leaving early today and won't be joining you this weekend; see you on Monday" then I'd be surprised to be invited back for the next project. I certainly wouldn't expect to be given any important work.

But I also feel you on time tracking, so I think a weekly rate is great if the client's culture is such that there's a natural cap and it's a good match for the work.
I can also wholeheartedly recommend the audio book, it's quite well narrated and definitely kept me glued to my earphones for a while.
This is largely a myth. They are very different than typewriters for english, but not impossible to use. Functional typewriters existed for the chinese language long before simplified chinese.
I think this is part of it, but I’m certain the real heads at NASA are busting ass to get this done. Probably a lot of dead-weight, also we didn’t have the help of a couple thousand of Germany’s finest working 80 hour weeks to defeat actual threats to humanity. I feel bad for a lot of these folks… it must be an uphill battle.
I recently considered using Z3 to solve an instruction scheduling problem but opted for a different approach in the end. I'd love to try Z3 for this some time in the future, but it seemed so much easier to implement a more pedestrian approach.
Check out "Mistletoe viscin: a hygro- and mechano-responsive cellulose-based adhesive for diverse material applications" https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/1/pgac026/65494...

You can make a kind of plastic out of milk: https://plastics.syr.edu/page.php?id=/materials/casein It's biodegradable.
2001: A Space Odyssey. I first read it when I was 12, in 1968, the year that both the movie and book came out. I was already a fan of Arthur C. Clarke by that point. I somehow knew that the book and movie were both coming, and was really excited. Then the book appeared, and finally the film did. I read the book between those events, so, when I saw the movie, I was among the few who were not confused by the ending.

I loved both. They got into my book- and film- appreciating soul and never left. 2001 is still my favorite movie. It's partly because it infiltrated my being at such a young, impressionable age. There is nothing like the receptiveness of a 12-year-old. But it's also because it's legitimately superb.

I may have seen the movie 20 times now. Most recently, with it projected on a screen at Lincoln Center in NYC with the NY Philharmonic playing the score live.

DEFINITELY SEE IT ON THE LARGEST SCREEN YOU CAN, PREFERABLY IN A THEATER. SCREEN SIZE IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

Getting back to the book...

The book was co-written with the film and certain plot elements were created on the film set rather than by Clarke, which work very well and add to the momentum of the plot. Probably read it 4 or 5 times. Loved it every time. In those days, Clarke had a way of combining hard science with a poetic sensibility that has never been equalled. I feel that his writing declined at some point, and that the books he co-wrote with other authors in his later years actually sucked. But 2001 and pretty much all of his books through Rendezvous With Rama shared the same sensibilities and were uniformly excellent.

I heartily recommend them all (up to RwR).
> or we may have hydro-something in airplanes instead of hydro-carbons - Ammonia (hydrogen+nitrogen)

Nitrogen in many forms (including ammonia) is bad news for natural ecosystems.

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/nitrogen-the-environmental...
A rash of stillbirths, cancer, blood-clots and heart-attacks is reported.

Are the reports true or false?

If true, are they caused by covid or the vaccine?

Propaganda and politics obscure the facts.
You don't.

If it doesn't fit your mental model of programming, just don't use it.
To all the HN users bent out of shape about this outcome (not even mentioning the numerous, actual KF users that are active in this discussion): this is the system you built. One where government largely stays out of the way of private businesses, leaving those businesses to fend for themselves when faced with entirely normal, popular, and historically recurrent calls for some, or any, kind of justice.

This is the world you wanted. This is the reaping you have sowed. Enjoy it!
Thanks for this tutorial, I had errors and spent time to fix them and I found this script that install LStein project on M1: https://github.com/glonlas/Stable-Diffusion-Apple-Silicon-M1...

On my side this helped me to make it works. I ran it and it was installed.
It all depends on humidity. I used to live in the US South where humidity would be >90% and 78F is unbearable. I live in Colorado now and the humidity here barely goes above 10-15% and the same temp is way more comfortable.
K&R. It's one of these books where every sentence matters.
If you have unexplained waking of your Windows PC check the wake on lan and/or power management properties of the network card. I had this problem and I swear some other IOT network device was sending a WOL magic packet to my PC.
Does anyone know of a good (single) comparison chart with:

- power wattage

- data speeds

- capabilities (eg Display Port)

I’ve found a few below but they aren’t complete.

[0] https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/085/324/med...

[1] https://www.akitio.com/images/support/faq/thunderbolt3-vs-us...

[2] https://i.redd.it/1n2tk9cd9kj21.png

[3] https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/th...
The shorts are not promoted to ints (if you even declared the result as that type) until after the multiplication. The result will first be put into a short and then promoted to int. It's basically asking for an overflow error. Given that 256^2 is 65536 you don't have to be multiplying large numbers before hitting that overflow.
Granted, their rocketry company isn’t as successful as Elon’s.
I know how this comes about, because it happened to me. I was all in Apple in the early days when their machines were easy to work on and they were focused on trapping you in an ecosystem be good design rather than by App Store lock in and manipulation.

I woke up, many people did not. I still use apple products, but I do not trust them one bit, so my use of their products look much different than the average user.
it’s fine to plan to be in all electric future. but a 50 year old house would have had its hot water water heater replaced a few times. there’s no reason one can’t go there when it makes sense.
Nigerian per capita gdp was only $2300. The US has $69,000 per capita gdp. The world would be better off letting the Nigerians go.
Don’t have a solution to learning best practices other than watching good practitioners at work.

However, a big inflection point for me was getting hold of a good/capable IDE (intellij). It removes a lot of the drudgery.

You write test with yet-to-be defined functions. IDE let’s you run the single test (amongst many) with one shortcut. Fails ofc!. Then you use a shortcut to let IDE implement the function (takes you where it needs to be implemented, easy with python modules eg. YMMV). Rinse and repeat.
Edit: nevermind.
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. It's about many topics like optionality, taking risks, innovation, or the importance of your environment.

The ideas apply to basically anything in life or business, and I take away something different each time I open the book.
Maybe this is helpful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_belief
Awesome vision by Tsung here. Excited about the possibilities with new biomaterials
>Is this real? I'm having trouble believing this shit.

Yes it's real and if you think making and distributing homemade hormones to children is vile and dangerous, you're apparently a transphobe nowadays.
"Après moi, le déluge" (Louis XV).

For ages, people in power position have been at the same time, both nihilistic, knowingly pushing toward the cliff and afraid of an impending collapse.

This is both creepy and reassuring, despite all that humanity has survived (with blood and tears but survived). This elites on the other end? Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't, and at the very least not in the same position of power.
Just be sure your monitor actually supports 60Hz with usb-c. I had a dell once that claimed 4k@60 but they never exposed the menu option to downgrade usb 3 speeds to usb2 speeds to support the 60Hz. I was stuck at 30hz. HP monitors do not have this problem.
The slippery slope is banning DDoS-for-hire sites?

This is like complaining, "if Apple removes hate speech from its app store, then next people will ask it to remove malware."
Most of what people are paid to do, doesn't need to be done in the first place.
I was like you, but man $2,000 no thanks. This saved my budget and time https://github.com/glonlas/Stable-Diffusion-Apple-Silicon-M1...
Allwinner D1 Xv6 Port
>The East India Company was an exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organization that put millions of people in the Indian subcontinent to untold suffering.

The history is full of exploitative, ruthless and dishonorable organizations that barely had shards of success of the British East India company. So they obviously did something right.

"Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book"
Agreed, especially the anticipation of a rent increase which you can't afford leaving you potentially homeless. Many in so-called affluent economies now live with this daily reality.
So let me get this straight. 1. People were trying to cancel kiwi farms
2. Kiwifarms users got mad, I’d argue rightfully, because they were being attacked.
3. Cloudflare doesn’t like Kiwifarms politically so they gave into the mob.
4. Blame the victims because we don’t like them.

Ignoring the fact that cloudflare provides we security services and they decided to just give up on it, this leaves a very sour taste in my month. I won’t be giving cloudflare my business anymore. If Kiwifarms users were engaging in illegal activity then just let enforcement do their job.
> A pluralistic world has no room

A pluralistic world that doesn't have room is not pluralistic.
Having autocompletion and and a convenient syntax to access record fields is standard and expected by most developers.

I think if Haskell wants to convince developers to jump ship (and they don't, according to the infamous marketing slogan) there must be a bigger benefit, I don't think better record Syntax cuts it.
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Noel and Turner.

I read it when I was trying to find a writing tone that I was comfortable with. Should it be casual, cool, and excited! with lots of exclamations? or detached, clinical, and precise? or, flowery, fluffy, and inserting difficult words, especially "dichotomy" everywhere I could?

One ideal I enjoyed was the 90s hacker writing aesthetic. PG's essays for example. It is easy to say "edit, edit, rewrite", but the tone was not easily pinned down.

Clear and Simple as the Truth is the best writing book that I've read - it answered these questions for me thoroughly, and the writing is delightful. I've read it cover to cover twice, and find myself enjoying a few quotes on occasion.

A quick takeaway among many - it is the sophistication and clarity of thought that matters, not one's facility with the language.

"Great painters are often less skillful than mediocre painters; it is their concept of painting—not their skills—that defines their activity. Similarly, a foreigner may be less skillful than a native speaker at manipulating tenses or using subjunctives, but nonetheless be an incomparably better writer. Intellectual activities generate skills, but skills do not generate intellectual activities."
Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry
Whether foo and bar will get married is, in my opinion, considerably different from organizations that collect and magnify hatred against members of various disempowered groups.
This. Is. Insane.

CA is becoming more and more hostile to businesses and residents. It will be interesting to watch from afar.
>This is the usual ignorance of social contagion that we see from free speech purists who can't fathom that spoken ideas can spread and motivate catastrophic outcomes.

Has said every hand wringing censor demanding a thumb on the scale forever. This is the exact logic that led to "The Fool" being the only one capable of criticizing a monarch. Action may require censure, speech never should.
That's pretty much what Rust was created to do.
Plus one, scrolled through waiting for someone to mention this one.

I don’t typically reread fiction but the poetic style of writing, combined with great scenes and characters makes almost any page worth a reread from time to time.

Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever find a book as good across so many dimensions…
Medieval writing had diphthongs, strange, often regional abbreviations, and, based on what I remember from college, were difficult for someone used to reading Latin in current print form.

There was still need in Europe to standardize and simplify those things. That process was still underway well into the 18th century.

There was also the problem of spelling.

Early Latin print in Europe is similar to Chinese also in that it's written form was more or less understood by educated Europeans, but their spoken langues had splintered away and we're often not mutually intelligible.
Because I am disallowed from accessing company tools and network with my personal devices. This is exceptionally common and has been the policy at every company I ever worked for.
65536 * 65536 would overflow an int.
> it ain’t dying I’m talking about. It’s living. I doubt it matters where you die. But it matters where you live.

We named our youngest Augustus after Augustus McCrae. It’s amazing how a novel that really shows the randomness and absurdity of life in the west ended up being such a beautiful and meaningful story. But, maybe that’s kind of how all of life is at any time period.
Yeah my points above all stand, despite people silently disagreeing.

No issue with those salaries. With contract work you're providing a much need service.

Just don't pretend those salaries are what they are.
It's not an argument, and so it's not an appeal to authority, nor any other fallacious argument. It's just the blurb you see if you click on the author's byline at the head of the article.

I clicked on it, because I wanted to know who the author was.
Show HN: Red Beans, a Poem Illustrated by Disco Diffusion
Sure thing! We do still do 2-week sprints, it's just that nothing really happens when one ends and the next begins.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In my mind it was really Heinlein’s peak. He explored the dangers of single points of failure in computing systems, explored sociology-economic implications of a moon-warren society beholden to Earth to survive, basic physics (“we’ll throw rocks at them!”), and a lot of raw political maneuvering, all involving vivid, memorable characters.
That's right. My sister's family built their house 11 years ago in Germany, and they have a heat pump too. I think it's pretty standard for new residential builds.
Twitter seems to be the social lubricant that makes all slopes it touches slippery. It massively accelerates social change and was basically the only place the KF story ever gained any traction at all. It's hard to overstate just how powerful that site is in the USA.
Miracle ‘farm dust’ pill could prevent childhood allergies
So is gasoline, but our main problem with gasoline is the carbon dioxide that is created when you burn it.

The products of ammonia hydrolysis (or any other chemical reaction that releases energy) are N2 (same as atmospheric nitrogen) and water.

Yes, if we leak ammonia, that is very very bad. Ammonia is also an immediate, serious, and acute irritant. Any significant ammonia leak is dangerous to human health.
This tool I recently made can help: https://www.nayuki.io/page/summary-of-c-cpp-integer-rules#ar...

For example, you can see what (signed long) > (unsigned int) would convert to, under different environment bit width assumptions.

Also, there's a discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/x4x01f/cc_arithmetic_c...
If We Tax Share Buybacks, Can We Also Tax Stock Returns?
Not OP but here how I might do -- Synching, Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, etc.