skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to get a finger on the pulse of mainland China governance in English you have to read Alex Lo's opinion pieces. Good view into central government thinking with minimal distortions.
The article talks about signals of virtue and victimhood being exploited by people high in the dark triad to get what they want.

I don't think it is tied specifically to the dark triad at all.. but maybe people high in any of the triad have learned to exploit the technique to get what they want.

You could make the case that virtue signaling and victimhood was always a conscious or unconscious act to extract something of value from people.
Yes and no.

When Trump or Biden claim success at the economy doing well. It has little to nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with the collected efforts of everyone in the country. They don't control anything, at best they have the ability to make temporary changes that will always rebalance.

Bob the french fry line manager contributed his efforts toward the economy far more than anything trump or biden did. Generally speaking the actions taken by them will be a net-loss to the economy. So for example the current crisis and collapse, politicians made stupid decisions to lockdown and shut off the economy. Which means less far taxes and then other politicians decided to print money, mostly digitally, to fake the GDP staying strong. In turn causing inflation that was completely out of their control. To get it under control they raised rates so high that will now recripple the economy. 100% of the problems derive from politicians screwing up.

the funny thing about politics and economics, the people who understand economics can NEVER win the election. Better yet, the system is designed around expecting politicians to make stupid decisions. So you can actually bet against the politicians. Which from my experience and knowledge is a 100% win every time.
> But - the only reason anyone makes money (other than tax money) is because they're useful to someone else. Almost all of the clothing industry companies make money from large numbers of people buying their clothes. So they are useful to us.

No, that's not true. Capitalists make money from simply owning things, not because they're necessarily doing anything useful.
I sometimes wonder what Uber is even doing with their 30k employees.

A look at their blog[0] doesn't really give me much of an idea either, it all seems to be scattered, non-concentrated efforts into various directions.

[0] https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/
>energy expenditure and timescales that are the problem

Feels like that's anthropomorphizing human motivations (which Q at at some level was written to embody). IMO even for humans, not really an issue, wealthy countries spends fraction of discretionary budget to entertain long term projects. Last month Switzerland just commited 20B/3% of GDP on nuclear waste storage. Frankly, it could just be passing hobby of the nephew of some K1-2 civ energy sheikh sending out off the shelf grey goo genocide drones from his local cosmic mart for clout. Space twitch chat asked him to do it, and they do because it's a nonchalant activity, they're not thinking 1 minutes into the future let alone 100,000 years. They're not spending entire cycles of local sol energy to shoot expensive relativistic kill vehicles. They're spending pocket credits for a laugh, and 100,000 years later trillions of organisms end up dying. I think part of charm is recognizing the potential for lonewolf /small group of actors to be more dangerous than ever as societies move up tech tree.
Af klint never showed her work to anyone but a few people which is why she wasn't credited with creating abstract art. She definitely wasn't written out of the history books and wasn't an influence on Kandinsky or really any other artists of the time
This is especially useful context, thanks for sharing it!
Sorry if I'm dense, but what does "this use-case" exactly refer to here?
Some new articles on TTRPG design/development and worldbuilding have been added to Junk History. Some free, some paid. If you can't afford the paid sub, consider reaching out to the author on Twitter @radcoyote.
Just to add a little to the English-language chat - "mozzies" feels more Australian English than British English to me. So it could even be that this was written by an Australian contributor. That or this is another Australianism which has entered the British lexicon (see also: "uni")
It is not. He used Wiktionary as his data source. Unfortunately.
Could I get some clarification?

> Divide that back down below 800 to 600

Do you mean "keep dividing 1200 by 2 until it is less than 400 times 2"? So, if I have a starting frequency N and some multiple frequency KN then the process is "find i such that (KN >> i) < 2N"?
I agree with the gist of what you say. Although I wouldn't say it's about smart or stupid - men are smart too, yet we make those questionable career choices.

It's rather about people understanding their situation pretty well. I think that we should assume that for ANY large group of people which isn't pathologically self-selected, they understand their own situation pretty well. They know what they have lose. They know what they stand to win. They know the tradeoffs they face. Better than those outside their group do.

It sounds trivial, but a ton of gender justice arguments just ignore it. For instance, tge big splash a while back arguing that women could get paid better if they only were as bold as men in asking for a raise, was suggesting women are systematically wrong about their own situation. As a group, not merely the odd individual. And I don't buy that.

The most plausible argument for the lack of women in X (or the lack of men in Y) to me always was simply that people don't want to be in a small minority if they can choose. Schelling's segregation model. That IS an argument for gender quotas, but is an argument AGAINST "sensitivity training" or similar efforts, at least for thinking they will fix balance problems.
in Seeing Like a State James Scott talks about the concept of legibility as the most important feature of any authority. An uneditable, global ledger is pretty much the ultimate bureaucratic tool. Any historic emperor would have killed for a blockchain. It is the ultimate record keeper.

Much confusion about crypto as some privacy preserving or decentralizing tool ignores the fact that increasing legibility will ultimately always enable centralization because it makes possible the creation of more sophisticated, larger structures.
Both brands are the parent companies for quite a few grocery chains. I wonder if this gives them more overlap than appears on the surface.
It's interesting to compare this to the propaganda landscape of WW2 and especially WW1, when the British pushed a comparable line about the inherent sadism and civilisational primitivity of the Germans. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding anything longer-form than posters and single-line pull quotes to compare to this article beat for beat, but the various tidbits in https://greatwar.nl/frames/default-christmastruce.html certainly feel remarkably familiar, with the mutual accusations of atrocities and violations of principles real and imagined -

> France and England both underlined the brutality and inhumanity of the German nature. According to the allied propaganda, war prisoners were ill-treated, tortured and under-fed. German soldiers were purported by the allied forces to rape women and cut their breasts off. The hands of small boys were cut off to satisfy the Germans’ sadism and to prevent their service in the enemy’s forces. Furthermore, German soldiers were said to have burned civilians and babies alive.[17] Germany was also accused by France and England of taking hostages as human shields to prevent allied attacks.

- complete with picture proof, which of course was disputed:

> “They think that our Press is to blame in working up feelings against them by publishing false “atrocity reports.” I told them of various sweet little cases which I have seen myself, and they told me of English prisoners whom put they have seen with soft-nosed bullets, and lead bullets with notches cut in the nose; we had a heated, and at the same time good-natured argument, and ended by hinting to each other that the other was lying.”

and the occasional externalisation of internal divisions (the part about Saxons and Prussians) in the face of preexisting grievances and overwhelming external narrative pressure. It is an interesting small bit of historical irony that the Saxons, who appealed to their would-be kinship with the British a hundred years ago to distance themselves from the general image of the German, now after 45 years of Soviet occupation find themselves occupying a place within intra-German stereotypes that is a little adjacent to the opening article's depiction of the Russians.
Ironically, what happened to WeWork is a very soft version of what will likely happen to the Apps and SaaS space in a high-interest environment.
WiFi Coconut
Something about No True Scotsman if I'm understanding correctly.
Yes the core of the contribution is the threading mechanism. Writing a low-level integration of CPython and $SCHEME is not trivial, but any implementer can do it. The syntactic interface we have clearly separates Scheme and Python code and we don't have to have new semantics for e.g. method accessors (you just write them as you would in Python).
Title is misleading (he even admits it later on in the video), nothing hidden was discovered, it explains how to add extra circuitry to simulate protected mode. Jump to 04:11 if you want to see what this is about.
I miss f'ed companies.
Space Blanket
> anonymous micropayments

At some point we have to trust some online service to keep our data safe, and that service could theoretically provide an anonymous payment proxy.

Ignoring whether one believes that Apple is a good custodian of one's privacy, they already have the email anonymization feature. They could do the same for anonymous payments. That would really only work for small payments which could not be refunded, because the refund process would likely need to expose some personal information.

For me, the concern is not anonymity. It's purely a matter of how much extra noise and email crap I have to suffer if I sign up for "free" access. The user experience once signed in is often just as bad, but differently so.

As for paying for an article, the issue is that most of these sites hide so much of the article that you really don't know what you're paying for. And frankly speaking, most "articles" nowdays are just fluff to raise the visibility of some developer or the company they work for. In some cases, I think that university students from certain parts of the world are being required to generate a certain number of posts per period (as part of their training?). So the signal to noise ratio is continuously getting worse.
Interesting, I have a white 512g 7 Pro with Kioxia flash according to DevCheck. That benchmark from OP gave me a score of 27496 fwiw
> Walmart is the largest grocer.

I rarely shop at Walmart, for a number of reasons, but on a couple occasions I've picked up some milk at Walmart, because I needed some and wasn't near my other grocery stores. Never again though. The last time was ridiculous: Walmart marked up every brand of milk to absurd prices much higher than other grocery stores, except for their "store brand" milk, which wasn't cheap either. I didn't even bother getting a full gallon, just the smallest I could find and got the hell out. I couldn't imagine shopping there every week.
Uber is already bleeding drivers and customers in favour of Bolt in many markets. Also uber has become rife with scams. Bolt is not profitable either but it manages to keep people happy.
engagement?
> Kube has hit enough market/mind saturation

I agree with this. But I really see this from a business perspective. I think k8s works better at companies with large, complex engineering teams and infra. A lot of companies simply aren't ready, nor will they benefit from, introducing k8s into their stack.
I’ve not read the paper, but was the original intention that Bitcoin would be almost immediately transferred to an external store of value? How are single use addresses funded without the transaction being recorded?
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers.

Surprisingly applicable to non-climbers. It is for anyone trying to get better at their craft.
> Truly this is becoming a them-vs-us situation with management and board vs their own employees.

Always has been.

They've never thought of you as anything other than a resource to be exploited as much as possible then discarded. Capital just gets more brazen when it has more power.

If you don't like it, stop voting for open fascists.
> control they've lost over the last couple of years

Compared to compensation vs. productivity over the last half-century, employers should expect further pushback.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I have a mild but potentially wild speculation that it might be the internet. The internet allows workers to communicate not just within the company but within the broader ecosystem of work. People are more and more aware of what a raw deal they're getting by executives and companies, and are becoming more and more hostile because they're aware of how hostile companies are to them. Additionally, companies are picking up eye-tracking technology and other hyper-controlling tech that was never feasible a generation ago, leaving employees feeling increasingly taken advantage of.
I wouldn't put this against Parler actually thinking they have some future. They're just looking to unload their highly unprofitable business[1]. The CEOs wife has been following Ye around supporting him at the controversial Paris Fashion Week and ever since[2]

And it doesn't end at the buyout. According to the deal that was described this morning, Parlers parent company stays open, and keeps billing Ye forever for "engineering and cloud services". He basically has to keep paying them for life, or start recruiting his own tech company, or shut the website down, even though he's the owner, he doesn't directly employ their employees nor owns their cloud accounts

This is the team at Parler taking advantage of someone who is very obviously having some serious mental issues

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/06/02/parlers-p...

[2] https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-719370
Which is faster, v8 javascript or webassembly + rust?
In case of losing weight, it very much does. You don't even need to do anything, you need to not eat (as much). Given high heritability of obesity it may very well be that some genetic configurations make it harder to stop eating. Plenty of studies show that most fail at dieting. Statistically speaking, it may be impossible to lose weight for most. So if you don't believe in even soft free will, you may as well conclude it is in fact impossible for these people to lose weight.

Alternatively, one could claim many simply don't want to lose weight. Then it should be fair game to claim many don't want to improve their intelligence.

Dual n back studies are a good starting point. Could go through gwern's article [0]. Which I very much disagree with, but it does cover a lot of research. He essentially concludes the active placebo studies that produce as many gains as dnb prove dnb doesn't work. But without ground truth there's no way to know these active placebo gains are fake. Many of these active placebos are other cognitive training methods, it's perfectly plausible they may not be placebos at all. IMO we can only conclude that if dnb does work it isn't uniquely great.

Another thing to remember - if we want to determine if it is possible to improve intelligence we should care about maximum gains not average gains. Again, without ground truth, one cannot simply claim big gainers are meaningless outliers that can be discounted. There may not be anything producing 2 SD on average (though plenty showing much more than the 3 points you mention), but many such improvements have been recorded.

Imagine weight was something we couldn't observe or understand. Based on statistical science, many may similarly conclude it is impossible to change it.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/DNB-meta-analysis
Think the idea is to use economic incentives rather than legal incentives, e.g. lose a bunch of money if caught cheating. This allows new participants to compete better across jurisdictions.
I don't think it even really gets to the point of side channels. People sign up with their github account and a photo ID so that a 3rd party can store their private key for them.
I've been on both types of projects.

A big side effect of writing tests extensively is that the code is often more thoughtfully written and in smaller chunks. No one wants code that is hard to test or large enough that it requires extensive mocking and faking.

Gut feel is that the code quality could be better on more deeply tested code.
I should have said P/S ratio.
Looks like the null-pointer mistake no?
Slightly positive perhaps, as an investor may ask to get paid to hold Uber for their troubles.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang.

About halfway through this, kind of like a novel form of black mirror (although less dystopian imo). Full of interesting short stories, always thought provoking and entertaining.
Alternately, you could make enough money that you are able to bequeath upon your ilk sufficient money to not need to worry about it too much.

Though if you're doing this, highly recommend not letting them realize you're fairly well-off until they're old enough to know the value of a buck/peso/ruble/euro.
I can't use crypto for anything useful without it. This advice means crypto is useless.
> That's because when most people use "blockchain" or "DeFi" they're using AML/KYC entities that post their transaction logs to public servers. Law enforcement eats this up because it saves them the trouble of getting warrants for investigations.

Well, except for the important detail that KYC requirements don't preclude the need for warrants...

> They (loudly, incessantly) proclaim to their friends the benefits of a new money paradigm while deriving all sustenance through the umbilical cord of OldFi.

Yeah, it's almost like crypto can't possibly be a fully self-contained ecosystem, and thus it must by necessity have integration points with the rest of the world. Who could have ever predicted that...
First Months as IndieHacker with RubyOnRailsJobs
A rather simple solution is to tax corporations progressively more with higher revenue or assets. This would counteract the economic incentives to merge towards ever bigger entities.
"Half the work done in twice the time" :)
Testing Production Kubernetes Controllers
Someone else mentioned that this app is also on the google play store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=479730765079191737...
Pick an ambitious side project(s), something that interests you and would force you to develop the skills you mentioned earlier. Work on this side project on GitHub, and then add it to your resume/portfolio, and make the code public. FWIW, if I were a hiring manager I’d be interested in the physics doctorate because of overlaps in systems thinking.
I see Uber as a very expensive land grab for self driving taxis. Once self driving technology works, especially if multiple companies get it working around the same time, merging/integrating with Uber gets you into the app that everyone is already using to call a ride.
The real cartel is in the grocery suppliers. Grocery stores all get their food from the suppliers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Food_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core-Mark

These are the people all the farms sell to.
Is this a surprise to anyone? The ledger is public and therefore subject to all sorts of statistical analyses that cash is not.
>In this case, the employee may prefer the "indentured servitude" route versus having to front 6 figures to get their own type rating.

In fact, so many of these pilots prefer this indentured servitude that we've got record numbers! Incredible!
Elon talks about it in the 2022 investor update [1] below.

It means that they burned $6B in total before becoming profitable and eventually paying it all back. So they are now lifetime profitable on a cash basis.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXy8c0GOpE
Voltage or current? Either way, chaining relays (or maybe a transistor) would be the answer. I.e. use a 10mA output to run a transistor, providing the 250mA that the relay needs. Use a parametric search (like digikey, mouser) to find a relay with a low voltage coil and high voltage/current contacts.
Do MacBook users really control their computers if something as obvious as audio sound balance can change by itself so often?
Unfortunately, the social credit industry already exists and is being used. Few companies will avoid using it in the future, because it will put them at a disadvantage. This needs to be remedied with legislation.
So, if I wanted to build a map that showed where competition would be eliminated by this merger, does anyone have any good datasources (other than trying to scrape google maps, or the Kroger/Albertsons/Subbrand websites)?
I'd prefer to deploy full manifests as well, but it's not my impression that you can entirely obtain those though "helm template". Certain variables, like "Release.namespace" are only available when actually being applied, AFAIK.

You will get a manifest, but it will usually be missing certain parts of it.

I completely agree with the philosophy of just redeploying the cluster if it's borked. I'm using NixOS myself for the task, and was trying to obtain full manifests though "helm template" originally -- so I'd love to know, if I was just missing something.
Private blockchains. Imagine a crime cartel with a private blockchain. Obviously they are not KYC. You can withdraw funds from the cartel, or pay for cartel services with the coin.

Ironically, a version of this was in private fiat currency - the coins in the John Wick movies were used this way.
Any solution to self-driving cars (that purports to be a universal solution) that requires specific modifications to the roads is doomed to failure.

Even leaving aside all the gravel and dirt roads, and the many places where, at any given time, there's construction moving a lane 5 to 15 feet to one side temporarily, do you know how many miles of road there are in the US alone? I sure don't, but I know it's a staggering amount, a hell of a lot of it is rural (and some seasonal), and getting all of it retrofitted with even the most simple and low-tech self-driving guidance assist tech like your magnetic nails would cost vast amounts of money and either take a decade or three or cost about ten times as much.
It could transmit at 22 TW EIRP, a feature quite rare in smaller arrays.
Graphing Calculator was incredibly helpful for me when I was learning Calculus in school since it let me visualize everything I was learning interactively. Grapher just isn’t the same!
> Unfortunately, this will mean a lot of tech workers will lose their jobs

As far as I can tell, Uber doesn't employ developers - you just have a chance to become their "technology partner". And while there are probably 3500 of them, once this pyramid scheme called Uber falls, many of these people will go elsewhere. The question is: will that be a bad thing? From the point of view of the total benefit to the society, it's probably better that they work on truly sustainable products.
Less than a hundred [1] that are not copy-pastes of prior projects with some irrelevant tweaks, which can for the most part be ignored.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geg5HHgDO-ht0u6CSTHp...
>If they do this, their stock will collapse.

The other option could be bankruptcy which would bring their stock to $0.
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