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Been using this a while to pull out a bunch of server stats for a monitoring dashboard and it's been great. I just wish there were more supported services. The total mess of different outputs and config types for Linux packages is extremely annoying to deal with.
It smells bad.
a recent podcast on the game: https://caneandrinse.com/universal-paperclips/

endorsed by game author: https://twitter.com/flantz/status/1581736112925511680?s=20&t...

and an older article with the story behind the game: https://www.wired.com/story/the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-...
I don't think you need excessively large groups for a mob mentality to take root.
> It is stunning that Europe has failed to participate in the tech boom of the last few decades.

In my view much lower level of financialization is a big culprit. The stock market is nowhere near what the US stock market is. This limits what kind of exits startups can have as well as how much they make out of it. So there is no perpetual engine of successful entrepreneurs financing the next generation. There is barely any investment capital available. Certainly not the kind that would allow years of un-profitability.

Another huge factor is language and cultural barriers. While the US states are very different, they are nothing compared to the difference between Spain, France, Italy, Germany and others.
Since when interfaces aren't OOP?!?

Better brush up on OOPSLA, ACM and IEEE literature.
It may be more helpful to look at results of recent referendums on the subject.

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Referendum_88,_Vote_on_I-...

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...

On one hand, it is telling that even states as culturally blue as CA and WA don't have majority in support of affirmative action. On the other hand, that is still a lot of people in support.
> The number stamping process does change the metal’s underlying metallurgy throughout the the metal where it was stamped. So unless you drill out the number through the entire metal (which is viable if you’re going to extract the minerals), there’s a possibility of reconstructing the serial number with some level of probability.

Do you happen to have more information on that?
Then perhaps the proper response from opponents of Affirmative Action is to game said honor system. Identify as Black/Native American only for as long is it takes to get in.
The first point on mental energy seems like its only true for an initial period. Or put differently if you've been doing tricky mental work all day it is definitely exhausting & takes on tank like properties. Still good advice overall though
Anyway affordable home tools quality is irreverent to "Leading edge equipment from Tokyo Electron"
It doesn't stay in the drawer though. The total supply is a constraint on all actors as they compete for resource allocation. By increasing the supply and relaxing the constraint, some participants can out compete (raise the price) of scarce resources. This is only possible to go to the levels in all areas simultaneously due to the increased supply. No increased supply to match the increased wealth from treade, you get deflation, which is desirable for savers.
That looks like a far better predecessor of the much missed XP tool, netsend. There was something off charming about Windows 98. It was awful, but charmingly so. The icon of the Jack-in-the-box highlights that well.
I'm mathematically trained so in the beginning I really like writing python program in pure functional paradigm. Until I was facing this issue.

But, adopting OOP doesn't mean one have to give up on pure functional paradigm, there's a book which basically is talking about how you can incorporate more functional paradigm into OOP.

One way to look at it is (perhaps trivially) that methods are just functions, and class is just something with properties. So in a sense class defines a type, where the methods/functions expects this type.

In python I find properties (and the related cached properties), dataclass etc can really make the above more apparent in construction. To just give one example, having a property that returns a pure function would acts practically the same as methods (but not in docs unfortunately, and related auto completion kind of stuffs.)

Yet another way of looking at this is to treat Python class as singular dispatch in first argument only.

I find thinking this way enables me to reap the benefits of both OOP and pure functional paradigm.
> Especially the tax code and measures against people succeeding too much like in America.

This is a big one. Why would someone earning €60k as a regular engineer take all of the responsibility of leading a team for only €10k/year more? Anyone actually qualified for that position knows it's not worth the additional money, and anyone that would accept that promotion is only in it for the title and is likely unqualified. Not to mentioned that you only see half of the additional €10k after tax (in Germany).
This, given the current state of things I belive that AI can be used, at most, as a more engaging/interactive piece of material to be used with the supervision of an actual teacher. The conversation that a student might have with GPT3 model will be coherent most of the time (and probably factually correct as well) but supervision from a teacher will always be needed to catch those cases where incorrect info is returned by the model.

I still believe that a bunch of AI-enabled edtech tools will bloom out in the foreseeable future, just nowhere near anything usable by the student withouth supervision.
Can you reframe the problem to suit a more classical approach - regression using xgboost or lgbm? If so, go for that!

As an example, imagine you want to calculate only a single sample into the future. Say furthermore that you have six input timeseries sampled hourly, and you don't expect meaningful correlation beyond 48h old samples.

You create 6x48 input features, take the single target value that you want to predict as output, and feed this into your run of the mill gradient boosted tree.

The above gives you a less complex approach than reaching for bespoke time-series stuff; I've personally have had success doing something like this.

If your regressor does not support multiple outputs, you can always wrap it in sklearns MultiOutputRegressor (or optionally RegressorChain; check it out). This is useful if, in the above example, you are not looking to predict only the next sample, but maybe the next 12 samples.

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.mu...
Didn't know about this, the HN dividend pays out again!

When wrestling with sed/awk in trying to parse results of a shell command, I've often thought that a shell-standard, structured outpout would be very handy. Powershell[0] has this, but it's a binary format - so not human-readable. I want something in the middle: human- and machine-readable. Without either having to do parsing gymnastics.

jc isn't quite that shell standard, but looks like it goes a long way towards it. And, of course, when JSON falls out of fashion and is replaced by <whatever>, `*c` can emerge to fill the gap. Nice.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/
I appreciate your efforts, and I know it's not easy, even for you.
That's basically just a matter of the inputs and outputs of the AI.
Pgts: Apply timeseries encoding on existing data in PostgreSQL
> is why the world has switched over to Chrome leaving Firefox behind

Not all of us have left Firefox behind of course, but we are certainly not what we used to be.

> shouldn't we just fight for more diversity in browserland?

We should; and especially in browser-engine-land. WebKit/Blink are becoming a monopoly..
Worldwide, there's a cable break about once every three days. How much that affects you depends on the backup infrastructure and your current location. Submarine cables getting damaged is all but uncommon.

I'd expect cables through the Atlantic or Pacific ocean to get damaged much more rarely than cables through your local lake. Shallow waters and sports/amateur boating can damage the cables in shallower waters more easily than in the humongous depths of the greater oceans in the world.
Like I said, it gets misused a lot. Often by the very people using the word to silence honest ways to raise awareness.
That's true. But the interesting question is how large a group can get without that.
Easiest is to use cvxpy with your own objective function. You can easily add seasonality regularization etc. other things are too much black box. Also pivot tables. They are free now in online version of google sheets and online excel. Set the time as a row field and it will automatically aggregate. Or if you want irregular spacing you can group by 100 samples.
All "sorting" systems have different outcomes, I'm not sure why differences should be necessarily flaws.

In many countries there's this centralised testing system where kids take an exam the same day and are placed in schools by preference and that score. So you make a list of schools you want and the school quotas are filled by that preference list with the higher scored candidate gets the place.

The result? A school ranking created by high-schoolers and their parents because the "best" students go to the school with the most applicants with highest scores.

The problem here is that it creates almost automatic placement for students by score. So if you are really good at math and sciences you score highly but you can't go study physics because the physics departments usually have low minimum scores due to their weak employability and medical schools have very high score due to almost guaranteed employability and high status and compensation. This means, kids scoring well all go to the same schools together with all the other scoring well irrelevant of their interest or aspirations. The thinking goes, if you scored well enough to study medicine you will waste your score if you study something like architecture or chemistry and they are forced to pick something from their score range.
But even if VW won't do, other western/Japanese competitors do the same thing. So let's get revenues in the short term
oh yeah absolutely. but we didnt get to try the whole direct-transfert that happened in the US during the covid crisis. Depending on the country, there were "technical unemployement" measures that have been applied. Basically companies reduce your working hours temporarly, and thus your salary, and your unemployment insurance fills the gap.
So do I (well, from my father's bees, that is...). But it illustrates exactly what the OP is talking about - this honey comes at low cost or free to us, but for the receiver it represents a much higher value. (prices around here for local, pure honey are 7 or 8 euros per 450 grams / about a pound). My kids sell my parents' honey for 5 euros and people are grateful for those low prices even, and treat it like we're doing them a favor.
Even if there ends up being no difference between the two, being able to opt in to see more of the deleted material makes the moderators much more accountable.

I have no idea if this community would be improved with less moderation because I'm blind to most of its results.
Space is the soft belly of all tactical components. One shotgunshell of a rocket can destroy your whole powersupply and any orbital industry for decades. MAD applies.

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

I highly doubt that any military, no matter how tech affine, would expose itself to this.

Producing fuel in situ with below water solar panels - just off the coast, yes, but not spaced based pre-collection. All you need is industrial strength (chemical/coil) gun and compressed, heat unfolding foil projectiles, to shoot at satellites today.
This is a dumb law. It treats the symptom not the problem. There is an existing market for getting around KYC requirements. Just search "buying cats" on FB or CL and you will find plenty of them. These people buy cats from the thieves who are too known to the local yards to deal directly with them and pocket a fraction of the profit. You can keep adding laws but the material here is so valuable that the market can support a lot more middle men if that's what it takes to give everyone plausible deniability.

The fundamental problem here is that pretty much every car has a fairly unsecured cat underneath it and that law enforcement DGAF. The problem will persist until you fix one of those two.
Society is, of course, also dragged backwards by outlier success: think Lehman Brothers. And all progress, as every change, has its downsides. Without industrialization, there wouldn't have been a climate crisis.

> This is why the big slow trend of people organising against inequality is so concerning.

I think you mistake the goal. It isn't to prevent some engineer from making some money from an invention. There is however a very perverse reward for purely financial instruments, which make the rich richer, and conversely, the poor poorer. That's one thing that should definitely be halted and reversed.

Historically: WW2 was quite the equalizer, and it didn't lead to stagnation. Currently, OTOH, inequality is much higher, and the most rewarded job is getting people addicted to dividing content with the goal of pushing more ads.
> Green blips are your ping time to gstatic.com

Rather, it seems to be pinging my router (192.168.1.1).

> Blue blips are your ping time to apenwarr.ca

Rather, it seems to be pinging something in "Mexico City, MX" or "Moncton, CA":

https://imgur.com/a/NmC5Ns0

What does the DNS checkbox do?
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You are describing the past 20 years in terms of politics. Basically, we've had a sequence of relatively powerless presidents of both parties held hostage by a hopelessly divided senate and house failing to agree on much at all except printing more money to keep things going. Both parties have fueled their respective agendas with debt. That is indeed looking like it will extend into the near future.
No we shouldn't.
Yeah it's a dead link, same here. Any mirrors?
You see "people succeeding too much", i see "amazon workers peeing in bottles", which I suspect is a fundamental difference between Europe and the States (in point of view, i'm not claiming this is a black and white issue). I'd rather keep the safety nets and succeed a normal amount, as far as the society I live in is concerned.
What is wrong about the top talents going to medical school? It is the highest paid jobs available.
I couldn’t make it all the way though the article. Its reasoning is baffling, confused and unsubstantiated, all while demonstrating very little understanding of the environment they’re criticizing. It betrays a very exclusive and elitist view of education.

If you build a society of elitist institutions, you will get elites. Not only that: if isolated, they will think of themselves as better than most, exceptional in fact. With exceptionality come the exceptions one carves out for oneself and a dismissive view of the common rabble.

Of course talented individuals should be fostered. But presenting a US-style university approach as laudable and somehow missing is irresponsible and short-sighted.

As another commenter wrote, Germany’s education system has plenty of issues but that’s not one of it.
We should have more bright but laid-back students instead of having them all rat race through the "top university". High capacity of rote grind does not a genius make.
It could be worse, you could have just lost The Game.

...oops!
Would have been a bit difficult to tell if my small hiatal hernia that occasionally causes scary heartburn had become an increasingly large hiatal hernia that allowed part of my stomach to slip through, requiring a much worse emergency surgery than my soothingly well-planned c-section, while in the middle of giving birth…

Not everyone giving birth is a fit 25 year old with absolutely no other health issues and a desire to have several more kids.

Tsk tsk all you like about women “waiting too long” - the majority of first-time mothers over 40 have c-sections. Would my child and I have survived a natural birth? Most likely. Would I definitely not have further damaged my diaphragm, debilitating me far more than the planned c-section did (hardly at all) at a point when we could least tolerate it? My gyno, my gastroenterologist, and I decided the c-section was a much better bet for both me and my child.
While Blender already lets you make workspaces as sparse as you like them, Apps focused on specific usage can make complex 3D + ffmpeg + python options more approachable. A ‘.blendx’ focused on Resizing video, Making quick cuts, Exporting to GIF, MP4 other formats would be handy, e.g.

[Media Viewer by Blender Studio](https://studio.blender.org/blog/media-viewer-by-blender-stud...) looks solid. I want to see more of the ‘Review’ / ‘Annotation’ tools.
Is there any way it can be framed to not be related to Positive Discrimination?
I think this view is hopelessly naive in the real world. You could easily make "moderation" (as defined by the article) the same as "censorship" (as defined by the article) by producing a lot of false, semi-false and nonsense content to drown out the signal in the noise.

Our concepts of free speech, censorship and moderation are simply outdated on modern social media - when you have systems designed to encourage and spread low-effort, novel, emotional and manipulative content (e.g. twitter), no amount of "tweaks" to such systems can fix the problem.

Instead of trying to fix systems originally designed for marketing, why not actually design systems meant for disseminating and checking information from the ground up? I bet that would look way different compared to twitter or facebook.

It doesn't have to involve moderation or censorship - it could just mean giving disproporitonately more powerful voice to experts willing to explain disinformation, for example (rather than having their voice drown in the retweet popularity contest).
It makes me sad that not even VR is going to escape the pervasiveness of smartphones.
Well but that would be great, I'm too young to have been part of that magical usenet era that people talk about with such reverence, and these days I have no idea how to get on there, if there's anyone on there I might care about, or whether it even still exists. So a new usenet with extra steps (and, uh, accessible through the http protocol) sounds great to me.
There's no need for a nation-wide ring with bikes. With cats, it is because you need connections to a refinery that will accept your stolen cats... but bikes can be fenced locally in a bike store.
We might not have the image of the Ivy League and thus lose Nobel prices in the statistics, but I'd say it's a good thing we're not participating in the anglo-american tradition of elitism. We have our places of excellency but it's not as easy as "this university". It may be one specific field at one university, one research group, an institute that's excelling etc.
See also:

* "Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)" (https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2019/11/26/bringing-the-unix-ph...) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266193 238 points | Aug 22, 2021 | 146 comments

* "Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app" (https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-...) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435786 183 points | 11 months ago | 110 comments
> Europe - certainly Western Europe, and increasingly Central and Eastern Europe - has one of the highest standards of living in the world.

I have a feeling that with the current energy crisis this might not age very well.
Apparently you've actually published work yourself? Did your publisher print, bind and release every single word submitted to it without any human intervention at all, and then ad hoc remove a small proportion of the content after objections and bar a small proportion of users from further submissions? If not, why are you pretending that two completely different processes are the same?

Nobody argues that owners of physical premises should choose between accepting full responsibility for every action on their premises or being utterly powerless to eject any person for any reason.
Hi @KoenDG,
Thanks for checking out Soul,
I'm glad that you liked it!
This is a very shallow take on the subject, that glosses over some of the most contentious issues related to freedom of speech on private platforms and only presents the most clear cut cases.

There are many situations where a post being visible to anyone is harmful to someone else. We can rationally weigh the value of freedom of speech versus expected harm to that individual and come up on both ends, but we can't ignore this simple fact when discussing this issue.

The only example mentioned in the post is child pornography, but there are more others: revenge porn, doxxing, smear campaigns to name a few. If my ex wants to send an explicit video of me, and someone else wants to view it, I am still harmed by the fact that the platform makes this possible, even if my moderation filters don't show it to me. Similarly, if someone is spreading my address or saying I eat children, the fact that I can choose not to see this doesn't protect me from the consequences of others reading these messages.

Again, not saying that I believe it obvious that such messages must be removed. My only point is that the "solution" that Scott proposes for avoiding harassment is a partial solution at best, but more realistically, entirely useless. It basically only helps for very low level harassment, such as not wanting to see someone cuss.
I am German and doing my PhD in the management sciences, so I can judge the output, and there are many European institutions that are doing top research, also German ones. I have the feeling it's mostly about tech that we're not top notch. And even there, as a tech worker, I know really good output. I guess, that German universities are not really competing for a high ranking. This is part of German culture, we also don't have these standardized tests to qualify for university.
>> Very few of the best graduates I’ve worked with in my ~30 year career studied at those schools - it was places like UW, UBC and Waterloo that stood out to me as producing a high number of high quality, socially adapted graduates.

> But he truly is a special kid who gets inspired by super smart people and thrives on challenges, and will do better at Cal, Caltech, Harvey Mudd etc.

As opposed to UW, UBC and Waterloo, which are filled with less intelligent people? It is laughable.

My theory - you have precisely zero idea what those schools even are.
I've had someone in a team implement feature engineering using tsfresh. It lead to a malignantly under-performing, complicated heap of spaghetti that was a nightmare to get into production. Weird API, slow code, little added value over simple features found in a day of manual exploration.

Person doing the implementation wasn't a rock star coder so we couldn't fix the performance and complexity issues in time; it was left it out of the releas. Maybe with more expertise, tsfresh can add value. The experience was pretty off-putting for me, all in all. Maybe others have different experiences?
There's also https://github.com/TomWright/dasel (supports JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV)