skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If — and it's a big if because civil infrastructure is a lot more than just domiciles and a bit of tarmac to travel on — it were done right, the metro areas could expand. And many have, which is why we're increasingly urban as a species.

Sure, still technically finite, but even just at the Netherlands' population density, we could fit the world population into 1/10th of the world's land area, so it isn't a real constraint.
is this true in USA? Wow
Yeah good points - I definitely don't want to say that free market always results in perfect outcomes. n=1, Amazon does seem to be out-competed by Walmart in terms of customer support. If they still survive after awhile of this without improving their customer support, then the stubborn conclusion would be that people on average actually don't care so much about customer support! Or maybe more like people don't use customer support quality as a big factor for deciding which website to buy from (and that definitely might be a good reason to include some regulation. customer support is in peoples' best interest but they don't think about it so much)
Chatbot Conversational Intelligence Using GPT-3
He definitely was very big with us kids in Switzerland in the 80s
Between a walk, which can be done in almost any weather, exercise, and cooking well for one's self, plus a short amount of time for medidtation/self-care, I don't see why not.

For people in a place where weather or the area is truly not conducive to walking/running/riding, a home setup is an option. Watching a show while on a stationary bike is a great option.
I think so. I've been around some of the amvet/freemason/rotary clubs and there is an age group that mostly dominates that might turn away newcomers.

Could be it's like how younger people shied away from Facebook to Instagram, and then the even younger people hopped onto Tiktok.
Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook and Google are stockpiled with former FBI, CIA, and DoD employees, many of them in roles centered around the silencing and censoring of so-called “misinformation.”
I think in this context, “clicks” is a bit more abstract and means “getting lots of quick attention with volumes of low-effort content.”

The thesis is that the author believes that this is evolving (back?) into a model of actual deep content and community building. Hence his surprise that a pop culture hype guy like Joe Rogan’s interviews are hours long.

I actually share that surprise. In the past decade I’ve seen a real evolution towards simple, fast food quality online content that’s really quick and easy to consume. I’m very hopeful he’s right and that there is a desire from these communities for longer, more meaningful content.
He didn't actually have to put up $250 million, or even the 10 percent that is normally required by bail bondsmen. The "remarkably generous bail" was that all he had to put up for collateral was his parents house, which is only $3 or $4 million. And considering it was bought and paid for with money he made from his crimes, that's awfully generous. Usually they don't allow you to use your illegal money for bail. Normally all illegally gained assets are seized or frozen. Maybe he was able to side step this by putting the house in his parents name? Who knows, but yes, only having to put up 2% for collateral is extremely generous...
From the paper being critiqued:

> A defensive approach will not work. As a common example, we need to refrain from claiming that whatever ableist or eugenic connotations terms such as “fitness” and “selection” may have in the public sphere, we understand their apolitical technical definitions. This does not hold water because our views, and especially the views of scientists new to the field, are inevitably shaped by the public sphere and public discourse around evolutionary biology—hence the persisting popularity of survival of the fittest in general biology narratives and manuscripts.

This seems like a deeply stupid strategy. This sets up a whack-a-mole game of constantly changing apolitical technical language as the new terms then become co-opted by misuse or bad actors. This literally just happened with "woke", which used to be a positive term and is now used pejoratively.

For people so concerned with the impact of history they seem particularly inclined to ignore it when it suits them.
I do not like to use homebrew for python, but I install it for Homebrew dependencies.

I use the native installer available on python.org. It works perfectly on my mac, and gives me no issues. I create local virtualenvs for each project, from the base distribution of choice.

I have found zero reasons NOT to use the standard distribution, and it allows me to install any version of sub-version I desire.
Typical RE return targets are 10-20%. Anything less than that and you might as well be in public securities.

There are different ways to calculate returns: IRR, cash on cash, but it’s immaterial for this discussion. TLDR you want returns higher than you can get elsewhere easier.

(you must not just develop housing, you must lock it up from investors if you want to ensure long term affordability; capital is callous, uncaring, and voracious for returns)
+1, these fdroid updates are going to be a dealbreaker if I buy another android.
and GL/SL IIRC ...
In Switzerland too and it's also shown on national television! And on christmas morning it's tradition that the movie "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" (Cinderella) is broadcast on national television.
Another approach I miss from SmartOS.

It boots from a USB stick, loads system to a RAM disk, mounts configuration from a directory, and then hosts VM zones from ZFS datasets. The “root” system remains immutable.

To patch or upgrade, you just write a new system image to the USB stick and reboot. It’s great.

To skip the USB stick, you can do the whole thing over PXE.

After running a cluster on SmartOS for many years, moving back to Linux and installing the OS feels fragile, dirty, and weird.
i recommend exercise. I'm over 50, and often after work I'll feel totally drained. after some kind of physical activity - and food - I have energy well into the evening. 20 years ago, I didnt have to do this, but at my current age, this fixes it.
> Under the auspices of “empowering” the consumer, we are told to spy on our low-wage servants and gauge the quality of their servitude with stars, tips, and reviews.

I hadn't thought of it this way before, but I totally agree. We're told to judge the person rather than the system.
Reflect's 2022 Year in Review
Dying in a reading club seems messier.
This article reminded me of the last evolutionary psychology lecture I attended, and not in a good way[1].

It was a public lecture hosted by the Carnegie Mellon Social and Decision Sciences Department ~2009... they had one of those "pick up artists" detailing his techniques.

Bad psychology, watered down for... well, not philantropists. One of his books talked about how he convinced Britney Spears to hook up with him, but to someone with what was then called Asperger's, it sounded like he just kind of... sexually harassed someone until they gave in, and the only reason I'd shown up was I'd just broken up with someone and felt puzzled why someone like... that had such a following.

I suspect I wasn't the only one there for that reason. One of the women in that room went on to get tenure partly due to me putting in a good word for her. Another built up a fabulous publication list and a nest egg then semi-retired to raise her kid(s).

And me? After that, I, a lifelong antifascist, jumped from precarious position to ever more precarious position, forever having folks not willing to admit that true allyshipl, not just link sharing and fearless adversarial... tweeting... will absolutely not give you any kind of "leverage". It is the ultimate in career limiting moves, and absent inherited wealth or a partner to help you in your quest, you need to be very careful who you help.

(Especially in the field of psychology, where folks who could be neither doctors, lawyers, nor engineers go to toil for the power they dreamed that a six figure salary would have brought them not understanding the powers they are up against.)

People are altruistic in that they might sometimes clue you in to a special promotion that will save you a bit of cash if you tip them on your Starbucks or whatever, but in the long term, they're irrational, greedy, and cruel. They will forget the types of thing you can't point out in a public forum, and then feel aggrieved when you so much as hint that you know exactly what they've actually done with their wealth, privilege, and power.

[1] Full disclosure -- I applied to and was rejected by CMU, so I might be biased :-)
In Rust it's considered idiomatic to pass things by-value whenever you can. Usually this is also the most performant option, since it avoids dereferencing in the callee.

Of course, if your struct is truly enormous, you may want to break this rule to avoid large copies. But in that case you probably want to Box<T> the struct anyway.

Of course, if your struct contains something that can't be copied--like a Vec<T>--you'll have to decide whether to clone the whole struct (and thus the vector in it), pass the struct by-borrow, or find some other solution.
> how Tether is anyway different from FTX

So far there is only evidence that Tether has mis-appropriated SOME of the money it claims to be holding, whereas FTX lost basically ALL of the money. As long as you are optimistic on the "SOME" fraction being small in comparison to the gigantic size of Tether, you can hope that Tether is still a low risk for losing your value.
I think it suffers from the problem that people who provide caring don’t need this, so you are stuck with the net takers and trying to build a community from them.
Parents, educators, clergy, everyone lines up to tell children that they need to study hard, go to university, get an economically worthwhile degree, get a good job, get married, get a mortgage.

Questions over whether children have the independence to ride the subway on their own, these questions are red herrings. How do you expect children to make their own decisions when all the messaging tells them that if they don't make the decisions that their parents are making, that they'll be failures, disgraces, shamed, poor?

Nobody's is telling these kids that it's OK to make mistakes, and it's OK for other people to make mistakes. Of course kids are anxious if they're not allowed to make mistakes. How couldn't you be, if you were led to believe that you were going to screw up your whole life otherwise?

The screws started to tighten after the No Child Left Behind Act. The academic path is NOT correct for all children, and children should not be forced onto that path if it's not right for them. The result, apart from declining mental health, is an enormous waste of human capital, enormous waste in higher education (supporting the educations of people who do not want or benefit from them), and enormous levels of student debt to prop up the lie.
It was actually a solid education, but, in hindsight, I should have went to a more affordable college.
These christian-adjacent solutions seem completely bizarre to me. They smell like solutions that have been worked backwards from ideology than actual data.

South Korea is a christian nation; forget prostitution, even pornography is banned in South Korea. South Korea, while being largely agnostic (~49%), is largely a christian nation by largest sect. If your prescriptions worked, South Korea would be a poster child for christian conservative values, but alas here we are reading about South Korean middle aged men.

I don't know what it is about the refusal acknowledge the clear economic failures happening right now and to completely ignore that those grievances of the progressive left while hyperfocusing on more feminist policies. People simply cannot afford to do anything other than work, and it's somehow shocking that people who spend all their time working don't have time to form meaningful relationships or even plan for children.
The mortgage interest tax deduction is effectively eliminated for 90% of Americans because the standard deductions are high enough that 90% of people do not itemize to be able to claim the mortgage interest tax deduction.
> How popular would Python be without the scientific users and the machine learning ecosystem?
The 5% Rule
That's not a particularly nice implementation of exceptions and all libraries treat panics as invariant checks, things that should never happen. So, if you want to treat expected errors (eg. file not found) using panic you simple won't be able to go very far, unless you create some functions to convert all errors into panics. But, even then, panic is not great. They are not typed, so you never know what panics could be raised from a function and using a single deferred function that has to handle all errors whereve it is you want to handle them is quite awkward. Obviously, the reason for those design choices is that panics are really not exceptions.
Backdoor discovered in PLDT home fiber routers
No thanks, your personal problem is your problem. Feel free to send a pull request.

Oh that's right, it's not open source :)
This is the answer.

I worked on a product that started out as a fixed price and we were pretty successful. We switched to a pay as you go model, and it just about tanked the business, despite it being cheaper for most of our customers. We lost 90% of our customers within a few quarters.

Its like you said:

- Accounting greatly prefers fixed amounts for budgeting purposes

- Pay as you go actually incentives people not to use your product to avoid being charged

- Paying a fixed price for something encourages adoption since your company has already paid for it. Whereas, there is no pressure to adopt a pay as you go product since there is no cost to not using it.

We ended up switching back to a fixed price model and actually drastically raised the price. We became much more successful after that.
That’s pretty cool.
It’s nice to see that people are willing to pay for simple but effective utility apps on MacOS.
I feel like that type of paid app is almost completely gone from Linux and Windows.

I’ve switched to MacOS last year and have been tinkering away on a few things to improve my own workflow as well as dip my toes into native Mac programming with swift.
I would never have thought about polishing it up and trying to sell it had I developed it for Linux, but seeing stuff like this makes me want to give it a shot even if it’s just to see the whole process through.
I can’t pick one thing… world upheaval, economic upheaval, health and family challenges. Hoping for a bit more chill in ‘23
I used to have my iPhone backup to my laptop, then my laptop back up to an encrypted USB hard drive, and that encrypted USB hard drive swapped out when I went out for groceries in a safe deposit box at my credit union.

This is probably not a sustainable backup strategy, but you'd be amazed how many people abuse their access and how much power you can rapidly accumulate with what one supervisor described as "CIA level opsec".

(Just be careful -- if you get hit over the head and forget your master password, you're gonna have a bad time!!)
I loathe this approach. Declarative architecture is incredibly hard to debug and understand.
The RPi foundation is anticipating their supply chain to return to normal by second quarter of 2023... https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-update-its-goo...
https://i.redd.it/d0ioc9idrtf31.png

Look at this map - hsr is most useful for connecting nodes of mega regions that are often sparsely populated inbetween. Distance of about 600 miles or about from Canada to the southern tip of Nebraska. I can see many places it would work.
"The CEO is ultimately responsible" is just the highest level of the carrot from my post a few levels up. A CEO may seem quite powerful from the inside of a company, but from their perspective they have to deal with competitors, shareholders, suppliers, regulators, and a host of other actors, all of whom have different objectives than the CEO and all of whom can constrain the possible actions of the CEO to varying degrees. Not to mention that many of the managers at or just below CXO-level are highly ambitious people who more likely than not have aspirations to become CEO themselves, so it may be in their interest to do some tactical backstabbing to make the current CEO look bad to the shareholders. All of this adds up to conditions where a CEO definitely cannot do whatever they want, because resources are limited even at this level. Just look at all the failed projects various CEOs at (say) Apple and Google have tried that didn't work even with all the money in the world.

(As a former military officer, this is the same for generals btw. They may have a lot of "power" in the organization itself, but they're heavily constrained by outside factors. They have to make do with the budget they're given, and have very little control over hiring targets etc. Not to mention that during wartime the enemy will not be under control either)
> Under the thin pretense of Covid, increased labor power has exploded the use of automated technology that creates a frustrating maze to get a simple problem solved or task accomplished

Has anyone else noticed how every single service call you make now has a (I suspect permanent) voice message saying "we are experiencing higher call volume than normal". If volumes are continuously higher than normal, then they're are the "new normal" and companies must adjust accordingly. (Edit: I see this is in fact mentioned later in the article; hadn't gotten that far yet).

> More and more consumers are being pushed away from humans onto automated systems we are told will “save us time,” but instead exist solely to save the corporation labor costs. ... The waiter hasn’t been replaced by an iPad, they’ve been replaced by you.

When faced with an automated system I always just press 0 continuously in the hope that it will break the cycle and get me through to a human rather than wade through their garbage system and answer a bunch of prompts only to have to repeat it all again when I finally get to an actual human (since I have yet to find one of those automated systems actually able to solve my query).
It does. Lonely people are those too hard to find or too unpleasant to spend time with.
nothing... I reevaluate what I should be doing every night before going to sleep
Bring Back Personal Blogging
Thanks.

If it's possible maybe you could click the Discord link in the upper right hand corner of that web site? That is my new Discord. I am runvnc in there. If not I am in the OpenAI Discord under the api-projects. You can also just email me runvnc at gmail dot com.

Yeah, it's actually kind of funny when you ask it to make something with SVG. It can get some of the shapes in there but doesn't know how to arrange them at all. I was aware of the lack of visual data in the training etc, flappy was just kind of a late night random idea.

But I have done some simple tests with for example telling it to write a a few basic unit tests and putting it in a loop. Also was kind of a mixed result but it depends on how you do it.

Would love to discuss this stuff whenever.
Except information is never really "consumed", more like "copied and integrated".
I don’t think RN can use a JIT at all on iOS. Only WKWebView processes can due to Apple’s security model. This makes Capacitor JS significantly faster for certain workloads
> Finally, I really want to wrap up a lot of my side projects and ideas I've had for a while, since I start a few too many things that I don't get around to finishing.

Shoot me an email at hello@taylor.town if you need somebody to kick you in the pants :)
> Thanks for the clarification, but from the end user's perspective it's all the same in the end?

The vast majority of users will not experience this unless their client is old. I literally dealt with this issue yesterday with one of our lead Developers.

He was using JSch in an older version of dbeaver, couldn't SSH into the new test environments we're validating on Ubuntu 22.04. Turns out to be this exact issue. The solution was to update dbeaver and switch to the new default SSHJ client within it.

Same private key, new client. Problem solved.

I will be using this as leverage to force a company standard change from RSA4096 keys to ed25519. So I am not going to clarify the difference to the Security teams.
Good tests should fail: Ensure meaningful tests with Pitest
However, in practice Rust's calling convention does actually depend on the operating system. So on Linux Rust will make use of the stack red zone, while on Windows it doesn't. (Also some codegen in LLVM depends on the operating system)
Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos. Warren Buffet. Sam Bankman Fried until not long ago.
It's not the distributed system bits. It's the heavy abstractions over the distributed system bits that make me question if operating it requires specialized knowledge. I have a performance issue or an edge case with actors from the OTP. How do I debug and resolve it? Say network partitions aren't behaving like I expect and there seems to be data inconsistency or lost. I think you're doing a disservice when you pretend this is the same class of issue as a three tier app you can Google and StackOverflow for.

This dependency should raise questions for anyone looking to adopt this, and I want to know how people have attempted to mitigate this vs. handwaving.
Really? Which one is it? She’s an effective politician or California has HSR?

And that’s throwing out delivered on time, on budget, and there was no conflict of interest with her husband’s business partners?
Immutable doesn’t mean no updates. It just means that the user can’t change the system, and also doesn’t have to. An immutable System can have updates every night, as long as they are compatible.

It’s a bit like iOS and android, the system is the same on all devices of the same model, there are just different configurations and different apps.
Yes, if I can't quickly verify someone's credentials, I pretty instantly dismiss them as the arbiter of truth.

Even more so when they're talking about pyschology, anatomy, health... You know, the topics where bullshit information online tends to be quite common.
>Anyone can ship in and sell potatoes, I can even buy them online. The market forces work because I have so much flexibility. Not everyone can move, nor should they have to move just because money moves in.

But within a given city you have a choice of hundreds, or even thousands of landlords? Any specific building might only be owned by one landlord, but you don't exactly have to move to the other side of a city to get away from that landlord.
I think someone will notice when you fail to pay the electric bill. But will someone notice before the freezer thaws completely?
Maybe it's an adaptation that arose as a result of the constant state of war, which is now gone.
Should have also tried pass-by-move .
Some reasons for using WikiLess are suggested here. Chief among them is state-level censorship:

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless/blob/main/README.md
You think your demise will wait for you to step into the fridge? Rather than making these arrangements wouldn’t it be easier to connect to people in the same predicament and check on eachother from time to time?
No course required. Just ride motorcycles. Multiple. At once.
How does as man admitting that he's lonely help?
I agree in general, but the side-effect of doing this is that no matter how fast your hardware gets, your software will always end up optimized to the new hardware. So over time your software gets slower and slower but performance stays consistent as hardware gets faster.
It also has many negative impacts. A sense of community does not need to be associated with any religion. When these two things are seen as one this provides a very exploitable relationship.

This is absolutely not true for every case - many religious organisations of all types do incredible work for communities. This does not imply the religion is the cause for that good though, it's normally just genuinely good people behind that org.