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This book (this translation) is a treasure!

I first found it in the early 80s I believe, and then just a year ago I found several copies in a used/vintage book store and bought multiple copies for my family!

For me, personally, the translation REALLY resonates and can provide heartfelt insights. Also, the images are outstanding, and perhaps are a significant aspect to why this book was so impactful to me.

THANK YOU for posting this link! It's also worth pointing out this one to a pdf [with images](https://eheart.com/TAO/TTC/TTCchapters-small.pdf)
How to stand out among 250 resumes that go to a same-ish school and study the same-ish thing
For several recent months, I was working with ipe wood, completely ignorant of its silica (and other irritant) content. I was warned by a bowyer to be very careful with the dust approximately when I began experiencing chest discomfort. Ipe isn't the only wood with a high silica content, but I now take ventilation and minimum of an n95 mask very seriously. My work was casual, so hopefully was significant exposure.

The effects of silicosis can take many years to show, and I don't think any treatment exists beyond the palliative.

It's a problem, with a surprising number of products, that most are unaware of.
It depends on the consequence. Is it a crime? Punish it. Do you think it should be a crime? Pass a law making it illegal.

Is it that somebody reads a mean tweet, and they feel bad? Respectfully, oh well. I go back to my earlier point - grow up.

Not having to read things you dislike, not having to wrestle with hard moral questions, not having to interact with people who have different beliefs and moral compasses is only a right insofar as you remove yourself from those environments. You don't have an inalienable right to remove other people from places they want to be because they say things that are hard for you to deal with.

Every time this subject comes up and someone seems even remotely on the side of "people should be able to say whatever they want, within the already-well-defined guardrails set up by society" the fascists come out of the woodwork screeching about how that inevitably means that Nazis are going to be killing trans people in the streets and how can we support Nazis?!? Literally in this thread your response to feeling good not being a human right (it's not) is about being murdered, which is irrelevant.

It's exhausting, and I don't think your arguments in this thread are in good faith.
> Even the mob is treating their own people better.

They actually treat them quite well. I know a number of ex-wiseguys.

When you manage folks that, by definition, don't like rules and structure, and can probably clip you in a moment, you learn to manage well.

Bad managers don't last (literally).
Interested what the ramifications to polphasic sleep are now
How do you improve it? Benzos apparently improve it but do these improve it the real way?
why compare Russian and Ukrainian government portals? btw I can't read Russian or Ukrainian but found this https://diia.gov.ua/ i think it's just a web portal version of the Ukraine app you linked?
Thanks. I'm not sure how much of that sounds like "gaps" the normal History of Philosophy curriculum would ignore, but I get the point. (certainly, it's a mistake that so much gets spun off into "Asian Philosophy" types of classes, so I agree strongly on that point)

I wouldn't want to claim I really studied all that stuff but the only thing that didn't immediately ring a bell was Mach. I see that he's got a couple of minor mentions in Copleston's history and none in Russell, so a podcast about his work seems like a really good idea.

The title of the podcast sure is a clunker, though.
It's based on citizenship. The Danish national statistics agency has an official set of Western countries used when e.g. comparing Denmark to other Western countries. They also define 1st and 2nd generation immigrants

The Danish politicians just reuse these bureaucratic definitions (1st and 2nd gen from non-Western countries).
Text mode on my 8K monitor at any time, even in boot, is dumb and annoying and anachronistic. It’s 2023.
The code avoids copyright, if it is actually different. The end product doesn't if it is still similar to the copyrighted work. Use a computer to rewrite Harry Potter all you want, but if it comes up with the same book it doesn't matter how you got there.
Datawrapper: A Map in Hurry
The best idea
Well verse 53 twists the knife

https://twitter.com/yoginho/status/1244892104196870146
My AMD gen2 works like a dream
From the Troubleshooting section on the website linked by the parent:

“CPU performance is faster than GPU on your network. Find out if your workload is sufficient to take advantage of the GPU. On small networks running with small batch sizes, the CPU may perform faster overall due to the overhead related to dispatching computations to the GPU. This will get amortized when the batch or model sizes grow, since the GPU can then take better advantage of the parallelism in performing the computations.”
Isn't the English (EU) layout close enough? I think it's basically the US layout with a Euro sign somewhere, but the physical key layout should be the same as a regular US keyboard.
> Any distraction from a school's primary mission to educate disparately impacts the people who need it most.

School's primary mission is to serve the needs of a societies children.

Inactive children don't learn as well as active children (especially boys). Hungry children don't learn as well as feed children. Abused children don't thrive.

I'm deeply curious why you don't want public school children feed or protected from abuse.
So I can't change the system's composition? Or do the ACPI/DT only show me the controller chips soldered to the motherboard, but not the devices that connected to them?
It seems like Apple is learning from Intel here.

Apple made their E-cores a lot faster the past couple generations. Despite being a tiny fraction of the size, they get nearly 50% of the performance (yay diminishing returns) while using around 10x less power.

If your task only scales to 1-4 cores, you need those cores to be fast, but generally speaking, if you can scale more than that, you can probably scale to a LOT of cores. From this perspective, 6-8 cores allow a couple of those lightly-threaded applications at the same time which is usually all the more you'll be running.

After that, putting 4-6 E-cores+cache in the space of just one P-core+cache means you're still using half the power, but getting a lot more performance in those very scalable applications.

AMD is headed this same direction with Zen 4c and 5c chiplets where you'll have one performance chiplet and multiple efficiency chiplets.

The area and power wins are just too big to ignore.
Yes - you want their "EU" layout. It's "US" with a € sign.
Yeah, I don't think allowing telemetry etc is really a matter of technical literacy, and is more a matter of social trust. High-trusting people will see no problem, low-trusting people will say "no way!". I'd imagine this varies widely but with definite trends based on social/economic class.
Agreed we are basically past the early adopter phase.
Most of us are even on our 2nd EV.

Now the hurdle is higher as you need to get people used to a different way of fueling.

Kind of like when we switched from flip phones you charged every 3 days to iPhones that sometimes didn't make it a full day.

There is a higher cognitive load than just driving around in an ICE and pulling into any of the 15 nearby gas station "within range" for 5 minutes when your gas light goes on.

Charging needs to be as easy as possible, and it probably still won't be until 2025ish when the CCS->NACS transition in US finishes.

Currently I wouldn't suggest anything but a Tesla to 99% of general public, and I say this as a former Tesla owner who probably won't buy another myself.

Unless you can charge at home/work full because its either just a commuter car or you never really drive past a 100mi radius of home, non-Tesla charging is still too hit or miss.
Yeah, the Open Firmware preboot Forth console was a PowerPC only thing.

Now Apple’s bootloader is actually a tiny macOS. As much as I don’t like the complexity this brings, I do strongly approve of a boot environment that supports proper input devices and video. My iMac Pro’s (intel, non-macOS-based bootloader) bootloader drops keyboard inputs when typing my long passphrase because I type too fast for it. The Mx macs no longer have this problem.
> doesn't make this any less inconvenient though

You're right that it's not ideal, but it certainly makes it a lot _less_ inconvenient than being completely stuck forever (as most non-highly-technical people would be if they had to follow instructions on forums to fix Linux).
I remember the legal precedent set during the trial of US President Bill Clinton. He claimed the law he was being sued under (sexual harassment) was unconstitutional, which it was. The problem was that he signed it into law, and not even The President can not be that big of a hypocrite in an American court room. So he lost. If someone is blatantly hypocritical, I have a great desire to hoist them with their own petard (to use their argument against them.)

Since the people who fly the largest private planes openly demand I stop driving my old pickup, I make the much more moderate demand that their airplanes meet each and every single emissions and fuel economy requirement that my old pickup has had to meet to stay on the road all these years.

I 100% support grounding all civilian air travel, world wide. I would give them the same time I would have if my old pickup failed an inspection to come up to standards, or their planes would be scrapped. Good luck to them getting catalytic converters on jet engines.
It seems like Sci Hub stopped working. All the papers I recently found on HN and tried to reat appear unavailable.
I have propagated this meme. It's only partially true.

SREs at Google are generally an insanely good use of Google's resources in keeping actually profitable services (like ads, search, cloud, etc.) running and running at a standard that I think few non-Googlers on this forum really have a concept of.

But the bulk of SWEs are working on developing things which are not part of those Product Areas. I actually don't think the discontinuation thing is the main problem. The problem is that outside of Search, Ads & Cloud, pretty much nothing else at Google is really a profitable revenue generator. But you don't need >100k engineers to make the profitable stuff run. There's only so many ways to sling ads and report on them and build the infra for them.

But Google's conundrum is that if they just focused on those areas, someone would eventually come along with something that would eat their lunch. So in the past Google would prefer to a) hire those people and shower money on them to stop them from doing that and b) farm out a bazillion "bets" and projects to try their hand at that stuff in the hopes of striking a vein of gold again, like they did with AdWords 20+ years ago.

Cancelling projects is the byproduct of this continual search for new gold veins.

Also a lot is changing now. SV execs seem to have made a gentleman's agreement among each other to tighten the labour market.

Anyways, I think Meta is in more trouble than Google, long run. They're in a much riskier, shakier position.
I have mixed feelings about the need for a cellular modem. I can already easily tether to either my iPhone or iPad without paying for a separate
line.

Also as an x86 based anything, the battery life is already going to be poor and the fan is going to make noise. Using the modem is going to make it worse.

And it’s only LTE in 2023?

But on the other hand, I do always buy the cellular version of iPads even though I could just as easily tether those to my phone.
how is this different to Documenso.com? that looks more advanced
Poll: When should a developer resume be more than one page?
As a hiring manager, I have my own opinions on this, but would love to get feedback from the community. I'm giving a workshop on resumes to college students, so I want to get some more general feedback. (Note: HN seems to randomize poll answer order... the order you see isn't necessarily the one I set... also, by default, every answer gets one point)
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New Malware Campaign Exploits Facebook Ads to Distribute NodeStealer Malware
"Previously, Netskope Threat Labs monitored a campaign that employed malicious Python scripts to pilfer Facebook users’ credentials and browser data. This campaign primarily focuses on Facebook business accounts, employing counterfeit Facebook messages containing malicious files."

"According to Netskope, this particular variant of NodeStealer was hosted on the Facebook Content Delivery Network (CDN) and distributed to victims as an attachment within Facebook messages."
I'm sure the actual policy is "We tell the public one thing but on the battlefield is a different matter"
From the submission:

> Once System Firmware is updated to the macOS Sonoma version, if the display is configured to a refresh rate other than ProMotion, that system will no longer be able to boot into older macOS installs nor Asahi Linux correctly. This includes recovery mode when those systems are set as the default boot OS, and also System Recovery at least until the next subsequent OS upgrade.

That can and will absolutely affect regular users, even if they don't 'care' about it or 'know what it means'.
Ha! (All kidding aside, avoid Whirlpool appliances, their longevity is short.)
I wrote, with the help of ChatGPT-4, a Christian adaptation of the Dao De Jing called "The Dove & the Dao": http://doveandthedao.com. I consulted many translations and commentaries and tried to find where Christianity and Daoism harmonized. Where I couldn't, I adapted it to Christian theology. It was an obsessive endeavor that broke my eyesight due to eyestrain (editing on a smartphone is not recommended) but it's one I was finally able to strike off the bucket list.
While HN uses 90% of the screen width each individual comment is capped to a fairly reasonable width. So the only long text is the title but in that case it is probably also fine because reading one long line is fine and titles very rarely wrap. So I think HN actually does a good job here. It just allows more space for comment nesting.
Lots of low hanging fruit in this arena for people who haven't made a serious effort yet. Cutting out caffeine and alcohol entirely from my diet were by far the biggest improvements I made, then regular exercise, and finally a midday nap during my lunch break.
The Mac chips only have a couple more GPU cores than CPU cores, while discrete graphics cards have hundreds or even thousands of cores. If the benefits of training on a GPU come from massive parallelization, why would a GPU with relatively few cores be expected to provide a benefit vs. CPU? Am I misunderstanding something about what a Mac GPU "core" is?
Finished software? Never heard of it
As the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful, what happens to SEO?
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing everywhere in their interfaces.
In that case, why would biz users ever want this over a quieter, cooler, MacBook with better battery life since Office is available for Mac?
How does the kernel knows which of the many possible device trees describes my hardware? Or is the system comes with custom-compiled pre-installed Linux kernel, with the one correct DT baked into it by the manufacturer?
And how’s that a surprise?! Even non-immigrants are looking how to move to the states now.
They do though. Pyatv can do it (and home assistant is using pyatv since HA is python based) and commercial home automation systems like Crestron and Control4 can do it too.

Really I just need to get an LLM to port pyatv to C# for me I guess.
This post describes a research project I did which ended up needing domain-specific natural language processing (NLP).

The project started out with learning Bayesian Networks. The nets were learned to determine probabilities of maintenance actions on machines. But, once we explored the data, we realized extensive pre-processing was needed. Most of the information about actions was in free-form descriptions, and not tabulated numerically.

So, the choice was between using a large language model (LLM), remotely or locally, or a more rustic NLP approach. I chose the latter for:

1. Explainability. Smaller models are easier to decompose and analyze.

2. Security. Using LLMs would likely require cloud-based or off-premise devices. They were an additional security hurdle in our case.

3. Speed. This was a very domain-specific dataset with relatively few training instances. Fine-tuning LLMs on this would take time (data collection + training).

4. Performance. The use-case was not generative text, but text retrieval for Bayesian reasoning. We could get away with NLP models that could only adequately infer similarity between text.
No one's entitled to returns on any investment, of course. But would you expect investors to stand idly by while their investments lose ground? Or would you expect them to take whatever opportunities are available to them to protect their investments?
Ask HN: Do you use Postgres and ClickHouse together?
If so, how is the experience of operating both ClickHouse and Postgres?
Getting enough sleep is difficult enough, now we need to get enough deep sleep...

The only way for me to get enough good sleep is to either quit my job (without worrying the $$) or getting rid of the kid. None is doable.
Sleep, like digestion, wound healing, or respiration, seems to be one of those complex bodily processes that can suffer from dysfunction for a variety of reasons we're only now beginning to understand rigorously. A quality polysomnography is a good place to start.
Or, for that matter, any incremental call Microsoft is making to any GPT-based model. The power consumption from these inferences are immense, and appearing with increased frequency.
Whilst I completely understand your viewpoint, I have a more nuanced take on it (understandably, as I work there). Firstly, we don't pay peanuts. We have never taken outside funding; it has always been a company goal to grow organically. As such, we don't have as much cash to go throwing around like VC-funded startups. However, as I said we still pay well; yes I could make more by taking a job in London (I'm in the UK), but then I sacrifice so many intangible things. Working remotely has allowed me to be present whilst my 18 month-old grows up, and a 4 day work-week has helped even more too. Unlimited holidays, very flexible working hours and being treated like an adult about how you organise them, a flat company structure, a company which genuinely cares about employees and their wellbeing - all of these things add up. Salary isn't everything. Whilst no job will ever be perfect, this company is by far the best place I have ever (and will likely ever) work. Employee satisfaction is always very high and salary is rarely even a factor (let alone the main reason) if people decide to move on.
Second pig heart transplant patient dies after showing signs of organ rejection
Keyboard only users? All 10 of them? ;)
> Most of this stuff is driven by religion and politics.

As so is the backlash. I get the impression that the emotional foundation to many of the objections to homeschooling is the idea that some kids will get a (home-schooled) education that doesn't conform to the commenter's politics or values. School has long been a mechanism for a dominant group to impose its politics and values on other people's kids. Public schools are just a milder form of that than Indian residential boarding schools or Chinese boarding preschools (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/china-tibet-board...), but they still perform the same function.

Homeschooling provides an escape from those functions (and other problems), and that's one I'd certainly want available to myself. I can imagine how nightmarish it'd be to be forced to send my kids to one of those Chinese boarding schools.

Deficits of empathy like those that would deny that escape (and the attendant hypocrisy) are getting really grating to me, even in people I more or less agree with.
When you posted this, it was the top announcement. It's still in the top announcements row 5 days later, easily seen. It took a Google search of "steam city skylines 2" to discover. This announcement is as close to the purchase button as you can get it right now on Steam.

This is made up drama.
I'd like to see it debate about the blue and gold dress :)
Assuming by "it" here you mean

> to organise a large group of people towards any common purpose, let alone profitably, let alone efficiently, especially in something so relatively new and little-understood as tech

...I don't think those are good examples. The very sympathetic recent bio of Musk details a lot of dysfunction in those organizations, and they largely achieve anyway by leaning on The Mission, working people harder, driving burnout, and then discarding them.
You might find pure $1M saving opportunities. But quite often the saviour of $1m is not aware that this can cause a $10m loss somewhere else, for example, a legal liability. Or maybe in order to find one $1m saving opportunity, established processes should be disrupted at a cost of $10m.
Sure. But insurance companies leverage that mandate; they make people who don't choose (or can't afford) collision policies subsidize people that do. With this, the bargain of shared risk is quietly killed and replaced with exploiting the poor (or frugal) to pay for the non-poor (or lavish).
> I question your assertion that companies are looking to select ethical employees.

I didn't assert that. To the contrary, I said, "But for some strange reason, companies are exclusively focused on trying to evaluate the skills of candidates rather than evaluating their ethics."
You imply investigators & journalists PROVIDE confidential info

when in actuality, they RECEIVE confidential info

you seem to be confused about how investigations work.
I think it is great for things that have lots of translations like the Tao Te Ching.

道生一，一生二，二生三，三生万物。万物负阴而抱阳，冲气以为和。

Try it with plus. Ctexts is a great source for classical Chinese texts: https://ctext.org/
What part of my comment suggests I was talking about manufacturing costs?
Why is Toyota so anti-EV?

Simple answer --- Lots of Japanese industry, jobs and knowhow are tied to the internal combustion engine and associated mechanics.

EVs are mechanically much simpler so they represent a significant amount of job loss for Japan's economy.

I have always been a big fan of Toyota products and I still own one. But this same story has been repeated over and over since the start of the industrial revolution. So we know how it ends --- the only viable options are adapt or die.

China is full speed ahead and is now the largest EV manufacturer. And the hard truth is, they really couldn't care less about Japan's socioeconomic issues.
Good initiative ! I think there are not enough authorities concerned about the problem of space junk, everyone sending stuff in space should be concerned.
Ask HN: What minor UI/UX issues annoy you on frequent basis?