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> these reusable bags are starting to fill up in landfills. People forget to bring them, or make an unplanned stop to the grocery store to pick up a few things and buy a new bag

Put a tax on them that funds an environmental initiative, whether that be decarbonisation, trash clean-up or better landfill management.
Hey this is super cool. This reminds me a lot of something I made but had no time to upkeep as much as I wanted to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160210
HyperCard and SuperPaint were my legos as a kid. My dad is a scientist that needed a Macintosh to run calculations, so I was one of the only kids I knew who's family had a computer at the time. I built so many little contraptions using HyperCard. I have a huge fondness for black and white monitor applications and the fun little ways they created patterns using only monochrome.
I like this, it reminds me of xeyes and similar early UI toys.
Introducing the Glissotar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zFrXYQLk4

10 hours prior on HN: Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765014

There's also Charlie McMahon's Didjeribone which is very much sans reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2UqnWU8d8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRVHYqBUZg0
I dunno about awful, it is exactly what it says on the tin - do people have a "conspiracy mentality"? It is just easy to misinterpret as a negative when it is not.
Yes. The continuous case is more interesting.
And mingle with the masses? in SF?

Maybe if they re-invent trains or buses again
Conclusions are for citizens to make once they see the evidence, regardless of whether it harms the chances of powerful people maintaining their grip on power.

I've already covered it in a different thread. It's most likely that the DNC leaks were from an internal source.

Assange implied Seth Rich. The emails that were leaked were largely about the DNC railroading Bernie to favor Hillary during the primary. That's not some state-level propaganda. That's how party politics work. A disgruntled Trump supporter would have little reason to leak RNC emails, since it was publicly known how much they hated him and since Trump won in spite of the RNC's antagonism.

Honestly though it doesn't matter who leaked it. It was standard faire political controversy. It was a much bigger deal that Clinton herself maintained a private server to conduct state department affairs. Hard for her to spin that one on the Russians though.
Note also that Gibson semi-predicted 2035 [0] and Ghost in the Shell also predicted 2029 [1] (maybe basing their number off of Kurzweil, I don't know).

I think there are many ways to get at a concrete prediction of 2029, or thereabouts, by noticing a halving of cost for the same compute and/or storage every 1.5 to 3 years. This is a sort of generalized Moore's law or, maybe, just Wright's law [2]. Do this calculation to get 2.3Pb of storage, the estimated storage size of the human brain, for under $5k and you get within the range of 2030, give or take a decade.

$5k is my arbitrary cutoff price point as this puts it in the "home computer" category and is, in my opinion, the price point that set off the home computer revolution.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/10/william-gibson-per...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(manga)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects
Body part insurance is not exactly weird. I do work with LASERs, LEDs, and UV. My eyes are insured in case of damage despite full PPE.
There was no big bang. It's just a local recycling operation being confused with something much grander due to human ego (the same ego that dreamed up gods to amplify human importance). The universe is trillions of times larger than we currently think it is, humanity is comically misjudging the macro scale (just as it comically misjudged the micro scale previously).
Arguably the UP^2 is another class of device. Up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB of storage + a whole x86 CPU with dual gigabit LAN.

And the price, size and power consumption are also quite a bit higher but it will certainly grant a better general compute environment, if you want to run Linux or smth.
Hey all, Subhraag, the inventor of the Infinitone, here. A friend of mine just saw this and told me about the thread. I'm happy to answer any questions..... The advantage of the Infinitone is that it can play ANY microtonal scale instantly (with little to no practice). The scale in this composition, posted earlier, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56fLizLEn6Y, is 128 harmonics within an octave. I basically "sight read" it for this recording (though the motors were triggered by MIDI). Try THAT on any other instrument :) We are about to release a software instrument called InfinitoneDMT... which gives instant, inspiring, dynamic access to a multiverse of vibrant new tonal possibilities using notes not available on a standard keyboard (https://infinitone.com). It will be coming out soon, hopefully this summer!
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Some more discussion a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620955
What stands out to me in your recounting is: the duration between change and full impact keeps getting smaller.

Broad strokes:

Consciousness -> 100,000 years
Civilization -> 10,000 years
Industrial Revolution -> 100 years
Digital Revolution -> 50 years
AI Revolution -> 10 years
Singularity -> 1 year

Kurzweil’s main point that I recall from his book is that the rate of change is shrinking and eventually becomes near zero so that change happens so fast there is no non-change normal.
Uber attempted to operate in Korea and failed. At that point keeping a Korean translation would have been a simple matter of maintaining and updating it for the small returns that it brought in, coupled with the knowledge that simply maintaining a Korean translation for their vastly more entrenched service ensured no chance of competition from one of the few non-American firms to succeed in the same space as them.
One line explainer for non-experts like me: the paper presents a material with strange electric behavior at around 260K (approx. -10 celcius or 10 fahrenheit) that seems to be superconductivity, i.e. near-room-temperature superconductivity.
feels more distributiony if 2n + 1 > 1
I'd guess that the majority of ML software is written in PyTorch, not in CUDA, and PyTorch has support for multiple backends including AMD. torch.compile also supports AMD (generating Triton kernels, same as it does for NVIDIA), so for most people there's no need to go lower level.
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Discussion a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620955
Hah, you can totally run K3s on a cluster of RPis these days!
> However, in better-run and not-so-corrupt societies like Korea, it's not necessary and probably downright harmful.

South Korea was under varying levels of dictatorship from the Korean War until the Sixth Republic in 1987. Roh Tae-woo, the first president after authoritarian rule, was imprisoned for corruption. Roh Moo-hyun, the President from 2003-2008 was investigated for corruption and died by suicide rather than face charges. Lee Myung-bak, his successor, was imprisoned for corruption. Park Geun-hye, his successor, was imprisoned for corruption.

I don't know that South Korea is the poster child for a "better-run and not not-so-corrupt" society.
> when I forget to put them back into my car

I permanently keep two or three in there.
Love to see things built with bookdown, which is such an awesome R package (although it's successor, Quarto, is much better and simpler)
I actually don't use Kakaotalk (or LINE or Facebook, to be comprehensive) even though I'm a Korean. That does make me some kind of weirdo, but many enough services have an SMS fallback so I can live without it.

On the security side though: I don't think it is a work culture at the play because major IT companies in South Korea---often referred as to the initialism 네카라쿠배, for Naver, Kakao, LINE, Coupang and Baemin operated by Woowa Bros---are known for much better work culture and higher compensation than the nation average [1]. It is probably more like that these apps are domestic and hadn't been scrutinized enough compared to globally popular apps.

[1] But still lower than US or even some Korean startups in my experience.
The zip/tar.gz support is just slow. It's just another thing that you'll have to manually disable now.
Maximizing Terraform modules for platform engineering
It is hard to separate out HyperCard from where I was in life when I was using it.

It was 1991, my family had just bought a Mac LC, and I was 8 years old. I had learned BASIC from reading an old book from 1978 that a co-worker of my dad had given me when I expressed interest in computers. That same friend said I should try HyperCard.

It literally changed my life. It is hard to explain to people who have grown up with the internet, but at this point my family had no internet access at all (we didn't even get a modem for a few more years) and I didn't know anyone who knew how to program. Everything was self taught from reading books that I either got from my dad's co-worker or from the library.

HyperCard was so easy to learn for me as a kid. For one, it was all visual. If you wanted to add a button for someone to click, you would select "Add Button" and drag it to where you wanted it to be. In addition, you could learn how to do things from other HyperCard stacks by clicking on various buttons and reading what the script for those buttons did.

Since I was self taught (and very young), I didn't know anything about data structures or algorithms. However, HyperCard made everything intuitive to me. To persist data, you could output it into 'fields' (which like buttons, could be created by clicking 'new field' and placing it where you wanted). While I later learned how to make these fields invisible, when I first started I would just make them really small and put them in a corner behind something else. I would then write data to them from button scripts, allowing me to persist data.

Since I didn't know about data structures, I would treat everything as strings that I would store in these fields. I didn't know what an array was, so I just would create a long string of comma separated values that I would read in, act on, and then write back out to the fields. I created primitive databases by having each line of the field be a different record... I had never heard the term 'csv' at the time, but it just seemed natural to me.

Debugging was easy; I could just expand the fields into my visible view to see what was being written to them. Things being 'object oriented' was very natural, since everything in HyperCard is a visual object you can interact with.

I learned SO MUCH hacking around with HyperCard. It made me love programming, and it was so much fun. I didn't even realize how much I was learning until much later in life; I avoided majoring in computer science because I feared ruining my favorite hobby if I pursued it as a career. Later (after not finding an alternative to pursue after graduating college) I decided to give software development a try, and I realized how much I already knew just from HyperCard. Event driven architectures just made sense, because that is how HyperCard always worked. I had a pretty good grasp of data structures because I had created them visually as I needed them, without realizing what I was doing.

33 years later, I still get a thrill from programming that HyperCard instilled in me.

So yeah, HyperCard changed my life.
In times of widespread attacks, it would be better to list out actions that affected parties can take. Here is what I found:

- remove it fully (as per original author). It is no more needed
- use alternate cdns (from fastly or cloudflare)

Also as a good practice, use SRI (though it wouldn’t have helped in this attack)

I posted a note here: https://cpn.jjude.com/@jjude/statuses/01J195H28FZWJTN7EKT9JW...

Please add any actions that devs and non-devs can take to mitigate this attack.
I heard Korea had a problematic mandatory Internet login wall specifically built for IE with ActiveX on XP, and that that made use of Linux and/or Firefox complicated.

Funnily it lead to creation of PC F2P gaming culture too for some reason.
I agree with you, I was just highlighting for the other poster how difficult/crazy/riskier remote driving would be.
Don't forget the nuclei. H2 exists as para and ortho forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_isomers_of_hydrogen
The selling point of being faster than helm isn’t a very big draw to me.. I never felt the problem with helm was its speed.
Wasn’t it Waymo that had troubles navigating in winter and not seeing bike racks and other obstacles due to poor HD mapping?
I can't express how pumped I am to get v555 of the driver. Haven't been this excited for something Linux related since I was about 17.
Taxis have basically no recourse if you just ditch. Waymo has a video of you, your full name, your billing address and your credit card on file.
Thanks for replying.
Yeah we got similar feedback this week. Actively looking into it now
Peak Phil Hartman.
Virus total?
That's been within the last year I think - I too have been using Linux and Firefox for calls in Teams meetings from 2020 to last year when I had to move to the Teams Linux client (which they're deprecating, so having to move to Chrome or Edge).
So funny, pro-western countries and their old colonies are all green. Looks like the founding members of TI felt a bit patriotic
This doesn't resonate with me, but it strangely does because that timeframe just had these weird artifacts.

I rejected the conspiracy theories and machismo-empowerment waves of 2016 and 2019, and found myself completely isolated. My conservative friends said "join us" and my liberal friends said I wasn't woke. Kinda thought that was a fever that would pass, but besides my closest friends and family, that restaging was surprisingly permanent.

I came into my own back in freshman year of college when I was convinced about 9/11 being fishy by "Loose Change." If true, that's outrageous! So I then kept looking into it and came to understand conspiracy theories and skepticism. It's so sad. All of my friends left and right are conspiracy theorists now, 20 years later. Anti-progress pendulum or something.
A human lifetime = roughly 80 years

2^9 lifetimes ago humans expand through africa
2^8 lifetimes ago hunting revolution
2^7 lifetimes ago neolithic revolution
2^6 lifetimes ago first civilizations
2^5 lifetimes ago ancient greece
2^4 lifetimes ago book printing
2^3 lifetimes ago reinassance
2^2 lifetimes ago enlightment
2^1 lifetimes ago industrial revolution
2^0 lifetimes ago first digital computer
1/2 lifetimes ago personal computers
1/4 lifetimes ago personal computers with GHz processors and GPUs
1/8 lifetimes ago AI spring
1/16 lifetimes ago transformers
1/32 lifetimes ago GPT-3
1/64 lifetimes ago GPT-4
Now compare this with Apple's 90min multi million dollar bi-yearly recorded presentation where Tim Apple & friends lobotomize the credulous consumers...

'member when computers used to be fun?
Pentagon unveils IT modernization plan to tackle talent, tech hurdles
I still miss this guy.
Dale Gribble’s close friends Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer exist as a counterpoint to this argument.
Definitely. Taking this to its logical end leads to a beautiful concise notation that I learned from David Pollard:

- You literally identify sets with their indicators: they are the same.

- You identify the “P” operator as expectation (integration) with respect to the underlying measure, and next…

- You note that integration is linear, so you use linear operator notation everywhere you’d use P.

So if “A” is a set, you just write

P A = 0.5

This is equivalent to:

P A = P 1[ω ∈ A] = ∫ 1[ω ∈ A] dP(ω)

in Lebesgue notation.

There’s an example on page 2 of http://www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/Courses/241.fall2014/notes... although he’s not using measure theory there.

It can be really clean and terse especially when doing bounds for random variables.
Thanks for your comment. I don't know how ordinary US Americans refer to Australia and whether they use 'Oz' to do so but I am not surprised to hear from you that they generally don't. What I was talking about, and where I should have been more specific, is how Australia is referred to in the US media where I have quite often seen it called 'Oz' (and perhaps for the mundane reason of making for a shorter headline). This isn't nearly so common in the Australian media.

Btw, I agree with you that US Americans often mispronounce 'Aussie', but I can understand why, if they encountered the word in print before hearing it spoken.
So did a lot of people - pretty wild.
Welcome to the 21st century. It’s only gonna get worse.
> Report any problems found. This makes usage robust and supports open source support and development.

Project maintainers/developers are not free labor. If you need a proper solution to any problem, make a contract and pay them. This idea that someone will magically solve your problem for free needs to die.

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Yeah I'm not fully buying a startup lives or dies based on packaging deal of a long-embedded mega corp.

Unless his startup was VC funded and was already seriously penetrating enterprise and then couldn't get round C of financing because their 100+ person sales team couldn't make the high growth math make sense.

Otherwise usually your value prop can't be closely tied to *relatively* minor accounting decisions in the early days or you're already DOA when facing an entrenched opponent whose team can easily undercut you well beyond generic bundling deals (whether via strong existing relationships, making wider non-standard sweetheart deals that wouldn't be under regulatory scrutiny, and marketing budgets).

Don't get me wrong this can harm markets generally, and megacorps should be held to higher scrutiny, but usually it's not that simple.
Yes, the language is not the issue, the issue is that it isn't English. I wouldn't send a PR to some repository with Persian commit msgs. It just doesn't make sense. If it was a bilingual repo or something like that it would have be fine though.
I've had to use helm and argocd in anger at work, and I feel like the real problem is not helm, nor argocd. They are tricky to learn but in general pretty straightforward once you get it.

What was really annoying was the constant moving and changing the yaml that kubernetes wanted. After you update your cluster and things stop working, it's really not about the layers on top, but it's about kubernetes and having to keep up with the new beta versions and also sunsetting other things.
Note: That's the final five questions in a 38 question survey with 33 primer questions about specific conspiracy theories. It wasn't just 5 questions.
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Helm is actually three things

- package manager

- templating engine

- deployment tool

You’ll hear various opinions on how good it is at each of these roles. In my personal experience it is a decent package manager, a poor but serviceable templating engine, and a horrifically bad deployment tool.

Normally you pair Helm with something like Flux or Argo if you want IaC
> What evil powers? Well, the US, the US, and... the US.

How dare you Julian? No Russia or China is on the list? No! US can't be evil, only Russia/China can.
> Your claims that all this is easy

Where did I say that? I didn't.

> I don't think anyone is claiming intergalactic colonization is impossible

Let's look at what they actually said:

> Intergalactic travel is borderline impossible barring unknown physics or travel very close to the speed of light.

And I was arguing against that claim, which I believe is clearly spurious. You seem to agree with me on that.

> All I’m saying is it doesn’t seem worth the cost,

I don't see it as fundamentally different from interstellar colonization in that respect. Anyway, lots of things are done for the hell of it, and on the scale of a galactic economy an intergalactic colonization program would be less than pocket change.
id argue that dominion storm over gift 3 is peak. Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 stole so much from this game it's wild. from repairable bridges to unit queues and tabs on the build bar.
Even easier, zsh provides zmv for that:

autoload -U zmv
zmv '(*.rst)' '$1.txt'
Haven't they been listening to what the CEOs say? Why do they have these beliefs?
It is great to see innovation in the seedbox industry
As a programmer and artist, I tried out Kuse and found the node-based interaction to be really innovative, much like Blender's node editor. But the current features are somewhat limited. I'm excited to see future updates, especially with the code execution feature. It has the potential to become a node-based Jupyter Notebook!
> Startups are quite big in SK because the government gives them lots of funding.

They need funding mainly because otherwise the govt sector and chaebol would outlive them. It greatly depends on the exact circumstances though. (Source: Had been in several startups with varying degrees of funding.)

> Fair warning to other foreigners, you will have to make _a lot_ of sacrifices.

Mainly because most if all people in Korean startups are necessarily Koreans. The same thing happens whenever many members share the same background, not just the nationality.
> Conspiracy theories undermined global efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus during the pandemic

What? Which ones? Undermined how?

> and were used in the lead-up to the January 6, 2021, raid on the Capitol.

I thought a major political party was involved. Not 'conspiracy theorists'.

> They lie at the core of political and social polarization

Really? Conspiracy theorists lie at the core of political and social polarization?

> fueling vaccine skepticism, climate change skepticism

Well then address the skepticism and move on. What's the issue here?

> and anti-science movements such as the flat earthers

Flat earthers? Are we really suppose to pretend flat earthers have taken control over?

No specifics given. It's almost like this study and article was created solely for political purposes.

What's the point of this 'study' and article? Don't question authority?

What's a bigger conspiracy theory than 'lonely conspiracy theorist flat earthers influence global pandemic contaiment efforts'?

Does anyone seriously believe lonely conspiracy theorists influence anything? That's a sillier conspiracy than reptilian aliens influencing world affairs.
Perhaps, but you're missing my point. Governments are out of touch with what people need and even if they're trying to help, they'll get things very wrong (for example, those annoying cookie popups we've all had forced upon us).

People know what they want, and will vote with their wallets. As long as options are allowed to exist, you can trust a well informed public to gravitate towards the most optimal solution over time.
Basically all printing sucks. Being at the office aggravates a pre-existing bad situation.
Haha thank you! This was my first thought too!
Uber has operated in Korea for the past couple years through a local JV with Tmap called UT. It's the next most popular taxi hailing service after Kakao T.