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Ok you bring up a whole bunch of things and I agree with most of it. Our conclusions are different in the sense that it seems like you've accepted the human costs of this system. Is it really worth having millions of people in unemployment and the majority of the population in a situation where they are losing their purchasing power? I don't think so, and I think I've advanced arguments why free trade plays a big role in it.

Is there really that much tax money being spent on Bachelors of Arts ? That seems like a myth to me, the cost of Bachelors of Arts in America must be tiny at this point.

I'm not sure how to carry on with this, as much as it is enjoyable to talk to someone about these issues, It seems like you have all the knowledge and have decided the human costs of this calculus are acceptable. I don't agree it is, particularly not if, as we are now seeing with Trump, Le Pen and AfD in Germany, the cost of globalised capitalism includes the unraveling of democracy.
> The HA is a bit murky. I downed two of my three nodes and the cluster collapsed. Since Flynn runs on one machine I expected it to work

I'd expect this is by design. In a 3-node system that takes CP out of the CAP theorem (consistency over availability), you can only lose one node before the system becomes unavailable. This is because, as far as the remaining node knows, the other two nodes could still be up but network partitioned off from it. To prevent a split brain in such a scenario, you need a majority of nodes to be accessible or else they'll intentionally stop working.

tl;dr: A 3-node cluster with 2 nodes down is not the same thing as a 1-node cluster.
There's a lot of uncertainty about how long that will last since NXP/Freescale is now Qualcomm's manufacturing arm.
wonder how many school bakes sales they've shut down?
I understand and partially agree with you. But imagine a wannabe entrepreneur that is attracted by the title and go on to read the interview on how to do it. He/she will actually have a very clear expectation on how to "bootstrap a business into $18k monthly".

Indiehackers, in my opinion, provides a very valuable service of providing a reality check for those dreaming with "easy" revenue from digital products. "Oh, this guy actually built an audience for years before launching the business", "Oh, this other guy actually had a successful business to work as launchpad of his business", "Oh, thi guy actually started from scratch, but his revenue is in the hundreds per month for now and I have doubts if even that is sustainable".

If someone is planning to launch a bootstrapping business and stumble upon Indiehackers I have no doubt he/she will be better prepared to do it after reading these interviews.
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There are two ways the AI could win at Starcraft:

1. The game does not really depend on a larger context. What you see is what you get. The "muscle memory" of a relatively simple ANI could therefore be enough. This is partially in contradiction with what you said above about bluffing, but I feel the contradiction is less than 50%.

2. Simple "muscle memory" strategies should not be enough to win the game, but the ANI's lightning speed reactions and its ability to see the whole game at once are enough to outperform more sophisticated-thinking humans who are slower and have tunnel vision w.r.t. the game. Basically the brute-force approach.

I'm not placing bets, and I'm as curious as everyone else as to the result of the contest. I'm just saying - if the AI does win, these are the ways it could do that.

I'm using the expression "muscle memory", which is inadequate, because I have no better way to express how current NNs operate. They are dumb at the higher semantic levels. They only become powerful through colossal repetition and reinforcement.

Watching current NNs being trained never fails to give me flashbacks from my college days when I was practicing karate. We would go to the dojo, pick a technique, and then repeat it an enormous number of times, to let the sequence sink into muscle memory. I'm sure I still have some (natural) NNs in my brain that still have got that thing down pat - I don't have to think about doing the techniques, they just "execute" on their own. But there's no semantic level here, it's just dumb (but blazing fast) automation.
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Isn't raytracing almost completely CPU-bound? Seems like a odd use-case for green threads, which afaik are more commonly used for IO-bound tasks.
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It's true that typically "craftmanship" (I don't know a better word) software has a "terrible" UI in the sense that it doesn't follow typical (let alone platform) conventions, has bad discoverability, etc.

The issue is that these tools are used in day in and day out by a specific audience that is willing to make the investment to surpass the bad parts of the UX. It's not like a 3D artist can choose to skip using a 3d package - and in many cases the choice which one will also be dictated by external factors. Once the initial hurdles are surpassed, the UX of the tools does work well for that flow. It has to, because that's the customer base.

Basically, these tools can afford to suck in the basic UX because they can't really "bounce" users there.
I think it's largely the opposite for current students. My university's CS program is taught entirely using Python and other higher level languages. CS students here don't have to learn C at all anymore; if you want to learn C here, you have to get a Computer Engineering degree.
https://breaker101.com/

I launched this a few years ago with great success (>$100k in a single day), but despite the content being highly valued by the folks that have gone through it, I've had a hard time getting it in front of people. It's very profitable, but I just don't have the time nor the marketing acumen to really take it to the next level.
Why uncompressed? Recent mobile devices have hardware video decoding.
Latency is critical-path for VR not just in existing solutions, but fundamentally. Speed-of-light delays are sufficient to cripple remote-processing approaches to VR, so we won't see cloud solutions unless we're wrong about the fundamentals of relativity.
It's not like GPL v3 prevents guy from contacting the author and offering him $ for license.
>Having listened to your concerns and seriously pondered them, all I see is fear. Unbounded fear. Nothing in here leads me to think these fears will be calmed by study.

There is more to the issue than concerns over the direct health effects of GMO food. This is a club that is used to intimidate and marginalize GMO detractors by insinuating that health is the only issue.

Do you consider yourself an informed computer user? Do you prefer to use open source software or hardware for ideological or practical reasons, when it is functionally comparable to closed source software competition, or even when it is inferior but satisfactory?

Would you tolerate an operating system or application that had a hidden back-door to control your computer's activity or spy on you? Would you tolerate a computer that had a remote kill-switch? All else being equal, wouldn't you prefer to use open-source software and hardware that had been audited for your safety and security?

Are you comfortable with regulation, enacted or proposed, that attempts to criminalize reverse-engineering or bypassing protection mechanisms of patented, proprietary software?

Would you tolerate patented, proprietary technology built into the genetics of your food itself? Can you envision food organisms becoming subject to regulation akin to the DMCA? Would you tolerate your food being designed with a kill switch?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto_and_Terminator...

What if the economic advantages of GMO food (yield, shelf life, pest resistance) were so great that they effectively destroyed all traditional farming competition, leaving our nation's food production at the mercy of the rights holder with a genetic kill switch, and consumers never had any economic agency in the matter because labeling was not mandated?

These scenarios are not far fetched if you can make the tiny leap from everything we've learned about the war between open and closed source software, and apply it by analogy to the genetics of our food.

If you and "moms" want to buy GMO food, I say "go ahead", it's your right. If you want better labeling so that it is easier to choose the GMO food you want, that's great! There is NO argument that will ever convince me that we need to remove the agency of CHOICE by removing the burden of package labeling.

As for me personally, I believe food needs its own Free Software Foundation, and I will start selecting GMO foods only when they are open source and their genetics are published, audited, and verifiable.
yes, because you can start it again.
If it destroys itself it is un-GPL
Do you have a link to C for Assembly Programmers? A google search doesn't turn up anything.
Android uses Dalvik/ART, which is an alternative to the JVM that has an entirely different set of optimizations for mobile. The most important one is that object creation is significantly more expensive -- if your code is allocating lots of objects it will significantly impact performance. This is why Android has the whole Recycler paradigm. My gut reaction is that Effective Java recommends a lot of heavy-OO practices which may impact Android performance.
You could also say some people like Trump and other people like Clinton, and it's just an opinion. However, one opinion is highly correlated with being more educated.

I suspect that the same is true here. The population at large has a very poor level of education about food, and Soylent seeks to exploit that very large business opportunity.

I would prefer to see more people with an understanding of healthy eating and cooking.
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You can filter by location, type of work, and experience: https://www.hellobonsai.com/rates
http://www.diff.so

An online diff-as-you-type tool with the ability to generate static HTML diffs. Built it to scratch my own itch. Has basically 0 users and no revenue whatsoever :).
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Net downmodding = groupthink, but net upmodding = diverse and factual?
The real purpose of paring down these things is precisely to expose those vulnerabilities and anxieties you might not otherwise have found. If you have not already, I highly recommend you take some meditation practice. This is really about getting to the real you, which may have been obscured by the extra clutter. On your way there, you will see parts of yourself that you don't particularly like. It is no different than moving the couch and finding forgotten dust bunnies of your mind.

It is the same when decluttering. I don't know about what other blog posts have written about it. I decluttered in the same way I meditate: the feelings that arises when you contemplate throwing something away are the various stories, narratives, and attachments you have about that particular object. They are coming to the surface as a chance for you to really examine whether it is necessary or not. For example, someone might buy an object to fill up a room, but they are not even aware of the deeper motivation of staving off loneliness. That loneliness does not surface up until something such as decluttering comes up. The internal attachment you have to an external object creates a kind of feedback loop to keep that object in that place, and anchors your memories. Stir up your possessions, and you also stir up your psyche.

The koan "do you own these things or do these things own you" still apply. If you are obsessing abut what you buy in the space, then these objects -- or rather, what the lack of objects says about you and what social signals they give to other people owns you. That is confining to your spirit. It's not real freedom.
I've tried the Hololens dev version. It's very cool, unlike anything else I've had on my head. Those who let me try it don't seem to be overly worried or impressed with Magic Leap, but there's no way of telling until we see both side-by-side.
Maybe never. Pascal is 16nm process and the mid-range gaming card, the 1070, uses up to 150 watts. A "powerful" mobile chipset uses a tiny fraction of that even at its highest settings. 100 watts for the CPU and another 150watts for the GPU is a staggering 250watts of continuous power no pocket-able lithium-ion battery can handle.

If we want current gen graphics we're more than likely looking at a PC backpack solution. More than likely we'll probably be looking at some low watt solution, like the 35W AMD chipset in the Solus Q and accept a lower level of graphic quality, but still well above mobile standards. This may involve wearing a battery belt or battery hip-pouch for extended use. For lower run times the battery can be part of the headstrap with no need for anything to be pocketable.
Can't you just calculate the surface normals? What am I missing?
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Have you thought about allowing users to provide their own cloud provider (AWS or Google Cloud) API access? That way we can use own own VPC and servers, and you can just charge us monthly for the software. See MongoDB Atlas [1].

This also means you as Hyper.sh don't have to worry about servers, uptime, buying hardware, power, bandwidth peering, what a headache. Let AWS and Google worry about the commodity physical hardware.

[1] https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/
I don't think lifestyle minimalism is new. Read Walden where Henry David Thoreau tries to live a life as simple as possible. A far better critique and analysis than this essay.
>If you're poor, you hang on to stuff, because it may come in handy. If you have enough money and some left over, you can get rid of stuff, because if it turns out you really needed one of the things you got rid of, you can buy a new one. But if you can't afford the new one, you keep stuff "just in case".

Yep!

This is my exact argument for why minimalism works well for more well-off people.

If you can afford to buy a $3 screwdriver again, why keep it around if you only use it once a year. It is just clutter.

There is another argument of using Craigslist as storage (sell what you don't need, buy it back when you need it). It also relies on having free money to be able to do such a thing though.
> Seems very reasonable. How much data is enough? How will we know when we've got so much data that we can start just ignoring those who call for more study as unreasonable? When they're convinced, perhaps?

You're perfectly right. We shouldn't ask for evidence for anything, because no amount of evidence will convince everyone.

> Seems reasonable. How do you propose to address these unknowns? And are you aware that non-GMO plants can product dangerous super species we can never get rid of? Purple loosestrife comes to mind.

I see what you mean. If disasters can be caused by things that are not GMOs, then it would be ignorant to try our best to make sure that GMOs do not cause the same sort of disasters. Anyway, the people who make their living from coming up with new GMOs and getting them adopted as widely as possible can be trusted to objectively determine their safety. They're very smart.

> Having listened to your concerns and seriously pondered them, all I see is fear. Unbounded fear.

Having listened to your responses and attempting to detect anything in them that is actually responsive, all I see is sarcasm. Unbounded sarcasm.

What I see is people who have a fundamentally emotional position mixed with people who have a fundamentally venal position insisting that potentially dangerous products (like all products) not be labeled or tested, and rarely giving a reason why other than the strawman that it is ignorant to think that the process of genetic modification itself is dangerous because it is fundamentally similar to human-guided breeding. I'm sure somebody is arguing that somewhere, but the fact that I don't have a problem with GMOs as a class is why I want more labeling. I don't just want to know if something is made from GMOs, I want to know that it's made from GM wheat. I don't just want to know that it's made from GM wheat, I want to know which GM wheat, because I might have entirely different feelings about one than about the other. I don't just want to know for health reasons, I might want to know for environmental reasons that have nothing to do with health.

Most importantly, I do not want to hear that some GMO was allowed into the food system because of a substantial similarity to another GMO that was previously allowed. If the differences are insubstantial enough to avoid testing, then they're insubstantial enough that not allowing them to go to market isn't a significant hardship.

I don't understand how your idea of enlightenment depends on keeping people in ignorance. Not only am I lumped in with people who think that the process of genetic modification is against some nebulous ironically supernatural concept called "nature," but I'm also expected to cheer on limitations on those people's agency to eat as they see fit (and limit my own in the process.)

It's so cynical. I'd rather GMOs be completely disallowed than to be regulated by people who think along these lines.
It was just an idea. C is as low as most people bother to go these days.
You're probably thinking of Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser where Monsanto sued a farmer who claimed that the seeds had just drifted onto his field.

Monsanto won the suit because they demonstrated that the seeds didn't just drift there by accident: he knew what they were, and he went out of his way to plant them. He intentionally concentrated the seeds and planted them for a new crop in commercial levels. Of course the sensationalist media had to treat Schmeiser's defense as gospel, but here's a quote covering the ruling:

> "The court record shows, however, that it was not just a few seeds from a passing truck, but that Mr Schmeiser was growing a crop of 95–98% pure Roundup Ready plants, a commercial level of purity far higher than one would expect from inadvertent or accidental presence. The judge could not account for how a few wayward seeds or pollen grains could come to dominate hundreds of acres without Mr Schmeiser’s active participation, saying ‘...none of the suggested sources could reasonably explain the concentration or extent of Roundup Ready canola of a commercial quality evident from the results of tests on Schmeiser’s crop’"

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmei...
> Not really. It's more the fact that a guy called Steve Jobs reanimated a dying computer business into a global mega-cult, wholeheartedly embracing and thereby popularizing ideas of people like Dieter Rams.

I suppose thats one way to look at it, but a counter example. I'm getting into hardware debugging/hacking/etc... so I've a need for an oscilloscope and a logic analyzer. I could get an el cheapo oscilloscope for about $450, and a logic analyzer for about another 400. But then both of these are separate, and the logic analyzer depends on my computer as well.

So instead, I'm saving up for a Rohde and Schwarz MSO oscilloscope that while much more expensive at about ~$3,000 with all the options, takes up less space and does everything. (it also has no fan which i'm huge on)

Yes this is arguably minimalism, but i'd argue the trend is more rooted in modernism of the 20's. I'll spend more to reduce clutter, I don't really have a glut of space in which to put it all.
great post with really good code examples.
They probably want to use it, make money off it, and give nothing back to anyone. The same as most people who complain about it, IMO. Or, just as likely, they'll integrate it into their own BSD software, which will then be used by someone else to make money, and give nothing back, which might as well be the same thing. (Countdown until 1 person shows up and retorts "Well, my company supports the OSS we use..." as if it's meaningful at all, vs the massive trend of corporations ripping off FOSS and returning nothing)

I don't GPL license a lot of my software (I used BSD/MIT/Apache most of the time, and my company revolves around and writes BSD-licensed code), but IMO, having seen this tired argument over and over again, I'm pretty sure 90% of all GPL complaints come down to this, even if the people don't come out and say it: "I can't make money off of your free work as easily, and that isn't fair to me. Please reconsider." Given this is Hacker News where half of everyone is in a rat-race to make money, I speculate this is a strong part of it.

People just like to wrap it in words like "restrictive" and "viral" to make themselves sound more palatable and reasonable.

And of course, there are also many reasonable alternatives to this library, many which are BSD or permissively licensed, which these people could also use instead -- but that won't stop them from complaining that GPL is unfair or "bad", of course, even though they could pick from a dozen alternatives...
Criminalizing prostitution also further victimizes the victims of human trafficking.

Prostitutes that have been human trafficked risk arrest and/or deportation just for stepping forward and exposing the human traffickers. Guess whose interest that plays into?
I bought Sipser for this very purpose. I found it very difficult without being able to discuss it with anyone to clarify my understanding of the ideas. I would love to work through it, but would need a CS tutor to help me... any takers? ;)

Edit: to be honest it's the maths notation that is a big barrier for me. Until one can read it relatively fluently it's very hard to translate the ideas into a meaningful mental model .
Minimalists who spend significant time thinking about minimalism and discussing it on online forums are just as obsessed about their possessions as the people they criticize. The only difference is that minimalists obsess about having fewer possessions, and the people they criticize obsess about having more.

People who are truly unburdened by their possessions do not need to spend much time thinking about them.
Surprised that this item hit the front page and not the announcement on open sourcing ACS, Adding Kubernetes:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-servi...
I recall looking them up back when Soylent was just getting started - aren't they horribly expensive, just as most other medical products?
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Interesting to see this announced / posted here around the same time as Hyper.sh [0], i'm curious as to what the pricing will be!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12891584
Absolutely agree. It's not a long book either.
Doing the minimalism thing is clearly detrimental to your mental health. You should stop.
Being different does not make it worse. You could argue that emacs ui is bad because vim user would struggle in it, or vice versa, but I think most people would agree that wouldn't make a lot of sense
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https://kitgui.com

This is something I had to put together from scratch to cope with working across any type of backend programming language when I was doing ecommerce web apps to enable customers to edit their websites very easily and flexibly.

KitGUI is a content management SAAS that runs off of Amazon S3 for content storage and plugs into any backend. Editing is accomplished on the customer's website directly through a JS plugin. It makes a little money but more as an adjunct to existing products. I would also be open to working on this seriously if there was investor interest but there is a hell of a lot of CMS systems out there. It is very sturdy because it runs off of Amazon S3 for all the content serving.