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I wrote an essay 8 or 9 years ago about how technology in general is eating us alive. I specifically mentioned Facebook.

The comments on HN at that time were quite interesting. "Oh, you don't understand. Facebook is just a fad", "I know what I'm doing, dammit!" and so forth.

Eight years later, guys. Facebook still a fad? Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471353

ADD: Wow. It's one thing reading the usual noise in the comments today on this article. It's quite another thing to look at HN eight years ago and see the same kind of response. Doesn't reflect so well on us. I would much rather have been wrong.
pi to the 10 millionth digit was not enough. I had to use the billionth (didn't try anything between those two). Mind you, the 10 millionth only had 3 times that didn't match.

I've uploaded[1] the reverse system, which is quite a bit more efficient. It's a 600KB JSON array with every second in a day and its corresponding offset in Pi.

https://gist.github.com/teotwaki/253422ac235960a0d672f9a1c39...

Edit:

- Pi to its 10 millionth digit: http://pi.karmona.com/ (warning, this will severely slow down or crash your browser)

- Pi to its billionth digit: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/
I think what we're experiencing in the world today is a major disillusionment with neoliberal and capitalist solutions. We have a major cultural shift coming as those ideologies are no longer able to help solve our problems.

Sort of by default, we're looking backward at "noble savage" type societies for answers. I think we'll find that those societies didn't have the answers either, but it's kind of a first place to look as we're trying to come up with new answers and new models to live by in a modern world.

The problem with these more fascist ideologies that rely on "feelings" and our inherent human tendencies, is that our inherent human tendencies are not the natural wellsprings of wisdom that proponents of these ideologies believe them to be. We are evolved creatures with many biases and flaws, and following our biological instincts will not bring us back to some sort of natural harmony with the world as some believe. We're not getting in touch with our true selves when we listen to the prejudice in our hearts, we're just tuning into and amplifying the fear that we're biologically adapted to feel in certain situations of conceived elevated risk. It's not Capital T Truth.

The other major risk with what is happening is that as people become disillusioned with their systems, those with more malevolent agendas who have no problem with manipulating people are more easily able to exploit those doubts and gain power. I've little doubt that this is what is occurring with Trump and I only hope there is enough sanity left to see through his utter corruption that his way is not the answer we're looking for either.
For anyone who does not understand why it always shows a QR code and a "Download from app store" buttons, there is a close button on top right corner to close that modal.

Not sure it was a great idea to always show that modal, it took me a while to figure out that I can close it, I thought it's an ios app...
I would love for there to be a similarly thorough project with Clojure. It really bothers me there's no good native compiler. Apart from anything else, it means that Clojure lives and dies by the languages it compiles to, and while Java is used everywhere still, it probably isn't the thing the kids are learning these days. Besides, without going into any further rational arguments for why using the JVM (or another VM) isn't always great, something about it feels a bit icky to me. On an aesthetic level.
In the real world case though there are lots of extant technical reasons why this won't be as performant. As the parent says though it's okay for its usecase.
You seem to be implying that you have very excellent cross-platform reuse of code. Please tell me more.
So tell me, friend, who was it that sent you? The FSB wolf or the NSA jackal? Here's the news: Mars isn't dead in space, ready for you to plunder, and Elon Musk isn't a giddy socialite who can be slapped around by government muscle. And with that, farewell, or dasvidaniya, whichever you prefer.
Don't forget that Whatsapp is also owned by Facebook
"Don't know."
How often do you take time to go on a long hike or bike ride?

How many apps with notifications are installed on your phone?

How many hours do you sit behind a computer screen when you are not working?
Seems like they're aware, if not super upfront about it. Under the R&D tab, the #1 challenge listed is structural testing and documentation.

Quote: "In order to make it easier for engineers, building control officers and mortgage companies to do structural calculations and to certify WREN in projects, we need structural engineers to do further R&D, structural lab testing and documentation of the system’s structural performance."

So a couple of points in reply to your comment:

This looks to be an open source development model, and so appearing to be professionally designed may help attract the needed expertise, instead of having said people get the impression the project isn't going anywhere and not see a point in joining/helping.

As for carpenters/tradespeople - and I've worked as a residential carpenter so please don't take this the wrong way - but from what I can tell this project is pushing the mold enough that they need structural/materials engineers more so than tradespeople. Tradespeople have a lot of practical knowledge about how easy/hard it will be to build what the engineers put in front of them, and that knowledge is valuable, but to use a car analogy, you wouldn't ask a mechanic to design you an electric car. And sticking with the car analogy, this project looks far closer to an electric car than your standard internal combustion engine car (ie standard 2x6 framed pine style construction, which most zoning laws assume)[0].

[0] In America. I see this projects hails from the UK, dunno what their zoning laws or standard construction practices look like.
The .codes amuses me.
I like the idea of having my resume on http://kat.codes (although sadly I don't own that url)
Do humans fall under those "systems"...I definitely know some people who need to.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article so this comment is purely internet sarcasm
Thanks, that does need further thinking about. :)
The people who make these type of naïve comments are usually urban residents without young children. Try installing and removing a pair of child seats in a car every time you want to use it and then you'll understand why most of us prefer to have cars as individual possessions. Plus all the other stuff I keep in my cars all the time: tools, first aid, safety equipment, phone charging cables, etc.
That sounds neat. Any links/screenshots?
What Does the JS in CosmicJS Stand For?
> it fulfills the attention-seeking impulse of people

That is most of the market share. We all want attention, but a small percent of people look for it in non-compromising ways.
Wrote my comment before I saw this, +1
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The goal - as per jamesblonde's comment - is to measure the effect of two different systems of government. The effect on the underlying people is the sample. So in this sense, the more different the people, the worse they are for this measurement.
I completely disagree that videogames are bad (in moderation, of course, as all things). Games often involve problem solving, learning systems, practice and continual improvement. Compare this to other forms of entertainment media and games look good. There are vapid videogames on mobile and social which are little more than slot machines, but that doesn't mean all or most games are fruitless wastes of time. And even in mobile, if you get deeply into many of the top performing games, there is a lot of thinking and strategy involved. It's far from idle, passive, worthless entertainment.

What's more, games often help people connect to others, sometimes from around the world, in a shared interest. For people who are socially stressed or are going through a rough time without enough support in real life, this can be extremely helpful. And even for those who have plenty of social life, it's often fun to meet people in game.
Sure there is, all commercial JVMs support AOT compilation to native code.

That most don't want to pay for them is another matter.
If a major leak will be that devastating to society, we need a major leak even more urgently, so that the illusion of privacy is dispelled and people can properly calibrate to the costs and/or risks of their behavior. Otherwise we only continue to raise the stakes.
Its frankly incredibly odd that you're seeing this question you've posed as the focus of discussion. Your initial claim was that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Your question doesn't change that claim.
Author apparently doesn't know that carrier task groups typically travel with their own attack sub. If there is a possibility of hostile submarines, someone will be more than willing to stuff mk48 up their tail.
don't think about his cat and he won't be in the box
Developing ROS programs for the Sphero robot
It's not just Irish pubs. Here in Minneapolis, we have a lot of bars that cater to local bands. You can drop in most evenings and hear live local music - some good, some not so good - and have a drink. Bands might divvy up a small cover charge, or might just get a couple of free beers (and not the good beers). It's a place to play.

Go elsewhere, you'll hear pick-up country jams, playing the classics. Or hip-hop, or slam poetry, or Irish music, or bebop.

A big part of what makes something like Irish session music, bluegrass, protest folk, bop, blues, etc work is a powerful shared vocabulary. There are songs everyone knows, and musical clichés that experienced performers can follow even if they don't know the specific tune. You like to play, you join the community, you get good, you get respected, and darn it, there's a bunch of people willing to actually listen to you while they drink a beer. For a lot of us, that's the reward.

"I used to think I was an artist. Turns out I'm a beer salesman." -James McMurtry
I know the legend of penicillin makes it sound as if revolutionary drugs were discovered by miracle accident, but I'm guessing the less famous drugs, such as tetracyclene, involved a more "routine", non-sexy methodical-hypothesis-testing process, as described in the OP:

> Dr. Conover, however, became intrigued with two naturally occurring antibiotics that, except for two atoms, were chemically identical. To Dr. Conover, the atoms seemed out of place. Each antibiotic had a chlorine or oxygen atom where he expected to find a hydrogen atom. Would swapping in hydrogen improve the potency of the drugs?

> Using a routine chemical procedure, he stripped chlorine from one antibiotic and inserted hydrogen, creating a more stable molecule. He worked with a single assistant. “I didn’t want an audience if we failed,” he told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1992.

> The result was tetracycline, a powerful antibiotic with fewer side effects than the drug from which it was derived — proof, Dr. Conover wrote, that “a superior drug could be made by chemical modification.”

In computer science and computer engineering, students typically learn about, and then how to implement such fundamental breakthroughs as Hamming codes [0] and implementing ALU's in VHDL [1].

What's the equivalent in chemistry/biology/pharma? That is, how do you get into the field/expertise/mindset in which you're creating and testing out drug compositions in a methodical way that Dr. Conover did when he was able to discover and confirm tetracycline in a matter of months.

I realize this already feels like a silly question. Discovering new drugs is more complicated today. And a single science, such as chemistry, isn't enough to create an antibiotic, because you also have to be able to test the result. And perhaps there's a significant amount of chemical engineering process involved to efficiently create the target antibiotic.

[0] http://nifty.stanford.edu/2011/hansen-hamming-codes/

[1] http://www.utdallas.edu/~poras/courses/ee3320/xilinx/upenn/l...
Honestly, I don't think these two things detract from the idea that much. The cost and safety are, in my opinion, the biggest benefit. The amount of nuclear waste in the world is actually fairly small, and long term disposal isn't as big a problem as it's made out to be. The fact that these reactors could potentially be built cheaply and are immune to melting down is the real selling point.
I [think I] understand the annoyance with indicating Pi Day based on the US order for month/day (though, I normally use ISO 8601 as my first choice, also), but I think some people may be missing the point. In the United States, with poor STEM performance, anything that increases awareness of math in the United States is beneficial, even if it is in an extremely arbitrary way.
I've created once custom barebone JavaVM with binary size of around 100k. It was made as an executable jsmile.exe that was capable to read bytecodes cat'ed to the executable itself : http://www.terrainformatica.com/org/j-smile/index.htm

The goal was to create JVM suitable for standalone GUI applications. Project was abandoned when Sun/MS Java wars started in favor of the Sciter (https://sciter.com).

As of NativeScala ... I think that approach (binary with nano JVM + attached class files) may work better and with less effort. Scala needs JVM infrastructure, GC, etc. as far as I understand.
I agree, and similarly long to simply think myself to where (I think) I'd like to be.

Learning though, by it's very nature, means fixing what's wrong or implanting knowledge in place where one is "not even wrong".

If it were easier it would be of less value. The supply is more limited than the demand.
Yes, but the upside of this "tool for political power" is the threat it puts on established media. Surely, expansion of liberal bias in our newspapers over the last 50 years is a bigger problem than the social media effect(?)
I suppose I should just try (don't have an android ATM) but in the past, ever time I've tried one of these AR demos it requires basically perfect lighting. Nothing is ever stable, the thing being projected to match the world bounces around, disappears, jumps 10-30cm.

I'm rarely in a good lighting situation apparently.

Has this kind of thing gotten any better?
4chan consistently features some of the worst posts you'll ever see, as well as the most brilliant things you'll ever read or see on the internet. no other site can replicate this, and for many, those diamonds are worth putting up with the garbage
It's not the first time (or the last). VRML worked in 1996 even
All other languages tired of Python’s shit
Improving Communication and Confidence with Visual Snapshot Testing
What about the supersonic cruise missiles?
No intention of arguing with Scala.js' creator :-) But, I do not think it has a "slow throughput" at all. In my experience, it's had pretty good performance.
> Can you judge how people should live their lives better than they can?

Me personally? No. We as a society in which that person lives? Yes, to the degree that it affects us. That's why we have public education and vaccination.

If you want to retire to a remote cabin in the woods with a ton of heroin and finish out your days, I have no complaints. If you want to do it such that others need to clean up after you (whether that be garbage on the street or an unpaid hospital bill from an emergency room visit), then you are subject to their desires to a greater or lesser degree. You aren't allowed to have the benefits of society without the drawbacks. That's what civilization is.
For so long, FB and that kind of social media has not only been normalized, but the people who don't use it are seen as "odd". Snowden definitely started to change that, but there is no substitute for time and experience online. Most people don't have much of either, so it's easy to lead them around.

I don't think that most people would have sought to publicize most details of their lives without prompting. The reason why the prompting exists is simple and obvious: your information is valuable product which can be packaged and sold.
As well as Christianity. (and maybe 90% of religions?)
Well you can multiproccess. 8 core machine? Run 8 pythons with 8 Gils. What web servers have done forever.
I would be happy if the time zones (in the USA) were set to have clock noon be as close to solar noon as possible for most of the time zone.
Working on code for an airline while listening to this is oddly soothing. Thank you for sharing this :)
Ah, so you have an app that links to the "fiddle" and downloads the RN JS bundle and runs it for you, instead of an emulator. Nice!

I'm still trying to figure out whether it is possible to run RN directly in the browser using an interpreter instead of an emulator, along with something like emscripten (might have to run an emscripten-compiled JVM, too haha). Sounds really tricky, for one thing, any Android or iOS SDK calls would need intercepted and re-written for the browser, much like what WINE does.
Does not support Swift at the moment.
Of course that's an authentic hockey stick, it's just DIY.
"Why do we use scientific languages?" is very true.

Applause to the Julia contributors for their work on this innovative language with great out of the box support for modern computer chip architectures. However, they have fibbed to build up momentum, particularly their performance benchmarks. The tests are of compiled Julia with OpenBLAS for the benchmarks against out of the box versions of the other languages. Also, the benchmark code in other languages is with a style that is among the slowest implementations for each language. No seasoned programmer in any of those languages would write code in such a way.

It does seem that there is co-ordination to get Julia posts most attention, timing and upvoting.

Nonetheless, credit where it's due. It should become an awesome language, marketing hacks notwithstanding.
Dask would be an option.
Being Russian I suggest "прекрасно" means "perfect" or "excellent" in this context.
Agreed with treve, what does culture really mean? If you read ALL the literature, listen to ALL the music, view ALL the art, can recite ALL the history and do ALL the science... and still conclude it's OK to cheat on your wife and taxes, the argument can be made that none of this culture was internalized, and hence you are not cultured.

Of course things are rarely so black-and-white, but that's the gist of it.
Would you rather have a Facebook with people who actually think about these kind of issues, or a Facebook without such people? At least there are debates within Facebook about such things. I've heard - publicly, long before I had any thoughts of working there myself - that they can get quite fierce. Never hear of such things at Twitter or Google. Is it better that people there just don't seem to give a damn? I don't think so.

If people rule out or discourage internal regulation with nastiness like yours, all that's left is the external kind. I'm pretty sure that's against a lot of people's principles, but I guess those who failed the coding test are willing to sacrifice principles for revenge.
This is amazing. Scala is one of my favorite languages to work with, and getting it native-code support will finally help make it fast enough to justify using it everywhere.
I played it out on lichess.org. After 47 moves, Stockfish sacrifices a bishop to keep the game going.

I was wondering if it would repeat that 47 moves later, but it didn't. Settled for the draw.
Google’s DeepMind makes AI program that can learn like a human
Apologies for a grab-bag of links and references, but the fundamental question is one I've been thinking about, and researching, extensively over the past six months, though it's occupied me long before as well.

The realisation I had shortly before the US election was that all major changes in media seem to be associated with profound changes in human societies, often tremendously disruptive. Going back to the development of speech itself (better communications => better toolmaking => better weapons-making and military tactics). Writing, ever cheaper and lighter media, printing, literacy, mass media, broadcast, electronic, and online/mobile media, now with AI and A/B enhancements, all the more so.

Elizabeth Eisenstein & others on have explicitly realised this. See also:
H.L. Menkin,
Walter Lippman,
John Dewey,
de Bon,
Mackay,
Bernays,
McLuhan,
Chomsky,
Jerry Mander,
Niel Postman,
Michael & Joyce Heusemann,
Clay Shirky,
Danah Boyd,
Plato, esp. the Sophists

"A Revolution in Media"
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/gqzszjwf4unuqfupzqff8g

A friend has come up with an observation I've been calling Woozle's Paradox of Epistemic Systems: as the size (and power) of a media audience grows, more parties will be attracted to it for the purposes of influencing that audience. (And Facebook is the largest single media audience on the planet.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5wg0hp/when_ep...

Another set of concepts is that Data are liability and "Who are you?" is the most expensive question in inforation technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

#45's Twitter account is as secure as Google's gmail account security. The same which failed when John Podesta's account password was phished.
security

Scale effects and phase transitions are also profound. As I've had the opportunity to note in several recent HN conversations, both scale and rate matter. Just because Y is "the same as X" doesn't mean that Y is X, if the rate of change is 10x, or 100x, or 1000x, or 1,000,000x greater. A 10x change gets you from walking speed to a car. 100x is an aircraft. 1,000x is an ICBM. The Tsar Bomba is Greek Fire ... at scale.

Unintended consequences are the ultimate "hygiene factor" of technology. Ted Unungst's post on HN today walks through a set of cases of just these, the point being that those consequences cannot be known in advance. (Though I'm working on a framework which suggests how they might be better anticipated in at least some cases.)

I've covered these and related points in some recent-ish HN comments:

"media and revolution"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750889#13754972

"media and revolution"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736414#13736903

"journalism"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13678413#13681938

"data physics"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13635230#13640423

And there's a bit of a grab-bag post touching on elements here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5rnjg0/state_o...

(I'm working on a more comprehensive post or series on this topic ... there's a lot to cover, and to discard....)
I don't think coops are necessarily anti maintenance or investment. Obviously they have to maintain their core business just like any other business. The difference is a for profit company distributes extra profit that they have on top of their basic needs out as dividends to big investors and as salary for a CEO. On the other hand a coop distributes that same money out to all the customers.
Can white get a stalemate in 7 moves instead of 50 by just moving its king next to the black king? or is that not allowed?
The computers are programming the humans.
Just a note that this requires imagemagick.
Your speech pattern reminds me of Abraham Lincoln.
Hash-based message authentication code
If you are comparing Sowell and Chomsky then Sowell will come up noticeably short. First, Chomsky is a towering figure in linguistics. He's emeritus at MIT, taught at IAS. Really.

Genius in linguistics who exploited that fame Wow. Name another famous linguistics academic who's exploited the fame we bestow upon linguistics academics.

Sowell has a sinecure at Hoover. He's a towering figure at ... ?
Yeah same here. Sketch is a pretty widely adopted tool in web development so your audiences will very likely overlap.

I would re-consider the name sooner than later?
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