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Well, even the most overrun places have some kind of invisible system which keep the tourists confined, even if it's unintentional. Sort of like that one version of Sonic the Hedgehog which was completely on rails and the player was never allowed to leave the prescribed path. There's literally a moat around Waikiki. Most people visiting a place foreign to them are already extending themselves beyond their comfort zone and tend not to leave the prescribed path, even if they're "out exploring". Having lived in some of these popular tourist destinations for most of my adult life, I've found that there seems to be a fairly common heuristic for leaving these areas and getting out into "the real world": Find a bar away from the main lines of public transportation and spend a couple of hours there meeting and talking to locals. It's like fishing, and having the right attitude is the bait. I travel pretty frequently and this works almost everywhere you can find a bar. The places I end up are completely devoid of tourists. And those are the places most likely to lack a McDonalds or Starbucks in favor of a local cafe or street vendor. I guess it really depends on what anybody wants out of the experience.
I find SQL to have a usage profile that's, not surprisingly, similar to other declarative languages. Then tend to have a sweetspot of functionality that, if you stay within, makes them very easy to use even for less experienced people.

But outside the sweetspot, things tend to go south very rapidly and you end up needing detailed implementation knowledge that the language will fight against.
Well, you could play 4-channel mods via PC speaker! Many games used it, but I most fondly remember Star Control II that was bathing in great music and sound effects, all through PWM-driven PC speaker, on a 33 MHz 80386.
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The wool over my eyes was pulled aside on this particular illusion a long time ago, thanks to a buddy taking me on a semi-spontaneous road trip for a few weeks (during one of my worst depressions) that ended with us living in another state we'd never been to. At one point we sold grilled cheese and veggie burritos at a less-than-formal festival to raise road funds and it was an amazing experience of connectedness with others. Most office workers looking for some time away would never even consider such a trip.

When you really drill down into the reasons for your average consumer behavior, a lot of it is being pushed around by weaponized stories without recognizing or being honest with ourselves about it. It's a multi-faceted problem, but is probably most obvious with 'vacationing' activity. Think about what the highest costs of a typical leisure trip are-- getting there/back, food, and lodging. Unless you have a really compelling reason to be there, it's hugely wasteful on those points alone.
This is a great list.

The two I already had in mind were Bret Victor and Vitalik Buterin.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. This over-budget high-speed rail is what I was attempting to refer to by Hyperloop. I forgot that Hyperloop was the new Musk idea.
I'm the author of the article linked at the start of the thread. Replying to try to focus the discussion on the specific change I was writing about.

Piker, can you say more about how "the change" make the documents "accessible" (or more accessible)? They were already at Internet Archive just fine. Several sites already copied the documents from IA and added their own presentation, cross-linking, notifications, and other services on top. I don't see the proposed changes as helping with this. Indeed, by sending the latest data only to CourtListener but not to IA, the proposed changes stand in the way of the other sites and services you envision -- as it seems they'll now have to license the data from FLP/CL (on a paid basis), rather than get it free directly from IA. These are the general concerns I was trying to present in my article.
The reason we need to store everything is less about needing perfect accuracy of measurement (though I think we do want it) and more about the curse of dimensionality[0]. We want to slice, pivot, and filter datasets more aggressively than ever before which helps drive aggressive data collection.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality
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It's not that uncommon to sell the product (with or without the company title) and fire the employees when they reach that point.
Americans are slowly becoming more radical as a reaction to economic pressures. With each side's policies alien to the other, compromise becomes impossible. Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very interesting.
Haha, well I hope it's a more thrilling read than the good book...
Not just OSISoft PI, but there are many other historians for time series data.

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

At least in my experience, historians are rarely recommend for complex or ad-hoc queries. Typically you just pull the data (by tags) into another application and do your data processing there. It looks like in timeseriesdb lets you execute complex queries in the database. Historians typically only let you fetch data by tag and you need a metadata (e.g. asset management) framework on top to organize the data (e.g. give me avg temp every 5 minutes by sensor). It looks like with timeseriesdb you can have strings/text as fields within the timeseries table, which removes the need (to some degree) to join the data with a seperate metadata database.

I've also never heard of anybody using these commercial historians for time series data you'd see from non industrial processes (e.g. stock data, price tracking, GPS location of people or moving assets, time between clicks on a website,etc).

All that being said, OSISoft PI and AF have their warts, but OSISoft has been around for a while and PI has been battle tested in various industries (e.g. Oil & Gas, Manufacturing). It's closed source and you have to pay for it, so it's probably not attractive to startups and smaller companies. But it does come with a support organization if you need it and can pay for it. And IME data retrieval from PI is extremely performant!
> Nowadays, it's like worst-case simulated annealing. "Climb Mt Everest, then climb all the way back down to climb Mt Everest²."

I don't think that's a good analogy, I think it's more like "Climb up to base camp, then climb halfway up, then climb ...".

I learnt Python before I learnt C and learning C I was constantly having these "Aha!" where I suddenly realised why Python is the way it is. I didn't have one mental model for Python and a different mental model for C, I had one mental model for computing which was enhanced by learning C.

And on top of that Python isn't a fundamentally different language to (for example) JavaScript, sure the details differ but somebody who knows Python won't have to spend months learning JS. Arguably a language like Haskell is a fundamentally different language to something like C, but there are plenty of things that you learn when learning C that can be applied to Haskell.

I don't think the issue is all these concepts are orthogonal, I think the issue is that there are just so many concepts. Back in the 80s learning assembly might have got you 30% of the way up Mt. Everest, whereas nowadays it might only get you 1% of the way up.
Exactly my thoughts! And I'm WAY more optimistic than the rest of your replies right now. I had the thought looking at that picture of the hippo- it's got those hornlike[1] jaw projections and that got me thinking about how features on the bones must relate back to cartilage, musculature and vasculature overlying them. Deep learning would excel at categorizing all those things! Paleontologists could tweak the models to lean more towards avian, reptile, mammal or fishlike characteristics given the clade and traits of the animals. I know some dinosaurs are known to be colder or warmer blooded, or have hollow bones like birds.

You could probably get decent results just with models/pictures of skeletons and live animals, but I think MRI scans would be ideal- the model could learn to extrapolate actual structures of different tissues directly, and you could model things that don't exist in combination today. Birdlike musculature, body fat and skin over complex cartilaginous structures, with muscle traits of more cold-blooded animals.

There are many zoos with MRI machines, even extra-large ones used for large animals. I wonder how much of that dataset could be assembled? You don't even need very high resolution, centimeters would be plenty for something the size of a horse. Millimeters would be perfect for anything bigger than a sparrow!

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Hippo_sk...
This is not just an academic idea for programmers, it is something that you will need to understand to get to the highest levels of engineering. In my career, I have cared about how many nanoseconds an operation takes, and I have optimized processes that required several hours to run. That's 9 orders of magnitude down from one second, and if for convenience we go with my hours-long process taking 10000 seconds (2.78 hours), that's four orders of magnitude up.

Obviously, there are people with far more experience than I on the upside; if you work with a process that will run on a 10,000 (CPU) node cluster that will run for 1,000,000 seconds (11.6 days) that's 10 orders of magnitude up from 1CPU for 1sec... and they're actually still quite likely to care about nanosecond level performance, too! Which means that someone working in this situation is spanning 19 orders of magnitude in their day-to-day work.

19 orders of magnitude down from 1 meter is about five orders of magnitude smaller than a hydrogen atom. 19 orders of magnitude up from one meter is about 1000 light-years. It's a pretty big span.

There are not a lot of engineering disciplines, or really, disciplines in general, where spanning this many orders of magnitude in a single job is possible. When it comes time to start optimizing things, you need to know where you stand in the world to make correct decisions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4087280/approximate-cost...
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I think in a few years, American will write off all debt. Quantitative Amnesia.
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McEliece has had significant cryptanalytic attention since the 70s, when it was first invented. In fact, it’s probably the most well studied post-quantum proposal, and it’s not really waiting on any further cryptanalysis. It’s currently considered secure (with binary Goppa codes) and has modes for both encryption and digital signatures via Neiderreiter, but it doesn’t support key exchange.

The real issue, as you touched on, is key size. There are production deployments of the cryptosystem, but it’s actually a bit worse than your numbers if you’re looking for post-quantum resistance. In the post-quantum secure setting, McEliece uses public keys that have an upper bound of over 1MB (around 8.5 million bites specifically) in order to achieve 128-bit security.

Fortunatly McEliece is not the only proposal we have, and error correcting codes aren’t the only computational problem being studied. We also have credible proposals from lattices, hashes, multivariate polynomial equations and (most recently) supersingular elliptic curve isogenies.
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I don't see a reason why the U.S. can't in this article. Or did I miss something?

It worked pretty good even when they've been in the open. Recently we had a topic here where people were reporting about homeless people being carried out of the cities.

It seems to me that the U.S. got quite comfortable with their poor. Probably even working as an negative incentive for the (still) employed. Don't forget the American Dream too. I mean according to that: it's just their fault...they COULD have been rich!
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It's bothered me a lot too, given the evangelistic aspect to it.

I think focusing on a CC licence could work, but I always loved John Piper's revenue deal: I believe 100% of the profit goes straight to his foundation.

I think that creation, when the artist has a patron, can accomplish much more than on their own.

But on the flip side, Christians (have a duty to fund work like this that they enjoy, and helps them exist).

Maybe something like GK Chesterton's economic theory of distributism:
All property is shared (the music), but the means is distribute is wide.

Maybe perhaps a 1year exclusivity, the put in the CC to be alternates, made new, etc.

Just my opinion though
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It seems to me that you are confusing utility with morality. The fact that eating human flesh might not be good for us (which, being a questionable claim, let's take for granted for the sake of this discussion) is beside the point. The question is not "is it good for us in a dietary perspective?" but "even if it were good, would it be acceptable?".

A consequence of what you are saying is that it is impossible to claim a higher ground against a murderer if the murderer doesn't benefit from the murder or if an accuser can't make a case for it.

Besides, benefits are relative most of the time: you say there isn't one, but someone else may just as well argue there is.

But if you absolutely need a benefit, so be it: imagine someone eating human flesh simply to satiate one's appetite for it. It would still be a morally questionable practice because of other values put into question.

Anyway, this was a thread about fish feeling pain, so I insist: maybe there are many species we should treat in a different way, independently of whether they feel pain or not. Some scientists have reclaimed the statute of non-human personhood for great apes and cetaceans, for example. So killing them painlessly still raises questions.
Poverty is not a problem. It is the default state. Instead of asking what causes poverty, we need to ask what causes wealth. We also need to realize that being poor is not a good/bad thing. Again, it's the default state.
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I think that must be a fallacy, but I'm not sure which. How can we do worse by including more information? It's not like our pictures today are based on a better source of information. Hell, the article even points out that some of the problem is simply that artists aren't even accurate to the skeletons, the only real information that we really have!
> lack of mass-scale adoption of the smaller forks.

Yeah, this was the context I was using it in. 'True' meaning like 'survived' in any real sense.
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This video from Anaheim (California) is reminiscent of travelling around Dehli (from 39' in - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7hWzqdPDk). The level/amount of poverty in this video is shocking.
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I tried these approaches, but it never worked for me. I find the best way to kill these things is by breaking the things that make them addictive. E.g. I unfollowed (not de-friended) everyone on Facebook. I can still use it to send/receive private messages and organise events, but my newsfeed is totally blank. I now never go on Facebook unless I have something to do there. After a month or so the stimulus-reward loop was removed from my brain.

I use browser extensions to block the tracking side of things, uninstalled the apps from my phone, and I'm now pretty happy with my relationship with Facebook and the impact it has on my life (~0).
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Perhaps not as lofty goal as time series, but a good, commercial database for vectors (aka the building representation block of modern machine learning) is long overdue too.

A few open source options exist (Spotify's Annoy, Facebook's FAISS, NMSLIB) but these are rather low-level, more hobby projects than enterprise level engines (index management, transactions, sharding…).

After building a few document similarity engines for our clients we took up the gauntlet and created ScaleText, https://scaletext.ai. It's still early days but the demand for a sane, scalable, cross-vertical and well-supported NLP technology is encouraging.
What about gnunet?
https://xkcd.com/927/

Or mobile: https://m.xkcd.com/927/
> The other main reason is that I have a high threshold for considering my participation is worthy of other people's attention.

This is one of the problems with online conversations in general. Person A makes a lot of low effort comments without putting much thought into it and without bothering to check the accuracy of what they're writing. Person B thinks about whether or not they have anything to add to the conversation, spends time thinking about other people's comments, checks any claims they make to see if they're accurate, rewrites their comment so that it flows better, etc. Person A is going to end up making many, many more comments than Person B. The conversation will look more and more like Person A's posts, even when those people are in the minority.

There are some places that suffer more from this than others, but I think it affects just about every online conversation to some extent. It would be interesting to see what effect posting limits would have.
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That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to want the UI to be good, it's just the case that for AWS it typically is not, and it doesn't lend itself to creating good cross-region, immutable-style infrastructure. I see no reason why the UI couldn't theoretically be good enough here for most typical use pieces though. I guess that just goes against AWS's approach of giving you every building block imaginable rather than a coherent platform.
Does anyone have any good resources on why humans do this. Some christians love to talk about the book of revelations. There's a huge segment of the population in the US that loves the idea of a zombie apocalypse. What is the human fascination with the world ending?

Directly to corpMav's post. Settle down buddy. 8 and 9 won't happen unlesss the earth get's hit by an asteroid of epic proportions or is finally consumed by an ever expanding sun.
And 6 and 7 are also extremely unlikely, to a point of being laughable.
Are there any age limits, and how about cost (roughly)?
Many dinosaurs were related to modern birds, the rest were not reptiles either.
That's partly the point. Political positions that are wholly based on the conflict model can be reframed using the language of the mistake model to give them more credibility than they deserve. (Which in a reality-based world, would be exactly none.)

The noise isn't surprising. Certain industries are notorious for producing pollution. Mental pollution produced by bad-faith "debate" is just another instance of a general pattern.

A cure? Cui bono is a reasonable first test for bad faith. It's not infallible and can lead to paranoia, but it's better than nothing.

But I think the pattern is even more general, and transcends political positions.

Some people are inherently entitled, narcissistic, and exploitative, and they will always try to gravitate to positions of power unless there's an explicit mechanism that stops them.

A minority of these individuals are unusually inventive and productive, but most are simply resource parasites. Once in power they do incredible damage.

And they are very adaptive. They will operate successfully in every traditional political system you can imagine. And they will use conflict and mistake rhetoric, as suits their needs.
> The uncertainty is when quantum computers will be practical, not what will happen when they are.

That's what I meant above; I apologize for I should have been more clear in my wording.
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Not only is there strong anecdotal evidence for legume consumption being healthy given the prevalence of legumes in blue zone diets, there is also a mountain of scientific evidence indicating the short chain fatty acids produced by fermentation of legume polysaccharides provides a large number of health benefits. Additionally, low fat non-greek yogurt consumption has been linked to a variety of positive health outcomes. Finally, moderate grain consumption is alright assuming you're physically active and the grains are unrefined. If you spend more time studying the scientific literature you will see that the paleo diet is mostly trendy bullshit.

In terms of training, high repetition weight training is absolutely beneficial, while being much easier to recover from than lower rep weight training. While it shouldn't make up the majority of your training, it is worth making a significant portion of your total training volume.
If Timescale goes bust you still have all your data in Postgres, which isn’t going anywhere. The risk is much lower.
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Just a quick note: the article is from Sept 21st of last year. Can we get a "(2017)" added onto the end of the title?
Humans ended up with the same maladies just trying to keep political power contained.
Depends on your reliance I suppose. Appears most of TimescaleDB's vendor-specific pieces are in the DDL area, but there are plenty of DML-specific extensions. I'm not saying TimescaleDB might not get to a level of maturity where I'd use it, I personally just can't justify it today. I've found DBs and ops/orchestration engines to be the most painful to move off from if you need to.
Re: your last paragraph, it seems to me that the question of "who wields power" will always have material priority -- one of the benefits of power is deciding what is and isn't a "mistake". Look at climate change -- no amount of scientific consensus or popular belief-that-it-is-a-mistake has succeeded in constraining those people whose activities are driving it (I'm speaking not just of DJT's recent escapades in pulling the US from the Paris deal, but the insufficiency of Paris itself). This is power. No amount of problem-identifying/solving has (or will) convince the captains of industry that maintaining their current economic growth targets is less preferable than making vast swaths of the earth less hospitable to life.
Do you know if China have hard requirements of a degree? Or is X years of working experience good enough?
> There's the whole discipline of End-User Development dedicated to explore that area.

Thanks for the name, I didn't know there was a field for that.

> General programming is like general nuclear physics; not everyone ''needs'' to know the details, but everyone may benefit of plugging a device to the wall and use the power, without a "priest of electricity" who creates a six-months agile project to do the wiring for them.

Great analogy!
Being the default doesn't make it not a problem. In fact, poverty being the default is a problem in itself. I'd prefer it if the default were not having to worry about the future, and I think most poor people would agree.
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