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What's wrong with employing servants (as long as they are paid correctly and treated like humans)?
Author here. Are you getting any warnings? Does it say it is using WebGL 1 or 2 on the left side? I am getting 60 FPS on Windows Chrome 64 with WebGL 2 on a 5 year old Radeon 7870 and it's mostly idle. I have implemented fallback to WebGL 1 for other platforms than Windows, because there were bugs that I don't have the platforms to test on (I tested on Linux in VMWare, but only WebGL 1 as WebGL2 is blocked on VM), and that path is not very optimized. Still I was getting 60 FPS on Linux Chrome in a VM as well. Firefox in Linux VM was slower though, at 30 FPS or so.

There might still be optimizations I can make and I could add more configuration settings for texture sizes.

How does http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/ look in comparison? Is it smooth? Most of my water code is copied from his version.

What's your OS and browser?
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> On August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies, whose members had been elected just five months earlier, voted 81–47 that Allende’s regime had systematically “destroyed essential elements of institutionality and of the state of law.”

The actual democratic representation was against him by 1973, That's what's important.
For the most part, yes. Changes in the regulatory system have been one of the critical enablers for this during the last decade. The key area where the regulations haven't particularly kept pace is in extra-terrestrial property rights.
Same here, I am on a laptop that changes between Intel and NVidia dynamically.
The tone of article also implies (and I think is true) that the west views/viewed China from a position of moral authority. Like a parent being disappointed in a kid because it should know better. Culturally this leads to to the idea of "punishment" or reinforcing the parents idea of quality.

The issue is that countries see each other as equals and the punishment trick can't be easily used when nuclear weapons are involved.

Should we dehumanize those who dehumanize others? I don't think so. The US for a very long time has grown in a moral authority that is overreaching and over simplistic in it's definition of humanity. The only way to break cycles of hate is to show that there is a better way, not through the domination/punishment lens.

We're all products of rape and murder. To see rape and murder and not remember our past is to bask in cultural wealth wondering why everyone else is so poor.
Natural monopolist Google enjoys a "competitive moat" and collects monopoly rent. The combination allows for a lot of unpunished "inefficiency".

And scare quotes around "inefficiency" because I'm not convinced putting pressure on their productive white/asian male majority employees is actually inefficient for Google.
Have you ever felt encouraged to pump out code to cater to the whims of rich overlords?

I can't tell you how many $50,000 (our fee) tax returns I filed with...questionable sections because I was being encouraged to pump out work to cater to the whim of partners that didn't even come into the office anymore.

Nothing unique to art here.
Yes because Chile ended up as a democracy after a short period of dictatorship (relatively speaking).
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> and are still countries (states) in all senses of the world, and those are the parent was talking about.

What is true? If you ask locals they don't have any feeling of belonging to any larger-than-them nation, they clearly describe themselves by the community/tribe they come from. This is the only reality that matters.
Right. But tech is also a very powerful tool to go around surveillance for people get organised.
Because the identified issues have been rectified - but the fixes add to the complexity and you are always relying on a fix to make it safe - while newer designs(pebble bed reactors) are inherently safe.
Go best practices, six years in (2016)
The USSR was definitely more communist in the early days when they had workers councils' and stuff. Most of that was disbanded under Stalin though.

Most nominally communist countries have elements of communism even if they are autocratic at heart, and that often forms part of their "Lockean" social contract - e.g. in North Korea, schools, hospitals, universities and apartments are all provided free by the government.

In North Korea, protection from invasion forms the larger part of the social contract (they officially renounced communism a few years ago I think) and in China, cradle-to-grave protection (the iron rice bowl) has been supplanted by the promise of always increasing standards of living.
HN has a pretty strong anti-make bias. People here would much rather use build tools that are restricted to specific languages or not available on most systems. Using some obscure hipster build tool means it's a dependency. Though these people who are used to using language-specific package manager seem to take adding dependencies extremely lightly.
Yes, you have to test for years, as many years as you can find data for, to cover at least few market cycles, so you know how your strategy will perform in both bull and bear markets...
There's an enormous amount of research into both understanding the autoimmune reaction and into safe insulin producing cells that could be introduced.

Turns out they are both really hard problems.

It's a reason to be pretty excited about medicine over the coming years. Doctors are starting to tease apart some of the specifics of the immune system.
I don’t know about others, but I never came to HN to make professional connections nor do I intend to. I just see HN as a more upscale subreddit.
How useful is the spatial analogy if the space in question defies all our spatial intuitions?

I can see it has mathematical meaning, but isn't the whole post about having intuitive understanding of sentence space?
Does flutter support RTL languages?
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They "launched a process" to "prepare a roadmap" to "explore the potential" of something something.

Such vigor. Much audacity. Wow.
> if my windshield break, I will call them and tell them that because of their massive ads I will choose another compagny.

No you won't. This is the hubris of someone typing a reply from a comfortable place (much like road rage perpetrators mostly would never be so aggressive, but they're in their familiar little metal box and disconnected from their adversary).

If your windshield breaks and needs replacing by the side of the road and it's cold and wet and you just want to get home, are you going to spend time researching who can come a fix your windshield, or are you going to pick the first brand that pops into your head?
Wow. What an odd and interesting collection of useful stuff on your site. I'm about to get lost in it for a while.
It's a promising idea but has issues currently. In recent Nightly builds I found it completely broke websites that override control keys [1], which is loads (GitHub, Facebook, Google Docs, etc.). It'll be great when they iron out all the bugs, because this guards against all sorts of the more advanced, sinister ways of deanonymising people.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433592
In a way, monopolies are good like elevator limits are good. It's not the support of the elevator that's the problem but the discomfort of people being crammed into the same space.

When the same market can suddenly be open to anyone you get people cramming into elevators and buses so that everyone is uncomfortable.

The entire US revolves around gates and monopoly like jobs. The greatest gate being the immigration gate. Technology empowers everyone and moves everyone towards the mean. Which is bad for groups that are above the mean.
>Even if he had just said that, it would have been enough to make him a supporter

That is absurd. He supports who he supports. He never claimed to support Pinochet, so he didn't. If I say that Krushchev was better than Stalin, does that make me a Krushchev supporter? Of course not!

>There was just no redeeming quality

Pinochet's reign, brutal though it was, led Chile to become the most prosperous country in South America. If that is not a redeeming quality, I really don't know what is. Hayek also correctly predicted Chile's transition to democracy ten years before it happened. I think most of Hayek's work post-1950 is nonsense, but a correct prediction is the highest standard of scientific demonstration, and this was a big one.
I would call that underengineered. This could be more generic, both in what it operates on (why only strings and not any sequence of value items?) and what it separates on (why only Unicode whitespace? It could be used as return value from a call that iterates over CSV fields in a line or that finds regex matches in a string).
Uber, Lyft Drivers Earning a Median Profit of $3.37 per Hour, Study Says
Can also use a negative price! I wonder what would happen if you went ahead with that. Presumably the payment gateway wouldn't pay me $5. Seems a strange choice to be having those parameters in a GET.
For me it's slower on chrome too, FWIW.
Having been a (moderately power) vi user since the early-80's, Today I Learned about this "show white space" toggle. Thanks!
I find it weird that the term "positive discrimination" can possibly exist. A perfect example of an oxymoron. It would be better for everybody involved to admit that it's not "positive discrimination" but just "discrimination", and that it's a part of the belief system of the company. Being honest and open is so rare these days.
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I am getting only 30 FPS,

Error: WebGL: texImage2D: Conversion requires pixel reformatting.

Firefox 52.6 ESR on Windows 7, on a beefy ThinkPad W541.
Yes, I was thinking about the different kinds of socialists and communists killing each other. (Edit: but I’m not talking just about state vs. state, within a country different factions were not always nice to each other.)
Great article, makes me glad I now subscribe to the economist. It is interesting how elites in China use a different method of population control than the elites in the USA. Here, a well run propaganda machine comprised of MSNBC and Fox News effectively split the US population into two factions that disrespect each other and thus can’t cooperate while our freedoms, economic and political, are reduced. In China, they use a dictatorship that is effective enough in providing a good lifestyle so mostly young people there don’t complain too much.

Sorry if I am oversimplifying, but at a TLDR, that is how I view things.
Aren't the subsidies for US sugar various forms of protection from cheaper imports?

That's beneficial for producers but shows up as higher consumer prices.
Understanding word vectors
I have one of the made-in-China cutting plotters from USCutter. USCutter seems like the Harbor Freight of cutting plotters, but for me the plotter works as intended. You can swap out the cutters for pens or markers. I paid around $200 for the 34" version.

It's USB and uses HGPL and you can open it up like you would a serial-USB device and just start sending it HGPL.

I hope interest in these devices from programmers continue, because I'd love to see an open-source plotting software that's suitable for printing/cutting graphics on rolls of paper or vinyl. The software available from USCutter is horrible!
Advertising attempts to influence your sub-conscious decision making, so one tactic I employ is to consciously blacklist companies whoch advertise at me. If a company is prepared to waste my timd shoving their BS ad in my face why should I give them my custom?
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Hey, I'd love your feedback on this. Especially which countries we should support for creators first.

Matt
This sounds 100% like an ad just FYI
Besides that Rust does not do manual memory management (as a peer commenter pointed out), Rusts borrowing rules also prevent typical ownership bugs. For instance:

- You split a string, returning an iterator or slice where every element is a slice of the original string.

- You change the original string.

- Now the splitting may be invalid.

Such bugs are not possible in Rust, since; (1) the SplitWhitespace struct borrows the str immutably; (2) the borrows checker does not permit simultaneously borrowing data as mutable and immutable.

Another problem that is prevented by Rust is 'memory leaks' where someone splits a large string and uses only a smaller substring. If the substring is a slice of the original string, a GC cannot deallocate the larger string. Rust prevents this, because a string slice reference (&str) cannot outlive the underlying String. [1]

tl;dr: better of the half points are indirectly and indirectly caused by Rust's ownership model that prevents a lot of ownership bugs. That does not mean that you do not have to think about ownership problems in other languages.

[1] Such memory leaks were one of the reasons why Oracle Java switched to a much slower, copying implementation of substring:

http://java-performance.info/changes-to-string-java-1-7-0_06...
I think you need to look at the research and data that have accumulated over the past 5 years. Nuclear seemed like a great investment 5 years ago, but there have been big changes.

Not only are solar/wind safer and cleaner, paired with modern battery storage they are now considerably cheaper and more effective at providing base load. And prices are still going down, while nuclear prices are if anything increasing.
So was Congress against Obama (they even sued him!), does that make him not democratically elected? Democratic bodies in conflict are common, and mean nothing.

It's telling that the text you quoted has zero actual facts against him, only reports of vague accusations. The name for that is "character assassination".
Facebook now offers the ability to run rigorous controlled experiments on your advertising spending - you basically randomly divide your audience into treatment and control, run an advertising campaign that only the treatment group can see, and compare purchasing behavior between the groups.

On the basis of several experiments with this, I can assure you that advertising does not always work, even if you track the treatment group for months after they were exposed to ads.

I think the author's bigger point is that a lot of the purpose of advertising basically boils down to increasing brand recognition. That's fair, but not anywhere near as novel of an observation as he thinks it is. His assertion that the majority of advertisers don't understand awareness and brand recognition is laughable - they understand it very well, and consistently run campaigns to achieve it.
True, these guys (having come later, and often writing in direct response to Marx, a contemporary) are easier to think of in the context of post industrial economies. IDK, Molinari. I do know Bastiat, but I can't recall anything that speaks directly to the reality of an economy made up of mostly large firms. He's pretty early though, and the world wasn't like that yet (even though Marx saw it coming, I think).

The "Austrians" (particularly Hayek, IMO) do address this world of megafirms a lot more than earlier writers (again, makes sense considering the times). This is getting a lot closer to modern theories, with Hayek directly defending "capitalism" (free market systems, and here we really have the modern ideological framework in a similar form to today's). They (Hayek & Mises anyway) had much more modern, abstract theories.

Hayek described the economy as an information system, with price signals as its source of information flow. This certainly is a defense (one the the most interesting and convincing, IMO) of free markets, but we're back to the modern definition. ..It's fairly tangential to Marx' definition, and harder to argue for from a traditionally ideological/liberal perspective. IE, it's fairly tangential to and disconnected from the "liberals" of the british enlightenment or the american revolution.
> How else would you do it?

There is a `splitWhitespace` iterator[1] in the Nim programming language as well and doesn't require a separate type. In Nim, the iterator is inlined.

1 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/strutils.html#splitWhitespace.i,st...
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So does that make luxury watches a competitor of cryptocurrency?
_"You can also increase or decrease the distance you peer into sentence space from your initial location; as you increase it, the results get more diverse. [...] What you’re seeing is the transition from the richness of arbitrary text to the regularity of this particular sentence space."_

There's a huge gap in here. Mr Sloan has worked on the idea of a gradient in language. He's worked to realate the craft of colors to sentence creativity.

But color craft on a computer is just an abstraction for picking colors out of the gammut of screen displays. And this gammut is a subset of the visible spectrum, which is a subset of the electromatnetic spectrum.

He didn't work at all on how this project relates to language itself. I guess I have to read the papers.

What exactly is 'sentence space'?
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I don't think the problem is that you see an advertisement for a KitKat and then you want one.

It's more subtle than that, and something more than the familiarity the article talk about.

What advertisement does is to change the associated concept in our minds. At some level I know that it's only a piece of unhealthy sweet with plenty of chemical preservatives, too much sugar and, probably, zero chocolate, but what I really perceive it's another totally different thing: It's a KitKat! It's cute!

It's not just a sweet, it's a new category in my mind.

What I, personally, find specially immoral is the advertisement for children.
How America's clean coal dream unravelled
Saying "using science" does not mean you can simply appeal to nature as the saviour of your argument.

Like how does this theory of mind he apparently has scientific evidence for (but alas, it does not fit in the finite space of the blog) explain something like curiosity? If we always fear unknown things, is it fear that makes you want to see what's beyond the hills?

Priming might well be what makes ad work, but that doesn't save the text from being almost pure bullshit.
Hes conflating colonization with slavery. A horribly thing to do as they were not similar tragedies.
This reminds me of AI research using NES Games. The AI eventually became proficient at completing Mario levels, and along the way it discovered novel strategies for survival, obtaining points, and finishing levels.

> Check out this timestamp to watch the machine "cheat": https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=9m55s

> Researcher's site about the project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/

> The Paper: The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic
Orderings and Time Travel...after that it gets a little tricky.: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf
What is the stated goal of explicitly discriminatory behavior, where white males and otherwise conservative people are targeted?
Do you consider C++ RAII as manual memory management?
I think you're nitpicking a little to be honest. None of those problems are hard to workaround:

> FreeBSD and OpenSolaris probably aren't very useful, when trying to rescue a Linux system. Especially if you need to chroot and run things from there. (My need so far was to rescue non-booting system, because the zfs package upgrade went wrong and didn't update spl too. Re-running dracut would be a somewhat problematic from these two systems).

I do see your point but it really depends on the problem as not all recoveries require chroot / package management access. I've rescued Solaris (not OpenSolaris) with an OpenSuse live CD back when a cavalier opp chmodded /etc. I've rescued OpenSolaris with a FreeBSD CD back when a faulty RAID controller borked the file system. As for ArchLinux ISOs, I've used them to rescue more systems than I can count. But as you said, some problems do just require booting an instances of the host OS via some means.

> Ubuntu desktop live CD doesn't contain zfs, you have to install it from apt.

It took me all of about 10 minutes to bake the ZFS driver into the ISO. It's not hard compared to the other technical challenges you've discussed. Though if that's too much effort then I think you can also just apt it from the Live CD and manually modprobe it into the running kernel.

> However, if you have a ZFS system, I see no problem with having an USB stick with minimal installation of your distro of choice, together with ZFS support. I'm glad I did have it since the ZFS install.

Indeed. My preferred method is having rescue disks available over PXE booting. Before then I was forever hunting down my recovery disks or spare USB keys / CD-Rs. Not to mention the pain involved if the system I was trying to recover was my main workstation (ie the hardware I'd normally use to download and burn CDs on).
Fuzzers are like bug/anomaly/new state finding-oriented reinforcement learning programs, so yeah, in a way :P
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Coca-Cola was the original energy drink, with cocaine, caffeine, theobromine, and sugar. It lost cocaine in 1915, though.
I checked the specs comparison at (https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=262...) and it says my card is about 4 times beefier than yours even if it is a year older, so maybe 30 FPS is expected. Thanks for the error report on texImage2D though. I will make an issue on the repo.
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