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It’s worse. At least Linux _can_ be viable on the desktop. The challenges surrounding fusion are so staggering that putting any definite timeline around solving them is pure bovine manure.
I love NUMTOT and honestly it was one of the things that made it really hard to get off Facebook
Ask HN: Turnkey SAAS solutions
Does anyone know of a Turnkey SAAS solution for AWS/Azure?
Here is what I'm looking for: something that handles user registration, OAUTH , billing (supporting multiple options), Tiered pricing and dashboard.
It seems that such a thing would exist be by now...
So something more than a themeforest template.
Something that's a one time purchase vs monthly.

Cheers
One of the answers from your first link gives a link to this excellent article

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-92273-...

on "autocatalitic quines". The Introduction section explains very nice the history of uses of quines in artificial life.

There are some weird parts though in all this, namely that we may think about different life properties in terms of quines:

1) Metabolism, where you take one program, consume it and produce the same program

2) Replication, where you take one program, consume it and produce two copies.

But what about

3) Death

I thought about this a lot during my chemlambda alife project, where I have a notion of a quine which might be interesting, seen the turn of these comments.

A chemlambda molecule is a particular trivalent graph (imagine a set of real molecules, the graphs don't have to be connected), chemical reactions are rewrites, like in reality, when if there is a certain pattern detected (by an enzyme, say) then the patern is rewritten.

There are two extremes in the class of possible algorithms. One extreme is the deterministic one, where rewrites are done whenever possible, in the order of preference from a list, so that the possible conflicting patterns are always solved in the same way. The other extreme is the purely random one, where patterns are randomly detected and then executed or not acording to a coin toss.

Now, a quine in this world is by definition a graph which has a periodic evolution under the deterministic algorithm.

The interesting thing is that a quine, under the random algorithm, has some nice properties, among them that it has a metabolism, can self-replicate and it can also die.

Here is how a quine dies. Simple situation. Take a chemlambda quine of period 1. Suppose that there are two types of rewrites, the (+) one which turns a pattern of 2 nodes into a pattern of 4 nodes, the other (-) which turns a pattern of 2 nodes into a pattern of 0 nodes (by gluing the 4 remaining dangling links in the graph).

Then each (+) rewrite gives you 4 possible new patterns (one/node) and each (-) rewrite gives you 2 possible new patterns (because you glued two links). Mind that you may get 0 new patterns after a (+) or (-) rewrite, but if you think that a node has an equal chance to be in a (+) pattern or in a (-) pattern, then there is twice as possible that a new pattern comes from a (+) rewrite than from a (-) rewrite.

Suppose that in the list of preferences you always put the (+) type in front of the (-) one. It looks that in this way graphs will tend to grow, right? No!

In a quine of period 1 the number of (+) patterns = number of (-) patterns.

Hence, if you use the random algorithm, the non execution of a (+) rewrite is twice more probable to affect future available rewrites than the non-execution of a (-) rewrite.

In experiments, I noticed lots of quines which die (there are no more rewrites available after a time), some which seem immortal, and no example of a quine which thrives.
> Let's combat global warming by producing even more heat, converting 40% of it to electricity.

All the wattage produced by humanity is utterly insignificant in the face of the energy we receive from the sun. It will still be insignificant if we double it.

(We receive about 2 × 10^18 watt hours per day from the sun at the ground. Daily human energy production is about 5 × 10^15 watt hours.)
Maybe they could do some form of auditing that is traceable by the average consumer. For instance:

They could make their deployment setup completely automated and publish the tooling to github, and have video evidence of them deploying the same SHA-256 stamped tooling to their data centers. They could expose operational details and transactions on their DNS servers as far as possible without revealing identifiable information. They could have regular physical audits by a constantly rotating set of well known and trusted parties (i.e. EFF, Mozilla).
Let us not forget, it was Nevadans who "occupied" an animal refuge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...
> The human brain implements a policy which can be seen as maximizing some utility function

That needs quite a bit of extra nuance. Certainly, our brains don't actually find optimal solutions. We do not reliably maximize some utility function.
Instead, it seems our behavior can be explained much like some recursive approximate optimization algorithm.

In this version, we have some utility function, and we do our best to optimize it. Each step being made with the presumption it will indeed optimize. But at that point, it becomes a lot harder to justify that such a utility function exists. Especially because you need concepts like 'intent' or 'belief'. But those are terms of human behavior, reducing human behavior to human behavior isn't very helpful.

There are arguments that go around this. One can say that 'intent' or 'belief' come from our creator. Or, one can say these are the results of evolution.
It should be noted that going from evolution to 'intent' and 'belief' is really non-trivial.
As such, one might consider that perhaps, explaining humans as 'optimizing some utility function' isn't the best theory.

Personally, I happen to believe the story of 'intent' arising from evolution, but it isn't clear-cut.
What I don’t understand: if Uber was firing people for using their mobiles in the car, which did they allow them to have a mobile phone while on the job?
Talking about the distribution of traffic over Tor is very different than the people who use it. Cloudflare built Privacy Pass with the specific intent of allowing people who use Tor to have a better experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
You can also use it to jack up the flavor of cheese! I love adding a little bit to dehydrated cheese, and using the mixture on popcorn. It’s more cheesy than cheese (if you know what I mean).
I have heard of a number of Ceph nightmares like this. A few years back, Logos Bible Software, who has a Ceph-based content platform (a huge library of e-books with a massive amount of meta-data), was down for a week because of a cascading Ceph cluster failure.

It really doesn't speak well of the Ceph architecture. It is highly performant, but at what cost? Failures on this scale can ruin a business.
Two links should give you a summary of the issues. I worked one of the biggest retailers in South Africa until a month ago. We dropped KPMG as our auditors because of all the unethical issues relating to them.
https://mg.co.za/article/2017-09-15-gordhan-weighs-in-on-kpm...
And
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-09-11-op-ed-the...
Buy Nokia if you need Android, you get only first-party shite that Google provides. And it receives updates.
I think the problem here, is that all those environement protection groups fighting fission, would cease to be after they "won" and thus are desperat in search of a new "evil".

Has there ever been a activist group that stated loudly: "Yes, we pulled it off"- and then peacefully disolved, with the promise to reunite the day the defeated cause should return?
Actually your comment makes me sad. The article is pretty good and realistic. Life is hard and real. But when you savor it with the right things (God, family and friends for me) it's amazing! Short, but amazing
Supply isn’t particularly limited. Schools can expand, given enough money. International students pay more than enough.

If international students disappeared, the result wouldn’t be all those spots filling with American students, it would be a bunch of spots disappearing due to lack of resources.

Education is not fundamentally different from any other product here. When China gives Boeing a couple of billion dollars for some airliners, they’re not taking airliners away from Americans.
You make three times.. until you don't.a big accident,six months out of job?

Never heard working out in America.

In Germany no problem...
GCS's prices are lower than AWS's for single-region egress, though. Check 'boulos's link.

Not by enough, but they are.
After 65 you go on Medicare which is a gov't program. Quality is quite good from what I've heard however some doctor's limit the number of Medicare patients as the reimbursement is quite low.
This isn't related to block storage at all, but I was a big fan of DO until I hit a weird issue where they wanted me to prepay via PayPal to spin up more than 50 droplets at a time. I work in an organization that is spinning up many nodes at once for a short time and then destroying them soon after, for various but totally legitimate reasons. One look at our account history can demonstrate that this is almost exclusively how we use their services, so it's not like this was a weird request. And we've never missed a payment or paid late or otherwise ever given Digital Ocean any reason to think we wouldn't be good for the charges at the end of the month (especially considering we were already spending sometimes in the thousands of dollars every month). This was so off-putting. I stopped using Digital Ocean that day.
While I agree with much of what you say, I think we can have autonomous vehicles without having to be 100% independent of human intervention.

It will require an effective "early warning system" which foresees issues it may not be able to process --however, this will require more inter-automobile communication and extravehicular communication (GPS, other inputs). Relying on only what the vehicle has on-board will probably not be good enough, for now.

These supporting systems would communicate "trouble ahead" (ambiguous information, incomplete information, lack of information, unknown information, etc.)
Australians don't need visas to visit or stay temporarily in Iceland, but to work you need a residence permit and work permit.

Residence permits won't get processed while you're in the country as a tourist, so you apply from outside the country and wait. There are no language requirements as long as someone is willing to hire you. To get a residence permit you need to meet the quality of "support"[1], which broadly means either approximately $22,000 in savings per year of your permit OR payslips demonstrating a monthly income that meets $22,000/yr OR an employment contract from an Icelandic company.

If you go the employment route, you need a work permit. For software, this is usually done on the basis of "expert knowledge"[2]. The company usually needs to demonstrate that they're unable to hire a schengen zone citizen to do your job (otherwise you're not expert enough I guess?), and then issue you with a contract that you submit to the directorate of immigration. That's relatively informal though, and mostly means the company needs to advertise in Iceland first and show that it interviewed candidates and they weren't suitable. Iceland is heavily unionized and your work permit will need a stamp of approval from a relevant union. The first time you request this the union will want to see your qualifications. I strongly suggest becoming a member of that union to smooth things over when you get it renewed every one or two years. Iceland is charmingly small-town corrupt like that.

All Icelanders under ~60 speak flawless English, and it's pretty common for Icelanders under 30 to interleave English words into Icelandic sentences in cases where there isn't a good Icelandic word. Unless the company you apply to works heavily with Icelandic language products, it's unlikely that speaking only English would be a barrier to employment.

As for getting the job itself, Iceland is /desperate/ for good programmers. The cost of living is high, the wages are low, and the local universities don't have fabulous software degrees[3]. It's hard for Icelandic companies to hire good programmers. If you want to come to Iceland and you have a qualification, it may not be that hard. However, I suggest visiting for a holiday in June and again in February, to see what this country is really like. If you don't love it as a place to live, you won't stay long.

This might be a good place to start looking: https://www.tvinna.is/

[1] http://www.utl.is/index.php/en/basic-requirements1#support

[2] http://www.utl.is/index.php/en/residence-permits-based-on-wo...

[3] My friends tell me that slightly pre-banking-crisis, all the universities reformed their software degrees to churn out low level CRUD app webdevs to make lots of web apps for the high flying Icelandic banks. When the banks all crashed, Iceland became awash with relatively inflexible developers, and the universities haven't really refocused their coursework much, so the standard of graduates is, I am told, still relatively poor.
This tweet violates so many securities laws in the US and Europe...

I get that it's a joke but not everyone understands the concept of April Fool's Day, and in the case of these tweets, there is no indication that the tweets, by a CEO of a publicly traded company with known financial issues, is not a factual statement. The Easter Egg sale would match actual past activities (like the "flamethrower" sale a few months ago) and the last, Trumpian statement would likely only be understood by those familiar with Trumpisms. The fact that he says several tweets later that they are not forward looking statements does not change the contents of this tweet.

Maybe instead of tweeting stupid jokes he should spend more time not running Tesla into the ground? Because on Tesla's current track, this joke's going to be a reality by the end of the year.
Uber has said essentially nothing about their crash, it's the cops who rushed out and got nearly everything wrong. Uber clearly had a serious technical failure, but there's been no PR spin from them.
I recommend looking into "O&O ShutUp10" and running it at least once - possibly after major updates to Windows as well.
Also known as the "Level 3 is inherently unsafe" argument. Waymo noticed this back in 2012: https://driverless.wonderhowto.com/news/waymo-was-right-why-...
This risk can be mitigated by bridging the real world and the blockchain using oracles. This risk mitigation can be somewhat decentralized using a voting or reputation mechanism. This is by no means perfect, and I'm not aware of any trustless mechanisms for this, but its a problem people are currently working on, and I think there will eventually be a good solution.

I also don't think this is a false dichotomy. Most likely we'll end up at a place with some improvement over what we have today (I'd actually argue we're currently at this point now) but not without all of the limitations.
We're on HN. The startup industry in most of Europe is non-existent. Very few options. As a founder, much of Europe looks pretty much the same. Want to actually assimilate - good luck given the prevalent ethnocentrism. It's nothing like moving from one US state to another.
An auditing company is pointless if they can't find fraud on such a massive scale or recognize that something is being hidden from them.
When I was a child I snuck up in the middle of the night to watch aliens on mute with a blanket over the tv to hide the lights, even though my parents had forbidden it. When I was a teenager my parents had no control at all.

Controlling your children is probably a nice thought for scared parents, but not only doesn’t it work, there is a long scientific record of it being abusive and ruining children.

I think YouTube is a terrible rolemodel for our children too, but mostly for the zombies watching it, at least the kids that are selling out, are actually content producers who are doing something with their lives. Even if that something is retarded.
Yeah man, somewhere downtown?

edit: If you've got keybase, you can add me with user "arkaroo". Otherwise, what's a good way to get in contact?
Pretty much all the newer ones, Nano, Iota and Eth probably soon to.

There is also a debate to use delegated PoS or a hybrid of PoS and PoW to get both of their upsides with none of tbeir downsides.
Total Commander is the best piece of software I ever used! I even bought a license for it, they sent me a cd with an installer and the license and I promptly lost it. At some point i even had tc as a replacement for the Windows shell. These days i dont care that much about where my files are, I have a "work" folder and thats that. My music is on spotify, my videos on netflix/amazon prime/now tv, i dont take that many meaningful pictures anymore and I dont see a reason to care about files anymore. But Total Commander was my life for a very long time, along with piracy :-P
Yes. The implication is that the 2B unbanked will get access to a cheap Android, and therefore ability to trade instantly with anyone anywhere with no fees, before the banana state fixes their massively corrupt government.
The first paragraph and the sub header is an outright lie:

“Carbon-free fusion power could be ‘on the grid in 15 years’”

And then later:

“Prof Wilson was also cautious about the timeframe, saying that while the project was exciting he couldn’t see how it would achieve its goal of putting energy on the grid within 15 years.”
The Hour I First Believed
Carbon sequestration - not sure on what price point, but at least the current cost of oil reserves. This factor should include national security 'returns' (the huge boon from moving away from middle east controlled energy) - so say trillions of dollars per decade.

Salt water desalination - at some point pumping salt water (possibly long distances) to desalination plants for agricultural and domestic use becomes feasible.

Space programs - once oil is disrupted as an energy source for the masses it will be cheaper to push things into orbit.
It's certainly less likely to be a cause of death for your child or person, given officers in general are less armed. And in the UK's case, they ban some of the worst offenders from entering.
Which is why, as automation keeps taking jobs away, even the people at the bottom are better off, since even though they're forced into ever lower paying jobs, what they can buy with this money enables to them to have a better quality of life than before.

I.e. if Uber switches to self driving cars, and all the previous drivers are forced into lower paying menial jobs, even them may be able to start affording to use the lowest tier of Uber's service in the future.
Secure lock down is not possible with hypervisor that allows you to run any OS. The idea would be to only run what Apple allows - a tailored Linux distro - and only on the coprocessor which is isolated from the fully locked down main OS.

Oh and by the way "perfectly good" is way too generous for the hypervisor macOS ships with, unless there have been recent drastic improvements..
I've never had the luxury of that much control over a codebase in the real world of work.
Yes, a document timestamping protocol that we reach a consensus on in a distributed fashion. I'm not sure why a document timestamping protocol can't also be a distributed consensus protocol?
Wait, what if we’ve just been anthropomorphizing ourselves this whole time??

That’s right, treating humans as if they have human traits like beliefs and intentions.
If incidents only occur when the driver is distracted then it will always look like the cause was driver distraction even if they were diligent for 99.99% of the trip.

There will likely be a bias in the future for incidents like this to show some level of driver distraction. This makes it easy to blame the driver when the idea of a human as a supervisor is fundimentaly flawed.
This was my experience in Canada as well. Everybody get the same level of care, but when the shit hits the fan, I'd prefer to get care in the US.

A good example is cancer. Cutting edge cancer drugs are pretty universally covered by both public and private insurance, right after FDA approval.

In Canada it can take years before the gov't agrees to pay for it and sometimes they say "no".[1]

"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-f...
Ask HN: Easy way of putting ads into website
I publish small web apps time to time and I have trouble about putting ads because adsense is so selective and rejects my requests. My apps are so small and short-term apps. I just want to accumulate my earnings not to earn so much. Is there a way? just signing, getting some codes,pasting into website and earning without any bureaucratic things.
Another of the traditions of free speech is publishing under a pseudonym.
>There are many uses for blockchain other than as a cryptocurrency.

Name one.
In addition to what everyone else has said, aarch64 is obviously designed to make OoOE cores simpler.

So you wouldn't necessarily see all the benefits in a gate constrained in-order core like in the RPi.
Can't understand why you're downvoted. If you can't handle the data you collect, maybe you should collect that data in the first place? Or invest in technology, hire more engineers to handle the data you collected?
“Always” is a long time, but its definitely fair to say that barring a series of unforeseen and radical breakthroughs in a number of disciplines, fusion as a reliable source of power is nowhere near being a reality.
If I purchased a TV and only found out after the fact that it required internet access I'd be returning it to the store as defective. If I can't use it for movies with a DVD player in my fishing cabin, it's clearly not a TV.
Exactly - TCO is the core problem.
It's different from Windows bug because Windows bugs can be easily patched.

When we come to blockchain world, we run into a dilemma:

1. Hard-forking means it's no longer truly "immutable"

2. Not Hard-forking means we're fucked.

The first point is important even if you're not an immutability nerd, and most people don't realize the significance of a truly ownerless ledger because most people haven't thought really deep into how the society and economy works.

In my opinion the difference between a truly ownerless ledger and another one that has made 0.1% tradeoff is as different as the difference between selling something for 1 cent and giving it away for free.

I think blockchains like Ethereum that want to become general purpose will have tendency to move towards being more centralized. Not saying that's bad, it's a tradeoff, but nobody knows what the end result would be. It could end up becoming like the Web, where the protocol itself is supposed to be decentralized but every user facing stuff is completely centralized.
Can someone please share how they manage this is technical team/projects in a competitive environment
The difference is that in some fields there is a huge gap between the superstars and everyone else. Someone who almost became a star actor probably has a second job as a waiter. Someone who almost became a tenured professor is probably making peanuts as an adjunct. Someone who almost because a superstar programmer is probably still making six figures.
Saw this video explaining in a HN comment why stronger magnets and a different approach might make fusion work. After ca. 22:00 Minutes he is done with the fusion basics and explains the new approach. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Is real estate cheaper here or there? It seems, at least in the southwest, more common to be able to afford more land/property.
No - we've had the download your info feature since 2010 (https://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to...). There is just a lot more public scrutiny now of what's in there - which found this bug.