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I was walking around my home town recently. It's more than doubled since I left in 2002. Most of the new housing was built as new, dense (10-20 stories) suburbs.

Th urban architecture is not bad. Decent green spaces, so that buildings open into "garden paths" rather than streets. You can get between places using green pedestrian walkways. Conveniently located schools & creches. Most of the parking is underground.

The "economic architecture" OTOH, is striking. There are 2 small malls, walking distance from eachother, where all the cafes, resteraunts and shops are. There are two big commercial/adminstrative buildings where the dentist, post offices and stuff is. There is no high street, no corner stores, or any place that a sidewalk pizza shop could exist. ..no place where an independent retail or service business could exist, not even a news stand.

It occurred to me that not only is this related to "concentration of wealth" it is that concentration of wealth. Those Malls and commercial real estate can be owned by €bn funds. Street level real estate doesn't lend well to that.

Now... A lot of this has to do with the structure of the financial system, how things are capitalized. A developer can approach a large real estate fund, to sell a mall "off the plan." They can then go and presell leases, to their client base.. chain stores and restaurants.

There is no equivalent financial sector that could fund real estate suitable for sole traders. So, sole traders will decline. There is obviously a chicken-egg dynamic between the underlying economics (eg revenue per square meter, and hence rent) and the existence of a friendly capital market. But, I think causation runs the other way as well.

In this case, it just seems very planned. The architecture and planning of a city assumes a certain economy, the urban architecture reflects that, and the underlying capital system reflects that. The three lock eachother into place. If there had been a vibrant market for financing small retailers, but not malls, then the whole city would have probably been built differently.

Anyway China is unidealogical about such things, atm. They don't mind engineering a cityscape for a certain economy, engineering financial markets for a certain cityscape or cityscape or if the proverbial cat is black or white.

My long winded point is that maybe it's time to "pick winners" in financial markets, subsidizing or penalising certain types of capital markets over others. Ive always been dubious about market liberalism when it comes to banks.
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I'm sorry I'm not able to understand the artistic and cultural intricacies of drawings of tentacle monsters raping toddlers.
And what exactly am I looking at here?
> Why not just attach that RAM as system memory in such a situation?

Because the number of available DIMM slots, and therefore total capacity, is scarce. Increases in capacity require increases in density, which carry a cost (and presumably power density and/or speed) premium.

System memory scarcity is why swap is a thing in the first place.

Having that extra RAM on a slower, farther bus, as swap, means it doesn't have quite as stringent performance requirements (or abilities) with the benefit of increased overall capacity. This tradeoff sounds familiar.

> The point of using nonvolatile is that it's cheaper

That has yet to be seen. It stands to reason that it'll be cheaper than the RAM that would otherwise go in the same DIMM slot, but it won't perform as well, either. We can be confident it will perform much better than even PCIe/NVMe SSDs.

Is it cheaper than a generation or two ago's RAM in a big array (which, again, I know doesn't actually exist)?

The main question is, given Intel's monopoly, what the real world price per performance is going to be like.

> consumes less energy

I hadn't really thought about this as a significant consideration, although at very large memory capacities a few watts here and there do add up, and it's certainly important when comparing anything new against anything old. Still, it seems like it would just be another cost factor.
Mandarin is about as pervasive in China as English is in Europe. The USA is definitely more linguistically homogeneous.
That “Make X great again” tag line was funny for a while but I think that’s in the past. I’d choose something else.
are you trolling?
Just looking at the list of steps that needs to happen for these modern exploits is mind blowing for a layman. Can any expert comment on how easy/hard it is to find such exploits. How much of it is skill and how much luck. How does one come up with them. Is it primarily based off knowledge (which is essential ofcourse) or more some people have an intuitive knack for it.
Written, mostly, but spoken, not so much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
Not that I'm aware of. And maybe we will never have one, by far most of the universe is out of our reach and (detailed enough) sight. We might eventually have evidence of ET intelligent life in some point of the future, but never will have of the lack of it.

But the size and age of the universe makes the odds of us being an unique case very improbable.
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This is why doxxing is so scary
I'm also looking for the same - but not specific to Europe. I'm based in Australia.
I can assure you that passing along a quick note about a task or process in a Slack channel, which respective members can check on at their own leisure, is _far_ more efficient and time/money cost-effective than calling the 40 people (perhaps spread across multiple buildings, cities or countries) into a meeting to discuss that same minor detail.
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Yes, but it exists alongside other dialects spoken locally which are sort of mutually intelligible, but in some cases only when written (cf. Cantonese).

It's analogous to large parts of the US outside the Northeast Corridor using various dialects of American Sign Language, which is written the exact same as American English, but only among people from their home city, and also having varying degrees of command over spoken English.
First result on google: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/consent-law-r...

I don't have a view on whether this reflects the Swedish law correctly but if it does, I don't believe that changes anything nor that I am incorrect. Unless the other party established explicit, provable consent (he says-she says won't help in court), we are in absence of consent, and therefore rape territory. You can't prove absence of anything.
You never need the disclaimer that you are not a lawyer.
I don't think he/she did.

"I would disagree with" and "I feel" make it clear this is a personal opinion.

Also note the presence of "usually" in "simple bold assertions usually don't hold water."
Those things (or at least the one of them whose source we actually have access to) are written in TypeScript. Why do you think Microsoft created the language?

Also they aren't exactly being rewritten in JS - the person who tweeted that later casually clarified that "well, actually" they're using JS as a sort of build system/integration over a still huge amount of native code.
Except that they won't stop - maybe the next bird will have a working sim.

Besides, it's not like every bird has a tracker. So how many birds one should kill to get a chance to check if the sim is working?
No-one disputes that some writing systems are more complex than others, but statements like an "objectively more complex phonology" or "slightly trickier grammar" are pretty difficult to cash out in precise terms.

We know that kids learn all of these languages at the same pace, which suggests that the complexity differences between spoken languages are not particularly significant from the point of view of someone who doesn't already speak a language.
I thought I saw a bunch of guys on a rooftop in Jersey City with silver iodide rockets.
We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn't stop to think if we should.
Yea, that s happens all the time in software. It’s the developer’s job to push back and explain the probability distribution of the results to the designers/PM so they understand the algorithm’s limitations, and everyone’s job to fight for the user. It needs to be a conversation, not a contract.

Designer: This label is required to say what store the user is at given his location.

Developer: the location sensor is imprecise. We could have 20m of precision or worse. The store location data is also known to be inaccurate and incomplete. We can provide top 10 candidate stores with their probabilities. The “top” one we return could be 95% likely or 35% likely. Your move!

Bad Designer: Too much numbers for my brain. We’ll just show the top result. YOLO!

Better designer: We could only show a result if it’s above a certain threshold. Or we could show top 3. Or maybe we need to talk about changing the requirement.

Better developer: There may be other signals and inputs we could use to help make the results more confident...
That's fair, but the reason isn't entirely due to bias. Few people outside the industry really understand market microstructure. It's a dry and complex subject. Legitimate criticisms are pretty subtle and get lost in the noise of "zomg guys with lasers front running Joe Average's 3 share GOOG trade!"

I no longer work in HFT. You can do everything better, smarter, faster than ever, and make less. It is one of the most brutally capitalist businesses: orders on exchanges are a pure undifferentiated commodity. The guy making the smallest spread fastest gets the trade. [1] Nobody cares if it's Virtu or Citadel or three guys in their garage. Think of a business like Wal-Mart's, but if someone finds a way to sell soap a half-cent cheaper, you sell 0 and go out of business.

And for the end users of the markets, that's great. Let these guys compete to make tighter markets or arbitrage prices sooner. HFTs play an intermediation role, helping other traders transfer risk immediately to lock in a guaranteed price, rather than waiting for someone else to trade with them. They're basically like CarMax or a grocery store: research what things are worth, buy at wholesale prices, sell at retail prices, and control inventory risk.

1: https://meanderful.blogspot.com/2013/01/hfts-dirty-little-se...
AFAIK the closest thing we have is the very recently released USS Nimitz incident:

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

And even this example is very very far from being enough evidence to believe extraterrestrial intelligent life has visited Earth.
I know this is comment made in jest, but what it brought to mind was the movie "Interstellar," where the protagonist hunts drones in order to salvage their parts.

In America.
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> At least anecdotally, calling children mischievous tends to have this kind of reinforcement on them

This is especially clear to me among older kids and younger teenagers, who have already taken on themselves social roles in the groups they belong to. If they already see themselves as the one who gets in trouble in the classroom, for example, calling them out on it isn't very helpful.

One thing that might work is finding something they care about and giving them positive reinforcement and larger responsibilities (this is key) regarding it. It is not a panacea in itself, but it is a good peg to hang up some mutual respect on.
>'"the" amyloid hypothesis (again, it's a family of hypotheses because each drug has a different intended mechanism of action and is therefore a different testable hypothesis) has been the only workable theory of how the disease works.'

Afaict, there was nothing especially workable about it vs eg the "cholinergic hypothesis". In fact the only drugs that are said to help were devised based on that hypothesis.[1] So something else is going on here.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956752/
del.icio.us was big back in the day, before Yahoo ruined it, so I guess some people want it? Although, to be fair, that was before recent privacy letdowns.
Some things I learned when I was in Singapore and Indonesia about 10 years ago:

- Our Singaporean host had business dealings in Indonesia and he said he could get by just relying on his Malay language skills, so it seems that Malay and Bahasa Indonesia have a decent degree of mutual intelligibility.

- In one of the national museums we ran into an American professor who had been teaching part time in Indonesia for many years. Among other things, he mentioned that when Indonesia was founded, the government created a standard vocabulary for the language at the same time. He thought that that was one of the smartest things they'd done.

- One Indonesian woman that I spoke with (who I presume was Javanese) mentioned that one of the benefits of Bahasa Indonesia was that the Javanese in one village might not be mutually intelligible (in the practical sense, anyway) with the Javanese spoken in another village a few miles away. But you could always switch to Bahasa Indonesia to communicate.

- The word "Bahasa" means "language", and in Indonesian languages always seemed to be prefixed with ""Bahasa", e.g. "bahasa Indonesia", "bahasa Inggris", "bahasa Jerman". However, I recall several times hearing Indonesians using just the word "bahasa" when clearly referring to the Indonesian language. This was speaking in English though, so it might not be representative of how they'd say it in Indonesian.
Are you talking about the analysis after the program, or before? I presume you mean after....
Another way software is similar to biology and physical systems is leaky abstraction.

Once you define something in mathematics, how you defined it does not matter. You can forget all irrelevant details.
In the software irrelevant minute details make systems incompatible.

As an example, Norbert Wiener defined ordered pair as:

(a,b) := {{{a}, Ø},{{b}}}

Hausdorff defined it as:

(a,b) := {{a,1},{b,2}}, where 1 and 2 are two distinct objects different from a and b

Kuratowski's definition

(a,b) := {{a}, {a,b}}

.. and there are many other definitions and variations, but still we have only one mathematics not many incompatible ones. Some mathematicians restrict them to subsets, but they don't create incompatible mathematics.

If you do something similar in programming languages, you get two different structures you can't use interchangeably without transformation (it incompatibility starts from little endian vs big endian and ending ends with vi vs emacs).
I wish they would put scale bars on these photos :(.
Nice work! Reminds me of callbags, but for async/await hehe
Pity. I was rooting for flywheels to have a place at the table.
"UFO buffs zeroed in on a portion of a panoramic photo taken by NASA's Curiosity rover in September 2012. These viewers spotted an object that looked like a rat lying between two rocks. While it's a creative idea, the "Mars rat" is unlikely, scientists have said. The Red Planet has extremely cold temperatures, is baked in radiation and lacks a thick, protective atmosphere like Earth's, making it an extremely hostile environment for life." [1]

Doesn't seem legitimate.

1 - https://www.cbsnews.com/media/mars-myths-6-red-planet-hoaxes...
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I feel they are biased in China's favor but not so much so as to make the information unreliable. If you understand that many of the articles are written from the Chinese perspective, then you should be able to filter out the mild propaganda. It seems there are a number of international writers, as well.
I think they were talking about the SIM PIN code not the device locking.
To me it increasingly looks like SQL is losing in distributed systems.

I’m seeing the reverse trend. Google went from nosql to sql with cloud spanner. The various flavors of SQL on hadoop are on the uptick. Cockroachdb is looking really interesting.
That would include domains like dropbox.com or drive.google.com then?
Pascals' Wager: multiply the odds by the cost or benefit of each outcome. The higher the potential cost, the less good your odds look even if the percentage is the same.
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I think I mean the PIN lock, the one you have to input after rebooting the phone or inserting the SIM. This has existed since the beginning of GSM, as far as I remember.

But probably the GPS receiver can't work with that.
Just for clarification (since OP didn't give any insight to the picture he/she posted), it's a picture of the "Mars Rat"[1]. It's just a funny looking rock.

[1] https://www.space.com/21455-mars-rat-curiosity-rover-drive.h...
Sure, but I don't tend to trust myself enough to remember to do that on top of everything else I have to. I have to lean pretty heavily on reminders, and I feel like that's not uncommon.
Sure, but it's a different kind of creativity.

The limitations are arbitrary and nearly impossible to get around. Computers, especially smart phones, tablets, etc. are being treated less as property of the buyer and more as property of the seller/manufacturer.

For example: When it is very difficult to unlock a bootloader, then most people do not find it interesting to try other operating systems. Very few are more creative, and the rest are just prevented from exploring/learning/creating just because they have the wrong device.
They must have reasons for not wanting this figure to be public. If they didn't, they would just expose it directly via the API or in the UI instead of making people solve a fun math puzzle to tease it out of other figures.
When I say "old RAM" I mean from the same, current, modern era, though, yes, it is often smaller or lower-density due to being pulls from upgrades, for example. The modern era often also includes previous-generation technology, such as DDR3 in use today even though DDR4 is available (with non-intuitive pricing relationships at any given time).

That said, why would size (density) have to do with being economical? Are the required memory controllers to expensive, because there simply aren't any other than inside CPUs? The train of logic needs explaining.
Slow news day on HN.
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How is that better than email? If you want people to check it at their own pace (async), then use an async method. Slack expects everyone to check it constantly. At least in my experience :(
Surprisingly, if you're alone and the alternative is driving a personal vehicle, flying may be the more efficient way to get to your destination (but the comparison is inherently difficult).

(Of course, I don't doubt that a lot of trips happen today which wouldn't have happened in the 60's, so you're probably still correct.)

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-clim...
I generally agree, though I have some issues with parts of the biological analogy. I believe there are two different meanings of "software" conflated here.

If we look at software as a social phenomenon, then all the constraints you mention apply. However, if we look at software just as an executable artifact - it does not decay. Bit rot isn't real. Hardware can break down, but bits don't magically flip out of order just because the original developer went AWOL. This is important, because there seems to be this notion in our industry that everything needs to be updated and updatable all the time. But the truth is, unless someone purposefully screw it up (time-limited software, or Internet dependency), I can boot up my old machine and still do real work with decade+ old software.
Type systems do nothing to save you from making unmaintainable code. How many awfully engineered, slow to iterate, legacy monolith systems with convoluted OOP architectures were built in Java or .NET? All that type safety was a mere crutch for deeply nesting state in 14 layers of inheritance. I've worked on enterprise systems that take 10x as long to ship a feature in than something like Node.

Nevermind that it's easy to add types to JS these days if you really want them.

How you architect a system and manage state (and how simple you keep it) has far bigger implications than types.
SCMP is a Hong Kong newspaper recently bought by the Alibaba group. Apparently it has the highest recorded credibility score among Hong Kongers which is 6.54.
It depends on your definition of "intelligent life", but if you're talking about a life form that we, humans could observe and interact with using our few senses then I'm afraid that the answer is "no". Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord recently published a paper that demonstrate a substantial probability that we're alone our galaxy and perhaps observable universe: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404

Can you guys hear the cosmic crickets too? lol
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There are a few: Freedompop, Truphone, Tello. But they all have minimum activity requirements so they wouldn't necessarily work as a backup.
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I still contend that the ability to access educational resources is more evenly distributed than it has been at any time in history. Motivated kids from supportive families have more free and inexpensive educational opportunities than they will ever be able to exhaust even if their family is at the lower end of the income spectrum. Your examples of bad parents making things hard for their kids doesn't change anything I stated.

Your main contention is that a kid with access to tutors, expensive electronics and flight training is going to get a far superior education to someone who is working with their parents to direct their own study. Those things aren't as big of a differentiator as they used to be in one's ability to obtain an education. Much of the pedagogical value a tutor can provide in sequencing topics is easy to find online--often written by the very people who would make the best tutors. The ability to ask questions and get answers is also easily available. Is it nice having someone decide exactly what you need to work on and learn. Sure, but in terms of access to educational resources, not having a tutor isn't a particularly big differentiator.

> How much time have you spent with poor families?

I grew up below the poverty line, so a reasonable amount of time.
This annoying navigation of copyright law is why I simply ignore it entirely. Copyright is irrelevant in my world view.
The language was going nowhere under INRIA for ~10 years, we should be thankful for the uptick in commercial interest (Jane Street, Facebook, ...) and their contributions to the language ecosystem.