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If they ask me questions, I usually just reply "for personal reasons".
I'm interested in the problem. I was wondering if you are looking for a Data Scientist. I am at keval@uchicago.edu if you'd like to shoot me a note.
People all over the world are starving. The correct description is that we produce too much food where it brings profit, but not enough where it keeps people from starving.
If you want to find out more about indoor farming for yourself we sell kits, supplies and provide support for folks looking to get into this space. At both www.openagriculturesupply.com and www.growcomputer.io
There's a lot of misunderstanding of agriculture in this thread.

1) No, land is not expensive. In agricultural areas, land is quite cheap. Organizing shelves of crops vertically solves for a problem that isn't actually a problem.

2) The sun is free and electricity isn't cheap. Putting plants indoors and then buying electricity to create light is going to be expensive compared to using the free sun. (The absurdity of putting solar panels on a roof to make electricity to beam LEDs on plants, losing 90% of the energy along the way, shouldn't be lost on anyone.)

3) Shipping is cheap. It may make us feel good that a salad's greens were created on a roof-top in Brooklyn, but using some of the most expensive real-estate on Earth to save a few cents on shipping is beyond economically irrational.

I actually love the idea of hydroponics for another reason entirely: it saves a ton of water. Water is a real problem worth solving, particularly in the dry west. Focus on this and forget about all of these other non-benefits.
What is life like after this? I would love to help, as a semi-anonymous ally of anyone who has put their livelihood on the line so that we could have nice things like privacy and decentralized services :)
This law enforcement overreach and breach of civil freedoms is fucked up.

How is it fair to just sit back and not wage war after persecution like this? If I were in the CCC I'd be fuming and scheming right now. Not sure what sort what the war would look like exactly, but I'd be thinking of something.
Hi voltagex, thank you for your input.

I don't think this is the kind of website where I "help someone to use it". Instead of speaking in the abstract I may as well show you so you can see what I mean:

https://pricehipster.com

As you can see, the whole point of it is designed around quickly glancing at prices. And I don't think it makes sense to tell people other places they can find prices if they can't see well enough to use this website.
I am giving an analogy. Street car on digital track is the first part of it. The remote control aspects are there as well. It is not "direct" remote control. It is like a drone. You give a direction and the onboard computers execute on it. Direct remote control is not possible because of latency. But it also seems that the commercial launches of these vehicles might be dependent on 5G networks being available (lower latency, better reliability) in which case the remote control capabilities will be greatly enhanced before launch.
Soooo, you didn't like a book that challenged you in a way that you did not like. I personally did enjoy it first time around.

It’s a venerated book among a certain stripe of computer scientist and mathematician

That is a bit trite and if I may: a bit disingenuous. I'm neither a comp sci nor a mathematician but I love GEB. It is a classic. I first discovered it by accident at school. It did not change my life as such but I think that DH did have a bearing on the way I think even nowadays.
As guilty as saying "I can only pay $X" or "$X is my final offer" when buying or selling a car despite knowing it's a negotiation tactic and not a real limitation.
Correct, thanks for making that explicit.
I still had that 13w3 to something (might've even been a VGA), even though graphics was maxed out.
Depression causes you to engage in behaviors which reinforce your depression, and I would expect low-testosterone would work similarly. In other words, the men seeking status goods are not the ones suffering from low-testosterone, but rather the ones whom are already high-testosterone.
TLDR: You should decide what your mission critical services are, and then architect them for multi-cloud. Once you’ve done that, you have the freedom to explore vendors specific solutions for your less critical services.
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Definitely heavy as a neutron star! TBH, the coolest looking one (to me at least) is/was Indigo 2. Both green and purple one! They ARE more manageable.
Systemd is more than simply init system and has been that since it’s beginnings.
you should check out http://gpu.rocks/ pretty awesome GPGPU js library.
3) Shipping is cheap.

No, thats an externality you don't care about. Its not cheap in social consequence terms. hauling food by road from centralized warehouses is a twofold sin. Firstly, its food miles and NO, CO2 and other burdens. Secondly, its why e coli spreads across the USA: too much centralisation of distribution.

"cheap" food is actually at root, the problem. It needs to be affordable, but high quality. We're stuck on cheap, which drives to cheetos.
I spent a summer (intern) working at the Nevada Test Site and visited the Sedan crater when I was there (my supervisor gave me the 'nickel tour' as he called it).

He said that one of the goals of the Sedan test was to test the feasibility of using nuclear weapons to create a replacement for the Panama canal across the lower part of Mexico "in a hurry." I don't know what their conclusion was but I remain skeptical that such a plan had any merit.

I read that in the early 2000's NASA went back over this test as part of an effort to evaluate what the impact of a nuclear weapon would be as an asteroid defense. And caveat the issue of turning one asteroid into a dozen, they concluded that significant delta-V could be added to an asteroid in this way.
I'm speaking out of my expertise here, but I think he's referring to Godel's incompleteness theorum/the halting problem, when he says 'no basis'.
As one of a small group of maintainers of the build tools of our most complex app, I can concur with this. Yesterday I spent 4 hours fixing a single build/parse issue between dev and prod.

I also spent just 1 hour completing multiple RFCs in another app built with create-react-app using redux/connect as a purely syntactic-sugar state propagation layer.

I love the complexity and feeling of fulfillment for triumphing in the former scenario, but it is definitely much more of a distraction than anything else.
Not all of the blasts were supposed to be big. This one yielded about 80 times less energy than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima.

https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/possibleinborndogwoodclubgall

That may be the most provocative of them all today.

What would be the response to a nuclear power using one of these in combat? Escalation? Retaliation in kind? The damage to the surrounding environment could be small, especially if used to target submarines and ships.

Escalation to the level of H-bombs would mean WWIII. No response demonstrates "weakness." Tit-for-tat seems the most likely outcome, with gradual escalation along the way.

It's far from clear how long that gradual escalation phase could last, but it could be a long time indeed. The first use of low-yield nuclear weapons in combat lays the groundwork for their use in the next conflict.
If you care about compile-time checking (you would, if you work on medium to large applications) then JSX (or the TypeScript variant, TSX) is much better because it catches invalid or mistyped attribute names etc.
Oh yeah. Systemd and containers. Two technologies certain militant technical users love to complaint about :-)

Do we really need a non-OCi image format and tool chain here?! I get immutability benefits, district benefits, and isolation. having a completely separate toolchain makes no sense to me...

Containers will be in this role, but fragmentation will only make that process slower and more painful.

I for one salute our future k8s kubelet overlords.
Generally speaking, it's unlawful to make false representations in the course of doing business. There doesn't necessarily need to be a specific law that says "you can't pretend to be deaf", because if you misrepresent such facts, you are very likely exposing a lot of legal attack surface.

IANAL.
Yes. its the original design model which subsequently moved to China. I don't doubt the design flaws which were in the 1950s model have been overcome, but man. The Strontium90 burden.. thats one sick sad story.
The GDPR doesn't actually change much, and here is why
Ah, if it was sarcasm then apologies - it's not something that one can easily pick up through text.
True, there are QALY arguments for even unreliable SDVs (and also for other things like abolishing speed limits or allowing people to continue to operate older vehicles currently deemed unroadworthy if they can't afford better), but they're dependent on how you adjust for quality and at best orthogonal to standard safety arguments.

> But ultimately we do accept the fatility rates caused by all drivers and not just the good ones as a cost of having individual transportation. If we didn't only teetotalers would be allowed to operate cars to remove one risk factor. And we also accept the risk of inexperienced drivers because we have to teach them eventually, the same reasoning can be applied to autonomous cars (just substitute teaching with data gathering)

We don't accept the fatality rates caused by all drivers; we confiscate the licenses of or jail bad drivers on a regular basis, and we certainly don't permit drivers being taught to operate commercially. Driver accountability for accidents is part of the social contract that permits individual transportation despite its cost; an corollary of that is that the accident rate is higher than we believe it should be, and that some degree of negligence is involved in the current level of accidents which it would seem unreasonable to exonerate corporations from if they were to replicate them using software.
And on a purely practical basis, if you estimate SDV safety based on narrowly beating the mean accident rate across all drivers in tests, and then early commercial adoption tends to be replacing experienced commercial drivers who drive the most miles with the fewest incidents first, you're certainly going to push that accident rate up in the short run even without additional miles driven.
The truth is that the only way to really appreciate the sound of a nuclear detonation is to be blown away by it. Literally. When you see tanks being flipped over, and bridges being collapsed, that’s the “sound” in the form of a mach stem trashing it. If you’re close enough to really appreciate it, you’re already dead.
I agree with all your points. However, I believe there are additional costs to land farming like insects, weather damage, etc. So, yes, the sun is free but that comes with the caveats of the elements. Not sure how much crop is lost due to insects/drought/other factors but perhaps this helps.
Finding beta users for a new project
Suggestion: Show an example of the type of advice that it can automatically give on the homepage. I clicked through to the homepage but didn't necessarily believe that the automated advice could be great so I wasn't motivated enough to dig up a policy of mine and upload. Would be great to see the sort of advice/info it can give, presented as soon as you hit the advice page.
Also, enetically modified seeds and engineered fertilizer increase yield and decrease time between harvest among other efficiencies.

Seems like that’s the best place to start for improving farming. Make crops that yield more for less.
I think both React and Vue become difficult when working with complicated UIs. If you're already using Vue or React, these simple articles are not comprehensive enough to be convincing.

React and Vue basically manage state the same way, which is 90% of what you'll be doing in these libraries.

And just like in React, default state management is insufficient in Vue.
Agreed. Personally, I much prefer ClojureScript's approach to react, which is to use native vectors combined with keywords. So a component could be declared like this example from the re-frame framework.
[:div.garbage-bin
:on-click #(re-frame.core/dispatch [:delete-item item-id])]
Easier to read, no need for an extra compile step or any non-native syntax.
One of the philosophies at Netflix was that it should be as easy to cancel as it is to sign up, because you should respect your customers enough not to annoy them into keeping your service.

Honestly, it always seemed to me that it was actually easier to cancel than the sign up.
I don't think that dissent is harassment.

I think a very narrow segment of speech is harassment, namely that people deserve less because of their religion, race, gender or sexuality. I'm surprised you view this as contentious.
Apple really used Intel well.
They used them to squeeze a better deal from QC then pitted them against each other if frivolous lawsuits to get even better terms and then dumped Intel after using and abusing it.
The only thing left for Intel is to the walk of shame.
Will this apply to bank accounts and credit cards? That would be fantastic.
Police raided my home in South Australia. It was drug related, and I was dealing, so fair enough. They later dropped the charges, nolle prosequi.

But did they have to make such a mess? I mean, they had had my keys and still busted open locks, pulled everything out of everything and threw it across the room, upturned everything that wasn't bolted down. And they still didn't find some of the drugs in plain sight, and a substantial amount of cash that was barely hidden.

More recently they forced their way in to my home Sunday night at 12am and dragged me off before I had a chance to get out of my pajamas to charge me with assault on allegations I pushed someone over in to 2 feet of fresh snow. Held me till midday Monday forcing me to miss a day at work and appear in court in my bed clothes. Yeah, they dropped those charges too.

The police are the enemy. And an incompetent, gun wielding, violent enemy immune to the law.
Are you sure? evolution is pretty darn simple. just not trying the same solution twice is a pretty big speedup.
The use of 'smart drugs' is on the rise
A rather breathless article. The research paper "The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Submodular Function" is at https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~yaron/papers/adaptive_sampl...

Abstract: In this paper we study the adaptive complexity of submodular optimization. Informally, the adaptive complexity of a problem is the minimal number of sequential rounds required to achieve a constant factor approximation when polynomially-many queries can be executed in parallel at each round. Adaptivity is a fundamental concept that is heavily studied in computer science, largely due to the need for parallelizing computation. Somewhat surprisingly, very little is known about adaptivity in submodular optimization. For the canonical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint, to the best of our knowledge, all that is known to date is that the adaptive complexity is between 1 and Ω(n). Our main result in this paper is a tight characterization showing that the adaptive complexity of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint is ̃Θ(log n)
You can have undo for free using React as well. React doesn't care about how you manage your state changes, and it will selectively render only the parts of your app that changed.
If I need to test on such things does that mean I can write code like the following?

var a = [];
a[0] = (a[0]+"")[1];
a[1] = (a[1]+"")[2];
`${a[0]}${(!"" + "")[3]}${(!"" + "")[1]}${a[1]}`;

Anyone who couldn't easily read it deserves to be fired on the spot.
CAT Reserves are not IBNR...IBNR would, e.g., be after the CAT event happens, but before the claims are reported. I'd like to see a definition that says otherwise!
Google’s Duplex AI could kill the call center
No we produce plenty of food, full stop. Starvation is a distribution problem, not a production problem, and most commonly a local distribution problem.
The sheat must include screen size, resoultion, aspect and weight to be of utility to me. The gen of cpu matters much less than these.
Border Patrol Mother with Child SEPARARATED -Caught Smuggling $158k of Meth
another example of tried overreach: a branch of the federal police, "staatsschutz", raided the posteo office in 2013 and claimed to have a warrant to seize _everything_. posteo immediatedly pushed back and it turned out that the police only had a warrant for a single document [0](in german, tho). like the investigating officers wouldn't be aware of this. it's their modus operandi.

what they also like to do is to adjust events in hindsight such that it suits their story. the case I have in mind concerns the NRW state police, but that, too, seems to be common strategy. in this case, which is very recent, a protester was arrested and police claimed, in their official report, that the protester physically assaulted the officer and resisted arrest. the protester disputed this, but without evidence would not have stood a chance in court. moreover, the protester was badly injured during the whole ordeal. now a video turns up and what do you see?: no physical assault, no resistance [1](also in german). in such cases, i am glad that we live in the age of mobile phones, where anyone can take recordings.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posteo
[1] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wuppertal-fall-von-polize...
An application that:

1) Aggregates transactions from my checking accounts and credit cards

2) Summarizes them into daily net cash inflow or outflow broken down by institution and account

3) Creates an all-day event in a private calendar in my google calendar account where for each day:

The event name is the net inflow or outflow (event color is red or green depending on net in floe or outflow.

The event body is text that shows institutions, accounts with their balances nested underneath, and transactions nested underneath the accounts.
This is going to be a drop in the ocean but Vue is the bomb! It made perfect sense, and that's a big compliment for a framework.

For me personally it took the MVC into SPA territory, got rid of all the muck that's jQuery and replaced it with a fun, easy to design UIs with platform.

If you ask me it's biggest achievement is that it put design, experience and interaction on the same level, literally - thanks to .Vue files :) Consolidating them just made sense.
I don't think that's it. I think Netflix keep these headline shows running regardless of data, so they can advertise that show as a benefit of the platform and grow subscriptions. I think they're afraid they won't be able to produce another hit like HOC again.
Maintaining two code bases is not a big deal. Check them both out side by side. There they are right in front of you. Is sold as a bigger problem than it really is.
Americans Are Having Fewer Babies
If you're using arrow functions for handlers I suspect your components are difficult to work with, unless they are very simple? Why not abstract logic to a function and bind it? That's totally normal for Javascript.
The second thing my acquaintances who enlisted cited was retiring from military with half pay after 20 years of service and access to veterans’ benefits which in hindsight looks pretty nice for most non professional career options otherwise.
Okay - that makes sense.

It's been a while since I looked at things like this but have you done simple stuff like check whether the colour contrast ratio [0] meets WCAG standards?

What about making the orange highlight work when tabbing through the website with the keyboard?

What about having a Skip Navigation / Skip to Content link? [1]

0: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

1: https://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/
I recently switched from Ring to the Nest Hello, and I was able to cancel my subscription directly from the Ring app on my phone.
>You can argue that the evils of race-based discrimination against black families ended long enough ago that they are no longer felt today

Nobody can credibly argue this, and it isn't the argument I'm making.

> but I don't see how you can argue that they are, but that we are obligated to do nothing about them.

I'm not arguing that. I'm saying that we need help all people who are suffering in poverty, regardless of whether that resulted from race-based discrimination or any other social-ill, which are many.

>By the logic you're employing, there has been no point in the history of the US where any kind of active support for black families has been justifiable;

I'm saying its always wrong to treat people different based on the color of their skin, no matter what your intention or goal.

>Why is it OK to discriminate against children born to families of means, but not to discriminate against non-minority families?

Because wealth and power are not immutable characteristics. By definition the wealthy and the powerful have advantages is society. No wealthy and powerful child is suffering because a poor and powerless child got a hand up. Malik Obama doesn't need a hand up, while the white child who lives in a shack in the mountains of Appalachia certainly does.
You kind of ignored and then proved my point. Instead of not using services that are bad you keep using them but instead abstract away your violence and let the government hold them at gunpoint on your new terms.
The other big problem with this story is that they are looking at the retail price in the store and comparing it to a retail price that doesn't include the food distribution system.

Farmers get a ridiculously small percentage of the retail price on food. The price per pound in a store is usually comparable (same order of magnitude) to the wholesale price per ton.

The production cost for this tech is probably at least 10X traditional farming. It makes no sense because we have too much food. The biggest nutritional problem in society is obesity and we burn 1/3 of our corn crop on ethanol and feed a good part of the rest (and soy) to cattle and pigs because there is nothing else to do with it.
It’s also a not giving a shit problem in many cases. Everyone starving isn’t in a war zone or subject to epic corruption and seizure of goods. Some people starve and go malnourished in the US and other wealthy countries for lack of anyone really caring. A hard problem to hide not giving a shit behind is the kiss of death.
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As a non-American, while I do see the need for such tests during the Cold War, the way America ruined pristine pacific islands just saddens me. They should’ve been held accountable for that but alas better them than the USSR
It's not the definite article per se. It's just that The Tortoise is specifically The Tortoise all throught the book, just as is in Lewis Carroll. Not getting that, I don't really believe anyone could have been getting the spirit of the book at all, no matter how all my downvoters may feel about it.
When I was in Boy Scouts, the older scouts would always tell us there was a cola machine at the top of a local peak stocked with something called Inca Kola.

Of course, there was no such thing, but I was surprised to later learn that Inca Kola is real.