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> my claim is that

People don't care about your claims - you want to change fundamental parts of society for a view that perhaps isn't that well thought out. Until your claim is virtually everyone's then assume that many people that came before us with different views than yours on how to "shape societies" have though their things through and conceivably had defensible philosophical positions and benevolent motivations behind them. There's a reason why ACLU fought and fights its battles, sometimes defending deplorable groups like KKK, it's not because they above all else favor obscenities.

> but the minimization of suffering.

All parties everywhere have in some way claimed they are in favor of that. But you wouldn't want other parties, who clearly don't know how to "minimize suffering" properly, minimize your ability to proselytize on HN and elsewhere how to truly minimize suffering. So why should we let you minimize our ability to spread our views on that, as clearly we don't all agree that you know much about minimizing suffering?
A "gentlemen's agreement" that was designed to sustain a nuclear strike...
How can i read the french hacker news without knowing french?
Careful - many years ago one just missed my eye and cut my brow (unplanned overload; no dicking around involved)
That's certainly true. But now that we have the benefit of hindsight, isn't the only reasonable option to start to take the steps to correct the obvious problems?
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I think the -6V connection was simply that the LM383 designers were able to trivially integrate something the automotive industry considered non-trivial due to historical reliance on discrete processes and "build it sturdy" engineering. Nowadays chips are so highly integrated, so cheap, and so ubiquitous that it's hard to imagine dealing with messy power any other way, but it wasn't always so.

I have vague intuition that p-type silicon has lower mobility and worse ohmic-junction performance than n-type silicon. A real semiconductor engineer should verify, but I believe the core of the dig is that the low performance acts like intrinsic protection: the PNPs simply couldn't conduct enough current to destroy themselves, at least not in the multitude of spectacular fashions as the NPNs.
Texas is one of the highest tax states in the union. Simply because there is no income tax does not imply low taxation.

For instance, property taxes in Williamson County (Austin suburb, extremely conservative, are at 3.08% for new construction homes. Compare that to any other state.
Then I'm not sure we are talking about the same things.

Everything in the article and this thread seems consistent with these programs actively running for rich coastal cities to return people or send them to places where their friends have space to spare.. That doesn't sound like Manhattan.

A convergence on rich cities getting more people is a possibility.. But the richer cities are setting precedents, have actual budgets for these things and regulations tend only to increase.
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> Tech companies are serious about liberal politics.

Yes, they do.

> Part of that is ensuring they keep things as center to slightly right as possible

Liberal politics are center-right.

> If the democrats actually won consistently they might start to shift left.

They might, at which point tech companies (and other big firms) would be less likely to support them.
Joke's on you, I'm childless.
It's not bad but why do they feel the need to eat sh? They could have said just that "we pay 4x the going day wage and we want to maximise our profits" instead of that BS: "we don't want to disrupt the labour market so we keep the wages for their own good."
I feel comfortable equating problem solving with optimization, for while we are still living outside of a utopia, any beneficial system that less than perfectly efficient is causing suffering (from an opportunity cost perspective).

Similarly, I feel comfortable treating a drive towards improvement the same I do a drive towards perfection, since without an end goal (perfection), you can't have improvement, since you cannot say if what you're doing is bringing you closer or farther from 'good'.

I do agree with you though that an individual can focus on hyper optimizing their personal life to the point where it is not good from a societal perspective; however, that's is not what I gathered the article was arguing ("Enough of our mania to be the best and the most, he says. It’s time to content ourselves with being average.")
Agreed this can lead to interesting times again in the cpu space.
I guess this can lead to two scenarios : either there are possible improvements that are possible but were not necessary for intel to unleash to be dominant, thus leading to significant improvements (in whichever direction, parallelism, power, cache, price) and compute will be better for the same price thanks to competition or investments won't be worth the perf gains and while prices will go down, performance will stagnate since there won't be much incentive to pay ten times the price for 10% improvements (random BS numbers).
Such is the nature of BGP. Something like SPF (eg: an authorized AS list for an IP block) and DMARC (reporting about who tried to broadcast what IP block and was rejected) would be great, perhaps even have the latter component convey attack info so ISPs could deal with infected clients automatically.

Basic security mechanisms when it comes to large ISP networks are a pipe dream though, instead we get vendors pushing extremely vulnerable Juniper gear cause its reasonably priced, meanwhile these boxes have new root exploits found multiple times a year. None of the vendors give a crap about security, Cisco pays it some lip service (to win gov't contracts) but charges a premium for basic features.
And couldn't do much

It couldn't do much mainly because we don't know what it should be doing (to emulate brain).

In this case, the software challenge is far greater than the hardware challenge.
> Millions have died in wars for us to have what we have today.

Some of them fought to prevent us to have what we have today. Many fought for bad causes, many fought essentially for nothing or because things were shit for no gain. There were two sides to every war. Many fought over which autoritarian will controll that village.

There is not reason to struggle unless you really struggle, through learning is good.
Yes, with a "but" the size of celestial bodies: it's a herculean effort. Witness how long IPv6 has taken to obtain traction (and the lack of any traction on DNSSEC, and the resulting DNS over HTTP shims). These are improvements that occur over years, if not decades and require substantial human and financial resources to deliver on.
> If we only have a partial halting oracle, we still get a speed up by eliminating the non-halting programs that can be identified by our partial oracle.

This is wrong on so many levels that the entire rest of the essay becomes nonsense.
Its not as though our domestic technology vendors care about security. JunOS is constantly having new vulnerabilities found, and Cisco ain't much better, but charges a premium price as they are viewed as the market leader and pay some lip service to security.
The internet is in an uncomfortable position.

On one hand, users hate more intrusive ads.

On the other hand, if some people on the internet show intrusive ads while others dont, it's the people who show intrusive ads who will end up making most profit.

Google is trying to use their monopoly position to break out of that cycle.
How could an article like this be anything but a long winded ramble?
The worst part about this is that there is an existing thread from 2013 directly on the site linked.
You're probably getting other exposures like BPA from the plastic water bottles.
Google's primary business is selling ads but they ad-block any website they consider "abusive"? How does that make sense? What stops them blocking all ads except Google ads?
"ought to be" under what assumption? Prolog is known not to be purely declarative. If you wish for such behavior use Datalog. If you use a purely declarative language you will run into restrictions that you won't face with Prolog. it's a trade off really.
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No, it's the chemical reaction that the oil plants use, not the owners of the said plants. See how silly that sounds?

You can't assert that every PoS system is vulnerable to a grinding attack without specifying what the attack is. Every PoW system has a centralization of mining problem due to economy of scale. Now prove that isn't true.
For a native 6502 compiler (to a VM similar to the PLASMA one), see FastBasic: https://github.com/dmsc/fastbasic
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Maybe.. the hypothesis is whether these algorithm problem solving whiteboard interviews test and predict job performance. Plenty of people have argued that they don't. The anecdotal evidence is that they don't.. because the people who fail these interviews are still gainfully employed elsewhere in tech jobs. Google should have some evidence that they do, or else it's a waste of time (although not necessarily for all jobs). I don't disagree with these whiteboard problem solving interviews because they test basically whether you can think like a computer scientist which may be the primary skill they want. There must be a correlation between thinks like a computer scientist and can program. But I think there are plenty of folks who can program even though they don't think like a computer scientist.
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I used to be confused about how both fission and fusion can release energy.

It turns out elements lighter than Iron release energy when they combine (fusion), and elements heavier than Iron release it when they split (fission). So for any element, it only releases energy as it gets closer to becoming Iron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak
The term "beer enthusiast" was actually used in the Guardian article that was originally submitted--it appears nowhere in the Ars Technical article.
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I believe any current studies focused mostly on brain engagements on screen vs book. We know that there are studies that indicate that reading fiction engages the brain in such a way that it is speculated a given reader literally experiences the fiction as if it were real life.
I'm somewhat of the opinion that something that overt was unnecessary, and so while it definitely could have been, I'm not sure it was.

"<Nation X> directly manipulated votes" is one thing, and very blatantly illegal. "<Nation X> convinced a bunch of people to vote against their interests and divide the US" is another, and while unethical, dishonest, and certainly not good, it's not clear to me that it's actually illegal. Besides, if you convince them once, they'll probably stick with the flawed information and voting pattern, which is a better return on investment.

I'm not from the US though, so... maybe I'm not clear on how easy it would be for people to collaborate and cover something like that up.
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Anecdotally, I relearned[0] to read and write in Arabic in 2016. When I started I could just recognize some letters off-hand and when I stopped I had the reading ability of a six year old[1]. I excelled quite rapidly and it's coincidentally tied to a time of intense emotional and intellectual development for me.

Even my skills in programming have doubled or tripled during that time. To the point where the then-CTO of the company picked it and brought it up. I went out and doubled my salary and job responsibilities a year later.

I'm not sure if it's related to the reading, or if the reading was a side-effect of it, but I thought I'd share.

[0] I attended a weekly class for several months when I was 8 but we didn't get through half of a first grade book.

[1] Although I can make out the letters and can write pretty good too, it takes me longer than usual and I usually can't make sense of 60% of what I'm reading because written Arabic is in the very formal MSA and I'm only familiar with a regional dialect. A comparison to this would be someone who's only familiar with NY-borough slang trying to make sense of Shakespeare.
Ha, I used to post there all the time, still do once in a while. Alas, it's an old-style PHPBB system with no voting, so it gets to be harder to find the good content and keep track of discussions you've been in. And yes, it's a good place to get the pulse of what "Red Team" is thinking in general, and you can get banned for being too Blue.
> It is also that you can always enter a password.

If you remember it. You either have to use weaker passwords (for example, same password on several sites) or you won't be able to remember them. Or you can write them down which is pretty secure, but is not it easier just to carry a hardware key instead of a notepad with passwords?

Also, once I accidentaly deleted Latin keyboard layout in Linux (yes, it is easy). And having only Russian layout I was unable to enter the password to log in (and even if I could I wouln't be able to use the console). I tried to use on-screen keyboard, but in Debian it cannot input characters not present in keyboard layout.
Very hostile to deaf and handicapped folks once they’ve passed all four segments: The interview process
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These items go to a vote. I, like the commenter you're responding to, appreciate this mobility and community choice. That a smaller set of citizens can choose abatements at their own expense is much better than it being done in a capital far away. Many times it's great that self-determinism, be it propositions, bonds, sports teams, taxes, etc, is welcomed at the community level and is always scary when curbed by larger entities. There are levels and limitations of course, but to say the community's financial choices here should be outlawed is unfair.
Some of us have the benefit of using 80's era Sequoia AVC Advantages to vote on. No touchscreen and no network.
The USTA (the telecoms) position was that the lower decision should be vacated as moot: Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch were indeed siding with the telecoms by being in favor of granting cert and vacating the circuit court decision.

The (now-surviving) decision upholding the previous FCC order is an inconvenience for the telecoms as it's more or less a roadmap for reintroducing the FCC's previous rules under a Commission with a different makeup. Of course the ideal for them would be to have the case flatly overturned, that was obviously not in the cards once the FCC reversed itself. Vacating the decision would be the next best option (and, to be fair, one that's perfectly defensible as a proper course of action for the Court to take).

It was also the new position of the FCC itself, for fairly clear reasons. So it's an interesting case where both parties, by the time of the actual decision, agreed on what they wanted the Court to do (and didn't get it).

From the USTA's latest filing:

> The petitions for a writ of certiorari should be granted, the decision below vacated, and the case remanded for the court of appeals to dismiss the petitions for review as moot.
It's more likely to indicate that humans are irrational and easily confused.
Maybe you just got a low offer and didn't perform to the standard they expected. Sometimes the companies give a lower offer because you didn't perform at the level they were expecting. (e.g. Performing at senior instead of staff)

Check out levels.fyi.
Intel is currently worth 1/5 of Apple 1 Trillion. I guess they may want to grow by 20%, but not at the price of exclusivity oof the 1bn device market chip exclusivity - however I'm not sure anyone has an iphone because it's the best benchmark performing phone. What's next, overclocking, liquid-chilled phones ? (after looking at it for fun, yes, it does seem to exist, just look up liquid cooling gaming phone ).
What do you mean exactly by journaling? Do you mean that it supports an append mode or something else?
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Well, the definition given specifically says stronger than Turing Machines, what you're describing is more what I hoped the article would be about, making certain theoretical oracle machine algorithms partially realizable by putting a human in the loop, to e.g. come up with lower bounds on Chaitin's constant.
Is this interconnect IP like or something else entirely? What’s the story on time delays? Why source routing?
This is one of the reasons TLS/SSL and crypto is so amazingly important.

Go ahead, monkey around with BGP, since I have the public key of the recipient of my packets I can detect this and block any type of misdirection.
If reading about Wesley Crusher makes you and I function perceptibly worse, I would argue that doing so is the opposite of striving for perfection. We, as biologically limited beings, have to understand that perfection for robots is different than perfection for people, and that we need to optimize towards being the best possible human we can.

As an aside, I think one of the points of that article was the the parents were inflating a bunch of achievements.
Not just elected officials, I'll also include in police officers, judges, juries, and, really, pretty much all members of the public in the list of people who would greatly benefit from such an experience.
Why is it wrong? If the oracle can only identify a certain class of nonterminating programs, you still get a speed up by doing so.
I think Mono Winforms is a total rewrite of the Windows Winforms. There is no shared code.
> these views were shared on Reddit less frequently

Again, great! Let’s repeat this outcome for as many platforms as possible.
I don't trust this study. They have no reason to suspect childhood obesity is caused by exhaust fumes and they don't have any explanation. It also says that the cause "isn't likely to be variations in diet." As a former obese child, that's laughable bullshit!
This tool is great!

It is helping a lot on credentials sharing on an iberian IT team.
I agree that enlightening isn't interesting for most. It But Even if the Enlightenment experience was interesting to most people, i get the feeling it would be too hard, out of reach for most.

But the research about it seems to be advancing nicely(Gary weber is a good starting source for that too), and the problem of the extreme cost of the relevant tool for training/research - the fmri - may be soon solved by a startup, openwatr.

So maybe this could still be a part of the solution to the resource depletion problem.
Stock market "correction" != recession.

It's also not even remotely clear to me that a plot of 500 of the largest corporations in the US SHOULDN'T be growing extremely/exponentially fast.
As long as you make new neural connections your brain is going to grow[0]. An anecdotal fact which I heard many years ago was that adding a new perspective to look at something is like increasing your IQ by 10-20 points. Simply reading a lot of text within your comfort zone is not going to increase your mental capacity.

[0]https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung
The USSR accomplished quite a bit coming from a nation of malnourished serfs that were formerly used as cannon fodder.

Breaking up the existing communes and murdering the Soviets (then using their name) were terrible things, but its impressive that a landlocked country with minimal infrastructure and an uneducated populace could fight off Germany and liberate most of Northern Europe, push the bounds of science, and be a world power for a number of decades despite having half the populace of the other world power of that era.
1. Minimum Android version?

2. Will it be available in F-Droid?
No doubt. I didn't mean to trivialize the effort required to address the existing issues with scaling and securing the global Internet.
> and if it were it would surely involve esoteric physics like black holes, not anything readily available to human brains.

To be fair, until we know in detail how brains work, we can't eliminate the possibility that esoteric physics are key to the their operation; we only rule that out with an adequate model that does not invoke such physics.
I think this conclusion really works for both physical and social infrastructure. It's cool to work on either, but it's cooler if you don't feel like being an unpaid volunteer in someone else's business.
You could also look at various subreddits...
Do you think this discussion or the OP is about "[r]aw number crunching performance" ?
Probably dumb question... and one I probably knew the answer to at some stage... why does the equation showing the conversion from mass to energy involve the constant of the speed of light?
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Sure, but the OP was talking about personal “fear” not public policy. I absolutely agree these should be investigated for public policy purposes because of tve potential aggregate effect. But don’t worry about it.
I think it's pretty natural that first-mover projects quickly become obsolete. The problem with ITER, from what I know, is that it was set up in a very political way and is therefore years behind of where it could be if it had been run more efficiently.
Perhaps this is why we might lose the battle on climate change. Its the ultimate tragedy of the commons and we are genuinely all in it together.

It takes not government action, but global action. Why would producers in e.g. Germany put up with a carbon tax (or a methane tax) if producers in the US have their fingers in their ears, denying that climate change is a thing at all?

I believe the only way action will ever happen is if a global enforcement agency imposes environmental taxes on the world and backs it up with force. Its hard to even imagine what the world would look like as something like that comes to pass.

At the same time its a good thing to be preparing some solutions, e.g. carbon capture, seaweed eating cows. Just in case the world comes to its senses and decides to actually deploy/enforce said solutions.
It would probably make more sense for them to support Android/Linux applications on Windows rather than trying to make Windows applications work on Linux. Especially since they're continuing to work on slimming down Windows and getting to run efficiently on ARM, I don't see why they would invest any resources into Linux on the desktop.
Why are you so upset that an irreligious person has a small platform to discuss their views? They aren't forcing you to change your views, and the religious are still by far the majority that are pushing for growth at all costs. Yet you actively hope for a return to the time when irreligious views are silenced, seemingly just because they disagree with you.
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Market corrections and recessions aren't the same thing, the chart you posted clearly shows Black Monday as not being a result of a recession. A rebalancing of the stock market at large doesn't necessarily result in mass unemployment, followed by mass foreclosure and so on.
the typing kind of defeats the whole "understand what it feels like to work with you on a daily basis" goal.
I said what I meant - obviously - so you didn't 'fix' anything.

I was arguing against your suggestion that inequality - and the ways in which society is gendered to the disadvantage of women in particular - is a natural part of 'life' that we should just fatalistically reconcile ourselves to. Maybe I was wrong, and you don't object to equality on empirical grounds (although perhaps they were never serious, anyway), but because you're an anti-egalitarian reactionary.