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I don't think this essay is anti-intellectual at all. I think it is an exploration of the longstanding philosophical problem of trying to rationally design a world for irrational beings. The excerpt from Dillow on consequentialism brings to mind an idea from James Scott: that elites control policy discussions by limiting the accepted terms of the argument to legible, rationalizable factors - generally economic and technocratic variables visible from a top-down view. This can place serious limits on our access to the store of human knowledge embedded in emotion and practice. What we consider "irrational" impulses are sometimes the products of generations of evolutionary tuning that would seem to be feats of engineering brilliance if they came with the proper documentation. Meta-rationality includes exploring the bounds and the weaknesses of the tools in our contemporary rationalist arsenal, as well as searching under the couch cushions of irrationality for the occasional bit of value.
> obvious advantages as a network baseline

Given that they are currently large centralized reactors with very little flexibility, combining them with distributed solar makes no sense.
Yes, terrible for me also.
Indeed, a lot of these conventions are part of most of the platforms' Human Interface Guidelines.
if you care about people then yes. if you don't then no.
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Not sure that's "going further". They're two separate choices (despite being related).
> you’re already distracting roughly 50% of your potential readership

If by 50% you mean 100% of the women having trouble making it through an article with multiple instances of "he" not immediately followed by "or she", that's a pretty bold claim.

I suspect the key factor in people's inability to focus on the central point of the article lies in their political persuasion rather than the shape of their genitalia.
DIDlogic is usually much cheaper than Skype. Takes a bit of SIP knowledge to setup.
This looks like an awesome initiative! I think it will be very valuable for people trying to enter the field. I particularly like the clear advice on how to get started doing RL research. Have you considered setting up a forum for the community to share their experiences?
> Maybe we find a better way to deal with nuclear waste than letting it rot in some underground location for centuries.

We have ways, but not much is invested in developing and deploying them due to political reasons (some coming out of mass hysteria, but some that are pretty legit - like ability to weaponize substances involved). Those ways are: alternative reaction chains that produce shorter-living waste; reusing parts of the waste in other industrial applications (e.g. medicine); transmuting some of the waste into shorter-living elements, including ones reusable as fuel for different reactors. Unfortunately, I don't have the number on how much this would cut down the need to store anything long-term.
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Is viber still around? I used to use that.
I don't mean to ban anything. Well, maybe crass billboards like a huge one overlooking a bay not far from where I live, dominating the skyline.

No, I've never seen a Google or FB ad I wish hadn't been there. Sure, how aren't all ads like spam? It sounds to me like you're in advertising. At least, I've never heard someone who wasn't in advertising defend it, promote it, as you do - comparing it to trying to influence friends or loved ones (!), suggesting it's hard to differentiate from that...

Ok well, I'm happy for you that ads aren't a totally malignant presence in your life as they are for so many people, that you fear the absence of helpful ads etc. I eliminated TV, newspaper ads from my life a while ago, have never listened to radio with ads, so most of my days are ad-free. Although I don't get out much. Am no expert, I guess it's up to you to distinguish good from bad, but sure, defining lines between good and bad X isn't easy - and is continually changing, not to mention gamed - that's why we have judges, juries etc, and not computers deciding these things - because the spirit of the law is the important thing, not the letter of the law. Sorry I didn't put enough time into writing this.
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OT, but you are not alone - I also thought it wasn't that good as it was claimed. I've seen it recommended many times on HN.. I can't understand why. Now when I read the title, I immediately think of doors and handles.
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Just pass your own serializer/reviver to JSON.parse/stringify to use something like `{ "$bigint": '0f0a0e...' }`.
Yes. But that's my point. Nuclear waste isn't a huge problem, because there isn't much of it compared to any other kind of waste. It's tricky, because it lives longer, it's harder to neuter, and well... it's radioactive.
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Great article. I suspect that as Apple gets closer to throwing out Intel entirely across their product lines, they'll take care of the problems the author describes.

Aside from what they can fix themselves, they're much better placed to put pressure on app developers than, say, Google or Microsoft, thanks to the tight control they have over the app ecosystem.
Ouch. Apparently €140 million of federal money is spent a year for the Asse clean-up, and they haven't even begun retrieving the 140k barrels yet?
Is it just me or does it seem like this article is trying to teach an organization how to make work appear more meaningful, even though it is the same work and probably not actually any more meaningful, and therefore get away with paying workers less for meaningless work?️
You made the claim first mate.

Don't weasel out of supporting it by asking him to prove a negative as a response.
I would trust a random phisher way more than the real Yahoo.
This is a strange figure. If 12% of power is used on non-compute things, what is the other 88% of power converted into? The computed information?

In my understanding, 100% of the power consumed is converted to heat. Measuring efficiency should have a unit like Gigaflops per Megawatt or something, not a fictional percentage. That way you can also account for hardware getting more energy efficient over time, which is now just barely represented in the numbers. It's hard to get a right unit though, because for instance archive.org has a big data center but focuses on storage instead of processing power.
Yet they're allowed to do so in Germany. It gets on my nerves, but there have even been court decisions to uphold it.
Having an abstraction that transparently switches between fixnums and bignums is fine. This is what Ruby or Python or Lisp languages do. And the abstraction is purposefully a thin one - no one is really hiding that there's fixed-bits integers underneath, because this distinction has huge performance implications.
> then we will pay some money if their feedback is adopted

This would bias your results because users will now provide feedback they think will have more chance of being implemented instead of real feedback.
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It seems to me that aircraft with a lot of automation should have a single big red button to turn it all off.

In most situations, of course, the automation is good, preventing pilot errors like stalling or exceeding safe control inputs, but these are fundamentals that every pilot learns in the first few hours of flight training. Unlike some fighters that are inherently unstable, a 737 can be flown safely without the computer overriding the pilot's control inputs so long as the pilot flies reasonably.

I've had a similar experience in a car. Antilock brakes are designed to override an erroneous control input: braking too hard for the available traction. In the event of a wheel speed sensor malfunction, they can override a reasonable control input: moderate braking well within the limits of the available traction. This is terrifying, and there's no way to override it in the moment. It can, however be overridden in most cars by pulling out the fuse for the ABS.
If you wonder how to execute code via git clone:

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Cloning into 'BEGIN{system("cowsay pwned > \x2fdev\x2ftty")}'...
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Please make sure you have the correct access rights
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If we ignore the device is made by Facebook, it seems to be a decent product. According to a The Verge review the call quality is better compared to competing services.

Being a dedicated device it’s also easier to use for non-technical people (I wouldn’t trust elderly, non-technical people with a Windows laptop and Skype on it, but I’m pretty sure they would be able to use Portal just fine).
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Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID_(computer_science)

But that's just like, the industry's opinion, man.
There’s also Jitsi (https://meet.jit.si/) which works without an app on iOS devices.
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No its not. The civilian nuclear waste issue is vastly overblown compared to the actual danger.

Its almost impossible to solve because people think about it the wrong way, we need a change of understanding.

Just like Oil before it was useful, we need to think of nuclear waste as a resource. It is mostly fuel and a combination of other potentially useful stuff.

We need to be a nuclear society not a chemical society who wants to 'shut away' all the 'waste'.
I don’t think he’s wrong.

Apple and to an extent all tablet makers are treading somewhat uncertain ground here. As far as I can tell, people know what a tablet computer should look like but nobody really knows what a tablet computer should feel like.

Microsoft strangely has perhaps the most experience here, they’ve been meddling with the overlap between a traditional computer experience and one finally embracing new interactions for the longest but it's always been hamstrung by their at best questionable decisions in interface and is design.

Partly by the nature of its marketing the iPad is currently this weird looking slice between phone and all the phone things we did and now do (actually talking to people, fitting in a pocket) and computers where the legacy of the past has meant you can do all these weird unsanctioned things with relative impunity.

Until this point I don’t believe Apple actually cared much about ‘pro’ usage, other than the excuse for higher specs and a bigger price tag. Until then they were for using things up, not making them. As he points out in the article it only became even mildly possible to use iPads seriously to do work with the ability to multi-task, something dating back thirty years on other computers.

In my experience one of the most annoying things about ios and it’s to their credit that it’s not the hardware that drove me mad trying to draw on graphics tablets, is the unwillingness to have applications interact. With a desktop you can just plonk a file down and have it be grabbed by something else, pipe it to a new process and carry on. With iOS there’s this maddening chunking of everything, from just trying to get a text document between programs to attempting to have an image library that isn’t split between various messaging applications and editors.

I realise file systems are hairy and there’s a desire to protect the common person from it but I also wonder if anyone at Apple actually uses the iPads they create to do something like import and retouch a photograph.

I’m sure I don’t know what the real solution is to this, but then again neither do some of the best funded engineering teams on the planet.
Why should I try AWS and pay twice the price I pay in any traditional hosting provider? Don't drink the HN koolaid and thing that trying the latest and greatest will give you any real benefit. The good thing about .NET or Java or any of these seemingly uncool technologies is that they're tried and tested and work just fine.

The real problem with developing in .NET is Windows. Everything else is stellar. Hopefully at some point in the not so distant future Visual Studio will run on Linux and then we will all move to greener pastures.
You don't understand probability
> JavaScript has numbers, that are already used on billions of sites, so that can’t be broken.

For purposes of doing silly things in browsers, sure. But then someone wants to count money with it, and you suddenly have articles on HN about it, and half of their points can be summarized by "watch out for floating point errors". In the rest of industry, the rule of thumb is, "don't use floats for money".

> The choice to only support floating point numbers also makes sense - you have a dynamic language with no type annotations, so you can’t distinguish between 1(an int) and 1(not an int), and as a result you can’t determine whether a given arithmetic operation should be the integer version or the floating point one.

No, it doesn't (at least not for those reasons). Dynamic languages aren't untyped; in those languages, it's the values that have types. I may not know when reading the code whether x has a float value or string value, but I can query for that at runtime. The way to tell whether or not 1 is an int or a float should be by means of functions like is_int() or is_float(). Sane programming languages handle this fine (hint: writing 1 usually means you want an int, writing 1.0 suggests floating point). Hell, even PHP can handle this fine.

At this point I hope that whoever implements bigints in JS realizes that "small" bigints like 123n can be implemented as actual machine integers for much performance gain, and this way we'll get fixnums through a back door.
A calculation I saw a couple of decades ago showed that the entire energy being used by the world then could be powered by a solar array 200 miles on a side.

I think that figure is on the right order, then break that 40,000 sq. mi. into 100 pieces ... and each is 20 miles on a side. Compare that to the amount of sunlit desert in the world. Simple, obvious, self-explanatory.

Of course, the fuel cost of solar is zero. The energy can be created anywhere there's sunlight. Consumed locally. And there's no waste. A threatening vision for the power brokers. They may say anything to have their way.
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Was Morocco "created". I would think its fairer to say that it "evolved".

Though its an interesting question.
I use Google Voice For the same reason!

It‘s even better: it has a free US phone number. So my insurance could call me on that number while I‘m in Japan.
I'm surprised there isn't more "reverse engineering" of YouTube's black box recommender, considering how much money there is to be made by uploading popular videos.

Being able to auto-generate mashups of other videos which get recommended a lot could be incredibly profitable.
Yeah sure, the target audience of charlatans are extremely gullible people. That doesn't mean everything is OK.
You're right, the West is also working on the technologies discussed in the article, like Internet monitoring and facial/gait recognition, and people are concerned about that too. But the West doesn't have a President for life, forced reeducation of Muslims, social credit, a Great Firewall, etc.

Technology's potential to empower tyrants is even more frightening in a society already on the verge of tyranny.
Dijkstra and Scholten's https://www.amazon.com/Predicate-Calculus-Semantics-Monograp... is a good example of what I mean.

The state space is far too large to show a program is correct by constructing all possible processes it could execute. Instead you must show that the program admits no incorrect processes whatsoever, and as far as I know mathematical formalism is the only possible way to do that.

Of course if one just wants to make money, formal correctness is observably of absolutely no importance. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to make money!
How so? It's new sales, not marketshare.
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It's worth noting that at the time for the value of an IP address block was pretty much 0.
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I'm reminded of, of all things, WW2 tanks.

The Russians built a huge volume of very low-quality tanks, expected to go for only a few hundred miles, and to win through superior numbers. Their crews were poorly trained. The designers suggested easy-win improvements, but the brass blocked the changes as it would have impacted production rates.

The Germans built the best-engineered tank the world had ever seen, but its design tradeoffs made it ineffective, and it arrived too late in the war.
Validation issue?
I think the idea is to counter one artificial construct with another. It's been shown that otherwise identical resumes are less likely to be selected when the name is clearly female or minority rather than a common white male name. That would indicate a hiring bias that has nothing to do with ability. Since it's virtually impossible to fix that bias, a common solution is to introduce an opposite bias. Not perfect, but I've never seen a better solution posited. "Just have better hiring managers/practices" doesn't seem to scale.
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I would like to point out that we don't have even classical way of proving something to be cryptographically sound, since we don't know if really P!=NP. Perhaps there is a constructive proof of P!=NP and this will actually let you prove cryptographic strength of something constructively.

And if you are already taking P!=NP as an axiom, what difference it makes that constructivism takes out just another axiom that you assume to be true?
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DKMS is out there for a long time, but it might be useless with closed bootloader.

You and the author of parent comment should read about Librem 5 (it is supported by UBports as well as GNOME and KDE).
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Can you point to an example of using functions to build your project?
In case someone involved in this reads this thread: the document does not specify which LMDB version you tested. I suggest you run your tests with the `mdb.master` branch, i.e. the work towards a future 1.0, and not the stable 0.9 branch. The answers to several of your interrogations will depend on that: with `mdb.master` you can use the VL32 mode which greatly improves usage on 32 bit platforms, and Windows support is much better.

Regarding NFS: I have recently started testing LMDB on NFS v4 and had no issues so far, but with a single process using the database. AFAIK the warning at http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ is only for multiple processes using the DB concurrently. I am still not entirely sure there won't be any mmap-related issues, but so far so good.

Regarding "being careful": this is a very important point. The LMDB API does not hold your hand, it lets you do dangerous things which will result in corruption of your database, which you will discover too late. I suggest writing a wrapper around the API to ensure you are using it correctly. (I wish there was a compile flag like LUA_USE_APICHECK [1] for LMDB, which could help detect problems like this, but there isn't.)

[1] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#4
The way I see it, rationality doesn't choose your values for you, the same way mathematical reasoning doesn't choose your axioms for you. It's not a fixed tool in a sense that we're still discovering its various methods, but it is a tool that should not depend on cultural context - because what works to achieve your goal or correctly predict consequences doesn't change even as your goal might.

Or, in other words, the principle of "garbage in, garbage out" applies.
Here’s why it’s so crucial that we develop better nuclear that we can all live with: before this century is out, there’s good reason to believe that we’ll see almost everyone in the world consuming energy at least as fast as Americans do now.

No, there isn't. EU's emissions/energy use for example has been in steady decline for years now.

Also Americans tend to use an outsized amount of energy. An amount that also peaked around 2008, declining since then, so not even Americans will use as much energy as Americans today do.

My take is as follows: currently nuclear loses with gas + renewables on price alone and is not getting cheaper, while renewables are.

It takes and average of 7 years to build a nuclear power plant. Renewables haven't yet exhausted their price reduction potential so it's safe to say that in these 7 years their price will be even lower.

On top of that cheap energy storage in the form of zinc-air batteries is being deployed today for a price competitive with gas peaker plants. Needless to say its price has been decreasing as well.
This is absolutely the way to go for 99% of devices.

Yes, you should be able to do some kind of override to say "yes I know what I'm doing and I accept the risks".

And... security twonks?