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> Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem

His vision of the future is bleak in the extreme. His characters are naively constructed and occasionally make incomprehensible choices.

The worst sin is he's unsure whether he wants to write hard sci-fi or just mostly "fi" with a thin veneer of "sci". Occasionally he seems like he wants to stick to solid science with a few extra assumptions (in the best tradition of hard sci-fi); but then he veers off into some cartoonish "science" that's quite jarring. In the end, you get the impression he just tries to brag about how much science he "understands".

In the end I was reading it the way some folks watch a bad movie - to make fun of it.

If you want cosmic scale hard sci-fi, try Stephen Baxter. He can be a bit dry at times, but that's his only fault.
I don't agree.

The article indicates that intersectionalism is a valid idea, i.e. that we must consider that 'black women' for example will faces systematic challenges that others do not.

However - when intersectionalism becomes the only policy tool, then we're led astray.

The example given is that 50% of letters to editors published in the NYT will be women, even though 75% of the letters written are by men.

The totalitarian intersectionalists need to see equal outcomes, which gets ... well, very ridiculous, very quickly: the NYT is only one policy inch away from mandating that 'published letters' must not only be 50/50 men/women - but also 15% Black, 18% Latino, 65% White, 5% Asian. And also 8% Gay and 92% straight. 10 years ago it would have been absurd to even suggest that NYT letters must be 50/50. Not even 'far left' types I think would be in support of the idea.
How much was it? What’s the powe consumption like?
Whoa, let's not kid ourselves. The US has been a police state for ages. Trump isn't far worse than Obama or Bush.

The entire cold war era where authoritarianism was rampant?
Watergate? Reagan bombing random countries to save face? Your intelligence apparatus running out of control. MKUltra? Gulf of Tonkin? Entire shitshow of crackdowns during Vietnam?

Remember COINTELPRO and Hoover? His name is still plastered all over FBI headquarters

Secret service used to beat the shit out of people who photographed Roosevelt

The "glorious captains of industry" using US state and federal power to crack down on worker's rights protesters in 19th century?

One could both go back into history of US and increase "resolution", filling year after year with a monumental fuckup that cracked down on civil rights.

PS. I personally find Trump exactly as bad as Reagan was. Now watch him be ranked same as Abraham Lincoln in a decade
I've had a Jura at three jobs now and they've all been consistently mediocre. Its espresso is super watery and feels like there's some missing flavor. I strongly prefer my Aeropress for both flavor and the ritual of using it.
I do agree that the information on what WebGPU does and what not isn't clearly available. It's all in the IDL ([1]), where you may notice no API for explicit barriers. We are working on more readable documentation/specification.

> If they do not have explicit barriers within a device then it has to do state tracking, bringing the CPU overhead back into the level of OpenGL and making multithreaded command recording almost useless.

I don't believe this to be correct. We have the state tracking implemented in wgpu-rs, and it's designed from day one to support multi-threaded command recording. Implementation-wise, every command buffer knows which resources it expects in which states, and what states they end up with. When it's submitted, the WebGPU queue inserts necessary transitions into those input states, and it tracks the current state of all resources.

Yes, there is some CPU overhead there for sure, but it's not yet clear how significant it is. Keep in mind that WebGPU has to validate the states, which is roughly the same complexity as deriving those states in the first place, hence our decision to do so.

> WebGPU also has the usual way of allocating memory.

Not directly. Currently, users can create resources and not care about their lifetimes. This is contrary to Vulkan/D3D12 memory allocation with transient resources, which is what your frame graphy library helps with.

[1] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/blob/c1afbe9e88a06aa61f82a1...
This is all too true. These $1200 phones could be amazing portable engineer workstations. I had a Sharp Zaurus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus) at University with a wifi card, and OpenZaurus (Linux based). I could do so much on it.

These days I have an iPad Pro as well, and it's sort of depressing. It could be such a better productivity tool if it wasn't crippled by a "mobile" OS.
Fortunately, this is entirely optional. The "privacy.resistFingerprinting" option bundles a set of features that make it more difficult for sites to uniquely identify the user at a cost to usability. It's up to each user to determine whether that usability cost is worth the privacy improvements. On Firefox, it's an opt-in setting, off by default.
You're right. I totally overlooked that.
Based on other comments, and my own very limited knowledge of the relevant physics, there's no way to do this from Earth; all of the black holes (and binary block hole systems) are too far away for us to reliably aim a laser beam to slingshot around the black hole as is being described.

But the general form of what you're describing isn't any more outlandish than a time capsule, i.e. 'transmitting information into the future'.

But no, sorry, you can't see the past with the paucity of black holes near the Earth (and ignoring all of the other impediments to such a thing happening).
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to HN? We're trying for something higher-quality than that on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
>FireFox is not an option. It is an order of magniturd slower than Chrome.

This is objectively false.
I have to confess I dug into the comments before I realized this wasn't St. Credzero and having made a mental note go to look him up.
I have tried a bluetooth keyboard and at least for text editing it helps immensely. (Does a mouse do anything iOS?) In the end the iPad plus keyboard is clunky enough that i end up preferring a small laptop. Admittedly, I am not a typical user.
Thanks for the heads up. There's lots of things we're working to improve.
> They're suggesting there's something significant here, but aren't telling me what it is.

Yeah,and they won't, because until and unless the DoJ indicts, they aren't likely to tell anyone what the FBI specifically was concerned about.

(Though the indication of attempts to intimidate people involved in business transactions Shkreli opposed seem the most obvious thing for the FBI to look into.)
I fully agree. What was the #1 factor for you to join the program?
And I and I, if you're qualia computing
Just based on a plain reading of the Civil Rights Act of 64, I don't see how this practice is considered legal.

> It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer 2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, or to classify or refer for employment any individual on the basis of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

It's interesting how very clear language, like the above, can be eroded away over the years by a hundred well-meaning court decisions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but sounds like you are thinking of welding in a factory?

I know a lot of welding is repairing damaged equipment. Especially older or already Jerry-rigged devices. I'd imagine it would be extremely difficult and expensive to develop an AI and a machine that would be adaptable enough to do these sort of projects.

Would construction welders be any less 'non-standardized' than Plumbing or HVAC? I would think welders have to problem solve far more than them for their tasks..
And a lame ending compared to the rest of the trilogy. It's like in the last 50 pages he run out of ideas.
That's fantastic. Didn't know that he has a new book, for the lazy ones, called "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems" [0]. Also pre-ordered!

[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Absurd-Scientific-Real-World-Prob...
82% of buyers, sure, but those were the most motivated buyers. People who have been on waitlists for years, or even (like myself) waiting since the Roadster was announced in 2007. It's a real stretch to assume that the next wave of possible owners are going to put up with buying a car that can't be test driven.
Do you use it even if you plan the trip well in advance? Have you ever run into problems finding a room or being forced to take a room in a distant part of town?
I swear its like we're speaking two different languages. I really don't see the utility in further effort trying to find common ground.
Am I right thinking, that there are no viable alterneratives to Cloudflare Workers on the market at the moment?

And if you decide to move from Cloudflare to another major CDN provider, you will have to change how your product works?

Because that's what StackOverflow and Reddit did. They are not using Cloudflare anymore.

So, does using Cloudflare Workers create a serious vendor lock-in, that makes changing a CDN provider much more costly in the future?

EDIT: I am thinking primarily about Fastly, as it's where the majority of large players move from Cloudflare. Also, about KeyCDN, which can be a much more cost-efficient alternative to the Cloudflare's Enterprise plan.
> A hotel working with Airbnb is like BlockBuster working with Netflix to share customer data. The hotels groups aren't as fucking stupid as Blockbuster was, though.

I don't feel like this analogy applies, however. You can make the argument that hotels are better than AirBnB. It depends on what you value. If you are business traveler (or heck maybe even not), you probably prefer a hotel because you know you are getting a consistent product and experience each time and there is more avenues for you to have your grievances resolved, and quickly -- i.e. "my room stinks I need a new one now" or if you even mention bed bugs the county health department will be there faster than you can post that AirBnB complaint.

If you are a vacationer trying to stay in some obscure location and need somewhere to stay, you probably value AirBnB more.
2 reasons why it happens:

The industry, the speculators, and the guidance from "smart investor people" were massively overoptimistic about the AI and mining trends. All those billions pumped into those niches, failed to translate into datacentre spendings. Server sales very likely went down in 2018.

And the same for mobile – "AI" phones happened to be a bad sell.
Maybe the right way to use Cloud providers is to develop against a "lowest common denominator" of functionality among the big kahunas. Then when of of them breaks, moving your stuff over to one of the others isn't that big a deal.

Be very skeptical of any "differentiating" feature that a Cloud provider tries to sell you.
love it, often found great deals in places like Paris a week out.
Like which? I'd never noticed them doing this, which may mean they were never that great in the first place.
"Sure, but you can get CPUs with 2-4x the number of cores at consumer price points, which is great for people who do streaming or virtualization."

They're also great for people like me who use distros like Gentoo where we're regularly recompiling all the software we use as new versions become available.

My entire recompile cycle now takes literally weeks of non-stop compilation, on my old, slow 2-core laptop. Compiling qtwebkit alone takes several days. If I had 8 or 16 cores on a modern processor, that would be a massive improvement.
Espresso grind (fine). Just slightly finer than I grind for using in an Aeropress. To give an idea, my grinder scale is 1-34. I use 1 for Turkish, she likes 5 in the Moka, I use 6 in my Aeropress. Drip is ~12. French press is ~18.
assuming that we got that right and didn’t just misunderstand what we are seeing (or assuming that there’s no “side channel” to know how to correct for it)

we also can’t get to a black hole, so for this civilisation it’s safe to assume they have a significantly better understanding of physics than us. we don’t know what we don’t know
I did get one great deal on HotelTonight back in 2012, so I got in the habit of checking it regularly but after that Priceline was always cheaper, often by a significant margin.
It's On: House Democrats Introduce Their Promised Net Neutrality Legislation
For NGINX I suggest checking out https://nginxconfig.io/
This is one more great reassign to completely divorce health benefits from employment.

People should not be making the choice between the health and possibly lives of their family and working for an employer destroying the fabric of society.
You could post your startup as a Show HN, linking to your home page. If you do, add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it, and maybe including a link to this blog post. Good luck!
They absolutely have incentive to improve, regardless of what I think. They have a lot of work to do.
The best coffee maker you had was $2 or the best coffee was a cup you bought for $2? If the latter, I'm sure the equipment and training that went into that was in the thousands of dollars range.
Tesla just reminds me so much of what I've read about the story of Enron.

Selling the dream of a bright, new energy & technology future. Finding creative ways to take money now while (maybe) delivering the tangible product later. Not delivering on the promises made by the marketing several years later.
Uhhh, did you forget the only reason they did that was so Washington wouldn't restrict their executive handouts? They wanted to pay their brass and the government started giving them a hard time.

If they could have cashed those checks, paid executive bonuses, AND not paid back their loan; they wouldn't have.
"Fiber" was the codename for the internal rewrite that was completed and delivered as React 16.0.

That rewrite has enabled all of the further functionality that's been implemented in 16.x, including the first stages of "Concurrent Mode".
I am a little suprised that toki pona ("language of good", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona) is not mentioned. It is a language that consists of about 125 words, which aims to make you think about describing complicated subjects. To give an example: The concept "friend" could both be described as "good man" or "man good to me" depending on whether you think your friend is intrinsically good.

Admittedly, the original question is specifically about the English language, but toki pona is a nice experiment related to this.
That will get you much closer but it does ignore the ability to apply creativity to definitions to further reduce them. In the end, a machine-driven technique can give an approximate answer to this problem but it will never be the "perfect" answer.
Goya's black paintings do a pretty good job of depicting the horrors of war, and being timeless as well. At least to me.

I got to see these in the Prado last year. It was a piety emotionally stunning experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings#/media/File:Fr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Paintings#/media/File:La...
I've used it once in Cancun, and got a room way way cheaper than what booking.com and others were displaying.

It was pretty quick and easy.

The room and the hotel were meh.
I wouldn't buy without a test drive either, but having just bought a new car, I didn't test drive it at the dealership: I asked my neighbor around the corner if I could try his out, took it for a spin, and bought the car entirely online except to go to the dealership in person to sign some papers and pick it up...

Admittedly, you can throw a rock and bounce it off two or three Honda CR-Vs in my neighborhood.before it hits the ground, but I do know enough people with Teslas to try one if I wanted to.
Show HN: Fulfilld – Your eco-friendly pantry on cruise control
I had a small flock of about 50 cockerels two years ago. And the bullying issue made me swear never to raise cockerels again. They were petty, jealous, constantly fighting, noisy and downright nosy.

The big shots would peck any insolent runt who tried to steal a bite. They'd sit down to relax after they'd had their fill but still wouldn't allow the smaller birds to feed. I lost quite a number to pecking injuries and outright starvation - in a cage filled with food.

I however enjoyed turning the bullies into the bullied by isolating them for a few days and reintroducing them.

Broilers on the other hand were a joy to own. All they cared for was food, water and a clean, dry spot to rest. It's a pity they shit too much.
Targeting.

If you know someone goes to London every November, your targeting return just went up 100x.
Ah yes, Media Access Control is my favorite operating system.
That might be fun and useful, the reality is neither (https://dentacoin.com) -- it's literally your dental records on the blockchain for some reason. It's been top-100 in the coinmarketcap rankings for ages.
I travel a lot. And there is no hotel I am aware of that requires you to physically check out at the front desk. Unless they have old school keys, you just leave. No perks program needed.
Those companies have largely failed to execute for the last ten years on EVs and their current offerings are still worse than Tesla in nearly every category.

Tesla seems to get disproportionately negative press - they just announced the 35k model the media had been complaining about not existing for years and now they're on to something else.

The dealership model does the existing manufacturers a serious disservice along with lack of charging infrastructure.

Tesla could still fail, but I doubt it'll be from competition.
Apparently dang doesn't like my comment and thinks its 'unsubstantive' but doesn't say why and keeps flagging my replies. I guess a negative opinion of Airbnb doesn't fly here. No doubt this will be flagged too.
Safe spaces sound great in theory. In reality they are a mechanism/excuse used to exclude, discriminate, bully, gaslight, physically assault etc. people.
Why Does Pepperoni Curl?
What does 0100 actually do? Is it not supposed to be 64_{10}?
Sorry for the double post, I had another thought here.

The value trade-off you're suggesting is that the time and effort required to set up this process structure, and shift everyone's work habits over to this, is worth it in... maintenance?... at some point? Reduced risk of some sort?

This seems like a complicated position to argue, can you be any more specific about where and how you see this type of exacting process adding business value?
When you negotiate at a dealership the dealership is deciding how small of a margin they're willing to take. Removing the dealerships means removing this added margin that you're negotiating against.
There's no way the government can avoid doing that. The job of any regulator is to choose winners and losers, to keep things balanced.

The problem is that in this case, the government chose to bail out the giant entities that caused the problem, and totally ignore the individual citizens who were really harmed by it.
I've gotten back in touch with various people over the years. I can't predict which of the couple hundred people I will have a reason to reach out to in the future. But I know I'll inevitably be happy to be connected to this or that person on Facebook when I pick up a similar hobby or visit a certain place or go looking for some new type of job, etc.

And no, obviously not ever person I know is worth emailing or calling on the phone on some regular basis. That doesn't mean I don't want to know them.
> Usually step 1 in installing software from external developer is "get my PGP key imported" [0].

Even #%@! Oracle does it:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

I wonder what’s the point of the PGP key then.
Hello Gmail users! :)
Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
Tell that to people who bought in January of last year :) some of that shelf-stable macaroni would have held its value better.
All of them, really. Both C and C++ have made technically breaking changes. This isn’t to denegrate them, of course! It’s that the reality is that “no breakage” is literally impossible. It’s a spectrum, and about the experience.
I think that's a given. Generated code isn't even... generated by including a header. (I'm assuming you're thinking of templates.)

You need use site "caching" to be able to reuse template parsing beyond the parsing step. I think linkers do a little bit of this, but that's after compile time.

Even just caching the parse will probably be a little win in the case of complex C++ headers (esp. system headers with lots of platform defines, etc), but it's unlikely to be a panacea for compile times.

I think the interesting part is what kind of tech can be built on top of the "headers are isolated" parts of the C++ modules proposal. The compiler are people are nothing if not inventive!
Hard to boil it down to just one. The dedicated help in improving the company, the network, and others are the biggest.
So they have a comparative entry level job standard of living. I've found that even the top paying companies when adjusting for cost of living pay similarly to top paying companies in lower expense parts of the country.
What it means to design “AI-First” products
This is what the Irish did, and the typical Irish peasant in the 1st half of the 19th century was about half as well off as the typical American slave

Citation needed

However, there are some historical patterns found in the study of immigrant groups that come with the continued disadvantage of a group. Many of these involve unfair laws. These were eliminated in the US civil rights movement.

That is a very ... optimistic and a very inaccurate representation of the state of American law and law enforcement. Please check out: http://newjimcrow.com/about (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow)
This is the core theme behind why Drive Capital threw down roots in Columbus, Ohio. The talent is there, and they're beginning to see the fruits of their patient investment.
Day Zero is the day that the developers learn about the vulnerability. If that day is the same as the day that the public learns of it, or the day that an attack occurs, then we call it a "zero day vulnerability". We are currently on 94 days since Apple was informed of the bug, making this a 94-day vulnerability.
You really think the "law" is something that is deployed equally? I can think of several other notable people with security clearances who shouldn't have them.
Hah, of course, spoke too soon! And it's by Jeff Atwood!
I got the idea back then from some game devs who used a variation of this technique (though theirs was a queue mechanism for prioritizing disk reads to speed up loading of important assets and defer the rest in the old magnetic days). Anyway, congrats to the react team, really cool.

I am wondering if they plan to abstract it completely so that everyone uses it without even realizing it.