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Honest question, just for the sake of respectful debate, not trying to be obnoxious:

Can you actually derive emergent properties from nth-order thinking? I think they're both fascinating topics, but when I think about emergent properties of human biology, I struggle to imagine how I could have derived them from nth-order logic. To me, emergent properties seem like something you have to observe first, not something that you can reach from any kind of reason. Emergent properties are so awe-inspiring precisely because you can't predict them when you go down a level or two.
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Except the funding that comes from gas taxes.
I live in the Boise, Idaho area. Far from a "coastal elite" location. They are also surprisingly everywhere here, where everyone love their pickup trucks.

Just the other day, I say a Model S as soon as I exited our subdivision. Saw 5 Model X's and another 6 Model S's. So no, not really.
One of the things I notice is that there is not a single Asian male in any of the photos.

If you went into any software office around Oakland, CA or the larger Bay Area now, I would guess that 30-50% (if not more) of the programmers you see would be Asian males.
How long have you been working in tech? Just curious.

You sound like someone who hasn't had much real world experience and thinks AWS or whatever is the best thing because it's the only thing you know.
It seems to me that the ethics board, by including a number of mainstream-politics policy folks (not just James), was an effort to look responsible in the eyes of mainstream politicians and political movements who might seek to regulate them more than an effort to actually seek ethical counsel. Other people have addressed how it seems unlikely that the board would have meaningful understanding of Google's work in the limited schedules they had and be unable to meaningfully apply oversight and produce guidance. If the whole thing was a sham, it is definitely better not to have a sham (an "ethics council" rooted in unethical behavior) than to have one.

And even if it weren't deliberately deceptive, not having an ethics council that wasn't going to work and looking publicly like you have no oversight is still likely better than having one taking up the role of one and causing competitive inhibition (the way certain drugs can physically take the place of biological molecules and prevent them from functioning).
There's a footnote on "unemployed person" with the text "the first author."
I always thought the mystery of why everything going the same way was a bit odd considering our perspective.

It's like having a particle system create a million particles at x=0 with random velocities then measuring a sample at 5000<x<5500 and wondering why everything that goes through that range has a positive x velocity.
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> You'd come back from lunch and need to pull out a notepad and start diagramming to understand the code you are written an hour earlier.

I think this says more about your skill level in programming Perl or programming in general at that time than it does about Perl. Or at least the influences that you learned Perl from.

It's possible to write nearly unreadable code in any language. It's easier to do so in Perl, since it's pretty freeform. It's also not that hard to write very clear code. But you're complaining about your own code. I think perhaps blaming the tool at that point is looking in the wrong place.
I just finished a 2+ week support ticket w/ AWS. We were unable to connect over TLS to several of our instances, because the instance's hostname was not listed on the certificate. This is a niche bug that's trivially fixable if you own the service, but with AWS, it's a lot harder: you're going to need a technical rep who understands x509 — and nobody understands x509.

I've found & reported a bug in RDS whereby spatial indexes just didn't work; merely hinting the server to not use the spatial index would return results, but hinting it to use the spatial index would get nothing. (Spatial indexes were, admittedly, brand new at the time.)

I've had bugs w/ S3: technically the service is up, but trivial GETs from the bucket take 140 seconds to complete, rendering our service effectively down.

I've found & worked w/ AWS to fix a bug in ELB's HTTP handling.

All of these were problems with the service, since in each case it's failing to correctly implement some well-understood protocol. AWS is not perfect. (Still, it is worth it, IMO. But the parent is right: you are trading one set of issues for another, and it's worth knowing that and thinking about it and what is right for you.)
That would be good, since it can enable eventually proper desktop Linux release.
I'll confirm a bias of libertarian, but the argument is based on widely-held concepts.

The fundamental ideas are due process (basic requirement of providing notice as to what is and is not illegal) and equal protection (not having a trapdoor in the law for parties that possess the right knowledge). I'd say that laws should straightforward enough that say 80% of the people affected by them can follow them with a little effort. The current state that most everyone must to pay a lawyer to interpret what they can and cannot do is an ongoing travesty of justice, of the same vein as the racket the NFPA et al are trying to run of prohibiting people from being able to even access the law without paying.

And yes the world is complex, but the entire point of a market economy versus central planning is to encourage complexity to remain outside the kernel so that incorrect or aging models will fail gracefully (creative destruction) rather than calcify and become overprescriptive. Allowing businesses to closely transcribe their specific business practices into long term law directly undermines this.
PostgreSQL now has pluggable table storage
Why didn't I think of that!?
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> Perl6 was a reaction to Perl's loss of mindshare, not its cause.

True, but when your reaction takes 10 years, you lost a lot of ground. When perl6 was started perl was declining but still in serious use.
I recall purchasing two of these in the late 90s for relatively little money. Both cards could work in conjunction and it radically changed how games looked—really amazing how much of a difference it made. I can distinctly recall the difference in crispness, and how disappointing it was that didn’t apply to everything I used or played (3DS Max, CAD, etc).

They were the first thing I ever sold on eBay, sometime around 1999.
Did you read the article? You are not Google. If you ever do really need that kind of redundancy and scale you will have the team to support it, with all the benefits of doing it in-house. No uptime guarantee or web dashboard will ever substitute for simply having people who know what they're doing on staff.

How a company which seems entirely driven by vertical integration is able to convince other companies that outsourcing is the way to go is an absolute mystery to me.
The question is how often is that necessary? Once again the point goes back to the article title. You are not Google. Unless your product is actually large, you probably don't need all of that and even if you do, you can probably just do part of it in the cloud for significantly cheaper and get close to the same result.

This obsession with making something completely bulletproof and scalable is the exact problem they are discussing. You probably don't need it in most cases but just want it. I am guilty of this as well and it is very difficult to avoid doing.
I usually enjoy HN discussions, but this is a pitiful and sad thread. I couldn't be bothered trawling past the responses to the top comment with back seat drivers, and "ooh but I read the 737's flight manual, they fucked up".

Likely 99% of the commentariate here are neither 737 Max pilots, let alone even licensed to fly commercial passenger jets, or even have a pilots license. And no, as much as I love the guy, watching Mentour Pilot does not make you an expert. They have fuck all knowledge about, or even experience, about the sudden cockpit workload that was imposed on these pilots until the point of hull loss. Have some respect. Oh, and you know what, this was Ethiopia's national carrier, I expect these flyers were at the top of their profession and as good a pilot as any other national carrier,
Attitudes I’ve Learnt About Learning Programming
I agree for production because you want to be able to blame someone when autoscaling fails but we trust developers to run applications locally, right? Then why can't we trust them with dev and staging?

By the way what is autoscaling and why are we autoscaling databases? Im guessing the only resource thst autoscales is the bandwidth? Why can't we all get shared access to a fat pipe in production? I was under the impression that products like Google Cloud Spanner have this figured out. What exactly needs to auto scale? Isn't there just one database server in production?

In dev (which is the use case I'm talking about) you should be able to just reset the vm whenever you want, no?
You cannot board the light rail (nor BRT) and present cash. You have to buy an Orca card first, which are available in various locations, but chiefly, none of those locations are inside the light rail or BRT.
> mailing lists are clunky, intuitive, and simply horrible for large discussions

On the contrary, I largely prefer mailing lists for non-code discussions (i.e. things that are not code review or filing bugs). When Swift's mailing lists moved to Discourse I realized that I stopped interacting with it as much because it was more inconvenient to work with (especially on mobile).
April fools was 3 days ago.
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Yes, sprinters on land or water will be more built than distance swimmers/runners.
Nothing wrong with trying to punch above your weight class.
Chump change compared to what was going on in China: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/09/rampant-chinese-i...
You have to buy an Orca card with cash, then pay the fare with the Orca card. It's indirect, and any remaining balance isn't in your pocket. The point is: you can't pay cash at boarding.
and what does "for a second" mean?
You took the train from Gothenburg to Berlin?

Was the portion over the Oresund Bridge by bus then? It is indeed an impressive bridge. You get a good glimpse of it flying out of Copenhagen as well.
>she said there's really no difference and people only see the distinction as being a foreign thing.

Foreign as in the distinction only matters to non-Samoans or that the only difference between Samoans and American-Samoans is that they are technically de jour Foreign?
What if your bot has questions about your bot?
> Rather than getting all swoony about ALEC, wouldn't it make more sense just to fund more countervailing model legislation?

You write as if the legislators are parsers just waiting to gobble up arbitrary input.

According to the article they pass model legislation in large part because it gets them a nice track record for later walks through revolving doors in the private sector.

In your fantasy who is the organization you help to draft models? And what is the high-paying private sector lobbying/consulting job that awaits the legislator who built a track-record by pushing through that org's legislation?
> Nuclear, especially the waste management

I think there's a big misunderstanding of waste that the public has. Even though it is toxic and radioactive the amount of waste matters. For example, if I throw out a coke can of the most toxic stuff on the planet yearly or throw out train loads of waste daily. That's really the comparison we're making with nuclear waste and coal waste. I always get a little ticked off when people ask "what do you do with the waste" because the answer is the same with what you do with coal waste. You bury it. But in this case we have to bury a lot less material (and remember, coal waste is also radioactive and toxic). Even though there is a danger issue difference, let's call it two orders of magnitude, there's a huge difference in scale (>>2 orders of magnitude). Frankly, that matters.

Some side notes:

In France ~15% of their total power comes just from recycled nuclear waste (remember, their entire grid is ~75% nuclear and they have one of the lowest carbon footprints).

Not all nuclear "waste" is waste. A lot gets used in things like medicine and a bunch of sciences.
If the info is for the vendor who deals almost exclusively with English then localization is pointless.

If it is for the user then being able to google the exact error is going to return more results than 47 translations.

Most users will in fact do nothing but report said error to their vendor whom will refer to their English language documentation.

In other news most programming languages aren't localized for example.
They forgot to mention at the end of the article that 3dfx filed for bankruptcy as they literally became "drunk on their success." Everybody started showing up to work intoxicated. Some investors got left out in the cold.
The largest forces are under braking. For example at Monza, a famous racetrack in Italy, the average peak deceleration force per lap is around 5.6Gs. The braking zone before the Parabolica corner has a peak deceleration force of 6.7Gs. And they do this for over 50 laps.

Hell, the deceleration that an F1 car experiences simply due to engine braking is already more than what you would feel if you slammed on the brakes in your sedan going 100kph.

For turns, the forces are less, but they're still incredible. At Suzuka there's a very famous corner that is known as 130R (it has a 130m radius) and taken at about 305kph (190mph), and produces sustained 3.5Gs of lateral force.

Sources:

* https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/formula-1-monza-2018-...
* https://www.redbull.com/ca-en/f1-toughest-track-ever
Smart people get everyone else to bog themselves down with "second-order thinking" perpetually tying themselves in mental knots wondering endlessly "what happens next" and "should I or shouldn't I." That is because smart people that get shit done will not think twice, do the thing, and then quickly re-evaluate the results and proceed apace. Smart people that get shit done, outperform by actually executing. You can't predict the future. Asking "but what about in ten years" is the height of hubris. The only answer can be "who knows."
Maybe world policy makers should think to the nth order before making bad policies.
The point of debate is to test ideas by argument and logic and strengthen the strong ones and reject the weak ones. If you just say "Here are our thoughts," then the "what about robust debate" rationale doesn't hold up, and we can get to the direct question of whether James' worldview is moral or immoral, because the people taking the "advice" are going to have to pick either perspective A or perspective B.

And if you're going to pick one in the end, why not get everyone from that worldview? There are lots of Roman Catholic theologians, for instance, that they could have included. I don't personally agree with them either, but they absolutely have a rich history of thinking about ethics, and they mostly also don't believe in trans people. Why leave James to fend for herself?
Creating a Linux Service with Systemd
3) Whenever there is a chance to gain wealth and/or influence without immediate disadvantages, humans will usually take it.
A big part is almost certainly the difference between dynamic and static linking.

Can you run ldd on all of these and then report the combined size for each binary+libraries?
> Zhou and Jiang were living in Corvallis, Oregon, on student visas to study engineering — Zhou at Oregon Sciences University, Jiang at Linn Benton Community College, court documents said.

Not sure if it's been posted yet, but I'm 99% sure this is a typo. Oregon State University is what they meant.
A US-based VPN (or really any VPN) is only going to help someone so much, but what's wrong with Purism?

They have a distro that doesn't spy on you and hardware switches, and their upcoming phone seperates the modem as a USB peripheral to mitigate the modem's firmware.
SIX would be the obvious answer, flawed only in that it exists in the real world and not a “fantasy”.
I don't think I understand? It's trained to only answer questions that visitors/users have.
Wonder what it would take to transform, as an one to one function, any random text into a syntactically correct program of any language. Off the top of my head, enclosing the text in a string literal would work, but are there more interesting methods out there?
While I want to avoid getting into this argument, what you are saying is the same as "well it works on my machine" and "there can't be anything wrong with Oracle Database because Oracle says there are no bugs."
> If it's 1099 income, they know it for the reason that the 1099 gets filed with the IRS, as well as a copy going to you.

1099s have the wrong cost basis information for ESPP and vested RSU shares, so the IRS does not know what the correct tax is when those are involved.
Thanks for the reply. I'll explain why I'm still confused/unsure what is going on, hope it is useful feedback.

My understanding of git is that there is a server, and users push/pull to the server.

So from an initial look at everything you provided, it sounded to me like git-send-email gives people email notifications to know what has been changed on the server, for example. I don't know what "email-driven workflow" means and that was my best guess.

But from someone else's reply, it sounds like you are discussing an alternative to the server model, where there is no server at all and pushes and pulls are communicated completely via email. This seems consistent with your 2018-07-02 post, but honestly I didn't really get it from there the first time. Is it correct?
Can’t upvote enough. As someone who actually does fly airplanes for a living it’s disturbing to me the amount of ‘expert’ arm chair quarterbacks that have come out on HN in the wake of these two incidents. Immediately after the Ethiopian crash there were 200+ comment threads every few hours full of experts speculating about all the things that went wrong. People who were flat out wrong could not be told otherwise. I had to stop even engaging.
That’s what a bunch of people said after the first crash: “well, this was bad, but now that pilots know about MCAS it won’t happen again”
Is that a js framework?
Agreed, when I was a kid I met a programmer who used to be a computer. She was older than my dad, and he considered her an expert in his 30s. Punch cards were the rage.

Since then, I've met 2 women who worked directly at Bell Labs (with LeCun) in the 90s, both of whom I would consider experts in AI (and the present tools of DL), even though they are now retired. They started studying CS in the 70s.

The real boom happened in the 80-90s when it wasn't a respected field and educated women went into Medicine, Law, Marketing... It's only in the last 15-20 years that programming has been considered a "real" major. Before that most programmers had an education in something else.
If the "highest-profile African-American woman at Google" is someone who shows up for a meeting every few months and isn't even paid for it, isn't that kind of a problem? If they're trying to play the race card, they should look more carefully at what happens when you tap it....
Agree. AWS and the likes is an awesome tool to get access to a lot of compute power quickly which is great for unexpectedly large workloads or experimenting during early stages. For established businesses/processes the cost of running on premises is often significantly lower.

We manage about 150T of data for company on relatively inexpensive raid array + one replica + offline backup. It is accessible on our 10Gbps intranet for processing cluster, users to pull to their workstations, etc. The whole thing is running on stock HP servers for many years and never had outages beyond disks (which are in raid) predicting failure and maybe one redundant PSU failure. We did the math of replicating what we have with Amazon or Google and it would cost a fortune.
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> but man it feels like the other manufacturers have been about to release a Tesla killer Real Soon Like Now for a whooole lot of years.

Yes, decades and counting of nothing but vaporware and concept cars. Like this article from 2009:

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/audis-electric-e-tron-is-real-...
People have no clue what plane they are in.
The reason this preliminary report is so damning is that it's evident that the pilots on flight 302 knew this - they realised what was happening, took the necessary steps to disable MCAS, and still couldn't stop the plane from crashing and killing everyone on board.
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I suspect you haven't worked in USA healthcare...
Replacement phones are refurbs - previously returned broken phones with trivial defects, fixed in US using parts re manufactured(motherboards) in China.
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News wise I think something like this is good: https://www.predicthq.com/ but i dont think their product is necessarily built for B2C. It's more something theyd sell to the operations centre of Uber etc. Otherwise yes i agree with you, travel news isn't really news. It's basically all some form of native advertising as the wanderlust-y articles are usually surrounded by flight deals and resort packages.

In terms of destination content for people planning travel, one stream of thought we'd have whilst working on Cluey is:

Right now travel is very supply side driven. Millions of travelers arrive in Destination X but the local tourism operators largely sell safe, common denominator stuff. They don't have visibility of what the actual Demand is, and the operators themselves become generalists.

Right now no platform can justify collecting your travel related personal information/preferences, because none of them can do anything with it. I think Cluey can (hopefully) justify asking for that information. In turn we hope that allows us to connect travelers with locals who are compatible with what you're looking for. That hopefully will remove the weeks of research needed to plan a trip, and lead to more diverse experiences in more destinations.

Our thinking is still crystallizing but those are some of the ideas we're playing around with...
> vast majority of transgender people will not participate in high competition level sports

I agree.
However those that do will affect (negatively) all the non-transgender women they are competing (and winning) against.
And that does have "the largest and broadest effects on people" just not only transgender people.
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I have a box of 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in storage. No SLI cables but you can make them out of floppy ribbon cables.

What should I do with them?
It seems to me like cloudflare might be doing some, none, or all of these:

1. VPN from mobile device to the nearest Cloudflare PoP.

2. Use Cloudflare backbone to connect to the nearest exit PoP to destination.

3. Between entry and exit PoPs, do all sorts of optimisations that are possible, like:

3a. Jumbo frames, custom/advanced form of TCP congestion control, multipath, fast-open.

3b. Custom transport protocol (quic, sctp, etc).

3c. Custom compression and error correction schemes.

4. Reverse CDN: Proxy HTTP/S requests and serve content from cache.

5. Peer CDN: serve content from nearby devices?

Something like AWS Silk [0] or Google Chrome FlyWheel [1] but on steroids.

Easier said than done, I guess.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3215778

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441372
What would you say if a well known, analytical journalist approached you to be able to perform fact checking, but you knew they were openly biased on many topics?