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He won't be a YouTube engineer in 48 hours, I'm sure.

If he survives, he's going to end up with at least 20 years in the California prison system.

Every hour he spent studying at Stanford, every tough coding interview he endured at Microsoft and YouTube, and every other sacrifice he made, are now likely irreparably flushed down the toilet.

Yet "we" (ie the HN and related crowd who engage in hero worship) love to wax poetic about Steve Jobs's LSD quote.
Photosynthesis is less efficient than solar panels. According to the Wikipedia page on photosynthetic efficiency, typical plants have a radiant energy to chemical energy conversion efficiency between 0.1% and 2%.
Idk what the sitter situation was but it sounds like this got out of hand pretty fast. If they couldn't calm him I imagine the best they could do is pin him down and tie him up.
One would likely want to be unafraid of letting go. After a heroic dose like that, it's possible he had some things on his mind and the chemical inescapably brought these things to the forefront of his attention.

More info here: https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_LSD.shtml
I don't see how the fact that he's a youtube engineer is relevant at all to this lsd-trip-gone-(very)-bad story
Is that true? It increases the load on developers.
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In my opinion it is easy to tell that. In any 9-page paper (very short) of such magnitude, there is a lot he would have left out at the time, but can still easily remember today.

you can't really reconstruct that.
Too much alcohol, so take more? Too much ibuprofen, so take more? If you’re poisoned by something, you don’t take more.
Well, once you see his photo, you'll understand. He was a C# enthusiast. I don't think that goes well with LSD.
No, I'm using them to discredit some of the thinking in the article. You did read the article, didn't you? It's pretty simple-minded stuff.

But I do have to ask: If that 100F temperature had occurred recently instead of over 100 years ago, how many people would be absolutely freaking out about it? And it would be all over the news, wouldn't it, complete with satellite interviews and talking heads and repeated insistence that "We must do something about climate change right now!"

As it is, though, it's just a historical footnote isn't it? And it seems that some folks are now trying to claim that it never really happened. (It appears to have been truncated out of the HadCRUT temperature data set, for example.) How inconvenient for them, then, there are other folks out there who have gone so far as to dig up the actual handwritten log for the weather station involved, which appears to be in good order.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-E1nQ_W4AEpC7D.jpg

Still other folks have noted that there are other logs out there for other stations which show equal if not higher temperatures, but Fort Yukon is called out as the official record high temperature for the state. I can only assume that investigation showed that those other stations weren't as reliable as Fort Yukon, but the possibility exists that they did in fact experience equally high or even higher temperatures.
If the details of this story are true - and sadly, in cases in the USA where police shoot someone, it's very reasonable to doubt any claims made by "authorities" unless there is ironclad evidence - then I think that there is zero chance that this drug was in fact LSD.

LSD can certainly cause confusion and terror, but it does not generally cause the kind of delirium and rage described by police here.

Also, the reporting in this particular article is pathetic:

> The National Institute on Drug Abuse describes LSD as "one of the most powerful mind-altering chemicals." Some people who use the drug can experience psychosis or paranoia.

NIDA is basically completely discredited at this point on the effects of this class of drugs, having spent the past four decades denying their medical benefits.

Furthermore, the unsourced assertion "Some people who use the drug can experience psychosis or paranoia", obviously relying on the Osmond-era "psychotomimetic" designation, appears to have been a side-effect of LSD being administered in the sterile conditions of a mental institution in the 1950s and early 1960s and not typical of the effects outside that setting.

It is much more likely that this person unwittingly ingested a different compound - and again, that's assuming that these details are even accurate in the first place and not a CYA story by a person trying to justify discharging a firearm at another person.
A lot of what's sold as lsd is actually stuff like 2cb, 2ce or other research chemicals. The effects can be similar, especially if you don't know any better, but you can physically overdose on many of those. Pure lsd should be tasteless and odourless, and shouldn't make you sick, though even that's not a reliable indicator that you've actually got lsd.
No. Do not ever do this. If you are having a bad LSD trip, the best medical course of action is to take a benzo like xanax. It will stop the trip almost immediately. Never trip with inexperienced people without one or two handy.
Well, I do trust the experience of psychologists, or at least the ones familiar with LSD. I personally know some who have assisted hundreds/thousands of people during their trip.
you're right, but it's not "hard" evidence. asking someone to work you through the process of a technical paper they had written is more of a technical question.
Whether 5G is superior is completely missing the point. Countries are adopting and buying these devices anyways. So why would the US lose out on that huge amount of money and economic power?

Widespread 5G adoption is coming whether you like it or not. So, we can either accept the reality of the situation or stubbornly lose out to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. I truly don't understand your position here.
Tabloid-style headline. Was this in private? It should stay that way (it's nobody's business except those directly affected). Was it public? Media shouldn't be broadcasting his place of work. Will not read.
I dont know, the idea that people even cared for EU elections sounds ludicrous. I mean they completely ignored the result in the selection of the new EU leading person and nobody cares.
It's incredible that The New York Times continues to chase the Russian troll story about election interference but not once mention that Google executives were recently caught saying that they will not allow another Trump "situation" and they plan to actively manipulate search and news results to make that happen.

Google has so much more leverage than any "troll" yet doesn't even get a passing mention because The New York Times and Google agree on which political party they'd like to see win the 2020 election.
The problem we have right now is that interest rates are too low, but inflation is also low, and raising interest rates is deflationary. That's why it normally makes sense to raise interest rates when times are good -- that's also commonly when there is a lot of inflation and curbing it a little helps.

But that isn't the case right now. So to raise interest rates right now would require some additional inflationary pressure to counteract that. Which is actually pretty easy to do -- you can print money and use it to give everybody tax credits. Literally just give everybody $10,000 every year for as long as inflation remains reasonable.

The "problem" is that it sounds too good to be true, so even if it would work, people start looking for the catch, even if there isn't one. Meanwhile it would cost banks business because the combination of having more money and paying higher interest rates would cause people to use the money to pay back (or not take out) bank loans, so you get well-financed opposition.
More importantly, how can an attorney/judge make the same deductions?
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What do you expect from Buzzfeed?
all I see is a job opening
I mean not say anything substantial. It's a "hard" technical question, in that it's quite a technical paper. 9 pages is quite short, so there is a lot he would have left out, for example, though it was on his mind. The real Satoshi could talk about these easily.
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I thought the point of photography was primarily so that you (people, in general, not necessarily just you individually) could look at the photos, i.e., experience them consciously, and secondarily to consciously experience the process of photography itself. But perhaps you have a different reason for considering photography worthwhile, other than the conscious experience of the photographs and of the photography process? Or do you consider photography to be a good-in-itself, even if nobody ever sees the photos or experiences the process of taking them?
32 year old on top of it. With the Andy Rubin news yday, it feels like the US is just flushing itself down the toilet everyday that goes by.
It can also be done with plants in the nightshade family. So, for example, you can transplant the branches from a tomato plant onto a potato plant.
Oh, it's by Nouriel "permabear" "Dr. Doom" Roubini.

Gawker did some amazing coverage of this guy back in its heyday: https://gawker.com/tag/nouriel-roubini
The last time I tested a Mazda3 it fell squarely into the econobox category. What do you find luxurious about it? Or perhaps there's a secret trim level?
I try to keep my comments civil on here, but that's horrible fucking advice. The best thing you can do is try and relax and calm down, taking more of a drug you're having a bad experience with is the opposite of what anyone should do ever.
Unfortunately, our current economic system seems to require exponential economic (though not necessarily population) growth in order to maintain an equilibrium of workers and consumers (I may be oversimplifying, I’m not sure). As this is definitely not sustainable, I certainly hope that an alternative system can be produced, and quickly. I wouldn’t know where to begin.
In an ideal world, he would have his day in court first. In the real world, I suspect you're right.
Regardless of how hostile you think the NSA is towards the rights of the US people, it’s still not a national security problem. For that to be a national security problem, the NSA would have to be hostile towards the objectives of the US government.

In addition to that, if you think the US government is more hostile towards its citizenry than the Chinese government is, well... Also, if you’re relying on infrastructure that the government controls for your security, then the intentions of the NSA aren’t really your biggest problem.
That's a good reflection. I used to think the same.

However, I am now truly convinced DSLs are the future of programming.

Alan Perlis said "Beware of the Turing tar pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy". With Turing completeness, proving things (formal methods) is really hard.

If you have custom DSLs with restricted and well-understood semantics, formal methods become tractable and practical. That's the opposite of the Turing tar pit Perlis warned us about.

I imagine in the future we will have languages similar to Racket, which allow creating DSLs, and lots of mature tooling to prove things on code written using said DSLs.
What is the point you're trying to make? A moral judgement?
Commits made via the UI aren’t signed at all. There is no “common github key” for signing commits
FYI they are totally different "singlets", a singlet exciton refers to the spin state of the particle (as opposed to a triplet exciton, which has a different total spin). A singlet lens is just a lens with a single simple component.
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Why are all the articles saying he's a YouTube engineer ? How is that relevant ?
okay, you've got me. They can't.

But this is a blog post "I don't think craig wright is satoshi" based on circumstantial evidence, and I don't really like using circumstantial evidence like this. People's writing styles could be totally different in two different contexts.

so I proposed a "hard" test, like a technical interview type of test. (Walk us how you wrote this). That is a good way to weed out bullshitters who are passing off someone else's work as their own, in a technical interview for example.
What's the point to have slower mid-range machine for the same price? Do we need 16-core PIC16 Mini ATX workstation too?
Yeah, in this case it appears that they're focused on the single layers simply because it's easier to build one thing than multiple things. This one was focused on the blue/green portion of the spectrum.
The case seems a bit nuts in that Wright isn't Satoshi so his business partners estate won't achieve much by suing him for coins he can't have stolen from the business partner because he doesn't have them.
"rubbernecker" would've also made a good name for this project. I don't see anything wrong with the more European terminology, though :)
There are dependency problems in ALL languages. I think the point of the article is that with Java/Go/Rust/Node you can create a single file and deploy it on 100s of VMs without having to worry about dependencies during deployment. The same has been done for years with WARs and EARs.

But, he misses the main point of Docker (or LXS for that matter) which is to scale/downscale & maintain a massive amount of VMs.

I worked at the time where we had 16 or 64 servers (not VMs), running several instance of Weblogic/Jboss. Each deployment took hours and we didn't have any elasticity on the number of servers/instances (each server could run X instances of Jboss) to scale up/down. If we hit the max, management bought another server and that's it. Oh, and every deployment meant downtime, because we couldn't do the crazy stuff Docker allows.
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Can someone post a TLDR?
Japan at least is in the midst of an ever-worsening demographic crisis.
Modern ARM isn't really RISC any more, at least in the original sense of "reduced instruction set".
> At this point they’ll get blood samples, I’m pretty sure that we’ll know exactly what he took.

...what? This seems like a very strange assertion to me.

LSD is obviously difficult to test for and is not typically part of a routine test at all.

But even if it is in this case, unless things have rapidly progressed in the past few years, I don't think it's possible to differentiate between different tryptamines (or even different indoles) in the blood, and even detecting them at all is difficult or impossible after 12 hours or so.

Are you saying that it's now possible, from a blood test, to make this differentiation? Do you have a source for this claim?

Unless another dose of the material is provided, I doubt that we'll know what this person ingested.
I listened to him at a blockchain conference and there is a certain freak show curiosity to it as there is to much in the blockchain space.
One of the axioms of quantum mechanics is that the wave function completely describes a physical system. Therefore all you have to do in order to simulate a quantum system is to compute the evolution of the wave function which is pretty straight forward given an initial state and the Hamiltonian of the system - you just evaluate the Schrödinger equation. It is however computationally intensive for systems of non-trivial size. Also the evolution of the wave function is unitary, i.e. it is completely deterministic forward and backward in time and there is no randomness involved at all.

Quantum non-locality can not be simulated classically if you distribute your computations just as the simulated system is distributed and if you do not allow for communication between the computers. This is however not an issue if you perform the simulation in one place or allow for communication between the computers. An example may help. Take the classical experiment of producing two spins with opposite orientations in one place, then separating them by a large distance, and finally measuring them at those distant locations. You can easily simulate that with one classical computer, but you can not use two classical computers - one to simulate each spin and the measurement of that spin at the distant location - without allowing the two computers to communicate even after the time the spins have been separated [in the simulation].

This especially highlights that quantum mechanics can not be described by a local hidden variable theory, or maybe it is better to think about it the other way round, such an simulation is not possible because quantum mechanics can not be explained by a local hidden variable theory as predicted by the Bell inequality and demonstrated by Bell test experiments. You can not write an algorithm that generates some hidden state while the two spins respectively the two computers are not yet separated and can therefore still communicate with each other and that then reproduces the results of all possible measurement experiments after the separation and without further communication.
Re: systems of monitoring and control. The even crazier thing is that upon only the lightest of introspection you can find that there isn’t even some “ego” system controlling or reigning in some other “id” system. It’s just one thing! The “you” that decides to have one cookie and write a novel feels different than the “you” that would otherwise eat the whole box of cookies and watch YouTube all day. But you don’t get to decide when your supervising self will be in charge, or to what degree your animalistic self will be reigned in.

There is just one you that does things by whimsy all the time, and at the same time tries to make a coherent story about your immediate behavior in a way that is consistent with your past. A naive stoic might say that one should not become too upset about things outside your control. But in truth the best you can do is take the emotions and thoughts you feel in-stride because even those are outside your control—the stoic’s decision to follow stoicism in the first place is after all ineffable.
It likely only works in rather light weather. Real autopilot systems use hydraulic rams.

There are about 100 other issues I’d fix on this boat first.

I applaud this mans effort, but taking this boat more than swimming distance from shore is something I would never do.
We use rust in embedded and love cargo! Coming from C++ and the endless mess of build systems that exist there, cargo is a breath of fresh air! What don't you like about it?
OK, if it wasn't lsd, what was it? His friends who were also taking it were involved and talked to the police.
Blaming docker for being able to package up an app so simply that even an app not suited for the cloud can be dockerized but not take advantage of the cloud is like saying you dislike Hydrogen because it’s just too flammable. Be less flammable hydrogen!
I'm also wondering how the BIOS/UEFI equivalent on these machines works--I really hate how the Raspberry Pi does it (boot partition on SD card contains all data).
Try this link: http://spaceflight101.com/x-37b-otv-5/x-37b-otv-5-identified...
I'm sorry, but what you are saying there is ludicrous. If it would really make energy "too cheap to meter" then no conspiracy could keep it back -- the people making it would have plenty of excess cashflow to grease the palms of potentially interfering politicians.

The truth is more mundane (and you should have realized something was wrong when you started thinking in conspiracy theories). The technology is simply not as great as you think it is, and like most technologies it's probably not going to win. There's no dishonor in that; the market is a brutal place.
He's the subject of the story, and occupation/employer are a major part of our identities. This is not "YouTube user goes on drug-fueld rampage," which would be superfluous.
Methodology is flawed. If you switch from burning oil in ice engines to electric you use at least 50% total energy less.

So they overestimate area needed.
The double fork technique is not exactly news, to say the least ... or is the article about techniques to figure out what a unix binary does?

If the latter, what is the point since the source of every code path is available, down to the libc code?

I am not seeing the point of this article.
But github encourages merges through the website, which means they are not signed.
Many cubesats have engines, and even those that don't can use their reaction wheels to do small maneuvers by changing their orientation which causes drag to change the orbit.

There are other methods to deorbit like tethers, but due to reliability they're not used often
"As the revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act enacted last December took effect in April, the government set in motion a newly created visa status designed to admit foreign workers with certain skills or knowledge to make up for a serious domestic workforce shortage."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/06/26/commentary/j...
Autonomous has a bunch of ergonomic office chairs that don't cost an arm and leg: https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs

I got the Ergochair 2 from their original kickstarter campaign for around $200 and it's still going strong. It's not perfect (the armrest doesn't lock in place, headrest isn't as adjustible as I'd like, and the cushion had a weird smell for a while that has mostly gone away now, but not entirely), but the small imperfections to me weren't a big enough annoyance to justify upgrading to some of the alternatives that were generally $500+.

In the time since I got their original Ergochair 2 it looks like they've introduced a few more, including the Myochair for <$150 that also includes a legrest. I'd definitely give that a try if I were shopping for a new chair. As far as I'm concerned these are probably the best deals in office chairs, and you have very little to lose since they offer a 30-day trial.
I would agree. Craig would never agree to such a test. He, and his followers, cling to the copyright granted on the whitepaper as some kind of established proof (which even the copyright office has said it isn't)
That's a little much to say. Because setting up a good secure sever isn't trivial.
That and x86 nowadays has RISC elements
Maybe fast acting elephant tranquilizer.
Wasabi does have some not-entirely-true advertising on their web site though. If you don't download (which you typically don't if you're doing backups), all cloud providers are cheaper than Wasabi on per-TB-mo basis. Google Coldline or Amazon Glacier, for example, are $4 TB-mo (and Google is about to roll out $1.23 TB-mo "archive" option). Azure seems to have "archive" option for $1 TB-mo (LRS Archive option, advertises the same "11 nines", tho the price is so low, there's got to be a catch)

The Wasabi offering seems to be equivalent to the "hot" storage options, which, I agree, is crazy expensive in the cloud if you do a lot of egress.
This is great - but isn’t hafnium pretty rare?
People typically don't use Java for performance-sensitive real-time-ish applications. Most modern games are written in C++ still. Operating system kernels are written in C. When I think Java, what comes to my mind is something like LibreOffice.
Maybe you don't, but the world does.
I'm taking specifically about the workloads I was interested in at the time where cache optimised means it took pains take advantage of larger L1s and took pains to get L1 hits. But this was a general problem too and noted at the time by many people.

AMDs smaller L1 was as definite negative at the time. This was back when hyperthreading could be a net negative because of the reduced L1 cache per thread so we would turn that off to.