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Feedback loops.

I don't think modelling "from argument X follows argument Y" is productive; what's productive is modelling that observable phenomenon X is correlated with Y, or causes Y, or has this-and-that impact on Y. At this level, things can be stuck in feedback loops, either positive or negative.

Will increase in coal exports of Poland increase Poland's CO₂ footprint? Let's try to model it the way I think about it:

Coal exports
^
| [provides Z coal to]
|
| [needs α*X = A kWh for coal]
Mining coal <---------------------\
| |
| [provides X coal to] |
v |
Coal power plants |
| | |
| | [γ*X = Y kWh burning coal] |
| v |
| Electricity --------------------/
|
| [burned coal into β*X = N kg of CO₂]
v
CO₂ emissions

You have a cycle there: Mining coal -> Coal power plants -> Electricity -> Mining coal. Given A < Y, it's a negative feedback loop. It's a cycle that exists in real life (and the basis of the concept of EROI)!

If this were a reactive model, you could tweak the value of Z to see how X, Y, A and ultimately N change. But even without reactivity, you can clearly see that the answer to original question is "yes, increasing coal exports will increase Poland's carbon footprint". And there's little left open to interpretation or accusations of subjectivity.

If you don't like the answer that the model gives, it also makes some alternative strategies apparent! In this case: can we find a way to reduce α or β to compensate? Or increase γ? Or maybe add an alternative CO₂ sink for the Coal power plants -> CO₂ emissions edge? Note that these alternative strategies involve manipulating reality, not your argument.

I think we should be doing more of this kind of modelling. Building more accurate maps of the world, and reasoning straight from them, instead of trying to build complicated webs of arguments.
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Same here. I don't get this trope where we're pretending that a car with a parental chauffeur is the only method of transportation. I roamed all over the place as a kid with my first bicycle. Shorter distances when I was very young (6-7) but up to dozens of miles as I got older. I was raised by a single parent who was often working, so there was no car available, but using this great miracle machine, I could still visit friends, explore nature, build forts, etc. Suburbia just means you need to ride your bike a little further to get to your friends' houses.
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The key point is that if you have no swap, and you run low on memory, then the OS has no choice but to throw away stuff that is clean. This includes stuff that is being actively used right now, like the code that is in your processes. So your system will still thrash, even though it has no swap, because it is trying to load pages of running code in on-demand, while constantly throwing them away again because it doesn't have enough space. This will incapacitate a server even more thoroughly than if there is swap, and the working set is larger than physical memory. The more RAM a server has, the more severe this incapacitation will be.

For this reason, you want an OOM killer to kill stuff way earlier than when you actually run out of RAM, because if you ever reach that point it is too late. I use a program called earlyoom, which has saved my server from having to have the big red button pushed quite a few times, when fumble-fingered PhD students "accidentally" consume all the RAM in their pet projects.
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> You may look good, but the team / dept / company is worse off, and someone else has to clean up.

The people/team handling it manually probably care
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It's not quite as black and white as the author makes it out to be. I've worked on (specialized) systems with 512gb of RAM with a 180gb SSD installed... No, you're not going to see any performance improvement at all by adding swap to the already insane amount of RAM, and if you run into an OOM issue where swap would be your parachute, you're already fucked.
> We could just build fission power plants, they're reasonably safe, not too expensive and we know how to store the waste safely

I'm not convinced this is true. Obviously there is Chernobyl, but the failures and shortcomings seem to not only be understood but popularized by Western media and we can say "oh that was just the Soviet Union." Then Fukushima happened, in a country which seems to be far better than the US at building efficient, safe infrastructure. We could say that was a fluke and we will learn from it (and I'm sure we will), but how many more times will we need to learn to avoid the literal fallout of another nuclear disaster? Shit goes wrong sometimes and you can't predict it.

You can argue that it's still safer (obviously there are lots of nuclear power plants in the US that have had no huge disasters), but why not look at alternatives that are even safer?
I would imagine the writer presupposes the reader already knows what a CMS is, and is trying to sell the reader on adopting it.
A prime example of what I am talking about right here.
Is this the first confirmation from Google that they render JS/SPAs? I've heard rumors before...
Well, that was incredibly cool. I didn't realize until I looked through the suits, but they're each iconic. Except maybe the Boeing suit, I'd seen them all before.

SpaceX really does understand marketing about (semi-sarcasm) as well as they understand rockets. Their suits look like they're from Ender's Game.

I hadn't seen this kind of visual post from the Washington Post and they did a great job. It feels like a "clapback" on the NYT, but WaPo still misses with the cheesy "you finished" visual and the shockingly intrusive advertising...
Poor Dropbox (and poor Dropbox investors). Their core product is really just a feature, and now others offer that...where's the value?

With the recent price increase I've moved most of my DB stuff elsewhere and now can get by with the free plan, only for reading things others share with me.
The company I'm working is using Solr. We collect the data by either paying, for free or by using crawlers. Then we query the data from Solr if it is not a meta data. And there are other types of databases too that we use.
its not your typical haptic data glove from the 90's.
This one has peizo-pneumatic feedback.
peizo elements distort thier shape when conducting current.
and produce small amounts of curent when distorted.
there is a potential to use this phenomenon as an input device such as a robotic hand with tactile input.
None of these will work because a significant portion of the population in countries with elective governments do not believe in climate change at all. This means they will viciously oppose all climate change action plans so long as they are allowed a voice. Authoritarian measures become necessary (even if I don't necessarily advocate for it) when a large portion of the population are too short-sighted to decide what's best for themselves.
"After the third day of outages, customers were saying Bye Bye Bye."
Why then we don't have this 'epidemic' in Europe where sex on tv isn't seen as a big boogie man. Where you can easily go places where kids will see adults of the opposite sex naked (saunas and gyms).?

I don't understand why you think seeing violence on tv (teen gangs beating a kid for his sneakers or whatever) won't affect your daughter, but seeing a couple have sex (not porn, just an overview of a sexual act) can corrupt her!
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Can't comment on the technical details/merit of the paper.

However, this is huge. From a conceptual perspective, everything in the physical world can be modeled as relative rates of change, which are basically differential equations. Having the power to more easily build, run and understand these models will help tremendously in advancing the computer/physical interface as well as all its potential applications.

Thank you to the authors for such a huge contribution. Looking forward to all the cool things that will be made possible through this.
> An SD-Card bay is under $2, the plastic bespoke door that covers both bays likely costs more than adding the second bay would.

I think you're underestimating the cost quite a lot. It's not just a piece of plastic and a few bits of wire, you also need a high performance I/O controller to go with it. Assuming SD card readers aren't massively overpriced, you're looking at closer to $5-$10.

Then there's the space considerations. If you've seen a teardown of a modern camera, especially mirrorless, you've seen that they're quite densely packed. It's not necessarily trivial to find the space for an SD card slot.

I agree that if it were essentially free that more cameras should have them but I'm not so sure that it's as trivial to add them as you make it out to be.

> Arguing that nobody "needs" reliability until profits are on the line isn't a particularly compelling argument in my opinion.

My argument isn't so much that nobody "needs" reliability as due to modern reliability, few people would use it if they had it. It's very rare to hear about a dying SD card so it's not something an average person considers when buying a camera. Even if cameras had dual slots, I doubt your average family going on vacation to Disney would think to buy a second SD card for it.

Since few people want it and there is a cost for it, it makes sense to get rid of it.
I don't think that's accurate at all. Watching Chrome's network profiler it's pulling down 2.5MB .wasm for the star fiddle: https://jsfiddle.skia.org/canvaskit/ea89749ae8c90bce807ea2e7...

50KB Gzipped seems like it's just the wrapped JS code, not the .wasm code.
I can't imagine building subsidies and alternative fuels will undo the last 200 years of emissions. Structural changes that will reorganize our lives will be necessary. We are in a privileged position, in that we can make these structural changes in a favorable way now before we're faced with a reality that forces these changes on us.
Beautiful slides and animation.Finally well spend subscribers money although still best way is investigative journalism.
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For my blog, I actually just edit the database directly and have triggers setup to handle all of the various associated changes.

But I’m weird like that. :)
When you send an image of yourself to someone, you run the risk of that image, with evidence of it being you, coming back to damage you socially. When you receive such an image knowingly, you are at risk for prosecution of child pornography. Neither is a risk that an adolescent is deemed capably mature of weighing. Very few kids are dying of alcohol poisoning due to beer. Drinking beer and driving IS a serious concern.
I heard somewhere that anybody 6’ tall or above has back problems. Anecdotally, this seems plausible enough to me.

Meanwhile there’s been a decades long marketing campaign to sell people on eating all the animal fat and protein they want with the dubious promise of weight loss and that always being healthy. Also decades long increases in cardiovascular diseases and death.
Nietzschean flamewars? Is that a thing or you just made that up?
No way, I've always wanted to create something like this too. This person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477924 also shares our idea:

> I would love to see this baked into a social network as a substrate for semi-structured debate.

Gaining insight and collecting disparate facts to form a bigger picture, an "argument map", with the ability for others to collaborate--that's exactly it.

However in addition to all the great use cases you've outlined, I also see potential for personal use, particularly in making structured decisions.

For example, purchasing decisions: researching to buy or not to buy widget X (in my case recently, sentiment analysis on stocks). With the creation of a simple browser plugin that allows you to highlight text and quickly add it to the map, it would make it easy to centralize all misc pieces of information supporting/rejecting a decision. Supporting "evidence" added this way will automatically link to the source, and optionally snapshot the page to ensure context of the particular supporting evidence is never lost.

I think it would be a fun project to create. If you ever think to actually work on this, or if you're interested in working on this together, let me know!
Textbook on how not to handle the issue. Deleted Twitter, sanitized Facebook and more than 2 days to admit the issue.

There is discussion on twitter that the company said the backups were on the same network as the data. Hopefully there is an offsite backup available.

https://twitter.com/ConleyU/status/1151862278909825024

https://twitter.com/MRasconCPA/status/1151894366291734533

https://twitter.com/hockeygirlPDX/status/1151945932935585792

Ouch. This is the sort of stuff that can kill a company.

Does Quickbooks with the cloud option offer local backups?
Without swap, your server could potentially become suddenly unresponsive, as memory pressure forces all your running code out. The system will still be thrashing, and even worse than it you did have swap. If you do have swap, then you get a slightly more graceful degradation, and hopefully a chance to fix the problem first.

What you really want is to never have a severe out of memory situation, and you can do that either by getting enough RAM that you never use it all, or by killing stuff nice and early when memory starts getting low.
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Sure, I agree with that 100%. I guess if you had a scenario where you were operating near your limits and something happened that caused one or a few hosts to start swapping, and because they were up the LB kept sending them traffic instead of redirecting it to other hosts, then you could avoid a thundering herd-type problem.

But that still relies on uncorrelated failures.

Otherwise that seems like an orthogonal discussion to swap vs. OOM killer. It's something to be aware of and you need circuit breakers in place but I don't think it's an argument for letting hosts swap instead of having the OOM killer deal with it.
Thanks! It turns out I am bad at hexagons.
Sounds like you’d love julia!
If one is in perpetual sterile, transient relations with the soul purpose being to satisfy their sexual desires, they are unlikely to ever find a significant other. When they get old and no one finds them attractive anymore, they will (the women at least) become the crazy old cat lady.
More accurately, very wealthy urban dwellers.
You can make plant based foods arbitrarily protein dense with things like gluten/seitan and nutritional yeast.
The implication here is that it does better because it's written in rust. I doubt that's the case. I think it's faster because it's new, smaller (i.e. doesn't have to deal w/backwards-compatibility with previous versions or old protocols). More importantly, it uses the ring library for crypto, which is over half asm according to its github. Clearly, there's a lot of optimization there.

Regardless of the reason why, I'm very excited to see a better alternative to openssl. More competition will hopefully make all the projects better, and I wish the rustls guys the best of luck.
As an author of this paper, I feel such neural networks are indeed a small step towards what we call AGI. By learning shared representations across a variety of tasks makes an AI system more robust to real-world datasets and makes it easy to adapt to new tasks without having to learn everything from scratch (which we humans are naturally capable of doing)
The amount of emissions reduced by these acts, multiplied by the tiny portion of the society that actually bothers to do these, is so insignificant compared to overall carbon emissions that it may as well be a rounding error. I use to believe doing my part helps the planet -- I still try to be as environmentally-conscious as possible, but I no longer believe it has an effect on the fate of our society. What one/dozen/thousands of people do is absolutely insignificant as long as these people aren't the decision-makers.
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Agree that like all models, it’s useful but incomplete.

Stanley is a sales rep and that is absolutely a part of the clueless layer. He provides buffer between the masters and the slaves in the warehouse dude: he is clueless. Not a loser like Darryl in the warehouse, not a sociopath like Robert California or Ryan the Temp, but clueless.

I am a clueless loser sociopath so take from that what u will :)

Thanks for the interesting discussion. :)
Greta Thunberg was alone when she started protesting.
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It's really not so simple as moderate vs progressive. For instance, Bernie Sanders does not support levying a carbon tax. I doubt he would seriously support any climate change effort that isn't ultimately part of a jobs / labor bill.
Also unknown is whether the “panic” affects or has affected behavior or not.
No, the climate models the businesses and politicians found acceptable are watered down models that showed that we had a lot of time before we needed to make changes, thus letting the businesses and politicians pass the buck.

The more aggressive models and the scientists that supported those models lost funding and were shouted down. Some of the models that got buried fully expected the changes to be happening at the pace we are witnessing. Some of those models said that once the permafrost started to thaw that it would release so much carbon, methane and nitrious oxide withing 10-15 years that the earth it's self would surpass human generated output. If those models are correct then it means we've passed a climate tipping point and nothing humans can do will reverse what's been set in motion. Event if human greenhouse gas output is reduced to zero overnight, the earth itself is now driving the changes to the climate.
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> nothing else was even close

Well, I'd argue that PHP and Python were roughly equally easy, although they didn't "blend" into the HTML as well (which is good or bad, depending on your viewpoint). ASP was supposed to be just as easy, but I remember some of those code bases being pretty woolly.

Nowadays, I think we actually have it easier. I haven't used many of the other front-end frameworks, but you can design/generate a back-end in a few minutes using Open API Spec, add a persistence layer in a few more minutes, and wire it up to a Vue front-end very quickly. And the kicker is that it's modular and maintainable, which a lot of CF/PHP/ASP projects certainly were not.
OK, this is a different (and better) description than the meme that is going around (see the twitter thread that kicked off this latest round of bikesheding about "10x" engineers).

If someone is a Usain Bolt of software development though, they probably are someone who should be guided into, or are in, a senior engineering role. Glue Engineers / Smokejumpers / problem solvers are different, and useful, but when companies become over reliant on them it is an issue. And no matter how productive they are, they should be held to the same standards as other engineers.
> Anyone knows why text looks so blurry?

If you're on desktop it's probably because it's not doing any form of subpixel hinting or AA.

It's both harder to do that in a GL context, and I don't know if there's even any way to get the display's subpixel layout in JS in the first place.
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My Quickbook Self-Employed (hosted) seems unaffected (at least so far).
This looks great! The language features of Julia seems to be exploited to good effect. However, I'm curious: are there any aspects of Julia's design that, in retrospect, make differential programming harder or more inconvenient?
Don't forget the one stubborn person still using Wave
For real .. it has wiped away years of progress in teen smoking (kids starting to vape are then 4 times more likely to start smoking cigarettes as well).
> performance, security, wearout reasons

If memory pressure is low, and the swap is used to page out rarely / never used pages in favour of more disk cache, then there is a performance gain to be had, and wear should be minimal.

You can encrypt swap with a randomly generated key to aid security.

Ideally memory compression and disk swap would be used together; there's a gain to be had by shrinking lesser used pages, but no sense in taking up any space in RAM for pages showing no sign of life.
Totally. I also don't think the new Reddit looks "bizarre" though. Not much about it is strange or surprising.
Appreciate your response. After finding out how Keybase is funded, the model has me worried about relying on the future of a magically[1] funded platform compared to something I could self-host like Matrix.

Do you have any insight on why I shouldn't be concerned?

[1]: since I don't have clear funding motivations I'm referring to it as magical.
The-dude was giving mh17 as an example of a plane shot down because they thought it was a drone/ thought it was a military aircraft. Not knowing which I covered both bases
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I would assume that any site that was implementing JS-level blocks also has the appropriate robots.txt file in place.
Within my current organisation, two main search options are Solr and Elasticsearch, both based on Lucene.

Generalising a bit, Solr is more targetted at enterprise search and unstructured content search (e.g. bundled with most content management systems), and Elasticsearch is more targetted at data analytics and structured data search (e.g. with the ELK stack). Again simplifying a bit, Solr can be a bit more configurable and/or work better with the types of data that benefit from more configuration, and Elasticsearch can work better with the types of data that work more "out of the box".

I'd agree that there don't seem to be a huge number of openings for specialist search roles or a huge number of people specialising in search, but it is often part of another role and there are often people who have touched on search in their roles. That suggests that many people are just using it with largely default setups. Having said that, things like advanced relevancy tuning, if you need it, is a very much under appreciated skillset, and definitely needs someone with good experience or ability to learn.
> Then why do people from suburbs flock to the cities for their entertainment?

In ages past, this had more to do with shopping than entertainment. I suspect that it will become obvious that Amazon has negated this need, partially or wholly. The only they don't sell (mostly) is groceries, which for the large part were and are available locally.
The classic "we already have a wall (1 meter high, that folks do not understand very well)" so why need to build a new wall, on top the current wall or prepare for a potential invasion?"
> That page that got pushed to swap might be better used for serving disk cache, for example.

> If you don't have enough RAM (even for spikes), a preemptive push when things aren't busy might mean that when the do become busy, you won't have to wait.

> At least, that's the theory as I understand it. Whether or not it works in practice, IDK.

These are the ideas that I hoped the original post was going to be about.

Disk cache is a good one. I'm not knowledgeable enough about this, will the Linux kernel automatically start using RAM as disk cache if there's enough free space? Is it smart enough to prioritize disk cache over infrequently used pages and then know to discard the disk cache if it does need to page stuff back in from swap?