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> Given the rate of decline of cost of renewables,

Don't mistake current trends for future prognosis. Even if costs are falling at the moment, there is no reason future fusion technology will be museumware.

At worst we'll discover new data on plasma behavior. At best we have a possible tech for colonizing the Milky Way.

> I don't think DEMO is ever getting built,

It's ok. I don't think we'll transfer to renewables before it's too late anyway.

> The very low levelized price of renewables means there's a lot of economic headroom to deal with intermittency.

So you're saying that economics will change grid design? That grids designed for single way of transmitting energy will somehow reconfigure to allow consumers to stream energy to the source?
What kind of results do you expect from blindly using correlation?
Building a e.g. credit rating model with this kind of mentality will just result in a racially biased model.
I mean, you gotta give it to him, that was not roundabout
> On top of the stock awards, Equifax has agreed to cover Smith's medical bills for life, a benefit the company estimates is worth another $103,500, according to a company filing.

I guess Equifax assumes death will come swiftly for this man.
In no way arguing your point, just an interesting fact - George Washington adored ice cream:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washington-...
Of particular recent relevance are the opium trade and the opium wars, which led to the creation of Hong Kong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
I mean they’re common sense no? If they are so obviously false or irrelevant then maybe you could address them. Calling people who come at this rationally “disingenuous” does nothing to further your argument.

Every time an article headline states "Hottest Temperature Ever!" I just round file it. The earth was a molten ball of lava at some point, it's obviously hyperbole meant to prey on people's fears. What they maybe mean is "Hottest Temperature In The 100 Years We've Been Keeping Accurate Records". That's an article I would read.

Humans have lived through multiple ice ages. The climate changes; regularly and drastically. Humans have always survived and I'm sure we'll continue to survive.

I don't see anyone fretting about building an anti-asteroid system or talking about super volcanoes (both of which pose a much larger existential threat to humanity). I don't know how old you are, but for my entire life (and for a long time before that) people have been saying that the world is going to end for one reason or another. At some point you learn the signs of hype and just tune them out. Dishonest headlines and arguments are the #1 sign.
Right now it seems we are heading for the CHOAM company. (Fictional company in the Dune 'verse that does everything.) I've joked that Amazon is CHOAM and SpaceX is Weyland-Yutani (from Alien).

There do seem to be consolidation / de-consolidation cycles in business though. In the 1980s people also talked about the birth of EverythingCorps. You can see it a lot in 80s sci-fi. In the 90s you had the opposite trend.
Outside solar system, we can hardly observe anything but supercivilizations as we conjecture they should be. In our solar system, non-sentient life is still not fully excluded on Mars, and there is a reasonable chance of finding something on Europa, Titan or other big moons.

In the galaxy overall from what we know now about occurrence of planets in habitable zones, there likely should be tens of million earthlikes with a substantial sized moon.
Agreed. And:
> C# sucks because:
> You can't assign a new value inside a foreach loop
> (e.g. foreach(int i in vec) { i = i+1; }).

LOL
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This, I removed FB a few years ago and never even tried Instagram, but my gf has both, and we speak everyday on Whatsapp, and I have a picture on Whatsapp, so they still know pretty much everything about me if they scrap the conversations for keywords or something more advanced.

Tried removing Whatsapp for something like Telegram but couldn't since I need to convince my parents and sisters and gf and friends to move there too.
> irrigating deserts profitable

Irrigating deserts doesn't really work that well. The main problem is, that undistilled water always contains some ions, i.e. salts (it's got electrolytes!). If the main process for loss of water is evaporation these salts are left behind leading to salinization. You don't really want that.

If you want to fight desertification, then you must combat evaporation first, which you'd do for example with engineering the soil. Only after you've figured out how to make the soil keep the water, then you may start to thing about irrigation.
I imagine the Romans wanted them for the Coliseum (or is it Colosseum? That's a whole rabbit hole I don't need to go down at the moment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe#His...
> proper curated quoting

Indeed, it would be nice if the netizens of the world would wake up to this. Sadly, I think it's unlikely to improve any time soon and so I'll stick to top posting and threading in the email client.
How does this compare to the Intel X86 CPUs in terms of power consumption, price and performance?

Is this CPU a viable alternative for server and desktop computing?
> The large number who believe small government even when in power

I believe you are talking fiction here. They don't institute small government when in power because the campaign rhetoric about small government that they use to get elected is completely infeasible. Add to that that there are usually many forms of spending which would be controversial to their campaign rhetoric were it logically consistent, but they like.
Hey, author here. Happy to answer any questions or take any suggestions.

Runnable code from the article: https://repl.it/@vzhou842/A-RNN-from-scratch
The GDPR does say "the right to obtain a copy (...) shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others", but it doesn't spell out what that means.

Still, your work email account can be monitored by your employer (though in the EU they have to provide notice of that monitoring), so you don't have the same protection as in a private account.

OTOH, it could be a violation of privacy / data-protection for the author of this piece to be divulging the contents of these emails, even if they have a right to a copy.
They've incorporated everything other than the convenience and succinctness of jQuery. And that's fine, they have different goals to jQuery, standards should be more explicit in what functions do and how they behave etc. Maybe it's a good thing I can't do $('something').eq(0).addClass('foo') in ES without first checking the return type of document.querySelector before attempting to add a class to it, but it is convenient.

Looking at stuff like http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ it's easy to see why there are lots of cases where jQuery just isn't needed anymore. But 10% of them still look very verbose without jQuery and when I'm working on a simple website the convenience of jQuery is worth it to me so I continue to use it where it helps.
People very much underestimate the risk of a nuclear war, because they are calculating the risk based on the situation today when that situation is naturally going to change over time. Think about any long tailed event. The financial crisis. Fukushima. What are the chances that all the backup generators and safety systems are going to fail at the same time? Very small, if you just assume they’re independent and multiply together their failure rates. But a tsunami of sufficient size demonstrates that those failures rates are not in fact independent.

Same thing with nuclear war. The chances of having a) a crisis of sufficient size to suggest the use of nukes b) two leaders who would actually push the button c) total diplomatic failure and so on would appear to be small. And it is- today. But what about in a situation where there is mass migration of people due to climate change, and the rise of authoritarian leaders in response, and war between major states? Now what’s the risk?

Remember that in the Second World War, every weapon that was developed during the war was immediately used, including nuclear ones. Because it was a different context. If China invaded Taiwan tomorrow morning, the whole conversation would change in ways that seem unimaginable today. Think about how everything changed after 9/11. It was a totally different landscape.

The only way to truly reduce the chances of nuclear war is to dismantle the nukes, and if their use seems unlikely now, that’s an indication that the time to dismantle them is now, when it’s relatively easy, not later, when it might be impossible.
Related 130 comments 3 days ago "Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20488838
RMS never misses a chance to tell the world why it should be called "GNU/Linux" instead of "Linux". Even at LinuxWorld.
does a taco truck apply to the dont buy a restaurant rule?
> ... the ability to refactor large-scale software without breaking anything ... and no low-level programming language except for Rust has it.

Ada has had the same characteristics since '83. Thanks to strict typing (among other features), Ada programmers have enjoyed "safe" code refactoring for decades.

But it is nice that new languages like Rust are finally picking similar ideas and design choices.
This is what people used to call "selling out". There's no money in original content between friends, facebook doesn't care that they no longer serve this need for you. Their new job is to show ads for fortune 500 companies so that the pension funds invested in the facebook stock can continue to make money.
To clarify, the mutation of my son is not inherited, it is a new mutation, which most likely occured in my sperm cells.

I did see your other comment. I did understand that this was new and apparently unique.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20524334
Wow, you really think British fascism was a serious political threat after six years of war against various fascist powers. That’s a truly McCarthyesque level of paranoia.
> Yeah stuff like that happen, have and will, (...) good luck fighting that

Fatalism like the kind you suggest adds nothing to the discussion, and indeed to the academic community. It allows bad actors to keep acting badly. An article like this might motivate someone in power to examine whether this kind of conduct occurs in their institution. I don't know about you, but I see a positive expected value.

And I am not sure what you mean by the other side of the story. She has positive feedback from another supervisor, if the article is to be believed, so isn't the probable explanation a difference of personalities? And is there really any non-pride-or-ego-related reason to try and prevent someone not just from working with you, but in the wider community of which you are part? I can not interpret that behaviour in any way other than malice.
So personal recommandations should be disclosed ? That kinda goes against the point of trying to have an open discussion about a potential appliant. And what would the recourse be anyways ?

What good would a talk do, since admittedly it's a person and not a work problem ? Do any good come out of people explaining how they despise your attitude, especially with high stakes, where no response will ever bring closure ?

Yes, btw I hope the publisher has more insight than the reader and does a background check.

Edit : though I agree that the team should've hold a discussion, as sterile as it probably would've been, for it's own reputation.
>GNU, GPL, Free Software

I love these things as much as anyone else on HN but realistically they are just semantic differences between already included pages. A line has to be drawn somewhere, and since they are mostly just minor differences (which, to be fair, have large implications... but the differences themselves are still quite minor), I don't think it's fair to say they should be included.

>Hacker news (Reddit is in)

Isn't reddit one of the top 10 websites by DAU? HN is intentionally niche.
The financial services industry sees an existential threat. So they respond with lobbyists.
Its been clear from the start that emails would be covered by GDPR, and I believe that was the intent.

edit: Official GDPR site, page on email: https://gdpr.eu/email-encryption/

also, see the widely circulated 'GDPR letter from hell', which is a sort of worst-case access-to-data request that could be made under the legislation:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

In particular, please tell me what you know about me in your information systems, whether or not contained in databases, and including e-mail, documents on your networks, or voice or other media that you may store.
>Humans are emotional and social beings, and we do not (nor should we want to) live in a society in which the proceedings of law, when found to be appropriate to remedy some social offense, become the only permitted form of public expression relative to it.

What does the form of public expression hope to achieve if the recourse is adequate? Emotional release? Were it that it was you that was directly wronged, I could understand your subjectivity on the matter; however, being a third-party to whom there is no direct or indirect impact, it makes no sense.

In other words, using your statement, there is some assumed emotional or social end-goal of the behaviour is there not? Isn't that n+1 from the recourse already defined from society? The behaviour is designed to illicit something, is it not? Otherwise, why would you do it at all?

>It's perfectly reasonable to find Elon Musk to be an objectionable person in the public sphere, regardless of the legality of his actions.

The OC wasn't about whether it was unreasonable to find him objectionable but whether it was unreasonable to continue the "hate campaign" (apologies for a lack of better turn-of-phrase at the moment).

>I don't know what "woke," is supposed to imply. I'm assuming (from the typical context of such things) that it's supposed to be a glib disparagement of something related to identity politics, which seems odd and inappropriate.

Woke seems to be common parlance for people who have "woken-up" to some perceived injustice and are fighting the good fight, as it were.

An example of how it is apt and applicable is when Beto O'Rourke was continually forced to apologise[0]. In this case, we can draw the parallels by your statement:

>It's perfectly reasonable to find Elon Musk to be an objectionable person in the public sphere...

At what point would he no longer be objectionable and/or for the behaviour to stop? His death? That doesn't seem to matter in the case of lot of people previously hated throughout history, correct? So what overall, overaching purpose does it hope to achieve? When in the history of history has it achieved any appreciably good and desired outcomes?

Even if he profusely apologised, prostrated with guilt and remose today, wouldn't the behaviour still continue?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Y-wbhiOGI&t=190
This is the guy who said to Sen. Katie Porter that his SSN is privileged information leaking of which result in identity fraud and significant damages while his lawyers were arguing that their own leak didn't cause any harm? Few people rarely gets caught in their own lie so blatantly. And he even claimed he has no idea what his lawyers were arguing in court about the biggest debacle under his oversight. What a competent CEO.
Not enough, but at least some palpable penalty that might resonate with others.
I had a different reaction. I understand the reasons for having this sort of list internally, but some of what's included and left out is really odd to me, especially when it comes to biographical entries. I worry that these lists will kind of reify a very superficial approach to certain areas.

I'm not sure how they came up with these lists, but it would seem better to me to somehow quantitatively organize them, by numbers of edits or some index of controversy or something. That way there would be a more direct relationship with the reason for having the list in the first place.

As it is these lists remind me a lot of the controversies over Wikipedia when they started giving editors more and more power. It seems to reflect some preconceptions on the part of the Wikipedia editors more than anything else.
Not sure how to best say it, but I think in the end it's better to not put any trust into any hardware- (or software-) provider anyway, it shouldn't matter whether your chips are built by a "good" or "bad" actor, just assume it's a bad actor when designing the systems around it. Maybe this leads to more robust systems overall, also for cases when there was no "evil intent" (see Spectre/Meltdown).
This chip exists entirely as a file on a computer, and maybe a few FPGAs, so I doubt even the company announcing this has very much idea. It seems as if they're hoping to get SMIC to manufacture this, so it won't exactly be a competitive node (although China is pouring vast amounts of resources into making their semiconductor manufacturing competitive, so give it a few years).
How cheap?
And presumably, with a large enough team, the "track" could be lifted once the stone has gone over it, and relaid at the front JIT.

I also think that the people of the time were very adept at working with large tree trunks. Many late stone-age structures used them extensively, eg large round houses, platforms on lakes, etc. Fashioning smooth round rollers would have been relatively straight-forward for them IMO.
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Is there a way to know that the present chips are not backdoored? Or, backdoored by US? Why should the world be concern about Chinese backdoors and not US ones?
Or shouldn't use third party scripts on your website?
Alibaba doesn't seem to have any press releases written about this, not even in Chinese. All reporting seems to be based on what CTO Zhang Jianfeng said at the currently ongoing Alibaba Cloud Summit ( https://summit.aliyun.com/ ). Maybe they'll have more information on the specifics once the summit is over.
This is unnecessarily mean, and ironically you're the one showing little appreciation since you didn't even read derefr's initial post closely enough. They argued that the data structures (maps, graphs, etc) and algorithms used by the compiler could be included in the stdlib, not that the particular internal instantiations of them should be accessible. The whole point was the compiler uses a directed acyclic graph, so why isn't there a nice directed acyclic graph in the standard library?
> If China's bizarre local app market is involved, chances are they'll start as soon as it's available.

If it's China they might steal the plans so that they can build a knock-off version so they can get a head start on the competition, even.
That's not practical. If bytes anywhere in memory can trigger a backdoor, webservers won't be possible because they have to listen to arbitrary requests.
I've had a similar experience. Back in the days I used to have interesting talks with a bunch of people from overlapping networks, and met a lot of friends that way. Nowadays I'm just spammed by all the rubbish posted by people I shallowly know while the people I want to keep in touch with are invisible. It's been years since I've actually met somebody interesting on FB.
They're actively obfuscating valuable content for their users to force-feed them with content that's valuable to themselves.
A better question would be, how does it compare to ARM?

ARM is generally more competitive in terms of price and power, less competitive in peak performance.

RISC-V would have the added price advantage of being royalty-free.
If you think this is a conflation, perhaps you could explain how and why they shouldn't be?
nations are becoming obsolete. soon it will be a william gibson world
Sure. I'm running Core i5 7600 / 16 GB RAM / Samsung SSD 750 EVO / GeForce GTX 1060.
It takes around 3-4 seconds to open for the first time and it takes around 2-3 seconds to open for the second time. For both Chrome and Firefox. I don't consider it slow. After it opened, every interaction is almost instant.
I recorded video to check exact timestamps, so you can check it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7LPAIe0jhw

I don't know how could you expect ms-time response. I have 70ms ping to mail.google.com. It's just not possible for a web app to 9ms time response, unless you're living at data center. But as a web app, Gmail is amazing and pretty fast. I don't know why it's slow for other people, I'm not Google engineer and I don't have performance insights. I just telling that it's far from slow for me. Definitely not 10 seconds.
didnt know that. thanks m8
Well if you cut part of the sentence, of course it sounds fatalist, but that refered to the specific part where people talk and use phones to the same extend of giving honest, confidential feedback. And you'll eventually have no spur of those discussions. And bad students will still be spoken of, as luckily do bad advisors.

Please don't tweak sentences to make them fit to whatever discourse you want.

As for the second paragraph, between a freshly graduated PhD and advisors there is still a long way. I hardly see them competing for the same spots. Sure there are probably wicked minds that would try to evict geniuses, but said geniuses would be picked up by less egoistic people (that are luckily way more common).

Rivalry is a thing in academics of course, but from advisors towards their own phds ? There's no stake there for an advisor, but preventing a bad element trained in your team to cast a bad light on you.
I will spend more time on Facebook, potentially looking at ads it wants to show me if it does a better job keeping me in touch with people I know.
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You can't do this in a lot of languages. Python comes to mind too.
I don't think your expectations are realistic and underestimate the cost of baseline power. Baseline means this is how much the grid is pulling 24/7 without any pause.

You'd cycle batteries fairly fast if that was the only option which would increase the price, plus you'd now operate two powerplants; PV and battery.

Fusion and other thermal plants are more suited to providing baseline load. A fusion reactor that is running at a predictable minimum of 30% would cost far less than any PV/Wind/Battery system every could.
Given the manufacturing profit margin, it’s unimaginable if any big player will take the lead(unless the government chime in, but wait that’s how China works!)
I was there. Man, how things have changed. I'll never forget the feeling of getting Linux booted on my old 386 the day Linus posted about it to the minix-list .. what a rocket-ride its been!
Airline security must never be a matter of putting pressure on an organization.

off topic: you sound like a president who thinks that "maximum pressure" is good, but it has not been proven to work.
What quickly comes to mind is the removal of term limits (detriment to China, favorable to Xi). There are lots of things that China has done since Xi that are bad for foreign diplomacy that makes neighbors nervous, which seems like a detriment in the long run, though it's hard to say. Some examples: (more hostile climate to foreign businesses, claiming the south china sea, cyberespionage, oppression in xinjiang)
I don't get the message you are trying to convey. It's natural that Tesla is smaller than the largest automakers. It's smaller than medium automakers. That much is expectable.

If you are referring to the disconnect between revenue and market cap, it may point to a valuation error by the market. Or not. The market is clearly incorporating expected growth into the current value. Is the valuation correct? I have no idea. I'd not infer too much from this fact alone, though.
Is logging the 3rd pillar of observability?