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No problem. I found your gitlab blog, and I'll check it periodically for the 'vulgar misconceptions' section. Maybe for once someone will explain to me what a proper renewable-based energy mix (with solar/wind backbone) actually looks like.

Cheers.
You may have missed a lot of recent drama, some of which involves deceptive advertising practices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity

Depressingly powerful. For example:

https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu...

> The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Fresno police officers accused of stealing more than $225,000 while executing a search warrant are protected by qualified immunity and thus cannot be sued over the incident.
Let's not kid ourselves that there's any such thing as a genuine poll on a Chinese government communication poll. Give me a break.
Yes, OpenBSD invented anonymous CVS which was the first way to access a version control system without prior authorization http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf

It was already ubiquitous in 1997 when I got started working on open source software, so I took it for granted. I was surprised to find out 20 years later how new anoncvs had been and how fast it spread to other projects like FreeBSD and Apache httpd.
I think the good will that Blizzard earned with their early games has been eroding for a long time. They did, legitimately, used to have enormous community good will. I can think of two ways that's eroded:

(1) Blizzard's early games earned huge amounts of goodwill by enabling players to mod them. The map editor of Warcraft and the UI mod-ability of WoW let people build entire communities around modded content (DotA, for example!). To my knowledge games after Starcraft II have largely lacked anything resembling this kind of functionality (please correct me if I'm wrong). Hearthstone, HotS, Diablo 3, and Overwatch all have 100% of their content locked down from the top down. I don't think the contribution of mods to the longevity of Blizzard's early titles can be overstated, and I'm confused why they haven't kept up that spirit.

(2) Blizzard has had a long string of eyebrow-raising failures to foster the competitive gaming scene, which they've been tone-deaf on since at least Starcraft II. They pulled the cord entirely on HotS after getting the game into great shape, the kept the Overwatch meta unbelievably stale for years, the Hearthstone Grandmaster League has been a joke on multiple fronts (in addition to an objectively stupid format decision for the first season, they insist on reserving seats in their flagship tournament for popular streamers rather than top players, resulting in some just... awful games). In general they try to retain far too much control and stifle anything they feel inconveniences them.

Add to that (3) a string of jaw-droppingly bad community management moves ("you think you want that"... Diablo for mobile...) and (4) Activision looming like an insect and (5) lots of Bizarre changes to games to appease Blizzard China

I don't know, I used to perceive Blizzard as a good steward for games. Now I don't think the game makers have that degree of control over the company's decisions, or their priorities have changed.

So it doesn't surprise me that people were as quick to kick them to the curb as they were. It would have 10 years ago, but not today.
Why make it harder than it has to be?
If it isn't real, I hope that the people that filed this spend some time in jail...
> or does every country that calls itself Communist fail the test

That's how I look at it, though I'm no expert.

> what precisely would be different about a true Communist country versus these pretend-Communist countries

True collective ownership/Marxism. It's unclear whether it's even possible to create this kind of society without it regressing to brutal authoritarianism, but that's the idea at least.
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The article explains why it's practically impossible to see that (check your assumptions! :P )
While the first part of your post is correct, they operate extremely differently.
Yes he is. I complimented on the code quality, and that doesn't come from itself.

But "being smart" does not require you to be arrogant and condescending. Theo is, and seems to need to say "I AM SMART" all the time. Like "Hey, I found this thing where the manpage says X but look the implementation is actually Y. POSIX says X, so probably Y is a bug". Answer: "I AM SMART. I will fix this". Ooooo-kay. I didn't say you weren't smart.
We should think about what is going to happen to all those people (let's face it, the vast majority) who are not passionate about anything... Or worse; who are simply not quite passionate enough...

Taking into account a competitive global environment with many traditional/productive jobs disappearing and being replaced by a much smaller number of extremely hard-to-get content creator jobs, I don't think it's going to end well. It's starting to look like that Black Mirror episode where people end up living in a box and generaring electricity with their legs.
They could treat it like a foreign currency: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2018_publink1000...
I think that says more about twitter than anything else.
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i'm not following it closely enough to pinpoint where most of the criticism is being directed, but quite a bit seems to be directed at the nba and the rockets. the nba and the rockets are clearly trying to walk a tightrope between mollifying the CCP without capitulating to it (by outright punishing daryl morey).

kaepernick's ranking as a quarterback is debatable but a quorum of knowledgeable people (i.e., not me) seemed to view him as a somewhere in the middle of the pack of starting quarterbacks.

in any case, another interesting element of the comparison is that nba players/employees have more collective power than their nfl counterparts. individual players, who feel loyalty to a range of interests other than profit, are willing to take stands that an unempathetic corporate entity just won't.
Opening the source repository with anonymous CVS [pdf]
There was an analysis done on the theoretical (Carnot/ 2nd Law) limits of using Earth's infrared emissions in this way: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/11/3927.abstract (Roughly 4 W/m2 for a system that purely exploited the radiative mismatch between outgoing and incoming long-wavelength radiation from the sky.

The bigger limit in our case is that we're using a thermoelectric generator - and achieving a relatively small temperature difference. We argued in the paper it might be possible with improved engineering and more favorable weather conditions to push performance to 0.5 W/m2.

In general, solar gets you far more power than this method ever will. The only advantage to combining the two might be to provide incremental power at night that improves the overall energy economics of the footprint associated with the solar panel.

And yes, a heat source would improve the power output. This has been the approach of an entire field of research that one might term 'waste heat recovery'. This encompasses everything from industrial sources to the human body or a campfire. The advantage, such as it is, of what we've done is that you don't need a source of heat besides the air itself.
Whether you get it right or wrong, I really appreciate people making verifiable predictions about the future publicly.

On the other hand, I am less and less interested in post hoc analysis done by journalists and academics judging after the fact, what should've happened.
My local supermarket sells their budget fruit brands (which are actually owned/leased from the supermarket itself) as a pack with no actual weight measurement given, so the price is per apple. Every other brand lists their weight and prices are given per 100g, so if you actually want to figure out what is cheaper you need to go weigh the budget brand on the scales and then do the maths yourself!
Hmm, that's important to consider! So I'll continue fence-sitting on this one. Maybe it's real, maybe it's not.
> here are no wave functions or vibrating membranes out there, as there are no "triangles".

I wish you'd added "There is no spoon" here. Opportunity missed.
Your perspective is a popular one, but a lot of people also think there is a "true" theory that will perfectly explain how the universe evolves.
Reminds me of an infamous VC story I heard years ago: A bunch of engineers tell him that feature X is impossible due to latency, and the latency is capped by the speed of light.

He challenges the team by asking them to speculate about options, if they managed to "disrupt" the industry by breaking that speed barrier, and gets mighty upset by these closed-minded engineers who are unwilling to accept any possibility of a breakthrough
It will definitely mean a significant increase in Linux developers.
If I were the caster, I probably would simply not "live"stream it.

Seconds delay lets you pull the cord before it goes public and or change feed.

Minutes potentially let you omit the footage and do some super rough and ready edits.

Not that I want that to happen...
The question was whether there are statements provable by humans but not computers, which is either trivially impossible or guaranteed, depending on whether you allow the computer to use the same axioms as the people.
JPEG lossless rotation can only be done if the dimensions (height and width in px) of the image are multiples of MCU (typically 8x8 for 4:4:4 or 16x16 for 4:2:0).
Yes that distance matters in so far as getting the heat to the thermoelectric can be a bit more challenging. However I believe this has been investigated before and there are likely ways of doing it at least somewhat well.
> The Apple II personal computer was introduced in 1977. One of its features was a compact, fanless switching power supply, which provided 38W of power at 5, 12, -5, and -12 volts

Unless you are using Apple 2 emulator on Raspberry Pi, you won't get any modern computer working on 38W.

Actually it has less power consumption than a lightbulb that is needed to light up the room where it stands.
So, according to the IRS, if you keep your crypto on an exchange, the exchange owns it, since it has complete dominion over the private keys. Taken literally, this would mean you wouldn't have to pay any taxes on it.
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"Any sufficiently complicated group communication system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Usenet."
The same goes for the US - should US laws really hold so much sway in other countries?

The issue isn't that countries can influence each other (and each other's populations and companies), it's how they are using that power that matters.
Attendees should cosplay by wearing yellow hardhats and pink 3M respirators.
In what sense is a proof valid yet can't be written down?
I used to be an SRE on Google Enterprise - I ran the Admin panel you see in the article, and worked on Docs infrastructure.

I endorse this message. It's important that people understand how the technology they use works. Yes, Google Docs are stored in a format legible to the company. There were tool such that they could be included in legal holds or subpoenas. There were no access tools that Google or Googlers could read those documents directly, but they absolutely were included in legal discovery tooling. You should be aware of that fact, just as you should be aware that your enterprise can read (and include in response to subpoenas, etc) your e-mail.

Since the article mentioned TOS Violations as a potential threat vector, I'll also share an interesting anecdote: Journalists using Google Docs were one of our worst headaches. It was not uncommon for journalists to put Google Docs links, or internal links, into stories - It got used as an image sharing service a lot. At one point, there was insufficient (read: No) caching on some of the Google Spreadsheets "Graph" features... and the NY Times embedded an image generated by such into their homepage. The mechanism that prevented that from taking down all of google docs was the same one that prevents abuse. Documents with poor sharing properties are likely to trigger anti-abuse mechanisms, and get that TOS message in response. It's not personal, and quite frankly - I'm in agreement with the message, because while not intentional, it is abuse.
You are correct it’s not new value per se, I was sort of glossing over that.

A dividend is in fact unrelated to your ownership stake. Before a dividend and after a dividend, you continue to own the same percentage of the underlying entity. You could use the dividend to in fact increase your beneficial ownership stake by re-investing it in the security. What has changed is the market value of your shares -- and to your point, by the dividend amount.

With a crypto fork, what's happening is someone is creating a new asset out of thin air, by copying an existing chain. When that happens, you now have two "assets" X and Y. The value may not even be correlated in any way. If I forked the BTC chain to create MagicPonziCoin2, it's not going to change the value of BTC whatsoever. This is recording that there's some initial value to the post-fork coin. If the fork affects the original holding, you can recognize your gain or losses by selling. If the post-fork coin changes in value, you can recognize your gain or loss there by selling relative to the value at your acquisition.
If someone has such super technology, why patent it so people can easily steal the idea with a google search? Why not keep it secret and use it to fuel a giddy ride to the top of the power hierarchy?
Skimmed, so I apologize if I missed something, but that isn't what we were discussing though. That's comparing two generations and their self-identification.

What I was asking about is the assertion that as a person ages they become more conservative. Comparing generational differences won't directly answer that question.
I believe (as do many others) that they've got the causation backwards; you don't search for work you're already passionate about, you grow passion by doing meaningful work that is deeply rewarding.

I read most of the post with the viewpoint that the author had a vested interest in a very specific interpretation of what's essential the story of the internet: the long tail. I see no evidence that the entire market for any of the examples has exploded in total value, which to me means we're just seeing a shift in delivery channels. Traditionally authors all made very little while a few best sellers took the majority of the money, same with musicians. If the new currency is audience, consumption or some other metric why does that indicate the fundamental distribution has changed?
It's a mistake though. Humans can't prove any of those propositions either.
Would it really be too much of a burden for phones to just save photos at the correct orientation now? I understand the hardware limitations that were present in 2007, but surely these can't still be a factor?
Why does he get more credit for not being a physicist?? So he made an uninformed conjecture that turned out to be true? (whether it is true also seems up in the air right now?)

I don't understand why that deserves kudos. I would very much prefer top scientists to listen to people who know what they're talking about, instead of paying heed to the less informed on the off chance their wild speculation bears fruit.
I think it’s not far off comparing them to the hong wei bings [紅衛兵]. They were enthusiastic but ultimately a means to an end, though the ends differ. Still, it was opportunistic and the opportunistic utilization part wasn’t disclosed.
Right, so the equivalent here would have been if Blizzard had censored the player in China, but not in the rest of the world.
It is a made-up joke, partially grounded in a soviet tradition to supplement any thesis by some quote from Lenin Collected Works. Since Vladimir Ilyich had lots of opinions and was a very prolific writer - 5th edition of Collected Works ran 54 volumes 650 pages each - one could find virtually anything there. ANYTHING.
At least comparing 100g to 1kg is trivial.
Post author here

I'd be happy answer any questions. It was a fun experiment, but I wasn't expecting to see it on HN!
That was extremely interesting, thanks for the pointers.

There are really so many ways to conduct "hiring", the process of onboarding someone new into a group; and this serves as impeccable illustration that if you are willing to innovate in that regard, we can do so much more and so much better today than just 10-20 years ago (and ever before).

The process of Automattic makes you want to work with them if only because they seem to have a fantastic culture, really play the game at a higher level on the 'human' part.
I like how you’ve been saying for 3+ years that it’s possible to recover a SipHash key based on its output, something it’s specifically designed not to allow, but never given any evidence for it.
The Jevons Paradox [1] is named a "paradox" as it is an unusual, apparently contradictory outcome. It can be considered a special case of the rebound effect [2] where the rebound is greater than 100%. Unlike rebound effects in general, a Jevons Paradox is not a routine outcome of any new technological efficiency gain. It is something that needs to be observed from data rather than assumed.

In my experience, the Jevons Paradox seems to be more widely brandished than understood in internet debates about energy and resources [3]. If Alice claims e.g. that American electricity production is getting more efficient, Bob may "refute" her point by citing the Jevons Paradox without mustering evidence that the Jevons Paradox applies to recent trends in American electricity consumption.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)

[3] Your comment did not misuse the Jevons Paradox. You noted that ephemeralization seems to be winning.
> Case in point: Nothing at Disney stipulates a correlation between their "economic output" and their energy consumption.

Not convinced. Whether movie creation or Disneyland, it all seems O(n) to energy use, except the constant factor is much smaller than for a steel plant, so we don't notice the correlation yet. Computers need electricity, man-hours ultimately have an energy cost, you need space and energy to entertain all the Disneyland visitors, etc.

I think I've found the answer to my question in other comments, though. The article focuses on US economy, but given the scale of imports, it doesn't really make sense to treat US economy in isolation. Just like I suspect the "dematerialization" is an artifact of not counting inputs to outsourced manufacturing of imported goods, I now suspect the decorrelation of energy use and economic growth is just an artifact of not counting the energy embodied in imported goods.
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I don't think it will reduce the need for energy storage. If it does, it might be in some marginal cases and by a small amount. This is because the power generated using this approach is quite a bit less than what you can get from solar. So for any conventional uses, PV+storage will always be the winner. I think the real advantage for this might be for low-power, long-duration applications where battery cycles can be a challenge. The other big scenario is polar climates, where there's low solar insolation for several months.
I wonder if SF and LA can learn anything from this.

Probably not.
You are only very rarely going to win over somebody committed to an irrational belief (who usually already holds it in plain contradiction to available facts) with logical arguments.
It’s a controversial topic in the philosophy of science. Your position is called anti-realism and has decent support but there’s no clear consensus either way.
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As I understand it, a service-based economy is more energy-intensive. A service based economy requires a pre-existing industrial base; services activity are actually managing actual stuff streams, and streams about these streams. Plus, you need heating, transportation, internet etc for all of your office workers, which requires energy.

The absence of obvious correlation doesn't remove the need. Just like there would be no advanced economy without a working agricultural infrastructure to provide food to everyone...
Even at the size they are, that's still enough people to make a scene -- Enough to bubble upward and ask for a disciplinary decision, I'd think.
An important aspect of this isn't that you cant trisect any particular angle, its that you cant trisect any arbitrary angle, plenty of angles, like 90 degrees, are trivial to trisect.
> The fact that companies are willing to do it is pathetic.

I don't disagree with your post at all, but I wanted to note that it's important to remember that companies aren't people, they're machines generally designed to maximize profit. Morals don't apply to them - only the law, and money does.

Personally I've boycotted Blizzard in response, and I hope more people do.
5 looks a whole like an EmDrive too.
I've encountered plenty of pictures with incorrect EXIF orientation, mostly caused by holding the phone at a weird angle.

For example, if I hold the phone parallel with the ground (aimed at the floor), what is the correct EXIF orientation?
Does anyone know if this situation would be partially mitigated if you've enabled online access to GDrive, i.e. syncing files to your hard drive?
Wells Fargo won't accept cash deposits, recommended I use uninsured Zelle app
I was trying to deposit money into a family member's account at Wells Fargo today, the bank said they no longer accept cash deposits and recommended that I use Zelle, which is not an official, nor insured app for bank to bank transfers. Ref - https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/zelle-users-are-finding-out-the-hard-way-theres-no-fraud-protection/amp/

I feel somehow that banks should provide better options for online transfers. Am I wrong?
I rely on Google so much. One glitch in Google code can cost me a lot.
In every real-world organization, of any size at all, that I have ever worked in or been close enough to see into, this would mean:
1) the the output I want, and
2) if this doesn't give the outcome I want, because I asked for the wrong thing, you get dinged for that

There is a reason for management by output: it's honest. The manager decides what the output is, which is what's going to happen anyway, and if the direct labor made that happen, then the outcome is on the management, not the direct labor.

Pretending otherwise, will not result in the direct labor determining how to get to the outcome, it will just result in:
1) determine, through an elaborate game of corporate charades, what output I want, and pretend you chose that
2) deliver that output
3) insure that output results in the correct outcome

Managing by output is far more honest, and only judges the employee by what they are in fact actually allowed to have any control over.
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Well they have to do something to make up for their continued decline in performance. You don't get to stay the industry darling by living on your historical record forever...
Oh...apparently my 2 year old reddit account, with 2 posts and 3 comments is shadow-banned. Nobody knows when this happened as my last post was a year ago. Yet if you look at my comments on the 3 topics I commented on, they were all helpful comments to the OP.

Here is the mod's smuck reply: https://pictshare.net/kyesom.png