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>not to get caught up in nostalgia, but at least the Web used to be comprised of an infinite variety of communities.

But there are more, and more varied, communities on the Web now than there ever have been... the Web has grown, not shrunk, over the years.

Also, even on the "old" web, most people tended to gravitate towards a few sites.

>I'm trying to sort out how we went from a giant, flexible network to a bunch of shittier smaller, isolated networks.

I think for reasons similar to why a country can have a sprawling network of highways and roads connecting lots of cities and small towns, each with its own unique culture and history, but most people will still tend to gravitate towards a few large cities.

Social media sites did a better job of providing the features that people who weren't interested in web development actually wanted, and they're designed to host millions or billions of people, as opposed to smaller forums. In other words, the infrastructure was better.

Most people care more about convenience and functionality than they do the openness of a network, or even where it's hosted. Most people just want a curated network of friends to talk to, share things with and a place to publish content. And whatever negatives the silos might bring, they do make the "networking" part of a social network ridiculously easy. Add network effects to that and I think it's easy to see why they won.

>it feels like the sentiment of the masses acknowledges that these networks are shitty.

People leave these networks for other, similar networks that serve the same needs, or different niche needs, but those needs are still currently better served by centralized networks. They're not rejecting the model itself, just specific implementations.
Good point. The current widely used kernels seem to make some assumptions about ‘owning’ the hardware and implicitly trust any running programs at a certain level.

There is a need, however, for some pragmatism.

While a capabilities-based OS could be the right solution, it doesn’t exist today.

What we have is code built for some flavor of POSIX. People demand cost efficiency today.

So, engineers do what’s practical: build a multi-tenant system running code that expects to be the owner of the hardware.

It works good enough! For most people, the cost efficiency math works out. The sand boxing overhead is worth it, as it pales in comparison to the headcount required to manage your machines, or even VMs, if you replace them with Serverless products.
Tesla overcharges for everything and acts like it’s hot new shit when really we already had electric cars and solar panels for half the cost and the other half pays for the “marketing” that convinces you to pay 2X actual cost. They would make you pre-order it too if they could.
Is she on the same iCloud login or her own?
A large chunk of the UK's existing "fossil fuel subsidies" for homeowners consist of the government charging a lower 5% VAT rate on domestic electricity and heating, much of which of course comes from fossil fuels. Take that away and spend the money on feed-in-tariffs, and you're again transferrirng money from the less well off to the wealthy.
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This is why: https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/3t59cr/india_vs_usa_...

Repeat ad nauseam, everywhere in the country. India is more corrupt than a neodymium floppy disk.
But they are easily transferable. I've hanged work on H1B at least 4 times.
An idea I've been toying around with but don't have time to fully explore or implement:

The unit of isolation should be the library, not the process. Each time you call into another developer's library, the library should have only the privileges you explicitly pass to it as capabilities, and you should be able to specify whether these capabilities may be delegated outside the receiving library and whether they can outlive the method call. So every time you call outside your own code assembly, you know that that call can't access the network, can't write to disk, can't display anything to screen. If you need it to, you explicitly pass the connection to a particular host or a handle to a particular directory, and then it can't access anything outside of that.

Not sure if this is feasible performance-wise: if you do it at the binary level, it seems like it'd require remapping page tables and flushing the TLB with every external function call, which'd absolutely kill frameworks that have to execute callbacks many times a second. But there's a certain intuitive sense to making the unit of trust & communication the code written by a certain organization, and it also fixes attacks like npm malicious modules that haven't gotten all that much attention nor have effective mitigations beyond "audit all your dependencies".
Storage costs are dropping rapidly. New batteries are nearly there for cost competitiveness. As the first generation of BEV batteries become 'spent', they will be reused in grid-scale applications. Space and weight are not a concern, and most will have ~70% of their original capacity. That accelerates quickly once Gen 2 batteries have hit end of life.
Yes. My point is doing this all the time is, generally, a waste of time. I recommend turning off automatic updates, do it on a schedule. Weekly is too frequent. I have some servers I update yearly. That may be too long. At a previous startup, we had boxes that hadn't seen an update in 3+ years.
Just remember that almost every feature that’s “announced” is a masquerade for ad-tech software to do its thing.

Example, Facebook asking for phone numbers in the name of “security” when they don’t give a shit about security. They wanted to tie a phone number to the owner, and create a social graph based on their contact uploads.
Still, each individual process using an updated library needs to be restarted for the update to take effect.

The way I see it, Linux does give you much more flexibility in how to deal with these restarts; and the ability to overwrite libraries on disk guarantees you don't get into the horrible Windows update-restart-update-restart cycles: you only ever require one restart at most.

However, there are also risks. For one, if you don't restart long-running processes which use updated shared libraries your system may be at risk; also, even if the update was not a vulnerability fix, it is technically possible for processes that communicate through a shared library to misbehave if they have different versions (one using the old library with an old data-structure for example).

This probably doesn't happen so much in Linux, where IPC is commonly done through text streams, but may be a much bigger problem on Windows if you update some COM library for example, reducing the usefullness of no-restart updates.
Can someone explain: When they say solve,do they mean it can show state after N iterations accurately after sufficient computation? Or do they mean it can find a formula for the bodies where state can be predicted at constant time regardless of iteration?
Blackmail is hard. Each one in the chain, decided to defraud the earlier one, because it was easier. The target pretended to go along, but as an already wealthy businessman, neither blackmail nor fraud would be appealing.

Let the whole chain go to jail, though, and the target gets to sleep better at night.
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This reminds me of the cat urine South Park episode : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIiOsuDRFk

I don't know why...
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This latest bailout is coming directly from SoftBank, not the Vision Fund.
> But, for grid solar there is little reasons to build it in the north rather than just move electricity from the south.

That's true, and if you're going to ship it then HVDC lines running East/West can add a couple of hours overlap as well. All this focus on rooftop solar is nice because it is decentralized but quite a few parts of a structural solution will not come from rooftop solar but from very large grid scale installations.
It reminds me a bit of the old dinner party rules of not talking politics, sex or religion. You keep things harmonious but at the cost of more interesting conversation. And doesn't help when you're forced to tackle controversial issues
Hold your horses, commie. We already legalized drug possession. Ideas like this are why the state is bankrupt and can’t care for its 60,000 homeless.
That's a good point. If we assume each line of a publication is just applying an axiom, the complexity of such a search is clearly exponential in the length of an article. I feel like this wouldn't be better if we dropped the assumption.
V for wiki by raurief - love the app
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I suspect the key to the explosion of animated gifs was that everything supported gif and that it was largely incapable of nefarious/annoying activity (unlike flash).
They gonna find a new job and transfer their H1B there. It is difficult to get the first H1B as you must fit the limited annual cap. But once you got it, you can relatively easily transfer to new employer. Speaking from experience...
I'm not familiar with the existing issues, but likely thorough testing and quick scale. I'd expect tile durability and cable corrosion to be the main issues, which seem solveable.
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I was the lead technology architect for the next generation of mirasol referred to in the engadget link, and really wish that the technology had survived. For reflective displays, there isn't practically anything that could produce good colors, that too along with video-capability.
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Yep there’s still no “open” tracking on PDFs, at least afaik from a pixel/beacon standpoint. Entire businesses like docusign are built with that value prop in mind.
It might be conspiracy to commit murder, or it might be fraud, if he was intending to take the money but not kill anyone.

What do the police do when they catch someone who was selling fake illegal drugs? It can't be a drugs offence, can it? But I'd hope they prosecute them for something.
Because the key, nonce, result, and keyshare or Diffie-Hellman exchange are all done inside of messenger... why would anyone believe this is legit?

It might be, IDK, but if it’s all inside their system, how could you audit that?
Kobo e-readers do exactly that
A lot of anomalies invoke Christian religious sentiment in our culture, I’ve been around co-workers who simply had no idea what people were talking about

There was yet another preacher convinced they had mathematically determined when the rapture would be and that it was “surprisingly” a nearby upcoming date and his flock was selling their possessions. Watching my co-workers giggle after the explanation was entertaining.

But you can really be out of the loop
Threads are not a form of isolation, they have nothing to do with ' business code ' and they offer no protection at all. I'm not sure what construct you are talking about, but it is not threads.
PowerShell is the modern equivalent basically. You can also use it in Linux.

But I think it has a bit of a learning curve because not thinking in string outputs is quite different.
Because it's a "gif" not a WebP. If you want a format to catch on, the language needs to roll off the tongue. Even though I hate the word "podcast" and it sounds apple specific even though it's not, it sound a lot better than WebP.
You mean $19.50 a month, not a year.
If I understood correctly, on page 2 they say they generated their training and test cases using random initial positions and velocities for the 3-body problem. But this is exactly the sort of case that a non-sophisticated solver should be able to handle easily as well. Brutus is special in the sense that it tries hard to give some sort of a guarantee about the accuracy of its solution to a chaotic problem. But the neural network solver provides no such guarantee, and has not been trained or evaluated on "hard" examples. I'm not sure the comparison is fair or particularly meaningful. I wonder if exactly the same sort of "positive" result could be achieved with a standard symplectic integrator, it's not at all obvious from the paper that they have ruled that out.
It's possible to do that on a jailbroken kindle
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> one of the classic problems of applied mathematics.

Maybe I'm biased with my physics PhD, but I'd call it a physics problem. "Solving" it to me means a closed-form solution, not a particular prediction, but I guess the applied math problem is a different problem with a different solution.
There are already incentives to arrest as many people as possible.
The Saudi empire is built on oil, which won’t last forever. They are desperately trying to diversify by throwing money at bad ideas in a way that makes VCs look like toddlers playing with Monopoly money.

Eventually, a lot of those fail and the Saudis want their money back.
While I'm not in charge of the website dev in the company, that was the very first thing thst came to my mind.
Yeah, I'm really not doing a great job here. By 'network' I mean that the Web is the network. I'm not romanticizing needing separate accounts for every topic. I'm not sure how to isolate the part that I am romanticizing from the part that I'm not. :D

I mean let's say we forked the Web before social media and simply had unified accounts for the variety of small sites we participated in. That seems like progress to me.
This solar roof is for single family homes, not city scale energy. You can power a single family home by building extra solar capacity so you have a surplus of energy during the day to charge batteries which you use at night. Just search for "off grid homes" to see examples. It'll most likely be more expensive at todays prices but the technology absolutely exists.
> Yes it bounced back off of the lows but it’s still not close to profitable and well under the IPO price.

The primary concern is long-term survival and growth, not immediately getting to profitable. They have plenty of cash at $2.2 billion.

Last three quarters of gross profit improvement:

$116m -> $172m -> $223m

Gross profit margin for those quarters:

36% -> 44% -> 50%

Operating expenses for those quarters:

$432m -> $477m -> $451m

Meanwhile quarterly sales went from $320m to $446m.

That's exactly what the market wants to see. Their path to ending the losses is extremely clear at this point.
(Ironically, for a site called "Human Readable Magazine" I found that really hard to read.)
There's a fair chance the service which generates these outbound requests throttles itself, both with respect to how many requests it makes against any one domain/IP, or how many errors it will provoke per time period, or before human review.
By Europe you are meaning Germany only, I believe, in most other European countries there is a speed limit of 130 km/h or 140 km/h, day or night doesn't matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_by_country
Its line-editing and basic shell experience is not quite childproof yet (e.g. it can't parse tildes but only in Tmux), but I think it gets the balance right between being able to bash out a long pipeline quickly and having it work as you intended it. I have greatly enjoyed writing PowerShell in an IDE/VSCode, but not as a shell, but NuShell seems to capture the best bits in the line editor. I am most excited about the error reporting where it tells you about missing fields etc.
> Will the sun start shining at night in 20 years?

Do batteries stop working at night?

> No. Because we know we can power an economy with fossil fuels, and do it in any weather, day or night.

...and irreparably destroy the planet by doing so

> Here's what works: Nuclear, Hydro, Geothermal

I agree! But I think we are perfectly capable of utilizing these AND solar, wind, and storage?
Can you elaborate? What's wrong with their business model?
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Given that some of the most commonly used external libraries do networking, IO, graphics and encryption, I don't think this would really be feasible.
Why would he not use std::stoi?
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Honestly, This is good to prevent malware but I imagine this breaks a bunch of things if for eg. If the link has a limited visit count. The link will "expire" before the recipient gets a chance to view it.
Shouldn’t they have figured out all that BEFORE they went public?

Call me naive, but I’m still of the opinion that a business shouldn’t be business if it can’t sustain itself.
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I wonder if the author drives cars? Everything is flawless, but the steering when the car goes in reverse is just wrong.

It's one of those things that should immediately pop out as "feels wrong" in interaction design.
Here's an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
What you're seeing is the endless see-sawing between "performance needs to be higher" and "isolation needs to be stricter".

Each alternative lands on a different balance at different times. Partly because of their own innate qualities, partly because of path dependency, partly because a "new" approach can sometimes reveal previously-unnoticed assumptions and partly because the ratios of CPU, RAM, disk and network performance are ever-shifting and thus favouring this or that architecture in the moment.

What tends to happen is that performance gains draw the first wave to a "new" technology. Then as the bulk of the industry begins to move, isolation, robustness and backwards compatibility become relatively more important. These impose overheads that will eventually be swept away by the next "new" technology.

There are still qualitative differences, though. Where you draw the firm lines in architecture affects the range of possibilities. I can place tenancy boundaries "anywhere", but in practice a VM hypervisor will be able to provide a firmer boundary than asking people not to share passwords.
Very much with you on this.

I wish Apple would make a backlit e-ink tablet for books. It really is the best way to read things cover to cover and it eliminates the distractions that come with reading on the phone. I don’t expect they’ll ever do it, but in this world where you have to opt in to an ecosystem, that’s the one I’d prefer to opt into.

Setting aside the dream of a DRM-free world, what I’d love is

- aforementioned backlit Apple e-ink reader

- iBooks app to work with Overdrive (the library-lending app)

- iBooks app to make its margins adjustable or at least not take up 20% of the horizontal width of the screen

- iBooks store to have a wider range of books (I was recently unable to get both _Theory of Bastards_ and some other notable book there that I forget the name of)

- I actually sorta like the way kindle handles comics and graphic novels

Looking at the list above a same person might ask why I don't just go with kindle instead of iBooks; the reasons are that a) there are certain aesthetic things that get under my skin about the kindle, and b) using the kindle means investing in the kindle ecosystem, and I'm not sure I want to do that for reasons.

I've been thinking of going back to paper books but reading in bed at night is so much nicer with a lightweight, backlit device. I know it sounds pathetic but trying to read one of Neal Stevenson's tomes while lying in bed is a challenge.

Anyhoo. Option paralysis! Right on.

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>Information is a public good, in an economic sense. It is not, generally, something people pay for, and historically hasn't been.

Just by being public good does not make something necessarily free. For example street lightning.

If you seek information on "Does God exist?" you can get different answers depending whom you ask. Some of these sources made a lot of money in the process, because their information had certain non-zero value to those receiving it.

Also certain types of information cost resources to produce. I pay for Youtube because I want to support certain kind of information creation that I consume while not having my intelligence insulted with ads. The same for MIT Technology Review and Nautilus.

IMO there is nothing wrong in information costing money but the two problems I see are:

- Absolute pricing models create inequality. $1/week for WSJ is very different to someone making $5,000/week vs someone $50/week and they both 'deserve' to have access to it.

- The user experience of walled gardens is terrible, as you have to subscribe to each independently
Good, looks like training my 1 year old to use a controller instead of a tablet was a good idea LOL
Yeah, except that somehow I found that it doesn't always work this way. I live in the UK, and when I call my mum in Poland using a British sim card, I have to pay extra for making a foreign call. But when she's over here, I can call her for free(using my domestic minutes allowance), even though I'm still dialing a +48 number, the telecom knows that the call is being routed internally and no extra charges are applied. Yes, I was surprised at that too.
I wonder if the people at edgedb (https://edgedb.com/) have the right approach then. They used Postgres as a foundation, and used their experience in SQL to make a DSL that is similarly expressive, but but with less caveats and some helpers for very common use cases.

It's a very young project, and as a heavy ORM using I'm not the best person to judge, but I like the way they think.
Police unions should be self-insured, backed by their pensions. Without direct incentive there is no incentive.
This is exactly what Hive is. https://mapr.com/products/apache-hive/

It provides a full SQL query engine on top of unstructured data so you can assemble results.

Personally I would never expose the raw DB in any capacity to the front end systems for security and sanity reasons. DB schemas need to be free to change all the time and you wouldn't want to break entire services from a column type change.
>it's a small factor difference in amount you're financing.

This is a magnificently out of touch comment.

You think the difference between an asphalt shingle roof vs a 100-year slate tile roof is a "small factor"?
How do you build a community?
Because we are able to extract useful information from colorized output, being as it is an extra dimension of information output; I for one don't get an urge to pass a sort of of societal judgement of the high/low artistic worth of the use of color which may further increase efficiency. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What does this have to do with people taking offense?

Golf tournaments ban loud clapping, whistling, shouting and cheering - are they like banning free-speech?
The author has gotten confused the bit about the double slit experiment that is “mysterious”.

The mysterious bit isn’t what happens when you transmit a stream of particles.

It’s what happens when you only send one at a time. If the movement was purely changes to particle momentum you would get a uniform spread across your detector.

But that’s not what happens. What happens is you get a diffraction, that only makes sense if your particle goes through both slits.
It's too bad the eagles aren't as good at obeying national borders as spanish vultures are...

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/why-do-vultures-care-about...
Not exactly. Being able to use a keyboard or a mouse is different. By comparison, is not being able to drive a car.

I sure know nothing about engine but can drive.

A computer illiterate needs the minimum of being able to maneuver it.

Files might disappear, they are an abstraction after all.
> This is why the share button on a phone is ridiculous. Instead of just copy to clip board, you get a ton of options.

Off topic, but I don't understand your objection...

On Android Chrome the share button shows you a context sensitive choice of apps that will accept the object (a link, some text, etc), followed by a second choice of what the app can do with the object.

The flow for copy-then-paste is more convoluted and is waaay less discoverable. Copy then paste is still available for the situations where it has an advantage.