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I just spent 5 minutes looking for something offensive that could be the reason for the Linux Foundation throwing out someone, but the only thing I could find was someone posting a selfie in front of the Trump Tower. The person demanding his removal apparently made racist posts, so this kind of decision seems...strange with what's shown in the link.

All questions for the actual reason in that Twitter thread get answered with things like "you haven't read the tweets" or "this is a bad faith argument", so it's all a bit confusing.
Ah if they could do Ground->Sat->Sat->Ground. You could always have the Sat->Ground communication over the USA.

In that setup, to jam the signal would require equipment between the USA<->Sat link (difficult), Sat<->Sat (even more difficult), or Plane->Sat (very difficult)
Yup. See https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... for a pretty good explanation of the async/await problem.

I know Rust is all about zero-cost abstractions, "but at what cost" beyond just runtime cost? I appreciate their principled approach to mechanical sympathy and interop with the C abstract machine, but I'm just not enthused about this particular tradeoff.

An alternative design would have kept await, but supported async not as a function-modifier, but as an expression modifier. Unfortunately, as the async compiler transform is a static property of a function, this would break separate compilation. That said, I have to wonder if the continuously maturing specialization machinery in Rustc could have been used to address this. IIUC, they already have generic code that is compiled as an AST and specialized to machine code upon use, then memoized for future use. They could specialize functions by their async usage and whether or not any higher-order arguments are themselves async. It might balloon worst-case compilation time by ~2X for async/non-async uses (more for HOF), but that's probably better than ballooning user-written code by 2X.
You might be able to rally some support and feedback for this idea on Collective.Energy!
I don't have a great answer to that - I don't know Uber's capabilities and I can't really speak to my previous company's capabilities either. Sorry!

Edit: I will say that "size and relative speed of the object" is an excellent start, though.
Holy shit we're regressing quite fast.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. If anybody is interested in building a consulting agency with me, feel free to ping me at ideavalid@icloud.com
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Totally. Why am I burning natural gas when I could have an rPi connected space heater dial it up?

Or push my freezer into deep-freeze mode.

Or my water heater tank into super-heat mode? I already have a thermostatic valve anyway.

Or have my dishwasher start whenever it wants between midnight and 6AM? All I can do is start now or in 4 hours, meanwhile these might be terrible times.
Half of that 30% are natural gas peaker plants.
Because pensions aren’t portable. They lock you into a particular organization. 401k, stocks, savings accounts, etc, do not. Pensions (in the private sector, public ones are another ball of wax entirely) do not protect you against inflation. You have no control over what they’re invested in (which in some cases, is the pension manager’s retirement). There are much better options available.
I think you're mistaken. The Montreal metro is not automated and has never been. The train controls are mostly automated, but they are still operated by a driver.
Yeah as a Physics PhD I wonder how much quicker we’d be advancing if every single student didn’t have to go through a mini history lesson throughout their schooling, successively unlearning bad models. We could pick new abstractions that have math accessible to a level but are more accurate.
You are missing my point. What you are describing is charity, and sure, let's do a lot of charity, way more than we do. I am also shopping at the local store where disabled people are the cashiers and I really like the social aspects. That whole concept is orthogonal to this discussion.

Let's not do something like non-automatic metro because ... What? I still don't know a single reason other than "these are jobs and they are considered prestigious and well paid" which is not a reason to me, especially since people here would say it about nearly every job I could talk about. There is not that much jobs today we can automate as well as riding trains, so why not start there?

I would hate myself if I decided that it's a good idea to force a person, even if they're mentally incapable (that would make it worse, actually), to spend whole days in tunnels, having to mindlessly push a button, when there is a proven way to easily automate. I just don't know why would someone do such a crazy thing from my point of view?
I learned from Professor Vaclav Smil that while Wind and Solar are practical energy solutions in the United States population ~340mil. It is not practical in all regions in more populous countries such as China (population ~1.4 Billion).

There are large regions in the country where Solar is not a good solution due to fog. And Wind is not a good solution due to lack of wind.

We have a global climate system. As is such if the goal is to reduce carbon emissions in some areas Nuclear power is the most effective method to achieve this goal. Furthermore, moving China to non-carbon energy sources would have the largest impact globally. They use ~ 22 GigaWatts of electricity per year. Which is 3.6 times as much as the US which is the 2ed largest consumer of energy by country.

http://vaclavsmil.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
Yes, I realize all this. My question is how you can have such a system and still keep UI thread synchronization without having the opposite problem of marking all your synchronous methods.
Motorways are what we'd call highways here. Specifically, they are not streets. The concept of "crossing a street being a thing to lampoon" doesn't exist in the UK.

I am not going to argue about the origins of the derogatory term anymore: the history is there.

My point is that other countries don't have a derogatory term for people crossing the street.

For Russian, that'd be like "мудак", but specifically and only applicable to people crossing the street. Like "мудоход".

We don't have "мудоход", we don't fine for "мудоходство".

That's the difference in language I am trying to highlight.
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Truss-braced wings seem really cool!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Truss-Braced_Wing
I very much disagree.

Is GPT-2 capable of creating fake news articles? No, but thats a fundamental misunderstanding of propaganda.

Propaganda is a matter of connecting ideas to feelings and creating an ecosystem that reinforces those connections.

For that reason, you need propaganda directors to create the “fake news” or whatever, but where GPT-2 can be very, frighteningly useful, is with bot swarms.

Just a sentence or two from GPT-2 can be convincing enough to be indistinguishable from a human. Have enough of them primed to direct the pro/con conversation online, and people will respond accordingly, making the “conversation” seem real when it’s actually been carefully crafted.

You can already get this today, but that requires armies of people posting on social media. When anybody with access to enough bots on enough social networks can harness this, you can warp any conversation, anywhere, at almost zero marginal cost.

This is something GPT-2 can do right now. Even the smaller models were good enough at producing indistinguishable text. Nobody is immune to propaganda.
They gave it a name, AIDS, in 1982. In my read of your comment, the claim is they should have, through statistics, been able to draw it back to the food source contamination that is now believed to have been a problem about 70 years prior.

In other words, it can take a long time to notice the correlation. I don't think it's much of a stretch to guess that there could be other such correlations, present and future, that have not been discovered or will take some time to discover.
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I'm pro Dev.to, but also pro Medium. What's nice about them both is that they are differentiated incentive structures so it does create actual choice for readers and authors.

But, I'm not sure what implosion on Medium you're talking about. That sounds like the talking points that two publications were using as they left medium (HN and FCC). But there was a shady backstory there and a lot of posturing to set themselves up to be independent.

But those publications leaving just ended up leaving a temporary gap that other publications quickly filled. Towards Data Science is now doing well north of 10 million page views a month. That's twice the size of Dev.to.

And I helped launch a new publication in May, Better Programming, that just crossed 4 million views per month.

I think when people here say that Medium decisions are user unfriendly that they are only seeing half of the picture. The paywall in particular is very author friendly. Now Medium brings authors both money and readers and you barely have to work for it. That's a good deal and creates incentives for a lot more and better writing. That end result is user friendly.
Cogeneration isn't much use on a plane...

Granted a little heat for the cabin is handy, but the rest is largely useless.
Yes it is. The law is bad, because it allows officials to increase their own income, by taking someone's property.

That's the case with asset forfeiture(there have been many cases where police have literally used that legal tool to have a better salary), fines on poor people(reason literally covered a case about it today) and other methods.

I say this from experience - American police are all shitbags working to enforce the law, not to "Serve and Protect". That Serve and Protect dissipates really fast, when you're mugged... and materializes really fast when a citation is possible.
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If you don't want to install ipfs locally, you can use a gateway like https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmQ985xMEH5XYetw8nKYrr3MJV8...
Well then we just keep burning gas/coal for base load. Congrats on wrecking the planet.
One weakness is that users can gang on politically incorrect comments or threads and flag them.

Last I've seen this was a thread about the professor which was claiming that women aren't disadvantaged in physics. It was a totally harmless thing, about how a journal decided to publish his views.
You do realize billionaires actually invest their money, not "hoard" it. In stocks they finance companies. In banks they lend to borrowers.

Their money are put to good work. They don’t just put the money under a mattress.
Is there a minimum rate at which they produce hydro power? That seems like a great option to spin down hydro power during those parts of the day, store the water, and then spin the hydro plants back up at peak load.
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Makes sense. Why get the blood money via proxy through Softbank when you can simply get the blood money straight from the source?
"until the next scarier virus comes along..." is the part I call "spreading fear".

If you want to worry about Ebola, and use condoms because of a possible risk of contracting Ebola, I would say you have set your risk threshold at a place more conservative / risk-averse than pretty much every sexual adult, at least in my part of the world. Every interaction with another organism, whether it's a handshake or sharing the same air, carries the risk of transmitting something terrible and scary. And there are people who think about that, and probably have different standards for sharing drinks, or double dipping, or handshaking strangers, or whatever. Other people do not care. They will hug someone who has the flu. It's a personal call.

When someone has sex without a condom and takes PrEP, I argue they are not thinking "Oh good, there's no possible way I'm going to die." They are not even thinking "I will not get any STIs". They are thinking "Oh, good, I don't have to think about dying from HIV". That's not foolish. Your characterization is unrealistic and equivocates risk-taking with foolishness. You imply (say) that people are ignorant of the risks, as opposed to taking a deliberate risk. And I would be more careful before saying something so offensive and disrespectful. That's where I set _my_ risk threshold, at least.
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I think all of the autonomy features Tesla have shipped have requested that the driver monitors them. There's a distinction to be made between this and the eventual autonomy whereby they don't intend on the driver being able to override the car (aka. Robotaxis) when the responsibility would shift from driver to company.
It was basically a specialised version of Apple Logo // (which we produced) adding primitives for constructing cellular automata. You would basically define rules, which would be executed and displayed. It was very fast as the execution engine was written in 6502 asm.
Long term optimistic. Short to medium term is fuzzy for me. :)
The IRS knew in the sense that the computer system knew when it processed your return. No human knew until they reviewed your return, a review that was probably triggered because your return was flagged for the uncorrected discrepancy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/comments/dct1be/...

Whether or not he's a real supporter? Who knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Recall that Warren Buffett has repeatedly called for higher taxes on the wealthy. Back around the GFC in 2019 he told the press "The 1% are at war with the 99%, and they're winning, big time".
I don't understand the hype around wind and solar. Or rather I don't see how these technologies can ever be anything more than a minor player in the energy market:

These technologies are extremely sensitive to weather conditions which means that other, more stable sources must exist and have "stand by" production cap to produce all the energy these tech won't under bad conditions. If so, what's the point? (I mean in the grand, climate crisis, scheme of things) what am I missing?

Even in "green" countries, most of the green energy comes from bio fuel which is just burning young "soon to be coal".
Ditto. Congrats to this team. Good people and good for the community.
AFAIK it's about Xenon poisoning.
You have to realize everyone is coming from different backgrounds with different communication styles. I think of it as everyone has a different "volume" that they listen at.

Some people grew up in families that were more confrontational, and they're at a higher volume. They're comfortable with more confrontational communication styles.

For others, from quieter backgrounds, if someone says, "Why the hell did you do it this way?" it's going to be a slap in the face because, hey, no one in my family talks to me that way, and I'm not going to let YOU do it. It comes across as very, very hostile.

I think everyone though should learn to communicate non-aggressively, though, because it suits the needs of most people. When you start doing it it feels weird or passive aggressive, but you get used to it and it leads to much less friction.

There are some people who might argue "the quieter types need to be less sensitive" but that's not how it works. If I'm a quieter type (and I am), I'm going to leave the company instead of have people yell at me, or it's going to severely affect my productivity.

And honestly, I question if any team can really thrive in a very aggressive environment, where it becomes more about ego and dominance that the quality of ideas at the table. Google did a study that showed the only factor that determined how well a team did was feelings of psychological safety, and a huge part of that is just talking to each other respectfully.
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Too expensive. Bigger capacity means bigger costs up front and runtime.
This. Write guards like the external integration is an active malicious adversary -- because when they change api, go down, have their own issues they may as well be attacking your integration.
Targeting the browser via WASM, we don't even have syncronous I/O for many/most things - I've been looking forward to async/await as a means of reigning in some of the awkward APIs and callback hell.
"ASan and UBSan analysis."

This is a personal quirk, but I consider C++ a different language from C++ + a lot of static analysis tools, on the grounds that most of my major beefs with C++ (and C) can largely be addressed by using powerful static analysis tools from day one. So from my personal, idiosyncratic perspective, I see two very different situations if the original poster is "using C++" or "using C++ and a suite of quality static analysis tools".

I prefer languages like Rust that take advantage of our decades of experience with C/C++ and write the most important stuff directly into the language, but in 2019 I still concede that "C(++) + good static analysis" is still a very economically compelling language for a lot of companies with existing C/C++ codebases. "Upgrading" to C+++SA is not cheap, but it's cheaper than any of the other options, as much fun as "rewrite in Rust" may be.

As for their belief that their code is thread safe, if they are using C++ and not C+++SA, I echo mike_hock's comment. It may be threadsafe, but from this distance and without a lot more evidence, my Bayesian priors say I don't believe it.
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And what happens when the economy goes bust when you're running down your investment in your retirement years? Or if you can't invest or save due to the many rent-seeking behaviors we see nowadays? Do we just let them die because they had the misfortune of bad timing or being take advantage of?

For 5: Even in those non-American societies they have recognized that leaning 100% on your family is generally a bad thing for working professionals. Or at least those companies are not willing to pay for their employees to take care of their elderly or disabled family members.
Does it feature hiding the green light next to the camera?
Mozilla tried that once and failed. I really miss it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
Energy storage will enable us to use only clean renewables. While the costs for energy storage aren't falling nearly as fast, they are still decreasing. I anticipate that rate to accelerate
Ok awesome, and thanks again!
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I'll agree it's a lot, but I wouldn't compare it to Netflix, Tinder is probably a closer comparable. Our pricing is also quite high, justification to employees who felt our price was too high is that content creation platforms, or platforms where users engage with the content are able to charge more than content consumption platforms where the content is a commodity for the most part.
It's not always practical to do that. For example you can have situations where you are advising on vendors who are 10x - 100x the size of your company, and would not accept a subcontract arrangement. Clients like the fact that you can represent their interests purely.

I'm sure what you describe fits your firm's experience, but it isn't indicative of the range of consulting experience.
Python's greenthread implementations are quite good, monkey-patching all calls to work asynchronously with low mental overhead and automatic library comparability (except for libraries that call native code obviously).

Of course Python generally fails to offer "the same kind of performance" for anything limited by CPU or memory, so it technically doesn't fit the description either.
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This is assuming that the fear of rejection is wrong. For some people, it's a valid concern.
For all but the simplest and most obvious issues, talking through the potential problem is also faster than repeated back-and-forth commentary. I'll still write the comments, but that's more for me to get the thoughts on the issue down on paper than to ensure that my thoughts get communicated accurately and acted upon.
While the business software and development side seems to go to the right direction, the consumer product side is basically series of incompetent and/or anti-customer decision/catastrophes. IMO You were right about Satya, all the positive things happening, because there is someone who can hold against him. (because if he would be the origin of the positive changes, than everything would be improving)
Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote?
No, we rely on an internet connection to stream video. Our application uses WebRTC to make a connection from one client (browser) to another. This is a two-way encrypted connection between the clients which allows them to stream video and audio over the internet.
I don't own a BMW for the signaling. I have no one to impress and it is quite an old station-wagon, so not a head turner. My wife doesn't know shit about cars but refuses to drive the Toyota on her longer commutes, because it's not comfortable for her.

So I would prefer a Toyota that handles nice over a BMW, but it would not be a Toyota. Toyota optimizes their cars for reliability and cost whereas BMW optimizes its cars for high performance and comfort. Specifically, their cars, like other German brands, are well suited for safe high-speed cruising on the autobahn, making them incredibly solid driving machines.
Yeah, if someone is just flat out wrong, it's better to talk in person about it, walk through the details, and tell them why you disagree with them or show them their mistakes.
I know today it is abandoned, but I'm wondering about when it was actively developed.
if you have enough ram to fit all your build files, your OS's block cache should take care of keeping them cached.
This is horrifying and awesome.
The top marginal rate in California is 12.3%. The 1% is a separate levy, so if your take that into account you have to do the same for your comparison rates.

And then you find that your tax burden in Texas ends up being close to the same as it was in California, but your taxes in Texas don't get you any public services.
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I've a friend in Brazil who is making U.S level salary consulting on tools like Zapier, Airtable, Constant contact etc. His clients ask him to set up automations, ask him to teach them etc. If his projects need coding, he hires others to do it for him.

What I am trying to say is - you don't necessarily have to code to make a decent living in tech. There are other options too, especially if you are good in interacting with people.

That said, if you enjoy coding, then by all means, do it! It is fun for sure, at least for a while :P
I guess the risk pooling is the part that I didn't fully appreciate. still AFAIK, most pensions are not inflation adjusted, so if you live for a long time, you risk "running out of money" anyway.
Didn't see it listed as an option here, but are the travel-via-ICBM options that SpaceX has been touting going to actually be cleaner options than burning jet-fuel? If you remove the cruise speed requirements for longer-haul flights and put them in space, maybe that helps? Hard to say without any real numbers out there (and even if I had real numbers I'm probably not in a position to synthesize them vs. aircraft)
Bio fuel isn’t soon-to-be coal, if it wouldn’t get burned it would decompose and release the co2 into the atmosphere just the same.
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