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> Would we have a stronger middle class if we Thanosed the population?

There is historical precedent for it, see 14th-century Italy after the Black Death halved the population.

https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_the_Bubonic_Plague_make_the...
I work as a machine learning engineer, and have a masters degree in applied math, I know statistics. Thanks for the subtle you must not be smart cheap shot though
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Reversible Computing
there are plenty of systems to do that nowadays. it's a legal problem though, not a technological one. accounting and taxing those transactions is impossible under current laws
I don't know, I'm kind of partial to Monero myself.
He has one advantage that past failed attempts didn't: electric cars are relatively simple compared to combustion engine cars.

But American consumers will want to see roughly 5 years of reliable quality reviews before they trust the brand. Problems with Yugos and early Hyundai's left a trail of memorable Internet memes.

So, what do you do the first 4 years? That's a lot of years to take a loss in order to gain market share.

Maybe start in the rental markets by loaning the cars out to rental shops. If they are loaned on a short-term basis, then the rental shops won't have to eat quality problems, if they appear.

One thing they have to know: if you foul up quality early, it takes a long time to recover that reputation. Detroit brands are still recovering from the clunkers they made in the 70's and 80's. They are now on par with the Japanese brands, but that's not good enough to get a clean reputation. Hyundai had to include generous extended warranties AND low prices to restore their reputation and market share.
I also went to a large state school (although to be fair, one that's fairly highly rated for STEM). Access to people, both socially and academically, access to information, access to opportunity (I did not get a degree in CS yet here I am making piles of cash in this field) all increase with the resources available at uni.

Asking a high school student, especially one that likely grew up in a small town with limited exposure to people careers, and ideas, to go into an uncaring workforce essentially unable to pivot for the rest of their lives sounds heartbreaking. I strongly believe that my opportunity should be available to every person.

As a side bar I think this probably should start way earlier than college; more well run state boarding schools would be a huge life line to high performing students stifled by their geography.
In my opinion, it's a large part of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Black Swan.

Basically, as your signals approach infinity, your chance of finding correlation approaches 1. Taleb argues your chance of finding causation is likely to decrease.
Adverts that relate to the content they're next to are contextual ads, rather than targeted ads.

They're apparently not very good for advertisers.
Currently EVs are not remotely price competitive with ICE cars. You can get a decent new ICE car for $15-20k. But even entry level EVs seem to be $35k+. Until new EVs reach the $20k price point, I do not anticipate them going mainstream. Perhaps a new entrant like VinFast will achieve this.
Funny thing, windbg apparently uses a fixed-size buffer to store the old-style thread names and it must use strncpy to copy them in because if your thread names are long enough then windbg displays the first ~15 characters and then shows garbage, because strncpy doesn't guarantee null-termination.

Harmless I think, but sloppy.
Maximal information efficiency is achieved at "e-ary" (~2.718281828) distinct values per place, and this is closer to ternary than binary.
scrape?
$700 scooter? erm.
> People are free to have as many or as few kids as they like, but it's silly to argue that money is a barrier when we are living in the wealthiest era in human history.

Around where I live two types of housing are being built:

1. million dollar+ McMansions.
2. Tiny 1 or maybe 2 bedroom apartments for rent.

Of course there is existing housing stock, for around $600k-$800k for a house that is good for raising a family in.

My friends with kids are dumping 10-25k into education, and the ones with younger kids also have to factor in child care.

So, sure, for dual income families earning 300k a year[1], it has never been a better time to have kids.

I'm not going to argue that higher income countries have less kids, of course they do, the higher % chance kids survive the less need there is to have a lot of kids.

But I honestly wonder if people are having as many kids as they want to if economics weren't an issue.

[1]This is not even an exaggeration, for people living in major coastal metros, the quality of life trade-off is either drive 1h to 1.5hrs and have affordable housing, or have a commute that allows for a life and not be able to afford housing that would allow for kids. Those being the two choices society presents is 5 types of bullshit.
Suggesting there is more culture in Los Angeles is enough to cause a heart attack amongst the San Francisco gentry.
I was at Atari when, one fine day, some folks in the UK that we had never heard of did a product announcement about an Atari computer that definitely was not coming out of our engineering group. (We were down to one building at that point, if you don't count our remote office in Monterey as part of the GEM porting effort).

I remember the Tramiels being a little flabbergasted by the Transputer announcement as well.
> Ad serving will shift to first-party

also, people will sell/buy incentivized installs
Kids were not meant to be a lot of work, our society makes them a lot of work.

I think you’re right: in the past, each kid was much less work than they are today. The difference is that you also used to have 6 of them, and used to expect that not all of them might survive to adulthood. This is clearly not acceptable approach in today’s society.
> They're also promiscuous, in the sense that most have really poor dependency management ("let's build the internet today just in case") and practically no security.

Not criticisms that apply to maven. Binary dependencies on released versions are the norm, and all packages in the central repository are signed with GPG, just as with apt.

> The computing world would be a better place if the people forcing their language-specific idioms on the rest of the world had instead spent their time improving the platform package managers that already existed at the time.

If those platform package managers had been open to being improved, which I don't think they were (and conversely, deb/apt originated because Debian insisted on doing things their own way rather than improving RPM). Apt's closed-world assumptions seem like a policy decision. Apt not being cross-platform is definitely policy. And surely it's occurred to people in Debian that the ability to have per-user installs, and more importantly non-shared/non-overlapping installs of libraries that are depended on, would be useful; the insistence on single system-wide installs of libraries can only be a policy decision, and one that's turned out to result in a less usable system.
How big/relevant is the adblock user market segment?

Also, flattr and other micropayment sites could/would work. Just as patreon and other subscription methods.

After all paid-via-unskippable-ads is the inverse of consumed-without-payment. Both are the extremes of the spectrum and the majority of users probably would stop visiting/consuming if they were forced to look at the ads for a significant amount of time.

I mean TV channels probably spent hundreds of millions on trying to maximize ad time while keeping viewers. (And now YouTube too.)

But of course there will always be a segment that will be very bothered by ads. (Hence the success of Netflix.)
Let’s all submit a page that people without a subscription could read. Seriously, fuck you.
It's a subset, but also a superset.
Why do people keep talking about kickstarter here?! This company did not run a kickstarter.
You're not making an honest argument while making a sweeping generalization and a strawman about something else. Money has value if you can buy things with it. Gasoline has value if you need it. Bitcoin has no value if no one will accept it or trade it. That's reality, not hypotheticals.
Combinatorial? Seriously? The difference between exponential and cominatorial is essentially purely theoretical when it comes to computational complexity. In practice, even the difference between n and n log n is barely relevant, and the exponential and combinatorial are the exponentiation thereof. Nobody ever, ever deals with processes large enough where the difference both matters, and the process completes. Even a tiny scaling factor in the exponent and a moderate base means the point at which a unscaled combinatorial passes it will take more steps that you might as well be waiting for the heat death of the universe.

But even without any scaling factors, don't underestimate the size of the numbers involved. If you had two threads, one simply counting up to some n! upper bound, and the other up to 10^n - how long do you think the minimum problem size would take for the "slow" combinatorial to actually be slower than the exponentiation? Hint: at 4GHz and 1 op/cycle... Let's just say I'm not holding my breath that our species will still be around then. And even a tiny scaling factor to the mix...

I mean, if you're trying to estimate computational complexity at least, this nuance seems pointless.

But quadratic vs. exponential really matters, with plausible parameters.
Edit: this comment can be ignored since it doesn't seem to verify third party proofs in the first place. As far as I can tell, it just queries the Keybase servers and calls it a day, so the trust anchor is still only Keybase unless I overlooked something. More details in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21748454

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> It should be trivially verifiable by yourself

Yeah sure, once you realize that third parties are required for security.

This shifts the root of trust from just Keybase to Keybase + a third party. That's not quite what I would call end to end encryption, at least not if there is no fallback to checking the keys manually. That's just not what the word means to me, even if the risk is sufficiently low that I guess it can be considered equivalent.

So I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If indeed all chat apps had such a scheme where third parties vet the keys, i.e. if it were commonplace to have to compromise two or more companies' servers before you can MITM someone successfully, it would be a huge improvement over the current state. Keybase is definitely being innovative here. It's just not how it's marketed (namely as being a secure chat in and of itself), and I hadn't realized that this might be what they mean when they write "end to end encrypted [but only if you sign up with a trusted third party!]".
The engineers at Apple are well aware of the games that adtech plays.
> it's probably the greatest misallocation of resources outside of our health industry.

wasn't there an article trending on HN a few hours ago about the 2T$ for Afghanistan?
erlang and erlang VM languages come with 0 being truthy, and the only falsey values are false and nil. I had a junior python programmer disagree with that and within 3 weeks of onboarding him we found a place where it made sense for 0 to be a truthy value. I believe it was a place where we had an options list. One of the options was a value that is settable to zero. In elixir:

timeout = options[:timeout] || :infinity

if zero is falsy, you can be royally screwed with that code, if timeout should be settable to zero (definitely a thing).
> Piracy isn’t an answer to the problem

If the problem is, "me wanting to watch The Flamingo Kid tonight" piracy absolutely does solve that problem.

Also, the reason for this problem is that there is not sufficient commercial incentive to make a legal solution to this problem. There are fixes for this, changes could be made to copyright law, for example, that would make this problem a commercially viable one to resolve; however, there are few incentives to make changes that would allow this problem to be resolved. Piracy is certainly the easiest answer to this problem, and the only answer at the moment.
Corporation gets taken advantage by another corporation.
Average price of a new car in the US is ~$36,718. Some consumers are taking on 6,7,8 year auto loans to pay $50k-$80k for vehicles.

It is not necessary for EVs to reach the price point you mention for adoption to take off, considering much lower fuel costs (total cost ownership). I know someone putting almost 2500 miles/month on their Model S commuting. The math worked out immediately for them to dump their Chevy SUV.
A weird thing about the of rural Montana that I grew up in is that Google maps has names of places that no one there uses and then they don't have names that are popularly known.
> Who are the institutions most benefitting from this? Are they not simply the _financial_ institutions furnishing the liquidity?

The US Federal Government is providing 90%+ of the liquidity. What benefit is it gaining?
Vietnamese billionaire? I thought Vietnam was a communist country?
A rotten offer will never sell no matter how many ads you buy. This thread says that the scooter is a whitelabeled product. The margin priced it out of the market. Most people comparison shop. What is really new to learn here that isn't common sense?
OK, but the percentage increase in efficiency will be what? At the cost of completely overhauling all your low-level hardware?
Reproducible builds were a non-goal for apt for most of its existence.
Letting go of C is not nearly as easy as you’d make it seem.
Interesting, thanks for correcting me.

It looks like there may be an exemption for small amounts under $200 (https://smallbusiness.chron.com/foreign-currency-exchange-ta...), which would make Bitcoin much more functional (if it would apply to Bitcoin anyways, mute point as BTC is classified as an asset), but not to the extent of my misconception.
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>You are assuming massive incompetence on the part of child care workers with no prior evidence.

The fact that they earn minimum wage is evidence of their collective incompetence. The fact that they would not be emotionally destroyed by never seeing the child again when either they leave their job or the child moves on is evidence of their indifference.

>19% of women with a post graduate degree is huge. How many millions of dollars of investment in education is that? If someone wants to leave work then of course they should be allowed, but if they don't and feel they are forced to? That sucks, and it is a net loss for society.

Should we not first ask why they thought it was a good idea to get an advanced degree?
Okay, I’ll say it, you bought a stupid domain.
Could you provide here some links about similar behavior of other national agencies?
I'd take a look at static pages.

Go to forestry.io, create new page from starter template. You now have a working blog with source on github.

Then go to netlify.com, create new site and hook it with your github repo. You now have free hosting.

Add custom domain to netlify hosting.

It's about 20 minutes total and you get SSL, global CSN, autopublish on every change, every change as commit, all data in plaintext instead of database (no platform lock in). Super easy version of AWS lambda as a bonus.

It requires zero technical knowledge from writers and gives all the possibilities to technical people
I’m a little curious about how that works
It is, but it's defined rather weirdly:

"byte: addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment"

Hence why the type that corresponds to it is "char"! Beyond that, the only thing that kinda sorta implies that it's the smallest addressable unit is the definition of CHAR_BIT:

"number of bits for smallest object that is not a bit-ﬁeld (byte)"
Thanks, that's useful background
Unfortunately this only works on `th` and not `table > thead` or even `thead > tr` which is annoying because things like `tr` backgrounds won’t be displayed which look ugly if you have cell spacing without a cell border.
Redbox no longer rents video games
Can you provide proof that you can automate all tests of all code?

Can you provide proof that you can turn all human-understandable language into computer-understandable language?

We haven't even started the discussion yet of how much code you spend on writing tests for other people's code, versus how much code you spend writing your own code.
Maybe they only write polyglots :)
Umm.. why would someone run it out of their kitchen? I mean if I happen to run a VPS with a bunch of stuff for myself, I would want them to handle multiple users, so I can enroll friends/family.
True story. I was born in Ennis, population single digits thousands. They have a brewery and distillery.
It’s already been done. Stop.
More so than real estate? You might pay $50k for your education, but in hot markets with no construction you might pay literally a million dollars more than for the same house elsewhere. Huge allocation of resources there on the zero-sum competition with other buyers in the market.
I forget the name of the book, but yes, they really did write that. It wasn't a mainstream author, if that matters.

(It might have been a megabit, but it sure wasn't much compared to what you need in order to run a computerized dystopia...).
Is apple offering an alternative for blogs to make money or should they have cake instead? Brave browser does it better than apple. I can already see webmasters sending users to download brave instead of safari

Apple doesn't care about the web (why should they?). Their iAds thing went nowhere.

(please enlighten me if apple is offering an alternative. i d love to use it)
The comment is dismissive, but the point stands. The grandparent comment comes off awfully entitled considering all of life’s basic needs seem to be covered and they outright own multiple vehicles in perhaps the highest cost of living area in the United States. Not to mention, the higher proportion of income going toward housing is likely the consequence of protectionist measures to keep the riff raff out and maintain as much status for their children as their income possibly allows. Move to a worse school district and you’re likely to see your housing cost go down by a factor of 50%. Not to mention, the grandparent freely admits to putting money away for the kids, I assume this means college savings of some sort.

I’m making a great deal of assumptions but not being able to go to Disney land at the drop of a hat seems awfully trite.
The study was very upfront about the limitations.

A better analogy would be someone trying to debunk the theory of relativity by claiming it doesn't cover perpetual motion machines.
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Which is nonsense since so many bitcoins have been lost and there is no underlying asset that owning a bitcoin grants you access to.
I'd like to chime in and agree with this, but perhaps with a bit of a different twist. There are tons of reasons why people are pressured into having kids, and very few people reminding others that having children is a choice, not to mention a huge responsibility. I think we'd have a much happier, safer world if the only people who had kids were those who truly wanted them. Parental, spousal, and peer pressure to have children is very real and very strong, but IMO has no place in being a part of that decision.
While we can blame the suburbs on a lot of social problems, this is not one of them.

Families who raise their children in cities have all the same problems.
Single thread performance is still the limiting factor for things like perceived web browser performance. Raw MIPS is available in absurd amounts, but things like memory round trip delay become limiting.

The lower energy limit is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle but we're a long way from that.
Okay, if you have first-hand knowledge.

The universal problem might be most tech workers stereotypically can't see the "big picture" of the value/power of solidarity, especially when many assume they're being well-compensated, when if fact they're being cheated along with everyone else except the owners and the extremely rich.

Most people will normalize and accept their current situation, including slavery, and keep doing the same thing while believing nothing can be done about it (learned helplessness).
Oh please, don’t take my karma away.
Can/should I use liquibase instead of my framework's own migrations? Maybe I should compliment those with liquibase?
Balanced ternary is insane, and most data formats would need to be adapted to deal with it. Except in specialized processors, it is ludicrous to even consider it until almost every other avenue has been explored.
Isn't this what Pijul does, but at a fundamental level, instead of having an extra level of abstraction on top of the snapshot-based git, and can therefore do it even "after the commit has been pushed" ?
The one with the implicit comparison is more readable because it's closest to simulating the test of a Boolean variable.

The other two leave the reader with the lingering suspicion that the variable takes on two or more values. The latter more so than the former.
Contextual targeting is happening, but it doesn't perform well as behavioral one yet while the risk is much higher for advertisers/publishers with the current technology (e.g. gun ads on a mass gun shooting news). With a sufficient technology, the situation can improve though.
Wondering whether it was a second grade company and a low paying position in SV?

If you're any good and in SV, you try to move up role or move up the ladder, ain't staying in a low paying support position. The opportunities are everywhere waiting to be taken. It's kind of a brain drain.

If you're any good and in side Minnesota, it might be quite harder to move up.
similarly related consumer unfriendly nonsense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault
Lost 15 years worth of email with yahoo since I didn't sign in for 1 year. No extensive warning either. Yahoo sucks
Are they doing exit interviews. I’m not talking about the day before or day of exit. But they should be done 30 days after to allow the employee to reflect.
Yandex famously underpays compared to the market. I'd that 10x median (300-350) is certainly doable for a senior developer in Moscow – not easy, but certainly not undheard of.
More like for any fixed m <= 2 :)
Could this brilliant move be to divert attention from the other investments like WeWork?

Wag the dog definition:
To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue.

Scott Galloway on SoftBank and real estate investments:

https://www.profgalloway.com/unicorn-feces
Decent idea but wrong description. Hyundai and Yugo has problems decades before “internet memes” were a thing.
Most of the evidence is that wide-spread trade and art relatively suddenly "popped up" around 50k years ago.
> How is it possible that two opposing theses could be maintained in something like neuroscience

It is very common in neuroscience (and also from experience psychology; but I'd bet also econ and Phil). Popular science books often paint results as ironclad, and gloss over small, or convenience samples, methodological issues that might cause researchers to disagree, etc..

Another big one in psychology and neuroscience (and many areas) is that even if you have a clear result, the interpretation often requires buying into certain assumptions. (E.g. interpreting activity in fMRI when no data from methods with better spatial or temporal resolution; intepreting non human animal studies)