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Oh thank you and yes, link blogs - the biggest one for me right now is at imperica.com. The weekly 'web curios' roundup. I link this one a lot, so apologies if you've seen it already. (And I'm sure you mean Waxy in the 'usual' ones, right?)

I've also linked to these quite a lot, but hey:

* https://philosopher.life/ (see his 'link log' pages)

* https://www.gyford.com/

* http://tilde.club/~jonbell/

* https://thingstoclick.com

* http://fimoculous.com/recs/

The Internet is lacking good linkblogs - people don't run them nearly as much.
I've found some iOS apps tremendously useful over the years, so no, I'll pass on your hangup condemning all Mobile OSes to death.
Why would they stop at thousands of colonies? What is it preventing the colonies from themselves creating colonies? Also, realize that a colony in the system of another star will move away from the originating system. In our neck of the galactic woods the rate of separation is typically about 10^-4 c, so in a million years they'd separate by 100 light years.
What if public schooling and taxation didn't exist, do you think that we'd be doing better than we are today?
I wouldn't go by benchmarks run against a 100-length array of numbers. That's so small it's practically a tuple. Where immutable.js improves your perf is if you need to have very large (1M+) datasets, and/or need to keep references to those data over time for thing like undo, diffing, saving those diffs, etc. If you used a pure array that's 1M, that'd be over 64MB per array, so at just 10 levels of undo you could already exhaust your heap. Immutable.js would be barely over 64MB for hundreds of levels of undo, since it can rely on the last state being immutable it can store only the diffs.

Immutable.js was a bad solution when it was used purely to enforce immutability. Unfortunately that's what its reputation became, but really it should be thought of as a lib that takes advantage of immutable data, not a lib that checks for immutability.
> it could be possible to provide people with source code, have them push one button, and get a working bitstream out (just the same as we simple browse to facebook.com and get a working app).

Right.

> packaging, manufacturability and yield

Using an FPGA solves those problems.

> signal integrity,

When we're talking about digital computing device design, rather than test instrument design or VHF+ RF design, there's a tradeoff curve between how much performance you get and how much risk you're taking on things like signal integrity, and, consequently, how much effort you need to devote to them.

> know the target FPGA

> timing/power/etc. budgets

> Power, clock speed

Similarly, those are optimizations. Facebook actually has a lot of trouble with power and speed, I think because they don't give a flip --- they aren't the ones who have to buy the new phones. They have trouble delivering messaging functionality on my 1.6GHz Atom that worked fine on a 12MHz 286 with 640K of RAM, so they have something like three orders of magnitude of deoptimization. (The 286 took a couple of seconds to decode a 640x350 GIF, as I recall, and Facebook is quite a bit faster than that at decoding and compositing JPEGs --- because that code is written in C and comes from libjpeg.)
> 2. There's no economic mechanism that guarantees we'll have enough money to fund it every month.

This isn't true, since the state can always just create more money.

The real limitation is in real resources and production capacity, and if a UBI was implemented by creating more money than the existing production capacity can sustain, it would likely drive up the rate of inflation.

If the UBI is set to a fixed nominal value, this would eventually balance out, possibly resulting in a corresponding UBI real value that is insufficient for people to live on. (What level of real value is sustainable is an empirical question.)

I agree with you that creating demand for labor is a better approach if done well. Ideally, you'd create a conceptually infinite demand for labor to ensure there's no involuntary unemployment. Of course, there's then the risk of increasing the rate of inflation via that labor demand, which you can fix by fixing the price at which the labor demand becomes infinite.

That's the direction that the "employer of last resort / job guarantee" proposals go in, though those also get flack from some people for being like workfare.
Optimizations have come a long way. Not only do you need to be an asm programmer to beat the optimizer, you need to be a good asm programmer.
I think you could increase the guess to 1,000 or 1,000,000 species and the outcome would still be basically the same.

We do not know how to detect life outside of our solar system. The only way our measurements would change is if one of them literally landed on top of us.
"Heritability" includes non-genetic factors, and combined with genetic factors accounts for ~50% of variation in intelligence.

For genetic factors alone, the consensus so far is that there is very weak correlation of genetic variation with intelligence, unless a not quite-yet-established polygenic score is constructed. To wit:

>From the 1990s until 2017 no replicable associations were found. GPS from these early GWAS, which we refer to as ‘IQ1’, predicted only 1% of the variance of intelligence in independent samples. It became clear that the problem was power: the largest effect sizes of associations between individual single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and intelligence were extremely small, accounting for less than 0.05% of the variance of intelligence.

However, things got "better":

>in 2016, a second meta-analytic GWAS analysis with a sample size of 294,000 identified 74 significant loci30. This analysis produced a GPS, EA2, that predicted 3% of the variance in years of education on average in independent samples30.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985927/

It stretches the imagination how one would go from these numbers to claiming that "The best estimate of intelligence heritability in adulthood at the peak, using measurement-error-corrected estimates, is 70-80%.
Starting the week on a Sunday seems to be a very american centric view for a ‘World’ Calendar. I get that it has to start on _a_ day but don’t see how a consensus could be reached here.
I'm not sure that posting 9 year old benchmarks is particularly useful, particularly when those results have been heavily debated.

If we're talking pure latency then UA, Focusrite, Apogee and Avid have lower RTL for the same buffer size in macOS. RME is identical on both platforms and I'm unsure about antelope.

Regarding loads before under-runs that's a very tough thing to test, as it varies between products. GENERALLY: Comparing Digital Performer between platforms heavily favours macOS. Comparing Pro Tools favours macOS (currently). Comparing Reaper favours windows slightly. Cubase favours Windows... etc...

There's also load type that factors in, as with macs you get a specific build with minimal leeway. Windows builds can be planned for a given build (highly serial, highly parallel, RAM hungry, Latency performant etc...). It's not too hard to build a test suite that favours macOS everywhere on the same machine, likewise for Windows.

But to the original topic, latency, macOS is generally superior in this regard when looking at RTL specs for the same device.
Regarding the first bet, VC Fred Wilson talks about something related in item 2 of his "What Happened in the 2010s" post: https://avc.com/2019/12/what-happened-in-the-2010s/

He starts out: "The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part."

That slice of startup-land is always what felt most bubbly to me, WeWork being the biggest example, where even SoftBank admits losses of something like $9 billion. In contrast, Bubble 1.0's biggest loser was WebVan, at $1.2 billion.

(And as a side note to some of the discussion: that there are successes this time around doesn't prove it's not a bubble. E.g., Amazon and Google made it through, but it was still a bubble back then.)
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In theory if you can completely saturate the 1 gbit link for a whole month it's 300TB/month
> compiler-enforced memory safety allows for the use of patterns that would otherwise be difficult to use safely

I have to say, this has been amazing. For context, I'm a C++ developer who has had minimal run-ins with the borrow checker because I was already used to thinking about ownership. I refactored a large-ish Rust crate I maintain to use references for a fundamental type. I would have considered it irresponsible to do that with a C++ codebase unless absolutely required. Even if I did the upfront analysis to make sure it was safe, I'd need to re-do that exercise for every architectural change, at least. Instead with Rust, I just tried it on a whim, knowing the borrow checker had my back.
From a quick look at the map, I imagine that Welwyn Garden City derives 90% of its desirability, and usefulness as a town, from the 30 minute train trip to King's Cross. It, too, would probably be considered dismal if it had Peterlee's location.
I'd like to think it's at least possible that a life form which made it to the stars without blowing itself up is compassionate enough to leave Earth the heck alone and treat this system as a giant nature reserve. Perhaps they'll swoop in and borrow our tech if we ever come up with anything good, just as we might draw on the natural world for new medicines or construction materials.
You can have that right now if you’re willing to settle for a 1920’s standard of living.
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I think you could change these guesses to be almost whatever you wanted with similar results.

We would not observe anything different unless one of them actually flew to our solar system and tried to contact us. That's how bad we are at detecting distant life.
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Definitely. If we get to wiggle things in retrospect, then we're not talking about the bet itself, but the set of all bets that 5 years later somebody on HN would see as plausible wiggling of the terms to match current conditions. That's surely a lot of bets, among which we'd expect to find several winners.
This is so infuriating. sadly the majority of people have no idea just how deep the rabbit whole goes. They and their data are exploited at every turn for the gain of Google.
> the government is not a value-generation enterprise

This is incorrect. The value generated by providing a stable framework in which people can go about their daily lives is incredible. It's hard to measure this value, of course, but our modern way of life is impossible without this framework.
Great and substantive comment. Docs should be example and results driven or they're not really docs. Django and now Rails do a good job of this, in part because they're frameworks. But even for something of the size of Redux, it would be fantastic to see a basic mobile todo app with a navigation bar and a basic logged in/logged out mode built from scratch to show you how to manage state in the real world.
Well, we know how to detect laser and radio transmissions. If there are thousands, tens of thousands, millions of species out there right now, we've looked at several of their stars.

And if there are all these technological species, we would expect some of them to be much more advanced than we are. Why haven't some of them noticed us?

You can come up with possible answers to these questions, it's just that those answers look less likely than, "those species aren't actually out there."
I think if you look at patterns in nature this has to be possible. Surely there are some remote ant colonies that don’t have interaction with anything outside the natural resources that sustain them.
A app blacklist seems like security theater. Sure, they've banned TikTok - what of the other 4 million apps available on Google Play alone? How many of those are malicious? And what about all the random sideloadable apps? The implication seems to be that running unvetted, arbitrary code on work phones is basically fine, unless a particular app is specifically and publically outed as malicious. This seems like a very naive, sheltered worldview.

The only half-sensible approach to security in this context is a whitelist - no "apps" on military smartphones, unless specifically vetted and ideally built from source. "Banning" random apps, Chinese or otherwise, ought to be redundant.
Although Sam would have lost this bet, I respect that he had the courage to make a forecast with a specific number and a specific future date.

Too many pundits make grand but imprecise predictions like "AI will become dominant in the next decade". The book 'Superforcasting' tackles this problem in detail: https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-P...
That paper only claims that it is plausible we're alone, meaning the Fermi paradox is only a question, not a conundrum.
Of course yes.
Feedly to the rescue after Google Reader shut down.

I even build apps to read more:
- https://f43.me to have full content in RSS feeds
- https://bandito.re to have GitHub star repo’s release as feed
Yes, but no such tool exists (yet) as far as I’m aware. You also need to tie the chunks together so that they cannot be rearranged, duplicated, or deleted.

You also need to be careful about what you think this tells you. For example, suppose you ran a competition where the winner is the first person to upload an encrypted+signed correct answer to a shared folder. An attacker can wait for somebody to upload the winning answer and then simply strip the real winner’s signature off and sign the encrypted blob (which they can’t decrypt) with their own private key - hurray, the attacker has now won the prize!

If you reverse the order of signing and encryption you can run into bugs like [1].

You can securely combine public key encryption and signatures by including extra metadata fields inside each layer. Or you can use a function that provides public key authenticated encryption like NaCl’s crypto_box or the mode I’ve proposed for JOSE [2].

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/sci.crypt/73yb5a9pz2...
[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-madden-jose-ecdh-1pu-02

Edit: clarify ambiguous use of “their”
The towers were up by 1876 and the main cables were being hung by 1879 so the artist really only had to fill in the decking and approaches.

Since Governors Island looks just plain goofy I'm going to assume the illustration was promotional art for somebody wanting to sell property in Park Slope.

plus ça change...
AFAIK one of the best solutions for smartphone privacy is using a custom Android ROM without Google apps installed. Of course that means basically no 3rd party apps, but you can still get a surprising amount of functionality with just a web browser. You’ll still get tracked by your mobile provider, but I think that would happen even with a dumbphone.
This is known as the Great Filter theory
I reckon astronomers would find anything that entered our solar system and stayed in some solar orbit.
If you really want to dig into the concepts behind assembler, the assembler language part of TAOCP is available for free download: http://mmix.cs.hm.edu/doc/fasc1.pdf. It doesn’t talk about a “real” assembler language like 6502 or 8086, but a made-up one that was designed to present the concepts. It’s easy to move from Knuth’s academic introduction to an actual assembler.
Cars are pretty complex. Sony spends years modeling various ones in its “grand turisimo” game.

But simpler games model cars pretty well, I’m assuming with a dozen or so parameters (turning radius, acceleration, tire grip, suspension..) you should get something. The “pako ios car simulation” (not open source), has a bunch of cars you drive around that behave more or less like actual cars.
This forces the bag holders to pay more. What happens when companies expenses increase? They increase their costs, cut jobs, cut benefits, and in very rare cases take short term losses to implement one of the former methods.

There are not enough high paying jobs. Period. Hard stop. There won't ever be.

Now, we need gas station attendants, room cleaners, baggers, bus drivers. These jobs will be replaced by much less expensive robots. Just like switchboard operators, seamstresses, tailors, cobblers, shoe shiners, appliance repairmen have all largely been replaced.

Pray tell, what high paying jobs will these people be given when they're put out of work? Who will pay to train them? How will they afford to live during the 2-120mos of training they'll need to get these high pain paying jobs?

UBI should be funded by a proportional tax on every product and the man hours of work it replaces. A calculator can do in 15 minutes what an average American would spend a day doing. Just as an example everyone should immediately grok. Then scale these up and require companies applying for patents, patent renewals, or business licenses to figure out how long it would take to do a job without their tool by comparing to other available alternatives. A positive net benefit of this is all the new jobs made figuring out how damn hard shit is to do without tools. Companies can then use their numbers to advertise.

Mind you, both our solutions are wholly unrealistic.
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Seriously there is NO WAY in the world an UBI will cover the rent - even the rent alone - in any place where it makes sense starting a business.

I would imagine an UBI will be mostly used by people to exclude themselves from active workforce to "retire" in low-cost destinations. Because that will be the only thing it will really allow doing.

Say you impose a super huge 30% income tax (anything above that will cause a revolt in the middle classes, and mass exodus in upper classes), that will only give an equivalent of a minimum wage to everyone (ok 20% above national minimum wage but some states have it higher)... how far does that get you?
It's entirely possible that a civilization would stop at thousands of colonies because, they no longer have the technological capacity (having regressed for whatever reason) or the desire to continue further. It's also possible that the odds against successfully expanding beyond a single colony are so great that no one ever makes it to a thousand.
Consider absolute numbers. Suppose monthly food expenses drop to $100. That's 2-3 hours of work for each person to eat monthly. X 330M = 1 billion hours per month. And that's just food. In practice, fair work sharing still seems critical, unless you have a better example in mind.
True, but without radio transmissions, I bet we would spend decades arguing about whether it was actually an asteroid and a measurement anomaly. We can't really distinguish a rock from a Battlestar at those distances without physically flying over to look.
> is that if paying taxes gets too easy the average American will be less likely to push their representatives to lower taxes or to oppose new taxes that get proposed.

This is problematic here (small EU country). People have no idea how much taxes they pay, and believe free (healthcare, schooling,...) is actually free, and that government can pay for anything. If average Joe (Janez here) would know how much taxes he pays for (eg.) health, and what kind of a shitty service he gets for that, he'd be protesting already,... but since it's 'free', it's ok, just so he doesn't have to pay for it (out of pocket directly).
I work as a vehicle simulation engineer for a Motorsports team.

What you're looking for is broadly classified as Multibody Dynamics. You can model each part individually and connect them to make a complete simulation. There are two parts to building these types of models:

1. IDE and Language - Modelica, ADAMS, Project Chrono, SimScape etc. There are open source and commercial solutions for this.

2. Libraries - Claytex, Modelon etc. most detailed vehicle models and components are sold separately. These are typically written in Modelica. Some IDEs like MapleSim or Mathworks bundle it in their IDE.

You can build your own components from scratch but it takes time.

The closest to open source I found is: https://sbel.wisc.edu/2018/07/23/chronovehicle-template-base...

https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono

If you want to learn how to do it properly, you can easily find online versions of this book: https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-multibody-systems-approac...
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Can you please list a few privacy violations that create the track record? Comparable to e.g. Apple giving Siri voice recordings to 3rd party contractors without the ability to disable it?

I'm sure it'll be easy, easier than downvotes.
He does touch on local labels briefly - he suggests (and I agree) that you can get the same effect, more maintainably, with macros.
Well, even if that accounts for part of the effect, it's still a benefit from urban living!
> The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part.

The issue is that the value of money has been decreasing each year for the last decade. I don't remember anyone predicting that this was going to happen as far back as 2010, although it was already obvious that it was happening by 2013 or so.

That's why you'd be hard pressed to name a single VC-funded tech startup that was founded within the last five years, because these days VCs are just funding small businesses and not startups.
Internet makes possible lots of businesses where one does not need to be based in a particular location to be successful.
with duck duck go you can just write !hn instead.
You're assuming a species that practices "compassion" towards its own kind would care about us.

Human history is full of examples of societies which treated their kin with kindness, but others with cruelty.
It kinda does in this case. Don’t kid yourself. In real assembly, the really interesting part is how to use a finite register file. WebAssembly has an infinite slab of variables available, in the sense that you get to say how big it is. That fundamentally changes the game.
If you want to stay private, give up the idea of a smartphone altogether. If you (quite understandably) do not want to do that, you're pretty much just kidding yourself.
... don’t use Android, period. Google did a great job with PR in the early years, but the reality has always been that your data is exploited to their ends.
I disagree. Try to actually settle down (without winning the startup/rich parents/literal lottery first) and see how it goes. If you haven't raised a nice safety fund and you get sick, you are screwed. If you dont want to live in the middle of nowhere, land owners are going to want a huge chunk of money for that priviledge. Also good luck finding a part time job that pays much better than minimum wage. I know a lot of people who try to do this and there are definitely ways it can happen, but our society is definitely structured to make it difficult.

Tell the person working two jobs, paying more than half of their income to rent/mortgage and living paycheck to paycheck that they should just relax and settle down ...
Further, think about how powerful a transmission has to be in order to not be drowned out by the power of a star. A laser would have a far higher chance (yet still hugely powerful to cross the distance), but only if aliens found us and pointed a laser directly at us.