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The liberal worldview thinks that everything is basically ok and that the problem is that "norms" are being violated and bad information leads to pointless conflict.

Liberals are wrong. There are fundemental structural problems with this country and the current psychosis is the result of neither political party addressing them while going war and profit crazy on the backs of the working people that slave and die without improving their position.
SAC, particularly the Laughing Man arc, was very prescient. Especially when it came to light that certain pharma companies were intentionally increasing pharmaceutical prices.
Never. Talk. To. The. Police.
>We have billions of people who have ideas about how the world works and a much smaller number of people who can work to disprove those ideas.

Like I said you aren't wrong...its just important to note, that some of the best minds in physics didn't have the math chops to prove their ideas. But if we ask why there are so many more people with ideas of how the world works and such a small number that can validate/disprove them speaks directly to classism. Being able to prove/disprove physics theories is generally, going to require a significant investment in education from early childhood that has been, and still is, out of reach for most. Its not a lack of intellect or talent, but lack of investment across the board.

In other words until the ideas are disproven you shouldn't call them a cranks simply on the basis they don't have the math chops to prove their own theories.

>Camp out in an IRC channel like #physics on any network and prepare to be bombarded by idea people who just want someone else to do the heavy lifting, from math to the experiments.

Seems to be a pretty efficient strategy. The entire point of this website is to support a similar model where YC is bombarded by investors who want someone else to do the heavy lifting, and business and make the returns.
Sadly, I believe nothing will be done about climate change until something catastrophic begins to happen (e.g. millions of people start dying due directly to the effects of climate change). Climate change is way too abstract of a problem for humans to deal with given its large delayed time frames.
Per capita greenhouse emissions in the US are still more than double than emissions in China.
The subsequent damage caused by bad software is part of the cost of software. It's expensive no matter how you look at it.
> 1 parsec = 3.26 light years

So that means that even if we could travel at the speed of light, it would still take 100 years to get there, so probably not a candidate for near-term colonization (if something bad happens to this planet, for example).
I have serious doubts visual processing under all conditions could ever be better than a combination of both sensors.
To illustrate the problems with optical sensors. What happens when the headlights fail, or if one of them fails, or if a bunch of snow or ice builds up in front of them?

I also addressed some of the problems with relying on headlights at the end of my comment: to get better visibility, you need more light. This doesn't come without costs to the environment and to other drivers (like those who don't have driverless cars yet); in fact, too-bright lights are making it unsafe to drive at night now.

As an aside, I think it should be illegal for anyone to have a car with non-halogen headlights without automatic high-beam dimming. Xenon and LED lights are great for illuminating dark roadways, but they're horrible when they on the car coming towards you, and that driver is too stupid or careless to dim their high beams. Temporary blindness is the result of this.
In full agreement. I've never been a huge fan of the site, but the amount of time that went into this compared with the takeaways from reading it seems out of whack.

Many of these concepts are widely accepted, to the point that if you don't agree with them yet you never will.
I think another way to design this is less around 'accomplishments', but design it around yourself and the ages of people you care for (relatives, friends, loved ones, etc).

Possibly more interesting to work in our age relationship compared to animals (the ones we eat, the ones endangered, etc.)
Is there a video of that exact process? (not sure what to search)
I hope you understand the wild hypocrisy of this comment given the article.
The economic calamity of Brexit won't be felt until 2021 when the borders are shut to foreigners and the free trade market. That's when the collapse starts.
I assume there's still some friction from credit card charges and whatnot, but I do like that plan as a cheap way to get something made.
Sounds like healthy competition behavior to me. Sonos is always allowed to push 2 sku's one for Alexa and one for GA.
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It really grinds my gears that your opinion on a thing you didn't completely read is right next to well thought-out responses by people who bothered to read the article.
I keep mine on my personal blog https://beepb00p.xyz/ideas.html

In fact one of main drives to write for me is to spread ideas on other people so someone else works on them!
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Andrei left Facebook in 2015

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/xsqrdgwnzehdmfmvcznn@forum.dl...
> I said they wouldn't say anything that lacked credibility.

Yes that was precisely my point: the Mueller team made a correction out of an abundance of “careful and deliberate” caution.

They did not want the public to misconstrue the Buzzfeed News article’s language that Trump had “directed” Cohen to lie to mean that the Special Counsel’s office had uncovered an explicit statement to that effect. The main thrust of Buzzfeed’s reporting is clearly correct, but Mueller’s office wanted no room for misinterpretation based on differing understandings of the word “direct”.

I don’t understand why you would say you were “exceedingly doubtful” only to repeat my same argument.
I don’t know if anyone gets offended anymore so than they would to a “your mom” joke. Saying it is mostly just funny to one group while being annoying and juvenile to another.

Generally speaking, I avoid name-calling and ad hominem attacks no matter how good they feel. Folks are doing enough trolling. We need more civility.
You're not wrong. I just finished reading "Make It Stick" which covers these topics and one of the many examples from college lectures is a student who was doing the readings before the lectures.

As you point out, asking questions is useful, and trying to answer them yourself first is even more so. One student classification researchers have identified is rule vs example learners. Rule based learners seek out rules to learn something, while example learners typically try to memorize examples. Rule based learners tend to do better in scholarly tasks / exams. However, example based learners can be taught to be more like rule based learners with a few hacks: prompt them to compare different examples, instead of reviewing one example at a time, inserting questions into the marginalia / chapter headers, etc.
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There is an embedded version of the webkit browser that has hardware acceleration on the pi and works prety well.
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Chat, call, or video call with them during breaks.
If you go the route of async/await support - I went through the arduous process of figuring this out for zig (for which I think our design goals are nearly identical), and went through a couple different iterations. I have experience with using LLVM's coroutines API and abandoning it to codegen them manually. Would be happy to have a brainstorming chat with you sometime if you're interested.
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Obviously, we are discussing immortality of non-human species.

However, we more or less understand that morality of larger lifeforms is encoded in our DNA (e.g. telemers). Mortality seems to be a defense against cancer.

There is no particular reason that a human needs to grow old, except for the accidents of evolution.
You're welcome.

Real estate is almost entirely about demographics, learning the target audience/area will let you understand the situation and risks better.

Honestly no different than startups IMO. If we build a product that there is no client for it doesn't matter how cool it is or how much money we raised or spent. If you build (or buy) a property that is wrong for the area, selling, renting or doing anything with it will become nearly impossible.
Right, and that has been revised a few times recently.
How is that wrong? Clearly anyone who says that is being somewhat facetious / comedic.
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Ask HN: Does a decent non-YouTube video discovery aggregator exist?
I've been thinking a bit about decentralized video hosting lately. I think to see innovation in this space we have to get past YouTube's stranglehold on search/recommendations and discovery in general.

I think a lot of content creators would jump at the opportunity to host their videos with another provider (or even host it themselves, maybe on a p2p platform), but from what I can see it simply doesn't make monetary sense to go anywhere but YT.

It would be cool if this could be done in a reasonable decentralized way, but I think even a decentralized service would go a long way to fostering competition in the hosting/encoding space.
Usually people don’t remap the menus much so I think if you clicked around the modeline enough you could pull up some help and eventually figure out the binding for kill-emacs or execute-extended-command.
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This was taught in Latin class in the US as well, although my mental image of the spikes was very different from the photo. I thought it would be on more of a downward slope.
I'm sorry, but why would you run a model like ALBERT on a CPU in the first place?

It's common knowledge not to bother running a deep model like ALBERT, BERT, or XLNet, etc without at least a GPU. Training and inference with models of this size on CPU's is typically considered to be intractable.

Obviously, this paper is from Google, so they have free access to TPU's, which is arguably optimal for an arbitrary TensorFlow model in terms of performance, but if you don't have access to TPU's, the clear choice is to use GPU's instead. It won't be quite as fast, but it is sufficient and GPU's are relatively cheap and available.
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The name MF/HF/VHF etc were defined by ITU v.431 originally in 1953. Amateur radio operators in the 1950s commonly were using “shortwave” frequencies (now referenced as HF commonly). As it’s been told to me from multiple operators in that era, the naming scheme used by ITU for each group is based on the amount of bandwidth available in each group, not based on any presumption of AM radio broadcasts being used as a baseline.
> We track the most mentioned stocks on 4chan and WallStreetBets

Just make sure you choose a Personal Risk Tolerance That Works For You.
sure, but what would have changed in this case? he was a already suspect before he talked to the police right?
Very well put.

I would add, once something is explained to you, then you must know it. Nothing is worse than explaining the same thing 5 times. I find writing it when told is of value as it helps to enforce it.
Ask HN: Where to find good software architecture documents to learn from?
I'm looking for good modern software architecture documents that set a good example of how to document a solution/system architecture to learn from it. Any suggestions HN?
For a fun logical proof that proves why you can't use logical proofs for philosophical questions, see the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf
Introduction by Bertrand Russell

Spoiler: logic is inherently limited by language. To quote Russell,
"In order to understand Mr Wittgenstein’s book, it is necessary to realize what is the problem with which he is concerned. In the part of his theory which deals with Symbolism he is concerned with the conditions which would have to be fulfilled by a logically perfect language. There are various problems as regards language. First, there is the problem what actually occurs in our minds when we use language with the intention of meaning something by it; this problem belongs to psychology. Secondly, there is the problem as to what is the relation subsisting between thoughts, words, or sentences, and that which they refer to or mean; this problem belongs to epistemology. Thirdly, there is the problem of using sentences so as to convey truth rather than falsehood; this belongs to the special sciences dealing with the subject-matter of the sentences in question. Fourthly, there is the question: what relation must one fact(such as a sentence) have to another in order to be capable of being a symbol for that other? This last is a logical question, and is the one with which Mr Wittgenstein is concerned. He is concerned with the conditions for accurate Symbolism, i.e. for Symbolism in which a sentence “means” something quite definite. In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise."
The evolution of the communication that goes over those wires is really fascinating in its own right, and worth a read! :D

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144561/in-what-sens...
> options should immediately vest.

Well, I agree with you that they should, but they don't. I got laid off from a job a few years ago when my department was made redundant, and I only had 25% of my shares vested - they let me keep the 25% that was vested, but that was it.
But the same was 100,200,300 and so years ago. Thete were always some sort of limitations, mostly technological. I'm not saying that we'll build solar system size colliders any time soon, however 50-100 more years and we should be much much more sophisticated in terms of what we can do in space and back on the earth.
I am a pretty heavy podcast listener, but I have no interest in anything like a "Netflix for podcasts". I also have no interest in "podcasts" that require a proprietary application to listen to them.

The beauty of podcasts is that they're platform independent and that there is no curation. I would not personally listen to any that were.
As an aside you can also make a (non-elisp) scratch buffer on the fly: when you switch buffer just enter a name that isn’t taken (I usually use b, bb, bbb, ...)
I love this subject because it is so full of marketing and green washing by companies that want to profit of the green hype.

Nowadays everyone pretends to be green or to be saving the planet by buying a Tesla or taking shorter showers. Here is the thing though, those things statistically don't matter. They are a good way for most people to signal that they are doing something while not really doing anything.

The things that matter the most are [0]: Having less kids, not OWNING a car (owning an EV doesn't really count), not taking flights.
Almost nobody does that though because those changes are really difficult

I believe that we should stop making people believe that they save the world by buying a Tesla and push it a bit more as a real environmental crisis.

[0]: https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/07/12/how-to-reduce-y...
The comment is not fitting to the article, but I wanted to respond to it anyways because I found it interesting and it's not something talked about here much, for obvious reasons.

The problem is going to escape many on the left, including most people here as well, as many people here are mostly agnostic/atheistic/anti-faith and believe having faith is somehow anti-intellectual. The reality of the situation is the US was founded, both socially and politically on Judeo-Christian principles of morality, and the nuclear family and it is undeniable the evidence to support this in our laws and constitution.

We have seen more upheaval and social change in the last 10-15 years than the previous 50 all in the name of "progress" (never mind it is those very people who subscribe to that "progress" that are leading the way in unhappiness, depression, low marriage rate, low birth rate, and suicide).

There are positions now being held by major political frontrunners that are simply not compatible with any person of faith, or any sort of compromise with the opposite political party. There is simply no compromise to be had. The biggest elephant in the room is abortion. My two favorite writers on this subject are Caitlin Flanagan for a left-side perspective, and Alexandra Descantis for a right-side perspective. Both write very thoughtfully on this issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-democrats-purged-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2019/11/16/an_honest_abort...

Many people call America a Christian nation. I know this will get downvoted to hell here. I consider myself a well traveled man, and I will quote one famous professor I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture of that rings especially true to me: "The only country in the world that doesn't know America is a Christian nation is America."
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> neither political party addressing them

This bothsaming is a stretch.

The Democratic national platform is all about increased support for the poor and middle class, the more radical wing of the party is pushing for dramatic and fundamental restructuring of much of the national economy and welfare system as part of combating climate change, and their current Presidential slate includes several avowed anti-war anti-corporate-hegemony candidates. Even judging purely by recent history, while Obama was kind of underwhelming in many ways, he still got the ACA pushed through, which has dramatically improved the lives of many people previously left to suffer and die because of 'preexisting conditions'.
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I'm not even sure why you think these products are comparable. The Tin Audio headphones can't even make phone calls and don't even have an inline remote. They are basically dumb drivers. If that's what you are looking for then rad, you have the right thing, but that's not what Airpods are.

The big reason people like the AirPods is because they don't have cables which is a huge convenience. They also let you make phone calls, dictate text messages, and control your phone (and anything controllable by your phone via voice interaction) by voice. If none of this appeals to you and you don't mind the cables, fabulous, but don't pretend the two products are comparable.

Also the base AirPods are $139, not $250.
AirPods are the product I’ve never wanted, at a cost I don’t want to pay. I have a five year old IPhone. Lightning jack is almost broken, but the headphone jack works like a charm. It’s the only reason why I haven’t bought a new Iphone yet. I just don’t want to give in to Apple’s marketing in this case.
I'm guessing those were positive and negative fudge factors. Most cancelled out, but the end result is the footnote level corrections are larger in absolute magnitude than the underlying budget, making it very difficult to parse (imagine if you had so much monkey patching nothing of the original code base remained).
and andrei is a major contributor but not the creator.
> But I would draw a distinction between the things that fundamentally change the way we understand the world, vs building really cool toys that we would love to have.

It may very well be that understanding emergent phenomenon at the appropriate level of emergence will turn out to be vitally important, and that reductionism (while undoubtedly useful in many scenarios) is impeding our understanding of emergent phenomena like consciousness and evolution.
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Why would you have to bootstrap the compiler to simply install an app?
Switch to a different terminal, log in, find the process, kill it.
> If trying to get your privacy protected in such a case has the opposite effect, how can any privacy law work?

I've only really seen the term applied to trying to squash perfectly legal activities like, for example, putting online California coastal images which very few people even knew about before hand.
Let me clarify: Does solar have 41CO2-eq/KWh on average or in optimal conditions? Just wonder if solar panel could possible be worse than gas (Alaska, north facing roof, heavy snow)
For those not familiar with Argo - https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/
we would sit on a bunch of nuclear waste we would not know what to do with. France does not scale with nuclear to the rest of Europe. Basically France is bound to nuclear because it needs the technology for their nuclear weapons and nuclear powered submarines ... otherwise it would phase out this costly technology.

Germany helps the world more, since renewable energy scales much easier and is cost effective, low-danger, ... that's why exporting energy efficient systems and renewable energy production technology is the way to go. Whether we use coal for a decade longer or not does not matter much in the larger picture. We need to develop scalable renewable technology and deploy it, for billions of people. Nuclear is too slow and too risky. If we look at the world-wide numbers for electricity production from nuclear, its mostly stagnating and it will be tough in the coming years when aging reactors will be taken off grid to sustain the level of production, enhance the life of existing reactors by upgrading them, build storage, have money for both decommision of old reactors and money to build new ones. France will need to invest upwards 100 billion Euro just for their aging fleet ... good luck with that. There is a single new EPR in the works and its expensive and late. With an old design from decades ago. The real battle for emission reductions will not be with 80 mill Germans, but with billions of people in Africa and Asia - where the growth is. We need to develop together with them fast scalable electricity production.

Let me quote the World Nuclear Report (!) from 2019:

* Non-Nuclear Options Save More Carbon Per Dollar. In many nuclear countries, new renewables can now compete economically with existing nuclear power plants. The closure of uneconomic reactors will not directly save CO2 emissions but can indirectly save more CO2 than closing a coal-fired plant, if the nuclear plant’s larger saved operating costs are rein- vested in efficiency or cheap modern renewables that in turn displace more fossil-fueled generation.

* Non-Nuclear Options Save More Carbon Per Year. While current nuclear programs are particularly slow, current renewables programs are particularly fast. New nuclear plants take 5–17 years longer to build than utility-scale solar or onshore wind power, so existing fossil-fueled plants emit far more CO2 while awaiting substitution by the nuclear option. Stabilizing the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow.
I'm talking about purely advisory locks. Accessing a locked file would let you know who locked it, and if you unlock it, it would just notify them. So it's just a communications mechanism in addition to regular merges.

The alternate method is that locking a file marks you as an interested party to a merge, allowing you to review the correctness of a merge.

This would be purely to avoid changes being lost during merges.
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I don't think it is possible. There is literally no way that I'd take a position where I am expected to work 12 hours a day. I'm a human being, not an industrial machine.
Of course cars can move their dozen or so cameras hundreds of times a second. But good luck getting a DNN to process all of that as well as the system handling tasks like identifying traffic lights, pedestrians.

Head of Tesla AI has already stated that even with the new Nvidia hardware they struggle to meet the computational requirements.
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That's true for a very small group of cities with Google fibre.

Probably good only for Google employees who are forced to use Chromebooks.