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The only way to get out of this situation is a green dictatorship. It's the least painful solution. Democracy and freedom are great things, but consumerism abused them, and it's leading everyone to their own destruction. I'm tired to end discussions with "but you cannot confiscate things from people, it's against basic human rights". Ignorance and failure to listen to reason are very dangerous.

I want to hope people will adjust deliberately, but advertising has too much power over people. I cannot let myself gamble with the idea that humanity will be courageous enough to avoid destruction of this scale. The stakes are too high.

History always worked like this. It's a collection of new lessons that adjust the collective consciousness.

The future will progressively look like some Hollywood dystopia, until something will break politically, but it will be too late. Don't forget that the new deadline is the melting permafrost, which will snowball climate change into something that will make temperature rise much faster.
>USA killed more people that Russia/USSR over last 100 years?

If we are counting only people outside of the US\Russia\USSR - than yes, USA killed more. The only major war USSR\Russia faught after the WW2 is Afganistan. All other conflicts USSR\Russia was in resulted in less dead people than the latest Iraq war alone.
>Got a suggestion that actually works here?

Literally the Nokia 3310

Source: me using the Nokia 3310 in the US on Ting
Does anyone have a link to the paper?

Also climate change is undeniable. At the risk of stirring the controversy, the real questions have always been: how much of it is because of human activity? and if that's significant, how much power do we have to change it further?

Based on the evidence so far, I personally think modern civilization has triggered initial conditions for the warming cycle but is no longer the majority force for the continued change.
The US is not thinking about invading Iran. There is absolutely 0% domestic political support which even if somehow Iran foolishly tries to use 911 type terrorism as a retaliation is not going to generate political support for another pointless occupation.
True. Also, aside from Cosmos, none of the projects mentioned in the article have actually launched. And Cosmos does not scale any better than any other blockchain. It may perform better than Bitcoin, but there is still a rigid upper bound in terms of TPS beyond which it cannot process anymore transactions (beyond which point fees would skyrocket to force down demand).
On the Cosmos website, under the "Scalability" heading, it says "Proof-of-Work protocols are slow, expensive, unscalable, and environmentally harmful" but then it says: "Tendermint BFT fixes this."

As a blockchain developer of 2 years who understands the principles behind Tendermint and who has build many scalable systems in his career, I can say for sure that Tendermint doesn't add any scalability to any given blockchain. It only aids with certain specific interoperability scenarios (nothing to do with scalability). The statement on their website is not accurate. The people who wrote this statement are marketing people who do not understand the first thing about scalability of any system. The leaders of these projects wash their hands of any responsibility by pretending to believe their own dogma.

Most blockchain marketing is a flat out scam IMO. As a result of all this deception, almost everything that everyone knows about blockchain today is wrong. Everyone thinks that all the trendy cryptocurrencies can scale but they can't. None of the ones that I analyzed in the last 2 years could scale. And I looked at many; for those whose whitepaper made the most sense, I even made the time to discuss the tech with their lead developers, node operators and community members. The reality is always far behind the marketing.

Unfortunately, investors are investing based on hype and their personal connections, not based on demonstrable facts. Investors are being mislead en-mass. As a developer who understands the tech and who actually believes in its potential to incentivize productive collaboration, it's disturbing to watch how the industry is unfolding.
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What do you base that opinion on?
I love One Medical as a "walk in" option when visiting SFBA, Seattle, NYC, etc. For the discounted annual membership fee (available through various programs), it's even easier, even if I only use them once a year on average.
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For a production grade library with good default implementations of the things you mentioned, look into spacy.
It's a form of loop unrolling. Regardless of the term, this is still very much in the ballpark of what you'd expect when asking for optimization.
Also, we're not just talking about a "structure" like the pyramids or various ancient monuments, Penn Station had an _function_ it was needed for.

Not many "several thousand year old" structures with a function exist except as museums now. There's a house somewhere that's been continuously inhabited for about a thousand years (Faroes maybe?) and a few of the forts or religious buildings still in use are older, but most structures this old are, like the pyramids, just a tourist attraction now. New York did not need another museum, it needed a railway station.
I would argue a better description is --

Serverless: abstracted services that don't require you to know or care about the underlying server.

It's still not perfect, sometimes you do need/want to know/care, but it's usually superficial -- e.g. what libraries are installed by default so I can optimize the build.
That is a nice take on digital minimalism, but in my opinion you could also just delete most of the attention-sink-apps and enable black-and-white-screen on the smart phone you're currently using, instead of buying yet another device.
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This would be better if it was about his experience from the past 6 years... whatever he's been doing definitely works.

Instead it's ideas about what he wants to try in the future.

In fairness, those ideas sound great... but this is more like an advisory notice to his existing clients about how things might change.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0666-7
Graylog, it's a purpose-built package for log management over elastic search! We transport our logs over ActiveMQ from our apps and they're read off the broker via an openwire input. The setup can handle several thousand rights per second on modest hardware.
my problem is this: what if 996 is the most effective system but can only be applied in certain systems, such as some china factories?
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Shouldn't most of the cheat detection be happening server side for exactly this reason? Is that not feasible?
Feedback cycles and runaway change wouldn't be an issue otherwise. Things like melting permafrost [1] releasing methane would be an example of something we triggered and now has taken over as a majority contributor in those regions.

1. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2785/unexpected-future-boost-o...
It seems like any time a company backtracks on a design decision that they simply didn’t do their research thoroughly, if at all. All too often web pages look and feel is left to the software people who make terrible changes. Companies fail to realize that the webpage is their customers’ window to their business. Why would you leave that in the hands of coders?
I can't imagine anyone having read everything in this list. It would take more than a lifetime for me at my reading speed.
> What makes be particularly sad is that 15 years ago I was confident that social media and smart phones will bring the printing press to the least advantaged, resulting in a more homogeneous society. The contrary has come true.

we ended up with social media influencers that either bends to the highest bidder at the top, or will do anything for a bit of money or fame at the bottom.

On top of social media platforms having to also bend to the will of their advertisers and cut payments to content creators (ie: YouTube) to stay afloat.
You can "personally think" whatever you want. You can "personally think" that 0 is 1, that frogs are a kind of cat, that the moon is made of cheese.

Just please don't make decisions that affect other people based on what you "personally think", when it's about facts that have actual truth values.
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What is the fact around the exact impact that humanity has had vs natural conditions, and what is the derivative of that impact as the climate has changed? For there to be a runaway effect means that humanity is no longer the significant factor so how is this calculated? I've never found this explicitly stated anywhere.

By the way, every human makes decisions based on what they "personally think". Please share the "actual truth values" if you have them.
In the old days, I had some daily cron jobs to upload the logs to a centralized place. Then you use grep to find which file contains the log you want. Because you are fine with file, I guess you don't need to make it too complicated.
Improvements in productivity are only benefitting people who own a critical mass of capital and can therefore dictate where the return on productivity gains go.
On this issue the anti science republicans have been wildly successful in convincing people about their claims than the other side has been. At this point climate change denial has been adopted into their core political platform and they just blindly reject and rally against any issue that has the word climate, sustainable or any similar words. This is a huge failure of humanity in general.
Wonder how it compared to the Tianjin explosion in 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nr6Tlu0EvM

Wait for the 3rd explosion at 0:50.
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This is an ineffective approach. No country can assume any other will fall in line to "do the same". This creates a do nothing approach because it turns doing the right thing, by taking the first steps, into a game of finger pointing. War is definitely not the answer and is 100% counterproductive to the end goal.

If all countries, that are supposedly interested in being the best climate change affectors, all competed to truly be the best - we'd be in a far better spot. The war you allude to is not international in nature. It's national. If the US, for example, actually removed campaign contributions and lobbying allowances from organizations responsible for a majority of annual pollution we'd already be down the road. But instead it is national politics, and those legislators, that are the real roadblock to starting the snowball move towards clean technology.
> Biometrics are relatively convenient and very safe when they're used in place (not remotely) with a human agent overseeing.

In your estimate, how large a percentage of biometric security implementations follow your description?
The energy released would have required at least 20,000,000 pounds of high explosive. There is simply no way they had the resources to manufacture in those quantities.
> try to understand their point of view

Everything would be better in this world if we did.
My dog has been known to be more perceptive and cunning than humans at times (including me), so I'd have to say yes.

It ultimately depends on the breed, upbringing, the dog's individual personality, and so on. Generally speaking however, there's a mountain of empirical evidence that demonstrates how extraordinary canine intelligence can be.

Humans have a rather long history of discounting other species' intelligence, and it seems as time progresses we learn just how wrong we were. I was reading an article the other day about how turtles of all species are actually much more intelligent than previously thought, in part due to flawed behavioral studies in the 1950s and 60s. They aren't even mammals. It makes one wonder:

I eat meat. I enjoy it. If anything I'm aware of how unethical it is, but I currently rationalize its consumption partly as a tacit acknowledgement of how dark and broken the world is, and partly for nutritional and cognitive health reasons.

Yet, it's still terrifying to think that if you remove the notion of humans being unique in our ability to experience suffering—not only physical pain, but notably psychological pain—we're essentially inflicting what amounts to large-scale genocide of creatures with feelings, on a daily basis. It's suffering on a scale that is incomprehensible.

To circle back to the topic at hand, it's curious that consumption of canine meat is considered highly immoral or more commonly is outright illegal in the majority of the civilized world. Yet, use of other mammals as livestock—mammals who arguably exceed canine intelligence in many instances—is widely accepted.

I think that dissonance underscores just how badly we've failed in recognizing intelligence beyond that of our own species. Intelligence, the capacity for suffering, sentience—it all has been unduly anthropomorphized.
If that's the case then it's truly catastrophic. As an example, the Centralia (USA) mine coal-seam fire started in 1962 is extimated to last for about 250 more years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

Assuming we have the technology, removing underground oxygen might help to put out the underground fires, though I can't imagine any process not involving either pumping sea water down there which would make the land sterile for vegetation, or slowly replacing oxygen with CO2 which would be even worse.
totally agree. i don't know... maybe we are all getting linked to different articles.
> Violent protest is not the answer

Too bad the old Ukrainian government didn’t know it, and started to use violence against it’s own people.

> Millions of people have fled the country to work abroad

The economy is global, air travel is cheap, Internet simplified things a lot. Ukraine is no exception. Globally, 258 million people, myself included, are living outside their country of birth.

> Your graph displaying some growth "per capita growth", have a look at this graph showing the value of their currency

That graph is in USD after adjustments for purchasing power. Currency exchange rates are irrelevant.

> No one can afford to buy any import goods

In 2018, Ukraine has imported goods worth 56 billion USD, smartphones alone were just under $1B: http://www.worldstopexports.com/ukraines-top-10-imports/

> There are dozens of reports of mass emigration

There’s no mass emigration, net migration is around zero: https://blogs.elenasmodels.com/en/ukrstat-migration-statisti...

> But it is not Russian Military doing the fighting

Russians started the war, and they did the fighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Strelkov_(officer) Their armed forces are still there. It doesn’t matter they deny that, way too much documentary evidence of their direct involvement, for instance read links from that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_...
My biggest challenge with value based pricing (VBP) was that it required an upfront discussion about the perceived value of the work, and my prospects/clients were often totally in the dark about "value".

I don't think VBP works well for tech/biotech startups:

-founders/exec can't define value

-founders/execs are selling the dream (= infinite value) and don't want to pay for it.

-startups want to hire brains, but pay for hands

-founders/execs and especially managers want to focus on (minimizing) "costs", rather than unearthing or creating "value" with consultants.

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Yes well, those so-called "firefighters", what do they know about fire anyway. I see no evidence that my house is burning, and all the fire coming out of it is due to its natural warming cycle.
So did I when I was taking the sometimes incredibly sauna-like subway. What I meant was: you do ‘t necessarilly sweat a ton more when you cycle compared to other forms of transport.

Not all people e.g. can park their car in the shade, subways and busses can be more humid than the jungle etc. If you cycle very relaxed you shouldn’t sweat more than anybody else.
This entire endeavor smells like an exercise of reaping good design. When I received the first iteration, I was excited only from the moment of unboxing to the moment of my first call.

I truly enjoy the sentiment and message behind this product. IMO though, at the rate they're going and in the direction they're headed, a consumer is better off with existing products that have been offering what Light II does for decades.

https://www.amazon.com/Snapfon-Senior-Unlocked-Hearing-Compa...
See also 1490 Ch'ing-yang event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1490_Ch%27ing-yang_event
I just got a copy of The Western Canon by Bloom from the library, and I think it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read in my life. He is a very convoluted writer that goes for as much high emotional impact as possible, because his theories are generally ridiculous and only make sense when you're lost in his fog of anger and disdain for everything. He also has a weird tendency of using "Western Civilization" and "America" as synonyms, even though most of his pet authors died before the US existed. It's like reading a book by a cartoon parody of an English professor, and it's hard to believe that he was even a real person. It all seems like an elaborate joke.

If you want the actual story of the Western Canon - which includes things like Euclid, Fourier, Darwin, etc., not just the fiction that American English professors like - try "Great Books Of The Western World":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
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Re: "I think it is more fundamental that models are trained using existing data."

Yes, I agree, but this does not have the be the final word.
There is a lot of room for design. For example, an autosuggestion tool can trade off between exploration (randomized recommendations) and exploitation (pure collaborative filtering).
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Indeed, if we only think in terms of thermodynamics, the Earth could sustain trillions of people with ample private room (orders of magnitude more than our current average home+office size). And if you trickle down to implementation problems (agriculture, logistics, etc) and take mega-structures of the 25th century out from the equation (so, immediate future, 21st century) you still get a max figure north of 10 times the current pop.

The problem is one of contrast: e.g. there's nobody in deserts but people die everyday in overcrowded train stations in India. That's why people perceive "overpopulation" as a problem, but it has more to do with human inefficiency than the physics of our planet.

However GP's point about adaptation speed of our civilization to the changing ecosystem stands.

I sometimes wonder, between utopia and horror, how many people will have to die in the name of climate catastrophes for a global "survival instinct" to kick in at the highest level — like stability is a thing for the finance world, the military world, because we're so aware of how much these things may destroy or kill when derailed.

I'm pretty much convinced it's generational — boomers will never get to it, not enough of them; half of gen Xers might sway; but millenials (born 1982 and on) will enact the tipping point, politically and sociologically. So, that's 2030-2040 mechanically for that gen to become the dominant one (by then aged 50-60).

My question is, how many will climate kill or hurt deeply until then? Could the tipping point happen sooner due to catastrophes?

I don't know what's a reasonable fair estimate, here. Are we talking millions? tens, hundreds? a billion? How dire is the situation, really?
Sounds like you also couldn't run these plugins on windows, if kak even supports windows :(
More generally, enforcement of the agreed mandates, whether laws within countries, or treaties without.

Here in the US, the selection of laws receiving effective enforcement seems a rather small sample of the vast pile typed out in dusty books.
The exploration versus exploitation tradeoff is well studied in bandit algorithms and reinforcement learning in general.
Quite a lot of the coal mines in Australia are open cut unfortunately. That's just one underground mine of many.
> "Teach AI using our behaviour, AI learns our behaviour. A bit like our children. I'm genuinely confused as to the alternative."

The ultimate goal of teaching, however, is teaching how we arrived at a given behavior. And amongst the most prominent themes in this is dealing with new situations and adapting to change. Teaching is not about imitation, it's about transcending the example.
I'd love to get into machine learning but for someone who is self taught and never went to college I am yet to find a resource that gracefully introduces math topics needed
It’s likely to kill everyone of us. From the rich to the poor, strong to the weak, through famine, war and drought. Natural disaster after natural disaster. Horror after horror. Tragedy after tragedy.

Yet we’re all in state of paralysis, watching our impending doom draw closer and fates unfold. Entrusting those who will do nothing about it. Half of us are still in denial.

I really wonder if we possess the survival instincts we think we do. Do we really have the drive to go on ?

Were humans just lucky to be installed on this beautiful blue spaceship. Do we deserve any merit for our past success? We are just limp and powerless to do anything about it all it seems.

Such a strange time to be alive, what a peculiar situation we’re in. Quite the nightmare indeed.
> Not a single post on Hacker News can use the term "serverless" wits nhout the exact same replies being posted every time.

As a serverless skeptic/critic, the buzzword bingo aspect of serverless computing is far from being the problem, and it's a gross missrepresentation of the problems posed by serverless computing.

The main problem with server applications such as AWS lambda, along with lack of control, is how utterly expensive it becomes by enforcing a SaaS business model to simple function calls, and how convoluted and needlessly complex it becomes by having to resort to yet another premium service to simply manage workflows (see AWS step functions).

Suggesting that any criticism of the serverless fad is just old grumpy incompetent developers that are too dumb to understand the future and are to scared of being out of a job is a disingenuous attack on anyone who has the audacity of not falling behind a fad.
Correct. I'd add that I don't think anyone worth listening to has ever really thought this to be true: rather, it is convenient for those with the majority of private capital for everyone to believe it is true so that they don't have to account for how they spend their money.
oh yea... for next sprint, let's green-blue roll out the update for this new cancer treatment and a/b test it on some patients so we can iterate.