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"He suggests taking mass measurements of a digital data storage device when it has full memory."

I hope this is just fuzzification from the usual science journalism process, but I worry there may be some equivocation (in the logical sense) there. What the universe considers "information" and what we consider "information" do not have to be the same thing. They will certainly be related, and as human!information approaches universe!information density, they'd converge, but up here in the macroscopic world there's a lot of daylight between the two.

Consider a simplified cell we use to store a bit, which can either have electrons piled up on one side for a 0, or equally piled up on an equal side for a 1. We humans might consider a drive full of random numbers to be full of information while a drive full of zeros is highly, highly compressible and thus nearly empty of information, but from the universe's point of view, we have exactly the same amount of excess "information" about which electrons are confined where no matter what we humanly store on this drive. That "information" would also constitute far more universe!bits than we could ever dream of storing human!bits on the same drive, while at the same time, not even remotely approaching the level we could hope to measure as mass.

Human!information is a lower bound on universe!information, and not a particularly good one, either.

It seems to me we have a decent grasp on what may constitute a "qubit" and how that may be information, but I've not seen a very solid discussion of what the universe may consider "information" in the arrangement of those qubits. I phrase it as "I've not seen" on purpose, since I'm not in the field. I do know I've seen very far-out speculation like the possibility gravity is somehow related to mass blocking the information flow in the universe in an asymmetric way resulting in a force, but IIRC that still had no discussion on what the information may be, beyond a mere aggregation of qubits. It's obviously there, but we don't know what it is. (Now there's a sentence that makes it sound like dark matter....)

(Thinking about this simplified cell I gave above, my crazy thought would be, if "information" in the universe and "a configuration of mass-energy that maintains its state even though there's a field trying to push it out of the state" (such as the electrons staying in their trap even though they are electrostatically trying to push each other apart) were the same, then there would be a clean mechanism for "information" to "have mass", in the additional potential energies involved. A disorganized mass-energy system where everything is already at the lowest energy would have no information. But this is just crazy talk.)
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isn't that more bundling, not unbundling? Instead of having to budget extra for fuel and car maintenance, it's "included" in the cost.
Stopping by someone's desk is derailing, FWIW. I frequently find myself losing 30+ minutes before getting flow back from a 2 minute interruption.
I'm just a layman with enthusiastic interest. Can I ask you about one thing in this pipeline of decision making since you are in the field?

Refueling is easier to do in MSRs and nigh takes away an embarrassing long downtime while the solid fuel is loaded. Why is that not a first concern (less downtime means more energy from roughly same capital expenditure)?

Safety is critical. It also costs a lot. With MSRs you need less land and can place the plant closer to the point of use (frozen plug to drain tank makes it so that any runaway is contained without intervention). It's even been suggested that for high-thermal uses like steel plants you could get better efficiency by using a thermal plant instead of making electricity for at least a twofold gain in power use. Is there anything inherently wrong with that idea?

Is the dialysis design as solid as it looks like on paper? Are there operational problems with it that the advocates are not talking about?

I have so many questions.....
Yes they ran the molten salt reactor.

However, running one and being able to make a cost effective reactor is completely different.

Especially when water is already a very well known and very well understood heat transfer medium.
This analysis is shallow because it fails to connect status competition among people to the larger games we play. Society processes raw materials in order to produce goods and services which generate security for people. Ultimately all status games between people relate back to some aspect of the systems that support society. Are you good at resource extraction? Are too many resources or the wrong resources being extracted? One might be a great parent but a terrible cook or the other way around. What exactly that means and is worth depends on the context and the people.

This is one of the reasons that the great divide is so brutal. One side is competing based on openness, exploration, and understanding while another is identifying authority based on measures of sanctity and staying loyal to what they find is true.
Same error for me at that link too.
> Lesson #4: Don’t assume organic conversion rate will hold true for paid

Explained in more detail here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21469677

Prepare to be disappointed by paid traffic conversion going in. Paid traffic isn't there to convert, like you hope since it costs you money. It is primarily there for brand awareness which only works if your branding is visible.
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Status signaling is complicated and I have been thinking lately how inconsistently I signal. On one hand, I feel very happy with my career and hobbies like writing books and I signal this to people when I first meet them. I try to not be obnoxious, but human nature is human nature. On the other hand, I live in a small town and last spring when I shipped my car across the country as a gift to my granddaughter, I decided to not buy myself a new car. I did this for several reasons: environmental, force myself to walk and get more exercise, and it lets me joke about being poor. For some perverse reasons, I like signaling a lack of material wealth.
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You're right in that you don't spend time on Haskell thinking about how the code actually executes.

But I honestly don't think performance is the reason majority of the developers shy away from Haskell. Most often you achieve relatively good performance without giving it any thought. At least compared to its peers, I mean other high level languages you'd use to solve the same problem.
I meant the brand, not the quantity. Sorry!
Yeah, the 24/7 availability of a car is a huge one.

There was this weekend when my old car was in the shop and I had to go clean up my old rental apartment before I handed over the keys. Since I had to get cleaning stuff there and carry some leftover stuff from there back, I decided to take a taxi. The distance one-way was about 4 km.

I spent an hour going between like 4-5 different taxi apps, including Uber, trying to get someone to come pick me up. It was such a stupid way to spend my time.
> if Congress can’t pass a law, then a President can’t enforce it because it doesn’t constitutionally exist

Yet federal health workers can be legally bound to secrecy.

The Bill of Rights is in natural conflict with itself. My rights restrict your freedoms and vice versa. This is a complicated dance that has been extensively litigated.
> Things like “this writes to the database”, “this makes an unbounded query”, “this requires a random number generator “, rather than a nebulous “oh this has I/O” is very powerful and useful for maintaining a system

1. How do you know that?

2. Why?

3. Why is tracking the effects in the type system useful? Even if and where this is important, it could be easily achieved using something like Java's 20+-year-old security manager and with finer granularity (i.e. you can allow code to read or write certain files, connect to certain domains etc.) [1]. Just because you can do something in the type system, doesn't mean you should, as it may not be the best way.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/security/permissio...
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> I'm having a kid and I have two huge mutts that I adopted. My wife and I like to go camping and hiking with our dogs

So basically, you're not willing to modify your lifestyle.

You don't need those dogs, and there's no reason to go camping or hiking. It's hard to take the 'climate crisis' thing seriously if nobody actually treats it like an actual crisis.
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Interesting. I was considering having her as a side hustle type these sheets into a place I could then sell. Sounds like that was what you did. How did that work out?
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If we're going to limit project names in that way we might as well randomly choose letters
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Salt+gpg works, although there are a lot of assumptions baked into that.
> Solar, wind and batteries will solve that.

Pretty sure that's not true if you account for total costs. (Including the energy and materials budget for making solar panels and batteries at scale.)
That’s not what the word “pretension” means.
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From the first chapter: "We all know that's true, but now science can convince us with startling images."

Like... the author doesn't even try to conceal confirmation bias.
I am sorry, but the first para of your comment does not make sense. You say "believers" found prediction "too pessimistic". And then you say "except" as if they were wrong, but follow it with "it was too pessimistic, not too optimistic".
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Not the GP, but long term plans are at best inaccurate, worst case completely wrong. Plus, you spent all this time planning instead of implementing/discovering.
Yes. And some other major projects that failed in the same region.
This has absolutely nothing to do with children under five.
Sorry, but no. You may be descendant of Eastern European serfs, you still carry the blood guilt.
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Is this a smaller version of jumping stilts? There's no battery or other energy source inherent in them, but you can run really fast while wearing them, not sure a marathon in those would be considered legitimate.
I know what you mean. You can get a decent sentence or three but coherent paragraphs, or sets of paragraphs are an issue.

Here is one idea:

Two sets of predictors. One trains on outlines. The other trains on translating outlines to full text.

Then you generate an outline with one and full text with other.

The thing that really excites me about this model is that it might be how humans work too.
Do you know their backgrounds? Do you know whether they were raised rich or poor? Perhaps some come from the Eastern states, some from the West, others from the south. Some are young and some are old. Maybe some like classical music while others prefer rap. Some like long walks on the beach while others like spending time hiking in the forest.

Lots of diversity is probably contained in that photo, just not the superficial type you're most fixated on.
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And we understand it to be rather dangerous in failure modes. TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima all revolved around failure modes with water. The failure mode in Thorium is stopping the reactor. Will take a month or more to restart the reaction.
Not sure who came up with it first, but there's also Laravel Elixir and Laravel Mix which caused some confusion for me when I first heard about Elixir but didn't know it was in the Erlang ecosystem.
Whenever seeing the staggering number of Wikipedia articles it reminds me of my own recent experience with creating an article. To centralize some of the knowledge of now niche set of keyboards (manufactured by what used to be one of the FAANGs of its time) I set to create a page. After adding some - what I thought - useful and interesting data, the page got deleted as it was not "notable" enough, i.e. lacking sufficient number of external references. These keyboards did exist and are used until this day however are not as popular (and therefore not as commented/described) like Apple's keyboards (which do have their own page on Wikipedia) so the line was drawn there. In the end I found it funny and also interesting to see how Wikipedia works. If the editors were not so strictly bound to the set of rules there would be probably tens of millions of articles/pages now.

Another experience I had was watching a video on YouTube from Japan where a guy was brewing coffee which reminded me that the brand of the coffee equipment used in the video is sometimes sold in coffee shops in Europe. I wanted to know a little bit more about the company so I went to Wikipedia - the English page got deleted because there was little information about the company on the English speaking part of the Internet. This does not say anything about the company (which seems to be hugely popular in Japan and certain social circles in Europe), rather it demonstrates the limit of the model Wikipedia uses for curating the articles.
> It's in part because you have way more people so the competition is higher.

I think the "huge population" aspect is overdone when discussing China.

If I apply for a job at my local supermarket, the competition I face has little to do with the fact that the UK's population is 65 million vs 1.4 billion in China.

Is the competition in the US 5x fiercer than in the UK because the population is 5x higher? No because there are also more jobs and the number of people within 'reach' of a given job is likely about the same irrespective of the country's total population.
> If you post a job listing online and people apply, is that an easy pool?

Posted where? In what publications, at what position, for how long? "Token posting" to comply with the letter of open-posting requirements while defying their intent is already a thing.
Where I work in the healthcare area, we are trying to expand from the us into Europe. And interesting legal question is how to honor Europe's right-to-be-forgotten laws with the US's HIPPA requirement to preserve health care data for X years. As an employee it also feels awkward.
Me too. Everyone else calls key storage "Secrets Manager" (plural)
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It is because "workplace culture" is now just "American culture". We don't view other Americans as people, but rather as competitors, tools we can exploit for our own success, or parasites keeping us from success. 80s career advice is now life advice.
Not signaling is also a form of signaling.
Mild point, there's no way a single language would suddenly progress through all layers no matter what its qualities.

I understand your question though, it's highly possible that the devs picked haskell for their own interest. But so far it's been a few years and the haskell "module" is dealing with the core of their business.
Why the hell is email so hard for people? You just answer an email or ignore + archive it when it comes in, it takes 15-20 minutes a day. Everything is searchable from there in a simple search bar. I have been in management so don't use 'too many emails' excuse. I was honestly surprised when people started talking about 'inbox zero' a couple years ago. I legit could not believe professional software people can't manage their email.
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> In that case, forget the bike!

That's exactly my point. I thought several times to switch to a motorbike in order to avoid the hassle of traffic, but in the end I decided to stick to car: in normal days, traffic is allievated enough by all the other lovely guys who decide to ride their (motor)bikes; on the worst days (snow), I'd be in a car anyway. I see no point in buying a motorbike just to avoid traffic if it gets useless exactly when I'd need it most!
I've heard Temkin give talks attacking transitivity and I never buy it. Most of his examples involve infinity which is problematic. In the example you share, I think all it points out is that our ability to compare things (psychologically) is broken: we may think A < B < C < ... X < Z in pairwise comparisons, but something goes silly when we compare A and Z and think A > Z. I strongly think this is a bias akin to scope insensitivity. By the time we get to Z we're likely talking about HUNDREDS OF YEARS of experience, and we just are not psychologically fit to make such a comparison.

So I don't think Temkin is right.

PS - Derek Parfit and the "repugnant conclusion" ... not so repugnant if you think about it right ;)
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This is a societal problem of promoting career instead of family, and delaying parenthood. In your early 20s, your time is worth so little compared to your later career, and your parents are young enough to be more involved. Having children while being an undergraduate is better than when you have an advanced career, substantial earnings, and little support from parents.

The best time to have kids is when you are getting your undergrad degree.
Sure, but they can lobby heavily to make that a likelihood, e.g. For-Profit Prisons.
Julia is getting a lot of adoption outside of the tradition CS crowd, so data scientists who would otherwise might be using R or Matlab, or Mathematica. I’m not really sure who is adopting Swift yet, beyond iOS devs.
The product grew to $130M in what is effectively GMV.
All that and not one word about the price of fuel. Going with the all-in bundle only makes sense when the price of hauling around all those extras is cheap. If gas went to $8/gal you'd see people change in a real hurry. If people are buying SUVs it's because they're making a bet that fuel is inexpensive now and will continue to be for the life of the vehicle. They're taking a risk. Just ask someone who owned an F-250 SuperDuty what happened last time gas prices spiked. They got lucky that it didn't last to long.

People aren't stupid. They're balancing a lot of variables with a log of unknowns. What's the depreciation on my car going to be? What are fuel costs going to be? Can I afford the payments? How is this going to effect my insurance rates? Do I plan on moving a long distance in the time I'm going to own the vehicle and will I have to sell it early? Do you have kids? Do you plan on having kids?

Biking to work is great. Inexpensive, good for the environment, and you get plenty of exercise but it comes with lots of downsides. What do you do when it rains? Snows? Is 10deg F outside? 100deg F?

Commuting is nice but there are trade offs as well. What is my employer going to say when I tell them I can't make a meeting or work late because I carpool? What do I do if the person I'm carpooling with has an emergency? What if I have an emergency? If you have a kid in daycare it's not happening because they might call at any moment and tell you your kid has a fever or puked and you need to come and pick them up. Just the logistics of keeping track of who is driving is going to be a pain. "Sorry I'm late today but I thought I was driving but my carpool buddy had a doctors appointment that got rescheduled at the last minute and forgot to let me know"

Life is complicated and there are no easy answers.
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Honestly this seems like progressive posturing that's all too eager to pass prohibitions than actually address the root of issues they're concerned about.
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Linking to the UDemy course, since you mentioned it: https://www.udemy.com/course/landing-page-design-best-practi...
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Correct. (you got the reference) Except I want one that actually works. The closest thing we have today are those office pods you see in tech offices, but I feel a little claustrophobic in them.
This is sad. Swarm is simple and effective, like Nomad but easier.
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Strange how some comments are able to get to the core of the story, while the article somehow does not:

> Satellites in geosynchronous orbit go through an annual eclipse season when the Earth passes between the Sun and the satellite. Currently, the satellite is drawing power directly from the solar arrays and is configured to avoid charging the battery.

> But when the eclipse comes, they'll have to discharge the battery to keep the satellite powered and under control. Charging or discharging the damaged battery risks causing a thermal runaway and an energetic breakup.

> That's why they want to get it up into the graveyard orbit before the eclipse, so if it explodes, it does so in a orbit where the debris are very unlikely to disrupt the operation of active satellites.
Julia is built around multiple dispatch - when making a call, the method to execute is chosen based on the run-time types of all of the arguments.

Once this choice has been made, Julia compiles the method, specialised for the exact types of the arguments.

So, the dispatch process and the JIT compiler are linked - both are reliant on type information every time a function is called.

This specialisation is the only way the Julia JIT uses runtime type information. Unlike JavaScript JITs, Julia does not track things like the types of local variables during execution (although it may do some static inference). Therefore type annotations for local variables can improve performance.
Oh, good point! But you can also just throw the hard drive out of the airlock ;)
Heck, there is a question about whether the Bill of Rights even makes it to the border, given the existence of border checkpoints as much as 100 miles from said border.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Thank you! Just what I was looking for :) Though I get sadder the deeper I read
> Why is everyone talking about making the outcome more equal

Because unconscious bias is a thing. So is systemic discrimination. Without recognizing that, railing about "equal outcomes" is no more than a dogwhistle.

> We should be making these decisions entirely devoid of what your gender, ethnicity, or sexuality is.

That would be true in a world where opportunity is already evenly distributed. I look forward to living in that world, but it's not the world any of us live in today. As long as that's the case, requiring "color blindness" (or similar) at each separate point in the process only perpetuates the results of previous discrimination.
> there's no way a single language would suddenly progress through all layers no matter what its qualities.

Except that's exactly what languages that provide a business value do (like the ones I mentioned). Maybe not always in all layers, but they tend to fill a big, wide niche at a company very quickly.
Oh, hey, Atomic Object! Just wanted to say it's neat to see you guys on here, and, if you're from the AA office, hello from just the other side of 23.