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Luddites were people that went out destroying the machines that replaced them in the workforce. Obviously their efforts were futile. Please explain how this applies to my thinking.

I'm not opposed to technology, I welcome technology. Isn't it very much like the Luddites to advocate for "scaling back" with our "pollution"? The motives are different, but the objective seems identical.

You can call me all the adjectives you want, but I do not care if earth explodes after I die. I just don't. I care for my benefits during my own life. I've said this before and I say it again, I do not have any moral problems with sacrificing other peoples benefits for my own benefits and neither should you. Doing this is insanity. Would you starve yourself to death so you can feed other people? Why should I care for other people? It's a silly notion. Maybe I'd care a little bit if I had children, but I don't.
Tin foil hat time: the NHS is often invoked to sell or defend unpopular government policies. It's the national equivalent of "won't someone think of the children". I imagine the NHS don't care about the app as long as it works. But someone else, someone not actually in the medical field, thinks it would be really useful to know everyone who someone met with for non medical reasons. Maybe that's our allies in Saudi? Maybe that's the police? GCHQ already know so likely not them but maybe they can use it for something else?
That's actually in the range of possibilities, I guess.

The best current data on the IFR for 20-40 year olds is low enough that you might not get any deaths out of a ship-wide infection[0], so you don't have the same "Where were all the dead bodies if this ran through the population earlier?" question you do for cities and countries.

The current estimate of the recovery time is around 25 days, and the date of exposure is believed to be March 5th. Assuming we're looking at an exact snapshot of infections today, that gives you March 23rd as the day everyone recovered on the ship was infected by, about 18 days after the first exposure. Assuming some small number (~10) were initially infected, that would only require a doubling period of ~2 days, which is shorter than seen elsewhere, but you're also in an ideal environment (close quarters, communal living) for spread.

I don't know if I believe that to be what happened here, but we should hopefully be able to determine it from the data after the fact with further monitoring and testing.

[0] There's been one, and you could have up to around 6 or 10 while being consistent with the current data; more than a couple dozen would raise a lot of questions.
Not a common use case, but a GUI with background processing is terrible without parallelization.

Even if the background process is I/O intensive (which is supposed to be most of the time waiting, therefore freeing the CPU for the foreground process), it doesn't mean it won't end up still blocking (I've experienced this with filesystem operations).
Those are presumed fake, unless the other company posts a testimonial or signs a full name to the claim.
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The question of whether this is overly complicated is a wrong question. While in most cases this might be too much, there are situations where this is necessary. It all depends on the use case.

I for one welcome the description of high-traffic production level architecture description. Usually on the internet, it is hard to find a real setup description. Most of architecture examples are simple, not something you would use in production yourself. Plus, simplifying architecture is always simpler, than thinking how to make it scalable properly.
I can't say as conflating antivaxxers with a pediatrician that recommends a delayed/modified vaccine schedule is exactly productive. Delayed/modified schedule isn't to blame for measles. Pretty disingenuous, IMO.

For those who don't know, there is a camp of people who believe that we're getting vaccinations at way too fast a schedule. Yes, this includes doctors, like the aforementioned pediatrician.
Climate-controlled cultivation will likely become a necessity for food production as climate change intensifies. Spain, South Africa, many Middle Eastern and other countries are already heavily reliant on greenhouses.

Also given that megadroughts, floods, and hurricanes are likely to be the new normal, sufficient capacities of solar-powered desalination will be important to sustain food production levels. My main immediate concern with climate change is that greater numbers of and more intense storms will destroy infrastructure and food production, leading to wars and/or pan migration.
Episodic or seasonal droughts; nthe El Niño Southern Oscillation / La Niña Pacific Ocean cycle,[1] the Indian Ocean Dipole,[2], changes in weather due to vulcanism,[3] or more cataclysmically, asteroid impacts,[4], seasonal wet-dry cycles such as monsoons,[5] predictable megacycles such as the precession of Earth's apses (Milankovitch cycles),[6] and even large-scale changes in vegitation -- growth or decline of forests and wetlands can affect both micro- and regional weather as well as global weather patterns.[7]

Other possible factors are changes in ocean behaviours (especially currents) which themselves may be driven by other climate-related changes, or by changes to seabed (landslides, vulcanism), or joining or parting of landmasses (tectonics, sea level change). Changes in terrestrial hydrological patterns: mountain formation (usually geologically slow, sometimes not), changes to river courses, formation and draining of inland seas and lakes, ice-dam formation and flooding (eastern Washington's badlands are a stunning example).

It's complicated.

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Notes:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Niño

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Dipole

3. https://scied.ucar.edu/shortcontent/how-volcanoes-influence-...

4. http://ehso.com/climatechange/climatechangecauses-meteorites...

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoon

6. https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycl...

7. https://globalforestatlas.yale.edu/climate-change/climate-ch... touches on this. One theory is that the decline in Native American populations following European contact, and epidemic disease, lead to a growth in forests in North America, with a resulting decrease in global atmospheric CO2.
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The issue is not solved when you sh into a container for a quick debugging session.

Or when you work in an airtight environment, like in banking.

It is 'solved' when the only computers you connect to is small enough to be be described as 'my computers', which seems like a pretty narrow use case to me.
You aren't thinking like a growth hacker.
But all what you described will port, with some adjustments, to a different provider for another decade. This is all to host on one specific host. The money spent on planning and architecture is a one time cost and it is very high. Not to mention the much higher cost of ownership over time for hosting on AWS.

AWS feels like hosting on IIS back in the day. It was extremely expensive and pointless for more than 50% of their customers, but people kept saying “but we’re enterprise!” and throwing money away until the world finally woke up.
I recently posted a link to Bill Mollison’s “Introduction to Permaculture”, which is available to borrow digitally on the archive.org [1]

One critical aspect of permaculture is water management. It’s usually one of the first things you consider when designing a home, a farm, a town, a city — even a whole region.

The crazy thing is, despite all the drought, most of our land is engineered to “ditch” water — get it off the land as quickly as possible.

This is because too much water can cause it’s own set of problems, and the flip side of drier summers can be flood-like rain in the wet months.

What permaculturists like to do is find ways to capture rain in a non-destructive way, through “swales” (winding excavations that slow the water as it moves through the land, distributing it from the valleys to the ridges, sometimes small ponds), and deep rooted perennial prairie grasses and trees that break up the hard pan souls and allow water to penetrate deeply. The overall aim is to recharge the underlying aquifer.

There’s lots of secondary benefits to this kind of whole-system approach, but at minimum we should be re-engineering our landscape to make better use of what we’re given every year.

1: https://archive.org/details/introductiontope00moll/mode/2up
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Until homo sapiens evolves past tribal effects, those sorts of things will continue happening. Lamentable but symptomatic.
I really disliked that book, I found nothing actionable in it.

It is so often recommended that I read it to the end thinking there would be some jewel waiting for me. There wasn't.
The soviet's probably would have liked this man's geothermal greenhouse which is a modern version of their trenches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZghkt5m1uY

Also, I'm wondering if the citrus grown in Russia ended up ripening in fall rather than in winter or whether they had to harvest the fruit in the middle of the winter. Also, I'm not sure how citrus would work being dug up every winter. Did these trees ripen in the spring? This is all fascinating and something I'd love to try in the US. I'd bet the premium on locally grown foods isn't enough to sustain a northern citrus farm, but it could be a good hobby.
For me the quality of DDG search results seems to fluctuate over time. In the recent times it’s become worse, and I’ve resorted to going directly to !s (startpage) or !g (google). I take many other precautions in my browsing to thwart tracking anyway.
Makes sense that you'd like some sort of apology or mea culpa from the CEO, who has not been completely forthright. I know you don't want answers from me specifically, but here's my thoughts:

> What made Github/MSFT stop funding Atom development when their CEO went on record to say they won't?

Because circumstances changed and it made no sense to continue to do this. Atom shrank as VSCode grew by leaps and bounds, there's no clear business case for continuing to develop a withering product.

> And why haven't they announced that was the case officially?

Why would they? Why go out of their way to print upsetting news (to some) in a 40pt headline, when the writing is already on the wall for anyone who cares to read it? i.e. what's the benefit to the company of doing this?

I think the better question for the Github CEO was "why did you ever promise to continue supporting Atom? You either knew this was not possible, or were making a promise you could not keep, either one is bad." And the answer to that is probably "to avoid creating a furor around cutting Atom off at the same time as the acquisition was announced." But yeah hearing him say that would be useful.
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One important difference between Java and Go is that Java prides itself in having at least half dozen GC implementations and endless array of tuning parameters. So each factor you listed can be tuned at any time and not part of particular released version.

Whereas for Go memory usage is more or less same in almost every release. They have singular focus on latency improvement in general or very specific type of workloads with each new release.
I feel like source order should be the thing that is done away with. Specificity allows me to style something, and trust that style will style correctly no matter what my build system does, or what order my stylesheets load, or what my co-worker adds later for their fancy new CTA button.
okay in that case can you recommend a good tut for writing cuda code?
In one word: predictably.
I suspect you are assuming a large proportion of people who get the virus have severe symptoms. The evidence of the contrary seems to emerge.
Programmer here, nothing is solved.
Good for your personal site, bad if your revenue depends on it
I only skim read this, but it feels like you could swap "WeChat" for any messaging system or social networking site
This is more just basic requirements of ANY application requiring HA.

A MediaWiki install I manage has a more complicated deployment, files reside on DigitalOcean spaces so there’s no NFS bullshit but there’s still multiple instances each of nginx-ingress, trafficserver, memcached, mysql, nginx/php-fpm, keycloak, cronjobs to run background tasks and a managed load balancer in front of it all.

Still, then bill in comparison to AWS is cheap - base costs are $125USD/mo for the 6 droplets and spaces storage. We just enabled auto scaling for the MediaWiki instances so it can vary a bit now, but traffic is bursty so it won’t go up by much.
You can have privacy just fine as a pleb. Run your stuff, connect friends

This impacts businesses

Since when are businesses free from government inspection when they impact society as a whole

You spoiled whiners think reality owes you some idealized vacuum to exist

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My take: you all ignore the political system as if it exists by some mistake and get caught unawares by it

Society will always claim a right to peak into areas society plainly announces it intends to regulate

Get over it

You can’t stop humans at scale. You’re a handful of 7 billion. Statistically every user of this site is meaningless to those billions

QQ
I'm not well versed in this area at all -- but something I find fascinating is what I have heard of the early days of GPU compute. Before CUDA and the like, you would apparently take your data you wanted to compute on, structure it as an image/texture and use the graphics API to ham fist your way to the result you wanted. No idea if that's true, but pretty neat if it is.
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I read the blog post and couldn't really guess what they did, so I headed over to the actual shop and saw some books. Okay, I thought, another bookstore.

But then I scrolled further down and started seeing red dot sights for rifles and giftcards.

That does seem a little shady.
My independent, neighborhood grocer (am almost unheard of type of business these days!) has been better stocked on the very few occasions I have gotten out. I don't have a ton of comparison points, unfortunately. For example, when it comes to dry goods like beans or flour, the small local grocer could repackage and rewrite the vast industrial size containers I'd these products, and continue selling product where the larger chain grocers must rely on their suppliers to repackage to smaller amounts.
> This is the guy who refuses to pay his shareholders a dividend

Amazons share price has grown 136,000% in the past 23 years or 36.8% per year. That is far above S&P 500 returns and the exact case for when you want a company reinvesting in themself instead of paying out dividends.
"Microsoft won the JEDI contract because the Department of Defense found that we offered “significantly superior” technology at a better price."

Umm.. what? Are they mentally impaired?

I recently tried doing something very simple - use the QnA Maker. You should check it out for yourself - the number of clicks needed to do something as simple as this makes me question all the comments I see these days that say "Azure is as good as AWS".

No, it is not. It is a lot more complex for simple tasks, and looks like it has been assembled together by a bunch of monkeys.
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> Even stupid alarming vaccine campaigns caused better results evaluation.

What does this mean? It doesn't make sense in English, so could you please elaborate?

> someone should die without vaccine

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of why anti-vaxxers are a problem.

They don't just kill themselves. They break herd immunity and put other people at risk. They have already caused outbreaks that have killed adults and children who did get their vaccines.
Here is a problem that I've been thinking about for some time: suppose I express using some type of logic that I want the shortest path between two vertices of a graph. Given this logical description of the problem, is it possible for a computer program to emit Dijkstra's algorithm or some other efficient algorithm? One of the things that have interested me lately is logic programming, but I'm wondering if there has been any research done on using logic programming as a means of algorithmic discovery? What are the theoretical limitations of doing this? It took bright minds to come up with the various graph algorithms that we use today, and so I'm assuming there's a fundamental limitation that makes it difficult to convert declarative expressions of a problem into specific efficient algorithms.
Zoom also does weird OS-detection which seems to fail with Debian-testing, so I can't use screensharing on Wayland. Works fine with Jitsi Meet. They also don't support dual-screen mixed-scaling (4k laptop with 1080p external screen).

Feels like using Skype: worked for a while under Linux, then never got updated and became very unpredictable/clunky.
The difference between the Firefox setting described by the GP and the DDG bang commands you mentioned is that the Firefox setting is close to zero latency since it’s handled by the browser. The bang commands need to go to DDG and then come back as a redirect, taking a few seconds more. On the other hand, the DDG bang commands work the same across other browsers too.
Too much Aronofsky?
Humanity does not have the best track record of not abusing people

Wrapping it in nation state theatricality is asinine

A while back there was a paper that relied on newly recovered census records found in old rural European churches.

This helped fill in gaps in a timeline of who died from what causes, etc

Death attributed to fallout of nation state terrorism was normalized out of the data.

The result was we still kill each other in random acts of insanity, jealousy, malfeasance as we did 400 years ago

It’s the nation state you benefit from brining the real carnage

I don’t see you protesting it

More like living high off it

You’re in a bubble mate
How does one with good math/physics background gain a deeper understanding of black holes? I'm fascinated by them and want to systematically learn the theory behind it.

My plan is to start with General Relativity and Einstein's equations, maybe some journal articles about black holes. Do you have any suggestions?
This seems to be a CTC model. CTC is not really the best option for a good end-to-end system. Encoder-decoder-attention models or RNN-T models are both better alternatives.

There is also not really a problem about available open source code. There are countless of open source projects which already have that mostly ready to use, for all the common DL frameworks, like TF, PyTorch, Jax, MXNet, whatever. For anyone with a bit of ML experience, this should really not be too hard to setup.

But then to get good performance, on your own dataset, what you really need is experience. Probably taking some existing pipeline will get you some model, with an okish word-error-rate. But then you should tune it. In any case, even without tuning, probably encoder-decoder-attention models will perform better than CTC models.
Would you be able to share your Top 10?
From the article:

> One hundred years later we have now detected the same effect in the motion of a star orbiting the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of the Milky Way. This observational breakthrough strengthens the evidence that Sagittarius A* must be a supermassive black hole of 4 million times the mass of the Sun

I love that scientists are so careful about stating that something is absolute fact when they can't be 100% sure. The public's idea of things is definitely that Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole, but that compact radio source could be something else, so they're careful to note that.
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If you're interested in getting started writing GPU code and you're currently dealing with PyTorch a good place to start might be using NUMBA for CUDA programming. It lets you do in Python what you'd normally do in C/C++. It's great, because setup is minimal and it has some good tutorial materials. Plus, you're mostly emulating what you'd end up doing in C/C++, so conceptually the code is very similar.

When I was at GTC 2018 this is one of the training sessions I went to and you can now access that here[1].
The official NUMBA for CUDA docs are great too[2]. Also, you can avoid a lot of installation/dependencies headaches by using anaconda/miniconda if you're doing this stuff locally.

[1]: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/gtc2018-numba

[2]:https://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/latest/cuda/overview.html
Thanks for the heads up. Have you got the printed books version? If so, are they good?
There were quite a few people on the burnout[1] thread that wanted to change the world.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876241
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Math is only sometimes done that way. Often an interesting field gets axiomatized later. Calculus, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, all existed productively for centuries before axiomatization.

Same way you can build a programming language without a formal spec. Yes, you might find an ambiguous piece of code later, or paint yourself into a corner. But you can do quite a lot without axioms.
Same, I used fish for about a month. I really liked all of it's out of the box features. I reverted back to zsh when everything I googled had to be fish specific and it felt like I was spending more time trying to make bash/zsh instructions work with fish.

I do miss the flag suggestions that would autofill.
The poster of that PTT article is also a doctor. Medical providers in Taiwan have heard about the rumor of SARS reappeared in China throughout December 2019. That doctor went looking for info on Chinese and Hong Kong social media sites. She was fortunate enough to grab the information before CCP scrubbed them from the internet. After Taiwan sounded the alarm, WHO told China. CCP started to crackdown nationwide. On 1/3 2020, CCP even told all the hospitals to turn over any samples that they have and anyone who leak information will be jailed.
Telegram was on a good path to become WeChat replacement, with its Telegram Open Network blockchain an Gram cryptocurrency coming and plans to add wide range of services including decentralized storage, web pages and payment channels. But now it looks that part has been killed by SEC, so the niche is still unoccupied.
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This is an excellent point. When I took algebra as an undergraduate I was blown away by the fact that you can choose any axioms and then derive an algebra based on those axioms. I was blown away because prior to that course I just assumed that our “standard” axioms were immutable.
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It is not fair to compare VSCode/Sublime Text with an IDE. They are very fast at opening, agreed, but they the features that an IDE provide (intelligent code completion, jump to definition, database-aware autocompletion, ANY sort of refactoring capability) easily save me hundreds and hundreds of hours.
> "Right now, what blows my mind is there's probably squid talking to each other in the deep ocean and they're probably sharing all sorts of cool information," said Ben Burford, a graduate student at Stanford University.

Squid: it's ... uh, Linux ISOs.
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