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There still needs to be large-scale integration for things like complicated industrial production. Also, communication technology will only get better, so long-distance virtual collaboration should actually get easier.

However, most things people need can be produced on a local scale. Large-scale organization can and does happen from the bottom. However, I feel like the future that is necessary for us to adopt just involves much less physical production and movement on a global scale.

To a very large extent, some things we take for granted probably just aren't workable long-term, either from an environmental or human risk perspective. Constant travel, cheap flights, ordering googaws from Amazon, etc. Most things people need can be produced locally or mostly locally.

Housing, food, furniture, boots, clothes, etc can all be produced to very high quality without using inputs from other continents. Sure, it involves more human labor in comparison to capital, but it is far cheaper once externalities are factored in. Besides, a huge proportion of our population does jobs which are literally useless. Redirecting that labor towards productive and more fulfilling ends would be great.
this comment made me instantly 15 years younger but without the hair I've lost in that time.

RE:FW:RE:FW: that was a disaster.
There are two parties and they both represent the interests of the large corporations that fund them. The media are all large corporations that benefit from this system, and get funding from those same large corporations in ad revenue. The over 45 demographic only watches that media and so only hears what that media wants them to hear so are extremely low information voters. The PACs and committees of the respective parties are insanely powerful and run by people who are mostly grifters there to get their paycheck. They don’t care about policy. And if you step out of line too far against them they’ll throw millions against you in a primary to get rid of you.

The system is broken because at the moment in most districts you just can’t compete against who has the money.
In the example of a handful: the average "handful" is around 100-50mL. Say we define a "handful" as 50mL +/- 1 order of magnitude. On the high end, you have Andre the Giant, who could easily fit a 12 oz beer in his hand no problem (354 mL.) On the low end, you have children; even kids with small hands can hold 5mL.

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Sure, there's some ambiguity, and of course there's not a hard number on it. But that doesn't mean you can't tell if something is a city. Nobody would argue that, for example, NYC isn't a city, or London or Amsterdam or whatnot.

As the world population grew, so did the definition of "city". 12,000 years ago, there were somewhere around ten million people in the entire world, so a definition of somewhere in the neighborhood of 0.1% of the world population (10,000 people) for a city seems reasonable, plus or minus one order of magnitude. I'll call it Owen's Law :) That holds for today: 0.1% of the world population is 7.8 million, plus or minus 1 order of magnitude - I'd say that's a fine definition for a city. In any case, it works very well today: at the large end you have cities like Chongqing with 30+ million in the municipality, and at the small end you have cities like Rotterdam with around 700k people in the city proper.

To check if my rule of thumb worked: At the year 1, assuming 200 million people in the world, that's setting a city around 200,000 people, plus or minus 1 order of magnitude. The largest city in the world was Rome, between 1MM-400k people; all the top 10 largest cities fell within the rule.

- It holds at the year 1000 (world pop. ~300MM, largest city Córdoba with 400k, smaller cities like Nimes with 56k.)

- It holds at the year 1500 (world pop. 500MM, largest city Constantinople 250k, smaller cities like Palermo, Florence, Madrid, Moscow with ~70k.)

- It holds at 1800 (world pop. ~1 billion, largest cities Vienna and London ~1MM, smaller cities like Berlin, Lyon, Venice 150k.)

- It holds at 1900 (world pop. 1.6 billion, largest city London 5.5MM, smaller cities Naples, Madrid, Amsterdam ~500k.)
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In my opinion, this is no different from saying there's no need to watch new films or TV shows that come out, or even older ones that you haven't seen before. Why do that when you can just watch Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, the Godfather, and 2001: A Space Odyssey? Why check out books you haven't read before when you have [insert childhood favorite]?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with repeatedly returning to old stuff you like. But I don't see how people can be satisfied doing nothing but that. Fantastic new art is being created all the time, and the amount of people creating art is also increasing all the time.

The point of endless digging is to try to find other stuff that you may end up liking as much as, or perhaps even more than, the older stuff. It's not simply to consume for its own sake: it's to discover things you otherwise might be missing out on and would be thankful you found. How can you even know if that'll happen or not if you aren't exposed to lots of new things?

Also, what does it even mean to "endlessly collect" music in the modern day? You just listen to stuff you haven't heard and turn it off if you don't like it and save it to a playlist/favorites list if you do like it. There's no cost to trying albums you haven't heard before, like there was in the past. If you do really want a physical copy for whatever reason, it's easy to listen online first and decide whether or not you should get the physical copy.

This seems akin to lamenting that people are "endlessly collecting" new shows, films, and documentaries by browsing Netflix.
It’s not conspiracy level at all. China is known in other areas to fudge numbers regularly, and have ejected journalists for not Agreeing with the party line on COVID. While they might be accurate, it’s perfectly reasonable to recommend taking any figures with a pinch of salt.
I love the idea but damn that's arguably worse port selection than a Raspberry Pi 4 for like 100x the price, size, and power consumption.

It seems like what people really want is a many-core ARM SoC in a laptop. Turn most of the cores off when doing simple stuff on battery power, then turn them on for bursty parallelizable tasks like compiling code.
> where does that money come from?

The people hoarding it.
By splitting into different regions it masks the difference in numbers and age across the world.

A list of "oldest cities" which contains places like Canbera and Detroit, but not places like London and Venice, seems very odd
Where does the spec say that it does that? As far as I can tell C only allows objects to have sizes in whole number of bytes, and that includes booleans.

Although a _Bool type can be used for a bit field (having size of 1 bit) but you can't use sizeof with a bit field.
Did the Treasury blow it, or did Congress blow it?
In the West the mass culture is also controlled in some way (for political correctness).
> jump through the arbitrary hoops put in place by banks.

To be fair, in most industries, arbitrary hoops are the result of government regulation. Yes, they might have been implemented by staff at the banks, but oftentimes at the behest of regulators.

In every business I've worked on, every single friction point I've seen us add has been due to regulations, often in patchwork form since they would differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The product managers then are tasked with trying to mitigate the added friction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914737
> Not to mention you could have a fund that pays the backblaze bill and as that monthly price dwindles over time the interest on your money would pay it in perpetuity.

Assuming we're talking about storage in perpetuity without the need for maintenance, the fund would need someone trusted to administer it.

I personally wish there was an inexpensive, trusted place for me to deposit a large sum of money, and have it automatically paid to service providers to maintain my domain/hosting/online identity in perpetuity, or until my deposit/endowment runs out.

This sounds like what I want, only just for data.
Were you in a small town by any chance

Average town (0.5M), average family (engineers), average school (not the best, not the worst), though the high school I attended had math specialization, so by the end of it I knew more math than an average Russian (or an average American).

it seems like Russia as a whole has very quickly lost the few positives the Soviet Union brought

Now imagine North Korea collapses, becomes like South Korea 30 years later, and someone makes a statement like that about it. Puts it in a different light, doesn't it?
> The application language was a pass through later between the client and the database.

This style of doing things resulted in spaghetti style unmanageable databases, filled with an unknowable number of triggers and procedures, all written in PL/SQL (which is much, much worse than either Java or PHP). The reason why ORMs started to become popular is that you can write your application without filling your DB with arcane and inscrutable logic
Sorry, no. You don't get to redefine what 'static website' means. Just because you put cloudflare caching in front of it doesn't make a website static. It makes it cached.
With your criterion cities on mountainous regions have a bit of unfair advantage.

Another Armenian city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van,_Turkey, which is older than Yerevan, would match it too, but it's not included in the list on wikipedia. (Maybe because a large part of Van have been ruined and left uninhabited in ~1920s).
Don't forget Phoenicians, Assyrians & such. They were the local cultures. Those others were imperial rulers.
beware of submitting data to UB:

UB stores passwords in plaintext, and emails them around.

https://plaintextoffenders.com/post/183587319928/userbenchma...

https://github.com/plaintextoffenders/plaintextoffenders/blo...
I found out that someone did their 4th year honours project focused solely on one of my blog posts: http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-...

This discovery was quite surreal as I only found out months later, because neither the student nor the lecturer contacted me at the time.

Also, despite being a math/IT guy working for many years in government, my blog posts have mainly got the attention of graphical computing people in the private sector (eg animation, game studios, digital imaging, etc). This has meant that my work has made some (small) impact in industries beyond those I have worked in or been formally trained in. This has been a nice surprise. It has also markedly increased the breadth of my professional network to now include practitioners and experts from a diverse set of industries.

Finally (like many technical people), although writing is a crucial skill in mid-level management roles as well as consultancy, for most of my career I have had a mental aversion to writing reports, and has been the cause of much work stress.

However, after writing intermittently for many months on topics that I have personally chosen, and on topics that I have some knowledge on, I have found that this has had noticeable effects on both my confidence and capacity to write reports in my day job. I can now write reports faster -- and with considerably less anxiety.

And thus, between all these points, I believe that I can genuinely attribute much of my recent career successes and opportunities to writing my blog.

;)
It's totally 17th century elegant. Take a sniff, scrunch up your face, blow snot on the ground, load up your elephant gun and head to Africa for King and Country! All you need is a monocle.
At some point they need to branch off and not call it C anymore. C should stay relatively small -- small enough that a competent programmer could write a compiler and RTS for it.
Yesterday I launched a really unique feature in my app Happyfeed - now you can create small groups (called Pods) to share your journaling progress and actual posts.

I don't think many other journaling apps have tried this pseudo-social approach, but I think it works really well for gratitude in particular.

It was pretty interesting figuring out a way to build sharing with one or many Pods while keeping posts private by default. Happy to answer any questions or take feedback on how it could be better built. (I wrote a blog post but saw in the rules not to include those.)
You are correct in your assertion. However your conclusion is wrong.

First, the waiver got in due to major lobbying by corporations with cash.

Second, it is not correct to state that is is appropriate for larger employers to take PPP. Here is why: although at first glance it would make sense to support workers via PPP, the sad reality is that these workers have already been laid off. As such, PPP will turn into a loan. A cheap loan at that, which is basically a cheaper source of capital funds that any public co has.

Public co.s can tap the capital market or existing banking relationships to survive.

Small biz cannot tap capital markets and banks are not extending credit at this time.

For larger orgs, cheap PPP subsidized loans are literally taking precedence over life and death funds for small biz.

So institutional investors, PEs, and banks are being bailed out, while mom and pops and their staff are getting destroyed.

Laeger orgs already laid off staff. Mom and pops were hoping for PPP.... to keep staff.
We've already had massive automation events, the computer, the internet, mobile, self-checkout, etc. Everytime these steps made life better mostly, and more automated or at least allowed most people to be more independent.

The last mile of automation is costly, where the first ones were money savers.

Building physical robots and tuning them, maintenance, cleaning, updates, security, new versions etc etc.

This last phase of robots, drones and self-driving vehicles will take a long time to get right and it is much more costly to enter it. The speed of innovation also makes it quickly out of date when you do commit to it.

The automation remaining involves mostly hardware which is more costly, the initial ones were software that saved lots of money and wasted time.
The most important and overlooked characteristic is that most RDBMS use b-tree for their table-space, meaning all the operations (including search / lookup) are O(log n). For online (OLTP) applications, this means you will have to shard sooner or later (assuming your audience is growing)
Seems like an intuitively good idea to me! It'd be great to see how effective this change was.

Regardless of this change, I wonder if they share their forecasted non-renewable energy needs with their energy supplier so that the energy supplier can prepare for changes to the expected base load.

Do any factories or other energy intensive operations do this?
Here in the UK you can use Messages[0](the default SMS app) for chat. It supports RCS. You can send pictures, emojis or even use for group chat.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Current availability:
Chat features in your Messages app are available in France, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US, and across multiple operators globally. We are working on bringing chat features broadly to more regions, operators and other messaging apps (e.g. Samsung Messages).
it was certainly a lot, but... it wasn't quite as much as myth seems to have it built up to. Mark Lewisohn's "Tune In" does a great job of cataloging all the early year work/practice. There were sporadic months where they didn't play much at all.

But yeah, the whole business today is a much different world from the music scene of the 50s/60s. :)

The "8-10 hours per night in hamburg" were intense, but they only did a few stints of a few months at a time there. I think Lewisohn added up after their first trip in '61, they had something like... 800 hours of stage time under their belt. It's a lot, certainly, but not the 10000 hour sort of thing people sometimes think. BUT... what's interesting is that there basically weren't any other rock bands at all with that amount of "stage time as a unit" either. It was a relatively new thing altogether, certainly in the UK...
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The fact that there's so much data on the dangers of smoking causes confirmation bias. However, science is never complete.

It's not inconceivable that, say, smoking causes some changes that are protective/hormetic in some cases. That doesn't imply it's a worthy tradeoff to be a lifelong smoker, of course.

The question is, what are the fact that we aren't trying to find, because it goes completely against our expectations?
Yes, direct to the person at the post office and between the cities.
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Can someone who downvoted this explain why you did so?
Something must have gone wrong. I know for fact that in Poland you can bank at post office at least since 90s. Its still common think for seniors to have no bank account because there is no need to. They typically get pension in form of a government check that they cash at "Poczta Polska" and then use cash to shop. Post office also pays all the bills, utilities etc, so long as you know corporation/receipient bank number.
It is racist. It's on the same level as associating watermelon with African-Americans.

It's right that the employee was fired.
I know it's not exactly a blog, but academic publishing in journals has been interesting! It can get you invites to publish all sorts of other things. I think in this way success begets success.

I've also anonymously written a few small blogs with a couple of popular posts. What's amazed me is that sometimes a simple post with a question can drive consistent views (1-2k/views a week consistently). It hasn't been about the large numbers, but I have met a couple of people who have stumbled across these posts which have turned out to be interesting friendships!
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Sure, keep telling yourself this if you want to keep harming yourself and your loved ones.

If you really believe the food industry cares about US citizens instead of profits, I'd recommend avoiding any of the great critical documentaries on the global food industry that have come out recently.
Based on who is on their governing board, I think one of the use-cases here is to preserve files you would want to pass on to your descendents. You wouldn't necessarily want to have it cryptographically secured with E2EE.

I have old 5.25" and 3.5" floppies, full of software written by my father during the course of developing his dissertation. He died several years ago.

My original plan was to take whole disk images of it and stash it in the commercial cloud, ... but I'm probably going to stash a copy on permanent.org instead. I have no idea if my descendents would care about it. However, it is a memorial that (if the foundation does what it promises to do), not something I would have to do upkeep after I die.
You index an embedding for each sentence and match against sentence embeddings, then rank documents based on highest scoring sentence matches.
The money ran out before our company could get 1k.

Another example how the 10% is taxed to pay for the 0.1%.
> Larger companies weren't supposed to be the target of the "small business" loans/grants.

That was what explicitly written in the bill, so you'd have to blame Congress, if anyone. It's not like TopGolf is big enough to buy out politicians.

> money should have gone directly to them via SBA/IRS

The SBA had 3293 employees in 2015. They don't have the capacity to process all the applications either.

> The PPP for instance 75% needed to go to payroll, so larger companies free up other money

These companies are shut down at the moment. They don't have other money. If they did, I'm interested to see proof that they're just messing with accounting.
Not semi serious. Absolutely serious. As soon as you start writing a program that takes more than one person to complete, or where you're writing not for you to be the one and only user, people problems come in. And I'm just talking about communicating intent and design among people. The bigger the project, the more that's a problem.

Then there's the unrelated problem of dealing with other peoples' personalities. The bigger the project, the more different people, and the more this aspect is a problem as well.
Nothing. It got privatized and is currently owned by Deutsche Bank.
I keep meaning to replace find, but never get around to it. I will check out fd. Ty.
Thanks for the insight! Do you have any idea why lung ultrasound is such a recent thing?
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I don’t know why you’re downvoted. I am a solid social democratic left person. But whatever his motivations, the fact is Massie was the only one that wanted to force a record of the vote. Good on him.

For those that claim it was dangerous, take that up with Nancy Pelosi the speaker who has refused calls to allow remote voting and video conferences so congress can work. She has refused this because she doesn’t want committees to do anything and she doesn’t want votes recorded. It makes a mockery of any suggestions of oversight. Your beef really is with her not Massie.
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COO from Tomorrow here (who provides the CO2 forecast data to Google). Happy to answer any questions!
Jericho even had town walls complete with a tower at 9kya. Absolutely astonishing, because they were even pre-pottery.
I suspect there's a huge variation within the US; Chicago area public schools do what you described in Russia, or did anyway.

When relocating years later to California for work, locals seemed to have had access to far fewer opportunities in school.
Besides math, as in the OP's observations, foreign language options seemed to only include Spanish, whereas Chicagoland had French, German, Spanish, Latin, and that included some ancient Greek.

Just different opportunities, by school district.
As a developer, I am glad there are other people in the world who understand this.
“Guided by the beauty of our weapons”, I guess.
Which is obviously wrong because it's been demonstrated that if infections get out of control and hospitals are overwhelmed, a higher percentage of infections before fatal.

This was shown in the difference in death rates in Wuhan vs other cities in China. ...as well as northern Italy vs other provinces in Italy.
It was reported at the time before the bill was signed:

> Many of these special-interest provisions would be impossible for a casual reader of the legislation to identify. For example, on Page 15 of the bill, there is a section with the title “Business Concerns With More Than 1 Physical Location.” It says this change in federal law will apply to companies that fit “a North American Industry Classification System code beginning with 72” — a reference that turns out to mean the hotel and restaurant industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/virus-finepri...

Edit: This NYT article is the only one I've found in a cursory search that mentions it.
> Or worse, that the private sector somehow is where the challenge is. Maybe where you can get richer, but look at the department of agriculture or any other major government institution. $150b in budget and 100k employees. You find me a private company with similar size and a mission to feed 380M people.

I'm off on a tangent here...but is it really the responsibility of the department of agriculture to feed 380 million people? What did people do before the creation of the department of agriculture? :-)
FWIW, for the build2 project we host our own CI servers on premesis and the power supply is supplemented by a solar array. We have configured our daily package rebuild window to coincide with the maximum solar output so that on a sunny day it is all done using renewable energy.