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Elon Musk giving shade to space based power "You'd have to convert photon to electron to photon back to electron. What's the conversion rate?"

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a8101/elon-musk-...
Americans by and large don't mind sacrificing their young as long as they get good value for it. With Vietnam they saw soldiers sacrificed for utterly pointless things like defending Khe Sanh or taking Hamburger Hill (both were abandoned right after victory), all while their leadership was telling them they weren't even seeking military victory. Meanwhile half the country was calling the troops babykillers (not without reason) and young people being drafted into the mess were faced with the moral choice of going to prison or running away to Canada (with the associated accusations of cowardice and shame brought on their family by idiots) or turning off their conscience and shipping off to Vietnam to kill some people posing absolutely no threat to their freedom or way of life. No matter how you look at it, it's way more complicated than boiling it down to US deaths.
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I don't think that the cause is uncertain. Broadly speaking, the cause is sexism. What I'm saying is that there is no evidence whatever for a biological cause, and it is harmful to speculate wildly on biological causes in the absence of evidence.
Not sure how that's relevant here.

He published under his real name, at work.
FWIW, I find the AWS UI much better than the GCP interface. AWS feels much faster to navigate, even though GCP has an SPA-like design, like its other B2B tools.
GMail won because I had to keep deleting email from my old provider, Google was pretending to "not be evil", and they offered me an ever-increasing amount of storage. Then I told my friends about it. Eventually, everyone used it because everyone who should've known better (myself included) recommended it to them.
The balance is gone, at least in the US, because of several reasons, some easily quantifiable, others more subtle or difficult to quantify.

Most of it is due to the prevalence of indirect fund systems on grants in the US. The way this is budgeted, universities bring in far more money than their actual costs, meaning there's huge incentives to prioritize grant funding over actual research. Because of huge competition and the way grants are evaluated, you have grants only weakly being related to impact or progress, and instead being targeted to what is most likely to be popular.

Another contributing factor is reliance on bibliometric indices like h indices etc. Although this seems reasonable, what it leads to is huge pressure to publish what's popular over other considerations, with lots of co-authors. I've reviewed for high-status journals have said explicitly in instructions to reviewers (and I'm only weakly paraphrasing) "don't evaluate the methodological integrity or integrity of the conclusions, only evaluate how popular this is likely to be."

What happens is you're incentivizing groupthink very heavily. Combine this with eroding of tenure (either through elimination of tenure-track lines, or protections of intellectual exploration), especially in places like biomedicine where the financial conflicts of interest are huge, it leads to big problems.

I have mixed feelings about peer review. I do think it's overrated, broken, and not transparent enough. Having done it for over a decade, I'm still being surprised by ethically questionable things that happen (ironically in my experience it seems like this actually happens the most in fields that are supposed to be more "objective", like statistics or math). On the other hand, my emerging experience with the unbridled internet is that it just reinforces the TED-ization of academics, in that things like twitter attention get mixed in with more formal evaluation of research.

Given the traditional peer review system versus some more open free-for-all, I'd choose the latter for multiple reasons, but they both have issues. In today's dysincentivised climate, the more open approach does have downsides, but maybe if the culture was fixed in other ways those concerns would be alleviated.

To address your question about what to do: there have been lots of proposals but they don't seem to get traction.

Open publication, archives, etc. seem to be moving in the right direction, but many of the grant solutions (eliminating indirect funds or making them line-item justified, lottery systems, funding based on publications through awards) haven't gotten traction.
dispatchers are the middle managers.

but i'm skeptical; it would be more convincing if GP/GGP provided some of the rationale for why middle managers would be automated away rather than simply referencing a book.
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The most basic thing about US society is that each and every single person is responsible for their own american dream. Constantly you hear of people arguing that they shouldn't pay for someone else mistake, someone else healthcare, someone else life, etc.. "I worked hard, why don't they work hard like I did"
The idea that sometimes the collective good is better than the single individual isn't something that is agreed at a large scale. That's why you cannot imagine the US having UBI. Even in the middle of the pandemic, where having more people being treated/taken care of would be better for the common good but also for you as an individual (less people that can infect other people!), you still have no strong movement for universal health care.
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The journey began when I realized how difficult it was to find a website offering good reads that is simple, curated and poses no barriers to access all content. So I made one.

Storypony launched at the end of January and is already hosting hundreds of stories and poems for everyone to enjoy.

Authors, ranging from beginners to award-winning pros, recognize the added value of being featured on Storypony and submit their works daily.

Each submission is reviewed and published only if it meets the minimum requirements. This way we eliminate unwanted content and give people what they came for - great stories and poetry to read.
Agree entirely. I would donate to Keys.pub and PeerTube to ratchet up the UX and make it transparent.

You shouldn’t need Youtube, Twitter, or some other centralized provider to attest to your identity; you should be able to, with centralized providers only announcing or caching that attestation (just as keybase provided for with proofs). Maybe there’s an easy way to tie this together with FIDO, U2F, etc. I need to do more research.

https://fidoalliance.org/how-fido-works/
Space mirrors beaming sunlight down to earth are far from a new idea.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9a3y8d/the-man-who-turned...
This is awesome! Great work, thanks for sharing.
Why not offer a bounty program for reporting "game vulnerabilities" that lead to hacks? Or report hacks in the wild? Or is this already done?
Most software engineering jobs aren't predominantly about things rather than people, so I doubt any of that research is relevant, regardless of its quality. You can't just uncritically lump software engineering in with "science", "engineering" and "mathematics" (themselves enormously diverse fields).

It's dangerous to do a "little bit" of research. What you'd actually need to do to get any information (if any really exists in this domain, which I doubt) is to become an expert and read through thousands of papers and books, including all the critiques of the ones you cite.
mesh network still cut wifi bandwidth over hops badly, after 2 or 3 hops you barely can do any streaming, though surfing is fine.

taking bus to provide wifi is expensive, an outdoor wifi node solution will be much cheaper, all you need is someone willing to share his wifi to those kids, but that might violate EULA from ISPs(that your wifi can not be shared, even if it's not for profit)
Legal academic Paul Campos's book Don't Go To Law School (Unless) agrees with the "too many people go into law" point: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/11/dont-go-to-law-school-unl.... But the number of people taking the LSAT has fallen by half since the Great Recession, at least last time I saw the data; it might have grown again since. But these days, most generically smart people who don't know what to do with their lives are probably better off doing a CS degree or coding boot camp than law school.
I agree with you in theory, but it’s a bit different. If he is making the workplace less comfortable for particular groups of people then I certainly would have no issue firing him.

You are free to hold any belief you want, but once you’re in my ear with some misinformed ideas that are potentially hurtful to a large group I am free to tell you to be quiet or leave. Of course, it’s your right not to listen to me... but if I’m your boss you can expect to be fired.
Awesome to see fasting going more and more into the mainstream.

My dad always fasts when he has any kind of sickness; he says the body then can focus only on beating the disease.

Fasting is hard and most Westerners never do it; the religions of the world proof the opposite: Fasting is natural and "Lindy" (passed the test of time).
> I once sat at a table with someone blatantly marking every card that passed through his hand,

I find this hard to believe. I've been to a lot of casinos and I've never seen a blackjack table where the players were allowed to touch the cards.
Hi! I'm one of the co-authors of ActivityPub, and I agree with you. I wrote a very out-of-date writeup about bridging ActivityPub and P2P networks some time ago: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot5-boston/blob/master/f...

I think you'll find it agrees with your assessments. DNS and SSL Certificate Authorities centralize an otherwise sensible decentralized system.

It's out of date because work has continued. Here's some hints as to how we can improve the situation:

- Decrease importance of server you're on by allowing easy account migration. One easy way to do this is to use mutable data to represent your activitypub profile in a content-addressed store... you can look at mutable links in IPFS as an example (the work that we're doing on Datashards is also relevant). (ActivityPub actually does support other URI types that are not https so this is no problem...) Don't like the server you're on? Update your actor profile to point its inbox URI at another place.

- Support hosting over more p2p, easily self-hostable, NAT-punching and secure systems where you know you have a secure connection because the name of the server is actually the fingerprint of the key. That's actually what tor .onion servers and I2P servers are. There's no reason you can't run ActivityPub over such servers, and some people do, but it isn't widely supported because...

- ... because of the way we've chosen to do names. The right answer isn't webfinger (which isn't in the ActivityPub spec but is what's popularly deployed), it's petnames: https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring...

- And now you need a way to handle anti-abuse in a system that doesn't assume that domain names and instances are all too important. OcapPub outlines some of that (sadly unfinished, but the core ideas are there) https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

- On top of all that, maybe add store and forward messaging to support nodes being offline. This can be done and we have plans but I need to write them in a more visible place.

So in short, as one of the main authors of the biggest fediverse specs out there, not only do I agree, work is happening.
Fascists and Anarcho-Capitalists have certain abstract philosophical differences, but in practice, their actual behaviors are almost identical. Most (Fascists|Anarcho-Capitalists) are young, white males who use the internet way too much and either don't vote, or vote Republican. Even among their intellectuals, there's a lot more overlap than you would assume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe.

The left-rights spectrum isn't supposed to capture the details of everyone's ideology: a spectrum that did that would be some kind of 20-dimensional hypercube. It's just supposed to capture who take who's side when it comes to that.
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There are lots of great image processing algorithms also outside of DL. Search for "Siggraph" on youtube. If only these algorithms were easily accessible as plugins in GIMP ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGGRAPH
Your comment is spot on, however I'd go further: cycle facilities in countries with a strong cycling tradition don't exist to move cyclists out of the way from motorists — it is the other way around: motorists are moved out of the way from cyclists and the points were both intersect are carefully chosen.

This makes things easier for both sides..
I suspect that you're right about the general audience, but I for one would be happy to pay more upfront for a game if it meant I didn't have to deal with all the current shenanigans. a AAA game has cost about $60 for as long as I can remember, despite the dollar falling significantly over the last decade or so. I would happily pay $100 for a high quality game. I've probably spent at least that on csgo skins over the years.
"Say It Forget It, Write It Regret It". He's the root cause of all of his his pain and the pr issue. All the leaker did was speed up an inevitable process.
Lots of areas are unable to get any sort of wired connection for any amount of money.
My first reaction to this was Sim City 2000's Microwave Power Plant (and the occasional miss of the microwave beam):

https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_(disaster)
I'd add a "4. Payment providers often follow the political and social trends of their host country, like Paypal/Visa/Mastercard/etc blocking payments to journalists or other groups when the US State or Justice Dept. doesn't like it."

Unfortunately the only way to get around this is with distributed systems of value exchange. And those have lots of friction.
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Hear hear. We need a new rural electrification act that pushes fiber to every nook and cranny of the country.
> Is it 'E-mail' or 'email'

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

> or 'Internet' or 'internet'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet
Be honest.

Are you saying: "This statement is false, so I must argue against it."

Or are you saying: "I cannot accept the implications of this statement, so I must argue against it."
Why would I "please show you" anything after you just proudly announced that you didn't bother reading what I just finished showing you?

If you wanted to make a stronger argument, you should at least pretend to have read what you're glibly dismissing out of hand, instead of preemptively admitting that you don't bother reading what anyone else says, and that there's no point in replying to you.

HN is not a forum for announcing you have not read things, then criticizing and dismissing them anyway. Don't you have better things to do than rationalizing and defending Frat Bro toxicity?

If you don't have time to go through all that, then you shouldn't waste your time replying to dismiss it all, either.
> I think it might be simple as that. Its not about ability. Its about environment.

Agree, but it's also about preferences. When a woman has to choose between medicine, arts, economics, law, education, IT and other fields, they tend to prefer IT less than men. It's just that there are so many other good options.

If you control by the amount of time invested and passion you would probably see little discrimination.
That's an opinion article.
This is a really bad take imo.

Frameworks exist to prevent you from having to do work that has already been done, to a much greater extent than libraries. Those interfaces between libraries are the part that waste the most time for little reward. For web development in particular, reinventing the wheel will waste a huge amount of time. Looking at them as limiting rather than accelerating is an idealist dev's mistake that ignores the realities of business.

While you're busy gluing those components together, your competitors who used a framework already made it to market. While you're reinventing authentication, they've got their first customers. After launch, while you're figuring out new ways to add features that come with the framework, they are able to focus on scaling and growing their customer base.

Sure, this works out differently if you're one of the big tech companies, with tons of bodies to throw at any problem. But if you're on a small to medium sized team, use a framework. There's a reason so many successful startups and mid-sized teams (and large teams) start and grow with Rails or Django compared to non-framework paradigms - and it's not that there are more people doing it. Node-based non-framework app attempts seem to be far more popular and far less successful on average.
This wasn't emacs vs vi.

Damore's goal was to materially affect who got hired and how they were treated. That's quite a lot of people, and at one of the world's most prominent companies. Nobody can reasonably expect that he should be able to play at that level and have it be consequence-free when it doesn't go his way.

Damore is welcome to have crackpot opinions. He's even welcome to express crackpot opinions on his own time. But what he was doing was vigorous workplace activism. Activism that not only contradicted the goals of Google execs and the bulk of its employees, but was carried out in a way that actively damaged ongoing Google efforts and caused a significant workplace disruption.

You could argue that Google's management made a mistake in allowing a young engineer this much power in the first place. Or by not reining him in earlier. But rolling their eyes was never an option here because Damore was having a significant negative effect on the company.
Isn't it a "card sharp?"
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Senior year of Mechanical Engineering undergrad, professors would legitimately get upset with students for taking jobs in finance and consulting. They wouldn't hold back, saying quite literally "this is a waste of your education."
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Agreed - and I would say this is part of a larger phenomenon of SWE hubris that expertism in software automatically translates to process expertise in every other domain under the sun.
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It might not be the choice that will change the world for the better, but it is most certainly a pragmatic one.

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in South Africa (where I’m from) these two fields account for roughly 30% of all of our dollar millionaires. I’m sure it’s the same/similar in the developed world.
I'm not saying they are, I'm just describing what makes this SPS design affordable. But unlike your link, the design is to concentrate sunlight to solar panels in orbit, then beam power to Earth via microwaves.
In my entire life I can't recall a single instance of buying something because an advertisement introduced me to something or convinced me to.
Unless I completely misunderstood, isn't that an horizontal add, ie. HADDPD[1]?

edit:

apparently GCC doesn't specifically optimize reductions [2] and does a generic vectorization instead.

[1] https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/haddpd

[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54400
If only they had the ability to make it easier to do so beyond mere urging. Alas
> I agree that a senior should know this, but at the same time I've never run into a problem at work that required me to start using web workers because what I was doing was so CPU intensive.

A few weeks ago I interviewed a front-end developer who said that in his current job he rolled into production some code that blocked the UI for nearly 1 minute, and that problem was only noticed in production because during testing they didn't used realistic data.

He then said that his approach to solve the problem was to rewrite everything from scratch using a faster framework.

Unloading the blocking tasks to web workers wasn't even in his universe of potential alternatives.

Suffice to say, he was not hired.

If you're applying for a front-end position and are oblivious to basic GUI principles, such as how not to block the UI, then you might not be lucky.
Who owns the Statue of Liberty (great video by CGP Grey): https://youtu.be/SgZ1f4ACZBQ
Why not try vimum or similar for Firefox?
What an impoverished sense of statehood the U.K. has
I don’t want to hurt your valid point — you’re dead on. But many state contracts, like Oregon’s, mandate unlimited data.
Thanks. I did say it was only "suggestive".

A series of similar events in similar circumstances can be explained by a series of different causes, but it seems worth looking at a similar cause, no? This is at the stage of initial hypothesis.

Gosh, maybe people thought I was saying it was the absolute truth.
From what I understand, wired infrastructure is really expensive to roll out, due to all the property rights that need to be negotiated.
Go after them for what? In America, you can't just sue people for "you told the truth" or "my own words made me look bad and its your fault".
What's naive is bending over backwards to pretend that men and women are identical, after millions of years of sexually dimorphic evolution.

It's absurd that this is even a debate in our society. Scientific? Everything we know about genetics, hormones, and psychology clearly points to gendered differences and if you objectively look at the data, at the very least you must concede that you cannot conflate inequality of outcomes with inequality of outcome opportunity without gratuitous handwaving.

Progressivism in the US takes as a given that men in the past were backwards and ignorant - but there are literally tens of thousands of years of social wisdom in history that are being thrown away because people can't handle the fact that in this world there are no guarantees of equal ability across groups. Anyone who is offended by such a notion is hopelessly naive - but I suppose you can hardly blame someone after spending a lifetime indoctrinated to pretend that gendered differences magically disappear above the shoulders.
The first thing Musk did after arriving to Canada as a 17 year-old was call up senior bankers until he secured an internship at one of their banks.

He then got into online payments (X.com, PayPal) and the sale of his shares allowed him to start SpaceX and buy Tesla.

So don't listen to what billionaires say and just look at what they do if you don't want to get deceived by them.
What is the 0.6% + 2%? Is that the currency conversion fee?
Any way you can get the US sales to be processed in USD and transferred to some kind of US bank account (Transferwise for example). That way you can re-use that to pay invoices in USD, or transfer it back in CAD at a better rate than what the processor is charging you.

I sometimes get paid in USD through paypal and that's how I reduce the amount I have to pay paypal for conversion fee.