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This seems a little silly - of course to develop future technologies we need to use existing technologies.

Imagine debating using an abacus to develop a computer - "ah but we must remain pure to the hopes, dreams and philosophies of what the computer aspires to be." Yeah, ok. I'll be over here funding wind turbine companies, you can debate the merits of the methodology and strategies of funding green tech with petroleum-based products yourself. Sounds a little boring to me.
Imagine being a kid today and school bullies finding your mother's old OnlyFans pictures.
with enough infrastructure, particularly batteries and interconnected smart grids, you could average out solar power generation across the globe and fuel the whole world on solar many times over.

10% of our energy needs come from 440 nuclear power plants worldwide. for comparison, the sun is a nuclear plant 1.3 million times the size of the earth. all life on earth basically runs on solar energy (or a derivative of it).
What is the difference between having multiple pdf reader windows vs multiple browser windows then? If you are on a mac: cmd+` is your friend.
Yes, and at the time Shopify was started Ruby was likely a very good choice. The parent comment is saying that today there are alternatives that run faster and provide similar levels of productivity.
That won't happen on a 64 bit machine. By the time we need that, the code will be so vastly different that trying to prepare for it now would be counterproductive.
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Boyle's gas law can be discovered without knowing anything about a kinetic theory of gases or quantum mechanics. You can discover "high level" laws (effective but incomplete approximations to reality) without knowing how to model the system components at the individual level. Inexact, sure, but with (limited) analytic and predictive power.

In Biology you don't know how all the cells of a population of wolves and rabbits works or his present state. But you can use predator-prey models to predict (at some level) population fluctuations.

If science awaited to have a complete description at the most fundamental level to make predictions, there will be no progress at all. By discovering "high level" laws you can get closer to "lower level" ones, as Boyle is an step to get to QM (what's the cart and what's the horse). Maybe all "laws" are emergent and our models only approximations, and there is no fundamental ones to be discovered, so gravity, etc, are much more complex and "systemic" we think.

But sure, there is lot of epistemological traps, pseudoscience, bullshit and honest dead ends in the process.
I was able to text those glyphs, it made me laugh way more than it should at my age. Thanks for sharing
Most of the food deliveries services are running using VC funds. I don't think there's much scope of profit here for a ~$5-$7/delivery charge having someone someone pickup and deliver a package along with other costs like building/maintaining the system, credit card charges etc,

Frankly, I feel something like peach which bundles multiple orders from a few restaurants is the way to go if you want to make money as a food delivery service.
Skepticism on this stuff is valid. If we're going to distribute large scale infrastructure that measures human movement we ought to be critical of it. So many systems purport to work but don't. Others are way over engineered. And a lot market as if they're sensors when they're really just cameras taking pictures of behavior.
That’s just asking for a chicken and egg problem.

You can’t get fully renewable energy production until you can use EV trucks to deliver the windmills, and you can’t get clean EVs until you have windmills to power them. Sure, we currently burn some diesel to setup these windmills, but the alternative is to burn coal. Don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

Also, who’s the ominous “they” above? Energy companies don’t setup power production out of spite; they setup energy production so we can have AC and TVs. We’re the consumers of all of that electricity, directly or indirectly.
May be strange at a first glance but binary/boolean logic/reasoning/quantification is just a special case of probability theory. This is covered exhaustively in Probability Theory: The Logic Science, by E.T Jaynes.

And so "tend" and "iron law" are interpreted as assertions of different levels of certainty, where "tend" implies a certainty greater than 50% and "iron law" a certainty closer to 100%.
Drawing "negative three" is immediately recognized as a penis, with an even higher probability if I assign that to "c".
Apple supplier TSMC is reportedly building an Arizona chip plant
It's a cost benefit calculation. Sure we can make everyone go 25mph, but how much does that slow down commerce? It's a tradeoff people aren't willing to make. They'd rather sacrifice a few lives than take three hours to get 75 miles.

But the self driving tech allows us to get much safer while still going at normal speeds. Or maybe allows us to be equally safe at higher speeds.

Either way it's a win.
People don't want to join companies that have recently had a layoff because they're generally interpreted as a sign that the company isn't doing well financially, outside of companies that advertise firing low performers as an aspect of their culture (Netflix). In an ordinary market, losing low performing business functions might make your company more efficient but it comes with outsized PR cost that makes it harder to hire.

A broader economic crisis offers good cover for such an action. If everyone is laying employees off, it's not as bad if you do it too.
> I bet if you did a study and ran the numbers, it would be cheaper to put down rail on existing roads and make them rail-car only, automate those and subsidize rail cars

Guess what, these people have run the numbers

> solve any real transport issues compared to traditional mass transit

I think that's thinking small. Why can't self-driving be applied to mass transit.

Let's take out all the cars and replace them with 15 passenger self-driving vans. And set up many stops that are dynamically routed by UberPool. You can get convenience of a car, the cost of a bus and far less pollution.
It's also falling that a historian would discredit an idea by referring to "phlogiston" which is only the go-to cliche for "haha ridiculous premodern scientific bad idea" just because the name sounds old-timey and obsolete.
Chicken penis??
The change I'd make here is around "locking down" the API design.

One of the biggest benefit of starting with the API is that both the backend and frontend devs can start playing with that contract, and discovering the nitty-gritty ways where it's less ideal than you'd hoped when you designed it pre-code.

So you get to pressure test it, and iterate on it, from both sides, instead of just from one of them.
Funny thing to notice: most men draw it the other way around, most women draw it the way you're drawing it. Different points of view eh
It's not a bullshit purity test at all. It highlights the extremely neglected costs in raw material and non-electrifiable infrastructure that is required to produce materials that are nominally 'green'. In some cases it's questionable if some green technologies actually are a net positive at all.

There is a strong 'abundance' bias implicit in articles by people like Ramez Naam, who push so strongly for green energy production because they don't want to consider the very obvious alternative, dematerialisation and reduction of energy consumption. People like Naam still categorically hang onto a growth narrative so they tend to neglect the downsides of the solutions they provide.
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Making some microtonal music tools!
>Taiwanese president is vehemently against letting fab tech out of the island

she is pan-green. CCP does not like pan-green anything at all. they especially doesn't like her and favor the pan-blue candidate during the president race. CCP even went as far as bribing Taiwanese in China to go back and vote for pan-blue candidate. this story just break recently.

Taiwan needs U.S. security guarantees. she will let TSMC out of island if it mean it doesn't piss off Uncle Sam and US have been applying a lot of pressures on TSMC for making chip for China.
Power markets are more complicated than most people realize. One thing to note is that solar power can be cheaper than gas, but still not be economic. The fact of the matter is that an intermittent kWh is not as valuable as an on-demand reliable kWh to a utility who's number 1 priority is reliability. Even as solar is acquired at lower and lower prices, if evening power is generated by expensive and inefficient gas turbines, the customer might not see costs go down (and emissions might not go down either!). Solar is clearly economic in many markets, but we'll never get grid emissions in a place like California down much more without storage.
Cost of living is also considerably lower than US. Your employment guarantees are also considerably higher.
Let's also not forget that graduates from European schools don't come out with 100k of student debt.

Then... If you really want to make a lot of money, there are options to do so in Europe as well. Though US should just open the floodgates for CS talent and force the rest of the world to catch up.
Or, since Janet is a bytecode interpreter with a download size of <2MB, there's CLISP which also fits that criteria, while providing the full power of Common Lisp and a nice FFI with C.
Why you are stuck at learning algorithms?
Popular tech pays the bills of many people.

Fringe tech is usually a secret weapon in consulting, or, more rarely (but still happening quite a bit), in a full-time job.

Apples to oranges.

Erlang existed for 30 years and has been used by its small-ish but also very vibrant community, with great success.

So you know, very popular or not, us the people who use it successfully commercially will keep doing so.

But as I have said in the past, if Rust (or OCaml, or any statically strongly typed language that compiles to native code) gains all the guarantees of the BEAM VM then I'll abandon Elixir the next day.
You can get the phallic Egyptian characters to render in windows if you sorround them with other Egyptian characters
Yes, if we can also agree that all lives matter.
Epidemiologist - My quarantine side project is my job.
You might find this a useful discussion and article from a couple of years back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717168
Watching porn is healthy and normal.

I'd say pornography has been normalized over time, but I'm not convinced it's inoffensive.

I won't polarize it and say it's bad. It is what it is, but I don't know if it can be categorized as healthy either.
There doesn't have to be a choice between a fast ISA, and even 64 bit registers, and using 32 bit pointers/indices. We can do theoretically do both - it's just extremely rare in practice.
Almost 50% of residential energy usage is HVAC and Hot Water heaters.

I see no reason we couldn't use excess solar during the daytime to heat our hot water heaters, or cool/heat the house.

Modern Construction and Water Heaters have great insulation, and its possible to use the `cheap` electricity during peak solar to store as heating/cooling.
Who would have guessed so many people on HN are against individual freedom? There is absolutely zero ethically or morally wrong with someone selling sex, or buying sex from someone else. Or maybe we should ban pop music stars from revealing too much skin in their music videos? Where do you draw the line between "This is immoral!" and "Wow, what a successful person!" Just ignore it if you don't like it. No one puts a gun to your head to pay someone for sex - so don't point your guns at them for doing so.
Numbers tell you what is happening, not why it is happening.

If you see interesting numbers, you need to figure out the why, before just trying to move the numbers.
So it can detect an airplane, train, sun, smiley face, popsicle, cannon, ocean, palm tree, laptop, pick-up truck, mushroom, octopus, zigzag...what else?
It reminds me a bit of Eliza[1] -- a 2020 version.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
It's definitely going to take a village of tools and methods. Don't think it will make it more dangerous, though.
I'm mostly just amazed by that... what is it, that ivory thing above/around his stove?

Is this a thing newly rich americans have in their kitchens?
How about moderators and the ability to ban? I understand it might not be economically sound.
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I am the author. Flash support in Chrome is going away soon (but even if it didn't) I am not going to be publishing any code with support for that crap baked in. However, it is understandable if you disagree.

Re: referrer option, as I explained, it's a nop. So no point in having extra code for that there either (I really should remove it).
I don't understand your comparison at all. Given that the primary problem that a wind turbine seeks to solve is environmental, the environmental costs in making the turbine have to be considered.

There's no relationship to computers here, it's not a question of philosophical purity, but of correct evaluation of the costs and benefits of a technology.
a natural gas plant doesn't really suffer from this "idle" problem you're describing with coal power plants. it's also much cleaner.
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Yes, history is a fruitful source of evidence to disprove modern conjectures, but a poor way to prove conjectures. The predictive value of history is in how it teaches us to stop trying to make predictions.
Yeah :) . They can't see those machines using electricity instead of diesels, they can't see steel making without atmospheric pollution, and same goes for cement.

I guess some people have hard times adjusting to some novelties. Their arguments don't stand, and they don't see that.
Firstly, I don't see many people in the tech community voluntarily calling themselves hacker. It maybe referenced in manner of a self-deprecating humor, but I've never heard someone in the industry address the other as such.

Secondly, Most of the people in the industry are NOT stoners, at least in my anecdotal evidence, this article suggest that they are.

Finally, FBI is struggling to find good 'hackers' because people with skill find other employment opportunity more enticing? Maybe places that didn't see them as hackers and sidekicks?
How about Loefflers as well.
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KKSB Raspberry Pi 4 Case looks super slick and keeps your Raspberry Pi cool
> I agree that speed and general "cars forever!" approach is not great, but there is always room for improvement ... e.g. could tech have saved that 1 person who died in Oslo? Why just stop at "the Oslo model"? Why not do that and autonomous tech? It would be worth it if it saved just a handful of lives a year.

The problem is twofold:

1. Cruise and co. may very well run out of money before they develop tech reliable enough to save people en masse. One proposal decades ago to solve the cars vs people problem was to physically grade separate them entirely, but as it turns out building multistory streets doesn't scale very well.

2. People and politicians, today, are using self driving cars as the magic bullet to avoid spending money on other solutions and changing bad habits. Why spend money on rail or buses if the second coming of Jesus for cars is around the corner? And to a degree, there is an opportunity cost to spending money on unproven X rather than proven Y.
I'd say they are pretty similar in most respects. But geography is a big difference that is relevant to Covid-19.

Autrstial probably didn't have community spread of covid until Late Feb. But America had community spread in at least mid Jan--and probably earlier. But Australia locked down essentially when America did. If they can eradicate the disease, that's a huge win, but if they can't they are just delaying what happened in America.
I think everyone is bad at hiring because hiring is hard. The problem is that companies are also bad at letting low performers go because we're human beings and public perception, conflict avoidance and empathy for co-workers influence our decisions
I hope this stack ranking tool dies a miserable death.
I'm probably just missing it, but where do you see that in the article? From my reading of it these new "malls" in the US are going to be in dense areas, separate from regular Ikea stores.
If there isn't sufficient work available, there isn't sufficient work.

For a highly-paid employee, you sometimes just can't create sufficient other work for them to do if you eliminate the work they were originally doing and other people are already doing the work they could putatively have been assigned to.

And quite honestly, a person's understanding of non-engineering functions would have to be extremely limited to think that more than a fraction of them could be automated away. Software has been the "it" industry for decades now. Jobs that haven't been automated by now are hard for software/robotics to take over.
Friendly reminder that full screen captures list all your open tabs. Not particular interesting in this case but can get a bit spicy: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-analyst-brit-hume...
Yep. That's the compromise. If you want full encryption don't use iCloud backups (instead using wifi backups).
I don't wanna answer for Shopify because I don't work there, but:
1) Shopify LIKES Ruby. The founders love it. You don't drop this after 15 years to gain 20% more speed.
2) Rewrites are hard. We're talking about millions(?) of lines of code
3) Their teams will have to adapt to a new language
4) Maybe 10 years from now a faster language appears - do they do a rewrite yet again?
5) Optimising things is a part of what we do as developers and even love to do. Is it unheard of to try to optimise your code in java?
6) > there’s plenty of languages out there that developers can be just as efficient in.
That was always the case. Rails devs still believe (for the most part) their framework is productive and fast enough.
Yes,

But this broad "yielding a kind of wanting-to-sound-objective argumentation to harm them" is where the devil is.

I can consider the downvotes "hate speech" because they were targeted at me as a "protected minority," and it does not consider my emotions.
I felt very depressed about it, and HN did not make accommodations to make me feel safe expressing it without any prejudice.

And I demand it to be removed.

How about when people use master and slave names on Tech? -> http://antirez.com/news/122
I feel sick because of my past as a slave descendent.

We can find offense and hate in anything if we care to look deep enough.

It is more about "WHO" will be censored than about the message. Will it be used to repress science? News? What if News become "hate speech"? Or science?
> It isn't because the Tokyo Tower is more important than the Eiffel Tower

That's debatable.
Come on over to The Car Lounge please!! We’re an eclectic group of enthusiasts, don’t take anything too seriously, and would love to see something like this.

https://forums.vwvortex.com/forumdisplay.php?1#/forums/1?pag...
What 8M users across 95 countries looks like
A lot of game sounds were found by placing writes to the speaker in various game event loops.

The result was lean sounds, but they also made a lot of sense.
Waymo/Cruise and Uber aren't even in the same class and as I said, Waymo/Cruise cars go thousands of miles without driver intervention.

Waymo cars go 11,000+ miles without driver intervention on average.

I would encourage doing actual research into this subject, rather than relying on your gut or the news articles you read.
> If Wikipedia were started today, it’d be React. Maybe?

Interestingly, MediaWiki actually discussed using React for future web projects recently, but opted to use Vue.js instead:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241180
iCloud data is "encrypted" but Apple has the keys and can decrypt it. Apple has been wishy-washy and has actually backed away from announced plans to implement E2E encryption for iCloud with the DOJ whining about wanting backdoors every couple of years.

Burr's previous support of encryption bans is ironic here; maybe now he wishes he hadn't made it politically impossible for Apple to protect his own data: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/senates-draft-encryption-bill-...
I'm working on a browser-based MMO based on Game Neverending [0] (the game that eventually morphed into Flickr):

[0] https://www.giantbomb.com/game-neverending/3030-48604/
Underground stations is the majority of the cost. The tunnel boring machine is relatively cheap compared to securing enough property to build stations, and it could be said that New York's recent subways have massively overengineered their stations.

That being said, elevated railways have always been a very hard sell in dense areas, and ground level has its own host of problems.
Amusing to think about how used to terrible Adobe 0day people are. Zoom has some stumbles and the tech giants seize in the opportunity to promote their solutions. Adobe? More 0day? Just another day at the office.
yes, apple had plans to encrypt it all (edit: without having access), but the FBI objected: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/01/21/appl...
> (e = picture, moji = letter, that's where the word came from. A "false friend" with emoticon, interestingly.)

I'll observe tangentially that the Chinese term is 表情, "emotion indicator".
The slash helps. I'm pretty sure Duke Nukem, Doom, and similar all showed that banner during startup.
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> the environmental costs in making the turbine have to be considered.

Of course it is considered, and few short decades ago that was a valid counterargument. Not anymore - and not later, given the pace of development in efficiencies and breadth of applications.
There is also a map of Japan emoji, but no other country has one
True.

I'd bet there's also a bit of geopolitical planning going on here as well. It will be far easier to cut african nations off from the internet if we control their access points.

As with every gift from the West, the africans probably want to be a little careful about this one. Maybe make sure they maintain a few different links that are, if not controlled by the africans themselves, at least can be controlled by Brazilians, or Russians, or Chinese.
Would you agree that that your observations somewhat imply that a competitive free market is not a fit for all governable domains (and don't mistake governable for government there, we're still talking about shepherding of innovation)?
This isn't quite a fair comparison; many of those roads are running through areas with low land values. Comparing ground-level rail through cornfields in Oklahoma is apples and oranges to a busy, high-capacity subway underneath Manhattan.
> …much slower than Perl

To do some things but not others?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Let's take an example in your favor and say you've got 16 integer local variables per stack frame and you're recursing 1000 (!!!) times over some really unbalanced tree or such. You saved 64 kilobytes...

Ok, now let's say 32 bit integers are the standard: You either wrote a program that starts to fail in mysterious ways when someone runs it on a 2 GB file, or you complicated the hell out of your data structures by needing arrays of arrays (i.e. https://www.nayuki.io/page/large-arrays-proposal-for-java).

It should be easier to make correct programs.
Well we should ask this for every energy technology and fortunately people have done this. The term for this is energy return on investment (EROI) where solar has between 8.7 and 34 and wind between 10 and 20 (although other literature says 20 to 50). A value 1 means you get as much energy as you invested. So for solar that means you get your energy used for production back in 1 to 4 years.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment