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Building managed applications is where the money is at for AWS for sure, Elasticache is another good example. The beauty is their managed services are great and worry free.

Shameless plug - partly because of the high cost of sftp in AWS, and lack of ftp (understandable), and a bunch of people wanting the same in Azure / GCS, that made us start https://docevent.io which has proved quite popular.
The surprising habits of original thinkers – Adam Grant
> The business of rendering static text to a browser is kind of a solved problem. It's everything else that's kind of hard to deal with via a DOM api. WASM is breaking this discussion wide open as suddenly people are porting decades worth of native code to run in a browser.

If it is so hard to layer a coherent and not laughably overcomplicated runtime on top of a document viewer in 20 years, then it follows that it probably wasn't such a good idea to begin with. Unless you're hellbent to freeride on the web's success, and ruining it in the process. At which point we're trying to solve an economic problem (someone else's) via a technical solution.

To get a sense how far of the mark browsers still are, you only have to look into the problem of rich text editing on browsers, which is a natural step up from pure text browsing, and something the first browser did already. Today, this is only barely possible thanks to a couple rich text editor projects who made heroic efforts to work out browser quirks (with contenteditable such that the browser's spellchecking can be leveraged, or alternatively using Canvas/WebGl, essentially developing a browser-in-browser).

In a situation where browser vendors struggle to keep up, adding additional tech such as WASM is the last thing you want to do. When and if WASM gets even basic language infrastructure such as gc, DOM or WebGl bindings, or anything even mildly interesting, then it'll immediately become another maintenance problem. And as you said yourself, at best WASM can help port apps over to a browser. It's however not clear what the purpose of that exercise should be when said apps run just fine outside the browser. I'd say if there were indeed so many apps waiting to be ported over to running in the browser, then there have been sufficiently sophisticated transpilers for like 15 years now (emscripten, gwt, many others), so I'm not buying that as an argument to make browsers even more complex.
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Even more promising was the nuclear lightbulb reactor [1], which was developed by United Aircraft Corporation (now UTC) for NASA under the Mars program in the 70s. They got just short of testing the engine with nuclear fuel and all of the remaining obstacles were with material science and computation which would have been very solvable given the tech developed independently in the 90s. The design could also have changed the trajectory of the entire nuclear power industry because it uses compressed uranium hexafluoride plasma to reach criticality so it has the benefit of using tens of kilograms of fuel instead of tens of thousands and it's an actively maintained magnetohydrodynamic system so if anything breaks or power is lost, the reactor slows down and fission stops. Large centrifuges are needed to recycle fuel from the buffer gas (when it's used as a terrestrial power plant instead of a rocket engine) so this reactor can also be self-breeding and recycle nuclear waste.

Many of the papers generated by UTC on this project were readily available a decade ago, though it seems many were reclassified since then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb
This.

The biggest failure of education today is that its oriented towards an outcome (tests / uni) that is dubious at best, detrimental at worst

OP is correct to identify dev cost as holding the key to software-based education. Here is why:

Education today is the remnant of the industrial assembly line model. That worked out great...for fridges and cars.

Children are not fridges. Children are not cars.

This education where 1-size-fits all produces the worst outcomes. It holds back brilliant students and leaves the challenging cases behind.

Software will solve all that due to (eventual) low cost customization.

In order for this to work, many planets have to align. In particular, some idealists have to let go of the model where all students should learn x topic. The entire curricula must be on the table

In other words, society must come to accept that
1) learning will not be uniform ie some students will get more out of school than others and
2) students will pass on topics we take for granted. Biology , civics, algebra etc....all gone, provided that students can explore AND dive deep into an alternative topics they care about, whether that is mechanics, geology, philosophy etc.

In short. Kids today are going to school memorizing some info, yet learning nothing. Thet should instead be able come out masters of topics they are interested in, if indeed that's all they care about.

This would be prohibitively expensive to do with teachers as it would require a 1:1 ratio.

Software can guide that journey.
try with transmission, a number of less capable bittorrent clients don't like single-file 290GB torrents.
Not sure about that last part, but I will say that I do think sincere efforts to empower small businesses by offering them truly better software with fairly priced SLAs is the right way to go here. If that's what you're doing, I hope you go far. I may have to take a closer look later.
> would you target a vanilla latte?

My first line started with "I'm hugely in favor of sugar consumption taxes". I don't understand which part of that was unclear, but I'll attempt to clarify.

> What if you get latte without sugar?

True fact: milk has sugar in it.

I favor a model that taxes proportionally by total mg/ml, not just "added". This is what the American Heart Association advocates for too, though even they dance around the fruit juice problem.
The idea is to write notes in my own words (https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook...) on roamresearch.com, instead of just highlighting the book/article like I do now.

But I have to say I feel like that is only worth doing if you're reseraching a topic that is important to you. Little value to take notes on the articles we read day to day here in HN and Reddit IMO.
Tox is nice, until you look under the hood. And then you'll see how many compromises were made. It used to be amazing!

When I left? The words, "salvageable" and "monument to mediocrity" come to mind. Do not trust it.

But do we need another fork? Folks tried, but rallying the troops has failed.

Matrix? Is REALLY early-beta for most of the functionality you need. If youre comfortable with one-on-one convos over the phone, via phone number? Signal.

Telegram is going E2E encrypted. Might be worth reconsidering.

If you were a linux-only group, with vidchat in beta? Vuvuzela would be legit af.
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what you immediately get is politically motivated agents mining these documents in bad faith to find choice quotes to support their narrative.

here's the rest of the document https://hunter.ddosecrets.com/entities/23477253.fa0f024f4d34... it also has quotes like “According to an FBI source, a chapter of a black racially motivated violent extremist group from Houston, Texas planned to arrive in Minneapolis, MN on 06/05/2020. The identified person who led the chapter does not personally use violence; however, he does incite others to violence.” or “A social media post indicated that Mauricelm-Lei Millere, founder of the African American Defense League, made a social media post announcing a $25,000 bounty for the death of the four Minneapolis officers. Mauricelm-Lei Millere posted multiple threats against law enforcement. Mauricelm-Lei Millere’s location is Washington, D.C.; however, it is unknown if he is currently the Twin Cities metro area.”

but more importantly what is this document supposed to be? it's intelligence gathering giving necessary background on Minnesota riots situation. it's unlikely that the document is in any way exhaustive in scale or that it points at primary movers behind various incidents. given the scale of riots, it's slim, and only gives visibility into what leos already have visibility into, i.e. social media accounts and OMGs, which have been fbi monitored and infiltrated since at least the 70s. in other words it says "the usual suspects are also at it", but "NatSecGeek" is trying to frame it like "the usual suspects are behind it".
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323998588_Wi-Fi_is_....
>
> Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health

Pall's methodology and understanding of EM has been critized broadly and repeatedly. Here's an "official" rebuttal to the paper you cite: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328436881_Response_...

The rest of the papers you cite are by the same highly controversial biochemist.

At any rate, the discussion at hand is whether "EMF sensitivity" is a real condition. It patently is not. Anyone with such a condition would easily be able to collect the large monetary rewards that have been made available, and simultaneously immediately lift the social stigma they must feel. The fact that they do not speaks volumes.
I never shied away from interviewing a person without a degree, and honestly tried to never count that as a mark against a person since making it in the professional world without a degree is a challenge that I think shows a certain character. A lot of doors are just closed by default and that can be tough on a person's sense of self-worth.

That said, I think the degree holders were better candidates usually, but I strongly suspect it wasn't because of the education. Colleges attract people who are good at carefully following complex instructions, have a healthy respect for authority, and can delay gratification in the extreme. They are also experts at navigating a system from within. The degree acts to filter out people who are too independent to fit well within a hierarchy.

I don't think I ever noticed much difference between different kinds of degree holders aside from a broad separation between analytical degrees and humanities degrees, which again might have had more to do with the initial filter than anything taught in the classes.
> but the physicist can learn to build and the engineer can learn theory.

So is this why frameworks exist? To abstract away the theory that proves something more "performant" or "sufficient", and allow the builder to do their thing?
A trick I recently learned is to add iTerm 2 to the “Developer Tools” section of the Security prefpane - it makes it fly. Similarly if you’ve ported your config through several versions of iTerm, ensure that GPU-accelerated rendering is on.

It’s no stretch to say that iTerm 2 is a major one of the reasons I cannot stand desktop Linux (or Windows, even with the new terminal there).
elindbe2 nicely summarizes Bret Weinstein's paper and the Joe Rogan clip.

Eric Weinstein's 2hr+ Portal Podcast #19 on YouTube is frustrating but I'd summarize the "new" info from memory as:

- math oriented older brother Eric thinks biology oriented younger brother Bret is Nobel Prize worthy

- yet Bret and his mouse telomere paper live in obscurity

- reason 1: Bret chose Evergreen rather than a top tier University

- reason 2: the science establishment is biased against disruptive ideas and scientists

- Carol Greider’s 2009 Nobel Prize was based on work inspired by informal phone calls and emails from Bret

- Bret claims that Greider failed to recognize his contribution and then actively undermined his paper(s) through the peer review process

I wish we had TL;DR + Start/Stop Links into the original video. Long form audio/video podcasts are both a boon and a curse since the content cannot easily be searched or linked to.
I'm slightly annoyed that nohello.com alone doesn't work; you need the www.
This is sadly typical, and while I understand they don't want the support burden of hobbyists I would have thought the OrangePI would ship in interesting enough numbers for there to be some kind of support.

It looks like the OrangePi 4B includes ones of these chips on board?
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You still have to get the materials for your experiments up there.

In the case of nuclear-powered engines, that isn't trivial (unless you mine them off world).
Are you just comparing the delivery fees and other app added fees? Or are you comparing the menu prices as well? Your intention seems to be to save the user money and also help the restaurant, but if you are actually just showing the lowest price, isn't that actually the opposite of helping the restaurant?
The problem with SO is that it tries to be two things. One is a reference/encyclopedia of questions, and answers. And the other is a welcoming place to ask for help. Those two don't seem to line up 100%.

It's clear the old school moderators seem to think of SO as a reference, but the company itself wants to view it as a place to seek help.
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Forbidding is conflicting with principles of liberty. Besides, there are things that are addictive but are fine (even good, useful) in moderation (I don't think cigarettes are one, but sugar should be).

I would be surprised if taxing had this effect (see research cited by others claiming otherwise), I think in particular low income people respond a lot to price incentives[0]. They are the most at risk from obesity. Moreover, you can redirect those taxes without much controversy into other efforts, like educational material, or just public healthcare (which is a "victim" of obesity epidemics).

[0] I highly recommend the book from recent Nobel Prize winners, 'Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty', there are several experiments showing how extremely poor people respond to incentives (much more rationally than it appears), though I'm not sure how this generalizes to low-income americans.
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> If you need multi-core speeds, you'd be silly to not go AMD Epyc (~50% cheaper), or ARM.

But Amdhal's Law shows us this doesn't make sense for most people.
A 32 core EPYC with 256gb will cost you $176/mo at Hetzner, and $2,009/mo on EC2.

Obviously it's on demand pricing and the hardware isn't quite the same, with Hetzner using individual servers with 1P chips. Amazon also has 10gbps networking.

But still, zero margin? Let's call it a factor of two to bridge the monthly and on demand gap - does it really cost Amazon five times as much to bring you each core of Zen 2 even with all their scale?

I don't think Amazon overcharges for what they provide, but I bet their gross margins even on the vanilla offerings are pretty good, as are those of Google Cloud and Azure.
But why?

Even if you don't use kubernetes or docker images, you do wanna have it in code right?

Having something like ansible would do the same thing but allows you to have your config backuped by git and allows you to recreate the env without any issues.

How do you keep your mean time to recovery low? How do you document your setup? How do you automated tests if you change your config manual?
A good question! Just like the CD is just a vehicle for music delivery, the university format is a dated system for delivering advanced education.
I take a benzos for anxiety and havent had issues and it dependance personally.

If you aren't using it to get high (so as intended for panic attacks / aborting lsd trips) and using it very infrequently (e.g. Only for lsd trips) you'll have no problems at all.

The issues are usually when you take it daily, especially if you take enough for the recreational effects. (Although daily isn't necessarily bad if you are being very careful with a doctor).

Tl;Dr - yeah benzos have issues with tolerance/depedancy but if you are only using what you need therapeutically, especially since lsd requires you to space out trips, then you're unlikely to have issues.
I already tried it and it works good. However, it still needs more users to play with
I rarely get asked to sign NDAs for doing dev work anymore, but it happens occasionally. I'll often find they're less an NDA and more a non-compete that's been sent as an 'NDA'. They're usually vastly broad "you won't work on anything like whatever project we're working on for 2 years" - or similar, which is ridiculous because a lot of my work is much the same or for companies who are (broadly) competing.
How implementation of Agile at Unilever is keeping it at the forefront
we post anon because you people dox and deplatform anyone you disagree with. it's common knowledge by now.
Which is why, space mining will likely never benefit Earth. Any material 'up there' is so much more valuable in space than dropping it down to Earth to make Coke cans or whatever.
Could briefly comment what you think I meant with big name?
You have the upvotes and the downvotes.
Yea but I need all 4 pairs for gigabit and the other upside for CAN is that it actually works in a ring topology. I'd probably run a cheap cat3 cable.
The parent poster is not claiming that "the UK PM is a Russian agent", please assume good faith. If the report contains something that makes Johnson or someone in his government look bad, holding it back makes him corrupt, not a Russian agent.
It's kind of crazy for something claiming to be a "community" to crack down on basic human niceties and politeness. If you say "thank you", your comment will be deleted.

At least on a standard forum, you can say "hello" and "thank you".
If you need someone online to justify for you learning new things in your field you have probably already lost. This field is unrelenting, it requires constant learning. I'm nearing 40 and it hasn't stopped. The one advantage is the more you learn the more skills transfer from one thing to the next.

So the most compelling reason I have is because learning new things should be something that you find exciting. What makes Lisp unique is that it is a lot different than other languages out there. If you know one imperative language, learning another may expand your horizons but not in the same way something from a different paradigm would.

If you already know a functional language or two, then it might not be worthwhile. That is very much up to you. But even though I have never used Lisp I enjoyed learning it immensely. Although I'd say I enjoyed Haskell more.

I will say back in the day I watched these lectures and found them incredibly satisfying and thought provoking.
It works good! I already receive some profits from it. Good job
Eating data is hardly a fix for anything, even if you do it intentionally.
Oh no, won't someone think of the statues?
Lovely fonts in this article, BTW. Very pleasant to read.

And the content is pretty good too!
> Most H1B immigrants

There are no H-1B immigrants.

There may be H-1B holders who plan to become immigrants, but H-1B is a nonimmigrant work visa.

> Now all these immigrants have learned your language, passed job interviews, and are competing to come to your country to give you 1$M and help your economy.

No, they are competing to come and reduce the market clearing cost of labor and increase the returns to capital in our economy. Which is good for you if you are (1) one of the incoming laborers, or (2) a person whose main interaction with the US economy is via capital investment, not labor income.

> To those who say we must invest in local workforce, I wonder why would you have to stop immigration to start investing in local workforce?

You don't have to stop immigration.

You do, on the other hand, need to stop importing labor in a manner specifically and selectively designed to avoid upward pressure on wages (and thereby, stop the incentive to develop domestic supply) for high-skill, high-demand positions and to terminate temporary residency when it no longer serves that purpose.

Or, you need to better capture the returns produced by those means and direct them to domestic workforce development.

I'm one of the most pro-immigrant and pro-immigration and anti-Trump, people you’ll find, and I would shed not a single tear if Trump managed to permanently kill, rather than merely temporarily suspend, the H-1B program.
It is not "whataboutism", it is basic fairness. If we know (or can reasonably assume) that both A, B and C is unhealthy in similar level, then taxing A selectively is fundamentally unfair, regardless of whether it works or not.
I think they are also developing a version for iOS, waiting for it.
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Societies tend to see the most progress when a greater number of people gather together. While we may find a way to accomplish that through online instruction, our current attempts to do so have been spotty at best.

One of the reasons brought up for online education is likely one of the things that hinders it: the idea of being able to study where ever and whenever you want. As liberating as that may sound, it keeps people apart in both space and time. Granted, social factors probably play a greater role. For some reason, people don't seem to form the same types of connections with each other in the digital world.
Do we know that there is actually less concern?

I think two "issues" are the relatively better protection against surveillance US citizens have (I wouldn't think it's an issue at all, hence the quotes) and the fact that they tend to be lone wolves more than Islamic terrorism, which often works through networks.

So it's not that easy to spot people like McVeigh, Kaczynski, or outside the US Breivik, before they act.
> As a college student myself, this year, this semester is the worst for me -- I felt really lazy without any faith to keep me going, that with face-to-face activity I feel like I'm motivated to engage.

The in-person energy of a University environment isn’t given enough credit in these discussions about the relevance of Universities in modern times.

Physically going into a building dedicated to education and sitting among peers who are also there to learn is a strong motivator for learning. The social cues of seeing your peers pay attention helps align everyone toward learning. Being among your peers is a good reminder that taking the education seriously is important for remaining competitive in the workforce after graduation.

Contrast that with online courses, where students utilize the same device they use for gaming, social media, and browsing the internet to also view remote lectures. No one will notice if you’re chatting with your friends during the course, or browsing Reddit the whole time, or if you have the TV on in the background. Sure, some people are good at sitting down, focusing, and paying attention, but many others struggle without the context shifts, social cues, and social pressure of a traditional learning environment.

HN has been having heated conversations about how self-teaching and free online courses are going to replace expensive universities for as long as I can remember. Yet in all of my experience interviewing candidates with an extra emphasis on giving self-taught and non-traditional applicants extra attention, I’ve never seen any self-taught candidates who come close to their University educated peers. I’m sure there are great self-taught people out there, but on average it appears that a real, in-person University education really does something extra to prepare people.

I think there are a lot of intangible or hard to pinpoint aspects of a University education that won’t be replaced any time soon by pure online courses.
I found it unreasonable that ipad keyboard is only $300. simultaneously, Windows is very bad OS: bitlocker, updates, userland, no solution for game anti cheats so every game has to run a special program to create anti cheat program, visual studio is terrible.

yet, in the long run I think the OS itself is beast!