skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've previously heard Elon answer this question. The biggest blocker with reducing Carbon emissions was the whataboutism of consumer car use (i.e. decentralized carbon emissions). Migrating all consumer cars to electric gets rid of that whataboutism. Now we can focus on the real Carbon emitters:

1. There are few car manufacturers, there are many car users. Its easy to scrutinize and regulate car manufacturers through Carbon credits, or some future system so they offset /eliminate the Carbon emission. Similar efforts, like a Carbon tax on gasoline, were shot down previously (in general; there were some passed) for "penalizing consumers" (i.e. no longer an insurmountable issue because mass migration to electric cars are now seen as inevitable).

2. Electricity production is relatively consolidated (solar's decentralization is already a move toward "green energy" so I'll skip its impact). Given the consolidation of energy production, its again easy to use regulation or consumer bargaining power to sift production to "green energy".

In conclusion, while there is valid debate about "Are car factories and electricity production really carbon beneficial compared with ICE cars?", there is no debate that "having solved the decentralized carbon emissions problem (i.e. previously a technology limitation), the next step to improve centralized, large scale factories and electricity production is simple (i.e. an ROI calculation for those companies - e.g. given a factory is already in Texas and active during daylight hours, is it cheaper to produce cars using solar?)".
Unless one spouse makes ~100k and another spouse makes very little. Then you'll get two checks.
> You should set an example for your kids that it is okay to pursue your happiness as long as you are meeting your responsibilities.

I think this is a really great point by itself, that I don't often see articulated so clearly.
You can tell the author is not a ham when he says hams "broadcast" their radio message. They don't broadcast (per FCC rule), they make transmissions.

I can see where the author is going here, but the analogy seems a little weird. It also ignores that there is an overlap in the bitcoin and ham world, namely the "prepper" types that assume someday the entire world will implode on itself. These tend to be a vocal minority though (at least in the ham world, I can't speak to bitcoin as much).

The comparison seems flawed though because ham radio has never been about money (except maybe saving on long distance charges in the 70's/80's), and when money is involved (in whatever form) it certainly has an outsized influence on behavior (good or bad). As such I'm not sure you can draw and realistic comparisons between bitcoin and ham radio without stretching the analogy.
As problematic as any voluntaryist-ish programme may be, I am even more dissatisfied with all of the alternatives.

To the people who keep calling for a stronger state to protect them from the evils of capitalism I say: You are being duped! Your chosen path to salvation is in truth the instrument by which you are enslaved!

I am much more optimistic that practical solutions may be found to deal with the problems of non-statist societal solutions than with any statist ones.

I'm convinced that as long as we have not achieved a state of post-scarcity - which may be never - any attempt to abolish property rights is doomed to bloody failure.

Lastly, any societal order that demands even the slightest obligation of active cooperation from any individual - be it at the behest of another individual, an oligarchy, or even a majority - must in time devolve into tyranny.

The only path to a solution that I can currently see would have to work along Georgist lines. When money can be raised from common inalienable property, that would enable redistribution without theft. The capitalist tragedy of negative externalities could be solved with a scheme of compensation for damages to a common property. (&c.p.p.) Such a kind of setup might be able to avoid all of the worst pitfalls, I believe.
The opportunity to be first to market to establish custom hardware fabs and house H1-b talent in new headquarters blocked by current political leadership from immigrating here from India and opportunity to wrestle away control from Shenzhen and China and establish and control their own supply chain.
It is, though. Luck (genetics) determines your baseline and roof. No amount og grooming and training will change your potential.
Also the same issue on Chrome for me. I'm on 83.0.4103.116
Solar flare?
> Sorry, but technical knowledge/experience is not about particular spelling conventions and word proofing

Yes, actually, it is. Sloppy language indicates a sloppy mind. I absolutely crank down my estimate of someone's technical competence when I see him writing badly and will continue to do so. Once in a while, you do see bad writing coupled with good technical insight --- especially in infosec for some reason --- but it's the exception, not the rule.
I will be helpful for German candidates, since most of the words used come from German
> Thanks for all your great responses, by the way. I really appreciate it!

Any time. :D

A couple more brief comments:

> rust-analyzer seems to me to be a LSP

Remember that LSP is a protocol, something/someone has to actually figure out the answers. Like, the LSP says "please draw the squiggles here", but something has to actually say "line 1, column 10, please". Doing that involves semantic analysis, which is what a compiler does.

> And I thought that codegen and linking was the slow part in Rust

It is the slowest part of the current architecture, but that doesn't mean that the current architecture is the best possible one.

The RLS invoked the compiler, and then examined its output to say "line 1, column 10, please". And you said you saw the improvement with the architectural switch to rust-analyzer. Same thing.

> "fast compile times" really need to be part of the DNA of a language.

You are correct that, when push comes to shove, if there's a tension between, say, runtime speed and compile-time speed, Rust will choose runtime speed. Rust will not have compile speed as high up on the list of concerns as Go does. But it is important enough that we don't let major regressions happen, and actively pursue improvements where possible. https://perf.rust-lang.org/ for example, tracks this data over time for this kind of reason.

> why do a lot of his changes seem more like incremental wins than the big sweeping changes I'd expect to be necessary?

Well, again, it's not always either or. He's doing the incremental thing, and others are doing the big sweeping changes thing. His improvements land nearly every release, but the bigger projects take a lot longer. They work in tandem to make things better than they were before.
> Tail call removal. A recursive function that ends in a call to itself can often be rewritten as a loop, reducing call overhead and reducing the chance of stack overflow.

Most important: this optimization enables pipelined execution.

When people talk about a CPU executing an integer add instruction in ~1 cycle, what they actually mean is that the add has this latency when the CPU pipelines are full.

If you have an 11 stage pipeline... the add can often have a latency of ~11 cycles... if you write the _right_ code for it.
not getting paid often leads to not having much money
It has already happened and will get worse. The corporations backed by the Federal Reserve system have enslaved us and they're controlling what we can buy through targeted advertising, Cantillon effects of money printing and anti-competitive price gouging.

They're giving free money to certain people based on arbitrary criteria related to how well connected they are to certain horrible people.

If your worst enemy could print as much money as they wanted and you couldn't, would you gladly accept that money as payment for your work? I'll only accept it to the extent that I have to, everything else stays in crypto. I have no illusions, this is slavery.

Slavery is a state of existence whereby you are forced to work for your enemy, to disproportionately enrich your enemy, in exchange for your own bare survival. This is exactly my predicament and that of many other people.

I don't agree with the values of these so-called leaders, CEOs, politicians and bankers who control the world. They are the enemy. Do I really have freedom when the only viable jobs exist only serve to enrich my master at the expense of all value creators?

The Federal Reserve system is a giant elaborate scam.
Aside from very large containers of cheaper of "mid tier" quality alcohols and samplers, I've never seen a plastic bottle.

For scotch, I've never seen anything but glass and don't believe I'd buy anything but glass.

Is there an advantage to paper recycling over glass? I know I've went through the whole "recycle your own paper" project when I was a kid but nothing to the level an industrial plant would likely do. I'm assuming energy requirements may be the same? Paper seems like it might be more difficult in some cases. Way out of my area of expertise.
BTW the iPod was using Samsung ARM SoCs before the iPhone, so they had even more experience.
Your line of questioning goes against the intent of the critique. Which is: while perhaps (but not always) good for the institution and the societal whole, the gains from specialization are at the cost of individual wholeness.

Questioning how shifting the focus from society to the individual would harm the larger whole seems to skirt around the discussion.

Was the unidimensional valor given for Stagg’s meteorological accomplishments a worthy reward for a lifetime of hyper-specialization?

And to the, in my opinion more important, flipside: how does the psyche heal when, perhaps for reasons entirely outside of an individuals’ control, the specialized-man fails the one task they spent a lifetime training for. What happens when you define a man by one function and in the critical moment they fail?
As a bitcoin believer, what do you think about Tether, and the reports that the run-up of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in 2017 was essentially due to price manipulation via the injection of billions of dollars worth of faked value into the system?
What’s the advantage of bitcoin against holding a diversified bundle of global equities or foreign currency in the event of a localised financial collapse?
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True. IIRC Erlang only supports GCC as the build system. I helped fixing a race in the BEAM a while back that only occurred on the latest GCC.
Oh, nice, thanks! Its in a private repo right now, but I can probably make it public since there isnt anything I need to protect in there.

I'm guessing most users going into tech would likely make at least $150k/yr, so they would be eligible to make the max contribution for the year. Good point about the 100k default base salary though. I didnt realize it was min(18% prev yrs salary, $27230.00), thats good to know, thanks!
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> As we see though, if you need to "trigger" the unit you may have problems. In this case AVX triggers a cooldown. Running the AVX instructions right now is just as if you triggered an alternate mode.

Not all AVX instructions trigger a cooldown to build voltage, only 512-bit ones or 256-bit multiplies. So the penalty in these cases is in fact zero unless you are doing a lot of them and triggering cumulative power cooldowns (in which case you are seeing a large benefit in throughput, although potentially you should consider offloading them at that point, yes).

Also, AMD doesn't have cumulative power cooldowns or clockdowns at all, that is an Intel implementation detail, not a fault of the instruction set.

> The examples you give citing NVIDIA seem to be more inline with what I'm suggesting. The shared memory fabric allows fast offload the the extremely specialized processing units.

No, actually, despite some confusing block diagrams, RTX and tensor cores are actually part of the SM engine, not "standalone units" in a different part of the chip. They live right next to the shaders.

There is no "fabric" there, it is execution units working on registers just like any other instruction.
Some SIMD optimization cases can occasionally exceed scalar versions by more than lane width multiply. Often because of branch elision, but also less dependency chains stalls due to the larger register file. There are also some special instructions that can be very useful in SIMD case (packing, unpacking, permutation, etc.).
Contracts and price tags of things you buy are also is nominal dollars. When they change daily, it becomes extremely frustrating for consumer or producers to manage the overheads of these price swings.
My god, when I read stuff like this (and some comments here), I think -- only someone who grew up in a society which benefitted from all the supposed ills of education and useful institutions could even have the luxury to write or seriously believe something like this.

This is like saying that because of a small percentage of (yes, I agree) non-ideal outcomes, one should dismantle the entire system that has gotten us to the state we are in today -- which is, to remind many people, a stable, more materially prosperous, more-free-of-conflict time than any in our past. I hesitate to point out some parallels to our current social movements, for fear of being branded a counter-revolutionary.

More people are educated and out of poverty right now than any time previously in history. You would seek to destroy the system that has gotten you here, because some of its imperfections are showing by the very nature of the progress it has produced? Many people around the world would love to have the curse of educational systems that grind down your spirit by providing you textbooks, materials, teachers, computers, and corporate faceless healthcare systems that cruelly save you from life-threatening diseases.

How quickly we let the great become normal and disappointing.

We should fix things that are going wrong, and that expose and remedy the flaws in how the system was designed. It's true that in any system, unintended side effects and people seeking to gain from it start to emerge. And that should be fixed.

But, often the people who lack proper perspective on all that a system has produced (at hard toil and accomplishment of their predecessors) -- usually those who are young and those who have nothing to lose -- are too willing to destroy something that has given them the luxury of thinking it should be destroyed.
The internet is not decentralized. The internet is controlled by the government to the same extent that money systems are centralized and controlled by the government. Maybe more actually.

Ham radio allows for communication without the internet or really anyone's permission. It is worth looking into possibilities that the internet may not always be as free or as available. Ham radio fixes Bitcoin.
It doesn't. I see here https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero

Circulating Supply: 17,630,237 / ∞
Ahh, I will remove those default icons -- I don't have social media accounts.
Do you mind telling us what that non-recursive substance is?
Here in Gilroy (southern end of the Bay Area) we get one or two outages a month during the summer. Unless it's a planned rolling blackout due to heat, they're usually only a few minutes in length, at least. The Costco-special UPSes I use (CyberPower 1350VA units) have all proven adequate for keeping my work/compute infrastructure online.

I've got solar, though, and a house battery is very much on the list once my budget allows it. I don't see local system stability getting better any time soon, and likely worse now that PG&E has more leeway to shut down power during wind/heat events and the like.
FWIW, at least on intel cpu call instructions are fully pipelined and effectively zero latency (although, like all jump instructions there is a limit of one call every other cycle).
That is after you've downloaded the data. Skimmers these days can be read out remotely. You don't need to do anything obvious. You don't need to come back to the atm once you've got what you came for.
This seems likely to me, lots and lots of money injected and consumer prices are stable yet art, real estate in desirable urban locations, equities, and some categories of luxury goods/experiences are soaring. Am I wrong?
I don't expect Twitter to last forever either. Myspace sure didn't.

That said, in my view, surveillance against the average person has got to go.
These are not a small number of counterexamples, these are patterns that are pervasive throughout modern media distribution. Let's look at Star Wars as an example. I bought a Star Wars box set and I can't watch it on my computer without installing malware. I can't play "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order" without installing malware. I can't watch the new Clone Wars or Mandalorian show without paying for yet another streaming service. "Think of the content creators" is the new "think of the children". It's not my fault that every aspect of our culture is for sale to the highest bidder; my rights matter more than the profit margin of faceless megacorporations and as long as they engage in these unethical business practices I will not give them my money. Piracy is civil disobedience.
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> It is more that my brain is lazy and isn't actually reading, it is just assuming what is supposed to be there and that assumption is occasionally wrong.

It's not just your brain. It's how vision works in general. Everyone has physical blind spot (where the optic nerve attackhes to the retina) but no one can see it except if they carefully hunt hor it. Everyone can see high resolution only in a tiny area at the center of the visual field, and imagines the rest.

With dyslexia (and various physical vision problems), you're collecting even less input (due to misprocessing at some "lower layers"), so your higher-level recognition/comprehension brain has to fill in more missing deails, and so has a higher error rate.
There's a few pretty far along mesh network projects that are designed to keep internet/crypto functional over portable radio networks.
Ham radio fixes Bitcoin
I wonder how feasible it would be to write a (great) book, skip most of the coursework/training/audience-building bits, market it using more conventional means (reach out to journalists, etc.), and make ~$10k?

Personally, as someone who loves technical writing but less the people bits around it, I'd much prefer doing something like this to "building my brand" and essentially becoming an instructor. (This is roughly what I ended up doing when releasing my first iOS app, though the journalist cold-calling was arduous and questionably reproducible. The success I had was mostly on account of Apple taking notice, perhaps with a small push from positive blog coverage.)
> Enterprise indeed, including charging premium for features that should come by default.

This doesn't make any sense. Apple has long shipped MacOS with everything included. Compared to the 12! Windows 10 editions (Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, Enterprise, ...) MacOS is a cakewalk, particularly since Apple ditched charging for upgrades years ago.

> serious file manager

Huh? Finder is decent, pretty much anything it can't handle is probably best served with a proper scripting language from the command line regardless. I'm not even sure what alternatives to Finder are out there.
The adjustment happens every 2 weeks. It's unlikely that miners would go offline simultaneously across the globe to the extent that it would completely grind the network to a halt.
Spacing guidelines are always going to be imperfect. But, assuming they are based on some science, they are better than nothing. You can also record all the guest details in PerfectTablePlan for later track and trace!
Having used various file managers for >10 years (NC, MC, WC, TC), a lack of good alternatives seemed painful when I switched to Mac. It turned out that Finder is actually pretty decent.
Agreed, but even though it could be elon being elon, even he thinks Tesla is trading too high.
> There's certainly more room to discuss the ways in which schooling has changed as we've shifted from the factory to service and knowledge economies

Exactly. You could literally write Discipline and Punish today, but with education. The body -> mind and everything.

Educate and Punish? ;)
It's one of the oldest ones around, I think predating 'dark web/net' as a term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
Yeah, I mean, we're a decade at this point past even Moldbug's historiography, and it's not as if he contributed any ideas that were both new and worth having; mostly he just reformulated and to some extent synthesized some very old ideas in a fashion that might find a 21st-century audience, which it more or less did.

Stating the existence of such historiographies doesn't do anything to make the case for their veracity. People here in 2020 have better reasons for doubting them than simply not knowing they exist.
That requires electricity, which is spotty in a dystopia. Best to stick to encrypted smoke signals.
Because it's not an 'unfathomable' source of pollution, it's a fraction of a fraction.

Maybe focus on the source of the problem - energy production. As long as the energy is being produced with renewable resources, it doesn't matter how much is used to mine.
The first 60% of the post is a technical explainer of SVR, and SGX which it relies on. I've been meaning to write this post for a while, and it doesn't become less relevant because Moxie hacked in an opt-out -- SVR is still present in Signal, and therefore it's still technically interesting. It will likely become more technically interesting over time.

The first paragraph that I think you could actually consider a criticism of Signal is this one: "My major issue with SVR is that it’s something I basically don’t want, and don’t trust. I’m happy with Signal offering it as an option to users, as long as users are allowed to choose not to use it. Unfortunately, up until this week, Signal was not giving users that choice." (I added the emphasis here, just to make clear you don't have to read to the addendum for this information.)

I guess we'll have to disagree on this one. It seems like you view this as an attack on Signal, and I view it as a tech post that contains a mild criticism.
For this purpose, 6 feet and 2 meters are the same measure.

It's "about this far apart" and the UK isn't going to advise their population to "stay at least 185cm apart" anymore than the US is going to advise "stay at least 6'6" apart".
Well different sources:

https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-pressurization-sys...

Airliner cabins are usually pressurised to 6-8,000 ft (1,800-2,400 m) elevation while the aircraft flies much higher. Concorde’s pressurisation was set to an altitude at the lower end of this range, 6000 feet.

https://museedelta.wixsite.com/musee-delta/single-post/2020/...

The two independent and fully automatic air conditioning units provide a cabin altitude of 5,500 ft (1,600m) at flight level 590.

https://books.google.fr/books?id=aekGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA506&lpg=P...

Concorde's pressurisation was set to an altitude at the lower end of this range, 6,000 feet (1,800 m).

Bottom line is 1700 or 1800m, Concorde did that 50 years ago...
I don't understand. If they decide to hire more in India they won't need H-1Bs any more.

Also, presidential cycles are short. A four-year presidency is simply not long enough to cause massive brain drain to be a threat for anything. But if the next administration continues to be myopic, I can see that trickle of brain drain turn into a torrent.
But more direct access to parallel execution hardware is making the product better. It's not making it better for his use case, which is not surprising because Intel is in the business of selling chips, not optimizing for the Linux kernel use case.