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Talk about hand wavy:

>A more likely trajectory is Reform, where we respond to global crises such as climate change but in an inadequate and piecemeal way that merely extends the Breakdown curve outwards, to a greater or lesser extent. Here governments put their faith in reformist ideals such as ‘green growth’, ‘reinventing capitalism’, or a belief that technological solutions are just around the corner.

>A third trajectory is Transformation, where we see a radical shift in the values and institutions of society towards a more long-term sustainable civilization. For instance, we jump off the Breakdown curve onto a new pathway dominated by post-growth economic models such as Doughnut Economics or a Green New Deal.

He makes these statements in these two sections, preceded by a first section in which he criticizes the 20th century business as usual "greed of avaricious capitalism and resource consumption, but then in the third point refers two two specific linked projects that are both exactly what he describes as piecemeal hybrids of capitalism and "new thinking" of the kind that's supposedly wrong in the first quoted paragraph above. Denmark is in no way escaping from the world's modern economic machinery with its so-called doughnut project and the green new deal is a gargantuan exercise in spending, ideological biases that could easily derail it for their lack of objectivity, and problematic, tenuous reasoning at best. Talk about generalization that just sweeps important substance under a rug of feel-good concepts.

So far it is exactly a pragmatic mix of technology, piecemeal innovation, "selfish" market exchange, speculative investment and also of course gradually improved laws coupled with activism that have made the world better over centuries and decades. Not massive "transformative" notions. The literal attempts at applying things in which a complete transformation is claimed have if anything bathed the last 100 years in blood more than anything else.

The author of this essay makes some very good points but more than anything, mashes his overall argument together in a hand wavy way that's riddled with absurdly biased cliches about the evils of modern society and capitalism which are heavily rooted in pop ideology and platitudes without substance. Not the best basis for genuinely objective attempts at long term thinking. The word "blockchain" even managed to get tossed in there.

I mean, imagine the sort of reasoning, biases and specific dogmas that a 16th century version of this document would have in making arguments for how we should plan for the future, and imagine just how absurdly removed they would be from most of the real problems that the future actually confronted us with, especially compared to said hypothetical author's absorption in the shallow, highly specific political correctness of his own time.
We also didn't start school until after Labor Day, instead of the middle of August.
The good news is that if you always drive sober, you don't have to worry about drunk drivers.

The reality is, no vaccine is 100% effective (immune response isn't a binary thing), and the are lots of people that can't be vaccinated for medical reasons. Every person who is not vaccinated by choice is wilfully exposing others to risk.
I'm going to guess that this technology is not exactly the same as something IBM did in 1966 :-)

Now, I understand a certain crankiness about MongoDB (which arguably was overhyped), but surely you don't think all database development or attempts at innovation should stop, right?
But then aren't you just trusting your VPS provider or ISP instead?
Yep, I was able to get started with Linux and programming in general because of Minecraft. Minecraft led me to look into servers and networking, building servers, colocating physical servers, starting a business, and many more. Minecraft, and multiplayer games in general, have done so much to get people started down the technical computing route.
They should add an expensive toll. Voilà, problem solved.

Curious by your username: are you from Venezia, Italy, and/or are Italian?

(I am Italian, living in San Francisco)
They mean if you get it in the real world, they will be working with your doctors because they will want to run tests to determine why the vaccine didn't prevent the infection. As a side benefit, you might get slightly more attention and better care.
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Very interesting, thanks for posting!

Reminds me of the articles I saw about 2-3 years ago on the difficulty of creating new fonts for Asian languages compared to Roman alphabets. The sheer number of characters required to build up a base of shapes is huge, compared to our 26x2 or whatever variation on that, plus accented characters and symbols.
Good point, but their name does not imply that their cookies are free.
I am desperately waiting for semi-high refresh rate (20Hz-30Hz) e-ink displays so that I can replace my traditional HD display with them.

They're significantly easier on the eyes and they're a joy to use. I don't particularly care about color. One thing I'm wondering though, is what are the technical challenges behind building such a display?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to use an Android device that renders onto e-ink. I don't particularly care for watching videos and such - most of my time on my phone is spent sending and reading IM's (Signal, text, e-mail) rather than viewing media, so lower refresh rates is not something I really care about.

Where are the shortcomings causing e-ink displays to have very low refresh rate? Does it have to do with modern rendering technology being so well optimized for color displays that they simply are not performant for e-ink?
Yep, am positively surprised how the product turned out. Plus the launch also went well I think, including a comic manual and even an AMA on reddit; I didn't read of any glitches or anything bad either.
The language itself brings most of that. The biggest thing that the BEAM provides is a preemptive scheduler to ensure that you can run millions of concurrent processes without any one of them dominating the CPU resources, ensuring consistent performance regardless of load.

It also provides minuscule overhead for each process so that creating a supervising process for every item isn't really a cost.

When you start talking distribution across nodes and hot loading code, that's where static typing starts to really bite you back because you don't have any way to enforce it across nodes or during a hot loading transition.
There is no CDN monopoly. There are several to choose from. Cloudflare is one of the new kids on the block.

There is no cloud monopoly either. Customers can choose from AWS, GCP, Azure, and several others.

The problem is not market concentration. There are plenty of options. The problem is customers choosing to put all their eggs in one basket.
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If you're talking about a beautifully mastered Blu-Ray, then that might be true.

But given how aggressively YouTube compresses videos, watching in 4K can provide a huge improvement over 1080p even if your screen only has, say, 1,600 lines like my MBP does, instead of the 2,160 lines that 4K actually produces. It's really about the clarity of textures and how lifelike they are -- it's very noticeable. Of course, this also assumes you have good vision.

I also don't think anyone's too worried about "wasting computing power" here for a short video.
So let's tax the poor Americans so they get even poorer.
While that's definitely true, maybe one should look at this another way.

$400/mo saved in a 0% interest bank account for 40 years = $192,000

$400 * 12/year invested at 10% (incl. inflation) for 40 years = $2.12 million

While $2.12mm in 2020 money is $440,000 in 1980 money (assuming 4% inflation), it's still much better than the alternative.

A couple of other points:

* Investing $400/mo earlier is relatively harder than $400/mo later in the 40-year timeline assuming compensation increased by the inflation rate but one keeps the invested amount ($400 here) constant. This is ignoring factors like salary increases later in one's career (not sure if that even generalizes for lower-income professions).

* I wonder if there's any study done tracking if there's actually a steady increase in spending consistent with the inflation rate for all individuals (with some stochasticity). Or, do people adjust the goods they buy and "outwit" inflation? For e.g., the biggest purchase one makes usually, a house/apartment, doesn't scale with inflation. Similarly, electronics actually get cheaper. So, apart from food, does spending actually track inflation?
a well-known streamer named Mew2King was recently on YouTube trending talking about how his circumcision has led to suicidal ideation[1]

there have already been reports of people taking their life because of it[2][3], so I thought I’d share some hope to those who may also be suffering

there is also a fairly large group on Reddit using manual restoration methods to recover some of what was lost[4] and also a Foregen subreddit[5]

[1] https://youtu.be/vVuEST8RdL8

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307

[3] http://reddit.com/r/circumcisiongrief

[4] http://reddit.com/r/foreskin_restoration

[5] http://reddit.com/r/foregen
Not sure I understand the "universal storage" aspect.

Is TileDB suitable for real-time workloads — real-time queries, but also real-time updates — as opposed to batch?

Would it be appropriate for storing, say, inverted indexes for text search?

Can it be used for secondary indexes, similar to what you'd use B-trees for?

Can it store large pieces of data, e.g. large, structured JSON documents?

Looks like the open-source version of TileDB is the database engine only, no clustering?
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I've seen it enough to chuckle when I see it now. In any scientific or medical discussion it is rampant. People will cite things to support claims they are making, but the things they cite don't concur at all. They might be related, but the obligation is on the reader to go through and parse whether that giant research paper supports what they're claiming which is a task that extremely few will undertake.
I think that's something that you and I agree on, but something the general public wouldn't. Just think of how the public perceives politicians that change their minds constantly - they're "waffling", they're spineless, they're weak-willed, they're "just catering to the majority" (as if that was a bad thing! but I digress...) Then consider how much the public loves politicians that are steadfast. Look how much we laud Sanders for holding to the same principles he's held his entire life. (Sure, we might disagree with him for other reasons, but at least he's _consistent!_) Look how much we admire the politicians who voted against the Iraq war, as if they couldn't have changed their mind in the meantime.

(In the political sphere, the reason for this is pretty clear. If you're continuously shifting your view from day to day as mores change, then that's a clear indicator that you don't have any particular insight into what the true good views are. You're a follower, not a leader. Plus, it kinda sucks if I voted for you to uphold position A, only for you to change your mind and support B the next day.

Of course, when it comes to health, we want the exact opposite - we basically want a weak-willed spineless leader who immediately caves his opinion to whatever the most up-to-date scientific information is. :-) But who's ever going to respect someone like that..?)
My web search suggested that normally existing vaccines aren't helpful this way, but that there is ongoing research on "therapeutic vaccines" that would be.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/features/treating-disease-wit...

The article says none are currently available as treatments for any infectious disease.
lmfao this is literally a hit piece from a competitor.
How do you get 60fps, it stutters at 30fps for me.
It's accurately named. All I can say is "well-named" is in the eye of the beholder, and I'm fairly certain you're not in marketing.
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Wow! Looks exactly like the desert of Paracas in Peru. Amazing!
Safari hasn't supported >1080p in years (because it blocks VP9 and Youtube has stopped offering higher resolutions in H264 that Safari supports)
If you have a "monopoly" which is this case just means you're the market leader by a wide margin, but in theory this could mean near total control of a market but the reason you have this total control is because your customers choose to buy from you over your competitors simply because you're better and or cheaper then this is a good thing. Customers are getting what they want. And the market leader in this situation will have a hard time abusing their position because any they'll have competitors nipping at their heels if they slip up.
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As soon as I learned that Sam Altman is involved, I could infer the direction. I cannot recall Sam being activist for anything open - but I do remember him as a the "head of the startup world", aka creating exclusive opportunities for venture capitalist by using and tearing bright eyed talent. I think he was pretty successful at the latter.

The sad thing is: OpenAI might be just the foreshadow of the power step function segment of the future, disenfranchising those who are on the wrong side of the API much more that we see today (e.g. somewhat limited to the gig economy).
Seeing the number of customer testimonials on their announcement makes me once again wonder how brand-new products get traction with customers (who really serve as guinea pigs). I'd love to hear (and learn) how startups have successfully gotten their foot in the door with technologies like this.

For context, I spent a bit shy of a year a while back developing a middleware idea, and severely struggled to get anyone to try it. Friends suggested open-sourcing it, but even that would have been a struggle, I'm sure.
In other words, a synthetic key. Bad move.
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I'm curious why the share price slide after the mainstream news.

Sure, there have been rumours about the Lancet paper for a few days, maybe these were priced in already - and AstraZeneca has promised to manufacture it at cost or near cost. Still weird the market reacted this way

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/astrazeneca-...
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If you found with 1€, the moment you place the signature your company is insolvent as it can't pay the resulting invoice. Even if you found with 1k it is often quite near to overwelm the newly created company.

Beside that, UG has very bad reputation and if you need something your company rating will lead to problems like prepayment when ordering goods. New GmbH is not the best either but increased quite fast.

In addition, transition from UG to GmbH is a bit of a pain, as you need a let your books be checked (costly) or by just paying the amount to reach the GmbH money.
One would assume you’d endeavor to keep humans out of the kill box when the system is active.
Currently being discussed in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896996
What I really would like is a touchscreen version of this. I think the idea of a "panel" is amazing, but I'd like either a touch overlap or touch screen built in.

Anyone know of any e-ink with touch built in? can be black and white.
I completely ignore YouTube links, if they are secondary, or tertiary sources. (They can be pretty good as primary sources. If someone claims that an event happened, and then links to a YouTube video of that event, that citation is often quite conclusive as to the validity of that claim.)

They are unsearchable, unskimmable, and require way too long to get through. And if someone links them with a particular timestamp in mind, because some fifty-second segment is the salient part of the link, then, at best, they are an appeal to authority.
Ah - sorry for misunderstanding. No we don't have a view like that, though I can see that being pretty handy. This is great feedback - thank you!
Because it was a mess. A privacy mess. Also because the fact that supporting iOS well requires using the Apple framework was ignored. And also lot‘s of politics.
Yeah, this is one big thing that's pulling the delivery times closer vs historical timelines.

Governments essentially said "If you can demonstrate reasonable efficacy and safety, go ahead and start mass production. If your Phase III trials fail, we'll make you whole and dump the doses in a landfill."

Otherwise, you had to wait the entire Phase III duration before even starting production, whereas now you'll essentially have viable vaccine on Day 0 when the Phase III trail concludes.
I think what's worse is that I suspect the whole project won't be all that useful, and a drop in the bucket compared to society-wide (enforced) change in behavior.

From everything I've read, this kind of app 1) is only really useful if enough people actively use it, and 2) have serious issues with false positives because of inherent positional inaccuracy (or inability to be accurate without sucking battery).

In regards to 1, in my country at least, unless using the app would be mandatory, I know many more people who will refuse to use it or be too lazy to use it. And I'm pretty sure hell will freeze over before the government can make usage (and owning a smartphone) mandatory.
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Wow. Could you embed these files in a GitHub README.md, for instance, or does the playback require a specific decoder? I've long wondered how developers manage to capture snazzy terminal demos of their projects, as the Linux tools I've tried using for this purpose generate bafflingly huge files (~750mb for roughly a minute of content).
I agree. To add to this, I would suggest that this is good feedback to the people creating these and they will just see it as a challenge and / or enhancement request. Perhaps in time, even the best forensics won't be able to distinguish the difference. Maybe.
And that warrants breaking up or nationalizing Twitter how?
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If anyone from TileDB is reading this thread, the link for "Geospatial" under Applications in the main page's footer points to the wrong link.
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>If I were to make a great bio weapon that would do the maximum damage

You must not know much about bioweapons, then. By any measure, SARS-CoV-2 is a very, very poor bioweapon.

Think about it... it infects everyone but for the most part younger people don't die from it or even become incapacitated. It's mostly killing the elderly or people who have pre-existing conditions.

Effectively, SARS-CoV-2 helps the nation that's infected with it prepare for conventional conflict... it leaves younger people able to fight in the military and with some immunity to the weapon, it greatly reduces the need to care for the elderly or those in poor physical condition, freeing up workers for weapons production or logistics.

It's easy to stop this supposed "weapon" from spreading, just social distance and wear a mask... if everyone does it, the attack is ineffective.

Any country that attacked another using SARS-CoV-2 as a weapon would be suiciding. All the virus would accomplish is making the youngest, most able portion of the target population very angry and reducing the number of non combat capable people they have to take care of.

But wait, you say... the US is having a much higher impact from the virus.

That's because our leadership has failed outright and continues to do so at many levels. Calling the virus a hoax, politically motivated re-openings, the support of ignorance instead of science, conspiracy theories... all due to poor leadership.

Which of course is the real reason this tinfoil hat theory that the virus is a weapon hasn't died yet. Convincing a large number of people that it's a weapon would remove responsibility from Trump and the GOP for failing so incredibly badly, or at least make them look better in the run-up to the election.

The truth is that SARS-CoV-2 isn't a weapon, it's a pandemic which the US could have quickly suppressed and defeated, but did not because our corrupt, inept government worships ignorance instead of enlightenment.
That would show as revenue growth
One good thing about this is: An actually free and open ecosystem will emerge - it will take time and countless people-hours but it will happen and it will prevail.
also people shouldn't blindly be going to links on the internet posted by randos. It would be easy to post a script to write replies on comment threads linking to a malicious site.

its nice to have urls, but I think we all know deep down they wont change much in the grand scheme of things. I know when I see a quote on the internet, its almost assuredly fake, but if I am interested I can always just google it.
500$ is still crazy much, especially considering its fragility and Samsung's spotty support.

Of course the stylus sets it apart. At 400$, if I was searching, I'd probably consider it.
The Amazon Kindle has a touch e-ink screen. You can use it to read books (mobi format) or browse the web (albeit in a very limited fashion - but I use it to browse HN and works fine).
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E-ink is commonly used in signage where it won't need to change again for a week or more. 15 seconds is fine when your required average refresh time is measure in days.

I am really looking forward to the day when high refresh rate e-ink displays are common. The B&N Nook from about 8 years ago could be modified to successfully play flappy bird at about 10hz, but it was pretty ugly to use, requiring a black/white full clear of the screen to zero out the image every 30 frames or so.
it's difficult to remember sequences with no meaning, but if you can remember them as objects (eg, a product key with combinations of 5 letter+number sequences) it becomes easier.
This is greatly exaggerated and it's really not as bad as you're making it sound. People are surviving at no expense, and even if anything you said were true, that still doesn't justify the reason to go get vaccinated. People here are being downvoted just for being anti-vax and skeptical about it. It seems to me a bunch of fear mongering going around.

20+ million is laughably exaggerated, Worldometer says there has only been 600k deaths total corona related. Who knows if there statistics is even real though cause just last month, it said there were only 350k deaths.

There has been times where they've even been manipulated
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.republicworld.com/amp/techn...

On top of that, just go on google search and look up "covid X patients" where X is any number you can think of, and you'll legit get fabricated results that will fit your search narrative.

Now mix this with fear mongering social media people and you've got a force of people advocating for a truly skeptic vaccine