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> If meaningful scientific and technological progress occurs, then we reasonably would expect greater economic prosperity (though this may be offset by other factors). And also in reverse: If economic gains, as measured by certain key indicators, have been limited or nonexistent, then perhaps so has scientific and technological progress.

My eye-opening realization of American stagnation came in history class during high school. The teacher told us the narrative of progress through the 1800s, how industrialization brought more wealth and electricity improved quality of life. He spoke of an increase in wages that came with it: each decade, Americans were wealthier than before.

People assume the lives of their children would be better than their own. But in the 1960s, an American man could support a family of five: himself, his wife, and three kids was the norm. Sure, part of that can be explained by sexism and gender issues of the time, but the point was that women didn't have to work because a single income was sufficient to support a family. Today, most families are dual-income[0] as a matter of necessity, not necessarily desire. It's no longer obvious that progress will continue, and certainly not obvious that the progress we are making is a good thing for most people.

My grandparents, separately, once remarked that they had seen "perhaps the last real changes in quality of life any generation would have." Running water in homes, indoor toilets, microwaves, refrigerators, and the development of computer networks all happened in the 20th century. They predicted continued stagnation in human innovation, that most of the universe's great ideas had already been discovered.

Where are the big, boundary-pushing changes to life that the relentless pursuit of technology had promised? Where do we go from here? My father once speculated it would come from far-field wireless power transmission. That would kick off the next space race, pushing humanity farther into space than we could ever imagine by fuel. And certainly it would push a new generation of innovation forward, enabling ideas that would not have been possible before. What are the next transformative technologies waiting just around the corner, capable of changing and improving life for everyone on the planet?

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/famee.nr0.htm
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The cameras on the rovers are not the same as the camera on your phone or a DSLR. Each camera has specific sensors for different wavelengths of light [0]. The images are really just the wavelength reflection intensity measurements (think of it like RAW images on a DSLR but for more than just RGB).

The colorization is done by taking several of these images for wavelengths and adding them together. For example blue is in the 450–495 nm wavelength, green 495–570 nm, and red 625–740 nm. The Mastcam on the curiosity rover is actually two cameras with various sensors for different wavelengths (including wavelengths outside the visual range). They can use these images to create color images. You take the 440 nm sensor and give each pixel a value between 0-255 and display that with more/less blue. Take the 525 nm or 550 nm sensor and make them green and the 675 nm sensor and make them red. When you combine these you get an image that looks pretty similar to what it would look if you were really there (It's called true color and false color [1]). This same process is used by satellites as well to measure and classify things on Earth from space. They way different surfaces reflect light in different wavelengths help scientists classify things on Earth and Mars and all over the solar system. (It's Okay to Be Smart on YouTube has a cool video about Infrared [2])

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/spacecraft/instruments/mastcam/for...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_color

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srzniA8EKDk
I can't help but think of many of the stupid anti-semetic and anti-merchant tropes repeating themselves in the rhetoric. The legacy clearly traces to the feudal system in terms of who the despised scapegoats are - those who weren't a part of "the system" and "the way things are".

There is tbe same dumb "blame the lender (who pretty much can't say no) for the government's inexhaustible appetite for war and not the inbred spoiled psychopaths in charge".

On a more generic note there are the same fallacies about value prevailing, that a fixed reference point will actually remain fixed (gold), and that value is universal (nothing is).
But of course there are obvious exceptions
This has nothing to do with your point about Android OSS -

It's really a statement on our industry that avoiding spyware at this point basically means not using anything with a recognizable brand name. Apple's in a position to do this because they actually sell services to consumers; I'm curious if the rest of the industry will ever try anything that radical.

Remember when "doing well by doing good" was a phrase?
TFA says:

> My starting prompt was:

A presentation was given at the Hacker News event in Kansai.

The title of the presentation was
People are right to criticize China for it and just as right to criticize the US for similar faults. We should behave better and encourage others to do the same.
Nazis also shop at Macy's and drink at Starbucks.

Cloudflare was purely acting out of market based fear, there wasn't a hint of moral impetus. Literally he said: "I don't want people saying they won't work with us" - which is giving into the mob.

Where is the ACLU on this?

We were all screaming for Net Neutrality just a couple years ago.

It's up to communities and governments to make decisions on content, it would actually help if the government made it illegal for CloudFlare to refuse service to someone so long as they were within certain guidelines, thereby absolving businesses of this issue.

Imagine literally the marketing and PR teams of Verizon, Facebook, Cloudflare, AWS, Google, your rando VPN provider, getting to decide if they 'think they might not like you' or not, it's just too much.

For marketplaces like AppStore, it's fine. But for other services, this is not going to work. It's not the job of your Telco or Garbage Pickup do decide if your public statements are cool/uncool enough for their Instagram.
Spending $10 knowing you will get $11 back in the future is very different than spending $10 which you'll only get $3 back.
Good thing there are more studies after this...

Come on now, we gotta start somewhere
Because it isn't a single thing, it is a redundant system.
Redundant systems can also fail, that doesn't make it a _single_ point of failure.

You can add another system in parallel as the vendor of the product suggests, or you can improve the resilience in the redundant system.

To make a hyperbole: my galera cluster is failing, its a single point of failure, so I setup a cockroach cluster in parallel.

In a way, it is right, as there are failure modes specific to the individual systems, but I think, it is incorrect, to label that a SpoF.
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Yes, good choice. I didn't include it mostly because I find that Norm's compromises on a few design elements/material selections may guide someone in the 'wrong' direction - but that's a huge value judgement on a book that is a quarter century old.

Another book he was involved with is "This Old House" (technically by Bob Vila I think) which is also good, but suffers again from the march of time. There are just certain things they show that wouldn't be done the same way today.
The cracks that always happen and are cosmetic not structural.

There's plenty of inexpensive self levelling top layer compounds available - it is an easy and quick thing to repair.

And a properly installed wooden deck doesn't need to rot either. All of these things can function properly when done right the real problem is the disappearing neccessary craftsmanship. In a race to the bottom everything becomes disposable and half assed.
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This isn't the elephant in the room. This is a fringe problem of dedicated attackers. This is the fox hiding behind the elephant. The elephant in the room is that nobody needs to hack your phone to spy on you because all of that data is already being exfiltrated through the front door.
It's more complicated.

For most websites today if someone can intercept traffic somewhere close to the server they don't even need the keys, they can just fake responses to pass CA validation and issue valid certificates with their own keys and MITM like there is no encryption.

And coldboot attacks performed by a hosting provider staff of dumping memory and finding keys isn't that realistic of a threat, just like putting servers into a locked cage on someone else's property isn't much of a protection.
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Hey all,
What tutorials/guides/open source plans do you recommend that go through the whole process of building a home from start to finish?

Probably only viable for smallish and tiny houses but really interested in hearing about your experiences!
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> 2. Even with successful vaccine trials, wouldn't take at least a year to setup supply chain capable of distribution?

My understanding is that at least some of the vaccines are being produced at scale while the trials are still ongoing, in the hopes that they will be successful and a huge supply will be needed.
We’re the wrong generation to solve this problem, it’s already too late.
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Because he’s self made. He got rich precisely by being in touch with the needs, desires, and problems of people. And also by being successful at investing, which also requires ability to read trends etc.

Would you also argue Warren Buffet (literally nicknamed oracle of Omaha) has no special insight because he’s rich?
Hi, this is a very interesting project. Are you considering including temporality into this? Video understanding for example.
> then a 2 bedroom apt will hardly be 'easy'

The point of the apartment isn't to downsize in terms of number of bedrooms, it's more that heating and cooling something freestanding takes a lot more energy.
Boston (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3591352,-71.06249,15.28z) is close to round. You don't get grids until you get out of the colonial era city.
I loved reading about the outcome, but am actually even more interesting in how he went about actually creating it so I can try something similar. Happy to take any pointers from anyone who is willing to share. Thank you
AI is dangerous when it is closed and inaccesseble to majority of people.

Lets take deepfake. If it was closed and inaccessible to majority of people it could be used as a powerful weapon (making influence on politics, etc). Now when everyone has access to it and aware that that kind of fakes is not hard to make, it is not a weapon anymore. Of course you can still use it as a weapon, especially in not well developed countries, but even there after some time it will become useless as a weapon too.
I think person who made deepfake saved many people lives and that is the best approach to deal with so called "danger of AI".
Yes, there are manuals, but I think approaching a baby like you approach a toaster is the worst approach you can make.

Sure you will have to Google shit like how many bananas are ok for a toddler daily, and talk to nurses, doctors, other parents but don't treat your baby like the equivalent of your new company's kubernetes cluster (a horrible engineering problem to figure out).

See, all babies are different. This will be your baby and guess what, the baby is the manual, so read it. In the meantime relax and enjoy your current life one last time.
Pretty sure they've also got feeds on everyone's credit card purchases, emails of itineraries, text message confirmations, your phone homing and roaming (from the cell networks), from scores of apps that wanted your location squealing to whoever wants to buy it, from face rec at airports, etc etc.

Your travel is certainly no mystery to the state without this one airline feed.
Here is the most upvoted comment that has not been rebuked by you

"Holy shit. This is some absolutely astonishing levels of idiocy. Everyone want to know why a 33-year old was chosen? Because he can be controlled. Full stop.
"

Its almost like you know that rebuking the most popular comment is going to gut your reputation as a moderator. So you go around looking for a comment that has more substance that attracted more negative votes because of timing and random chance and reply with rebukes and a link to the guidelines? I cannot for the life of me understand what the substance and logic of your rebuke was? Why were you triggered so badly? If someone thinks Peter Thiel has strong ties to white nationalism (with references to NPR and what not) they should not participate in this discussion forum, or at the very minimum stay silent about it? What is the end goal of the moderation here?
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Yup, that's pretty common with legacy contracts. Internal accounting bullshit ruins all sorts of things.

I worked at a place where "thou shalt" use some stupid travel agent to buy intercity train tickets. You had to call the company and pick up the paper ticket in some inconvenient place between the hours of 10-3, closed from 12-1. The ticket cost ~$5-10 more than buying it at the train station, split between the travel agent and procurement group, unless you purchased it a month in advance, and could be used for 6 months.

The "hack" was that business units with lots of travel would buy 100 at a time every couple of months, and you'd need to find a secretary with a stash to get a paper ticket. I would ply them with my wife's baking to ensure a steady supply. Not surprisingly, many tickets were wasted unused (in pursuit of saving the $5), or people took unnecessary trips to avoid wasting money on tickets (and wasting 3x more in per diems, etc).

The next innovation was to declare that the trip was an emergency, and then you could buy the ticket from the conductor, in cash. The penance for less hassle is that you had to write a sad tale about why attending a training class met some standard for "emergency" travel.
in your future ideas section you have listed a few features or directions that the software could go. what about selling those?

in my mind, in order to monetize a greenfields FLOSS project, it seems you need to basically create software so impactful that users are willing to pay for particular features or bug fixes that they need, and that don't already exist in the software. so basically, you have to not only get people to use this new thing, but also get them to be willing to pay for particular improvements to it! quite a task.

this first occurred to me when i heard Stallman talk about how one can monetize FLOSS projects by selling bugfixes or improvements. contrast the typical developer-driven setup where a team implements the feature then sells it by selling a new version, upgrade fee, or what have you.

so it's a tricky situation, in that one needs to offer a compelling product, but not something so good that individuals can take it from the shelf and never have to do anything to it. however, this is sort of helpful insofar as it acts as a way for you to ship something and then - hopefully - let users drive the product (we'd pay $X for a UI on top).

for cheminformatics, i'm not really sure what some killer features are, but you have at least some ideas as potential things to sell. perhaps the community would be interested in pooling together funds for some of those ideas, or a UI/UX, or whatever - but yeah, definitely seems more customer-driven then traditional software.
What happens when a Bloomberg user moves to a different firm? Can they bring their Bloomberg ID with them?
Would you have an issue if a printing shop said no to doing business with a Nazi newspaper?
I work at hCaptcha, we run CF's captcha. If you're having problems in the future, popping open a debugger and capturing the results can help us figure out what's going on. But also: browser, OS, site, ...?

Right now: there is an issue with Safari users on the most recent iOS and OS X, where 3rd party cookies have now been disabled by default. We're working on a solution.

If that's your issue, you can fix on your side in the short-term by not using Safari, or by enabling 3rd party cookies.
There are so many details like this that it's best to form a checklist.

The exterior siding here is Dryvit. When installed properly, it'll be perfect for decades. But it is normally not installed properly. I hired an independent Dryvit inspector, and the contract with the Dryvit installer was it would pass inspection.

He had to tear it all off twice and do it again before it passed. Turns out the contractor's workers had never done Dryvit before, and had to be taught by the inspector. Paying the inspector turned out to be money very well spent.

My neighbor had to have his Stucco-Flex (Dryvit competitor) all pulled off at great expense and redone about 10 years after his house was finished.
They're also a target for APTs and foreign governments. Pretty much everyone wants to get their hand on travel data. Also fairly likely that other GDS such as Amadeus has similar issues. Speaking from personal experience, Sabre's code base is very outdated, and filled with tech debt and hacks. They haven't done a good job controlling bloat and many teams are skeleton crews that are consumed with ops and can barely fix bugs. I'm sure you don't need to "hack" anything.

Contrary to what some posters here seem to be saying, Sabre is very widely used in many parts of the travel industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/06/travel-gi...
Which word do you approve of? It seems like every terminology gets cliche at some point, but this is the first time I've heard of someone who has strong feelings about the "founder/co-founder" title.
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> There isn't always a line

Yes there is. The line is Nazis now. There was a war, they lost. They're not welcome anymore.
How does this compare with qawolf.com which uses Playwright, open-source and free?
The relevant excerpt seems to be here:

Market Opportunity

We believe our platform disrupts several large and well-established IT markets. The key markets that are addressed by our platform include VPN, internal and external firewalls, web security (including web application firewalls and content filtering), distributed denial of service (DDoS) prevention, intrusion detection and prevention, application delivery controls, content delivery networks, domain name systems, advanced threat prevention (ATP), and wide area network (WAN) technology. From our analysis based on IDC data, $31.6 billion was spent on those products in 2018, which is expected to grow to $47.1 billion in 2022, representing a compound annual growth rate of 10.5%. We also are actively developing new products to address adjacent markets including compute, storage, 5G, and Internet of Things (IoT) that are not included in the estimate of our addressable market.
> Even the super-sized GPT-3 can't distinguish sense from nonsense, it's just a very electricity hungry parrot.

Sure it can. There is a lot of nonsense on the internet, so if you feed it nonsense it just 'assumes' you're in a nonsense land.

If you provide a context that makes it clear you're being serious it will reject nonsense.

https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1284050958977130497...
https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1284069662225887232...

It acts like a person on an improvisational comedy show: It goes with the flow and is willing to get engaged in whatever silliness finds itself in. This doesn't make it stupid or unable to create new ideas.

In some cases where early explorers encountered cultures without strong concepts of personal property they considered them to be subhuman idiots, they weren't-- they just had different values. I don't think we can accurately gauge GPT3's capability if we let ourselves get too caught up on the artefacts of it simply working differently than we do.
Sort of related, but I remember visiting a ham radio store in Akihabara and finding out that Japan has its own Morse code: Wabun code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabun_code)
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What strikes you as different about him? I can’t really articulate why exactly, but to me he’s right up there on the list of archetypical SV personalities.
I would say, until we're fairly confident that having had covid confer permanent immunity, yes, it would be more responsible to wear a mask. Hopefully it does confer permanent immunity, but it would honestly be pretty optimistic to assume that at this point.
Any work that involves a lot of puns and dialect will be hard to translate, as will anything that uses a lot of rhetorical flair. Puns are often impossible because they involve a "collision" of meaning between two words. If this collision isn't possible in the translated language, the best thing the translator can do is try to come up with their pun. Dialect and slang also will be hard, because slang is kind of a capsule of the culture it comes from. So the translator is going to have to choose a more normal world, losing the original flavor, or pick some slang from the L2, thus bringing an "import" into the world of the work. Rhythm and prosody depend on the harmony between the sounds of the words in the original language. Of course, the words of the translation language will have an entirely different set of sounds, and perhaps the grammar won't even permit similar acts of parallelism. As a stupid example look at

>Vini, Vidi, vici

>I came, I saw, I conquered.

Notice Latin doesn't require the pronoun I. But literally translating "Came,saw, conquered" sounds like it was written by a petulant 14 year old. Secondly, Caesar's clauses are a nice triplet of two syllables. The English version does pretty well there, until it reaches "conquered," which throws the rhythm off. I said it was a stupid example, because the English translates pretty well IMO, but hopefully I demonstrated the difficult work of the translator.

Off the top of my head, I think these would be tough to translate.

-Shakespeare. Too many puns, and the meter is tied to a rhythm natural to English. All poetry is difficult really.

-Huckleberry Finn. Heavy dialect, which often involves the racial prejudices of the time. How can you translate that part? Nothing will be as disrespectful as the word is in English. Furthermore, how do you translate something like:
>It must a been close on to one o’clock
Do you preserve the grammar error? What's the difference between "close" and "close on"?

-Faulkner. Same as Twain, plus some very heavy rhetoric.

-Joyce. Same as Faulkner, but more puns, heavier rhetoric. If there's anything harder to translate than Finnegans Wake, let me know.

-Gadsby. This book does not contain the letter E! E is the most common vowel in English, but it's not in many other languages. Is the translator "cheating" if constrains the same letter? Amazingly this problem has been tackled in the translation of a different book, La Disparation, a French novel also without any e's either. The English translation, A Void, avoids the character too. However, omitting the E would be too easy in Russian, so that version doesn't contain any O's.
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I agree that the hard problems are not being worked on, that's what happens when VCs descend on the market and are looking to 100X their investments.
It's incredibly hard to work hard on difficult problems when you have to grow for growth's sake and pump out numbers that satisfy the market/VCs every quarter.