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I'm getting tired of flagging false ADs on Facebook platform (in my case Instagram).

[https://imgur.com/a/1MUuST4]

The image above is a confirmation that they removed a false AD I flagged and thaking me for it. Yeah, ok, but as I said, I'm getting tired of flagging this kind of ads.

I sent an email to Instagram not so long ago, complaining that is hard to know a official AD from a fake one in Instagram, cause they use that ridiculous thing of opening a webpage inside their own browser (?!) hiding the address.

I'm sorry that this happened to you. I usually deal with low effort scams (but they usually get my parent's attention) but maybe it's time for Facebook to be held accountable for this kind of stuff.

Did you bought a TV from an AD you saw on Instagram and turned out to be a scam?! Well, let's have Facebook accountable. Maybe they'll improve their ADs platform.
Just ditch Reason and use OCaml. There's a lot more documentation and the syntax is better.
And literally nothing stops someone from creating a tiktokforbusiness domain and fixing the developer name.
Bonafide divine miracle, if you ask me.
Looks like Nvidia never left the SoC market to begin with.

The latest Tegra SoC launched March of 2020.
Yeah so it sounds like you are thinking about I/O bound workloads for what you consider analytical workloads, not compute bound. Traditional GPU (or your proposal of ASIC/FPGA) doesn't matter almost by definition: external systems can't feed them. No argument there, Spark won't replace your data warehouse's lookup engine :)

Assuming the analytic workload does have some compute, however, that's more of a comment about traditional systems having bad bandwidth than GPUs themselves. GPUs are already built for latency hiding, so it's more like CPUs are playing catchup to them. Two super interesting things have been happening here going forward, IMO:

- Nvidia finally got tired of waiting for the rest of the community to expose enough bandwidth. $-wise, they bought mellanox and now trying for ARM. In practice, this means providing more storage->device and network->device through improved hw+sw like https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage . I'm not privy to hyperscaler discussions on bandwidth across racks/nodes, but the outside trend does seem to be "more bandwidth", and I've been watching for straight-from-network in from cloud providers.

- Price drops for more hetero hardware. E.g., the T4 on AWS is ~6X cheaper for less choice in stuff like 64b vs 32b than the V100, yet has similar memory and perf within that sweet spot of choices. Nvidia pushes folks to DGX (big SSD -> local multi-GPU), which works for some scales, but in the wild, I see people often land on single-T4 / many-node once you take network bandwidth + cost into consideration in larger and more balanced systems.

For our own workloads, we don't trust GPU DBs enough to get it right, so found RAPIDS to be a nicer sweet spot where even junior devs can code it (Python dataframes), while perf people can predictably tune it and appropriately plug in the latest & greatest. Out-of-memory / streaming / etc. only became a thing starting in ~december, e.g., see recent https://github.com/rapidsai/tpcx-bb results + writeups, so it's been a wild couple of years. We still stick to single-GPU / in-memory for our workloads as we care about sub-second, but have been experimenting & architecting it for as ^^^^ smooths out for our use (and to help our customers who have different-shaped workloads). I've been impressed by stuff like the T4-many-node experience as layers like dask-cudf and blazingsql build up.
> and the control of the project is not given to the community.

They also have private mailing lists, but I agree, it is certainly FOSS.
> a body this size radiating 10's of KW of heat

It's kind of literally a drop in the ocean, but I assume it'd be worth doing a bit of research about local disruptions if we intend to drop large deployments in shallow waters.

To shut down or significantly disturb ocean currents, we'd need a lot of these things.
While I mostly agree, you also hit the power of the freebsd system: you can do something different. In linux if you want PostgreSQL 12+PostGIS 3.0 with xml support and the packages deliver PostgreSQL 12+PostGIS 3.0 without xml you are stuck without xml support as the package systems don't make it easy for lay people to select options. With FreeBSD you get that power if you want it.

It should be easier though.
I don't know whether this is relevant for fact checking, but the add logo in the first image with the bullseye image uses an image (the bullseye itself with the arrow) that is available as a logo/icon on MS Office exactly as is.
we need apps that can tell the difference between normal use, and a review process so as to hide functionality when appropriate and release functionality to the control of an actual user
Ask HN: Software Jobs with Less Collaboration?
Do you know of potential software areas where the work isn't as collaborative as it is in your typical Scrum/Agile team? If given a choice, I would very much prefer to be left alone to work on a solution, and not have to constantly interface with the rest of the team over trivialities. In the case of my current job, I have a strong suspicion that communication overhead is so large that the work of our 10+ people team could be done by one or two folks, if we were just allowed to work in an efficient manner (i.e. not sharing every bit of knowledge with everybody else, not setting up and maintaining baroque testing and CI/CD pipeline etc.)

I'm thinking that writing support software for scientific research at universities could be like that (partly because they can't just afford to hire teams to do the job, so a single guy often must suffice). Do you have any other ideas?
Maybe a system where authority is a duty and is not competed for may be a solution?
Ah, yet another Elon Musk invention. Will it work as well as the SpeceX rockets or cave submarine and the promised level 5 self-driving..
Let me try again.

My gardener has 5 children and three grandchildren at age 48. This is irresponsible procreation. An average 2.1 replacement rate in a family unit that doesn’t rely on welfare still relies on tax subsidies, incentives and free public schools.

Both are unsustainable. When there is no cost and only rewards for irresponsible procreation that is resource hogging from the commons, there will be a quick deterioration of available resources for all.

When there is want and scarcity and more demand in the apex predator population, they start stripping the habitat and resources of the species below them in the food chain.

That will eventually threaten the apex predators survival. This is more ‘killing the golden goose’ of Aesop tales than ‘blade runner 2049’ adoption of Philip k dick’s sci fi story.

If I were to explain to a child about apex predators, I would bring up sharks..if sharks eat all the little fish in the sea, when they are out of little fish in the sea, they will die because they won’t have anything more to eat to survive.
Apple buying arm would never get approved. They have way to many direct competitors that heavily rely on SoCs that has arm cores.
I think you missed the point of what I said. When we're talking about powering data centers with renewables, talking about sequestering carbon via lumber is rather orthogonal.

The point was, coarsely: using e.g. solar panels only changes the Earth's surface temperature to the extent it changes albedo. (Ignoring second-order effects of concentrating heat and associated effects on radiation, etc.)
To me, unless you preface the pause with, let me think for a moment, give me a minute, hang on a second, etc., it’s a dick move to show power.
This is still going on. In the last half of 2019, IBM in NY got rid of a number of older workers, only to replace them with younger workers. In some cases, a younger worker that was recently let go was rehired to replace an older worker.
Because one has a hard deadline of late August to have enough resources for all children to be remote learning, and the other doesn't. If you are responsible for planning out the next year have another 2-4 weeks to procure what you need, or if the difference between getting them all now on short notice or four weeks from now is a sizable difference in money that your budget can't easily sustain, your decisions are going to be affected by that.

I imagine almost all the people planning this had very little practical experience with remote learning before this, and so had to learn about what it could and could not do well and implement a program to get all these resources to children.

That's something that many people here might be comfortable with, so I can understand why they may think this is the easy part, but let's flip this on it's head. How many people here, if instead of working out a digital solution and delivering to people were asked to work out a solution to have hundreds to thousands of children come in to a physical location, group into assigned categories for teaching, go to their individual rooms in these groups, and receive instruction for hours at a time with periods of play and lunch interspersed?

All the problems you might encounter in that scenario has equivalents for someone migrating from managing a fully in-person based teaching system to a fully, or even partially digital one. Whereas I might have problems knowing how to direct people as they arrive to the correct location effectively and efficiently, in a digital system they need to know how to find the students that are completely list in connecting to the classroom and never show up. Where I might struggle in making sure I had the appropriate staff at the correct locations to teach, they might struggle with the fact that not all students have digital accounts set up needed to connect (and not all parents are responsive to any contact during the summer).

Managing adults where you have a clear channel of communication to them that they are expected to pay attention to because it's their job is hard. I can only imagine what it's like to add a bunch of children in the mix (because you really are dealing with kids AND their parents) and have a sizable portion of the adults likely think "it will work out because it's their job, I'll just pay attention a couple days before school starts and do what they say, it's always worked out before".

I know I didn't want to read all the school emails coming to me over the summer (which reading between the lines mostly seemed to amount to "we're totally screwed but trying our best and we really hope school will be open because we have no idea how to do anything that we might need to".
It might be a US-ism? I've never heard anyone in casual conversion call it gasoline or petrol. You would get weird looks if you called it gasoline.

"You fill up your gas tank at the gas station and get a gas can just in case you get low on gas before you can hit the next station to gas up."
It's not an exaggeration to say that org-mode changed my life. I started using it after my first year as a freelancer; I was really struggling to get myself organized and was prepping myself to get out of software entirely.

Switching to org-mode helped me keep on top of everything in a way I'd never really experienced before. Since then I've expanded my usage of org considerably - I use it for taking notes, tracking my diet+exercise, and planning out my projects (more info here: https://www.philnewton.net/blog/emacs-org/).

It's not everybody's cup of tea, but for me it fits my mental models better than anything I've ever used.
Please do not take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, or any flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

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Unfortunately, Mastodon doesn't have a lot of things Twitter has going for it, such as search or trends. These two things make it easier to find others and to get a pulse on what's happening around you.

I just tried searching for "seattle" and it just gives me a list of my own posts that match it and users with seattle in their name. In the past search seemed to work differently (not sure what changed), but when I searched for "seattle" then, I mostly got back a list of prostitutes who were hashtagging their posts with city names—–not exactly what I'm looking for.
If they didn't receive those high salaries they wouldn't be able to take those personal trips. The more employees the higher the multiplier. So what are we exactly offsetting.
I actually agree wholly - I think we should pass regulation. But I don't understand why we don't regulate zero carbon and that's that. Beyond that, presumably it'd be the government's responsibility to purge remaining excess carbon from the atmosphere.
This isn't as much of a free lunch as it used to be back in the day. Heroku modified its method for gifting "free hours" and so there is a possibility that your dynos wont actually run when you need them to if you are preventing them from sleeping.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/free-dyno-hours
Then you wouldn't like working with me. Now you know. Problem solved.
Investment Outlook from Bill Gross – September 2020 [pdf]
The problem with many attacks is we've now been trained to do dumb things - like putting our password into webviews inside 3rd party apps - by reputable companies. So it doesn't feel as insane as it should do.
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Org mode supports inline images. See more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27129338/inline-images-i...
Voucher was spelled as "Vocher" in multiple places. At first I thought it was localization, but then I realized that the author was spells it as "Voucher". That was the red-flag for me.
FYI, these are all excerpts or reviews of the same book by the historian Jill Lepore. (I've quite enjoyed her writing over the years and highly recommend it.)
There would be obvious commercial interest in antigravity but to the average person it would be a hard sell as a prime focus for the human race. If I were to triage a list of research problems with huge social impact then antigravity would be b tier at best. Obviously super cool with huge ramifications on our understanding of reality but I’d argue that we could and often do live very well without it.
We need less apps!
Please do not take HN threads in generic ideological directions. There's never anything new in these discussions, which makes them off topic here. They also quickly turn into flamewars, which we're trying to avoid.

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Factual statement: "We have no technology to do what you're describing"

Correct. We can only assemble synthetic bacteria right now. Synthetic sperm is years away. Synthetic eggs are too complicated, I wonder if they'll ever be made. Synthetic embryos would be true sci-fi stuff, requiring heavy engineering and many breakthroughs.

Emotional statement: "nobody is planning on"

Human germline engineering inspires strong feelings. I'm sure that the advent of motorized vehicles would have inspired the same strong feelings in horses, if they could have understood what was about to happen to them. Nevertheless.
Reddit AMA: 71 year career in nuclear energy
You need a lot of metal, especially if you want a big battery. Realistically we're not going to see batteries much cheaper than what we have now.

Hydrogen is likely to be cost of green energy plus some additional cost factor. So if solar is $0.02/kWh, then hydrogen will be maybe 2x that in the very long run. Everything points to hydrogen eventually getting to around $1/kg, or cheaper than just about any other kind of fuel.
There are plenty of ways to do it -

https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
OTOH, if these are passively cooled, you are not dumping the waste heat of the HVAC systems, as well as the power user to keep them running.
It's the story of the /Tsien/ from the opening of 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
“Cheap labor” people with visa in FANG companies get paid the same salary as the non visa people, and it was the FANG ceos who complained, so I’m not sure I understand your comment.
I think the topic of prolonged life is really difficult. On one side I am curious like, what does the future look like. On the other side I am like, why even stick around? What would the future bring for a 190 years old version of myself? Will anyone care about what I have to say? And will it even be relevant what I have to say?

Think of it the other way around like, would a bunch of people from the 1800s really be of much use to society today? Or are we better off that we get to stake out the near future for ourselves and likewise that our descendants are better off getting to stake out their future? I don’t have an answer.

At the same time it’s like what about the other way around? Clearly 30 years of life for example is way too short. So just because 70 or 80 years or something is the norm now in developed countries that don’t mean that this is the ideal either.

Like I say, I find it really difficult to try and decide upon.
Sure hoping that they don't get strange in this particular way.
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I try to avoid the dummy files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr, since I've been bitten when they're not available, or when I hit permission denied errors.

Two examples I can remember off the top of my head:

- Nix build scripts

- OpenMoko
De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation (2019)
> It leads to things like Homebrew (early on, at least) completely taking over and breaking /usr/local

Fully agree with you, but oh well, most if not everything is available on Macports anyway.

> There are an enormous number of tools out there that only exist because people don't know how to chain together basic 1970s Unix text-processing tools in a pipeline.

Speed. A specialized tool you need often beats manually wrangling the dozen or so Unix tools you need to replace it, plus many Good Options are only available on the GNU/Linux coreutils and don't work on Macs (sed -i, my most common annoyance) or busybox.
Kind of a strawman argument by dint of hyper-narrow focus, isn't it? Sure, there are no laws granting the government authority or duty to nurture Java or browsers; however, what Microsoft did more generally was to squash potential competition by leveraging their extremely entrenched OS monopoly.

Java is (or was) much more than a programming language. Rather it was viewed as something more like an operating system. Write once run everywhere, etc. By comparison I don't imagine Microsoft worried much about Pascal or Delphi.

Further, it seems... difficult to argue that a company that crushes nascent threats can't be a monopoly.
Hey thanks I was actually looking for this one
Change Boot Device Order on HP MicroServer Gen8 with Broken NAND
This is a neat idea, but I don't do it because most of the time I don't want to have to traverse every previous dir. If you use `cd -` then you'll go back to the previous dir anyway, which covers most cases. Beyond that, it's just better to get in the habit of using pushd so that you can jump back to exactly where you want :-) It's totally worth it.

One thing that annoys me is that popd consumes the top of the stack, which I something don't want. I put this in my bashrc some years ago which basically executes a popd but doesn't pop the stack:

alias peekd='cd "$(dirs -l -p | sed -n '\''2{p;q}'\'')"'
So all their employees don't eat meat, don't use thermal cars? What about the concrete of their buildings? Another flagrant example of greenwashing. It's useless to pretend one entity has a low carbon footprint because carbon is systemic.

For example google as a business is only viable if smartphones are getting produced.

Why can't anybody understand and accept the fact that oil is an awesome source of energy? It's exactly like telling people to stop drinking sodas because it will kill them.

The problem here is that sodas drinkers will give diabetes to everybody. That cannot go on.
As a child in the late 80s it was the three r's. Then the bluebox program became the focus.
Nothing except Larry Elison being able to say "Heeeyyy... How do you do, fellow kids?"
>> I'm not sure what you'd use for non-vegetarian curries and if there's a generic word that encompasses both veg and non-veg curries

>Khaana (food) I suppose! :)

I meant the word you would put in this conversation:

Customer at restaurant: I want four chapattis.

Waiter: Okay, and what ____ would you like with that?

Customer: One palak paneer and one chicken tikka masala.

Khaana won't work there. Sabzi, as I said, would work if it was a vegetarian restaurant so the only choices were vegetarian curries.

Playing the conversation in my head, I can only imagine the waiter saying "And what would you like with that?" It might be one of those words that's just straight-up missing and nobody notices, like how Hindi doesn't have a word for "You're welcome." (what you would say as a response to "Thank you.")
Also consider cost (in terms of CO2, resource consumption, etc) of building and maintaining the renewable energy sources.

I don't know how this would compare between underwater datacenter, solar panels, wind.
Can you provide a link to the "public knowledge" for those who don't know?
The big red flag I saw was that “Tik Tok” is in the wrong font in every screenshot.
For those not familiar with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_instrument

Most commonly know example is "bearer bonds", which are often used in heist movies and similar films, including, in the original script, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off[1].

[1] https://goat.com.au/ferris-buellers-day-off/today-i-learned-...
I didn’t hear any geological explanations in the press conference. It would be interesting if there was some chemical process happening deep under the surface, where the necessary pressures are present, then have it introduced into the atmosphere through seismic activity. I’m not too familiar with Venus’s geology. I don’t think the core is molten, but the tidal forces from the sun must be significant.
Read this first: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/19/1006365/if-then-...

Thought the NPR article was well enough to share, but preferred the MIT piece (albeit behind a paywall)
However, if CA is capable of delivering one should view them as more than “just“ a business... Perhaps CA’s owners found more value in not helping Cruz win?
Iceland is doing this (in a big way). TypeScript stack, 18 teams from different companies working together in the same open source code base and design system. HMU if you want to know more. Was an advisor on it.
I don't think jacquesm is off the mark in asking these questions, especially:

> what is the direct ecological impact of doing this at scale

What is the impact on sea creatures if we put these giant heated cylinders in their territory? Is there any impact? I really doubt we have the answers yet.

> at scale

...also implies that there will be more than one. So if one heat cylinder doesn't do anything, what about 10? 100? 1000? 10,000? The cylinder pictured is really quite small, you'd need to make a ton of them or drop one mega-cylinder to compete with land based centers. And it's not like our current data centers are keeping up with computing demand; we are building more today and presumably will continue building them decades into the future.

So these are extremely important questions. We shouldn't dismiss this as a workable idea but we should also keep in mind that fucking up the ocean is a far more consequential action than fucking up some acres of land.
Fair points. IMO, the 460% metric is a bit of a wacky number, though, because of not counting the carbon and efficiency involved in the original 100%. Assuming the 100% comes from the same power source, it's still only 25-30% "worse".

Also I think you're a bit pessimistic about modern power plant efficiency-- combined cycle plants do better than 50%, and that's before we're considering any benefit from renewables.