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Lots of competing opinions on what the big question in politics is, so I figured I'd add my own :)

To me, the biggest question in politics is: how do we build political / societal systems whose impact on human society is consistently positive and equitable?

This implies _fundamental_ changes in those systems. To wit: publicly-funded R&D returning value to the public purse, and not just to private companies (see: Mazzucato's "The Entrepreneurial State"); effective and highly coordinated wealth / corporate tax regimes (see: Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"); complete transformation of education and its relationship to both human psychology and technology (see: Papert's "Mindstorms"); eradicating the very concept of "good" and "bad" neighborhoods through massive and equitable investment in schools, housing, mixed-use zoning, mixed-income development, multi-modal transit, functional green space, etc. (see: Alexander, Ishikawa, and Silverstein's "A Pattern Language"); and, backing it all, a modern, responsive, truly digital government that is empowered to invest in tools and technologies to continually improve both internal work and external service delivery (see: Cyd Harrell's "A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide").
This is my strategy as well. If I want something I initiate a search. Incoming sales attempts do not exist in my universe.
Maybe I'm conflating 'web framework' with 'anything that compiles down to JS'? It's impossible for me to think of areas where iOS dev felt miles ahead, but I can imagine if I was writing JS I'd feel that way (I'm really into Flutter lately)
It wouldn't be the first time GM used a "sock puppet" (loosely defined) to escape its own reputation. [0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Corporation
Indeed. Often the drive for efficiency is rooted in the desire to extract economic value that seems to be going unclaimed or wasted (in the present) without regard for structural utility (over time).
>as well as dramatically limiting immigration (accepting migrants only from other highly developed countries, deporting all illegal immigrants, and ceasing all permanent refugee programs) in order to limit overall population growth.

Those people won't cease to exist. They'll just stay in poorer nations. In fact, wouldn't accepting them into a wealthy nation reduce the average number of children they have? And if these nations can drastically reduce the impact of their citizens, all the more reason to start recruiting migrants.
> don’t believe

Didn't, in thirteen years ago, when that survey was conducted.
How can this possibly be true? Web UI frameworks are built on top of the browser platform, and browsers are built on top of native desktop platforms, so aren't native desktop platforms inherently more flexible than web UI frameworks?
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Yeah, that's more or less the only way to go if you want to use SwiftUI. Personally at that point I just prefer going full UIKit instead.

> I feel we won't see "complete" SwiftUI apps for another 2 years or so, maybe thats the intention?

Unsure about intention but it is definitely the expectation :)
I don't know much about SwiftUI but I'm surprised to hear it's far behind?
> if one allows mass (that is, energy) to be transferred into this base medium. Momentum is conserved because the mass/energy is transferred to the all-encompassing medium. This medium is the same medium which enables quantum entanglement.

What are you talking about? Entanglement is not mediated by a medium. If it was, it would have speed of light limitations.

This is like saying there's an unknown type of matter that enables statistical correlations to exist. It's mixing together incompatible concepts. Correlations just don't behave that way. Neither does entanglement.
Yeah, we are seeing the same problem in Solr User Group discussions. That Tika integration will need to change to something else (with Standalone Tika).
Of course, Drupal's Solr module already allows to provide separate Tika, but I guess there is no equivalent Tika SAAS service, so they just point it all at your service.
Neither is incorrect. Either orientation of the outlet is NEC code compliant in the United States and it's really just a matter of preference.

Personally, I like "normal" outlets to be ground pin down and switched (as in, connected to a lightswitch) ground pin up.
Nvidia is a total powerhouse when it comes to chip design. Most people here are looking at this from the angle of "how does ARM benefit Nvidia", but I think its more valuable to consider "how does Nvidia benefit ARM". In 2020, given what we know about Ampere, I really don't think there's another company out there with better expertise in microprocessor design (but, to be fair, lets say top 3 next to Apple and AMD). Now, they have more of the stack in-house, which may help produce better chips.

Yes, ARM mostly just does licensing, but it may turn out that this acquisition gives Nvidia positive influence over future ISA and fundamental design changes which emerge from their own experience building microprocessors.

Maybe that just benefits Nvidia, or maybe all of their licenses; I don't know. But, I think the high price of this acquisition should signal that Nvidia wants ARM for more than just collecting royalties (or, jesus, the people here who think they're going to cancel the licenses or something, that's a wild prediction).

The other important point is Mali, which has a very obvious and natural synergy with Nvidia's wheelhouse. Another example of Nvidia making ARM better; Nvidia is the leader in graphics, this is no argument, so their ability to positively influence Mali (whether by actually improving it, or replacing it with something GeForce) may be beneficial to the OEMs who use it.
You’re fooling yourself if you think this is somehow racist.
11% of 0 is 0. This simply solidifies the idea that GM is led by out of touch legacy management. "We were supposed to check they only rolled the truck down a hill?"

Say what you will about Musk and Tesla (I know, I know), but their Class 8 Semi did a nationwide tour (under its own power) to potential customers [1] and also occasionally pitches in to perform vehicle deliveries [2], no downhill coasting required.

[1] https://electrek.co/2018/08/25/tesla-semi-drove-across-count...

[2] https://electrek.co/2020/06/26/tesla-semi-spotted-used-deliv...
> Previous discussions

FTFY :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24467635

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24471024
i've realized one of the most important features for me (enough to trade other features for) is auto tagging categories. how do you plan to do that?
> Tech companies think they can get away with it because they do exactly what IBM did, fire all the old hats, then hire back the ones they really do need at cheaper, contractor rates.

If it was that simple, why don't they use that strategy with young workers as well? It would be even easier to make up justifications (e.g. lack of experience).

To me, it seems plausible that you would find a correlation between people laid off and their age, absent of systematic ageism. And if there really was systematic ageism, IBM is just shooting itself in the foot. It's possible but not a given.
I see this as having the opposite effect, an AI boom. When I talk about AI I am talking about it in a weak sense, i.e. agents that make limited predictions, interpret speech and goals, and provide enhanced situational awareness to their users. In other words human-augmenting AI (a Centaur system).

Nvidia has recently put more marketing and effort in the commercial world into their AI lines than their graphics. Look at the DGX line of products as an example [1].

They also see the potential in an Internet of Things enabled with Intelligent Software Agents. This will require AI in the cloud, and hence Nvidia AI hardware there, but it will ultimately also require AI at the edge, on devices. Nvidia knows this and has been marketing accordingly. The Nvidia Jetson product is an example [2].

Now Arm comes in. Acquiring Arm lets Nvidia take it a step further - they can create ASICs[3] for phone manufactures that provide an AI solution they can just add to their products. It also allows them to build custom hardware for the enterprise that just plugs into the network, something like network-attached-storage but network-attached-AI instead.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-2/

[2] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...

[3] https://anysilicon.com/introduction-to-artificial-intelligen...
I opened a massive short position on NKLA today after seeing it up almost 10%. Uneducated speculators that have forgotten the lessons of Theranos are fueling its rise, and for them it will end in tears. For me? I will make a fortune.
I disagree.

If you compare languages that implement the same programming paradigms you can mistakenly arrive to the conclusion all languages are the same.

They are not the same.

Compare C with Prolog, Erlang/Elixir and Haskell and
you will know what I am talking about.
> Ruby is a comical example, because they did breaking changes in minor version (I think it was 1.8 to 1.9?).

Ruby was then using a version numbering scheme similar to the old Linux version numbering scheme, where odd minor numbers were development releases and even minor numbers were stable releases. In that scheme a odd minor version is equivalent to a SemVer major release. (Ruby switched to SemVer-ish versions with 2.x)
You are missing the trees for the forest. Or is it the other way around?

1. Industrialized countries consume more than the rest of the world.

2. Consumption is many times higher in countries with lower replacement rates.

3. Richer countries typically import and overfishing and destroy habitat of over populated high density developing nations with already depleted resources.

4. China is a special case. China exports a lot of our conspicuous consumption. China in turn imports a lot from developing as well as developed world with its bolstered purchasing power. It takes a lot of maintain 1.4 billion people.

5. One other (bad) solution is to make every nation self sustainable and close borders. And allow them to determine their own replacement rate via births and immigration.

6. Overfishing happens in Asia to feed Americans. Habitat is destroyed in Latin America to feed the China and the rest of the world.

7. Habitat is the most important thing when it comes to resource allocation and resource conservation and exploitation. I like E.O.Wilson’s Half Earth policy because it’s an elegant and fair solution.

7. You should be concerned about funding public schools because the subsidized cheap frozen fish fingers is what’s causing overfishing elsewhere in the world. More children at a higher consumption strata = more habitat destruction.

America IS the 1% of the world. A poor child in America has more resources and nutritional calories and dollar spent/per head than 80% of the world’s children.

8. While there are a lot of begging bowls out in America(and other rich countries), the begging bowls in the rest of the world that sells their resources to America have deeper begging bowls that often don’t get filled.

8. One way to NOT incentivise over population and irresponsible procreation at a macro level is for America and other rich countries to curtail consumption and stop economic exchange of goods that are hostile to habitat preservation. (Example: palm oil)
> Nvidia has made no agreement to continue those guarantees.

Hasn't Nvidia has actually increased those guarantees with everything they have agreed on for buying ARM?
Pandemic Programming
Ah, but they have an 'airtight' defense!

> "Nikola never stated its truck was driving under its own propulsion in the video," Nikola wrote. "Nikola described this third-party video on the Company’s social media as 'In Motion.' It was never described as 'under its own propulsion' or 'powertrain driven.'
I would assume Nvidia bought (by obligation) those commitments too?

Otherwise it would be pointless having them in the first place, you'd just get out of it (if you wanted to) with some creative corporate governance.

[I used to work at Arm, but not on creative corporate governance.]
I get it. I understand that it is hard for a big company to avoid thinking and optimizing for all the costs associated with older employees versus a younger employee, especially H1Bs.

But, why not use the pulpit that comes with tech prestige (is it now all gone?) to lobby for universal healthcare, and other ways to socialize those costs? If things like healthcare and a sane social security system were in place, wouldn't that even the playing field and be a win for everyone? I'm surprised I don't see more US companies arguing for changes that would help them.
I agree. It seems like the Theranos of the EV world.
Is anything actually being publicly done with that regard? Any organizations, foundations, etc?
On HN you only indent two spaces to turn on monospace.

Here is the lisp with formatting:

(defun my-org-screenshot ()
"Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file."
(interactive)
(setq screenshot_dir ".\\images\\")
(setq tilde-buffer-filename
(replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-name) t t))
(setq filename
(concat
(make-temp-name
(concat screenshot_dir
tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work
"_"
(format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")))
".png"))
(insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]"))
(org-display-inline-images))
when you are dead.
> Unless you think that universities should pick their students by lotteries,

The British Open University (distance learning) has no entrance requirements and still has a good reputation and their graduates are successful in getting well paid jobs.

It would be quite reasonable to use a lottery if the number of applicants exceeds the number of places, those who discover that they are not good enough or are not willing to work hard enough will drop out quite quickly. You just need to dimension the first year teaching capacity a bit higher than subsequent years so that you have enough students left at the end of the first year to fill the subsequent years.
Windows 10 is getting a built-in video conferencing feature
> ... and which will never succeed again.

That seems a little...overconfident. While some of the TSA stuff is definitely security theater that adds little value, not all of it is.

> "Arbitrarily-prohibited" was a jab at everything else they've seen fit to condemn by extension, for example pliers. It's not just knives that you have to be concerned about, but anything remotely non-basic that you otherwise keep in your backpack.

You can carry on pliers, just as long as they're less than 7 inches long:

https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Mana...

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/...

The pair of pliers I have is 7.25 inches long. That rule seems quite reasonable to me.

They do have a difficult task: write rules that can be executed quickly by relatively low-level employees to exclude items that could be used as a weapon or be a danger to the plane. I doubt that's even possible to do without creating corner cases that someone could gripe about.
If that's how you define "real" followers then you might as well use an IM application instead. IMO the whole point of (Twitter style) social media is having effortless reach and interactions without explicitly sending stuff to anybody.

I had over 10 thousand and had many interactions with people but wouldn't feel like bothering them on other platforms (unless it was of the same nature).

And the few people who bothered to contact me personally felt a little awkward too. I don't necessarily want to be talking to these people directly.

The magic is you just publish whatever you want and people can look at it. They can comment but there's no obligation to respond. Having actual conversations with that many people would be a huge chore. The whole thing isn't about having relationships with people at all but about spreading information. It could be about yourself in which case there would be some implicit one way relationship but that's just one use case.
Objective-C has been of the worst language I ever had to use. Fortunately it is still possible to use good old C/C++ on iOS/macOS.

As a general rule, I don't like the way Apple wants to drag people into their walled garden, with a tech stack that will be mostly useless outside of it.

Swift is like Objective-C of Metal, we can discuss their respective merits, but it will never hide the fact that they are all bad cases of the infamous NIH syndrome.
C++ in Visual Studio Code reaches version 1.0
I find the stability of the video feed is better with a wired connection. I had also tried using a USB-ethernet adapter to put the phone on the LAN for video streaming, but USB seems to be the better solution since the phone charges as well.
You can't buy the oceans.

Our oceans are collapsing. Warming, acidifying, over-fished, pollution.

What are we supposed to do?
On the otherhand, if Nikola was successful and retail investors couldn't get in early, it's an unfair advantage to the rich who are still allowed to invest.

Nikola is actually a poor example of your point. Their stock price is still up since they IPOed. A retail investor could sell their shares now and be fine.
Raw materials were already being shipped in. I imagine there was more waste from industry than there were British raw materials being used. So moving industry offshore should result in a reduction in shipping.

Provided it’s being moved to source of the raw materials. Which, I imagine, is often not the case.
Part of the reason why old fuddy duddies are obstructionist to science is the fact that brain plasticity drops off sharply somewhere in your mid twenties. There's zero reason to believe that we won't also find a solution to this issue if we manage to fix aging
The irony in all this is that a government that says it wants to create a 'trillion dollar tech giant' has no idea what to do with the one world leading tech company that is based in the UK.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/09/11/cummings-p...
> yeah, we’ll just JIT highly dynamic language to suuuper fast numeric code at runtime

This is the impression one gets sometimes, but the recommendations for fast Julia actually seem to revolve around ensuring type stability (another way to say “static strong typing”) and avoiding heap allocations, in fact Julia seems like just another nicer syntax for C++
In some ways humans are simpler than the cells they are made off. Yeah, you may know how to drive a car, but can you synthesize DNA? I find it fascinating that complexity goes up, when you zoom into a human. And cells exhibit all these behaviours.

This is certainly a fascinating notion, but it assumes arbitrary boundaries that have no real foundation in reality. Imagine instead what a staggering feat it is that the very cells that demonstrate all these remarkable biochemical behaviors can work in concert to drive a car!

I find this change in perspective to be quite instructive...that "humans" are not made of "cells," so much as collections of "cells" have developed a behavior that we describe as "human."
It's being worked on.
So what's the marging of ARM per chip bought? ARM's IP isn't free. It is created by engineers that cost money. Those chip sell for 0.10$, so ARM's margin's can't be more than 0.10$ per chip, otherwise seller would be operating at a loss.
Isn't digging easier than dealing with the ocean?
We barely throw money at existential threats like nuclear de-escalation, pandemics, and climate catastrophe. If we can't even try to ensure the lives of those here now are regular length, what makes you think anyone in government is going to search for a fountain of youth?

Science needs it's own legs to stand on here before government swoops in. Right now, its mostly hype and smoke and mirrors, there's nothing I've seen that warrants government funding.
Ask them to describe / explain the work they have done, how they did it, and what their participation was.

The algo interviews are partially to test can you do the stuff. If you have done similar and can describe it in sufficient detail, then you know it.
The solution is to not allow targeting for political ads. Costs will go up as you'll be competing for same eyes, and you'll have to spend more to reach everyone you want - plus has added benefit of allowing to see what messaging and narratives opposition is perpetuating.
That's not true. GP wrote a post about their inability to clearly explain the value of concept. there were no expressions of anger or outrage. Please don't make untruthful characterizations, it inhibits productive discussion.
Everything everywhere is securities fraud.

> contributing to global warming is securities fraud, and sexual harassment by executives is securities fraud, and customer data breaches are securities fraud, and mistreating killer whales is securities fraud, and whatever else you’ve got. Securities fraud is a universal regulatory regime; anything bad that is done by or happens to a public company is also securities fraud, and it is often easier to punish the bad thing as securities fraud than it is to regulate it directly.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...

The problem is, who was defrauded? The investors, I guess, but if they sue then they can only collect money from the company that they own anyway. It's not obvious that's a money-gaining proposition.
Android has become a serious security risk
It would be interesting to compare against just taking a very long video. Charging over USB (used for the connection) is probably a factor.
How Well Does Duolingo Work?
Microsoft patented the way to power these data centers using tidal energy in ocean itself. They patented in 2017.

http://www.whatafuture.com/microsoft-underwater-data-centers...
This is called due diligence, and it's on the investor to perform their own due diligence. For a product that isn't commercially available to consumers yet, due diligence should be enough.

In the case of something like Theranos, I thoroughly agree. Oversight of a commercially available product, especially one with health implications, is definitely necessary. Although it seems even these systems failed in the Theranos case.
This isn't short term vs long term, it's city vs rural. If his mountain home is sufficiently low population density then everyone in the area could behave this way without causing meaningful harm. These ideas you have about the environment and the right way to behave are a cultural necessity because of the population density within cities.
I doubt these would add more heat than a single new volcano does, but I’m all ears. According to research[1] tectonic activity adds about 3 cubic km of magma/lava each year to the oceans (that’s 100 times the annual production by mauna loa.)

[1] http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/book/export/html/138
Considering how much of the world runs on Excel? And the business process/productivity segment of MSFT had 46 Billion in rev?
The root problem here is the concept of patents -- at least as far as I can see.

If patents did not exist, and nVidia were to close down ARM and tell people "no more ARM GPUs; only nVidia GPUs from now on", then a competitor who offers ARM-compatible ISAs would quickly appear. But in the real world, nVidia just bought the monopoly rights to sue such a competitor out of existence.

It's really no wonder nVidia did this given the profits they can extract from this monopoly (on the ARM ISA).
Lambda Aleph – Dependently-Typed Functional Language by Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) [pdf]
End to End Deployment on GCP
Well, saying "Here's one question in each field which is better than any of theirs" will sound presumptuous to a lot of people, but I agree that there was some serious effort in it and many good questions, which should more than compensate if one reads from start to end.