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> "2. The US already has one [1]. Congress stopped it's opening, but it's sitting there built ready to be used. Europe also is constructing a disposal site [2]"

France is also developing a deep geological storage facility for nuclear waste, known as "Cigéo":

https://www.andra.fr/cigeo
The natural systems are out of wack, my point is that the way the earth is heating up, we would eventually need to burn every forest to compensate for the growing temperatures. This stance is ridiculous. I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t have such ravaging fires, and lightning happened all the time. Better yet, scientists can look at past patterns and they too have proved that climate change is real. Ask a firefighter who’s been around for more then 30 years, they will tell you. The belief that Trump is even remotely correct on this issue is to believe complete foolishness. Alas, here we are.
Why would wearing masks for a few years destroy decades worth of herd immunity?
How could it not be the fault of Facebook when Facebook designed the algorithms that are creating all of the divisiveness on Facebook?

If I build a bridge intending it to stay up and it happens to fall down 6 months later, I'm responsible for it. Facebook created an algorithm that divides people politically and that surfaces content that is provably fictional. So they should be held responsible for it regardless of their intent. They don't get to invoke "common carrier" status when they're writing software that makes decisions about what you do or don't see. What makes a telephone a "common carrier" is the fact that the telephone doesn't decide who you call.

It doesn't matter whether it's software or a human. What matters is that decisions are being made by Facebook about what you do or don't see.

Whether or not it is intentional is immaterial to the effect. The law doesn't care about your intent. I wouldn't intentionally dump toxic waste into a river but I'm liable for dumping whether I intended to or not. Mark Zuckerberg can't just throw up his hands and go "oops it's software I can't help it" when it's his company that made all of the decisions about how the software works.
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For info, around 600 A13 chips fit on a 300mm wafer. Means Apple is paying around $29 per chip.
Seems that Thiel is to HN what Trump is to middle America. Blind, cult-like admiration for someone who is basically a terrible human being. I never understood either one.
The waste is buried under hundreds of meters of rock. And even if the containers eventually corrode, the waste needs to escape from this bedrock. The only way this is going to happen is either deliberately or through a meteor hitting in just the right spot.
> Nothing about Facebook's nature forces them to go beyond that and act as de facto language legislators

The ethics of being a/the major institution of mass communication in large parts of the world may not force FB to act as language legislators, but these ethics certainly should compel them to do so.

Relevant points:

- If FB’s status as a mass comms source is threatened, then the company itself is threatened. This threat can be due to a lack in trust in the platform and/or legislation that effectively legislates them out of existence (see below re free speech). This existential issue should compel them to factor language legislation into their corporate policies.

- Stockholders certainly care about FB’s status as a mass comms source even if no one else does.

- Stakeholders obviously care about this, too.

- Relying on governments to regulate mass communications is a Pandora’s box for FB since FB is an international platform.

- In the US, in order to facilitate and encourage free speech, mass comms laws are not particularly restrictive, but they are built on an underlying assumption about social-based regulation that generally hold up but seem to be completely broken with platforms like FB. If FB doesn’t address this issue, then the laws that end up addressing this issue may end up legislating FB out of existence.

To close, whether playing the language legislator is part of FB’s nature, an emergent property, or something else, there are very real reasons that FB has policies on regulating language. Whether they do this well or not is a completely different issue, but putting the onus on government legislators to address the problem with formal laws seems, at best, overly dismissive.
Haha! So true!

My thoughts exactly on QT! A good bridge to C# and a good "get a button on a page that triggers "onClick" quickstart workflow" and they'd be in a great position.

There is a lot of confusion on their site between QT creator, Design Studio, bindings, etc etc - so simplifying all that would be great.

They could target C# and (maybe) python (since it already is developed) for the windows story.
Combine Spark with Z as a specification language and you can get to "correct by construction". The only problem seems to be a reluctance to actually formulate a spec.
It's actually pretty cool of arxiv to provide a gzip of the source files for the pdf, here TeX:

https://arxiv.org/format/2009.06789
Just noting that the Turing series of cards and later (which isn't just RTX, but also the GTX16* the the T4) does have specialised hardware which helps with the video tracking side of this.

They have hardware optical flow[1] which doesn't seem widely known, but would absolutely help with parts of this - especially the reframing.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/opticalflow-sdk
~650MTr per $ at super low power level, not bad.

TSMC's N5 process density is ~171MTr/mm2 and the area of a 300mm wafer is 70,685mm2. Shave off maybe 5,000mm2 for edges and you're at 65,000*171,000,000 = 11 trillion transistors for $17k, or about 650 million transistors per dollar. Apple's A14 11.8BTr so minimum ~$18.20 at this price. Of course there's defect rate to consider.
There was absolutely no guarantees that the masks sold via authorized vendors met any of those specifications. The authorized vendors simply happened to be entities that jumped through the ridiculous hoops established by the different procurement organizations to qualify a vendor.

NYC had street vendors selling legitimate masks bought for example via supplier that normally would be selling to Home Depot, except home depot decided to do its patriotic duty ( i was amazed when they announced it ) and stopped selling N95 masks all together.

For example this is the stuff from a qualified vendor today:

https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/principals-rip-nyc-doe-for-sup...
There are some experimental tools for distributed code review and issues.

https://github.com/google/git-appraise

https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Would be nice to have something more polished though.
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> Not always -- e.g. wanting to make slavery illegal is an idea that ought to make everyone uncomfortable, but has no legitimate place in today's world.

I had a hard time parsing this. Did you mean legal?
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In my experience, you'll find more uncritical experts in the realm of WWII aficionados. The number of WWII buffs who are unable to grasp history dwarf the relative minority who use Zinn as their singular lens of understanding.

See also: people who watched a Ken Burns documentary
Wow, now I feel dated, I remember tons of discussion around this at the time and I remember that T-shirt from the Wikipedia article very well.
Can someone help me contextualize? 300mm diameter is 70,686 mm^3. If a chip is 300mm^3, does that mean the company can print about 235 chips per wafer or is it much lower? At 235 chips and a 100 dollar retail price, that doesn't leave much of a profit margin (23,500 gross vs 17,000 to TSMC).
It may not be what you think it was internally, but it's negative externalities are there for the world to see.
> Jobs wanted to know how big we were, and how long we've been doing this. He wanted to know a few more things that I can't even really remember. I remember he asked, "Do you have any other ideas for apps you want to work on?" I replied, genuinely, "Well, we've got an idea for a digital photo management program..." and he replied with a simple, "Yeah. Don't do that one."

This is a great example of how Jobs did not want to compete with his developers, he just want to make a better Mac for their customers.
> I was lucky to be born when I was, as computers entered the picture while in middle school.

It makes sense that you felt relieved when computers could compensate for your reading difficulties by reading and spelling for you.

On a different track, do you know of any computer based learning applications for teaching dyslexic diagnosed people to improve their reading and/or spelling abilities?

The article seemed to say that there isn't a magic method, which probably explains why the contentious debates reported in the article exist. But it also says that those who get into the program do improve their abilities, through more intense teacher led instruction.

I'm wondering if this form of instruction been automated at all?

Could it be?

What is the state of the art of literacy education software?
Even if the in person Mona Lisa experience is awful compared to looking at it on a high res screen.
> Using a PCA to prove an intrinsic point

A what point?

> You're aware the vectors in a PCA are just linear combinations of the observed features, right?

Yes, I am. Do you have a reason to think that means PCA is bad at representing similarity and kinship because of this?

As for the Slate Star Codex source - that wasn't to prove anything, just to define the "weak man" term. I would have used "straw man", but then you'd dig up some idiot that genuinely believes whatever it is you're debunking as proof that it's not a straw man.
What an odd coincidence. Just yesterday, I was benchmarking the overhead of turning on the MMU on an embedded system. It was about a 10% hit in performance, and this is without paging or even changing the mapping at all.

In this paper, we envision a _physically addressed_software architecture, without address translation, in which the OS hands out fixed-size blocks of memory, and applications allocate data structures across those blocks.

This is essentially nearly every embedded system I've ever worked on. The dumbest possible memory allocator starts at a base and increments, never freeing memory except possibly on a major frame.
Imo, handing out co-founder titles to software developer employees is way too liberal. I'd rather prefer handing out co-founder titles to people with actual responsibilities and unique titles - CXO level, lead devs, etc.
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I'd suggest looking through Lazard's levelized cost of energy slide decks. The unsubsidized price of renewables is indeed substantially less than nuclear.

Next look at the time scales for building new nuclear. Then look at the trend lines in the cost of storage, particularly utility scale lithium batteries.

You don't have to be a genius to realize this makes new nuclear a bad bet purely on the finances. Even if you waved a magic wand to eliminate any environmental opposition, the only way new nuclear is getting funded is if government picks up the tab. And that's what we see globally.

One of the reasons NuScale and the linked company above are getting investment traction is exactly because they're attempting to reduce the capital costs and timelines. That's a bet investors are more willing to take, even if the technology is unproven yet.
To highlight from that doc:

"The GitHub CLI team is focused solely on building out the new tool, gh. We aren’t shutting down hub or doing anything to change it. It’s an open source project and will continue to exist as long as it’s maintained and keeps receiving contributions."
I've been using https://internetbs.net/ for the better part of a decade now.

They email me once a year that stuff is about to expire, I renew it.

I've never had to interact with them otherwise about anything, which in this case means they're clearly doing something right.
The smallest practical commitment would probably be 25 wafers. Any fewer and you would be wasting useful capacity.
That's quite cheap.

Consider how gigantic a wafer is.

I can of course only run calculations against the half price 7nm node but you will see...Even the mammoth (as in, reticle limited) nVidia A100 is just 826mm^2. https://anysilicon.com/die-per-wafer-formula-free-calculator... says 57 of those fit on a single wafer. This table says the price of a 7nm wafer was 9346 so nVidia paid about 164 USD for each of those. The A100 card -- of course piled with RAM but still -- sells for ten grand.
What boggles the mind is the insane peoplepower they have poured into the redo redo redo here. They spin up huge documents on MSDN, platform toolkits etc.

Instead of trying to chase every random idea out there if they'd just gone deep on Win32 (now effectively x-platform) I think they could have gone a LOT further / faster. The new setups are also super complex and feel a lot more brittle by the time you build out all the toolchain.

Maybe my memory is going, but powering up VS and doing stuff was quick on windows in the past, now it's GB's of junk to just say hello world.
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I work at FB. I wouldn’t want to be working alongside people who think I’m a mercenary abdicating my moral precepts. And I wouldn’t expect that of my colleagues. So my guess is that you could get away with it easily, but you‘d be doing a disservice to yourself and your team.
I mean it’s succinct and expresses the state more.
The problem is that software design in general is an incredibly messy field that's still basically in its infancy. Developers want simple solutions to complex design problems, or at least they want some decent architectural guidelines so they can avoid constantly reinventing the wheel, badly. Remember when MVC was all the rage?

ECS is good though, it's a perfectly solid answer to a lot of thorny design questions. Where problems frequently arise is when you try to jam absolutely everything in your game into the ECS structure. In practice you're probably going to have a lot of data which lives outside the system and is not attached to any entity.
> how much easier it is to have dynamic behaviors without inheritance

I think you're getting at the idea that instead of having objects differ in their behavior by overriding methods, you have them differ by having fields bound to objects that implement different behavior.

Assuming I understand you right, that's an excellent insight, but it's just the classic principle:

Favor object composition over class inheritance.

There's nothing new in that idea or anything special to ECS. Do you know how I know? Because that sentence here is directly quoted from page 20 of "Design Patterns", which ECS and DoD are often claimed to be in direct opposition to. :)
My comparison was to IBM, not the Nazi party.

Facebook themselves already admitted that they were used to further a genocide, so your dismissal is somewhat beside the point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
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We have a fridge with a third drawer that can be configured as either 'fridge' or 'freezer'. It has a 'Lock' to prevent the configuration from being changed accidentally.

We had ours set (and locked) to be in 'freezer' mode. Yesterday, we turned off the electricity for a few moments to do some work. Later that day, I felt some frozen bread in that drawer and discovered that it was starting to thaw.

By turning off the electricity, we had reset the mode to 'fridge', even though all of the other temperature settings in the fridge maintained their previous configuration.

Why did all of the other settings remain, but that one didn't? Such annoying technology.
Even those two categories aren't reasonable. Speech does not "cause" lawless action, and the proper (read: justified and most effective) response to libel is contrary speech to counter the misinformation, not prosecution of the speaker.
How would you do things like ASLR and prevent people from guessing other software's memory allocation? Resetting a processes base pointer to 0 hides the information about other processes in the system that in a multi-tenant system you probably don't want leaking.
100%

The above OP quite literally said, “>the< truth” immediately followed by “>a< truth not often told.”

I find it baffling that the general HN/Reddit sentiment is anti-Zinn given the oft cited ideals of “contrarianism” that much of the community holds.

That doesn’t mean take everything said a face value but rather assign some worth to a work that told the stories of people that were hidden from the usual, “winner writes the tales” style of history writing.

I know, for me personally, Zinn’s work was a lot more engaging to read while balancing scholarly repute. This is certainly something from which other history books could learn.
Given that I’ve always seen AskHistorians as an example of one of the best places on Reddit, and given how heavily moderated it is, do you have a more concrete criticism of that sub?
I wonder what the future is for Rust?
I use fastmail with mail.app and haven’t had this issue, with neither ios or macos
No it isn't. The creator chooses which data to feed in, and which not to. Garbage in, garbage out. If Facebook positions itself as the arbitor of data and actively stops people from posting, then it must take responsibility for what is on the platform. If it simply allows people to sort the data that anybody can post, then any properties of that sorting (whether by likes, or date posted) are emergent.
This argument doesn’t hold. There are several countries such as Finland that have operated nuclear power plants for decades and do not have ambitions for nuclear bombs.
I'm curious, does anyone have experience with how the YC note compares to the Techstars 6% offering? On the basis of amount of extra table value?
You have your quotes switched.

#1 agrees with me!

Their entire theory is that different macro balances lead people to eat less because they're more satiating. Which is true but doesn't contradict the point that the actual thing that matters is CICO. Certain diets may make it easier or harder in terms of willpower but it doesn't change the underlying forces.

#2 agrees with me too! That abstract is criminally misleading.

> We conclude that a calorie is a calorie. From a purely thermodynamic point of view, this is clear because the human body or, indeed, any living organism cannot create or destroy energy but can only convert energy from one form to another. In comparing energy balance between dietary treatments, however, it must be remembered that the units of dietary energy are metabolizable energy and not gross energy. This is perhaps unfortunate because metabolizable energy is much more difficult to determine than is gross energy.

and

> Of course, the increased energy expenditure associated with increased protein intake also does not violate the laws of thermodynamics, because the energy is conserved. It does, however, come close to the spirit of the argument that a calorie is not a calorie, because feeding diets that induce a difference in energy expenditure can introduce a difference in energy balance and thus a difference in weight loss. Of the macronutrients, only protein has been found to have this effect, but the magnitude of this effect is small and perhaps accounts for a 0.8-kg difference in weight loss between diet treatments over 12 wk

If this is your argument then we're just arguing semantics. The only thing that matters is energy expenditure and total metabolized energy intake (which is CICO!). Like people already understand that our bodies metabolize foods differently (like the meme about celery being negative calories) but broadly following the standard nutrition info is a damn good proxy on average for metabolized energy.

> is true because it's a tautology, but misses the point almost entirely.

I think it's meant to drive home the point is the only thing that actually matters is total energy expenditure and calorie intake. If you're not losing weight you need to eat less and exercise more and vice versa if you want to gain weight. There's really nothing else to it. Every diet just provides some structure that makes the process easier since our bodies don't like it.
The title should say Estimated, not revealed.
It is heavily political since there's no evidence of efficacy. You can see the heterodox academy piece that summarises the available evidence. Since it is not efficacious then I'm forced to conclude that the motive is political and ideological.
This is a topic that has come up before (i.e. HN thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326790), and while GoDaddy continues to deny this practice (https://www.godaddy.com/community/Domain-Aftermarket/Is-Goda...) I tend to think that where there's smoke there's fire. Too many instances over the years to not be at least a bit suspicious.

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A13 is 98.5mm2 & 8.5BTr, so ~86MTr/mm2 density, a bit lower than what chart estimates [1] (95MTr/mm2 for 7nm).

A14 might be a significantly smaller chip since its 11.8BTr / 171MTr/mm2 (chart estimate) = ~69mm2 size

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process
> Moxie even openly argues against standards [x] and still calls himself an "anarchist".

On the face of it, that sounds like exactly the position an anarchist would take...
My daughter has dyslexia and an IEP in place to get her the assistance she needs. Before the school system would designate her as having a specific learning disability, a requirement to have an IEP, they required vision, hearing, reading comprehension and a battery of other reading related testing to help identify her specific reading deficiency

After she was identified as dyslexic she began a specialized reading program targeted at those with dyslexia. Unlike as mentioned in the article it is not the same reading program they assign to others who are "slow readers". This has helped her move from 2 years behind in reading to now being ahead of grade in reading. Unfortunately her spelling although improved is still a mess and likely will be for life as it is for many with dyslexia.
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Why STEM? Just chill out, it never takes much intuition to figure out what someone else’s talents are.

Everyone will show you their innate talent. Don’t be that shitty parent that has an idea of what that talent should be.

What you meant to say was, ‘everyone has a natural interest in something’, roll with that.
Evidently not enough people have reached the point you are at yet.
> very few people, I think, ever understood the massive leap in specs.

Because it was only ever used by a handful of games!

When the New 3DS launched, I expected it to be something of a stealth new console generation. The trajectory would been like the Gameboy Color; at launch, games could still be played in Black & White on the original gameboy, but it didn’t take long for games to drop that support so they could truly make use of the GBC’s superior internals.

But of course, this did not happen.
What about the upsides?