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> What is the correct solution here

Pull the plug on the mega-services. Take down FB for example, physically destroy the data centers.
I recall your service being unavailable during the lock down in the UK. Did you find out why Amazon asked you to stop using their API or shutdown your service temporarily?

There was also news that Amazon increased their prices during the pandemic? Do you data to suggest this is true?
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How does cloud gaming work?
Economic sanctions would be good, if they were conditioned on China's treatment of Uyghurs. But they're not.

Right now, to the extent that they're conditioned on anything at all (and I'm going to refrain from a broader critique of Trump's goals and methods of negotiation here), they're conditioned on trade balance, intellectual property, currency manipulation, 5G, and the like. Some of these are worthy objectives, some not. But at the end of the day, they do nothing for the Uyghur population if Trump says to Xi, "do whatever you want with the Uyghurs, I don't care; I just want you to buy more of our stuff".

For leverage to work on issue A, you actually have to say (and follow through on): "If you do A, I'll do X, and if you don't do A, I'll do Y." If you replace A with B, you can't expect any traction on issue A.
My guess is that there is an incentive for Facebook the company but not for any particular human working at Facebook.

Things are going well so inefficiency is fine (and it really may be fine), instead of fixing problems the best people are looking for new sources of growth.
The biggest problem I have is the randomness of targeting desktop only. The option is only visible in one of the many flows that I can never remember how to find. Once you manage to actually enable it it randomly reverts back to also targeting mobile. My theory is that it does it when you edit some other parameter of the ad since the edit form is part of the flow where you don't have the option.
100% this.
This is the main reason why having a printer is a must-have to me.
True. You can't take that away from the U.S, they helped save the free world (together with the allies and Russia). Things are complex.
I am not in favor or against Fauci or his comments (I am not even american), and I am not a linguist either so perhaps you can help me:

Is "not recommended" == "discouraged"?

"He also acknowledged that masks were initially not recommended to the general public so that first responders wouldn’t feel the strain of a shortage of PPE."

As far as I understand, 'discouraging' is to saying publicly "Do not buy masks" and 'not recommending' might be just that, as in, not saying "Go and buy a masks or you'll spread the disease".
> This is from the top of my head but there are certainly other people who have smarter ideas that don't involve straight up censorship.

So what can you conclude about the private intent of key decision makers?

I find that imputing malign intent often improves my ability to forecast outcomes. Whether there is actual bad faith almost doesn't matter if the assumption improves forecasts.
Although 7 is effectively Rosetta / Rosetta 2.
This is concerning for people suffering from disabilities and on long term medical leaves, and also where a private disability insurance provider (or even social security!) is paying the patient.

Most disability corps only care about maximizing revenue, and will look for any excuse (legal or not) to cut off a client. Often times they require full access to medical records, so what sort of information is in this records can be, for lack of a better term, life or death.

If a whether or not a patient left the house might be tracked and eventually accessed by an insurance agent, I would be extremely hesitant to use this product, and I know private disability insurance advisors that would be very afraid of this sort of thing, on behalf of their clients.
You don't have free speech on a platform like YouTube. It is Google's walled garden, with Google's set of rules. Free speech and censorship is for and by the government, and it was never absolute to begin with; always been a nuance.
Thanks tpetry. I wasn't familiar with binning.
China is trying to become the world hegemony. If that’s not empire building, I don’t know what is.
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I think there is merit to the argument that if you cannot guarantee 100% correctness, that you cannot strip people of their ability to form their opinion themselves. And that requires access to different perspectives.
Check out Rite in the Rain, for example. It's impressive stuff; you can write ink on paper while scuba diving, even.

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This has already happened. The printer under my desk has crap drivers that don't properly handle ligatures leading to the printer being unusable. A certified native Postscript printer would never have this problem.
Not optional in AArch64 though.
I liked your blog post, this part stuck out to me:

> Intelligence is going down as fewer and fewer books are being read (news flash: the printed book industry is on the way out unless this trend stops), and social organizations like churches and civic clubs see fewer and fewer members attend their meetings. The skills that are increasing? Reflex time. Ability to solve abstract, short-timespan problems. Basically the skills we need to interact with our entertainment. More and more, Indians and Chinese – people coming from cultures who have been shut out of the technical world until recently – are writing software for hardcore western appetites to consume.

"Ability to solve abstract, short-timespan problems"

I wonder about this. I speculatively propose that there also seems to be a curious inability (or unwillingness) for people who happen to be blessed with the skill of abstract thinking, to apply that skill to the greater world (the complex system we have built for ourselves to live within). I would say that abstract thinking, done right, allows the one wielding it the ability to step out of the ~axiomatic frame in which they live, and use to evaluate the world with a relatively clean mind - to set their individual political beliefs and preferences aside and consider things from a disinterested 3rd party perspective. At least to some degree. And I think mass social media, including forums like this one, likely contribute in significant ways that we do not currently understand. Whether a change in our aggregate ability has taken place over time, I have no opinion, but an ambitious person could likely pick up on it if it had by reviewing conversations from a decade ago or so.

> If you believe that the species as a whole has never been this unstable before, then the real question is this: what has changed? Whatever it is, it's obviously happened in the last 20 years, maybe even in the last 7 or so. The thing to do would be to identify those changes and come up with a testable theory that can be tested using the data.

This seems like the kind of abstract thinking (disconnection from the specific object level characteristics of the problem) that we need more of. Do you happen to have any theories on what steps we should be considering to get us out of this mess, that could plausibly be applied at national or planetary scale (or, know of any formal or informal organizations that are working on such ideas)?
I'm not saying I can't profit, didn't say that at all.

I'm saying if I have a buck to put, it's worth several times more on adwords than on fb.

If you are traffic starved then sure fb could be usefull but I suspect the vast majority of small/medium business runs out of ad budget before they run out of adwords growth capabilities, and they value qualified leads much more than raw traffic.

Again OF COURSE it varies by business and I'm sure other people have the opposite experience, but mine has been clear cut and I shared it.
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So far, there's always been a caveat. Kudos to Quanta for being up front with it in the headline and being punny with it too.
I question what constitutes censorship here to people? Is all censorship is bad? Moderation is bad? Should Hacker News in particular not have rules to censor content that does not follow rules? Censorship has and will always be part of our lives. The problem is the application of it.

I applaud YouTube, Twitter and FB primarily for trying to not facilitate distribution of bullshit all because free speech. Free speech has limits in everyone's house.
Sysadmins were supposed to “go away” after transitioning to the cloud. Instead, what I’ve observed is that so many years ago companies hired more and more developers that wound up trying to solve problems sysadmins long ago solved with little attention from developers that many are reinventing or rediscovering. This is one reason how we wound up with so many management systems like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.

But the market for sysadmins is completely soaked in corporate IT professionals whom really only have maybe 20% skill coverage with what smaller tech companies want or need. When it comes to delivering software, companies have found they want / need strong sysadmin knowledge domain with a strong software development background - this is the rise of the “devops” and SRE disciplines.

What really bums me out is that long ago the term sysadmin applied to software developers as well - people on Unix systems that wrote C and other systems code that used bash to string together software fast.

So in a lot of senses, the creation of bash is a form of the developer-sysadmin construct done quite well. But today, with our fractured, mercurial software ecosystem we see so many competing tools that largely do things 90%+ the same way in practice for hardly any real advantage over each other. Every option can easily manage hundreds of machines in some odd seconds or a few minutes, after all.

But there’s a cultural problem that’s become a bifurcation into engineer castes over time. Go to conferences, social networks, and meet-ups for developers vs sysadmins - the tone and tenor of topics is completely different. Developer conferences have a smattering of deeply concerned talks but a majority are bright, cheery, and exploratory in tone and the side conversations match up. Sysadmins oftentimes stuck in cost centers are as a rule grumpy and even belligerent, and the side conversations remind me more of the hallways of a VA hospital than Bell Labs.
Imagination people. The op is a hypothetical dream.
You won't get new information if you ban anything that disagrees with the old information
There is a saying that, "all political careers end in failure," which references this aspect of charisma where you have it - until you don't. It is an example of what happens when you fail a test of charisma, where you never really get it back in that particular relationship to those people. I read Olivia Fox-Cabane's work on charisma (Charisma Myth) and she showed how it can be a set of attributes you can practice. Initially, I concluded charisma is a specific relationship between you and a group of others, but with time, it has become clear that charisma is an instinct or decision to relate to the external world in a particular way.

It is absolutely something that can be taught, practised, and developed. The article expressed a certain backbiting suspicion that I think characterizes the intellectual view of charismatic people, and it focused on the charisma of authoritarian leaders, but oddly doesn't mention super-charismatics like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and other progressive persuaders. Ultimately, I think this type of critical view of charisma demoralizes people away from believing anything strongly enough to follow a leader in pursuit of their interests, which seems like an altogether more insidious effect than the posturing of a leader could be.
Well that's easy, they have inertial dampeners of course ;-)
My dictionary defines political as "relating to the government or the public affairs of a country". Given that genocide is the policy of the Chinese government, it's a political matter.
This is hardly the only thing or topic that youtube bans and will continue to ban. Youtube is extremely censorous and it's not just things that are 'bad'. This fits entirely within their existing behavior and is nothing novel. It isn't going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It's just turning up the temp on the frog in the pot.

Yes, people do need to stop centralizing in a single corporate entity to communicate. But is banning vaccine misinformation the reason to do it? No.
I would not consider an engraver for which you have to call to ask the price as "routine". From what I could find, the cheapest trotec is $16k second hand on ebay (and there is another from their cheap line for $56k second hand). You can hire somebody to handwrite everything you need for that kind of money.

Also, high power lasers are consumables.
We do need the earrings to be reasonably large if they are to cover the battery, the circuit board, and the speaker. HOWEVER, the module can be worn with stud earrings (in which case the module will show but they still have many advantages over earbuds.)
Yep, each regional location is distributed across 3 AZs. And we're planning on adding more regions across the globe
> Like doing some research for a school project, googling, getting a link to a pdf document on some ftp, clicking the link. Or clicking the download link on some website, and the file is downloaded using ftp.

I think you are overestimating this. I'd include that in my 1/10,000 number.
Sorry for not getting back until now. Homelessness is a result with several very different causes. That means that any single answer to "the problem" will be wrong most of the time. The answer must be a combination of programs that each deal with a different category. Some people are desperate to get off the street and have safe housing but can't obtain it for various reasons. Others want to stay on the street for various reasons. Some of them might be willing to move under certain conditions, and you might move different sub-groups of them with different combinations of carrot and stick. Some are mentally ill, some are ruled by chemical addictions, some are hardcore predators wanting to stay near their prey (mostly other homeless), some are scammers (pretending to be homeless, because they prefer begging to being at the mercy of an employer), etc., etc.

So, a good (not showpiece) solution could have no one place to "put" them. Any solution optimized for the needs of the homeless rather than for their advocates will necessarily be an ever-adapting patchwork based on lots of experiments that are allowed to fail, one that can't ever fully solve the problem but gradually gets better at it, like genuine, evidence-based medicine addressing the needs of sick people.

I don't believe you can constitutionally put someone anywhere they don't want to go unless they threaten others, but you can tell them that they "can't stay here" and let them decide where else to put themselves. Like all of the patches, that will only work for some. Others are unable to put themselves someplace safe, so options have to be created--again different options for different categories. "You can't stay here but you can go here" will be an important patch in the patchwork.

But it still leaves many categories uncovered. Those who are predators can constitutionally be taken off the streets and locked up and need to be. Their most likely prey are other homeless, who need to be kept safe even if you haven't found a housing solution for them. And the mentally ill? There are categories of mental impairments, too. Some aren't too bad off and might be "bribed" in various ways to take their meds.

And I have to repeat, some things will help these people, some things will help those people, and there will always remain unsolved categories. I can no more provide the solution to homelessness than the solution to all illness, but an adapting, experimental, evidence-based approach to solving it in pieces--focused on measured reduction in homelessness rather than on benefits to the service providers--is the most likely to succeed, as is the case with medicine.
We're too concerned with edge cases to justify the absolute nightmare we are in with regards to information. For every "true" conspiracy theory there are millions of junk ones - of course some will be partially correct.

We are so afraid of losing "one correct idea" that we allow orders of magnitude more bad ones to flourish and drown out good ideas anyway.

Dealing with foreign powers abusing the system would be easy if the current administration didn't benefit from it.
Hey everyone, I'd like to announce the launch of Conducto and its CI/CD tool. As a co-founder, I originally developed the technology to do data science at my previous employer, Jump Trading (top quant trading firm like Citadel and Jane Street). As we built it into Conducto, we realized how good it was for our own CI/CD and switched course to target that first. Main distinguishing features:

* CI/CD in Python, not YAML: simple and powerful way to define CI/CD pipelines that is understood by IDEs

* Trees not DAGs: DAGs are messy. If you've ever traced a node's dependencies in a medium-sized CircleCI project (speaking from experience here) you know how frustrating it is to search through a 2000-line YAML file. Trees help your pipelines stay simple as you grow, and they're much more useful to look at.

* Free mode that doesn't suck: Run pipelines on your laptop for free, forever, for you and as many teammates as you want. When you need more scale you can run hundreds of tasks simultaneously in the Conducto cloud.

We're launching today, and I'd like to invite you all to check it out. I want feedback as much as I want users, so please look at it and let me know what you think.
Yeah. RISC kinda became a shorthand for "fixed instruction length, load-store" and CISC became a synonym for "x86/amd64".
How is PUUUUU pronounced?
The fact that you have to ask speaks volumes about the current state of affairs.
> An absurd amount of drivers that I download are still hosted on FTP sites.

Okay. You are one of the 1/10,000,000. What percentage of people have downloaded a driver through any means other than "plugged in device, it said "install driver" and the user clicked it"?
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“Configuration as code, not YAML” - this is a hilarious and relatable tagline.

I wonder how this compares to some existing CI/CD tools like Jenkins, circle ci, GitHub actions, etc.
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> but I personally see the situation as so bad, that I'm worried about how China's influence will extend to the West.

Yes but I fear it’s even worse. Their influence has already extended into the west and has for at least a decade now. Not only are consumers dependent on cheap crap, but Western corporations are dependent on China’s massive market. And politicians are dependent on Western corporations...
> Banning obvious bullshit, albeit akin to censorship, is NARCAN.

I'll agree with your plan for banning "obvious bullshit" so long as I get to decide what constitutes "obvious bullshit". Don't like that idea? Then why should I like it when you get to decide? Or when some Google policy goon gets to decide? I never voted for you or for that policy goon.

Whenever you give anyone power to censor b"obvious bullshit", it takes a few milliseconds for "obvious bullshit" to become "political positions I dislike". That's how people work. The disruption to the free flow of information is more harmful than any amount of bullshit. Your "war for democracy" is in fact a war against democracy, since democracy is about building a distributed consensus about what constitutes truth, not about letting unelected censors control the public.

Anyone who tries to control what strangers say to each other is someone who wants to control your thoughts and rule over you. No thanks.

Social media is not some kind of existential problem. What you're claiming is a massive civilization-scale problem is what people claimed about the printing press. Oh no! Anyone can make a pamphlet! This terrible danger must be dealt with! We can't allow the bible to be published in lay people's language! They might misinterpret it if they can read it without the help of priests! Smash the presses! -- this is what people actually thought. Now we think this attitude is ridiculous, because it is.

The real danger we have right now is a few people using their influence over social media platforms to control public conversation and subvert democracy by manipulating the conversation. I am completely opposed to all SV attempts to decide for themselves what is true and what is false and censor eight billion people based on the result. No. They do not get to have that power.
Thanks! This GUI front-end is aimed at sound effects, but the underlying library is abstract enough to do general instruments like a drum machine. If I was a bit better at FM synthesis I'd preset buttons for kick drums, snares, harpsichords or what have you...
Without committing to any specifics, I'll say that we are very aware of use-cases where a daemon on the end host can provide enhanced benefits.

As you can imagine we did quite a bit of research with our existing users/customers while working on the design of Boundary. One thing we heard almost universally was "please don't require us to install another agent on our boxes". So we decided to focus initially on transparent use cases that only require running additional nodes (Boundary controller/worker) without requiring additional software to be installed/secured/maintained on your end hosts.

> the endpoint can be closed off to incoming connections from the internet, and you don't need to maintain various firewall whitelist

If you think about this a bit differently, a Boundary worker is also acting as a reverse proxy gating access to your non-public network resources. You can definitely use Boundary right now to take resources you have on the public Internet, put them in a private-only subnet or security group, and then use a Boundary worker to gate access. It's simply a reverse proxy running on a different host rather than one running on the end host. You wouldn't _need_ to add a firewall to ensure that only Boundary workers can make incoming calls to the end hosts, it's simply defense in depth.
Well, ARC/ORC is a reference-counting concept for one part and also a new implementation for Nim. MPS is a mature and proven implementation of a whole memory management infrastructure which offers different GC strategies (M&S, Copying, Incremental, etc.). And it's written in C, so it could well fit with the Nim runtime. Here is a paper: https://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/doc/2002-01-30/ismm20.... MPS is surprisingly unknown. I also only discovered it recently and currently try to use it in a project.

EDIT: maybe a reason why people didn't consider it so far was that earlier versions were only available under Sleepycat/dual license; current versions are BSD.
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Conch piercing will likely be an easy adaptation, but the stretched earlobe variant sounds daunting. An interesting design challenge for sure.
Yeah you'd still need a bootstrap to get the reaction going, and therefore generate the pressure. The question is, does this material have two superconduction modes: one at low temperatures and pressures, and another at high temperatures and pressure?

The idea would be to create a superconductor with a pressure/temp curve that is amenable to the pressure/temp curve of the starting sequence of a fusion reactor.
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