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> Just to be clear; do you mean completely wiping out humanity or a reset to some small population that might have another chance at it?

Either might occur, given deployment of nuclear or bio technology.

> Getting nations to truly cooperate probably means giving up a lot of identity based on tradition, origin, and history. I have no clue how best to convince people that what really matters about them and their neighbors is how individually happy, fulfilled, and free to explore they are regardless of their differences. Getting rid of false beliefs in zero sum economics and the futility of status signalling might be a start, but humans are sort of innately programmed for a lot of counterproductive beliefs about status, pride, fairness, worth, etc.

Yes, and I think one needs to realize that this is a 100 year project. Technologies like nuclear fusion, and quantum computing I put into this '100 year' category, that is those that would catalyze profound transformations of humanity (synthetic biology being another, Abstract General Intelligence another [I do not like the term 'artificial']) given about 100 years and sufficient resources.

So rebuilding and rethinking completely the way humans govern themselves I think is one of these 100 year projects. Things like nomadic citizens (humans without borders), economics with externalities an explicit factor, zero secrecy non zero sum international relations. All stuff that is easy enough to write down, but with no real chance of swift movement towards. Future economic systems are hopefully cooperative, perhaps further enabled by greater gains in digitizing the economy (though risks towards greater inequality that is further destabilizing seem just as likely)
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> reason under uncertainty without probabilities.

I got started in math and computation working on quant stuff during the first financial crash. It was a front row seat to how probability goes wrong (your copulas aren't worth the pixels you graphed them on). The idea is that you have to recognize some things just aren't accurately quantifiable. If you don't recognize that, you just place yourself in a situation where you have a false sense of certainty about uncertainty. You just simply can't assign a probability accurately to anything you so choose. It's not that probability isn't worthwhile, it most certainly is, the point is to be able to accept when you are dealing with a situation where it is non-informational (and likely even counter-informational).
I am fairly ignorant about US political system. Doesn't the idea of having two separate houses come from British Westminster system?

The Westminster system is supposedly the basis for my country (Australia's) parliament but I believe we also have taken influences from other systems and have incorporated some things that aren't common anywhere else (like compulsory voting) our constitution comes from 1901.

I could be wrong, but I think the main difference Between US system and ours is how the leader is appointed. The US directly votes for president, where as here the winning party (Based on number of Lower House seats won) appoints the leader. Our Prime Minister is much more beholden to the party he belongs to where in US presidents gets to Veto stuff - I think.
If you are connected to a network without an Internet connection, it just becomes unusable. Internet connection is somewhat unreliable in my area, and I had an internet outage that lasted for days during the COVID lockdown. I feared it was a malware infection causing the slow down. I switched over to Linux not long after.
Value = resources x effort

Beauty and intelligence are in the resources bucket. Just like oil in the ground is valuable, so is beauty and intelligence.

Beauty has its professions: politics, movies, modeling, CEO, trophy spouse etc.

Intelligence has its professions: engineering, law, medicine, accounting, entrepreneurship, science etc.

Einstein doesn’t go and compete in swim suit competition for the brilliant.

Don’t worry about people mistakenly hiring you over a more capable programmer because of your height / looks. Worry more about if you are maximizing your potential not putting your height, looks, and intelligence to work more efficiently all together.
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> If your boss says in a meeting "We need to get this done or heads are gonna roll"

That's, again, not analogous to what Bannon said.

What Bannon said was, after having suggested that Trump’s second term would start with firing of Wray and Fauci, "Now I actually want to go a step farther, but I realize the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man. I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England, I'd put the heads on pikes, right, I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you're gone – time to stop playing games."

He's not using heads on pikes as a metaphor for firing, because firing was the prediction of what the President as a “kind-hearted man” would do, while Bannon wanted more.
What kind of secure enclave? There have been a lot of catastrophic vulnerabilities in secure enclaves, over the past year or three.
Imagine if they let older people get more sunshine in nursing homes they would have better health outcomes. Instead they locked them up even more during the pandemic.

Study posted on here earlier showed link between low vitamin D and covid death. Like 60% of people that died from Covid had vitamin D deficiency.

Locking up old people in cramped nursing homes, spreads communicable disease, causes mental health decline, and is just terrible for their well being and shortens their life.

Thats why we need an army of robot nurses in the future, that will treat these people in their homes.
> specialized chips or hardware allow for even better software and therefore services

Based on the front page of HN, "better" is not a word I'd choose
There's an expert that specializes in vitamin D toxicity cases and regularly posts here. She sees cases at less than the 10000IU daily dose Fauci takes.

I would be hesitant to go above 4000IU daily without monitoring blood levels every six months or so.

Its winter here in Canada, I'm taking 3000IU per day. I drop that to 1000IU in the summer. I'm not a doctor, not recommending you do the same. Just sharing.
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And how do we know that the information presented is not itself disinformation? It's simply an appeal to authority with no data presented to validate the claims. Would love to hear them address the data in this video: https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk
I hate the sexism of these stories. More women are taking more responsibility, but plenty of dads are too.

The result of articles like this one is that Dads becoming primary caretakers during learn-from-home face a triple-whammy. It discourages exactly the kind of behavior it pretends to want to see. Dads are disadvantaged in the same way Moms are, but then they're screwed over at work more (since expectations are set by articles like this one that it's the mom's duty). They're screwed over a third time in custody battles, when thanks to stereotypes like these, they will invariably get the short stick on custody. Best a Dad primary caretaker can hope for, unless the Mom is a drunk psychotic, is 50/50. Typical is Mom gets custody.

It's perfectly possible to write an article like this in neutral terms "primary caretaker," and point out the majority are women, and there's a disparate gender impact. It's an article about primary caretakers. By implying by correlation that it's 100% women, it does a ton of harm.

As a footnote, that problem is pretty common. We don't have domestic violence laws. We have a "violence against women act." I'm not even sure how that's constitutional, but the result is that law enforcement ignores domestic violence against men.

That's not to speak of the whole LGBTQ community, whom the author thinks it's okay to f- over by assuming a family is a husband and a wife.
>A few years ago, an American acquaintance of mine who lives in Sweden told me that, quite by chance, he and his Swedish wife were in New York City and ended up sharing a limousine to the theatre district with a southern US senator and his wife. This senator, a conservative, anti-tax Democrat, asked my acquaintance about Sweden and swaggeringly commented about "all those taxes the Swedes pay". To which this American replied, "The problem with Americans and their taxes is that we get nothing for them." He then went on to tell the senator about the comprehensive level of services and benefits that Swedes receive.

>"If Americans knew what Swedes receive for their taxes, we would probably riot," he told the senator. The rest of the ride to the theatre district was unsurprisingly quiet.
High Sierra it is then. ;-)
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Anyone have experience using any nootropics or something else that helped with cognitive function? Some friends I know have tried adderall during school and I was curious your experience with any of these.
I don't think you can avoid the politics of the situation because when it comes to presidential candidates, when the R candidate wins, much will be made of how broken the system is, from vulnerabilities in voting machines to fatal flaws in the Constitution itself (viz., the Electoral College). When the D candidate wins, we are assured that election security is airtight, there's no evidence of significant irregularities, and "the system works".

This has nothing to do with the factuality or legitimacy of flaws in the system -- in short, yes, I believe you that there are severe problems with the apparatus we use to conduct elections, but there is strong pressure to ignore and even deny these problems, because doing so helps solve the bigger, more important problem of getting Trump out of office. I don't want Trump in office, but I cannot admit to any legitimacy to the claims of vote irregularity in the 2020 election, even theoretically based on your expertise because even if it were true, it would be a "fact that gives power to the enemy" and thus must be treated as a falsehood. That's why if you post about it on Twitter, a little note will be attached to your tweet with a link that says the U.S. elections were perfectly conducted with no chance of fraud.
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It doesn't really make sense. Different memory models mean that you'd have to be running two separate OSes, not some kind of unified OS. At most they could try to cooperate over some shared channel to transfer resources back and forth. Certainly not applications But now what you're talking about is two computers communicating over what could just as well be IP, which happen to be in the same box. Not terribly useful.
I think this is a play on an earlier quote about American supermarkets.

> Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."

https://www.nhregister.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article...
Thinkpads. Lenovo is far from perfect, but they have been good stewards of the brand.
Googling that sentence leads me to this article that contains that quote:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-myt...

which makes references to several sources
using a multivitamin daily is considered 'expensive' ?
If that were true, doesn’t that, in a way, justify America’s libertarian-leanings? If there’s something about the American civil service (be it defined benefit pensions, or whatever) that makes it a bad value outlier compared to European governments, does it make any sense expanding government services before we figure out what makes US government such a bad value?
The closest I could find was this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/ap...
thanks for the insight, makes sense.
Perhaps - but life will truly suck for the survivors
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googling the sentence you have in qoutes brought up this: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-myt...
> And as we all know time travel is a real thing

Regress in social norms doesn't require actual time travel, and that happening through normalization of political violence is a real thing, which has happened lots of places, and which Bannon is overtly calling for here, pointing to the mere firing he expects from the President as inadequate. (Making it clear that the call was not a metaphor for firing.)
> how is this not legally actionable?

Because attractiveness is not a protected class, unlike sex, age over 40, religion, family status, race, or the couple other I must be missing.
Most commercial renderers that I know of just render via simulating a pin-hole camera. Any Camera lens effects, lens flare, bokeh is just simulated off of the very simple pin-hole model. The method in Lentil appears to be actually trying to simulate the ray bounces internal to the camera lenses via the geometry from patent information. I am not an expert on optics, but from what I know about modern lens design are these elements are coated to change reflection and designed to prevent optical problems that don't exist in most computer renders (Chromatic Aberration). My initial take is this simulation incorrectly solves a problem that most users rendering things have no interest in even dealing with. Computer rendering has moved into this simulating the physical world but without asking why, in many rendering cases you do not want a camera that behaves like the physical world, you want it to behave better and with less control.
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If you point the request at localhost, the problem resolves. This means that a cable getting cut in Cupertino won’t matter. It is a revocation protocol; it fails open.

The problem today is that not that the connection to the server failed, but that it succeeded very slowly. The result was an accidental denial of service on the client.

It is a bug, and an easily fixed one at that.
My 2017 razer stealth 13" has rather questionable build quality.

* Once a month or so, the touchscreen flips out and starts registering dozens of random finger taps per second. There are tons of complaints on the internet, but Razer never acknowledged it as a known issue.

* One of the long rubber pads on the bottom fell off after about a year and a half.

* The USB-C power cord's insulation was frayed from day one.

* When running Linux, the kernel continuously reports "correctable" pci-e errors, indicating a signal integrity issue. I had to turn down the verbosity of the messages to keep from spamming the journal.

* When running Linux, a monitor connected via HDMI has random "snow" noise. When playing any sound through the builtin speakers, the monitor blacks out every 10 seconds or so. Plugging in headphones "fixes" it.

* The bios' ACPI implementation is buggy and doesn't properly report whether the lid is open or closed. As a result, the laptop sometimes fails to go to sleep when I close it, and sometimes fails to wake up when I open it. It works most of the time but not always in windows, and linux got into a perpetual sleep-wakeup-sleep loop until I found the right workaround.

* A plugable brand thunderbolt dock "glitches" every 10-20 seconds when typing on a USB3 keyboard. Plugable claims it's due to buggy Intel firmware in the laptop. To be fair, a different brand of dock works fine, though.
Ah yes, lovely, Dr. Shiva, who claims Fauci and deepstate are behind coronavirus, is back at it with new hits!
Take a look at Thonny. It's specifically designed for new programmers learning to code, and it bundles Python, so it's as close to one-click as it gets.

https://thonny.org/

As for installing apps written in Python - that's really down to the developer. A desktop app would normally just bundle Python for its own local use, similar to what Java apps do, and users are none the wiser - to them, it's just another installer. Some examples of such software on Windows include Calibre and CHIRP.
I didn’t even have to reactivate after changing my MB. I never had to reactivate an activated Windows 10 in general.
The possible connection I see: who watches the watchers? What's the difference in trusting CISA vs PRISM?

I have no ill intent, and I find all of this stuff distressing.
I do this with my socks. The low cut ones are all one color and and the high tops are all a different color. It makes sorting laundry a breeze.
Electronic voting machines are the primary weakness in the entire system, this is hacker news and we should know this for the fact that it is. I also would like to see the data on their claim that "the vast majority" have a paper system that can be audited, (and data on how much actually are). They even admit that CISA doesn't do any of that, and that it is at the state and local level, and almost anyone who knows how corrupt state level politics are would rightly doubt how well such abuses are being guarded against at that level.
yeah I just don't understand the downside of having a paper backup just in case. Is it the cost? The US already spends a ton on election, what is an extra paper print gonna do?
LOL, my policy is to never major-upgrade the OS the machine came with.

I have machines around the house with OS'es going back a ways...
I know different people have different risk tolerances, but there’s no way I would get on a plane during a pandemic if I don’t have to.
Throughout the day most of my emails from yahoo bounce back:

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WTF would you want the Lying Fakestream legacy ' news ' as art work

Here is a novel idea

GET OUT SIDE

Go walk in nature

Visit a park
Create a delivery budget. For any feature, ask ‘what are 4 critical things this thing must do to be deployable’. Then ask for 3 ‘nice to have but not critical’ things they need.

Always, always, deliver the mvp - critical things. Then negotiate your timelines for nice to haves. Keep your communication lines limited unless to clarify something critical, or make clear that part of the feature is not feasible.

Follow this process and you’ll start to align quickly with what they want, while building credit towards negotiating auxiliary timelines (nice-to-have’s).

It’s a process, don’t be too weirded out by the feedback. Systematically solve it.
Riiiiight. Just look at how districts are gerrymandered to realize this is not what politicians of either side want.
> MS wants to build the best tooling for the most popular languages

If that is true, why don’t they buy out JetBrains?
To be fair, that's very true for many places. Although I would also argue that there are many places (not referring to US) where electronic voting is safer than paper ballots purely because politicians know how to hire gangsters to blow up trucks carrying votes or trace and blackmail voters due to corrupt officials.
I'm not fully familiar with American politics, but out of those states the only that comes close to mattering in terms of EC outcome (this election) was Texas I think? And even then, it's unclear if it was that close considering most of the polling was off by 3-4 points. Then again some other states were spot on, so we'll never know if that was the case for Texas or if they were hacked.
There is something wrong with your cardiovascular system. Have you been screened for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, patent foramen ovals, or arteriovenous fistula? A resting heart rate of 115 is crazy high. Get a second opinion from another cardiologist. Ask for imaging studies, treadmill stress test, and a Holter monitor. Good luck.
It was one thing when it was the RIAA that was coming for our repositories. Now that it is Google, I'm extremely sad and disappointed.

I think the time has come for there to be a repository hosting service that is based somewhere in Switzerland :)
in China, these draft regulations goes through many rounds of discussions with government regulators, law makers, and industry stakeholders. There is no way the regulator just popped these out of blue. What extremely likely happened Jack ma, other executives, banks have been discussing and debating about this for a while. Since 2019 Ant has tried to claim they are technology company and they make technology to improve financial services, and they shouldn't be regulated as banks. I tend to think that Ant's approach with big data and having more data on the borrowers' spending habits do allow them to mitigate risks. But on the other hand, the leverage is still very risky. It can be said that an algorithm cant predict everything that goes in the future. What if a black swan event like COVID19 happened and the macro economics goes to shit in a sudden and all your consumers can't pay back the credit. Also keep in mind that a lot of Ant' borrowers are individuals, young adults, and uses it like credit cards. But unlike the US, China doesn't have strong credit score system. And taking credit on Ant doesn't require strict employment vetting, or asking if you own a house that you get when you apply for a credit card in the US. I think COVID19 and the sudden economy collapse also made the regulators realize how much danger there could be and compelled them to push out the rules.

Regulator's point of view is safety by design. Ant can fuck up something like the risk management process and still won't go bankrupt and take the financial sector with it if there is sudden adverse event. Jack Ma thinks its about innovation and he and his company alone can mitigate the risks and the society and the government should just trust them to be the vanguard.

So Jack Ma has irreconcilable views with the government regulators. And he came out to present his views in that meeting. Its not that government saw his comments as challenge the government's authority or something. The regulators would have pushed out the new changes even if he didn't say anything.
Trying to offer a different opinion from the other commenters.

It sounds like your boss wants more outages. That is what less communication and projects delivered faster gets you.

I think it is probably a case of imposter syndrome and your boss having unreasonable expectations (you are probably perfectly capable and he is pushing/pressuring you to do as much as possible).

The fact that you have no CICD or QA makes me believe that you are trying to work around this by 'over complicating solutions' to reduce risk (which is a good move btw if your boss is the kind to place the blame on you for rushed deployments).

I could be reading this totally wrong, and you will know immediately if I am. Flexible working is great, but just as bad for your mental health if your boss is a dick. Maybe it is time to look for a new gig.
Such as this: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/831483401467265024 ?
How Did Substack with a 1/10th of the money and 5 years late eat Medium's Lunch?
Was there a reason CISA needed to release a statement? I haven't seen anything controversial in the news. As they say, if you have to say it...

I have a few comments going back a couple of years predicting how electronic voting will cause civil unrest because it is so vulnerable to being discredited. Edward Snowden even recently tweeted a prof's video about the same thing. Everybody who had given the issue any serious thought at all already knew it was an inevitable problem. Luckily, the U.S. has a process for dealing with contested election results, and the parties will litigate it to its final state.

I'm just hoping for a very cold winter to keep people inside.