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As a Brit who reads the NYT and knows Krugman mainly by his writing there, I found that Wiki piece enlightening and fascinating. I will make an effort to read him more widely. Thanks.

FWIW, I also enjoyed reading his latest NYT piece for its substance, observation and its humour:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opinion/reagan-economy-co...
the article sidesteps an entire cultural element of "Silicon valleys" in favour of attacking...noncompete clauses? the author seems to forget that it didnt work in California (non competes just evolved to no-poach agreements.)
He was in jail for three murders when just two years ago he confessed to ninety more. Do you think he would have confessed if he knew he would face the death penalty?
I remember watching a GDC talk of JAM (https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018184/Network-Serialization-...), which was Blizzard's solution to network serialization for WoW back in 2004. The talk even had performance comparisons against protobuf and it seemed like a decent alternative that worked well for them. Was this new alternative an extension of JAM, or a full rewrite? I know they have millions of players monthly, but I can't imagine saving a bit on bandwidth could have warranted a full rewrite, especially when the majority of their traffic is from their own datacenters.
The web is different now. Back in the days of flash, "platforms" weren't really a thing and social media was pretty much "whoever has figured out how to host a webpage".

We don't live in that era anymore (and I sort of miss it :( ). We live in an era of SaaS and major platforms. For 90% of "custom webpages" wordpress covers it. For the 9% not covered, flash wouldn't really be a good fit. The loss is for that 1% of creative fun junk by hobbyist that's just missing all together. Flash made it easy for a novice to sculpt something. However, it didn't make it easy for a business to maintain something.
Consider how the number of states are calculated: If you have n qubits, at the time of making the measurements those can be in 2^n distinct (basis) states. This is similar to how in the classical case you can use n bits to express at most 2^n different states.

Which one of the basis states we end up measuring depends on the squared of the complex amplitude of that state (Born rule). Therefore, if you were to simulate a quantum computer, in the general case you would need to keep track of these complex amplitudes belonging to the states, every 2^n of them. Because of the real and imaginary parts this amounts to 2*2^n=2^(n+1) numbers.
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> It’s a matter of proper tech and policies.

I would love to see evidence of this supposition.
I mean at the voter level. How it gets expressed in power is certainly an artifact of our political system. For better or worse, our system is tilted towards rural power.
Whatever way you cut it, the photons themselves can not run in any speed that is not c.

Besides, electromagnetic interaction is modeled as emission and absorption of photons on a small enough scale. You are just using a population simplification to dismiss the individual based analysis (what would be pretty reasonable because the later one is meaningless when you can't observe individuals, except that the entire point is pedantic, and pedantism can't be subject to dismissal by meaninglessness).
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Mannig and Bradley covered this phenomenon extensively in The Rise of Victimhood Culture

Much like the literal "loudness war", the race to be "outraged", turn every conflict to 11, and the refusal to accept people's shame as a sufficient response, has all but eliminated shame as a useful weapon against public transgressions.

When shame is no longer a meaningful self-regulating mechanism in daily life, you are left with a nihilist Manichean arms race of immediately having both sides of an argument declare the other as an absolute evil - with no middle ground to stand on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Victimhood_Culture...
We have a higher carbon footprint in the West, but this is a moot point if the population level stagnates or even drops. Particularly with innovation.

You're forgetting that population growth in the developing world is what drives immigration and leads to more of those very-high-carbon-footprints. The birth rate in the 1st world is stagnant. Our growth is due to immigration. Eliminating global poverty and allowing universal access to contraceptives would effectively kill the problem.
It's been mentioned several times that potential buyers should have a look through [1] before ordering.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/top/?t=year
To be fair, it wasn't like they started from scratch back then either: there were slave states and free states, and something had to give.
> They are elected from the state Senate members.

In context, I think your "they" refers to the lieutenant governor? That position is elected by the people of Texas, not (state) senators.
This is unrelated to the topic at hand, but your point about the Texas heat led me to another train of thought. It seems that when it comes to temperature extremes, heat is the first to get criticism. But I very rarely hear any complaints about the frigid temperatures in places like Minneapolis, Chicago, or Boston. I'm trying to wrap my head around it. Are humans better situated to deal with colder temperatures than hotter temperatures? Or is it just the simple fact that it is easier to layer up than it is to layer down?
I wish IDEs/text editors enabled code to be rendered and edited in different ways: braces, do/end, whitespace. That could very well be a good way to resolve these disagreements.
As a Texan I hate most CA residents relocating to TX along with their liberal bullshit, they can't wait for a second to make TX like CA where they just departed, they have no mercy to make where they reside a hell before moving on to yet another new place to repeat the brain dead behavior, with a socialism mindset combining to its capitalist greedy they're truly the fatal cancer to US.
I'd add GRPC to the wishlist too: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/4221
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Yes they do handle that but they're not as handy to use as Stripe, they are more like a premade store for you, it's hard to customize products.

FastSpring is the same, and even more expensive with expensive currency conversion if you're in EURO
It depends what you understand by 'infect' - given that life on Earth is convenient blobs of energy, 'consume' might be a more accurate concern.
Don’t you think it could be argued that proudly displaying something is sold by amazon but displaying nothing for 3rd parties would be an antitrust problem?

Also there is text on the page showing you who the item is sold by, and who it ships from.
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Ticketmaster's business model is evilness. Always has been.
I've used Nin for this years advent-of-code challenge. Never used Nim before but there are some great tutorials [1].

It's a nice language with a great standard library. Implicit static typing is great after a bit of getting used to. Some things like tuples or "Object Variants" are fun to use.

The only thing I'm missing is strong debugging support. You can use GDB and there is even some basic support for debugging in VSCode (through gdb behind the scenes). But most of the time I had to fall back to simple "echo" debugging because names were sometimes mangled, variables were not displayed or lines in nim did not correspond with lines in the final output, making debugging a chore. Unfortunately someone once started to write an embedded debugger (ENDB) for all platforms, but development stopped.

What's your opinion on this? In some way I would love to use Nim more in the future, but I'm afraid, that the larger the codebase gets, the more I'd suffer just because of debugging...

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html
I disagree. Get your best AI and make it play Minecraft, then same AI make it play a RTS, then make it play an RPG.

It will not work and a child will beat it at everything. The reason is we can understand stuff at a higher level, then we can create strategy like offensive, defensive, we learn from mistakes and don't randomly search for solutions.

About chess I bet a grand-master will beat your AI at chess if you swap those rules and you don't retrain the AI, you can only update the rules. The AI only sees numbers and functions, no goals, sub objectives etc.
It's been around before anyone was suggesting to join too...
Is it easier to manage if you only stick to EU countries ?
Yes. That. I am done with the MacOS for good. My first Mac was a Classic II, back in '92. My last will be a MB Pro 2018 (actually 2020, but already repaired once and broken beyond working condition again). It was my third MB Pro in 3 years and every single one had to be repaired once before it crashed shortly thereafter. The company I work for has to replace around 1% - 2% of their MB Pro fleet per month. 6 - 10 devices are always in repair (additionally 1 - 2%).

I have notified my superior, that I am not able to work properly in January when I am back from a 2 months LOA were I privately switched everything over onto a WIN10 with WSL2 running Ubuntu.

I am not missing a thing currently. OK - I know at one point I will probably be missing Keynote.
Yep, it's not actively developed : https://github.com/wasdk/WebAssemblyStudio/commits/master
In TX it is more complicated. The cities and farms were blue until all those folks from out-of-state moved into new suburbs and retired to exurbs. The suburbs have controlled TX for about 30 years.

What's left of real rural folk doesn't matter except in the local statehouse.
> Once you’re comfortable with neural networks (and the notation)

I think I am actually. And I read attention is all you need. (Well half of it) and it didn’t seem to delve into how they work.
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And as with cars, the real criminals will probably steal one for their nefarious uses, rather than buy and register their own. Or build one from parts that are now widely available.

You won't stop criminals using drones by forcing hobbyists to register even their ~30g 'Tiny Whoop' drones.

Not sure it'll even have much impact on careless/reckless flying, as the people doing that are the sort of people who probably won't even read the rules before playing with their shiny new toy right next to an airport on a windy day...
This story is not about carbon-free steel but the production of steel without releasing carbon in the atmosphere.

The most carbon dioxide intensive step of steel production is in the production of iron sponge, from which both steel and wrought iron is produced.

It is where the blast furnace is involved. But hydrogen can be used instead. It is a lot more complicated than one would think because not only is carbon very efficient at picking up oxygen, it is also an exothermic process which makes it very practical. This energy have to be added some other way when using direct reduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_reduced_iron
I am too. I was disappointed when Joe Rogan signed an exclusive deal with Spotify.

I’m not sure if people realize this but a podcast is just an RSS feed to your audio files that you submit to a search index. Why would we want to centralize and give up control?
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China's strategy was always to try to dominate the "boring" work on the low end of the value chain and then ratchet their way up the value chain, cutting out foreign competitors at every stage - first in the domestic market and then in foreign markets.

They've now almost reached the top of the value chain after about 30-35 years of diligently following this strategy. They can manufacture phones every bit as good as Apple's without help.

China used to need Apple more than Apple needs China. Now, Apple needs China more than Apple. Apple can't move its supply chain home without eye watering costs.

It won't be long before Apple phones start to lag Chinese phones technologically and it won't be long before China can start threatening sanctions that hurt the US more than they'd hurt China.
So many!

1. homepagr.com: a tool which lets you organize bookmarks and show them on your "new tab" page. I use it extensively, but have gotten 0 adoption, even when I made the price free. (I've since taken down the landing page, but it still works!)

2. audioremarks.com: I've taken down the site, but it was a service that let you upload audio clips and leave annotations at specific timestamps. Made at the start of the pandemic for music students and teachers to do remote lessons and leave feedback. Nobody used it.

3. spry.store: Also taken down. It let you create an e-commerce website from a google sheet. Didn't realize that there were already players in this space, and it's hard to compete in the ecommerce website builder market.

In all of these cases, it was pretty clear from the beginning that nobody would use it: when I talked about the idea to friends, nobody said "wow this is neat!" They all said "huh, okay, why not just use x instead?"

There are two contradictory pieces of advice on HN: one, to talk to customers relentlessly, and two, that "ideas that seems silly are the ones likely to be big." Turns out many of those ideas that seem silly actually aren't going to be that profitable!
> I'm creating a graphical program with a http server running in the background, and mixing asynchttp with UI threads is a bit of a pain in the posterior. Granted, I'm new to the language, I'm considering using channels, maybe that will make it easier to share state between threads.

Ideally you shouldn't need to use UI threads and instead integrate the async loop into the UI's event loop or vice versa. Happy to advise more if you can let me know which UI framework you are using :)

This being said, I am hoping to implement better support for using `spawn` and channels with async, i.e. the ability to await the result of `spawn` or a channel. I think that will make a lot of use cases much easier.
And he's pointing out that your problem is not really so big so as to allow a casual dismissal of the solution. You've reduced the solution to absurdity by creating a scenario that is at least on face easily remediable.
Can't people just write texts? Interesting topic, but I will not waste my time on video. Hate such situations.
> Back in the days of flash, "platforms" weren't really a thing and social media was pretty much "whoever has figured out how to host a webpage".

The “days of flash” included the rise to dominance of Facebook (Facebook games were largely, maybe entirely, Flash), and even moreso included the entire MySpace era of social media.
Although EAFs aren't exactly 0 carbon either - even if the electricity and transportation are zero-carbon, the graphite electrodes they use are consumed in the melting operation. Approximately 5 Kg of Carbon is burned for each tonne of iron, releasing 20 Kg of CO2.

This article is mostly about hydrogen-fuelled direct reduction, the step before the the EAF. Some iron is already produced using DR but using conventional fossil fuels, and this plant would use renewable hydrogen instead of fossil carbon as the reducing agent.
why stop there - also use a system that doesn't have IME/PSP, supports coreboot.
Capitalism is exceptionally good at solving problems when there is money to be made. Putting the right price on carbon will solve that.
By "local stuff" I guess you mean small rural counties?

All of Texas' major cities vote blue.
>The plant will use hydrogen instead of coal in the reduction process for iron ore.

Where does this hydrogen come from? The vast majority of hydrogen for fuel cells comes from petroleum and natural gas reserves.

> New blast furnaces require trillions of yen (1 trillion yen equals $9.6 billion) in investment. Although DRI equipment produces less steel, the investment is estimated at less than half of blast furnaces

So they're building a much more expensive furnace to produce less steel. Wouldn't this create more pollution (not just carbon) because you'd want to hit the same outputs and now you need more energy?

I don't understand "zero-carbon" in these cases. You still need trucks to bring in the tools and equipment to build the facility. All of them use hydrocarbons. You have hydrocarbons needed for the roads. Even if all your construction equipment is electric (they're not) you still have all the massive amounts of carbon put in to producing the electric batteries, not to mention all the waste product that comes from creating lithium batteries.

Are they using all this coal and oil and then saying it's being offset by some credit? How would that even remotely work? You plant a thousand trees for ever square meter? What about all the hydrocarbons needed to transport those seeds, feed the planting crews?

Most "Green energy" is really just burning trees (woodchips).

This whole zero-carbon thing would fall apart when you really started breaking it down. It's marketing bullshit.
In Austria as well. https://www.voestalpine.com/group/en/media/press-releases/20...

EDIT: I should have read the article first.
I’m not sure I’d agree with your idea of expressing your preference as something that can’t be argued against.

Your preference to travel could be understood as imposing a negative externality on those you contact while travelling (in the event you were infectious at the time). If so, I think an argument of why you are taking precautions to make your travel safer (for others) might be more persuasive or thoughtful than a mere statement of your preferences.

If your preference approach is applied to other negative externality actions (like smoking in restaurants, driving much faster than others) the argument seems weaker .... your “I just like to do it [impose costs/risks on others]” rationale has the risk of appearing selfish rather than empowering.
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The trainable face classifier will go a long way. I've been unfortunately trained by Google's unlimited upload behaviour that it's going to be impossible to parse through my archive without Google's semantic identification of contents.
> weight is a force...and it’s also a vector, meaning it has a direction

Well, actually this is redundant. All forces are vectors.
That's just my point. A select handful of applications that had to be ported over by large corporations. But that's it. None of the extremely long tail of actual available applications or even anything that isn't "big".

It's like a soviet grocer's window where it's full of specially prepared "food" in the front display and then empty behind.

These announcements that large institutions and corporations are looking to try to get their application running aren't signals of something good. They indicate something very bad that requires large scale resources to even hope to deal with. The vast majority of applications will never be ported.
Yeah, I don’t mean to rag on the founding fathers. I just find it ridiculous that we’re still dealing with these compromises from disputes 250 years later. That’s another way it’s like a monarchy. “Why is this our government?”. “Well, 250 years ago to avoid war and consolidate power, some agreements were made between landowners and here we are.”
I wonder how they solved the water problem...burning hydrogen produces water, and water in the smelting process can be problematic for the quality of the pig iron...it leads to pitting in rolled steel.
Having just left the Central Valley of California, living there for 7 years working remotely the whole time, I don’t think it’ll work out this way. If you want to see overtaxed areas where you absolutely cannot see the benefits of your tax dollars, you’ll be right at home.

Moving out of California is like getting an immediate 25% raise.
> Not fully.

This isn't true - they are fully concurrent.

The GIL prevents parallelism - not concurrency.
Except their criticisms aren't actually valid - they have a surface coherence to them, but they are still wrong. It's people regurgitating pop opinion without any actual knowledge that gets me really frothy at the mouth.

Most infuriating is people pretending to have deep knowledge by dumping on technology. It works for the most part because most technologies are over blown. But when the tech is actually revolutionary they just add noise to everything - until most sane people believe completely insane things about the current state of play.

Anyone who thinks recent machine learning advances aren't A MASSIVELY BIG DEAL™ is either emotionally invested in their failure or listening to these doom and gloom puppets.
I don't doubt that many Python people have heard of Pypy, but in my experience not many companies actually use Pypy in production
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"Obviously" in what way? Houston's population is 25% foreign born, with an almost even 4-way split between Black, Asian, Hispanic, and White residents.

We're also more socioeconomically balanced and diverse.

https://wallethub.com/edu/most-diverse-cities/12690#detailed
> Carbon dioxide can of itself reduce human cognitive capability

That seems to be only when the CO2 concentration is raised abruptly. After that the body compensates. For example, submarine crews operate perfectly fine in an atmosphere of 2 to 5% CO2 (roughly 100x what is normal), for weeks on end.
I don't think this is true at all.
itch.io and Gamejolt are very popular platforms for indie artists. You submit a zip instead of a swf but the end result is the same, your work is online and playable by anyone. Be it games or animations.
They might have not had a big cultural impact like Newsgrounds but they're serious platforms and they definitely fit the requirements (host arbitrary html5 content with ease)
> Shame - is good

Gotta shamelessly disagree with you on this one.

Shame serves only to erode morale and damages society more as a whole. It turns the world into nothing more than a petty blame-game whereby everything comes to a halt because everyone's too busy living in "aww" of other peoples' behavior to keep society chugging along - hello 2020...?

Shaming is the opposite of productive or effective energy. It's just a petty way to try and control others.

Agree with someone, disagree, don't have an opinion, who cares. But shaming them....egh. Feels like a waste of energy to me.
Or not putting plastic in all our clothing.
Well, he was in the vehicle. Part conspiracy theorist, part disgruntled AT&T employee.
Unfortunately for humanity, we get a lot of comments like this that miss the point. Laws exist, in a lot of cases, to help keep honest people honest. Yea, my car has a license plate and criminal's easily steal someone else's or even make their own (particularly in my US state where they're only printed, not stamped metal). But having the license plate still helps in most cases.
> Turns out many of those ideas that seem silly actually aren't going to be that profitable!

You still want some core users that love the product, even though many bigger players dismiss it as a toy. Think Bitcoin, Google, Apple (In the very early days, it all sounded like silly/toy ideas, but a core group of users loved them)
Costco and Targets selection is basically nothing compared to Amazon though. Can I buy an eGPU enclosure, a GPU, and some paper plates from Target or Costco? Then if I have a problem or decide I don’t want them after opening how hard will the return be with Target and Costco?