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> > Flattening density is the way forward.

I liked this sentence but had no idea what it meant. I was going to sit down and work it out.

Which now I 'get it', it actually has meaning, so not GPT-3.

Basically it's saying make society less dense, spread out. Squish high-rises down.

Which since this is fiction is pretty boring fiction.

They want to lower entropy. Crappy boring humans everywhere compared to mega cities and endless deserts and jungles. Drive for hundreds of miles and just see flat boring people. No Tyrell Corporation, no San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge shanty town, just people in little houses.
Okay good for you, why add your voice and make it harder for the vast majority of people that don’t want this. Go sit in your office when the quarantine is done but please be quiet about your opinions so legitimate change can happen before then for the rest of us.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has covered the meta-story of the publication of these articles extensively.

Here's his take on the most recent update:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/12/bloomberg-big-c...
"...the existence of some external force that can affect the brain and make decisions with some magical non-causal mechanism, which is to me a rather illogical concept."

I can see why you wouldn't believe this, but why do you think it is illogical? Consider the contrast between a tape recorder + tape, vs. a radio. In the one, the sounds that come out of the speaker are purely internally produced (considering the tape to be part of the recorder). In the other, the sounds coming out originate from a radio station somewhere else, perhaps thousands of miles away, and to which the radio receiver is tuned. Why couldn't a brain be like this: it is a receiver for signals sent from a mind somewhere else, and specifically tuned to that mind.

Perhaps someone will say Occam's Razor. Ok, but if you apply OR to the brain and the mind, then you ought to be able to apply it to the radio receiver and transmitter. But that of course is wrong, which shows that Occam does not necessarily lead to the correct answer.

At any rate, I don't mean to get into a discussion of whether the brain + mind work like this, I just want to suggest that it's not at all illogical.
For web-only, it's worse.

For most enterprises, it provides a unified flow across the variety of technologies their core applications are built in: heavyweight Windows, mainframe, Java, etc.

(Thanks for all your work building awesome things!)
A great deal of GME's move before last month was fighting back against a short attack that had artificially pushed the price down. $5 was not the natural price. $5 was the price as hedge funds attempted to drive Gamestop out of business, in the midst of the COVID crash. I would accept $20, which was what the stock price climbed to before a positive earnings report and moves to restructure increased positive sentiment. The squeeze we saw was, then, 10x at best. This is in line with the 12x I mentioned earlier. VW was less, but had started at a higher point and moved similarly to GME over several months before the major event.

The 28th WAS that event for GME, but it was cut off. It's impossible to say how the differing circumstances between GME and VW's squeeze would have changed the magnitude of its peak, but they're similar enough that we could expect similar movement from $300-$400 to the actual peak if major retail brokerages hadn't prevented traders from opening positions. Go look at a chart of those two weeks. GME's looks similar to VW's, except there's a massive hole on the 28th. When buying resumed (however limited) the price shot back up to match sentiment, above $300, and then mirrored the trend over the following days. That hole is where the squeeze would have been.

Finally, the valuation during action like this is not based on the company's fundamentals but on the magnitude of the bets placed against it. Shorts piled on at extremely low price levels; the more the market decided they were wrong, the more they lost, theoretically without limit.
Since Supermicro mother boards are selling everywhere, it should be very easy to find one such board and take a picture right?
Or perhaps disgruntled customers [possibly who purchased an artificially inflated 5 star item only to find it garbage].
Probably not offline stuff like encrypted mail. That tends to be protected separately from the phone stuff.
I lived on 8th & Mission and dated somebody in the Loin for several years (protip: Hyde is better to walk than Leavenworth), so yes. My charitable contributions have in the majority gone toward SF homeless orgs. And I'm not afraid to talk to people. I really think you are conflating indigence and callousness.

The people in the mid-Market BART stations have the support of other homeless in the community. The most disheveled are generally end-stage drug users. Their methadone clinic (if that's their poison) and many support shelters are within two blocks. If they're passed out and nodded off there it's because they chose to be incapacitated in a (very relatively) safe spot, where they're not exposed to the elements and relatively out of the way of the walking path. They probably know the other homeless, and people in a bad way will be checked on. Missionaries and street outreach folks will sometimes come by with food or clean blankets. Of course, they'll also have to deal with robbers and random assaults. Life on the street is tough.

This guy was obviously not an end-stage drug user. He was dressed nicely, in a crisp white shirt and clean black pants. He was sprawled against a news stand on the corner, his legs squarely in the sidewalk, which as you know is not so wide in midtown Manhattan at 6:15pm. And he was utterly ignored.

I know the numbers, and I too used to argue them, but the apathy and coldness in "safe" New York was undeniable.
I think this twitter thread is a very reasonable analysis of this article: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/13602327536236298.... I think critically there are a lot of claims here, and none of them provide _concrete_ proof of any form. There's a lot of 'senior official said X' and X number of people in the know declined to comment, but these are just appeals to authority/credentials. People are flawed and second hand rumours of rumours can easily bend the truth. I don't think it's necessarily fair to put out a story claiming this is 'the truth' when alot of the sourcing is indirect and 'declined to comment'. It's just not there with the facts! True or not, we can't know, but this report need more facts.
Ask HN: Does Buxfer Have a Future?
Evaluating money management applications, I'm really impressed with Buxfer. It works well, but doesn't seem to have much of a user community or much enterprise energy when compared with products like Mint or YNAB.

This HN post in 2010 suggests that it turned into a side project when the founders took other jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611100

Eleven years later, it's still competitive. That's impressive. But I don't want to migrate to it if there is no roadmap for the future.

Any news on the current state or future of Buxfer?
Is cardiac fibrosis good or bad? I skimmed through the article but couldn’t immediately tell.
Gruber is the least likely to have an unbiased opinion on this since Apple was part of the story.

I don't know what to make of this, but I'm finding it more difficult to believe that the story is not true.
It sure looks like that ... the lack of ports is a bummer though.
>They shared one other trait; U.S. spymasters discovered the manipulations but kept them largely secret as they tried to counter each one and learn more about China’s capabilities.

Putting aside the concerns with the believability of this particular Bloomberg article... how many legitimate security holes are ignored in software purely on the basis of "the NSA figures it's NOBUS (nobody knows but us) and it'd be good to use it on China?" I'm personally convinced that the spymasters are more worried about keeping a good stock of security holes in reserve instead of actually securing infrastructure.
No; all observers see the speed of light as the same.
Pattern-matching-ts: Pattern Matching in TypeScript
Its all good. I used to be a dev many years ago, so I just try to stay informed as much as possible now.
My solution: only read negative reviews. They're much more telling. As a bonus, they'll often kill impulse purchases, saving me money.
I don’t claim to be a scientist.

The times I use this phrase are typically when having political arguments where what we know is correct is pitted against monied interests that aren’t seeking truth but working hard to obscure it (“is smoking cigarettes harmful?”, “is climate change real?”, “is the earth round?”, etc).
... and then you run a script that depends on `/bin/bash` .. but uses a feature (e.g. coproc, associative arrays) from a version less than a decade old. And then you go and update your PATH and shebang lines to call out `/usr/bin/env bash` and hope things go right.
I like the Ux, very simple and responsive. It would be great if users on the stage could share a file with everyone else.
Fibrosis = Scarring. Not good for the heart.
Replace reviews with raw data - total number of purchases (at this price and version), return rate, etc.
I have my eyes on a T490 - I've used ThinkPads in the past, and they are fabulous. I still do love Macs - their build quality is exceptional and the stability of the macOS is something I appreciate. I've never had a Win machine last 5+ years. YMMV
Userbase scale, supported technologies, and integrated platform vs single-purpose tool.

When you don't have the luxury of picking and choosing opportunities, or not automating part of a workflow, compatibility matters.
In Japan, Yahoo Auctions is still going strong. It's a great place to find car parts. Related but I guess targeted at the anglosphere:

http://jp-carparts.com has schematica of cars so that you can find pretty much any part you need.

https://www.amayama.com is a place you can put the part number in and actually order the part directly from a bunch of Japanese suppliers.

You want some of those little plastic interior clips for a 1996 Nissan? They have them. Power steering pump? Entire transmission? Window glass? Hood latch?

It is often cheaper than getting it locally too because the local markets assume scarcity and Japan tends to not price gouge in the first place.
And how exactly does that solve the problem?
I'm surprised you can still write reviews for products and services on Amazon you haven't bought from Amazon.

How much of this racket on places like Amazon and Yelp would be killed if you had a unique generated ID assigned to you once you purchased a good or service and it was verified as delivered?
Sellers generate fake orders for their products using real identities, actually send the product to those people, but leave a fake review in their name.

I've tried raising the issue repeatedly with Amazon, but I've now given up and look forward to the random crap I get sent almost on a monthly basis.
Hebbian learning is a good biologically plausible learning rule. It works.

Minsky's result used a popular but too simple model. Still, that led to back propagation which the field has been squeezing as much as it can out of since.

Decades ago that result was bypassed by adding a term of location into the network model (i.e. Hopfield+Hebbian) and modulating according to a locationally differentiated trophic factor (i.e. the stuff that the molecular processes of learning use as input). This allows for linearly inseparable functions to be learned (in not really but important "contradiction" to Minsky's result). Jeffrey Elman and others found this in the 90s and I was able to replicate it up to six dimensions in 2004. So we didn't really need back propagation, though it's been useful.

Admittedly these models remove even more legibility from the models.
To me, that's actually the correct use of the system. I was thinking more in terms of people deliberately gaming the review system.
agree...would have way more usage if in english
Every union leader in the USA is a registered democrat.

What amazon needs are bipartisan unions. Not a control arm of a single party system.
I don't think reviews are bad, but I think 5 stars is.

Should just be thumbs up, thumbs down. Maybe a "meh" in between.

Alternatively, ask for ratings as 5 star, treat 4 as a meh, and anything 3 or below as a thumbs down.
We already have that today (we can simply ignore reviews)
This is ridiculously obvious when searching for basically anything on Amazon now. There will be 10 identical product listings with 10 different brand names, many of which have reviews describing, and pictures showing, completely different products.
Hey thanks for reporting it. Not sure if there is a solution for this but I am looking into it.
How does that tell you if the product is any good though? Popularity doesn't automatically imply quality.
Apple's mobile devices haven't been that interesting since the iPhone X / Watch Series 3. Nothing really has felt like a 'must have' upgrade. iPhone 12 & series 4 watch was definitely an improvement stylistically, but that's about it.

And apple only really cares about privacy from 3rd parties, not privacy from apple for their customers. They don't E2E encrypt their backups, and many other services, which makes their service operation not very attractive. Why use apple services if it's not going to be private, might as well use the better run or cheaper google or amazon ones at that point.

Most interesting thing so far is the M1.
Book Review: ‘How to Avoid a Climate Change Disaster,’ by Bill Gates
This is concerning, because whilst not strictly ketogenic, my (and my partners) diet has shifted to significantly less carbs, as part of managed weightloss and if the consequence is cardiac fibrosis, thats a significant concern for her: she has pre-existing conditions including lack of strong heart function.
Oh I’m aware this isn’t the Apple Store (as in the physical buildings). I just don’t understand what the brand store is if this item is considered to be sold by Amazon (as the rep said). Is it just a collection of items sold by Amazon and others that are manufactured by one company? I assumed that the company was involved in the selling.

For example, I would be more likely to trust an item is legit if it supposedly comes from “the Apple Store” on Amazon, as opposed to some random Amazon seller. But if it’s just a collection of items from various different sellers, then it’s pretty much meaningless to me.

EDIT: can someone explain the downvotes here? I'm just replying to the comment above, describing what confuses me about this. If this is super obvious to other people, then what does "visit the Apple Store" on Amazon mean?
Amazon needs to stop allowing review to be left by people who do not have a verified purchase of an item on their accounts. If you really think about reviews, without honesty, trust, and verification the entire review system is meaningless.
I think we need this too, but I'm skeptical it would work. I'm afraid most of us don't know/trust enough people. For example, I'm considering buying a sofa from store X, but no one I know has ever bought from store X.

There's a good chance that the items you're most ignorant about are also the items your friends are most ignorant about (or at least enough of them that it'll significantly reduce the quantity of the feedback).

Also, once this became a thing, once it became monetizable, my web of trust would shrink drastically. I mean, geez, I'm even suspicious of my doctors prescriptions.

Maybe we need professional reviewers with a transparent system in place to protect against manipulation (as much as possible). Something like Consumer Reports on a larger scale.
I bet you worries miss it. It would be a very boring world.
The article you linked argues why it wouldn't be possible to move to another country. In fact the article argues heavily that labor costs are not the biggest advantage that China has.
"Your brain waves are the not caused by thoughts, they ARE your thoughts." How can you know that? How do you know that your mind isn't somewhere else (in some sense of "where"), and transmitting signals to your brain, which simply acts as a receiver? I don't say this is true, I'm just asking how you would empirically or experimentally distinguish that situation from the notion that your brain makes up your thoughts.
I like the name you chose just for this occasion
I've got some bad news for you about every toilet you encounter outside of your house...
Where do I sign up to get free random stuff sent to me from Amazon review farmers?
Because the truth is that the reviews are probably almost all fake. Who the f**k IRL takes the time to log back in and leave a product review when the product arrives? I've never done it, and I used to buy from Amazon quite a lot.
Yes, the : and ? are single characters that are easily lost/overlooked among the rest of the code on that line. Even worse when there are nested ternaries.
Well, yes, but .. I think I neglected to consider how you do construct neither a nor b nor c (... ) lists. So I was over absolutist in my thinking. You made a good point. You made me think.

Neither sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night..
Big Macs don't hold up well, because the sauce goes best with a warm burger and is no longer palatable when it's been sitting on top of a cold patty. The shredded lettuce is already sad when fresh, and will inevitably get everywhere. Big Macs are not the item to buy.

Instead, their basic cheeseburgers and their double versions are far cheaper and more versatile, and provided you can peel them apart, they can be partially revitalized with some ketchup from a packet. If you skip the cheese, you will lose some flavor but greatly increase the chance that you'll be able to uncover one side of the patty to add ketchup later.

Their beef burgers with the bigger patty aren't worth buying if you're not going to eat them fresh. This is more true now that they've started cooking them from refrigerated patties, instead of frozen ones, although I don't know if that applies to airport locations also. (But if you know you'll have access to a microwave, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese microwaves the best out of all their beef items.)

But if you're going to be buying food from them knowing it will get cold, consider their chicken items. Nearly all of them will taste good and hold up better than the beef items.

Actual cuts of chicken that have been breaded and fried taste fine cold, so their premium breaded chicken sandwiches are good choice. Pair them with some barbecue sauce.

For even more flexibility, their chicken nuggets are fine cold, you don't have to eat them in one go, and they go well with the barbecue or sweet and sour sauce. In my opinion, their cheap chicken sandwiches have an unpleasant aftertaste that the similarly-constituted nuggets do not, so the nuggets are the superior choice among their cheaper chicken items.
Evolution and thought are the same process. It's funny how many people still don't get that. Gregory Bateson wrote about it in the 1970's. "Steps to and Ecology of Mind"; "Mind and Nature: a Necessary Unity"
> If we start wiping out parts of our history that are unpleasant we won’t have anything left.

Then why are you trying to defend Churchill. You are trying to paint everyone was racist, Hitler would have come to power, we would have been doomed. Churchill was racist that is that.

> It doesn’t make any sense to judge people by the standards of society decades later. If we did that we would have nobody left to admire.

Depends on who judges whom. As they say terrorist is another martyr. For British people he is great savior for us he was responsible to death of millions. As someone said "If we start wiping out parts of our history that are unpleasant we won’t have anything left"
Most of the tools were late to the game on supporting React: or really, virtual DOM.

They're gradually catching up as more sites are written in modern web tech. But it can still be a pain in the ass.
Not really, neither this nor the original article claimed it was done on a mass sale (ie. every machine coming off the line). It was likely only done to juicy targets only.
I agree. encourages. welcomes, suggests, posits..
> One of the first places in America to get SpaceX Starlink service was Alaska, the state with the lowest population density in the country

That is not correct. Starlink has only been offering (very limited) service to Alaska in the past month or so, as their main constellation is not located in orbits suitable for access from high latitudes. They only recently got permission to launch some test satellites into polar orbits.

Source: live in Alaska, have been waiting impatiently for Starlink to become available here.
Back then it would have been fine since the monitors were small and square.
Joe Fitz does not think much of this article. https://twitter.com/securelyfitz/status/1360266293190873090

Worth reviewing the B-Sides PDX 2018 panel on the Supermicro "hack". The reporter was mirroring and testing for plausibility of comments from two or more security researchers attacks on each other. The reporter would take the attack that Joe came up with and ask another security researcher does this seem like a real threat. Then take the attack that the other researcher came up with and test Joe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omlNyUVllY
I got into property-based testing when doing a lot of Scala, and I'm a big fan. Beyond trivial tests, it begins to require a whole different bag of techniques to write good tests. But I think it's worth the investment. The key benefit, IMO, is that it helps remove "happy path bias", in which I, as the author, have a hard time getting out of my assumptions about inputs.
Indeed. Presumably many such IDs exist in Amazon's transaction system. It must be deliberate that they are not used for this purpose.
Lived in California for decades now. I have no idea what you are on about.
Its not UML, but I can tell you we did some consultancy on business workflows and BPMN came to the fore. They're next door concepts.
Because some jackass hype VP coined the term, and by the time anyone with technical knowledge opined there had already been a bunch of ad fluff and mindshare pieces using it.

It's a terrible name and a terrible acronym, superceded only by the absurdity of the "post-RPA" terms that companies are now trying to differentiate themselves via (e.g. "intelligent process automation").
Honest question: have you found something better? Or do you just do all your own research now?
Amazon does have the concept of "verified reviews", it is just not enforced.
> It's equivalent to the halting problem because there exists a set of problems for which for any input that optimiser creates the optimal solution for, there exists another input for which that problem is not optimal.

You're trying to prove that no optimal solution can exist, not that it's impossible to find one. Which is fine, because it's a stronger claim.

But it heavily depends on your definition of optimal. If you define optimal as "lowest average number of instruction across all possible inputs", then there exist optimal sorting algorithms.

If you define optimal as: "A solution is optimal only if for every possible input there exists no solution that requires a lower number of instructions.", then yes, there can be no optimal sorting algorithm.

I would argue that in practice only the first definition is useful.

Further, you're assuming that "optimizations" that replace an existing algorithm with an equivalent one are allowed. Which brings me back to one of my original questions: What optimizations was hvidgaard allowing to be me made when he claimed an optimal solution is incomputable.
If you zip a Python package with a __main__.py, it’s executable by the interpreter.
There should be independent review boards like there are for clinical trials
I remember one of my instructors in a CS course at SJSU about 8 years ago pushing it super hard, saying we'd be using it all the time.

Well, I haven't used or seen it even a single time since then...
Ideally you don't.