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Elon wields a powerful influence, a cult following. Fault is a fuzzy concept, not restricted to binary blame. Combine the poor taste of Elon fucking around with a monetary instrument, and his cult risking their life savings on his every word, and grave losses are the result. People commit suicide all the time because of large investment losses. Don't be too quick to doubt the monetary and biological loss in the US and abroad his statements likely caused.

Your argument hinges on Elon not being the "hand that pulls the trigger." It's really irrelevant as everyone on HN is intelligent enough to understand that Elon is responsible for his reckless persuasions of a populace that is on average, stupid. Yes, the average person is... stupid. Especially ones who worship this man.

Here is just a fraction of Elon's record:

[1] Pedo Tweet: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...

[2] Hyperloop Scam:
https://youtu.be/RNFesa01llk

[3] Boring Tunnel Scam:
https://youtu.be/HVS-YTUf7cM

[4] Autopilot Scam (11 confirmed deaths - should be called Enhanced Cruise Control instead):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27406384

[5] Founder of PayPal, a platform that has been freezing and stealing user's funds since 1998:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27371787

[6] Not even the founder of Tesla. He was an investor (using his grifted Paypal money - how many frozen accounts did it take?):
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1131215_tesla-existed-b...

[6] Anti-union:
https://labortribune.com/tesla-found-guilty-of-union-busting...

[7] Does not care for wellbeing of employees:
https://revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-saf...

Elon is not Tony Stark or Iron Man. He is not a hero. He is not a villain. He is a highly intelligent man with many blind spots and a penchant for rash, poorly judged decisions.

For an in-depth albeit slightly exaggerated look at Elon's faults, enjoy this muckraking journalism from Cody at Some More News:
https://youtu.be/5pNL7MlUpmI
I think back in April 2020, the NYT published a calculator where you could play around with the variables to see when a vaccine could be ready. The best you could do back then was mid 2021…

I think we have come a long way and pushed the boundaries substantially.
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You are criticising someone for having an opinion. 15 years is sufficient time to get _something_ to a prototype that has investors clamouring, if not the first production runs.

By comparison, William Shockley filed his patent in June 1948, and Texas Instruments started making transistors for portable radios in 1954. Different technologies move at different rates. Perhaps graphene needs the modern-day equivalent of a Fairchild Semiconductor.

Also, the difficulty of "figuring out affordable, high quality, bulk production methods" of a technology has little to do with the serendipity of its discovery.
> So please, take a default that protects people first.

Their argument is that having high-quality data to plan healthcare is protecting people.

If people want the state to manage and pay for your healthcare, the state needs information to plan that for everyone. You can already 'opt out' entirely by purchasing your own healthcare if you aren't prepared to contribute.
Well, defining sufficient may be important, likewise sufficient so long as there aren't more variants that are successfully generated and escape - though those odds reduce as numbers go down. And in comparison it sounds like Ivermectin is the reasonable non-politicized option which instead of just being sufficient, it abolishes.
Why do you think that would be the result? They aren’t state sponsored per se, just state turning a blind eye. Plus, it’s already been happening this way for many years. Why would we suddenly start sanctioning China and Russia, risking war?
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Turns out, I do too, so I appreciate the follow up. For me what really did it (in my most recent attempt at holding a job) was the sound of my colleagues eating at their desk.
But you people visit Reddit as well. Is this your alter ego on HN? Why not behave the same way you do in other communities, why put on a mask for the HN folks?
Fatalism is the best way.
> My day is full of other responsibilities. If you don’t like that I don’t think we’ll be a match regardless.

Why are you looking for another job then? Are you the type that is just all motion and can't ever stop and focus on something properly?

Why do you want to join our company? If you want to join us why is this interview that you have with us less important than the two meetings you have around the time?

Yes, you are right, we would probably not be a right match. We are looking for candidates that want to get the job.

Imagine you ask a girl for a date. You are 2 minutes late telling her you had to clean up your flat. Then at the end of the meeting you say you can't stay longer because you need to do some shopping.

Two perfectly valid reasons and 2 minutes late is not that much late in itself.

But if I was the girl I would think "this guy is probably not a good match, he just doesn't care about me".
A little hokey, maybe, but I've found great strength in the Tao te ching, specifically the Ron Hogan translation.

I'd describe my burnout as 50 percent PTSD, 50 percent taking everything too seriously. Every time I'm feeling down, tired and burned out, I find something in there that helps me let go a bit. Good luck with everything.

http://www.beatrice.com/TAO.pdf
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The article contains a broken link to the paper but I think I found it on Sci Hub. It's short by the way, just three or four pages of own content:

https://sci-hub.do/10.1179/143307508/270875

Edit: it's a bit of a strange paper with a lot of talk about unrelated things (imo) but there seems to be this unexpected effect which might make it worthwhile to investigate it independently from what one thinks of this paper. The setup seems to be simple and cheap enough that there should not be huge obstacles to get easy and fast results.
Copy-paste deanonimization attacks are thing and have exposed people in this exact manner.

Having only one connection going over Tor is a big risk that forces the user to constantly recalculate the information horizon. Easy mistake to make.
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I'm baffled how people on HN, ostensibly programmers and other left-hemispherists alike, still believe mainstream media.

The conclusion is as follows: there are no genuine commenters left here. Only the agenda implanters, their censoring Sancho Panzas and mindless parrots of their narratives.

But I am satisfied to know that truth hurts and downvoters are still stung with it, however high a horse be dragging them.
There are quite a few problems with that in the case of medical records.

Some of this information may be urgently needed at a time when the patient is not capable of giving informed consent for its disclosure or does not have it immediately available.

Some of the information may be vital to the future healthcare of the patient and would cause serious harm to them if it were lost.

And in more of a more morally grey area, some information might be harmful to the patient if they had it. For example, consider the implications of bluntly disclosing various mental health diagnoses to someone who doesn't fully understand what they mean and whose condition means they won't necessarily respond rationally or beneficially to the information.

In this case, having the records kept locally by exactly one organisation that is run by medical professionals who are bound by strong professional ethics seems like a reasonable policy.
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They are quite different concepts and certainly in practice.

At it's barest, a controller organizes models and renders them into a view.

Again simplifying, an entity has components which describe it's functionality, and the entity can get passed through a system. The entity is the concept of the thing, and the components are it's features. The system uses the features to make decisions about how the entity interacts with the system.

I've never seen MVC used in anything but single-run applications that end with an discrete output. Whereas ECS is more often used in software with a perpetual state and loop, such as game engines.

Exceptions abound.
By neat I mean "holy shit, the salt water is literally on fire"
Force yourself to rest and to do nothing for long periods of time.

Eventually start building back on yourself. Focus on something you haven't for a while. Call back an old friend with which you have lost contact but didn't want to. Focus on your family, do some sports. Read a book.

Eventually the passion will comeback and you will have your energy again.

As humans we live in cycles, it is normal to break up once in a while.

Don't forget to sleep. Sleep what your body feels like it
Paul doesn't seem like a good person.
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> If people want the state to manage and pay for your healthcare, the state needs information to plan that for everyone. You can already 'opt out' entirely by purchasing your own healthcare if you aren't prepared to contribute.

This is literally going against the underlying principles of the NHS. There is no 'transaction' going on here. I already contribute to the NHS through my taxes.
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Am I the only one that gets driven kind of crazy by these kinds of problems?

I'm not completely sure so far what it is, but I'm guessing it's the frustration of having to find a needle in a haystack of essentially infinite size, as depending on how complicated you want to see the problem, there's an infinitude of potential 'solutions' and you never really know which level of complexity the author had in mind.

I love logic puzzles, where the system is constrained and you have to work within it, but these find-the-rule problems really aren't my thing so far. Maybe I'd need to develop a higher frustration tolerance for them, heh.
Another story of the same type was somebody trying to recover waste heat from shower drain water to put back into the shower water. It was poo-pooed for violating the 2nd law or something. But the poo-pooer neglected the fact that hot shower water is made from a mixture of hot and cold water, so the cold water could be heated by the warm waste water.
Depending on your used adblock, I'd guess it is the bottleneck.
Plugins running in the browser are not made for this. If you are using browser plugin-based adblocking, try to disable that temporarily for testing, and exchange it with some host-based solution, for instance this https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts no matter which OS your are on. Then see if it feels faster. If you are already doing it this way, forget what I wrote :-)
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It’s just offshore oil and gas platforms. Major iron ore has its own rail track and fibre network. There is no reason for it to loop around, cables are two directional.
The essence of OOP is not inheritance, that’s a nice to have. The essence of OOP is to encapsulate the data and the functions that operate on that data into an object and hide the internal state of the object from the rest of the program.
ECS is not MVC. Components are data, systems are logic AND presentation, entities are lifetime management.
Yes, of course. But the fact that bitcoin governance makes it very difficult to introduce changes means that all the relevant decisions were made during the design phase by the original developers, and that everybody who came later had no influence on these decisions. Whereas a currency that is managed through democratic institutions allows the community that uses it to have control over crucial aspects of the currency, whereby being more democratic and less authoritarian.
The solutions described are not the ultimate ones, yet.

The real solution will be to:

"Make salt magnetic and pull it out of the water, in real-time, with electro-magnets."

https://audio.kryon.com/en/What's%20Wrong%20Today.mp3 (start the audio at 18:20, for the gist and some more details)
Better to keep quiet than to criticize it without bothering to study it though. Unless your criticism is simply "most inventions that look like this are PPM so yours probably is too."
Goodhart's law works here too: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

One should consider all factors before making a change and don't blindly target the test score only.
> This is literally going against the underlying principles of the NHS.

Bizarre claim. The underlying principle of the NHS is socialised healthcare. Opting out of contributing to allow the NHS to plan for everyone's healthcare is the opposite of being social.

> There is no 'transaction' going on here. I already contribute to the NHS through my taxes.

Seems self-contradictory?
>It is worth the same number of bitcoins yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

That would be nice but it goes against the "number go up" theory of "bitcoin investing".
For applications such as CAD, Video and Sound Editing, and other computationally and memory inventive applications, workstations are indeed a class apart from desktops. For e.g., the disks are rated for high throughput, the RAM is ECC, the CPUs have higher L2/L3 cache.

The Video cards and drivers are also often tuned for the use case.

Such workstations are not the same as desktops used for gaming, everyday use, or even programming.
This is really cool. Kudos
> I've never seen MVC used in anything but single-run applications that end with an discrete output.

MVCs original use was GUIs, which are not “single run applications with a discrete output”, but instead “software with a perpetual state and loop”. Yes, its since been adapted to web use, which usually fits that single-run description, but still...
Not necessarily a “large scale” problem but the increased salinity means you create a enormous dead zone near your output system unless you spend a ton of energy to mitigate it.

We had Bechtel design us a desalination/RO system for a biofuel startup I worked with and to prevent the dead zone, you need a massive system of buried pipes in the ocean. Iirc, it was the most expensive part of the entire design since you need to output it over something like a square kilometer and you need to mix in fresh seawater at several points to dilute the effluent before you release it. So in addition to the CapEx of a construction project in a horribly hostile environment, you have permanent energy consumption even past the filters.

And of course, since it’s coastal, there are tons of regulations and government bodies interested in making sure you don’t cut corners.
The AU engineers have all the existing product knowledge. The US is hiring for multiple positions to work on new products but US HQ doesn’t want there to be a distinction between the two teams. The plan is for both sites to be involved in all projects.
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Even more important than different languages is to learn about different execution models. For instance, the difference between Java and C++ is relatively minor from that perspective, compared to (e.g.) understanding how Prolog works. That will open entirely new horizons if your previous experience was based on C(++)/Java(Script)/Python (just to mention a few of the usual suspects). Just look at how the addition of FP features to “OOP” languages considerably widened the field of possibilities.
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There are some misleading sentences in this article.

> The C stands for continuity and the superscript zero means the curves on the embedded surface have no derivatives, not even a first.

This is not exactly true. C maps maybe have higher derivatives and maybe they don’t. Certainly, C isn’t a class of only continuous mappings that don’t have the first derivative.

Also, the example with the letter U is bad (it tries to make a point, and it fails in doing so). A U-shaped curve can be perfectly smooth at all points. It would be “problematic” if we, for example, made the letter U by “glueing” a part of the circle and two segments.
> The letter also agrees that even though collaboration drives success, physical co-location is less of a contributing factor because the company is already distributed with offices worldwide.

The "need" to be in the office is a fallacy if the same company is located in more than a single office.
Well, that's interesting. Going to the opt-out link (your-data-matters.service.nhs.uk), gives this:

Sorry, you cannot see this page

This might be because:

* you're outside of the UK and this service is only
available in the UK

I guess people outside the UK aren't considered allowed to manage their data. :(
This is a really great idea. Well done!
Have you investigated whether you can replace the CMOS battery? It may be a worthwhile activity if it enables you to power off and power on the laptop as and when you need to.
Nothing a good search engine and proper requirements can fix.

In theory it should work like this:

I) "User should be able to do X" <- requirement

II) "X can be achieved by performing steps A, B, and C" <- description of the implementation (high-level, user-perspective)

III) "A works by using components 1 and 2" <- technical documentation (design-level, architecture perspective)

etc.

I) generates your index (what can I even do with the software)

II) generates the documentation (how can I do it)

III) and below is for technical use only (extending, modifying, porting)

Stuff like rationales for design decisions can be structured in the same layered way.

I don't know how something like this can be extracted after the fact, but no matter the development model (waterfall/agile), a structure like this should arise naturally anyway and the absolute amount of documentation isn't a problem. Lack of proper structure, however, is.
Would there even be any brine? If they take out the lithium but don't take any water out (remix everything other than lithium) then the net effect on salinity would be almost nothing. It would make economic sense to colocated, to also do freshwater extraction at the same facility, but the removal of the lithium would then be beside the point.

I wonder if the process can work for other more valuable substances. Uranium from seawater has been done for a while now. This process might make it cheaper than mining. The world could change if every country with access to the sea can start extracting such things.
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I had no idea the article was littered with links, as the colour difference is too small to see for me and my monitor. They look like the same colour to me. If Substack feels a different colour for links is too distracting or tacky, maybe they could consider a little icon denoting a link. But it's not very good web etiquette to hide links like that.
The state has been planning national healthcare in the UK since shortly after WW2 without needing this before. So far, I have yet to see any argument from any medical professional that the proposed centralisation of fully detailed individual patient records is reasonable or necessary for the proper commissioning of personal healthcare within the NHS system. Evidently the doctors objecting in the linked piece don't buy that argument, and although it's not explicitly stated, it's quite likely that some of those GPs are also involved with their area's CCG.

Similarly, it is already possible for research groups to contact patients with certain conditions indirectly (via the clinical professionals treating them) and invite them to participate in research programmes that they might be able to help. Again, there is no need to create the most risky personal data lake in the history of the UK to achieve this.
Quick question, without checking the numbers, about how many black people do you think were killed by police last year and how many of them were unarmed? I'm interested in knowing what you think the numbers are in reference to them possibly being a credible threat.
This was a good read and I really enjoyed it (I'm another person who was turned onto Bongard problems by Hofstadter), but two parts weren't particularly strong.

The first one was the dismissal of intuition in a way that seemed pretty straw man like to me: "Mostly, “intuition” just means “mental activity we don’t have a good explanation for,” or maybe “mental activity we don’t have conscious access to.” It is a useless concept, because we don’t have good explanation for much if any mental activity, nor conscious access to much of it. By these definitions, nearly everything is “intuition,” so it’s not a meaningful category."

I think the author could have spent longer trying to come up with a better definition of what someone would mean by intuition with relation to these problems instead of just setting up a poor one then immediately tearing it down. Intuition here would be contrasted against the deliberate procedural thinking of "let's list out qualities of these shapes" and would be something like seeing the solution straight away, but can also be combined with the procedural thinking too with the intuition originating possible useful avenues and then the deliberate part working through them. The contrast is that you could easily write down one set of the steps to be replicated by others (the deliberate part: "I counted the sides on all shapes") but less so the other (intuition: "I thought x", "x jumped out").

The second is that the example they use for mushiness really isn't. There is a perfectly concrete solution to that that doesn't involve any mushiness and is simply that the convex hull of one set is triangular while the others are circular. The only mushiness involved is that saying "triangles vs circles" feels like enough of answer to us to not need to specify any more. We think that we can continue with just this answer and be able to correctly identify any future instances so it seems mushy but you can probably think of examples that would confound the mushy solution but be fine under the more concrete convex hull one.
As someone who works in HealthTech in the UK, I can see why NHS Digital sees a need for this.

We really should be enjoying the benefits of a centralised National Health Service in this country, but the divide and conquer management strategy gives individual GP practices and Hospitals (run by NHS Trusts) a lot of independence. That independence extends to IT systems, meaning you have various patient record systems in use around the country and a set of standards and APIs mandated to allow them to communicate.

I would personally prefer those patient records to be on software provided and administered by a technical organisation with the expertise to understand the security risks involved and working full time on that problem. Hospitals and GPs could then get on with treating patients rather than having to employ their staff to figure out the tech side. So why isn't NHS Digital doing that instead?

I expect most people actually believe the NHS already have their medical records, and in a sense they do, it just has many different custodians all around the system.
OO less inheritance has a different name: object-based. It isn't better or worse. But the distinction is worth keeping.