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> I prefer https://fly.io - their dev experience is 10x better.

I really like Fly, but it’s not a straight comparison - Fly is a way to run OCI (“Docker”) images in a handful of locations across the world, with some helpful magicks to route users to the closest instance (provided you run them). Thus, the dev experience is… you’re building and running a container locally, just as you would in Cloud Run, Heroku or other services that run containers for you. That familiarity is nice (and certainly an intentional choice by Fly) but it’s hard to say it’s “theirs”.

Workers runs everywhere, simultaneously: all 200+ of their edge locations. They’re designed to be lightweight enough and don’t need “you” to scale them, or pick regions to deploy them into, but the trade-off is that the API & development workflow are more bespoke (a JS-based Service Worker like API). If I want to deploy something that can be as close to end-users as possible, or that can personalize responses from my origin or cache on-the-fly, I reach to Workers first.
How precise is that coordinate? My neighbor and I both have Starlink and our dishes can't be more than 200 feet apart.
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There is no explanation for the erratic seasons. GRRM (just like any storyteller) creates mystery and interest in his world and fills in the details that are required, and not so many of those that are not.

This is something he is very aware of. He will tell you that like any intriguing medieval world map, his world map also has tall tales, mysteries and stories about foreign countries, big monsters and weird men, lining the edge of the map.
I don't know how well you know his family, but it would be good for them to get some advice from others that have been in that situation. I was in their shoes last year and it was incredibly stressful. I came out of it with a much clearer perspective.
> Chasing their careers in a highly structured, sort of dehumanized, environment of constant pursuit.

They have a word for it over there: involution i.e. no matter how much effort you put in, you get the same result.
One party in the equation is a very powerful, profitable industry, the other is a huge but atomized group of people.

To assume that the only power dynamic at play is consumers making individual choices as fully rational, considerate actors is a vast oversimplification. Your equation isn’t more even, you’ve just flipped the one side, assuming that consumers have all the power and Hollywood is just haplessly following demand.

Yes, lowest common denominator viewers are the biggest purchasing group, and that’s the money that Hollywood is chasing. But that was true before. What changed isn’t the same consumers demanding more Avengers and less art films, but Hollywood setting their sights on the global audience, thus increasing the market for generic movies a hundred fold. Now the incentives are so skewed towards that group that the individual American consumer has next to zero power in influencing Hollywood’s direction with their dollars.

You also ignore the power of advertising and limited choice. Marketing can and does create an audience of consumers that didn’t exist before. It’s not about “here are my products, now you choose the best” it’s “here are my products and I will subtly convince you that you need them.” Consumers are not rational actors in a classical sense of going to a market for a specific need and picking the best product from a wide selection. Marketing is sufficiently advanced that the owner of a supply can also create demand for it.

Finally, Hollywood also controls the selection of choices. So as others have pointed out, people who would prefer smarter films have to forego movies altogether if they really want to “vote with their dollars.” So they might still choose a sub par movie if they like the theater and their friends want to go.

PS: I’m not advocating for a solution, so much as I am pointing out that there’s more to market forces than a simplistic libertarian view of the market can offer. I think in this case it’s inevitable and Hollywood movies are just gonna be like that now. But there’s more at play than “oh well, consumers chose it!”
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The New Urbanist part of Hercules is very small and easy to overlook. It does not hit every point that the article mentions, but it is an example of some of them.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.0160237,-122.2779782,3a,75y,...
The quotes you put round just are doing a lot of heavy lifting. If you had a perfect photon rocket you’d only need 1000000000 kg of fuel for each kg of payload to do 1g to the centre of our galaxy and slow down again.

Okay, maybe you can use a laser or something so you don’t have to carry the fuel with you, but you’ll still need a staggering amount of energy because the rocket equation is a harsh mistress, and the relativistic version is even worse.
We have the potential for greatness. If only we could somehow tame the darker aspects of humans we would actually deserve a fate like this and probably be able to do it (or at least that's my wishful thinking).

But yeah diversification at least 100 light years around in neighboring systems would greatly increase our chances of survival any kind of random brutal event (unless one of our neighbors goes supernova). It will be more of a question of survival rather than 'do we want to colonize that other system'
If you mean literally the future depicted by Star Trek, then, certainly not. It's not stated for sure, but I'd bet money on the activity directors on Risa [0] not having PhDs or equivalent.

But, if, by "Star Trek future," you just mean a post-scarcity future, then, maybe? There would be no reason everyone should need to be a PhD, but also no reason why everyone couldn't be [1].

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[0]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Risa

[1]: Everyone with the intellectual capacity, that is. One certainly wouldn't expect severely developmentally delayed individuals to possess graduate-level knowledge of any subject. Gradeflation only goes so far. :-P
Yup, I am reading Peter's historical dynamism, still light years away from the psychohistory definition, but it's on the direction and is a vast leap of the conventional history study. Note that well before Peter's work, there were many quantitative study of macro history trends. But I am an outsider, and not an expert, so do your research if interested. Starting from Peter and his works would be fruitful route (I find Peter's book give much better introduction to prior arts).
What we are experiencing is the next wave of Russia vs USA. In this go-round, instead of atomic missiles we have (profitable) cyberattacks. While it seems non-critical infrastructure was compromised in this attack, I have coined the phrase "Cold War II" to explain the critical infrastructure situation. Feel free to use it. Hopefully the weight of a new cold war will help put cyberattacks into the correct perspective for the media.
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Lol I'm sorry but the average FAAMG level developer is far superior to the average developer. You're not going to be able to win that bet.
They have automatic bin picking! Amazon hasn't been able to get that to work in production. Amazon's system has Kiva robots moving bins around, but humans pick from the bins.

Expect a big drop in fulfillment center workers when Amazon gets bin picking that works.
>The BMI decodes the onset of nociception via a state-space model on the basis of the analysis of online-sorted spikes recorded from the anterior cingulate cortex (which is critical for pain processing) and couples real-time pain detection with optogenetic activation of the prelimbic prefrontal cortex (which exerts top–down nociceptive regulation). In rats

>Example ChR2 expression in the prelimbic PFC. Highmagnification (100x) view of the expression of YFP-ChR2 in the prelimbic PFC demonstrated the co-staining of pyramidal neuron markers (CaMKII) with YFP. Arrows point to examples of co-stained neurons.

(from abstract and supplementary info, scihub is kind of down)

On their own (generally speaking!), very few neurons "respond" to low intensity light. "Optogenetics" stuff like this inserts a gene encoding a light sensitive ion channel in order to make cells responsive to a specific wavelength of light.

So there's two types of targeting here: Targeting gene expression to a certain population of cells, and then spatially targeting a group of those cells with the light - Blue light doesn't travel very far in tissue. (Also targeting multiple cell populations within a region using multiple colors of light + differently sensitive proteins).

Of course your comment still stands - Presumably not all the CamKII-positive PFC neurons are involved in nociception, and rats can't talk about their conscious experience so the answers there are limited to what questions researchers chose to ask using the limited tools available.
They do care in the sense that they have to blow up the news agencies to prevent reporting on civilian deaths.
I'm being a little imprecise with my terminology, sorry about that.

> It has been around since at least the 1960s and has always been controversial.

It has been around since the 1960s, as an academic curiosity. In the last half decade to decade, it metastasized into the rest of society and embedded itself deeply, almost religiously, into all of the institutions that shape our discourse.

There's no such thing as a society-wide consensus, on pretty much anything (you can even find thoughtful "legalize possession of child porn" takes, like Falkvinge's). But institutional consensus is as close as we come to this, and has real and significant coercive (and doctrinal) power in the form of the media, university curriculums, HR departments, PR departments, etc etc etc.
Bertrand Russell on Thomas Aquinas:
“There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. He is not engaged in an enquiry, the result of which it is impossible to know in advance. Before he begins to philosophize, he already knows the truth; it is declared in the Catholic faith. If he can find apparently rational arguments for some parts of the faith, so much the better; if he cannot, he need only fall back on revelation. The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading.” [History of Western Philosophy p. 453]
I think you are correct here in terms of the base argument but wrong for the origin.

You don't make food cheaper by reducing the quality of ingrediants since decent ingredients are still really cheap. You make food cheaper by making it more preserved.

A lot of food cost is in waste and spoilage. Cheap foods are typically things that handle well and don't perish easily.

You accomplish this by adding more fat, more salt, and heavily processing food. You strip all the bacteria and cultures from it and you can get a tv dinner to last a decade if it's packaged well.

On the other hand, gourmet food is all prone to spoilage. Squeaky cheese curds, fresh pasta, homemade tortillas, etc.
Van Gogh is why there aren’t. There are establishment artists and folk artists and lots of oblique trajectories off that axis but that’s not good and bad.

Or as Harry Truman opined. “If that’s art, I’m a Hottentotte.”
I’d also like to add that this new technology could actually have an impact on a smaller percentage of the body than pharmaceuticals do.
> Oh and funky observation. When an organization like YC is building their own social network from scratch, it shows that in 2021 there is still no trustable social network platform to build upon.

No: it shows¹ that there's no trustable social network platform with a high density of startup founders. The Fediverse is plenty trustable, but most people there aren't inclined to found a startup.

¹: But it doesn't even show that; all it shows is that YC thought they'd benefit from making their own.
Luna was our early prototype and it indeed had significant performance problems. Our new JIT compiler is able to execute the graphs really fast (in fact, in many cases we are up to 80x faster than Python nowadays: https://github.com/enso-org/benchmarks).

However, sometimes we see that the WebGL is super-slow on some machines. May I ask you for more details, please? The important bits would be whether you experience the slowdown when using the IDE (like dragging, zooming) or when waiting for data to be computed? In both cases, we would be more than thankful for an issue containing machine spec: https://github.com/enso-org/enso/issues .

Enso should work for you with the same visual performance as in this video (this was recorded on a few years old MacBook Pro): https://youtu.be/fQvWMoOjmQk . If its not this smooth, we need to investigate it, because this is something system / machine specific.

There is unfortunately no other way for us to improve and progress from alpha to beta, so we will be very thankful for help here! <3
Its not true in general. x86 CANNOT have weak acquire/release semantics. x86 is "too strong", you get total-store ordering by default.

If you want to test out weaker acquire/release semantics, you need to buy an ARM or POWER9 processor.
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In west Texas, assuming you have access to water (by no means a guarantee), the option for water-based cooling (evaporative or indirect cooling) is present. "Swamp coolers" have a deservedly bad rap in humid climates, they're far more tolerable in dry ones.

Forms of evaporative + stored thermal mass cooling (rooftop sprinkler systems, perhaps combined with a rooftop garden and an underground irrigation + cooling mass water system) could provide the basis for an indirect cooling system that isn't reliant on electrical power, though it would still have fairly high evaporative losses.
How wasteful crypto is depends on how its energy consumption compares to the energy consumption of the traditional banking system.

What is the energy consumption of armed trucks anyway? How much energy is required to build a bank branch?

Sure, the transaction charges are tiny with Bitcoin and storage is free. Is that an indicator of the differences in total energy consumption once the mining is over?

Also, what is the total energy consumed by coping with fiat currency's inflation? Probably should include that.

I think some hyperinflation events also contribute to wars happening. These use energy too.
The cultural infrastructure we had was extremely poor. We put a ton of focus into shaming and punishing people for bad behavior, and it just didn't work. Fat shaming has resulted in even more obese people. Punishing unmarried couples didn't increase the number of stable partnerships at all. We lost the war on drugs.

I don't agree with the current trends either ("it's completely ok to do bad thing X!"). However, in addition to good advice for individuals, we need to keep trying to create cultural infrastructure that really does work.
Engineered cells successfully treat cardiovascular and pulmonary disease
In general spinlocks are a bad idea, but you do see them in contexts like decoupled look-back. As you say, thread granularity is a problem (unless you're on CUDA on Volta+ hardware, which has independent thread scheduling), so you want threadgroup or workgroup granularity.

In any case, I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of lock-free algorithms. It is of course easy to reason about kernel-{start/end} synchronization, but the granularity may be too coarse for some interesting applications.
Nitpicking here, I would tweak the wording:

> Life follows a simple set of heuristics with an extensive set of exceptions.

And that's OK: heuristics allow a person to intuit some high-level behavior without having to derive it from the lower-level rules (laws). It's readily admitted that the heuristic isn't 100% accurate, and when it's inaccurate you fall back to that explicit derivation process.

From the outsider view of biology, there appear to be many heuristics for which we don't know how to derive from the underlying laws. Chemistry, at various points in time, has had similar issues, but over time we've expanded the amount of things we can derive from underlying physics. Biology, I hope, will follow in time.
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Yes, but there are surprising cases where broad stimulation is effective, like deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease or cochlear implants. It’s surprising that you don’t need perfectly targeted stimulation patterns to achieve a therapeutic output, but often times it does seem to have a benefit.

We think you can do much better for many applications with targeted stimulation, and that’s the direction that many of these implant technologies are heading. I’m a Neuroscientist working on BCI
Which is positive, even if non-free software is required to use it for the time being.
YC did not launch this today, it has been around in some form for quite a while, since YC-SUS 2 iirc. It seems like a launch in the sense of "always be launching" they teach you about as part of SUS
I'd suggest reading the study.

What your father is doing is known as Straw Breathing, you inhale normally, then exhale via a drinking straw. Repeat for five minutes.

We're discussing bi-direction breathing training, wherein resistive inhaling is a significant part of the exercise regimen and one not offered in [easier] Straw Breathing.

If you have a study that compares Straw Breathing to using a Breathing Trainer it would be a welcome addition to the discussion. But currently straw breathing is primarily aimed at bringing people from below back to normal lung function, whereas breathing training is meant to improve lung function above normal.
Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception
https://www.featurehub.io/ looks like what you need. Pretty good universal feature toggling solution, covers variety of languages. It has some enterprise features, like user groups and permissions, allows multiple apps and environments etc.. Comes in a Docker container for self-hosting
The article starts out by comparing Chime to "normal banks" that haven't attracted nearly the same level of complaints; the situation may not be unique to Chime, but those banking with, well, banks apparently haven't been running nearly the same risk of "we took your money too bad so sad".
Having a machine support one user at 60 is trivial. Having a machine support 100 users or a 1000 users at 60 is a different issue entirely. (Assuming you want to make money.)
That's been done for products that are reasonably uniform.
Digi-Key uses it for some parts. Fulfillment centers for drugstores use it.

You still have to load the dispensers.
Except it isn't. The Western US is experiencing the worst drought in over 1000 years.

And that's on top of the vast reduction in wild spaces, logging and burning of rainforests, urbanization, and conversion of prairies and grasslands to agriculture.

This is probably the least "green" the world has been for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, modulo ice ages.
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It's a very short comment. Do me the favor of reading the entire thing before beclowning yourself so thoroughly in responding. Literally two sentences later, I call this worldview "childish" and describe it as "afflicting" those who subscribe to it.

The fact that there's a consensus around it (especially the narrower type of consensus that motivates the content policies of a social network) doesn't at all imply support. It's simply not what the word means.
This is a very positive development. So much stuff that could be repaired ends up in the garbage. For the vast majority of products there is no good recycling process so the materials in these products are lost.

Also tractor owners will be greatly relieved. There is a big market for old tractors that could still be repaired by their owners.
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This reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror. The teenager has an implant that causes stressors to be blurred out, preventing anxiety.

<spoilers>
During a fight, she starts hitting her mom and, because of the involved stress, she's unable to see the physical damage she's causing, ultimately murdering her.
</spoilers>

If this was implemented broadly, it'd very quickly lead to reckless/dangerous behavior.
There are a lot of regulatory concerns with these technologies due to this fear. Deep Brain Stimulation implants see the patient growing steadily accustomed to greater levels of stimulation - withdrawing the stimulation triggers deep existential depression.

This isn't as significant of a concern with a patient who has chronic untreatable major depression. But there is a legitimate fear that these implants could be used to disastrous effects on healthy individuals.
Interesting drama associated with this article. The story documented here was used in a video essay about Homestuck in general, and the inclusion of this article lead to (empty, frivolous) legal threats to the creator. In a follow up video, pretty much all details of TA are corroborated https://youtu.be/gsM9bQvpt_c
I agree with you.

Upon reaching the following line, I laughed out loud. This is utopian social planning at its least realistic:

“There will be an urge to build each home optimized for air conditioning. Don’t. All buildings must be useful and livable even with the power cut. Hence, natural ventilation, strategically designed windows that open, etc. is necessary. Obviously you can add AC (Air conditioner) on top of that, but in no way should the town be dependent on AC.”

Anyone who has never been to West Texas should check the weather today in some subset of {Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Pecos, San Angelo, El Paso, Alpine}. (Some are nice and some are not!) If you can work inside all day with your house that temperature... good for you, but I cannot. And nearly every house in all of those places is air conditioned.

Better yet! Visit the Great State of Texas and take a walk of three blocks or more outside in a city during the heat of the day in June, July or August and report back on how much you liked it...
>"I say we start throwing politicians in volcanoes as the starting point."

Maybe you're on to something....

Jokes aside, whenever people point to "Star Trek" as an example of post-scarcity society I recoil at just how over-simplified and not well thought out the comparison is.
In my experience, those three things are almost entirely contradictory.

Almost everybody interested in working unpaid on an exciting idea is also the kind of person who has exciting ideas. They'll usually want to spend their savings on one of those ideas, not somebody else's. The times I've signed up to help start somebody else's idea for no cash were because I had a long relationship with the people involved.

My big tip for people wanting to trade self-made lottery tickets for work is to get external confirmation. Investors, customer commitment, traction, or at least a compelling prototype. This post I wrote in 2012 holds up reasonably well: https://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-find-developers-willing-to...
> "… and so forth."

… celebrity worship, corporation worship, politician worship, money worship, conspiracy theories …
The original trilogy had mediocre acting but had one-liners that were on par with Evil Dead. I think that's what made it a cult classic.

None of the other movies will be remembered for their one-liners, but from what I can tell that's not what Disney is trying to do anyway. They're selling characters, not movies.
I believe that functional programming with immutable memory is the only model you can use in order to create a visual language that you can reason about. E.g. you do not want to allow some nodes (visual components) to affect the execution of other nodes if not connected with each other. There are many more such implications there!