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How does new technology help these things exactly? Isn't technology, along with the discovery of coal and oil, a major contributor to the scaling of the human population and the effects of that? The vast industrialization over the past 150 has not been good for humanity or the planet.
I'm not sure I believe in any particular fixed human nature. There do exist some radically different conceptions of ownership out there, such as the demand sharing of certain tribes in Namibia. That is to me somewhat hopeful.

The "system change" I would hope for is that a lot of people individually change what they choose to do. Top-down mandates could help. Making consumers pay the full costs of their actions rather than subsidizing damaging ones like fossil fuels or meat would be a reasonable start.

The trouble with blaming colonization is it coincides (roughly) with the arrival of the ability to grow like we do now. People have been greedy for as far back as our written records illuminate. But before factory methods, mechanization, theories of management, institutions like the limited liability corporation, etc. there was only so much scale that any society's production could achieve.

To stop increasing the scale of human production while so much of the world is still so poor seems cruel to me. It wouldn't if I thought redistribution was politically feasible, but I don't.

I don't know, it's a hard problem.

> will require us to end the incentive of superexponential growth which I don't believe is some kind of law of physics that we can't change

If it were a law of physics at least we could pinpoint it. There's no single incentive for exponential growth, any more than one process could be blamed for Moore's Law while it held. There's just a lot of individuals facing a lot of distinct incentives, and they all want to do better than they did last year, and want their kids to do better than them, and they measure "better" in terms of things like how many calories they consume, how many miles they're able to travel, etc ...
I don't really think I can judge this from the perspective I sit from. This can refer to all matters of magnitudes of disparaging.

Oh wait, I can:

> According to sources, their immediate boss, vp original films marketing Jonathan Helfgot, whom they also criticized, was extremely reluctant to fire the three for their comments, arguing that employees vent as a matter of course and such dire consequences were not warranted. But sources say he succumbed to pressure from higher-ups at the company.

It is clear that their direct boss did not find cause in their messages to fire them. So ya, this is bullshit over hurt egos. Time for PUTs on NFLX as it is clear corporate culture will devour them.
> I think it's more likely that Zig will allow user-defined infix operators (say +' or something) before it allows overloading of any kind.

I proposed this and it got rejected by the language committee.
A theoretical use is that it shows that the axioms of the natural numbers (the Peano axioms) aren't enough to pin down what we think the natural numbers should be -- there are these crazy non-standard natural numbers out there!

In context of the discussion, this non-standard model of the natural numbers gives some intuition about what happens if the consistency of ZFC is independent of ZFC and you add in the axiom that ZFC is inconsistent: your natural numbers will have to be something similarly weird.

> you have just made a new type of number not comparable to natural numbers

But they are comparable. The everyday natural numbers are embedded in this new system, which is what these (n,n,n,...) elements represent. One way to interpret what we've done here is to add in infinities to the number system so that all the normal operations still work, and there's even a total ordering on them!

Using the real numbers instead of the naturals, you get the so-called nonstandard real numbers, which is the number system used in nonstandard analysis. Nonstandard analysis is a way to do analysis without epsilon-delta proofs. Nonstandard reals include infinitesimals and infinities, similar to nonstandard naturals having infinities. There are even textbooks on the subject -- I haven't read them, but they claim it makes analysis easier.

The last thing that comes to mind is that nonstandard numbers of this exact type show up when you study certain infinite-dimensional number systems and calculate the points (like in the end of my comment).
That's a really good infographic that shows what's perceived similarly and contrasting the differences.

This part rings true for me about younger devs but I wouldn't have thought of splitting at under over 45.

> Young people are in a hurry. If only they could fix unreliable software and inefficient processes, then their workload problems would be solved! The more mature workforce is wiser, and perhaps that is why they are less likely to be burned out. Here is one more disturbing statistic from the survey. When asked about their workplace, 78% of both female software developers 18-44 years old said it takes less than a week on average to begin working on a feature and reliably deploy it into production. In contrast, men, were slightly less likely (65%) to say so, but only 44% of the 45+ crowd rush to get this done. Learn from your elders.

My interpretation of this is that the men or older crowds are more aware of either the details of what's needed or have a better estimation of the unknown that will be discovered along the way. This is something that comes with experience, being exposed to many situations. Optimism is another way this can be swayed. It is a good trait to have but less so if you have it early and lose it along the way. It would be better to have less at the beginning when less is known and sustain when facing more than anticipated.
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We did this first semester freshman year at my school in a single lecture in a 100 level "concepts of mathematics" course. I get that there's a certain amount of "it's hard to wrap your head around infinity" but really this proof is pretty well trodden by students not far into learning mathematics.
> Hell, I can say that, and I may even be right.

Not only may you be right, you are in fact guaranteed to be right. Of course, predicting exactly when things go wrong is another ballgame altogether.

Edit: the downvotes on HN are becoming so reactionary lately, it feels like it's slowly turning into reddit. Or maybe people just aren't familiar with Poincaré recurrence, etc.?
Okay things you listed here is what I do when building web applications.

Your comment gives me hope that people like me do exist I’m not the only one
For anyone into VST's, Native Instruments has a great sampled instrument of Una Corda. And their instrument "The Giant" is based on the Klavins model 370i. The product page for the 370i is blank, but it seems like the Model 450i is their new version of the same concept.

I hope that one day I'll be able to play one of the real models, but until then The Giant is my favorite virtual piano because of how massive it sounds.
Not a good sign. Arguably, a sign of desperation. There should be more directly beneficial uses of this power, if it really is a surplus.
There is also the thing with the judge that judged his first case, claiming he HAD to give Epstein a deal, because he was "warned" that Epstein "belonged" to intelligence.
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation :-)
This is the first example I've seen of (what looks to be) a Linux based dev environment picking Dotnet Core. I know the aim of Core seems to be to help distance the Dotnet team from MS and maybe it's working a little bit.
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No, its not incredible. It's basically a supersonic airplane with a few rockets attached so it re-enters the atmosphere the right attitude.

Top speed: ~4000 kph

Orbital Speed: ~28,000 kph, which is 7 times the speed, 49 times the kinetic energy.

Meanwhile, Elon's old car is in space, moving away from earth at about 60,000 kph

Source: https://www.whereisroadster.com/
There is a long guitar/lute-like instrument called 'Theorbo' from the renaissance that is a good comparison. It was originally built before they had wound strings (that could produce lower notes).

A very good introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48RVcbkhNHQ
Also see the Earth harp:
https://www.williamearthharp.com/
Hi Jeremy!

So far only some anecdotal characterizations. Running the crypto core full-out on our wiggle-everything-to-see-that-it-works test vector suite adds 247mW +/- 5mW of power over the baseline idle condition.

This is fairly comparable to the power delta of loading our RISC-V core fully with a software task versus idling it (around 200mW).

So compared to the alternative of running the math on a RISC-V CPU core, we consume about 20% more power, but we complete the operation in 1/15th the time -- overall, it's a significant net savings of energy out of the battery pack.

Also, we do have the ability to completely gate the clock to the crypto blocks when they are not in use, so they don't contribute to any dynamic power during normal run time.

Static leakage then becomes the main concern. In the case of an FPGA, I suspect we're paying the static leakage penalty whether we use the logic or not, as they don't do VDD switching of configured domains on this chip. If this were to go to silicon, you'd either have to include circuitry to power off the block, bias the back side to reduce leakage, or just be willing to pay the static leakage penalty for the extra logic.
I'm old enough to remember a war between Perl and Python (bioinformatics). I was on team Python and didn't understand why would anyone want to write code in Perl. Python didn't have traction, nor books or libraries.

Fast forward 20 years, and everything is Python or R.
> Doesn't HIPAA provide for health privacy?

No, it doesn't, at least not as you seem to understand “health privacy”. It provides privacy of health information within certain business relationships (mostly, between patient, provider, insurer and certain parties contractually tied into relations ancillary to those on the provider and insurer side.)

> If a business asks for a customer's vaccination status, don't they then need to comply with HIPAA with regards to having that data?

No, HIPAA doesn't protect health information the patient provides to businesses outside of the provision and financing of health care.

Moreover, germane to this UK article about a firm involved in the UK vaccine passport and its marketing its system as adaptable to be a UK national ID after a previous plan for a UK national ID had been scrapped, HIPAA is a US law that doesn't have any force in the UK.
https://archive.is/6Yj1f
What a classic movie - I remember it as being one of those Saturday afternoon movies that came on once.
Some of the weird reaction to this type of comment is that being more scientifically accurate about the problem is perceived as being less persuasive about the importance of correcting the problem.

Making the numbers more right doesn’t make the reality any less cruel, and more accurate numbers don’t seem to help persuade anyone to care. So it’s legitimate to say “could be better!”, but that’s often viewed as important relative to the issue itself: people can’t afford a home in America.
Those people have totally inconsiderate and unfriendly personal beliefs. America is NOT the place for personal freedom/liberty. And the Boston Tea party was never about taxes.
It's not just you, I made exactly the same mistake
as people have children they become less interested in political theory (and theater) and more self-interested. These days voting preferences are almost entirely along generational lines in many countries.
Oh that’s interesting, do you have some more information or a link?
It looks like the author is based in the EU, would this not violate GDPR?
Yes and no. I'd take a non-operator overloaded API any time of the abuse operator overloading is used for in the Haskell ecosystem.
A surprising amount of people seem content with a minimum wage earning underclass. "Minimum wage was never meant to support..."

Why not? Can we not define what it is meant to do?

How will it detract from your life that someone else existence is worth living? And when you earn that little, as much as $20 dollars a weak extra goes a long way. Better yet, they spend that $20 a week extra. It's good for everyone.
I don't know either. We made giant steps in the 20th C, but I feel like we're seeing diminishing returns now. From 1950 to 1970 cars advanced a lot, but from 2000 to 2020, they're still largely the same. (Sure, there's Teslas with highway autonomy, and some systems can handle an on-ramp, but "Mexico City" autonomy seems really far off.) Unless someone breaks Moore's Law, figures out general quantum computing or general AI, I think the next 30 years are going to look a lot like the last 10, but with more hurricanes and global migration.
I agree with you and made a similar comment when the article talking about the report was posted here.

COVID-19 is a perfect example of the folly in believing "technology will always save us". In the U.S., the general sentiment was that technology in the form of vaccines and entrepreneurship will rise to the occasion, so let's just ride it out until then. Well after more than a year of shit show after shit show and 600,000+ deaths in the U.S. alone along with countless reverberations in society (businesses failing, long term health effects of COVID-19, basically a year wasted of schooling across all ages, unemployment, shortages, etc.), people are still like "we got the vaccine, we did it everyone!" I still hear people saying they got COVID-19 like it was an inevitability and no big deal and also now that the vaccine is here no worries. I honestly doubt that climate change, agricultural exhaustion, ecosystem destruction, over population, etc. are anywhere near the public's or even government's serious thoughts. If they are, they're likely to be wholly short term.

We can't even solve simple problems like destroying the dams and decreasing salmon farms in the Pacific northwest that are decimating wild salmon populations which has side effects like starving the resident orcas.

I have zero hope humanity will solve these upcoming problems in any way shape or form. We'll end up just dealing with them and reacting to them once they're here, like we do with everything else (at best).
Wrt to the wristband, the concept and hardware is simple enough that were it not for Facebook nightmare lawyers and patents it could be a cheap maker community staple. Under Facebook, it will fail - nobody wants Facebook tracking literally everything they type.
>I wish opportunities had been around when I was learning to program.

And yet now, we have plenty of projects and nobody contributing.

https://github.com/redox-os/redox/graphs/contributors

This graph doesn't look so healthy. Projects with one major contributor tend to die the moment that contributor loses interest.

Which leads me to wonder, if rust is so popular, and this is one of the most relevant rust projects in the wild, why is this essentially a single contributor repo? Linus didn't write Linux by himself. Redox is never going to happen with a single developer.

Doesn't anyone want a memory safe OS and micro kernel? What does this say about the demand for memory safe systems languages?
So, goodbye encryption, I guess.
Rome got much (most?) of their grain from Egypt (which renews fertility due to annual flooding) and the cause of the Mayan collapse is unknown but I highly doubt it was primarily scarcity driven.

Societies collapse from social factors, not just resource scarcity and social factors are in my opinion a more common cause. War, internal conflict, and political instability.

And my favorite theory, the rise of parasitic and short sighted bureaucracies which snuff out the creative and competitive impulse of a culture.
I think they generally mean: optimal and sustainable farming, abundant clean energy, and world leaders that can think more than two years ahead.
Misleading title, it’s more of a delay according to Facebook’s quote in the article:

“While we still believe in the long-term potential of head-mounted optical [brain-computer interface] technologies, we’ve decided to focus our immediate efforts on a different neural interface approach that has a nearer-term path to market,” the company said.
like a game of the egg story? http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
If I click start, then paste some quick and dirty browser automation in the console:

function c(){is_prime(document.getElementById('n').textContent)==="prime"?yes.click():no.click();window.setTimeout(c,1)};c()

My old laptop can guess right 16k times and get up to 4172973243025599, but then the http post to do the stats (record.php) bombs with a MySql error "Out of range value for column 'end' at row 1" :)
This view of Gates is colored by his reimagining as managed by/with Melinda from the 90s on.

The MS crew whoring around in the 80s was a well known thing. Zebras dont change their stripes and none of this matters wrt to having a clue/foresight about vaccines and doing good things with wealth/influence.
I think intentionally picking a fight with wealthy and powerful people over something that is ultimately trivial to the public but deeply personal to your wealthy and powerful target could incur a level of business risk that might not be survivable. Gawker is dead because of Thiel who very well may be a craven jackass exploiting a legal loophole, but Gawker willingly loaded that gun…just to try and temporarily capitalize on a wee bit of ad revenue off a viral story.

If you are going to push envelopes and speak truth to the rich and powerful, speak a truth that has some level of impact for societal good. I am not going to weep for your gossip rag’s demise when your biggest news scoops center around outing rich guys and showcasing some old wrestlers schlong.
ID / verification is a solution in search of a problem.

The OS level filters and parental controls exist, and have for years. Though a slight logical tweak or a slightly improved system might be more helpful.

The Internet, by default, should be free and considered 'unsafe'.

Sites and services that claim to be Safe for Children should have to actively tag themselves as such. That might involve metadata. It might involve third party organizations like commercial certificate providers signing that claim; or governments, or insurance program registrations, or groups dedicated to whatever moral police panic is in vogue, etc.

Let people Opt In to creating locked down accounts that are nanny state and useless. Don't FORCE it on everyone.
Come on guys, computerized directional thrust maneuvering isn't even new for this millenium, let alone this decade.

It's the difference between iteration and bigger breakthroughs/shifts in technology.
What was “meant” to be the case for an economic policy is quite besides the point. If wages don’t keep pace with the rise in housing prices, upward mobility for low wage workers decreases. They rely more on public services. The have poorer health outcomes. This has real consequences for the economy overall.

Dismissing this concern with “it wasn’t meant to do that” is a little like seeing a man with a bandaid over a gaping axe wound and saying, “well, sucks for him — but that bandaid wasn’t meant to stop that much blood.”
I think it’s more of a paradox than an oxymoron. The lack of having to maintain public social media accounts (especially a LinkedIn) may be interpreted as higher class. Poor people have to spend their time putting out content and building an “online presence” to get jobs, friends, etc, while higher class people don’t have to deal with those distractions.
I can just see it now, Alabama birth rates spike and millionaires are going to be created!
> Maybe bob@example.com says something Google doesn’t like so gets blocked from sending to gmail.com or any other email server hosted by Google, which is a huge swath of people similar in scale to the YouTube audience.

If these people continue to use Gmail rather than more open alternatives, does that not indicate that they don't want to hear what Bob has to say?

> We’ve already seen censorship at the infrastructure level and even the domain registrar level, which is extreme.

There is absolutely zero good-faith use of the internet that can result in you getting irreversibly banned by a significant number of domain registrars, therefore this example is completely unrelated to the original quote (replicated below for convenience):

> it is better to leave a few “noxious branches to their luxuriant growth” than to risk “[injuring] the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.”

There is a lot of validity to the quote. I largely agree with it. But the second part is important - it cannot be interpreted as "we better make it illegal for Twitter to ban people calling for genocide".
I have an issue about performance I have often wondered.

Discussions like these encourage me to put more work into the DB layer however only recently have SQL databases like PostgreSQL become horizontally scalable (I know read replicas are a thing and maybe they are the answer).

So why would I put more work and effort into the less scalable data storage over the horizontally scalable, stateless app layer?
Nuclear bombs should fix California.
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"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" covered very nearly 1500 years.
> testify against powerful people

Who said he had any intention of doing that?
> Why not?

Because minimum wage sets the minimum value job that can be done.

> How will it detract from your life that someone else existence is worth living?

Minimum wage isn't minimum standard of living. There's a certain level where minumum wage mostly mitigates lack of bargaining power in low wage labor, but as you get further and further beyond that point, you are raising wages less and causing unemployment more.

If you want to set a minimum standard of living, you want a UBI, not a minimum wage.
Well I guess AMD is starting to fab at TSMC so this is not a big as deal as it sounds (although in $$ terms it certainly is).
Clickbait fluff article.

Hubble stopped working. NASA engineers have determined that Hubble broke it's PCU. Need to switch to the backup. If the programming instructions to switch to the backup fail, Hubble might be no more.

>So NASA engineers checked and double-checked their plans before the agency approved the switch. The team has run simulations of the switch on Hubble-imitating computers on Earth, and NASA has done two reviews of the hardware-switching procedures.

>NASA has rebooted Hubble using this type of operation in the past. In 2008, after a computer crash took the telescope offline for two weeks, engineers switched over to redundant hardware.

So it looks like they are undertaking the necessary precautions.
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