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"Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable creatures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do because it's too difficult or too hazardous. ...You don't have to think about their welfare, you don't think about how they feel. Whole generations of disposable people." - NG
But an easier time from the Moon. The Moon's soil is apparently lousy with Helium.

There was a movie named Moon about a decade back where that was the main character's job, helium mining on the Moon.

That's not to say it would be easy, but it's closer than the Sun. Because it is everywhere.

In the various Star Trek shows, ships are made with something called "Bussard collectors" which basically scoop up particles like helium and hydrogen from space for use in the ship.

Obviously both of those example are fiction. We don't have the capability to mine on the Moon or catch elements free floating in space. But those fictions are based on the fact that those elements are that abundant.
That explanation was a tour de force. Thank you. You’ve done your good deed for the day!
What boggles the mind is that it has a next button, which will play any random video. But no previous button, even though that's a dead simple feature.
An attack on the title: what the author does not realize, is that plumbing is not limited to the person who comes to their house to fix pipes. The majority of plumbing is from some water source to cleaning facility to your house and then back to treatment facility and finally back into nature. And that major part is actually mostly managed by "patricians".

Not that I support tech giants invasion in private lives. But when thought through the analogy works against the author's favor.
Is this a reprint from April 1st?
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Great article, but one nit: order of transforms matters, yes, but you’re supposed to read them right to left (like matrix multiplication).

When you have `transform: translateX(…) rotate(…);`, you’re saying “first rotate it about the origin, then translate it”. When you have `transform: rotate(…) translateX(…);`, you’re saying “first translate it, then rotate it about the origin”! — not the translated object’s origin! That’s why in the the second example the transformed object swings around the origin from a distance when you change the rotation angle.

I mean, sure, you can mentally do it left to right and track how the axes change, as the author did, but right to left is a lot simpler, and is what’s actually happening to the vectors behind the scenes.
> while this digitized economy is intentionally hiding all human-to-human interaction

I haven't worked in the service industry, but I heard, repeatedly, that the worst part of the job is dealing with clients. May be reducing human-to-human interaction isn't such a bad change for people working in that industry?
unless its an older credit card scammer trying to offset their social security fixed income with something they used to do back in the day
Who enforces the taxes? The same parties who are doing most of the polluting. The military, government, the technocrats in control of the systems.

Just. Tax. It. puts more power in the hands of the people causing the problems.

On the other hand, what if the climate change was primarily driven by natural cycles? Taxing everybody would have a negative impact on the populations' readiness & survivability to these changes. Many people already do not trust big government to be beneficial & responsive to their needs, for good reason. Making living even more difficult for the population by increasing taxes would only cause more to reject the systems that bind them.

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It seems like the downvotes, are related to some Epistimological blind spots on the part of the downvoters.

I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqOMGnJ2MQ&ab_channel=Actua...

As an alternative, you can all just pay me Trillions of dollars, & I will solve all of the climate issues. We are in this together, after all...
i know right? they somehow converged, but if you look at history of marxist movement, e.g. Russian Bolsheviks, they all started as upper class "liberals" sympathizing with the suffering of the underprivileged masses. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Here's some examples:

1. Declare all your constants as constexpr. They can then be used everywhere in constexpr functions, and every time you invoke a constexpr function with constexpr arguments or literals there's a very high chance it will be executed at runtime. You can make expressions clearer and express stuff with functions, without paying the cost of the invocation. For instance, Intellisense and Clangd often show the value of very complex expressions on hover.

2. `if constexpr` is very effective to execute code conditionally in functions or lambdas with `auto` parameters, you just need to combine it with `std::same_as` or `std::is_same_v`.

This is immensely useful with std::variant and std::visit, for instance.
Do you have any general objection to client software scanning content it uploads before it uploads it, rather than afterwards? Scanning it on your phone means that unencrypted versions of your data don't have to leave your phone, which IMHO gives more privacy than any other option.

Do you have an objection even though it means that the content (in a form readable by anyone else) never leaves your device? Would it be preferable if Apple scanned files that were synced to iCloud, but no longer encrypted them in transit/at rest, or encrypted them in a way that they are able to decrypt?
But Heidegger is against seeing the world merely as a standing-reserve of resources.

That's a utilitarian, reductionist, objectifying view that's the antithesis of the view that Heidegger advocates.
The ha-ha-only-serious joke when I was at a place developing for iOS and Android, so had tons of test tablets for both, was that the Android tablets would be completely dead after a long weekend (or sometimes just a normal weekend...) in a drawer, and the iPads would still have enough charge to do something useful, and still wake up effectively instantly, if you forgot about them for a month.

As for the phones, I find I get 2-day charge out of a new iOS device. After 2-3 years it's about as bad as a new Android. 10% low-battery warning, and put in low-power mode right at bed time? It'll still have enough juice for the morning alarm and some morning HN reading. I mean, I try not to rely on that, but it does work. Difference has got to mostly be the software & firmware.
I’ve read the article. It changes nothing.

I agree that it could be used to detect image collections (and only image collections) that are not porn, that users upload to iCloud Photo Library.

That is the only established abuse case. Apple has categorically denied that they will comply with it, just as they refused to help the FBI in the San Bernardino case.

Even if they do end up complying in China because China passed a law, authoritarianism in China is a red herring. This mechanism is of no consequence to the Chinese government.

All of has absolutely nothing to do with your claim that ‘iMessage is next’ and the article doesn’t support your claim.
fascism

alt-right

right-wing

being a corporation

100% failing at privacy and security on purpose for fascist interests

ruining the hong kong uprisings in favor of fascist and alt-right interests

we can keep going

fuck everyone that supports these people forever
Approval is fully expected by pretty much everyone. No vaccine in the approval process has ever had so much data to base the decision on, and that data remains very positive.
> but the fear this will further erode old victories is genuine and shouldn't be dismissed.

It should be dismissed because it shows the old “victories” were simply a happenstance of labor supply and demand. It is exposing the fact that there was not really a victory in the sense of it being codified into law.

Any effort trying to blame VCs (or any business) for low wages or quality of life at work is a waste of time, as it simply requires a legislative solution.
> You won't save the planet if you still have thousands of ships on the sea and planes in the air

Aviation contributes only 2% of global air pollution, though maybe 5% of global greenhouse effect (due to the high altitudes airplanes operate at). Textile production, indeed, contributes more to climate change than aviation and maritime shipping combined [1].

However, with abundant electricity you can switch many transportation modes to electric, and (where technical constraints don't allow that yet, eg intercontinental aviation) maybe utilise synthetic fuels.

> I would say none of them are being really tackled

I would say many challenges are being tackled, and the intensity will increase even further.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/202...
How about an ivr with voice recognition to process credit card transactions over the phone, that agents can engage during a customer call as needed, getting the customer back when the ivr is done collecting their sensitive info or authenticating them or whatever?
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Looks bad. Or good. Depends on which side are you on.
The point is that if the capability for "the iCloud Photos client" to scan your photos before uploading them to the cloud exists, it's only Apple's policy that stops it from scanning all of your photos.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a dual-sided feed scanner like this which can be used to semi-automate document scanning and which is not discontinued? I've been thinking about this for a while but I don't know enough about the market
I use my headlamp for so many things. I can't recommend a good one enough for anyone who spends much time outdoors, or even as a handy thing to keep in the car or shop or anywhere you might end up doing something with low light.
well I'm not handling cost basis, Financial Choice is. and they're not sharing any of that AFAIK. which makes this confusing. Especially with the comparison here and on their home page, to a checking account.

Sounds like if the market is green I'm paying a hefty free for every single checking transaction
And unfortunately “hacking back” is still hacking according to the laws of the U.S. currently. Which might explain why cyber crime is way up. No downside for threat actors.
> I am only saying that back in 2017 -- when I finally lost patience with Android -- things were looking pretty bad for it and for me that was the tipping point that made go for iPhones.

I'll respond to your earlier post too, but this is actually the answer that I was looking for. The Android world was a very different place back in 2017. The best battery life that I got out of an Android back then was an LG G2. I think that it was competitive with the iPhone, but many other Android devices of the era were not.
What's wrong with hydrogen? You can produce it with renewables, it basically works with existing IC technology and the exhaust is just water. The only hangup is the energy/volume ratio, which is an area of ongoing research.
How does this differ from having a Fidelity debit card tied to an investment account?

https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/faqs-atm-debit-card

"The Fidelity debit card is available on youth accounts and nonretirement brokerage and cash management accounts with individual, joint tenant, and trust registrations"
The overall China number is a little funky because they still have 500M people in the countryside emitting very little.

On a per capita basis, many Chinese metros are among the worst, as is much of the US (especially in the midwest and south), Canada, and Australia.
Could she have been under 21? I remember when I spent a summer working grocery that my under-21 coworkers were required to id on all alcohol purchases.
The iPhone is a status symbol. That's why most people buy it.
There's a fairly active community on Reddit playing with this tech https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/
T-Stoff/High-Test Peroxide doesn't actually burn, but rather decomposes into water and oxygen.
It kind of reflects Americans misconception that salaried work is salvation.

15 years ago, a “non-servant” making minimum wage would drive my tv in a truck to a store, another non-servant would put it on a shelf, and then a final non-servant would check me out. No one then considered any of them to be “servants” because they were “employees”.

Now someone can be paid a similar amount to those “employees” salaries to bring food to me. The transaction is structured in a way that I pay directly for their labor and people get to have a moral panic about it.
Unskilled, humiliating jobs for very low pay with no hope of a promotion or career always existed. If this industry doesn't create more jobs like that, it means it's only getting the ones that were already here, and doesn't change anything. If this industry creates more jobs like that, shouldn't it mean that competition for the lower-skilled workers will increase and their pay will go up?
A Mac is very different from an iPhone. I am writing this in Firefox, I have development tools and commandline scripts installed.
The standard for "not car friendly" in the US is:

- Having to park more than 500 feet away from a business

- Traffic that moves slower than 40MPH

- Commercial district thoroughfares that only dedicate a single lane to each traffic direction

- Paid parking
“ One interesting thing I learned, is that if you're looking for a career change, you can become a certified watch maker for free. Many of the schools are sponsored by the big name watch manufacturers, and tuition is free. It's a full time education, so you'll need enough financial runway to survive for a year or two, but you'll come out with no debt as a certified watch builder/repairperson.”

Side note: you do have to relocate yourself/your family to the school’s location.
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"Today, banks invest customers' deposits and keep the returns mostly for themselves (the national average interest rate is just 0.03% [2])."

Yes, but banks aren't just turning around and investing deposits in the S&P 500. Right now, the marginal reserve requirement in the US is 10%. So the bank is keeping 10% of your deposit as cash.

This is pretty similar from the common advice to "keep 3 months' living expenses as an emergency fund." And thinking about that advice, I have to question the value of Financial Choice:

* If I'm a user with a reasonably high net worth--say, 10x my 3-month living expenses--I should probably just put the 3-month expenses into an FDIC-insured bank account and put the other 90% of my assets into a low-cost mutual fund or ETF.

* If I'm a user without 10x my 3-month living expenses, I definitely shouldn't be investing my emergency fund in speculative assets like equities!

So, like, who is this for? :)

Edit: Reading some of the other comments here, I get the impression there are some posters here in my first category who would like their 3-month living expenses to also be invested in equities. And yeah, if you are relatively high-net-worth-relative-to-expenses, you can risk it--someone in the "10x" category can suffer a 40% market downturn and still have a meaningful emergency fund.

On the flip side, consider that market downturns and the need to tap the emergency fund are not statistically independent; the emergency fund exists, in part, to avoid forcing you to reduce your market position to cover expenses when you lose your job in a downturn!
I'm not sure that's true. A lot of people seem to have less of a problem with Apple scanning for CSAM and more of a problem that they're doing it on the phone (and looking for specific images, I guess?).
Yup, this is important or people will burn out real quick. And when there are major incidents, as IC it's especially important to dismiss people from bridges as early as possible when I know I'm going to need them sooner rather than later the following day. Or swap with a more junior person so that the senior one is nice and fresh for when the next wave is anticipated.
The more I see article about this and read about climate change, the more I seem to become sympathetic to climate change deniers, alternative theories and things like that. I wonder if I'm the only one? My theory is that since I can't do much about this, my brain tries to change my understanding of the world so it fits better with how I feel. At least I'm conscious of it. If I'm not the only one affected by this, maybe constantly pushing news like this is making the problem worse?
> A bit more power: if Colab assigns you a large instance (most people are getting large instances, unless you use it for a very long time), you can make images up to 700x700.

Technically you just need a GPU with 16GB VRAM to create larger images, which is every GPU Colab can give except the K80 (which has 12GB VRAM, but still can do 600x600)

Your Notebook code appears to do to a VRAM check via nvidia-smi, not an instance size check.
They can still burn in the presence of an oxidiser. They don't need it, but that won't stop them from burning, or blowing up, or doing whatever they want to do, as monopropellants are really (no pun intended) impulsive.
>The South Pacific is a ticking time bomb and I give us 4-6 years before there is a hot war there. It isn't too late but I feel it is quickly growing inevitable.

It seems pretty clear that America is chomping at the bit to start some kind of conflict down there. Since the entire US military industrial complex is based upon there always having to be an enemy somewhere, it does indeed seem inevitable.

Methinks they might find China a bit more of a pushover than the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan though. Still, it'll be a novel experience for the US to take on someone who can actually fight back, for a change.
Gravity does
Let's query the 1.2B people on Earth who have already gotten it. I think that's a large enough sample size to extract safety (spoiler: it's incredibly safe).
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I was wondering if anyone has anything deeper than just the things listed in this blog? I'd love to hear some of y'all's hidden tips and tricks!
I wasn't talking about people needing to work more than 40 hours. I agree, exceeding that shouldn't become normal.

I'm talking about the people who have to take care of their kid, so they can't work the usual 9 to 5. They got 28 hours from target, but they do need some more money, so they do UberEats at night.

I'm talking about the student who really can't work in the day because they have to study and attend classes. Hell, sometimes they can't even work at night due to their group project and their team members slacking off. Well, now they can just Uber when they have time instead of committing to a schedule at the local Subway.
As the article says:

"The strength of such an argument depends on whether the small step really is likely to lead to the effect."

> It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mountain pass. And if the question arises of how a specific device is going to be used, in what I call an abstract ideal society, then one might very well say one cannot know. But we live in a concrete society, [and] with concrete social and historical circumstances and political realities in this society, it is perfectly obvious that when something like a computer is invented, then it is going to be adopted will be for military purposes. It follows from the concrete realities in which we live, it does not follow from pure logic. But we're not living in an abstract society, we're living in the society in which we in fact live. If you look at the enormous fruits of human genius that mankind has developed in the last 50 years, atomic energy and rocketry and flying to the moon and coherent light, and it goes on and on and on -- and then it turns out that every one of these triumphs is used primarily in military terms. So it is not reasonable for a scientist or technologist to insist that he or she does not know -- or cannot know -- how it is going to be used.

-- Joseph Weizenbaum, http://tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html

To pretend it's inherently unknowable right up to the point until it's "too late" is kinda getting old.
If you ever worked in retail, restaurants, or hotels, having to deal with the general public is the worst part of the job.
I don't think its fair to say your are speaking in bad faith either. I had similar experiences with some older devices (Nexus One, Galaxy S2, etc). There was a long period of time when Android devices were really bad on battery, even with relatively large (for the time) batteries on board.
... as long as you don't need that freight while the weather is even slightly bad.
This cool observation is generalized in Lawvere's fixed point theorem[1]. It basically says that whenever you have an "interpreter" I : A -> (A -> B) that takes elements of A and turns them into functions A -> B, then if every such function is realized by some element of A (i.e., I is surjective) then any given function f : B -> B has a fixed point. The fixed point can be constructed by (1) letting q = \(a:A), f (I a a), which is a function A -> B, (2) letting p:A be something for which I p = q, then (3) letting s = I p p, which is the fixed point of f.

For sets, the way Russell's paradox appears is this: letting Set be the class of all sets, then every set x determines a predicate, which is a function Set -> Bool that for each x returns true or false depending on whether or not y is an element of x. Have I : Set -> (Set -> Bool) be the function that takes a set and turns it into a predicate: I x = \y, y ∈ x. An axiom of set theory (extensionality) is that I is injective. What if I were also surjective? (This is the non-axiom "unrestricted comprehension", that every predicate determines a set.) Well, then we could apply the fixed point theorem to negation N : Bool -> Bool, but N obviously doesn't have a fixed point! (Using the above notation, q = \y, N (y ∈ y) is the predicate that checks whether a set doesn't contain itself, p = {y | N (y ∈ y)} is the supposed set of all sets that don't contain themselves, and s = (p ∈ p) is the impossible fixed point for N.)

Here's what the theorem says for lambda calculus. Suppose L is the set of all lambda expressions (where equivalent lambda expressions are equal). In lambda calculus, every expression is also a function, in the sense that if E is an expression then \x, E x is equivalent, so we can have an "interpreter" I : E -> (E -> E) be the identity function. The fixed point theorem says that if you have a function f : L -> L, then it has a fixed point. And what is it? Tracing through the construction, we see it's nothing other than \x, (f x x) (f x x)!

(The complexity in stating the theorem precisely is to be able to restrict what we mean by functions A -> B. For the lambda calculus example, we need E -> E to mean just the functions realizable as lambda expressions. This does work out because reflexive objects exist[2].)

[1] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore...

[2] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/reflexive+object