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This is driven, probably, and inspired by -- John Baez

[1]
https://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/theoretical/theoretical_web....

In my view John is an exceptional educator, inspiring, energetic and accommodating to many people.

I do think, however, his 'save the planet' efforts are misplaced. I think the mathematical tooling and theoretical machinery to help technical initiatives in planet saving -- exists.

What does not exist is honesty in country/world wide policy making.

Every crook wants to be viewed as 'idea generator', planet-saving-angel -- as long as tax money get diverted to whatever causes -- through their 'sinks and facets' of control.

I am not advocating to give up -- I am advocating to use talents that these folks have to figure out how to achieve transparency in political, contractual system of incentives.

If they would work with investigative journalism to find who the crooks are, how they divert public money, how they have selective outrage against one entity, but not another doing similar things -- that were the focus should be.
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Yes I do, here's the one I found at the top of a google search, I'm sure you can find plenty more.

https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/118851166038788915...
>>>I would wonder if this is natural progression, or covert propaganda performed by foreign states to weaken american imperialism.

Heh, this one is coming up a lot recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28823926
Cheaper lasers that are useful for diagnostics in actual fusion energy research machines?
Is Wickr _really_ used by defence/government agencies? I've used it very very briefly, and the free version at that, but it seemed so completely basic and sometimes even unintuitive.
I think what frustrates me is not that we would doubt the trustworthiness of these institutions, I think it's a pretty common ebb and flow of trust, but how so many people seem to try to convince so many other people to distrust these institutions. The "they're lying to you, they're gonna take everything from you" rhetoric which doesn't necessarily create the doubt or fear but seems to amplify it, driving society further apart.

In a way, I agree a lot with the original article in that one of the best ways to flip the switch and rebuild trust is to lead with trust...of people's intentions and abilities.

This year has challenged me and I think so many of us in how to not only trust our institutions but our friends, neighbors, and family. I hope that we recognize it's ok to doubt and that most of us have no idea what we're doing, we're trying our best to get by, including those who frustrated me with their arguments to distrust others.

It may be a long road and yet, super clichély, it starts with some of us taking the first step.
Lol, here we go again. You make too many assumptions. There are no limitations here. The very process that Microsoft wants us to do is broken. Do you understand the difference? It is like me selling you a coffee machine and asking you to do steps A, B and C and when you get to step C there is no button to press. That is not a "limitation"

Sorry but using a partner or becoming one for running a single fucking web app is absurd. End of the month, I'm moving everything over to DO - solved!

I submitted a request for pay by invoice last year to which I was told I can pay by Credit card. I told them I WANTED to switch again and a representative told they'll get back to me. Nothing ever happened again. I left it at that.

This time however, I got an email from MS stating due to a law that declines automatic payments I'd have to pay the bill by clicking the Pay Bill button on the billing console, which is simply not there. Trying to go through the documentation for it is bizarre since it never tells you where exactly the "Pay bill" button is.

I'm not even mad today cos Azure throws a random error when I go to the billing page. Fuck this.
Yeah if that's the case, the GP seems dumb.
It's not a conflation. The article is explicitly differentiating Ethereum services from the Ethereum protocol, just like aboodman says.
It's very Australian to care when it is too late.
That's correct: spot instances are ideal for batch workloads with relatively little persistent state. If your deadline for completing a unit of work isn't extremely short, and you're already distributing jobs across a pool of worker nodes, it's relatively straightforward to dynamically start spot instances if they're available, and on-demand instances otherwise.

Technically, you're gambling a bit because whenever a spot instance is terminated, you probably need to spend a bit extra to redo whatever work it was in the middle of. But spot instances have such a huge discount that it's almost always worth taking that risk, as long as you don't mind the extra management complexity.
Startle Effect
If anything, the Herman Cain Award is a place to vent frustration about the wave of reckless and irresponsible behavior perpetrated by a largely uninformed/disinformed segment of the population which happens to also be highly vocal and even militant regarding their personal ill-informed beliefs.

The Herman Cain Award focuses mainly on reporting cases of individuals who are eggregiously contrarian and even hostile in their self-righteous militance opposing basic health and safety measures who end up falling victims of their own actions.

If anything, the subreddit documents causes and effects, and showcases the expected risks and consequences of this sort of attitude.
So that nobody gets angry, be aware that they've stopped doing this test quite recently. Still good to do: I’ve now done it several times this year, and my first time was selfishly motivated in part by the free antibody test. You could even be doing yourself or a friend a favor, you never know!
It is not impossible to duplicate Discord (e.g. www.kaiheila.cn ), but what makes a SNS unique is really the user base.

WeChat sucks, but it's still used by billions. People are not using WeChat because WeChat is great or Tencent is great. People are using WeChat because their family, friends, employers, favorite medias and hospital reservation services are there.
Realtime server side rendering that updates with something like jpeg based live streaming? For example vnc can be pretty snappy because it only sends what's changed, and doesn't use video codecs, mostly libturbojpeg. If the mapping is mostly plane colors then I'd imagine it would be responsive enough. Maybe could get even more creative if all the map colors fit into 8 bit png's, purely hypothetical.
You have a preferential voting system, not the lesser of two evils.
All our pernos.co infrastructure uses AWS spot VMs. Batch processing runs on spot and fails over to regular VMs as necessary. CI jobs run on spot. Our front-end server running the Web site and our application also runs on spot and automatically fails over to a regular VM if it gets terminated. Termination is rare.
Having a subscription is fine.

Having a garbage free tier is not.

Basic things you can't do in free tier:
- export your documents (email is the only high quality export, today, going through the app exports PNGs at half resolution)
- have a warranty on your device (the ToS was changed to give warranty only to Connect customers)

Sure. Let's say you can sell handwriting conversion and screenshare. Maybe. But ugh, they combined so many dick moves in 1... I doubt they'll get enough new customers anytime soon.

I no longer recommend the platform, have told everyone considering to get one the news and my thoughts. They agree and immediately started looking at competitors.
Learn the tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by large corporate/state surveillance adversaries, identify gaps in their capabilities, secure your PERSONAL privacy based on your insider knowledge, anonymously distribute similar protection methods to the privacy-conscious, and get paid to do it? Sounds like a no-brainer to me...
> I often meet and talk with people for 6 hours in a day. Have you ever talked on video calls for 6 hours in a day? Every person has a slightly different quality of microphone setup, you can't make eye contact, it's harder to read social cues, you can't get fresh air by doing a walking 1:1, etc. It kind of sucks, like, a lot.

I actually haven't had o be 5 hours of Zoom and could see that could get old quick. An interesting thought since its the managers inclination for in person meetings - if one could actually organize the 1-1s to be a walking session. But instead of having both the manager and the report driving into the office to walk around the office - perhaps the manager could drive to the report's neighborhood for a 1-1 walking meeting.
wrong wrong wrong. the hash rate is so low on a gpu they wouldn’t even make a penny.
> Why is there no money to be made?

Not enough people care to use cut rate hardware that actually conforms to the 'wholly open' philosophy. Even Stallman couldn't maintain using fully open hardware. He had to switch to a Thinkpad with Coreboot.

People have expectations when using devices as complex as a phone or laptop to where, compared to even a desktop with Linux, having a smartphone that is fully open comes with serious drawbacks.

You could always get a LibrePhone or a Pinephone but you probably won't enjoy the experience.
Why aren't they externalizable? You could print a lambda as #<lambda:(args body env)>. The arglist and probably the body would be straightforward (unless the body contains more literal functions, but then you recurse). Printing the env might involve printing complex or even circularly linked structures, but it's no more difficult than pretty-printing objects in general. (Some things, like a pointer to an FFI object corresponding to an open GUI window, would be difficult to serialize, but there are many use cases that don't involve putting those things into the body or env.)

Printing primitive functions could be something like #<primitive:+>, and when an implementation read in a thing like that, it would look in its own set of primitive functions for one named '+ and use that; with a reader macro I imagine you could make that exact syntax work. (In fact, you could print #<primitive:+> on an x86 machine and read it on an ARM machine, and this could be fine.)

I honestly don't see why implementations haven't done this, other than "it was more bothersome than worthwhile".
Not yet [1]. "However, conversations around its implementation are ongoing and looks like it will be on the horizon."

[1]: https://github.community/t/support-for-sha-256-hashes/157493...
Just spin up regular VMs if you can't get spot instances when you need them.
Someone once said, the best lies are ones that the person you are telling the lie to wants to believe.

I have seen many examples over the years where companies hire people and it is actually quite simple to discover what the hire said on their resume or in the interview was a lie. But very often, the hiring manager wants to believe it. Even after being confronted with the truth.
> "Then we have the Wendelstein 7-x stellerator[1], the HIT-SI system[2] at UW, the Lockheed Martin entry[3], and the MIT ARC project[4]."

Well, we're at the limits of my "competence." I guess it comes down to "what does a plant cost to build?" and I have absolutely no clue.

I don't think that "sunny optimism" is always the best attitude in everything, like it's been for us in computers the last 50 years, but you don't seem guilty of that. So: thanks & good luck!
they would have made nothing because you can’t use gpus to mine bitcoin at any reasonable rate
Hope there was still time to amend the college applications with a link to this post.
I'm the author an I agree with everything you've written, so I'm not sure what specifically you think is nonsense.

FWIW, I'm fairly sure Compound does have an update mechanism, from a brief perusal of their source code.
Yeah I dunno, I had the same question.
I feel this is a naive assessment.

Walgreens is not 'pushing' anything on anyone - people make choices to buy Doritos.

More importantly -> they're going there for the Doritos as much as anything else.

Walgreens has incredible economies of scale and operational expertise. They know what people want, they know how to keep the shelves stocked efficiently, which is not exactly novel, but it's hard for mom and pop shops to do.

If SF residents truly wanted 'independent pharmacies' for prescriptions, they would have been using them already.

As far as 'employee treatment' - maybe there is something there, but I'm doubtful if it rises to the threshold that we'd want them closed.

'The Problem' is entirely San Francisco's insane attitudes towards crime.

And finally, most poignantly, those criminals will steal from the 'locally owned stores' just as well, and they won't have 500 other locations to absorb the losses.

This is an SF civic problem.

Get SF to act rationally - and then - maybe it's possible to have a discussion about 'locally owned' shops etc..
We figured out that our computer class had a few computers infected by the Ambulance virus[0]. So of course we intentionally infected all the computers with it =)

On the other hand me and a few of my friends were the only computer literate people in the school and were tasked with removing it in the end.

But still, it was fun seeing a whole class of computers have an ambulance run at the bottom of the screen with the poor beeper emulating the siren.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulance_(computer_virus)
I think they are taking responsibility. I think it takes effort to read it in a way in which they are not apologizing for the decision.
Yes, but this is common for "cloud native" applications. Web servers are ideally stateless "cattle", not "pets". Code is pulled down via CI/CD pipelines or via container images. State is in databases or blobs. Logs stream to some sort of analytics system.

Similarly, Kubernetes works well with spot VMs. You can have Spot and Regular node pools in one cluster, and then your workloads can happily spread out to the extra capacity at a huge discount.
The email server is very reliable, in the same way that an Apache web server or MySQL database is reliable.

It's the script pulling data over the network, parsing it, developers updating it, etc, where the instability comes in. And don't forget the edge cases where somebody uses weird encoding, a large email with attachments, a client that formats it in weird ways, etc.

I probably took your comment way too seriously.
> Between schools considering cancelling advanced math[1] while mandating ethnic studies[2] (guess which one is more marketable, geniuses?)

The math thing sounds like a bad idea but high school's job isn't to make you "marketable". Also you're implying that it's a tradeoff when it isn't. The suggested change would not affect how much math a student would take.

Ethnic studies sounds like a valuable thing to add to baseline education. And if their history curriculum is anywhere near as repetitive as the one I went through, it could easily replace one of those courses without issue.
Covid success of mRNA vaccines opens way to a new generation of drugs
> (for a fat fee) on top of the bitcoin network. Those people who don't want the responsibility of self custodying their money in a way that can't be recovered if they are robbed, can choose to bank with these services.

Of course they have to be rich enough to be able to pay the fee.
SUVs are offsetting EV car gains
You are in good company, nobody has a clue what it is going to actually cost to build plants :-).
> mov rsi, file_load_va + message: [...] This instruction ends up taking 10 bytes: two bytes for the opcode, and a full 8 bytes for the address. We can replace this with mov esi, file_load_va + message to save 5 bytes

Nasm should perform this optimization automatically.

$ cat t.s
bits 64
mov rsi, 0xffffff
$ nasm -o t.o t.s
$ ndisasm -b 64 t.o
00000000 BEFFFFFF00 mov esi,0xffffff
$ nasm --version
NASM version 2.15.05 compiled on Sep 24 2020
Beautiful comment. Curiously seeded by such an useless article.
These are all nifty niche cases, not compelling use cases for an expensive piece of hardware which everyone would own.

Use case 1 seems to be a minor improvement over a video call on a decent monitor today, and this is assuming that the AR and other tech would advance hugely from where it is today, to actually be able to do realtime filming and rendering with high precision, perhaps even in 3D to get some real advantage.

Use case 2 seems more realistic, but will be limited by eye tracking precision, component idenficiaction precision, and occlusion issues. Input will also be an issue (choosing which tooltips to see).

Use case 3 seems worse than building things in VR, other than some fancy art installations. Why would I want a virtual object that I can't view from my own home? Also, interaction would be fantastically limited, making the whole thing disappointing.

Use case 4 suffers even worse from interaction issues, and it also seems like a downgrade from current technology, which allows me to play in huge virtual environments without even getting off my chair.
:(, so much truth in this post. I really don't understand the math situation -- my fear is that the students in CA public schools will have harder time getting into top colleges because they will lack the opportunity to take more advanced coursework. This is likely going to push more parents to put their kids in private school (if they have the means).
In AWS we just `sudo shutdown +1440`. Then we can cancel the shutdown later if we need to.
I'm actually not taking a pro or anti centralization stance. I'm only pointing out that many services people think have decentralized power in fact don't.
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For a physicist she claims to know strikingly little about fusion energy research while still offering up opinions. Why did the good doctor fail to mention triple product? Why did the good doctor conflate ICF machines and MCF machines? Why did the good doctor imply that research progress is tied to Q (which is a metric that only progresses in times of large funding/when nuclear machines are being built)?

It seems the good doctor has smoke to blow, rather than truth to spread.
A quick google search suggests they should be available now. The article specifically talks about the situation your father is in:

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/nhs_patients_gain_access_to....

>Initially, Ronapreve will be targeted at hospitalised patients who have not mounted an antibody response against COVID-19.

>This includes individuals who are immunocompromised, such as patients with certain cancer or autoimmune diseases.
You have to do that anyway for serious batch processing.
I jumped head first into crypto about 18 months ago. You are right, there are a lot of earnest, passionate, and talented people in that space. It does feel like it's 1997 again.
But you understand that no independent will ever win right? That isn't realistic.

It is technically preferential and sure, it could happen, but none of the independents have, or will ever have enough of a following to win a federal election.

Also, for the record. I don't choose either of the two evils as my number one pick when I vote. I always do choose the party I think is best for this country privacy wise. But sadly, they will never win a federal election.
I have seen satire in other comments here but have not noticed a similar request in those cases; could you clarify the difference? Thank you.
Not a cult at all..
Nice work. In a similar vein I've considered using twtxt for this kind of thing, having each server/service generate a stream of messages that you can selectively subscribe to. Obviously there a other (and better) ways to do this but twtxt seems like a really easy option that could be just be used by default so I've always got something and if I decide I need better logging/monitoring for a particular thing then I can put that in alongside twtxt

[https://pypi.org/project/twtxt/] not affiliated just thought it was a cool idea with potential for a lot more than just 'microblogging'
I think you got this wrong. It was vague and inconsistent messaging from a leader who was skeptical of the science. Then made the pandemic into a personal attack on him. Now his followers will not take the vaccine.
How do you convert the .rm to usable files? I tried it a couple of months ago, and that was the problem (unknown stroke types etc)...
Perhaps people are sick of non-experts chiming in where they aren't wanted or needed for the explicit purpose of misinforming the public.
I am studying in Russia and one of my teachers told me that it must be so that North Americans have some disease that has made them all so large. It was after I told him two of my neighbours had tummy tucks in the same month... he did not know what that was.
Not sure how me pointing out that organizational and political dysfunction, corruption, and general bullshit is the reason why it is 'hard' now (and wasn't as hard 50 years ago when the currently active reactors were built since folks seemed to actually want to build them more than just siphon money out of the system or throw wrenches into the works for ideological reasons), and how it doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the actual technical or engineering difficulty is living in lalaland - but you do you I guess?

If we wanted to build cost effective and safe reactors, we could, and have many times in the past. Near as I can tell, almost no one does (compared to some cool new idea, or what becomes a one off, or ends up going back to the drawing board 50 times - all while getting paid), so we don't.

Same with high speed rail (and a bunch of other pork projects in CA), same with subways in many big cities, etc.
Unfortunate mangling of the headline – chat is only being disabled in games with auto matchmaking – but it’s still an interesting development.
The 30 second shutdown warning makes this a bit tricky for interactive work, but if your interactive requests will all finish within 20 seconds or so (or you can hand them off), and 5 seconds to get out of load balancing, this could be cost savings for whatever fits; some base number of nodes + a number of spot nodes as demand requires, if no spot nodes are available, serve from somewhat overloaded base nodes + maybe some regular priced nodes (but fewer extra nodes than at spot prices).

Or, more likely, for batch processing that's mostly time insensitive. Things that can be resumed without losing much work or lots of small short jobs. Retranscoding media with new settings comes to mind. If you've got deadlines, you'd probably need a mix of on-demand and spot nodes.

This is the corner of cloud pricing where if you can optimize use of this, you might be able to do better than traditional hosting. But only if your needs are variable, or you get a lot of high discount spot pricing.