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Traditional systems have complexity too. Its just not up front.

I like to compare it to fossil fuels and global warming. Traditional systems get one started quick, but eventually build a large fragile system that gets harder to fix/rebuild the longer it goes on.

Nix is different, it forces you to do your work upfront. But once setup, you pretty much can (and to my attestation do) forget it is in place. You do have to learn setting a anything a and everything. But you only do it once. If the house burns down, you don't need to remember what you had. You don't need to remember what to setup in what order. You don't have to find out you forgot something in the middle of something else. In other words, the onus is no longer on you.

That last sentence is incredibly liberating. I stopped worrying having black screens after updates and pretty much stopped having rescue disc, because rescue functionality comes built in the system. It sounds cultish, and it kinda is, but as I said in previous comment on Nix, it is the worst system management tool, except all the others.
> PG&E announced that it plans to close the two Diablo Canyon reactors in 2024 and 2025, stating that because California's energy regulations give renewables priority over nuclear, the plant would likely only run half-time, making it uneconomical.

> In 2020, experts at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) warned that when the plant closes the state will reach a "critical inflection point", which will create a significant challenge to ensure reliability of the grid without resorting to more fossil fuel usage, and could jeopardize California's greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Good stuff, shooting yourself in the foot because ideology versus reality
It is a typo formed by long press on the % key with a Motorola keyboard.
> I'm sure you could use LLVM opt to force to compiler to try harder than -O3 (and maybe that should be the default), but that will also make compile time longer. Real code is way harder to optimize than my 18 lines that are all in 1 file.

Evaluating code at compile time is not harder or even as much work as than optimizing it. If you ever wrote an interpreter you know that it's much simpler than optimized codegen. You can evaluate unoptimized code at compile time perfectly fine, and deducing whether that is possible is extremely fast in comparison. Which is why in C++ you see people litter constexpr everywhere they can regardless of whether the code is -O0 or -O3.
In a truly apocalyptic scenario like the one being discussed, what other sources of power are there?
I have a Scottish Werewolf in Scotland story and a ghost story associated with a lighthouse...

When I lived up in Caithness myself and couple of others would go out ringing (banding) storm-petrels at night next to Noss Lighthouse, near Wick. We'd setup mist nets on the cliff-top and tapes played of birds calling at a colony. That would attract petrels passing at sea and they'd get caught in the nets. One night, in between checking the nets, we were sitting there when a loud and frightening snarl come out of the pitch black darkness, close-by. After nearly shitting our pants we grabbed torches and poles we used to erect the nets and searched the area. Nothing was found. It was a few months later we found out that one of the lighthouse keepers nearby kept a Great Dane, which he used to let out at night. We only found out this because the dog had attacked someone, in a pub of all places.

Another supernatural experience at the same place. I was walking down the road to the lighthouse alone, again out catching storm-petrels. It's was deathly quiet and suddenly I could hear footsteps behind me. I stopped, they stopped. I'd start walking again and the footsteps would follow. This raised the hairs on my neck but a search with a torch revealed nothing. It's the closest thing I've come to a ghostly experience and at the time a little unsettling. It was only later I realised I was probably hearing my own footsteps echoing off the dry-stone wall that ran along side the road.
Because OEMs would give their left nut to sell to Apple, and that just isn't true of, say, Dell or Asus. Intel lost Apple as a customer for their CPUs, but they would bend or break the rules to license Thunderbolt to Apple even without an Intel CPU... because Apple is Apple, the company that invented personal computing and that has been the driver of every revolution in the industry since.
Define "Good GPU". What do you want to do with it?
A better measure than anecdata is looking at actual advertising impressions per capita for the population at large.

There's also the question of qualitative change, such as personally targeted advertising and the infrastructure and methods (massive pervasive surveillance) required to support that.

Given global ad spending trends and the consequences of targeted manipulation and mass surveillance, I'd strongly suggest your life is not nearly so free of advertising's influence as you testify, and perhaps even believe.
I was interested in reading more about this, but the articles I found on the topic suggested the minimum wage in Germany was only instituted in 2015. Is this the natural experiment you're talking about?

https://socialeurope.eu/the-minimum-wage-in-germany-five-yea...
Regulatory capture does not a statesman make.
No, this is the money quote:

other states have moved to close coal-fired power plants in recent years, reducing the amount of electricity California can import when high temperatures boost electricity demand.

In other words, the problem with wind/solar is that they are not controllable, and so California was planning on using the rest of the grid as a buffer -- all of Western US is on one grid. Thus California can still import from coal fired plants in Utah when it needs power, say on a hot day when AC use is high or a day when the wind isn't blowing too strongly.

Except now it's realizing that as other states adopt the same strategy, that the grid can't be relied on so much and the state has to do that itself or face blackouts in hot days or windless days. So with this new awareness that the rest of the grid will not be able to bail them out, they have updated their estimate of needed battery capacity in time for the planned shutdowns. Alternately, they are scrambling for some sources of energy that could be tapped on demand in place of battery capacity.
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If a hidden variables model is found, it would be the discovery of the century
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This article is interesting and helpful. So, thanks.

That said, I'm not 100% convinced. If we stop trading oil in dollars, doesn't that reduce the need for countries to keep dollars in reserve? It could be the beginning of a slippery slope.
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> I don't think it's that simple. You need a way to differentiate code that runs at compile time and code that runs at runtime (because at compile time you can afford a "slow" algorithm, while at run-time you'll be calling into a proprietary binary which will do the computation on a GPU or something like that).

You mean std::is_constant_evaluated()? You don't need constexpr to be able to have that.
The article doesn't really seem to reflect the headline.

It's seems hasty to order companies to build up plants in just three years, but it's not made clear if that order is made too late by the state or if it's a reaction to the companies neglecting their responsibilities.

A bit further down there's also mentions of less foreseeable complications like wildfire damages and less power output of hydroelectric plants due to draughts.

Even further down the changes brought on by more frequent heat waves are blamed. And that makes sense, those both increase demand and negatively impact all forms of power generation, including nuclear and solar.
And if they find one, how confident are they at ordering in Telugu or Urdu?

"We will attempt to place orders in any country and location!" Yeah, right. Never mind team members in South Asia.... I'm in the south-east of England, and neither Deliveroo nor UberEats offers service to my town. Just Eat can find a couple of local restaurants that claim to offer delivery, but pizza isn't among my options.

I think their idea of a "remote team" may be quite limited.
> Yeah but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a phone, doesn't it? :)

No, I would say it opens up infinite possibilities for useful customizations. Even if you aren't a programmer, someone likely writes a relevant script for your use case.
Meritocracy exists for people with money.

It takes money to fulfill your potential and be able to participate in meritocracy which by definition reward people according to their merit.

If you can't even fulfill your merit, like a huge part of the world, youre not really in a meritocracy.

For most people instead of meritocracy, it's take what limited opportunities you have in your life and use those to eke out whatever success you can.

Some few average people get lucky.

But far more rich 'get lucky' by virtue of their resources.

Meritocracy is just marketing.
architecture, component choice, etc etc hard stuff that isn't obvious to a consumer.

I guess you haven't thought deeply about developing hardware
The Internet was once a niche thing for people who cared about decentralisation and interoperability. Otherwise we would be in "I can't get to HN, it's on the AT&T network" or "Only $5 more to upgrade to the Tech Websites Package!" territory today.

There's no reason social media shouldn't be more decentralized and federated. European institutes can and should consider open source, federated alternatives unless they want to be forced to play by the rules of the big social media providers.
Because "evergreen" content is in fact part of the problem being described here.
Why would 4 get you banned? There doesn't appear to be anything remotely sexual there, at least to me, just implied nudity.
Comma.ai CTF challenge and COMMA_HACK (much woah, so fun)
One would expect at least a provision for a stop the world phase. where all mutator threads get to wait for a massive defragmentation.
So they don't even know what it is yet, but they're sure it causes cancer long term.

Is it just me or is the appeal here: "Look! Poor people are having unapproved fun! Shame and Horror!" and assurances that they will suffer for it.

Wheras we have publications like this to protect us from going so dangerously astray.
of course. the party that denies climate change and evolution is the party of reality.
> I mean, it's nice and all but at some point I would've expected at least a mention that this all was solvable with a quantized neural network with low bit precision as well.

This doesn't matter, so I'm not sure why you were expecting it.

I'm struggling to be diplomatic, so I'll leave it at that.
I guess you could also ask "What is language worth?" or "What is democracy worth?", "What is habeas corpus worth?". Some things really don't have an economic value attributed to them, because they are part of the fabric of the market from which economic value is defined.
Are the performance-critical components of these sites written in Python? That’s the question.
Companies are taking their cues from Facebook and now they're all in a race to build back-end data warehouses of information of individuals, while congress stays oblivious to the practice, and drops the ball on regulating and enforcing protection of privacy.

Because of how embedded mobile phones and cameras are into our lives now, the field for collection of personal data can give a company a huge database of information on anyone based on how they interact with their phones.

Even your phone and Alexa devices are literal microphones that can tap into your personal life at any given time. When this is combined with social media, email, photos and videos, and of course your browser history, anyone can be targeted at any time by these private companies for any reason.

Blackmail will be a likely result. Corporate espionage will also be a constant threat. The future is going to be wild, and we'll likely need to lock our phones up and have private conversations in rooms with no tech at all unless privacy invasion and surveillance is reigned in properly by Gov leadership around the world.

There is, in contrast, probably a fast growing pool of independent hackers and whistleblowers out there to counter these bad behaviors and practices by big corporate interests... The future is both interesting and scary citing all of this.
This is a nice pseudo-ancap/libertarian talking point but it doesn't bear any resemblance to reality. You're only able to thrive (with or without your neighbors) because of the absolutely massive support structures in place currently. Your efforts and ingenuity have very little impact compared to those, and a bit of luck thrown in for good measure.

To see what you get without those support systems you have to look to places like East Africa.
Im a pretty good leader lol hahaha. The instant anything hits the fan the only leader will be the security team they think they hired to protect them. Whom will immideatly eliminate him and his family to move intheir own friends and family.
I think I'd phrase that a bit differently.

Extracting cash by threatening mom and pop restaurants for playing the radio is old hat, nobody cares.

Threatening cops over it is going to attract attention.
Or poke a hole in the screen by leaving a single speck of sand on the keyboard before closing the lid.

There used to be a thick glass panel in front of it, but no more.
We knew that before the two ML attempts. You just need to look at the source. There are several other trivial PRNG's with the exact same properties. Never use a trivial PRNG for security or seeding.
It's super annoying when I accidentally move the cursor when clicking the touchpad buttons that are not physically separate. Why has this become the standard?
"If an entire village is razed to the ground then whatever led up to that is wrong, period"

This is where we fundamentally disagree then. I think perfectly innocent things can contribute to deadly consequences.

For instance, Timothy McVeigh rented a moving truck and filled it with fertilizer to blow up Oklahoma City. But I don't think renting moving trucks or buying farming essentials are morally wrong.

I also don't think that posting on Facebook or Facebook algorithmically promoting posts that gain traction is wrong.

Like I said in my original comment, the worst thing you can say about Facebook here is that they're not picking sides in a messy ethnic conflict happening in a foreign country.
Yeah this quote caught my eye too, but how is this possible? They’re not planning for a hotter and dryer climate in CA? I find that hard to believe.
you're right someone made that decision but on the advice of a lot of experts who sabotaged the company, advocated to giving the tech away to another company, and then left to that company.

This isn't rocket surgery - it's not complicated. You're just trying to minimize unethical actions by a group of people who sabotaged their employer.
When you receive very large volumes of email "inbox zero" can become very stressful! It's a good technique but I think you have to accept falling behind sometimes.
I've been using the following system for a few years now and I am able to handle a high volume of emails with it.

1. Create categories: .Urgent, .When Possible, PJ Your Project, PJ ...

2. Create two folders: .Action [Set "View" to "Date (Conversations)], .Archive [Set "View" to "Categories"]

3. Create Quick Steps: "Action - Urgent" (Actions: Clear Categories, Move to .Action, Categorize message: .Urgent, Mark as Read, Shortcut: CTRL+Shift+1), "Action - When possible" (Actions: Clear Categories, Move to .Action, Categorize message: .When possible, Mark as Read, Shortcut: CTRL+Shift+2), "Archive" (Actions: Move to .Archive, Categorize message [Leave the category empty to be prompted for the category], Mark as Read, Shortcut: CTRL+Shift+3)

4. Schedule email sessions in your calendar (max. 2 times/day for a fixed time period): For each email: Delete or use the shortcuts to assign them as "Urgent", "When possible" or "Archive" them. Inbox should be empty afterwards. Do not take a look into the inbox outside of scheduled inbox sessions.

5. Work on the emails: Work on the emails in the ".Urgent" folder first. If you got time, work on the emails in the ".Action" folder next.
Incentive for other 'green' sources of electricity to come to market
The myth of Apple-patented PPI
I've seen those and touched them. One speck of sand is all it takes, keyboard or screen. Bust.

No thanks.
I mean it's a spectrum for sure. At some point you're preparing to survive in a world nobody would want to live in anyway.

And the proportion of preppers who are legitimately disconnected from reality is quite a bit higher than the general population.
I would go further and say that this describes the ineffectiveness (I’d say corruption) of Congress and the justice system across all industries. This is just the one you notice because you’re well acquainted with it. If you have a strong stomach go look up Steven Donziger.
>Saying it not stand-alone because you need to connect it to a PC is just absurd.

Nobody said anything about it not being standalone because you need to connect to it PC, rather that standalone VR is a poor experience and once you connect it to a PC for a much better experience, it's no longer standalone.
Interesting, that makes me trust this quite a bit more. Regardless, this is bound to really contribute to our understanding of the brain, so I'm grateful for this research.
A fundamentally entropic phenomenon is discovered to be patterened. It would be like looking through a microscope and seeing voxels.

How is this not strong evidence for simulation?
Yea I never understood why there's such a crusade to go after people with pictures of nude children on their phones/computers but no one seems to give a shit about someone who collects footage of people (children included!) being brutally tortured and murdered...if we're assembling lists of people we don't like I feel like that should also make the list.
This thought experiment has nothing to do with what a monopoly is.

See, I think people have been using this term without any actual definition of it for so long that people are actively confused by what is and isn't a monopoly. People have said focusing on this word is "just semantics" but it isn't because people really aren't sure what it means.
Minas Tirith
well last time I checked longer runways are infrastructure, so it's not like money won't be availible to make that a reality.
There's probably a potential difference in intent, in the sense that a kid will not buy the new York times but they might be exposed to random things on Twitter.

I'm not sure of the "kids will suffer because of violent images" idea tho, we were shown a crap ton of terrible imagery from WWI/WWII/Holocaust/Vietnam when I was in middle school, and if anything I thought it was a good thing.
Wikipedia says the Saudis have the 9th largest defense budget in the world. They also have a decent sized army, navy and air force. TIL.

I was under the impression that the Saudis literally didn't have a military, because the ruling family was afraid of coups.
Chasrisma, skills, cooperation?
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All Macs have fractional scaling and AFAICT most people seem to have it on. For example my Macbook Pro has a native resolution of 2880x1800. The default OS resolution is 1440x900 (so 2x) but I have it set to 1680x1050 or 1.714

It looks fine and I see none of the issues you mention.

A big difference with Window though is that this scaling happens at a very low-level. The OS tells apps they are on a 2x display at 1680x1050, the OS then scales that 2x display (3368x2100) to 2880x1400. The DPI told to apps does't change on Mac.

The DPI does on Windows and because of various other poor? choices has some of the issues you mention
It may be the money quote but you removed the context in an almost misleading way:

> The drought has constrained the output of some of the region’s most significant generating facilities, including the Hoover Dam. … “What changed dramatically…is we have had significantly bigger and more West-wide heat waves than ever before,”

Maybe a failure of planning, but the plan was not to get "bailed out" by the grid as you guess.
This is what I don't get about high performance laptops.

Low end Ryzen 3 laptops have four cores, single thread performance within a few percent of the fastest processors in existence and will do something like render a web page at a speed indistinguishable from instantaneous.

The fastest laptops have twice that many cores. And if you actually try to use them, either half of them are low performance cores or they all clock down to a speed that makes them equivalent to a quad core desktop.

Whereas for the same price as a high end laptop, you get a desktop with 12 or 16 high performance cores and >16GB memory which is so much faster for intensive tasks that the laptop should be embarrassed to show up.

Why should I do anything other than buy an inexpensive laptop with a good screen and keyboard and a fast desktop I can access remotely for any kind of intensive workload?
> "we read of the dangers of the suicide of the West — most often as a paean to white supremacy."

This is very interesting since typical arguments for the modern theory of "systemic racism" and "white fragility" do not generally admit that for thousands of years slavery was the only alternative to being killed post lost battle. They tend to make it seem to be an American invention. Also what relevance is a Joan Collins quote from 1984? I never heard trump talk about Rome. The article seems like a bit of a stretch.

Further, the argument seems to be "history interpretation used for political gain" which is generically true and has nothing to do with that particular history.

P.S. if you are casually interested in Rome I highly recommend Mike Duncan's "the history of Rome" podcast.
I wouldn't. Maths are something I have to work out quietly on my own. Board
games and book clubs I get -- far less intellectually taxing.
I've really come to enjoy these sorts of upscaled videos that allow a view of various cities in the early 1900's.

New York:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85WMpJMv8aA

San Francisco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8

Paris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOPaxhhgyd8

Wuppertal, Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
I haven't taken the time to look for a source. Maybe it really is just a rumor.
Just so that I'm sure I've understood this right. California decided to save the environment by shutting down "unclean" power within the state, with the idea that other states will provide them with their "dirty" generated power?
Yes, they are better for going back.

No, that's not going to do. I don't even live in a town. There are literally rafts (barns) all over where I live.

I can not escape sand. And a single speck is all it takes.

To poke a hole in the screen. To disable a key.

That's not good design.
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I do no believe so. In my opinion if you are planning on making one, you should first invite dang to it and make him a channel-op or co-admin of the discord channel so there is representation of the site.

hn @ ycombinator.com
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Hmmm. Is it really a problem that some people work hard and take care of their kids? That seems to be the point at the core this article.

And then there's the claim that the so-called 9.9% "lack imagination." This seems disconnected from reality because I think one of the biggest job requirements these days is imagination and adaptability.
Two more papers down the line, I'm sure they'll be able to fix that.