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A perfect summary. "Foundation" trilogy is essentially a novelization of the generalized anthropic principle[0]: protagonists aren't special, the only reason we're reading about particular characters and not some others is because those people happened to be at the right place and time during pivotal moments in history[1]. The show, on the other hand, seems to be just another "special heroes with special powers direct the course of history".

It wouldn't even be that bad if the show wasn't regularly referencing back to Seldon and psychohistory, essentially telling us one thing, but showing something completely opposite.

It's not all bad, though. There are elements that would fit well with the books. The way they handled emperors, for example.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

[1] - Or what could be described as pivotal moments - the whole point of Seldon's use of psychohistory was to set the initial conditions to ensure there's a high probability that future events will take a very particular path[2]. Kind of like we do space missions today, where a probe is launched just right, so it stays on a predetermined path through the Solar System, making it reach its destination years or decades later.

[2] - And to my great relief when first reading the trilogy, Asimov wasn't dumb about this. He seemed to have known enough about what today we'd call non-linear systems and chaos theory, that he addressed the obvious problems of psychohistory and long-term stability of Seldon's plan in the trilogy (as well as in subsequent books).
I swallowed a Mmmemberberry, and this came back to me :

"I was 20 years old, before the USofA Congress voted for the Patriot Act. I was about to travel a short 1h hop by plane, and I walked directly to the gate from the parking, right in front of the plane. I presented my password and ticket to the attendant, and boarded."

That's it. Nothing more to this memory.
Yeah, if half-smart, certificates should expire relatively frequently to contain damage in such a scenario.
I've been thinking about the lack of ad-hoc SumTypes in Java. The sealed class approximation isn't good enough. I'm seriously considering taking up TypeScript in earnest as my 'go to' language. It's an outlier in supporting A | B | C and being mainstream with pretty good runtime performance.

One thing I'd have to check is the quality of IDE support for refactoring tooling. Refactoring operations for Java using IntelliJ almost always works and as I expect or better.
That's not what Privilege is about even in the wider context.

Privilege:
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
I'm born and raised in the US.

I love this country like I love my favorite sports team: It's not blind love - I crap on them when they deserve it.

That being said this country is slowly dying from extreme left wing ideologies.
I think I have visited 4 of them during my travels: the ones in Paris, Oxford, NY and Rome.

My favorite bookshops were IT bookshops: Le Monde en Tique in Paris and The Computer Bookshop in London. Both are now closed.

Also Foyles in London, before it was refurbished (20 years ago ?).

There's one bookshop I liked in Bologna because it did close at midnight. Great way to spend the end of the evening !
United States of America.
One difference is that it can be recovered from worn out lithium batteries. So at some point we could theoretically
have enough lithium from recycled batteries that we no longer need to mine a significant amount of it.
Overall this is a step in the right direction.
But it felt like a bug the first time I noticed the change. Also, at the moment it seems like there is no way to close an issue with another status than resolved. And issues that were marked as duplicate by a contributor with a comment ' Duplicate of #x' still show as resolved.
Also, the likes of Google, Amazon, MS, etc. generally use renewable power for their data centers and are each very actively investing in making their entire operations carbon neutral. So, yes they produce and use a lot of energy but not a lot of carbon.
Is it me being jaded or is a billion or two dollars not really that much money anymore? I mean sure, if someone were to give me a billion dollars I'd be excited (pending dealing with taxes etc). But I mean..theres what a couple thousand people with personal fortunes that could buy the entire deposit several times over, and even more companies that could do it...maybe it'd be a great windfall to the local economy? But if Maine is anything like North Carolina then the majority of the money will get earmarked for future infrastructure projects and then get slowly siphoned off by the politicians over a few years so it won't really matter.
grpc is RPC. It's in the name.
Yeah, lots of respect for HuggingFace but this argument is pretty reductive.

A very thin slice of the ML community/industry is rushing to short-term commercialization of giant models, and there's nothing wrong with poking some fun at what's being ignored in that haste.

But for most of the field, ever-inflating models are a probe for exploring the many types of unreasonable effectiveness of gradient descent. Knowing more about what's possible is incredibly valuable to engineering pragmatic applications of ML.

Research and commercialization can happen in parallel, and both sides would be better off if they educated the public about the difference.
This, this right here is the attitude I’m referring to. From now on all I’m gonna say is “GitHub or GTFO.” Show me all this lisp you’re writing, or at least tell me the fantastic product you’ve built with it or GTFO.
It doesn't limit travel - those decisions are still made by each country individually with some guidance from the EU. The EU does not have control over what COVID entry requirements a country sets, beyond making recommendations.

All the document and its regulation do is say, "if you impose entry requirements based on vaccination / testing / recovery, you must accept at least these types of vaccines / tests / recovery specifics and you must accept this document (if genuine) as proving what it says, and all of this on a non-discriminatory basis regardless of nationality or place of occurrence." The document itself is never made mandatory by the EU and alternative proofs for entry to a member state must be accepted.

(Why do I say "document" instead of app? From the user perspective, you can print it on paper, present it as a PDF, or use one of many interoperable national apps among other ways to present it.)

So, the restrictions you're unhappy about are imposed by countries in reaction to COVID; the document we're discussing just sets some minimum allowed level of ease in satisfying national entry requirements.
Where's the DNA altering drug? Sounds cool.
Oh no, my 400€ taken from my salary help cover for an entire society and prevents me from going into life-crippling debt when taking an ambulance!

The US is the only country with such wealth that is unable to set it up, and pays more than double than any european country with free healthcare per inhabitant. The real world is calling, and it's telling you the US's approach to health care is more fitting of a third world country.
I never married anyone and certainly I would never do it for financial/political reasons. It also never crossed my mind that marrying for love makes me a modern thinker :)
You think medical surveillance and segregation is a ”gigantic success”? Think again.

I would understand if the treatments actually prevented transmission altogether.
It's not just America. In South Africa as well, right now. Almost every form and application asks for race on some level. One of the big reasons is because they've got a big push atm to suppress over-representation of minority groups in terms of company ownership and employment. One of the top groups that they are targeting are the native White minority.

Edit. Added link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Based_Black_Economic_Emp...
>it can be recycled

Yet here we are talking about a lithium mine, which is not clean.
I think we're pretty far beyond "double taxation" at this point. I think my money gets taxed at least 3-5 times in the various stages it passes through my use.
>And judge them by individual criteria, not what groups they happen to be part of.

I suspect one of the results of that is a given race who outside this selection process are disadvantaged will be accepted at a low rate.
I heard that Slavs are considered PoC in the USA.
You can always claim that you have Czech babushka.
Tell that to the UN.

In June 2021, they encouraged France and Germany to use race statistics to help increase chances for non-Whites.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/france-and-ger...

https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/l-onu-exhorte-la-fr...
So something like Joaquim Estevez?

Interestingly, in the UK Bill, Ken, John are often seen as lower class names and names like Dominic, Lucian, Francis are more upper class.
Feels like you did not have a chance to read my comment because of the blur of fingerpointing too fast.

When any system gives preference to an identity it's expected behavior to attempt to pass as a carrier of said identity. It does not matter what the identity is.
This is a lovely, honest sentiment. Thanks for sharing (here and on your blog).
Yes. The narrative that electrification just shifts around the pollution is so tired and untrue. The end to end pipeline of EVs is much more efficient than that of gas cars, so even if we start synthesizing fuels that are carbon neutral gas cars will lose. The only reason gas cars could ever exist is because of cheap and dirty fuel. The only car that makes sense in a sustainable system is an EV maybe with synthesized and carbon neutral hydrocarbon range extension for emergencies.
The issue is that while mines produce relatively localized environmental damage, climate change will produce globalized damage by ecosystem collapse and sea level rise. The sum total of this damage will be far greater than the marginal increase in mining required for battery production. Shifting, for sure, but the scale of destruction is the real question.
I'll disagree until the OP claims sarcasm. The comment easily reads as white grievance about how our society is "obviously not white supremacist" because "why would people lie about being white in a white supremacist country"? To which I replied the obvious answer to such a dumb conjecture. Unfortunately the title has drawn in many comments exactly like this, its sad people can't think 2 inches from their face. I'll take the downvotes from cranky white people with pride.
This is not meant to be a "forever" state of things, hopefully we'll go back to basic Schengen rules when the emergency subsides. Sadly the virus is what it is, and compartimentalising systems as much as possible is necessary to fight it.
Yep.. a white person from washington, white person from italy and white person from belarus are more diverse than black, latino, asian and white persons from chicago.

But it's $current_year, and race suddenly matters.
Yes, but not in this context, edited.
> But that's fine, poor people shouldn't be alive anyway.

I am glad that you are finally speaking sensibly.
/s
So what? That doesn't mean grandparent is obligated to answer the question.
You hit the nail on the head. I used to identify as liberal and also voted as such. The woke culture is so annoying, it has pushed me to the right side of the political aisle.
'We're being pressured into sex by some trans women'
There is endless amounts of lithium deposit everywhere. A lithium deposit is essentially worthless.

What matters in lithium industry, is chemical processing. Nobody cares about a lithium mining company. What matters is lithium processing.

Lithium is not like a base metal, its more like a specialty chemical. The output from every mine is unique, there is not overall standard. Each output from each mine has to be qualified with each major battery manufacturer.

Nevada has 100s of billion of dollars worth of lithium by itself probably.

This will almost certainty not be mined. Making money from this kind of rock is difficult in the first place and doing it in a place with little mining industry makes that even worse.

Edit:

If you want insight into lithium industry, I recommend 'Global Lithium Podcast' by a guy that has been in that business for many decades and has worked for all the many of the major producers.
I think it's also worth reflecting on how modern attention spans have shortened. Modern media has spoiled us with instant and constant gratification in our pockets. Dune, the book, was written in an era where it was still considered acceptable for media to demand something of its consumers, like attention, patience and so on - and the movie is a faithful adaptation of the book.
The regulations that would make Warren Buffet pay more than an effective 0.1% tax rate are the first that comes to mind.
I think you're wrong here. They're not showing any Nazi style control, just hackers often display their results in ways that are edgy in order to draw attention to themselves from the mainstream media.
Imperative ≠ low level. That’s the fundamental issue with this essay.

>One way of thinking about programming is that you are ordering a computer to do your bidding: you, the programmer, sit at the helm of your CPU, afloat on a sea of data, and you have various levers and knobs that you can pull and twist to make the CPU get from point A to point B: load this value into memory slot i. Now add five to it. Now print that back out. Etc. This is called imperative programming, because you tell the computer every step it should take.

I can tell the computer complex, high-level things too, not just this pseudo assembly.
Man, if people just took the time to read the link and not the comment :)
Beware confirmation bias. esrauch just posted a peer comment that is totally reasonable, not flamebait, and quite objective. Did you notice that just as you would the one commenter out of thousands who happens to be the "loudest in the room"?

Engage with the constructive conversationalists who can show you another perspective. The more you look for them, the more you see.
It's sadly more nuanced than that because the answer to the question Can police do X? Is not effectively answered til binding precedent is created in the Courts, which requires someone to fight it all the way up. Remember, judges are signing these blatantly overbroad warrants in the first place. So there's a judiciary crisis already at play
> And judge them by individual criteria, not what groups they happen to be part of.

That sounds good on paper but in reality some groups of people have been left behind because of systematic racism. So you give special benefits to individuals from that group then that person becomes a role model for others in his/her group and can help them.
In Italy they scan it regularly at restaurants, at least where I'm from. And I have a UE certificate, not an italian one, and never had any complain.
Would a UK.ltd company be able to easily hand over all the 'info' to the 'feds', though?
Yes. That’s a lot of dustings.
zenly lets you do it already
> a whole bunch of people destroying the purpose of attempted representation increases for minorities, while claiming it doesn't work because they broke it, is so comically disingenuous I have to assume you're doing it to harm us all

This is an unfortunate reality when it comes to implementing government policy. Regulations have material outcomes, and people will (legally and, sometimes, deceptively) adjust their behavior to take advantage of these outcomes. In some cases, these adjustments reduce, or even negate, the intended benefit of the policy.

It doesn't mean that the original policy was wrong, or even ineffective. It's just that unexpected consequences can emerge over time from dynamic processes, and policy implementation is never as simple as "see problem, implement policy, done".
I find this more relevant:

"But [the lithium] reserves also would not present the same type of potential environmental issues as ... other base metal sulfide deposits in Maine, such as Bald Mountain. That’s because the Plumbago North deposit does not occur in, or contain, sulfide-rich rocks, said Slack and Simmons. Mining for lithium there would instead be similar to quarrying for granite or gravel."

Are rock queries outlawed? I don't believe so. Thus, is this a lithium rock query or a lithium mineral mine?
>White people have a skewed view of
their extant privilege, and do not actually have to take the steps they do to gain a non-existent "minority privilege"
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All I needed to see was "conducted online by survey platform Pollfish".

I don't know much about Pollfish but I am very suspect of online polling due to the challenge of finding representative sample sets.
I am not white and I have lied on applications and government forms. I'm mixed. If the document doesn't cover my appropriate race I always put white. If I'm feeling really silly I will bubble in both black and white. I hate that in my court records it says black. Because I'm not black or white.
I discovered this list some years back. As others have said it’s very doable. I’ve got a full-time job, wife, kids, friends, etc. and have been comfortably able to keep at about ~90% of the pace of the plan.

I recommend it. The organization is really nice; the years get more “difficult” as you go on and within each year the works are ordered chronologically. In this way it’s very approachable.

It’s not long before you start seeing references between the books, something referred to as The Great Conversation. I find that really exciting; it’s makes the stories richer in the same way as when you get steeped in the lore of some fantasy world… but it’s with ideas that shaped _our_ world.

Last thing I’ll say is that the ideas in the books aren’t a unified block. There is often disagreement between ideas, and sometimes explicitly called out. For example, Montaigne says he thinks Plato gives too much license to children to determine the topics they should study. Montaigne thinks instead it should be more prescribed. It’s moments like that, when you see two sharp minds disagreeing on such a topic that you ask yourself what _you_ believe. Then you can geek out on how that question was answered by Dewey and others that shaped what modern education is today.

Really a delight to go through.
The virus didn't gave us an ETA of its demise. It will probably stay longer than ideal since not every country in the Europe has high vaccination rates as Portugal.

It's seriously puzzling to see he immense belief in the governments power. How on earth one can demand a specific day for removal of management tools against the natural processes?
> It also seems to be at odds with the idea of individual responsibility […]

That's a nice myth but social and economic status are related to race and the game is rigged against some. You can throw terms like "individual responsibility" around all you want and maybe you even start believing that some people just deserve to be in the place they are in… truth is, however, some never had enough chances that individual responsibility would've made a difference.
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If transmission rates stay under 1 over the winter, I would expect (hope) next summer we can kill it for good.

Not gonna happen, sadly, as long as there are irresponsible neighbours like the UK, where I sadly happen to live (for my sins).
Technically they can't force you to do a DNA test. But even if they could, you could do one in advance, and i'm pretty sure, with all the genetic mixing, you'd come to atleast 1% of some minority status and have papers to prove it.
If all this lithium is so important, someone will find a way to change the law.
Why would any of them claim to be Asian? I’ve known Asians that “lied” on their applications by setting themselves to white.

Anyways, race should be banned from everything.
The #M1Max is the fastest GPU we have ever measured in the @affinitybyserif Photo benchmark. It outperforms the W6900X - a $6000, 300W desktop part - because it has immense compute performance, immense on-chip bandwidth and immediate transfer of data on and off the GPU (UMA)
So you’re saying we should continue to burn fossil fuels in our cars because lithium mining is dirty?
The St Louis Post Dispatch debacle recently with Missouri Gov Parson.
Not everybody develops in Javascript on a Mac.
Get your own website. Medium is a content farm. As long as you remain there you have no credibility.
That sounds really dangerous. You're depending on circuitry built to protect the microcontroller, to limit the current. Sounds like a good way to kill the LED, but worse also kill the microcontroller. Also I'm quite skeptical at the number of microcontrollers that have this protective circuitry?
I added a clarification of this in the blog post.
It would be really cool to make Julia self hosting. The easiest non-julia in Base to replace is the parser which currently is in femtolisp. Most of the c++ code is just LLVM which we keep our own copy of because Julia has pretty specific LLVM version requirements that OS provided versions are unlikely to satisfy. Getting the C code out would be interesting since it's difficult to bootstrap a language that doesn't like being ahead of time compiled, but it would be a cool project.
That's likely true if you look at network effects, but maybe not so true if you look at energy return on energy invested (ERoEI). In my opinion, the latter is a big part of oil's status as a "universal" energy source/carrier.
In summer it wasn't yet mandatory AFAIK (and in fact Italy was using a slightly different certificate back then)
It's a very misleading statement to bluntly compare a consumable Ressource with a recycle metal.

While it is known that lithium itself has environmental issues the potential reuse and benefit of pulling it out of the earth to make batteries will have a very long and positive outcome for us.

And to a certain degree the initial disruption might be totally worth it in the long run in comparison to stuff we just burn away.
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> Is it worth it for society to spend resources to train more writers or art history majors?

Yes. Do you know why ? Because there's barely anyone doing that, relative to the total amount of students. Not only is it a small amount of people, despite the STEM circlejerk, humanities are some of the more important subjects we could teach. A country without writers or historians sounds like a hellscape to me.

>yea read a book or use the Internet

This is not how teaching works.

> Is it because they are obese and just don’t care? If so more healthcare isn’t a good thing unless they also change underlying habits which lead to the need for healthcare in the first place.

Costs have been rising recently because of that, yes, but pretending it's an exclusive choice is ridiculous. You can have universal health care _and_ fight off obesity, or smoking, with success.

> By making it “free” we also separate out useful market elements - like instead of going to school to be an art history major maybe for free, maybe you should bear some of the burden for a less useful degree than say computer science where there is a need, or plumbing or electricians.

Fuck the market. You don't get to pick what people study because they don't fit your closed world view. Once again, screw your STEM circlejerk. I'll happily laugh in the rest of the first world.
Perspective of books reader/movies watcher but wife hasn't read the books:

The "big picture politics" of the Landsraad coupled with the power of the Guild and Bene Geserit...is the biggest thing missing. It's all only hinted at. When you read the books you realize how all these different factions sortof work as checks and balances on each other.

If you haven't read the books, it just seems like it would be impossible to understand why anything is happening "big picture". It just seems like bad stuff is happening to the good guys.
"That leaves the question of crypto..."