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I agree, though I think the current one or ones being hyped now is far less interesting that the projects that have already done much of the same pre-Crypto. They ALL seem like "stuff we've done before but lets add on more payments."

See e.g. Deviant Art, Wikipedia, Roblox, Minecraft, Second Life, the list goes on.
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I'd say fusion is a sleeper. You still have that stupid "30 years away and always will be" meme but there is real progress being made. Fusion would completely change the world, though not overnight because it would take another decade or so before it would advance enough to be cost competitive.

I'm semi-optimistic about space flight and longevity. I think Starship will fly, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of its most ambitious specs get dialed back a bit. I'll be somewhat (but not totally) surprised if the "chopsticks" idea works.

We will probably see aging-reversal to some limited extent within 10-20 years, but the effect will probably be more to extend "health span" than add that much to life span. (I'll take it.)

I'll add one not on the list: the use of deep learning to discover theories in areas like physics and math that have not occurred to humans and maybe are not capable of being found by ordinary human cognition.

Wildcard, but plausible: detection of a strong extrasolar biosphere candidate using JWST or another next-generation telescope. Detection would be based on albedo absorption spectra, so we wouldn't know for sure. Talk of an interstellar fly-by probe would start pretty quickly.

I wouldn't list sub-5nm as "far out." We will almost definitely get sub-5nm. AFAIK 3nm is in the pipeline. Sub-1nm is "far out" and may or may not happen.
It's not really any better -- while I haven't dug in too deeply, the current macOS versions are basically the iPad versions running in a window with a mouse pointer.
Sounds like an organizational issue in your work place. Usually these are the best dealt by changing the employer. They rarely get fixed from within the organization itself.
Even outside of the U.S.
Ask HN: How are QR scanners written?
I have been programming web and backend stuff for over a decade but I have never done any kind of image processing. I tried googling but there is so much noise in the QR space.

What I want to know is, how does QR scanner code work? How do you go from a photo of a QR to the encoded text within, allowing for all of the factors that will get in the way like poor quality cameras, off-center photos, blurriness etc? Is there a code-first tutorial or worked example somewhere?
Even if you don't do that yourself, the culture is such that lots of NPM authors would rather add a dependency — thinking nothing of the additional security risk due to package takeover, nor the cost to downstream users who might actually want to audit their dependencies.

The result is that instead of a dependency tree of consisting of a few packages or a few dozen, you end up with an unmanageable number like 1700 coming from who knows how many authors.
Compartmentalize it. It is a method to earn a living. outside of that, free yourself from it. If it is burning you out, slow down what you can and pace yourself. No one does good work stressed out. Then you need to focus on things outside of the job. go for a walk, play a video game. Spend time doing stuff your SO or pets like. Be there for others outside of work. Read a book. but if you have burnout, that needs to be addressed first.
I'm very confused, why do you think we don't know this already? No one argued with your comment about electrolysis because everyone learned about it in middle school and using renewable energy for it is incredibly obvious.

For some calibration of the qualifications of your peers on this site -- I did my postdoc in chemical engineering studying, in part, ammonia synthesis.
You're confusing two ideas. One is the garden variety criticism that all candidates get when they are running for the Presidency. That's what Romney received.

The dossier, on the other hand, contained specific allegations of wrong-doing. I don't think it would've gotten the same degree of play with Mitt Romney, in large part because, whatever his flaws, Mitt Romney has a much better reputation than Donald Trump. Believing that character and reputation don't matter to journalists is foolish. Just like the rest of us, they take past behavior into account when weighing allegations.

And certainly it's a good idea to approach the media with a healthy dose of cynicism. But it's worth noting that much of the Steele Dossier was in fact corroborated, including numerous meetings between the Trump campaign and Russian agents.
Whenever I see a blog post like this about the gov.uk design system I think about the millions of person-minutes small changes like this must save. My wife is Spanish and whenever I have to interact with Spanish bureaucracy it's like night and day. (This is partially to do with the inherited culture in each bureaucracy - we needed a certified translation of our marriage certificate, and the translator told us that the consulate had put the wrong email address on their website for her. She spent so long trying to get them to update it on their website that eventually she gave in and created the incorrect email address so she could pick up the emails that people were sending).
"Configurable, with no code" ...

Once something passes some level of complexity (mystic hand wave) its configuration is code.
On the plus side, it also gave you plausible deniability it really was you if you wanted to do something illegal or unethical.
Obligatory Charlie eats a pear clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNdERWR3id0
While Google does do this all-too-often, last summer I drove from Pemberton to the lower mainland over the backroads by Lilllooet Lake and Harrison Lake.

I have an AWD Subaru, but other than a couple spots the road would have been fine in any FWD sedan.

That's probably not the road you mentioned but nonetheless.
lol which ones
I think for me the problem is splitting people into binary camps of skeptic or supporter. Personally, I have my strongest reactions of skepticism when people seem to declare blockchains as a god, an inevitable coming of blissful revolution. I have a similar, altho less extreme reaction, when people tell me there is absolutely no value or future and that the whole space is pure bs and fraud.

I wish we didn't see the world as so us/them, for/against, good/bad. I think I mostly fight against those perspectives and this space seems to have a lot of 100% yes and 100% no attitudes.
Is this performance art?
Do some napkin math on the quantities of fuel alone required to do this.
I can't wait to be in the vintage quantum computing club, where we build working replicas of the "quantum chandeliers" with more modern and stable parts, and tinker with them as functional room decoration.

Related, the DEC PDPs certainly look stylish!
Cray supercomputers were also aesthetically beautiful machines:

https://cdn.britannica.com/11/23611-050-81E61C8A/Cray-1-supe...

So happy to be able to find a picture of the wirewrap inside:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e2/d2/47/e2d2...
I'd put it differently: HackerNews has an immune system to defend against low-quality submissions, including articles with clickbait titles, but it's imperfect. (As dang puts it, we're trying for something different than internet default here. [0])

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29153668
Apple M1 Max: compiling code up to 3x faster in Linux VM than macOS native
Oh boy. Another privledged person that is too honorable to work for the current bad company.

I would love to work for Facebook. No more shitty spaghetti garbage that I deal with today. Maybe if it is still spaghetti I would at least be paid well.
God I fuvking hate my life.
Big companies have big bureaucracies and third-party auditors that define stuff like this. Getting them to change their requirements is a herculean task.
Or silently truncating - sure, you submitted 20 chars, but we actually only kept 16... and we won't let your password manager enter all 20...
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Me is the same in feeling towards my current position. I really like the combination, that I won't find like that outside. For sure.

My problem is that none of my colleagues can do anything and I can do everything. With my qualification it would be easy to find outside. And that's year for year with changing colleagues - and I don't get a raise, not in these crazy times right now. Nor before. Stupit.

But, I have some benefits, like stand up in the morning and write a Whatsapp message if everyone is ok with me taking day off, or, the hierarchy is very flat with every one working on their own .

So I try to see the good side of the job. Don't you have good times, too? Some days are really productive, some sucks. In the end of the day, I think about what have I done and what needs to be done "tomorrow.." (procrastinated).
On the next day, I'm happy with finishing all that, and, again..what need to be done tomorrow..

So it's stress. But a "good" one. Do you sometimes have that moment of feeling good after some difficult situation, too?

I think the weights are towards the negative with you. Not the usual hokus pokus esotericus - but, buy that Lapislazuli and put it 3 times a day near your stomach!

No, joke. Try to see the positive aspects in what you do. Don't care about the others. You have to assume that the others are lazy and stupid, but also you do have to realize that in the eyes of other's you're lazy and stupid, too. By that it's easier to understand the fault's, errors, decisions - after all it's human. Some are really crazy.. and a friend of mine once told me he thinks I'm strange. I don't see that in my self observations :)

That will the beginning..

don't be toxic. See no toxic. Don't become toxic. (Chuck Norris)
Any particular insight why 2022?

Hololens 2 has shown that it isn't so easy to advance the field.

I don't think an Apple device is forthcoming or likely to leapfrog.
It can join a long distinguished list of other things that don't make sense currently
The point is that your money gets invested in productive enterprise in any case, no matter if it's done through equity financing or credit financing; so if you take out money from your savings account and buy shares then that does not really change the total amount of investment in the economy.
>What I'm saying is that there's no conclusive proof there's some sort of grand conspiracy at work here.

Could you define what you mean by "grand conspiracy"? And what conclusive proof of it would look like?
WEB3 refers to the web on Blockchain. Without extra config, Brave allows you to connect to blockchain DNS which takes you to IPFS websites. It also has a built in blockchain wallet called Metamask, which is used to interact with decentralized apps (Dapps). Some popular dapps are used for decentralized finance (DeFi), NFT's, play-to-earn games.
What was the distribution of that increase of household wealth?

Quick search says 70% of it went to the top 20%.

That info was from the same article even. Interesting how you didn’t bother to include that part.
There's probably not enough RAM. (64kB vs 256kB for the nRF52840). Certainly not for the full resolution of the display with color. But I'm sure a more basic port would be possible.
If decentralized means outside the ability of regulators to regulate, then is also needs to be “detached” in the sense that no money can exchange in or out. Any company that accepts or disburses money (in a “currency”) as a component of its DeFi can be regulated.

Basically, in-game currency.
For me it becomes more difficult to get started on anything. Once I get some momentum it isn't as bad but eventually there will be a moment of 'this is doing nothing' and crash out.

That isn't so bad for solo play but most of my playtime is co-op games like Deep Rock or Vermintide and I am lucky to have an IRL friend group to play them with.
If this object did exist, wouldn't it be classified as a dwarf planet since, like Pluto, with a highly elliptical orbit it would be difficult to clear it of other Kuiper belt objects?
20 characters is fine. Even using only lowercase letters, in a worst-case scenario it'll take millions of years to guess by choosing characters, and a dictionary attack won't fare any better if you use four words that are moderately rare. Even if they're only in the top 1000, four words means the search space is 1 trillion guesses. Increase the search space to 10,000, by including such obscure words as "villager" and "conserve" and "missionary" (9950, 9973, and 9991, respectively) the search space increases to the quadrillions, equivalent of a 12-character random password with symbols, 53 bits.

Is correct-horse-battery-staple guaranteed secure to the heat death of the universe? No, but good enough that it'll take a targeted attack several months to guess.
Ok :-) I'm surprised they were looking for duplicated code, interesting
Almost everything the government does is extremely complicated. How about the modern coast guard search and rescue process, weather forecasting, air traffic control, making counterfeit resistant money, etc etc.

Of course it’s all stuff the government does directly like GPS that generally works even if theirs issues with version 1. Go to Healthcare.gov today and it works fine, but wow 8 years ago there where issues. People still get mileage talking about that launch presumably because it’s that unusual.

Bringing up the FTC there’s keeping the wireless spectrum clean. You can blame the Government for not solving all shorts of issues, but people complain while at the same time they largely don’t want state or federal government internet. Healthcare is the same issue, we apparently don’t want even a public option, yet somehow the government is still on the hook.

People are always going to talk up government boondoggles because that’s what’s memorable. Clean water in all 155,693 public water systems in the United States isn’t easy it’s a monumentally difficult task that works 99.9% of the time across a huge range of public and private organizations managed by a huge range of different locations from tiny towns to vast cities. Of course if people actually trusted their water then bottled water would be less popular…
Would you like to elaborate a bit about how those graphs are useful ? I think the graphs in roam are too dense to be useful .
It's funny because of the number of physicists who loudly proclaim philosophy is either dead or at least useless (while also extolling the virtues of their own philosophy of science, with bonus points for mangling Popper).
I like America. I used to feel like a foreigner but now I have money and it turns out America likes that.
He's always quick on these, and always with quality videos.

Anyone with an interest in space who has not watched any of Anton's videos are seriously missing out.
> If they want to come to the US to run their US based company, then they have to decide on a visa.

Only if they want to get paid in any way, right? Can a person run their company w/o drawing any profits (i.e. no W-2 needed) and not have to go through the visa process? If I were to look for a way out of the situation ("I want people to pay so that I have money to maintain the infrastructure"), this is how I'd try to approach it ("create an entity that is allowed to accept money from other sources and use that money only to run the infrastructure").
Try Vancouver! The average detached 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house from the 80's is $1.4 million
I think it is a little harsh to set the tuition refund bar to be so high. On the other hand, if I had a friend who was rejected from 459 jobs, I would still advise them to keep applying. What else could I say?

The more worrying part of the Tuition Refund Guarantee is where the student forfeits their right to a refund if they receive a job offer that they turn down. Many coding bootcamp students apply to companies with a serious red flag--such as startups that are about to run out of money. The student may only be able to see the red flag after the company has given an offer, but if a student rejects a "red flag offer", they must assume they will never need a tuition refund.
First google result is on ethereum.org, which says:

"Web3, in the context of Ethereum, refers to decentralized apps that run on the blockchain"

A slightly better, less-biased answer from freeCodeCamp:

"Instead, web3 applications either run on blockchains, decentralized networks of many peer to peer nodes (servers), or a combination of the two that forms a cryptoeconomic protocol. These apps are often referred to as dapps (decentralized apps), and you will see that term used often in the web3 space."

Still screams buzzword to me, even though I think the underlying decentralization sounds interesting.
I'd imagine that for at least some of them it has to do with appearance. "Facebook is so secure! It's got ten whole password requirements!"
LOL. The Casio industry in the US was literally founded by the Mob. Do you really think they just said lets just give up this waterfall of money and move on? LOL no they just moved into corporate and politics. Did you know the Las Vegas strip is not actually part of Las Vegas legally, its literally its own government.
Pretty interesting... I really feel like I'm on Ben's side of this. Using higher-level libraries to simplify ideas and claiming that real bugs are out of scope are both things that might sound good on paper but are likely to cause harm in the long term.

I'd rather be overtly honest about the nuance and potential pitfalls that come along with building even a super simple app. HTTP timeouts are important, concurrency needs to be safe, user input must be validated, etc etc. I don't think it does anyone a favor (especially new devs) to hide these details. Put them out there with well-written descriptions and explanations.
Sorry, no. You may be "in the realm of legal now", but I wasn't.

You fundamentally misunderstand what I was saying. I was not claiming that they were violating a legal requirement, just that they are behaving unethically, and if the rules allow this then new rules are needed.
For SSDs the hard part is the controller and NAND and there are only a half-dozen companies making those parts. 90% of SSD brands are the same Phison controllers under the hood.
What do you do about spider mites?
Eh I think embedded systems are a different class. I know some people run RPis as their desktops but they are definitely the minority.

>Those are rookie numbers for a primary system

4TB suits my needs and use case fine. And tha'ts not counting my NAS.
What makes you think censorship ceases to be censorship when it is automated?
Not many men have the opportunity to go down as the captain of a tall ship these days. I'm not sure if that would enter my dying thoughts, but I know people it would.
Okay, but how do you test whether any speaker (human or otherwise) understands something without asking them to explain it? If you have some other test (like perhaps some analysis of what the human brain is doing when it is understanding something), great! But even then, why can't the computer do the same thing that the human brain is doing which constitutes understanding? Or if the only test is to ask the speaker to explain something to you, well then, the Chinese room can do that too! Of course you end up with an infinite regress where you can ask the speaker to explain the previous explanation forever, but that's true for human speakers as well.
60th Anniversary? So many anniversaries.

Anniversary of its founding (1960) [1]. Anniversary of the first public mention (1971). Anniversary of first official acknowledgment (1973). Anniversary of its existence being declassified (1992).

NRO -- abbreviation for "We'd tell you, but then we'd have to kill you."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office...
> exact number of rows scanned etc.

Never heard the word "exact" used for number of rows from EXPLAIN.

Source: MySQL DBA.
Are we talking continental or analytic philosophers?
I've asked IT people that set these policies to tell me their previous password -- after all, they changed it to something completely different, as per policy, right??

No one has ever agreed to this.
Also physicist. My beef is more with philosophy-of-science folks in particular. They think that we, physicists, really need them and their insights about how to do physics properly. For example they really like this meme:

reddit.com/r/badphilosophy/comments/gjz24v

Which is totally dishonest. (I tried to counter that with this https://imgur.com/a/zwDhfxJ , but that's not memey enough.)
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"There is absolutely no doubt that eight hours or more of weekly gaming is evidence of depression for age groups 16 and up."

But is it a form of self medication or pathology?

Being over 16 and gaming too much is an obvious probable pathology, but I would not see pathology as the only interpretation.

I had a pretty dark time in my life during which Kerbal Space Program may well have saved my life (by taking my mind completely off the bad stuff and giving a nice boost of the positive brain transmitters).
> I suspect we live in different nations, then.

"""
The American republic was founded on a set of beliefs that were tested during the Revolutionary War. Among them was the idea that all people are created equal, whether European, Native American, or African American, and that these people have fundamental rights, such as liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, and freedom of assembly. America’s revolutionaries openly discussed these concepts. Many Americans agreed with them but some found that the ideology was far more acceptable in the abstract than in practice.
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https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/creating-the-united-states/foun...

> Is this your opinion of all taxes? If so, I'm surprised you manage to function day-to-day.

I am of the belief that taxes are appropriate to fund the limited function that the government was designed to fulfill. Namely goods/services which are public, such as providing national defense and a legal system for enforcing the number one principle, "voluntary transactions okay. Involuntary transactions not okay."

I am fine with taxes so long as they are providing a public good which cannot be met by the private sector due to factors such as nonexcludability. The types of things that are covered by that statement include things like national defense and law/policing such that the state can arbitrate on enforcement of private contracts as well as provide punishment for involuntary harm caused on a 3rd party.

In fact, that is the primary reason the founders were specific in direct vs. indirect taxes. Such a distinction provides clarity around how much of a public good can be created and how they can be paid for in a relatively fair fashion. Excise taxes are primarily consumption based, and all indirect taxes are subject to apportionment. Hence the absurdity of the 16th ammendment.

I do not consider wealth redistribution a function of the government, especially on the national level, as it is specifically excludable.
so what? theres something wrong with "flow state" now? it seems to me youre just against videogames. Your point about sound and vision doesnt even mean much, all entertainment is then, by your definition, escapism: movies, books, programming, video/photo editing, playing/listening to music, the list goes on. Even sports are an imaginary set of rules set aside which are unnecessary for actual survival. Maybe youre right all those things are escapism but im much happier with any/all of those things then i am without.
Why we ought to be looking at nuclear power