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What makes me pessimistic - There's time and space to get this right, and we'll waste the chance

This is the same answer I used in the other thread -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32100524

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As a civilization, we're like a trust fund kid, blowing through our inheritance in a wild spending spree. The wealth? A planetwide pool of stored sunlight in the form of fossil fuels.

We're so used to this wealth, we can't even contemplate what would happen if the balance ran down to zero. Our entire civilization is blind to the nature of our energy sources, and their use in making all of the things we use on a daily basis, including our food.

It's so entrenched, that I struggle to think of a metaphor to use that will get past the default stance here of "yeah, but your example is wrong because"

The amount of Energy Returned On Investment (EROI) used to be 100:1 prior to WWII in the US, we're now down to 15:1. The last civilization wide kicking of the can down the road has already happened

We're fracking the source rocks that would otherwise lead to conventional oil in millions of years. These wells decline at 40% per year. Once we stop drilling them, because the EROI gets too low, there's no new oil left.

We need to take advantage of this second chance, to wake up, and figure out better sources of energy and a way of making them work. The days of an always on grid with a constant fixed price of electricity, regardless of time of day, weather, etc.. are at an end.

We've got a generation to do this, I'd rather we make use of the wealth we have, rather than see it all burned up, and watching billions die in "The Great Simplification" that results as we no longer have the energy to burn to keep everyone not involved in farming fed.

If we gather a community of purpose, who all acknowledge the situation, and work to fix it, we can have an amazing future, instead of collapse.
whoa this sounds interesting! Do y'all have a website? Have you gotten specific feedback about why completing the project would damage one's chances at getting a USA visa?
the quote from the article: " The vulnerabilities can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution in the early phases of the platform boot, possibly allowing the attackers to hijack the OS execution flow and disable some important security features. 2/6
— ESET research (@ESETresearch) July 13, 2022"
The times when birth rate was our limiting factor are several centuries behind us. But good news, once our current population is decimated, we will also lack the means to produce viable birth control!
what took so long
Being the target of mate poaching decreases appeal of current romantic partner
This illustration is missing a layer. Buried down in the silt, under the abyssal plane at the bottom of the ocean.. Ken Thompson.
I don't consider that tough. I'm much harder on myself than that.

There were many factors to consider. Factor One, was that I am not Japanese. Even though I had a level of "insider trust," that is very rare for westerners, I wasn't "one of them."

Second, if you are familiar with the way Japanese companies run, hierarchy is crucial. Once you are informed that your input is not welcome, you are expected to just shut up, and fall into line. Pick up a musket, and kneel on the front row. Even if you know you are doomed, you shut up and aim.

This has caused many problems. The Fukushima disaster was exacerbated by it.

Another factor, was that I am not Marketing. "Staying in your wheelhouse" is something that is not unique to Japanese companies. The VP I mentioned was not Japanese. I was ignored, because I wasn't Marketing. I could have been an intern in Marketing, and I would have had more cred.

I should also mention, that this was the same VP, that, in the 1990s, I mentioned that digital imaging was going to dominate, gave me a lecture about how film was never going to die. He was able to reverse course, quite quickly, on that one, though. The iPhone thing was a second chance. He didn't recover from that.

And, of course, there's the old "It's not a problem, if we can't predict it 100%, ten years in advance," or "If you complain, you also need to have the solution."

That second one is a killer. Many disastrously bad "solutions" come about, because the issue had not been explored enough, when the "solution" was presented.

Sometimes, it is best to not have an answer, until you understand the question.
It does goe both ways though. Take the time to learn how to say and spell someone’s name and it usually goes down well.

I say this while fully aware of my own butchering.
You can refer to gvisor performance docs - https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/performance/#file... throughput is really terrible, same deal with networking and also if your userland issues a lot of syscalls
Ukraine's new US rockets are causing fresh problems for Russia
From the official Godot docs:

The reason other consoles are not officially supported are:

- To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. As an open source project, Godot does not have such a legal figure.

- Console SDKs are secret and covered by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the platform-specific code under an open source license.

- Consoles require specialized hardware to develop for, so regular individuals can't create games for them anyway.

Source: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...
there are entire cities that were utterly destroyed and millions of displaced persons - i mean that's quite a big one.
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Many organizations choose Chrome OS because the users can't break or degrade it. Of course that's mostly due to Chrome OS being less capable.
Why do people insist on using a web browser that prioritises websites' specifications over their own?
Go go Godot!
...and gamemaker studio, unreal, and a host of other's that don't do this monetization through ads...

unity was nice while it lasted... time to let it die.

only you can prevent advertising - by not putting ads in games (note to game devs: don't be evil, don't just follow orders from your boss either if those orders are evil).
As explained in [0]:

- To develop for consoles, one must be licensed as a company. As an open source project, Godot does not have such a legal figure.

- Console SDKs are secret and covered by non-disclosure agreements. Even if we could get access to them, we could not publish the platform-specific code under an open source license.

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/blob/master/tutori...
(Blush.) Yes, you are correct. I misread the second paragraph.
Are you proposing writing a replacement for gcc in lisp?
If the goal is to have executable machine code then the turtles must end somewhere.
it's their player-created database of waypoints that is their most tangible asset, they have data on which spots are visited by the most people.
I found this painting to be shockingly moving.

It’s something you must see in person. Reading the history behind it and standing before this massive tableau is something I’ll never forget.
USDC isn't cagey about their assets. They get audited by big-4 financial firms regularly. I don't own a single coin and I know that.
The dehumidifier does use power and produce heat which must be removed from my apartment by the air conditioner.

Because it's less humid, I can maintain a higher indoor temperature and still be comfortable, meaning the air conditioner needs to run less.

Do I use net less energy? In my case, yes, but your mileage may vary depending on your equipment, insulation, etc.
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You have to wonder whether the people who support this destruction wouldn't also support the government destroying the electric cars themselves, or even attacking the cars' owners.

When their hatred is so strong that they want their state to destroy their own resources to "send a message" to their political opponents, there's only a thin veneer of respectability that's preventing them from internally justifying much worse policies.

The cruelty is the point.
"But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.”

Matthew 6:3-4
Does "schools didn't switch back to iPads" count as success?
> He has never publicly said anything like that, so I guess take the word of some random person on the Internet that produced a collection of pixels with whatever size grain of salt you think that warrants.

You're claiming they faked that? That's silly. Scott's main purpose in life is being extremely nice to various weird irrelevant species of right-wingers in his comment sections; when he writes a post about politics the main thesis is that you too should also calm down and be extremely nice to them, which is why he makes the posts so long you'll forget what you were upset about by the time you finish reading them.

When it comes to say, Berkeley feminists, who are occasionally mean to him in real life, he's never nice to them and calls them practically Voldemort (direct quote).

He also likes to occasionally quote his irrelevant right-wing friends like Moldbug (or Charles Murray), ostensibly to write responses taking them down, but of course if we all just ignored them they'd go away and the main reason to write any kind of response to them is to let people know they exist.

As previously stated I think you should ignore everyone from Berkeley or else they'll make you join their polycule and discuss AGI alignment all day.
Try typing ‘Siân’ on iOS, (well, maybe Sian) and it autocorrects to Asian.

Unhelpful, though luckily found funny when I did it.
In the case of Home/End, are you missing ⌘ + ← and ⌘ + → ?
I don't see any whining. They found an unexpected issue, worked the issue and solved it. How is any of that "whining"?
In what universe is being happy about the prospect of human extinction considered "perfectly healthy" ?
Maybe I don't consume enough or the right news but I just haven't heard about these events. I googled "white supremacist rallies" and the first result other than Charlottesville was this https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/white-supremacist-grou...

Some white supremacists tried to join an anti-abortion demonstration earlier this year and they got booed out.
Senate bill to guarantee freedom to travel across states for abortions blocked
They aren't, you are just going through a "visa agency" which really is just paying someone to do the visa application process.

You can easily do this yourself, or go in person. The reason you pay select visa agencies is so they can expedite the process, or in certain cases expeditate through some sort of kickback or knowing someone within immigration. This can be as simple as a firm reserving all known slots for the future, to having an insider who can selectively pick your application, put you on the top and process you as needed.

If your visa firm doesn't have any "information" then you aren't paying the right firm and you are just wasting your money/time on a process you most likely can do yourself.

Not all visas require your passport, many countries will happily just take your biometric page and apply a sticker upon entry that is for long term stay/non tourism. There are also different organizations like schools/universities that will do this entire process for you as they act as your "visa firm."

It takes a long time because every country has inward demand, the immigration process is designed to be a bottleneck to slow down, verify and selectively give out visa to people who are deemed "worthy of it."

1. You are forgetting that countries have the right to refuse entry to anyone they don't seem fit. It does not matter if your time, money or other intangible or tangible item is at stake.

2. Many countries do have completely electronic processes, China's/PRC has an complete online procedure for a 10yr tourist visa. Taiwan has a complete online election for a 5 year gold card program that is workervisa/residency/permenant residency. Japan allows completely online transactions if you are sponsored by a university or job. Thailand has a complete online process for tourism and business via Thailand pass, Cambodia is purely electronic conducted over email.

There does not need to be a physical visa in your passport, Indonesia ITAS does not give you a unique visa or such, but the reason why you have a physical sticker instead of other paperwork is because it serves as your identity paperwork in that country, which you can use to get a tax number, open bank accounts and conduct business all in one.

You seem to have a general misunderstanding of how these visas and their processing works, and that's okay - it is a system that is paperwork based and is bureaucratic in nature, on purpose. That's what it is, and that's how it serves - to create an anchor in confirming your identity.
Alternate title: Why your biomass startup shouldn’t be based in San Francisco.
Agreed for the most part, although there is the possibility of one being really polished and catching on.
Living up to your side of a contract is a general principle, and one we expect companies to also live up to. Not working 3 full time jobs is a legal obligation.
> amazing semantic-aware linter like no other on the market.

AWS has ML driven code analysis tools in their "CodeGuru" suite: https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/
There is a difference between gross margins on the food items in isolation vs the overall restaurant's profit margin. The point I was making to the OP, seemingly lost on you, is that there are plenty of costs that Uber (or a restaurant) must bear, such that earning a large gross margin on a specific item or service doesn't guarantee an overall profit.
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He may or may not have lied. The lady could have been grateful at first and changed her mind in hindsight (e.g. after learning it was just a stunt).

Asserting that he's lying without knowing that he's lying is a mild form of libel. In the scale of moral wrongs, calling someone "a despicable human being" and a liar is arguably worse than giving a woman flowers for views.
That's it. It's Zombo com. The difference is it's been reliably the same since 1999.
Newly identified stem cell regulator enables lifelong sperm production
No that's a linux thing. The OpenBSD way is to do things that could be abused later early and then drop privs to prevent abuse. How is some program going to know what other programs you use will need? How is the dynamic linker of the later program supposed to deal?
This is nightmare fuel. I can’t even imagine what you’re going through.
The key points are:

America has provided eight launchers and on July 8th said it would send four more. Each one carries a pod of six gps-guided missiles accurate up to 84km...

America’s army tends to disperse and conceal its ammunition dumps across a number of smaller sites. Russia’s army, which relies heavily on trains to move munitions and human muscle to load them onto trucks, has instead created big depots close to railheads...

So, how much effect HIMARS will have seems to depend on how long it will take the Russians to adapt by dispersing their ammunition caches.
So they allowed housing to be built to meet the demand of living on the waterfront.
Hundreds of tech, business and nonprofit leaders urge states to boost CS edu
I have no idea what you're saying or what upthread you're referring to.
As someone with years of experience writing machine-checked proofs in Coq, I cannot imagine the term "Software Engineer" shifting to that meaning, even though it may make sense when compared to other engineering disciplines. The programmers who have no experience with this technology outnumber us many thousands to one. They'd never sign off on it.

That said, I'm all for anything that results in more appreciation for mathematical rigor in programming. It's like puling teeth trying to get colleagues to use tools/languages that help with reasoning about code (even just a good type system), and for a lot of programmers math seems to be an unapproachable alien language.

One thing I'd like to change about the software industry is the perception that formal verification is too hard to do in practice because you can't even write down a complete specification for the program. The misconception there is that the all of the program's behavior needs to be specified in order for formal verification to be useful. Why can't gradual formal verification be a thing?
Storage that has a reliable 365 charge/discharge cycles each year can be economical viable, especially when the discharge window of peak price is just a few hours. Solar + lithium battery work great in countries where the primary source of energy can be solar every day of the year.

Wind power doesn't work like that. Instead of a daily pattern of high and low supply, you get random amount of weeks and days of high supply followed by random amount of weeks and days of low supply.

Storage need to discharge in order to generate profits. If you get 30-50 discharge cycles each year, then those periods need to provide profits for the cost of 365 days of operations and it also need to repay the original investment.

One way to get around this is with subsidies. This is how some fossil fuel plants operate, called "reserve energy". When the wind blow they don't run the generator, but they still get paid through tax money. Then they start the engines when the wind isn't blowing and demand exceed supply. This scheme helps to reduce the peak price in northern Europe, through obviously it isn't really that cheap. It mostly just hide the true price behind subsidies.
Mostly trust. Finding it. Usually lacks the polish and presentation an official asset store would have.

Unity's asset store is pretty top-notch and is a good one to compare other asset stores too. Unreal Engine's marketplace pales in comparison.

Link: https://assetstore.unity.com/
Honestly don't get what is so special about NY... It's not bad, but on the flipside is pretensious, expensive, and difficult to travel to/from.... also all of the things you mention that are positive points are by no means unique to new york.
It would look a lot more like Rawandan genocide.
If you power the AC with 100% solar shouldn’t there be no extra heat generated?

As in you’re merely absorbing some of the heat from the sun to then move existing heat around?

Frankly, even without solar power it wouldn’t generate “extra” heat directly over a long timescale, it would only accelerate the release of existing “heat” currently trapped in oil/gas/nuclear/etc.
DOJ expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google in weeks
Lot of AAA studios use Unity to prototype games when they have in-house engine.
Yes, which is why it's a bad book and you shouldn't tell people to read it. Actual compilers tend to handwrite their parsers rather than using theory; parser generators aren't good at recovery and error messages.
I know this is totally standard and everything, but imagine if we applied this to any other context:

- The “internal” assessment of the bridge’s strength, and the external assessment of the people who drive over it

- In politics, you have a “public position” and a “private position”

Makes you think!
I don't think that's a complete answer though. The article lists ContentID as the major reason videos get deleted, meaning that copyright trolls could go after IA if they want to. What we desperately need is copyright law reform.
It's a rare gathering that doesn't contain one person who would betray anyone for a half-year's pay. Judas was venal, but not unusually or unexpectedly so. If even Christ can't count on that kind of loyalty we can't either. Meaning that almost any organzation's security can be penetrated by pieces of silver, if the $5 wrench isn't practical. There aren't any state or corporate secrets or private data that we can depend on remaining that way, because the Judas-filter at human resources is reliably unreliable.
Same talk about hiring but no action
OP's getting dunked on but he has a point: There are no consequences anymore for wrongdoing, unless it's one of a few very specific (often mortally violent) wrongdoings. So, the wrongdoers get a major advantage with no risk. To be honest, sometimes I feel like a sucker for not taking advantage. The whole spectrum from "criminal" to "mere asshole" goes unpunished. I could walk into a store in San Francisco today, right now, and walk out with an armful of goods, and nobody will lift a finger to stop me, including the police who will ignore it. You can start a business and just defraud people all day, and you're probably not going to face consequences. People are out there breaking into cars, running red lights, berating service employees, shitting on the sidewalks, harassing and doxxing people they disagree with, belligerence, bigotry, bullying and so on. Nobody does anything about it. The police can't be bothered, other public officials who could help just keep their heads down, bystanders look the other way and have no incentive to get involved.

You don't even need a good reason--just go out and do what you want, and nobody is going to stop you. It's like society hardly even functions anymore.
I was just emailed by a "client" asking me why my responses on Upwork had such poor English when I've written multiple books...

Turns out that someone was impersonating me on Upwork.

I now have a call with a potential real client next week.

I feel like I need to go cybersquat my identity everywhere now.
The color of a hot cup of joe
I don't know where you're trying to take this, but it's not in a direction I'm going.

I never equated alcoholic are gamblers. I said they are forms of addiction. I'm beating the drum that some game devs are targeting addicts. That's the direction I will continue this conversation as. Where ever you're going with I will no longer follow
> prior to the car, most cities were developed to take advantage of geographical features that could make certain types of business more profitable or even just possible.

Isn't this self-evident for any town? If the local geography offers nothing in the way of convenient mobility, natural resources, easy access to trade routes, or anything else worth taking advantage of, there's no point founding a town there. Towns need to build wealth to survive and grow. One distinct drawback of ripping up streetcars and making everyone depend on the car is that you have to level massive portions of your downtown to create parking, and you have to take away tons of public space from people to make room for all the traffic. LA did both of those things and it's why it's unique among U.S. cities of its size for being horrifically sprawly and difficult to navigate.

You also need to bear in mind that car-centric development is incredibly, wildly unprofitable, and is subsidized by taxpayers. Modern low density suburban developments require absolutely enormous quantities of expensive infrastructure - pipes, asphalt, power lines, waste collection, wastewater treatment, fire, police - massive upfront capital expenditures with massive long-term liabilities. The U.S. has collectively spent many hundreds of billions of dollars building and supporting infrastructure for the exclusive use of cars. The local taxpayer base rarely if ever is actually able to offset that cost which is why A) much of the funding is from state/federal grants and B) public debt is increasing without end.
Hypercapitalism.
Discussed at the time (of the talk):

The History of Unix, by Rob Pike [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18417918 - Nov 2018 (47 comments)
> Their big problem is that they depend for fuel on 3He, and there isn't any. Not on Earth, and not even, usefully, in the lunar regolith.

It's interesting that talking with rocket people, they point out that getting enough - enough - He3 from the Moon regolith isn't that big of a problem, and then the phrase is practically repeated - "their big problem is that 3He isn't needed by anybody on Earth, since there are no fusion plants to utilize it". Classical catch-22.