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> None of them agree with you as far as I can tell.

Oh really? How about Professor Hawking?

https://scitechdaily.com/constraining-the-multiverse-stephen...

> “We predict that our universe, on the largest scales, is reasonably smooth and globally finite. So it is not a fractal structure,” said Hawking.

> “We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes,” said Hawking.

> I have never been a fan of the multiverse. If the scale of different universes in the multiverse is large or infinite the theory can’t be tested. [– Hawking]

Not that it particularly matters.

Cosmologists believe all sorts of things. Lots of cosmologists treat String Theory as more than a hypothesis despite how it hasn't yet panned out after decades and decades. Same goes for ideas like Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which are actually placeholders for some things we can't actually explain. That doesn't mean either of those things live up to their names or exist in any capacity. Hell, a substantial number of cosmologists profess that there's "got to be" alien life out there, despite no credible evidence what so ever. It's fine to hypothesize about all these things, but that doesn't make them even remotely fact, no matter what a cosmologist thinks. Science and mathematics aren't a majority vote.

> some believe it’s likely it’s infinite

They can believe that all they want, but that doesn't mean they're correct or that they have evidence. It's highly dubious whether it's even possible for us to verify the presence of infinitude.

> none I know of believe it’s a settled question.

That's because there are no settled questions. Any scientist or mathematician who professes that a question is settled immediately loses credibility by doing so.

The difference between infinitude and finitude is one can be demonstrated and the other has yet to be demonstrated. Guess which one hasn't been demonstrated. Just because mathematics can include a construct that allows describing an indeterminate range of numbers doesn't mean calling it "infinite" is accurate. An actual value that can even remotely be referred to as infinity hasn't been calculated and it's possible that it never will if the known universe doesn't even support calculating it. To do math with "infinity" is to use an indeterminate vector in a way that proves useful. It's no different than when someone uses a phrase like "this is taking forever."
Yes, that’s what my reply means, your “no…” is poor communication style. If you think you can do better than the folks working on it for a decade plus, by all means step up.
I don't disagree about that. I just answered the first question in the article about why there are no one writing about this.
You still have to pay your generalists for the time they spend writing and maintaining that bespoke software, and moreover you can hire competent developers to develop using cloud services. There’s no reason to assume that cloud services require incompetent developers, and indeed the cheapest solution is often to employ competent developers to integrate cloud services (whose development and operations costs are shared among all customers, whereas your company is footing the whole bill for your bespoke services).
There are some mini PCs that can operate off a single USB C cable these days. For example this Minisforum UM580 can:

https://store.minisforum.com/products/um560?variant=42804330...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNpO4ib_P0
Hiring a person to do 'docker compose up' for you is orders of magnitude cheaper than whatever AWS-specific knowldege is needed to not have AWS crap its bed.
Agreed, devops (and whatever the hell cloud wranglers are being sold as today) is the new priesthood. It's meta-level job creation and job security.
>> Giving these individuals expensive housing is not going to solve anything.

They tried this in Minneapolis during COVID to try and get a bunch of homeless people off the street in a nearby hotel that had been emptied due to COVID.

It didn't turn out very well:

A report of a drug overdose led to the eviction Tuesday of more than 200 homeless people from a hotel in south Minneapolis that had become a refuge during protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in police custody.

But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.

“It started out well, then descended into chaos,” said Jennie Taylor, who had a room on the second floor. “People got the message that this was a place where you could use drugs freely and that attracted the wrong crowd.”

https://www.startribune.com/homeless-evicted-from-former-mpl...
> homeless industrial complex

First time I’m hearing of such a complex that sounds oxymoronic. How big is this complex? Who are the players? How do they make so much money to become a complex industry?
Yet they're gonna sell millions of these as they did with any other Kindle. For a lot of people that's not a dealbreaker.
Why does DocuSign need 7400 employees?
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GA Week (https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-ga-week/) followed by Birthday Week (https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-annual-founders-lett...)
First off "companies fleeing the state" is way overblown. A couple companies moved their legal HQ, but for example the Tesla office in California is still expanding. They just "moved" for tax reasons. But the people stayed here.

Secondly, I doubt many companies will leave given that all their competitors will also have to publish this information.
> I can't even figure out what lines 43-55 do, but that's a lot of nesting

It's a very elegant pattern match on a deeply nested structure. It's declarative, not imperative, so if you are concerned about "nesting complexity", you need not be.

How would you implement this otherwise?
Are you thinking of Loglan, because Lojban is a community effort.
On-prem
It is getting downvoted because "sweeps" are a showy way for the cops to look like they are part of the solution. Don't buy in to copaganda. More police is a high-cost, unaccountable, self-perpetuating approach demonstrated for decades not to work.

In conservative Utah, they know their housing-first approach works. It isn't 100% effective, but it is more effective than police-based approaches.
Ruby gems (libraries) aren't pulled feom github. Yes, you CAN pull it from there, but most public and published gems don't come from there.
A lot of people settle for small house or fixer uppers to get their foot in the door. Are you sure your wants are pricing you out of certain areas?
> Watching someone be genuinely enthusiastic about something is wonderful.

But isn't the question what they are being enthusiastic about? I would certiainly agree that there are some things that considered noble and respectable (helping the sick, science, the right kind of activism for the right kind of people, ...) that most admire. At the same time I think most recognize that there are destructive or non-productive things one can be enthusiastic about to the point of obsession. While having an anime girl on your website or being a furry is usually not destructive and ignore the cultural popular images of people like these, then they are at least non-productive in the sense that neither society nor the individual themselves grows from engaging with the topic. You can study engineering and improve human technology or write and learn how to better express yourself, but I don't see how anyone can progress as an anime weeaboo beyond a self-contained culture that might value if you know the names and details of all characters by heart. As soon as you step out of this bubble, the value disappears.

> Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe it's my circles, but I've seen plenty people appreciating and gushing about people sharing their interests.

I don't know what generation you are referring too. I'm Gen Z and obviously have different feelings about this. Sure, I enjoy talking to people who share my interests, but I know when and where the right place is. I don't go out with friends and insist on talking about e.g. Emacs, and I certainly don't want to be perceived as someone who superficially is only interested in my own topics, not caring to engage with topics that others care about.

(Btw. thank for your respectful tone, I appreciate that).
Indeed, and in fact running own metal is an order of magnitude easier than puzzling around the Brazil nightmare that AWS is. Both people cost money. It's not like if you go with AWS things run themselves.
Most of his predictions are nonsense, and show a lack of understanding of the logical foundations of modern computing. His assertion that instruction sets are "obsolete" is absurd. The Turing/Von Neumann computer uses an instruction set and RAM to do computing. He is proposing some nebulous jelly computer that would be unprogrammable.

The idea that ordinary people can write their own OS is laughable. There are several million lines of code in every OS related to just drawing and responding to a text entry field. There aren't even 100 people who know the TrueType language which underlies all font rendering. The last small team generated OS of any accomplishment was the Oberon project at ETH, and that was decades ago, before the web, and his team of very smart people were not ordinary.

Hardware has to evolve with software. Intel cross-point memory tech, which was marketed under the Optane name, failed because people didn't know how to use it properly. New hardware will easily be stunted if it can't get traction. Look at the failure of the Adapteva Epiphany chip. It was a 10X improvement in computation per watt, but nobody knows how to program/debug a chip with thousands of independent cores.

The underlying mathematics that we all use originates from linear, sequential, Greek Proof, and we have no parallel logic math developed yet.
> officials estimate 20,000 people will be homeless in San Francisco over the course of this year and demand can’t keep up despite the city having 13,299 supportive housing units and 3,571 shelter spots as of last week.
It’s about as pleasant as reading a pdf on a phone. Yes, supports it, but you’re either constantly panning your viewframe or have superhuman vision.
See HN’s guidelines on commenting on voting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My favorite is when you do “<whatever> bla, bla, bla, wearing a t-shirt by <artist>“ and it gives you an image of <whatever> wearing a t-shirt with a print in the style of the artist. Which adds extra dimensions to play with so isn’t all that bad.
Official: Gas leaks around 1/3 of Denmark's CO2 emissions
https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/latino-sfpd-cop-branded-racist... : This smells like Cartel involvement at high levels of government.
It'll be a lot harder to exclude California, which represents 10% of the population, and even more of the population of professionals who can work remotely.
i haven't used my kindle since (kids); but used my old one daily for years and lack of color was a huge win. If you want color; you want an iPad.
Valve Interviewed: SteamOS to Expand Portable Gaming Market to Other Devices
Now it's Redstone in Minecraft.
Realistically, the only way we can solve this is with incarceration.

This has little to do with the availability of housing, or the cost of housing. Some people will simply refuse to live in the housing that is provided. Many are so mentally ill and addicted to drugs that no amount of money we give them, either directly or indirectly, will get them off the streets.

Proposed solutions that don't involve incarceration should be ignored as unserious and unrealistic.

Is that harsh? Is it "not progressive?" Yep. Progressive attempts to solve this problem have all failed. Progressives have allowed San Francisco to turn into an open-air drug den, attracting homeless people from all over the country, and nobody should listen to their ideas anymore.
Will any of this be available on Linux or owner controlled systems?
From a cloudflare email I received 2 days ago:

> Cloudflare launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27th, 2010. Every year since then, during the last week of September, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday by announcing innovative products that further our mission of helping build a better Internet.
> People want to live (and buy housing) where there are good jobs.

That sentence is fundamental.
Ok, I admit that you are right. Getting paid for their "opinions" is the proverbial icing I suppose.
not just "not have AWS crap its bed", but whatever sacrifices you need to perform in order for amazon not to come back with a bill that just so happens to be $1M higher than you expected it to be because of some gotcha that amazon profits off of, like (say) routing stupid traffic to one of their servers, currently occupied by you, that would be idle otherwise. Nice "mistake" to make.
Interesting! That reminds me of a similar arrangement I dealt with in Fast Food.

Back in 2008 I was working at a Wendy's where the majority of the staff would routinely "resubmit" their applications. I don't know the intricacies of the process, but the way it was explained to me was roughly something like this:

1) Illegal fills out application using a fake SSN

2) (Physical) Paperwork gets reviewed by manager, to make sure everything is filled out. Wait on sending it until they are bugged by corporate to submit the "new" employee applications

3) Send it to corporate

4) Corporate goes through a stack of however many "new" employee applications they have received across the region. Let's assume it's 10,000+

5) After corporate reviews the "new" employee applications, they gather up the names and SSNs, which are sent off to some sort of verification system

6) An error is thrown out and sent back to corporate saying that the name and address doesn't match the SSN provided. Corporate waits to send this information for a few days/weeks, depending on how many they are processing at a given time

7) The store receives a rejection notification sometime later

8) Wait about 1 week or so until corporate starts complaining, return to step 1

Some of the guys I was working with had gone through this process for - no joke - at least 2 to 3 years. Since they were continually seen as "new" employees, there was no sort of issue with firing previous employees or anything like that. It also didn't hurt that different information was being provided each time. After all, corporate had no way of claiming that Jose Guzman at 123 fake street, with SSN 123-45-6789 was the same Jose Guzman at 123 fake street, with SSN 987-65-4321, since they didn't want to be accused of racism.

It wasn't so much a problem to be resolved, as it is a "discrepancy" to be "corrected". The only correction needed was to have the "new" employee resubmit their application.

On a side-note, I'm not exactly sure how any of this worked, but it also led to the "new" employees making about $3 per hour. I accidentally left a paycheck out at one point, and one of the Spanish guys saw it and flipped out, yelled to the other guys, and they all started flipping out too. I guess they were under the impression that minimum wage was whatever the managers told them it was? I felt bad for them, in a way, since they were working extremely long days, but they were also not paying any taxes, sleeping on the job, and would flee the country once their home was built back in their home country. Basically, they were treated poorly, but they were also standing to save up about a full decades worth of money by stealing from the country they broke into illegally. I don't really hold any hostility over them doing that, I just don't hold much sympathy either.
To take another example, Greece wants the Parthenon marbles back. On the surface that seems fair--can you think of a more prominent symbol of Greece than images of the Parthenon? It's their national heritage and the want it back.

But the parthenon marbles where lying all over the ground after being literally blown up in the 17th century when it was used as an ammunition storage depot. Nobody cared and it was not a recognized cultural artifact of note. Not until the British earl who bought them, legally, used them to help revive interest in Ancient Greece, and Athens specifically, and donated them to the British museum where they have been on prominent display since.

"But they were bought from the Ottomans, not Greece!"

Yeah, because Greece didn't exist, and hadn't existed as a nation or anything comparable since before the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire was the greek-speaking Roman Empire, and the Ottomans were the successors to Byzantine. But guess what? The 19th century revival in interest in greek origins was an essential part of gathering foreign support for greek nationalism, which would be achieved--with the support of British nationals--a few decades after the Parthenon marbles first went on display at the British Museum.

The Parthenon became the symbol of Greece because it was on display at the British Museum for all to see. In an alternate history where the Parthenon marbles were not purchased from the Ottomans but instead were pilfered and reused for various building projects in 19th century Athens, no one but some academics would have cared about the relief sculptures, and greek nationalism might have been set back a few decades, or more. They only have widespread cultural value because of a British PR investment.

Maybe they should be given back to Greece anyway. There's something to be said about having artifacts displayed in their original context. But the issue is hardly as clear-cut as it is made out to be.
Why not have a variety of shelters to better serve the people who need them? It seems like you could more efficiently provide services when people of similar needs are clustered together.
I wonder if this will turn out to be something of an antipattern (for lack of a better term). The set of vocabulary in a given language is fairly limited by the human mind, enough such that it's relatively uniform enough that subtle alterations are achievable enough to the individual that they could conceivably, of their own volition, intentionally fool emergent AIs leading to false attribution. I mean, if the AI can alter the text subtly enough to fool other AIs, given the limited number of words known to other humans (which is kind of the point of speech - what use is a massive vocabulary if nobody else knows those words?), why couldn't humans do it too?

So, here we have AIs erroneously pinning the author of heretical text X as human Y, thus triggering punishment Z. All the while, it was really written by bastard A, who is really a member of political party B: the opposition of human Y's party, the C's.
Perhaps if you're trying to get the best products from each cloud, but I doubt this would be worth it. For each cloud you are going to need to establish: accounts, payment, access control, continuous deployment, geographical locality of their DCs, distributed logging, billing (and watch out for egress costs!), etc...
I cannot imagine the added complexity of doing this would overcome the benefits of doing everything with one provider.

But hey if your goal is to bill a client as much as possible by claiming that you're using the best products from each cloud, this sounds like a GREAT business idea.
Ah, so my suspicions were correct. You are an apologist for fascism.

Good day sir.
Keep in mind the total number of homeless outside SF vastly exceeds the number inside, so this dose of money will no doubt create "vacancies on the street" which will be quickly filled by homeless from other areas, and require an additional dose of money. As word gets out, the problem would likely get larger, not smaller. This seems like a losing proposition for one city, surrounded by water on 3 sides, to try and solve on their own.
Can I ask what sync solution you were using that caused problems? About to implement a KeePassXC/Syncthing setup and would love to know if I should expect issues...
> 7. China needs to secure a supply of crude oil

Wonder how that's coming along. I'm sure those African countries will stand up for China even when they can't get any oil.
It would be impossible to build enough housing in San Francisco for everyone who wants to live there.
When you say stuff like real, non-illegal you close the door to conversation.

With crypto you can exchange money with anyone in the world without an intermediary. Visa/Mastercard cannot ban you. This in itself is huge (most people think about this as an abstract problem that has low likelihood until it happens). There are no borders, there is no censorship.

Sex work? Nope. The powers to be decided that's not allowed. Remember when OF wanted to ban all explicit content?

MJ? Legal in a lot of places at state level. But you can only buy it with cash. Think about that for a sec: you're allowed by the local laws to do something buy you cannot do it.

Does giving money to support people/orgs in underdeveloped countries that cannot afford to use the normal banking channels count as use case?

Do you know what happened in Venezuela recently when their currency crashed and how the managed to stay afloat somehow?

Do you understand inflation and how what is currently happening is just another form of taxation? Is inflation and central bank policies doomimg an economy a real use case?

Have you heard about civil asset forfeiture? Abstract af until something like this happens to you. Is that a real use case?
Yeah, maybe I am over-estimating, I only have advanced open-water. But I thought you had to have logged like 50 dives at X depth between each step up the training ladder for trimix, so you need a minimum of like 200 dives total to reach hypoxic trimix? In my book that is multiple years of practice and not everyone will cut it.

So an organization either needs to make preparations for this many years in advance, or try to recruit someone who both has some form of extremist beliefs and a hobby that requires very specialized training. Neither of those things are very simple, but the first one is doable, yes.
I have got four jobs in my life and the only time I had to provide ID was when I was hired as a night guard.
The article shows how they are sorted. Hiragana is used for things like Japanese words, particles, names, and to conjugate verbs. Katakana is used for things like foreign words, names, and sometimes emphasis. Both writing systems describe the same phonetics. For example, the hiragana か and katakana カ are both pronounced “ka.”
I mean, the truth is, it's obviously not that weird. It's a reflection of culture, at least in America, that I regard such things in this light. Still, I mean it with affection. The fact that it was somewhat outcast culture also freed it from the bounds of giving a damn about social acceptability, which led to some very free creativity. I always embraced this.

I realize now this attitude may seem unnecessarily self-deprecating, though. Oh well.
The international airport in Honiara is called “Henderson Field” and not whatever name the Japanese gave their airfield. Based on historical precedents, it might be premature to say that a naval base in the Solomons means game over for Australia.
> What percentage of homeless people are locals? Maybe 50 percent or less?

70% by recent counts. 22% from California (and 14% from other bay area counties). The remaining 8% are from out of state.

https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep...

> And almost no one was born in the city that they're homeless in

Not clear on why that is particularly relevant. Almost no one I know lives in the town they were born in, myself included. Of the few homeless people I know personally here in Oakland, all of them were born and raised in Oakland.
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if you're in the top 1% of America in wealth or income and you can't afford a house outside of CA you're doing it wrong. very wrong.