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While I am as lazy as anyone else, when I search "Modern Highrise apartment building" as you suggested... A lot of really cool buildings appear. Same for "McModern Highrise apartment building"...

I'm not sure that's what he's complaining about. I have an inkling feeling that I know, but I want to be certain.

When I search for a building, "The Josh", that the author mentions -- I can only find "The Joshua" in Hollywood. And it is UGLY and about the same colors described.

The single image in the article is illustrative to an extent, but it's heinous public art and not the building.

I lived in Los Angeles and near the SF Bay Area for over 20 years. I'm curious to know if the hideous architecture imposed upon me over the course of two decades is what he's discussing, or if there is some newer, insidious, soul crushing design that I'm not aware of.

Only images included with the article can make that clear.
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Fascinating article, thanks. The main author Martin Claussen has many papers on that and related subjects, available here:

https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/staff/martin-claussen/publications/...

Claussen on Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=udBYQ-cAAAAJ&hl=en
That's a fascinatingly stark landscape. I've visited rural communities in Mexico (semi-arid), Ecuador (highland grass lands), and SE Asia (jungle) that have that same remote village vibe, and the lifestyle similarity makes the contrast with the landscape all the more fascinating. I've also visited the Gobi desert (at least, the edge of the Gobi, where the mile-high sand dunes meet the endless grass lands) and that landscape in Iran somehow seems so much more desolate.

Judging by this 1977 UNESCO publication, "A Halt to Desert Advance", https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000046663, this recent IPCC report on desertification, https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-3/, and the consistency between them, it would seem grazing is indeed considered a major factor, if not the major factor in many areas, for desertification[1].

[1] Maybe the author wasn't using the terminology correctly, or the terminology shifted or was refined subsequently, but in the article, "A precarious balance upset", from the 1977 publication the author suggests that desertification can at least in principle lead to aridification as stripping the land of vegetation dries out the soil, which can ultimately effect precipitation patterns. EDIT: Okay, I think I get it now. It's the reverse: aridification can lead to long-term desertification, while there other processes that can establish long-term desertification, notwithstanding the end result is also aridity.
> The comment seems incorrect. Herds are good for the soil. They flatten grasses keeping moisture in, allowing for more growth. In the past, people believed the opposite - and this is perhaps still believed in parts of the world.

For some reason, the idea of complex organisms (in this case: mammals) migrating to new lands and fertilizing it seems counter-intuitive to me, but it does make sense in some way. I would've assumed that more simple organisms took this land long before mammals emerged.

The biggest gripe I'd have with it would be: why would they move into those lands? There's nothing there for them. But the idea of them slowly extending fertilized soil does seem intriguing.

It appears sort of counter-factual to me that we, who are (presumably) even more complex, seem to reverse this process. There seems to be a sweet-spot in evolution of a species to benefit the land on which they live on (and that around it), and we seem to be past it.
Online, stable diffusion looks incredible. But it's been so, so bad for me, and when you look closely at lots of other "good" pictures, they have lots of flaws too, we just aren't good at picking them out. I wonder if there will be a way to make SD align with what humans want more, maybe with some GAN approach, without needed actual "understanding" of the real world.
If the midwest has poor soil, I'd love to see good soil. Must not exist in the US.
The problems it solves depend a bit on where you're coming from. If you're coming from a CBOO (class based object oriented e.g. Java/C#), the biggest notable thing is that a lot of the Gang of 4 design patterns go away and are replaced with "call/pass a function".

If you're coming from a functional language, the main difference is that Julia will compile specialized versions of functions for your types, and makes it a lot easier to write runtime efficient and generic code.

For a simple example of this in action, consider the following

julia> a = 1//3 # a is the rational number 1/3

1//3

julia> b = 2+3im # b is a gausian integer (complex number with integer coefficients)

2 + 3im

julia> a+b # even though these types don't know about each other, appropriate methods get called to get a complex rational result.

7//3 + 3//1*im

This might seem really basic, but you'll be hard pressed to make a system like this in another language without hard coding a list of dispatches manually.
I realize it's just an EDID EEPROM so if it gets hosed, it's not a big deal, but it still gives me a not good feeling to have a bash script blindly programming it.

It's also possible to do this by probing with the appropriate i2c EEPROM driver and using that to dump the EEPROM, program it, and verify the contents.
it also broke jedi on my neovim setup…
Signal + your own photo backup.
Not difficult, just limited in power. Any time you find decrypted material on a device, figure out where it was stored, and send that company a penalty notice for failing to report it.
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I'm an expert of nothing, a problem creator as well as a solver. I've been in IT for a decade or so.

For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Outreach to me and let's talk about your project.

My 2 latest projects have been: 1) web service for influencers, with payments in crypto, 2) crypto-exchange via a Telegram bot.
Not anti-science. Anti-bullshit. The announcement is a gross misrepresentation of the work actually produced. At least when companies cheat on benchmarks they're actually running the benchmark and not bypassing it. Usually.

P.S. congratulations on being one of today's ten thousand
> They dont get into how they got to the 10^38 figure, but to me that seems like the most fishy part

If the test was multiple choice with 5 options for each question, and you assume that if they got the question wrong, they randomly guessed the answer, and their answers to all incorrect questions were independent of each other, and forget to account for the fact that one of those 5 options is correct (or there were 6 options, which is less common for exams in my experience), then you get approximately 1 in 10^38 for the probability their wrong answers were all the same.

But those are bad assumptions. People don't randomly guess the answer every time they answer incorrectly, and people who have shared experiences (like say taking the same classes) are more likely to answer the same way. And answers to different questions are probably correlated, especially in such a long test, where there are likely multiple questions covering similar material.

Now, it is possible that computed the probability a different way, and it is just a coincidence they came to the same number. After all, the above method doesn't account for how likely it is that they answered correctly on the 242 other questions they answered the same, which would probably require some analysis of other students who took the same exam and maybe how similar the twins were on previous exams. But it does seem suspicious that it is easy to get the same number with a very naive estimation.
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I'm an expert of nothing, a problem creator as well as a solver. I've been in IT for a decade or so.

For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Outreach to me and let's talk about your project.

My 2 latest projects have been: 1) web service for influencers, with payments in crypto, 2) crypto-exchange via a Telegram bot.
Fresh understanding of Ice Age frequency
"A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica."
Anybody got an invite to share, really intrested in this one.
Hyperbolic is the SF crime, homelessness, and drugs. Not a cot in an office for occasional use.
Sure you can.. Load up GrapheneOS. Let's see you do that with Apple, or install pretty much any non-app store app on your iPhone using a console tool like adb.
Apple isn't remotely to blame for this; the RPi bootloader exposes a broken, incorrect emulation of the USB mass storage protocol.

The only way this ever worked was pure luck, relying on the OS:

- Writing file blocks in the desired order — which is not guaranteed.

- Writing filesystem metadata in the desired order — also not guaranteed.

- Not caching any important pages, so that the VM page cache isn't out-of-sync with the block device after it silently discards writes.

- Not caching any important filesystem metadata, so that the filesystem implementation isn't out-of-sync.

I'm surprised (1) anyone thought this was anything other than a risky hack, and (2) not only did RPi actually ship this broken design, but did so in ROM, and thus cannot patch it.

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Surprised at the downvotes for posting a technical rebuttal to an inflammatory comment.

As someone with a few decades in OS/kernel development, this doesn't seem like a controversial or even difficult question. The implementation is broken and cannot work reliably.

If you disagree, then please explain why you believe the USB mass storage emulation is not broken.
All exponential growth is periodic?
There are a lot of potential consequences. A look at US labor history shows that mass arrests are possible (one of the first uses of aerial bombing was used to put down a miners' strike at Blair Mountain in the US. So, much worse than mass arrests are possible).

But, usually the ruling class + capitalist class targeted those they identified as labor leaders (often with bogus charges-- even without evidence, these often ended in convictions. With some of these convictions resulting in the executions of innocent people).

But, just firing all workers who participate as was done in the 1980s when air traffic controllers attempted a strike would likely be sufficient to scare the working class back into compliance.

Or, for a larger action, you could punish the entire working class by sharply raising interest rates and inducing a recession. With the resulting large supply of unemployed/underemployed workers, labor will be too weak to make demands.
See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/why-e...
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They've come a long way, but having super dense pollution puts quite a damper on those other quality of life improvements.
As the company grows a certain proportion of new engineers - by law of averages - will be self motivated to seek out and understand how things work, what makes the company tick and how people go about getting things done. You want to make it as easy as possible for them to acquire this knowledge - for they will be standard bearers in carrying the culture forward to the next generation. Record videos and documetns from greybeards and leaders on war stories, architecture, general rules for making decisions and really any other topic that is germane to how culture is defined.

Circumscribed of course as my opinion only, and what I've seen in my career.
Yet piracy has been around for thousands of years.

The thing is people and countries don’t all benefit equally from buying into the existing system. It’s the same basic reason people continue to run scams and steal stuff on land etc.
Goats are also a harbinger. They can and will eat any last remaining plant matter in an area, tipping it fully over to desert.

It’s often overstated as goats being destroyers. They aren’t or don’t have to be. The goats are the agent of destruction, but the herders are the actual destroyers.

For the restoration of the loess plateau in China, they mandated that goats had to be corralled instead of ranged, to allow the restoration to get a foothold instead of ending up as the most expensive goat meat ever.
One could also argue it might accelerate progress. We chose to ban China from the ISS under spurious rationale. And this ultimately drove China to shrug and create their own space station, which they've just recently completed. If they had been allowed on the ISS it's very possible, if not exceptionally likely, that today that Chinese space station would not exist. And it's unlikely the ISS would have been marketedly improved by Chinese presence.

So excluding China from the ISS ultimately worked to expand the overall reach of humanity into space. I would predict the exact same will happen in various other venues, from semiconductors to movies. Necessity is the mother of invention, and globalism minimizes necessity. Minimizing necessity is good from a comfort/stability point of view, but not necessarily good from a progress point of view.

Another great example would be the space race. If the US and USSR had been on friendly and positive terms, it's extremely likely that the space race (which was not only a cultural battle, but a weaponization proxy) would not have happened. In other words if we'd been a more global society in the past, it's very possible man would yet to walk on the moon.
Considering the orgy parties they had in the Bahamas penthouse, it's like Eyes Wide Shut fantasies come to life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaIdHUx7FQg
I absolutely fail to see the difference.

If anything, it's MUCH harder to be funny than to be dramatic.
Down the road, when substantial language content is made up of the output of such models, what will the models learn from? Seriously.
Well this is clearly a free money grab which will result in greater inflation and no real benefit.

Didn't Cisco and Juniper have issues with NSA sponsored backdoors/vulnerabilities, and then following that disclosure no one trusted them because they lacked credibility?

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. If you don't make any change to fix the issues of the past, you know the saying...
Apparently he doesn't have the data anymore. According to the article, independent third parties did see the data and didn't think it was suspicious. The implication of what you are saying is that if you lose data for any reason then you're automatically guilty of data forgery. Obviously that's not a great precedent to set.
And yet somehow nobody was bothering to check if this baby needed a diaper change. Maybe the idea isn't radical, but the execution is very different from the norm.
Not sure how they partition it, because you can obviously still see users you follow while you move around, but I noticed my fyp was completely different when I went back home. It could just be that IP geolocation is more important a signal than your taste profile.
Desertification was already in progress when mankind started their seemingly irreversible mark on the globe. Sadly despite knowing or wishing better, we let greed dictate the terms. It's not all our fault, just some industries hire very good spin doctors to plant ideas and shape political systems.

I guess some people would rather just give up, rather than fight to change the status quo - imagine if it was such that corporates, their profits have strings attached ... to not just their well being but those strings pass on to their offspring, as well as the offspring of friends, top tier shareholders, who benefited from their pillage that they considered "not so bad." Yes it might be finally decided 50 years down the track they were wrong ... but oh my, you could bet almost immediately there'd be a lot of better decisions.

In years to come once desalination is large scale and economical, I would speculate there would be a fight by some to save the deserts, rather than be landscaped and re-vegetated with crops or other vegetation.

I won't comment on transhumanism or any other fanciful ideas raised for over half the article ...
Here's a full list of the big ones:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models/

https://lifearchitect.ai/timeline/

There are another 97,000 Transformer models on HF:

https://huggingface.co/models
>software updates,patches,and security fixes.

I've lived without these for years with no problem.
I think you are vastly overestimating the number of people who want to be farmers.
did they ever say why? a quick glance through the twitter thread doesnt reveal anything
Thank you to share a real world story. Failure is usually more interesting to study than success. Real question (no trolling): Is there any business value upgrading to IPv6 or is this a forced upgrade? I think that is number one reason that delays IPv6 upgrades: no business value (or so limited compared to cost of IPv6 impl).
I'd argue that PZ's idea of what globalization is is v. different to Morris Chang's idea of what it is.
AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs
You had me in the first half, but your conclusion confuses me. This UFC level of response is what happens when other researchers smell blood in the water. It's the exact opposite of blind belief.

Similar but less interested to people outside of the field in question quarrels occur when fellow researchers find a crack somewhere in what's been published, or even more excitingly, widely accepted.
You don't have to do this. You can tell the kernel to read the EDID data from a file instead of from the device. I have two identical ASUS monitors; the EDID on one of them failed, so my boot sequence tells the kernel to fetch the EDID from a file I created from the working one.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017204 (686 points | July 31, 2021 | 151 comments)
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/bTVsu
Black Mirrors is just a bunch of unrelated short stories which aren't that great compared to a movie.

Bojack Horseman is pretty good indeed, but mostly because it's a comedy. The drama isn't very interesting.

I've heard that a character dies in every Game of Thrones episode, which means some characters will lack depth since they won't have the time required to develop it.
His reasoning seems rock solid to me. It is factually true that the US has built-in geographic security. It is also true that the US has a culture of immigration which makes it easier to keep demographic decline at bay, compared to, say, China.
The parts that people care about, like cloud are not in the user's control. If you want your own cloud file sharing then there are apps for Nextcloud, and even an open source AppStore called F-Droid that has the open source apps. Google Drive offers E2E as well, and these announcements are nothing but lip service to something that is already being offered elsewhere to give something for Apple cultist to feel good about.
Replying here as your other post seems to have been deleted. I feel for your situation, and I might be coming across as using a sledgehammer when a scalpel was the right tool for the job. Electronic devices are a tool just like any other, neither good nor bad, where the 'juice' is in how they're used. Unmonitored, unconsidered, overused pacifier = bad in most circumstances.

My kids are on electronic devices more than I'm comfortable with, but I work with tech and am potentially more of a techno-nerd than a number of the SWEs I work with, and so I potentially set a bad example. But I also engage with my kids about it, and have done so since they were able to understand words, plus they also have real-world friends and hobbies that balance it out, that we've made sure to encourage and model as they've grown up. It takes time, and any unconsidered 'banning' can well be as bad as unconsidered permissiveness.

I think "considered attention and understanding of the context" is closer to the scalpel type answer in regards to shaping a child into a functioning adult, no matter the topic.
I remember hearing about these types of requests that also have a gag order placed on them so companies can't explicitly inform the public about them. I haven't heard much about that sort of thing lately though. Either very good or very bad.
And this differs from Apple hardware how?
Others have already hit the major points about finding opportunities (networking, word of mouth basically).

As far compressing your resume, my suggestion would be to pick and choose the few past experiences / accomplishments that you are most proud of or are most relevant to the kind of opportunities you're seeking. In other words, what would you actually want an interviewer to ask you about. Don't include dates. This approach is better than trying to write a detailed accounting of your entire career, even condensing each role down to a single bullet point. I'm coming from the perspective of someone who has screened resumes of and interviewed more experienced candidates in the past. It is definitely a bit of a turnoff when you receive an 18 page resume containing an essay about every project the candidate has ever worked on.

Same for listing keywords / technologies you've worked with -- no need to list every language you've worked with since 1975 (unless you're looking for roles as a COBOL or PL/I maintenance programmer). Focus on relevance.
> Did you mean, “As long as the latter are dominant,”

Yeah, kept switching the phrasing around, and apparent the last part of that sentence got out of sync with the first part. Edited it to correct.
"Multithreading is easy"

Famous last words.
GrapheneOS has like step-by-step instructions that are pretty easy for almost anyone with maybe like a 6th grade comprehension to follow.
You need to understand, that unemployment is measured in reference to those collecting state unemployment benefits.

Dropping out of the statistical labor force is as easy as resigning, not filing for unemployment, and not using any government job search systems.

I kind of have to laugh at the idea that that is how they measure the labor force. I often amuse myself of the shenanigans that would ensue if everyone coordinated a drop out at the same time. Be much like a bank run I suppose. I'd guess Capital would construe it as a coordinated strike and go after Congress to do something damnit. Imagining the outcomes of carefully cobbled together, yet fairly daft societal control metrics unravel is one of my precious few remaining sources of entertainment.
Organic Valley is a cooperative of independent Farmers. One of the voices of modern permaculture, Mark Shepard, came up through that cooperative. He’s said in a number of presentations that he wants more people to start new co-ops. It’s the only way to get enough leverage to accomplish anything. Get enough people to run your own slaughterhouse, grain elevator, whatever. Otherwise you’re selling commodities and getting the shaft, while destroying your land at the same time.
“Huh?” Collins said. “I don’t know. What would you suggest?”

“Small mansion,” the man said promptly. “They usually start with that.”

“They do?”

“Oh, yes. Later, they move to a warm climate and build a palace.”

Something for nothing, R. Sheckley