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Not everything, just things that can kill hundreds to thousands of people if they go wrong. That is safety engineering 101; identify the important and critical parts and do those parts better and more carefully.

You do not need to uniformly improve all elements to the same high standards as long as you can isolate them from the safety-critical path. This is a necessity because, as you point out, doing everything to the high standards is economically infeasible. But doing everything to economical standards is mass murder. No one standard works for the entire system, so you must isolate and apply the correct amount of effort for each component.

This is a very weird concept for most software developers because most software is a big mushy ball of spaghetti where it is impossible to isolate or even identify the critical path. Luckily, those individuals largely do not develop safety-critical systems, so the lack of knowledge of basic safety processes does not hinder their deployments or result in a danger to public safety.

What is problematic is when those people start doing safety critical systems. That is how you get the ideas being satirized by the article. Acting as if there is nothing in between total recklessness and impossibly perfect safety, so there is no choice but criminal recklessness. Basic industry-standard processes are, in fact, like 6 orders of magnitude safer during development and increase development velocity toward a safe, working product.

Any viewpoint as insane as normalizing deaths during the development process is totally incompatible with successfully deploying a safety critical product. Deaths may be unavoidable due to the sheer weight of statistics, but deaths are always a failure of immense gravity. A flippant disregard for human life has no place on a safety critical product.
We will need more wind and solar than required for load to cover cloudy and calm days. I have seen 3x to 5x overcapacity. This should be cheaper than long-term storage, at least with current storage prices, and better to have more power than storage. The result is there will be extra capacity for running intermittent stuff like capture.

I haven't seen anyone address how we will pay for carbon capture. By the time we start doing real capture, the CO2 produced should be low so carbon tax will be low.
Yep, I've long conjectured that Excel is what sells MS office. Every other product in the Office suite, including PowerPoint, has very viable alternatives.

Excel has a 100% a strong-hold in most finance departments. I've worked with many finance professionals who's very first instinct for any type of work is to open Excel. When interacting with any data outside of Excel, they'll demand a way to get it into Excel.
The "legacy automakers" that took the meticulous approach, gradually rolling out boring sensor suites with boring software in controlled conditions, are running circles around the reckless upstarts who kill people on a regular basis.

We do not need to sacrifice safety for progress. We don't need mad scientists in the real world. Sanity leads to better results. It doesn't pump the stock price all that well, though.
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Ah I see. I didn't think either of the parent comments were talking about plastics. Is most oil turned into recycled plastics? I assumed that most oil is turned into combustible fuel, but maybe that's not true.
Could not find any official stories, but it happened. The offending tweets have been removed and his account restored. [1] Hackers made a lot of $ with crypto draining operation. This is the last person I would expect to be hacked...you would think he would have everything down pat. Maybe an inside job involving phone carriers or maybe even a disgruntled Twitter employee did it. Who knows.

[1] tweet removed https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/170064387659025246...?

Shows how lucrative hacking twitter is. Forget hacking databases or social security numbers. or credit card numbers. meh. Or forget bank robbing. the real $ will always be hacking big twitter accounts to promote crypto scams.
How do we know consciousness is real, and we're not just the same as robots or a tv series? Couldn't every moment throughout the universe have been encoded in every atom before the Big Bang?
> I'm actually reasonably certain that bicycles and scooters are more dangerous than cars.

They're only dangerous where they're getting hit by cars. If you're doing a handful miles an hour with a helmet on it's pretty hard to get actually hurt.
The idea that there's not much to investigate after an accident — that every accident is idiosyncratic — is one of the great lies of the auto industry (and their buddies, transportation planners).
> Try to explain pin projection in simple terms.

Pin projection is the proccess of getting a pinned reference to a struct's field from a pinned reference to the whole struct. Simple concept, but the APIs currently on offer for it (`unsafe` code or macro hackery) are very subpar.
>I’m disappointed by the tech community’s acceptance of privacy invasions

The whole point of privacy sandbox is to reduce privacy invasions.

There exists a problem on the web where anonymous visitors are being served unrelevant ads. That provides a bad experience to visitors and reduces the amount of money websites can make.

There should be an API that makes a compromise between privacy and utility so that users can get a better experience anonymously visitable websites.

The absense of such an API for this will strengthen walled gardens and disincentivize users from visiting them and site operators from making them.
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As with all the 5000 news articles talking about lithium discovers, please remember, lithium is very common, discovering it is easy, there is plenty around and plenty of known location.

However lithium operates more like a advanced chemical then a base metal. Each mine lithium mine is different and has to be separately qualified for each battery manufactures/car company.

There are very, very few companies who have actually managed to produce battery grade lithium and many, many company who have been struggling for years to achieve it.

We simply don't have a lithium problem, what is lacking is the expertise to actually bring deposits like this to use.
It costs orders more than extracting it in the first place. Unless you take into account the long term cost of keep extracting oil, then is infinite vs a finite cost, no matter how high is it.
This is a pretty silly take. It's like saying that performance improvements in the Java runtime and advanced garbage collectors like G1GC and ZGC are evidence of the weakness of Java.

> Admittedly PHP has had recent performance gains, but by no means would it ever be a first choice in any backend service architecture.

Other than at Yahoo, Facebook, ...

Don't get me wrong; PHP has issues. But it's very mature; it's fast; it's easy to learn; it has a very diverse and rich ecosystem; it's easy to debug; and in general, it's very useful for building reasonably efficient and performant scalable web services.
I've actually driven through the "town" of McDermitt, on the border. It is in the middle of f'ing nowhere. It's not terribly far from one of the original "McFarthest spots" ( http://www.datapointed.net/2010/09/distance-to-nearest-mcdon... ).

Some environmentalists and local native Americans aren't terribly happy about the idea: https://apnews.com/article/nevada-lithium-mine-court-appeal-...

It's actually a pretty interesting bit of country to see, because it's rare for most of us to experience places that remote. A few years back, when visiting Steens Mountain (highly recommended) we drove the paved road from Frenchglen to the Alvord desert. We saw I think 2 other cars in an hour.
Why would only I-frames make a (positive) difference? Sure it makes decoding for seeking easier/faster but it should end up being lower quality at equivalent bitrate?
It's a fun game for sure but whew the bugs
Not really. They just stopped killing and now have more lucrative business and habits, less in the spotlight of the public opinion.
Unless I'm mistaken, it has a lot to do with the albedo that in this case when the surface material's properties turns from reflection (glacier) to absorption (rock material).

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo

So, fresh snow might have an albedo of up to at around 0.8 or more, where as darker surfaces like asphalt are at around 0.04 to 0.12, so, the less albedo, the more it'll absorb instead of reflect (esp. back out into space).

The thing is that darker type rock materials also work as sort of heat capacitors in the sunlight, so basically, instead of reflecting that heat energy back into space, it'll stay around and warm up things.

Not sure if this constitutes as an example of a climate feedback loop (or an accelerant to one), but at least the albedo loss is one of the main concerns among climate scientist when they talk about i.e. (northern) polar ice cap melt -- instead of reflecting the heat back into space via snow and ice sheets, the heat energy gets absorbed by the sea, and that causes all sort of additional wacky stuff.

Arctic News often talks about it and even have this illustration on what happens if i.e. ocean ice is gone: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AHyeWIcSSVw/U70d6UBytbI/AAAAAAAAN... (although 0.9 albedo in that one is like at the higher end of expectancy for a fresh snow pack/ice sheet covered with white snow, the albedo drops rapidly with subsequent surface melt etc.)
This is really interesting, could you explain a little more? Is it that each of these mines is a different lithium compound, and there's no economical process to convert it to some base form?
That should continue to be a scare.

It is likely we are or have peaked.

The way I see it, we bootstrapped our existing tech off high energy density oil.

If it were gone, we would find it extremely difficult to repeat it all.

Now that we have built all this up, it is also our opportunity to bootstrap something far more sustainable, or we do risk a serious regression and a lot of people die.

Longer term, we use oil for far too much.

Getting off of it preserves a resource we may well find need of again.
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Does it? I never seen that. Usually even a slight downhill causes my CC to just not control the speed.
Florida’s “Nub City,” Where Residents Cut Off Their Own Appendages for Insurance
One thing I haven't seen is analysis if carbon capture from air or weathering rocks is better. Carbon capture has been promoted as way to make fossil fuel plants green, and does have advantage of working better on concentrated exhaust.
But carbon capture will really be needed once fossil fuel plants are gone.

I think weathering rocks may be the better option. It doesn't require any new technology. It would be similar to mining but with steps to crush the rock and either spread it or dump in ocean. We could use electrified version of existing equipment.
There are many different definition of 'Peak oil' but anybody that thinks this is all because of technology is just wrong.

The OPEC countries could produce far more oil far cheaper, but they don't want to. There are plenty of oil fields left. Not to mention fighting economic war against Iran and Russia, two huge producers.
There's a vast amount of ocean boiling to do first, unless such a thing just emulates x86 or aarm64.

It took until...tomorrow for me to be able to run my workloads on arm. That only happened (hasn't 100% happened yet) because we had RPi and then the M1 forcing all the dependency folks to ship arm builds. I've never seen a RISC-V docker container...
What about blocking ambulances[1]?

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/technology/driverless-car...
So I'm younger than the person who posted this, but my high school did do something called LANfest where we all set up the computers on campus to connect to play games over the local network. But proper LAN parties sound like they were amazing, it's a shame they're not really a thing anymore.
CO2 removal sounds like its a necessary process to reverse global warming. However at this stage its kinda dumb to try to extract CO2 into solid carbon when in nearly every country in the world is still burning coal producing CO2.
Photosynthesis turns carbon and energy into plants immediately.

Longer term the same processes that turned algae and other life forms into oil are still happening and try as we might we aren't going to stop them, but they proceed at what is likely a pace that will take long after humans are extinct to replenish what we have used.
Voicecel
You certainly have, now.
MacOS 9 and the spatial desktop metaphor is neat. I went that route for a while. What this misses, however, is that the biggest problem with the desktop interface is that we've substantially increased application complexity and laptops (and even smaller devices) won. As a result, we're trying to answer the question "how we fit our skeuomorphic paradigm in a diminutive form factor". The inspiration involved much larger actual desks and tables where you can freely arrange several documents that are each visible and can be reached at a glance. If you're maximizing the window for a document for reasons beyond helping you focus, then your workspace ahem your screen is too small.

The screenshot is 1920x1080. Screens are sold using buzzwords like 'HD', 'UHD', and 'retina' that evoke a sense of image clarity. I spent years telling my dad that I liked higher resolutions because it meant more /space/ and he couldn't grasp what I meant. He was stuck on associating higher resolution with clarity until I bought him a 43" 4k monitor, and he used it for a while. Even at 1.5x scaling, suddenly, he was able to view multiple pages of a document clearly at the same time without even scrolling. This isn't at all a normal desktop setup or the kind of setup that desktop environments are optimizing for or advocating. But it works better and better matches the inspiration.
I remember thinking this TCP/IP will never work out, too complex.

Whereas IPX works just perfectly.

DHCP was a god send that proved me wrong. Well, until someone, somewhere forgot to disable its own server...
vast.ai

Yeah, GCP GPU prices are terrible. $150 for a short time on a P100 is highway robbery.

TPUs are better, but still kinda pricey.
as of yet, it doesn’t shine quite as bright as current C/rv64 original.

but as they say, a long road begins with a single step.
> Readability is about more than knowing keywords

the goal posts have been moved; your comment:

> I don't know the "for" starts the next nested loop because there's no indicator for that

my point: there is no other role that the sequence of characters `for` can play in python (because it's a keyword) so you have all indication that you need.
I think the author's premise would lead to the conclusions that you really are hungry and you really eat the pizza, but the former is not causal in the latter (they are just theorems of the formalism) and the latter is not causal in anything else.
Only if it's a fusion battery!
is that because of differences in the training set?
Sounds a lot like Michael Crichton's Congo
> > Aviation manages to be simultaneously extremely safe and a cornerstone of the global economy

Because physics gives it such a huge advantage that it allows aviation to sit on its lead and waste some speed to pursue safety and still beat trains even where trains are very efficient and dense such as Europe. It remains to be seen what will happen now that Japan is about to enter a phase of quasi-jet speed type trains.

The fact that every time you board on a plane you are treated like a criminal who is about to enter prision is unacceptable and would have never been unacceptable in the 1980s regardless of what would have happened terrorism-wise. Matter of fact the 80s were the peak era of terrorism

> > consumers demand that they do....Humans are notoriously bad at estimating risk

Of course....and of course. A rational person's preoccupation should be reducing the chances to die from any cause, because once you are dead it's not that important what was the cause, doesn't it? It's very irrational to put heavy pressure on airlines and airports when 15 minutes after you exit from the terminal you enter in a mall and some neo-Nazi can absolutely blow up your brain with an assault rifle they bought without having to do not even an ID check, and I mean blow you up to the tune that your family members cannot even hold an open casket cerimony.

> > it's unclear why private cars get put in the "acceptably dangerous"

Because driving is a very powerful action, you turn the wheel right and the car goes right, turn left and it goes left, accelerate and it will speed up, break and it will come to a halt. It makes people feel very powerful and in control, people feel in control not only conceptually but in a limbic way, so they demand way less safety standards.

Trains don't give that feeling because people aren't driving but people can at least wrap their minds around trains as vehicles, commercial passenger planes look so big and feel so gross and non suitable for flight that people are very suspicious of them. Nobody is afraid of cars, trains or ships, but fear of flight is one of the most common fears. Commercial passenger plaens after 9/11 forget about it you get to the aforementioned current day scenario where you are treated like a criminal every time you are boarding a plane
People miss that there is a quantitative aspect to these things as well as a qualitative aspect. That is, many programs allocate millions of pieces of memory a second and for a wide range of different purposes whereas there might be a limited number of other resources of an even more limited set of types. Any change in the code probably has some affect on memory allocation, but many changes won't have any effect on allocation of higher-level resources.

Thus the complexity of handling memory is greater than that of other resources and the consequences of getting it not 100% right are frequently worse.
I am waiting for someone to finally give me just a wysiwyg tool to make web pages and apps so I don't need to program anymore. I just want to make content, not make a machine to then make my content with. It's like building a wood cutting machine when I just want to be warm in the winter.
PowerPoint is an impressively mixed bag. Something of an extreme example, in my mind, of the "amorality" of tools and, yet, the strongly "good" / "bad" that can come of them.

PowerPoint, for all its putative and/or quite real flaws and bad ... points ... is, in some sense, one of the most powerful tools in the modern world. How many decisions have hinged on PowerPoint presentations? How many decisions might have been subtly affected by aspects of the design and implementation of PowerPoint (over versions / time)? ...

It's absolutely been hugely useful at times, and, also, seemingly a preview for some Dante-style "ring of hell".

In any case, I salute Mr. Austin, offer my condolences to friends and family*, and ... well, I was going to point to a comedic take on PowerPoint that I love but it doesn't fit w/ this news, so, simply: R.I.P. Mr. Austin.

* Seriously, not just as a matter of form - I have used it for years through good and bad. I definitely feel some connection, though marginal comparatively.
Why is it dumb? If there isn't s substitute for coal et al we'll keep using them. Technology that can clean up the resulting CO2 makes a lot of sense.
Regulated by the same organization for good reason. Personal aircraft to line up with personal cars.
It's my understanding that TV series are delivered to Netflix and other streamers in ProRes these days.

Then they convert to h.264/265/etc. as desired to produce the consumer streams.

I'm curious... does anyone know, do they use ffmpeg for that? Or a commercial tool?
> If you’re using a 10 Mbit hub and copy the same directory to two Windows SMB hosts simultaneously it is somehow smart enough to make the transfers coincide so it can transmit the same data to both at once. To this day I have no idea what heuristic it used but honest to god, it slowed down the earlier transfer and then went in lockstep file by file for the remainder.

That is really cool.
The commenter you're responding to is talking about aeronautical engineering safety practices (things like DO-178), not TSA-style security. If you haven't worked in the aerospace sector, it's hard to appreciate just how slow, methodical, and bureaucratic things are.
LangChain's Origins
It’s not that interesting, left and right is still on a single line, the 2nd axis only represents how pushy they are. People’s politics are way more complex than this.
One way to combat conservative HVAC is require installing heat pumps instead of central ACs. My impression is that heat pumps, at least the warm-temp ones, are only little more expensive than ACs since they are similar designs. Requiring heat pumps means that the customer has the option to use it now or later.

I got AC installed a few years ago and regret not getting a heat pump. I didn't think about it until it was too late.
Isn't the plant life carbon neutral? I thought whatever carbon a tree extracts during its lifetime, it releases when it decomposes. Unless we chop it down and store it (and plant a new tree!), the tree doesn't remove much carbon from the atmosphere (long term, on average). Do I misunderstand how this works?
Memories are essentially stories we tell ourselves about the world. They’re not real records of events, they’re condensed down into a narrative. Stories are how we understand the world. It’s hard to fault you for picking up on the meme of Manifest Destiny; at least you’re self aware about it.
> Is there a "moral" act here? What should they do?

Not kill peace deals?

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-propos...
Because it's meant for editing, to be able to cut anywhere without re-encoding. So it needs to be all I-frames.

And you're going to use a very high bitrate.

This is way more space than consumer codecs use. But still way less than uncompressed video.
I really do not believe, given equal usage patterns, that ecstasy is lower on physical harm than alcohol. I have immense respect for the work of Alexander Shulgin and his efforts to explore the psychedelic space. But we know that single doses of ecstasy have neurodegenerative effects, with loosely established knowledge that taking it more often than ~once per month leads to compounding degeneration. As horrible as chronic alcohol use is, I don’t think it is anywhere near the same dose-frequency sensitivity for harm.

All said, MDMA offers opportunity for therapeutic upside that alcohol likely doesn’t, so maybe thats’s weighed in there somewhere (probably not).
How is this different from oil?

The vast majority of new deposits are leveraging different technology to enrich yields or extract it from challenging environments. Seems like a common problem for resource extraction that gets solved with time and investment.
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That's certainly possible, but it doesn't make your experiences any less real
I've only done a few LAN parties in the last handful of years, and they weren't quite as magical as doing it as a teenager where you spend 75% of the time deciding on what to play and then figuring out how to crack it so everyone can play.
When a new variant that evades prior immunization arises and starts to spread, that both causes an uptick I cases and prompts the need for a new booster.
This is a symptom of hyperglycemia or ketalacidosis. This happened to me when I was a kid, as will typically happen to undiagnosed diabetics. Have you thought of testing your blood sugar (faster) or A1C (tests average over longer period)? I don't speak Chinese but I heard of this, 糖尿病

糖 (táng) - sugar
尿 (niào) - urine
病 (bìng) - disease

Please get yourself checked (for diabetes)
Von Neumann?

You don't need to be an expert in any field to pick out logic errors, things that contradict observation, etc., it just takes focused effort.