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The problem is greed, not money in itself. And you can't eliminate greed. You can make it harder to be greedy but greed always finds a way to corrode any constraints you build into the system. Greed is necessary but it is not good if not channeled to push the lever of economic activity rather than left in its free, destructive form. Hmm.

In the formal setting of an educational institution you get to engage your mind in analytical and creative thinking in a variety of subjects and on daily basis. Such a consistent process does broaden the mind, for sure, but maybe not every mind and not under some circumstances.

The title comes across as controversial subjectivism for the sake of attracting attention.

Maybe the cache should be made using Silicon on Sapphire for radiation hardening? But I am not sure if multi-process silicon fabrication is viable.

They allowed corporations to vote with their money and buy candidates. Undermined our ”By the People. For the People” fantasy.

Live and learn!

What you describe is not Autonomous AI that is driven by a dynamic mission, as the military AI will be. An AI killer bot can be developed that not only tries to achieve the goal specified by the mission but also alter the mission as needed to achieve a higher level goal, and the higher you go up in the goal specification the more autonomy you're giving to the machine.

The right to bear arms was given to humans who happen to live in this so-called freedom loving country. It was never given to autonomous non-human entities. So while the military may develop robotic kill squads their non-military use is illegal. Unless the treasonous Supreme Court doubles down on their treason and give the right to bear arms to AI, by considering AI to be a digital person with rights. It could happen. The Supreme Court judges have already shown that they're fully capable of making decisions that favor big corporations over us the people. Why not autonomous bots? After all, big enough corporations are pretty much autonomous (as they follow profit above all and do so regardless of who is in charge of them).

With a Lamport Clock (counter, logical clock) you could end up with the following due to dependence on conflict resolution aka optimistic MVCC rather than Wall Time (copies do from another HN):

“it is possible for a transaction C to be aborted because it conflicts with another transaction B, but transaction B is also aborted because it conflicts with A (on another resolver), so C "could have" been committed. When Alec Grieser was an intern at FoundationDB he did some simulations showing that in horrible worst cases this inaccuracy could significantly hurt performance. But in practice I don't think there have been a lot of complaints about it.”

How does FDB compare to Spanner as far as the Consistency model and trade offs?

Common sense says that since FB owns WhatsApp no one should trust it. It's no different than if China owned WhatsApp. I mean WeChat. Just common sense.

That’s what happens when you think with your brain as opposed to feel with your heart.

Sarcastically speaking, it all started with the division of labor between hunters and gatherers. If hunters had to gather too they wouldn't have had developed a specialization for killing other beings, and many of them would have preferred gathering to hunting due to the risk involved in the latter, so hunting would have been a fringe activity, not an institutionalized part of society (aka armies) Also, women and men who are not so driven by testosterone most likely gravitated toward gathering rather than killing, and so there we have the roots of sexism and machoism, with the assholes doing the killing and normal human beings relegated to "less strong" gatherers. And I believe natural hormones in meat affected the hunters own hormonal balance and pushed them toward more aggression, and the act of killing became normalized. Then we have technology being developed to increase the efficiency of killing other beings and eventually to increase the efficiency of killing other people. The tribes that engaged less in killing and more in gathering got wiped out by the ones that engaged more in killing than gathering. The End.

You can have multiple tenants per low cost edge device. ARM servers are finding so many such applications. Not sure what is the hang up?

First it was the Chinese motherboard implants and now visions of a great war. What's their agenda? Does Bloomberg news represent Michael Bloomberg's agenda/views/paranoia in any way?

Touchy subject.

I remember Flight of the Conchords was a huge hit in the Bay area in 2007-2009 amongst the hipster-ish and nerdy crowd. We used to torrent it =) along with HyperDrive (British comedy set in space) and the super popular IT Crowds. All great shows.

I think HBO allows you to watch it for free now: https://www.hbo.com/flight-of-the-conchords

If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.

Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.

Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenants.

At 1/10,000th of a server per each tenant (assuming 10,000 tenants) you can achieve “hard” isolation and far more cpu/memory per tenant using a TinkerBoard or something like that per client and charging a flat $2/mo with no hourly fees. That’s a business model that I see materializing that can eat into your business.

EDIT to clarify: I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenacts.

If it was your own family at a wedding? Seriously? You can tell us with honesty that you would classify the brutal murder of your own family as worthwhile because there was some resistance fighters in your country that happen to be in your area and a foreign power wanted to eradicate them with air to ground missiles? Hmm. It cannot possibly be true.

But GC doesn’t run continuously! Sure, device drivers and kernel modules should be built in C. Everything else is an approximation.

Appreciate your work on Nim.

My statement is based on my opinion. There are certainly imperfections in Nim even bugs and things that annoy me but the mental load is far less than working in Rust, for me that is, and so to me it is better in every way since in the end I find it to be congruent with my mental model whereas I can’t say the same about Rust. It is a purely opinionated statement like everything else where meaning is involved. We are the meaning makers. It doesn’t exist in detached form.

Your opinion is valid.

Sorry, within 2ms not absolute 0, but to me it might as well be zero I've yet to notice it in practice.

True.

Yes, true.

<<But there’s a deeper thing here, which is: Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler>>

Google was enabling the DoD to be more efficient at killing people and China to be more oppressive until its workers protested. So he's right about humanity having to solve its problems but he's forgetting that Google, the corporation, is opting to make it harder for humanity to solve its problems by enabling those who do not have humanity's best interest in their heart.

<< While Mozilla support does help a lot for sure, a lot of the hype around Rust (imo) comes from people trying it out, just falling in love with and then promoting it >>

If there was no rampant tribalism, my comment would not be buried with negative votes. It would receive a response like the one you gave, which is subjective, and that would be the end of it. Some may even up-vote it because diversity is always good. But feels like Rust users are zealous and it's a bad sign, tbh. Wouldn't want to be part of a community that acted with hostility towards others for presenting alternative view points.

Nim is realtime garbage collected and compiles to optimized C and it can use the C ecosystem of libraries and tooling. It also produces smaller binaries than Rust and is faster for most tasks.

Nim produces smaller binaries, has zero-pause, realtime gc (and you can even define gc behavior) and compiles to optimized C. It's a win over Rust in every way including ease of use. Big issue with Nim is tribalism, pure and simple. It's author failed to get any major corporations behind it so it doesn't get hyped up in constant Medium articles and conference talks and therefore does not get a lot of attention, which keeps it a niche language, sadly.