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> I don't want to break your hopes but stateful containers will only ever run on GCE and AWS.

Actually Kubernetes is starting to work on support for persistent local volumes; we know the lack of this feature is a significant barrier for running some stateful applications on Kubernetes, particularly on bare metal. The concrete proposal for how we are thinking to do it is at
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30044

The high-level feature requests are at
https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/121
and
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/7562

(Disclosure: I work on Kubernetes at Google.)
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If we consider that there are different types of intelligence, say logical/analytical, artistic, physical (dancers, crafters) etc. Then the answer to the question becomes more complex. You may know the answers to most questions, or solutions to most problems, but that doesn't mean you will act on solving those problems, that requires will, passion, commitment, etc. There are a lotta factors that play into making money, including being at the right place at the right time.
All the more reason for leveling the playing field.
"It's a very interesting topic on which I know nothing about ..." --> you and literally everyone else I've met in my life. :-) Thanks for the compliment!
In my psych classes they always explained IQ as a measurement of success in western culture. That it didn't really measure intelligence, because it is way to complex to measure that easily. But IQ was shown to correlate with basic success which is why it was useful. So if that is not the case it sounds like IQ is of no value.
Np, I'm just glad you got it working! Like I said I wrestle with the same issues almost every day. I think it pays off in the end though because you come away with a deeper understanding in general and start to see the bugs other ppl don't , so keep hacking.

And this whole exchange has made me want to keep a detailed journal of this kind of work because I am doing it and would like to share knowledge more rather than just immediately forget. You should do the same!
I've even bought counterfeit chef's knife from Amazon. It would have never occurred to me that somebody counterfeits such things.
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ICC is basically dead, even top players are leaving. Takes forever to get a game.
> When the system is installing an update to an app, it compares the certificate(s) in the new version with those in the existing version. The system allows the update if the certificates match. If you sign the new version with a different certificate, you must assign a different package name to the app—in this case, the user installs the new version as a completely new app.

https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.htm...

If you want to install an update that was signed with a different private key, the app would need to be uninstalled first, which would also delete any sensitive data in private app storage.

This is enforced at the platform framework level, from what I loosely remember of scanning the AOSP source code.

Yes, Google could hijack packages sent to first-time downloaders. That's usually the downside with trust on first use. If the initial download isn't trustworthy, the whole verification scheme falls apart. It would be better off if Android had the APK equivalent of Certificate Transparency. That, and if Google Play made all developer-uploaded APK builds available to users, for awareness.
>I'm a 1%er

Are you self-made or did you inherit it? No offense intended either way, I just mean that anyone can be "lazy, impulsive" etc. and be a 1%er if they have a trust fund. If you're self-made, odds are that you see yourself this way but actually aren't (similar to supermodels that call themselves fat or ugly), or you got this way after you made the money and now have the freedom to act any way you choose.
He said in a reply "I never said i was working on this full time, it was a hackweek project I've been working on at low priority"

[0] https://twitter.com/tw/status/812221656005386240
I look forward to seeing the open source libgit2 storage backends :)
Friendship may be tough to define, but I think it won't present a problem. Even a simple attempt like this points the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg
Human technology costs too much and doesn't scale well.
Another reason not to do so is that it's a high-risk, low-reward endeavor.
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Getting rich is having instead of being. Dumb people underthink.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.306

No, it's not. All electronic devices are banned by default, "[unless] the part 119 certificate holder [the air carrier] has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used."
This is secular Creationism.
The question is, what can be done against this? With Trump soon in power, Congress in Republican hands and the Supreme Court soon too, there is no corrective element left outside Republican hands any more, except a military coup, secession of individual States or civil war.

And I like none of these options, especially not given that China and to some extent Russia massively try to take geopolitical influence over from the US.
The "+ce" part of the URL refers to the classpath exception, which turns the GPL into something more like the LGPL - specifically this bit at the end:

"As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module."
It means the employee have to face with a big problem with their life, their career path and their future.
It really a thing to learn!
Thanks for the write up. It sounds like a great setup.
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Seems like all 'mistakes' you mention were intentional.

The article states at the beginning he want's to start with a concrete example, instead of diving into abstractions and formalisms. You respond by complaining this isn't abstracted enough.

I get your point, because this might set up some wrong intuitions. On the other hand though, the more abstract approach might be so dense as to resist any intuition at all. In my experience, wrong intuition is a better starting point for learning math that no intuition at all.
"When I'm looking for stuff on Amazon, it is often difficult to find out whether they ship to my country and if so, how much the delivery costs. Often, great deals from the US don't ship to Europe. "

Hundred times yes! I can buy same thing from Aliexpress or Gearbest cheaper than Amazon and get it shipped for free or negligible cost to my doorstep. Also, I'm sure that what I see there, I can get with no hassle. Amazon search sucks and finding shipping information sucks even more. What's the rationale behind hiding a shipping fee and if certain item ships to my country at all? My current places to go for online shopping: Aliexpress > Gearbest > Ebay > Amazon.
I've used both, lichess' free is better than chess.com's premium.
It looks more like quora.
Is this grocery charging 'Whole Paycheck' prices? The fact that they invest into this well-produced video, while referencing Amazon GO, located thousands of miles away in a different country, suggests their target demographic are tech-friendly and, by transitivity, affluent.

How about Amazon GO? Is that a toy / experience / novelty for affluent tech-savvy early adopters?

Sorry if I'm not political correct. I tried. My intent is not to troll or offend people who do shop at Whole Foods. I actually live in San Francisco, 10 feet away from a Whole Foods. I previously lived in Seattle, too. I feel that, compared to other fields such as Finance or law, tech tend to be more self-conscientious and guilty about income inequality.
I dont know how "important" it is, but I'm sure interested!
That's a great idea -- pre-crime prevention. There might be something to your idea; sort of like a tornado warning but for crime and the mitigation method would be to deploy positive resources to the area. Kind of like a SWAT team for helping diffuse potential crime with love/support rather than a show of force.
>The problem arises when non-state actors wreak havoc with drones and AI with inpunity.

Well, for the rest of the world, state actors wreaking havoc with drones and AI with inpunity is already a problem.
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Note that the same thing happened in France recently.
> hanging out with friends playing video games, riding my bike in traffic in a semi irresponsible manner, smoking weed, climbing trees; and useful things like reverse engineering/modifying things, exploring programming languages, painting/drawing, doing 3D graphics/art, working on various side projects and building things that come to mind.

Eerily similar to me, except that I have spent less than 400$ a month for the past 4 years due to where I live. I've traded most every comfort (hot water, air conditioning, possessions in general), which I could not care less about, for the ability to practically never work. I have a laptop, speakers, a table, a chair, a mattress on the floor, two fans, art supplies, sports equipment, and that's about it. I will live like this forever and my only motivation to become very rich is to help other people.
No, because their power is limited by their role in society and the organization in which they operate. Even the president of the United States has limited powers. If Obama just decided one day that the best course of action was to nuke Moscow and doubled down on doing so it's extremely unlikely he'd be able to do so. There are enough other people with careers, jobs, pension plans and common decency between him and actually launching missiles that I don't think it's credible that it would happen on a whim like that, even a persistent one. Someone would call a doctor and get the President some medication.

However, that depends on the people between the president and nuclear launch being decent human beings that care about law and order and proper procedure. You need to look at the system, not just individuals.

Alternatively, let's say someone came to power who genuinely believed nuking Russia was a good option. Rather than order a launch on the spot, what they'd actually do is gradually build a case, appoint pliable or similarly thinking people to key positions, get the launch protocols revised, engineer a geopolitical crisis by provoking Russia and drive events towards a situation in which a nuclear launch seems like a legitimate option.
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Similiar experience. The only people using R were technology illiterate, mining existing datasets, mostly in life sciences.

This is very different than trying to recognize street signs.
Diminishing returns for your personal enjoyment, sure. But there are plenty of ways any extra money you had could be spent to make a huge impact for other people: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/#approa...
No, there are positions where computers are known to make the wrong decisions. Computers use opening books instead of evaluating the moves themselves because they don't evaluate openings well.
Cars, iphones and laptops are sold in quantities that are magnitudes larger than ultrasounds. Even if every school bought one for students to experiment with, you'd still only have all schools and doctors in the world as potential market. On top of that, medical devices are supposed to work in comparatively harsh environments (strong disinfectants etc.) for a long long time. Iphone lifetimes are measured in years, not decades and don't you dare and try to get a spare part for a 10 year old macbook. All of that means that evolution is much slower in that market - more small steps rather than big disruptive changes.

I'd also challenge that cars are more complicated than ultrasounds. They do have more moving parts, but allowed tolerances are magnitudes larger than a few microns in all places.
The article confuses users with developers.
Wow, I totally didn't know that. I wonder if that would cause me to think differently about the Tencent's Riot Games purchase.
> governments to be more interested in your connections (and their connections) than in your posts

Aren't most people's friend lists on Facebook consisting of 80% "People I went to school / university / work with"? In which case government already knows? Once we gets to "connections pf connections", you're looking at a set of many thousand people with no real indication of how strong the connection is. E.g. some of my best IRL friends I haven't even added on Facebook, but I have several people as FB friends that I haven't spoken to in a literal decade.
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Is there not a "low-tech" solution to this already?

Like an invite-only forum that extends invites to people who share an idea in the public thread? With increasingly more access as users continue to contribute ideas that receive positive feedback from their peers?
> I used -ffast-math myself, when I worked on the quake3 port to Linux (it's been five years, how time flies).

What's going on here? Quake 3 port to linux in 1996? Can this sentence be read otherwise? Did he possibly mean Quake 1?
No, no, no. Belt loops hold belts down ;)
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Yes, technology has removed any limits to reach large audiences in the world. Combine this with zero consequences for abusive behavior. The solution in the past has been to move to a new forum relying on the trolls to take a while to figure it out.

On the other side is the FB model where one is forced to use real names and a single account. That in turn exposes people to bullying in real life and forces the freedom of speech on a kinder-garden level.

Then there are models where identity is tied to commercial assets (Amazon, Apple) where banning has potentially devastating economic side effects.

Free anonymous accounts that cost nothing and are all powerful are not helping civilized discourse. Commercial accounts are not simple either. But what are the alternative?
Yeah but it's twitter, a massive organisation with lots of programmers. Did whoever is in charge of the product decide an emoji picker was required and commission it? Or did Tom just decide to do it for fun?

Did it have anything to do with people leaving earlier this week :) (joke)
You've still got to factor in $200-300 in electricity a year (I'm assuming you're using a computer that you've already paid for). The numbers on the lottery vary, but most numbers I've found seem to put the expected return around 50-60%. So if you buy $300 worth of lottery tickets a year you should expect to get back ~$150, which is slightly better than the ~$0.005-0.01 you can expect from mining bitcoins with just a high end CPU.
I'd hardly say that I'm successful, and I know everyone I work with is smarter than me.

But I've been poor (poorer than you appear to be), and I'd be pretty happy to never, ever go back.

Money is a lubricant for so many things.
This probably sounds like a strange comment/question, but one of the reasons I haven't moved over to gitlab is that I know that it is unlikely that I will every be a paying customer. I actually don't mind that much about the performance issues (because I really just want cloudy git storage), but I don't like to take something for free unless I know the person giving it really wants to give it...

So as strange as it sounds, are you happy with people like me moving to GitLab even though it may compound your performance problems?
I think that we vastly underestimate bias in this subject. Smart people are afraid of AI or are afraid of change. This article belongs to the second category of people that wish things stay the same. There are also some very weak arguments in it.
> to do X will do X without doing something catastrophic to humanity instead is a very hard problem

This scenario I agree with. For instance: the AI decides that it doesn't want to live on this planet and consumes our star for energy, or exploits our natural resources leaving us with none.

The whole AI war scenario is highly unlikely. As per the article, the opponents of AI are all regarded as prime examples of human intelligence - many of them have voiced opposition to war and poverty (by virtue of being philanthropists). Surely something more intelligent than humans would be even less inclined to wage war. Furthermore, every argument against AI posits that humans are far more important than they really are. How much time of day do you spend thinking about bacteria in the Marianas Trench?

> AI control

My argument is with exception to this scenario. By attaching human constraints to AI, you are intrinsically attaching human ideologies to it. This may limit the reach of the superintelligence - which means that we create a machine that is better at participating in human-level intelligence than humans are. Put simply, we'd plausibly create an AI rendition of Trump.
I haven't heard this before either, but I found this reference to millions of dollars: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
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What do you find clickbait about this article's title in particular? The 'nightmarish' part?
probably not well researched, but there is a rich vein of deep sea horror/SF stories (Leviathan and The Abyss come to mind).

It is in the end as alien as outer space, and even less explored.
Good design, but I think there should be bit more info about the project upfront at the top. It took me significant time to figure what Racket is.
Observe that in these scenarios the AIs are evil by default, just like a plant on an alien planet would probably be poisonous by default. Without careful tuning, there's no reason that an AI's motivations or values would resemble ours.

For an artificial mind to have anything resembling a human value system, the argument goes, we have to bake those beliefs into the design.

Because we are so nice to the lesser intelligent creatures of our world? We don't even understand our own consciousness, surely our suffering is not very real and we can be used for meat.
It would be a great setting / inspiration for a video game, too.
They do check for it. I've seen people pulled aside with their phone getting inspected, presumably when TSA sees a something resembling a 7 in the scanner. (They probably know what to look for)
That you can trace your lineage, does not mean you are 'upper class'. But 'upper class' people can usually trace their lineage quite far back.

Everybody in the upper class definitely knows they are in the upper class. It's not a 'revelation' you get when you are an adult.

Likely quite a few people think they are in the upper class and really are not.

I'm going by classical definition here, not the 'new world' American version of upper class, which is usually just economic.
Which feature set would that be?
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The article explains that they rank the level of "self-made-ness" out of 10, with 10 being from a poor family with no advantages. Then it says " A total of 34 billionaires, or 8.5%, scored as 10s".
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I type on dvorak and use vim. I've not changed the vim keybindings at all. So when I want to switch to insert mode I hit the "i" key where it is on the dvorak layout. In qwerty terms, I hit the key where "g" would be.
Not that much. For an average rich person, most of their assets are not spend for living/luxury, and they can't realistically be unless said rich are extremely extravagant.

So, unless they are actively invested in some sort of productive scheme, they are just sitting there (e.g. as huge estates, savings etc.).

In any case, it's much better for the economy to have a large middle class, than the equivalent money in fewer rich persons.
After some exploring I came across a "good enough feature": correspondence chess. On the website and the mobile apps you can login en logout a game (including the variants) in between turns and set the window from 1-14 days per turn! The only thing is that you don't get notified when a person has taken their turn, except when you are on iOS i read.
Well, you can always exchange chess notation through Riot, e-mail or snail-mail :-)
What's interesting is the evolution of consciousness. In the long term, does it matter whether or not it's embodied in meat?
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Not so much.

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> Both of us were accidents

I wish people didn't feel obligated to have children if they know they don't want children or know they aren't up to doing it properly. It's not like accidents can't be "fixed".

This isn't directly aimed at you, I'm sure you are a wonderful person and are happy about this accident. I just feel children should not be had as status symbols or out of obligation.

> To say we were unloved would be wrong - but we were inconvenient, and never allowed to forget it.

Loved, but inconvenient. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around that one :) I guess that's cognitive dissonance.

Regardless, all the best. Thanks for sharing.
As always it seems the fear mongers in AI do not actually know how programming and "the machine" works.

Also, depending on how you measure intelligence, "machines" have been way smarter than humans since the first calculator.
The dev clarified that this was a side project of theirs, which is why it took so long.
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As a user of mac mail I started to look out for other email clients because I had trouble connecting my Google accounts. Plus Apple support was of no help. I've been using Polymail from a couple of months now. Honestly, I'm pleased with it so far. It's a great tool for sales and marketing professionals. My thoughts:

Pros :

Clean & simple UI
Available for both mac & IOS
Provides host of productivity tools like email tracking, send later and read later
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Email sync is slow sometimes
I'm quite happy with:

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William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxwell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William (Bill) Henry Gates III.[1]

However:

Several writers claim that Maxwell set up a million-dollar trust fund for Gates. A 1993 biographer who interviewed both Gates and his parents (among other sources) found no evidence of this and dismissed it as one of the "fictions" surrounding Gates's fortune. Gates denied the trust fund story in a 1994 interview and indirectly in his 1995 book The Road Ahead.[2]

So I'm inclined to think it's not true, although it does seem a fairly wide-spread story.

But at the same time, Bill Gates did come from a rich family, so he wasn't going to starve if Microsoft didn't work out.

[1] http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

[2] https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/link-suggestion/wpcd_2008-09...
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