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thanks for offering this competing list of priorities.

To offer a couple of counter points from the linked wikipedia article:

* the Copenhagen Consensus' fixed budget of $75b prevents truly large problems from being in scope; and
* curiously overpopulation wasn't addressed as a priority by the panel

I'll offer a few provocative Garrett Hardin quotes:

> We summarize the situation by saying: 'There is a shortage of food.' Why don't we say, 'There is a longage of people'?

> Exponential growth is kept under control by misery.

> What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

I think efforts to give women more options than having large families should be highly prioritised (e.g. family planning, education, economic opportunities). This is the case in the developing and developed world.
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I find reading to be physically tiring - the actual interpretation of the words. Thinking is a treat, but I like my books clear but terse.
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I simply don't see Donald Trump, Michael Pence, Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan getting on board with the idea of Universal Basic Income. It looks too much like welfare and goes against their sensibilities that people must work for an income. UBI will never gain traction in the United States so long as these men or men of their ilk are wielding power.
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To add to that: Samsung high-end phones cost as much as iphones these days (if not more in some countries) and they seem to be doing great.

Also, what the hell does "the exclusivity of its experience that can only came at a price" mean? What is the cost of manufacturing the latest iphone? Or do you mean it feels exclusive because I paid a lot??
The love2d source code is in C++. I believe Lua interpreter was embedded as a scripting mechanism

https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src
Can't find it at the moment but I remember Adam Savage once saying that him and Jamie Hyneman never play practical jokes on each other. It would end up with one of them duct-taping the windows on the other one's house to fill it with water. Don't prank your sysadmin. It won't end well for you.
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What does it matter? If a website for a new router only supported Internet Explorer, I definitely would know either I'm not their target market, or they know nothing about that market, or they don't care.
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Reading this article my conclusion is that "autonomous self-driving vehicles don't work at present". Ford management had the belief that they do work and therefore wanted to press ahead with a go-to-market plan. Google management knows they don't work and so back-pedaled. Deal fell apart as a result.
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Agreed. The immediate action we should be taking to mitigate AGI risk is basically identical to the immediate action we should already be taking to research, regulate, hold-accountable, etc. existing dumb-AI systems (e.g. autonomous/remote-control killing machines, black-box oracles being used for medical diagnoses/credit/etc., economic impacts w.r.t. increasing inequality, "taking our jobs", etc.). Even Barack Obama has said as much, so I think all of the sky-is-falling social media buzz is just a hindrance.

We should absolutely be funding blue-sky research into mitigating, predicting, controlling, etc. AGIs if/when they're developed. But we are doing that (e.g. intelligence.org ) so, again, the doomsday prophets aren't contributing anything.
I hate to say it, but sometimes corporate IT support in mid-size companies might be the way to go if you are dead set on staying in your lane. Depending on the company, it could be as simple as going through a binder for answers, logging in requests into a ticketing system, rinse & repeat.

I am sorry to hear that you are suffering such an illness, it definitely sucks to lose physical abilities and it takes great personal strength to get through it. I wish you all the best to still keep your intended career path, but if not I wish you all the same in finding an ideal worksite for yourself.
You should definitely try, even if you end up being somewhat unsatisfied every time you have to use something else.

When I write code in Haskell, it feels right, just like when I discovered Lisp. Only better. And oh, the purity! Not only in the mathematical sense, even the code is completely deprived of clutter.
Almost exactly the same thing happened to me - marginal RAM in an old style macbook pro. Drove me absolutely crazy.

People always talk about cosmic rays as what ECC is guarding against - not at all! It's shitty RAM, especially in laptops. When it's under stress.. for example buffering files in a large copy.. and you find out months later when it's too late to fix it. Not "theoretical" at all.
Yeah, that is actually true. Might not be a good idea working with a big sawing machine and not paying attention.
Read this 5-part short series: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033445/http://malisper.m...

Having compile/break/continue/trace as part of the language standard makes for a nice built-in debugging experience independent of IDE, even if some dev envs are better than others.
AFAIK, Sprint and Verizon still require you to register your phone's serial number to access the legacy CDMA network (or have they finally implemented RUIM?). A SIM card should be fine for their LTE network though.
Your crypto tools are as strong as the legal freedom to use them. The time is not that far when cryptography tools were considered like military ammunition and required licenses to export and handle.

Even as legal as they are today, crypto tools are really not widespread. Release the Tobacco & Firearms (and their respective equivalent in different countries) and their userbase will shrink into oblivion.
The article doesn't mention lying about your current salary / compensation.

Personally I wouldn't; but then I also tend not to negotiate / just roll over and take what I'm offered since generally I care much more about the interestingness of the work & the people I'd be surrounded by each day (though I'm getting to the age where I may start a family; so hopefully my subconscious' priorities will change a bit in my wallet's favour).

However, I suspect that many people do, as this avoids being seen as uncooperative, and suggests that people were willing to pay you more so presumably you're worth it. I doubt anyone would check (likely it's illegal to), so this seems a no-brainer for those ethically unencumbered by this option.
Finally someone using their head instead of just blindly speculating. SQL keeps history of commands as well. Plus if this company is so "advanced" that they use some kind of SQL procedures to send email, I am sure there are plenty of other audit trails they can follow to verify where the message came from.

All-in-all, the fact that he mentions he exploited security hole in his company and then calls it "SQL thing" screams at me: FAKE
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I myself suffer from severe SAD and find it difficult to leave the house let alone go to school or interact with peers. I'm 17 currently, but I'm afraid it's too late and that I will never get my dream job as a programmer, without school, and this leads me further into depression and isolation. Therapists haven't helped and I'm not sure who or even whether anyone can help me. I don't know what to do HN, help me...
Backpropagation for literal credit assignment, in the firm
Suspend/resume seems to just work (at least when using X11) out of the box. I've had issues getting FreeBSD to work properly in the past, but maybe 12.0-CURRENT works better these days.

Sadly, no Broadcom support :-(
Wow. For a platform that struggles with security, listing a security team entirely composed of dogs comes across as the equivalent of "I drive better drunk!". One has to wonder whether it was intended as a joke or as a dismissal, and in both cases it evidences an alarming attitude towards a very serious problem.

EDIT: If there were humans on that team in addition to the dogs, I'd not be nearly so upset.
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With a few caveats that could be reduced to amassing as much wealth and power as possible.
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Would make their self-help guide to Reading More a very well researched piece then ;)

Some people just like books about improving themselves in some way - Personally I read mostly Sci-fi books, but I wouldn't say it's particularly indicative of anything beyond enjoying That Sort of Thing.
a web app means that you don't need to leverage the native UI controls provided by react Native.

In this case, just use whichever platform is easiest and slap a webview on there. I don't even think going full native + webview is even an advantage compared to phonegap + webview
> Well, I didn't say that clause ordering doesn't matter!

The OP complained about "[having] to specify how exactly in which order the calculations need to be made", and you said that this complaint had "no real basis in actual practice" and "I've never been in a situation where I had to think long and hard about how to order my predicates". You did kind of dismiss their criticism.

BTW, you keep talking about clause ordering, where goal ordering within clauses is the more difficult issue, I think.

> I don't think it has much to do with experience, or at least you don't need to be an advanced user to be aware of how clause ordering affects your results.

Based on my experience as a teaching assistant in a Prolog univesity course for a few years, I would say that it does have to do with experience, and beginners often get clause and goal order wrong. It's true that soon they become aware that ordering affects the behavior of the program, but they often don't understand how it affects the program, so they semi-randomly reorder things until they find a permutation that seems to work.

> So, yes, you need to understand a few things about how the language works

Yes! But we collectively haven't figured out how to teach this well, and many people are left with a terrible first impression of Prolog and don't continue to a point where they understand enough to be effective.

> Check out my new library.

From the Readme it looks nice. I think iterm_value/3 should maybe be called iterm_nth/3, which is more idiomatic. Also, since you mention GNU Prolog's array library, maybe also add if your interface is compatible with it, and if not, why not? I think more standardization of libraries across implementations would be better for the Prolog community than more fragmentation.
> It's hard to believe a person of high IQ is not going to be well-read and/or well educated.

What of high IQ individuals who are born into low- or middle-class families, who didn't have their parents read them 19th century British novels, and therefore don't know what a dowager is?
I thought the same thing, and you'll notice they don't show the glass side of the phone in the drop test video or in the "after" photo. Given the edge-to-edge design I would be very worried about that.
Ever tried it? You sound someone who has a great deal of experience in the field.

My father was one and I loved the smell of wood in the workshop.

I would have loved to be a carpenter. It's one of those professions that might never go away. Even having mass production stuff, there are still people who prefer the human touch and the originality in the arts and crafts.
Agreed. This was the first thing I checked.

For me it's just another expensive android phone with expensive addons. Is the "docking station" really nothing more than a quick charger?

Why do they call themselves essential?
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The problem I see is that people don't learn. My university classes were full of people who were copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers everywhere they could and were getting relatively good grades. The same people had no idea what open source was, and couldn't solve problems they encountered multiple times before without SO.
ADHD can cause similar symptoms and more and more people have it. It's something very unpopular to diagnose in adults because many psychiatrists are convinced that it's just a childhood illness.

Many Software Engineers reach for Adderall or Ritalin to help them with this.
Do you think clients will be mapping out their whole corporate structure before making an assumption about their level of service?
It uses Gorilla glass 5 which is the more resilient commercial glass ever made for a phone. And the titanium case gives it significant rigidity. So this should be one tough bastard!
From the article: "and robotics are in their infancy, a niche, with too few practical uses as yet."

Why does it seem like robotics is always niche and not practical yet? It seems like robotics is perennially on the cusp of being the next big thing, but never really is.

(I'd qualify that robotics are the old big thing in industrial manufacturing, though.)
but it seems very similar to NP2 from datapath
I think this may backfire even more. Sure there are stories about how one can get by as a manager without knowing much or doing much, but that's rare. As a manager you have to answer to your boss and make sure team delivery is met. You will need to do budget and stay current with what's happening at work, so that you don't become clueless in meetings. This can be stressful at work since politics is inevitable.
Exactly! Would love to see if you think Orgzit can be a solution to this.

Give it a try? www.orgzit.com
Yes it is. Though the intel part at 599 for 16 threads will likely be the better choice vs the 1800X.
Isn't JS still mostly single threaded?
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It's even more interesting to consider why economists might have these inherent biases. What incentives might they be responding to?
This is just old fashioned telephone conferencing. Dial a number, enter a conference code. Uberconference has screen sharing, dial-out vs dial-in, etc.

The open source part of this seems nice, as opposed to figuring it out yourself with Twilio. They have it all packaged to run on Google App Engine. Though the timing isn't great now that Twilio supports their own "serverless hosting" via AWS Lambda. They should probably offer an option to deploy it that way as well.

This isn't earth shaking to me, but there are companies that still do a fair amount of plain old telephone conferences, and overpay for it.
There are other roles like that in large organisations. Release management, standards compliance in regulated industries, maybe scrum master jobs.
Here is an inspiring story of a Hacker News contributor who was once in a similar position (though he has since recovered):

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/we-made-it-our...

“What product could I, in my mentally addled state,
come up with making?” he wondered. That’s when he
remembered his longtime love of ice cream.
I don't think ML is the solution here. At least not right now.

Google needs to create a better system to rate developers.
As it is now a normal person has ZERO chance of telling a part a big reputable corporation from a scammer on the Play Store. Which has lead to crazy things like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6dzw22/why_are_app...

So Google has a bigger problems, and its Google itself. Once they clean their own mess we may benefit from ML malware detection but until then its just a whac-a-mole game.
They don't do a great job of explaining that it's solely "dial up audio conferencing" via Twilio. Once you have that context, it's more clear.

Though they could bubble up some of the specs/features from Twilio (https://www.twilio.com/voice/conference)
Aside - Jeffrey Way, who runs a popular tutorial site called Laracasts, maintains a free Learning Vue series. It's worth checking out, Jeffrey is a great teacher.

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I think the point was that even when the phone is dropped on a corner, the glass cracks?

Toughening the corners doesn't seem to help that.
I would take a break and perhaps work in animal cares or something that would give you a break from human politics. Call it therpay if you want. For me I might eventually get a master and teach in university but in your condition this is probably a bad idea. The best thing right now is use up your vacation days and sick days and quit if you can support for a while before look for a new job.

Banking teller job is also a good option that makes decent money without having to work extremely hard all day long. Museum Tour guide is also a good one but I imagine the pay will be quite low.
And at least one country (Singapore) has building-level zip codes
Russian language definitely doesn't belong to Russian Federation the state but to a wide range of Russian-speaking people worldwide.

If you see that somebody spins the Russian Wiki, you should definitely try to make it right to the extent suggested by Wikipedia norms.
Technical writing/Technical Communication. Throughout my IT career, I've always been "the guy who documents everything". It's actually my favorite part of my job because I feel like I'm adding a layer of structure and peer reference to what is otherwise chaos and tribal knowledge.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but have humans just automated the Turing Test?
I doubt they have stuff on the shelf for a rainy day, but it's undeniable that competition encourages them to ramp up R&D, invest in new processes and factories sooner, lower prices, and push the envelope on what's releasable. Sticking to 12 or even 16 core products would be a lot safer for Intel's gross margins.
Right, but that's only for attempted suicide and it doesn't mean they aren't kept AFTER. I was looking for a citation that suggests involuntary stays are shorter than a month on average, saying that there is a minimum of 3 days in some cases doesn't give me an answer to that.
There is no magic. I got caught between a rock and a hard place, this was the only way out. I outlined a pitch, ran it by a few friends and had copywriter polish it. First few months were rough, eventually I got traction and started making money.

My point is that living in a big city, commute and office can be more taxing than work itself. Other job is not really a solution, because it still has toxic environment.
As a JavaScript developer none of this matters to me. Here is the reality I see:

JavaScript skills are in demand almost everywhere even if it is not the primary language or skill of a given job. Almost nobody receives any kind of formal education or training in how to write in JavaScript. If you work for a web based company you WILL at some point be tasked to write in JavaScript.

When developers, who have never touched JavaScript before, are tasked to write JavaScript one of a couple things happen. First, they will attempt to write Java (C# or whatever) in this language because the syntax roughly looks the same. Secondly, they will grab the easiest framework they can find and hope to fill in the blanks.

Essentially, at the end of the day, almost nobody knows what they are doing. In this line of work most people are utterly afraid to write code. We would be in much better shape if our biggest problems were developers or students cheating.

Some food for though: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66hpqs/less_th...
Thats fine, they are likely to receive the same benefits on the jobs as well. Who's to say its not a team building skill??
In my personal experience, just accumulate every last bit of compensation you make and turn it into a dollar number. That's what you present: salary + health care + bonuses + "free" dry cleaning + whatever. If you think that number is too high to present you can always lop some off the top.

Good recruiters will try to make you parse this out and ask "well how much of this was base salary?". Nunya is the correct answer, but if you want the job you can just make up something or take off the yearly bonus or whatever and keep the rest.

It's their job to get you into the job for as low of a salary as they can. It's your job to get into the job with as high as a salary as you can.

This has killed the process for me a couple of times, but both times the recruiter revealed to me that what I was asking for was far over what they were willing to pay and we both parted ways. I count this as working out because then I would have been in a higher position with less pay than I was currently making just to work at a company with some name brand recognition.
Language and environment independent. It just works. It's like IDEs -- so many people spend so much time writing and learning IDEs specific to a language rather than just picking a standard text editor that can be used for any language on any platform.
I want:
- 4 buttons on the finger's side, one jogwheel/microswitch at the thumb. Buttons are configurable/contextual. Of course, also touch-screen

- expandable flash

- best mobile camera to date

- Android (no bloat, unlocked, easily rootable)

- no bezel

- great battery

- size of Xperia Compact Z3 but thinner

- withstands rain and beach

- upperclass CPU/GFX/RAM/Flash
Other active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14443533
It's worth noting that ALT+X gives you the default OEM code page for compatibility with DOS sigh whereas ALT+0X gives you Unicode. So typing ALT+0163 will give you £.
I've done more than 100,000km, NOT-accident-free, on motorcycles. I'd rather give up my life than give up riding one. I only fear a life where an injury disables me and prevents me from riding. I don't fear death.

If you love riding a motorcycle, the risk is a cost you accept. I know the risks and I try to minimise them by riding defensively and riding with full gear all the time. I do not kid myself, however, that this will save me if there's a crash on a motorway.

However, I take this risk because I get so much joy out of the activity.

Ride safe fellow riders!
Not sure we're differing that much. My point was that the titanium shell they're providing doesn't (to me) remove the need for a case as they're saying it does.

Any drop which damages the glass of a phone is a problem. A phone with a cracked screen is at the very least damaged and potentially entirely unusuable.

My point was that they're addressing something which isn't the weak point in the system. Aluminium might scuff, but that's generally just a cosmetic issue. If a phone manufacturer wants a phone which doesn't require a case, they need to address the glass problem.
We don't have Google's full perspective. But hearing that Ford brought an army of staffers in big gas guzzling Lincoln Navigators to make a splashy presentation and do a big deal, while Waymo was largely an advanced engineering team taking a careful smaller experimental approach... well then sure Google didn't handle the fantasy corporate deal that Ford imagined well at all.

Google had the pick of the litter between all the top car companies. Ford just thought they were way farther ahead than they were, the 'leak' to the press certainly didn't help, and were too focused on making a deal to impress Wall St instead of treating it like a collaborative tech project, which clashed with Google.

Ford's business development totally failed because they didn't understand the 'customer', what Google wanted out of the deal.

From the perspective that Google was feeling out the top automotive companies, while Ford acted like they already made the biggest deal in the self-driving car industry - when they really hadn't, they don't seem too bad to me at all.
I liked Gorf and the classic Zork.
There's a Summer of Haskell project going this year. I think it's called WebGHC?

Edit: https://webghc.github.io
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Good tip to limit reading time to 20 pages a day, i read way too much, often 5 books simultaneously.