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The only way to accomplish the latter is to pull the excellent down to the level of mediocrity or worse. How do you propose to raise up a culture that doesn't value creativity and hard work, for example, to the level of success of one that does. Culture is much more than what food you eat and music you listen to.

This reminds me of a famous Tocqueville quote:

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater.

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.
I am confused about the functionality. What is that I will be able to do, if I go through recording 30 sentences?
Ask anyone who owned a Symbolics 3600, a single-user machine the size of a refrigerator.
Overpriced hardware. Poor maintenance service and low hardware reliability. A level of company arrogance seldom seen in a small company. (They thought they were going to rule AI. Didn't happen.) And, originally, 45-minute garbage collections. (Virtual memory plus slow disk plus naive garbage collection.)

What really killed them was decent LISP compilers for mainstream CPUs. LISP doesn't really need special hardware with tag bits.
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Yes! This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves.

We delete all the recordings when you click delete, so we can't recreate the voice anymore. However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).
Equality wasn't an explicit goal of that system though. It was for communism, which never achieved it at any significant scale. My comment was less about it being a failed experiment though, and more about whether or not it was "worthwhile".
Unrestrained capitalism, yes.
23andMe isn't a HIPAA covered entity, and HIPAA regulations don't apply to then at all.
Not to this topic.
In general, I agree with the advice. Even in some typed languages, like C#, it can make sense to open methods with guards like `if (someArg == null) {throw new InvalidArgumentException();}`. If your code is making some assumption about its input, it should validate that that assumption is true rather than assuming nobody will call it the wrong way, most of the time. Maybe if you're writing Ruby you'll check if the object responds to a particular method call rather than explicitly checking the type, but the principle is the same.
I've heard it mostly in military contexts, like "That ship has never fired her guns in anger", but otherwise not.
You will be able to create a digital voice that sounds like you and generate any sentence from it.

And thanks, we are going to update the instructions to make them more clear.
I'm so blind to sidebars that it took me 5 minutes to find out "why the text didn't load". I'd see the text in the view-source, switch back to the website, and scratch my head.
There's a theory South America was populated first by Polynesian people sailing rather than migrations from Alaska.
In what world are capitalism and slavery coexistent, even hypothetically? They're opposites. Capitalism is freedom.
Also as a resident of Southern Ontario, but not Toronto, I concur.
I just read this NYer article in its entirety. It's brilliant.

As a CS-AI guy and biologist working in pharma (and on the margins of cancer), I found the article's thesis fascinating as a great look into the complexity of mining available bio data and as well as the limits inherent in mining only the signals that already exist.

It's clear now that between the immune system and the body's gene activation networks that regulate each person's biological "soil", we need to 1) look well beyond the cancer itself to how each of us responds to the arrival of cancer cells as well as 2) how therapists can judge the actual risk from cancer, and 3) how we help the immune system to kick cancer's ass.

After reading this piece, I finally bought both of Mukherjee's bestseller books. I already know a fair bit about both topics (cancer, genes), but it's now clear to me that the author's ability to focus my attention on the crux message while telling a great story makes the investment of my time in reading him easily worth the occasional revisit of material I already know.
As I keep saying, more and smaller releases cause a constant, low amount of pain. That's good, because you avoid the teeth-yanking bullshit of deploying 6 month of care-free development to prod. And even though I hope the OpenJDK community develops more responsibly than my devs, but the point still stands given scaled time frames.
Human brain uses 10^5 less power than von Neumann architecture, according to Caltech paper from ‘90s.
Trading cryptocurrency tokens is not investing, it's speculating in the hopes of making a return on the price increase. Investing is when you spend money to generate useful economic activity in exchange for a fraction of the operation. Trading eth and buying cryptotokens doesn't generate economic activity or give the spender any rights or privileges as it relates to cryptotokens, all it does is perform a direct value transfer from one person to another.

The programmability aspect is cool and novel but mostly useless in practice, .e.g smart contracts and similar tech have yielded close to zero in terms of useful applications. Besides internet gambling I cannot think of a single useful application for smart contracts even in theory, in practice they are non-existent.
If there is no standard of value outside this world, then nothing inside this world ultimately matters either.
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Does it give them permission to remove the backup driver? In Waymo's case it seems like they are mainly waiting for a law that says that and then they can deploy for certain routes and conditions.
> I do not think individual purpose answers the questions why life or humans should exist.

What we should do is defined by what we want. Most of us want life and humans to continue to exist. Therefore they should. It's that simple.
Some people sink in the sink or swim scenarios. Having kids can lead to no productive activity at all during kid's waking hours instead of 15 minute chunks.
This is going to be very tricky! No clear answer to that, we are putting a lot of effort on research but our progress is quite difficult to predict.
Children are used to being bad at stuff, they don't expect to be good straight away.

Adults avoid stuff they can't do and also expect to be better at stuff because they're adults. I teach clay craft/pot throwing - for some reason adults think they can come along and make/throw a vase on their first go. Like expecting to rock up and make a wedding cake with no prior experience at baking.

I'm self taught, my first timers manage pots at a level that took me about a year to achieve.

We see first hand at painting sessions the birth of inhibition in art - parents who tell their child the painting they're doing is _wrong_ because the adult thinks they (the adult!) can do it better. The child isn't allowed space to simply express, to learn the movements of the brush and feel of the paint, to make "mistakes".
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Yeah. That garden path caused me to elide a paragraph or two, but the rest of the story was worth my persistence.
You can have private trade without civil rights and personal freedoms. Was segregation-era America not capitalist?
I also dream of what it would be like if lisp in the browser had become mainstream, but it's possible that if he had implemented it like he wanted to, it wouldn't have received such wide spread adoption like javascript did.
successful cultures don't necessarily scale within a society if some of what makes them successful is taking advantage of other cultures.
This is just a beta version. In the future, we expect to integrate the tech with some other apps.
You have basically two choices: either you get permission to put up your own poles / get permission to hang your cable on somebody else's poles or you get access to the public right of way / get permission from the landowners to dig up / trench / bore your fiber into the ground.

As to the actual mechanics of laying fiber, there are whole industries dedicated to this task. If you want more detail, you'll have to be more precise.
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I guess I see a ton of upside here, but I also see that this could easily be abused and possibly a tool to completely destroy someones life. Imagine getting a phone call from your "partner" saying they cheated on you. I dont know how it would be useable(api?) and I do still detect a bit of artificialness to to voice, but as this gets better I worry about the down sides and potential for harm by copying someones voice.
> Lisp just isn't enough more powerful than them to beat their home-court advantage.

Note, however, that Lisp had a 10 year head start on C. Lisp had the home-court advantage, and C ate its lunch anyway.
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Excellent languages like Lisp, Haskell, Ada, etc., maybe also Rust and Nim, will likely never be mainstream since they offer a lot of features which require a lot of discipline by the programmer.

Companies want mediocre developers for mediocre languages (Java, C++, C#, etc.) because mediocre developers can be replaced easily, and because they get lower salary due to great competition.

Mediocre languages are just good enough to implement the things which need to be done. All their features are comprehensible by mediocre developers. That's another reason why only mediocre languages become mainstream.
The main inflation channel works through investment in new projects and labor. The higher asset prices cause more assets to be built. In the case of housing, more house builders get more and higher wages which they then spend which makes other prices rise.
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Probably the study discussed here https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/vw-emissions-fraud-w... (edit: slightly more specific link)
At least the worst that could happen aside from them being part of a botnet is that they turn into regular white pillows.
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Not going to lie, that made me laugh out loud.

But in all honesty, that's literally the only think I like about TNY articles... they start so prettily.

I completely agree the articles are just way to self-indulgent when it comes it to length... writing compelling and succinct prose makes a writer great.
It is surely true we have no idea how difficult constructing an AGI is. It could require wholly new forms of hardware e.g. photon computation or parallelism similar to the brain's neuron might be a prerequisite.

It is intriguing (I think) we know AGI is possible, I think we get there by emulations/ems if in no other way. Civilizations might rise and fall before it becomes feasible.

I expect consciousness to be a lower level product, the development of language, reasoning, arithmetic, those are high level products. What's odd about our efforts in computer science is that we are plausibly going to be able to replace the higher functions without the lower ones such as mobility, consciousness. Moravec's Paradox is a kind of deep truth, perhaps more than we presently understand.

The other inkling is that there is something Lovecraftian about the brain or intelligence in general. Consider how upsetting the atomic weapons were in the 20th, evolution theory in the 19th. I think it likely that venturing into the interior will reveal a truth mankind shall feel is at least as horrifying, probably more than giant bombs or genetic ancestry because it would register as being inescapable.
This is probably why Apple doesn't expose WebKit as a public API on tvOS: regardless of how useful it would be, the danger is too great that you'll end up with garbage, lowest-common-denomiator web apps littering your platform.

That said, I think the OP has a point that JS could have been used instead of BrightScript--no DOM, no possibility to re-use a generic or non-native UX design, just using the language. Given the timing though, it's hard to fault the choices made 10+ years ago.
I agree, and clearly we're all grateful that you took the time to write up the tips even if they are on Twitter. Perhaps it's best to treat Twitter as a place for drafts, then take the time to write up a more polished piece after?
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Yes, that is what I meant with management errors.
My mind kind of explodes reading that article.

So many bells & whistles and I don't even know where to begin.
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What companies offer this, and what is the cost?
TL;DR: Slightly interesting but narrowly focused article with clickbait-ish headline. It charts the growth of Stack Overflow python question views in the last five years. While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysis that it correlates to python's usage growth. And no hypothesis is given for the growth in question views, although they tease a future post about that. It would have been far more interesting if they correlated their stats to lines of code in github or something along those lines.

To me, if anything I'm curious why python was so low percentage-wise in question views only five years ago. Anecdotally it doesn't seem to me that python usage in "industry" has grown that dramatically in the last five years, but there could be other factors involved such as education. Or my biased gut instinct could be completely off.

(Note: been a python user for 20+ years.)
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For example, lisp has no built-in infix syntax

I wrote one: https://github.com/shawwn/lumen/blob/6aa017cfd90fba381b6ea1d...

https://github.com/shawwn/lumen/blob/6aa017cfd90fba381b6ea1d...

It's an experimental feature, but it seems to work fine with no ambiguities. It also has "x = 42" for implicit local variables, rather than "(let x 42 ...)"

What do you think of it? Is it much more readable? I'm still debating whether to keep it.
> Nobody cares about humanity 600 generations from now. We're only truly concerned about our immediate family.

Please don't project your own personal thoughts and opinions on to the entire human population. It's possible that some, even many people do not think this way. I would claim to be one, although of course I can offer no evidence other than my word.

> I would say 90% of our environmental problems stem from this one fact. I mean we all drive cars and are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifice to stop.

Again, that seems like a projection of yourself on to the whole population. This ones easier to refute though, since it's an objective fact that I don't drive a car (and haven't even bothered learning). Concern for the environment is certainly a large part of the reason.
I feel sorry for any kid forced to learn programming at a young age.
> This made clear that offering the tool as a cloud service is an issue in corporate environments. To mitigate this, the CLI now encrypts all source code on your machine, the service decrypts it only in memory to run the analyzer and then all sources are immediately deleted.

That wouldn't cover any of the corporate policies I've seen. It's a total no go for companies under government regulation like HIPAA.

Company lawyers will block devs from using your service. IMHO, you have to provide an enterprise version of your platform that can run on in house servers.
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> Equality wasn't an explicit goal of that system though. It was for communism, which never achieved it at any significant scale

Well, thats kind of unsurprising, since all the actual attempts to implement “Communism” on a national scale threw out the prerequisites in Marxism on favor of the (notionally transitional) elite ruling class of Leninist vanguardism (an adaptation to allow bypassing capitalist democracy entirely, because—viewed generously—the Bolsheviks and their successors were too impatient for Marxism.)
because we're already there.

SitBit: we're not going anywhere.
The other side of the argument.

https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/

Also interesting bits about the fall of Symbolics, the AI winter, and why Lisp adoption waned as a result.
> Robert Wiblin: Are there some approaches that you think are just obviously too broad?

> Toby Ord: Good question. I think just saying, “Okay, what about improving science?” my guess is that because this begets technology, which begets some of the risk, it’s unlikely that just pushing on that is a plausible thing to particularly help.

> ... They probably wouldn’t even know about asteroid risk, or super volcano risk, or various other natural risks.

I think talking about these kind of risks is a mistake. They're not the biggest thing on our plate and people will always be able to foresee them as too distant and too small.

~~~~~

> Robert Wiblin: We’ve talked a lot about reducing risks to the future. What about thinking about the opposite of that, which is extremely large upsides? Are there any practical ways that people might go about not so much preventing extinction or something horrible, but also trying to create something that’s much more positive than what we have reason to hope for?

> Toby Ord: It’s a good question. I’m not sure.

If you want a specific technology, work on electric transportation. Fossil fuel transportation in agriculture allowed us to scale up humanity to 7.5+ billion people, but it created a time-bomb because as soon as its too pricey to move food around, we can no longer create it as scale, and there's no going back to agrarian pastoral society without killing almost all the humans. Over the long term, we have a moral imperative to advance ourselves beyond fossil fuels for transportation. This is what I believe to be the most moral technology we could work on.[1]

"Humanity has a bug. We think of the future too little, and too often we think technology propels itself, that the future will simply unfold automatically. Or worse, many seem to have suffered a loss of faith in any real vision of the future. I wish this was not so."

[1] https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/the-moral-technology-6413ca...
Not attributing this to you, but you could deploy your argument against abolishing slavery.

> How do you propose to raise up a culture that doesn't value diligent hard work

Which culture? Don't be abstract. Name what culture you think doesn't value hard work and I will and we'll see if I can't find a counterexample.
Has anyone in practice updated brand colors without needing other major style changes?
Srsly? People can't read it and you think it is okay?
If 'all cultures are not equal' is a false statement then we're stating 'all cultures are equal' which I interpret as saying there is no metric by which we can measure the 'goodness' or 'effectiveness' of a culture.

So let's accept the statement 'all cultures are equal' at face value: all cultures are equal and therefore there exists no metric for measuring 'goodness' or 'effectiveness.' If C(now) captures my current cultural state and C(future) captures my future cultural state and we're saying both of these states are equal - because all cultures are equal - then where's the impetus for any new legislation? Where's the drive for change?

In the United States our past culture included slavery, which we'll call C(slavery). Are we really saying C(slavery) == C(now)? I bet most people would claim C(now) > C(slavery) and if so should be suspect of any claim that all cultures are equal.

This isn't a rigorous proof, but I do think it calls into question the notion that all cultures are equal. But maybe that's not what the phrase actually means: maybe what they really intend to say is we've yet to identify unbiased metrics by which we can use to measure cultures and thus correlate them. Presumably most people would bias the metric in such a manner that their culture turned out to be the best. If that's what's actually meant by the phrase 'all cultures are equal' (and I've never heard of anyone presenting it that way) then it should be stated as such because then we can work toward identifying those metrics so we can objectively improve our own culture.
One of my more popular blog posts is exactly about how to "optimise" nginx for high traffic loads and the gist of it is pretty much "you can't really do much, but here's some minor stuff". I consider that a good thing though, a web server shouldn't really require config tweaking to perform well.
Awesome, gotta pick up my kid from school but I'll check it out when I get back. It sure sounds like interesting work.
Only if the first number is constrained to two digits. The release from March of 2100 would be 100.3, which would work just fine.
This is what Americans want. Anti-car zealots need to stop thinking you're going to pack the entirety of the country into trains and buses. It's not going to happen, so stop trying to make things painful for the 80%+ of Americans who drive, want to drive, and are interested in government making it easier and more convenient for them to drive.

I cannot possibly fathom how the left (which I usually include myself!) went from loving the idea of self-driving electric cars to "no! no! we need to stop people from driving at all costs!".
Tachyons is so good that I would find it difficult to go back to plain css. I usually cringe looking at non Tachyons stylesheets. I'm not even totally sure how I worked before it.
For your friends and family at least I recommend ElementaryOS. It’s a good introduction to the MacOS design philosophy, it runs fast on older hardware, and grandma can function with it relatively quickly with a bit of coaching.
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Yea no problem, I'm having a hard time finding all the articles/ benchmarks I remember reading about this subject. But this paper has some useful info[1]. Basically FreeBSD is good for throughput. In the paper I linked to you can see FreeBSD has a higher throughput than Linux, but you can also see that FreeBSD is using more CPU than Linux is. Also Linux generally has lower latency than FreeBSD, which makes sense because Linux is used extensively by high frequency trading firms. However there are still HFT firms using FreeBSD.

I'll edit this post as I find the other articles, videos and benchmarks about this subject.

Edit: I don't really care for Phoronix benchmarks but here's some benchmarks showing Linux winning some and FreeBSD winning some benchmarks[2].

[1]: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2013/papers/hotnets-f...

[2]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=netperf-b...
Lisp had a 10 year head start on expensive academic machines that were low on industry uses. C had a head start on high-end mainframes for actual work. Then the main contenders on the nascent PC were assembly, C and Pascal. P-code based compilers arrived quickly and were faster to develop with, but the resulting code was inefficient—and early PCs were sufficiently resource-constrained that inefficient code was very noticeable. So C obtained the territory that mattered: high-end business machines and the low-end machines that would spark the computing revolution, and just had to grow the two together.

Lisp had a head start, but wasn't on the track that mattered.
> Why people still care about the job safety in IT when you can find a job basically in week now?

Those of us who remember 2002, and to a lesser extent 2008, don't take this for granted. You shouldn't either imo.
You remember the OpenSSL debacle?
There's not much money in getting people to use it—it's rarely required and can be expensive to train for (as opposed to java, say).
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