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I know why you're being sarcastic, but the Discord client DOES feel more responsive to me in daily usage. Especially if you're planning on clicking any links, which in Steam does a background API call to the Steam servers to check whether you should see the pointless redirection screen. This sometimes takes several seconds, and there's zero UI indication of what's going on. If you're impatient and you click the link several times, it will the open in multiple tabs at the same time.

Okay, the chat itself in Steam is pretty fast (unless you attempt to send an emote). The problem is, there's zero message delivery guarantees, and the client doesn't even care to inform you whether the message has been successfully sent. If you're on an unreliable internet connection, your best bet is to close and re-open the chat window to see whether the messages made it to the server in the mini chat log that shows the last 2-5 messages (that's the extent of the client's chat history feature by the way). It's an usability nightmare.

This isn't about how fast Discord is but about how bad of a job Valve is doing (I'm not even certain present tense applies here given that the chat client has essentially not received any major new features for like a decade).
From what I can tell, the original retail release had support for LAN play, direct connections, and various third-party server browser options, all of which they removed so they could lock multiplayer behind a DRM wall that requires the GOG Galaxy client.
Which is why the best thing is to ask. I always tell my candidates that the most important thing is how they approach the problem and not how careful they are with their coding. However, if the interviewer doesn't explain that, the best thing is not to do "Defensive Coding" as per the linked article, but instead to _ask_.
What kind of role was the person in? Were they former SolarCity or Tesla Motors? Can you give us any other details?
Lots of counter examples with products that greatly improved post acquisition:

- Google / YouTube

- Facebook / IG

- Facebook / WhatsApp

- Tencent / Riot Games

- Tencent / Supercell

- Amazon / Twitch
One thing that's missing here is video camera feed. As an interviewer, I don't turn on my webcam and I don't expect the candidate to do it (although they can if they want to). However, I've heard different people have different opinions on this. It's definitely something that could go on this list for phone interviews.

Of course, intra-US interviews are usually done over the phone but when the interviews are across countries, tools such as Google Hangouts are normally used.
But equally, because we aren't working on all of them, doesn't mean it isn't worth working on any.

Also, be careful not to confuse uncertain duration with more general uncertainty. They are related, but not the same.
There seems to be some confusion/ambiguity around whether these layoffs were focused on the Fremont Tesla factory or company wide.

If they were focused on 1 factory that would be weird - if they were company wide that would be within the bounds of normalcy.

Can anyone illuminate?
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>China's aggregate economy could match the U.S.'s when its citizens are only 25% as wealthy

GDP per capita is a terrible measure of citizen wealth. A country could have a much lower GDP per capita than the US and still have a MUCH more wealthier median citizen.
Some countries have laws requiring notice and time for a performance improvement period, before final termination of employment.
I would accept this as an alternative to ads. Ads can easily be blocked and have a high tendency to be blocked as they can be quite intrusive and a risk. So publishers will get less incentive to server them if everyone is just blocking them.

Cryptominer scripts can just as easily be blocked. So bad ones (long running) can easily be punished and I can have miners be blocked when running on battery power. This might nudge the market into the right direction where people allow miners and pay for content with computer power as a proxy.

I might even see a framework for browsers emerging to facilitate this market and provide better more efficient API's (GPU access) and better control (no mining on battery). Since this way of paying for content does already carry a lot of overhead in terms of total cost for all parties involved :(.
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Why do we fear other intelligences anyway? Isn't that just a sign of our own immaturity? Maybe we need to evolve more before we start think about creating AGI...
That's not how it works. Have you ever had a major medical procedure? You're out of touch and talking about things you don't really know about.
From afar, it seems that's just how musk did about everything. SpaceX was a potential catastrophy, but they passed the tipping point successfully. Everything Musk does is "adventure" like, which is unsurprisingly good for employee stability. It's a bit like Jobs at Apple. You're gonna suffer, maybe get fire but you worked on "that" project.
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Right, but the game wasn't released by, or even exclusively on GOG; it's also on Steam, for example. So I doubt the decision was theirs. And while it may suck, I don't think it can be considered DRM.
Did you ever ride in the elevator again?
Defensive coding always breaks my flow during problem-solving. However, thinking of edge cases reflects a programmer's maturity. I usually trade off by writing a short comment (# check for null) during the flow and then revisiting that part later.
Hope they keep up with bundles on (tech) books.
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With respect: given the way that HN works (and that's not bullshitting--you've been here even longer than me!), I think that any discussion that is remotely interesting or useful (or both) will be a "meta discussion". There is not much to say textually given the way current politics or belief systems are structured. There's no oatmeal-middle statement that actually means anything. And, to that end, I would not run away from the "meta discussion" as the original poster who led to it.
Wrong question. There is no such thing as a language being better than another in general. Better for doing what, by whom, in what time and quality objectives ?
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I've been around AI since the end of the last big hype in the late 80s. The recent leap in machine learning has felt rather hyped to me. I don't think AGI is near.

But I find myself agreeing with this article. Strongly.

And I have long suspected that, we miss a lot of the significance and opportunities in AI, because we have only one exemplar of 'higher' intelligence: a human being. AI folk are so concerned with getting computers to do the things that humans are good at, I suspect most will miss / 'refute' / deride the inflection point, because the system can't wash the dishes (or some other form of embodied cognition), or write poetry humans would find beautiful, (or understand some other socially-conditioned cue).

The superhuman fallacy really is the bane of AI.
The disasters that may befall us if we fail to narrow this gap are many. [...] Within prosperous countries, such as the United States, there is a distinct and growing threat that increased automation, coupled with an obsolete and aimless system of education, will lead to a restratification of society in which a large middle class may find itself without suitable employment and without adequate means of filling its leisure time enjoyably and constructively. --
Social Technology (1966).

The median of these final responses could then be taken as representing the nearest thing to a group consensus. In the case of the high-IQ machine, this median turned out to be the year 1990, with a final interquartile range from 1985 to 2000. The procedure thus caused the median to move to a much earlier date and the interquartile range to shrink considerably, presumably influenced by convincing arguments
-- Analysis of the future: The Delphi Method. (1967)
Not impressive at all.
Basically he had to write a lot of manual buffering code to reach GNU yes throughput.
I would suggest to use an infrastructure which already provides proper IO.

e.g. perl or clisp.

$ perl -C0 -e'print "y\n" x (1024*8) while 1' | pv > /dev/null
^C.4GiB 0:00:11 [6.17GiB/s] [ <=> ]

$ yes | pv > /dev/null
^C.3GiB 0:00:07 [6.64GiB/s] [ <=>

And with linux-only vmsplice the record stands at 123GB/s https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/6gxduc/how_is_gnu_yes...
> My take is that it's worth taking pragmatic steps towards studying AI safety measures (i.e. OpenAI), but not going as far as to talk the likes of 'AI research regulation'.

Sometimes, it makes more sense being cautiously optimistic (pro-active) rather than reactive. We have already gone down that reactive slope and it's better to act now before it's all too late [0].

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/review-w...
> It seems like everything except the 'i' is a prefix, a lot of computing must have went in to generating it.

If Facebook can generate an address with only a single character being random (the trailing ‘i’), couldn’t an attacker generate anyone’s address by just applying 26 times more computing power?

Either Facebook didn’t target the trailing “corewww” or the .onion URL scheme is broken (since Facebook would be able to take over any .onion URL by just spending 26 times as much compute power as they did with https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/).
They discuss this, it shows how both Bitcoin and Ethereum have different dominating factors, how one has centralization in some areas the other does not and vice versa. Use the resulting numbers are the same, but examining how they were arrived at is the interesting point. It's not like positions of two balls at time 0 is the interesting number, it's how their differing properties affect the equations that determine their eventual position.
Look into pyret. Its made by one of the racket creators. But as most commentors said use a lisp with a good editor. Emacs or atom with parinfer for example.
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My girlfriend has treatment resistant depression. Most of her life doctors prescribed SSRI based drugs which didn't really work. A lot of money was also spent on psychiatrist for CBT. Based on a youtube videos and blogpost, read about 5HTP.

I think 5htp supplements really works in cases where depression is genetic or the depression exists since childhood, where the cause of depression is not known. You can actually see the result and change in personality within few week. I think 5HTP should be the first medication before any other psychoactive medications are consumed.
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Why have multiple lawyers fighting eachother instead of having one who's just payed to get an agreement between the 2 people? This could have been handled much easier.
We understand what intelligence is better than we understand what consciousness is. "Artificial Consciousness" would be the vague term.
I don't know if Tesla did or didn't follow legal requirements.

I am, however, pointing out that there are in fact legal notice and procedural requirements to be followed.
I'm glad you like the UI. Unfortunately, making the entire wiki public is not possible at the moment due to our focus on teams and companies. They use it to share knowledge internally and explicitly don’t want to have it indexed and publicly accessible.

It could be interesting though to expand Nuclino for the use in communities in the future as a lot of requirements overlap.
Could other people confirm/deny the claims in this comment thread?
It occurs to me that a lot of it is really the sunken cost fallacy.

(by the way, do check my HN profile...)
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Epiphenomenalism is a mind–body philosophy marked by the belief that basic physical events (sense organs, neural impulses, and muscle contractions) are causal with respect to mental events (thought, consciousness, and cognition). Mental events are viewed as completely dependent on physical functions and, as such, have no independent existence or causal efficacy; it is a mere appearance.

[...]

In 1870, Huxley conducted a case study on a French soldier who had sustained a shot in the Franco-Prussian War that fractured his left parietal bone. Every few weeks the soldier would enter a trance-like state, smoking, dressing himself, and aiming his cane like a rifle all while being insensitive to pins, electric shocks, odorous substances, vinegar, noise, and certain light conditions. Huxley used this study to show that consciousness was not necessary to execute these purposeful actions, justifying the assumption that humans are insensible machines. Huxley’s mechanistic attitude towards the body convinced him that the brain alone causes behavior.

[...]

A large body of neurophysiological data seems to support epiphenomenalism. Some of the oldest such data is the Bereitschaftspotential or "readiness potential" in which electrical activity related to voluntary actions can be recorded up to two seconds before the subject is aware of making a decision to perform the action. More recently Benjamin Libet et al. (1979) have shown that it can take 0.5 seconds before a stimulus becomes part of conscious experience even though subjects can respond to the stimulus in reaction time tests within 200 milliseconds.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism
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> Then it could know if someone were conscious or not.

How? You say "query", but what would the query look like?
The "SGX and Unbreakable DRM" episode is pretty interesting: https://hero.handmade.network/episode/chat/chat005
2007. Still interesting.
Intelligence is one of the most poorly defined words there is; I can't even begin to imagine what you have in mind.

Consciousness is usually only one of two things; either "being aware" or "the experience of having an inner voice".
Problem is that Rust is not memory safe anymore, since they switched from GC to refcounting and added unsafe.
Pair that with being no concurrency safety (deadlocks, races) there are only macros left which do make rust attractive.

On the other side there are proper languages which do provide all safeties and beat rust or C++ in performance, such as pony. A proper type-system does help (compile-time guaranteed), but you could also add such features to the run-time system (e.g. a GC or safe threading with a single-writer system such as parrot). With rust you don't have any of it, you have to manually add locks or mutexes into your threaded code, and try to avoid unsafe.
Perhaps I am a bit dense but I still don't see why small sample sizes aren't problematic.

If the data source we tap is valid (i.e.: it does give us the information that we really need) then we need a big sample size to gain precision. If, otoh, the data is not valid in the first place then neither a small nor a big sample size are helpful.
AGI is to AI what "Flying cars" are to "atomic power".

The reason luminaries are conservative in their estimates or remain silent is that capturing the public's imagination is good for funding and recognition (not a negative assessment, btw).

With enough positive press everything seems possible to the layman, and creates a belief in the unlimited possibilities of "the future," but also the inherent "dangers" of this imagined future that "must be taken into account."

Most arguments made in the article fall flat because of false analogies. Analogies can only ever be used to illustrate, never to derive conclusions from.

The AI winter is over, and good progress is being made in a lot of fields, but AGI is nowhere on the horizon. In absence of evidence to the contrary, AGI remains, for the foreseeable future, in the realm of philosophy, science-fiction, and regrettably, alarmist articles.

For now, us humans should feel totally safe.
Mostly because other intelligences might have more ability than us to achieve their goals, and have different goals. "Intelligence does not imply goals" is the thing to keep in mind here.

E.g. what if more intelligent aliens truly believed that the only purpose in the world is proving more mathematical theorems? And decided to turn all of the planet into a giant math-proving machine? Destroying all the planet, all the animals, all the humans, all the art, whatever, all to prove more maths?

I love maths, but I'd consider that a pretty bad outcome. And there's no reason that I've ever seen to think that more intelligence implies anything about goals.
It's reasonable to think that a randomly selected elevator is safe enough to ride, while also thinking the one you've just seen have some kind of fault is not.
without commenting on the unfairness -- as an employee, if you aren't prepared for this to happen to you, then you are doing yourself a disservice and are improperly managing your finances.

Any and all of us can, and some will be, 'fired' for less with less.
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Check out scuttlebutt (https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/concepts/gossip.html), it really decouples the content from the device, and there are some services out there that will take all your content and help broadcast it, but the real flow of information is from friends to friends
Well we can decide what seems more or less likely. I mean, yes, an asteroid could impact the earth and destroy all life on it. But we have some guesses as to the probability that that happens.

Clearly, by itself, the world will most likely not kill off humanity, since it hasn't happened in the thousands/millions years we've been around. The one big thing that is changing is humanity itself and the technology we're making - that's the X factor, that's what statistically speaking has a chance of actually wiping us out.

Many of the people concerned about AGI are also concerned about e.g. manufactured viruses and other forms of technology.
I think it’s be better if interviewers and interviewees wrote code like they would in the job - no excessive commenting/checking ... just write effective, clean concise code and minimize time wasted

In reality it might be risky to do this, but I’d like to see that change.
You'll understand how things work more if you start with C. But, at the end of the day, programming is usually a way to get something done. You're going to get a lot more done in Python than C as a beginner. I have a good amount of experience working on real world embedded applications in C, and I would only recommend it as a first language to people who have a specific interest in real-time embedded electronics, drivers, and operating systems. You can actually emulate a lot of what other programming languages do in C, but you won't until you know it's there to emulate. Additionally, the "Compile/Run/Rewrite" cycle in C isn't as good for learning as the "Rewrite/Refresh" cycle in Python.

I've actually been recommending HTML, Javascript, CSS, and git (specifically with github's "GitHub Desktop" application) to my friends/family that want to start programming. But of the two you'd mentioned, I'd vote for Python.
>I would strongly prefer that any consolidation such as this be allowed only if one of the firms return all of its spectrum licenses to the FCC to be re-auctioned.

That's a really good suggestion!
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Wikipedia says that he founded X.com, which merged with Confinity, initially he became CEO and later Peter Thiel the founder of Confinity took over and the company was renamed to PayPal.
You’re going to have a real working relationship with these people. I don’t think it makes sense to have a working relationship where you’re concerned so much about appearances. Don’t need to treat interviewers like they’re hypersensitive to your social behavior.
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If you care about happiness, why would you want to work on a CRUD app at all?

Anyway I'm not sure what else your 100K LOC is supposed to represent - that the app has a lot of responsibilities?
I get that. If there's a layoff or a re-org going on, getting it all done at once is better. The idea of losing poor performers on an annual basis is the one I cannot get behind.

I am perfectly fine with the idea that someone who isn't doing there job loses it. Where I have a problem is that once a year managers are told to dump their lowest performing people. The reality is that people will game the system. They will hire with the intention of firing. They will fire people who are adversarial either personally or professionally. They will fire people for arbitrary reasons. They will fire people for personal reasons. While tech work is easy to come by right now, it does not mean that the experience will be easy to deal with. Each person who was fired will now have to explain themselves to their families and their prospective employers. I doubt many of them took the job in the first place knowing it was not a stable environment.
Of course, it hasn’t been long enough to conclude much about that one, given the long production time of major motion pictures.
Is he very selfish person or just a hero ?
Personally would not even look at the webcam, so it’s less awkward when I’m not expected to.
Say you know a farmer who you think has land and equipment worth $1 000 000 on the secondary market, he only clears enough to cover his operating expenses every year, and he's willing to sell the whole thing for $500 000 (maybe he doesn't know what he has). You'd absolutely buy with the intention of liquidating and it'd have nothing to do with "competitive threat".

Markets are "efficient". If one entity is not using a resource in the most efficient way, there is a chance for someone to buy them out. It's another form of arbitrage.
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These Best Places to Work awards don't really tell me if a place is actually a good place to work. It is, however, a pretty good indicator of how strong the kool-aid is at a company.
That. And also how to deal with the interaction between browser state (around IME and such) and the component state. And how to properly model updates (see thread [1]) in a way that plugins can extend and consume in a modular way.

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Short answer - we don't know, but probably?

We don't really know what consciousness is or how it happens. We believe that it's possible to be highly intelligent without being conscious. I mean, I really hope that's true, personally, since we would hope to one day make an AGI that will carry out human desires, and we'd hope we weren't making a conscious entity which would be the equivalent of a slave.
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