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Friend grabbed an ebay newegg special that was only on their ebay store. Not an ROG but still amazing for under 1k
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I guess the take away is that if you're offering a security to the general public, don’t break the law and you won’t get shut down.
What would an organic Trump pick be if not based on some sort of quid pro quo?
To "retire" while I still have enough life left in me to enjoy it.

By "retire" I do not mean the absence of work. I mean the freedom to work only when I feel like working.
I never experienced the "only option" talk, either. My high school put forth alternative vocational tracks pretty often. Also the military, among other things. This was in the early 2000's. I'm skeptical that educators force this as the "only way" as much as it's a culturally ingrained thing now. People hear it, even if it goes unspoken.
Doing business in India can be tough and is a long term play with significant up front investment. Kudos to Google for doing it.
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One could essentially sign up to be a librarian (bit of an exaggeration but there are active duty members who work at libraries). Same goes for Coast Guard which doesn’t get deployed in the traditional sense and are more like water police.

Ceteribus paribus, the military provides stable job, income, and a generous scholarship.

The scholarship is roughly $70-$100k depending on school and a monthly housing stipend. For SF area, that stipend is $4.2k/month
One statistic that's commonly left out of these discussions & articles is how late parents save for college. According to Sallie Mae (http://news.salliemae.com/publication/how-america-saves-coll...), most families don't start saving before their oldest child reaches 7 years old. This effectively robs 1/3 of the investment period's growth potential.

Another one (as perhaps a consequence of the previous fact) is that the average family ends up saving up ~$16K, while the average grad leaves colleges with an average of ~37K in debt.

As most experts in the field agree, the key winning strategy is starting to save as early as childbirth, even if it's a small amount.
A region where modesty (especially monetary) is highly valued and the region consistently comes in last for VC funding..
https://www.citylab.com/life/2016/02/the-spiky-geography-of-...
Didn't Firefox also used to be like this? They reinvented every UI widget, and as a result felt like garbage on Mac.
no offense ... but stick your "just the way it is" up your desk drawer and lock it real tight.
Can't you extrapolate default rates to when we don't have good times.
FWIW: It's probably easier to become a software engineer than it is to become a master plumber.
It's laughable that this guy is called AI Guru. Does anyone in the AI/ML community recognize him? What has he technically achieved in AI? Other than jumping ships and giving broad AI talks (Elon-Musk-broad) to PR?
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Of course nobody should write production software with this, that's why the project loudly says that this is a PROTOTYPE. It is experimental software.

These kinds of tools are the future IMO. It's a higher layer of abstraction. Most programmers have no idea how their programs are actually executed--we write in a high-level language and rely on voodoo to execute it, without a "deep understanding" of how it's really executed, and without writing instruction-level tests. And it works great. I don't see how this is theoretically different, it's just a higher level of abstraction. Of course, its utility greatly depends on the practicality of its implementation (which includes performance)...

> it becomes a list of instructions for codegen

That describes exactly the everyday programming languages that we all use.
With regards to exempting services from data caps, it's called "zero-rating" and as far as I am aware, the net neutrality laws we have on the books don't mention it (which is why mobile carriers have been doing it for years).

I do believe that if you exempted only your own services you would start to fall into anti-competition territory though.
"However, I wish you hadn't insinuated that I could only hold the opinions I do because of a character deficiency."

Your post did the exact same thing regarding individuals with a criminal history. If someone got into a drunken bar fight when they were 19, should that really affect their job chances when they're 35? Or, better yet, someone who was arrested for protesting? Should a criminal conviction for essentially doing nothing but exercising your constitutional rights bar you from earning a living?

Not to mention, if persons with criminal convictions, especially ones that are not serious are not allowed to find employment, what do you think they're going to do? Who, other than society, do you think will bear that burden?
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No, they're not. To say otherwise betrays either an enormous ignorance of other people's situations, or a complete lack of empathy for them.
In upstate Western NY there's definitely a big push towards offering kids the option of vocational school. Kids I work with generally have their minds made up about it by 11th grade, but there are two interesting phenomena. Many students don't want to study for exams, and so make the choice to go vocational out of laziness, being unaware of the professional certification regime. I also see many students whose parents want them to go vocational, but they've been sold on the college experience so relentlessly that they will go anyways.
"Between the resources at Google/ Yahoo/ FB/ Ycombinator alone they have the money, lawyers, know how, and have had since November of last year to do something about this"

They did. They petitioned, used their own money, tried to convince Pai that his changes were bad. They did their part and Pai ignored them - flat out ignores them as if they don't matter. So... what about your argument works?

Pai was "hired" to screw the Internet and help the big ISPs make more cash. Trump is only there to overturn everything Obama did, nothing more. So Pai is just there to overturn NN, nothing more.
Couldn't they do it partially by betting that not all their customers would withdraw their funds simultaneously? Lot of less technically inclined people seem to keep their coins on one exchange like Coinbase
The biggest reason the west coast jump started development on its own would be the California Gold rush.
Is there an argument in favor of it (money laundering) being ethical? The most I can think of is anonymity for the general public, but is this an actual use case?
There is definitely an education bubble. It's way too easy to get money for college. You hear a lot of stories about the increasing costs of college and crushing debt on graduation, but you don't hear a lot of stories of "I wanted to go to college but couldn't get a loan". Almost everyone gets approved, regardless of their future ability to pay it back.

We need a fundamental shift in the way college is paid for. Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system, others would like to see the removal of subsidized loans to bring prices back down (and leaving many unable to afford college in its wake).

Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least into a pool that pays for the next generation's college. Of course with that system, colleges would bias towards people who are pursuing profitable majors, so you'd probably see a lot more STEM degrees and a lot fewer of everything else, until it got oversaturated, but there is a very long lead time between "too many degrees" and "no one studies this anymore".

In other words, the fundamental problem is that we tell kids that college is the only path, creating insanely high demand for the product, when in reality there would be plenty of people much better served learning a trade or skill instead of four years doing something hate for a useless degree they'll never use.
Don't you think that

> they are working towards their reward functions and optimizing the weights to reach the goal

applies to the human mind too ? Consciousness, when you think about it, might simply be a layer of indirection that any sufficiently complex network is capable of, if you give it a notion of time and events.

Certainly it's not super hard to make reinforcement learning "bots" that certainly appear as conscious as small animals are.
the market is extremely illiquid. even if you know it's a scam you have few options if you want to cash out.

you can trade bitcoin for cash balances at various exchanges but actually withdrawing those balances is subject to miniscule daily/monthly withdrawal limits and if there's a run on the market those exchanges will almost certainly collapse. there's no significant over the counter market. you can swap your bitcoin or tether for other crypto currencies but none of those have independent exchanges/markets. the best you can probably do with them is trade them back for bitcoin.

if you're a market participant who thinks things are a scam your best option is to withdraw what you can while you can and do everything you can to prop up the price until you are liquidated
Ok, I took the bait, who is this AI Guru? His name is Danny Lange, who has published his latest paper in 1999, which means ages ago in AI time. Keep it real! This kind of hype is not worth it.
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Ceteris paribus, base stealing doesn't make sense. But baseball is a game played by humans and even if it weren't, there are a large number of variables that don't go into the simple analysis.

For example:
The members of the defending team adopt fielding positions based on a maximum potential for fielding a hit ball. But if there is even a threat of a stolen base attempt, the defense must change their positioning accordingly, affecting their ability to field a ball put into play.

If a player does make an attempt to steal a base, at least one defender must begin to change their positioning before the hitter has even had a chance to hit the ball. If they do not, they will not make it to the base in time to receive the throw from the catcher and either the throw will not occur or it will go out into the outfield and the runner may advance another base. Alternatively, the hitter may actually hit the ball and the ball may go to an area that it is statistically likely to go, where a defender would have been but for the stolen base attempt. What was to be an out is now a hit and the runner, having a head start because of their stolen base attempt, is able to advance further than they normally would have been able to. Because the hitter hit the ball, this situation does not get recorded in the statistics as a stolen base attempt!

Baseball is really a fascinating game to think about!
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I checked him and there's nothing much to show in the latest 18 years.
Why do you ask? What change in your own behaviour would the different answers elicit?

Is this just an intellectual exercise? In that case, it's a reasonable question that might lead to an interesting conversation.

Are you thinking of working for one, but worried about how you would feel? In that case, I don't think any amount of reassurance from internet strangers would help.

Are you worried about how others might view you if you have it on your CV? That may be a valid concern, but in that case, it's an XY problem.

Are you looking at a pile of CVs, and thinking about whether to reject someone on these "ethical" grounds? You don't know what predicament caused the candidate to take that job, or to (want to) leave it, or the exact nature of what they did there.

If you work on technology that can help to identify harmful play and intervene appropriately, then you are probably creating technology that makes the world better, even if you are doing so for a company whose other products may be making the world worse.
My complaint with this article isn't about watching the ad or not, its that it autoplays with sound. For example, I didn't see the warning and I played it in work. Luckily nobody heard it because I closed it quickly enough, but, still, auto play is not ok.
Start driving down 76W and you'll see quite the opposite. Yes, eastern PA is urban, but after you get far enough west the only thing on the radio is country and gospel.

I also wouldn't claim Pittsburgh is anti-intellectual considering the startup scene and the universities in the area. The suburbs around Pittsburgh are a bit of a different story.
> Some (many?) would like to see a government funded system

Depending on how the debt situation falls out, we might already have that. :-\
that's not how markets work. bitcoin has no intrinsic value, just a exchange rate with other things
What do you mean by 'leave China'?

Do you mean it stops selling its products in China? Or stop assembling iPhones in China? Or both?

According to this page (https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/where-are-apple-pro...), 'the assembly of Apple's devices is for the most part done in China'.

If Apple leaves China suddenly, I don't think it can build that large an assembly line quickly to satisfy the global demand of iPhones.

And according this document (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy17-q4/Q4FY17DataSummar...), half of Apple's Q4 2017 revenue come from iPhone. So, if the supply of iPhones is greatly reduced, the cash Apple sits on will quickly run out. Then Apple will be in great trouble.
"Doing what they were programmed to do" isn't really satisfying when nobody knows what the program is. When a Google self driving car stops suddenly, nobody can say "why." So nobody can know if and how a neural network has the "desire" to kill.
>> Actually having cats is about the best parenting practice you can get.

Cannot disagree more. I hate seeing people who buy cats or puppies as some sort of parenting bootcamp, only to abandon them when things go south. Don't do this. If you are unsure if your boyfriend would make a good dad, wait until you are sure. Don't get a puppy as a test of your relationship because it is the puppy that will suffer when you break up.
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my State, Indian does a partial free-2 year degree program in that the AP courses taken in HS qualify as a full 2-year degree if you take enough of them in HS and pass the exams..no college tuition payment required
On the one hand, yes that's late. On the other hand it's sort of insane how you need to start putting money away for a child's education when they're only seven years old! You have no idea if the child will even want to go to college, how much their college of choice will cost, etc.
These should be low yield non junk but for some reason they're high risk/high yield in spite of the principle being backed by the full faith and credit of the US Govt. and bankruptcy non-dischargability. There's a strange disconnect between the risk and the yield.
> especially the wealthy elites whose net worth is mostly tied up in the current fiat system

Single parents hovering at the poverty line also have their entire net worth tied up in the current fiat system and they're far more likely to be hurt than someone with the means to be flexible
The court system seems to be looking the other way with this current administration though, so I wouldn't get your hopes up too high that his actions would have any effect on any court case.
Probably because people in the tech industry are far more likely to be involved with cryptocurrency than an MLM scheme?
You are correct. That is also something I tell the clients before they are providing the passwords. That they should make sure that all their passwords are changed. Even so, never reuse your password for Bitcoins as they are too valuable.
It's good in theory, but most new parents don't have the spare cash to start saving at birth, unless they are already fairly well off.

I was lucky enough to have kids late in life and I can afford to put money in their college fund now, but most new parents sadly can't.
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For some people. Others just can't get their heads around programming

Though point taken about how hard it can be to get certified for some of those trades
If by "the left" you also mean every prominent suburban area in America, then yes!

It's right to bring up the military and the trades as viable options, but let's not oversell that stuff. The trades aren't just a shoo-in easy crack at six figures like folks spout off. You gotta work for that master-tradesman slot. It'd probably take you 10+ years to get there if you're good enough. The trades are designed to limit the number of people entering them...it's part of why they make so much money. It's also incredibly hard work and tears up your body as you age.

I think the drawbacks to joining the military are pretty obvious and go without saying.
And I disagree. I cannot believe that is regulating someone's economic behavior in any way. For one, the budget you have for a job opening is set before you interview anyone. Whatever you price that job at, it has nothing to do with what I'm making now.
Another statistic is that in quite a few places in the world families don't have to save money for kids' education at all. Looking from Europe, it looks like a weird cultural artefact. If someone I knew did this, my reaction would be "wtf, why don't you pay off your mortgage or go on vacation?".
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But what move comes after that? If congress intervenes next and its not in our favor, the outcome could be far worse and harder to reverse.
I think the argument holds up: it is that, even in a field where management decisions can be clearly quantified, the data is collected, and people are doing the analysis, bad decisions persist (management makes bad decisions when they could make good decisions, and the market does not value good management decisions). So in a field where it is much less clearly quantified, why would we expect the market to ensure high-quality management decisions?

I don't think the post proves that the market fails to incentivize good decisions. That's a hard thing to prove. It does certainly give us serious reason to doubt the common claim that the market succeeds in incentivizing good decisions on a short timescale. (It might still be true, but we should have much less confidence in that statement being true than before we read this post.)
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I have successfully worked relatively senior positions (principal software engineer at a couple of startups) working less than full time. So I don't think that's necessarily the case, especially if you can build the skills to be very productive.

It's definitely harder, since less companies will hire you. But on the flip side, since you've already negotiated shorter workweek it's easier to get that at other companies, since you have proof you work well with less hours.

I talk about both the skills and the negotiating tactics involved in my book (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/).
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An aside to the main point: the author claims that one can do a similar analysis to other sports. My intuition is that you can't do quite as accurate an analysis of, say, soccer, than you can baseball. As a sport, baseball is unusually discretized when compared to a much more continuous sport like soccer or hockey. Being discrete, it makes it much easier to represent as a state machine, which makes it easier to simulate, and easier to suss out cause and effect. American football, I think, may be somewhere inbetween. I know, of course, that other sports do significant statistical analysis, but my intuition is that it is harder to attribute cause and effect at the fine-grain level that one can with baseball.
It's not silly, if the AI agent is in the real world. The limit to RL currently is simulation. If an AI could use model based RL to do reasoning and planning, it would surely have motivation and be capable of doing harm.

Its motivation could be programmed in by its creators, or it could just act to prolong its existence. After all, all human motivations stem from the same source - the will to live, which is the result of evolution, in our case. AI's trained with evolutionary techniques could have the same will to live. Evolution just means pruning those who are not competent enough or have enough will to live.
There doesn't need to be an official BTC-USD tether, BTCUSD on bitfinex is exactly that in practice and in fact.
That's an interesting solution to the problem of state funding. I wonder if they've done any studies on the educational effectiveness of the program.
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You sound like a cigarette executive. "The real problem is we don't start em smoking before they leave the hospital. We could increase our profits 33% if every baby was exposed to nicotine before they leave the hospital."

Maybe not all people in society should be socially required to purchase an expensive good, thus causing demand to be infinite, meaning price can only skyrocket.

Given the number of Masters degrees working minimum wage or starting jobs now maybe we should admit we have a problem.
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Good point. I am taking for granted that people will have their coins in their wallets, and lot just leave them up on an exchange.
I can't wrap my head around this. Who is silly enough to sell bitcoins for 'worthless' Tether?
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