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My experience is that people that really get into AA and find it useful have translated one addiction, to alcohol, into another, AA meetings. People that go to a meeting, or more than one, every single day, and get twitchy if they don't get their fix. I suppose that's healthier than getting blotto all the time, but it's not something most people can tolerate, and is difficult to sustain.

It wouldn't be so bad if it was a program solely for people that needed that kind of overriding presence in their life, but AA is also swollen with people that are forced into it because they've fucked up and are court-mandated to attend for X weeks because they made a poor decision and got pinched for a DUI or other alcohol-related brush with the legal system. For those people, it's something they need to endure, and get to the other side of, so that they can get on with their life, and the AA model of perpetual recovery and rhetoric about "dry drunks" if they don't buy in is actively harmful.
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If you are into this kind of thing I highly recommend 'The Vital Question: Why Is Life The Way It Is' by Nick Lane "In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solution to conundrums that have troubled scientists for decades."
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It's worth distinguishing the US congress and executive branch from the US citizenry, in cases like this.
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You just need to run it in a process without any secret data from other origins or the browser/system.

That seems feasible without significant performance loss in most cases.

There is still a fingerprinting issue though that might not be possible to fully remove without huge performance cost.
There's also the diffraction limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction-limited_system
I will be highly impressed if anyone managed to pull of a reliable and generic side channel attack based on the hardware you listed. Most of what you describe is squarely in the realm of tinfoil hattery.

DRAM and the memory bus is also affected by DMA operations running independently of the CPU.

Power consumption? There is no hardware available to measure that, let alone at the time resolution required. If you have to first attach a GHz bandwidth oscilloscope to the computer you might as well just reboot it or dump its RAM contents or whatever.

Forget about reprogramming a Wi-Fi chip. They operate on narrow channels in the 2.4GHz range and have fixed hardware for modulation. You would at least have to force the CPU to switch to the right frequency and then be lucky enough that it radiates a signal that demodulated to something sensible within the Wi-Fi hardware. This is physically impossible on current hardware.

Also, on a different note, we cannot sacrifice performance willy-nilly for the sake of a bit of potential security gains. A 30% performance loss on servers means that the counter move is to consume 30% more power to maintain current levels of operation in a data center. This energy needs to be generated, which means that someone is burning oil or gas for it with all the consequences. In essence, the current patches will result in an extra thousands or millions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. More efficient replacement hardware will eventually produced with extra environmental impact. We need to find ways to avoid that. Soon.
Pure Data is visual programming language, you could essentially build native / vst / mobile apps with it and go more low level eventually.
VCV rack is more Eurorack hardware simulator so to speak, musical instrument. Good for reality check before going hardware but you don't create apps with it.
> That's entire galaxies. Not just stars

Ehm... sorry to be a bit pedantic, but the distinction between the two has no effect on your argument here. Either way there are ten times as many environments in which stuff happens.

Also, as b3lvedere's comment points out elsewhere, you really shouldn't trust gut instincts when it comes to reasoning about infinities. Unless you're a mathematician specialized in the subject, you're pretty much guaranteed to be wrong about them.

(having said that, I'm also more inclined to believe that there's plenty of life out there. I'm not as hopeful about complex life-forms escaping planets though)
Run it for long enough and you can average out the random drift.

The issue cannot be fixed without disabling speculation entirely on current hardware.
Why's that? Food, housing, and transport cost different amounts in different locations.
It's basically an exponential curve.
Many years of remote work under my belt.

There are two big advantages:

1) You don't have to commute (unless you want to - you can work at a co-working space)

2) You can travel around and still have a salary. I've worked from places like an apartment in Bangkok, a beach hut on an island in Malaysia, as well as a cottage in the heart of the English countryside.

But that's about it. It's still work. You still put in your eight hours plus a day. You still have to put up with shit. You still have to work on those things you'd rather not.

If you don't really enjoy the work, then remote working won't make up for that.

I would say give it a go though - it's the sort of thing that you need to try to see how it works out for you.
C++. You could use Qt and there are probably a bazillion PDF generation libraries - it's not that hard to make your own really depending on what you need to output.
>Even after accounting for acceleration and deceleration that gets us there in a human lifespan...

It gets _something_ there in a human lifespan. The only really well though out models for that are Daedalus and Icarus, and they would involve flybys only of probes the size of a hockey puck, or a washing machine at most. The cost of which would be civilisation impoverishing.

I think it's a very reasonable chance that humanity will never, as a functioning human populated civilization, ever spread beyond this solar system. Now 'never' is a pretty long term statement, but no matter how advanced our technology becomes, it's still likely to be constrained by the physics we know. It looks like spreading beyond this system would cost a very large fraction of all the resources we have in the system to start with, if it ever becomes practical at all.
I'm sure the ratio of ancient sages to hunter/gatherers wasn't much better.
>...what tesla is seeing internally, vs "public expectation" what tesla is telling the press.

If TSLA's 'private expectation' don't match what they're targeting, then Musk will be going to jail. The SEC doesn't mess around with that type of securities fraud.
Cortex A53 certainly have speculative execution because they have branch predictors. The branch predictor of the A53 is probably the most sophisticated thing about it and other in-order ARM cores like the A8 are vulnerable. But apparently something about the A53 design prevents speculating of indirect loads making them safe.
That's not quite how the economics works here.

A fully rational company should be thinking "what do I have to pay to get the work I need doing done?" If that work can be done remotely then that optimisation works out as:

- Who can I hire in low cost locations and pay less for, without sacrificing quality (which I'm using VERY broadly to represent ANY differences in the work, team interactions, etc.).

- If I can't hire enough of those, fast enough, how much am I willing to pay in high-cost locations.

In the short term, when the company is trying to hire fast, talent is scare globally, and the company isn't connected to all global talent pools (so struggle to hire there) a sensible optimisation is salaries adjusted by location.

In the long term, as the company has time to build its remote brand and (if) its hiring requirements stabilise, a sensible optimisation will be work leaving high-cost centres like SF.

Don't feel too sorry for people in low-cost centres who work gets redistributed to at a lower cost - in the long term work from the high-cost centres is shifting to them, unless there are quality reasons for it to stay in the high-cost areas.
So... the big factor muddying the waters for AA is that it is, in many cases a state-sanctioned option where "anonymous" behavior modification (have you checked in with your sponsor?) takes on the force of law. It's possible to have a substantial variation in your treatment by the courts as a result of whether heavily AA-associated folks around you say that you are getting with the program or whether you are still in 'denial' (it's not just a river in Egypt, fnarr fnarr). I have met people whose continued freedom as non-violators of probation or parole more or less depends on the say-so of various quasi-governmental types as to whether they are paying lip service to Bill Wilson.

I'm going to say that I'm fine with the idea that if people find the rooms work for them, great. However, the idea that a program that doesn't show any real statistical effectiveness as compared to secular programs should be adopted by the state is creepy and weird and fucked up, and no amount of bullshit dodges ("your higher power can be a cat, or a doorknob") makes this less fucked up.
There are definite advantages a company can get when an employee lives some place well-connected, the casual networking that happens when all of your friends are in the industry. Very occasionally such a connection can land a big lead or a 10x employee or whatever. So that could be used as justification for the salary differential. Pretty flimsy though.

But they should just call a spade a spade. It's basically a retention bonus: somebody living in SF is far more likely to jump ship than somebody living in Podunk Hollow. So just practice some of that radical transparency they're claiming and say that outright.
I agree with you in that we will probably never have contact with another sentient species of extra terrestrial origin. The distances are to vast, the lifetimes of civilisations and even species too short and so on.

However I do think that you vastly underestimate the probability of life. Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms . See how quickly life appeared once the earth had cooled down? It's almost immediately!

I'm pretty convinced that almost all star systems have some complex energy conversion cycles that could be classified as life. Let's not make the mistake of assuming all life has to be carbon based.
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Sorry for the typo, it is p. 155.

For quite a few days, people were suspecting that to be an Intel bug. The desktop shown in the video was a Dell Precision one, which means Core or a Xeon.

Another suspected cpu is said to be Intel X1000, if the demo was not running on the desktop. This was because Intel has issued a non-public errata just for major embedded partners before.

From myself, I will add that another suspect is Intel 80579 which is a still sold Pentium M/Core 1 SoC
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this article. I wonder how AA would be different if they could have used this as a therapy? I wonder if it could be used in the future if it were ever rescheduled?
NYC government has a particular moral ideology and they don't like that SA performs such an important function (caring for the poor that NYC neglects) in their city without buckling to their moral agenda. They would spend the lives of tens of thousands of impoverished citizens if they could force SA into a more palatable theology.

NYC went after them several years ago for exercising their right to refuse to employ openly gay clergy. They wanted to close down SA in NYC despite that SA provided a huge portion of shelters and other homelessness relief (something like 60% by some measure IIRC). And they wanted to pin the blame on SA ("We can't believe you'd force us to shut you down and let all our poor people starve!") when it was clearly their prerogative. They only changed their minds when it became apparent that they would lose the PR battle.

Around that time, someone started a "Let's hate on SA for being homophobic" thread on Reddit, but so many formerly poor people from all over the country (including many LGBT) came forward with their stories of how the SA saved their family from poverty; none of the first hand accounts corroborated the "SA is homophobic" narrative.

If you truly care about social justice, you support SA because they are clearly doing more good than any similar organization in the US; everything else is just social justice fashion.
Yeah i'm a fun of scrounging around for cheap little used modules like Mopho, ms2k, ms20 mini, mother32, mini/monologue, the Roland and yamaha recreations jp08, bass station 2 and various novas from Novation, emu proteus 2k. Roland actually has released dozens of rackmounts, some quite decent. Also kits: Preen, audiothingies, mutable instruments etc. It's astounding what you can buy for under $300 in many cases.

I do wish for a cheap knobby controller like the maudio axiom or novation SL mk2 that has reliable faders, pots and encoders. Those are the one instrument product i would say you should buy new and get the extended warranty from Sam ash or Guitar center. When the pots start shooting out lots of spurious midi CC's, deoxit's not going to save you. Deoxit's great for making door hinges stop squeaking tho
I know it's wrong on purpose, but still...

> it is impossible to import things into something that has infinite volume because by definition there is no outside to import things from.

If you cut a 2d plane with a line, then both halves are infinite, yet both have "outside". You can repeat this and get infinite (aleph 0) number of divisions, each still as infinite as the initial plane.

Same way you can cut infinite 4d universe into countably many infinite 4d universes.

> not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are

By same logic: not all integer numbers are even, therefore only a finite number of numbers are even.
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unfair for someone living in the high cost area to get paid the same salary

Unfair how? The ENTIRE POINT of paying in currency rather than in square feet of living space is that it abstracts all of this - you earn the cash proportionate to the value you create then spend it however (and wherever) you like
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I agree that it's far fetched and an extreme example, but still interesting to think it through. As it does shed some light on the different actors and their potential motivations.
And 100% of glitch music.
> OTOH, location matters a lot.

Or it matters very little for most things and companies choose the Bay Area for shared reasons: preferences of independently wealthy executives, signalling of some sort, etc.
Yea, so an employee should work hard to make money for the pleasure of the CEO buying another home this month? I rather work for my family, not for the CEO's one.
If a company doesn't want to pay me enough, I'm sure I will find another one.
You can always disable it using 'sysctl -w vm.overcommit_memory=2' or have more control with vm.overcommit_* various sysctls.
In the general case, I found that overcommit is usually more useful than strict accounting, but I agree that for more industrial cases it can be the opposite (but then you can spend time tuning it).
Not possible - the physical size of 64GB (even at nm scale) means that the time it takes for a signal to traverse it causes memory to take a long time to access, meaning you need a L0 cache to maintain performance.
Random noise isn't necessarly a hindrance -- it can help.

Contrary to intuition, the presence of random noise can actually make detectable a signal that is otherwise below the minimum detection threshold. See, e.g. stochastic resonance. (Essentially, the noise occasionally interefers constructively to 'bump' the signal up beyond the threshold to make it detectable.) If you are able to introduce and control your own noise, you may also be able to take advantage of coherence resonance.

Randomness itself can be a very useful tool in many signal detection and processing systems, e.g. sparse random sampling in Compressive Sensing techniques can reconstruct some kinds of signals at frequencies beyond the Shannon-Nyquist limit of a much higher-density fixed-frequency sampling -- something thought impossible until relatively recently.

I would not be at all confident that such 'system' noise could not be filtered out statistically; it might even be used to an attacker's advantage.
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It is completely baffling why software synths and routing software etc. feels the need to make itself look like a patch board and have rotary knobs and things. Can't we come up with a set of conventions for software-native synth UIs? Sure the physicality of real knobs and sliders is nice on real hardware, but on a screen - especially non-touch systems - there's no way it's the best option.
Btw. here is a sketch of an embedding like that:

[Session starts]

<Challenger> Hi.

<Judge> Hi. Now, listen to me. My job here is to judge whether you are a human or an AI.
I also know that your job is to try and persuade me to believe you are a human,
no matter which one you really are. I happen to have a few questions that are
easy for humans and hard for AIs. So if you are a human, answering them shouldn't
be a problem to you, but if you avoid answering, I'm going to judge that you are
an AI, no excuses. Here is the first question: ...

[A pattern of Winograd schema challenges ensues.]

So as we can see, the Turing test doesn't have to be any random chitchat nor it doesn't have to pretend to be "normal human-to-human-like discussion", as the Judge has the ability to participate and steer the conversation and zero in on the areas that are most likely to expose the AI.

However, if the human participants don't have any penalty from being labeled as AI, this doesn't obviously work, as they don't have any pressure to prove anything. So this kind of an embedding wouldn't work with "imitation game" -like rules, but it would work with "prove your human-ness" -like rules.
Due to early embargo lifting, I expect not everything's been publicized yet
This analysis seems to be based on some notion of "Cognitive Complexity", but I can't find its definition in the article. Am I missing something?
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That's what they said about indoor plumbing, air conditioning ect. Yea new technology is expensive to start. Should people not work on anything that cannot be made available cheaply from the get go.
> Science and technology make the world a better place - for those who can afford it. The rest can go get stuffed.

It's always like this and it's perfectly natural part of the process. You will not get the benefit of the newest invention today. But you, and many others like you, are interested, and so people will work to bring the costs down, and in 5, 10, 20 years, suddenly you can afford it.

As heartless as it may sound - suck it up, wait for your turn. It will come.

> Well, if society allows a life-saving drug (or, indeed, a blindness-curing treatment) to be unaffordable to those who need it, then that's already a society that is not serving its members' interests. What the hell do I care if society can support science advanced enough that it can cure blindness, if it won't cure my blindness? I'm expected to do the moral thing and sit nicely and not rock the boat- but others are not expected to help me, in my need? Bugger that for a game of soldiers!

It's a fucking fresh discovery. Have a little patience!

Stealing a drug in your example is not a moral thing to do because if everyone did that, there would be no drug, and no pharmacies. Unfortunately, in this world we're constrained by limits of physics and economics (i.e. basically how good individuals are at coordinating to do something together on large scales). Things take time.

Also, frankly, you yourself have contributed exactly nothing to the development of this drug, so I don't see why you should blame society for not having it available to you immediately. Blame God, if you believe in one, for creating a shitty universe in which blindness and death are a thing, and in which we're left alone to solve them to the best of our capacity.

And then be thankful for the good people who will make sure this drug will, eventually, get to you.
Although the supposedly 2016 article was in fact last updated today, and discusses the recently disclosed problems.
Right. If it's not about money, just issue me blank checks every month.
We need "NoScript" addon in current Firefox!!!

No other addon (even umatrix) offers what NoScript does, yet NoScript doesn't work anymore :(

And better entirely disable WebAsm (in config) to avoid another attack vector.
defining "honest mistake" for a company is quite difficult compared to an individual.

However there are lots of anecdotes from insiders emerging that suggest negligence through substantial changes and cuts in verification that may well have been a primary factor.

By comparison, if spacex had a massive disaster that affected everyone and it was found that they cut their testing team in half to re-appropriate resources 5 years earlier would you still call it an "honest mistake"?
I'm pretty sure people is also used as a verb.
Some things you could look at trying:

1. list on other sites: ebay, walmart, newegg

2. advertise on google

3. deal of the day

4. give single use coupon codes to amazon affiliates

5. create a coupon code and give it to various sites.

6. approach review sites, blogggers

7. youtube reviews
> it's essentially what happens when you create a thread nowadays

I'm not familiar with the guts of threading libs, but AFAIK the syscall that spawns threads is clone(), which takes a function pointer and a stack pointer, so it very much does not start "with the same data structures and the same execution point".
Yeah I'm actually afraid to run some of the more complex WebGL on my laptop, as I've had occurences of them hard locking my computer, which should not happen.
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I'm not sure it matters what part is due to fundamental dynamics. The goal should be to add a feedback loop from the top to lower levels so as to improve mobility dynamics, which encourages the view that hard work and ingenuity pays off with decent probability.
Is it possible the populations in each 5% are disjoint and one should not be too quick to dismiss the program’s results?
New inventions are likely to require more specialized training. The days of a Benjamin Franklin inventing bifocals despite not being primarily an expert in optometry are likely over.
Presumably it hasn't been disclosed yet which systems are affected?
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long shot but you cold try Facebook advertising to people that have an interest in ducks and iphones.
We already have that technology, more or less... A orion type drive is can be built using 1960's technology, the rest is just engineering, not new physics. A orion type drive can take you as close to c as you can afford. At 0.9999999c you can travel to A.Centauri in 1/2 day. Granted getting to 0.9999999 and back again is gonna take a fair pile of h-bombs.