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Your selective quotation misses the main point of Wallace's piece. He is wrestling with the ethics of causing gratuitous suffering.

The 'grasshopper' quote is Wallace actually quoting the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, possibly not an unbiased source for science. Wallace goes on to say:

Though it sounds more sophisticated, a lot of the neurology in this latter claim [grasshopper quotation] is still either false or fuzzy. The human cerebral cortex is the brain-part that deals with higher faculties like reason, metaphysical self-awareness, language, etc. Pain reception is known to be part of a much older and more primitive system of nociceptors and prostaglandins that are managed by the brain stem and thalamus.

Wallace goes on to write:

The basic scenario is that we come in from the store and make our little preparations like getting the kettle filled and boiling, and then we lift the lobsters out of the bag or whatever retail container they came home in …whereupon some uncomfortable things start to happen. However stuporous the lobster is from the trip home, for instance, it tends to come alarmingly to life when placed in boiling water. If you’re tilting it from a container into the steaming kettle, the lobster will sometimes try to cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof. And worse is when the lobster’s fully immersed. Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature’s claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around. The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water (with the obvious exception of screaming). A blunter way to say this is that the lobster acts as if it’s in terrible pain, causing some cooks to leave the kitchen altogether and to take one of those little lightweight plastic oven timers with them into another room and wait until the whole process is over.
Just because we're not sure what the jobs of the future will be like doesn't mean there won't be any. In the 1800's, 90% of people worked in agriculture. Tell anyone back at the time that in the 21st century it'd be < 2% and they'd freak out just like you are now.
>A tale of two viewpoints.

I think your links to China's "social credit" system have invited comments that derailed what this thread's submitted article is actually about.[1]

They are different situations and motivations.

The Chinese social rating is imposed from the top down on its citizens. It's possible most of them don't want it.

On the other hand, this particular article is about about tradespeople (think carpenters, freelance programmers, etc) that want to have a reputation -- so they are more marketable to potential clients. The problem for them is that their reputation karma is locked and controlled in a proprietary platform (e.g. Upwork, or AngiesList, etc). It's not portable.

The article discusses how tradespeople are unhappy that they can't get references from previous projects or a gig platform deletes their ratings.) She's saying there's a bottom up set of voluntary market desires and wondering if a technical solution can be developed for them. From those pain points, the author hypothesizes some ideas about decentralizated ownership of ratings.

Yes, the China ratings system is also an important human rights issue but that's a distraction from this particular article. They are not the same.

[1] The main point of the article starts halfway down with: "It was a radically different story for tradespeople. Their reputation data feels important to them, and they prefer to keep control over it. They preferred word of mouth reputation and recommendations, as there was no middleman who could take that away from them. Online platforms were seen as something to graduate away from once you had a sufficient “real world” presence. [...]"
What's the monetization plan?
Possibly a case of it being cheaper to break the rules.
I imagine the system could be given a bankruptcy outlet similar to credit ratings. There's definitely a balance here of reducing job-finding friction vs treating workers with poor work histories fairly. But I think the general argument that its outright oppressive is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
The spoon in a stream is more of a surface tension thing and the classic blowing air over a piece of paper is the coanda effect.

The total effects of newton's laws and bernoullis law on pressure differences need to. Be combined but the gist is that you create a force difference using the shape and angle of attack of the airfoil.

The use of this is really quite neat especially in a printer!
OK this is juvenile but I found it funny that after 250 epochs (https://emilwallner.github.io/html/250_epochs/) the AI just came up with busted HTML and:
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Because they pay near minimum wage for dangerous, temporary, hard work.

No sane person with any other options would take that trade
Thank you for this concise explanation. This doesn't seem insurmountable at all.
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Wow, judgmental much?

For some of us the "productivity" is the mental high you get from the workout. Honestly I just feel damn good. Lifting weights and cycling (yes even indoor) both are very enjoyable and give me a high equivalent to eating chocolate, sex, or other chemically rewarding activities. I pay for a personal trainer not because of the air conditioning, but because there is tens of thousands of dollars in equipment to help me train that I have no interest in buying myself.
The problem is a systemic issue, it goes way farther than the police.

The population distribution of Baltimore is based on a practice of redlining, where banks, real estate owners, and others conspired to literally confine black people to certain areas and restrict access to services. Though the original practice is now abolished, neighborhood boundaries and lack of access have not changed, and there are new forms of redlining (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Current_issues). This is one of the many reasons that there continues to be a quasi-segregation, endemic racism, and poverty in the city.

To me, the answer is quite clear: the government needs to break up the city. They need to force banks to give loans to people to provide businesses and services to African Americans. They need to break up neighborhoods so that there is a more even distribution of rich, middle class and poor, and less ethnic separation (Sandtown-Winchester, the neighborhood Freddie Gray was from, is 99% black). They need to provide better access to transportation throughout the city so people can get to jobs, schools, and social services without additional incumbents. They need to redirect the giant tax breaks going to local giants like Under Armor and use it to fund school lunches, increased teaching facilities/teachers, job education programs, and after school activities. There's a lot of shit that needs to be done to reduce the level of poverty, drugs, and violent crime.

Once that is done, and with increased wages, hopefully the police won't feel the need to take advantage of a broken society and vulnerable population.
Except when Excel won't manage nearly all the data. I'll sometimes use Igor Pro† before coding something up however.

† (only because I'm familiar with it - I'm positive there are better GUIs)
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Yea I have been involved in the community a bit. I had an open ticket about having multiple aframe windows on one website and it was closed.

I think I should have just had an aframe that was in the background that was not shown to the user instead .

The idea was to show search results for objects that could be 3D printed.
IntelliJ and a workspace based project will get you a modern IDE experience.
However don't expect a responsive edit/compile cycle, compilation times just doesn't scale for large projects, even with incremental compilation.
Linking against shared libraries for stable dependencies can help though.

No the ecosystem is not mature enough to get the "enterprise" libraries.
Wrappers to c/c++ libraries are often needed.
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Hmm interesting, that's a subtle change between gplv2 and v3 I was unaware of, thanks!

For completeness, GPLv3 has the following option available:

>c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord with subsection 6b.

Whilst the equivilent in v2 ( https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html ) is

> b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [next clause]

Which is a lot less restrictive over when you can use the written offer approach.
Same here, I have severe anxiety and reading the app description made my skin crawl.

To simulate a similar sense of uncontrolled urgency seems masochistic to me...
The main problem with "other toolkits" vs Electron apps is that they are not as simple to use in order to create a very good looking UIs. Compare how easy it is to use HTML and CSS in order to create a very complex UIs with all sort of effects vs how utterly complicated is to override, let's say, Qt's ::paint() method in order to achieve rich text inside a label. Let me repeat it. Rich text inside a label. Such a simple thing...
I wish self important mean nerds, who were abused in school, IRCed less. #python and #golang have become horrible, at least last I checked.
Planned obsolescence is the business model for most major electronics manufacturers today. Even non-"smart" devices are not really designed to be repaired (or upgraded).
The difference is that a secret police is used by a dictatorship to keep the dictator in power by systematically attacking the opposition and any grass roots movements.

Plainclothes detectives are simply police that are not in uniform ('undercover'), they are still part of the regular police force.
> that using a particular native OCaml web server with ReasonML is faster than compiling ReasonML to JS and using it with Node.

Faster considering the resources used (mem/cpu). Yups. Exactly that was my claim. Cohttp cannot beat Node, while a natively compiled OCaml server should be able to beat node.
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Joe Average can do a wide variety of vocational training programs, go to a technical/engineering college, join the military, or skip college and go straight into working if he so desires. It’s hardly the colleges’ fault that people show up who don’t really want to be there and “don’t give a shit” about the concept of liberal arts. What kind of future career does your imagined Joe Average aspire to?

Semi-skilled manufacturing jobs have mostly dried up because of automation, healthcare costs continue to skyrocket due to the financialization of the medical industry, and wages have been depressed by a range of policy changes that give more and more power and wealth to rentiers and capitalists at the expense of everyone else. I suppose as an alternative all the Joe Averages could get together and vote European-style socialists into office.
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Chrome has extension popups that kind of do this - they are pointed to the icon in the extension bar. Does Firefox have anything like that?
As a new immigrant to Toronto, Canada, many words caught me off guard. I speak English but I didn't know how to pronounce so many words.

Yonge Street is the longest street in North America. But how do you say it? Is it pronounced Yonjee or Yongay? Neither, it's Young.

Also, Quay is pronounced Key. There are dozens of other words like this.

I can't be the only one struggling with this, so I created this nifty little chrome extension for newcomers, visitors, immigrants and aspiring immigrants to Canada.
Will China send them help of any kind since they consider Taiwan a part of the country?
No, it would simply require solving a function dependent on the previous solution. Preferably more complex than double SHA.
I like your notion of a level playing field, but I think you're basically saying we should ignore past experience on other marketpalces because it favors people with an established track-record? Isn't someone with a proven track-record exactly the kind of person we want to favor?

Gig marketplaces come and go. If you spend 5 years working dozens of jobs a week to build up thousands of positive reviews only to have the marketplace go belly-up and now you have to start at zero, how do you think the gig economy can retain actual talent that expects to get paid well for their proven track-record?

Or put it another way:
I personally like the option of being able to pay more for people with a long history of positive reviews. I'm willing to pay much less to hire an untrusted worker. I don't think I'm alone. If everything starts at zero every few years, then all the wages reset to baseline every few years as well.

Sure let people start at zero, but also let them get paid like an untrusted worker.
And sure, let people bring over their experience. But let them get paid and charge like they have that experience.
Baltimore police were stealing drugs from Baltimore dealers and selling the stolen drugs to dealers in Philadelphia.

Hard to believe actions like that were taking place in the U.S. Sounds like something straight out of a Narcos episode.
> They require either segmented stacks, a precise GC

Which is _exactly_ what stackless coroutines and promises do in a very roundabout manner. Some languages are moving toward annotations to automate chaining, but the problem with having to explicitly annotate coroutines is that you no longer have (or can have) first-class functions; at best you now have multiple classes of functions that only interoperate seamlessly with their own kind, which is the opposite of first-class functions. Plus it's much slower than just using a traditional call stack.

Implementing transparently growable or moveable stacks can be difficult, yes. Solving C ABI FFI issues is a headache. And languages that stack-allocate variables but cannot easily move them are in a real pickle. Though, they can do as Go and only stack-allocate variables that don't have their address taken, and in any event that only applies to C++ and Rust. There's no excuse for all the other modern languages. Languages like Python and JavaScript don't have stackful coroutines because of short-sighted implementation decisions that are now too costly to revisit. Similarly, Perl 6 doesn't officially have them because they prematurely optimized their semantics for targets like the JVM where efficient implementations were thought to be difficult. (Moar VM implements stackful coroutines to support gather/take, which shows that it was simply easier to implement the more powerful construct in order to support the less powerful gather/take construct.)

If it were easy we wouldn't have stackless coroutines at all because they're objectively inferior in every respect, and absent external constraints (beholden to the C stack) can result in less memory usage and fewer wasted CPU cycles in both the common and edge cases. But both PUC Lua and LuaJIT do it properly and are among the fastest interpreted and JIT'd implementations, respectively, so I think the difficulty is exaggerated.

I understand why these other constructs exist, but I still think it's perverse. At some point we should just revisit and revise the underlying platform ABI so we can get to a place where implementing stackful coroutines is easier for all languages.

For example, the very same debugging information you might add to improve stack traces can be used by implementations to help, say, move objects. Make that mandatory as part of the ABI and a lot of cool things become possible, including easy reflection in compiled languages. DWARF is heavyweight and complex, but Solaris (and now FreeBSD and OpenBSD) support something called Compact C Type Format (CTF) for light-weight type descriptions, which shows how system ABIs could usefully evolve.

Newer languages shouldn't be tying themselves to incidental semantics from 40 years ago. Rather, they should be doing what hardware and software engineers were doing 40 years ago when they defined the primary semantics--properly abstract call stacks/call state into a first-class construct (i.e. thread of control), while simultaneously pushing the implementation details down so they can be performant.
There is an easy, quantifiable metric that uses this idea: the Brier score.

Essentially, if you make 100 predictions, the Brier score will measure how well you are able to make precise predictions. If you always estimate the odds that X will win to be 50/50, you won't do nearly as well as someone who correctly predicts the outcome each time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier_score
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Yeah, HTML in VR has been a big ask from a lot of the Web community. There is plenty of action happening there across the vendors. They are doing lots of thinking around security and such.

At the moment, we're not focused on the 2D Web in VR. We want to bring the best of the Web to VR, providing more content to VR users and allowing VR developers to easily publish. Looking more towards visually appealing and fully interactive content.

Layout in VR is feasible or perhaps even better without HTML/CSS, as is done in many of today's real-time experiences. We'll probably need to tweak the thinking around and create more tools for layout specifically for VR.
Until now Bitcoin has hardly been used for any transactions of things with a publicly acceptable value. There was a period of time when it was used for questionable items but even that's not the case anymore. I don't really see the point for Bitcoin at the moment and why anyone is planning to use it to facilitate exchange of goods in a large quantity - which is ultimately what money is for. So if that's not going to happen, even most of the current price is just bubble IMHO.
Japan has a declining population (due to low immigration, suicides, low birth rates, etc) which in effect has a negative impact on economic growth.
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I agree CF wishes to have it both ways. I think they should have never been the content police. Policing should be left to the police. Go after the host server and the criminals who set them up. Countries have IP and extradition agreements for exactly this sort of thing.

CF is closer to an ISP than something like FB because CF only provides the pipes. It's literally providing an internet service. I'm aware they haven't legally earned that distinction, but from a logical perspective - mirroring a server is nothing like providing a social networking platform.
...which should make you think long and hard about what people are being forced back into now that this avenue of work is cut off.
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IBM: About those voluntary redundancies … just kidding
> ultimately the lost crops are a result of a bad business decision by the farmers to rely on an an undocumented underpaid labor force without thinking there would ever be any repercussions.

Possibly, but it may also depend on how much the current political climate could have been foreseen. The reality is that it's been the status quo for decades, and there's been clemency for illegal immigrants that grants citizenship in the past.

Ultimately while it ended up being a bad decision, it might have been one that was considered an extremely safe one until everything changed. Sort of like buying a car with the assumption you'll still have a job next year. If you needed a car then it might have been good decision until all of a sudden it really wasn't.
I've lived here for ~4 years, which is not a long time, but anecdotally, every other taxi or uber driver has given me an earful of their opinion on regulation (or lack of).

If I were a taxi driver 5 years ago, I would have began driving for Uber and potentially looking for other career paths and finding opportunities to invest. I think there are a lot of people who come over with families and poor language skills and taxi driver is the obvious job. I really would not want to be a person in that position.

Yes, I absolutely think that whether or not it was Travis Kalanick or any other tech entrepreneur rolling the initial die, but that it's inevitable that in 10 years we're going to press a button on our phone and a self-driving car will pick us up with less people owning vehicles. It was a great idea that was going to succeed unless it was deliberately quashed. The concept of a taxi driver will be memory in 20 years from now.
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The other issue is that a lot of these sorts of applications like Slack started life as a web app. In that case, your options are use Electron or build a new desktop application from the ground up.
This an interesting A -> B -> C transition. It was coherent, until the last sentence.
The attack was a buffer overflow on handling objects in the "saved item" area at the top. By manipulating objects as done in the video, one can set RAM up as needed to construct the "program". Then when the overflow is executed, it jumps to the invalid place in memory, thus executing the code you seeded.

This is also done in Pokemon Yellow with a link cable. The last time I saw this being done, a TAS hacker was able to inject a TCP stack over the link cable, and build an IRC client on top, and chat using the game boy.

And I realize that's not the immediate action that bug has, regarding kill(-1). But I've seen what people thought were innocuous bugs that ended up being "gimmee root" kind of bugs.
Yep. Been living here for around 12-13 years and it's definitely a mixed bag. Plenty not to like about it, but that can be said for many cities with the sort of history as this one. Not planning to move anytime soon (partly because I love living close to work and partly because it's a relatively affordable city compared to some others in the region. Suburbs aren't for me and I guess on some Sisyphean level, I don't like the idea of just moving because it's got problems. When the only people who don't flee to the 'burbs are those who are unable, you get issues like this city's been seeing for years.
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QT is amazing, it has been around so long and there even is a photoshop to qml exporter [1] that helped us make this dashboard for my Universitys formula hybrid team in [2] [3]. It really did not take too long and the performance is amazing on the Pi. I highly recommend QT, and there are amazing bindings for languages. I am looking forward to trying this out!

[1] https://github.com/qt-labs/photoshop-qmlexporter
[2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D733SdbUvGsGvct8jdGqJ3R9iJ...
[3] https://github.com/UVicFH/infotainment