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>My expectations are being set for radical transformation across most areas of technology in the next decade or two

As someone who as lived through most of the last four decades, this seems like a very reasonable expectation. I mean, this maybe wasn't obvious to people who weren't born into the IT industry, but to me? the '90s seemed to have a 'holy shit, this changes everything!" moment every few years. (Of course, some things stay the same. UNIX is older than I am, as is c, and both are recognizable and ubiquitous today.) - and I think as the aughts rolled around, those 'holy shit, this changes everything!' moments became, ah, more evenly distributed. More of this new tech touched the lives of ordinary people in obvious ways.

> on the basis of current developments in this area.

This part... I think that you have to understand that the way we talk about technological change is functionally science fiction. Yes, yes, it's very likely that the high rate of change maintained over the last few decades will continue and even continue to accelerate.[1] but I personally treat claims of where tech will be in 10 years as functional science fiction. A lot like how I treat predictions of what sectors of the stock market will be where in ten years. Yes, the market as a whole will probably go up... but to say you know the winners and losers ten years out? that's... a strong claim.

So yeah, saying "there will be revolutionary changes in the next decade!" is fine, and probably right. there were revolutionary changes last decade. And, hell, you could say that ML and similar have already given us revolutionary changes this decade. Arguing that ML will give us revolutionary changes next decade? well, maybe... but it looks more like Delphi than C to me, if you know what I mean. (Of course, I'm IT; I operate, manage and maintain infrastructure; I'm no programming expert. so take that how you will.)

[1]the counterpoint here is moore's law. Your compute per dollar is not getting massively better over time the way it was in the 80s through the 00s. I mean, it's still trending towards better, but not nearly as fast as it was. The difference between the compute power of available compute resources in 1980 and 2000 is gong to be dramatically greater than the difference between the compute power of available compute resources from 2000 to 2020. This means that if you want to make predictions, you can't rely as much on computers being more powerful in the future.
Chinese demand and Chinese car markets may not mean the same thing. Isn't China planning to assemble and sell batteries to European car manufacturers?
Thing that saddens me is this article goes to great lengths to talk about the economic impact on the state, without so much as try and pinpoint the REASON they have such a huge problem with opioids.

This is the only paragraph on one of the probable causes:

In 2012, then-state Attorney General Darrell McGraw filed lawsuits against more than a dozen drug wholesalers, accusing the companies of fueling West Virginia’s drug problem by shipping an excessive number of pain pills to the state. The lawsuit alleged that the drug problem cost the state $430 million a year, and projected that those costs would rise to $695 million by 2017.

So they're suing drug companies not because an excessive amount of people are dying, it's because it's costing the state $600+ million?

- How about pumping a few billion into treatment centers so people have a way out instead of jumping from pain pills to heroin to fentanyl and then ODing on fentanyl?

- How about pumping a few billion dollars into finding and developing new methods to combat chronic pain? This would include alternative methods and such things like CBD oils or making medicinal marijuana legal in all 50 states?

- How about imposing stricter limits on what doctors can prescribe or just banning the drugs all together?

- How about making billions of federal money available to states to try give them additional resources to combat the root problem instead of just adding more police officers to put non-violent addicts in jail?

There's so many things we could be doing and yet, nobody is really doing anything about it. As soon as you start talking about this as an economic issue, you totally lose me. This is about real people and you shouldn't be concerned about the economic impact to your state, since that's not the root of the cause. Fix the root causes (there are many) and those economic issues will fix themselves.
I buy what you are saying but that particular gas engine is 330 HP.
>> There's only a contradiction if you insist on simplistic binary thinking. (Either translation works or it doesn't. Machine learning will either solve everything or is useless garbage.)

I'm sorry, but I don't see where in my comment it looks like I'm saying anything like that.

>> Instead, we can acknowledge that Google Translate has reached a useful level of skill (enough to usually get the gist of an article), but not enough to be fully reliable, accurate translation.

Hofstadter's article actually argues that Google Translate is not enough to get the gist of many passages, probably all non-trivial ones.
The more free market and free trade an economy is, the more it is able to produce.

Recall I mentioned that the US in the 1800s, for example, was the biggest free market and free trade zone in the world. It's hard to argue with the incredible results of that.
And a separate user account, otherwise they can just connect to the original X server. (And on almost all existent Linux systems, either running as a separate user isn't trivial or the sandboxing process has root.)
I'm genuinely curious - what is this mindset supposed to accomplish?
I don't think we can confidently say that chemical and biological weapons have seen almost zero development in the last 100 years. We can say as far as we know that's the case, but we also don't have a very compelling reason for knowing.

The development of these types of weapons is going to be highly secretive, and not just because of the Geneva convention. Absolutely nothing has gone on in the world in the last 100 years that might tempt the deployment of advanced chemical or biological weapons on any sort of scale. Naturally we haven't seen them used.

I also don't see how burying our head in the sand is going to help on this one. At least compared to nuclear weapons, projects on these weapons could be useful for defensive purposes. Everybody is working more or less within the same confines and rules, and I wouldn't be surprised if relatively similar developments were the result. Even if they aren't, the characterization of these weapons can be used to inform and guide the response plans to try to minimize damage in the case of an attack.
Do you remember which paper/article ?
Other people talk about the power, but there is also the fact that lots of actuators want more voltage to work with. So, any motor, servo, solenoid, relay, etc. works much better at higher voltages.

In addition, it is also much easier to convert between high voltages because your transformer/inductor connected to your semiconductor switches is so much smaller.
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>Issuing fines has always been and will continue to be, a last resort. Last year (2016/2017) we concluded 17,300 cases. I can tell you that 16 of them resulted in fines for the organisations concerned.

That's very disappointing.
It also makes sense if you watch SpongeBob SquarePants.

There's quite a lot happening in Bikini Bottom. For example you can see a "pretty pineapple" down there. And I haven't watched enough episodes to be sure, but doubtlessly someone has fallen down a well.
> My advice would be start with stack and hpack

Interesting. I would advice to start with plain cabal. One has to learn how to deal with cabal anyway, so there's no point adding stack on top of it from the start.
I like Emerson's Circles essay. It's helped me maintain some humility many times.

Kant's CI for ethics.

Tao Te Ching for perspective and focus.

Nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg for confrontation and interpersonal communication. The concept of NVC and, through its negation, violent communication underscores so much of what's currently going on in the world.
A basic lack of fundamental understanding has caused the author to quickly fall into an expertly laid trap by marketers that seek to equate 48 volt systems with some sort of "green, hybrid, clean" spirit, leading to such bizarre statements like "The advantages of the new 48-volt systems are considerable. They offer fuel economy improvements of up to 15 percent"

Of course it's all about saving a few dollars on copper.
My son has a tested IQ of 160, which is 4 standard deviations away from average intelligence. He's certainly gifted, but when you interact with him, you just know he's definitely not a genius by any means (maybe he just had a good day when he tested).

I contrast him to a few geniuses that I've met, who just seem to see the world at a different level. They are stunning in how intelligent they are, but more importantly how completely immersed in a particular topic they are. One such genius was a friend who was a programming guru. He was entirely self-taught and came up with things that were like magic to me. We would talk about ideas and the next day he worked one of the ideas all night and literally made software magic. Sadly, he committed suicide a few years ago, due to a lot of the internal demons he had in him. I'm really hoping to avoid a situation like this with my son, making sure he's emotionally balanced is my number one concern and focus.
We certainly need exploration for new supply. I think major shortage is 10+ years out. I wouldn't replay Erlich/Simons bet any time soon.
Hi

Charging for access to your API is possible with Tyk Pro, including the free edition.

Approach:
Setup API in dashboard
Create policies for the API (encapsulate rate limit, quota, access rights into something like bronze, silver, gold, etc)
Publish policies to Developer Portal
Use dashboard to Select a custom flow for policy access approval.
Point that flow at your billing platform, stripe or whatever.

Now when a developer reaches your portal and requests access to one of your policies, you collect the data you want and hand them off to stripe to confirm payment for that policy, then the callback from stripe allows portal to issue access to the policy.

All about the policies - Hope that helps.

James
Eh... that's the voice of one regulator and you never know who may decide to be more draconian with the regulations. My suggestion is to read it yourself and think carefully about the various data protection and portability requirements. IMO, all it takes is a small band of trolls who want to harm your company to start to cause problems. Here's a clear way to read through it: https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/index.htm
I will never understand the voter who is frustrated with a lack of support from their government and thinks the party most likely to help them is the one that advocates for dismantling the social safety net.
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Thanks for confirming. Getting back to the issue of using Github as a source of truth for deployment, that's got a host of issues besides reliance on SHA1, but I appreciate the reasoned response to the issues surrounding the hash itself as well. Appreciated!
I just installed this today on a Windows machine, and it's working great so far:

https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/
>>> "None of these shortcomings is likely to be solved soon."

>> There's no evidence for this, and I think it underestimates the large and well-funded machine learning community.

Well- deep learning has been around for a few decades now. LeCun's LeNet-5 is already 20 years old. LSTM is 21 (from the Hochreiter and Schmidhuber paper). Those are the two best-known today architectures, but work on deep nets goes way back to the '80s.

So those are old algorithms and techniques and they've had the same limitations for 20+ years. What makes them "likely to be solved soon" now?
I used Pidgin once and it worked fine on Windows and Linux.

So instead of one universal client, one requires Skype, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts/Allo/Duo. (I don't use iOS but Apple have their own, I guess)

Thus if anyone wants to contact me, stay old school and use SMS or email! :)
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I did finish it, and I thought the introduction to monads more helpful than anything else I'd come across, as it's focused on the practical use of them.

LYAH is not for everyone, but that also means it's not bad for everyone, either. There's more than one way to teach computer languages.
I think the real reason for this stance is that it imposes a sense of discipline that wouldn't otherwise be there. When you write a library like this one, you're always tempted to overengineer it... maybe it needs to render .PDFs (or render to them)? Wouldn't it be nice if it supported various OS clipboards? How about supporting both OpenGL and DirectWhatever and that homebrew software renderer that you wrote a few years ago? And wow, it sucks to build complex interfaces by aggregating C function calls. Lua support would only take a few more KLOCs, right? ...

And before you know it, you're reinvented Qt. NTTAWWT, I guess, but if you set out to build a lightweight set of GUI controls for a specific purpose, you probably had a different goal in mind, and that's not the way to accomplish it.

In my own work I frequently include stb libraries in separate .c(pp) files that provide a somewhat higher-level C or C++ interface to the features I need, which are then linked in the traditional way with .obj files and minimal headers. This approach works well, maintaining encapsulation and keeping compile times down while avoiding dragging in a ton of random dependencies.
You could, of course, do machine checks of some subset of "can generate syntactically correct English" -and that would cut out a whole lot more bad programs than 'can you write MacBeth.'

but- even when you pass that test, you will have a nearly infinite number of marcov-chain generators and similar programs to sort through.

My point is that if you want to solve a program by generating random code, you need machine-executable fitness test.

We don't have a machine-executable test for consciousness. The Turing test relies on the intuition of humans, and we have a very finite supply of that.
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The tone of this article feels very different to the words she’s saying.
Store applications are not the only applications on Windows 10. Closing holes in store applications alone does not close all the holes.
Dorothy Dunnetts 'nicolo' series of bodice-ripper historical fiction has its roots in the discovery of Tolfa (alum) mines and the impact on the dye industry. The clue to location being (amongst other things) holly and a differential preference for alum rich soil. I guess in some sense remote sensing for vegetation and then focussed analysis has deep deep roots.

Interesting that lithium sources are going to rock. I thought the saltpan stuff in the Atacama was a price beater for years to come. I also believe the various rare earth dependencies are determined not to get caught behind China as a sole source.
Rather than the Therac-25 debacle, I would more recommend looking into the Toyota 'unintended acceleration' case. And the legal fallout from that. Because it is terrifying. Toyota was essentially as grossly negligent as it is possible to be. And the result? The court said there existed no standards they could be held legally liable for violating. So your self driving car? It will be developed by junior developers hired as cheaply as possible, driven like slaves by business-oriented managers who only care about meeting schedules, not given the tools or information needed to do an effective job, with testing time cut short and any claimed 'industry standards' for safe coding ignored. The automotive industry had 90+ coding practices they list as either 'required' or 'recommended'. Toyota followed 4 of those in their code. And the court said this was OK. Do you think Toyota spent tens or hundreds of millions of dollars rebuilding their entire development infrastructure, hiring more competent software engineers, firing the business managers who got people killed by rushing an unsafe product to market, and putting the engineers in charge of all future decisions regarding scheduling and release? No, of course not. If anything, they probably saw it as carte blanche to make things worse.
There's a while that I can't find intero in melpa.org anymore. Do you know if it moved?
Small world! I grew up in Surfside (from 1991 until I left for college in 2003).
Is a separate user account necessary if the Xauthority cookie is shadowed in the sandbox? I think firejail's nested X server setup works this way, without a separate user account.
At one particular RPM.
One thing I don't know is: Is this a law? Is there judicial oversight? Is there judicial approval first?

If this is something that a motivated executive can apply unilaterally, it's bad.

If this is something that can only be applied after a judicial system rules on compliance and gives you the opportunity to fix the issue, then it's probably okay.
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Permmissions dialogs for rare dangerous behaviors I think can work. You have to do it like apple does it although, not like android.

Like how often does software need to do screenshots, not many. Same with most other app permissions. Most only need network access and a folder.
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I believe it's because people don't want handouts, they want an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Not an unreasonable demand. I would say based on US Puritan cultural roots, and how our capitalistic system works, it would be a necessity.
Let me make this very clear: real population growth is not decelerating; it is holding quite steady. The rate (i.e. percent) of population growth is what is decreasing (and very slowly, at that). But we are still adding an additional billion humans every 12 years.

With 7.6 billion humans already on the planet, the idea that "depopulation" could become a problem is utterly laughable. Four billion people could die tomorrow and the world population would only be set back 50 years. 90% of the human population could be wiped out, and there would still be 760m people in the world; hardly a crisis, unless you think that depopulation was a risk in 1760. Remember that Malthus first sounded the alarm on overpopulation in 1799, when there were "only" 1 billion people.
I don't think you give people enough credit. There are a lot of people who view those "pointless bad jobs" as opportunities and who can and will work hard to make the most of them. Not defending the abusive practices of companies, but who are you to decide whether someone else' job is pointless and bad?

When I was in college a sociology class showed a video on factory conditions in china in the early 2000s. The point of the video (and class) was that companies are evil and will exploit you with terrible jobs with no path for advancement etc

The work conditions were terrible, but people chose to work in those jobs. They moved from rural homes with little economic opportunity and ended up contributing to one of the greatest periods of economic growth and wealth creation in history

I know very little about china and am not defending workplace abuses, but for many people those terrible jobs were opportunities that paid off for them
Sounds good. I too have a 3d graphics playground app if you're interested

https://github.com/billsix/hurtbox
> Should anything at all run in the host OS?

Isn't that equivalent to saying that the set of available kernel calls should be more restricted?

(User mode is a kind of sandbox, after all)
I don't think China is the only winner of Free Trade here. China did have a large surplus, but isn't that most of the profits go to American and European companies? Why that money wasn't going back to America is a myth itself.

After three decades of industrialization, China's environment undergoes tragic damage, and the country gradually loses the ability to feed itself. Today China imports more than 20% of its food supply. As the aging workforce retires, China's future outlook is not very bright. I hope you understand, not all the grass is green in China.
I'm worried about machine learning taking over corporate management. Optimizing for shareholder value is a goal a machine learning system can work on.
This article is addressing sandboxed applications.

Regular applications, yes, you can pretty much do whatever in userspace in Win/Mac/X11. If you're going to create a new sandbox environment for applications (Windows Store/MacOS store) in today's world, it really needs to be locked down with explicit permissions for each type of I/O access.
It's always been 48V. The problem has been a chicken and egg sort of thing. Its expensive to have both 12 and 48, but you can't go full 48 unless you can source all components for that voltage. Suppliers didn't really commit because there were no real customers.
>I checked, at least a website can't just read from the clipboard. At least in theory

AFAIK the logic is that any user initiated event (click, keystroke, touch, etc) allows the page to see (and modify) clipboard contents for that instance. So if you accidentally click in a rogue page, it's possible for your clipboard contents to be stolen.
And here i still find myself preferring OMini set for single column, as it also strips out all the "modals" and JS bloat found on this "modern" web of yours.

As for editing videos or such on a mobile device, bah humbug. The interface is not there in any more than the most rudimentary way. If anything it has regressed unless one happen to have a Galaxy Note, as fingers simply do not offer the precision.
I pour a lot into retirement because I don't want my final days to be a time of financial hardship or to be a burden on my children.

Today, I can easily move around, feed/wash myself, and but that won't be true forever. Putting money away for later gives me some measure of confidence I'll be able to pay someone to help me when the time comes.
Here here. Training an algorithm to mimic prior knowledge. The prior knowledge is inherently there. It's like the inflationary claims for QC which depend on demonstrated factorisation to a known product of primes: it's not magic when you seek to minimise error to a known goal but you have to know the goal.
Just because I don't think it's desirable for me to be alive 300 years from now doesn't mean I don't think it's desirable for me to be alive right now.
I don't use Google Talk, so I don't know how accurate the article is.

But if it's at all true, it should become an HBS case study in how to destroy a community and how not to write software.
Yeah i am more excited about the AR glasses Intel recently unveiled than anything VR.

But in the end the problem with be battery life...
Yup, hoping to have one's frozen corpse reanimated in a few centuries is completely the same thing as eating food. You got me there.
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I think it’s 50 VDC that is considered HV. Any equipment we buy at work 50 VDC and over requires NRTL (i.e. UL) certification. Also interlocks and safety boxes when working on circuit.
> Nobody is worse off if new sources of employment are made available.

Sometimes yes and sometimes we are all worse, specially if the source of employment is the cause of a massive oil spill.

> "predatory businesses" are going to be completely at odds with the ideas behind "their jobs are pointless"

Again, not always. A "pointless company" (or government agency), however efficient, will always be full of people doing pointless jobs.
What US govt investments are you referring to?
For me it would be Fedora using Gnome
>It's not just helpful, it's a requirement.

It wasn't a requirement for the US -- itself a very protectionist country until well into becoming a superpower.