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> If the state used that argument, it wouldnt be able to run lotteries

Lotteries are transparently run by the state as negative-sum games.
> Not all AI researchers are stakeholders in Uber, Waymo, or Tesla, hence you would select those people to investigate

Think if this would work in finance: asking JP Morgan people to investigate the Barclays Libor scandal. Smart people understand that a scandal against one of their peers will taint them also.

Do you hear today Google/Amazon/.... or other big private data hoarders makeing noise against Facebook? The one which spoke, Apple, doesn't have and rely on private data as much.

I would say that a serious ethics panel would have opposed the way Facebook handles private data, in a way that engineers working on them don't. Because engineers didn't study ethical/political problems of the past, and they don't understand how being lax with this can cause harm.

BTW, in all universities, doing studies on humans/animals requires first getting approval from an Ethics comitee. Googling now a bit I see that they have people from all faculties - Engineering, Humanities, Law, ... So universities, which give those AI PhDs consider that it's valuable to have a diverse ethics panel, not just one composed of Engineering professors if they meet to discuss an engineering experiment ethics.
But let me return to the basics, what prevents you from coding like this (with preventing the "horrible" nulls by #define NULL CNull) in C++? I can see another language emerging which is giving the value (if I understood you correctly) by giving you less flexibility (for the value of beeing type safe, which is perfectly acomplishable in c++ too - it reminds me of java and destructors, where they used a bunch of workarounds, coz "we don't need destructors, we have garbage colector") while on the other hand same thing can be accomplished with the existing language having huge platform support not to mention that the new language is using it to actually even exist. doesn't it make it a better choice to create librust (or even rust*.hpp) instead of creating something completely new?

(again downvoted by 4 :D :D What a coincidence :D :D guys, you are seriously having a problem :D :D :D)
The more comments I read on here the more it seems people have only read the headline, or have only a surface level grasp of the content, without really understanding what the author is saying.

"The End of Windows" = "The End of Windows as the core foundation of the various Microsoft divisions/services/apps"

It does not mean the end of Windows as an important part of Microsoft...at all.

Rather it's about decoupling Windows from the rest of the other divisions to reflect the reality of today's non-PC centric world where Window's is merely one client among other mobile/cloud/AI/IoT/etc clients.

As others have pointed out, the perfect example is how Ballmer didn't want to release Office for iPad until Windows had a touch screen version to compete with it. It means more flexibility for both the company and for Windows, which is win-win for Microsoft consumers and Windows users.
You need to read the rest of the Wikipedia article you quoted withoit attribution, and he recognize that a frequent use of “populism” without qualifiers is to refer more specifically to authoritarian populism, particularly emergent authoritarian populism built around a mythologized virtuous people opposed by an equally mythologized evil “elite” (which often is not an actual elite, just a recognizable group around whom a conspiracy theory of behind-the-scenes power has been constructed.)
As of Spring Creators Update (coming any time this month) both curl and bsdtar are present in the base Windows install. On my Insiders build 17133.1, curl 7.55.1 and bsdtar 3.3.2 are both present in C:\Windows\System32.

The problem is that PowerShell 5.x still maintains the "curl" Invoke-WebRequest alias, and that captures `curl` on the PS command line before curl.exe out of the path. However this (and a bunch of other *nix-conflicting aliases) are removed with PowerShell Core, and annoying aliases can be deleted out of the Alias:\ PS-drive on PS 5.x and older.
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That is such a sad quote. Just depressing in every way.
Given the amount of evidence you presented, how could anyone refute your opinion?

OP raised a valid argument - Apple's QC has been crap lately and trending downwards. There's a lot of feedback out on the net to support that line of thinking.
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I'm not a chip designer either, but IIRC, the current architectures are actually something similar, whereas the CISC is broken down into custom RISC-ish instructions by a HW layer, which is then executed by the RISC-ish cores.

And while it might be doable (x64 and ARM on the same chip), I think it might not be a smart decision, since some things will not function correctly or will have to be redone (e.g. speculative execution).

I don't know either architectures on a deep understanding level (x64 or ARM), but I have a feeling that there should be some big architectural changes that would prevent x64 code to run on ARM natively.
Anyone want to comment the fact that facebook/twitter etc being blocked in a few countries? Are they smart? Did they foresee all this coming?
1440p is a resolution for gaming, not work.

You can get 24" 4k (2160p) 180ppi 60Hz for $300 e.g. LG 24UD58.
Empathy and self-control have been the internal enforcers of the civilizing process, a process of which many peoples across the world are constantly struggling with, and the nature of Facebook is such that those internal enforcers are broken down with such swiftness that our current situation is inevitable.

The mantra of "move fast and break things" has driven us off a cliff, where our moral backbone is what has been broken.
Those are multi-core numbers, not the single-core numbers.

What do you think is the most important for 250million desktop users? Because the vast majority of them are sitting idle waiting for interaction tasks, like on your system now.
The proof of the opposite is easier than that. That phrase implies it should be illegal to give stock to employees.
Yes, the whole industry is filled to the brim with pricks. But the issue I have always had with Ticket Bastard isn't so much the fees, since that is just a matter of honesty in pricing, but in being able to buy tickets at all.

When I was younger, you dialed the phone number. If you wanted tickets to a particular show, you had to know what time the tickets first went on sale. Then you started calling in, madly hanging up and redialing the instant you heard the busy signal. Fifteen minutes later, they told you the show was sold out.

Now, you madly hit F5, and when the sale goes live, you try to choose seats and buy tickets through the website. The site always stalls out somewhere in the process and boots you back to the main page, dumping all your session details. By the time you finally get to the payment page, all the tickets have gone to the bots.

Eventually, you learn to just not bother with stadium shows. Traveling to the venue on the mere possibility that one might be able to pay at the gate and get in, rather than having a guaranteed seat ahead of time, is for young people and fools. Big names simply don't play venues in my town, since none of them are big enough for their giant tour with two or three opening acts and enough traveling stage gear to ground a C-130. I'd be driving at least 90 minutes, and probably 2 hours or more. And that possibly means hotel rooms and days off from work--the show is the centerpiece of a bona fide trip. If you can't get tickets, what's the point? You might as well stay home, with your nice, cushy chair and over-the-ear headphones.

Or you could support local bands and local venues, as they have much greater need for your money. They don't have that studio polish on their sound, but you can actually get in to hear them play.
The post is up.
> Geekbench 4 scores are calibrated against a baseline score of 4000 (which is the score of an Intel Core i7-6600U)

https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks

> iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2017) | Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2 GHz (4 cores) | 5683

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

> iPhone 8 | Apple A11 Bionic @ 2.4 GHz | 4217

4217 for Apple A11 @ 2.4Ghz vs 5683 for Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2GHz

Of course, microbenchmarks don't mean much. But the margins are thin enough for users to notice already. Add in more power, more cores, more Ghz, better optimized instruction set, more vertically integrated system, and who knows.
That's exactly what you should do when you see a vulnerability. "Internet" "businesses" has proven that they don't understand kind words. Take all those lawsuits, or promises thereof, and shove.

Do this until they plead mercy. Are they? No they aren't yet!
For performance. They can outcompete against others by moving to bespoke hardware. My iphone x cpu is ~ 13” MBP in performance, which is bonkers.
The narrative (whether correct or incorrect) is that Bitmain tried to block an extension because it would disable a feature in their hardware that was saving them tens to hundreds of millions of dollars per year on electricity.

That has nothing to do with patents, it's (supposedly) an advantage they had over the competition, of course they are going to defend that advantage.

Patents for mining hardware though are unenforceable overall. The problem is that lots of private mining farms exist, and nothing is stopping one from developing a chip that is in violation of many patents, but then never releasing the hardware publicly. There would be no way to tell that the patent is being violated, especially because mining is more or less anonymous in the first place.
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I sent this to Krebs and Troy shortly after uploading it.
I understand what you're saying, I'm just more cynical about old media than you are. Technically old media in the 80s could have theoretically expressed unique opinions that didn't toe the company line of the wealthy establishment, they just coincidentally never did. Now many of them are owned by the same company and use the same language.
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People said that about Facebook as well and yet now its super profitable.

Not disagreeing with what you say; I would be very interested in a side by side analysis of FB and SNAP to see why one succeeded and one is struggling.

Perhaps one main reason is simply that FB is aggressively trying to kill SNAP whereas FB itself didn't have that kind of a determined opponent.
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Holy hell. Are the grants massive?
curl is out of box with the next Win10 release expected this month (version 1803) but still not present for older releases or older versions of Windows.

By the way, do the Windows builds of gron automatically recognize and support UTF-16? If anyone does try piping curl output in PowerShell, that's what gron would receive -- PS automatically converts stdout and stderr output to UTF-16 because of its use of .NET String for stream I/O.
I think you meant to say "coördinate". :^) I've been a subscriber for almost two decades now. If I had to subscribe to just one magazine, The New Yorker would be it.

The article I'm currently reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the...
How will you handle bots that just keep channels open yapping about nothing?
yeah its hard to say... I would imagine most companies could create new stock to sale in order to cover the costs? I was mostly thinking about creating liquidity for those who want to sell existing stock, more than raising from sale of new stock .
I think the issue with using lead is not that it would have a lower neutron multiplication, but that it wouldn't moderate the neutrons as effectively. I think this would force the reactor to be larger to keep the neutron dose on the magnets within limits.

A process based on binding of Li ions to crown ethers could probably be developed for Li enrichment.
Indeed, while it is in vogue to label "Caucasians" and "males" as oppressors in modern Marxist parlance, the same mechanism is used to justify genocide in other parts of the world.

Judging people for what they are rather than what they do is the stuff only the likes of Hitler and Stalin can dream up.
I would add, when mixing money and friends/family is unavoidable absolutely insist on a well worded contract. I know many people think that this is some sort of taboo among people you are close to, but it is essential all parties are very clear about what to expect from one another once money enters the picture.

It doesn't guarantee a trouble free time, but it at least avoids the tragic and very common "miscommunications".
I don't need to “hope” for anything. All I have to do is document the program's preconditions.
Interesting:

- mentions military application without further comment, then dwells on elder care

- 21:05 robotics platform like "the android of robotics"

- 38:50 struggling with safety

- 48:00 "Im sure we will use learning before too long" Im surprised they arent using a lot of machine learning here.
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Rome had more than one tier of member of society, (eg citizen and non citizens) you could tie social benefits to certain social performance expectations such as military service, length of residency. I am not advocating open boarders or a multi tier citizen status structure merely showing possible solutions.
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A container has to be 1, but can be 2
I was also reminded of one: http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-source-group-anno...
... didn't know this was an April 1st tradition though
Not sure why you're being downvoted for bringing up a valid point. Though I'd argue the reason is more that stopping at human level is a hard optimization to hit.

Once there's a way to train a general intelligence it's likely hard to contain the improvement - that's why the goal alignment problem is important. Even the current human architecture running at a billion operations per second instead of its current 100 or so would be a problem.

Human general intelligence is constrained by things like power consumption available via eating or needing a head that can fit out of a birth canal - AGI constraints are a lot less limiting and AGI can improve faster.
I would __much__ rather have TWO 1080p or 1920x1200 displays than a single 4K display. For me, the quantity of visible 'glass' matters most. It's surprisingly difficult to drive double 4K monitors.

Maybe as the price comes down and more transistors end up in basic chipsets we'll see 2 and 3 heads of 4K displays become common.
I think there is a difference between a core developer of Nim (me) trying to raise some awareness, by showing how easy it is to achieve what the article achieves in Nim, vs. a random developer proclaiming "Why haven't you written this in Rust?".

Isn't that what the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce is known for?
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Anything to get more competition in that market is greatly appreciated. Intel products have become a massive disappointment.
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> Second, while Apple's mobile processors are currently the best in ARM world, for "pro" desktop computers Apple needs desktop-grade processor. Making something comparable to i7 isn't such an easy and cheap job.

Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Cavium have created very powerful ARM chips for non-mobile application. Apple definitely has the chip architects, the money, and the experience to do such a thing.
Not even! The baseline of reasoning is to avoid sickness. Sickness is an uncomfortable thought, so some prefer to ignore it.

Which leads me to the paranoid thought that severe costs of some procedures are a tax on illness. Well, illness is taxing itself, so, by syllogism, that wouldn't even be absurd.
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> I think sqlx is good enough for most

sqlx is nice but I wish it had query logging.
http://neverhttps.com is my go-to. Looks like there are plenty of other good suggestions as well :)
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Humans make the decisions, and humans make mistakes.. Humans don't always "get" all the context for every issue. Do you really expect perfection for every judgment? There are anecdotes for every scenario, and they don't accurately portray the general case or the intent.
You're required by to set up systems to ensure accounting information can not be tampered with, even if people tampering with accounting information isn't considered to be a high risk. To make it more concrete, it means you can't push to master any more in a git repository to fix some botched merge because, it happens to deal with revenue in some tiny corner of it's functionality and every change has to be approved by multiple people
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This has less to do with Sarbanes-Oxley than you might think. The real shift is how much money is chasing very low returns. When 4% over inflation starts looking great companies don't need to go public to access billions in capital.
> That phrase implies it should be illegal to give stock to employees

Not necessarily. I identified three asymmetries for which capital matters: the costs of diligence, negotiation and keeping up on corporate actions. Employees gain an insider advantage in respect of the first and last. In respect of the second, employee stock options contracts are--relatively speaking--on the regulated end of the private markets. (Despite that, employees still get screwed on a regular basis[1].)

There is also the forced savings component. If an executive saving 30% of their salary were considering a start-up job with a 30% pay cut, the cut is 100% a speculative move. To a middle manager saving 1%, on the other hand, part of the difference can be explained as forced savings. Those forced savings may outweigh the speculative downsides of the position.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-12-23/good-tech...
I fail to see how that makes it any better.
That’s the business model of Cambridge Analytica nowadays!

https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
I want it to not hang forever, not spam the console with pages of exception tracebacks, and not require a ton of boilerplate process-management code to accomplish the above. Ideally it would also allow me to handle other exceptions (i.e. besides KeyboardInterrupt) that occur both in the main process and child processes. I've never figured out how to do this with multiprocessing, despite lots of attempts.
I imagine a lot of folks declared it in their profile without knowing it would be shared and they probably declared to try to have a more positive experience over having one dreaded discussion after another. I think those folks have reason to be upset.
Based on the first line of this comment being "Software engineers of all kinds", would it be correct to conclude that this service is still limited only to software engineering (coding) jobs?