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You comments don't receive any refutation because they make vague unfalsifiable claims.

You claim you have invented an AGI, but won't show anyone.

I say you are making it up. Falsify that.
Government is not intrinsically bad. It can be a tool by which powerless people can get together in large numbers and overcome a small number of powerful people. Of course, the few powerful people will try to distort the democratic process for their own benefit.

You seem to think that the rich minority will always win out. But sometimes the poor majority can change the system. For example in the USA in the Great Depression, and after WW2, government tended to favor the working classes much more than it does now.
Well, it's worse than a bubble. It's a genuine mass-scale shortage of housing. I don't think housing prices will crash down anytime soon based on all the pent up demand. But, much of it depends on how much hiring Google and other companies decide to do. If they keep hiring, Real estate will continue to go up.
It's give and take. Maybe not "do what you love no matter what" but "try and do something you at least like" is still good advice. If you force yourself to do something you hate just because you think you'll make money not only will you spend your life miserable, but you also likely won't be terribly successful because it's hard not to burn out.

Said differently, making money matters and should be considered, but it should not override all other factors when choosing a career.
Science fiction has always been amazing at predicting the future.

Totally amazing how creative our writers and movie makers are and even more amazing how much of it becomes reality.

Hope to see a lot more fiction becoming reality in my lifetime.
@dwaltrip saw and replied to my comment before I made a change in wording.
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, a.k.a "Mike and Ike" is the authoritative textbook in the field. It also happens to be very readable and beginner friendly. It's well worth reading the introduction to QC in the first twelve pages and skimming the first sixty. And the rest, as time/interest permits.
Pentagon strips Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria troop numbers from web
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The last time I went I was just thinking how my inaka HARD OFF was every bit as interesting as the Akiba shops these days...
I am reminded of this.

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

~Joyce Kilmer
It is a recent regression from 2 months ago that originated in the Linux port. I do not know the status of the other platforms. I and the others involved with the Linux port are still busy handling the issue. I suggest asking the developers of the other platforms whether they had adopted the bad patch or not.
I drove by one of their warehouses everyday on my way to work in Sunnyvale for the better part of 4 years. They were right by LM and Yahoo!
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There is a double bubble there:

1. low interest rates have been pushing people to buy houses for a decade.

2. and cheap borrowing costs pushed investors into riskier businesses like startups increasing the flow of capital in that region.

Add the NIMBY mentality, and you get skyrocketing prices.

My guess is that raising interest rates are going to change all this drastically before year end.
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It's concerning in relation to the gp's post. Online media is having existential problems. The gp's response to this (in part) is that we have had print media for a while. My response is that it is unclear we'll have print media for much longer, so we should still be concerned about online media (otherwise we might end up with no media).
This is an important point. We can't point to examples of government distrust as excuses to lean on the government. To me, the differing viewpoints on either side of the Atlantic are simply corporate freedom from government vs customer protection from companies. But there's no denying one side clearly trusts their government to solve these problems instead of other approaches.
yea nah man thats not cool to do to a one man shop
I dont have much knowledge, but i hear asian buyers investing looked similar to japan investing in 80s.
I think the problem more relates to how the risk associated for privacy violations is communicated to people. "People don't care about privacy" is a reasonable conclusion to reach if you don't factor in the perception of the risk in and of itself.

That being said, I have heard that idea a lot --and again, I see how it could be a logical conclusion in certain (or even numerous) scenarios-- and I think that it might be fundamentally flawed.

Sometimes "but they don't care" sounds more like a line people use to avoid actually addressing people in a meaningful way than an actual summation of the situation.
I disagree on the "more electron" front. Running old Chrome with known vulns packaged up into an app is not the direction I'm looking for ChromeOS to go. I'll take an app in a tab, please.
“I also think the tech sector in general (especially any company that is driven by ads) is due for a major correction soon, if not a full burst.”

Why do you say that? Haven’t all the tech companies been performing well across a variety of metrics these last few years?
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Cap rates are hovering around 2%
Hong kong is worse, i hear.
> It looks a little suspicious to me the way he simply just multiplies the normalized relative sensitivity measure with the spectral fluxes.

What is suspicious about it? This is how all response functions work mathematically, both for humans and animals, as well as for mechanical sensors.

The response function is the measured ratio of the input value to the output response (for a given wavelength in this case, but it could be for any measurement at all.) Because it's a ratio, simulating the response is a multiplication, no other operation will be correct.

> I would expect a LF to be optimal when it matches the relative human sensitivity in shape

Arriving at that idea does make some intuitive sense, but it would not be optimal. For the best possible response, you'd put all your energy into the maximum of the response function and nowhere else.

Imagine you could bet on a coin toss where the coin is known to land on heads 2/3rds of the time and tails 1/3 of the time. You can guess the tosses in advance, and for every correct guess you win $1. Should you bet on heads 2/3rds of the time and tails 1/3rd of the time, because that matches the roll probability? Or should you bet on heads all the time? It's simple to show that always betting on heads will net more money, statistically speaking.
So what do you think the first signs of this will be?
I think you're misunderstanding. Use postgres or whatever database you want, just generate the ids separate in your app and use a simple key/value store to maintain the counter. The SLAs of a something like Azure CosmosDB is several times higher than any app you can build yourself.

None of this is directly related to security. The issue for them was putting ids in the tokens, and there's no way to solve that other than not doing it. However if they didn't reuse ids, then it wouldn't have mattered, and that part can be solved by moving the id generation out of the database so that backup/restores of the database are simpler. This is in addition to all the other benefits of separate id generation I first mentioned.
Dont forget tax benefits.
Best practices are always for everybody else, we can skirt around them because ...
I believe tech salaries will decline starting in about 5 years, and accelerating in 10 years.

Why?

HUGE influx of people into the field, fueled by government programs, people in tech pushing for more people to join (why they would ever do this is beyond me, say goodbye to your salary), education in high school and younger, wide availability to learn online, outsourcing, etc... The influx of workers will simply outstrip demand once worker influx hits it's powerband in 5-10 years.

Programming is on the same path that many craft careers have been on in years past. Mark my words - it's a blue collar job in the making.

If you aren't specializing in some niche field of programming right now, you will be kicking yourself in 10 years.
I recently sold property in the bay area. It's crazy indeed, but if I had the chance I'd sit on it for at least another 10 years. There no signs of progress to increase inventory and between Google/Apple/Facebook (and name every other large tech company) there's enough cash in their coffers to hire 300,000 more engineers making $300k/year. Which basically means even in a massive downturn, they're still going to hire net new in the 10's of thousands every year for the next 10 years.

I don't think people really fathom how big of a deal this is. When was the last time a group of heavily concentrated companies were so flushed with cash sitting in banks? And also who's most coveted asset was highly paid white collar workers? Wall Street in the 80's maybe?
Something did happen in january.
Pandering, ticket sales for some lame conference
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This might be a bit hyperbolic, but I agree with the general thrust. Their watch was a pretty clear response to Pebble. The iPhone was an impressive achievement, but smartphones had been available for 6 years when it was released. The iPod was certainly the best MP3 player, but it was far from the first.

That's not really a knock on Apple; they've been very successful jumping in to proven markets with incredibly polished versions of existing products. But I agree it's been a long while since they've done anything as innovative as their early days. They got a nice injection of innovation when they brought back Jobs's other company, NeXT, including the foundation of all their current operating systems. But even that stuff is almost 30 years old.
It'd certainly be interesting to see the other side of all the success stories.
Hey! I'm usually that guy, but in they are they are using "optically stimulated luminescence".

https://www.usu.edu/geo/luminlab/whatis.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence_dating

I'm not an expert in the subject an I'm not an archeologist, but the method sounds good.

One of the parts is the decay of radioactive atoms. This is a very well known subject, it's very easy to model and it is not affected by pressure or temperature (unless you use ridiculous huge amounts).

The other part is about electrons trapped in the defects of crystals, and the conduction and valence band of crystals. This is also a well known subject, but it's more difficult to model. So IIUC after measuring the amount of "trapped" light they must irradiate each sample to calibrate the "trapping" ability of the material. This is not affected by usual variations of pressure and temperature. In particular the energy of the photons in sunlight is very different from the photons due to normal levels of heat. (At high temperature like more than 500°C or 900°F, that is possible near a fire, the difference between the energy of the photons is not so much and you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoluminescence_dating . But the heat below a few inches of the floor under sunlight is not enough.)

As I said, I'm not an expert, but it looks like they are combining well known techniques and I guess that if you can enclose a bunch of Ph.D. students in a lab for 20 years with proper equipment, a few interesting samples and enough food, they will be able to rediscover this method.

If you want to find something shady here, I'd look at

> [Katerina] Harvati, who wasn’t involved in the research, said she would be cautious in definitively assigning the finger fossil a Homo sapiens identity due to the fact that its shape overlaps with other hominin species. [...]
Another thing is I remember is a problem with people citing their sources. It was one of those topics with tons of BS making it hard to get to the actual data.

Since you seem to know a lot about it, can you pick one artifact (I don't think it should matter much which one) and outline all the data available for it?
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I think it's because Google just set up shop in San Jose and started hiring like crazy.

I wonder, in san jose, How long will it take until families start living in garages like in Palo alto?
It also reminds me why my NAS runs FreeBSD.
I just bought a condo in SF myself. It was an agonizingly difficult decision that I had been contemplating for years and years before finally taking the plunge. Some of what drove my decision was that most experts don't believe that the Bay Area real estate market is a bubble [1] [2].

(I wouldn't wish the anxiety around this decision on anyone, least of all future generations, which is why I've resolved to buck the trend of homeowner NIMBYism.)

[1]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/19/housing-economist-pos...

[2]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/11/unpacking-the-bay-are...
>Well then, the CTS and VTS are so weak they are useless then.

No they're not as they enforce and verify Android compatibility.

>Have you worked with Samsung or a no-name Chinese brand? There's plenty of errors arising from bad ROMs customising low-level stuff they should not do.

Yes, and there is no WinXP theme resemblance. So, once again, where are the links to these Android Phones with WinXP like themes?

>At least iOS fixes them and they can update their devices.

So does Google with 3 years of OS and security updates for their Pixel phones.

>That's only for the top-notch part of the Store, the rest is just a dimension below iOS in term of usability (and I say this using only Android). The reason being that you need more dev time to have the same result on Android compared to iOS.

The problem with iOS apps is that the top apps seem to think their a special snowflake and that they must develop their own UI and UX to differentiate themselves. The end result is an app that doesn't follow Apple's Human Interface Design guidelines and looks and navigates completely different from every other app. And then there's the garbage apps that are blown up on an iPad because Apple didn't understand Pixel density independence.
Ha! That’s awesome. :)
The most stable solution right now is taking your favorite stable fs like ext4 or xfs and using LVM thin pools for snapshots.
No different than HEVC or anything else. My CPUs are a few generations behind (i7-4790K and i5-4690K) and they can't hardware decode/encode HEVC.
Looks cool, I especially like the proposed Signal support... how can I download the Linux Beta? Not finding a link, and since it's not open source I assume the code isn't on github. Good luck, looks interesting
I agree 100% with your comments about AGI. The discussion is completely pointless - we can't even agree on a definition for intelligence.

AI (as in "machine learning") on the other hand is something which should be worried about. Universities are actively building autonomous, ML powered weapons systems.

Just last week a pretty serious boycott of a South Korean university was announced over their autonomous weapons research.

Signatories of the boycott include some of world’s leading AI researchers, most notably professors Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Jü​rgen Schmidhuber. The boycott would forbid all contact and academic collaboration with KAIST until the university makes assurances that the weaponry it develops will have “meaningful human control.[1]

That's a real problem, and it is unclear if OpenAI's approach is relevant. Personally I think the academic boycott is a good start (what ML researcher will want to work there?), but it is unclear how to deal with commercial research labs in a similar space.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/4/17196818/ai-boycot-killer-...
Interesting, but I don't really follow how flooding would be any more helpful than the seasons in general.
> ... i.e action item contains change in tooling and processes rather than trying to change human behaviour.

Contrary to what we might hope, in my experience the former is often much easier to ensure and enforce than the latter.
The drag-and-tear of anchor damage on a submarine cable is probably a lot more damaging than cutting that would be done by specialized military equipment, too.
Great story from CNN about scams for all that it appears to be basically a quick and cheap verification of Jeremy Massler's freelance work it's absolutely worth doing. Shame the story appears to surrounded by the worst kind of scam ads. "Massive payouts for people born between 1946 and 1985" I've got a bridge to sell CNN if they believe that but they don't. In fact they're almost certainly unaware of the advert's existence even though it's right there on their page undermining whatever CNN have in the way of credibility.

One day CNN, The Guardian, the NYT etc will realise that despite what google and facebrick might want everyone to believe, an advert on a credible news site that behaves as such is worth much, much more in sales to advertisers than the very same advert on "John Doe's maybe racist blog" when seen by precisely the same eyes. Eg mine and yours.
Also, zoning laws play a large part.
Why not? We have 8 billion people to build a great society with, I think 1/8 billionth of human effort could be directed to a great local burrito shop. Great societies are built by people doing their part and loving their lives, not by everyone trying to "change the world".
Pretty sure that was the author's point, not going for the 'great society' level...
If you're in it for the long haul, then it was a very wise decision.

The bay area, specifically San Francisco, is one of the best real estate purchases anyone can make. It's geographically constrained and has historically shown to gain value over the past 100 years CONSISTENTLY.

There will be some small bumps in the road here or there, but when you look back in 20, or 30 years, I can almost guarantee you're going to see pretty solid returns. At least you can rest easy knowing it was perhaps the safest real estate investment anyone (who can afford it) could make.
> He fully non-responsive to Linux users

Well, he was nice enough to write the Linux port in the first place, and he personally develops under Linux, so...

To develop free, general-purpose, desktop, parametric 3d CAD software is fairly thankless work. It's a huge task, and relatively few developers have the necessary mathematical skill and ME domain knowledge. The commercial market is mature, limiting opportunities to monetize. I have great respect for the time and other resources that whitequark (and others) have chosen to expend here in spite of that.
That is only if you think only 'tech' companies are big and they are the biggest ideas and they are the majority in Fortune 2000, but it's not. There are lot of companies that have much smarter ideas and are clearly big enough to be considered as 'successful', they are mostly skewed towards older founders.
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That's a really good analogy for the encryption situation as it contains the sort of "fuzziness of definition" that loses the attention of 'the common folk'.

We could say that we put a man on the sun, but by what measure a 'man' by the time they arrive, and upon what part of the fusion reaction do we land in order to define 'on'?

Excellent, I say, into an echo chamber.
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ Considering articles like this and the fact FizzBuzz tests are even a thing I wouldn't be so sure. I get your point, but the problem is while with enough time one can get it, quite a few people are going to hit a wall and not be able to pass it.
Burner phones don't seem to work either. Have seen more than one Dateline where they pinpointed the date/time of the cash sale and pulled store video.
Well, a lot of the discussion on this post is about other possible conspiracy theories (imho less cynical than this one), so I thought I’d was relevant that the GP was suggested as one possible option. The other theories are not much supported either.
I see lots of burrito trucks that seem to have survived awhile. Probably because they don't need to pay all the taxes and such involved with owning a building. Just buy a van, cook some food, and park somewhere people need to eat.
2% in SJ? That's insane. I'm paying 0.35% of the average sale price in rent for a townhouse in my community (San Mateo/Burlingame area).
Apologies for the belated response - this is incredibly helpful! Thanks a ton for taking a look - prioritization in particular, figuring out how to highlight the "best of the best" as the amount of content on the site grows, feels key to me as well.
And San Jose really is a really really boring suburb...
Have you ever heard of junkies breaking into empty houses and stripping all the copper wiring out to sell at scrappers? It destroys 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars of value in the form of a completed home to get the scrapper a few hundred at most.

If you dont think that companies are capable of doing the same sort of thing to society but at a larger scaled I don't think we can have a discussion on it.

Not every transaction is zero sum at worst and growing the pie at best

Also, you're saying what do people do with the money "they spend it", but when the government takes the money and uses jt, that just dissapears? I actually believe that can happen because I think individuals/corporations/governments can engage in destructive actions but the way you are arguing it is talking out of both sides of your mouth. When the government spends money it goes to people too
Not necessarily. I am afraid that such sentiment would be priced in as well. If people are so certain about the market, the price would be led by the expectation rather than the fundamental.
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"Kori and Sheely set out to disrupt the middleman-laden industry by buying their own stems from farms in South and Central America, designing their own bouquets, and hiring delivery couriers as salaried employees. "

That sounds fairly un-Uber-like. The whole point of Uber is economic rent-seeking--getting others to do the work and skimming a fee for it. This sounds like actual work.
That place bit me hard. I had a too-big microcomputer collection that came with me from San Jose to Austin in 2004. At first I would drop by Computer Works when I was passing by, but it was almost never open, a bad sign. My wife prevailed on me to reduce my collection, so I thought of them. I had fully work HP-85 (except the tape drive), HP-86, and HP-87 computers, with manuals, disk drives, many ROM options, manuals, and software. It had taken me about five years of haunting ebay and bay area HAMfests to collect it all.

When I went to Computer Works, the guy at the register said to donate at the regular Goodwill next door. I was leery, but OK, it is their shop. I drove around the back, told the guy this was donations for the Computer Works and that everything was organized into groups -- hardware/software specific for a given machine was together. I started unloading my car into piles, and on the third or fourth trip I noticed that the receiving guy completely ignored me and had taken all the printed material and chucked it into a huge bin along with all the other random books and magazines they collected. I just about blew a gasket, but I promised my wife I would get rid of it.

I came back a few times in subsequent months, and it never showed up in the museum, and it never showed up on their "for sale" section. I assume it all got recycled.
In absolute terms, sure, but that doesn't mean much since the rich and powerful are already a tiny (but powerful) minority.

Are you saying that in proportional terms the non-wealthy were hurt more as well?