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You're thinking of luck in a narrow sense. If an otherwise fiscally responsible and decent person wins the lottery, they're set for life.

But luck means a lot more than just getting some big break. It means your genetics, parents, your friends and your teachers. It means your childhood environments. It means everything your senses have ever detected. It means toxins you've been exposed to, diseases, parasites, and microbiome. It means chance genetics that can lead to diseases.

Just because some people with difficult childhoods end up being wildly successful, and some people who were handed every opportunity (good schools, rich parents) end up making a mess of their lives, doesn't at all imply that the traditional notion of free will is at work. Even what little we understand about psychology suggests that it's because of difficult upbringings that some people are so tenacious at achieving success, and it's because of having things handed to them that someone you'd expect to succeed ends up an underachiever for life.

In other words, not having luck early in life can be its own luck in shaping your psychology, and having luck early in life can be its own bad luck in shaping your psychology.
that's not the only thing he has done in that discussion, and I'm basing my comment on that.

Your video contains little argument that hasn't been already in the discussion, goes in no detail what specifically you object to, personally insults him, and being a video isn't a very good contribution in a text-forum anyways: in sum more then enough reasons for a moderator to remove it, and adding very little to the overall discussion.
Weird that the article does not cite a single economic or demographic indicator to support its assertion. For example, Detroit's population has declined so far this decade at about the same pace as it declined from 1990-2000 (though not at the disastrous pace it declined from 2000-2010, when the city lost a quarter of its population). Sounds like far from a revival.
I just went to the Caddy website and GitHUb - if I was a new user I don't know that telemetry is being collected nor how to turn it off.
Very interesting way of looking at it. I've always wondered what is the evolutionary advantage of consciousness -- if we don't have free will, then why have self awareness at all if we would function just as well without it? Your idea provides one possible answer to that question.
Getting a lot of sleep != getting quality sleep.

If you have restless leg syndrome, you don't sleep well.
What are the economic indicators that things are looking up? The place is still losing population as of last year, and it's not even clear if it's slowing down.

http://www.dailydetroit.com/2017/05/25/detroit-continues-los...

(2016 appears to be the last year census data is available.)
If free will is the deterministic consequence of the sum of your experiences, then the experience of the punishment assigned by the court system is a necessary input to create desirable outputs. So, even if you are not responisble for your actions, you must still be punished.
They aren't laws. Free will, persistence, a determination to make one's life better, are things some people have more of than others, and things that one's parents might have encouraged more than others.

Why? Who knows? Why are some people taller than others, or more athletic, etc. People are not all the same.
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One more thing to add to the mess: PyBOMBS [1] A while back GNU Radio went and reinvented the whole package manager thing on their own. Since then I constantly have problems integrating anything GNU Radio-related with the rest of the Python ecosystem. Random Python 2 modules being imported by Python 3? You bet it's some random gr module in the PYTHONPATH somewhere.

[1] https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/pybombs-the-what-the-how-and-t...
That philosophy is pure and well intentioned. It will always fight with reality.
I'm a great believer in luck, the harder I work, the luckier I am.
Hopefully they will be careful not to accidentally make the obesity or cancer epidemics worse in a push to rid us of the problems of global warming sometime farther down the road.
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For how much time? When you consider youporn sends ping to twitter throught a weird domain (with a cookie on https://syndication.twitter.com/), it makes me wondering how much time it will takes before the porn life of everyone on twitter will be reveal.

I don't want to be the alarmist but it's not like twitter has a good track record when it comes to database leak and god knows how many influent politics are using it ...
I'm using pyvenv even though it has started warning me I should move. I won't change from it for exactly the reasons in this comic.

When I do a new OS install I will try pipenv again...but it dind't work well for me the first time due to conflicting with something I had installed outside of a virtualenv!
Have you found an LED replacement for the light in your oven?
As far as I'm aware, those are all still incandescent, simply due to the temperatures involved.
I think “free will” might just not be a useful concept. If free will means “the choices people make are not determined by causes” then free will would just look like people acting entirely at random.

ETA: The more interesting question (to me) is how this changes how we judge people, if at all. If a person is an asshole, obviously that’s because of genetic and environmental influences. Do we excuse it either way? (In which case you literally can’t ever hold anyone morally accountable for anything). Do you excuse people only when the causes are environmental? Only when the environment is extreme or the genetic difference is considered a “disease”? But what justifies the difference?
Every solution has drawbacks. What are some for the solution you propose?
> I work. Eventually my body will catch up with whatever it wants to do. I work for myself. If I want to sleep, I sleep. This is one of the benefits of being self-employed.

Yea, this is huge. I have in office days and in home days. I dread getting bad sleep before an in office day. Not because it's terrible, but because I don't have the reserve to last a 9.5h day in a boxed in stuffy environment. At least my home doesn't feel as draining as in the office, and I can do 4 hours of work at home and take a nap if I had bad sleep before.

The sad thing is, because our work culture focuses on hours over work, if I have bad sleep before an in office day I'm vastly less productive, because 3-5 hours into the day, I lose steam. Yet, I don't do anything to fix it. I just sit there, being unproductive, with drifty tired thoughts.
No it’s not.

https://www.google.com/amp/blog.lukaszolejnik.com/gdpr-conse...
Highly recommend pipenv.
These are two separate discussions, really:

- Is the universe fully deterministic? We don't know the answer to that, and it's possible we might never know

- Are the life decisions that I make correlated with my success? That one is easier to work out: Even if the "decisions" turn out to be "pseudo-random" due to the properties of the underlying universe, they could still be correlated with success, therefore it's useful to devote resources into deliberately moving closer to that "success" (even if there are external/random factors) at play
I find that the whole premise of Twitter, is that the data is public.
Not if you only measure "rice", as in the example. If you keep externalities out of it than it's hard to compete too. Do you know how highly subsidized current food production is? All that energy (actual energy) that goes into it, when stuff is supposed to be able to grow on its own? We don't even have to look at the unknown unknowns of all the poisons. We use up sun energy stored millions of years ago to get our current energy, and the cost for doing so is zero because nature does not know about money.
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Free Will is the the ability to try. It is not the power to change. That part is luck.
Telemetry is being discussed, it hasn't been added yet. (And people have rightly pointed out in the discussion that it has to be well-documented to be acceptable)
> Now days you wouldn’t dream of releasing a new language without some kind of standard package manager...

Isn't this one of the major criticisms of Go?
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Oh, found it: +12y for men, +14 for women. No data per habit.
There's a school of thought that states that the brain operates at a quantum level, and there is a more classical view that it's all 'billiard balls', and some people are in between there somewhere and see the billiard balls setup as so complex that the knowledge about any initial configuration must always be incomplete.

Only in the classical 'billiard balls' universe would there not be free will, in every other situation there has to be some element that allows us to make choices for good or bad.

Interesting aside: if an omnipotent being would exist and we'd live in a classical billiard balls universe that being would be able to predict the outcome of its own creation which would obviate the need for creating stuff in the first place.

So 'free will' is a central tenet of almost every religion, and according to that we are given choices and how we make those choices determines whether we are 'worthy' or not.

Obviously it doesn't require religion to have free will but I find it interesting that religions have caught on to this so universally.

Good, if somewhat large book that touches on this subject: The emperors new mind, by Roger Penrose.
You don't allow any type checking?

You can tune an analysis to be considerably more conservative and reduce false positives. The analysis becomes more like a semantically aware formatter. Doing most things related to pointers will lead to FPs, but you can still get value even if you are terrified of FPs.
You clearly don’t run a startup that is affected by these rules. Use cookie? Use Google analytics? Have emails and passwords? Send email to your userlist? Now figure out all the legal consent language, and write your own privacy policy that doesn’t get you a $20m fine for running a blog...
I'm not storing any data other than a day of the year and wether a pill was taken. It has Google Analytics and a crash reporting tool in it, and I'm not sure how those play into the whole thing.
In that same vein though, many people are willing to insist that hard work plays zero role and everything is completely luck.

Success is the intersection of luck, and being prepared to embrace the opportunities that arise as a result of that luck. If you aren't prepared to take advantage of a good opportunity, nothing happens. There's not a lot of cases where people find success without expending any effort at all.
The 'framework build and venv on osx' thing ruined my night yesterday so this post had great timing.

Seriously, starting from a clean osx, how do you install python? I always liked using vex for venv management. But I would also like to have anaconda for some tasks..
Sorry I don't understand the severe downvote? I was referring to all the "under the table" things that happened with Cambridge Analytica and similar stories, that will surface in the next few weeks/months. Hence the crumbing house of cards...
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I think you're right that I've likely selected countries that I didn't need to, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
Just because a person was dealt a crap hand doesn’t mean they can’t make good choices. And their decisions can legitimately be judged and used as the factor in choosing to help them or not.

There is no moral or ethical failing in refusing to give to those who will waste what is given.
More than that. They're also selling engagement and audience on their API.

This means they keep track of who you follow and what you click on.
I don't think the point is that Slay the Spire is doing something wrong, the point is that Slay the Spire is designed as a PC game so it doesn't have the subway read-abillity imperative that mobile games have. Most people find out about Slay the Spire through Twitch, but that is not how most mobile games are discovered.
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Which matters if you have 15k packages from npm to get (been there, done that) but doesn't matter at all when you're programming in Go.
Just hire a consulting team? Yes, that’s the first thing you should do as you start a company in your basement with $0.
> I would consider using it as a safer alternative to C or C++

I would, too. But there’re problems for which C or C++ is just faster because of language/compiler extensions like SIMD intrinsic or OpenMP.

Also Rust can’t be used for GPU code; strictly speaking C can’t either, but practically CUDA, C++ AMP, OpenCL are very close to C and/or C++.

Also if you have to deal with lots of pointer-based data structures (trees, graphs, etc)., and it’s not just on the lowest level you can abstract away behind a safe API, I don’t think Rust is safer. To get performance comparable to C++, it’s necessary to use unsafe rust for raw pointers, and IMO modern C++ is safer that unsafe Rust.
I'd feel satisfied if it turned out that I'm a deterministic machine planted in a nondeterministic universe.
But I assume all these work arounds would be against the terms of service. So Cambridge Analytica were paying for legal access to this data. I think that makes it a bit more significant (though the situation is still very different than Facebook).
You could probably mine the small amount of ether needed
> It’s an odd place.

That's exactly how I felt living in Baltimore. Now that I live in New York, everyone and everything seems so normal, but in a dull kind of way. America's downtrodden and resurgent smaller cities have a lot going for them in terms of culture, character, the resiliency of their people. I really hope they can find some measure of economic success.
Complex optimizations do not apply to debug builds, so we are basically only comparing borrow checker and the likes.

However, then we can draw on two facts to kill that this should be a significant part of the issue: The post states that for most projects, the majority of the compile time is spent in LLVM, not Rust. Second (my memory may fail me here, but this is easy to measure), for larger projects, Go also smoke clang/gcc, which do not have Rusts fancy features.

But, as I stated in my parent comment, these cross-language, cross-compiler comparisons are quite difficult to make. This is also why I attack comments talking about one compiler doing more "work" than another. It cannot be directly compared.

All we know for certain, is that rustc is far too slow for our liking.
Both are easy to make.
Thank you. There are tons of complex games out there. I really like them in principle. I may even play them for a while if the learning curve is reasonable. But the days I’ll put hours into games are pretty much past and were mostly never there in the first place.

Truth be told I’m the same way with a lot of complex TV shoes. I do watch some like GoT but I’m pretty selective about it.
Keep in mind that area is square, so that's a little over a 3x3 grid of moons. (Well, actually a little smaller, because circles don't pack perfectly.)
On the one hand you have people on this site advocating for UBI to make up for lost jobs due to automation, and on the other hand you are saying there is going to be a population implosion and that is bad and something needs to be done. Can't we just do nothing if both of these scenarios are likely?
Agreed, but sleeping more still helps me. Maybe I could be happy with 7h/night without restless leg, but that doesn't change the fact that 8h for me is currently better than 7h. 7h just isn't enough. Which was my point - I get enough (more than average) to ensure I feel refreshed the next day.

It's definitely a problem though. I'm not a fan of medications, but I've not researched a natural remedy - perhaps I should.
Would you put a back door in your own chip? I am not sure how bribe would work if your the target.
The loser is, at least, a person who thinks that way.
No, any startup that uses data to make an adaptive service and better user experience is also at risk. Want to record what people bought so that you can show them similar items next time or recommend New articles they might like? Here comes the dumb web.
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The saying is really 'Fortune favors the bold'
To my knowledge it is not illegal to euthanize an animal by gunshot in any US state.

From a practical standpoint, it's probably the most humane way to do it. There's far less pain and emotional distress (for the animal) involved than in any other means I can think of, including having a licensed vet come to your home and put the animal down via injection.

It's also significantly less expensive than any other means which is an important consideration for much of the country. Hiring a vet to come out to your home to euthanize an animal can be hundreds of dollars - it was $350-$500 in Virginia when we checked in to it there. A .22 LR round is ~$.10, and a well-placed round to the base of the brain is instant.

There are downsides, of course. It requires knowledge of anatomy, and it can be bungled badly. Cats, like many animals, are prone to spasming when the CNS is destroyed, which is certainly not something that I'd want my kids to see.

All in all, I'd much prefer to either have a vet come out or obtain the necessary injections to do it myself at home - but I have financial resources at my disposal than the vast majority of families in my area do not. Given the choice between waiting for a dog or a cat to die of a long, painful disorder and their owner euthanizing them with a firearm, the latter is much preferable.
Let’s say I want Anaconda. Is pipenv the right way to go? Do they play nicely?
Surely the cryptogold rush equivalent of selling spades during the original gold rush!
I think part of this is that the S&P 500 is the largest 500 by capital. It's not a perfect analogy but it is sort of like how wealthy people can live off interest/dividends of their investments where no one else can afford to live like that.

So there is a Worldcom or Enron or Toys R US or Sears or Montgomery Wards every once in a while to totally collapse but something like Kodak can go through a long period on top until it declines when its moat declines or even two of the three car manufacturers in the USA and most of the major financial institutions would have gone bankrupt without government intervention in the last 20 years.
It's luck that they happened to be hard-working individuals, duh. And purely by luck they decided to spend their time productively instead of party it away.
Eh, I think you're being a bit dismissive. There is a consistent "voice" to the memos that gives them authenticity, and a sharp business insight that no one working in PR would be able to articulate. Yes, I'm sure the letters are parsed by PR and legal, but I very much doubt that they contribute much beyond basic editing and fact checking. But of course, this is all speculation.
I have been working well over 40 hours per week on startups for several years with nothing to show for it at all.

But 5 years ago, I also bought a bit of fake Internet money, and it somehow became 10x more valuable last December with zero effort involved whatsoever.
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Looks like it's just doing overflow checking inline ( "require(balanceOf[_to] + _value > balanceOf[_to])", for instance).
I don't think that's completely true. Details of the cosmic microwave background might indicate that we're at the center of the universe:

- [Axis of evil (cosmology) - Wikiwand](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology))

And besides the above, the CMB itself provides a 'natural absolute frame of reference' as it's the remnants of the very early universe.
I heard someone say that A.I. is just what we call technology that doesn't work yet. Once it works, we give it a specific name, like "natural speech recognition".
I wonder how many people would take this at face value though.
Well. Sure, but that the government who specifically wanted it like that because that has been the traditional role of banks and everything needs to be regulated. The government went out and gave licences to do that stuff to banks.

If you don't like that only some group of people is allowed to do something, then why not allow everybody to do it.

Now, of course some will say, that would be bad. Fair enough, but then again, you need to select the group that you will give that privilege too. Right now that is banks.

I would be perfectly happy to adopt a legal system where banks are not subject to extraordinary rules let the market decide who's debt is worth taking as 'money' but apparently most people in the world don't want that.

So really that argument leads you nowhere.

The question what is the goal of this initiative? For all the problems they have (or think they have) there is a pretty easy solution that one could adopt that require this essentially random solution.
"Machine learning" was a pretty good buzz word, but "Artificial Intelligence" is even better. And in a way, ML is part of AI so it isn't really lying.

IBM tries to sell into c-suites of companies that are less technically-adept than the average HN reader. Their marketing seems to be pretty effective, at least in getting proof of concept projects signed with big names.

Watson is simply IBM's ML product, but they call it AI and wrap it in marketing for all the reasons every AI startup does the same thing.
Mario's[1] for excellent Italian food. Xoxhimilco[2] for excellent Mexican food. Antonio's[3] in the burbs. New Peking[4] in GC for excellent Chinese food.

I've lived in Michigan 30 years now. Came here for grad school, first at MSU, then down to Wayne State for Ph.D. Never left.

There is something about this place. Even when we are getting the crap kicked out of us ... we don't give up.

It took a long time to get rid of most of the corrupt city management. Some are still there, and the city council are generally throwbacks to the bad time.

Detroit school system is still ... crap. Private and charter schooling is doing a great job of fixing that, giving parents a choice, and forcing the schools to compete for students. This helps.

There are many other anachronisms throughout the region and state. Some of these are quaint, some of them are incredibly frustrating, off putting, etc.

If we could only attract more money to the area, this would be a great place to form small companies seeking to be large companies. Low burn rates/costs. Lots of talent that wants to escape the autos, and other failed regional initiatives (life science corridor anyone?). Ann Arbor has a nascent/tiny startup scene. Should be bigger.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/detroitmarios/

[2] http://www.xochimilcorestaurant.com/

[3] https://antoniosrestaurants.com/

[4] http://newpekingusa.com/
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Sounds good. It's what the FedEx founder did with the remaining company money. They had only one week left of runaway, he gambled it and it seems to have worked http://for-starters.com/from-grade-c-to-the-skies-fedex-stor...
The copyright on that page hasn't been updated since 2015.

Color me surprised...
I went to that restaurant after I ran the 2014 Detroit Marathon...locked my wife(then girlfriend's) keys in her car. Great food!
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