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They faced the prospect of aggregation of the clients via takeovers, this would have allowed the owner of the majority of the clients to change out the platform. I had a conversation with a private equity guy in 2009 who wanted to do this, what stopped them was the idea that twitter would ratelimit and control the interface. So there was a pretty rational fear driving Twitter to do this.
Perhaps my usage of the words “good and bad” implied a moral judgement. But, that’s not really my intention.

What I’m saying, is that it’s unwise to idolize people because of their work in one area and then elevate (or more worryingly emulate) there work in other areas.

Like his treatment of women, Feynman’s work in Biology is not really very interesting. It wouldn’t stand up on its own merits... the only reason to talk about it is if you treat Feynman as some kind of Hero/ideal. Feynman is not really a wonderful person to idolize (not that anybody is)...
Agreed; I guess many of us will have a blind spot when it comes to recognizing our own minds aging, and our memories accreting into a golden history.

Seems to be a part of the human condition.

Time's arrow moves in one direction, the past cannot be reclaimed. The challenge is to not become bitter about it.
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> can they pay professors in different departments very different amounts

In the US this is already common. But salaries in AI (and to a lesser extent CS in general) have recently gotten high enough that you'd need much bigger differentials, plus you start getting to absolute salary numbers that become unaffordable to all but a handful of places. An early-career academic at a top university might make, say, $60-80k in the humanities versus $100-130k in CS, but companies will pay $150k+. A prominent tenured professor in CS can make $200k+ in some cases in recent years, but if you believe recent reports [1], senior AI researchers are being paid $1m+ outside of academia, which seems really unlikely to be matched.

I'm not sure it's necessarily a problem per se, though. Depends on what your goals are. As a fairly junior CS academic, it's good for me personally. CS faculty jobs are now much easier to come by than is usually the case in academia (look at the nightmare stories of physicists and biologists doing 10-year postdocs trying to land a tenure-track position). And pay has risen enough that it's now pretty good, even if still not as good as industry.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...
Having read the book, I didn't get the impression he was criticizing himself. It read as just another story of an experiment, which how it seems he approached most of life (and which is what makes the book interesting, in my opinion).
While we all love the same things that excited us earlier in our life we also know what will disappoint us again. Even after 5 minutes I can tell a lot of things that I won't like in a relationship. The other person is not a blank white board anymore, because the other person is not so different from all the other people I met before. The new stuff is also often just a reiteration of something that has already been there, which means it's not new and not exciting.
I think medicine, being both a very old, and having a very complex subject, is guilty of a lack of abstraction.

I tend to joke that if a doctor discovered a keyboard he would name it a negra quadrodepressus-hectomatrix. Accurate.. and semantically useless. That's how you name things when you have no clue about it's function.

And medicine likes its superbly tough anatomical projection/cut of internals. Honestly I find it's a miracle how doctors can look at organs in every angle and still find their way (same for radiologists).

Coming from CS with a taste for multistage compilation and the likes, I find no beauty in anatomy.. I need a little more principles and less description.
The disposable dishware, I saw it in the US, and it's just the most unbelievable thing I can think of. Having grown up in Europe, I was astonished to see people actually eat out of disposable dishware. I'd expect it at a party with a ton of people, because then you just throw everything away, but for normal daily life? Insane wastage.
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I think you might be confusing $() with (). There is no functional difference between backticks and $(), the only difference is in how they are parsed with regards to escaping. There is no subshell involved in either case.
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Just to name few random regressions that I ran into the last year or so:

- Location services steals focus from XQuartz.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7964085

- Emacs (non-X11 version) regularly triggers a bug in the display server that freezes it hard. Haven't been able to debug it further. I have mostly stopped using Emacs on macOS because of this bug.

- Every few reboots, my Mac freezes and I have to do a hard reboot.

- Every few days or so, sound stops working. I have to do a sudo killall coreaudiod and then everything is fine again. Well, except the volume control in the system tray, that comes back after a couple of hours.

- Some monitoring tools, like htop freeze macOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16082861

- Keynote doesn't open some older Keynote presentations correctly anymore (e.g. things converted with PDF2Keynote).

Also, longer-term: Spaces was much nicer for power users than Mission Control. The Mac App Store seems to become slower all the time. Airport Utility is pretty limited compared to the older version. The killed genuinely useful Pages features like linked text boxes when they rebased on iOS iWork (they are finally back after years). Etc.

I guess I don't have to mention the embarrassing security bugs that we had since the High Sierra release.
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I'm a long time X100 (and Nikon DSLR) and now X100F user. I love this camera.

X100F fixes almost all the flaws in the X100 plus gives you a digital converter and more film simulations.

With the two physical converters that I already had for the old X100 I can now cover a range of 28mm-100mm eqv. which is perfect for travel.

I'm sure you already know the sorts of tricks the leaf shutter will let you do. Well on the X100F you can use the on board flash in manual mode now too.

Oh and as an added bonus you can stick an EF-X20 on the bottom and slave it off the on board flash for a tiny twin flash camera in a tiny package. It works perfectly in full sunlight (manual only though).

(In case anyone is wondering the twin flash thing is for flat on-axis fill similar to a ring light in bright sunlight. So flat light but with no shadows as you'd get from a single fill flash).

Lovely stuff.
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Cut and Paste is really the same as cutting out a shape in construction paper and pasting it elsewhere. Its gone from its original location and can be put in a new one. The only place the metaphor fails is that you can paste multiple times.

In image programs there is literally a white gap where to object was. Word processors would redo line breaks and hide the original location.
That shouldn't really be a problem, and is already true in a lot of cases. For instance, professors in business schools get paid significantly more than professors in the economics department of the same university.
> I say this to justify a theory.

Well then your theory is wrong, there are numerous onomatopoetic words that have suffixes etc. Why wouldn't they? No matter what you think about this specific word. I didn't really understand the rest of what you wrote.

>There is very little chance to actually experience a foreigner

Would this be referring to foreigners in Ancient Greece? Then it's just factually incorrect.
PowerShell is good. I don't like some of the hardened conventions .. but it's highly convenient without being a mess. Nice output, regular sort/filter functions. I like sed but it goes old quickly.
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I thought pay tv in the US had no ads?? Is that not the whole point of it? Are there ad breaks in game of thrones and silicon valley and all the other hbo shows??
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We're talking about a max 72KiB/sec connection (AptX HD) at one meter range between 2 peers, parent comment refers to flash mob gaming on a bus. A modern London bus seats 62 over a 11.23x2.52x4.39m area surrounded by numerous metallic partitions in a continuously changing RF environment (driving through a city).

Assuming audio between 2 peers at 1 meter was somehow a solved problem (per above it's not), and collision avoidance was a non-issue (problem worsens exponentially with additional peers), that's 1.16KB/sec in some idealized non-existent reality of bandwidth to run a compelling game for 62 people. Perhaps parent comment refers to a flash mob game of Chess.

Assuming Bluetooth only reliably fails between two peers 1% of the time (oh, but to dream), that's a 99%^62 = 5.36% chance of a bus full of people successfully joining a single mesh.

Silliness is in the eye of the beholder!
This. The way search engines seem to prioritise company run sites and the way everyone's turned everything into a business venture now are the biggest issues with the modern internet.
> To prevent the system from doing anything harmful or unethical, it may be necessary to challenge it to explain the logic for a particular action. That logic might be too complex for a person to comprehend, so the researchers suggest having another AI debate the wisdom of the action with the first system, using natural language, while the person observes

...

> Having AI programs argue with one another requires more sophisticated technology than exists currently. So thus far, the OpenAI researchers have only explored the idea with a couple of extremely simple examples. One involves two AI systems trying to convince an observer about a hidden character by slowly revealing individual pixels.

How is this even remotely linked to two programs arguing or explaining reasoning? It's one network being trained to change pixels in an image in order to make the detecting network perform worse.

Why do so many articles anthropomorphism artificial intelligence? These networks are assigned to do a certain task given a certain reward. There is no motive apart from reducing the loss function provided. The reasoning or rationale is that whatever decision the network is making is serving to reduce the error. Whether this has some deeper reasoning that humans would also use is a separate question but to attribute human style reasoning to the network is a stretch.
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Trigger warnings are about not acting like a jackass to people. And the angry response to those who cavaliery show a disregard for the feelings of others are just as valid if you want to go down that path.
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Curious about the downvotes, is this statement factually wrong? It does not work with 5.2.10, because I tried it.
As long as Americans insist on dirt cheap Chinese labor, how can we imagine ourselves innocent?

We have not taken responsibility but merely abstracted or outsourced that responsibility to another party.
Windows 10 is borderline unusable due to it (it evicts RAM very aggressively to use as disk cache). Doesn't help that their IO scheduler is completely screwed up too (and they removed the ability to disable NCQ, so disk performance on HDDs is down the drain).
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When a job interviewer asks about X technology, often they actually _want_ to see you hedge your bets. They think of this in terms of you understanding both the upsides and the downsides of technology (and business) decisions.

I aim to answer by listing: a high-level business benefit of X, a time I saw X delivering such a benefit, a time I saw X being a hindrance or failing to completely deliver the purported benefit, something an alternative of X does differently and why, then wrap up with a conclusion that the benefits are situation-dependent.
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Any reliable method to permanently wipe user data on Android handsets?
Getting ready to sell my daily driver in order to upgrade, but was a little disappointed when I've looked into erasing my user data from it. Having never needed this, I've always assumed that there is a reliable way to wipe your handset and pass it on to its future owner. To my dismay I've recently learned that even if you move your stuff say on a desktop PC, back up your contacts, and do a factory reset on the phone, your old media and text/chats are still recoverable to some extent off the handset's internal memory. On a regular hard drive I'd use DBAN but of course that's not an option here so I was wondering what are reliable ways to wipe a handset, as it seems that the apps who engage in offering this feature are of questionable reputation at best. I don't have compromising data on my handset, but would still greatly value my privacy. Thanks guys!
Is $180,000/year not a decent salary in the Seattle area?
Only premium channels like HBO and Showtime omit ads during broadcasts. However "regular" cable channels such as TBS and TNT retain them.
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Great idea.

Since we're reminiscing, unless I have you mistaken for someone else, I suspect that we both may have been a part of the same community way back when. Regardless, I look forward this; sounds like it could be fun.
Apple have noticed high end users complaining, hence the iMac Pros and upcoming new Mac Pros.

Outside that, there is no perceptible loss of users. The much maligned Macbook Pros with butterfly keyboards and the touch bar are selling like there's no tomorrow.
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This is incorrect based on Harari's book: Sapiens. Megafauna in Australia/America didnt have time to evolve, when humans migrated there. While, megafauna in Africa/Asia evolved with humans, so they learnt to survive.

Excerpt from the chapter - Guilty as Charged:
"Various human species had been prowling and evolving in Afro-Asia for 2 million years. They slowly honed their hunting skills, and began going after large animals around 400,000 years ago. The big beasts of Africa and Asia learned to avoid humans, so when the new mega-predator – Homo sapiens – appeared on the Afro-Asian scene, the large animals already knew to keep their distance from creatures that looked like it. In contrast, the Australian giants had no time to learn to run away. Humans don’t come across as particularly dangerous. They don’t have long, sharp teeth or muscular, lithe bodies. So when a diprotodon, the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth, set eyes for the first time on this frail-looking ape, he gave it one glance and then went back to chewing leaves. These animals had to evolve a fear of humankind, but before they could do so they were gone."
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That’s great, but what you’re describing is jobs and growth. Housing is another area where Seattle has failed to manage its resources, so I’m not going to argue that affordability isn’t a problem. But you won’t solve it by stifling growth, which is literally what many in Seattle are advocating. But that security and opportunity you’re talking about, that’s jobs and growth. You can’t argue that the free market has been so successful at creating jobs that you don’t need to worry about it any more. The market forces that brought jobs and booming growth to Seattle can just as easily take them elsewhere.
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The new generation doesn't watch TV. TV watches them.
Here's a list of updated GDPR privacy notices. https://gdpr4saas.eu/providers-list
I think the perfect example is "The Expanse"

- Easily the best sci-fi show in 10 years(1)

- Latest season has a 100% score on rotten-tomatos

- The visual effects are absolute top of the art (2)

- The fanbase is franticly close to the show (look at twitter how much they interact w/ the cast etc)

- Season 3 and we are about to start the big turn of the story arch

BUT… Canceled by Syfy because not enough people catch it at the time they happen to transmit it into the air.

If this show would be on Netflix it could become on of the defining sci-fi shows of our generation. Now we have to hope Netflix or Amazon happen to pick it up before the team disperses. (3)

(1) seriously watch it… the first few episodes are a bit slowish worldbuilding but it gets really good

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yKn_EqA0ik (shitty rip unfortunately)

(3) Please sign: https://www.change.org/p/netflix-or-amazon-please-buy-the-ri...
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You might find the Oil Blog[0] interesting, there are a lot of interesting thoughts there about what a truly modern shell might look like.

[0]: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/
Feynman was wrong on his view. The same thing could have been said of him and physicists. Oh, you spent your time memorizing formulas when it could be looked up in 15 minutes.

This is a nonsensical point of view for two reasons. People in areas of their expertise tend to know a lot in that area off the top of their head because they have encountered this stuff so much that it has become memorized. That memorized knowledge comes from experience not a memorization exercise. It’s also nonsensical because if you didn’t have a core set of knowledge memorized in your area of expertise and instead relied on spending 15 minutes looking up each fact necessary to understand a given situation you’d end up wasting your whole day just trying to understand the meaning of the problem.
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I've found nitrile to be pretty durable - they're meant for protecting against needles and scalpels and things, so I'm surprised they're tearing on you?
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If you mean the comment, yes.
AI control is a false hope I'm afraid.

"Still, some AI researchers are exploring ways of ensuring that the technology does not behave in unintended ways."

There are two threats that are both problematic.

First is exploiting an AI's weakness, just like an SQL injection on the web currently. Then a powerful AI can behave in unpredictable ways because we trust the trained models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA4YEAWVpbk

The second is far greater. If we find a safeguard that will protect AGI-s from behaving in unwanted ways then there always will be someone out there who will just turn it off for profit.
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Professors taking sabbaticals to work at private companies seems to be a common pattern as well—and probably a generally good one for everyone involved.
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I feel like the death of dedicated servers has in part led to the rise in toxicity in games. In community servers, if someone was being rude or annoying they would get kicked. Nowadays you just hit the report button and hope eventually they are dealt with. In the meantime you're stuck with them until the next game.
Where are your users located? I built a tool to roughly measure latency between your browser and various GCP regions: http://gcping.com
I suspect that the person concerned knew that this was sketchy - and possibly was going to try and claim the full amount whilst buying cheaper ticket on the grey/black market.
Is there an easy way to run shell commands in Python, like backticks in PERL, Ruby or even PHP?

I'd really like to use Python more often, but most of the time it only complicates things with those verbose syscalls.
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> Why do so many articles anthropomorphism artificial intelligence?

Clicks. People click on things they can relate to. "We did some matrix multiplication that resulted in more insights" probably won't cut it :)
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Note in particular the extensive doco collection.

* http://www.os2museum.com/

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Yeah I was talking with some people about this a few days ago actually. The change is not entirely bad, though. For example, in my own case, I actually like the change. I'm not 22 years old anymore (as I was when Burning Crusade came out and I was at the height of my 'raiding career'). I don't have the time to join a raiding guild to see end-game content, and I don't have the time to sit in Stormwind spamming Trade to form groups for things. I like how the group finder makes it easier to just do the content and get some gear and experience the game without time commitment.

Of course nothing is free and as you've rightly pointed out it has come at the expense of the cohesion of individual server communities. The WoW Forums, back in the old days, were full of inter-server rivalries for raiders and when they brought in cross-realm matchmaking in the patch prior to BC there was some nice rivalry for PvP within server groups -- you could still only group with people from your own server but you would be matched against other servers. That's all gone now. It seems like it's impossible to know if you're even on your "own" server because of the way the phasing works now.

Anyway not sure where I'm going with this. tl;dr I agree with you but the change isn't entirely bad.
XQuartz and Emacs is open source, not MacOS. Checking other stuff ... lol, compare your grievances to windows folks and you'd have a nice grin all over your face forever :))

> my Mac freezes ... sound stops working

reinstall Mac OS fresh, erasing the drive. 99% you hacked your OS badly.
Count me out.

If you think we have problems with back doors in systems now, just imagine how that would go in a world of injectable RNA memories.

"So did you learn Chinese?"

"Yeah it was great!"

"Cool, let's go finish that Tor guide for oppressed Chinese citizens!"

"No, you know what, that project makes me feel really uncomfortable now, for reasons I can't quite define. I'm off now, gonna go sell my iPhone on eBay and buy a Huawei. Cya!"