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I'm not objecting to foreign nationals doing publicly funded research in the US. And I was not the first to bring up his nationality. Personally, I don't care what his nationality is. The initial irony I noted was that a US university had produced an open source project that is the chief tool of face detection on the mainland.
I remember reading that Valve is all self-organized and perf/bonuses are based on shipping. In that environment, is there any incentive for an IC to own something like software assurance / quality / fuzzing?
One of the main issues is that, because you compile things separately with a context-switch managed by python in the middle, if you pass a Cython compiled function to code that is calling compiled code (C/Fortran/etc.), then you still get a huge overhead. We tested this with ODE solvers, and things like Numba+SciPy odeint were still about 10x slower than they should be because of this phenomena ([1] mentions some of our tests). In the end, we found a very good reason to make sure the whole stack can compile together!

[1]: http://juliadiffeq.org/2018/04/30/Jupyter.html
brain.fm I really liked.

Unfortunately the Android app stopped working for me.

I've contacted their support, they were initially quite responsive but no solution yet.
Sounds to me like the problem isn't dismantling of gender roles and more that our society and workplace was designed for single income families. This is why many activists are fighting for paid family leave (including paternal leave), more flexibile work schedules, and affordable child care.
Jesus take the wheel.
From the article: https://github.com/DioJoestar/SteamCMD-GUI/blob/master/READM...

They don’t seem to have a *nix referral, but seems totally possible to make.
I guess it just comes down to at what number the effectiveness flips. I'd much rather spend €2 on a bar of chocolate for some kid I encounter who just heard that he's terminally ill or something, than donate that to research. (Though perhaps at that point it's the gesture that's most valuable, not the money.)

Of course, that's also not often a choice I (have to) make. I've a set amount of donations to a few regular charities, whereas a situation as above would "count" towards my regular daily expenses rather than charitable givings.

It's probably also related to always being able to do more. Yes, maybe giving €x to one of the Givewell organisations is more effective than giving it to Make-A-Wish, but often it's not a game of either-or. I'm sure a lot of people donate to Make-A-Wish because they encounter it and sympathise with it, rather than spending effort looking for the most efficient way to spend <arbitrary amount designated for charitable donations>, so it's not even a question of effective charity vs. MAW, but MAW vs. sitting there in your savings account.
I disagree.

Ive seen HSTS applied to things like Windows 10 updates, to prevent users from seeing what exactly your OS is sending to the mothership.

Ideally, we should be able to see exactly the content being exfiltrated, and choose to allow/disallow. But the moment we use tools like ettercap or mitmssl, it kills the session and we can't see the data.

HSTS seems more "self cutting" than useful at this juncture.
I wonder how regularly these vaccines are needed, or what is the frequency of demand for them? Maybe the drones will deliver other medical supplies as well?
Soon or later we will find out why it is a bad idea why a company shouldn't be everywhere.

There is a reason why we separated executive, judicativ and legestative.

But that's a lesson to be learned by blood.
If you provide a version that can be dynamically linked against a users' self-compiled QT version, can you release a statically compiled version alongside it and still be compatible with the license?
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It's not necessarily tech-related, but State of Play[0]. It's a documentary about Korean StarCraft players/teams and what it was like to be in the scene right after the peak of its popularity. It's easily one of my favorites.

[0] - http://watch.stateofplaydoc.com/
What job? If I do this I’ll run out companies to apply to.
A quick scan of the transcript didn't let me find what makes his plan "viable". The system is so bad that almost any plan is a massive improvement, but such efforts often end in squabbling over which system is the best.

Here in Canada one of Trudeau's platforms was to get rid of first-past-the-post. But he nixed it when he found out the committee was going to recommend mixed-member-proportional (which would probably hurt his parties chances) rather than ranked ballots (which would definitely help his party).
this discussion [0] showed up recently on the julia forums regarding what julia pacakges can be considered 'state of the art' ie. just don't have equivalents out there in other langauges and there was some interesting discussion, especially in the 3rd comment from Chris Rackauckas where he evaluated many of the unique things out there in the julia pacakge ecosystem.

I think the sort of pacakges showcased here is a good indication of the sorts of niches julia is worming its way into.

[0] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-package-s-are-state-o...
Julia v0.7/v1.0 comes with an interpreter which doesn't have any JIT startup time (because it's an actual interpreter). It's slow because it cannot use precompiled code yet, which is why it's not documented, but it's on the "more to come" list.
Trying to access any IP directly also typically works, e.g. 8.8.8.8. The redirect to that IP following the login is then of course broken/timing out, but that’s not really a problem.
Different OSes handle it differently. Windows tries the primary, waits 1 second and then starts trying secondaries.
The lowest end Grocer in my area is Safeway. Trader Joe's is still cheaper.
I do movie soundtracks a lot. Hans Zimmer, Bernard Hermann, and so on.
> to make private repositories of information that I can then query efficiently

You and me both :)

I still haven't gotten around to do much about it, but for example one thing I've been thinking about is to have my system integrated with my desktop so that it has some situational context.

For example, it would look at the programs that I have currently running.

Let's say that it saw that I had PyCharm open where I was editing some Python 3 files. Furthermore I also had Vim open where I was editing some HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.

It would maintain a list of all items that had been in focus during the previous 30 minutes or something.

When I then searched for let's say sort list it would look at the list and see that most recently I had been editing a Python file in PyCharm so result number 1 would be how to sort a list in Python 3. Before that I had also focused Vim with a JS file, so sorting arrays in JS would be result number 2.

Results:

1. Python 3. Sort list "a_list". In-place: a_list.sort(). Build new sorted list from iterable: b_list = sorted(a_list).

2. JavaScript. Sort array "an_array". In-place: a_list.sort(). Create a new shallow copy and sort array: let another_array = an_array.concat().sort().

And if the system was even smarter, it would also be able to know details about what I'd been doing. For example it could see that while editing a JavaScript file I had most recently been writing code that was doing some operations with WebGL, and before that I was editing code that was changing style properties and before that something that was working with Canvas, so if I then search for blend, it would use this information.

Results:

1. WebGL Lesson 8 – the depth buffer, transparency and blending. http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=859

2. Basics of CSS Blend Modes. https://css-tricks.com/basics-css-blend-modes/

3. CanvasRenderingContext2D.globalCompositeOperation. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

Something like that.

And because it's for the limited amount of things that I am interested in and developed for myself only (as opposed to trying to give super relevant information for every person in the world), it might be doable to some extent.

Here is a book that might be of interest to you; Relevant Search. https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search. I bought a copy myself but have yet to read it.
> Not to mention, your life is going to be pretty miserable if you're working two jobs and spending a lot of effort on living frugal.

Agreed. A few follow-up points:

1. Frugality isn't a binary state. There's a balance to be struck. Some people really do waste money on frivolous things that don't actually bring them much real satisfaction, and in that sense being more frugal is definitely worth it. But once you've eliminated most of the excessive spending habits, the payoff of frugality really starts to drop aggressively as you cut out more and more (diminishing returns). Skipping your $4 latte isn't really gonna change the game for you if you're trying to become Bill Gates.

2. Frugality to me is kind of the "lowest common denomitator" of financial strategies, which is why so many "experts"/"gurus" tend to preach it. "Spend less than you earn" is a dead-simple concept and worthy advice to a certain extent. But trying to increase wealth more and more by cutting out less and less is not really a great long-term strategy, especially if you're interested in achieving significant gains in wealth. It's arguably much more effective to invest time and energy into things that will increase your earning potential over time rather than fretting about small guilty pleasures or trying to squeeze a couple more basis points of return out of your portfolio of mutual funds. Things like: gaining a valuable skill that's in-demand; honing and improving those skills over time; taking on leadership/management responsibilities; starting a business; meeting and forming relationships with people who are smart & successful or at least aspiring to be; etc.

See also: https://xkcd.com/947/
Also why Nest IQ (which uses biometric face detection) isn't available in Illinois.
I'd agree with you on principle, but Cloudflare has thus far been a very trustworthy company with regards to privacy.

The more paranoid (or prudent, depending on your perspective) among us would run their own DNS resolvers.
_Murders_ of crows, right?
It's not just 5%. If you have any API which takes a higher order function, for example a differential equation or optimization package, then even if your code is compiled and the user's input is compiled, you still have to hit Python in the middle, and that context switch can be the most costly part of an optimized code, making Numba+SciPy about 10x slower than it should be. So yeah, Python + compiled code is not a viable solution in all cases, or in fact what seems to be most of scientific computing (but not data science where things tend to not include function input).

http://juliadiffeq.org/2018/04/30/Jupyter.html
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I've never seen a EA advocate berate a donor giving money to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

I do often see people injecting themselves into discussions of EA once they get defensive about their charity choices.

The people who seem to be judgmental are those who dislike how EA advocates choose to operate.
Check out "Towards a New Socialism", by the aforementioned Cockshott and Cotrell. Cockshott himself is a computer scientist and proposes planning the economy based on solving a linear system of labour inputs.
Since the latest purge, very few.

Noncontroversial youtube channels that I do enjoy:

- Lock-Picking Lawyer

- GCN

- Regular Car Reviews
Yea, I saw the headline and thought: “Guaranteed this is some already-rich guy spouting generalizations and philosophy rather than revealing actual, actionable tactics.” And, well... I was right. I’d like to see someone actually take a normal, unlucky person and connect the dots showing all the steps between this “advice” and money entering a bank account. Now THAT would be impressive.
I seek to represent those interested in a moderated and careful approach to moral dilemmas, where the restraints of ideological extremism and tribalism are left at the door.
"The mostly pure CO2 can then be sold to oil fields for use in enhanced oil recovery"

The CO2 is pumped under ground to force oil out.

"In these applications, between one-half and two-thirds of the injected CO2 returns with the produced oil and is usually re-injected into the reservoir to minimize operating costs."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery#Liquid_c...

Since this oil will be burned creating more CO2 the total atmospheric CO2 increase is probably greater than just a plain power plant with no capture.
If its truly your OS I think you can read all the network data you want to, including the key negotiation. Albeit its not the easiest thing to do.
You don’t even need to use a CLI tool or webpack. Just pull in vue js and use regular html/js just like jquery.
to use an analogy...

What is the difference between a natural death, physician assisted suicide, a government sanctioned execution, manslaughter, and murder?
Battery life, more free RAM...
Firefox automatically disables DoH if captive portal is detected.
The whole point of Qt is that you don't have cross-platform UI quirks.
I imagine it doesn't stay trapped in the ground forever either, at least not always.
In many cases the countries have asked for the bases though. This is still happening today https://www.armytimes.com/news/2018/05/29/why-poland-wants-a...
Firefox has separate captive portal detection code.
We have all these ideals about hard work but in reality the economy is largely a casino. With crippling student debt most young people have been hamstrung from the gate. Milleneals don't generate wealth like boomers because most milleneals were effectively born into indentured servitude with the exploitation over education. Sure you could try to go without a degree in 2017 but good luck getting your foot in the door to anything today without education.
The free performance lunch from ever faster hardware is over and that is saving native code for applications. The few percent hardware improvement each year is easily eaten by growing requirements.
“Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.

Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found.”

— Things You Should Never Do, Part I, (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...)
The link works for me.
Regardless of how it's done, I treasure my iPhone performing the facial recognition of my Photos library locally (10+ years of photos) as I continue to extricate my data from Google services.
What's the author's net worth?

Ask a group of rich people if they made their money in real estate, and most of them will say yes.
Techmoan is really a puppet channel that also has technology and kitchen appliance reviews. (All good!)
Sherry Turkle is an MIT sociologist. She has written several books about the culture of technology. I haven't read them, so I won't give recommendations.
The Pixar Touch describes the creation of the company and first few films that Pixar made. I especially enjoyed it because of my interest in computer graphics, but it's probably a worthwhile read for most tech folks.

Creativity, Inc., is another book about Pixar that's been recommended to me, though it was recommended as a way to learn about what successful management at a tech company looks like. I haven't read it though, so I can't vouch for the quality.
So they can hook new fans with the origin stories, then sell them copies of the previous instalments without having to create anything new except a fresh box design so the collectionists amongst the older fans will buy them again too?
> I have no mustache and was born with no silver spoon, Had to work my way through college.

My parents said this quite a bit.

Of course, my dad did blue collar labor for an inflation-adjusted $30 per hour (the same position today pays around $11 an hour), plus overtime and a pension. My mom was a part time waitress to pay her way through 4 years of college.

It was surprising how quickly they stopped saying that when they looked at the cost of a new house because they had to move. Or when they looked at what it would cost to put their granddaughter through the same college my mom went to.
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You're absolutely right.

At best, someone will resign.

More likely, the megacorps will be fined a token amount of money, and continue with business as usual.
It’s a real stretch to compare a reactive library like vue with vb6. Building uis in vue is a pleasure and you almost entirely avoid ui state bugs since you aren’t directly manipulating the ui controls (dom)
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Oh, moral relativism! How fun!

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is terrible. It is impossible to defend it by claiming it does a good job. So instead people fall back on "gosh you're mean" and "stop shaming me!" and "everything's like, totally relative, dude..." Seems you've chosen a combination of the second two.

Notice the contradictions in your comment. Effective altruists "value things differently" than you do. They care about efficiency and objectivity. Yet you're criticizing them for it! You can't have it both ways. Either it's wrong to criticize "people who value things differently," in which case it's immoral for you to criticize effective altruists for their values, or it's fine, in which case you have no reason to criticize them.

I've never met a genuine moral relativist (at least as most people use that term). I've met lots of people who claim all values are subjective, but never one who actually acts like it. They'll trot out that argument to escape from a tricky spot, but within five minutes they'll be right back to talking about objective morality.

I, for one, have no real problem with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It just isn't a charity. It's an expensive luxury brand of peace of mind.
I was referring to the Autoevolution post, not the Consumer Reports article. It specifically mentions a maneuver at 103.9mph.
Keeps the price of DRAM high, thus stimulating the semiconductor industry.
Just like there "could" be dinosaurs living underneath the earth's crust plotting for revenge against all mamals
Yeah. It's gone on long enough that I'm wondering the exact same thing. Of course, if it doesn't, that return to mean is going to be a real bitch to ride out.
Approval voting doesn't have the failed track record in the US because it hasn't been used. But necessarily, it is flawed.

I don't know if it's better, but to say "this will solve all our problems" is wrong. Provably wrong. With math and everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
I switched to 1.1.1.1 when it was released and since I’ve had multiple issues with free wifis where they would fail to hijack my dns requests to allow me to login to their portal. I Assume this is a good thing but can someone explain to me why this is happening and what’s the state on improving these wifi portals?

PS: sorry for hijacking the thread.
Less memory. Less disk space. When a critical bug is found in the electron runtime, you'll have to trust all those packaged electron versions get updated in time.
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please enlighten us.
If I recall right, Mr. M.M. defines retirement basically as financial independence, regardless of how you spend your time. Working because you want to is very different from working because you have to, so I'll buy it.

And as far as I know, he and his wife earned their money in tech jobs. The math is believable: let's say your household makes $130,000 a year (which I haven't done), and lives on $30,000 a year (which I've done... not fully voluntarily mind you but it wasn't hell on Earth either). You're saving $100,000 a year. In about 10 years you're a millionaire and could continue living on $30,000 forever without working. (Assuming 3% interest, which is doable without much investing effort, luck or expertise.) That's financial independence. Keep working at that point, and you only improve your lot. You can earn $10,000 a year as a full-time musician and live on $40,000. Or stay in tech and put 100% of your salary into principal while interest or dividends pay your living expenses.

Increase your monetary needs, i.e. your financial dependence, and it takes longer. Which is what most people do.
I wonder - to what extent does cooperating with gov’t on data collection act as insurance against being sued out of existence. IE - if you play nice and install a backdoor for nsa to query your data, will they influence trials? Obviously they would need to keep up appearances by allowing the trials to move naturally, but perhaps a well timed visit or phone call at the last minute could instruct a judge to go easy on damages — ostensibly for national security’s sake.
This is a good counterpoint and something my Dad points out often. He was very frugal, worked long hours and saved as much as he could so him and my mom could have a good retirement. She passed away at 42, so that never happened. He has so many regrets and wishes he invested more of his money & time in experiences with her while she was alive.

I think there needs to be a balance. The trend of working crazy hours to save as much as you can, living overly frugal, etc. will not always lead to happiness or fulfillment. I like to think of it as how can I optimize my time and finances for "life" rather than retirement. That doesn't mean I don't have a nest egg, it just means that not everything is going into that nest egg.
To live off of $30k/year, you only need $750k saved, not $1MM (@ 4% annual withdrawal rate).
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> Keep in mind MMM started with a sizable inheritance to kickstart his nest egg

Please provide proof of this. He's never mentioned it anywhere on his blog.

> currently works full time talking about living frugally.

This he has talked about: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/13/mr-money-mustache-...

The tl;dr for others is basically, what's someone who is hardworking and driven enough to retire at age 31 actually supposed to do with the rest of their life? Sit in front of the TV? Of course he's going to do some things he enjoys (writing, working on houses, hiking, skiing), and maybe some of those activities will make him money - but he doesn't need the money to maintain his current lifestyle.
It was brief enough that the tedious bits weren't a big deal, in my opinion.
I remember reading someone's observation about web dev/tech but using human flight as an example. In the 70's, people thought because they went from the Wright brothers to the moon within 66 years, by the year 2000 we'd have Mach 5 passenger planes and trips to other planets. But, what do we have nowadays? Passenger jumbo jet speeds have remained steady since.. the 70's/80's?

What he's trying to say is that the growth will usually reach a plateau, but people think it'll be exponential. IMO, Mr. Millionaire upthread is living the Bubble 2.0 demand for tech workers, and thinks the bubble will go on and he's going to the stratosphere...
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Bing bing bing!

Er, ughm. I mean,

Ding ding ding!