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The marginal cost for software is zero, the marginal cost for services is non-zero. This puts a floor under the price. People don't accept that they have to pay, rather they are given no choice.
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German as in language, not German as in the country. Vollgeld as a term also appears in German economic discussions (though mostly on the left, not so much in the mainstream).
Thought his name was Mueller...
The software might be free, but nobody acquires mission-critical software without a support agreement -- which is certainly not free -- unless they don't value staying employed. We might not like Diebold (or whatever name they go by now) but _someone_ has to be an accountable party for supporting electronic voting systems.
Interesting that you got downvotes for a statement like this on a forum supposedly rooted in the business of software.
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If your real goal is "unity and equality", then everyone should learn one language. Then, because different languages often foster different cultures, we will eliminate significant differences in culture which are so often the source of human conflict.

One of the greatest gifts any superpower bequeaths to the world is a de facto universal language, such as Latin in Roman times. America being so dominant economically and culturally has given English to the world, which has reached a level of popular ubiquity unlike the world has ever known.

This is a very good thing for the world.
Interesting post, but referring to people with college degrees as a "privileged, candied elite" shows some bias.

Besides the will to get things done, other important differentiators are knowledge, talent, and intellligence.
> Making predictions and not keeping score of predictions is useless.

Perhaps but I think you may misunderstand how these things work. "Nomura Instinet advising clients that the electric car maker's shares could rally 42 percent over the next year." is a sales pitch for people to become clients of Nomura and trade stuff. They have no interest in any one keeping score of their predictions. It's like "England may win the FA cup, place your bets with Ladbrokes" - not really about testability.
> "Fully backed" might make sense.

"Real" is accurate. When gold was used as (real) money, it wasn't "backed" by anything. It's just gold.
But that's where we end up at Dennett's zimboes (or even the Systems reply to the Chinese room, if you wanna go there :) ) - if they are completely indistinguishable, isn't our postulate "they don't have consciousness" completely meaningless and the conclusion simply begging the question?
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It's not a strawman, it's a counter example. Under his definition, a new gas station or restaurant clearly count as startups.
Love the link.

It is easier to find people willing to pay for software when focusing on Apple and Microsoft platforms.

How has been your experience regarding consumers per platform?
It's great to see this sort of tool open-sourced. I am excited by new tools enabling better algo/ML engineering workflows.

In addition to the infra management, it's quickly tricky to support qa/viz/tuning/debugging tools for very different sorts of algorithms/outputs/configurations/metrics. Do you see your project going in those directions?
>"Nobody has managed to explain me how self driving cars reduces congestion. It is space that is the limiting factor, and I do not understand how autonomous cars reduce the need for that."

Even if it works for just highway driving in good weather--which, in spite of overall skepticism about timeframes seems relatively close--it's hard to see how it doesn't put a lot more cars on the roads. I can't believe I'm unique in saying that I'd go into the city after work or head into the mountains for a hike more frequently if someone/something else were driving me.

Operating costs are still a constraint And those are higher than a lot of people assume if they don't really think about it. But easier driving will absolutely put more cars on the road.
You can replace NT with Linux (or Linux with NT) as well. Userspace has nothing to do with this, kernel has its API and the userspace is built on top of it
>Likewise, as a founder, you often need at least some investors that can help propel you forward in some way.

Which is the infuriating part, when the "investors" contribute nothing to the project but a tiny slice of money they didn't work for to begin with, and get vastly disproportional returns for it.
> I think you mean borrow. Loan would be the opposite.

Thanks, fixed.

> You're arguing that loans are useful. Nobody is arguing the opposite.

Like everything else, making it harder to make loans will decrease the amount of loans. It's not exactly a sliding scale converting between "the amount of reserves necessary" vs "the amount of loans available", but that's the basic model.

So arguing that we should go from a certain amount of fractional reserves, to effectively 100% reserves, will have the side effect of cutting down the amount of loans by a lot.

So the discussion needs to be "how much risk are we willing to tolerate, for X amount of loans".

However, I see most people in this thread (including your parent comment) who are saying something like "loans are bad". I'm trying to make the case that, quite the opposite, loans are inherently a good thing, it's the risk that's bad, but you can't cut down one without impacting the other, so you have to consider the tradeoff.

Maybe I misread your comment btw, but you're talking about digging holes in the ground and filling them up being a bad thing - I agree! But I just don't think that's what most loans are doing, certainly not the 90% of them that we would be killing! (I'm totally guessing on the number, but I think it's >50%?)
Because most want to get paid, not to pay for the tools they use.
Yes, jargon is just words. But words can clarify or confuse, enlighten or darken, convey truth or lies, exaggerate or be accurate.

As someone famous once said, “if you can’t explain it so your grandmother gets it, then you don’t understand it.”
You'd better start learning Chinese then!
Feedback invited – what do you think of this puzzle? Design? Implementation?
Exactly, there is some cognitive dissonance going on.
Is there a shortage of electrons I am not aware of?
Great idea about freeboard scaling!
@sedo:

A rich GitHub profile is like a college degree:
∙ It's a positive signal, one of dozens possible
∙ Not everybody has the time and resources to get one
∙ Having one does not necessarily mean you're good at your job
∙ Ignoring one would be silly
∙ Requiring one would be silly

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1005120664850743296
I imagine that 'programming the 6502' here refers to somehow creating code that the CPU executes directly, and so interpreted languages are automatically excluded.
Additionally, the author has also posted some astonishingly impressive Infinifactory projects, like building and delivering 10 "Anti-Javelin Point Defense" units in 48 cycles[1] (yes, that's assembly and a long-ish transportation averaging <5 cycles/unit), and an implementation of TIS-100[2] (including emulation of the CPUs and a 9-bit BCD display).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exaLS7Synkg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMnOEgbm2fE
> Its a style of programming C was built for, and not many other languages.

Rust seems well adapted for it:

> (1) Small number of functions, perhaps even as little as one.

One annoyance with that kind of stuff is that you'll get many small dependencies rather than a few big ones. Having a simple and easy way to acquire & maintain these dependencies is useful, and Cargo provides that.

> (2) No dynamic memory allocations.

> (3) No input or output.

That's pretty much what a #[no_std] (libcore-only) library is[0].

> (4) Define at most one structure, and perhaps even none.

That's the bit I disagree most about, but if that's what you want the language won't stop you.

[0] unless it's requires nightly and uses alloc directly but that's not too common right now I think
It would be great if you could use the same “engine” to make similar tools for other stringed instruments: bass, ukulele, banjo, cello, violin, etc
How about PCG? http://www.pcg-random.org
I'm trying to switch to DuckDuckGo today
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free as in beer is irrelevant - free as in speech that i can read, check verify and is what matters - so i would envisage (and encourage) a network of "certified in using votermachine-oss" contractors that can be called upon or paid for, in a retainer fashion, and most importantly some means of priming the pump
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Have you written a search engine from scratch before? There's a reason this is still a primary field for PhD work.
Direct link http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/publications/egal.pdf
Most of the spam on Twitter (and assuming on Reddit PM) are from newly created accounts. They follow hundreds of other accounts (follow spam) and/or post hundreds of similar tweets mentioning someone else (mention spam).
However morality suggests you should blame the party that caused the damage. Are working conditions poor in China due to the Chinese government which starved 15 million people to death as recently at 1960 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine), or due to Amazon paying people to make Kindles?
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I think you're right. It's full-reserve banking vs fractional-reserve banking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-reserve_banking
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"Privileged, candied elite" is just one end of the scale, yo. There are "Privileged, hard-working elite" too, in case that part wasn't clear. It really doesn't matter, if you've got the will to work, is the point.. knowledge/talent/intelligence: not finite resources, when there is enough willpower around.
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Well, if you bought something that says on the box that it doesn't do X, you generally don't get to send it back because it doesn't do X. Some consumer outlets may let you do this as a courtesy, but it's not ubiquitous and certainly not if you're buying from trade suppliers.

Also, for a 10-20m run, the price difference is literally in the single figures. The effort alone to send something back is (should be) worth more to you than that.
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That's extremely normal. My 4Runner's user manual is about that thick and it's all in English. It's a relatively small format, has lots of diagrams. But modern cars have a lot of systems, buttons, indicators, etc.
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A “GDPR Guy” isn’t necessarily snake oil if you had a person or a team that their job was to work with a DPA prior to the GDPR to implement previous data protection regulations.

That relationship is very important as it’s essentially a lobby.

However beyond that it’s very hard to definitely make any claims and currently also use lawful basis other than consent that are not tied to pre-existing contracts.

Other parts of the law like those which refer to anonymization including pseudo-anonymization, deletion and processing halt are also very tricky to implement currrently in a guaranteed manner.

For example if I pseudo or fully anonymize a piece of information what is the benchmark that i need to ensure that it’s complaint?

How resilient does it need to be against cross referencing? Specifically for examples how many additional pieces of information does one need to de-anonymize my information before my process is consider non complaint?

Do I need only to consider information that i collect or process in this benchmark? Or do I need to evaluate my process against any potential information that can be gathered about a data subject by any other party?
When I test-drove a Tesla last year, the system gave the impression of reacting to the outside environment instead of predicting it. It was always later in applying a correction than I would have been.

It would drift towards the next lane, and while not at the exact last moment - it would steer back slightly after what I would have done. Not confidence inspiring. If it had been an option, I would not have paid for it.
> Computers, being machines of will, equalise us all that way.

It's _complicated_. I mean, almost everything in society is complicated: it's like sphagetti code written by millions of people with no single coherent goal.

There's a degree to which what you say is true, and a degree to which it is false. The most obvious way in which it is false is that learning how to use a computer well requires a) access to a computer (obviously), b) time you can dedicate to learning how to use it, c) resources to assist with learning (this one is mostly solved by ubiquitous internet connections _today_, but that was much less solved even fifteen to twenty years back, when many of the current self-taught mid/senior experienced people around today were learning), and so on.

Tech is not a pure meritocracy, because not everyone has had access to the same resources or opportunities. I think that's getting a lot better - as this article flags up, the modern open source community is extremely accessible, and sufficient equipment to be competitive with the best is cheaper than it has ever been. With just a cheap laptop and a relatively inexpensive internet connection you're not _that_ far away from having the same tooling available as a rich professional, today. That doesn't mean that problems a and c are _solved_ by any means, but they're certainly better than they used to be.

Point b may not be something we can solve with improving technology, though, nor the thousands of tiny factors involved in whether people unconciously gain an attraction towards programming or pass it by. These are really hard problems to solve.

So, like, generally, I think we're _doing better_ than we were twenty years ago, but we still have a long way to go before we can unironically call tech a meritocracy where those with the will to thrive succeed and those without fail. Life is just more complicated than that.
This was pre-GitHub. I shared a resource for frontend developers that went viral. If I wanted to get noticed today I’d be writing libraries around something like React or I would pick a less well known project from a big company and start helping out.
Agreed. However, there are frameworks like Laravel that make this pretty manageable.
It's because obviously the shit I need to get my shit done should be open source or free by now, sheesh it's 2018 not in the dark ages however of course the serious business need I am fulfilling is novel and very deserving of a good chunk of cash.
I don't know much about these things and I'm making this up as we go but I wonder if we can use AGPL or a stronger version of AGPL. Basically, you pay for a subscription or everything on your servers that touches this software must be free and open source. Should work for researchers and students and there is a continued revenue stream. For example, require any software that talks to a rest API also be foss. With more people paying, the subscription can slowly become cheaper and more accessible. Thoughts?
Of course you have to check if the value exists. But you did not get my point.

If the optional wouldn't be an implicit boolean, you'd see compile errors on the locations you forgot to change (even if you use type inference).
its "vast" if the actual amount thats been collected previously is negligible and now its to be generalized to the whole population.
It's likely the government has your DNA, especially if you've been born in the US in the last 20-30 years due to newborn blood banks. An example of California having a database going back to 1983:

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/05/14/california-newborn...
> No, but that's not what rest means?

It kinda is, if there's no interaction back and forth the entire thing is completely trivial.

> It did accurately figure out that a file was CSS and to pain the DOM, JS is a program and to run it, to automatically display any images of the correct type and not explode when it sees a image of a type it doesn't know about,

Little of which is of any use to two automated systems interacting without human intervention, and the bits which are of use are not hard.

> it showed me actions I could click.

That's the useful bit when working with an API, knowing that an action can be performed and being able to perform that action.

And that's where REST falls down, because at the end of the day it's not very helpful or convenient at programmatically exposing and allowing these interactions for automated systems.

Again, very good when there's an intelligent and flexible meat bag at one end of the interaction, but that's not what APIs are for in colloquial use.
The proposal would keep the current money supply unchanged, no drastic contraction. Going forward, M1 would be directly controlled by the central bank
Instigating or joining a witch hunt is a form of virtue signalling, so online anonymity seems pretty irrelevant.

It might stem the tide of individual online harassment but that's not really 'mob rule'.
20% wealth tax per year? Think about what you are saying. The state would own everything after 20 years.
Intel SGX, if you trust Intel. But the amount of code that runs on SGX is limited so usually you'd run only critical parts there.

A practical example: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
This is all the reasons why I want to use your tool.

Thanks for creating it and I hope one day soon to contribute to your project.
Because taking it seriously and arguing with propaganda only legitimizes it. And I'm pretty sure people didn't come here because they think there might be a legitimate reason to restrict and police people online.
One guy willing to attach their name to their mobbing doesn't disprove the almost tautological idea that fewer people would participate in such mobbing if they were all forced to do so with their real identity. That's because right now both that wish to be anonymous and those that don't get to participate, whereas such rules would exclude the former group.

Even the event you mention probably depended on many being able to participate without risk, since one guy alone doesn't make for a very convincing 'mob'.

There are arguments for anonymity online, and I tend to agree that they outweigh the problems. I think it'd be strategically better to focus on these than try to attack the rather intuitive logic at the core of such calls for ending anonymity.
Does that prevent the usage shown in the blog post?

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Assuming this lot is located in a high-rent, heavily regulated area like SF or NY, why would you assume that a lot zoned for SFR would be assessed at the same rate as MFR, and especially high-rise development?
The idea that someone is going to spend an hour studying a user manual when they pickup a rental car at the airport is just silly.

I actually find it something of an issue with rental cars these days. Obviously the foot pedals, turn signals, etc. are well enough standardized that it takes very little to accustomize yourself with them. But environmental/entertainment controls? And then there's the fact that things like backup sensors may or may not be available in a given car even though you tend to start depending on them a bit if you have them.
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I cannot shake the feeling that you're mixing here employability and "being good at ones job" here. Whether a candidate will "get the job done" an employer can only learn after hiring a candidate, so it cannot be used as a recruitment signal.

I'm in this situation right now, where I've been always highly appreciated by the place I was working at.
I've also built a few systems used by a few companies in a certain niche, and always strived for excellency in what I was doing. That had resulted quick series of promotions and raises in my career. This has turned out to be of very little help for me when trying to look for a new job. For various reasons, I'm trying to look for a new job and it is impossible for me to find one.

I'm probably not very good at "selling myself" as I always thought my work should speak for me. My CV looks "average" - nothing special in there, just working here and there for x years doing y.

I'm finding myself at a pay level and seniority level that other companies just cannot justify by judging me by my CV, so in the end they decide to pass on me. Maybe it sounds like a good problem to have, but it's a very big problem to me with a significant negative consequences for my life at the moment.

What I'm trying to do now, is exactly trying to put up some impressive things on Github, speaking at conferences and in general try to "market myself" a bit more. I expect this to take quite some time before it bears any fruits, but I see no other way how I can get out of this situation.
> * Because of this, the actual GraphQL servers get less attention and there's less resources on building them.

By graphql servers do you mean graphql clients on the server?

I'd think there's not much resources on building them because the basics are so trivial, the composition features are rarely necessary so all you need is the ability to POST a query, and parse the resulting JSON document.

My experience of interacting with the Github v4 API was understanding how to make queries:

requests.post('https://api.github.com/graphql', json={
'query': query_string,
'variables': my_vars,
})

and then spending some time with the graphql explorer to know what "query_string" should actually be.

And then some code afterwards to check for errors and pull out the bits into "native" objects, but that would be no different in an other API style.
The linked code (https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG/blob/master/source/aesc...) uses Intel's AES instructions directly. Software AES would not be competitive with purpouse built PRNG algorithms speed-wise.
> a. I don't think the Bekenstein Bound is relevant here.

Yes it is. A system with finite volume can only contain finite information. A system with finite information can be encoded as a finite state automoton. Our brain is contained within a finite volume, ergo, our brain is at best a finite state automoton.

> We don't know whether consciousness is theoretically reducible to an algorithm or not.

We do unless you want to rewrite physics. Which some people do with panpsychism. There seems little compelling reason to though.
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> We had a debate at office about this. We had a lot of trouble untangling perception (or awareness) from qualia (which is basically a thing as experienced by a person).

This is the essence of the hard problem of consciousness: do qualia actually exist such that they are different than the perceptions that lead to them? Dennett thinks not, and that like all of our mental faculties, "qualia" are simply another cognitive trick to help us shift or maintain focus on important stimuli (or serve some other functional purpose).

An analogy I like to use is that qualia would be similar to how single-CPU computers can give the illusion of parallelism by rapid context switching.
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Most importantly. If you only tax money coming out of the company to individuals, any savings within the company can be invested tax-free.
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