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If anyone from OpenAI sees this:

The one thing that really surprised me yesterday was when OpenAI Five seemed to pause the game. The commentators speculated that “it was learning” because the humans had paused in game 1 due to lag.

I assume that’s not right, as OpenAI five is not training itself as it’s playing (wouldn’t make much sense to add one more game sample to the billions it has already trained on).

I thought it was interesting that the commentators had this misconception, and was wondering what lead to OpenAI Five hitting pause.
There's loopholes. If you are married, your best bet is to convert all your cash into an irrevocable single premium immediate annuity in your spouse's name. Your spouse's income doesn't get taken by Medicaid to pay for your expenses, it's not a gift since you're purchasing something of equal value, and it's not an asset because you can't cash it out immediately.

Basically, the strategy turns $100k into something like $6k/yr for the rest of your spouse's life (depending on age and gender), and makes you eligible for Medicaid. That said, you probably want to buy a slot in a nursing home that accepts Medicaid first, then "run out of money" and apply for Medicaid once you're in the nursing home. It's illegal to kick you out if they accept Medicaid and you're transitioning from private payment to Medicaid.

That said, nursing homes are hellholes, and I'd rather die with relatively minimal palliative care, in my own home, with friends and family visiting. That doesn't require BS like this. There's some circumstances where the Medicaid route may be better, so it's nice to know of this option.
Did anyone see these privacy changes?
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/p/android-9.0-c...

* Limited access to sensors in background

* Restricted access to call logs

* Restricted access to phone numbers

* Restricted access to Wi-Fi location and connection information

* Information removed from Wi-Fi service methods

* Telephony information now relies on device location setting
I've only seen a few episodes due to my viewing options. In Canada it's on broadcast TV but it is bumped sometimes or I wasn't available.

The TV station also streams episodes but it's at 480p or lower on the Web and it's interrupted every five minutes with three minute long ads, plus you can't jump ahead or back. It's also available on CraveTV streaming service but that streaming company is terribly buggy.

But I can see myself liking Discovery (I've heard never call it STD) if I can get into a pattern of being able to watch it in sequence.
I am approximately 100% certain that attempting to modify the contract you sign with a retail bank (short of being a private-client customer) will be met with an offer to consider other banks that might have a contract you agree with.
As odd at is - this[1] design has a couple elements that have been reproduced in the real world.

While the exact 2wd system shown in the rendering would have some real issues, 2wd mountain bike systems do exist. They can rely on impressively strange chain routing[2], a system of gears and internal shafts[3], or just an electric hub[4] (which is admittedly, not really the same thing).

As far as the one-sided frame goes, Canondale makes a one-sided fork called the Lefty[5], that's in mass production and reasonably popular. One-sided rear triangles only seem to exist on motorcycles, and there's an interesting discussion here[6] on why that's the case, with an example of a one-off "righty" bicycle.

[1] http://www.gianlucagimini.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Gian...

[2] https://www.singletracks.com/blog/mtb-gear/all-wheel-drive-m...

[3] http://christinibicycles.com/

[4] https://newatlas.com/easy-motion-evo-awd-big-bud-ebike/54434...

[5] https://www.cannondale.com/en/International/Innovation/lefty...

[6] http://forums.mtbr.com/general-discussion/why-dont-we-have-l...
Thank you very much. I'm very tired of the saturated and overloaded interfaces
I don't really see any difference besides what appears to be your own personal bias.
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I agree, but I also wonder how much motivation is a factor.

What would happen if the author said after the first drawing: "this bicycle is terrible and this bike would never work. Take this seriously, think about the mechanics of it, and I will pay you 1000 dollars if you get it correct"

As in, these pictures are just raw memory dumps, with minimal cognitive filtering. When stakes are higher, cognition should kick in and fix lower level errors.
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yeah, I bought a secondary domain for my budgeting project on Saturday and as soon as I had the dns configured I ran certbot on the server. something like 30 minutes from finding a good domain name to having ssl set up.
> This in turn made it hard to explain what Hitler was even trying to achieve with the war.

Perhaps ironically, the best way to understand what Nazi Germany was trying to accomplish is to read what they wrote about it - which is pretty much tantamount to "teaching the Nazi narrative," isn't it?

WW2 looked very different from the perspective of each state actor. It even looked substantially different to a common soldier or citizen of each state than it did to the state's leadership.

The Nazi leadership wanted expansion of the German state to include all of Europe. Most of the Nazi leadership wanted to exterminate "undesirables" within the borders of that state as well - but to the German citizen drafted into the Heer in 1942, it was about keeping the Communists at bay, and as the war wore on, about keeping the advancing Red Army from raping and pillaging what they saw as their homeland.

Honestly, I don't know how we should teach it as a society. I know how I teach my kids - I give the best overview I can of the motives of each major state actor and then reference individual accounts of people living under the regime. I do my best not to assign right or wrong to their actions, excepting things that are obviously morally repugnant like the Holocaust, the Holodomor, the actions of Unit 731, and the Rape of Nanking.
> The population to whom this statistic doesn’t apply is doctors—they know when the marginal benefit of treatment isn’t worth it.

I would really like to have a source for this. Cynical me thinks this makes too much sense to be true...
any favorite websites / book about this topic ?

thanks for writing this
Perhaps Facebook should also scoop up my medical records, so drug companies can improve the way they advertise to me. I'm sure all those posts about my beer reviews will help my doctor diagnosis my chronic gout. Seems like a 2-sided deal.

/sarcasm
I think we're past focusing on proof. We need to focus on probabilities and insuring ourselves against possible or likely outcomes.

Reality check, we have a sample size of 1. So, if we get it wrong, it's game over and we mess up our planet for centuries or millennia. The question is how comfortable we are with being utterly wrong on that gamble. For me the answer is, pretty damn uncomfortable.

Even a 1 % gamble on getting this stuff wrong has a pretty significant chance of backfiring on us. Russian roulette has only a slightly worse probability. And to be fair, our odds might actually be considerably better putting the proverbial gun to your head considering what some scientists are saying. Are they 20% right 50% right or 80% right? I don't know. Is the water going to rise 1 m by 2060, by 2100, or later? I don't know. I do know that would be highly annoying for a lot of people and it would be awfully nice to live in a place that has dikes or is well above sea level by then.

I happen to believe it is probably ballpark closer to 95-99% but I'd argue even a 1% chance that they are not completely wrong about this should be more than enough motivation to do something about it on the off chance it is needed.

The number doesn't actually matter that much. What matters is acknowledging it is not 0%. We have a non zero, potentially very large chance that we are actively killing this planet and everything on it in either the next decades or centuries. That's too big of chance to just go "Meh, lets wait and see". As soon as you acknowledge that, opposing any action that mitigates that risk becomes madness.
cool extension - is it available in store?
Have actual cost saving numbers been published? I remember reading estimates back in 2016 or so of ~60% but I'd be interested in what the real numbers were
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Because it shows that they're more interested in riding the crypto hype wave than in solving real problems.
It sounds to me like a lot of issues were had. I'm sure Samsung isn't for everyone but as a poweruser nothing remotely compares to the speed, power and reliability Samsung devices give me.

My favorite feature is by far Samsung Pay, it's completely replaced my wallet.
I often wonder if there's a way to talk about this without the C word coming up, as it seems to quickly slide down the rabbit hole of definitions and what the substantive merit of 'censorship' is.

Okay, sure YouTube telling Alex Jones to kick rocks isn't censorship, because only the government has that power.

It used to be a go-to move of mine to remind the holder of that opinion that government (supposedly) exists as a stand-in embodiment of the will of the people. The kind of laws we pass (or allow to pass) are macro-indicators of what we value. Certain amendments are passionately argued as being just that-weirdly, except the first amendment. It gets all sort of special treatment that sometimes (operative word) looks like selective application of the argument of "only government" can curtail speech.

Lately though I'm beginning to wonder if a better argument against "only the government can enforce speech" looks something like questioning the power given to corporations (those private enterprises that are free to curtail speech as much as they like) to suppress or hide what Edward R Murrow called "unpleasant or disturbing information"[1] with how much power and influence these corporations have at large, comparatively speaking at the government level.

Or, said much more succinctly: I'm terrified of the eagerness to treat 'freedom of speech' as something that is universally, and singularly granted by the government-and I think it hides some really painful truths about the speaker that they probably would never admit themselves if pressed.

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[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39004-we-have-currently-a-b...
I kind of half-jokingly made one. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpepefy-making-tw...

It really doesn't prevent infection, just warns you about stuff that may be unhealthy.
Those images almost make it look to be a small abacus. Could more information be written if written as an abacus rather than binary? Stupid question I know since I don't know how an abacus works. But I assumed more information could be represented in the same area.
I guess you can cut and paste what you as a copyright statement which doesn't mean it's enforceable. I rather liked Allie Broch's one https://lizerbramlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Copyrigh...
Great to hear! Would love to see what you end up using it for!
What happens with the JWT if the rocket blows up on launch? How long(and how much $$$) would it take to build another one, having already built one?

Is this an instance where the government should follow the maxim from Contact: "Why build one, when you can build two for twice the cost?"
> it merely politicizes it and dehumanizes those who like the content

There's some pretty dehumanizing content out there, Alex Jones included.
> So basically you not only did not do your basic homework before arriving in a new city (which would also have told you that credit cards are less than ideal in Germany), you didn't even bother reading the informational material that's plastered all around the train station? Or just asked someone? Or at least, after failing to accomplish what millions of citizens and tourists do every day, try to hail another taxi while walking "several miles" (which is an insane distance to walk in a city for European standards)?

So basically, you see the value proposition of Lyft/Uber.
Which is effectively the point of the article.
"While Hyperledger is mainly an IBM and friends like project"

IBM must have a lot of friends then, including direct competitors like Oracle and SAP, and lots of small startups. :) IBM is one of over 250 members in the consortium, but in the developer community (where it really counts), they are a substantial contributor - I have no idea how many FTEs but there are dozens of IBM developer names in the changelogs for Fabric, Composer, and others. But there are hundreds of other developers contributing to the 10 different project at Hyperledger, and even on Fabric, they are less than 50% of the contributor base by individual and by pull requests. The development is all done publicly (I challenge the "lot of decisions and information is kept inside" claim) and who you work for does not matter, so it's really on the other companies in this space (large and small) to increase their contribution levels, not on IBM's shoulders to decrease theirs, if this is an important metric.

"in practice there is not a real alternative to proof of work"

Come back when you've learned something about how blockchains work somewhere other than with cryptocurrencies. There are many other effective consensus mechanisms out there, especially when you're not trying to solve the anonymous participation goal - and much more energy efficient, and with better speed and finality to boot.

"crypto economic incentive is what makes a Blockchain a blockchain"

No. Perhaps this is a semantics game, as lots of people pretend to be authoritative about this, but there are plenty of intrinsic motivations to developing a common system of record amongst a population of rivalrous nodes, even amongst parties who don't trust each other. If ten banks want to maintain a shared DLT to exchange bank wires, they don't need to pay each other a token to record a transaction. They just don't - the costs of running such an infrastructure are de minimus compared to all the other costs in adoption.

"The underlying philosophy of hyperledger is around federated networks"

False. Hyperledger, as a project and as a community, is a place for the collaborative software development around open source blockchain technologies. There are five different frameworks, including Fabric, but including others focused on different approaches. All projects have focused on non-POW consensus mechanisms, and most are an implementation of consortium models, what's sometimes called "permissioned" blockchains - pick your metaphor, but a consortium of entities governed by a lightweight governing mechanism, or be it a referee on a football field, is a much closer conceptual model than a "federated" network, for which there are already plenty of options.

Again, please do research, talk to people, if you have questions or concerns air them with the project, but please don't just spout what you've heard, or made up after you saw the announcement press release in December of 2015 and paid no further attention to.
If you watch the match or read their blog, you’ll see they frequently say removing those restrictions is their top priority. They simply wanted to see what level the AI is already at by playing top-level humans for the first time. Hence the name “benchmark”. In fact, they have been removing restrictions at a fairly rapid pace already.
To answer your tangent:
Only two major browser vendors also operate a distinct major trust store. If you're Microsoft (IE, Edge) or Apple (Safari) this is de facto not a problem since you also control the OS.

For Mozilla their NSS is almost completely independent of OS trust stores, with the special case that on Windows (maybe macOS but I'm not sure) they offer to look in your OS trust store for any additions you've made to the OS vendor store and trust those on the rationale that you must have had some reason to do that.

For Chrome the OS trust store is used, (on Android this of course is Google's trust store but on a desktop it isn't) but, Chrome layers some Google policy rules on top.
Pie seems consistent with their infatuation of the number and it just makes sense from a dessert naming perspective.
"I'm doubtful about this outcome, though."

Whatever the real outcome is going to be, it is likely that you'd be doubtful of it, though. People's track records on predicting the future weren't all that great even before tech took off on its probably-only-sigmoid-but-still-kinda-exponential-right-now curve.

"Can you think of cases where current popular sentiment is similarly charitable toward the past?"

It would be very hard. I am of the opinion that our current culture is excessively cut off from the past. While not every culture in the world necessary did things like ancestor worship (an extreme of past honoring), our culture is historically very unusual in its outright contempt for the past. And it makes me rather uncomfortable in a lot of ways because I think the 20th century is replete with too many examples of cultures going full on "let's start from a blank page and create the future that should exist!" and failing... several million bodies later.

I find myself wondering how much of it has been the natural severing of experiences due to the aforementioned changing tech (how can I emotionally attach myself to great-great-grandpa's experiences, when he lived his entire life on a farm, hardly moved from his village, and couldn't even imagine the job I currently have, etc. [1]), and how much of it is social engineering by people who essentially don't want you to find out just how many current political ideas have actually already been tried and failed, utterly and horribly. At the same time, in a lot of ways, I think we've changed less than we think, and our contempt for the past may well be one of those things that the future will have contempt for us for. For instance, it's obvious that we believe in many ways that we don't need "privacy" anymore, but it's not hard to see the current furor around social media as the beginning stages of laboriously recreating the need for privacy from scratch. It will be a different idea of privacy than what we had before, but having to tweak the lessons of old is something every generation has to do. How much pain could we have saved ourselves, though, had we tweaked our ideas of privacy instead of throwing them out entirely, only to rediscover them? (And that's before the totality of what the social media giants are doing has really come out and penetrated into the body politic. I suspect social media's troubles have just begun.)

[1]: Not just guessing that, by the way. That's what my family's genealogy has turned up. Seems like they moved maybe once in their lifetime, but certainly my ancestors were not travelers. My grandfather had enough of a hard time understanding my interests; I would appear all but an alien to my great-great-grandfathers.
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A bit of a take on Cunningham's Law. Implementing the wrong answer as a means of others reaching the right one.
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> That suggests that the life of Java as Android's primary language might be really coming to an end

Huh - how did you get to this conclusion? What would be the alternative? Do you mean Java was essentially "better" because it had access to all the undocumented APIs while other languages didn't?
IIRC their yum repository is having some GPG signing issues as well. This isn't increasing my confidence.
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I have absolutely no data to back this up, but I'd be surprised if Alex Jones's listeners are especially unintelligent to a statistically significant degree.
I'm not seeing anything preventing the web from continuing to work like you describe. What is stopping these loose collectives from publishing and discussing among themselves without outside interference? You imply that governmental neglect and bigcorp greed are to blame, but I'm not understanding how you connect those two things.

Self-publishing on the Internet is cheaper and easier than it ever was in the past. So why do people flock to Reddit, Facebook, etc? Because they are even easier and cheaper, are easier to find, and have a built in audience. But none of those facts relate to governmental regulation or lack thereof, that I can see.
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