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> I don't really appreciate the debate tactic of pretending that I made a stronger claim that I actually did.

Ahem.

> I'm specifically countering the notion that new language development can be "irresponsible" because it "could" divert work away from other projects. What I'm saying is that it is not necessarily true at all.

I (OP) agree that it is "not necessarily true", and my post deliberately made the very weak claim that "in some cases" "it could be irresponsible". I don't see how I could have made the argument "more measured" without eliding it completely.
The US is hastening its own decline in AI, says a top Chinese investor
Your comment reminded me of this quote even though it might not entirely fit the topic at hand:

"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematicks and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, musick, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelaine.” John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780.

As I said, it might not apply to this overall discussion but I've always found it quite poignant. Sadly society is more apt to ridicule those who still pursue liberal arts due to it's economic opportunity costs. While technically correct I believe that should come from the viewpoint that this could be considered a sad failure in humanity's progress.
> So, lately I find that I can't really sleep when I read news about how the planet will probably be unlivable within 100 years

> How do we make sure humanity survives the next hundred years?

There are things that are entirely in your control, partly out of your control, and entirely out of your control. I think that guaranteeing the survival of the human species is approximately entirely out of your control. So there is not much point in worrying about it. Easier said than done.

Focus on the aspects of your life that you have a higher degree of control over and where you can make a positive impact.

I doubt that global warming will cause the human species to become extinct in the next few hundred years. But we might see collapse of a few civilisations. It's happened quite often in the past to other human civilisations. Not the end of the world.

There's a philosophical perspective on this that struck a chord with me when I read it years ago - perhaps it may help you find peace:

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-ho...
I would bet they'll be given even less hours now, but at $15/hr.
This isn't exactly a case where a machine beats a game, but if you want to get an idea of how such a machine would need to think, and if you want to see someone apply a lot of interesting algorithms to brew a sequence of steps to speedrun a game with much more complexity than Pokemon, check out Artjoms Iškovs's series where he comes up with a speedy approach to become the head of all factions in Morrowind:

https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/travelling-murderer-problem-p...

Absolutely awesome.
The key for this type of setup is to make sure that they understand your job is like that of a security guard. You're there for when all your carefully coded alarms start going off. You're not there to help shovel the sidewalk because then you might miss your alarms.

As long as that is properly understood you can get a contract that is permissive enough to allow you to work on something else at work when nothing is burning. Even if you have to offer a reduced salary, it's worth it.

Another option is to go the work on OSS route, especially on tools you use for work. After a couple years of doing semi-fulltime OS work you'll be commanding double the salary.
A great story. Also, for some reason, it shook me deeply. I still feel dread when I think of it. Such hopeless scenario for humanity.
However, in geology the phrase "Earth's core" means the metallic part of the earth that is made up of liquid and solid Ni/Fe at the center of the Earth. So most geologists think there is little to no radioactive elements present in the core (although some think potassium might be). In that case, the Earth's core does not generate heat, but the mantle does.
About games, maybe the reason is lack of value types in Java which stresses GC and creates pauses. .NET works OK, Unity is the most obvious (cities skylines, kerbal space program, etc.), but also XNA, MonoGame, SharpDX. This creates an ecosystem with healthy amount of libraries and other resources.

About native interop, I know Java did it on purpose, but as a developer I don’t care much about the rationale. I’ve heard about upcoming Valhala years ago (announced in 2014), still not ready.

Related to both of them, .NET core 2.1 already has SIMD support. Some parts of it is experimental, but it already works more or less OK, esp. on Intel/Amd.
Re: Modern web dev is fantastically more productive and efficient than it was 10 or 15 years ago.

I have to disagree. The esthetical expectations of the user/customer are higher now. If it's not "in style" they think you are sticking them with old tech. And you have the desktop/mobile split that frameworks only get half right and require days of black-box fiddling to get working right on all devices. And JavaScript gizmos often "break" as new browser versions or related components come out. It's almost as bad as the "DLL hell" that desktop applications used to face.

From a purely utility standpoint, I was much more productive back then because I only had to make it work and be easy to use, not "pretty" and animated with toys or the latest style fad.
For sure, but there are diminishing returns. My rule of thumb is that understanding two levels of abstraction below whatever you're doing is usually worth it.
or if you like functional, http://fable.io/ compiles F# to js to run in the browser
>It's still barely above poverty in anywhere that's not rural.

I included that.
> there exists a large contingent of people who believe with all of their heart that God wanted them to find it, that the person who lost it should have been more careful, that they are just having a lucky day.

A large part of how America sees work, poverty and wealth was historically influenced by the Protestant Work Ethic, and I think that lingers quite a bit today. I think it's why a lot of people view the poor as lazy (because obviously if they weren't lazy, they wouldn't be poor, right?).

If you fervently believe hard work will lead to success, how else do you explain the unsuccessful?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic
>> There's also a specific effect to the inclination and argument of perihelion.

To get a significant inclination (ie away from the low inclinations of the inner planets) and a drop in the perihelion (ie highly oval rather than the round orbits of the inner planets) you need a close pass of a large body. As the little think comes close to the big thing it is thrown randomly, away from the nicely round orbits of most things in the early solar system. So if you find a body with those two features, you know it passed close to something big somewhere our near the highest part of its orbit. That is the evidence of a large object out beyond pluto.
I suspect other companies will have to match Amazon's wages. Walmart's employees are looking at Amazon and wondering why they don't get the same wages. This will become the de facto minimum wage at least in retail. This is good news overall.
I don't understand all the fuzz. It is a commercial fork of Mayan EDMS done with the express permission of the core developmers of Mayan EDMS. https://forum.mayan-edms.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64
sorry, my bad; I linked the wrong extension. I forgot I had two installed.

Try this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...

I use the collapsable threads feature a lot too.
Just looked up some stats. Apparently the mean length of a bike commute here is 4.5km. The bulk of all bicycle rides (for transportation) are under 7km.

The source is not in English:
www.modelcenter.transport.dtu.dk/-/media/Centre/Modelcenter/2017-Faktaark_cykeltrafik_180523.ashx?la=da
Both Firefox and Chrome have a Copy As Curl feature which is really useful. I agree with you though, the UI sucks.
Look up Myron Ferguson's 'Drywall' book - it's the bible on it.
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Not necessarily.

While the Windows kernel is supposed to be written in C, my understanding is that the majority/almost all of the rest of the system is written in C++.

Also, I think a good portion of OS X is/was written in Objective C, which some newer portion being written in Swift.
> True that. I want to see the output of OpenRC when I boot to make sure it all looks familiar (I only reboot after a kernel upgrade really). Then I login and type startx.

What's wrong with dmesg?
That's been happening ever since the first computers. The first programmers hand-entered machine code, then someone automated that with an assembler. Then the first compiler automated much of the work in writing assembly code. Since then we've gotten ever more powerful languages, libraries, and all sorts of tools. None of this has reduced the demand for programmers.
An integration with lastpass or other password managers would be great. At the moment I have to copy my passwords into my apps in station. I am sitting here hoping station will keep those logins active.
Of course that is a wikipedia article! Thanks :)
For the retro folks among us, JetBrains' PIM, Omea, is still available from them. [1] It's free, but not supported. And not as feature packed as the PIM described here.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/omea/
The avionics and EW systems are probably being redesigned on a much more regular basis than ... well, than almost any other component of a fighter.
I think it's more difficult than that. They are happy with their current living situation. In over a decade of owning Subway stores not a single person took their newfound wealth/leisure to improve their lot in life. When they left it was always to other Subway-esque jobs. Nobody took night classes or anything of the sort. Sure, some people took a job at Subway while they were in college or whatever, but what I mean is that getting that big raise was not a deciding factor in taking the steps to improve their financial situation.

From there I get a lot of mixed feelings about projection. Who am I to tell someone that they should increase their income if they're happy with their lives? Or perhaps they don't understand/see a path from here to greater economic success? If that's the case, we have a different problem. I really don't know, it's very confusing. It's hard to consider public policy in a way that doesn't project my own sense of values on others.
The PC BIOS doesn't know you want 2560x1600 for your desktop...

That's why we switched to UEFI around a decade ago; I'm pretty sure it doesn't have all those problems. So a modern PC can boot directly into the correct resolution.
This is very compelling. Can you add a local dev server as one of the tabs? If I do work on localhost:3000, for instance. I could see myself using Station and pomodoro quite effectively.
This approach is already optimal for up to around 40 or 120 packages, depending on whether you want to support old Docker versions.

"Where before you wouldn’t bother trying to have your application and database images share layers, with Nix the layer sharing is completely automatic."
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A few years ago I was working for a QA department and trying to apply my programming skills wherever I could. There was a weekly report that someone in upper management produced to send to their peers, which was basically two filtered and cross referenced CSV dumps. I briefly took over that task while the manager was away, and was able to automate it pretty easily. I even produced a small GUI that made it easy for the manager to use later. Ultimately the manager chose to keep doing it by hand for 40 hours per week. I left that organisation a few months later.
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I've always seen this as the _point_ of what I do. The promise is there in work by Church, Gödel and Turing, but Grace Hopper is the one who made it tangible. She called the thing she's responsible for a "compiler" but today we'd understand it as a linker.

Grace understood in engineering terms what Turing et al. grasped only as a mathematical principle. We can get the machine itself to take the tedious parts of programming the machine and automate them, so that we're left only with some higher level task, and then, we can just automate that too, this recursion continues forever.
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"is implicitly anti-innovation and anti-market."

Based on what are you saying this? As long as the rules are the same for all competition in a market will still happen.

I also hope that the GDPR will move the focus of innovation away from sucking up more and more data to do better advertising to other areas.
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Intel Capital participated in SiFive's Series C funding round. Besides that I don't know of anything else Intel has done for risc-v.
You have a couple of options to consider:
1. Install a modern Linux distribution on the bare metal, get https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker and run the GPU-accelerated container https://github.com/Paperspace/fastai-docker
2. Try running the Ubuntu Hyper-V image provided by Canonical/Microsoft

P.S. I'm considering building a DL box based on Ryzen 2600 w/ GTX 1070Ti, so could you please share your experience with Ryzen and Linux.
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Even if it is motivated by an attempt to gain competitive advantage, it's still a good thing. If the competition can't find labor at less than $15 an hour, then they'll either go out of business or start offering competitive pay. It's an example of capitalism working both for business and employees.
> web

Invented in Europe, ca. 1989.

> Mobile

Mostly the Nordics

> cloud

Yes, Amazon is really good at that. Located in... Seattle

> social

Preceded by many countries we are now left with a handful of dominant players, and fwiw we could miss them and I wouldn't lose a single nights' sleep. But yes, Social is something that SV is dominant in.

> productivity

Which packages are we referring to here? Productivity is a bit broad to assign to SV in its entirety, or even dominance wise. There are so many players in that space all over the world that I'm not sure that is a credible claim.

> AI

Yes, probably you are right there. But the University of Waterloo, Canada is where the vast bulk of the current AI wave originated.

> autonomous driving

Is an offshoot of that AI effort mentioned above.

> electric cars

True again, and it couldn't happen anywhere else than in California.

> sharing economy

I would be happy to get rid of all of it.

> programming languages, databases, kernels, and networking

That's pure rubbish. These have been contributed too all over the world and SV is not currently dominant in any of that.
Something that I haven't seen mentioned before, though I've seen on my account. There's a time when I noticed that Facebook still had my number, so I removed it. When I removed it, FB replaced my number with a random number (which looked like a number of someone else in my country). Might have been a bug at the time, as that's not the case now.

That event when I knew that I had removed my number, but still found it active; made me not trust Facebook.
Has Tesla reneged on the "open patents"?

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
That point is definitely now! Not only for kids but also for ourselves (as some of us don't have kids). If we can give ourselves more idleness to fill up with things that we enjoy, we should be pursuing that. Some people simply cannot see beyond work as you say and can't even fathom the idea. They don't matter. Let them work sixteen hour days while we do four or six or even less, play soccer, write, paint, travel, or even passively watch tv. Why not? To each his own. The great thing is that some of us have this freedom and we should indeed take advantage of it. We should provide it to our kids if we can. And the masses who want to work 80 hour weeks? They are free to do that too. It's the people that don't but are forced to work like that that we should try to help and lift up.
> But this will consume CPU and RAM and will make the page user is browsing work slower.

Not necessarily -- Web Workers enable you to take advantage multiple CPU cores. You could, potentially, offload some of the rendering work to a CPU core that would otherwise go unused.

But I agree, if you went to the extreme case, pre-rendered everything the user could click on and utilized all CPU cores, then you'd definitely create a performance problem for yourself.
Your OP makes several generalizations, and I disagree with almost every single one of them. So no, from my perspective, your position really isn't measured at all.

> I don't see how I could have made the argument "more measured" without eliding it completely.

Exactly.
There's a great list of products that should exist, but they're expensive and time consuming to do well, and nobody but JetBrains knows how to get people to pay for them.

Even Microsoft is giving away most of their dev tools these days.
I’d hope they all do. If you get an experienced developer they should want to automate all of this. My former boss took the model of improving processes and revenue, then taking a cut of the difference ongoing. He had financial freedom already, so this was the best use of his time. With some companies you aren’t given all of the information to make the right decision for efficiencies sake, or they write such a rigid spec there’s no room for improvement. Personally I love spending the time where I can see it saving so much time for the end. You might not need an agency, you might just need a developer to help write what you want to create and work a spec that you can give to an uncreative team/agency to create. Agencies make a decent amount on the discovery phase, so you’d be cutting that out. At that point you could go directly to someone that could implement it.
Gödel's proposition "I'mUnprovable" cannot be constructed as a fixed point of P |-> ~|-P because ~|-P has order one greater than the order of P.
It's almost as if profits are nothing but exploitation and that you're nothing but a tool for the governing class.
I agree. I like to work. I think most people do. But, people also like to work on what they want to, when they want to.
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> Your buying into the argument people who are poor deserve it some how.

Not sure how you got that impression. If you thought that the 'large enough to stimulate people to learn' is a factor in that: I was thinking of kids looking around them seeing zero advantage of having an education might not be incentivized enough to acquire one.
Ecco was really really good. Pretty sad that this type of software has pretty much stopped being developed.
Leverage isn't free: what you gain in returns you lose in risk. For housing, this is the risk that the bank can foreclose and take the house if you miss a payment, or that you can end up underwater and trapped in a location with no jobs if the housing market declines under your equity.

You can leverage up the same with stocks, just by buying them on margin. The risks are effectively the same: if the stock declines, the bank sells it off and seizes the collateral to cover your debt. The rates are also not that different: 5.25% vs. about 4.75% for mortgages now. People are rightfully skeptical about the risks of buying stocks on margin, but they never think much of the risk of foreclosure when buying houses on mortgage.
We all know why, RISC-V
I've taken up woodworking as a hobby after not doing much in that vein since 7th grade. Using hand tools, not power tools, and taking time. One of the leaders in this movement is Paul Sellers [1], who couldn't be kindler and more inspirational. One of his key points that he stresses is that "It's not what you make, but how you make it."

I know I'll never come close to the skill level he exhibits, but I hope to approach his level of sang froid and equanimity.

[1] https://paulsellers.com/
Matt Bruenig draws the same conclusion here. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/01/16/small-busine...
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That’s creating efficiency, that’s what we do. Or am I missing something?
> But no one said the demand is rational.

If the demand isn't rational (for example, actual need for physical shelter), it doesn't require a lack of supply for a market to become overheated.

Markets can be very strongly affected by greed and mass delusion, an actual lack of supply is not required to drive prices up significantly. You could have a fun pedantic argument over that last statement if you don't want to differentiate on the different kinds of demand, but my point is that demand can vary dramatically with little change in underlying fundamentals - human emotion is more than enough.
The key to this, and I meant to edit this into my comment, is to be super-responsive to any requests. Always be willing to drop whatever you're doing at a second's notice and help whoever it is that thinks you might be able to help them out. The word gets out and everyone in the company just loves you.
No, it’s not the Incentives–it’s you
So, just using a 1/r relation for potential energy, and the ratio of perhelion to aphelion, this thing has only ~3% of the potential energy at the outermost point in is orbit compared to the innermost point. That's practically miraculous on its own, isn't it?

The paper authors are actually arguing for a Planet X which has had periodic encounters much weaker than that at a distance of a few hundred au.
I don't understand all the fuzz about the "open" part, the licensing, or the price. It's a commercial fork or the Apache licensed Mayan EDMS done with the approval of the Mayan folks.

https://forum.mayan-edms.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing

Apparently not the first paid fork of Mayan EDMS

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mayan-edms/paid|s...
I've been in a good many debates about the practically of lambdas and parallelism for typical application development[1], and I stand by my claim. My opponents failed to give sufficient practical examples that stood up to scrutiny. Granted, some of it is subjective, but the fact it's subjective means it's not a necessity.

True, sometimes it's good to have more than one way to do something, but sometimes it also creates a bigger and unnecessary learning curve. In the cases I looked at, making better OOP would result in a simpler language than adding lambdas, at least in my judgement. I'd be glad to debate it further, but this is not the best forum for such.

[1] Some argue the same languages should be used for systems software and applications development. I don't agree.
You may want to avoid quite a few large websites then, lest you end up executing code that Facebook employees wrote (React).