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He could have tried harder. It's less clear that he could have succeeded. Remember that there was a coup attempt after he ordered the surrender when the war was completely lost.
Is Everything Old New Again? The debate about adult brain cell creation
Why not specifically enumerate the taxes that Amazon is avoiding? Sales tax is the only one I'm aware of, and that seems to be dramatically lessened nowadays as they build out more warehouses for faster shipping.
I see a lot of MAMILs (middle-aged men in lycra) on my regular rides. What I genuinely never see is them smiling- the person may change, but various levels of grimace is the universal expression. If they truly are enjoying themselves, they hide it pretty well.

I say this without judgment. I ride a custom recumbent, so it's not like I have anything against spending money on the hobby. But I do wonder what the drive is that seems to affect so many people the same way.
I've never understood the profound lack of drive and ethics it takes to automate your own job and then conceal it from your employer.

The worst jobs I have ever had have ALWAYS been the ones where I'm not contributing to my company in an obvious way, or at consulting firms where we consistently kick ass and finish our sprints early, and then goof off for days on end.
I wouldn't mind a non sophisticated boot display. A TUI can be superb if it conveys something interesting in a cute way (a bit like language design).

But mumbled sheared terminal output is none of that.
I haven't tried desktop Linux in a while, but it used to switch from graphical UEFI mode to text mode then back to graphical. Or sometimes it would switch between different graphical resolutions during boot, causing the monitor to resync.
Windows must boot in UEFI mode for it to work. It keeps the same display mode as the firmware left it in, and just animates the spinner in UEFI framebuffer.

The native display kicks in with the login screen. (For some reason, UEFI doesn't initialize my graphics card to the panels native resolution, so the change with the login screen is visible).
30k a year is around the median individuals wage also.
It would keep you busy for sure...
If you're just joining us, Arm very much sees the up and coming RISC-V stack as an immediate threat to the future of their business and is taking pro-active countermeasures

By any chance, does anyone know if Intel is funding RISC-V? According to the logic of "Commoditizing the Complement" one way of hurting a competitor is to make their product a commodity.
Just to add another anecdata.. A close friend of mine owned several Subway franchises. This was always a double edged sword for trying to figure out how to reward the best employees. Virtually every single time a person was given a significant raise, they asked for fewer hours. They were comfortable living on $X/wk and now they could make that working fewer hours. This is perhaps good for the worker but obviously bad for the store. The best employees are working less and less, decreasing the quality of work done in the store. This may or may not have had anything to do with qualifying for benefits of some sort. But it is a very difficult problem a lot of small business owners face.
Speaking as one of the people who originally implemented the Linux support for the Boot Graphics Resource Table (BGRT) which provides the BIOS logo, here's why both the BIOS and the OS want this:

BIOS vendors support this because otherwise the BIOS boots so fast (with modern system requirements) that they don't get as much branding opportunity.

OS vendors love this because then when you're waiting around for your system to boot, you're looking at the BIOS logo and blaming the BIOS, not the OS.
Looks like the Intro DL in PyTorch course isn't released yet, there's just a "notify me" link. I searched around but I couldn't find a release date. Do you know when the release date might be?
It would be a risky investment...

And there goes the "0.25% over the market", given that risk has an expense. We then have the answer: tiny investor upside doesn't overcome the risk, and high risk/low reward on the brokerage side means no one would offer it, and no one would buy it even if they did.
Well if you already use uBlock Origin you have multiple mode like this all with possible custom hotkeys if you want something like this
He also loved lasagna
Calling it "minimum wage" seems like a marketing gimmick. I believe Amazon finds themselves needing to raise wages because the other large employers are as well.

In other words, the unemployment level has finally dropped far enough that employees start to feel the benefits of competition. This is good news for lots of people, but not really a paradigm shift.. ?
Poor is where you must work to maintain your lifestyle.

Rich is where your money makes you enough money to a point where you need not work to maintain your lifestyle (but can choose to).
It's not just medicaid, there's typically a whole range of low-income benefits that have income cliffs. It's a little screwed that they don't phase out gradually with income, but that is often the way that they are setup. So it is possible to hit situations where earning an extra dollar on the books can cost you thousands...
OSX couldn't do that on a random PC.

Every distinct piece of Apple's boot process (firmware, boot loader, kernel, desktop) can have the correct video driver, be aware of the desired final video resolution, and trust that any previous piece has left the video card in the proper state. It all ships together.

The PC BIOS doesn't know you want 2560x1600 for your desktop. It just picks a mode suitable for the BIOS. If anything, the BIOS is required to leave the screen in VGA text mode. The boot loader faces the same issue. At best, a Linux distribution might decide to use a VESA mode, but that can't cover the desired 2560x1600. (VESA doesn't go that high)
The problem is that more technology also creates even more dangers that we would need to work on the same time. Whether we invest more or less in tech does not seem to affect the outcome, but how much of it is done with foresight and additional safety research.
Once saw someone build a CLI tool and distribute on npmjs.
Their install went something like `npm install -g mycli`. So in a way, they already are cross-platform.
Even beyond that, there's a huge space between "Keep their owners comfortable" and "Unicorns".
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Nice analysis, this makes a lot of sense. Higher market wages benefit companies with labor-lite models by harming their labor-dependent competitors.
> Silicon Valley is dominant in web tech, not in tech.

SV is dominant in web/mobile/cloud/social/productivity/AI/autonomous driving/electric cars/sharing economy and in foundational tech like programming languages, databases, kernels, and networking. This is in large part due to American graduate-level education in tech being vastly superior to anywhere else in the world, both in quality and in having its finger on the industrial and market pulse. (I've experienced high-quality graduate programs in other countries, incl. Germany, France, and Canada, who are just completely out to lunch in terms of what's relevant.)

I know I'm making some big claims here but in my experience as a elsewhere-born American graduate student, software engineer, and world traveler, this is pretty much true.
You know how sometimes you love an article so much that you are annoyed you didn't write it? This does a better job than I could have of tieing together a dozen threads of conversation that I've had with various friends for years.

I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The question "is there inherent nobility in work itself?" seems to be just as much a political divide as any of the current popular hot-button issues. Your gut reaction says a lot about the regional values of where you grew up, whether you'd ever support a basic income, and whether you believe that someone's refusal to work should condemn them to destitution.

The closest comparison is the attitude people have if they find a wallet. In Japan, you will get your wallet back with cash intact. Yet in the west, 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. Unless God shows up and declares one side to be ethically correct, it will remain a toss-up.

One thing I find fascinating about the article is that it's assumed the cleverness was the code written to automate. This is incorrect; the cleverness is in noticing when a task can be automated. Typically, the code itself is trivial.

Anyhow: automation is surely one of the best reasons every person should learn a little bit of programming. And even with that task accomplished, I suspect that the rate of people seeing the opportunity to automate will stay roughly flat.
Precisely. Programmers can only automate that much of their programming jobs.
> ow globalization and the sheer amount of information we have available requires you to either drastically increase your expectations of yourself or drop them all together.

As someone who grew up and studies in a third world country, seeing kids younger than me doing impressive things in Stanford for example is depressing as hell but compared to my peers, I am doing extremely well.
Having had mostly cheap bikes before, I finally ponied up the cash for a decent bike.

After the trip, I got into serious long-distance cycling for a few years, and bought a real road bike. You're right, it was night and day.
Pardon my language yet that is so fucking cool. Do you know how the app interfaced with the microscope and optical tweezers? I just love the idea of a simple api that controls this crazy complicated lab equipment.
imho a great sweet spot is turning most of that free time into learning new skills. It's fun, productive, and not frowned upon, even if the class has nothing to do with the current job.
In programming (and also in mathematics, physics, chemistry, microbiology, etc.), yes.
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Yes, I use all of those features and more. The built in stats are not as pretty as those shown and you don't get graphs but you can obviously do your own (and I do - the logs are very good)
I think your observation can coexist with Graeber's take. If you implemented a UBI, it seems reasonable to expect that most people would take the opportunity to take on some kind of "work" or self-development that is not tied to how they meet their basic needs.
How suitable is RISC-V for military use? If we were to redesign the F-16 from scratch in 2018, would be able to make it using hardened Arm or RISC-V chips in place of x86 processors?
I just checked on UA2154 LAX->BOS for today. United is already saying that there is a 150 minute delay (probably due to the weather) and upside is saying probably a 30-60 minute delay. [I picked this flight as I had to pick up someone at BOS last week at about 0115 in the morning. Ugh!]
Early in my career, the concept that someone might know of a showstopping problem and chose to do nothing left me appalled and feeling rather betrayed.

Fifteen years later I sit in meetings telling people (some of them still older than me) not to touch the stove because it will hurt, and I have to patiently wait until someone gets hurt before we can discuss the proverbial oven mitts.

The problem with doing something right the first time is nobody appreciates how hard it was.
That seems weird. I haven’t taken skiing lessons in years but I certainly took them, as many friends did, long after the time there would have been any chance of pro.

And I find it hard to believe tennis is much different. Lots of people take lessons who don’t have personal coaches in many sports.
Yes. In programming, laziness is a virtue. To some degree, so is the desire to work on interesting problems instead of boring problems. Those generally intersect to provide an enormous benefit to everyone.
Kind of? It's the only way that I know of for a laser to move a particle towards the laser's source. But it has some severe limitations: the force is extremely weak, on the order of 0.1 pN/(nm W); the particles have to refract, rather than absorb or scatter, the light; particles larger than 10 microns in diameter tend to be melted or vaporized since they can't dissipate the energy quickly enough.

I want to emphasize how incredibly weak these traps are. In order to apply a maximum force of 200 pN orthogonally to the path of the laser to a 1 micron polystyrene sphere requires approximately 1 W of laser power. Further, it takes about five times more laser power to apply the same amount of force axially (i.e., along the path of the beam) compared to transversely (i.e., in the plane orthogonal to the beam).
How much does data like this trade for on the black market, and do vendors tend to partition it or just pursue quick turnover?
Planet X discovered?
That’s an interesting problem because social support systems are thus actually pushing people into continued poverty rather than helping them get out.
Trump is already going after Bezos because of Washington Post and is still pushing a populist platform so there's no reason to believe that he would get in a way of a bill that targets Amazon.
> It isn't a surprise that voices go unheard in companies (large and small). If I had to guess, I would say the most common refrain I have heard from any employee who quit their job, it was "I tried to tell them what they were doing was wrong but nobody would listen, now look at where they are."

I'm always struck by how readily people equate "heard and understood" with "agreed with".

It's very possible that a person can be heard, listened to, understood, and then the actions they want not be taken. Just because a person is heard is not the same as that person being agreed with.

My advice for people is to take on board the difficult lesson that someone failing to do as you wish isn't the same as them refusing to listen to you. That your wishes or warnings are not acted upon is not the same as them falling on deaf ears.
They might be fighting for their future sustainable health as some issues probably already manifested themselves and reduced their quality of life. Such a training after a lifetime of not caring is no fun...
Absolutely.

I don't hand-create machine code. I don't write assembly.

I write in the highest-level language that still lets me fully specify everything I care about, and then all of the lower levels of code generation are completely automated. Programmers have always automated programming jobs as much as possible.
I remember reading about the Infinite Polygon Engine in Edge (UK video games mag).

Pleasantly described as twaddle on Eurogamer in 2003. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_republic_pc

Still disappointed!
I had many summer warehouse jobs doing picking and shipping/receiving. I busted my ass off with lots of manual labor and strict timetracking. But my co-workers were not exactly the brightest of the bunch: alcoholics, ex-cons, high school drop outs, poor English, etc. There's an entire bottom rung of society that most people ignore. Higher wages are for attracting and retaining better workers. If $15/hour ever becomes minimum federal wage, I bet Amazon would up their own minimum wage as well.
>This forces us to specialize in skills that will never deliver a 10x leap in innovation. The market for food service is saturated and we will never make enough to jump to the upper class.

That's the flipside of it being more stable. To make a jump, you need something that's higher variance, which IT sales certainly is.
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That's mostly a function of New York's extremely high transit usage. New York doesn't often split out walking from biking or taxis, but the mode share of biking + walking + other looks pretty similar.

Manhattan - https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/tran...

Downtown Seattle - https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/tra...
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Regards
I agree with all of your points. Noam Chomsky recently points out that when you walk into work in USA now, you're really walking into something akin to a communist dictatorship [1]. Private Governments.

[1] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/preface-an-interview-with-noam...
Hey Jeremy, will you update your courses to reflect the new API changes? I just started on your deep learning course, using pip to install the fastai library.
One thing that I find maddening about this topic is the assumption that people who automate their jobs won't take the new time they get back and put it to better use. For some, that could be learning skills or working on a startup, and others might just want to spend time with their kids.

That said, it seems incredibly wrong to judge someone for being clever enough to relax and get paid for it. And if someone enjoys relaxing as much as I enjoy coding, who am I to say that I'm righteous and they are a loser?
Nah i'm good on that. If it is not necessary for what you are doing then, no.
It's dual licensed, commercial Open Source. Not the first. I just love to see how every time a woman tries to do something in IT, trolls and gamegaters come out of the swamps to discredit the work. They act like it is the first time someone has done commercial Open Source and is somehow hard to understand and in violation of some imaginary ethical or legal canon.
That's probably IL2CPP, developed at Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/IL2CPP.html
sound NAND consistent
How marketing agencies rip-off their clients with CPA pricing?
Waste management is a huge issue in the developing world. During my world trip, I observed that even a remote fisherman island in the middle of nowhere has a lot of plastic thrash dumped into the nature. It might be hard to believe for you, but here are some observations I had:

* Most people don't even know difference between plastic and compost thrash.

* Most governments in developing world are dysfunctional. They can't organize for collecting thrash.

I wonder; would it be possible to enable waste management entrepreneurs all around the world with an app? Could people get paid for cleaning up thrash ?
Above the previous average. With the increase they all have, it may raise the average income in the area too, and they could still be below it.
That cultural difference certainly seems to exist. A few courses follow a book, but a lot don't I would say.

At least at my university (the University of Bristol), the Student Union had a formal seat (or multiple) at the table for pretty much every decision the university took (whether they were listened to is another matter, but they we're certainly there).

The relationship between the university and the students union was also pretty friendly. There was no need to march against lecturers, because the people in the departments whose job it was to work with student representatives were usually pretty happy to reduce course costs where possible. It's basically a win-win situation, so why not!
Woah check out that straw man argument! I think what OP was saying, which you may have missed, is that politically they don’t agree with unions. Neither do I. Unions appear to suppress wages, block people from jobs who are not members of the union, and engage in bullying tactics against those who don’t want to join. On top of the fact they take that money (util recently, forceably) taken from employees and used for political means which go beyond the purpose of the union! A lot of Amazon workers were threatening to unionize, so when I think the original post was saying is that the threat may have worked.
I doubt it's the color so much as it's "font-weight: 300;"... that's pretty thin. Removing that makes it a lot more pleasing to look at, in my opinion.
> assembly-like unsafeness

> I don't see why you would need C-style "arbitrary lines before and after the line that will not execute, reads from unrelated memory addresses will return arbitrary values" UB

This reason this happens is because we don't compile things down to obvious assembly, they get optimized. Each of those optimizations requires assumptions to be made about the the code. If you break those assumptions, then the optimizations can result in arbitrary results happening. Those assumptions determine what is and isn't UB.

Most languages just don't give the programmer any way to break those assumptions, but languages like C and Rust do. Thus, Rust will always have this 'problem' because it can/will make even more aggressive optimizations then C will, meaning badly written `unsafe` code will have arbitrary behavior and results from the optimizer if the compiler doesn't understand what you're doing.
I haven’t watched for years. But, yeah, in the Bizarro world I was going to end up on the show you can be sure I would be fanatically reviewing past seasons and seriously practicing any skills that seemed relevant.
What about programmers automating other programmers out of jobs? My employer's core product line is designed in such a way that it can be configured for specific customers via an API. Much of that work is done by "operations developers." The complexity of their work varies based on the customer's needs. We are currently developing a designer tool that will allow the configuration to be developed via a graphical interface that will allow much of the work to be done by non-programmers (and eventually the customers themselves). As the tool matures, it will generate the code necessary to handle more complex requirements.
That's such a bulls##t study. $15/hr is rent and nothing else anywhere within 15 miles. $15/hr qualifies for HUD rent control in Seattle.
Another example: PM Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore can code in C; wrote a Sudoku solver (even using bitwise operators) a few years ago.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B2G2LjIu7Wbdfjha...

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pm-lee-hsien-loong-po...