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> At this point, I'm resigned to indie development while I work a part time non-tech non-profit job to make rent. Currently working on a MacOS desktop app that might make a few bucks, but probably not.

Am intrigued by your comment, as my interpretation of what you want and what you're doing seem to be at odds with each other.

My assumption is you want to get a paid developer role, whereas your side project seems to be satisfying personal curiosity (otherwise, you'd definitely already have an answer to the question of whether your Mac app would make a few bucks). The latter is immensely important in its own right, but quite likely won't solve the first problem itself (again, if it were to, you'd have a surer answer to whether it was likely to make money or not).

I flamed out of university without a degree at all, but put myself in places to get a CMO role (which I ultimately hated, but still...) at a startup because I aligned my side projects with what I wanted from my career rather than just things I wanted to build. It's a hard choice, but it's one that probably has to be made.

Also, your nanodegree looks to be unused as-is, with little link to the work you're currently doing (sure, it's an app, but Android/mobile to MacOS/desktop is about as far as you can stretch the "app" link) - how are you framing it with employers?
First of all, that later talk you linked to, doesn't really prove anything. It's really a plea from a journalist to MS. He wishes they just talked to him, but they just refuse to do so.

Whether or not the allegations are correct/plausible, I feel it is very important to have them. At this point, we can't say for sure as to what the eventual goals are (since they won't talk openly about it), but it is always good to have criticism, especially considering their past as a company, not just the CEO...
"Agricultural innovations primarily coming from the United States [...]"

Love this "everything is invented in the US" syndrome.

"Justus von Liebig was a German chemist who [...] has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_von_Liebig
The shipping container. You can read The Box - a book about how much effort it took to make it accepted.
This just goes to show that badly designed security measures can be worse than no security measures at all.
Unfortunately, a lot of people are too short-sighted to avoid acts that are only negative in the long term.
I've been mesmerized with FP and algebraic typing as soon as I've tried Scala. But now I end up wondering why would anybody choose something other than Clojure or Scheme.

Nevertheless I currently use Python because 1. really great and alive library ecosystem (Pandas, Numpy, Keras and PyQt especially) 2. everybody codes at least some Python, this way whatever I write it is actually going to be hackable by everybody.

I just hope Reason is going to be more successful that F# in going mainstream an will actually replace JavaScript for React developers at least. I also hope an option to force "type hints" (I put them all over the code) is going to be introduced in future versions of Python and Hy language support (Hy is a Lisp over Python, like what Clojure is for Java) is going to be introduced in future versions of PyCharm.
The problem with conservatism is thinking there isn't enough to go around.
You made me look. Apparently, there is a tool on Windows called NetLimiter (https://www.netlimiter.com) that can do this. Discussion: https://superuser.com/questions/261440/whats-the-closest-equ...
Ah, I didn't realize there were humans in the loop. Could also be that they are overworked and have just a few seconds to decide. Or a friend was being silly, or accidentally pushed the flag button.
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Maps.me is great and better than Google.
They very clearly made the argument that discriminating against older workers is illegal. They're wrong that a program encouraging students constitutes discrimination against older workers, but their post has some substance.
The chargeback system is the only reason I’m willing to patronize small retailers at all in many circumstances. If it were really a net negative for them, they wouldn’t accept cards at all.
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Dude you’re a fool. There is such a group, it’s called sleep deprived people.

Stay up for five days and I literally guarantee you will hear voices and realize that jaynes theory is 100% correct.
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Yes, I think decks have to be personalized. But I don't agree the argument that "writing out in pencil then transferring back to a Spaced Repetition Software" is better than "pre-made selections of reading material". For Incremental Reading, you have to select the important parts; there's no pre-made selection. It's just like highlighting; the material isn't pre-highlighted.
I think the most important thing is the thought process: thinking which part is important and which isn't. The medium, whether you are doing it in paper and pencil is no difference than doing it digitally.
Because money = influence. Linux has none and Microsoft has lots. It's really that simple.
I guess situation where you are privacy-conscious enough to inspect all the source code up to and including the CPU microcode? There was post in this thread about FreeBSD being available. If there is a Linux kernel for it, then a distribution might be not too far off e.g. Gentoo (I’m not aware of any POWER9 Linux distribution as off yet).
Echoing another commenter, mouse studies don't necessarily replicate in humans. In fact, it turns out that the mouse => human replication rate is rather poor in many domains. (Turns out we are rather different in many ways!)

Additionally, most cognitive traits come with tradeoffs, so increasing ability in one area may decrease it in another. For instance, some nootropics (modafinil) temporarily improve cognitive performance on complex tasks, at the expense of speed. I don't remember the specifics, but I've also read about similar tradeoffs regarding memory, where boosts in short-term memory may reduce the ability to form new long-term memories. The brain is pretty well-optimized on average, when you consider the unique properties and limitations of its constituent parts/materials.
Perhaps unification of QM and general relativity?
Are there any actual implementations being worked on?
It's hiring underrepresented groups, not minitories - Asians are a minority but are barred as well.
But now you’re no longer “without a third party.”
> eventually consolidating to a single standard

What about the reverse?

https://xkcd.com/927/
You can do that. There are many different editors for OSM depending on your use case and level of experience. I use josm which is the more advanced option.
a RPI uses so little power that it makes no sense to do wake-on-lan, and indeed the RPI doesn't support wake on lan at all. Just leave it on and idle.
Yes. Being German, I'm as critical of the current US policy and government as anyone - but I am incredibly grateful to and mindful of the Marshall plan and what it did for Germany and Europe.
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Well, the very reason for them to finally unseal that war chest was the realisation that the time of easy money has gone.

The party is definitely not good at doing anything greatly nuanced, totally true, but they aren't even trying. They seek the next big easy money opportunity - buying up the third world, in hopes that they can repeat the same wide brush strokes approach at economic projects they used at home.
Systems like HN and Reddit work (when they do, and to the extent that they do) mostly because they _don't matter_.

If you tried to use them for things that people care more intensely about, like determining what gets to be part of The Academic Literature, then they would instantly become the subject of concerted efforts at manipulation. Even now, HN has to deal with voting rings and the like; it would be much, much worse if people's careers were riding on it.

It's Goodhart's law: as soon as a measure becomes a _target_ it rapidly stops being a good measure.
That's true, I didn't really considered what the same money would buy me in x86 hardware. Still I think the point is that many of us would like something like a Power9 for our desktop, but we honestly don't need that level of hardware, so we hope for something around half price to justify buying what is essentially a luxury item.
For any "How do I...X?" question involving connecting two pieces of software together in a different way, the first thing I try to do is look at the API(s) that connects them. In the case of a program and the OS, it's the system calls, device drivers, and standard libraries.

There have been efforts to provide the capability of running a program without an OS before, but any such effort is going to need to provide the system calls and standard libraries used by the program, and the infrastructure to support it (device drivers, management, etc.). That that point it becomes a mini-OS.

An example is Erlang on Xen. Xen is more often run with a guest OS running inside it, and then the program runs within that guest os. The http://erlangonxen.org/ folks made Ling (https://github.com/cloudozer/ling), software that enables an Erlang BEAM VM to be run directly on Xen, and thereby run a single Erlang program on Ling.
> I think the prevalence of scripting languages in large systems today is a quirk of history.

Disagree. This is happening because software development has become an enormous industry, and is now subject to Sturgeon's Law.

If the bulk of software development really was about correctness and quality rather than rapid development and low skill barriers, we'd be seeing a lot more Ada and OCaml, and a lot less JavaScript. But here we are, and it's not going to change just because someone makes a technical breakthrough in the design of functional programming languages.
I think SA had a big bulk import a few years back. Unfortunately while this got the map off the ground quickly it fails to build a strong local mapping community.
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It reminds of the biblical story of Israel, when the people were fed up with the corruption of the judges, who ruled the land. The judges were a sort of a "checks and balances" system. The people were not happy with the sorry state of the system. They said, other countries have kings and order, we want one too. So the most prominent prophet listened to the will of the people and said, "ok, you will have a king, I will anoint one for you, you might not like what you get though".

To me the current situation rings like an echo of that, people want strong leaders to fix their problems.

"History never repeats, but it rhymes" -- probably not Mark Twain
> we have utterly terrible leaders with little education and less common sense

I don't want to rain on your parade (I'm not Indian), but from outside, despite their impressive on paper CVs, your past leaders were even worse, based on their results.
Agreed. Add hosting and the fair cost is probably in the region of 7%. That's still very far from 30%.
> I expect it is quite more nuanced than his description of dead/not dead and summing up the material on both sides.

It is a bit more nuanced. There are heuristics ( breadth and depth searches ) which assigns positional values and also opening and end game database searches. Using remaining material values is the most basic form of chess engine. If that's all stockfish did, most chess players would beat stockfish.

I built a very simple chess engine for my AI class. I started off with the basic "material values". Then added basic heuristics. Then added database lookups.

Now with neural networks and machine learning, chess engines are even more sophisticated.
Isn't this very similar to what Escrow does?
How do you propose to "learn as many words as possible"? What is the actual method? With Spaced Repetition Software like Anki or SuperMemo?
Implementing challenge response in your javascript that you serf yourself is, for the general public, not much different from trusting them to hash it on the server.
"For good or for bad, Javascript is the lingua-franca of computing today "

a very strong claim. There is a lot of 'computing' outside the browser.

lingua franca of front end web dev, I grant you, (almost by definition 'front end web dev' is mostly javascript).
If "apt install bind9" (or whatever package manager your distro uses) and editing ~8 lines from 2 text files to make it a secure caching forwarder was too complicated I don't think this would be any easier since it's, at this point, still out of the norm.
> Because those people are already being paid anyway - their full time jobs, whether that’s PhD student, lecturer, professor, or industrial researcher, includes the job of reviewing and editing for publications.

This is inaccurate. This is not a part of a postdoc's job description, for example, in the UK. The university does not pay you to do this - you have to review on top of your day job.
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AKA, "up to the whims of a bureaucrat"? My god the pro-GPDR brigade is running wild.
India will probably not be alone. There's plenty of countries who are fearful of China's rise (the US, Japan, etc.).
I would agree. The BIOS/UEFI POSTs the system, and then passes execution to another program (usually a bootloader). At that point, the BIOS is no longer performing the tasks that an OS does. It's not scheduling tasks for the processor or handling I/O at all. Instead, it switches to what's basically an ACPI interface with functions that can be called by the OS. It's like an old TSR program.
The users are often banned at slightest opportunities

Do you have any evidence whatever for that?
Surprises me - pie charts are properly used only to display proportions, and in a pie chart the area is proportional to the angle is proportional to the length of the arc, so there should be much less scope for confusion? We should all have good intuitions for our share of the pie or pizza, no...? :-)
So the bill I linked to includes a link to a PDF of the original bill which passed, if on the other hand there were changes you would see a pdf for each version of the bill.

Florida has a search function for their statutes that allows you to then select the year/version of the law. If the Law was amended in a given year in the annotations there are “redline versions” of the law pre amendment, with changes and final.

So again similar to what you describe but as you say...limitations to existing systems. Obviously standardization is also another problem, it would be hard enough to work with federal code and 50 states but the reality is each county and city/municipality can have their own bodies of laws, rules, regulations and ordinances...so thousands of bodies of law, in the US alone.
The fundamental problem is that you can test whether the drug causes people to report that they're not conscious, but you can't test whether they're actually conscious or not.
> Can you imagine going to the cinema for a news broadcast?

In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, cinema did in fact deliver news.

> Regular newsreels were exhibited from 1910 and soon became a popular way for finding out the news. [0]

Newsprint and newsreels existed side-by-side and while newspapers did go into greater depth, newsreels at the cinema were widespread. I don't have exact dates at hand, but newsreels at the cinema stopped with the advent of broadcast television, an example of one media largely displacing another.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film
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Gold standard might be the "closest" example, but is it a reasonable one? cyber-currency differs in significant ways - You don't need to bite a bitcoin.

Also, without knowing why the difference (wrt recession cycle) exists, there's no reason to think it has anything to do with the gold standard, which could just be coincidental (ala "spurious correlation").
https://github.com/rhysd/vim.wasm

Very cool. There are some graphical artefacts and some features that don't work properly (like search highlighting), but it is the real deal!
And sometimes fixes to incorrect information get rejected. My first edit was to correct an error where a restaurant had the website of a nearby shop listed. The website contained no information whatsoever about the restaurant (to my frustration, because I wanted to eat there).

My removal of the website got rejected. I think I needed to offer proof of some sort.

Adding info is easier: my second edit was adding opening hours to a shop. No proof needed. My submitted hours were not the official opening hours, because the shop always opens 15 minutes too late.
At the moment, it's at 20% of its highest value from just 11 months ago. To me that's a sell off.
I agree. Unfortunately the complaint is mostly about hating a market dominated by people who increasingly won't pay anything for goods that aren't actually welded in place but will grudgingly fork over money in the form of eyeballs (i.e. ads) and "tricks" (in-app purchases, hidden fees, etc.). Personally, I'd mostly prefer honest up-front pricing (though subscriptions make sense for some things) but the market mostly doesn't want that.
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Somewhat tangential: HTTP/3, which will also be using QUIC

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-13
I'll have to disagree with that. Linux has significant usability problems, and pretending that it has none is not going to help anyone.
I agree that JavaScript isn't going to change significantly, but fortunately it can be treated as a compiler's target platform, not only a source language.

We're not going to see any language supplant JavaScript in the browser. Dart got nowhere, and that was with the backing of Google. But there are already toolkits out there that compile down to JavaScript. GWT, for instance.
I wish I had more experience with the BBC. On the surface, it seems like a very interesting experiment. From outside, I imagine BBC would be different from other broadcast television stations in that it doesn't have do ads (BBC outside the UK is different, I believe). How much of a difference does it make? I'd love to hear some insight from people in the UK.
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Google Maps is a great app, but the data is sometimes lacking. Open Street Maps is far more accurate at bicycle routes in and around Amsterdam, for example. Google regularly misses optimal routes.
"As devout Muslims would refuse cigarettes and alcohol. this is seen as one way of finding out whether they were extreme." So any belief, even ones that could be considered healthy, that differs from the state will be punished with re-education at the whims of arbitrary individuals.

Sounds like they're replaying the Cultural Revolution and that didn't end well. There's no way all this infrastructure and planning will be let go of; it'll take on a life of its own because that's human nature. Once they're done turning on the Uighurs, who will they turn on next?
I got the sarcasm and found it highly amusing, more so with the amount of comments about egg quality!
I'm still waiting for the hyperinflation Ron Paul and his adherents have been promising for....decades now.

If the best they can do is point to Zimbabwe or one or two other developing nations, then I think the concerns about governments printing money are either overblown or entirely off the mark.
As the parent didn't reply, I will fill in:

People trying to change or improve the publishing process _do_ understand academia - most of them work or have worked in academia.

The reason they're not engaging with you is likely that that your model is so obviously broken, and arguably unethical, that they don't want to help you or work with you - they want to put you out of business. Personally, I think that is an entirely reasonable response to the behaviour of academic publishers. Publishers have had more than enough time to reform.
The marketing for Android tablets is such that most people associate it with sub-$100 7-inch screens with awful quality, suitable only for keeping a 5-year old entertained.

That's actually not all that off-base. Aside from Samsung and Huawei, I don't think there are any recognized companies even building large, high-res Android tabs with Pen support. And even Samsung seems to be doing it ceremonially to compete with the Surface Pro and iPad Pro, both of which I'd guess sell far better than the Galaxy S3 tablet.

Even so, I doubt there would have been a movement towards using Android tabs as full laptop replacements. I'm an Android user and at no point did I think I wanted to use it for work; I got a Surface Pro, which is much more suited to that task.
> FLOPS/kg seems like a fun stat that we should probably calculate more often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium
There are very few punishments in Western democracies not subject to some level of judgement call. Until we've got AIs, questions like "was this deliberate" and "how much non-monetary harm was caused" will require a human (or group of them) to make a call.
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Well providing numbers for something that is illegal and happens on shady websites is difficult, just as nobody can tell you exactly how much cocaine enters the port of Rotterdam each year. But I found this to be an interesting read.

https://www.xda-developers.com/piracy-testimonies-causes-and...
I can't say enough good things about this library. The library is fast, the API is great, the features are awesome, and it is actively maintained. When I was evaluating the library for my use case, I submitted a PR for a small feature on their roadmap, and the maintainer had gotten back to me, made suggestions, and merged the PR in a matter of hours.

Shout out to Max Franz for being such a dedicated, responsive, and competent maintainer for such a cool project!
It was thought to be like that - back in the day when everything used interrupts for syscalls, hence 'system' was mentioned. (Apple II had fixed address calls, though - no interrupts)

It's quite the same as DOS being 'disk operating system' - it was able to drive the floppy and provide a file system.
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There is no such thing as an individual who is not susceptible to hypnosis because all hypnosis is self hypnosis. In fact you had to hypnotize yourself into believing that you’re not susceptible to hypnosis, which proves that the opposite is true.

On another note—

Actually, you do hear voices. You just don’t notice them because you assume that they are your “inner voice.” If you just gave the process of thinking your thoughts a different label, you could easily call it “hearing a voice.” I’m not trying to be a smart ass here, don’t you think that this is true ? IMO, the idea that “thinking thoughts” and “hearing voices” are just different vague metaphorical labels for the same internal phenomenon makes a lot of sense.
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Maybe you learn "more". But you learn very different things.
well, if it's just like stackoverflow, possibly. although one might take votes solely as a popularity count, and not put any serious academic value to them. for academic value the number and quality of reviews and citations would be more relevant.
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