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It's no more the age of info overload but sensory and stimulation overload.

All cultures have a handful of the same stories they replayed to themselves for thousands of years. Now we somehow believe all this bullshit "variety" is required to entertain ourselves. It isn't true and it will break down.
Quantum accelerated deep learning would be awesome too.
"Conspiracy theory" is an interesting take. Are you suggesting Google's motives here are purely altruistic...solely to improve the web?
What exactly are "leads" in this context?
> In the US, FDIC is primarily funded by fees banks are required to pay, and there is an actual fund held by the FDIC to cover this. However, if the fund is exhausted the FDIC is backstopped by the federal government, which would step in and cover any losses.

Moreover, it's “frontstopped” by the government facilitating takeovers of failing banks by healthy banks that will cover deposits.

> In the US, some portion of the funds would indirectly come from the central bank printing more money, but only to the extent that it would not cause that sort of spike in inflation

That's true to the extent that large bank failures are likely to be correlated with (and may contribute to) the broader economic conditions which would promote easier money policies at the Fed, but a major point of independent central banking is creating separation between government fiscal needs (like paying off deposit insurance claims) and monetary policy.
They might also mean "go to the non-AMP version", which is my main issue with AMP.

I'd like to get the non-AMP page to e.g. see user comments (if any) which are often omitted from the AMP version, or for posting the non-AMP URL to friends or social media.

Sometimes there is an easy way to go to non-AMP page, depending on how you got there, but most of the time for me there is not. For example, this article just appeared on my Google feed on my phone, with no way to open the non-AMP version: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/wda7jm/where-does-he-...

My preferred option would be to have AMP permanently disabled on my phone.
> As opposed to broadcast and cable?

Which is why nobody bothers checking out broadcast/cable shows anymore. They have become synonyms with crap.

Netflix is playing a dangerous game here by letting content quality slip. And I don't think it's about the money, they obviously have it and are willing to spend it, but there is only so much acting/producing talent out there.
Quantum computers have nothing to do with QKD as far as I know. Instead you need things like this : https://www.toshiba.eu/eu/Cambridge-Research-Laboratory/Quan...

Which detect photon's one at a time (also there is spitting out of photons via lasers) The idea is that you have an infallible alarm for when the optics have been tapped, which means that you can then send lots of symmetric keys and know that they can't be intercepted (provided you are only sending them ~50km. So it's nothing to do with cryptography (really) either - which explains why cryptographers aren't that interested in it.

Also it's not a fugazzi as there are several working testbeds in the wild.
> Interactive Advertising Bureau

Why does this just sound terrifying to me?
You ever see the way artifacts are treated at the British Museum? Despite all the signs, people can't help but put their hands all over everything.
This piece is hard to evaluate: it seems more like an expression of hope or a manifesto than something I can engage with.

It argues that the idea that there is an ineleminable imperative core in our programming model is just an assumption today, and I agree.

But that doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong, just that we have to wait to prove or disprove that assumption. People should keep trying to disprove it, but I can’t fault the majority of developers for continuing to take it as an assumption.
But we can imagine a program that reads a file byte-by-byte and where some internal state of the program changes depending on those bytes. This program could even exit when given three “#” characters, which might mean you need an internal counter for each “#”.

In that sense Mario isn’t really that different!

(Subtly, a purely functional Mario game has more inputs than just the controller. You’ll need a clock signal for the Koopas to walk around at a given pace, but that’s not too different from a file of sequential numbers that’s read at a particular speed.)

Backstory: I used to think that front-end JavaScript programming was too stateful and inherently messy to be compared with, say, handling HTTP requests. But the Elm language (and to a lesser extent React/Redux) has shown me that the messiness is accidental. You actually can apply the techniques of purely functional programming to create arbitrarily sophisticated GUI programs. Here’s a simplified version of Mario in Elm: https://github.com/avh4/elm-mario.)
I disagree, there are already quite a few manufacturing facilities in the bay area. They don't grab the headlines but when you drive through the industrial parts of town they are all there.

There is the Tesla plant (fairly high volume), there are three glass/window factories in Oakland (fairly high volume), probably a dozen printed circuit board houses of various volumes, a number of tool and die shops around south SF and Berkeley and elsewhere, at least two sheet metal fabrication plants in south San Jose. Intuitive Surgical has a surgical robot factory in Sunnyvale I believe.

Nothing like a Foxconn "city factory", that is pretty clear. There is however the Gigafactory which is outside of Reno (to your point of being easy to get to).

There is a lot of activity though.
> iPhone X is supposed to have a resolution of 2436x1125 pixels, but the product doesn't contain true pixels with red, green and blue subpixels in each pixel, according to the complaint. iPhone X allegedly only has two subpixels per pixel

Stating resolution of OLED screens has always been a lie, (akin to CCD/CMOS sensors).

But suing apple for that now, after many years of other manufacturers have done that, seems very lets-sue-apple-like.
I haven't heard of this axis before.

Can you point me to some further reading, thanks.

I'm not in any high-risk categories for asymptomatic chronic infections, so I'm not sure this is a concern.

There remains a question: should health, asymptomatic, fit / active, non-smoking, non-drinking, individuals, undergo a barrage of tests at Medicare's (public health insurer in Australia) expense?

Also, I studied nutritional medicine in a formal setting for four years, so I consider myself sufficiently qualified to make that call. Otherwise, you're probably right, it makes sense, in general, for people to have tests for nutrient deficiencies, especially if there are comorbidities.
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What's wrong with that? I'm a Spanish man and I wouldn't be offended at all if I were in a group was referred to as "Spaniards" or "men".
You definitely sound like a good source of advice on how to be more zen and less reactive :)
ambitious here .. but you are mixing mental modes like oil and water. The internal world of psyche is filled with symbolic wisdom and instincts, which is mysterious by definition.. it comes from 'somewhere' in some glimmer of insight..

Science is just the opposite of that .. it is externally focused, repeatable and non-personal..

Your ambition to be both deeply symbolic, and teach reproducible mechanics, at the same time.. is like mixing reds and blues in paint!

In theater and storytelling, there is often a signal to the reader that something "otherworldly" is happening.. a transition marker.. to suspend disbelief of the audience.. this is the entrance to the symbolic..

With public lecture, debate and oration, the basis of presentation is along the lines of authoritative references, short summaries of relevent works known to the audience, and perhaps persuasive content to get the audience to pay attention and give the ideas a chance.

You could mix this things, but it is stretching the requirements of the reader quite a bit, at the least, in my opinion.
> Could you clarify "improved"?

> It's already absolutely fantastic compared to any other solution...

I don’t think that this means there’s no room for improvement.
> Don't think anyone is arguing with that (even the author of this piece)

The author is openly and explicitly arguing for a single paradigm, and he clearly stated in the article that he is in favor of, and calling for people to do the mental gymnastics for the sake of purity.

> the functional patterns that contribute to useful programs today are the direct result of the kind of pure theoretical thinking here.

FP isn’t pure theoretic, so I’m not sure what you mean. The foundations haven’t changed considerably in decades, and it has been possible and practical to write high-level FP code to, say, compute factorials or whatever, for decades.

FP is great as a high-level design tool to simplify and reduce mutable state. But there’s no evidence that taking it to the limit with human interaction and hardware is even possible or what it means or why it’s useful.

> your argument could be used against any theoretical research in any field. None of it is of practical use until it is.

But you neglect to mention that much theoretical research never becomes practical, and some is proven impossible. Practicality is and always will be a useful and valid argument, even if it’s occasionally wrong.
> The lawsuit also alleges iPhone 8 Plus has a higher-quality screen than iPhone X.

I’ve actually noticed that the OLED iPhone screens seem to have more image ghosting when scrolling than the LCD screens. This isn’t the only reason I’ve not upgraded my 7 Plus (I also abhor the notch), but I definitely wasn’t impressed with the screen overall.
It's tongue in cheek I think, and it reads to me like the parent is actually proud that his son is addicted to Minecraft instead of the comparatively mindless Fortnite.
I think the piece is about programming models, not computer architecture. The idea might suggest alternative architectures, but that’s not what the post is about.
> Had they launched a product, sure. But this was mere talk about a future product which they've decided "to retool" after scrutiny.

It was not mere talk, it was talk about a waitlisted feature used to induce signups to (and because of a “referrals move you up the line” policy, also to induce providing personal information if third parties as referrals to) Robinhoods existing service.

That is, it was false representation used to induce people providing Robinhood things of value, and thus, arguably, commercial fraud.
Consulting firms are generally partnerships. There’s no stockholders so it’s a different issue. You might be a partner focused on something nice, like healthcare effectiveness. How do react or effect change regarding the existence of a Russian partner halfway around the globe focused on state owned oil enterprises? Odds are your worlds don’t overlap. Asking to pull out of a region or sector isn’t the same as devs asking to not work on a project. Devs are largely fungible. Asking to pull out is effectively asking for owners of the firm you have never met to be fired because their work disagrees with your values. Good luck with that political game.
It is funny how the thing that is breaking the cable stronghold is the same thing that will bring it back. By 2020 there will be at least 15 competing streaming services backed by large entertainment companies.

How many subscriptions will people end up paying for then? Someone will then have the idea to consolidate it into one or two packages. Rinse, repeat.
House of cards: filler by season 3 and the last season turning into an incoherent mess to deal with the accepted but voluntary PR response of axing the main character, out of all possible responses.

Orange is the new black: loses all forms of ‘conflict’ as a literary device by season 3

And these are the flagship titles!

Low bar

Edit: since downvotes pause my ability to post for hours so I cant even respond, the only point is that this is what a Netflix fan can expect to experience from any show they get into. The “good” shows have the above experience, no matter what the rationale or external pressure was, and then there is everything else which is even worse.
It's up to you. All these apps have few several free sessions you can try out. Heck, download all the meditation apps and try all their free sessions. Those are probably enough to help you get started.

I didn't mind paying for subscriptions. They do get into different techniques and insights that the free content don't give you. Although I never tried insight timer; that app seemed to give you a lot more content for free.
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Im just going by the formal definition of purity

1. Its return value is the same for the same arguments (no variation with local static variables, non-local variables, mutable reference arguments or input streams from I/O devices).
2. Its evaluation has no side effects (no mutation of local static variables, non-local variables, mutable reference arguments or I/O streams).

As soon as I/O is involved, functional purity is technically broken and since any real-world system will have I/O I consider the quest for purity to be a fantasy in the same vein as developers who invest a lot of resources in "proving" their functions.
Amusing.

On the one hand, homoeopathy is just expensive water, so it probably can't do much harm. Except that people might substitute it for actual medicine, or other therapies, that do work.

On the other hand, placebos work, so <shrug>.

On the other-other hand (you make me wish I had three hands), vitamin deficiency is a real thing.
>Because there is an audience for it which shares their agenda.

Exactly true.
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If I ever manage to finish it :P So many volumes
They almost certainly got people to give personal info for signups and referrals based on the waitlist and referrals move you forward in line announcement; so it's not just trying to get things of value under false pretenses.
And I was unaware that children with foot infections, say, stubbornly refuse to brush their teeth as a result as you seem to suggest. (Sarcasm for Sarcasm.)
Many children would rather avoid brushing their teeth. Few children are radically opposed to tooth-brushing, say to the point where they'll skip a meal to avoid it. I don't think you understand how unusual the behavior being discussed, is.
You're right about that, but AMP'ed pages not coming from Google's cache are already really fast. Actually they're only preloading those pages while you're on the results page, which is something they could do as a reward for all pages that have a reduced page weight.
Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) – Part 1 / 3
It only takes a couple business to start using it and always winding up at the top of search before everyone else feels they have to like it or not.
Was about to mention I heard about this in the future of coding podcast[0] last week, then realised this was posted by Steve (who runs the podcast).

[0] : https://futureofcoding.org

Strongly recommend anyone interested in such topics (programming languages, rapid prototyping, HCI, low code platforms, etc) to check out his work. Steve is doing some really great work as a individual researcher!
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A company trying to hijack the web is not a good idea.
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Do you speak German? Would you mind translating parts?

I can give it a go, however my German skills aren't great.
As user I dislike AMP because it adds a JavaScript requirement to read articles that don't have any JavaScript. There, I said it.
Why trains use sand
Recently Fortnite also seems to be sporting a creative mode (where you can build without fighting/death), and support for custom-made games with custom rules. So maybe Fortnite can also be a creative outlet like Minecraft...
Yup. But the flip side of the innovator's dilemma is "Adapt or die."!
What makes it a valid point? I see nothing in the definition of either word that would definitively preclude "puzzle" as an appropriate label. Riddle is fine too, but no mutually exclusive.

You and the parent comment claim it's not a puzzle, it's a riddle, with the implication that's somehow unfair or deceptive in how the problem was framed.

That is a semantic hair splitting that dodges the problem & its answer. In real life problems you don't get to define away responsibility for problems put in front of you. And if thoroughly stating my case is "overractive", then I'm guilty, but I find it's generally better to over-support my argument than state claims without justification.
No, you missed the point.

The human input depends on the intermediate state, where the file input does not.

Manufacturing a case where you output the intermediate state as you read a file is missing that crucial dependency.

You must also assume that the human input cannot be predicted before the intermediate state is known. Assuming that it’s a function of time is cheating.

> You actually can apply the techniques of purely functional programming to create arbitrarily sophisticated GUI programs.

No, you can’t. That’s exactly what this article is talking about. React is a state machine under the hood. You can handle each request in a functional way, but you can’t build the request processing behind the scenes in a function way, it’s not currently possible.

However, from your point of view, all of your code can appear to be functional, so some of the comments here are, reasonably, asking the question, why does it matter?
Eat your own dogfood.

Let them douse their babies in asbestos, drink fracking water, or force them to watch Scientology advertisements.
Can't we just all agree to speak English? No, I don't think that would be a good idea. Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when another language has a much larger or more comprehensive article. I'm sure the Wikipedians have considered the fact that some information is better presented in a particular language. For example, an article about Shakespeare will be more precise in English than Chinese. However, I think it would be another kind of loss if the Shakespeare article was just in English and we forced people to use automated translators. Some might argue that this applies to all scholarship, not just Wikipedia.
Functional purity isn't broken by Haskell-style I/O. In Haskell, I/O is not done through side effects, and I/O effects are not functions, so your points 1 and 2 are not violated. It's not a "fantasy." You just don't understand it.
Having worked at one of the two, I thought it was hilarious rather than insulting.
The obsession with data structures and algos is getting out of control, cargo culting this idea around is going to lead to requiring an L5 to change a button color.
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I've long subscribed to a theory that they were being trained for something else entirely:

Microsoft bought Minecraft for the interface, and were using the game to train the workforce of the future, seeing its interactions as an ideal input method for some data-mining-type activities.
One important thing that you get with the subscription, which could be harder-to-impossible to find free, is a progression of instruction. A 10-day series might remind you just in time about some detail you were forgetting, or provide insight on a difficulty you're likely to have encountered, or introduce a new technique and guide you through simple->full versions of it.
Gosling created PostScript? That's… news to me.

(NeWS was an implementation/extension of PostScript, but PS was invented by an entirely different group of people).
I trust individuals have the ability mash buttons or turn knobs on a thermostat to suit their preferences. I don't trust that they have the ability or interest to understand how that changes the overall efficiency of the HVAC system or how it impacts coworkers. I definitely don't think it's even appropriate for them to have to have those considerations in mind: unless they're on the facilities team it's likely their value is in doing other kinds of work.
You should tell that to the ancient Greeks, with their yearly competitions for new plays, and dozens of playwrights. Sophocles alone wrote a hundred and twenty plays, and he had a much smaller potential audience than someone writing for Netflix.
>You're not about to buy one yourself -- it costs $1,099 each in batches of 1,000 units

On the site it has: "Members of the NVIDIA Developer Program are eligible to receive their first kit at a special price of $1,299 (USD)" (https://developer.nvidia.com/buy-jetson?product=all&location...)

The specs seem quite impressive really.
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> The human input depends on the intermediate state, where the file input does not.

Not sure what you mean by “depends” here. If I’m at a game controller I can smash buttons for years without caring what the state of the game is. It’s up to the game to make sense of those button presses and do the right thing.
Feel free to email me (see profile). I am the author of Lauren Ipsum, a kid's book about computer science. Happy to help with this.
> On the one hand, homoeopathy is just expensive water,

No, it's not, homeopathic remedies have been recalled multiple times for having serious harmful ingredients, most often dangerous levels of things on the official ingredient list that would not be possible with the claimed dilution.

The thing to realize with homeopathy is that it claims to be made by a process that would leave only expensive water, but because of that it is not subject to the kind of controls which would provide any advance assurance that anything like the claimed process is actually used. So, effectively, homeopathy could be just about anything.
I had the good fortune to work on a code base that started as a blank emacs buffer and was compiled with both g++ and clang++ from the get go (and built on multiple platforms, with maximal warnings enabled). The two compilers surfaced different bugs in our codebase which, in addition to finding actual (semantic) bugs has been quite valuable for portability and maintainability.

(Also, as others have noted, the existence of clang has really been good for gcc).
We are a very small team and rely on maintainers to actively look after a frontend. For example Chris does a brilliant job keeping the Amiga frontend in shape and I keep GTK going. Other frontends like Windows, RISC OS and Atari lack a maintainer altogether and are kept going purely through inertia.

Unfortunately the Mac OS X frontend became unmaintained some time ago and eventually stopped working altogether which resulted in its removal from the master branch and hence releases.

There was some activity by Sven earlier in the year ( http://source.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/log/?h=svenw/c... ) but it was not ready to be included and I think he lost interest again.
The cancer most associated with asbestos (mesothelioma) is not actually the most common type it causes (bronchogenic carcinoma).

EDIT: Removed my qualifier as this directly refutes several child comments.
I'm not sure by how much. Currently there is another tread here about people getting out of their way to push into userspace, on each application, all the crazy network protocol handling. Developers seem quite ok with that, as much that I feel out of place bothering about the complexity.

We also have a lot of people rewriting legacy stuff on Rust, just for bit of extra confidence.

Currently, people have got out of their way to create artificial intelligence guided real-time optimizers that converts von Neumann code into graph-machine code on x86, because it performs better. But it gets very close to optimum usage of the graph machine, so there is no need for most people to actually learn it.