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Elon Musk Sent an Email to Employees at 1:20AM and It May Signal End of Tesla
Firefox doesn't have the market share to push back on Google. The best way for Firefox to grow is to make the best browser from the user's perspective.
And as far as I can tell, CircleCI doesn't seem to support Windows yet.

For one of my projects, I have TravisCI building release binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Great if your dev environment requires you to run your debugging/testing on production like systems, horrible if you have access to super useful debugging systems that sadly run far slower the production.

If you tell me I need to use a slow computer to develop so its fast in production, but I develop using a interpreter driven debugger on a compiled language... well f you.
"still, how will she make the monthly payments?"

Is she a child? The lender is willing to lend and she wants to try and keep the house and is willing to borrow. She is figuring out how to do that and is renting out rooms to make the mortgage. She can also sell the house and likely recover her equity, if she discovers she can't make it. Would you rather she have no way in which to try and keep her grandfather's home?

Maybe we need an easier way to become "a person responsible for their actions". Right now you have to have $200k in income or $1 million in liquid assets to be a "accredited investor", but this seem a bit steep in my opinion and quite discriminatory to us mere plebs.
This was a terrible mistake by Mozilla, but a test pilot for a limited number of users doesn't seem permanently worse than what Google does in regards to privacy.

Moreover, this presumably didn't affect users who installed via a package manager, while with Chrome the installation method doesn't matter.

However I wish Mozilla was publicly funded, so that they don't have to constantly search for alternative revenue sources.
> Lobbying is nothing more than legalized corruption

I’ve lobbied. I took a train to Albany to teach my representatives about an issue. I went with a few other people from an interest group, some of whom couldn’t afford the trip and so had their tickets and hotel stays subsidised by others. This is lobbying.

Representative democracy necessitates lobbying. Representatives with incomplete knowledge must legislate over issues they have no clue about. Outside experts have a clue. The process by which these parties are brought together is lobbying.

It can go wrong, and the pool of experts selected will be biased by each group. Ensuring fairness and transparency is paramount. But expecting lobbying to go away is naïve and betrays a misunderstanding of republican democracy.
Education systems are highly local. The Zuckerberg kids aren't going to Cesar Chavez Elementary, or any of the other public schools, and will only know the children of other ridiculously rich people. You need to take steps to actively combat that kind of class separation.

I'm not saying that rich kids shouldn't get a good education. I'm saying that every kid deserves a good education.
And ccache!
I'll add another attribute: popularity. I maintained a fork of a script that was rather complex, but had close to no feature requests and a handful of minor bugs. On the other hand, there is a ton of great research on burnout due to its prevalence.

One of the maintainers of some great projects wrote about taking an "indefinite sabbatical" - https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical.... He gets at the commitment in more detail.

The most complete resource I've found, on the good and bad, is @nayafia's Awesome Maintainers: https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers
Here's how I think about it. Those early users you buy will almost certainly be unprofitable on a unit basis, because you don't yet have product-market fit.

Thus buying users won't scale at first, but it's OK (even recommended) to do things that won't scale early on. http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

So go ahead and buy ads if it helps you get started, but if the ads aren't making a profit right away, think about how to find a path to growth that does scale.
lol try pressing command instead of alt :Z
Plant Finds Second Life with Rivian–And So Do Ex-Mitsubishi Workers
I never understood the appealing of flying cars. Not only it looks much more dangerous than cars in case of accidents, but also picture yourself living in a city with millions of these flying around, always covering sun light, noise, just visually horrible
Also how can they call it a flying car when it doesn't have any wheels? It's a quadcopter with wings. Unless Boeing has plans to add wheels later for driving?
Seems like we have a military and postal system that are nigh-perfect counterexamples to your point.
> But if you are successful enough to afford such a service that means that you are a well developed and successful personality that basically dones't have time to treat every woman like a magical princess.

I wouldn't be so confident in the personal virtues of wealthy people if I were you.
Nothing about your post adds up.

That's great, but I'm literally sitting at my desk doing it just now, so I can assure you it's not just made up!

2015 MB i7 to i9 MB doesn't increase anything times 4.

i5 2015 13" MBP to i9 2018 15" MBP. 3x the cores, higher IPC, higher frequency, faster memory, faster SSD. It adds up, and for this class of process a 4x improvement is totally reasonable.

How long have you been working on that task and waited an hour? The wasted labour cost might have bought you a dedicated compiling rack 2 weeks in.

I don't know how the hell you work, but I don't just kick off a process and let it run while I sit still at my desk waiting for it to complete :) It just involves working to a slightly different rhythm, and the ability to iterate a bit faster makes that nicer for me, at minimal cost.

Anyway… wasn't the point that "developers don't need faster machines?" I think buying a "dedicated compiling rack" would count!

How long could you have rented cloud ressources to bring that task down to close to instant for the cost of a i9 MB?

No idea, but in the long term, more than it costs to buy a new development machine. Plus this way I don't have to fanny around with copying assets back and forward, remoting in to visualise things, setting up a server or whatever. And the new laptop makes everything a little bit faster and more enjoyable to use. The price of the machine is pretty marginal for a tool I use in excess of 40 hours a week.

Beware if you fully utilise a laptop like you describe shouldn't it become useless for everything else while doing that?

Nah, it's fine generally. Everything's just a bit slower until it's done.
The grand plan for these human size quadcopters is that they will be fully autonomous so no license will be required to operate one. You wouldn't even own it, you would hail it with an app and it would fly you to the destination you gave it in the app. They wouldn't even have controls on the inside, except for possibly an emergency stop button (which would tell the computer to set it down at the nearest viable landing pad).

The propeller at the back is for forward motion, presumably because it's less comfortable for human passengers to travel at a 60 degree forward tilt).
I'm not sure what your point is. Nothing you say disagrees with my point. The credit crisis was multi-faceted, but poisoning of AAA securities with subprime was definitely one of the major fraudulent aspects of the entire thing.

AAA doesn't mean that the security will pay out. It means they have the lowest risk and it means that it's the most expensive. Even AAA-rated debt can fail.

What happened was that large financial institutions were paying top dollar for AAA mortgage-backed securities, but after it was revealed that all of these mortgage-backed securities were poisoned with subprime loans, the value of those securities plummeted. The value of those assets dropped, which put the holders of those assets in a bad financial situation because they didn't have as much money as they thought and they also couldn't sell them. Some companies or funds are legally required to hold only AAA securities. This caused reverberations throughout the financial industry.
This is amazing. How do I run your project for a folder of my choice on my windows machine?
I've been tapering the last 3 days (only drinking green tea) and I already feel WAY better (it's much lower in caffeine than coffee). I'm keeping a log of each day so far:

Day 1
Headaches, nausea, had to take 200mg advil
Slept amazingly well (felt better on 7 hours sleep than I usually do on 8.5)
4 cups of green tea (est 120-160mg total caffeine)

Day 2
Barely noticeable headache
3 cups green tea (est 90-120mg caffeine)
Felt much calmer and relaxed
Face was flushed, not sure if a withdrawal symptom

Day 3 (today)
No headache
Feeling relaxed and focused
Planning to cut down to 2 cups of green tea (estimated 60-80mg caffeine)

From what I've heard, it can take more than a year to be completely free from the symptoms, so I'm in it for the long haul. My goal is to be completely off caffeine by the end of the week. Check out the book Caffeine Blues to get a better understanding of how dangerous caffeine actually is.
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That list includes donations from people who work at Google.
> In reality, this high-end hardware isn’t really necessary for most applications outside of video encoding, machine learning, and a few other domains.

Like browsing the modern web.
> and an ad company does not just give away their most valuable resource

Correct. They sell it for money. How exactly is that better at keeping your private data private? Google's power doesn't reside in the fact that it keeps your data private but in the fact that they have a constant flow of up to date data. When you hand over data to a company whose revenue (also) officially comes from monetizing it your privacy is forfeited.
How much is that AWS instance?
One interesting note re: 8b/10b encoding. The motivation in the article is accurate, but not the whole story (never is, in the analog world).

Nowadays, 8b/10b (or more realistically 128b/130b) is critical to enable clock recovery by making sure the signal transitions frequently enough.

> Computers can't count past 1

Reminds me of this excellent quote: "Every idiot can count to one" - Bob Widlar
Electron is kind of the cause. You can program lean in Electron (see VSCode), but realistically the people that program JavaScript/TypeScript are usually not your CS pros. It's a language that everyone can get into easily, attracting very subpar developers as a result.

So it's not Electron, but it's what Electron enables.
"Randomly installing unauthorized addons with creepy messages because marketing told you" is the same kind of error, just different degree.

They also disabled user-provided unsigned addons, even when you authorize them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taGARf8K5J8

Super Metroid in 1992 had customizable keys. Mozilla gets $500 million a year and can't even keep a feature it had 3 years ago. I shouldn't be disappointed about failure to get basic things right, when they're suppose to be the great bulwark against those who wish to control your machine?
I find myself wanting more specifics from this short essay. A lot is said by the author who has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo with vague references to UBI and other changes but no concrete policies that would actually implement real change in society.

As is, the Silicon Valley establishment is certainly not invested in paying more tax, thank you very much. While I don't believe billionaires are inherently immoral, I would like to see sample implementations of UBI rather than yet more posts equivocating about it.
Internet was a weapon from day one
> In reality, this high-end hardware isn’t really necessary for most applications outside of video encoding, machine learning, and a few other domains.

This should say "really isn't" instead of "isn't really".

In practice, most Microsoft software will still run slow even on high-end hardware. I have a high-end gaming laptop that cost 1500 dollars, and my download folder still takes 10+ seconds to load. Even at work, I regularly find myself waiting because Visual Studio hangs (and this is on a Xeon Phi with 12 gigs of RAM). Meanwhile, XFCE runs happily snappily on my $200 Thinkpad that is more than a decade old. Newer systems just seem to focus on improving throughput instead of improving latency. I am so fed up with unresponsive systems!
I think that's where the real confusion comes from. People think the relationship between the loan originator and the borrower is where the questionable practices take place, when it's really between investors and the loan originator. Similar to how Chinese companies do reverse mergers on US stock markets to bilk investors out of their dollars.
Can anybody help point/predict numbers involved in acquisition ?
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As with any phenomenon, I don't buy a single-cause explanation. It's way too pat.

What about substitutes? Has anyone tried to demonstrate that OxyContin addiction, for example, might not have been heroin addiction if OxyContin wasn't available? Would people in chronic pain not pursue illegal solutions if legal ones weren't available to them?
Sometimes the wait isn't the computational time wait, but the developer time wait, too.
Sorry, I should have broken down that thought - because you're of course right about urban real estate.

I think it's quite likely that midprice, full-service restaurants are an inefficient use of expensive urban space. It's also possible that they're an inefficient use of valuable urban space, and would be squeezed out of dense cities even by healthy, responsive real estate markets.

That second claim is much bolder, though, and my personal guess is that taller buildings and better mass transit would relax labor costs via lower rent, while also lowering the price of downtown real estate. A few extremely dense cities (NYC, Tokyo, whatever) might use better transit for a "reverse commute" where people live near work and go outbound for restaurants, but that's even more hypothetical. And I can't really think of a "free real estate market" city to use as a reference, because I'm not sure anything close exists at this point.
AFAIK they are intended to be quieter, cheaper, and safer. The same story as electric vehicles - fewer moving parts means lower maintenance costs, but particularly important when talking about air vehicles is that it also means fewer things which can break during flight. Helicopters are nasty dangerous, largely because they’re maintenance heavy and there’s little redundancy. “Drones” could address both of these.

Also much easier to fly I imagine.

The Uber Elevate white paper probably has a lot more info: https://www.uber.com/elevate.pdf/
> poisoning of AAA securities with subprime was definitely one of the major fraudulent aspects of the entire thing

My point is there was no “poisoning of AAA securities with subprime.” Subprime mortgages can be legitimately assembled to produce AAA securities. This happened, and those securities ultimately paid out like AAA securities. They just didn’t perform, liquidity-wise, like Treasuries. (Neither did other corporate AAA securities, for that matter. OTR Treasuries are OTR Treasuries.)
Does Twitter need more features? Perhaps they could focus more on customer support and moderation.
Without commenting on the TFA, the thing is that dating is already a crapshoot.

Ever go out to try and meet women? I'm comfortable enough with it that I've gone to bars alone just to do it, yet I'd still call it uncomfortable at best. You're essentially cold-approaching strangers and don't know if they're single much less if they even find you attractive. Sometimes you hit it off like a romcom which is rewarding, but everything that's not that is a crapshoot. Certainly doesn't feel "humanizing".

Ideally you meet women through your social circle or your social events. I met my last girlfriend through a kayaking event on meetup.com in Guadalajara. But your social circle might not have anything to offer you. Or you find meetups just as impersonal or you don't have time or are still working up the courage to conquer your own anxieties or you're in a new city with no friends yet.

Dating already was a numbers game. Dating apps like Tinder have improved my quality of life here enormously. The ability to narrow down strangers to the ones who at least find you attractive (attraction isn't a choice) is an invaluable tool, and not having this tool in the physical world isn't any more humanizing. You just have to remember easy come, easy go. You can't fixate on one woman and you can't be outcome-dependent, but those were already things you shouldn't be doing in the physical world.

Besides, the point of dating apps is to quickly escalate to a face to face meetup. Something that can help you meet more humans face to face seems the opposite of dehumanizing.

My suspicion is that dating apps are so easy to hate because they bring to the surface what dating really is, and it was never all that pretty to begin with.
Aha! This is the perfect place to ask this!

I've dipped back into reading SF after a long time of only reading the classics (Heinlein et al), and the Three-Body Problem, which I read a few days ago, did seem to me to fit into that mould.

But what are some other modern "hard SF" books you've enjoyed?
Eyles came to the Vintage Computer Festival-East in Wall, NJ last year, and was introduced by Frank O'Brien who's a regular there. He actually did a code walkthrough of the Apollo 14 flaky-switch hack - coolest talk I've ever attended. Scott Manley did a pretty good Youtube episode on the Apollo 14 hack last year also; the two of them complement each other nicely.
>price we pay as a society for having a system where we pay people to give us what we want.

This notion of convincing someone to do something for you (even for pay), while it seems very natural and common sense on the surface, actually entails a whole social arrangement which must be penetrated to understand it. The seemingly naive question "why do people work for others?" may have been more obvious in the past - when there were no such things as government safety nets - but now the question has changed and become a lot more interesting... as has the question of why people go above and beyond the call of duty for sometimes no perceptible reward.

It turns out this topic is very much related to social psychology and the nature of desire, which is a favourite of philosophers. Frederic Lordon has a great book, Willing Slaves of Capial: Spinoza and Marx on Desire in which he tracks the recent development of capitalism through its stages. Here's a word from the blurb:

>To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remoulding of desire.
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You have to consider more than the upfront cost. These machines are incredibly expensive to run and consume a tremendous amount of energy. The long term environmental cost needs to be factored in as well.
Why would raising taxes be a bad thing? The highest US tax bracket in 2019 is 37% for income over $500,000. I don't see why a higher tax bracket, along the lines of WWI or WWII would be untenable. Could you elucidate why you are so averse to raising taxes?

I find it harder to accept that every person making income is subject to a 10% fed. income tax, in a country where the basics of survival are not even provided. Why shouldn't income over a million a year be taxed at a much higher rate?
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Hacker publishes a recorded video of a PoC for remote iOS 12 jailbreak
Rust actually has both [0..=n] is inclusive

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeToInclusive.ht...
Why does it seem like every billionaire is exploiting our legal system as much as they're innovating?

Bezos exploiting sales tax and workers, oil companies and the Kochs exploiting environmental externalities, Oracles, Microsofts, and Googles exploiting patents to prevent competition. All of these companies consolidating as much as possible to get as close to a monopolistic position as possible, to charge as much 'rent' as they can.

All these self made billionaires are using the law, and imperfect or lacking regulation to fuck over millions of people.

Sure they're providing a service along with it, but the vast sums of wealth are possible because they poison the earth and steal and fuck over the rest of us while they do it.
Do you have an SSD?
I think that's pretty much what I said, right?

Not everybody needs a laptop, or a super powerful development machine. But if you want to process some stuff nice and quickly, while not being tied to any physical location, it's a totally reasonable solution.
I doubt low IQ is a significant problem in public education. I'd wager the #1 problem in our schools is bad parents. Schools are now expected not only to teach, but to parent students as well.

A kid going to a crappy school who has good parents is still going to thrive. They will be motivated to complete homework, can receive help, etc. A kid going to a crappy school with crappy parents is going to crash and burn. Heck, a kid going to a good school with crappy parents is still probably to crash and burn. There may be more of an effort to help from school administration, but generally... crappy parents don't care if their kids don't do the homework, won't (or can't) help their kids when they get stuck, and blame the school system (or teacher) for their child's failure.
1.) Understand the cohort. Group kids based on cognitive abilities and reevaluate on an interval (once per year, for example).

2.) Match the level of ability to the task. Practical work doesn't have to just be STEM. For example, "make sure the meeting room is clean, all attendees have a glass of water, and the lights are turned on." Simple checklist-style work that empowers the individual while being aligned with their abilities. It's important: keep reiterating to students that no one is "better" than anyone based on their jobs and that each is integral to the task at hand.

It'd do wonders if we quit belittling people just because they lack a certain level of intelligence.
The author's point is that you wouldn't expect to see quantum gravity at any scale we could feasibly probe for the next few centuries. If one can't come up with a theoretical justification for such an anomaly then perhaps that money should be put towards a more promising project.

It's all about opportunity cost.
Irrelevant whataboutism. It doesn’t matter what Firefox does, the article is about Google Chrome/Chromium.
"The one part of the economy that seems immune to re-imagination is the government. If we were to force it to go through the same technological revolution that the private sector is going through, we would see massive efficiencies, and massive job losses, that would free up a huge amount of capital that could be used to pay for things like medical care for all, affordable education for all, and some amount of income for all."

What would this look like? The author doesn't really back up their claims from the first stanza with this massive hand-wavey argument. I am all for reimagining the government but I'm a little wary of throwing technology at a problem and expecting it to go away.
The diagrams here really helped to explain neural ODEs in an intuitive fashion. Does anyone know the best library that implements them so I can play around in an iPyNB? :-)