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Yea in 2015, I distinctly remember people were predicting a 5-10 year "aggressive" timeline [1] with most AI peeps citing 10-20 years (I'm discounting Muskian bravado here messing up my averages).

We are about on track on that timeline I'd say. As usual, the truth is a lot more boring than most people predicted.
But WSJ gotta have something to write about I guess.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2015/01/31/tec...
Same here, I had iPhone SE for a brief time. At that time iPhone SE had the best battery life compared to other iPhone's but the typing and browsing website's made me hate it.
I can't see the logic. McDonald's submitted multiple affidavits, brochures, menus, packaging and actual sales figures. What else could they possibly do to prove a trademark is being used?

If that's not enough to prove the use of a trademark, then the value of registering a trademark in Europe has plummeted to zero.
Maximize the amount of money you can make at your job and then use it to find others doing hands on work. There is no shame in that and it allows you to best leverage your hard earned skills to best attend to the needs of others.
I've used Linux on the desktop for over a decade. Currently, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on x64.

It still sucks for the average user. The GUI is lipstick on a pig. As soon as anything goes wrong, it's back to the command line. You look up the problem, and there will be a dozen articles about it, all contradicting each other. Look up what it takes to create a desktop icon for something. (Hint: the top result in Google won't work.)

I'm currently restoring a Ubuntu system after a hard drive replacement. I've been at this for a day now. Typical little stuff:

- OpenGL frame rate is terrible. The default install turns out to be running OpenGL in the Mesa emulator. Time to install a driver. There's lots of advice on that. Get it from the NVidia site? From Ubuntu? From a driver-aggregation site? (Scary). Want the open source version or the closed source binary? Need CUDA support? Five choices of driver. Finally pick the latest open source version and it works.

- File restoration isn't working properly. I used iDrive for backup, and now it's time to restore. I've restored one or two files from iDrive before, but now I have to restore a lot of them. The interface is a bunch of Perl scripts, with a command line menu system from the 1970s. After much struggling ("Restore From" means the name of the machine that was backed up), I get the restore running. It runs, but about 8,000 files don't restore out of a few hundred thousand. The message is just "FAILED". Files with "&" in the name don't restore. Files with "__" in the name sometimes don't restore. Working on that. Looks like most of what I lost was part of old builds of a big program, but there are a few files I'd like back.
First one that came to mind for me as well! I’ve played Secret Hitler a couple times now with friends, and it’s a bizarre yet fun premise for a game. Especially enjoyable if you and your group are interested in the history it’s based around.
You'll be dead regardless of what your headstone says
Because the form factor is just about perfect. Large enough that there's plenty of screen space, and small enough that you can comfortably use it with one hand.
I agree completely!

There are a million systems out there for organizing story construction, whether it's one of the various outlining systems, or the Hero's Journey, or whatever, but nearly all stories follow the same essential pattern of rising and falling action in X number of acts. There's even been meta-studies on story going back into ancient times, and all stories from all cultures can be fit roughly into the same pattern.

King and others like him either omit or have forgotten how they came to understand these patterns. Maybe it was natural instinct, maybe years of slogging through practice stories that no one ever saw, but most people instinctively know what a good story is, and all successful authors have matched that pattern one way or another.

Doing it without a plan, especially when you're just starting out, is asking for trouble. It's possible to write an amazing story on your first try with no plan, if you're the next Hemingway or something, but for most people you'll just end up drafting and re-drafting and probably end up like Chabon himself, five years and 1000+ pages into an insane rambling mess.
The fears of parity raid disk error rates are greatly overblown - this post does a good job of summing up the problem:

http://www.raidtips.com/raid5-ure.aspx

A bit of annecdata: I've been running raid5 and raid6 for years without issues on 4 and 8TB drives, scrubs come back successful every month despite claimed error rates, the drive deaths I've had have been sudden whole drive failures or write failures to a large portion of the drive.
The goal here is, allegedly, to generate reference-level recordings. Or, to say it another way, you can add to existing sound but it's much harder to take away.

I can use Avid to make your reference recording sound like any one of hundreds of concert halls in under an hour. I can also generate almost that level of fidelity in real-time with an Alesis rack mount box into your IEMs.
> Again, generalizations like "serious gamer always does that" are not helpful.

Then why did you make a generalization in the first place and keep making it? I didn't introduce the term to the conversation you know.

Let's ask a simple question: would your conception of a "serious gamer" include literally anyone who plays PC games at all? You have to have some line you're drawing somewhere right? Well, I can't read your mind so I'm using my own line, which is drawn where someone considers gaming to be a very high priority to them, and it seems unlikely to me that that kind of person is willing to make that trade off for some nebulous concept of "privacy".
Even if McDonald's were being total dicks about Supermac's, the remedy shouldn't be for the Government to act like a petulant child.
McDonald’s is famous for trying to sue a Scottish woman who started a sandwich shop in England called McMunchies, claiming that they owned any use of “Mc” to refer to food. Along with various other small clearly unrelated businesses with Irish/Scottish owners.

Which brought Lord Godfrey MacDonald, of Clan MacDonald, down on them (“I am The MacDonald”).
Sure but then AI Is working in terms of mirroring our brains. The nature of problem is similar to ours and AI is just less capable of solving at this point. It's not some weird problem brought about by the fundamental brokenness of our approach to AI.

It shows that it's not ready for prime-time. That's different to "our approach to AI is broken let's do something else."
How much does it sell for at walmart now?
How Computing Came About (part 1)
As much as I’m a fan of meaty strategy games like Diplomacy and Game of Thrones, the best games are the ones you actually take out of the closet to play!

Usually I find myself playing in groups where some people are unfamiliar with a given game, so I also prefer games that are fun for new players. For me, those games are:

Pandemic Original or Legacy: one of the best cooperative games I’ve played. Fun for groups or just two players. My wife and I had the best time playing Legacy Season 1 over many months. There’s something so magical about a game that changes AND self destructs as you play it.

Acquire: easy to learn and set up, with the right blend of luck and strategy so that players of mixed skill levels can enjoy together.

Carcassonne: same positives as above with slightly higher learning curve.

Puerto Rico: quite a bit more complex than the above, but relatively accessible and quite fun once you learn the strategy. Takes a game or two to really enjoy.

Blokus: a fantastic informal game for a lunch break. Easy to learn with deep strategy. Quick game best for 4 players.

Eight minute empires: fast paced and easy to learn civilization building game.
‘It’s like hell here’: Australia bakes as record temperatures nudge 50C
haha. There's a name for that. "Innovation theater". Happens in many large companies.
Transpiling to JavaScript is a bug on the web, not a feature. node and npm is a shit show. Having to deal with it a couple days ago. I wish that entire ecosystem would just die.

I can make a sophisticated python web app with 20 packages. Or in JavaScript I'll need a few hundred that have massive vulnerabilities and conflicts. Hell npm reported the most modern packages I was installing had over 200 vulnerabilities. JavaScript pretty much guarantees shit code. I'll be downvoted to hell, but whatever. Js sucks.
Last Words of Great Men
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately as well. I run a software consulting firm (business automation, process improvement, etc.) and have been looking for ways for our company to utilize our skills for good. We could contribute in the ways that many companies already do (I put my employees on a bus to go paint a school or clean up a park and hire a photographer to make sure that it's of some PR value), but I think that we could do much more by aiding charitable organizations with certain high-impact software projects.

For example, This American Life did an episode about refugees in Greece and discussed how they need to continually dial a single phone number to register for an entrance interview (if I remember correctly) (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/592/are-we-there-yet). This was all done via Skype, so everyone had the ability to access web apps, and a single all-encompassing web application could have significantly reduced the time that these people spent in refugee camps (so long as other political forces didn't get in the way, etc.).

If you're interested in working together on something like this, I encourage you to email me at cj ^at^ oscillas.com.
Where are cutting edge type systems at for statically verifying the “dimensionality” of computations? I remember a long time ago reading about a language from sun called “fortress” which was going to include the option of assigning units to values in such a way that scientific domain model operations could be defined via a kind of type-sugar ... seems like that technology would work really well for ML (and data science in general) if it were effective.

I remember reading some lengthy hype about fortress and then never hearing about it again ...
1.4b In 2018 alone - a figure that staggered me
Please forgive me, but how is this easier to use than make? I see a lot of these "reimplement tool X in language Y" projects, but what is the point if it's not actually solving the problem better. Just looking at the link it seems to resemble Ant which also started with similar design goals.
>Almost all technical problems of self-driving cars are solved by current algorithms once we get 100x faster HW,

That sounds off to me, because my understanding is that the computer is a small portion of the cost and the mass of the self-driving car. If you could solve the problem by just filling up the back seats with computers, someone would have prototyped it, and probably even brought it to market as a way to drive large vehicles.

(I mean, unless you were on some non-parallelizable process, but my understanding is that most image processing tasks are massively parallel.)
A UI framework has to accommodate a huge range of projects of massively varying complexity, from barebones text layout to global enterprise across hundreds of types of devices. But people also want it to be simple enough to learn easily, prototype quickly, and maintain long-term without significant headaches. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to simplifying complexity, so one framework cannot rule them all. So we get new ways to do stuff, constantly.
The problem is that people playing Fortnite today won't move back to just watching Netflix in 3 years. They'll just jump to the next gaming fad
I have Forbidden Island but haven't tried Desert yet. What is it about Desert that keeps one player from dominating it?
Take a look at Tup, too.

http://gittup.org/tup/
Can someone clear up how to refer to Forth? I’ve heard “a Forth”, “your Forth”, and just “Forth”, and the title says “Forth-Based.

My best guess is it’s “a Forth” because you’re implementing a new language yourself, in the style of, but distinct from, the original Forth programming language. Is this correct?
On the other hand, how many people playing Fortnite for 19 hours a week pay for their own Netflix subscription vs using someone else's?
> Then why did you make a generalization in the first place and keep making it

I didn't introduce it either, I simply referenced what the article used, to disagree with the point that Linux is not suitable for "serious gamer", as to say that there are gamers today who switch to Linux and who aren't any less serious than others.

> Let's ask a simple question: would your conception of a "serious gamer" include literally anyone who plays PC games at all?

I'd say someone who prefers to have good hardware to be able to play more demanding games is serious enough about it. Many Linux gamers do that as well. What's the reason to claim they aren't serious?
I see. Well, you have a point, but the OP did specifically ask for a plan like that Susan Fowler's blog post. And I am an applied mathematician working mostly on computational physics and I can attest to the requirements I mentioned.

But your advice has a point, just going through books mindlessly is not motivation enough/ can lead to wandering. And it is always good to have specific tasks at hand. Like, solving a particular ordinary differential equations numerically.
Product placement is pretty common in Netflix's own shows, however they do it well so it doesn't feel like an ad. For example KFC in Stranger Things and Dunkin Donuts in House of Cards.
I thought Libreoffice was fine enough until I started working in an office with people on Windows.

I ran into so many compatibility problems I could barely believe it. Couldn't edit each other's headers, no maths support worked between the two, images and other objects would get randomly shuffled in the documents (one image showing up where another used to be). To say nothing of the minor niggling display differences reminiscent of the old IE6 box model problems.

I had to start sending documents in PDF, but then they couldn't edit them. That alone was enough to move me back to Windows.

For better or worse, I don't think Libreoffice can move forward until interoperability can be presumed.
If you have a dedicated group of players, like a group at work, one fun way to play Game of Thrones is to only do one round per day (usually about 30-60 minutes, perfect for a lunch break). It actually breaks the game up well, and builds the intensity. Up to you if negotiations are allowed away from the table!
I’m unsure. I have a paid license for MakeMKV and it hasn’t been an issue for me.
Sure but those people will be hooked with another game.
Nobody seems to have posited the real reason, in my opinion: High screen time turns users into dedicated evangelists for Netflix content who in turn promote the service to their friends and family.

Growth is fueled by assimilating otherwise normal people into the Netflix zombie botnet.
A fullstack but simple mailserver using Docker
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube front end for Android
The dangers of Ephedrine are benign when used correctly (oral, low dose amounts), as is both amphetamine and methamphetamine (the United States gives meth to kids for ADHD, there's a reason it's schedule 2).

Even what one might call a 'high dose' (but still under the prescribing guidelines max limit) of prescribed amphetamine is still rather benign, unless one has a pre-existing condition which increases the risk of adverse health effects.
Before GWT, there was Wt framework (C++); and then JWt (Java), which do the server and clientsides (with widgets in a tree).

Wt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wt_(web_toolkit)

JWt: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWt_(Java_web_toolkit)

GWT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

Now we have Babel, ES YYYY, and faster browser release cycles.
Yeah, neither of those make sense to me. You can easily cancel netflix online and the last gym membership I just called and cancelled because I was moving. I've heard about gyms "requiring" you to cancel in person but I feel like a threaten to do a charge back would get them to cancel over the phone.

Why are people paying for subscriptions they don't use?
How did Apple beat Google to this?! I've been seeing this in Apple Maps for awhile now.
making a safety-grade data network would be an interesting challenge. I do think it is a possible thing to do over limited areas, and I think that if we had defined areas that had safety-rated networks, that's a thing that self-driving cars could plan around... e.g. if you request a trip outside of those areas, the self driving car would take you as far as it could and then park, allowing you to prepare to drive manually.
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All video games have a shelf life. The experience gets stale, the hype dies down and people move on to something else.
Hard to believe we are 129 comments into this and there are zero mentions of 'borg' in the comment threads ...

For those that don't know, borg is a backup utility[1] that has been called the "holy grail of backups"[2].

It takes your plaintext files and directories, chops them into gpg-encrypted chunks with encrypted, random filenames, and will upload (and maintain) them, with an efficient, changes-only update, to any SFTP/SSH capable server.

My understanding is that the reason people are using borg instead of duplicity is that duplicity forces you to re-upload your entire backup set every month or two or three, depending on how often you update ... and borg just lets you keep updating the remote copy forever.

[1] http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
So how does this work? So is this like a templating where instead of writing a template file, you write an app using widgets and element functions that the framework provides and then stitch together an HTML page when requested and send to the browser?
U.S. regulators discuss a record-setting fine against Facebook
> No more waiting for Microsoft to roll out fixes; you can apply your own changes yourself.

And now you have to, forever, since you're no longer using a package manager to get updates to your custom buggy horror show.

> No more searching a manufacterer's website for some garbage closed-source driver

Please point me to the source for the drivers for my rtx2080. That would be super helpful!
You can effectively do this today with high-end SAE L1.5 systems like Cadillac Super Cruise and Volvo Pilot Assist.

We really are on the cusp of L2 highway autonomy, and will get there in 2020 as originally envisioned. This WSJ article is insufficiently researched.
I would not know, since I don't use both. As of late I found in between HD antenna channels having better older shows than new crap. Heck with a ROKU I can see most all free or pay a small fee to rent some movies!
But isn't a modified molecule a reformulation, which cannot be assumed to have the same effect, or dose-response, or even safety, as the original molecule? Say if you can synthesize something _like_ garblezolib or whatever, aren't you then faced with all the safety and effectiveness trials that were so expensive for the OEMs?
Let's agree to disagree on this one. IMO The Beatles' music is a high water mark in popular music unmatched before or since.
You can already hire a human driver.
Unless the car is a very rare make / model, you will nearly always lose money on it. You won’t suddenly discover a rare carbuerator buried in there that, with some elbow grease, add $50k of value to the car.

I realize this is missing the point, but this is why one should pick metaphors carefully.
All those examples are trashy mobile games. They come nowhere near Fortnite in terms of quality and development effort.
I'd want the ability to manually set the time, or point it at an NTP server of my choosing.
Oh of course, Brexit in particular is for the British and the British alone. But perhaps if you seed similar movements to other EU partners then you could benefit Europe as a whole. That would follow the logic of the above post.
Some commentary from my favorite chem-blogger: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/01/18/au...

Sounds like this is for finding different synthetic routes to the same molecule. So it might help avoid method claims, but not claims for the product itself.
Demystifying Spanning Tree Protocol
Amazon created a 'vest' that alerts robots to a human's presence
I've read somewhere that driverless trucks are pretty much as hard as driverless anything, because there's always that last mile in a city. It's impossible for the ride to be 100% automated, and anything less is pointless at the moment.

I think we'll need some extremely standardized "pre-last-mile" highway exits/transfer points across the whole country to have the beginnings of a new solution. And I doubt the Teamsters will be onboard with that.
Even if it does, isn't Syncthing traffic encrypted. Also, 'they' would need to spoof your other syncthing node for the first one to start syncing with it, and if they have that much info, you've already lost.
Most tutorials are posted by devs who are sharing what they learned. Some of them try perhaps too hard to show how to do things. By 'too hard' I'm saying that they want to show you best practices in many areas rather than just focusing on the part that's new.

I just ran into this right now. Wanted to see how to do something in CSS and they had it all nicely split up with combining classes as if I was working in a shared code base. I really just want to see HTML with inline styles so I can see where to put what and not have to chase down referenced sections and mentally combine them as I go. I know how to use CSS classes vs styles but that's not what's being demonstrated here.

It can go the other way too though. Sometimes with a certain framework they only have an example in either MySQL or PostgreSQL and it's really hard to find the alternate example. Sometimes it's simple, but other times the names/versions and way to load the drivers are different. One back-end framework's most popular tutorial uses a dictionary in memory as it's model. I think using a DB is a fairly standard requirement. I didn't just want to use it for routing. To be fair, the back-end is pick-and-play, but a good tutorial should just pick one of the typical ones and go with that.
That is an amazing low-key insult.
With something else being another game. People don't switch interactive entertainment for non-interactive one.
Justifications for punishment include retribution and deterrence.

Depending on how much importance you assign to each of those the appropriate policy will vary.

If you care about deterrence but not retribution you really might not need as long an incarceration. Your average inside trader might be just as eager to avoid a month in jail as your average burglar is to avoid a year.

I'm not saying that's necessarily the case. But it's something to consider.
How To Edit A Low-Budget Blockbuster [video]
There was a post on HN about Oracle's DB2 code being completely in C and fully unitelligible. Only an insane suite of semi integration tests allows them to maintain it, albeit in the most inefficient way.