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these changed almost everything i think about:

misc. Forrest Mims notebooks, the Python Tutorial, Practical C Programming

first chapter of Sound and the Fury, snippets of Naked Lunch, wide swaths of Ulysses

The Universe in a Nutshell, French's Special Relativity

The Gamma Function, a graph theory text whose name i don't remember, baby Rudin

Brain Structure and Its Origins, The Form Within
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I created a solver for it using Z3, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19093754.
I read the link but did not find any explanation of how the extension checks your login/password against the 4 billion known compromised credentials, without exposing your login/password to a third party.
Cloud market share Q4 2018 and full year 2018
Have you ever been so hungry that you cannot concentrate on something difficult? Once you master fasting, you don't get to that point anymore.

Does it increase focus overall? I have no idea.
A guy I went to uni with still answers this one with "Gluten" since he was diagnosed coeliac disease
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If valued employees needed a new MacBook every quarter, the company would find a way to make it happen. For some reason I've never understood, that doesn't apply to office space.
I know it's 2019 and all, but is that 6MB image at the top really necessary?
Nearly two decades ago Sowell sent me a signed copy after I emailed him challenging him on something he wrote in one of his columns!

Sowell's weak point it is that (and this is is not unique to Sowell, it's common to both nominal supporters of free markets and their opponents) there's too often an implicit conflation of the economic system that actually exists with a free market. The way he taught me to look at policy in terms of incentives more than makes up for any of that though.
>Apple joined the Alliance for Open Media so they'll be adding AV1 support eventually.

They joined a organisation when their logo isn't even used.

Compared to something the fully support and wants to move forwards with VVC [1]

[1] https://www.mc-if.org
Having said that, I think there is a more general point to be made from bringing up electronic voting in the discussion of open source + government funded software development.

Licensed products are an inevitable loophole to be exploited unless we stipulate rules for use-cases like this. Inevitable because some products will always be licensed, and mandating that everything the government uses must be open source is... well, actually, that sounds great, but even if such a policy were implemented that would be a slow, tough transition to make.
Management or university are safe paths. You can also stick being a software developer: make sure you exercise frequently and get lucky in the genetic lottery of getting old without bad diseases that prevent you to do a job so intellectually demanding as software development.

To be honest, the best you can do is become a better seller as you age. I still suck at it, but when I compare to 20 year old kids(I just made 30). It is the most "antifragile" position to be in. Also save and invest as you age, that will bring at least some tranquility to your mind in regards to your future.
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No, I meant that that is comparabable to a low end phone with a decent battery. Of course, performance sucks, but I don't really do anything processor intensive.
that's been the opposite of my experience. You described slack for me and MS Teams UI was much more friendly to use.
Are hooks being accepted as a good design by the community?

It seems to me that the lack of a parameter explicitly indicating the component and the reliance on hook ordering to match them across calls of the component function make them a bad design, but I might very well wrong and would be happy to be convinced otherwise.
Before you can solve general and difficult problems, it is often useful to solve toy versions of the same problems with many of the parameters simplified, or only focusing on individual aspects of the full problem at a time.

It would be incredibly difficult to attempt to solve the general problem of having an AI making decisions in the world, including taking into account the goals and mind-states of other humans (and general agents).

Much more practical to restrict the problem space very narrowly - can you build something which can learn to strategize and predict future outcomes in a difficult, full-information competitive game? (Go) Okay, can it do something similar without complete information, and with less discrete-looking steps and game states (1v1 Dota) - can it do so whilst cooperating with other similar agents with asymmetric abilities but common knowledge to achieve a common goal? (5v5 Dota)

Okay, now can it cooperate with other agents with symmetric abilities but asymmetric knowledge, and both convey necessary knowledge to other agents via its actions, as well as deduce knowledge from the actions of other agents? (Hanobi)

These are all necessary steps on the path to creating a general AI - if your AI is not at least able to do the above, it definitely won't be able to navigate a general environment. In the absence of an obvious alternative strategy, it seems to me the most productive approach is to tackle the small, important-but-doable seeming problems, one at a time, until hopefully you are able to unify them or else have a breakthrough of some sort.
Navigating Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP: Google Is Making Blockchains Searchable
For Japanese, I think that is good advice, especially because the characters often have Japanese or japanized pronounciations and are assisted by Hiragana.

In Chinese, writing characters, and knowing their meaning helps a lot more, I guess.
Wasn’t one of them in Sapporo?
From Brexit with love: Lithuania sees its chance
I don't know about you, but I play Hanabi with my colleagues and they aren't insufferable.
I honestly don't think that there will be another framework that'll overtake react anytime soon. It's not about there being a better framework, just that we finally have something that's "good enough".
Everything looks great, but the Instagram photos make me flinch a little. This kind of lifestyle is far from all the glamour that the photos convey, which makes me think this has turned into one big sales pitch.

I could be wrong. I'm known for being a pessimist, no doubt.
Honestly, if you want to solo-travel and socialize, go hitchhike.

It's a crash-course in making contact with strangers, dealing with rejection, knowing how to let go and enjoy the moment and maintaining a positive attitude (especially when you wait for a ride for hours in shitty weather), how to ask for help without being obnoxious, and having faith in the goodness of humanity as a whole.

It's not for everyone, but it definitely was both therapeutic and educational for me, and I still love it as a guy in his thirties.

I never thought of this before, but it kind of makes sense that the van thing isolates whereas the hitchhiking makes friends. One is fundamentally based on independence and solving things on your own. The other is fundamentally based on people acknowledging each other and helping each other out.
Yes they are all built on top of previous innovation and work. So it is a long evolution in terms of video codec. And there is H.266 coming in 2020.
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Definitely aligned with that, and having a technical development path is something we do provide.

Still, some managers are happy (and good at) managing a team of 6-8 but are wondering about their next steps. Is you management career just about getting more direct reports and ultimately managing managers? or something else?
Isn't this obvious? Do you see those college names, Harvard, Stanford, etc.? Did it ring the bell?
The brand names make a lot of difference when it comes to colleges I believe. For example, take my own case, my friend studied from IIM (one of the premier institutes in India) and I graduated from some other college with much better grades than him, we applied for the same job and the same company, since we are close friends, we did disclose our salaries to each other. What did I find out? His salary is much more than mine; we used to do the same kind of job (I am talking about my first company). So yes, the college names matter.
In some cases, it is pure hustle, they opt for such a category such as AI, Blockchain, ML, DevOps, etc which is unique and niche category with fewer experts and grow in those categories.
Finnish startups to look out for in 2019
Honestly, I would much prefer everything get regulated at state level.

I live in NJ. There are 565 municipalities here. Every single one has different regulations. For example, if one were to pick up a prearranged regular fare from Terminal A at EWR (Newark Liberty International), they might not know that this terminal is in the City of Elizabeth. The city sometimes has plainclothes detectives write $783 tickets. For prearranged pickups by non-airport taxi, not solicitation.

Uber and Lyft got regulated under a statewide 'rideshare' law here. Townships and cities can't ticket them for doing pickups. Taxis have to know all the regulation of every municipality they operate in. In the above example, Elizabeth wrote a ton of tickets for rideshare drivers before the statewide framework into effect.

I'm aware large cities provide unique challenges and can understand why NYC for instance should be allowed to regulate their own taxi/livery situation, but for the rest of the state it doesn't make sense to have every little town have different regulations.

Edit: Seems someone did write a petition that even covers the nuance of allowing some larger municipalities a little oversight https://www.change.org/p/new-jersey-governor-help-the-taxi-i...
* Elephant in the brain - the hidden motives we all follow, should be required reading before people come up with policy improvements to the world

* Sapians - great for a global view of our history, and an understanding of how important myths and religions have been for us being successful (as protocols for getting on)

* Thinking in Systems - toolchest of mental models for dealing with complex systems
My impression is the community is mostly accepting, but some are taking a wait and see attitude until they can see it in production.

I don't think there's a lot of concern about hook ordering; it's hard to see that being a serious issue in practice. And it has some significant advantages over existing alternatives.
There are also at the very least rumors about the Author being somewhat fraudulent. At the very least the story is not genuine. Doesn't mean it doesn't have valid points to teach.
Sed: an introduction and tutorial
A favorite prey of leopard seals is penguins.

Oh, no... Tux?!
Similar experience in Perth, Australia. Apple is vastly more popular in 2019 than they were in 2009, so the magical Apple experience of seeing someone immediately & getting a while-you-wait repair is gone [1]. Even the appointment system is just choosing a time when you're allowed to come into the store to wait for half an hour until someone is available. They really need more stores & more staff, but that would eat into Apple's profits.

The one difference I've had is that I'm not even getting my issues resolved anymore. (Full sob story is in my comment history.) I'm typing this on a Thinkpad X1 and gave up on Apple after 15 years.

[1] Does anyone else remember when Apple would give you a coffee voucher for a local cafe while you were waiting, and send you a txt message to come back to the store once your MacBook Pro was fixed or replaced? They used to be magical, and they could afford to do all that because the machines were built for life & repairs were rare. That's all gone now.
It's not. Replaced it with a 600kb JPEG version, thanks!
True. I used ExtJS and Ember for years and React just operates on another level.
The vehicles in the lane beside the truck do not have good visibility in the area in front of the truck. If a vehicle were overtaking the truck intending to immediately go to the lane with the truck, they'll not see the vehicle merging into the motorway from the other side. Thus the theory advises one that merging behind the truck is preferable.
It is an evolution, but technological evolution doesn't necessarily follow an exponential curve. It took many years for H.264 and it looks like many more for H.266. The next version may take even longer. Innovation is slowing, and it has pretty profound effects for a variety of industrial sectors.
For me it was Catch-22. I read it at around 14 and it taught me that sometimes the truth is the complete opposite from what it seems, or what you're told.
Laozi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching
Hooks seems like a right solution for a wrong problem.
> It's impossible to run an organization at zero capital buffer perpetually (see: even Wikimedia likes to have a capital reserve). That's a great way to end up bankrupt. What you're suggesting is well beyond absurd.

And yet, Wikimedia is a non-profit. So is Harvard. Non-profit doesn't mean you can't have a capital reserve. It only means you don't pay that capital reserve out to shareholders.

> Profit is inherently necessary so that when inevitable bad things happen, you can afford to absorb them.

Some of the longest-lasting institutions in the world are non-profit.
This talk introducing hooks explains it well: https://youtu.be/V-QO-KO90iQ:
I was having trouble swallowing after eating meat for a few months. I gave up meat but then it happened when eating a bagel. When I got into see the doctor he said it was a stricture forming in my esophagus due to acid reflux. Taking a proton pump inhibitor (Prilosec is a PPI) made all the swallowing symptoms go away.
I didn't know that..

https://www.techpowerup.com/238758/nvidia-announces-saturnv-...

Announcement from late 2017 ..

FP16: exaflop
FP64: petaflop

Interesting
Yes. It’s all very plausible sounding, neat, and internally consistent, but you can’t derive a useful macroeconomic model from it that matches real-world, empirical observations. (Of course, the same could be said for a lot of mainstream stuff).

Part of it is probably just the historical context - monetary systems in the modern economy are very different than the gold-standard, fixed exchange rate kind of environment the book was written in, for example, which changes a lot of how things operate. But even then I think it still would have suffered from the fallacy of composition, where you can’t start from a description of interaction between two people and just scale it up - the emergent behaviour is almost always surprisingly different.
Agreed, Fountainhead was the first book I read, thouroughly enjoyed it. Atlas Shrugged, I was looking forward to bury myself in it, but it was hard to finish.
> IMO, In the next 5 years or so, and somewhere between 0.1 and 1 ExaFlop, we'll probability hit human-level AI.

the social implications of that will be as cosmic as terrifying
You mean the Donald? It is still there
One more book I won't have time to read :-)
Nothing about Uber and Lyft existing prevents taxis from continuing to operate via fixed rate availability.

In many of the big cities, taxis still exist alongside Uber and Lyft.
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There's not a lot one can do. It's sort of like preventing your bodyguards from assassinating you. They know all your procedures, it's a matter of trust. Even as a tech co-founder, it's difficult to control as it's easier to hide back doors and time bombs as the code gets more complex.

There's a few measures you can take:
1. Daily backups of code repositories, on a computer you trust.
2. Periodic backups of the production server.
3. Check your contract agreements on IP with a proper lawyer. IP is very sensitive as a lot of techies also have side project.

But in general, trust your techies. People are reciprocal. If you start putting in more safeguards, they start putting in their own. Don't isolate them from meetings/clients, don't put too many levels of security, don't hire people to "check up" on that guy, trust the intern.

Most engineers just want to build stuff. If you let them build stuff they will be very happy and loyal.
In Europe it's pretty normal for software developers to live next-door to a construction worker. If the construction worker is very experienced or a contractor he may even earn more than you do.
Yeah, in a way, I hope after this Article 13, we (Europe) get blocked from all major "user generated content" sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, etc.

Try to explain it then to the general public.
This site's name, of course, more slanted towards the original meaning rather than the criminal one.
I got a laugh out of frAgile.

https://fragilemanifesto.net/
Algorave Generation
> It is marijuana abuse because it’s illegal to use.

Maybe Marlene Mortler will agree with you, but that's a ridiculous statement.
I’m one of the founders. The environments notebook includes the default environments you get when starting a notebook on Nextjournal. These are again built in Notebooks, see e.g. for https://nextjournal.com/nextjournal/python-environment for a description of what our default Python environment contains and how it is built. This is again built on top of our bash environment, that’s built on top of a stock ubuntu image: https://nextjournal.com/nextjournal/bash-environment.
Why shouldn't anyone else be speaking up about legislative issues?

Doesn't everyone else have the same rights as a mayor to do so?
You're assuming that processor power is still exponentially increasing. What if it isn't? Basic CPUs aren't getting much faster, ASICs are a one-time boost for performance by creating custom chips.

There's an ideology of Moore's law that assumes it's a given indefinitely, but just because it's been true for 50 years won't necessarily mean it's true for the next 50.
Dang this is generating good discussion, mind unflagging?
The instantaneous impact on the share price is just one aspect. The more worrying effects are the priority claim that debt holds over equity, and the future dynamics of cashflow v. interest rates.

Bond interest payments are fixed and mandatory.
Dividends are variable and discretionary.

If recession hits and cashflow falls, it becomes more difficult to pay the interest coupon on the bonds. Or if rates rise, it becomes more expensive to roll-over the debt at maturity. Hint - rates have been rising at a time when 2019 revenue forecasts are falling.

The size of the problem is shown by the proportion of Investment Grade corporate debt that is BBB-rated, just above junk. In a recession, those companies may see reduced cashflow, and hence have their credit rating reduced one notch to junk. Then many regulated investors (e.g. pension funds) may have to sell the bonds, which reduces their price and increases their interest rate, making it yet more expensive for the companies to rollover debt, or increase debt to survive the recession. Hence a negative feedback loop leads to a deeper recession.

Here's good explanation, with a chart showing the ballooning of BBB-rated debt (note the axis is trillions, with a 't'):

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-05/what-blows-first
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but is it possible to have expensive, cost-effective configurations that (by default since they are cost effective must be productive) AND are deemed to be good working conditions by all parties?

This is my claim. However you arrange it there exists some suckiness which people inevitably complain about that is a trade-off of having it in that specific configuration.
It is certainly more "democratic" to have important issues, such as housing, governed at the state level, and not at the local level.

Do you oppose democracy or something?
The tallest tree grows from resilient acorns. It also grows from abundant light and water, lack of competition, and good soil.

There's a whole mix of nurture and nature. They don't necessarily have the best upbringing, but some have the ideal amount of bad conditions killing off potential competitors.

Gladwell's book, Outliers, covers all this in detail.
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lit-html and LitElement are products of the Polymer project. They're different enough from the classic Polymer library, yet can be used interoperably with Polymer because it's all just web components, that they deserved new names.

The classic Polymer library is in maintenance mode now. It's getting critical bug, security, and performance fixes only. We're moving customers from Polymer 1 & 2 to Polymer 3, then from there we're encouraging them to incrementally adopt LitElement, which again, they can do because they work together.

Our situation is quite different from frameworks because of web components. First, we care more about web components adoption than any specific library. Then, because apps can mix web components made with different libraries, we don't have to bank everything on one flavor or specific set of ideas. That said, we think lit-html is an even better solution than what we've had before, and we're focusing on that.
What a great loss to her family. These kids have no idea what is like to lose a grown-up girl. I wish they live to be a father and somebody do the same to them and they know what it feels like.
Except that more and more research is showing us that marijuana simply doesn't have anything close to the risk profile that alarmists have claimed. It may even be a net positive, healthwise.

So that blows this argument out of the water. Cause it's not actually a risk.
Maybe it won't be an issue. However, it does go against regular advice of being explicit over magical. Depending on call order is something that immediately pops out as fishy.

As always, programming is about trade-offs and the React team is claiming this trade-off is worth it.
China can put real engineers with 6 year university education to work on assembly line, US can't do anything about that - it simply doesn't have so many of them physically.

For as long as thinks continue that way, it will be only natural that US will continue losing out on manufacturing front.
Basic CPUs aren't getting much faster

Not pr core, but they are getting faster pr. $ and pr. Watt. And when building huge compute clusters those are things you care about the most.
Can a voice messenger app become successful?
What are the odds to get success with a messenger app that replace texting with voice? I started to see a lot of people sending voice messages rather than text. I started to work on an app that does exactly that. I applied to some startup contests to get some funding but it seems that the people are not open to this yet. I am really curious if the app will get into the air. Btw the app that I'm working on it's called VoiceMo and you can find it on google play or app store.