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Agreed, I think in your 20s and 30s you’re generally driven to find your place in the world - career, marriage, parenting. By our 40s, most of us have found at least some of that, care less about the rest and are able to have a better perspective. Maybe not happier in the sense of elation, but more content, more aware of what you do have, and more ok with not being the superbeing you thought you needed to be to be happy.
I’m pretty sure it’s better for your employer as well. I know once I wasn’t dependent on work I was happy to call out bullshit in a way I wouldn’t before.
> Live is easy before 40. It gets hard quick after that. :-/

30's it gets serious, 40's hard.
My former team lead had one of those standing desks. After he left, I toyed with the idea of using it. When the office moved, I decided to take it. It's pretty useful to keep me awake in the afternoons.
Exactly. A lot of people's lives get better with age, some don't.
I want to make sure I understand this. The original pointer &str does not own the "Hello world" variable but is a reference to it. The new &mut T pointer takes ownership of the &str reference so the original specified (p,11) would be destroyed/overwritten when changed to (p,5). The &mut T cannot edit the underlying string because it the reference it owns is a nonmutable reference. Even if the underlying string, "Hello world" was a mutable str variable, then &mut T could not access it since it was provided and immutable reference &str as its type.

If we provided a mutable pointer to the &mut T, would the mutable pointer would take ownership of the "Hello world"? If so, would Rust then throw a compiler error because we've created a situation where we can orphan part of "Hello world"?
The first thing to realize is that AI is not coming for you or me or any other, it's coming for a subset of us. The subset of skills which can be rented out to an employer.

AI and ML are just two things that are comming for that subset. Digitalization is also if not a bigger then at least a huge factor.

The entire ecosystem of companies and people who were involved in supporting the music industry were more or less wiped out over the last 20 years. Leaving a thin layer of really successful people and then a huge group of people who makes no money.

And the more things can be digitalized the more they are subject to pattern analysis which means the subsets of your that make you valuable are also easier to replace.

Ironically a cleaning lady is probably the last person to loos her job because it's really hard to replace, but that just means the supply will increase too.

So sure humans are better at BI but that's based on the assumption that how we do BI is the only way to do BI. I am not so sure it is. We will see.
Over the years, I've developed a process:

1) [99% of commodity books are not sacred] -> if it's damaged, through it out / break it down for recycling.

2) if it's of general interest, donate it to the friends of the library bookstore and let them sell it for 25 - 50 cents.

3) if it's too esoteric for [2], pass it along to a used and scholarly bookstore if there is one nearby.

I am not going to spend my time maintaining a piece of miniature architecture to do something that can be done so much better and easier already. (And I'm especially not paying a registration fee to do so.)
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This pool of workers includes those in manufacturing and construction jobs, as well as all “nonsupervisory” workers in service industries such health care or fast food. The group accounts for about four-fifths of the privately employed workers in America, according to BLS.
It's still an inelegant and goofy design — from a company that prides itself on caring about design and with a history of making fun of other companies' designs.

To me, it just reeks of laziness, just like the iPhone X "notch" and the Pencil gen 1 charging. In all these fairly recent examples, Apple basically gave up and didn't even bother trying.
The very low level interpreters, running VMs are nearly completely specified, and the very high level ones usually refrain from undefined behavior, they either only reexport the ones for the lower levels without adding to them or explicitly fix the lower level ones and don't add any.

Or, to put it simpler, undefined behavior is mostly a C thing, you won't find much of it elsewhere.
I very much doubt 5G iPhones were ever something we would see in 2019. The network deployments aren’t there yet, and Apple won’t have two SKUs for their flagship 2019 model to hedge their bets with 1st gen modems like other manufacturers.
Keen point: It's likely the '18. Bought early '19.
Regardless, keys already becoming non-functional on the left-hand side of it after very little use.
I had the identical sentiment after reading that dismissive oversimplification. Here’s the source interview: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-build-truly-intelligent-ma....

For a man of his experience, I am surprised that he is forgetting the incremental nature of science. Most high level researchers are not visionaries but are really damn good at what they do. Their work will provide the building blocks for game-changing advances.

His goal is to draw attention to the loftier problems in AI but doing so by belittling the work of others is immature and ineffective as a motivational tool. Who’s going to switch gears to exploring radically different approaches because what we’re doing now is so boring and lame? I would have loved to read more about his proposed avenues of research instead of how unimpressed he is with curve fitting.
I second this. You may hate the butterfly keyboard but I love it. So claiming the design has clearly failed is a little bit of a stretch.
A while back, a longtime friend posted a photo of 21 year old me on Facebook (over 30 years ago now). He asked what would surprise 21 year old me the most about today's me. I said "Mostly that I keep calling him 'dumbass'."
Why the sensationalized title?
"so far it failed at becoming a money"

Bitpay (one of the largest Bitcoin payment processors in the world) processed a record $1 billion in transactions in 2018. This impressive increase of people using Bitcoin to buy real-world products and services shows Bitcoin is doing very well as "money": https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190116005701/en/Bit...
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Imagine if you could run N agi all day though. You could have the knowledge of all scientists thinking of solutions 24/7 and all N agi would be talking to each other about their solutions. You could even have a small subset of them improving on themselves. So you get rapidly better thinking agi and then they brute force the nuclear codes and decide that life is meaningless and try to help us out.
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They might be the bottleneck in things where the load is crypto heavy sure.

I was more talking about a case where a developer would like to add crypto to their chat application or whatever where the amount of crypto being done is so low it shouldn't really matter.
While I agree generally and, upon a cursory perusal of the facts of this case, I also agree in this instance, still I much more strongly disagree with your mocking, antagonistic dismissal of an over-broad group that contains many examples of this kind of conflict that are more reasonable. Personally, I think the culture of hate represented by your opinion is perhaps even more damaging than the corresponding culture of hate represented by the worst of the people you're criticizing.
The people who build and use LFLs are the most likely to support a well-funded public library system, not the least likely. That's one of the key conceptual failings of the article.
We don't know how much preparation they actually made.

Based on the link that Luc posted[1] I don't believe this to be all that money consuming of a project. It appears to be a large steel tube (possibly quire cheap if you aren't in a hurry) with a small structure living on top. I'm figuring $20k USD assuming you sub out the welding at far east labor rates.

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19700655]
You are not getting enough sleep
I don't think anyone was prepared for this to be something that wasn't covered under warranty or, if it wasn't covered, so expensive.

Where I work there is an insurance policy to cover laptop damage, they are currently in talks with the insurance company to get the damage covered. I think that in the end my co-worker will be refunded the money. I don't think they will be left with the bill.
Good job, Utah! Let's hope that more states follow their lead.
IIRC it was there in betas for a while. Typically when a feature was pulled from OS X betas it was either because it was too broken to make the release date, or patents.
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I didn't mean it was a risk in any negative sense. I was just looking for the word "ambitious" and couldn't find it in my sleep deprived state...

Seriously, I'm so tired I looked up "ballsy thesaurus" and clicked related words for probably five minutes before I gave up looking and just typed 'risky' hoping it'd be good enough.
> Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI,

The first sentence is inaccurate, OpenAI is not a framework, it is a for profit company.
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I get some of the appeal to some extent but let's say you could just build something out on the ocean and claim some sort of sovereignty. What protection do you have from someone just coming along and taking it from you?

Do they imagine some sort of everyone has sovereignty paradise, when a Mad Max / Waterworld type result seems just as likely?
In defense of a nuanced understanding of the enemy in a networked age
This is why I think the "Papers, Please" paradigm is so interesting.

The overall storyline is replaced with a repetitive but novel task with increasing difficultly, and various other loosely coupled storylines are grafted onto the task in different ways. The task also replaces the explicit puzzles.

It is as though rather than being told the story, you are viewing vignettes of the story through a very narrow window
Except the dragnet surveillers pretty much know what they're doing is illegal, or at least in a very gray area. And odds are they generally only try to deanonymize people they consider a significant national security risk (with some abuse exceptions, like LOVEINT).

This is codifying forced attribution for everyone into law.
I felt a little GOT..
Close to 40, couple of young kids.

I'm not sure happiness is the thing to think about. It's meaning that's important. Happiness is a sort of evolutionary trickery to help your savannah-dwelling ancestors. Meaning is something they'd have almost no perspective on, given what's happened in between.

For me I've gotten to this stage where I feel like it's a long way between things that are entirely new.

Personally I've seen deaths, illnesses, births, weddings, divorces. Lots of all of them, from near and far.

Professionally, I've been a junior guy and a senior guy. A founder, individual contributor, a leader, a follower. Seen businesses go well, and go under. Been hired and fired, hired and fired others.

In terms of observations about the world, I'm by no means an expert on everything, but whenever something comes up I can more or less place it. I know roughly what X is, and how other people see it. I no longer get that "holy crap, I never knew tax optimization employed so many people". Or "that declarative languages stuff, it's more important than I first realized".

Same with social, economic, and political stuff. I'm not surprised to run into one or another observance anymore. And I've heard the arguments before. Sometimes better made, but the same stuff.

Science and math seem to still have that potential, so I'm gonna mine that. Things like NNs still throw up new things, even if they can be glued to a long history of thought. And observations about physics can still fascinate, though in little pieces.

I'm thinking cybersecurity next as somewhere to dig as well.
>IMHO, I think it's mostly a solution in search of a problem.

I agree, I've been looking at discussion one here recently on how someone was working on the problem of "data storage at the edge" to compliment their "compute at the edge" offering. I think you can argue that that when you move compute and data storage to the edge you've effectively moved the data center to the edge. At some point if you put enough data at the edge you operating your own backbone makes economic sense and CDN don't maintain backbones they mostly buy paid peering and transit and try to leverage public peering wherever they can. I would even say edge compute is a solution in search of revenue stream and hedge in a heavily commoditized market.
They are two different philosophies, and thinking about how they'll play off one another is kind of interesting.

The US philosophy is to do passive surveillance and assemble the pieces after the fact, rather than mandating ahead of time requirements. Which means that US-based services will continue to be unhindered by such requirements, appearing "anonymous" to the rest of the world.

As more people globally are turned off by ID requirements, if they're able to flee to US services, then they're actually walking into a more sophisticated passive surveillance flytrap. USG will have ever more surveillance over other countries, without even having to clandestinely place taps.

Close allies will be given access through FVEY and the like, making that relationship even more lopsided. But allies' domestic law enforcement won't be, so they'll still be clamoring for more simplistic mandates requiring ID, further driving the process.
Personally my solution to this is either giving the books to a thrift store or donating it to the library. Then it at least has a chance of finding a new owner, but if not they can decide to recycle it.
“Proving”

You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The way Facebook works is that they have all your data on their servers. That is the underlying flaw.

You want to have your data, you want the people you share it with to have it, but there is no reason for Facebook to ever have it. When you share it, it should be encrypted by you and decrypted by the end recipient(s).

You don't need to worry much about policies for accessing data that you shouldn't, and don't, ever actually have.
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Storage can change value at the blink of an eye, as can the junk token which purports to represent it. The things which dictate value are supply and demand. In storage, you will pay what you need based on your demands, and the price will be determined by how much is available. If there is abundance, it it cheap, if it is scarce, it will be expensive. The same is true for the token. However, as I've pointed out, the token is by-design not scarce, because anybody can print their own substitute. The token only creates additional friction between the consumer, who wants storage, and the seller, who wants money for their service.

If the seller ends up with a bunch of "storage tokens", what good is it for them if they want to do their grocery shopping? What good is it for paying their bills? Do you think each of these services will have their own token, and each one will present an additional layer of friction for every person who just wants to get on with their lives?

Of course this isn't the case. People will sell of whatever junk tokens they have and try to accumulate and save the most saleable commodity, which will be the one which does not depreciate, or depreciates as the slowest rate compared to any other commodity, ensuring that they will get their value's worth when they eventually want to trade it for something they need.

The seller of storage is also going to want to trade their commodity, storage, for a commodity which is more saleable than storage. They would never sell it for something less saleable than storage unless they had a direct need for that commodity. The seller will therefore, also offer their services in exchange for the most saleable commodity - the one with universal applicability which the greatest number of other people will accept in exchange for goods or services.

I suggest reading Carl Menger's "On the Origins of Money"[1] for a better understanding of how certain commodities become money.

[1]:http://monadnock.net/menger/money.html
This is a really good illustration of the fundamental nature of law:

> The pair are part of a “seasteading” movement that advocates the building of floating communities in international waters beyond the bounds of any national laws.

> But the Thai navy raided their home this week and authorities revoked Elwartowski’s visa and charged them.

Law doesn't exist in the aether. It's an organized way to control the use of force, and to get other people to use coercion and the threat of force on your behalf. If you can't use force yourself, or convince someone else to do it on your behalf, you're in trouble. These seasteaders aren't "beyond the bounds of ... national laws" they're beyond the borders of a sovereign entity that is willing to use force on their behalf.
> as you inhale, the mediastinal intrapleural pressure becomes more negative, leading to expansion of the lungs, and pressure drops in the RA, RV, SVC, and IVC. Right Atrial expansion increases the pressure gradient for venous return

So you're saying my lung volume has implications for the chance of deep vein thrombosis or possibly even for varicose veins? Great engineering right there.
I’m guessing houses are more spread out where I live (in Australia). My nearest LFL is awesome and within walking distance but highly unlikely to be discovered by chance, and I walk the area daily.
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sorry I was late to answer. Yep, it just shows one tarantula by itself and the participant is asked to try to touch the spider, and that is it. I guess if you are triggered that easily you could skip the scene, but the spider scene is very mild
The brain's imperfect execution of mathematically optimal perception
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What is there to take? It's not like their floating tube with a house on top is worth a lot or efficient to liquidate.
If you take the next step from brain in a jar, to the brain on hard disk, (where there is unlimited opportunity to copy, to take snapshots and to reset the state at will) would you still think that torturing a brain is a big deal?

Do you think that simply carrying out a computation can be immoral? I think no, and the difference between experimenting on a real person and a person in your simulation is that in the second case nothing would exist if you didn't spend your resources to run the simulation, (or in the original context spend resources to revive a discarded brain).

> Given that the possible negative outcome is as close to the biblical interpretation of hell as I can imagine, and one of the benefits of being an atheist is not having to worry about that

Interesting, i have never thought of this as a benefit, to me the hell seemed better because there you do not die, and logically have a chance to get out, because of love and forgiveness preached by some parts of the bible.
Several years ago, I had a Sony Vaio VGN-FS115M and it was in the waterproof laptop sleeve in my bag. I literally poured a whole hot latte with sugar in the sleeve and the laptop was swimming in coffee. I took it out, removed the battery, disassembled it, took away all visible stains carefully with a good quality paper towel and let it dry. A year later the only thing not working was the lan port and I blame the sugar for that... If the same thing happened today my laptop would be long dead before I could disconnect the battery...
Income, potential to increase income, and income security is so location dependent, that I don't think one can easily compare housing costs throughout the years. The places that are expected to grow in the future have rapidly increasing housing costs, whereas the places that are expected to decline have shrinking housing costs.
IMX, it varies. At the hospital I worked, damaged equipment was replaced without question, but only doctors were issued laptops or iPaqs (this was pre-smartphone). If the same individual kept damaging equipment it went to the individual's lead or supervisor for disciplinary reasons, but I only ever saw that once when a guy threw three iPaqs against a wall (never found out why).

At the school district I work, the policy for staff is similar to the policy for students.

If the damage is caused through normal wear, the district pays.

If the damage from a preventable accident and a first incident, the district pays. Everybody gets one excused.

If the damage from a preventable accident and it's a second or later incident, the staff member is charged $25 or the cost of the repair (whichever is greater).

If the damage is intentional, then the staff member always pays. This comes up more often than you might expect.

Stuff like lost keyboard keys we didn't track, but pretty much everything else we did. We have about 600 staff devices. There's usually one or two individuals every year who are careless enough or unfortunate enough to have to pay for damage to their district issued system. I recall one teacher whose children kept damaging her work laptop. That year she bought 3 chargers (cord cut) and a laptop (it had to have been thrown or dropped over 10 feet). She was told she couldn't take her laptop home anymore.

Simply put, the district does not have the funding to replace laptops that staff members damage.
The point being that calling a book exchange a "Little Free Library" introduces the term Library. Effectively, people are paying license fees to a company in the midwest because they want them to be a Little version of something they know, rather than its own thing.
Right, I know it had a name.

I find it rather surprising that Reg E mostly doesn't protect business accounts. IMO if an account doesn't have Positive Pay or a similar protection, then that account should get the full benefit of Reg E protections. This would probably give the banks a nice incentive to implement Positive Pay for free for all business accounts, since Reg E can be expensive and complicated for the banks.
It's also the kind of idea that Tolkien was in a unique position to entertain. If one man can create an entire mythology spanning The LOTR, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion, there is no reason to suppose that another man cannot achieve a similar feat with the Beowulf.

According to the article, doubts about single authorship began to be raised in the 19th century. This was a time when a lot of people thought that they were living at the pinnacle of history, and that cultures of the distant past must have been strictly inferior to the modern one. Troy could not have possibly existed; no single person in such a barbaric age could possibly have produced great poems like the Homeric epics -- or Beowulf.

Well, we found Troy. We also found evidence of great devastation at Troy right around the time when the Homeric war supposedly took place. It seems that people of the distant past did possess the ability to tell a great story after all, moving freely between history and mythology, filled with allegory and philosophical depth. Just like Tolkien did, but hundreds or even thousands of years earlier.
I've found there's another afternoon benefit. If I'm standing in the afternoons and struggling to stay awake, that's a really good push to take a short nap.

When I'm sitting in the afternoons it's easier to push myself and skip the nap, which actually results in worse productivity and me feeling worse the rest of the day. It's harder to skip a nap with a standing desk because it's harder to tolerate being sleepy when standing.

YMMV based on if afternoon power naps work for you or not.
So, when factoring in inflation, the "average rent" of $175 in 1973 still seems...average.

What's your point?