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In many countries the advice is not to photograph infrastructure (bridges, dams, etc.), as it is illegal.

Examples:

> Photography: Taking photographs of UAE military facilities, sensitive civilian sites, airports, some beaches, or foreign diplomatic missions – including the U.S. Embassy or Consulate General – may result in arrest, detention, and/or prosecution by local authorities. Travelers should be aware of signs which indicate where photography is prohibited. Note that it is illegal to take photographs of other people without their consent. In addition, engaging in mapping activities, especially mapping that includes the use of GPS equipment, without coordination with UAE authorities, may have the same consequences.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

> Photography: Photographing military installations is forbidden. Individuals have been detained and/or had their cameras and film confiscated for taking pictures of hospitals, schools, bridges, industrial sites, and airports. Sites where photography is prohibited are not always marked.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
There is an entire field called bioinformatics. There is a fair amount of text and flat file database processing in it.

* https://bioinformatics.stackexchange.com/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
If one is spending hours upon hours on irrelevant parts, I, again, question their competence.

If one doesn't care that the carpenter building his house is using a hammer upside down, that's a whole 'nother bunch of issues I won't go into here.
Were this to occur in an authoritarian state people would harp on about a brainwashed population.

Get the suspicion no one feels as strongly when it happens in the UK despite being the exact same ballgame.
;-) It still uses slightly less power than a 1U bitcoin miner (~2200 W, maximum for a 10 A outlet)
Web developer checking in - no, I don't really care about the depths of how computers work. I care about competently developing the web applications my employer asks me to, for which the command line is scarcely necessary.
The guy wasn't even dressed as a "terrorist", unless your view of "terrorist" is anyone dressed in Arabic clothing...

If you go to Arabic countries many people wear gear like the one in the video.
I have no experience in rocket science, but can anyone here explain why it's so difficult to reach the Kármán line?

What else besides power/weight ratio is required to achieve something like this?
“Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs”

Nice to see a terminal addressing this issue. Even worse is when the output is super long and has no newlines. That can freeze up my whole desktop at work for minutes.
Name a feature and I bet Emacs has it.
To everyone talking about medication in this thread:

I have always had ADHD but was intelligent enough to get by through my schooling with bad study habits. I "got away" with it so to speak, with cramming at the last minute and being able to retain lots of information while my peers had to put more dedication into it. It seemed up front like a solution but in reality I was only cheating myself.

Once I got out into real software development world, I just couldnt sit down at a screen for all the hours I needed to without wandering away, so I got an official diagnosis of ADHD and a perscription of Vyvanse.

I spent 5 years going off and on the medication. There is nothing else but vyvanse that will let me sit down and churn out code for hours and hours on end, but it makes your mental state absolute hell and you will burn out. It was a short sighted solution and the amphetamine dependency and withdrawls I experienced. When I finally managed to quit I was such a mental mess I had to take 6 weeks away from work with mood swings.

Additionally to note, the amphetamines make it more difficult to learn new thing but make it easier to churn out what you already know, which isn't the most effective thing in our field.

In the end, what do I use now to medicate? Intense physical excersize. Daily. Lots of it. Tire out your body. Seriously. Fight against every one of your urges to lose focus and stay on task for generated short bursts then switch tasks and environments.

There is not feeling in the world better than being able to be productive without amphetamines after feeling you 'need' them because you 'have ADHD'.
>If Github can start automatically recognizing dependencies

I think that they already do this for JavaScript, Ruby, and Python dependencies[0]. However I don't think doing it automatically is the way to go, one dependency may be "worth" way more than another, and some dependencies may go undetected (e.g. if I conditionally sneak -lfoo into my LDLIBS somewhere)

[0]: https://github.blog/2017-11-16-introducing-security-alerts-o...
I think calling it "unfair" is, well, unfair. There are thousands of "unwritten" rules in this world that exist for a bunch of reasons. If you don't pick up on obvious social cues, then you'd likely feel some sort of way about the result, and you'd likely be more aware next time to avoid that feeling. That process is necessary in this world. It sharpens you. It forces you to grow and adapt and learn new skills.
I'm sure it's possible to put that info in README.md and handle things according to that month's donation amount.

I don't know that a GitHub-run tier system will suit everyone, when a developer (the primary users of GH, of course) could easily just automate the update of the relevant info in the README or some other relevant document in the repo on a cadence that suits the project and the developer.
A sundial on my wrist is about as useful as the fictional 1980s Dick Tracy video-chat watch. My inner child may want some version of a Dick Tracy watch, but with today's technology we would have had that if it were marketable.

A normal, simple, analogue-face wristwatch that ... wait for it ... just tells the time is exactly what I need and exactly what I want and is exactly what I can buy practically anywhere even if the Internet shut down 30 seconds from now. No straw man required.
Yeah, there's one at DUS, with security control and indeed a fee.
"Core counts" on GPUs are quite misleading - what are called "cores" on GPU hardware would be called "execution units/ALU's" on the CPU. GPUs have significantly-enhanced memory throughput, and can use a combination of SIMD (with masked/predicated instructions), barrel processing and genuine multicore to excel at embarrassingly-parallel compute. But they're not magic.

And if what you care about is running a wide variety of mainstream stats or machine learning algorithms, the "specialized hardware" you mention is the modern GPU, or something very much like it - I don't see any low-hanging fruit that might make some other HW architecture more feasible. Fixed-point compute might get there someday, but it's way too fiddly at present - it's not really clear how to "tweak" mainstream learning algorithms so as to dispense with the large dynamic range that floating point compute provides.
It was already dead, so pragmatically there was nothing to do, this is just a swan dance on RH's bugzilla.

Yes, RH should and could have filed and issue saying that they started working on a fork/port-to-PCP, and they intend to provide the dstat executable. But usually at that point, the work is already started, and there's almost nothing to be done. How long RH should wait for that ticket? What if the maintainer says, wow, cool, I'll make a py3 version in 3 months. But RH needs it in 2? What if the maintainer disappears again?

It's not great, but it was abandoned. :(
Yeah, my leisure is running, meditation, hiking, playing guitar. Aside from driving to hike on occasion (or train), I don't consume more.
This is something I'm still learning how to cope with. I've been diagnosed with ADHD since 2nd grade and have been taking Adderall since then. As of recently I started meditating and working on being more mindful, basically I was trying to get out of my head and stop the constant self-talk that was doing more harm and good. For the first time in a couple years I just stopped taking the medicine for 3 months because I wanted to see how I would do, and it really put things in perspective for me. I learned that I was able to really control my focus and keep working at something when I didn't want to, but I still had a really hard time getting into my work. It would take me much longer to absorb whatever I'm working on and get after it. Sorry for the rant, but here are somethings that have really helped me.

- Eat a healthy diet

- Work out regularly - Cardio helps start the day and get the blood flowing & weight lifting helps get out any aggression I may have.

- Try using a guided meditation app. This really helps me start the day off on the right foot, it lets you understand how you are feeling and where you mind is at and it gives you the chance to reset. The meditation has also helped me with knowing when I'm thinking and not paying attention to something. Waking up with Sam Harris is the app I use and it has been amazing.

- Set an intention for what you want to do that day. THIS. THIS. Has really helped me stay focused, I know what I want to do and I try to stay on course.

- Talk with a Doctor about the medication and don't settle on the first one. Test them out and see what works best for you. I've been on Adderall all my life and I'm going to talk to my doctor soon about switching to something that won't zombify me so much.

- Don't try to do too much. I constantly come up with new ideas and things I want to start doing, but I'm not always realistic about getting them done, so when I don't do them I feel like I failed. Lately I've been thinking about the idea and whether the idea is actually realistic and something that I will continue to do or is this something that is just a waste of my time and energy.

I enjoy talking about ADHD, most of my comments have been on the topic so if you ever want to talk more reach out! Also don't be hard on yourself for not being able to pay attention, once you start noticing your not paying attention, just begin again.
Thanks for clarifying! I do understand what you mean and agree as well.

In the end, different people will have different priorities :)
Just yesterday in the students room I whiteness the awe-inducing effect and joy of discovery that a proficient use of Vim has on someone who has never seen something like this before ;)
No one wants an ongoing debate about any difficult issues that the government has already determined the answers to. That would be messy and perhaps force them to change their plans.

The exposure of this also makes more plausible the claims that many "spontaneous" street demonstrations that turn violent are carefully planned using similar elements, though perhaps not by the government.
> violation of the laws of entropy

why? If I try to reconstruct argument I can only come up with reasoning that would show also evolution violates entropy laws.
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Wouldn't terminal based environments excel here?
Hobbies. Communities based on mutual interest. There is a thing called a Unitarian churches, they are much closer to dogma free than almost any other churches and many focus strongly on community with religion as a secondary thing for many members. I have found a stronger community in BJJ than I ever saw at a church in terms of real relationships. Humans just naturally form social groups with the smallest amount of lubricant.
Video not available in my area! But why!? Have the rights expired for US viewers??
Dying jealous of your Desoxyn rx, I've been on Dexedrine my whole life (after trying everything and always crawling back to it) but my shrink would never let me try Desoxyn.

Desoxyn is not front of the line because it's literally methamphetamine lol.
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The same author that wrote "Debt: The First 5000 years" has a brilliant book called "Bullshit Jobs". After reading, it's hard to not frame any labor discussion from the book's perspective.

There are two thoughts that came to me while reading this article that I think were a result of reading Bullshit jobs:

1. Not all labor is productive labor. We should be focusing on efficiency. By reducing hours I think this will cut down on the amount of 'unproductive' work.

2. A cultural change is needed, why do we automatically associate time with productivity?
Automated traffic can drive much, much faster, more densely, and without stopping.

It will be a net positive.
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Where is that scientifically demonstrated to happen (not just speculated) and keep in mind Methane has a "half life"
Oh, I think they'll be way better, measurably so, than fortune tellers from the past. Which is the problem. The error rate will still be meaningful but as the error rate gets smaller the dismissal of edge cases will grow more likely.

"The system proves that your online behavior is indicative of a mass murderer. Take him away boys."
A fraud conviction.
They have a cross platform toolkit right now. Xamarin Forms. It looks like WPF is going to be a build target once they get it over to core. People aren't liking the current Windows desktop target for XF, which is UWP.
Market rate for good ones seems to be US$.20/word.

source: have paid a lot for good quality translations in the last few years.
Why would it? At the moment we can't even emulate a fly at the AGI level. So our AGI now is "much slower" than 1 human, never mind "7 billion human brains put together".

And it doesn't "self improve" at all.

We might never be able to emulate a human brain good enough with our technology and resources. Including tomorrow's technology, either for the same reason we will never get 0.1 nanometer chips or sub-zero roundtrip latency around the earth: the laws of physics, or for the reason that it's too complex (and there's no signed contract with the universe that humans will eventually be able to handle any complexity level in their technology. We might hit several hard problems where we don't have better ideas, or better concepts/inventions are far beyond our grasp).
I don't know how you replied to a comment 26 minutes before I posted the comment.

I also don't know how "Amazon affiliate blogger" fits into things.

I welcome you to enlighten me on either or both topics.
Indeed the last official MVS freely available is 24 bit, but then you have stuff like MVS380, which supports 31 bit and has 64 bit support in the works.

http://mvs380.sourceforge.net/
Baby-food powder is probably too small a market for milk producers to matter. (And usually the cost of the milk is not that big of a factor in the final consumer price.)
Hello there Devon!

I'd be interested to hear what the main reasons for not either a) building on top of existing open platforms (like OpenCollective) or b) doing your own service but building it open source and as a open platform?

Also, once the one year period is over, how are you planning to setup the fee structure?
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Well, that would be fraud and illegal.

Other than that, nothing. What's stopping you from conning an old lady out of her pension?
the sci-fi premise would go something like:
algorithm becomes too clever, hacks the machine that contains/runs it, starts sending signals over the internet, hacking other machines, self-replicating, etc. eventually it can create robots, load itself into those, and walk around to create more robots, spaceships, or whatever computes necessary.

well, you will notice the process itself doesn't sound so sci-fi. the complicated part is the first part. AIs are not so clever, and we don't even have any idea on how to make them so clever in the first place. if we had and we were stupid enough, it would still be unlikely that the AI could find ways to replicate so easily, because it would probably need impressive hardware to run, not your regular laptop, but you get the idea. but once it "escapes", we are rather ... you know.

no real need to worry about these for the moment though, more worrisome are the real algorithms that trade stocks and are already "controlling" our economies (well, you get the point)
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Exactly. It is such an easy to use package manager that people barely think about adding dependencies.
This concept is not new at all, From what I understand the tunnel sizes proposed are barely bigger than the London Underground "tube" tunnels. (Glasgow's subway has even smaller tunnels too). Now, don't get me wrong, it worked quite well for London, but it's not exactly innovative.
When joining the waitlist, they ask about a variety of open source projects you've been involved in. I imagine they'll vet what kind of contribution level people did on different repos they claim, or just on open source repos in general.
Humans also die, and so have to give birth to new people and train them over and over again to maintain and develop social and economical structures. Artificial brains don't have to die, they can be also cheaply duplicated, and their old versions can be stored and used later if need be.
you couldn’t “just hit the button” for the same reason that you couldn’t beat AlphaGo at Go. there’s no human alive who can beat AlphaGo, because it is superhuman at this task. now imagine an AGI that is superhuman at every task, including “button hitting”.

good luck :)
Yes, it's about $3 per tx with current Ethereum price.

90% of that gas is consumed for elliptic curve operations, so if some of the next network hardforks would make them cheaper (as it was already done for some instructions) then the whole cost of tx in Zether will be much less expensive.
Just because you can't figure out how to define/test superhuman intelligence, doesn't mean it can't exist.

> If you think you're specific business case might require an AGI, feel free to hire one of the 3 billion people living in South East Asia that will gladly help you with tasks for a few dollars an hour.

How can a person writing an article about AGI fail to understand what AGI means so badly?

You're complaining that the kind of intelligences you can hire for $2/hour aren't useful/powerful enough. What does that have to do with anything?

By your own argument, people have already created very powerful intelligences - Elon Musk, Alan Turing, etc.

100 of those, with unlimited memory, internet access, and faster thinking speed would already be extremely powerful, enough to take over the world and do whatever they wish with it.

The whole idea of human beings being the pinnacle of intelligence always seemed ridiculous to me. We're the dumbest animals capable of discussing the concept of intelligence. What, the first few somewhat intelligent apes happen to also bump into the theoretical limit for intelligence?

Even minor variation in our genes are enough to account for the difference between Elon Musk and a Joe from the gas station who spends his life in a trailer park, sniffing glue and trying to seduce his cousin. And just because there are enough Joe's already, artificial superintelligence can't exist or be useful?

Having said that, even Joe-level AI's would transform the world more dramatically than any invention before that - they would replace human labor.
Hey there. I don't agree that medication is a solution. The reason being that if ADD truly exists, then medicine is only making it on the surface, without fixing the underlying.

Imho, I think you and I should congratulate ourselves for having minds that are highly resistant to bull. The fact that you can't concentrate is not a problem of your mind, but problem of the problem. I hope I make sense.

Other than this, guys, lay off masturbation and see focus levels shoot up. Cut porn completely. Dont runnerneck, too. Add to this daily morn exercise and weekly fish in your food and your good to go!

Even so, try to gravitate towards things you want to do. If there are things you have to do, do them first in the morning so they get outta way.

Such discipline will take time but it will be worth it.
Sure, I just find reading it on a kindle is more confortable than regular screens.
Thank you for shouting out my Patreon![1]

I'm never going to ask anyone for money, but I'm extremely grateful that some people have chosen to support this project financially.

The only "goal" I have set up on Patreon is hitting 1000 supporters. If things ever get that crazy, I'll stop whatever I'm doing and focus only on Serenity. For now that's just a fun daydream though :)

[1] https://www.patreon.com/serenityos
IDK, you have to clear the whole Amazon if 7bio people want toilet paper?
Yes, that's what I was getting at. $2/hour is dirt cheap.
What is the problem about not knowing how computers work? I care about well-written and working code. I couldn't care less about technology. In fact, I consider it an unfortunate fact of life that programming is tied to computers.
Question that's been bugging me and I haven't quite wrapped my head around --

For light usage, I find managing Terraform's state to be a significant hurdle. You basically have no choice but to set up secure remote storage unless you want to check passwords into source control. In contrast `kubectl apply` is so easy to use since it's stateless. It just creates or updates any resources provided, and it even supports --prune if you want the set of configuration to be treated as comprehensive.

It seems like the main things that Terraform adds:

1. The ability to work with providers that require you to store their generated IDs to reference later. With kubernetes, the kind and name of the resource is enough to identify it; it does get assigned a UID, but you don't have to include that in the configuration since keys that are excluded are left as-is.

2. The ability to work with multiple different providers. I'm not sure how often you do have a single terraform project(is that the term?) with more than one provider, but I guess using the same set of tools, even if the configuration is provider-dependent, is nice.

Is that accurate? Does Terraform offer any other advantages?

If you were building a configuration mechanism for your system from scratch to allow your users to configure it as code, would you make .a Terraform provider over a command line tool that can apply [--prune] that same configuration?
Have you ever read Unix Text Processing?
There are lots of references to "cross platform" on the page, so it seems that the answer is likely yes (without having signed up for the beta myself to fully confirm).
Intelligence isn't the right word. There are some sort of jobs that do select for high intelligence. Any sort of work that requires abstract reasoning and novel problem solving is going to be inaccessible to people with lower intelligence.

Rather, it should be said that tech workers are not inherently more knowledgeable in matters unrelating to tech than the general public. In this case, knowledge of train function and etiquette is in question, not intelligence.

(Note also that intelligence does not confer knowledge (although it makes knowledge easier to acquire) and that it's quite easy to find examples of people with modest intelligence but exceptional knowledge. Furthermore the work/intelligence selection process only really applies in one direction; there are a lot of high intelligence people who choose jobs they find undemanding because they have different priorities or have had different opportunities in life.)