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> Same thing with chess; play only with Grand masters (if you can find them) and after a few years of getting your ass kicked, you'll eventually get good. (Disclaimer: I only skimmed the article)

I doubt that this would work. It would be like trying to learn math just by reading cutting edge research papers and trying to solve major open conjectures. The gaps between your current level of skill and knowledge and what is needed to comprehend anything from the material you are trying to learn from would be too big.

Yes, you learn best with challenging material, but it needs to be sufficiently close to your current skill level that you can at least partly understand it.

There used to be a chess club that met weekly in the '80s in Sunnyvale, CA, at the Lockheed Employees Recreation Association facilities. Not many people actually went to it to play chess, because a regular attendant was Richard Shoreman, a well known chess teacher and coach. If you brought the score from one of your recent tournament games, Shoreman would play over it and annotate it for everyone, and give you suggestions on how to improve.

His specialty was getting people whose progress had gotten stuck, typically in the 1800-2300 USCF rating range, unstuck, although he was also good at getting lower rated players to rapidly improve.

The #1 reason people got stuck, especially around the 2000 rating neighborhood, was they were spending too much time studying GM games and trying to play like GMs. This doesn't work because, to paraphrase Shoreman (because I don't remember the exact statement), GMs play good chess, and before you can play good chess, you have to get good at playing bad chess.

Good chess is what GMs do--deep subtle positional play and a thorough opening understanding. Underpinning all of that good chess, though, is tactics. Every positional thing ultimately is either to enable or prevent some tactical thing from happening, and to really play positional chess well you have to have a good tactical understanding.

So what Shoreman did with these stuck 1800-2300s was get them to set aside their opening repertoires that they had copied from their favorite GMs, and get them play aggressive tactical openings. It is important to note that these openings were NOT required to sound--the important thing was to get into a tactical game. You are playing for a knockout here, not for a slightly superior pawn endgame. If you can get a good attack from a sacrifice, but can't calculate it out for a win--go for it! I think I recall Shoreman saying to always play the most aggressive move that you cannot see an outright refutation for, or something to that effect.

That kind of chess is what he meant by bad chess. Once you really understand that bad chess, you can then start to understand good chess.
You didn't refute anything I posted, just posted an unrelated point while calling my post "disingenuous" for no clear reason.

One of the sides didn't turn up at all, nor write a response, after having been served. Lawsuits being expensive is a valid point, but it is an separate point than what I posted about above.
The cows your beef comes from are probably eating powders from China in the form of vitamins and antibiotics.
Thanks for the article. When you read in the morning, does that include things like Hacker News or do you earmark it for books?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13138349
Is it fair for Google to take the pay instead of the content creator just because they were hit with a false copyright claim?
> Usually, people who fail at remote work tend to either lack the self-discipline it requires, or they are simply socially oriented and thrive being around other people. In the latter case, working from a shared office can help, but even then, if you lack the self-discipline and habits required, you are likely not going to thrive. While there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, young people (early 20s) tend to struggle more with this than people who have reach their late 20s and early 30s.

These are probably valid points, but it pigeon holes the employee. There are lots of reasons remote work may not work out for someone. The organization matters as much as the individual. One terrible boss can be hell for a remote worker who does not have presence in the company.
Live stream of the engine: http://earthenginelive.com/mobile/index.html
480 EUR for 100 p/c at the reseller for the 4c/8t model.
EEPD is primarily a digital signage supplier, they do some automotive but nothing to do with autonomous driving more around data acquisition and fleet management.
I've been learning Spanish for a year now. Seems that audiobooks aren't that popular in Spanish. Apparently radionovelas were. Seems like a great way to keep learning.
Neural Networks for Dummies
> The planned obsolescence is such that it cannot be charged while powered on

Your charging brick isn’t capable of providing enough amps. That’s the problem. Not “planned obsolescence”. Last I checked, the iPad needs at least 10 watts (5V at 2A) to charge. The small 5 watt brick that comes with an iPhone isn’t going to do it.
There are trade-offs here even if looked at purely from the worker's point of view. While it is probably strictly superior from that POV to have the exact same job with the exact same terms except without a non-compete, the inability to commit to a non-compete means that the equilibrium is shifted and the exact same job with the exact same terms likely wouldn't have existed in the first place.

Perhaps on the balance laws against non-competes are a good idea, but we should always be wary of claims of a free lunch.
This is how it's working with hosting providers. Digitalocean didn't take my server down but said they need my reply for the accuser ASAP. I basically wrote this is fair use and I'm ready to go to court in the USA in some specific state/district (found a boilerplate of that letter from some law forum/site). Digitalocean said thank you and I never got a reply. They said I don't need to do anything else when it comes to them, they are satisfied. I knew the troll who didn't even live in the states, so I was confident.
It is not "socialist" to expect a specially-treated organization to not act shitty if it wants to keep that special legal treatment. It just...isn't.

Not that you're right about your sweeping statement either, but it doesn't even begin to apply here except insofar as labor participation in direction can--not will, but can--discourage that shitty behavior.
A primary problem in marrying logic to ML is doing so in a differentiable way. i.e. when your SAT part of the system is suboptimal, how do you know which parameters of the learned part to change, and in which direction?
You might find the Udoo Bolt interesting: https://www.udoo.org/udoo-bolt/
>They are opportunities to build friendships and have some fun with people I wouldn't mind knowing better.

Which I would argue is very clearly a benefit to your ability to work together. My team off-sites certainly include formal information exchanges, but we specifically try not to spend too much time of things that could be equally well communicated via email or video conference.
Wikipedia may be of some use here, I don’t know the exact dates of when OS X was released (with a Mac Classic emulator, how meta!) versus when Apple transitioned 6502->68k and 68k->ppc and ppc->x86. Sorry I can’t be of more help to your questions!
> I got myself positively diagnosed also, not autistic in any way

I'm the opposite, I have never gotten myself diagnosed. As you say, there doesn't seem to be much point to this.

> Why? there is no clinical significance to this.

I'm not really looking at this from a clinical perspective, but from a research perspective. From the perspective of finding out more about why this condition exists and what causes it, I think it is pretty significant there are large number of people who seem to be affected in similar ways, but for whom the condition is not so problematic.
I would think someone disabled or with mobility issues would seek out those opportunities over local employment at a higher rate. People with visa/passport/country of origin issues would have issues traveling would be another group.
Google cares about their customers. They just don’t care about consumers.
Author here. Rarely digital. Mostly good old fashioned books. When I read on a tablet or similar I find it too easy to get side tracked and look up other things, and before you know it you've used up all your morning "quota" raeding about other things (that may or may not be related).

That said, once in a while, I use this time to make a dent in my Pocket backlog.
Natural doesn't necessarily mean anything, but time-tested does.

It's too long to explain here, but people who have read both Michael Pollan and Taleb probably understand what I mean.

Nutrition isn't a science on solid ground, and food isn't a linear combination of its nutrients.

It's true that "natural" beef might be raised in ways that aren't time-tested (in fact it's very likely given modern farming). But something like Impossible Burger is also guaranteed not to be time-tested. That isn't to say I wouldn't try it, but it's definitely an important difference.
I don’t think we really have a “cross architecture IR” yet.
I think solar energy is enough, at least for small prototypes.
> unrepentant carnivore

Curious if this means you don't believe in the humane/environmental cost or you don't care?
> running the binary with `-h` or `--help`

These shouldn't be taken for granted, I think the feature should be opt-in (and quite easy to contribute).

I would have executed the binary if there is a segment saying that it supports Shellac. The binary then detects the environment variable that's in the current spec, and prints completion information to stdout.
> The rear IO is modest, including DisplayPort (1.2), HDMI, VGA (honestly?!)

Gee, I'm just happy that they reaped the RS232 DB9 ;)
Ok, but that is 1 biological filtering step away from eating them directly.
Oh, this is very, very cool. Seems like a lot of people would be helped by a tool that makes it easier to search/find availability/lowers the friction to both providing and receiving mentorship. Thanks for sharing!
Corporate death penalties exist in the United States. This article includes a Google Books link to New York doing so in 1890: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution

It sounds like bullshit because some elements of the civic discourse have expended a lot of effort to make the idea inconceivable.
I disagree. There are many books on programming in PowerShell and you can call into any .NET library from it, so you can certainly write games.
> A box of instant macaroni could be unhealthy because it contains low levels of important vitamins and minerals while containing excess amounts of salt, cholesterol, and saturated fat

What macaroni contains cholesterol and saturated fat? And seems unfair to compare macaroni, a plain ingredient usually combined with others, with a complete meal.
With APUs and NVMe storage, it seems like these things can be fairly powerful and still really small.
Treeshaking is a separate phase during 'delivery' (aka creating an optimized application/library): it may use the GC in the treeshaking phase:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw71/DV/html/delivery...
It won’t run on an ST, but a Atari TT can run *nix like OS’s
Going on 8 years remote and I 100% agree with the authors.
I believe that interleaving is a principle to applied to life in general
Day 23, that was a fun one!

It’s pretty easy to solve with an octree. My goal was run-time speed rather than quickest solution.

My octree solution runs in ~3 milliseconds. If memory serves, the Z3 solver took around 17 seconds on the same machine.

I made a nifty (imho) video that shows the octree traversal order. There’s no need to create irregular shapes.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/solving-advent-of-code-...
This article is from 2012. Does the claim that "no painting bought for $30 million or more has ever been resold at a profit" still hold true?
> The size of the OS and even the processors we use can't be shrunk down because of all of that backwards compatibility

On the other side of the fence Apple breaks compatibility all the time (see OpenGL vs Metal 2). Yet you can run Windows 10 on comparatively lower specced hardware while still being able to run apps developed for Windows XP.
Paul Graham: “Airbnb happened because its founders could not pay their rent”
It's talent, not employers, in short supply.
I doubt that China will throw Google out.

It's a bit of a reminder that Google is under US jurisdiction and there's a point to be made that, no matter what they promise you, if the US wants their data, they get their data.

More competition can only be good, if this leads to the Chinese creating a third major platform, I welcome it. If they open source it, they may even have success outside of China.
AGI implies neither consciousness, nor will (free or otherwise).

The only essential part of an AGI's definition is the ability to make (efficient / "intelligent") decisions in vastly different domains irrespective of previous training.
If creators were smart they would always publish on two (or more) platforms - Youtube and Vimeo for example. It doesn't cost them much in terms of time and effort, it gives their viewers a choice (given the choice, I would rather watch alternative), and if enough creators do that, it keeps Youtube on their toes. Which means that they might care a bit more about the creators.

On a related note, Google should clean up their customer support. Everywhere.
IME, audio calls are relied on less in a remote environment than in person meetings in an office. They do feature heavily though.

However, it probably makes instant messaging, or web based tools a more natural way if interacting rather than grabbing a meeting room for everything.

I've never worked with a deaf developer but I'd imagine it easier to accommodate in a fully remote environment.
Right now you are right. Twitch only lets you stream live content and keep recordings of it.

But they certainly compete with YouTube for eyeballs, and I can't imagine they're not working on a regular video ecosystem.
The tweet is very justifiably getting criticized.

> let’s discuss the “friends and family” round, shall we?

> the whole entire funding round built into the startup narrative that is predicated on the idea that you might have friends/family with enough disposable income to write you checks to fund your startup.

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1130135288896876549

It's a bit disappointing seeing other VCs in the replies defend Graham's comment.
Exactly. That's what I was getting at but your example is better because the compiler isn't really even being used at runtime here.
This is a great point. Non-compete agreements reduce risk of losing otherwise unprotected information to a competitor and probably increase retention of valuable employees. So preventing employers from using these agreements would increase risk and turnover, and employers might (read: probably would) decrease offered compensation in response.

Now, this effect might be dwarfed by the upward pressure on compensation caused by greater availability of alternative jobs for employees, but it’s not obvious to me that would be the case. I’d be interested to see some empirical studies on the subject.
> I'm not sure how a strong AI is supposed to fix that.

presumably a sufficiently advanced AI could find or create a technical solution that perfectly solves the problem with no downsides, or at least so little downside or cost that even those who "don't believe" in climate change couldn't refuse trying it out.
So you're saying that OpenAI is producing a public good in which the whole of society has a stake?
The forum thread has more discussion, Newegg has been restocking every couple of weeks and sold out within a day or two, https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/sffn-asrocks-deskm...

Asrock has an upcoming low-power fanless MB/barebone for embedded, http://linuxgizmos.com/worlds-first-amd-based-nuc-mini-pc-sh...

> ASRock Linux-ready “iBox-R1000” industrial PC and “NUC-R1000” mainboard provide the new AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 SoC in a 4×4 NUC form-factor with up to 32GB DDR4, 2x GbE, 3x USB 3.1, triple 4K displays, and 2x M.2 slots.
I think even using WordPress.com would be considered "hosting your own" in this context.

I think most of the time, "host your own" means you can do more or less whatever you want with your site. Rather than putting your content somewhere like medium or Facebook or Instagram where you are in a closed and controlled system.
The pies that don't end up tasting good will all go away.
Doesn't mean the original constraints would even make it possible for consciousness or free will to appear.

I have a hard time seeing a generalist version of what we have today ever being even remotely capable of anything approaching consciousness.
I suspect it all has to do with the software distribution models.

The C64 generation got a lot of software through things like 'enter it yourself magazines', which would often have programming information on the next page. It was an open invitation "hack and customize the game" which gets you onboarded to programming. You also had things like defeating crude copy protection as an incentive to learn how the machine worked.

I got into computers a little later-- my first computer was a 386SX that was obsolete almost as soon as it came out of the box. With no modem, your software selections were limited to buying whatever pig-in-a-poke the local computer store had. When the supply of new exciting software that would run on it dried up, opening up GWBASIC was my route to getting more enjoyment out of the machine.

Today, there's basically an infinite library of software easily available. The reaction to "I finished my game and want something new" won't be "let's change the delay loops so the aliens are faster" or "Can I write my own Dragon Quest clone", it's "pop open Steam/the App Store"
Ugh, guys guys guys. Please don't lead HN into circles of hell.

We love your oracular knowledge of internet and software history and (dare I say it) we love you, but you simply can't do this on Hacker News. If I can't persuade you on first principles just think of what sort of example you're setting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You didn't refute anything I said, either ;-)

The sad truth is that medium and large enterprises can use the crushing burden of legal costs to impose their will upon the little guy. Said little guy has to make a decision when they get sued: a.) get a second mortgage to pay the lawyers; b.) grovel: "please sir, let me go, I'll stop saying mean things about you, even if they are true"; or c.) pretend it doesn't exist. Default judgements are generally people irrationally opting for option c.

This is just like an engineer saying "I could replicate this product in in a weekend", knowing full well that it would take a team of 10 a year to do so at a fully-loaded cost of a few million dollars.

IMHO this is a spat between two quacks (you devoted the last sentence of your comment to this), one with slightly more money than the other (you failed to mention this, and it's significance, which is why I brought it up). Guess which quack will prevail.
You're stuck in perfectionist paralysis. Just get one and figure out what works for you, trial and error.
What exactly did you expect from the world’s largest advertising company? Consumers are Google’s product. They always have been.
While the tools themselves might not use the same key for both operations, I think the question was asking about whether it is problematic that a user’s SSH keys, used in SSH for signing, are also used by these tools for encrypting. In other words, the concern being the same key is used for two different operations, even if not in the same tool.

As I commented in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19953623, I’d love to see another blog post walking folks through why/how the “dangerous” RSA keys are in fact useable for both operations because the textbook RSA concerns aren’t a concern because of X, Y, and Z.
I actually find that ingredient list surprisingly tame.

And I think typically the hazards of processed foods are that they’re made from low quality ingredients, then inundated with salt, sugar, and fat to make them anything from palatable to addictive. Plus a bunch of preservatives for shelf stability.
There is a way to handle this, but you aren't going to like it.

Since there is absolutely no penalty for filing copyright claims, you just get together with other large youtube channels and begin filing claims against Disney, CBS, NBC, Fox, and so forth, all the large media companies that have youtube over a barrel, as well as their advertisers.

You simply decide not to play nice whatsoever. And you keep on doing it, as a growing group, repeatedly, until youtube is forced to take action. You do it to any large corporation that wants to post on youtube. And if they take the wrong action, which they will, you bring out RICO statutes and begin filing so many subpeona's they can't financially afford to work with it. You don't stop at youtube either, you get in groups and sue them for stuff they put on cable TV as well. Find yourself jr lawyers.

If Google wants binding arbitration contracts in place and then wants to sexually harass their staff, the appropriate turn-about play is for the staff to get together and plan on sexually harassing the executive management. And I'm not talking in ways they would like; I'm talking hundreds of people telling the execs and upper managers they want to do scat-play, or buying and mailing them used japanese underwear and mini goats with plushines, and so forth. And they get as viscious as possible about this, up to the point of following them around with handcuffs and leather straps in groups.

Because if we're going to be lawsless, it's time to act like total animals. And realistically, there's only one way to teach that lesson.
Because photos aren't the same thing as feeding text to a machine that can spit out dialogue in the voice of someone else. Same thing with "deep fake".
This is really dismaying, but I'll give you credit for struggling to avoid it for a long time before succumbing. Still. Can you please just let go before it gets to this stage in the future? I know it's not easy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yep. Also most c-derived languages have 'progn' as the comma operator. Expression-...ism? is not really a problem.
Agreed. Management needs to fire these people. If they sue, great: Google's ensuing victory will create a precedent that workplace protections do not extend to unbounded activism that employees falsely claim is whistleblowing.
It's not like Apple is some struggling underdog for Christ's sake. With hundreds of billions in liquid reserves they could afford to optimize 90% for profit and q0% for sustainability instead of 100% for profit.
Anyone know anything about this able to break this down a bit further?

This sounds like it all revolves around Android / Huawei getting booted from the Open Handset Alliance maybe?
> these creators could shift to a competitor that will provide an equitable relationship between platform, creator, and consumer

Such as?
Yep, Python is just a plain, boring interpreted language from the 80s that was designed as a reaction to Perl's syntax, and is unfortunate enough to contain a lot of dynamic properties that designing a JIT compiler for it is a massive amount of work. It can be seen in context with interpreted languages during that time such as Perl, Tcl, awk, sed, etc. It became popular because it was baby's first language taught in universities to both CS and non-CS majors. Python is simply not competitive in terms of language features with modern programming languages. I tend to assume most of the people praising Python are amateur or new programmers.