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> Building carbon-neutral energy sources is a hard problem, but most experts are optimistic about our ability to solve this (for example, nuclear fusion).

Having been in the carbon-neutral energy sources industry for a while, I agree with your statement, but not your example. There are already carbon-neutral energy sources that exist and are cheap and competitive (solar and wind). So while it would be great if nuclear could eventually join the ranks of cheap carbon neutral sources, that's not currently the hard part. The hard part is (1) scaling up deployment and integration of these new sources, and (2) figuring out how to deal with all the stranded assets that are being displaced by new renewables.

But, yes, I agree that these are hard problems, experts are optimistic, and AI isn't a blocker since the issues are around business model, regulation, and political influence.
Via routing, pin placement, optimizing logic, and probably a couple other hardware problems that are also nondeterministic and not coming to mind right now.
A three (or ten, or even 300) strike plan, where they lose the right to make copyright claims in a "guilty until proven innocent" fashion - the company must provide sufficient evidence to YouTube that the content is infringing.

They would still have the DMCA process, but they lose rights to use the copyright strike process until they prove their competence.
What makes ramen noodles so special?
If you want punitive action, balance and justice in one package, aim high: eye for an eye.

For each case of copyfraud, have the defrauder lose copyright for one item in their catalogue and placed into public domain. The item? Victim's choice.
OP literally says this:

In Python, an if condi­tional is a state­ment, and can only be used in certain posi­tions.

This is categorically wrong. In python the if conditional exists in statement form and expression form. The if-expression also basically exists in every other imperative language out there, usually in this form:

x + (is_true() ? 1 : 2)

I know he's not trying to criticize python. Just want to correct his mistake and emphasize that python has intrinsic design features that can make it very very functional.
I remember typing in programs from magazines with those lines of DATA-statements - if your magazine was Sinclair User, Your Sinclair, or similar it was easier than if it was a book.

Most books would print a program for BBC-Basic, and give you a set of lines to change for other systems. e.g. Adding in the LET statement for Spectrums.
We need to price the cost of environment into the cost of goods. There needs to be room for the economics of environmentally friendly companies to outperform the economics of environmentally damaging companies. This will result in investment into environmental improvement and not rely on individuals having to tread on ‘environmental egg shells’ in a world of environmentally damaging products. Demand Environmental Economics from your politicians.
I don’t see any questions here. Seems like you figured it out. Let us know when you build it.
Don't know what is an inverted pendulum, or wanna build yours? Look at this
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I did some work on html2text when I started off and while the little parts did make sense, the whole library was confusing for me. I couldn't change anything without breaking tests.

On the other hand I've been tinkering with curio for a while now and it's a fresh breath compared to that.

My trouble is that I still don't understand what makes the html2text thing "bad". What particular thing there caused me to not like working with it? I'm trying to understand that.

I've been book hunting + figuring out if it's something that I did not know which would have made the code a lot easier to work with (stuff got a lot easier after I cleaned up my set theory understanding)

- https://github.com/dabeaz/curio
- https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text
(4) Anochai FDM's answer to Should you buy real Google reviews?
It's not entitlement to complain about copyright procedure abuse when you use a platform of a multi billion dollar company for its publicly communicated, and intended purpose.

If we assume the creator is using a licensed original work, then I would rather claim that if entitlement is expressed by anyone, it is expressed by the entity that sent, or are otherwise responsible for the 1000+ copyright claims. All claims toward a single channel, and apparently without verifying the validity of even one such claim.
Gotta nuke something
I don't think getting rid of non-competes would necessarily attract companies to your silicon-whatever.
The fallout has killed a fair number of people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders#Health_effects_o...
Seems far more complicated than that:

"There’s one obvious reason that the Hispanic and Latino vote splits up and isn’t monolithic: Hispanic and Latino voters aren’t one identity homogeneous group. As with every other large racial and ethnic category (white, black, Asian), there’s a lot of internal diversity when you look under the hood.

Hispanic and Latino Americans, like Asian Americans, don’t all come from one place. Most originally come from Mexico, but a solid number come from Puerto Rico, Cuba and elsewhere in Central and South America. And voting patterns vary across these groups. Cubans, for example, are a key voting group in Florida, and they tend to be more Republican than other Latino populations. There are real generational divides: Self-identified Hispanics who are third-generation or higher are more likely than others to self-describe primarily as American rather than Hispanic/Latino, less likely to say they have felt discriminated against because of their background and feel less connected to their country of origin. Hispanics live in a wide variety of areas, and there’s some evidence that rural Hispanics moved a bit toward Trump in 2016. Evangelical Protestant Hispanics are more Republican than mainline Protestant, Catholic or religiously unaffiliated Hispanics. There’s a gender gap in Hispanic voting, too. Democrats won both Hispanic men and women in 2018, but Hispanic men were more likely to vote for Republicans than women were."

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/05/trumps-su...
If you're going to be worried about that, you should be worried about normal sausage too.
Remote work taught me that working in batches can really drive up my efficiency. 2.5 hours at the start of the day, a half hour break, then another period of work about the same length, and then finally one more. I find this breaks up things and allows the 'down time' to settle in my head so I can come back and prep to get "in the zone" for another two hour purely focused work period. All that ties in wonderfully to his routine keeping, which is a great template to work with.

It helps to shut off all notifications on your phone or computer as well, including email.
I've worked for over 30 years only remote on one thing or another... most of this guy's points are on the money.

Unless it's enforced to share information properly, if some people are in an office and others are not, there are two classes of political animal created immediately and that will affect everything.

Unless I missed it, he didn't get into how variable work really is... this 10h thing is kind of a crock for the kind of work I do anyway... sometimes you are blocked on the one thing you have to be doing and it's difficult to focus on things that are of secondary importance just because you should be working. Other times you're being paid, but there's nothing to do for one reason or another. You can usually find useful things to do but at these times, they already know the situation. They want you to just note it, keep your head down and do something you can do yourself that should be somewhat helpful, and pick up immediately the thing is unblocked.

It's just not always possible to move things forward for 10h each day... be transparent about it. Sometimes if it's an architectural or philosphical issue, you need to study it and then do something else while your brain thinks about it. Some days nothing is going to move forward no matter what you do because of your personal state... you learn to recognize it and let it go... tomorrow or the day after you'll be back in triple force and more than make it up. The people who are paying you usually care about results not hour by hour but week by week. So long as it's all happening on that scale everyone's happy.
I found two remotely exploitable 0days in the Erlang VM with the use of a SAT solver.

They can trivially break lots of hash algorithms. You can also find bitwise equivalents to functions which you wouldn't naturally expect to be easily definable in terms of bitwise operations. You can extend existing concepts with a lot of extraordinary new functionality.
You can do both!

Use a basic sampling approach (recommended by Honeycomb and others) to sample e.g. one percent or less of your “boring” transactions, 10% of your suspect transactions, and all of your errors. By suspect I mean too slow by some cutoff, generated more work than expected, etc. Those numbers are arbitrary and could change depending on the environment. For CDN logs of static assets, 0.1% or less might be sufficient because there is hopefully not much going on there, but you’d like to know if there were.

You then (importantly) store the sampling rate along with the event itself to reconstruct a usable comparison between the different types of events. For example, one event for each of the previous sampling rates I gave would be three total events stored but represent 111 transactions.
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Thanks! Didn’t search hard enough.
Am I missing the reason these choices are mutually exclusive?
It's also not that easy, given one can cross the data is code frontier easily:

(let ((fs '(+ - *)))
(mapcar (lambda (f)
(funcall f 1 2))
fs))

How do we know that the functions in FS can't be removed? They are just symbols in a list in the code.
And sadly every time we grow the size of government by assigning more responsibilities to government, the larger that voting bloc grows. In states favoring big government, this can only end badly. Although they can always raise taxes to address shortfalls, this has limits as it eventually drives those paying the most taxes to low-tax states.
Wow, the samples on their front page are absolutely awful. Do they have good ones?
Is Twitch becoming a general purpose video site? At a glance, it seems all screengrabs and tabletop cameras of games.
This coming from the company that removed the YouTube subscription collections feature promising they’d replace it with something better 4+ years ago.[1] Of course I’m still waiting on that promise to be fulfilled.

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/forum/AAAAiuErobUSpDf7fr3...
CodeGen: LLVM wrapper for just-in-time code generation and compilation
are you talking about actual 5G or AT&Ts 5G-in-name-only, aka 5G-e?
Let's say I'm teaching 50 min periods. 15 mins for questions. Half hour to introduce new material, with a couple of examples. Five mins left. Interleave now?

Everyone has sat through 12 or 16 years of school. That can lead them to think they know all about it. I've been teaching since 79 and I'm still learning a lot,all the time. It ain't obvious.
> Why, in principle, would it not be possible for us to design an AGI, that would have care for our (all sentient beings') welfare or care for the investors' profit as (one of) its core goal(s)?

Because we don't know how to design goal functions. Furthermore, how would the AI measure "welfare"? Maybe the way it maximizes welfare is horrifying to us. Look at how easy it is to hack current image recognition neural nets, then imagine a solution to the human welfare problem that is as far from an image of a dog as an image of pink noise is.
I disagree.

Non-compete agreements severely disadvantage highly specialized professionals where there are only 2-3 employers in a specific area who can hire you for your skills. This reduces their leverage and allows companies to underpay their employees. This becomes a huge problem when you become experienced in your field and built up a network. One cannot simply restart their career in a different industry in many cases. With jobs becoming more specialized, this gives employers excessive leverage over employees.

As an alternative, I would prefer something like a fixed-term contract renewed every x years (typically 2-3 yrs) where you're free to move to a competitor at the end of your contract term. This protects the employers investment and also the employees leverage to negotiate higher wages or a promotion.

I would recommend looking at CA for the positive effects of banning non compete agreements.

If you're really working on proprietary material there are NDAs to protect the employer.
Hmmmm, the issue with train of thought is that it assumes Altman is dismissing many other energy experts' who are saying they do know how to solve x. Silicon Valley can't be that much of a bubble to think that just because it hasn't figured out how to deal with climate change, that no one else can either.
> How would you get standards like unittest?

“have the stable version at time of distribution release included with the core distribution”

Ruby, for instance has both “default” and “bundled” gems with the core distribution.

https://stdgems.org/
Remember that this is a company that funded a medical debt collection startup.
I like his body language. When he can't or doesn't want to answer a question he stares right into the person's eyes and nods affirmatively as if he's telling them something really certain while non-answering. I'm definitely going to start doing that.
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Already out of stock at NewEgg! Anyone know of alternative suppliers that are reputable?
Dreamhost will configure Passenger via cPanel to deploy your Django/RoR apps.

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215769578-Passe...

It's not as seamless as PHP (restarting the Passenger service to reflect code changes requires an ssh session and touching a pidfile), but shared hosting isn't entirely stuck on PHP anymore.
I tried Beyond Meat last night for the first time and was surprised how un-filling it was for me. I ate one and a half burgers with plenty of toppings and was still hungry after. And I'd been snacking before dinner, so I wasn't famished to begin with.

The taste was pretty good, but I have to figure I'm eating two burgers ($6 in patties) at a minimum.

EDIT: mind sharing why you're downvoting this? Is my experience not relevant?
Opera Reborn 3
Tesla: Insane or Clever
Default judgements are not as simple as you disingenuously claim.

"Answering the case" = paying a lawyer at least a low five figure USD retainer to write a ~20 page document, 15 of which is a template, and then show up in court on your behalf.

No money, no justice, unless you successfully beg for probono work (ie: find a lawyer willing to volunteer).
Last time I checked it has a large entry level cost. When will they learn.
I have the impression that lispworks gets the gc to do the tree shaker's work http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/DV/html/deluser-...
Author here. I 100% agree with this. That's one of the many reasons why I enfoce the 19:30 stop. After that is for socializing and other offline activities (such as reading).
How is it just as spam / disruptive behavior type protection do they not have a catch for if 1800+ claims ... maybe have a human with a brain take a look at what is up?

Granted it is YouTube ... so probabbly not.
And that 5 minutes takes you farther.
~480 EUR for the top model currently, at bulk, about 100 euro more expensive than the Bolt but it also operates at higher clocks.
No, wanting to surveil someone 24/7 when you only have sensors at home and work means they can't visit anywhere else.
The elephant in the room is that big confounding factors can be expected: healthy people get more sunlight; also, people who go outside more during the daytime are likely to have healthier social lives, which is big for CVD. So the question is, how much, if any, does the sunlight itself benefit health, given that we could expect a strong correlation even if the answer is "negatively"?
If true, this is certainly a nuclear move. There's a variety of first party app stores in China, though I doubt they'll see much success convincing Western users to switch. Curious if there's going to be antitrust fallout from markets outside the US for unilaterally crippling vendors at behest of US foreign policy. Is Microsoft or Apple going to pull their app stores as well? What happened to project Dragon Fly?

On the other hand, I wonder how Huawei / China will retaliate. Wouldn't be surprised if this kills all Google manufacturing prospects in China which pretty much kills Google hardware.
Interesting, in my book twitch was still streaming only. Given the backing by Amazon you might be right.
8/8 correct. pretty easy to tell the difference, we’ve got a ways to go for this and deep fakes.
> You can't live free without crime. Once the state has this information, it can only be used against you, not in your favor.

I understand there is risk, all things have potential extremes, but the idea that data on me can only be used against me is false on it's face.
Have you played with the different schemes or just jumped on racket? If the former, I'd be interested to know why racket over gambit or chicken?
Author here. Yep, "batching" is great advice. I am a big fan of Pomodoros. Also, I usually only check my email twice per day: once time in late morning and once in the late afternoon. Each time I spend roughly one Pomodoro just one email. After implementing this routine, I've found myself far more on top of my mailbox despite spending less time. Kudos to Cal Newport for recommending this in his book Deep Work, which is where I got it from.
Safari’s Reader Mode trigger is nondeterministic. I’ve sometimes gotten it to work if I reload the page or wait a while.
> The problem is that I cannot count on being able to install new software in many environments.

The approach Ruby is taking with gemification and default and bundled gems for standard libraries is equivalent to the traditional standard library if you can't install updates, but superior in other cases.
I've worked remotely a number of times for years at a time. I've usually worked locally first and moved remote or only spoken to my team through chat/phone.

The yearly meetings I can see appealing to a certain type of employee but for the older employee with a family it is not that appealing.
The source for Terraria is notoriously terrible.

https://github.com/TheVamp/Terraria-Source-Code

It is another example of how even inelegant code full of hardcoded values can be successful.
Immutable cons cells also lets Racket implement a constant time `list?`, which is kind of nice.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html?q=list?#%2...
Except that it doesn't manifest like a classic Stabilizer Trim Runaway.

The classic Stabilizer Trim Runaway is a continuous uncommanded actuation of the trim mechanism on a particular direction.

Catastrophic MCAS failure manifests as a series of discrete, amplifying activations, which are far easier for a pilot to dismiss as the normal operation of the Auto-Trim, and speed trim systems.

The is is a manifestly different pattern to look for, and was only caught by one air crew (on the penultimate flight of the Lion Air aircraft) by the assistance of a third, uninvolved pilot along for the ride.

I understand how one could see Boeing's internal test pilot as being reasonable, but keep in mind who signs his paycheck, and future prospects for him if the company gets found liable.

Perspective, and understanding of what different parties have at stake is essential in evaluating what is actually being communicated, and why. Words have long tails in the aftermath of a crisis like this.
Yup. I would argue that that death spiral is a feature not a bug. Governments will do every thing they can to hide the extent of their taxation by nickel and diming its citizens, testing the limits of how much can be raised before people flee.

If people could see the some total of the various taxes they pay, they'd be shocked. I'd love it if Stripe or other payment processors started reporting taxes to credit card companies so we could see the total sales and other taxes we paid across all transactions on top of our income taxes.
I'm not familiar with Toronto but foreign speculators are reportedly about 10% of real estate transactions in Vancouver. Just how much more housing were they supposed to have built?
Theres clearly a market for mini computers, I wish we had more products like this or the Mac Mini.
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"Corporations exist for whatever reason their creators decide" - the state is the creator of a corporation! They don't just spring out of nowhere. Corporate entities, LLCs, etc. exist literally because the government in whose territory they operate grant them a charter that allows them to enter contracts and make agreements independent of the personal liability of the owners. That government can revoke that charter (and it has happened in American history--it's not a theoretical thing, it is real and an extant power (one that goes unused, but extant nonetheless).

We, as the actual owners of that government that grants this special exception, can--and should--expect better than the barest bare minimum out of such fictional persons if they want to keep their fictional personhood. This is a transaction: "we grant you the right to operate a fictional person and you don't act like shitheads in our society."

We don't do this, largely because of the weird little melty fears that led to you going off about collectivism when it doesn't apply here except insofar that labor participation can encourage, though does not guarantee, better behavior. But we can, and we should, keep this tool at the ready because corporate entities will be good citizens only so long as you keep the proverbial fist of an angry god ready to strike; sociopaths (and your standard corporation is a sociopath by definition) only, only, respect consequences and so those consequences must be severe and always at the ready.

A careful reader might note that I said nothing about such companies operating as unlimited-liability partnerships. Because yes, fair is fair, and people (who, unlike fictive entities, have rights and freedoms even if the results of those rights and freedoms suck) have the right to do as they please so long as they aren't harming other people. But they wouldn't take that option and we all know why.
> I still don't understand how we go from General AI --> ??? --> Infinite $$$

I still don't understand how we go from classifiers to AGI. We've done amazing things with classifiers, especially over the last few years with deep learning, but they're still just classifiers and I don't see any path from where we are now to actual "intelligence".