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I'm not too worried about AMD as long as Lisa Su is in charge. They know how to make high performance CPUs and they probably didn't finish their K12 only because x86 seemed more profitable for the time being. I don't see Su missing an important trend when the time comes - when there is sufficient demand for ARM, pioneered by others, and the company has gained enough x86 marketshare (an ongoing, slow process) to be able to afford more parallel R&D.
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I had an Uncle take an assignment in Brazil. The entire family took Portuegese lessons except for the youngest boy who wasn't of school age.

He ended up being the only one to become fluent. He hung out with the maids watching soap operas and that's how he learned the language almost by osmosis. He had no accent and knew all the slang.
There are interesting replies to your comment, when I posted I didn't directly think of insurance. I did think of theft (like are you really going to let a stranger drive off with your car?) but that is possible to address in many ways. The replies are focusing on insurance, but that is a numbers game so a startup could solve the insurance problem by being an insurance company as well. (or partnering with one, paying for the privilege by burning through VC money.)

it seems from the reply thread that there is no marketplace for lending your car out to the gig economy. (Which is a shame, because if there were, gig workers could calculate their hourly more easily.)

of course, even if there were such a market, it could be mispriced - maybe all the people who are lending their cars out on that economy are either losing money, or they're getting money but the market is artificially inflated by VC dollars the way uber was.

It's interesting that there is no such market - seems like a pretty natural niche. according namecheap, as of this moment lendmycar.com is available and $8.88/yr ... hmmmm.... https://ibb.co/2ZQ9q3Z
No, because voltage-frequency scaling is very non-linear (and process and design dependent) and designs often just have a "brick wall" they can't progress over.

For example, it was practically impossible to get Zen 1 CPUs over 4 GHz on air, not because they got too hot, but because they'd just crash almost immediately, regardless of voltage. Similiarly you can't push the current-est Intel generation beyond ~5.3 GHz, regardless of voltage. Current Zen 2 CPUs are highly binned, some bins cannot go beyond ~4.2 GHz, regardless of voltage and cooling, some can do 4.7 GHz.
Yep. Lots of clothing and other manufacturing has moved westward (geographically) from China. A chunk of it seems to be landing in Africa these days, and Africa is gearing up hoping to to be the world's new manufacturing go-to.
I don't think anyone here really disagrees with that.
The Lost Chapter
No, they aren't. Corporations don't magically do things that the group of actors working together don't do.
You have to look for them, but there are benchmarks where AMD outperforms significantly. I cant find the Linux compilation benchmark now, but the difference was not small.

The Bulldozer really did have a big advantage in integer throughput per dollar, but that does not translate to a 2x speedup in pretty much any benchmark. FP throughput on the other hand shows up a lot.
Well you have the multiprocessor memory model for example. Technically, you could use a stricter one (from x86) on arm, but that would maybe prevent some non-atomic efficiency gains, and if it's for a platform with competitor chips that do not do that, programs also won't be able to profit from your stricter model (and maybe Arm Holding won't even let you document it); maybe you will be faster on some atomic instructions though (because you have to be fast for even your non atomic ones anyway), but I doubt that would be beneficial in the majority of workloads.

Clearly, there can be shared elements, but, if you want something optimized, not everything.
Smartphones: Around for decades, but used to be called "newspapers."

Less snidely, there's a fine line between adaptation and invention. Shoulders, giants, standing, etc. Good artists and great artists, re: the stealing. For many of these, the more useful approach would be figuring out exactly in what ways these re-inventions are the same or different from their historical predecessors. eg, apps for taxis are new, taxis are old, and centralized surge pricing is a major difference between the two.
US owns the social media industry and that is where the money is, not computers.

How does one have a social media industry without computers?
Ten percent is probably an overestimate, but by a factor of less than two. In the USA, 137k are dead, which at 0.7% IFR[1] implies 20M infected, 6% of the total population.

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v...
Well TSMC is building a new Fab in Arizona, it would be a $12 billion, 5nm chip production facility. So US Semiconductor industry will still be ahead. And sooner or later others will catch up too.
It's not that simple. My meatspace identity is entirely transparent. But online, I'm mostly Mirimir and other pseudonyms. Even so, I've been Mirimir for long enough, and have written enough about freedom, privacy and anonymity that I have a substantial reputation.

That is, one can have a range of identities, from entirely transparent to stably pseudonymous to fleetingly anonymous.
It's a very efficient mechanism for a handful of very powerful companies to slurp a limitless amount of money up without doing any work. Once a work is created, people will pay for it over and over again forever. And where there's a money-making scheme, there's legislation to back it up.
Sleep problems are largely caused by anxiety, once treated it gives way to solid sleep.

Tweaking the schedule/environment/diet/etc to improve sleep is like using AC to overpower a thermostat-controlled furnace.

Most people who are told they have anxiety will fight tooth and nail against the notion.
Yes, teachers and meditation retreats could be helpful. But just bear in mind that there are lot of different ones, and they're not interchangeable. I'd suggest you do a lot of research and talk to some people you respect and trust who've been to the retreat/teacher you're contemplating.

Also, I can recommend a couple of books: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation and Mindfulness in Plain English.
Have you tried weed? If I really can’t get to sleep I smoke one puff and it always works.
Simpler option: don't call it autopilot if it is shown that it misleads people.
Asymmetry of information is seriously at play here. It’s hard to believe that with access to better/timely information, many workers wouldn’t be able to find a better opportunity than their current gig.
Haven't seen any malpractice on serbs. You need some sources.
Hong Kong’s Aggressive Use of Security Law
That isn't true for gold - historically it has destabilized economies several times by having both too little and too much gold relative to the true size. The gold standard has caused many wars and travesties as conquest was started for the sake of raising their economic cap above deflation, let alone debasement of currency.

A "natural rate" of interest doesn't seem like a meaningful concept to me, to be pedantic. There is nothing natural about it, it is all tautological based upon what "works". Closest concept to it I see is the currency vs productivity mapping for what causes real inflation. Given that universal value is a mere mentally convenient myth everything is fuzzy anyway.
Intel is making silicon for an entire industry. The "white box" industry flourished by assembling a box of parts and shipped them out the door with no other value added. Intel hyperthreading is ancient at this point, but for years Linux scheduler would schedule work on hyper threads before real cores. Apple is aggressive on software which requires them to be aggressive on hardware.
> Tesla [...] is clearly not a different class of intelligence from [...] corporations

I believe he just used Tesla as an example of corporation not as something new or special.

> the point of the paperclip thought experiment is, broadly, that an AI's interests might not be aligned with our own and that misalignment may cause serious problems.

But (some) corporations clearly do share this aspect to some extent. They maximize profit while environmental concerns are not prioritized.

And he pointed out later that corporations are slightly more complex than just maximizing 'one' thing. But a range of things and most importantly profit.
Three space missions heading to Mars, from NASA, China and UAE
WebAuthn is basically this, public key crypto applied to web login.
Yes, indeed, you are correct on all counts. I think I am more generously interpreting "whenever you activate one or more creatures block" as "whenever you activate one or more creature's block" as "whenever you block with a creature."

In this sense, it is very close to grammatical even if it is not close to the ruleset, and imho it is close enough that it could be playable in a casual game, which is really the litmus I am using.

Instead of, "is this convincing as a magic card," I am considering "is there a way that this card could be made to work in a casual game, and still be both balanced and understandable"
When you've got a firework with hundreds of little flammable bits inside making the star pattern, how do they all get ignited? Does the center fuse ignite some main charge, which through heat and expansion ignites the rest of the bits? I mean, the puzzle to me is that the parts are not all connected by fuses, so how do they go off?
That is how it works. Comprehensive insurance covers anyone driving the car and liability insurance follows the driver.
It's when you have more than one boss, which brings you to such brilliance as:

Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses, Bob.

Bob Porter: Eight?

Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it.
So... even if it's English-only, I can't quickly refer to a price in £ or € or ¥? Or that it's 90°F out? I can't talk about my fiancée? I can't even use “proper quotes”?

Yikes.

These days, talking about the "benefits" of ASCII-only is like talking about the "benefits" of HTTP over HTTPS, or the benefits of dial-up as opposed to broadband.

No thanks. It's exclusionary and for zero good technical reason. For every reasonable programming language, there are functions to do everything in UTF-8 that you can do in ASCII, with about the same complexity.

In 2020, why are you going out of your way to prevent people from typing the honest-to-goodness useful characters they want to communicate with? In English?! Where exactly does UTF-8 not work, that this site does?
I definitely agree with you that this is not a good thing and that Apple is pulling a 100% certifiable dick move by doing this. Who in their right mind would want to implement an email authentication method that just paid out 100k because someone found out they weren't actually authenticating emails. I mean come on... I'd love to see Apple eat their own dog-food on this one and then we could see if it's really ready for prime time.
Yes I did a double tape originally. And it was the driver who residue the diplomats, the sas turns up later to fortify the embassy.
The bank runs were caused by banks failing. There was a run on gold, but it was the Bank of France trying to build up its gold reserves.
> Because you're implying they're not professionals.

Don't be ridiculous - nowhere did I imply that. If you feel that way, that's more projection than anything else.
yes because social networks are intended to follow webcelebrities, tv celebrities, brands, and government leaders, alright! great job twitter
I have a similar technique that I really need to document I think about random ideas in succession very quickly. For example:

if I hammer an icecube I’ll get to the meeting on monday. But then that’s apple day. Better running away. There are dogs falling from the sky so I’ll take my fork. Etc.

It works every single time. Takes around 10-15min of doing this
Absolutely, Arizona plant is a contingency facility TSMC plants in Taiwan lie within the range of Chinese missiles. It is important for US to not be completely blocked in case of a War. So it is certain it would be built and perhaps in record time looking at the current economic environment.
You're ignoring the reality that the alternative to having a bad job is not having a job at all. People work on their own farm and grow their own food. Nobody is forcing them off their farms. When they decide to work they do so voluntarily because nobody can take farming away from them.

You're not going to solve sweatshops by taking away people's agency. You get rid of them by providing viable alternatives.
That's a good point. Maybe you could argue that most of the heavy lifting in CockroachDB is actually done by RocksDB.
I don't know that we won't have tools, albeit different ones, to regulate a bad AI. AI need more than just intelligence and agency. They also need effective ways to interact and affect their environment. That boundary is where we are likely to develop tools to limit and regulate them.

If they are truly general AI then it's likely that their reaction to that limitation and regulation will be not dissimilar to a person's but I see no reason to assume that limiting them will be impossible.
The End of Small Business
I had also tried meditation for years and never "groked" it. What ultimately helped me was using "One giant mind" app. It has 15 minute session for everyday. Doing it everyday for a week I didn't feel anything different but one weekend on a whim I decided to meditate using the app for 3 hrs straight and that's when I felt I finally got it.

Like others have said you can take help of teachers or try meditating in a group. Although I do feel because there so many choices available discovering what works for you may require a little bit luck too.
Bringing people together aka social networks, shouldn’t have been the ideal. Telephone was not a social network itself. It was a tool which gave people the opportunity to communicate - come together. Wish we had stayed with the similar ideology of providing just the tools. Email was/is there. But then, Facebook happened.
The issue with multihop is that it's all from the same provider. In the event that they were legally forced to log their network by an abusive local government it wouldn't help you. It might be sufficient to frustrate an adversary that only managed to compromise their operations at a single data center though.

I question the wisdom of placing Tor in the middle of a VPN chain. By routing your traffic back into a VPN account that's linked to you it seems like you would lose most of the benefits that Tor provides.

* A single VPN means that the provider could link your primary ISP provided IP to your browsing history if they so chose.

* Chaining two VPNs means that neither provider can correlate your IP to your browsing history on their own. However the terminating VPN can obviously link your traffic to your payment details. Also obviously a criminal investigation involving warrants is still a serious threat.

* Chaining one or more VPNs into Tor means that you can rely on the above guarantees as a fallback in the highly unlikely event that an adversary manages to directly compromise Tor. It also hides the fact that you are using Tor from anyone that snoops your traffic at the ISP level. The latter might be very important in some jurisdictions.

* In the end, even if you only use Tor without a VPN the biggest threat to your anonymity is probably your own OpSec (or lack thereof). Ross Ulbricht is a prime example of the fact that you only have to slip up once. Related to that, it's important to be aware of all the ways that modern software and hardware leaks potentially identifying information (ie fingerprinting).
Awesome blog. The Libya one was even better. I have a picture of Hermes Conrad stamping the forms at the border, using every trick in the book to rescue those foreign workers. British civil service at its finest.
This is from over a year ago.

There's some more recent info in this article from January 30: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/environment-canada-report-p...
> It seems like the author kind of misses the point of the paperclip thought experiment, which is, broadly, that an AI's interests might not be aligned with our own and that misalignment may cause serious problems.

Perhaps you should have finished reading. What you suggest the author missed is essentially the core thesis of the piece.
I'm not quite sure what you think this proves.

This is not a list of pandemics, it's a list of individual cases in China of diseases that need to be reported to and monitored by the WHO because of possible epidemic risk. For the last seven years it's been exclusively Avian flu (still no sustained animal->human transmission yet). There are two pandemics (SARS and COVID) there.
And it sucks when your dotted line zigzags across the Atlantic a couple times like mine does (both above and below me).
flatpak/snap still rely on libraries. This only relies on filesystem features and kernel functions which are, for all intents and purposes, 'static' (because of the "Never break userspace" policy). As such, the resulting binaries (stripped of GNU_* symbols) can run on a musl system. I've had a lot of trouble getting flatpak programs to run on my musl system.
Another point: While not all corporations are profit maximizers in a paperclip-maximizer obsessive way - those corporations that grow largest and consume others tends to be those that obsess most about profit and growth simply because those are the ones that tend to become big.
>Not exactly a market you want to be in and be excluded from the larger market.

I am not sure what you are trying to suggest.

You either go in to the bigger market and complete with lower margin. Or you stay within the market with margin and milk it for as long as you could.
We’ve been setting an Example of basic garbage management practices for some time.
Uber places requirements on car make and mode year. You can’t get a 10 year old beater and drive for Uber.
I believe that Kubernetes is artificially injected in your setup. You can just run your DNS server on the server and advertise it on the VPN address. You can still address it from anywhere in the VPN.
PageRank and blockchain? :-p
I did try signing up. The second I ran into the activity requirement quota I quickly got out of there. That's a huge red flag for me, why is there a quota imposed on me? Are you paying users or something? Why expect free work to be done?
Why should Intel enter the business of selling chips as fast as they can with a margin of 30 cents per chip when they are already in the business of selling chips as fast as they can with a margin of 30 dollars per chip?

At no point does Intel selling ARM make financial sense until Intel is on the verge of death.
As nuts as it sounds I suspect high levels of debt may be a hint that there isn't enough money printed into the economy and the debt is a symptom. That more supply doesn't drop the demand significantly seems like a hint. I would love to hear counterarguments because this seems odd even to me.
And it's due to copying academic journals, which are mostly funded by public grants money and should really be free to distribute. I feel really sad every time I remember this case.
Emerson, Self Reliance (modern translation)
This was extremely confusing to me on first read but, since temporal data is an area of interest to me for improving an existing service I maintain as well as for future endeavors, it prompted me to go do a bunch of reading to understand what was meant by the distinction. If others are reading this and confused, maybe what I learned will help make the distinction clearer.

There’s two cases where valid/applicable time might be meaningful:

1. Future state known at present time (e.g. when you know now that a fact will change at a specific future point in time).

2. Corrections to current state which should be applied to historical state (e.g. when you know your application produced invalid state and you want to produce a valid state both at present and in historical representations).

The first case is used more in the literature I found, but didn’t really make the distinction clearer for me because I have limited domain use for that kind of behavior. The correction case really drove the point home for me, because my use cases would benefit from it considerably.

I hope this helps other readers interested in the topic but struggling to visualize the two timelines and how they could be used.
> I think the whole board-state could be represented with 13+52 byte array, having markers between the cards to indicate different piles.

A multiple-gap buffer is more difficult to handle than a linked list, yeah.
I reference Candyland when explaining finite state machines to non-technical adults: state plus card determines new state; card by itself? Nope.
@ALittleLight: “.. One was the idea that the author could rule out the singularity ..”

Your consciousness uploaded and then downloaded into a synthetic human like body isn't ever going to be you. As the man said “transhumanism is a warmed-over Christian heresy”.
I hate all drugs and the industry they bring with them, if that's what it would take I'd rather be awake. Rhyme entirely unintended must find another way to mend it.
> Historically "identity" wasn't a right, but something imposed on people, for better tracking and controlling them by authorities...

I used to own a wonderful book about the history of data science. As I recall, starting in maybe the 1600s, experts in France and Germany were tasked with tracking populations, birth and death rates, economic activity, and so on. And the primary goal was to aid in military planning. Unfortunately, I've lost the book and forgotten the title and author. And the search terms are so topical as to be useless.
They literally do. Plenty of legal and regulatory constructs apply only to corporations. Limited liability is a thing that is available by forming a corporation, as is carrying out an SEC filing and selling stock. A corporation can also survive, as a legal construct, the deaths of all founding members.
> formalised groups working together with some ostensibly stated purpose

Increasing shareholder value. There is no other goal that any corporation has unless corruption is involved.
> With operating expenses exceeding two billion dollars per week

"Alphabet operating expenses for the twelve months ending March 31, 2020 were $131.077B, a 13.47% increase year-over-year."

Operating expenses is everything, including salaries, etc. Google isn't dealing with $2B/wk in power/server purchases, though they're still huge, no doubt.
And a recycling tax. Carbon isn’t the only externality we care about.
These "features" are why I hate Twitter. If Twitter was a personal 90s/2000s shoutbox, I might actually use it.
>its intelligence is fundamentally limited, and therefore so is the risk

collective intelligences such as nation states are capable of producing tools such as nuclear arms or biological weapons whose impact on society may be civilisation ending.

It doesn't follow at all that a limit on intelligence implies a limit on risk. Collective intelligence is already high enough to produce threats that could wipe us off the planet without a problem. This is because most risks, once let loose on the world by someone intelligent enough, don't need to be intelligent in themselves to destroy humans. Viruses aren't intelligent at all.

Or for a more mundane example, we're already in the process of slow-cooking the planet for some stock-market gains
But then it wouldn't have made the first page
Post your ABX logs.
This is incredibly succinctly stated and exactly what I tried to say.