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Haven't seen anyone saying that they've failed, so I'll throw my hat into that ring.

I have insomnia all the time. Work is waiting, 8 feet beneath me a floor below, and my mind spins on emails, passive aggressive remarks, and general strife from earlier in the day.

This isn't a cry for help. It's just an admission, that this stuff is damned difficult for some of us, and I think it should be ok to feel like a big failure.

I will last far longer than 2020 will. And with it, some new appreciations. Maybe. Or at least my half hour commute, which is my best firewall for work so far.
It's important or will be everywhere. Source: California where the lights are literally about to go out...
Until they make you download the FB app to use it, and then they get access to everything you do on your phone and follow you around the internet. So sacrifice your privacy, or sacrifice the Oculus. I know which one I'm going to choose.
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>PG is tone deaf and missing the mood of the nation here.

Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'. You are not representative of 'the mood of the nation'. In fact, you're an outlier.

>The idea behind increasing taxes on the wealthy is to build a better society for everyone - including the wealthy!

You're trying to pull the same fast one as OP. Wealth tax is not the same as increasing taxes on the wealthy. You can make an argument that taxes should be increased and at the same time see that the wealth tax is a terrible way to do it.

> Why should wealth tax not be a part of modern economy?

Because it's a bad tax. It doesn't work. It doesn't bring revenue you think it does. It's expensive to administer and enforce. And it has many bad unintended consequences.
I don't follow. What do you expect would happen? Change to the GA API? Or they try to shut it down b/c "GA" in the name.
I agree with your comment here but I think for the type and size of model, OpenAI has done the best they could with such large models. So I wouldn't say they've "regressed and refused to release its GPT models" they just had to take a different route with GPT models.
They tried addressing some of the limitations of the JVM with native and co-routines. Making multi thread objects mutable, to not allow for race conditions. From a recent conference they backed off because they couldn't express immutability as a good idea.

I started multi platform with F#, Xamarin, and Fable. That worked, but F# doesn't have a wide community. The few F# teams I had been on we spent more time discussing mathematical proofs than delivering business value. I'm also getting to this point now, where I'm trying to build a simple SPA. I'm spending more time wrangling the tooling than delivering features. So that leads too.

I don't think there are good multi platform languages, besides JS. But I think we have a set number of transport means. Websocket, HTTP, HTTP2 to client, with various protocol, and content types. Back end say TCP, Kafka, MQTT, STOMP, etc.

I've been pivoting my focus from mp to schemas. JSON schema, backs async api, open api, and a number of others (aws cloud formation, github, gitlab, etc). With that schema you can now know the transport mean, and the object to be communicated. Additionally with the possible error responses.

The disconnect though is how are those schemas produced, and verified. Having a web framework generate usually results in badly titled methods, or a lot of additional cruft. I usually go contract first. But there are very few frameworks that take in and validate a schema. This leads to a disconnect, I've seen, where the server just doesn't match the schema. I had written a pojo generator for spring, that consumed a schema via gradle and output the response classes, and strongly typed the url paths. But it was met with a ton of resistance, namely because it wasn't maven.

If your back end consumes a schema, and starts the server. Then you know it adheres to the schema. This also allows for asynchronous development. Once the schema is finalized. Mobile, web, and back-end can all work on the same feature. As there are a number of stub container services, that spin up a service container used for integration testing, and generating out client SDKs. The few times I've been able to execute like this, it worked great.

Rust is a really great language. Having come from ocaml, it feels like a natural extension. My hesitation is two fold. One I have been using Kotlin + Intellij for ten years or so. I'd have to relearn a lot of my workflow, and port a lot of helper libs I wrote. Two I can never see using it professionally. All the Rust interviews I attended were white boards of algorithm, and calculus questions. I'm not a math person so that's not really feasible. I do want to take it for a spin in the future. Actix looks darn impressive.
As a graduate student myself I’d be wary of taking students as a control group.
> If I refuse to use Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg can't send men with guns to my home and force me to create an account. Even companies that benefit from network effects (such as social media companies) must build compelling products that people want to use.

If this was 2008 you may have an argument. It isn't and in 2020 I have no choice about using Facebook. Even if I delete my account I am still their product just by virtue of being on the web. Or existing.

Last year I was tagged in a photo from a camping trip by a person I met on that trip. That person's brother's girlfriend used to work with a guy I know from a totally different circle of people. He asked me about my camping trip because FB made the connections just based on who is in the picture.

I don't need a FB account for this to be possible, deleting my account doesn't prevent this.

Zuckerberg doesn't need to send goons to my house. He already has surveillance on my camping trips.

> As long as we ensure that parties pay the cost of the externalities they create, [...]

Right but we don't do that. The rest of your argument collapses when this assumption doesn't hold.

> The alternative to this is a world in which the majority decides for everyone what is beneficial to society or not.

You mean like a democracy?

> Considering the competence of the average voter (and the competence of our government), I'd prefer to err on the side of non-intervention.

Woah so who gets to make choices for the unwashed masses?
But it is a placebo. That's the point of it. They know it's a placebo. If it works as a placebo, then they have no reason to stop using it. The question to ask is: does it work as a placebo? At all? Ever? If it has successfully worked as a placebo in even one instance, then it should probably be continued to be used as a hiring requirement for intelligence agencies (and for no other purpose by any other entity), in my opinion. As the other replier said, it's a deliberate trade-off of high sensitivity and low precision.

I think the parent poster is 100% right. The whole conceit of an intelligence agency is deceit. The placebo effect is probably responsible for a big portion of their overall power, in a lot of different ways, and it makes sense they'd utilize it when hiring people. The only danger is using it in any other setting, or if the examiners or people who rely on it somehow start believing the placebo isn't actually a placebo.
Thank you for those bugs. They seem to further the point that X11 is not network transparent, seeing as how the solution was for Qt to support two separate xcb backends, one for local rendering and one for remote rendering. And actually a third for local hardware rendering using GL.

I have no comment on NX, I've never used it.
Ha this is inevitable. Facebook would not leave the device alone obviously. Oculus opens ups brand new data set and user base to sell ads. Not just that facebook has done something that google couldn't do, they created another successful product beyond their cash cow.
Don't forget that Paul's stock portfolio doubled in the past 4 months on the back of a "poor tax"... what the Fed printed and gave to banks to buy stocks (via buying bonds).
Can you do so without accepting their terms of service? They use every data source they can to build profiles for people so accepting the ToS is going to approve use of your information for as much as they can get away with.
Near the Dutch German border there are plenty of houses that are affordable, well under 200K. Don't cross that border though, then prices will skyrocket.
+1 for Bazel. It is most importantly a language independent package overlay. To put it simply, it pretty solves the package/module issues for C++, as well as cross compilation etc...

It's beautiful.
The exact question was: "If a vaccine for the coronavirus is made available to you, will you choose to be vaccinated or not?".

From my viewpoint the vaccine makes perfect sense if you are old enough and have one or more of the comorbidities known to cause serious issues. This also applies for younger people although the data suggests that it is not very likely to cause major problems for them.
And then those who want to be on the safe side.

One interesting thing about the answers is that Blacks and Latinos have 45% saying No, while that number is down to 30% of White people saying No. Not sure why that is, as data suggests Blacks and Latinos would benefit more from a vaccine. See for example https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronaviru....

One more result from the poll is that 63% of Republicans say it is a good idea when asked: "Due to coronavirus, do you think it is a good idea or a bad idea to allow children to take part in local or school sports?".
This number is only 9% for Democrats.
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Silicon Valley is full of millionaires who are temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires. Thus, why they come out in threads like this so wildly. Slow day at the home office - I guess.

The amount of people I know with millions in assets but think they're poor and will someday be a billionaire is astounding. ("I just bought a nice vacation home in Lake Tahoe and a rental property in Santa Clara but I'm struggling with my little home in Palo Alto, you know? I barely have any money." - real example I've encountered multiple times) They're, of course, against wealth taxes. They are all convinced they're gonna be the next billionaire and that any taxes will absolutely destroy them in their path to ... whatever their destination is. (They don't even know - they all just want recognition)
I'm interested that you don't use nested codes...

You could then for example have 18/2, and then group together 400 drives in a 2nd layer of 19/1. Hey, I reckon you could do 19/1,39/1, reducing your storage costs 7.5%...

Sure, the worst case rebuild cost is much worse, but overall data loss probability is far lower, and a 2nd layer rebuild is a very rare event, and in that case, your customers totally prefer a few extra seconds latency over an email reporting their data is lost...

I assume you mostly do streaming rather than random writes, so the overhead is evenly spread amongst the disks, and is the same 15% as your current scheme.
Not to mention that real estate taxes and excise taxes charged as a % of value are already understood wealth taxes already. No problem there.
Have you tried arc?
Any news on jailbreaking Oculus devices so that I don't have to play this silly game with hardware I own?
> the idea that people [read: super rich] "will just move to another country" is very silly.

This is a recurring theme in owners/investors: they always have some story that they will be forced to leave or close shop if some labour-proteaction-laws (like weekends, or 8h days, or banning of child labour), or taxes are implemented. It's a very old story, there's a history to it.

Please note that we have weekends/8h work day/ban on child labour and also still have the super rich. They never left. They did pass law that allow them to shift production overseas. But those laws can be repelled and then we will hear the story again of how this will kill their business,or force them to leave.
https://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-h...
If such a civilization was confined to the shores of what is now the black sea, but which before the current interglacial was a fresh water lake whose level was much lower than today's, then no, we wouldn't be able to detect it casually -- we'd have to work real hard to find it. For civilizations confined to open sea shores the situation is much less dramatic because the sea level rise there was less than at the black sea, but still, there could be some that are 30 meters under water (accessible) but completely covered in sediment (so inaccessible).

Seems... unlikely to me. Plausible, yes, but unlikely. In particular any pre-interglacial civilization would have had to develop during the preceding glacial period, not before it because that would take it back 100Ky, which is too much to be believable given what we know so far about our species' evolution (though anything from more than 100Kya would be hard to find indeed). And evidence of it would have to have been destroyed by sea level rise during the interglacial, but why would the civilization itself be destroyed by the interglacial?
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We know that fewer than about 1 in 100,000 galaxies has a Kardashev Type III civilization. So the Fermi argument has some bite even at cosmological distances.

But anyway, this was about SF movies where our heroes visit Arglebarg IV and have adventures with the natives. It's like Victorian adventure stories transplanted into space without bothering to think things through. Let's kill our dysfunctional tropes.
That makes sense but the same argument could apply to voting....
Millions of people live in a van (#vanlife) or RV. You can work from anywhere and when the sights get boring you drive to the next place.
If you're using tantra (vajrayana) for ego-oriented material benefit, then that's called "spiritual materialism." According to Tibetan Buddhism, the vajrayana can be dangerous for you and those around you.

Edit: I apologize. I realize that was very heavy handed. I felt obligated to throw out the usual warnings about Buddhist tantra.
I have 2 machines: one from work and one is mine. I have only one desk and it's essentially on my living room.

I kept my routine from before WFH regarding time, but I login about 30 earlier (the time I save by not commuting). I log into the work computer at 9am, work, log out at 5pm. I never log into it if not to work.

Everything I do that's not work is on my personal computer.
I have but a highschool degree and coding is the way I make money, try as I might not to feel any schadenfreude for every researcher failing to secure funding or find gainful employment in their special interest area, I am only human.

The BS that people with the title Philosophiae Doctor get away with is a bane on society. Don't get me wrong, I love bio, math and physics, but too often it feels like what is called research is a job program for thick skulled idiots. Maybe you can be saved from this faith, and learn what the real world can teach you on the nature of reality.
> Today reliability is sufficient that one can meet a given data availability goal by replicating the data 2, 3, 4, 5, <whatever> times as there is only once in a blue moon a bad batch of drives when they tried out a new bearing lubricant or so.

Unless you have an uptime bug in the firmware where all your drives die at once:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-tells-users-to-patch-ssds-...
Yes they are mild. A winter in Berlin matches late fall in Warsaw.
+1 to this

I plugged my G700s into a Windows machine with the Logitech bloatware suite installed, programmed it, and I've been using it on a Mac for years since then without any trouble
Sort of and sort of not. Companies do sit on cash. Their cash equivalent accounts are designed so that they can be reliably liquidated in under 30, 60, and 90 days and have no chance of a reduction in principal amount.

The kinds of "investments" that allows for are thus quite limited to things such as treasury bonds, certificates of deposit, and some very special case derivative instruments.

Those are not the sort of investments that build houses or get loaned out to businesses.
I wonder how many users actually use those advance features. As someone who has only ever used GA to help provide insight into developmental priorities (i.e. not for marketing), this doesn't help too much. For example, this tells you the browser but it doesn't tell you the browser version. It tells you the device being used, but it doesn't tell you the resolution of that device. It tells you the country of your visitors, but it doesn't tell you the user's language. It tells you pages users visit, but it doesn't tell you the order in which they visit them.

This isn't a criticism of Umami. It looks like a nice clean app that accomplishes what it is trying to do. But if this is all you needed from Google Analytics than that tool was overkill in the first place.
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Would an advanced star-faring society make a spacecraft out of anything other than objects that are already moving? Asteroids and such. This way you don’t have to lift any mass out of a gravity well.
Given how pervasive Facebook tracking is, I'd bet on your pseudonymous account being linked to your shadow profile very quickly. There is no anonymity when Facebook is involved.

I'd also strongly object to moving the needle even the tiniest amount on Facebook's metrics. They wouldn't force users to do this unless it benefitted them; that's plenty enough reason for a lot of people.
I think they upstreamed patches to gnome and wlroots
> I don't know what GNU/Linux you're using, because in my experience, most packages going into a distro use make.

no, they use autotools or cmake, which happens to generate makefiles. the package authors themselves definitely don't write any makefiles by hand except maybe for trivial packages (and frankly I'm not sure)
Are there any downsides to this technique?

E.g. will you become less authentic, and will you become a stranger to your friends, family and perhaps even yourself?

Will people think you have lost your mind?
That is completely irrelevant, unless you are claiming they are doing absolutely the best that can be done. They are not, and we have a huge headroom. My argument is against singular control points, so I am not suggesting myself or any single person or instuition as a better replacement, I am suggesting not having that concentration of power in the hands of a few in the first place. Kind of like Frodo and co. destroying the ring instead of thinking they can use it for good wisely. In this case nothing is destroyed because money, which expresses goods and services one is owed to, is merely not allowed to concentrate above a certain point. Why does a major chunk of humanity’s goods and services, produced by humanity, is owed to Jeff Bezos etc? It is absurd to assume one person can wield that power properly.

Having billions of dollars is not a magical measure of how much societal good one did or can do. If anything, I would trust anyone who could make billions much less than the average person to use it for good and wise causes.
> See also https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1295283922117566464?s.... - I tried to ask @rabois for the source of a claim, and got crickets in return.

It’s pretty easy to google. This article quotes the source as a report. (Though the link is broke ): https://www.france24.com/en/20150808-france-wealthy-flee-hig...

Someone not replying to you isn’t an argument when an answer is trivially found. That too me ten seconds to find. (Finding the report would take longer but should be doable)
Interesting, after the Bell Labs example, I was going to guess that anti-trust enforcement meant that companies weren't big enough to afford an internal lab anymore.

But the OP, quoting/citing Arora et al, actually suggests the REVERSE causative correlation:

> Historically, many large labs were set up partly because antitrust pressures constrained large firms’ ability to grow through mergers and acquisitions. In the 1930s, if a leading firm wanted to grow, it needed to develop new markets. With growth through mergers and acquisitions constrained by anti-trust pressures, and with little on offer from universities and independent inventors, it often had no choice but to invest in internal R&D.

And that in fact later "lack of anti-trust enforcement... killed the labs".

Makes sense to me. Goes to show that our "intuition" (of course informed by cultural assumptions) for how capitalism works and it's effects isn't necessarily accurate.
I believe it penalizes articles that have a large number of comments relative to votes.
What if you are not allowed to make a FB account due to their TOS? Not everyone can be on FB.
The price of securities is also an interface between the perceived value of the company and the value of US dollars exchanged for shares thereof. So while the market may be “bullish,” it could also be that the value of dollars has dropped and it takes more of them to convince another trader to let go of their shares.

Obviously the forces at play are quite complicated, but it’s my belief that this is driving a good part of the rise. Who wants cash when the Fed is printing $trillions? Companies can raise their prices to keep their costs at the same fraction of revenue, so in the current environment of loose money it seems a sounder investment to many, especially if the government eventually continues the direct-to-citizen stimulus.

This is not financial advice etc.
Palmer made the promise knowing full well he would pull a "See, not in my hands, I can't do anything". It's all just a PR move.
The last time I processed my own web logs I used Urchin. What are the good choices these days for log processing?
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Open GL could run over the network because X could.

Sgi used X fully. They wrote the book on all that, including GLX, and it was flat out awesome.

The Apps I used all ran display and pick lists. They worked very well over the wire and that use case for used a lot.

The quibbles are really getting past the basic idea of running an app remotely on ones local display.

That happened and worked well and had some advantages. I personally built some pretty big systems for modeling and simulation that were cake to admin and very effective on many other fronts.

Notice I did not say network transparent in my comments above.

Multi-use graphical computing is much more accurate when it comes to how X worked and what it delivered people.
You are aware that nuclear power is not considered renewable by the majority of people correct? That puts Ontario at less than 50% renewable.
Electronics typically follow a "bathtub" reliability curve. You'll have a large number of early failures (unflatteringly called "infant mortality") then the curve levels off for a long period of time, and then starts rising again as the items start wearing out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

It'd be interesting to see if BackBlaze sees this in their drive populations.
probably not if most families in Sydney and Melbourne went out hunting.
> But there are bad taxes. There is such a thing as too much tax.

Having a wealth tax doesn't mean the total tax goes up. Normally when discussing the merits of a certain kind of tax it's best to assume another tax is cut, otherwise it invariably becomes a discussion about whether high/low/more/less taxes are good.