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We taught Rust at Masters-level as part of a course meant to show engineering students a variety of concepts from innovative programming language (there was also Haskell and Scala). Learning Rust is a must (at least for our kind of students), but not because "everything is being rewritten in Rust".

First, I think knowing concepts from various languages makes better programmers. But Rust in particular is part of a family of languages along with C++ that are very powerful and versatile, but that require a strong discipline in order to write correct programs. And while C++ is more widespread currently, learning Rust teaches you this discipline, simply because the compiler will keep rejecting your programs until you understand it. C++ compilers on the other hand happily accept nonsensical programs, and it is hard to find modern C++ experts to teach this skill (and sometimes it is even hard to get experts agree on what the discipline is!). Yet in some areas where C++ has few alternatives, unreliable software can have huge consequences. So learning Rust is important because it will also make of you a better C++ programmer.
+1. I think it's dangerous to try to tell yourself there's a win-win (make more money AND make the world better) when there isn't one. I really like the way Anand Giridharadas talks about this. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/the-win-wi...
Having worked both in a fastfood restaurant and a grocery store I can definitely agree with this.

Everything from a person throwing a sandwhich at the drive through worker because her precooked ham was pink and therefore raw...people screaming and ranting because their over medium eggs, cooked on a 900° grill are too soft or too hard.

Getting screamed at because we were out of Schweppes tonic water, Nope, Canada Dry isn't the same, it had to be Schweppes, and only cans because the person was a solo drinker.

I was probably screamed at by random people more in the two years I spent at those jobs, 3 months at one and a bit over a year and a half at the other, than i have been in the entirety of the rest of my life.
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This feels like the sum of many independently defensible decisions that somebody ought to have stood back from and gone "Woah, that's not OK" overall.

Should we do a modern rewrite of the print spooler, maybe cut it up into different chunks following modern practices and use the less risky codepaths invented since it was built? No, printing is no longer critical path for many customers, so minimal budget for this software.

Should there be a separate fancy print spooler for the people who might actually want unprivileged print requests to result in magically installing privileged device drivers? Alas this would take a rewrite, which we can't do, see above.

Should the print spooler have SYSTEM? Alas the single print spooler we ended up with because of the above decision needs SYSTEM or it will not function as intended.

Should machines with no business printing anything need Print Spoolers (which get SYSTEM)? Alas the single print spooler we ended up with also performs necessary central clean-up that must take place on systems with no print spool.

Only when you zoom out and see the result is it obvious, we should spend some of our security budget getting rid of this arrangement, it's clearly a problem waiting to happen.
This seems suspiciously high. Even 60,000 tons would almost double the global supply. I would be surprised if this turns out to be accurate.
Which podcasts do you recommend?
I understand where you're coming from, having experienced nearly the exact same thing until returning about six weeks ago.

I will warn you, though: BJJ may not be a cure for the depression you may or may not be in right now. I realized I was putting BJJ up on a pedestal during the depression, thinking "If only I could do that again, things would be looking much brighter." It turns out returning was great, and I love being back, but it in and of itself is not life therapy.
Right now carbon dioxide caused warming is more serious threat than a few more toxic metals. Sunlight is basically free money raining down all the time.
They don't claim to automate the decision points or human sense, to the contrary: these leave what and when to execute to the human.
Weird, I can't see any sign that you can find a Warthog in Iraq. According to Wikipedia they seem to be native to Africa. Maybe he meant Wild boars.
Yeah that's exactly what I was saying. It doesn't need touch receptors because it's inside your skull.

It makes sense to evolve pain sensitivity in your bones because if you are doing something which is causing damage inside your bones, you had better have a signal to stop. For most of the evolutionary history of humanity, if your skull was compromised, you would be dead.
Do you think they are violating any laws? They aren't profiting from the mod and it requires a legit copy of the game. It's arguable that it actually helps Disney by increasing sales of the original game.
How cool would it be to attach an ion engine to it, bring it back, aerobrake it gently back into earth orbit, scoop it up with a starship maw, and land it?
This is it, righteous internet rage is very similar to road rage. The main factors are:

- the lack of perceived humanity in the perpetrator, because they are in a car or at a distant computer.

- the inability to communicate directly in an interactive way, preventing initial release of the expression

- the reduction of the entirety of the person to their actions in this specific context without room for extenuating circumstances.

The last one is even worse online because of retention. A reverse lens can occur, instead of viewing the ‘bad tweet’ in the context of the person’s overall output, the overall output is viewed and scrutinized via assumptions made from the offending action.
And the same for the teachers and daycare workers who are needed to run the schools and daycares.
Curious idea:

With the mentioning that they can shift their focus to domains with extensive data that they can build models of action with etc... Why not try the following (If easily possible)

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Take all the objects on the various 3D warehouses (thingiverse, and all the other 3d modeling repos out there) -- and have a system whereby an OpenAI 'Robotics' platform can virtually learn to manipulate and control a 3D model (solidworks/blender/whatever) and learn how to operate it.

It would be amazing to have an AI robotics platform where you feed it various 3D files of real/planned/designed machines, and have it understand the actual constituancy of the components involved, then learn its degrees of motion limits, or servo inputs etc... and then learn to drive the device.

Then, give it various other machines which share component types, built into any multitude of devices - and have it eval the model for familiar gears, worm-screws, servos, motors, etc... and have it figure out how to output the controller code to run an actual physically built out device.

Let it go through thousands of 3D models of things and build a library of common code that can be used to run those components when found in any design....

Then you couple that code with Copilot and allow for people to have a codebase for controlling such based on what OpenAI has already learned....

As Copilot is already built using a partnership with OpenAI...
I just did a 40 hour fast to see if i could do it and it was a lot easier than i thought it would be. I'm trying to build up to a week long. We'll see how it goes.

It's a shame that fasting has been eliminated from the culture, but i guess that's what happens to things you can't make money on.
Also, by definition silicon (panels) and lithium (batteries) are super common elements. Not going to be hard to find. Unlike oil, you can use the solar panels to fab more solar panels, because of the sun’s input. You can’t use coal to make more coal. The solar inputs are long since gone.
They think the panopticon is necessary, either for worker productivity, for their own job security, or out of outright disdain for their underlings.

Many of them were also involved in signing multiyear leases and investing millions to billions of dollars in office real estate before the pandemic.
> Things will never be exactly equal. Why focus time emphasizing the differences?

This line of thinking leads to interesting conclusions:

- people will never live forever, why heal them

- discrimination will always exist, why fighting it

- efficiency will never be 100%, why improve it

- universe will end with heat death, why do anything at all
I have been intermittant fasting for a month now and the results are fantastic. The mental clarity alone is worth it, let alone the weight loss and general well being (better sleep, better digestion)

I only eat for 4 hours a day, some days 1 meal and grazing, other days 2 meals, but nothing outside those hours except water and tea (with no milk)

I feel fantastic, I'm never going back to any other food schedule.

The downside was that the first week was incredibly hard, I felt dizzy and had spells of intense anger, but I distanced myself from those I love so as not to accidentally explode at them and just got through it, now after nearly a month, it feels normal and I just feel great. Highly recommend it.
> You are half-way through a change. Your old motivations have lost their appeal.

I think I'm in the same boat as the OP, and this comment resonated with me. When I started programming nearly a decade ago, I had an abundance of intrinsic motivation. I was so excited to learn about software, how to build websites, phone applications, server applications etc. That drive was a genuine passion and love for computers and software and it carried me nearly a decade in this industry through some amazing challenges. I've grown more than I could have imagined.

Yet now in my mid 30s... that passion has really dwindled. When I wake up on a Saturday, I'm not rushing to get to my computer to code. I'm more interested in relaxing, getting outside, or just doing something else. Yet in the back of my mind is a constant pressure, a constant reminder, that I should be productive.

There's always more to learn, and didn't I struggle to write that regex the other day? Didn't I want to finally dig deep into Tensor Flow? Wasn't I going to bust out the breadboard and get into some hardware design?

Why don't I feel like doing any of that now? Why is the only motivation, money?

Like the OP, the only thing that seems like it could light a fire under my ass would be some big monetary opportunity. I could get excited to build a new app, or a new server project, or website, if I knew I stood a good chance of really changing my life for the better.

I think that as the novelty of programming wore off, the only thing left was money. Initially I was motivated by wanting to understand everything. I truly didn't know how to make a phone application, and now I've made many. I didn't understand how to build and deploy a website, and now I've done that many times.

What's left? Where do I go from here? I really have more questions than answers. With another 25-30 years of "work" to do, I'm really confused about what I will do.
This does use the Alliance ships, which are slightly more tuned towards multiplayer than the original Tie Fighter models. Specifically, shielded fighters suffer a bit.

Editing to add, I just saw your user name, and at first assumed you created it just to reply here.
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I mean, it sounds like she used the information as leverage to negotiate a better salary for herself, which is exactly what you’re complaining she didn’t do.
It would be incredible--in the literal sense of the word--if this actually works out-of-sample.

The biology itself is mind-bendingly hard. On top of that, FDA approval depends on all sorts of factors beyond "efficacy": severity of the disease vs severity of adverse effects, other options, and0--lately--a decent amount of capriciousness.
I think it's situation specific as the effect of adding another layer of indentation compounds.

That said, if either the indentation is too deep or there are more than one or two guards at the top it's probably a sign that the method should be broken out either way.
I think we're obviously coming from slightly different perspectives. I don't really have any trust, at all, in the ability of unelected bureaucrats to operate in a benevolent matter (especially in secret). While "eliminating COVID misinformation" may, to some, sound like a noble goal, there is no limiting principle for the use of this power. Either statutorily, or otherwise. What's to say that social media companies won't be pressured under the very same reasoning ("this misinformation leads to death!") to remove "misinformation" about gun violence, or climate change, or abortion? Since gun violence is a "public health issue", surly the same reasoning would apply. Psaki said yesterday if you're banned on one platform for COVID misinformation, you need to be banned on all. Where's the boundaries of what constitutes a social media platform? Does that include payment networks like Venmo? Do you see how easy this can cascade, both in terms of content and in terms of the in-scope platforms?

>and do you feel confident that those outcomes are worse than the impact of the flagged content?

I genuinely don't understand this question, but that's likely because I don't understand social media to be the proximate cause of vaccine skepticism, and I suspect it's an easy political target for missing vaccine goals. A much more likely explanation is upstream from media itself, and sits with political leaders who continue to act as if taking the vaccine doesn't change anything, or they explicitly told the public they wouldn't take it if it was developed under Trump.
Ah! I understand your point better now. You didn't mean skull enclosure to be the direct reason but something that influenced the lack of pain sensing nerve endings to have a reason to develop there.
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Thank you.

Yes, we need more advanced purging functionality. Enterprise seems like the logical next step, but the price increase is hard to swallow. Using something like Bunny/Fastly etc can save us a bundle, but then we're kinda ditching all the other built-in features. I guess that's exactly the Cloudflare play to get you started cheap...

I wasn't aware fly evolved from a CDN. I just saw your comment and the docs mentioning speeding Heroku apps, running nginx proxy, openresty etc, so was curious if it's something worth looking into.
My situation is almost certainly different from yours. I'm 64, retired, and a cancer survivor. I'm not worried in the least about having an extra drink or two. Life is to be lived and enjoyed.

If I give that up, how much extra lifespan should I expect on average? A week? A month? A year?
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I think everyone agrees that salary secrecy benefits primarily the company over the employees as a group. But the subtlety is that it also benefits the good negotiators or others who are seen to provide unique value by management as they can be paid more without inflating salaries across the board. As an individual, there's a game theory aspect where if you believe you are paid more, it is not in your best interest to share that information. Now of course you might choose to ignore this and disclose anyway in solidarity with your colleagues and a belief in the greater value of transparency, but it may come at some personal cost.
I'm not sure I agree. If, for all intents and purposes, a manufactered entity behaves the same as a human, and is a friend of mine, and I'm a friend to them, how is that worse than having a "true human" friend ?
This looks fine, but I legitimately have no interest in this if it isn't open-source. I know that sounds harsh, but I've gotten so tired of tools changing over time, slowly goading me into another subscription service that I desperately don't want.

I appreciate this tool being free at the moment (the world doesn't need another SAAS), but I've seen nothing on this page that really makes me want to use it. To me, I see a cloud-based Anki alternative with less control over your data/freedom.
except the dog. truly our best friend. pretended to like even that awful place. :)
I don't think democracy can survive if people in a nation can't form a consensus on basic features of shared, objective reality.

This type of consensus did exist, and could be reached, in the 1770s, long before centralized mass media. The creation of competing "chains of trust", which see an election as legitimate or illegitimate, a virus as dangerous or fabricated, is actually only possible by the manipulation of mass media. And social media very much is mass media. It's just a version in which propaganda is funneled through the mouths of its target audience.
I have only skimmed through the article but spent a bit of time on the "simultaneous update" part because it caught my eyes.

If I'm not mistaken the author made a mistake in assuming that it's okay not modifying the spins in the first pass and then doing the update in the second pass, which would cause the system to approach a strange equilibrium with that flips between two states.

For example, if you set the simulation temperature to well below that of the critical temperature of the system, a robust algorithm should eventually cause all of the spins align (to take the same sign).

Also, and if I'm not mistaken, the author may have misunderstood that these simulations show the evolution of a system over time -- I think they are meant to show the possible states that a system can be in under a set of conditions, trying to rationalise whether or not it's sensible that spins should or shouldn't is perhaps not quite the right approach.

The robustness of these algorithms are usually tested by carefully collecting many samples, and at different temperatures, and use them to estimate known properties of the systems. If an algorithm fails to estimate those quantities reasonably, then there is a good chance that it's not correctly implemented.

If you're interested in this topic, one paper that I can immediately remember and is easy to read is this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/9703179.pdf. The section on Wolff algorithm, in particular, should solve the "mystery" of the simultaneous update. Here is a demo I have played with a few years ago that has the Wolff algorithm correctly implemented: https://mattbierbaum.github.io/ising.js (make sure you change sweep skip to an odd number for simulations at lower temperatures).
See Fareed Zakaria's work on the importance of responsible elites. Or Plato, if you're feeling frisky.
You'd need an awful lot of ditches, since tanks have high mobility. And were actually designed to counter trench warfare tactics.
My employees weren’t born when Matrix was in theaters…
ahh yes, nothing like poisoning the sea after poisoning africa
It would be unenforceable, with the caveat that the protection only applies to non-supervisory roles and only when discussing salary with other employees internally. Companies can still limit your ability to disclose your salary externally, as a trade secret.
2 weeks of going to the office and I am convinced the office has no future.

It is great for socializing, taking a long time to get food and a drink, running into people randomly that you wouldn't talk to electronically to socialize more. Then you add in background conversations and constant distraction.

IMO you don't even have to bring in the cost of the office and it already doesn't make sense anymore.
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Re: your article:

> Disclosing your salary can turn a potential double digit raise when changing jobs to a few percent raise. You could leave thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars on the table.

But isn't it possible for this to happen in the opposite direction? I.e., turning a pay cut into a small raise.
Yeah, it’s a common pet peeve of mine: it’s no challenge at all to estimate, it’s probably hard to make a good estimate.
>> HR responded by sternly telling me I should not discuss salaries. Why not?

Doesn't your own anecdote show exactly why not?

You make the same amount of money that you did before this happened, but now you are obviously angry that someone you consider less qualified now makes the same amount as you, you seem angry that you got dragged into the discussion, and you also seem angry that your CEO has more money than you.

Comparison is the thief of joy.
Their work is also immediately real and beneficial. A plumber friend told me a story the other day. Over the winter a woman's water inlet pipes had frozen. She was without water for two or three days and when they got her pipes flowing again she was so happy that she cried.
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I can't tell from this comment whether you believe her salary should be equal to yours or not.
We can with a shift towards the Switzerland model, but practically, that's very difficult to do.
Nano doesn’t have smart contracts, so you cannot really do much with it.
I gave a lightning talk in (German) about meta programming and equivalence of code and data in PicoLisp by example. 16:16 https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2018-2322-lightning_talks#t=97...

It should give you place to get started.
The cliff node what I did is the I wrote a function that replaces things in a list of lists/a tree and used that rewrite the definition of the function to make it more readable. While it is an toy example I hope it helps.
Really insightful comment. Thanks!
Depends on the industry and profession. A lot of professional healthcare workers are hired well below competitive market rates.

Source: partner was one, doubled salary after, is friends with dozens more who went through the same exploitation now making significantly more.
NVIDIA Isaac sounds very close to what you're describing.
I'm not doing that. There are too many factors going into whether someone survives having severe mental health problems or not. But I am saying it's not fear mongering to take a look and see whether this is causing people not to get the help they need, by providing some lower hanging fruit that seems like it might be just as good. You might be doing some mongering of your own by suggesting that I'm blaming Dr. K.
the fda is a corporatist puppet, we've been saying this for a long time. this is gonna end in more cancer patients with protestants blaming it on alcohol
My version of the tool doesn't even create original code as it doesn't have access to it. If the difference between the two uses is how much verbatim, obviously infringing code, gets created, then Copilot has much bigger issues.

The point of my hypothetical wasn't to whitewash stealing Microsoft code in some kind of legal quirk. It was to point out that if learning the structure of code with this kind of ML model is fair use then doing so with Microsoft copyrights is also useful for other purposes. And if Microsoft themselves think that is ok it would actually be a strong argument in this discussion. I suspect they don't and was pointing that out.
You need physical actors because you need someone relatable for the audience. Despite experiments like Tamagoshi, showing that computers can provide occupation of mind, I believe love can still only be provided by humans, no matter how faulty they are.
Similar experience here. I did a BA in 'Information Technology'. It wasn't until after I graduated that I taught myself to program through Stanford lectures on YT. The MSE in CS was incredibly beneficial for me.
Even as Covid eases, cloud computing and AWS keep flying high
Star Wars Squadrons in VR is essentially this. Feels amazing to be able to look around an x-wing or tie-fighter cockpit.
why "entertainment" and not "education"?