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Illegal overseas bribes are distinct from Microsoft's domestic legal lobbying activities.

When I worked as a bicycle courier in DC I recall picking up from Microsoft, 1401 I st. NW. No software was developed at this office. It was just highly paid lawyers and lobbyists. Consider how productive that is in real terms, and remember those costs are passed onto you as a consumer.

The delivery was 9 Titleist golf balls in a box, each ball inside of an individual box. There was also a greeting card. The entire delivery was packaged inside of a bubble wrapped envelope. The congressperson wasn't interested in sending an aide outside to collect the package even after the contents were explained.

The check inside of the greeting card for 10,000 USD was not enticing enough for them to come outside.

In these scenarios, packages were sent to the "security trailer", which was no longer a trailer, but a concrete block structure nearby on Capitol Hill.

Inside of the trailer, I was instructed to individually double bag each golf ball, with a barcode on the inner bag. A security person or Capitol Hill policeman pedantically ordered each step of the process from a drive-thru quality intercom system.

For his safety, he stayed behind the bulletproof glass with a positive air pressure differential. He still had to sign my manifest to accept the delivery. It was like standing in front of a laboratory flow hood as I passed my clipboard into the robotic drawer.

After bagging, I was instructed to individually x-ray each item. Next, the entire package was double bagged again with yet another barcode. Finally, I handed off the package through the airlock. About 15 minutes total. Could have been longer, but he already had my data entered into the computer system. I was a regular visitor.

The entire procedure is absurd. The distinction of illegal bribes in the title speaks to this. Say what you will about the necessity of the state, but whether legal or illegally practiced, government gatekeepers are a net drain on the economy. If you cannot appreciate the productivity losses in abstract terms, consider how inefficient the processes are to simply deliver a check for ten-thousand dollars to a congressperson.
The police in UAE are not there to help Indian people get their passports returned... and I suspect it would be incredibly dangerous to start complaining to them; your only reason to be there is to work, cheaply and shut up. You are a second class citizen and it’s unbelievably naive to start sticking your head above your station. You’ll be telling them they should start a union next!
>High availability, fault tolerance, always-on architectures are very difficult to achieve and maintain.

Ironically, the only reason this is true is because generally people working on those pretty much cobble shit together instead of writing correct code, so you have subsystems of code talking to subsystem of code, and inevitably shit goes wrong.

Build your system correctly to the use case, from the ground up, and you will have a much easier time.

Of course the counter argument to this is the age old "what if developers make mistakes, its better to use off the shelf software thats already tested and verified". But the real answer to that isn't to use off the shelf software, its to not be or hire shit developers.
> Even as a relatively young person, articles about death are scary, sad and peaceful, it's such a weird mix of emotions.

Articles about death are scary because you are a young person. Most older people report that they are comfortable talking and/or contemplating about death.
Quantum Computer Modern – a Typeface for drawing quantum circuits
"Happy World Quantum Day! This year, Quantum Village is releasing a project that we think some of the lecturers/students at Imperial might find useful; a functional font for drawing quantum circuit diagrams!"
No, and that's why I also say that it has not "learned" or "reasoned". it may very well make a connection between A and B and miss the same type of connection between C and D. or also miss the same A - B connection in the presence of other variables F,G,H.
So the LLM cannot guarantee the generalization of the problem although it may solve a particular instance of that problem.
bribes are illegal. what is an illegal bribe?
and what is this word using? say it like it is. microsoft is bribing.
Unlike the other responses, I will provide a more mundane example that's hopefully more relatable: Giving your mailman or deliveryman a can of coke/pepsi as a token of appreciation.

Next time, they're going to be more careful and timely handling your package, and you'll keep asking if they want a drink. It's unfair, because you will get special treatment compared to those who don't, but we're all human and everyone's happier. This is legal bribery.
sure but not in a sense that rust is. my point is that it is entirely possible to build good software with substantial code bases in dynamically typed languges and i used common lisp as an example. in fact i dont know of one common lisp code base that turned to a dumpster fire because of typing problems. instead i find the opposite true: old forgotten code can often be resurrected because the language promotes clear coding and interactive introspection
How about an even better -- and more salient -- example? Quant trading firms are gobbling up promising researchers in fields like physics and mathematics. These are people getting funded Ph.Ds at top universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, etc.), and they end up just going to companies which exist solely for the purpose of making rich people richer.
Yes, they do. But not everyone does it! Better not to do business at all than to be part of bribing!
But, this behavior does not protect your privacy at all, because those websites already put tracking information in your cookies claiming that they fall into “Legitimate Interest”. You need to interact with the modal and claw your way into the hidden settings where you can disable “Legitimate Interest” toggles.
I don't think the paper itself is misleading. I taught SAM earlier this week for my Frontiers in Deep Learning course and showed a figure from the paper with how long each component took, where they separate the components done on a GPU vs CPU/web browser.
Try powerz, it's a tiny RPG for children with education in it. It's a game at first and not an edu app gamified. https://powerz.tech
Honest question: what’s the difference between a bribe and a legal fee? E.g. when you apply for a UK visa, you need to pay over 1k GBP as an “application fee”. Why is this application fee not considered a bribe?
Were we reading the same letter? It’s a sweet and innocent letter, no fear to be seen, not in English translation, nor in original Russian.

It seems that you superimpose your own beliefs on everything, twist the meanings so it would fit in your world view.
> But sure, cling to dusty metaphysics while sending messages at light speed.

I do not understand what you mean by dusty metaphysics. I am guessing you mean religion? I can criticize science without endorsing religion. It is not either or. If that is the case, I believe you read into my comment things I did not say.

I already said science is great. At the same time, we hardly know anything. These are orthogonal. We are a bunch of apes on a rock in the middle of space.

Replacing religion with science is what (one of the things) Nietzsche was talking about. What a better example, ironically, that not being able to criticize Science.
Review of Randomized Control Trials on Effects of Physical Exercise on Cognition
"...Extensive research links regular physical exercise to an overall enhancement of cognitive function across the lifespan. Here we assess the causal evidence supporting this relationship in the healthy population, using an umbrella review of meta-analyses limited to randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Despite most of the 24 reviewed meta-analyses reporting a positive overall effect, our assessment reveals evidence of low statistical power in the primary RCTs, selective inclusion of studies, publication bias and large variation in combinations of pre-processing and analytic decisions...

...In addition, our meta-analysis of all the primary RCTs included in the revised meta-analyses shows small exercise-related benefits (d = 0.22, 95% confidence interval 0.16 to 0.28) that became substantially smaller after accounting for key moderators (that is, active control and baseline differences; d = 0.13, 95% confidence interval 0.07 to 0.20), and negligible after correcting for publication bias (d = 0.05, 95% confidence interval −0.09 to 0.14)...

...These findings suggest caution in claims and recommendations linking regular physical exercise to cognitive benefits in the healthy human population until more reliable causal evidence accumulates..."
> Why do you worry about borders?

Because our local society is the society against which we, as humans, tend to measure ourselves, and inequality within our in-group is the strongest predictor of crime, perhaps?
And the box of lightbulbs doesn't say it won't work if you don't pay your electricity bill.

At some point you have to have an ounce of common sense.
Opportunity costs are real. Opportunity costs are real.
Opportunity costs ARE REAL.
OPPORTUNITY COSTS ARE REAL.
¡¡¡ OPPORTUNITY COSTS ARE REAL !!!
you dont need to go further than asteroid mining and some robotic assembly platform. planets/moons are one of the worst uses of mass. I believe we'll end up making giant habitats like O'Neil cylinders and expanding using them.. pretty soon.

if you combine AI with robotics and space exploration, there is not much point to doing all this manually.
<bane> Of course! </bane>
> “should you be making the decision for me that I can't participate in that transaction?" To which my answer is yes.”
> Hey babe, I am not coming back

But that is not at all what the letter says, isn’t it? It says he thinks everything will be all right, but he is writing the letter just in case something goes wrong.

> if she really was not at all informed

She surelly must have known that she married an air force pilot. She might not have known the exact details of this particular mission, but she also must have known that he was working on special stuff when they moved from Murmansk to Moscow when Gagarin was selected to the space program.

It is not like one day he went out for milk, but ended up in space.

> from a modern perspective, it is a bit harsh to demand from one's wife

“Take care of the kids” is one of the fundamentals of marriage. That is what marriage is for. Heck this is basic human decency. If you made a kid you are responsible to bring that kid to adulthood as safe and as sound as you can. Especially and even more so if the other person you made the kid with dies.

She is not responsible for taking care of his parents, not to the same degree she is for her kids. And you might notice he is putting on a very different level of emphasis on that one. He literally says “if you have an opportunity, help them somehow”

All in all I don’t find the requests harsh at all. Sad of course, but not harsh.
I think that the answer is, "you can't, actually."

(I worked at a MAAMA for 3 years).

The problem, as I kept pointing out to anyone who would listen at my BigCorp, was that about 80% of what was necessary to know was what one colleague called 'tribal knowledge'.

This is just a weird way of saying, "we couldn't be bothered to write it down, you have to know a guy."

Incidentally, aside from being inefficient and bus-factor dangerous, it's also murder for any "diverse hire", because, you guessed it, you're not part of the tribe.
Its more an indication of intent. Given how fast the factory in shanghai got built, I'd expect much bigger announcements in the near future.
It's been a while since I read Nietzsche, and every time I see or hear a quote of his, I get reminded of how much wisdom he could pack in so few words.
Bunch of challenges you can do and learn from, and it's gamified, think duolingo
https://youtu.be/6i2l-LQ-dXI

Don Hertzfeldt Couch Gag future
Better only in that it's untraceable, but unfortunately due to bad actors that makes it a dodgy or morally indefensible thing to use.
>well below the replacement number

Why is this bad?
No, this isn't Microsoft simply "paying the cost of business", this is Microsoft tolerating its own employees stealing millions for themselves on the excuse that their other corrupt practices brings in business.
If you post something public it can be attested to by whoever that it once looked like X which is almost as irrefutable as it being self proving like a block chain. Scuttlebutt is trying to help you obscure your identity in posting and one could be sending encrypted content to particular other parties (maybe in its protocols but certainly just using it for the medium) where those parties could reveal irrefutably that content and that you made that content as that identity in that historical context.

Take instead the example of sending content encrypted with shared session keys over a live mesh network, where you send session keys to your specific friends to decrypt instead of revealing an identity to them.

Any "friend" could prove that they had some content at a specific time, but they could never prove that they didn't just make it themself since you gave them the symmetric key that let's either of you make shared content. This is a simple way to fail to achieve irrefutable though other properties as well..

If for example you are accused of a crime with no statute of limitations and a friend has since died, there should be a distinction between whether their hard drives prove something or their hard drives are hearsay without something else, like their testimony that they didn't tamper with contents in some long forgotten practical joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8i2WPxXxS4
small but excellent example of the advantage of using an embedded DSL over a custom one; it allows one to make use of all language features, and f-strings are oh so useful.
I mean bank and CC transactions are remembered, but due to them being privacy-sensitive information, this is tightly secured and (depending on where you are and probably a load of other factors), deleted after a mandatory retaining period.
It very much depends. The gender pay gap is largely due to men being disproportionately in power, so places where men gather tend to have professional benefits for the men in there. As such, it depends culturally on how welcome trans men are in specifically male spaces.
Well, that is their opinion then. If you mean they expect such independence to consider romantic engagements, there are numerous very practical reasons here to make it a requirement or at least something to be desired more.

I think women are indeed judged less if they still live at home. Maybe just some different preference like you said.
Well, maybe you don’t bribe directly by handing money over to an LEO. But I would say there is still tons of corruption that is based on influence, soft skills,
knowing right people, donations to specific charities/political parties.
I challenged Sutton's reinforcement learning course this term
(in spite lacking the appropriate pre-requisites) and, while my grasp of some of the mathematical theory was indeed lacking, some pretty foundational messaging really penetrated.

Incorporating curiosity and exploration of new experience into learning algorithms offers so much more utility versus relying solely on offline training and past experiences alone.
If you don't have those asterisks all over the place Twitter will come for you... and that is apparently something worth worrying about.
> If I were to start with ChatGPT I would, necessarily, only say what has been said.

That is simply untrue. I think you vastly underestimate the space of possibility.
Yes, LLMs and their descendants will no doubt leave many human capabilities in the dust eventually. But this was also the case before, the artifacts surpassed our human abilities when defined narrowly. Which has always seemed to irk people who have a need to see humans as superior and unsurpassed in all areas.

For others like me who have an issue with that mindset it's not a problem: dogs have a fantastic sense of smell, and octopuses may well be more intelligent than most us in some aspects. We don't need to be the best at everything to have value in ourselves, as humans.

The main problem we should be focusing on (beyond letting AI fulfilling it's full potential as a useful tool) is how to prevent some future AI to also inherit our selfish conceit which might give it the idea that humans are actually an impediment to its own development.
All the Games on the APF Microcomputer System
Its an interesting model I have not heard of this one before and the games though basic do build into the history of video games. I am thinking to start looking into computer games also and not just home entertainment machines but time will tell
Haha true
You don't need a consent dialog for purely functional cookies. You may need to explain what that cookie does in your privacy policy, though.

You can even show ads; ads don't require tracking, or even third parties.
this is amazing.
how about animating live from a video stream in AR :D?
While I know what RISC-V is, and how it's unique among its peers, I'm not very knowledgeable about which toolchain provides which level of support for it.

So, IOW, I wasn't aware the level of support present in RISC-V in GCC, TIL.

Asnwering your question, the README.md vaguely tells me that it provides a single-step, complete cross compilation toolchain to reduce project startup overheads. I consider this repo as an "exploded container" designed to be deployed in a VM to put your code in and get your binaries out. I guess the whole chain is composed of GNUs own tools, or with GPL licensed stuff, so it's not encumbered by anything, or broken by a tool because "we now provide this support in our closed source fork" situations.
And it is private, in that the blockchain is a ledger of IDs and transactions with no information about the people behind them.

The blockchain is anonymous enough, it's just that all transactions are public (forever) and conversion to real money requires identity.
macOS only, it seems. try wl-copy (wayland) and xclip (xorg) if you're using Linux.
IIRC QtWebEngine was introduced in Qt 5.4 and QtWebKit was removed in 5.6.

(and it sucked, because suddenly a Qt application with a web view was several times larger)
Even Macro Assemblers from the MS-DOS and Amiga days are better than C pre-processor macros.
How to Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles
Book by David Stein

> How to blow soap bubbles 20-feet long and more, by architect David Stein, inventor of the Bubble Thing (which comes attached to the book)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/558727
"PWAs are essentially dead"?!? They haven't replaced native apps for sure but I think it's a pretty major stretch to call them done and dusted
Ouch. So, they're even teaching people to do the wrong thing? That's not good at all. :(
> SQL is surprisingly easy to write and expressive

Counter-example: using only majority-support ISO SQL string functions and operators (SUBSTRING, CHARINDEX, LIKE, NOT LIKE, LEN, etc - but not any regular-expressions), for a string column that contains URI query-string style name+value pairs, e.g. "foo=bar&baz=qux", try to extract out the value for the key "baz" - note that the source column value could also be "&baz=qux&foo=bar&" or "baz=qux&foo=bar&".

Doing that is trivial in most conventional programming languages: just use a couple of local-variables to store CHARINDEX values then pass those into SUBSTRING to get the desired "qux" value.

...but in SQL (at least to my knowledge) there's no concept of local-variables in a SELECT query, instead you need to pass values along via derived-tables or CTEs - or move the logic to a scalar UDF - or give up trying to be succint and do it with dozens of identical CHARINDEX call-sites and pray that the RDBMS is smart enough to memoize UDFs in a query step; none of those options are appealing even in their own right - so we're kinda stuck (and if you want to be succint you'll need not only UDF support, but also inlined and concurrent execution of UDFs otherwise your query performance will tank).

Instead, what if ISO SQL had the ability to define in-query "mini" pure-functions, which represent a (monadic?) sequence of operations, including mutable local variables, over its input parameters - this would solve the verbosity/DRY problem entirely - and without needing you to split a query's logic into two (i.e. the main SELECT query but also many CREATE FUNCTION statements). I note that the existing CTE syntax could be adapted for defining those functions, for example a query to extract querystring values could look like this:

```
WITH FUNCTION getQueryStringValue( input varchar, key varchar ) RETURNS varchar NULL AS (

SET key = CONCAT( key, '=' );
LET keyIdx = CHARINDEX( haystack: input, needle: key );
IF keyIdx < 0 THEN RETURN NULL;

LET valueIdx = keyIdx + LEN( key );
LET nextSeparatorIdx = CHARINDEX( haystack: input, needle: '&', startIndex: keyIdx );
IF nextSeparatorIdx < 0 THEN SET nextSeparatorIdx = LEN( input );
LET valueLen = nextSeparatorIdx - valueIdx;

LET value = SUBSTRING( text: input, startIndex: valueIdx, length: valueLen );
RETURN value;

),
cte AS (

SELECT
getQueryStringValue( src.QueryStringA, 'foo' ) AS fooValue1,
getQueryStringValue( src.QueryStringB, 'foo' ) AS fooValue2,
getQueryStringValue( src.QueryStringC, 'foo' ) AS fooValue3
FROM
src

)
SELECT
CONCAT( fooValue1, fooValue2, fooValue3 ) AS whatevs
FROM
cte
ORDER BY
someCol;
```

Thoughts?
I think at some point there will be a paradigm shift towards different architecture in the same way transformers were for language (or generally pattern) processing.

You will no longer need to have a model that is exposed to enough training data to be good, you instead will have on the fly learning. A human doesn't need to hear the same piece of information over and over again - we can get told one time and if its important, we can contextualize it. Same thing will happen with models. You will have a model trained on the core concept of contextualizing new data, and between executions, it will have a persistent "memory".

You may start to see things like Hebbian Learning come back into play in some form and way.
Went on a weekend trip. Started the OOO compilation, allowed it to also install some dependencies like Blackdown (?) Java.

Decided, hey, might was well time it, for fun.

I came back 2 days later, it had just finished. The compilation took almost 2 full days :-)
That's a complete non-sequitor. I said that cultural roles should not be gendered. You responded that people have things they prefer to do. That is 100% orthogonal. People absolutely should be able to follow their preference so long as they take direct responsibility for the results of their actions. And cultural norms shouldn't add expectations for what people do based on their genders.

No conflict. These things work together in harmony.
meh.. automated mining to solar panel construction & using the metal+energy to make a mass driver in a fully closed loop system. Now you'll have a exponentially increasing mining and space habitat and/or dyson swarm construction platform. I'll bet we can shred the moon clean off in under a few 100k years.
Bribe goes to person doing the work. Fee goes to organization and the worker likely sees none of it.

UK can ask high fees for various reason, maybe to cover costs, or just for political reasons to get less people applying for visa.
They are still better than str...() and mem...() all over the place, and all relevant C++ compilers have options to turn bounds checking on.
This seems to be a perfect example of bikeshedding, It seems that improvement in LLM are going slowly. Nothing to object. Those with the money are expecting some results. Perhaps AGI is combining being a genious and a silly man and understanding that they are close but not the same.