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How would you even test this? do they have an xray machine and remove the filter?

The main metric we should use is comparing the mortality rate of the AI to the human. If the morality rate is better, then effectively human lives have been saved.

There has been a decent amount of projects recently. Andes Announced 1.2 GHz CPUs made on 28nm die, and a Chinese company are taking orders for a 400MHz dual-core AI chip. SiFive at the start of the year did start selling HiFive Unleashed, but it is very expensive.

The Berkeley processor is mostly a research CPU for FPGAs. I would however love to see it on actual silicon.

At a guess i'd say it will be a few years until we see RISC-V popping up in more places.

I'm surprised a 1930's era pseudoscience is still hanging around professional law enforcement circles. The optimist in me hopes it's a clever ruse to screen people who simply aren't team fit. The pessimist tells me they're the caliber of people who also think calling in a psychic to help with murder cases.

Modern fMRI technologies can tell if people are fabricating stories. There's actual science behind them.

>ending support for 32 bit apps >deprecating openGL

My opinion on APIs have gone from new and bleeding edge to 'support it till the sun burns out'. Computers and meant to work. on linux or mac, no executable over 5 years old seems to work. But if download a .exe from the early 90's on a PC, it often just works.

In 100 years, the windows API and .exe are going to be the lingua franca of programs. there are many indications this is happening, valve baking WINE into steam, the fragmented package managers on linux, and no common runtime environment taking off.

Relocation will the last of your worries.

Climate change's big killer will be that crops that used to grow in places, can't grow anymore.

This will cause mass human migration. Combine this with a larger, increasing human population you've got a recipe for disaster. Many scientists speculate that the Syrian war and the Arab spring was a result climate change.

An interesting tidbit is that the death count from one of the most cited nuclear war simulations (of 50 warheads) wasn't the people who died in nuclear blasts. It was the people who died as result of climate changed caused by nuclear weapons.

I wish all linux servers had something like this, out of the box, for all users.

the first thing I do after sshing into a box is spend an hour trying to figure out the basics. Where are the web folders? what daemons is running? what hacks does have in place?

When I first started using, I hated it. Now after using the old one, I wouldn't want to go back.

It just takes a little while to get used to it.

vertical farming will only be economically viable with near free power and massive transport taxes. Nuclear power would be the only realistic viable option.

Given the damage that agriculture has done to the environment, vertical farming would be a smart choice for humanity. but sadly with out current perceptions of nuclear power and the stranglehold that globalism has, it will likely never happen.

And to add to your list: SilverStripe framework 4.0. Their PaaS solution is pretty pricey, but it's opensource so you can run it yourself.

Their software ecosystem is mature as well, as they've been around for a while.

I got blindsided by another obscure yml phrasing rule. Sometimes people couldn't pay online using our service and I couldn't figure out why. I tested the hell out of the payment module on our dev and UAT environments, but I just couldn't reproduce the issue.

Eventually I tracked it down to an ID inside a yml file. Turns out the live environment was running in 32 bit mode which interpenetrated the number as a string.

The Santa Clara principles are already outdated. Most large sites use learning algorithms to promote content that is advertiser friendly. So for example, if advertisers on Youtube don't like the content you watch you'll be shown less of it. This has massive implications for politics, communities, and news.

It also works the other way around. Content creators on youtube are feeling the pressure of having their videos delisted. So they have to match their content to what advertisers want to show. It's censorship by robot.

The Santa Clara principles are a great step in the right direction. But things are getting harder, and more complicated.

>While I'd rather there were no nuclear weapons

Counterpoint: nuclear weapons have forced countries to find alternatives to war. And have likely saved more lives as a result.

The existence of sickle cell and cystic fibrosis means we have a moral obligation to use it, and prevent these horrible diseases.

We have ethical justification to use genetic manipulation to enhance lives. By not doing so you're sentencing people to a life of suffering.

I'm in the southern hemisphere (NZ) and I got it after new years, It's the first time I've ever had the flu during summer.

I got the flu shot late last year, but it didn't help much against this strain. I'm just getting over it now. It's a quite a nasty cold.

The lack of effort on the Mini line demonstrates Apples focus on profit over its customers. Boosting desktop market share, gaining new customers, while still operating a profit are all worthwhile focusing on. Given they're all long term goals, it's well worth while investing in.

I'm disheartened with what Apple did with the Mini line up. I love the form factor.

Sure. The first issue I came across was that the relay compiler expects a strict specification when mutating data, one that wasn't compatible with the server library I was using. Expect to write your own server side scaffolder to get around this.

The second big issue was that relay modern decoupled the networking logic, so having a series of chained queries is something you either have to handle yourself or write your own networking logic for. And because creating dynamic queries can't be done with relay it's a bit annoying that this logic isn't handled automatically for you.

My biggest gripe happens to be the lack of flexibility around dynamic queries. You can't define the data you want back at run time, which feels defeats a major point of GraphQL.

Apollo supports dynamic queries with higher-order components. It might be a case of the grass looks greener on the other side, but I felt as soon as you try to do something bigger than a todo app with Relay you start to feel the restrictions.

I went down the path of learning Relay instead of Apollo. I'm regretting this decision. Relay is too restrictive, and the relay compiler is far too sensitive for most server side endpoints.

Dependency hell is one of the main reasons why developers are flocking to bloated solutions such as election: a single monolithic dependency with guaranteed cross functionalist behavior.

Most build tools are stuck in the 70-80's where a single library weighing hundreds of kilobytes was a big thing. In comparison to saving a few kilobytes vs spending hours of a developers time hunting down old versions of libraries is a no-brainier. Especially when you take security into account. I've seen .Net developers just give up in frustration and download dll files from those dodgy download sites and put them into production distributions.

I personally loathe make. I've never had a good experience when using it.

The system engineers at my work have had a rough time since the Windows 10 rollout. Microsoft now have liberty to change features with zero versioning. Features are added and removed which traditionally came with big version changes. With no stability there's a constant amount of work that comes with upgrading the machines.

Most sites don't obey the do not track header. Edge on the other hand is much more nefarious, by default it sends all data sent by POST requests to Microsoft. I was surprised to find Bing sending data from people who use Edge on my site to try and improve their search results. There are so many security and privacy issues with this it's not funny at all.

Nuclear is actually one of the safest energy sources. http://i.imgur.com/EkYYLRh.png

Plus carbon pollutants are known to be carcinogenic.

Sadly it's a quirk of human nature that we get more defensive over our things when work gets tough. It tends to push us to more neoliberal policies. If work gets hard to find; Gen Z and the baby boomer generation would rather keep millennials renting, as opposed to massive social spending. Unless there's a massive shift towards the left we'll only see widening inequality due to the insurgence of AI on the job market. This is more of a cynical outlook, but in the last three decades in politics across the globe there's been no progressive popular movements.

Vulkan is a horrible choice for a web standard. Their hardware support is abysmal, the only graphics hardware that supports it was made from 2012 on wards. Even then a decent chunk of the support is experimental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

Vulkan is great, but you need to think about the cross compatibility of the web.

Technology has also created a market where the number of high quality films available for movie goers increases at a constant rate. If someone has a collection of high quality movies to watch, a new film coming to market is competing with the previous titles. It wasn't too long ago when an improvement in CGI meant the movie got an automatic increase in quality.

Safari cleaned up their act in the last year: http://caniuse.com/

So far they're third going by the caniuse score, which is based on the features developers can use. Previously it last place.

I don't think it was the developer backlash that forced Apple to start releasing TP previews of Safari and progressing features. I was likely more of a gap between major versions (Safari 9.x vs 10.x)

This is why merit based evaluation is the only sane hiring practice. I'd love to see legal protection for companies that can provide evidence they strictly adhered to the merit based hires.

You can also apply this rationale to your own projects, by including the Code of Merit into your projects[0][1].

[0] https://github.com/rosarior/Code-of-Merit/blob/master/CODE_O...

[1] http://code-of-merit.org/

Microsoft is killing it in this space because current conferencing technology is flat out horrible.

Despite the fact we have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of conferencing technology at my work, I'll regularly see twenty minutes wasted at the start of a meeting with someone bumbling around with a mix match of DisplayPort, thunderbolts, HDMIs and VGAs. Then the software headaches of having to install some sort of client software, create an account and find the person.

The icing on the cake was a sales rep from Microsoft who invited us to a conference using third party software that required Silverlight and MSIE 10, and our Windows machine was too new.

It's great something is being done in this space, but $19,999 for a problem Microsoft is largely responsible for feels like extortion.

As someone who is stuck with a Windows at work, I love how Google is listening to what developers have to say.

TensorFlow has the potential of being the next big thing. You'd never see other companies (Microsoft for example) port their crown jewels like halo over to other systems. They begrudgingly port products in which they've lost market share to other rivals, mostly in an effort to appear relevant.

I do think the "Don't be evil" mantra is still alive.

100% agree. It would be fantastic to see these developer resources put into tight third party game engine integration. Unity is not the only other engine out there, think godot or any number of HTML5 engines.