I have been programming for over 40 years and have programmed in many different languages and paradigms. I have been using rust for about 3 months now. I have found the support on rust forums to be relatively good.
But the power of rust is the language it self. The basic features I like are no garbage collection, generic types and speed. I am still learning the language, but I think it will be one of the languages of the future. I wish there is more machine learning support.
The real power is be the ability to compile rust into safe Web assembly. I the future I envision WASM mobile plugins to be used in both browser and IoT. This would allow IoT devices to be updated or re-purpose by using WASM agents written in rust..
America does not need to produce graduate students. The companies can just hire H-1B and L-1 workers. They will work cheaper also.
How can an American student financially compete with tech workers that pay $8000 for a graduate degree.While a US graduate has $80000 is student loan?
The Club of Rome published this book in 1972. It is based on a computer simulation of using resources and population to evaluate how long humanity can exist in this system. At that time the tipping point was about 2030. The model used has been re-evaluated many time since. The latest study has added social stability and things are not looking good.
Corporation and the rish have not done anything for the last 45 years, do you really think thay would do anything now "to reduce their profits"?
In the short term, People we still do the killing, but it will be economic control and automated surveillance that AI is used for, not "powerful autonomous weapons". It will be Malthusian Theory of Economics. The masses of people will be kept at just below revolt level for the benefit of the few. Competitive oligopoly allows prices and wages to be calculated for maximum profit. It is economically more efficient to control using money than violence. Today it is unacceptable to kill someone violently, but it is acceptable to kill millions by limiting their access to money. The phrase "They need to work harder" solves the moral issue.
The more surveillance allows for a lower standard of living the people can be kept at. The surveillance prevents the people from organizing against the economic situation. If they think "it is only me that is upset" they will accept their fate.
In poor economic situations people reproduce less. This will cause the mass population to drop( if not destroyed earlier by total economic collapse). Untill it reaches an equilibrium of automation, wealthy few and poor masses. (see Elysium)
In the long term as wealthy people become more dependent upon technology, it will drive their lives more and more. first come wet-ware computer / human interface, augmented intelligence in humans, then finally replacement.
Finally, when earth heads for the stars, it will be machines, not humans.
If most MSWindows, Macs use Intel processors, then Minix is running on more computers than both making it the most popular OS. Then add in ARM android Linux, and other embedded computers, then this OS family is on 80%** of the computers in the world.
** AMD, old Macs and main frames are the only exceptions.
When people are smart, they are able to see and understand things around them that many people do not understand or aware of. I have been writing about the instability in America and the world. I expect many people who read Slashdot can understand the the issue of instability. This is just one issue that is facing the world today. But many people are not aware of these issues so they are ignorant and not depressed.
The biggest issue is categorizing the video/images to create the training set. I am using Convolutional Neural Net to categorize the images.
here is a good primer https://adeshpande3.github.io/...
When you want a better world and see the inequality will only grow worse, that is depressing. And that is the hopeful side, the collapse of society is an other direction and may be more likely.
Remember when Microsoft bought Skype and people worried about the future of Skype as cross platform. Now Skype has been sucked in to Office365. Only Offrice365 is being extended.
Writing JavaScript to support a HTML template is what web design should be like. Writing JavaScript with HTML sprinkled in not the way the HTML was designed. jQuery a way to deal with advance web pages before polyfil, React is just super jQuery. Angular is good but too restrictive and formal. Vue is the best so far. but still not there. I believe parent / child communication should be easier, messages and props create a clean interface but it is limited.
In the 1980 America outsourced manufacturing over seas. Now, the H-1B program is the outsourcing of education. The loss of manufacturing jobs has created social unrest, just think what the loss of education will do to developed countries. But not only is it bad for the people, it is bad for the economy. GDP is calculated as C + G + I + (E - M) where M are imports. As we bring is H-1B workers that imports both Labor and Knowledge reducing the GDP. And Solow's growth model is Growth = is a function of both Labor and A(knowledge). Again H-1B program reduces real growth by reducing real labor and knowledge with imported labor and knowledge. Growth is now a function (L -import-L, A - import-A). And most companies want code monkeys, someone that does not have a broad range of computer knowledge but know how to do one thing. With higher education costing so much, the student debt make it hard for native computer majors to compete.
Nike in Beaverton Oregon is laying off 800 people, but still hiring H-1B workers.
React is is JavaScript wrapping HTML. Vue is easy to understand because it wraps HTML with JS. There are some state issues that vuex does not solve. but it is much better then React.
Back propagation is used setup a translation between features and results with the least cost. The problem is some features have more importance than other features, this is where the optimization in the learning process can be done. During the learning process if features that have more importance are given higher importance then the learning will be faster and require less resources. This is where cluster analysis comes in, by optimizing the clusters to achieve the desired results self learning can be achieved.
Being a polymath does not make money. This society, it is the "code monkey" that gets the job in engineering. It is the person that knows how to do that one thing and will work cheap that get the job. Specialization and Differentiation creates a more efficient company. That is the whole idea behind H-1B workers. it is cheaper to hire a person for overseas than it is to train them here.
When a species lives isolation, it evolves differently. With China blocking Google and the technology answers Google answers, China's technology will evolve differently. Because technology is changing so fast this evolutionary process to will happen very fast.
While I lived in China, I used a my own private VPN to access Google for technology searches. Baidu may be good for searching the latest pop song in Chinese, but useless for technology searches. Right now I am programming in Vue, a very popular web framework in China, But I could not program in it if I did not have access to Google search to answer questions. The lack of technology searches and answers in China will limit the advancement of world standards there, because the average developer can not get answers.
I have been running only Linux for the last 20 years. There are some media programs that only run in Windows. I do not trust Windows privacy at all. I would love to see Microsoft create a container that runs programs that Wine can not run.
I think this answers the question. When corporation’s profit are put ahead of the people, that is not Populism. With age discrimination, the old engineers are getting replaced with foreign workers. In the 1980s and 1990 manufacturing was shipped overseas, today education has been shipped overseas by importing workers. I have multiple patents, knowledge in technology from VLSI design to machine learning, but working 8 to 6 is difficult for me due to my disability. Companies do not want technology generalist, but code monkeys that know how to do only one thing and pay them cheaply so corporations can make more profits.
It is time to localize the fight back and shame the companies locally.
The NSA records every phone call, every email, every SMS and most web access, especially foreign people. Obama did not have to order a special wire tapp (Trump's spelling), it is done routinely. Trump may have shot himself in the foot by making surveillance an issue. Everybody does not like being under surveillance so I will throw the canned response back at this administration, "If you have nothing to hide, why complain about surveillance?"
I expect privacy and anonymity, but I know I do not have right.
The cost of housing has increased dramatically forcing the disabled and poor on to the streets. A contributing factor for this is the large number of H1B tech workers in the area earning over 6 times the poverty level and over twice the average of non tech workers. When 15% of the workforce are guaranteed to be guest workers and up to 30% at companies are guest workers through partnership and alliances. That brings this group of high wage earners to be a significant portion of the population. Having that much more money causes housing prices to go up. The flip side of this problems is that these H1B workers are being used to replace older engineers and force the wages for all engineers to be reduced.
America needs the best and brightest, but replacing experienced engineers and increasing homelessness by using H1B is not the answer. Increase the quality of public education, lower the cost of collage degrees, create a higher barrier of entry for guest workers is the way.
In the 80’s American companies moved manufacturing out of America, The decline in manufacture jobs causing Trump to be elected. Now education is being moved off shore by importing guest workers. In a few years who will be “elected” because public education is gone?
We will see if Trump is a populist or fascist in dealing with the H1B issue.
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I agree that XUL is better than HTML, but Rust is a programming language not a visual interface like XUL is.
I have been programming for over 40 years and have programmed in many different languages and paradigms. I have been using rust for about 3 months now. I have found the support on rust forums to be relatively good.
But the power of rust is the language it self. The basic features I like are no garbage collection, generic types and speed. I am still learning the language, but I think it will be one of the languages of the future. I wish there is more machine learning support.
The real power is be the ability to compile rust into safe Web assembly. I the future I envision WASM mobile plugins to be used in both browser and IoT. This would allow IoT devices to be updated or re-purpose by using WASM agents written in rust..
I single programmer can create the killer apps for others by designing the software and letting other people use it. Iot creates IED, Intelligent Explosive Device
America does not need to produce graduate students. The companies can just hire H-1B and L-1 workers. They will work cheaper also.
How can an American student financially compete with tech workers that pay $8000 for a graduate degree.While a US graduate has $80000 is student loan?
The Club of Rome published this book in 1972. It is based on a computer simulation of using resources and population to evaluate how long humanity can exist in this system. At that time the tipping point was about 2030. The model used has been re-evaluated many time since. The latest study has added social stability and things are not looking good.
Corporation and the rish have not done anything for the last 45 years, do you really think thay would do anything now "to reduce their profits"?
It should be Windows 10, macOS, iOS and Android notifying Linux appliance of a threat. There is much better privacy with Linux than Microsoft.
In the short term, People we still do the killing, but it will be economic control and automated surveillance that AI is used for, not "powerful autonomous weapons". It will be Malthusian Theory of Economics. The masses of people will be kept at just below revolt level for the benefit of the few. Competitive oligopoly allows prices and wages to be calculated for maximum profit. It is economically more efficient to control using money than violence. Today it is unacceptable to kill someone violently, but it is acceptable to kill millions by limiting their access to money. The phrase "They need to work harder" solves the moral issue.
The more surveillance allows for a lower standard of living the people can be kept at. The surveillance prevents the people from organizing against the economic situation. If they think "it is only me that is upset" they will accept their fate.
In poor economic situations people reproduce less. This will cause the mass population to drop( if not destroyed earlier by total economic collapse). Untill it reaches an equilibrium of automation, wealthy few and poor masses. (see Elysium)
In the long term as wealthy people become more dependent upon technology, it will drive their lives more and more. first come wet-ware computer / human interface, augmented intelligence in humans, then finally replacement.
Finally, when earth heads for the stars, it will be machines, not humans.
If most MSWindows, Macs use Intel processors, then Minix is running on more computers than both making it the most popular OS. Then add in ARM android Linux, and other embedded computers, then this OS family is on 80%** of the computers in the world.
** AMD, old Macs and main frames are the only exceptions.
When people are smart, they are able to see and understand things around them that many people do not understand or aware of. I have been writing about the instability in America and the world. I expect many people who read Slashdot can understand the the issue of instability. This is just one issue that is facing the world today. But many people are not aware of these issues so they are ignorant and not depressed.
The biggest issue is categorizing the video/images to create the training set. I am using Convolutional Neural Net to categorize the images.
here is a good primer
https://adeshpande3.github.io/...
When you want a better world and see the inequality will only grow worse, that is depressing. And that is the hopeful side, the collapse of society is an other direction and may be more likely.
Remember when Microsoft bought Skype and people worried about the future of Skype as cross platform. Now Skype has been sucked in to Office365. Only Offrice365 is being extended.
How non static do you want? Look at Tax N Vote for a dynamic display. Most desktop app do not have 3D.
Writing JavaScript to support a HTML template is what web design should be like. Writing JavaScript with HTML sprinkled in not the way the HTML was designed. jQuery a way to deal with advance web pages before polyfil, React is just super jQuery. Angular is good but too restrictive and formal. Vue is the best so far. but still not there. I believe parent / child communication should be easier, messages and props create a clean interface but it is limited.
In the 1980 America outsourced manufacturing over seas. Now, the H-1B program is the outsourcing of education. The loss of manufacturing jobs has created social unrest, just think what the loss of education will do to developed countries. But not only is it bad for the people, it is bad for the economy. GDP is calculated as C + G + I + (E - M) where M are imports. As we bring is H-1B workers that imports both Labor and Knowledge reducing the GDP. And Solow's growth model is Growth = is a function of both Labor and A(knowledge). Again H-1B program reduces real growth by reducing real labor and knowledge with imported labor and knowledge. Growth is now a function (L -import-L, A - import-A). And most companies want code monkeys, someone that does not have a broad range of computer knowledge but know how to do one thing. With higher education costing so much, the student debt make it hard for native computer majors to compete. Nike in Beaverton Oregon is laying off 800 people, but still hiring H-1B workers.
React is is JavaScript wrapping HTML. Vue is easy to understand because it wraps HTML with JS. There are some state issues that vuex does not solve. but it is much better then React.
Back propagation is used setup a translation between features and results with the least cost. The problem is some features have more importance than other features, this is where the optimization in the learning process can be done. During the learning process if features that have more importance are given higher importance then the learning will be faster and require less resources. This is where cluster analysis comes in, by optimizing the clusters to achieve the desired results self learning can be achieved.
Android code base would be similar to Linux. It would be great if Linux was still supported while MAC and windows not.
Being a polymath does not make money. This society, it is the "code monkey" that gets the job in engineering. It is the person that knows how to do that one thing and will work cheap that get the job. Specialization and Differentiation creates a more efficient company. That is the whole idea behind H-1B workers. it is cheaper to hire a person for overseas than it is to train them here.
When a species lives isolation, it evolves differently. With China blocking Google and the technology answers Google answers, China's technology will evolve differently. Because technology is changing so fast this evolutionary process to will happen very fast.
While I lived in China, I used a my own private VPN to access Google for technology searches. Baidu may be good for searching the latest pop song in Chinese, but useless for technology searches. Right now I am programming in Vue, a very popular web framework in China, But I could not program in it if I did not have access to Google search to answer questions. The lack of technology searches and answers in China will limit the advancement of world standards there, because the average developer can not get answers.
I have been running only Linux for the last 20 years. There are some media programs that only run in Windows. I do not trust Windows privacy at all. I would love to see Microsoft create a container that runs programs that Wine can not run.
I think this answers the question. When corporation’s profit are put ahead of the people, that is not Populism. With age discrimination, the old engineers are getting replaced with foreign workers. In the 1980s and 1990 manufacturing was shipped overseas, today education has been shipped overseas by importing workers. I have multiple patents, knowledge in technology from VLSI design to machine learning, but working 8 to 6 is difficult for me due to my disability. Companies do not want technology generalist, but code monkeys that know how to do only one thing and pay them cheaply so corporations can make more profits. It is time to localize the fight back and shame the companies locally.
"Sneakers" 1992
The NSA records every phone call, every email, every SMS and most web access, especially foreign people. Obama did not have to order a special wire tapp (Trump's spelling), it is done routinely. Trump may have shot himself in the foot by making surveillance an issue. Everybody does not like being under surveillance so I will throw the canned response back at this administration, "If you have nothing to hide, why complain about surveillance?"
I expect privacy and anonymity, but I know I do not have right.
The cost of housing has increased dramatically forcing the disabled and poor on to the streets. A contributing factor for this is the large number of H1B tech workers in the area earning over 6 times the poverty level and over twice the average of non tech workers. When 15% of the workforce are guaranteed to be guest workers and up to 30% at companies are guest workers through partnership and alliances. That brings this group of high wage earners to be a significant portion of the population. Having that much more money causes housing prices to go up. The flip side of this problems is that these H1B workers are being used to replace older engineers and force the wages for all engineers to be reduced.
America needs the best and brightest, but replacing experienced engineers and increasing homelessness by using H1B is not the answer. Increase the quality of public education, lower the cost of collage degrees, create a higher barrier of entry for guest workers is the way.
In the 80’s American companies moved manufacturing out of America, The decline in manufacture jobs causing Trump to be elected. Now education is being moved off shore by importing guest workers. In a few years who will be “elected” because public education is gone?
We will see if Trump is a populist or fascist in dealing with the H1B issue.