And what does the poster think those memory safe languages are written in? I can see the argument that C/C++ are overused, and that the jobs people throw them at could probably be done by safer languages without much performance hit.. but then again, you could just use safe libraries within C/C++ and get the same result.
But at the end of the day, people have been aware of buffer overflow problems for what, 60 years now? And there have been solutions for them nearly as long. But when cycles are dollars, those solutions are always expensive, which is why unsafe C/C++ code is still so common.
I admit I was really hoping for Philly. The city already hosts several large companies so could probably handle one more, but is spread out enough that housing can be gotten for fairly reasonable prices and the heavy rail system is excellent.
Thing is, Amazon is long past the point where it needs to depend on local talent, as you point out they have been pulling people from around the country already... meaning the could set up shop pretty much anywhere and import all the workers they need, probably for cheaper.
The power requirements only get high if your ecosystem involves competing over solving the blocks, it becomes an arms race. If you are just using the blockchain as a tool to track things then the power requirements are fairly inline with other tools like conventional databases.
TBH, I both hate cyclists AND would prefer to see more of them, but something needs to be done about the bad behavior. Sure a bike is lower mass than a car, but on city streets cars are often traveling at a slow enough speed that such accidents are not as likely to be lethal as their suburban our rural counterparts, and a person on a bike can still cause significant injury.
I would at least like to see police taking cyclists more seriously and enforcing traffic rules. A license that can be taken away might help there, though mandatory insurance would probably be a step too far.
TBH, I think the lack of a lisencing system is one of the reasons things are so bad. Other types of vehicles, including scooters, require classwork and knowledge of safety, while a bike just requires enough cash or credit to get ahold of one and quickly obtained skills.
This pretty much ends the thread. People on bikes are often a terror to pedestrians and cars alike, not respecting rules of the road or even sticking TOO the road in many cases.
Users should also be able to decide if they want to purchase hardware with a secure boot chain and not have other uses pushing to deny them that option for 'purity' reasons.
Neither Apple nor Amazon is making it illegal, they are just making an agreement between each other for Amazon to enforce Apple's reseller agreement. Since Amazon is a public company, it can sell or not sell whatever it pleases, thus there is no law forcing it to sell from any of the 'unauthorized' sellers.
It does not matter to the seeker, it matters a great deal to the seller. For people trying to sell hardware, this represents a significant barrier to being found and purchased from. Which will also impact consumers since it will reduce competition in the resale space, meaning fewer options and those options will need to raise prices in order to keep things going.
Yes, a person can set up their own storefront, there will always be ways for dedicated customers to find a supplier. However, as a supplier who, I don't know, wants to make a living, this kind of power to cut you off 99% of the market is really devastating to people for whom it isn't a hobby.
Secure communications are a bit like, hrm, the whole meme around how we could build interstellar ships 'right now'. It is 'easy' when one only wants to look at a single, fun part of the problem that you can throw math at, but gets a lot harder when getting into the nitty gritty of implementation and maintenance, then even worse when your entire solution for the human factor is handwaving 'well just use the right kind of people!'
The only problem blockchain 'solves' in voting is not enough public funding going to private companies that sell 'solutions' to less than tech savvy county voting boards.
Yeah, I know people who actually commute via SEPTA down into Wilmington or up into Philly then take Amtrak up to NYC, and I routinely get recruiters trying to convince me to do the same. Apparently the pay can be a lot better, and I guess to be fair there is a lot of tech work up there that just isn't present in the Trenton/Philly/Wilmington region.
Thing is, it is unknown if actual quantum computers will ever been able to outperform simulations of quantum computers. Analog computers were also a fundamentally different way of computing, but they never caught up.
Well, yeah. Throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something words, which is pretty much the core of deep learning/machine learning/etc, is going to have limitations. The main reason the technologies have gotten so popular is that hardware has gotten so much more powerful and thus you can just keep throwing hardware at problems and getting better results out of it without actually developing any understanding of what is happening. These techniques are great for producing answers that don't actually matter, but will always be limited by the lack of needing to actually understand the model.
As the saying goes, AI, like Fusion, has been 10 years away for 30 years now.. and that saying was from 30 years ago.
ML/DL/etc got a lot of people really hopefully since they were SO much easier and you could throw hardware at them, plus they produced great marketing and search results,.. but in many ways we are pretty much where we were in the 70s or 80s in terms of actual AI development when it comes to actual intellegence.
Unfortunately GOFAI has really fallen out of favor since 'deep learning' produced so many quick and profitable answers that found real world applications. There are still people working in actual cognition, but they are having significant visibility problems.
I think even younger IT workers are having trouble with things like this. Not only are things changing more rapidly than they used to, but the complexity of the systems interacting has gotten worse all while IT departments have been trying to figure out how to handle things with fewer and fewer people.
Huh... There was actually a company a recruiter was trying to get me to interview at that was pretty much structured that way. They had their location where all the stars went, and their location which, how shall we say, did not feel respected or valued by management.
Yeah, I remember years ago there was hype about trinary and analog computers, because 'mathematically' they could scale much bigger or solve problems instantly without having to approximate values in digital. It never panned out. I suspect quantum computing is going to go the same way, under ideal circumstances better but always lagging behind conventional solutions when actually built.
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And what does the poster think those memory safe languages are written in? I can see the argument that C/C++ are overused, and that the jobs people throw them at could probably be done by safer languages without much performance hit.. but then again, you could just use safe libraries within C/C++ and get the same result.
But at the end of the day, people have been aware of buffer overflow problems for what, 60 years now? And there have been solutions for them nearly as long. But when cycles are dollars, those solutions are always expensive, which is why unsafe C/C++ code is still so common.
great for slumlords, not so great for people actually living there.
I admit I was really hoping for Philly. The city already hosts several large companies so could probably handle one more, but is spread out enough that housing can be gotten for fairly reasonable prices and the heavy rail system is excellent.
Thing is, Amazon is long past the point where it needs to depend on local talent, as you point out they have been pulling people from around the country already... meaning the could set up shop pretty much anywhere and import all the workers they need, probably for cheaper.
I think after the 80s and the decay of long term employment, moving to small towns for a job became a lot less attractive.
The power requirements only get high if your ecosystem involves competing over solving the blocks, it becomes an arms race. If you are just using the blockchain as a tool to track things then the power requirements are fairly inline with other tools like conventional databases.
some areas split things into cycle, car, and pedestrian, and that tends to work pretty well, though comes with its own problems.
TBH, I both hate cyclists AND would prefer to see more of them, but something needs to be done about the bad behavior. Sure a bike is lower mass than a car, but on city streets cars are often traveling at a slow enough speed that such accidents are not as likely to be lethal as their suburban our rural counterparts, and a person on a bike can still cause significant injury.
I would at least like to see police taking cyclists more seriously and enforcing traffic rules. A license that can be taken away might help there, though mandatory insurance would probably be a step too far.
TBH, I think the lack of a lisencing system is one of the reasons things are so bad. Other types of vehicles, including scooters, require classwork and knowledge of safety, while a bike just requires enough cash or credit to get ahold of one and quickly obtained skills.
This pretty much ends the thread. People on bikes are often a terror to pedestrians and cars alike, not respecting rules of the road or even sticking TOO the road in many cases.
Users should also be able to decide if they want to purchase hardware with a secure boot chain and not have other uses pushing to deny them that option for 'purity' reasons.
Neither Apple nor Amazon is making it illegal, they are just making an agreement between each other for Amazon to enforce Apple's reseller agreement. Since Amazon is a public company, it can sell or not sell whatever it pleases, thus there is no law forcing it to sell from any of the 'unauthorized' sellers.
It does not matter to the seeker, it matters a great deal to the seller. For people trying to sell hardware, this represents a significant barrier to being found and purchased from. Which will also impact consumers since it will reduce competition in the resale space, meaning fewer options and those options will need to raise prices in order to keep things going.
Yes, a person can set up their own storefront, there will always be ways for dedicated customers to find a supplier. However, as a supplier who, I don't know, wants to make a living, this kind of power to cut you off 99% of the market is really devastating to people for whom it isn't a hobby.
Secure communications are a bit like, hrm, the whole meme around how we could build interstellar ships 'right now'. It is 'easy' when one only wants to look at a single, fun part of the problem that you can throw math at, but gets a lot harder when getting into the nitty gritty of implementation and maintenance, then even worse when your entire solution for the human factor is handwaving 'well just use the right kind of people!'
The only problem blockchain 'solves' in voting is not enough public funding going to private companies that sell 'solutions' to less than tech savvy county voting boards.
Yeah, I know people who actually commute via SEPTA down into Wilmington or up into Philly then take Amtrak up to NYC, and I routinely get recruiters trying to convince me to do the same. Apparently the pay can be a lot better, and I guess to be fair there is a lot of tech work up there that just isn't present in the Trenton/Philly/Wilmington region.
Thing is, it is unknown if actual quantum computers will ever been able to outperform simulations of quantum computers. Analog computers were also a fundamentally different way of computing, but they never caught up.
Well, yeah. Throwing stuff at the wall and hoping something words, which is pretty much the core of deep learning/machine learning/etc, is going to have limitations. The main reason the technologies have gotten so popular is that hardware has gotten so much more powerful and thus you can just keep throwing hardware at problems and getting better results out of it without actually developing any understanding of what is happening. These techniques are great for producing answers that don't actually matter, but will always be limited by the lack of needing to actually understand the model.
What are you talking about? The algorithms are BUILT on the idea of consequences, that is ALL they experience.
As the saying goes, AI, like Fusion, has been 10 years away for 30 years now.. and that saying was from 30 years ago.
ML/DL/etc got a lot of people really hopefully since they were SO much easier and you could throw hardware at them, plus they produced great marketing and search results,.. but in many ways we are pretty much where we were in the 70s or 80s in terms of actual AI development when it comes to actual intellegence.
Unfortunately GOFAI has really fallen out of favor since 'deep learning' produced so many quick and profitable answers that found real world applications. There are still people working in actual cognition, but they are having significant visibility problems.
I think even younger IT workers are having trouble with things like this. Not only are things changing more rapidly than they used to, but the complexity of the systems interacting has gotten worse all while IT departments have been trying to figure out how to handle things with fewer and fewer people.
Huh... There was actually a company a recruiter was trying to get me to interview at that was pretty much structured that way. They had their location where all the stars went, and their location which, how shall we say, did not feel respected or valued by management.
Yeah, you have try really hard to find cities with WORSE housing problems, but NYC would fit the bill.
Yeah, I remember years ago there was hype about trinary and analog computers, because 'mathematically' they could scale much bigger or solve problems instantly without having to approximate values in digital. It never panned out. I suspect quantum computing is going to go the same way, under ideal circumstances better but always lagging behind conventional solutions when actually built.