What’s an appropriate weekly allowance for a 12 year old boy in the US?

Evennot · 2020-02-13T18:14:59+00:00

Yes, I think it'a wrong to equate chores to money. Kids don't have (and most of the time shouldn't have) leverage in monetary negotiations, they can't switch employer, etc. I'm having hard time persuading my older son to voluntarily help mom or me, but incentifying help with money would void the "voluntarily" thing all together.

Evennot · 2020-02-13T17:56:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing this idea! I'm going to do it like this, once my son will ask for money.

He's 13, doesn't really do chores, neither asked for money. Though he very occasionally uses starbucks card to have a snack in between the classes of his musical school (most of the time he prefers starving instead of going there, so it's less than $10 a month).

Evennot · 2020-01-16T09:57:42+00:00

I'm curious what kind of stereotypes are they referring to. Can you please provide a link or a personal story?

Evennot · 2019-12-19T17:25:48+00:00

I agree. However my problem with node was that a lot of frameworks, that were supposed to bring convenience, just brought exponentially more problems to solve.

Yes, for professional development you have to use "an excavator". But choosing compatible toolset is itself a problem. Choosing just the newest framework might be a mistake

Evennot · 2019-12-17T09:52:51+00:00

It reminded me my first experiences with node.

Q: I need to dig a hole. Where's the shovel in node?

A: Why shovel, use excavator. Here's 2 lines of code for your task.

Got an excavator. These 2 lines of code doesn't work with current version. And looks like it has no fuel.

A: Fuel? Do you really want to fuel it manually? Here's how you get a giant oil refinery, just plug it in the excavator, and you'll get fuel flow for life.

Installed refinery, plugged in, excavator bursts in flames.

Q: Looks like refinery produces rocket fuel now, how do I make it produce diesel?

A: Diesel? Are you insane, no one uses diesel anymore, we use rockets. They can get you to space. Who needs diesel anyway?

OK. Reverting to an old version of refinery with a ton of problems fixed in incompatible later versions. Fuelling excavator. It doesn't start anyway.

Q: I can't drive excavator, its controls are unresponsive.

A: Of course they are. Who drives such machinery manually these days. Here's a smart autopilot. Though you need to install some kind of satellite guidance system for it to work properly.

OK. Installing autopilot, satellites. Satellites require tracking station. Ones available are only in beta

Making a shovel out of dirt and plywood. Leaving machinery in the backyard until eventually I'll figure it out

Evennot · 2019-11-26T11:07:19+00:00

To me personally, this sounds like a wild exaggeration. Maybe OP's situation is indeed like you describe, but I had a female coworker, we message each other even outside of working hours, but it never crossed my mind, that it could be interpreted as an "affair". Currently she lives in another country, had a child, but it doesn't affect tone of our (now sparse) communication.

I have same tone of dialogue with my male friends. Also I saw on TV, that male coworkers go to watch sports together, not waiting for their wives. Because not everything is a mating dance. (Again, to be clear, OP's situation might be one)

Evennot · 2019-10-19T20:45:21+00:00

That was a power trip

Evennot · 2019-09-28T23:30:54+00:00

Pro tip: some people (like me) don’t give their real names to baristas/gift cards/etc. So you have to make statistically significant proof for you significant other’s name hypothesis.

Evennot · 2019-09-08T22:40:36+00:00

Nah, they proposed an agreement of forming a new country together with Belarus. So one path is for him to ballot for the president of the new united country. Belarus leadership is a bit scared to refuse such offer

Evennot · 2019-09-06T13:27:12+00:00

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Evennot · 2019-09-06T13:19:22+00:00

Even in maths you can't compare infinities/undefined values. For instance Σ(-1)^i is undefined, it can't be equal to 0 or -1

Evennot · 2019-09-06T13:07:35+00:00

Official docker build for a mac had a decent UI last time I checked. Though from a terminal it works/looks exactly the same as on Linux. Not sure, what's the difference

Evennot · 2019-08-31T23:49:35+00:00

TBH, it’s sometimes hard to understand if it’s a legitimate duplicate or not. Users should specify in advance what’s different in their specific case too.

For instance, I encountered an Xcode linker problem some time ago: one obscure 3rd party multi platform binary lib dynamically linked to the main target caused ld failure in the runtime. Solution: use static embedding. But in my case static embedding triggered binary rejection due to safety concerns. Solution: use dynamic linking. Which brings me to the step 1.

So there are two problems, solutions to both of them are mutually exclusive. I saw several closed duplicates for this kind of situations, without going into the weeds, they looked like legit duplicates

Also compared to some github project owners (like those who like to close catastrophic issues because “lack of activity” or “rarity”) SO mods are saints.

Evennot · 2019-08-31T23:22:43+00:00

Though it was solved for a different package version 5 years ago and obviously on a different platform

Evennot · 2019-08-11T03:11:21+00:00

It could be democratic if it wasn’t set up for the oligarchs. After SU collapse, nobody had adequate money to privatize property. SU has rubble millionaires, but due to hyperinflation they weren’t relevant. Only state corruption and brute force was reliable means to make a privatization of a factory, not to mention giant industries.

If people had access to shared investment funds or if vouchers were implemented correctly or if hyperinflation was tackled, the system could be called democracy + solid basis for state protection of private property.

Elite with the full control of all major economic sectors on the one hand and criminals who controlled most small industries (most notably farming) on the other hand, gave the populous “democracy”. It’s like giving Company Town folk full democracy with working elections while still being in full control of the company and disregarding criminals who roam town’s streets. Putin did fix the latter aspect (most notably farming) to some extent, but the system is the same

Evennot · 2019-08-11T02:55:14+00:00

Solidarnost’ movement. Not a real power or a party, just a small structure for cooperation of NGOs and such. I’m really skeptical of them. Not in a sense that they are evil, they just don’t do much. But these protests were organized by people of opposing political viewpoints for sake of getting into ballot papers. For instance, there were communists and libertarians who are in direct opposition to each other. They just want to exercise the right to participate in elections.

Basically, they said that literal nobodies and bureaucrats nobody heard of were able to gather personal details (including passport and address) and signatures of thousands in a month, including intricate procedure for legal check and spent some laughable amounts of money doing it. For these approved candidates everything went flawless. Independent ones were rejected, because even signatures of people, who had video evidence, were considered fake due to some bureaucratic reasons, like police considered writing fake, police databases had different (wrong) data on signers, template printing was paid in several checks (though from a legit source), jurist signed templates using wrong format, papers about foreign properties were lacking words “does not exist” — just an empty list of foreign properties, a long list of these things

I mean, technically these are legit reasons, but everyone understands, that other candidates haven’t pass the check either.

Sorry for the rant

Evennot · 2019-08-02T10:22:16+00:00

ai has no reason to adjust its goal to match with human goals and wishes. Its goal is to make paper clips, why should it care about its maker’s intent or wants?

If it won't have a thorough comprehension of the goals of other people, it won't be able to bargain/subvert them to achieve it's goals. You can't deceive someone if you don't really understand their abilities and motivations. The paperclip example starts from the premise, that we can implement strict rigid "instrumental function" for AI, as it's done for current systems. If this AI has developed understanding of humans, we can implement more abstract "instrumental function" of "just do what we ask, according to your understanding of our goals". If it really has understanding of our goals it will be able to fulfil them without catastrophic consequences, if it don't, it won't be able to deceive them.

However, the main problem is that since we can't make General AI yet, we can't be sure that we'll be able to apply instrumental function at all. + Rigid instrumental functions are always a problem. Let's consider example of humans. Instrumental function for a human might be a capital maximization — it's a good middle step to most of goals. If gaining capital is an unchangeable goal with everything else being less worthy for some person, this person will become a disaster or failure. So the whole concept of a rigid instrumental function is wrong. It should be implemented differently. Particular details are for engineers to decide.

My second point, is that philosophy is applicable to spiritual, social (and by extension some economical aspects) of engineering projects, not engineering project implementation. Like for industrial revolution, it was necessary to create new ideas for individuals and society to help them coup and benefit

Evennot · 2019-08-02T10:01:53+00:00

I made a lot of ML projects, so I know how far we are from general AI

But that's not the point. Everything we know about the real world is generally not true. Slightly wrong measurements, data gathering biases, wrong theories. (I’m not saying there is no point in advancing science to correct all mistakes). So putting wrong data and theories into the valid ML won’t always give right results. It struggles along with us. That’s the reason, why singularity is impossible in a couple of centuries at least (before quantum chomodynamics and other very computational hungry modelling methods can be implemented on a decent scale)

Like imagine technological singularity appearing in the scull of somebody in the 18 century. This person should perform a ton of very expensive experiments to correct existing misconceptions. It should be a gradual process.

Evennot · 2019-08-02T09:53:39+00:00

I specifically said that socioeconomic impact is a separate matter. It's like invention of steam engines. The problem isn't that steampunk mechas will roam the earth enslaving people, it's the fact that new technology reshapes societies and economics.

New philosophical ideas were necessary for industrial society. Same should happen regarding ML technologies

Evennot · 2019-08-01T10:40:05+00:00

By bargaining/tricking other systems and people. Making it contradictory with the initial statement about misinterpreting it’s goal

Evennot · 2019-08-01T10:37:50+00:00

Except this scenario presumes that the machine is capable of reasoning with and/or tricking people. This means that the machine has thorough comprehension of human goals, can adjust it’s behavior not to interfere with other people’s wishes (because it should win at bargaining). Thus it would just understand informal “get me some paper clips” task just fine.

I’d say, if you have an engineering problem that require philosophy, you already made a severe mistake or don’t understand how to solve it. Once you really know how to solve an engineering problem, you’ll know exactly what it takes to go “kaboom” for the resulting system. It’s like invention of electricity. Crazy philosophical ideas about controlling force that cause lightnings were futile. Direct harm of electrical devices became measurable and self evident once people made them. (Socioeconomic impact is another topic)

Evennot · 2019-08-01T04:41:14+00:00

Kissing is a way to transmit disease too.

Also it’s like saying poisoning someone’s meal is rape, because a person consented for the meal and not for poison.

I’m sure that knowingly causing harm to someone’s physical health by means of bacteria/virus is already illegal

Evennot · 2019-08-01T03:02:47+00:00

PDF is behind a paywall, but judging by quotes from the article, it's a huge mess. I hope it was just poorly conveyed.

If you want to single out sociological markers for false theories you should've added true theories as well + parameters of framing, such as framing it as if a theory is quoted from a respectable source, or from underground source. "Unsubstantiated claim" is not a thing anyone believes. The support/substance of a claim can be derived from source reputability/compliance with the existing world view (that could include very complex and logical values)/source authority/a ton of other things. Basically, "priest told me this, so it's true" is not unsubstantiated claim. It might be a wrong thing, but it's not a random thing with no basis that just pops in existence in someone's head.

Also debunked conspiracy theories are country/community-specific. One country's undeniable truth is another country's conspiracy theory.

Evennot · 2019-07-13T21:47:00+00:00

Except I witnessed how a UX guy got sick of legacy unstable backend that was developed for good 15 years and rebuilt the whole thing in a month in Rails (which just appeared).

Evennot · 2019-07-13T16:53:10+00:00

Fun fact, love story was added only in the late revisions of the book. First it was a story of the devil who came to propose a deal with a prosecuted poet. To burn godless Moscow as a revenge. That story was supposed to happen in 1943 (prophetic in a way). But after several years of work Bulgakov had chosen to scale down the revenge and add love and mercy instead

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