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Bayesian Program Learning is probably the most powerful of the technologies that come with the use of fully probabilistic programming languages. This is a subset of a technique known as "probabilistic generative modelling", in which one designs a model based on inference algorithms like MCMC or Particle Cascade, that generates samples based on some simple rule. You can learn more from a pretty good online book called Probabilistic Models of Cognition: https://probmods.org/, also here: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~fwood/anglican/ and here: http://probabilistic-programming.org/wiki/Home.
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"print money, which could cause the currency to collapse"

This is not true. The USA is not Zimbabwe.

If this was true the yen would have collapsed now:
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=26054
Hmm, I'm not sure why that would be. Could you tell me which browser you're using?
I totally hear you, and a fix will be in soon! Thank you very much for the respectful help.
There was even Mario for Apple 2 !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV_iYmk1Sn4
http://github.com/brendenlake/visual-turing-tests, http://github.com/brendenlake/omniglot and http://github.com/brendenlake/BPL
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Emotionally, it feels to me a little like that one time a stalker bought me flowers and had them delivered to my (then-) home. I mean, yes, in general flowers are nice, but: fuck off! You can't buy my memories: a token of your affection won't make me forget what you did to me.

On reflection, the analogy bites a little closer than I might like to admit. They are stalkers, to each and every one of us. What they do is literally an attack on the entire internet (- IAB).

Please bear in mind that GCHQ are actually worse than the NSA in every way. They have essentially no "equities issue" to speak of; they operate both internationally and domestically; they have repeatedly ignored the law with essentially zero oversight, consequences or meaningful reproach; they have spied, and continue to spy, even on UK Government departments and MPs; and they are very probably about to get official powers to do mass hacking, which in typical form, they've already been doing for years anyway.

Bear in mind also that this is software that they use for analysis of data collected by spying on all of us; graph analysis software that is literally being used right now to select who to murder.

Forgive me if, therefore, I might hesitate to run any of the code of an organisation with a long history of deploying malware against innocent people.
I think we agree more than you think ;) In my original article, I quoted some papers and studies. And on twitter, somebody occused me that "All science is crap". So I tried to write another article with only my opinion on the subject - The article linked here on HN.
Thanks for the tip, and I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the teardowns!
Yes, this is much easier to understand and to get the specific points of contention.
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> std::random_device may be implemented in terms of an implementation-defined pseudo-random number engine if a non-deterministic source (e.g. a hardware device) is not available to the implementation.

Windows has a non-deterministic source (IE: The function CryptGenRandom). Therefore, this is a bug in MingW's implementation. CryptGenRandom is hard to use, but that's no excuse for MingW's developers to be lazy.

Pointing at a "mistake" in the spec when the intent of the spec is extremely clear is laziness. Pure and simple.
Thank you for the internet!
You can't have controlled traffic flows with constant jaywalking. And traffic flows will be increasingly important in order to minimize power consumption by automobiles and keep our growing cities liveable.
> I can't have a word for the gross exaggeration of the work hours in the article

I'm assuming that it's true for a small subset of the lawyers who do the kind of work that the author is talking about and apparently has personal experience with... but it's definitely not true for the entire [edit: country].
> This is not true.

It is neither false. It's only "not true until now".
Wow, this seems quite idiotic to me. Sure, recursive descent parsers have some theoretically inferior properties to other techniques, but in reality they're much better because you can actually handle errors in a user-friendly way. That's why basically every bigger compiler uses handwritten recursive descent parsers.
https://github.com/Kinto/kinto-admin
Agh, I hate to give you a glib answer here, but I'd have to say "as many screens as it takes to reliably progress people forward."

I tend to think less in terms of screens and more in user momentum -- how quickly and substantially are they making progress in what they set out to do when they signed up?
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If they raise interest rates, they will have to service their $18 trillion national debt and expose a lot of malinvestment in the private sector.

1. I think the Fed wants to "expose malinvestment". There's some debate about whether avoiding bubbles (i.e. malinvestment) should be a formal part of the Fed's mandate. IIRC, as it currently stands avoiding bubbles isn't a formal part of the Fed's mandate but it would certainly be a desirable policy goal (i.e. the Fed wants to prevent malinvestment from running to far). Also, wrt to servicing debt, the article was about how interest rates are likely to remain low.

If they don't raise interest rates, their only tool to fight the next recession will be to print money, which could cause the currency to collapse.

2. Your claim implies that the Fed raises rates so they have a tool to fight economic slowdowns. That's wrong. The Fed has 2 mandates: stable inflation and full employment. The Fed is raising rates to avoid inflation. You also claim that the Fed will "print money" which could cause the currency to collapse. Its astounding that we literally just went through this scenario, the Fed printed money, the currency didn't collapse. However people haven't re-examined their beliefs. We've now had 2 episodes where major economies resorted to "printing money" (Japan in the 1990's, US in 2000s) ... no currency collapses. In fact, as far as I'm aware, there's no precedent for a country that issues their debts in their own currency having a currency "collapse".
They do affect it in a meaningful way. They don't depart because it would tank sectors.
Considering that both are characterized by abnormal brain function and that mental illness tends to run in families this seems extremely likely.
That's already happening. There are also some laws/policies which state that insurance premiums won't be increased for anyone who chooses to abstain from such a tracking program, but we'll see how long that lasts.
I don't think "less bullets" makes any sense. As you said, there are QE and negative interest rate.
I don't mean to sound heartless, but can anyone explain how the economics of these new Internet-enabled distribution channels are "sad"? Don't get me wrong, I've found poverty and lack of economic opportunity to be very sad, for far longer than it's been fashionable to do so, but that's not really what the article's talking about.

> Every other week, Tonjes, 29, debates getting another job but wonders how she’d have the time to keep up her three channels on top of a 9-to-5.

Maybe keep up two channels? or one? Before the Internet, this story would have been a person stuck in a crappy job who doesn't get to indulge their passion for music _at all_, since they would get _zero_ dollars for it (barring the enormously low chance of getting a major-label record deal, an option which still technically exists). The low barriers to entry for YouTube/Instagram/etc are the other side of the coin for lower income per subscriber than traditional gated channels like getting signed at a record company.

TL;DR: Someone being unable to afford their groceries is what's actually sad, but this isn't an article about poverty and lack of a safety net. Low-barrier, low-gatekeeper distribution channels like YT or Instagram _mitigate_ this problem, not create it. Calling the economics of being Internet-famous sad is missing the point by a mile.
I highly recommend the book as well. I consumed it by audiobook while driving. A great experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuU_ure7tF4

"The computer, it contained worlds."

Which is incidentally the exact same thing I have been saying to people when asked why I was so into computers as a kid.
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> Compelling argument there.

I don't know if you're being facetious, but it's not an argument, it's a simple fact. If I create a painting, a movie or a song, and I don't want anyone to see those things, that's my choice. If I instead want to charge $20 to see my movie or view my painting, that's also my choice. It's my content, not yours. Therefor, everything with regards to that content is done on my terms.

I mean, I even legally own the content and it's automatically protected by copyright laws. So... I'm not sure what else to say.

> Well, they're not paying me to view their ads, so their "rights" are minimal (if they exist at all).

Huh? Why should you get paid at all? Did you create the content? Did the website come knocking on your door? No, you went to its door, and you want to view its content.

Do you think you should get paid for watching regular TV because there are commercials between breaks of your favorite show? Of course not. Because those ads pay for the show. That's right. That toothpaste commercial that aired during the 3 minute break of The Big Bang Theory paid for the show. That's where the phrase "The big bang theory was brought to you by...." you hear at the end of TV shows comes from.

Much the same, the ads on websites pay for the content in a similar way. It's absolutely shocking how people don't understand this concept. They actually believe all this stuff is and should be free to them. Wow, just wow.
wrt gas tax, for fucks sake, why don't we tax based on price rather than volume. this is like the most ridiculous choice we've stuck with.

The revenue should be coupled with the value, not volume of the asset.
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More or less, I agree. With fewer accidents and fewer drivers insurance companies will be looking at decreased revenues. No company wants decreased revenues of that sort. Now, I'm not 100% familiar with the insurance industry and any regulatory capture that may take place, but then would be the time for a cartel to flex its muscles and ensure that startup insurance companies don't undercut them with fair pricing.
Vector<bool> is often specialized to take 1 bit per element, so that's another one.
I understand the sentiment that if you work hard you should get paid a proportional amount of money. But, well, welcome to real life. There are things in life that pays the bills and others that don't, no matter how hard you work at it, therefore, you have to decide how much time and resources you can afford to spend on it. It seems like for these people, they are making a trade off in terms of income and self-realization balance.

I feel a bit bad about this slightly cynical comment but, well, that's what I think. It would be absolutely amazing if we all could make a living from what we enjoy.

On another note, I might have missed it in the article but I didn't see the author talking about the target audience? Shouldn't it make a huge difference in terms of CPM and therefore revenue?

Because I'd imagine that advertisers are willing to pay totally different amounts of money if your average subscriber is in late 20s or 30s, from the USA, UK or Canada and with middle or higher level of income, compared to just a bunch of high schoolers who have little spending power?
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It's similar with websites. As a developer, I find it easy to build things people want. My websites get millions of pageviews every month. Yet, I make less then $200 per month from Adsense. No idea how high this could get with better monetization or what the path to betterm monetization would be.
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The robot consumer might be the most underrated threat to humanity.
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Why does tor need an executive director?
> When I say gross force, I mean the sum total of all relevant force exerted by the object.

There is no such concept. Really. I promise you, there is no such concept! The amount of force it exerts simply depends on who is close to it, rather than any property of the Earth. Like, if the moon was not there would you say the total of all relevant force is lower? But nothing changed on the Earth. So this concept does not apply to the Earth, rather it applies to the specific situation.

I do get what you are trying to say, but it's just not correct. The force depends on the specific setup of where the bodies are, not an intrinsic property of Gravity, or the Earth.

> So the gross gravitational force of the earth is strong enough to hold the moon in orbit, but clearly the magnet has no such ...strength.

Only because it is small, it would not take much charge to hold the moon. I did the math for you - it would take about 3 tons worth of electrons to hold the moon. That's it - about 1 car worth. (If you could somehow keep all those electrons in one place, which you can't.) Walk outside and look at a car - if it was replaced with equivalent mass of electrons it would be enough to hold the moon (if the moon had some extra protons on it). I mean you can push a car, that's how little mass it is, yet it's enough to hold something as heavy as the moon.

Another way to look at it is if you took 1 electron away from every grain of sand sized piece of the earth - just one single electron, the resulting charge would be enough to hold the moon. (And give one extra electron to every grain of sand sized piece of the moon.) Charging a grain of sand with one extra electron is nothing, it's a minuscule amount, it's too low to even measure.

> Ack. Considering acceleration without mass is no way to properly reason about force!

The nice thing about gravity is that it's invariant to mass since the force goes up right along with the mass. If you scale the charge of the object together with the mass then the acceleration of a charged object will also be invariant to mass.

i.e. if you made the magnet bigger (heavier) it would also be more magnetic, so the acceleration would stay the same (more or less).

> Regardless, I will desist and defer.

It's OK, I don't mind the conversation.

> Though I do wish I felt that I now understood something more clearly than I did before. :(

Remember that we started with you saying gravity is diffuse and electromagnetism is concentrated. All I did is try to show you that that is not a good way to look at it.
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It's pretty sad, really. This is actually a company sabotaging itself. Each additional hour of work isn't "free" for the company - you can't add an extra hour of work to someone and expect the other hours worked won't be affected. Sitting around waiting for a boss to leave or re-doing work just means that the employee is going to do the rest of his work worse whether he wants to or not.

Japan forcing overtime pay would probably be the single best way to boost their entire economy. I'm guessing they will never do it for unfortunate cultural reasons though.
Driving behavior and patterns are important for safety too, when you assume that it's not the google AV's fault that it gets rear-ended you may be wrong. If a human driver sees more than the AV (has a bigger brain, more experience) and is able to better asses a situation, the human might not see why the AV is stopping, having assessed correctly that the way is clear. It is the AV's fault for not being smart enough, and thus acting erratically by normal driving standards and patterns.

I knew several people in the UK when we were learning to drive who failed their test because the tester thought them too cautious and therefore not confident enough to avoid an accident.

Reading on the subject of self driving cars, one gets the impression that there is a auto-assumption that human drivers must all be idiots who should never, ever have been allowed behind the wheel, but that probably isn't the case. I'm not saying the roads will be any less safe with AVs, but let's not believe all the Utopian propaganda of the businesses selling us this product.
more like cHTML 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-HTML
The interaction of AI and manual cars will depend on the general discipline of the drivers. There are countries in the world where according to rumours the traffic rules are somewhat open to interpretation...
> That's a strawman argument.

No it isn't. Running an adblocker is exactly instructing my computer to use scissors and cut out the ads from the page. What is the difference in your opinion?

To make it easier to compare, assume I am Trump/Koch wealthy, and I ask my butler Jeeves to cut the ads out of every newspaper I receive. Did I or Jeeves vandalize or violate any law? Now, times have changed, and JeevesBot is a robot rather than a person. Does that qualify as vandalism or violation? And now the newspaper has been replaced with an on-line one, and JeevesBot has been replaced by AdBlockPlus. How is it any different? How is it a strawman?

> Except that such a script is DRM by definition.

The DMCA requires an "effective" DRM. I'm not sure if there is a body of law about what constitutes "effectiveness", but I'd be surprised if "please show this ad" can be considered "an effective DRM.

Furthermore, the DMCA does NOT prohibit me from editing e.g. DVDs - it just prohibits me from distributing those edited copies. And all AdBlockPlus does is edit pages so that they are more to my liking - just as my user CSS does, and as my preselected fonts do.

I think your interpretation of the law is wishful thinking. It's not that DRM/DMCA cannot be, in some form, used to make some forms of ad blocking illegal. I suspect it can. But I am also quite sure that DMCA does not apply to web advertising (and ad blocking) as they are practiced today.
Seemed to me a communication mismatch.

Youtubers try to act all perfect according to an image because they believe that what the viewers want. So they don't communicate their money trouble.

Viewers got this distorted notion that they're rich because of subscribers numbers due to said zero communication. And they acted spoiled when they do one of their sponsored videos.
> I've found poverty and lack of economic opportunity to be very sad, for far longer than it's been fashionable to do so

You are pretty old then, I guess?
Well, I suppose that if you don't have a theory to make sense of the data, you can say that about everything.

A sovereign country with its own money can't default (at least it choose to do it).

Inflation happens when the economy is at full capacity and demand continue growing. Not Japan not the United States are in this situation.

The Euro area is a different thing, because the countries there are borrowing in what, in a practice way, is a foreign money.

A congruent view, that makes sense, of how modern money works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
wonder if that is open to a class-action suit.
Is that feasible for distributions over the reals across CPU architectures or maybe even revisions? FPUs typically do not compute the best possible result for floating point operations.

Also, instructions like 'estimate one over square root' have multiple 'correct' answers.

Edit: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/ssw_aix_71... shows things are worse:

"The estimate placed into register FRT is correct to a precision of one part in 32 of the reciprocal of the square root of FRB. The value placed in FRT may vary between implementations and between different executions on the same implementation."
> having an extreme opinion of a problem's importance (very important, not important whatsoever) is correlated with having an extreme opinion of a solution (love it, hate it).

I don't think this is correct either. How would thinking a problem is "not important whatsoever" imply that someone must love or hate any potential solution? I couldn't care less how sports team X fixes their losing record, and yet your claim is that that would somehow correlate with me having extreme opinions (love or hate) about their decision to draft Player Y? Very much to the contrary, I'm apathetic about any solution, which is pretty much the definition of finding a problem "not important whatsoever".

Furthermore, I'm not even sure how "extreme opinions of the problem's importance" is relevant to what we're talking about. The original quote was "to the extent that anyone cares about [the problem] at all". That's anywhere from "I care a bit" to "I care a ton", not exclusively "I care a ton".

Finally, even if you weren't very wrong about the premise of what we're talking about: "X is correlated with Y" doesn't mean "X implies Y is a tautology (or close to one) because they're the same thing", which is the original statement I was responding to.
I am familiar with the ImageNet competition. Let me know if you find the ImageNet test labels. (Hint: they are not released, since they are re-used for competitions).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730231
That looks like it is much better. The times I have spent trying to get tape off light stands etc. when it has been heated and cooled.
Not within Russia proper much of the infrastructure and many of the establishments were still either in the hands of hardliners or sitting on the fence.
This actually continued as isolated events till the mid 90's with so often a random general deciding to become the next great patriotic hero.
In 1991 Russia could've went to a civil war and worse cause a nuclear incident which some generals were promoting, while people do not know this and today some even dismiss it that period had us closer to ww3 than probably most of the Cold War, any spark could've ignited that powder cake and if a war would break out no one in Russia would've been in a position to stop it.
Here is the thing. These people produce something of interest to people at the price of 'free'. If their 'product' was worth anything then they could charge for it, but then of course nobody would pay and they wouldn't be 'famous'.

So you can't get rich if you have to give your 'product' away? Not really a big surprise is it?
That depends on the sensors which are used. Most current ACC systems use radar, which should not be affected by weather but has other problems like high cost, narrow field of view and you only get speed and distance as data points which are not always easy to interpret correctly. Ideally it's combined with a camera to get more information about the environment like land markings, so that you know if the car in front of you is actually in your lane or just going around the corner in the lane next to you. The camera is obviously prone to glare, raindrops, etc.. When the car ahead changes lanes or exits the freeway, the system will try to find another car as a target vehicle and adapt the speed accordingly to keep a certain timegap, if it can't find a target it will behave like normal cruise control.
The same issue comes up with classic cars. Is a car which has seen many/most of its parts replaced (including chassis members, body panels,...), still the same car?
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