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Its funny that he throws out the "painful" learning of "don't trust the OS." I don't disagree, but it seems that the main learning should be "know your assumptions."

Consider, this just moved up the stack. A good mantra for developers on the JVM is "don't trust the VM."

Obviously, at some level you are trusting them, but you should also have measurements in place that would let you know which key assumption is failing. Yes, this is easier said than done.
Thinking in the age of cyborgs
Depending on the area it'd be difficult to get without driving as well. I know around where I live you have to go to multiple different doctors in different areas to get any add medication, and they are not guarunteed to be close to each other or near mass transit
You didn't respond to the first point about astroturfing.
> Companies want to know that their advertising dollars are actually producing results, and traditional advertising completely sucks at this.

The argument can be reversed though: Despite the fact that traditional advertising is more or less blind to outcome and shows untargeted ads, it has survived for a very long time. This would indicate that businesses would be willing to pay to show untargeted dumb ads online too (if no other option exists).
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>Ok to paraphrase and understand your main point:

The blue-collar attitude is part of the local culture b/c it's so dominant?

I think you missed my main point, to wit, that in any given population, there will be a significant percentage for whom manual labor is their only viable means for doing productive, remunerative work. Consider that the median IQ is 100. [1] That means that half of US citizens (roughly speaking, since I don't know how that was arrived at) have an IQ below 100. So they're never going to be engineers or software developers or pharmacists. And, yes, there may be a cultural aspect as well, but if that were the only obstacle I would think it would be surmountable.

These people have it hard enough with imported manufactured goods, automation, and soon, AI, reducing the demand for people of their ability level. And the Democratic party wants them to also compete with immigrants who are even more poor and more desperate than they are.

> In your pov: What paths exist other than showing and creating other possible alternatives? Personally i can't think of any other way than high quality education for the general population. (but obviously super biased here)

Another alternative is to recognize the fact that, while unrestricted free trade and immigration may improve certain metrics like GDP, and corporate profits, that not everyone automatically benefits from growth in those metrics. We could structure our immigration laws in a ways that do not further erode the already-shrinking piece of the pie that our citizens on the lower rungs of the achievement ladder are relying on. What might we call this new approach to governing our country? Perhaps there's something catchy that would resonate with those voters. Perhaps something like "America First!"

Oh wait, never mind, Chris Matthews on MSNBC said that phrase is "Hitlerian".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_classification
That is the usual narrative, but conservatives contribute more to charity than liberals.
it reminds me of mIRC bots of the late 90s that would +o you in a channel upon joining, kick people who -o or kicked you, or did other simple reactionary things.
Thanks! Yes, I plan to; I'll put it here when it's ready: http://wwwtyro.net
the older you get the less realistic it feels, unless you're ok with being homeless or suicide.
you just dont have the same health and energy at 60. or 40. if you make it that far that is.
There's a lot of wisdom in your list, but I would take issue with the men/women point, that one is a bit of a straw man. No one reasonable is advocating for a mandated perfect 50/50 split.

The reasonable take on gender equality is to remove the social obstacles that prevent sufficiently motivated women from climbing to the top of the corporate ladder, or sufficiently motivated men from committing themselves to nurturing their families, as one example. Gender equality is simply the expansion of choice via elimination of constraints generated by too-rigid gender identities.
If your retirement is not self-funded, you likey don't have one. Your future is your responsibility, if you are able. Do it while you can, or grow old without.
I was sent to Europe. On one hand, it was an uplifting, wonderful experience. I taught the missionary lessons to very kind people. Three or four of them joined the church. I became extremely close to the other missionaries.

On the other hand, it was an excruciating experience. Common daily routine for me (I followed the missionary handbook with my whole heart): 6:30am: wake up, exercise. 8am: read Book of Mormon and Bible, take notes. 9am: study the scriptures with your companion. 10am: Study the language. 10:30am - 8pm: Proselyting. This consisted of stopping people in the street, knocking on doors, and going to appointments to teach lessons. Since interest in Mormonism is low in Europe, we taught few lessons, so we spent most of our time talking to people in the street and knocking on doors. We spent most of the day facing rejection. We were yelled at probably daily by someone calling us a cult. Once we were interviewed by a local newspaper who wanted to know more about Mormons. The interview went well, but in the article they called us a cult. It was highly discouraging. We weren't allowed to read any non-church material, listen to any non-church music, or watch any movies or television. Internet access was limited 30 minutes per week to email family. You write down goals for how many appointments you will have each week and how many baptisms you will have each month. There was some pressure to get good numbers. (All of this said, I deeply respect Mormonism and do not consider it a cult at all.)

I spent a lot of time writing code with pencil and paper because I missed it. Some of my companions rebuked me for it, but some were compassionate and encouraged it. I often thought about leaving the mission, but there is immense social pressure not to come home early. It can bring shame on you and embarrass your family.

I think Mormon missionaries have a tough life. I love them dearly and always wish them well. It is a difficult situation to be placed in, and many of them behave beautifully and admirably in the face of adversity.

I hope no Mormons here feel that my words are trying to attack them or things they love. I love the Mormon church and find many of its teachings beautiful. However, I'd like to convey what it's like to be Mormon, struggle with the experience, and recognize a desire to follow a different path.
By that argument gangs that take over a territory so they can get the resources they need/want that can't be gotten through a regular job, are the modern day pioneer
It's a tough one, I'm not convinced anyone should be consciously coached into the notion that sharing private identity information over chat is acceptable. Feels like a long tail to social engineering scams.
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> Assuming mobile data is $10/GB, a 1MB video ad costs the end user 1 cent.

Yeah and then the ads aren't even remotely interesting - most of in-app video ads for me are uninteresting-as-... F2P games (Clash of clans and countless variations - just how in blazes do these actually make money?!).

But what I find even more annoying: that there apparently seems to be no way for the in-app ads to check if I already have a certain application installed. It's wasted money for Deutsche Bahn to spam me with ads for their (actually highly useful) app when I already have it installed... but then again, it's bad for privacy if any adtech company can profile me based on the set of apps I have installed.
Unfortunately, the is another space where ads are going to appear: in content... I am not talking about being blended into the content itself. Think paid placements in movies. podcast/youtube sponsorships etc.
It's a decent introduction, but a few years out of date. The discussion of bufferbloat needs to be updated to account for the BQL mechanism to automatically manage driver buffering, and the sections on more recent AQMs need to be fleshed out. In particular, fq_codel or cake should be recommended over the Rube Goldberg HTB+SFQ+PFIFO_FAST setup described.
An excellent point, thank you.
Environment variables which depending on the host are done differently. For heroku it's a setting, for a bare bones server it'd be a plain file called .env.
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I had the exact same thing happen to me, fuck that.
>It's not difficult to imagine a scenario where you lose your job, or an important supplier relationship because you left the church.

By the same token, it's not difficult to imagine a scenario where you lose your job because you live in, say, NYC, and you broke with the sacred values of the left. E.g. revealed you voted from Trump.

This happens all the time. We see it on the large scale in the media quite regularly (e.g. Palmer Luckey, Brendan Eich, etc).

Moral communities are often pretty much the same, whether secular or religious.
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Your question is based on a false premise. There is plenty of work, we just haven't figured out how to monetize most of it yet. Mental health, filmmaking, video games, quality food, cultural maintenance events, general caretaking, career development... we're not producing anywhere near the quantity of those things that we actually need.

There are lots of reasons why the markets are currently failing to monetize the demand in those areas (there are incentives for corporations to leave demand on the table), but there's no reason why those incentives should be seen as permanent.

If you think the selection of products and services we buy should be locked in the 1950s then it will look like there's not enough work, and automation will eat what work there is. But the catalog of services that people are purchasing is growing rapidly as we learn how to hack the market blockages, and it will grow exponentially as we approach the complete information liquidity event which is coming in the next decades.

We're just starting to achieve widespread realization that you can offer a service and pay your bills using only Instagram. We're coming from a world where there were only mass-market channels for advertising (newspapapers, broadcast TV, etc), so there was only a limited information space for a small number of brands. That's why we think there are only a handful of job categories, the number of brands was tiny and a brand can only support a finite number of job categories. A decentralized system like Instagram can support infinite job categories.
You are not wrong, but to bring some context to this: this is not because Utah doesn't care. Since moving to Utah from Florida I've often grumbled at the strict yearly emissions checks. Utah has emissions checks, has very functional public transit, and pushes for reductions.

The primary reason is geographic. SLC is an urban area in a valley, which traps the smog.
As a owner of a bot building platform (https://www.botamp.com), it's very disappointing to read articles like this. All the hype around chatbots, the high expectations that will obviously never be met (at least not with current technology) are hurting adoption of these very useful tools.

Actually, for this very reason we don't even have the word "chatbot" on our homepage.

When people say things like "stay in contact with everyone who clicked on the ad to open a conversation with the bot", "Discovery is the biggest challenge", it shows that they just don't get it.

No customer, ever, will open their Messenger just to hold a conversation with your chatbot. Customers don't actually want to "discover" your bot so that they can chat with it. Why would they want that? They have more important things to do with their lives. :)

What customers want when they write to you on Messenger is finding information or performing a transaction. When you understand that, you can quickly see the benefit.

E.g. add a bot that will instantly reply to frequently asked questions to decrease the load of your customer support team. And when the bot doesn't understand requests, don't make it say "sorry I don't understand", just leave the question and a human will reply later (and maybe send a message with expected timeframe for human response).

When you have a chatbot which can replies to more than 30% of customer queries (for some of our users, we've seen bots reply to more than 90% of questions), it'll save plenty of money and time for your business.

About discoverability, well, how did your customers find your Facebook page in the past? Why do we need a special way to "discover" now? Maybe for "game and entertainment chatbots" a bot store would work, but I just don't see how it would work for serious businesses.

How can a business leverage bots right now?

- quick data collection
- instant answers to frequently asked questions
- surveys and polls over chat
- lead nurturing via Messenger (engagement rates > 70% compared to low read rate of email)
I would love to contribute to a system like the one you describe that was not based on fealty to any particular system of belief. That being said, I'd argue that the belief (especially the affinity of shared belief) is totally fundamental to the system at any sort of scale.

My own beliefs [0] are unfortunately not easily evangelized.

[0] https://jimleff.blogspot.com/2013/06/apprecianity.html
I see ads on facebook so that I can laugh at how badly targeted they are. I don't believe this ad'tech' hype for a second, because there isn't any actual intelligence it it.

Right now Facebook suggests I like some furniture store - it should know by now that I don't give a shit about furniture or shoes or womens clothing, just because I am friends with people who do (mostly, funny enough, women).

Really facebook knows just about everything about me, yet they have never come up with an ad for a product I wanted to buy.
^^ It's already April 17 ...
The reason I said "gunship" is there weren't just battleships in that fleet. But there were no aircraft carriers.
In this case functional ones come out as the obvious choice for declarative specs.

The trick for adoption I imagine is designing a DSL in any LISP of one's choice that defines systems as s-expressions... and just turn it into its equivalent XML instead.

Once the project inevitably becomes ubiquitous in enterprise IT you make a blogpost thanking everyone for being part of the social experiment but the DSL is back to being LISP again, with an optional pricing model per-processor a la SQL Server for those companies wishing to continue using XML instead of passing their specs through an automated converter.

On an unrelated note, I'm looking for a cofounder with a FP background...
Honestly that enhances the narrative. Just be like "data isn't like our idealized view of water" and "even water requires different pipes in different circumstances".
Really interesting that they run their application as a nginx module, that really goes to "keep it simple" and that you may not always need a cluster (I know they have a cluster, but that handles the clients)
Adtech is partly the result of CMOs over-optimizing for measurability.

Marketing & advertising has had a long standing reputation as an unmeasurable activity, half of which was a total waste. As the tools to quantify the impact of some marketing activities have gotten better, a new obsession with measurement has been born.

Now we're in a place where the top insecurity of most marketers is the accusation that they aren't data driven.

In the process, they over-optimize for everything that's closest to the last touch, go on a wild goose chase to quantify things that can't really be quantified, and overlook a whole host of things that actually are important, like building a brand and differentiating your offering with the people in their ideal audience who aren't currently on the verge of a purchase.
The Resin mentioned here should not be confused with the Resin product from http://www.caucho.com
But now, as with everything, technology multiplies the effect so much that it's getting extreme.
The developers of RPGs like Morrowind would be better suited at building chatbots than the companies currently trying, I think.

Much like the examples in this article, I haven't seen any bots that can present information in a way that is easier than a normal interface, or that even counts as "conversational."

Maybe I'm being an asshole when I say this, but it just doesn't feel like these chatbot companies have put in the sheer man-hours to work out conversations. They're feeding you the information they have, through a small number of prompts that they predetermine. 100% useless.

Where are the creators of Cleverbot? Shouldn't they be using their platform to capitalize on this? That was the most conversational bot I'd seen so far and it came out forever ago.
I work for GYANT[0], and we're building a chatbot for doing medical triage, patient follow-up, and answering health questions. We're young (launching this Thursday actually), but it's already been pretty successful in a number of countries (like Brazil) with a few hundred thousand users with minimal marketing. My girlfriend was able to use it without issues to go from "my throat hurts" to visiting a doctor in 24 hours because she likely has tonsillitis. The interest and response from the medical, the pharmaceutical, and the insurance communities have been very positive and they're approaching us left and right to bring this out to more users.

Chatbots were probably overhyped and oversold to people. Not every platform needs to explode overnight and produce SV unicorns. I think there is immense value in chatbots as a platform, but expectations should be tempered. I've seen little to no overt marketing to regular users that they can ask a bot rather than looking for an app or website. Most users don't really want to download and learn another app and create another account for every little thing. Additionally, many budget phones in emerging markets have limited data, limited storage space, and minimal specs for downloading and running apps for every little thing.

That said, this article is pretty terrible. It almost seems like they chose the worst possible examples to fit a given narrative.

0: http://gyant.com/english/
And you'd just use some wire cutters for that.
Which GIL are you talking about?
If the result of a successful anti-poverty program is not wealthier people at the bottom, then what is it, with respect to your claim that the result is actually the cause of the anti-poverty program success? What does it mean to "solve poverty" while not having the folks at the bottom have more money?
That's pretty much what I worry about too, and "we're all living longer," only helps if we're able to sort the signal from the noise of the end of life. Plus, and this goes to TEL (great example!) too often people just don't care or lack imagination. You get a lot of "Oh the planet is vast, you can't poison it silly boy!" (the worst form of which is "God will protect us"), and then "Ah yes well, some poor children do eat lead paint chips, but my Billy never would!"

Finally... people only seem to find science believable when it comes to them in CSI form, unless they're actually scientists, in which case it's precisely the opposite. I've tried to explain to people that good science takes time, especially with something as varied as human beings and mortality. Most people can't be bothered, are ideologically opposed, or can't really understand. Plenty of the people who would agree with you and I about this would be nodding and saying, "Yep, that's why I don't vaccinate my kids!" smh There is this tiny sliver aware of the potential risks, between two vast gulfs of ignorance. Worse, plenty within that tiny slice have ideologies which don't allow for giving a rat's ass about this issue, or have some personal gain in mind.

It's hard not to conclude that should future historians be in a position to study us, they'll be chuckling and shaking their heads in the same we do studying the Victorians.
I can see "human readable" for system config files since that can save your bacon in an emergency (editable in a text editor), but I'm really at a loss when we are talking about a serialization protocol or app config files. I want efficiency and minimal parsing code, which makes it problematic to throw in human concerns.
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1. Check out the link above. Roughly half of the students come from poor/lower middle class families.

2. If you're talking about racial discrepancy, Blacks/Latinos are certainly under-represented. If you're talking about socioeconomic discrepancy, roughly half the students come from poor or lower-middle-class families, which I would consider to be a huge win for a elite school.

3. How would you propose remedying the underepresentation of Blacks/Latinos without harming the socioeconomic diversity? If these elite schools adopted an ivy-league admissions system, you would surely see a student body that resembles ivy-league student bodies.
I think you're right.Not sure how to replicate that outside of a shared system of belief.

Candidly I think there are many who aren't believing but are there for the social impact.
Chatbots are sociable command lines.

In some ways they are great because they make command line more popular in some ways the are completely useless as they turn something which should most likely be automated into a manual process.
> Companies want to know that their advertising dollars are actually producing results, and traditional advertising completely sucks at this. If you've never run a traditional ad campaign, I suggest giving it a try and then decide how much value you think you got out of it. You can spend thousands to millions of dollars and have absolutely no idea if your money impacted sales even the smallest amount. Compare that to adtech, where you get real data on outcomes on a regular basis. Even if it's crap data, it's often better than "well we think the brand is stronger now".

They want it this way. My company at its core relies on traditional advertising. Our leads are finally at the point that we're roughly 1:1 between traditional and online.

We've built tools to determine the effectiveness of our traditional ad spend so that we can better target our spend, but we're getting a ton of resistance to us using them. This is from our own internal person who has been running the traditional side of our ad spend for 30 years. Every player in the traditional ads game benefits from keeping the people controlling the spending completely in the dark.
> going to appear...

Ads are already heavily present in those areas already. Many media outlets have "sponsored content" already. Movies have been doing both blatant and subtle placements for a long time too.

Console games have had embedded ads and vicious product placement, and some games are entirely based around brands (see most sport and racing games for the last 20 years)
Comments on the climate and economy are reasonable here -

But your moral judgmentalism reminds me of a Bible-thumping racist talking about how horrible SF is because of all the godlessness and miscegenation.

Yes, people in Utah have different political values. Judge the results of those values, don't just say it's a horrible place because so many people have evil in their minds.
His opener about the monkeys refers to "these high security locks", but the description that follows seems to describe locks that are big and heavy and look intimidating, but don't actually deliver any challenging security. This is, in my experience, quite common.

He does then go on to describe bumping more challenging locks, but I'm not convinced these would be as easy. Especially for a monkey...
And we should have one standard programming language to process the data.