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It depends on how you use the machine and how cautious you are. I ran an un-updated XP machine for 10 years and was never infected by anything.

OTOH, the people in the other departments (running up-to-date machines) fell multiple time for malicious email attachments while our developers department was never infected despite the fact we download stuff from the Internet on a regular basis (be it for libraries or tools) - stuff that doesn't even need sneaky means to get executed. Yet we are in theory subject to the "no software installation without permission from IT dept." internal rule.

So if those machines in that lab don't run an email client and are not used to browse the Internet, they are actually quite safe. The only threats that remain are worms spawning from local infected machines or infected USB pen drives.

The thing is, security can quickly become an unhealthy topic. It's so damn easy to FUD people.

My "new" Win7 machine has this "security advisory" that pops every time I copy a file from/to a network drive that say "this file can damage the computer" even when it's a freaking text file - and I do that all the time (BTW imagine what mental model of security it generates in the mind of non technical people - it's not protection or education, it's fearmongering).

So I went to disable this warning but I then paused for a moment, thinking - what if one day I make an actual mistake and get infected? Will I be blamed for disabling it?

It's so damn easy to say, "if you don't follow this PITA security measure, you will be held responsible for the consequences". I admit that like many I would submit to that. There's no point in gambling my job on this after all, and I have better things to do.

I think that the cyber-security topic needs to be sanitized. And the first thing to do would be to tell week-end security consultants, who don't understand a thing about security contexts and threat assessment, to keep quiet a little so that people that are actually in charge of cyber-security can listen and learn from actual experts.
Because they are regulated. A job at McDonalds is an actual hourly wage job regulated by the government.
Celery with gevent/process.
Emissions for one. Ever walked or driven behind a city bus in low gear? The diesel exhaust is quite disgusting.

Light rail tends to arrive on time more often. I've been stuck at a bust stop for an hour only to have all 3 scheduled buses arrive at the same time. They were all stuck in traffic.

Light rail trends have shown they have a lot of green space around them. Even the space between the tracks is inlayed with grass. A bus line feels temporary while rail stations are permanent. Rail favours development.
I still believe you should be able to send files through email. Why should I setup a git server( static ip + domain name) to share a piece of code? What's next? "Modern tooling" like Google Docs instead of local apps?
We draw lines where society deems them to be drawn. Its okay for Iran to sell organs. Is it okay for women to be property as is the case in some countries? Child brides? Of course morality is subjective.

I don't want to live in a country where slavery is required for people to barely survive. I'd like to be on the right side of history. And if part of the tech industry has to be gutted or burned down, so be it.
There are some jobs which need to be filled by humans who have very little skills. These jobs need to (or can) exist (because they cannot be automated, yet). Fortunately, cutting the workforce also means there will be less delivers and thus less revenue, so these people would get hired anyways. So paying the people really comes down to how much to charge the customer. I would think that most customers would not mind a $3 delivery fee (whether this is included in the price or a extra markup does not matter). Assuming the delivery person can deliver to 4 people (which should be possible in cities), they make an extra $12.

The $3 markup only becomes apparent when a competitor is cheaper then the other players, in which case the competitor gets more orders and make more revenue. Now if there was a law, called minimum wage, which forces employers to pay enough to make a living, there would be no extreme price cutting. Still, about the same amount of people would be employed (maybe slightly less, but most people will still order the meal whether it is $20 or $23 assuming there is no cheaper alternative which fits there needs).

If we do not have those protections, we end up in a situation similar to the Industrial Revolution in Europe where people (and their children) work for 12+ hours a day and still starve to death. Those jobs would exist anyways because the demand does not decrease significantly if the wages rise (this is of course not true for every industry) but by having two competitors cutting down each other at the expense of the employee is bad for everybody if you consider the long term consequences.
Well, Uber might eliminate the other companies one way or another.
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The point was that it is worldwide.
It's nice to see economic considerations.

For many everyday things we must assume that Mars needs aerospace level reliability and safety. Typically it's assumed that there is at leas factor of ten increase when developing with aerospace standards. So multiply value of everything that can affect health with 10, including housing, fire alarms, ventilation and outdoor gear.

It can't be assumed that settling Mars is preplanned. Every form of manufacturing and every process must constantly adapt and innovate to overcome the obstacles not seen beforehand. This takes lots of time and timelines will slow down. You can't just keep sending up robots in massive amounts. You need to send small batches and refine and constantly adapt them. This requires highly educated manpower.

I's probably hard to find millions of people ready to sentence themselves into very low life standards and lower life expectancy once the hype wears off. There are lots of dreamers cheering who eventually balk or don't survive. How do you get millions of "right stuff" to live the life of constant maintenance. Maybe you need to have cult like sci-fi religion like Mormons :)
Why do you think the concept of minimum wage exists?
Indeed; the reciprocal throughput of sin() for small arguments should be a few tens of ns at worst.
Here, in Montpellier, France there is a crazy competition between Foodora and Deliveroo, I don't know how healthy this is, they are just trying to kill each other so that the victor raises the prices, all that on the back of medicine students speeding with bikes while dodging trams and busses.

I have never tried those services since I live downtown and I don't really need home delivery.
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Actually, you can get pretty far with randomness extractors with scant assumptions on the properties of the bitstream.
No, we don't tip couriers in Sweden. Tipping is almost done at restaurants and very few other places/situations.
When a nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, is that an attack against hundreds of buildings, or is it an attack against Hiroshima? :)

Thinking of it as "an attack against 70+ countries" is an anachronism. The attack doesn't care about countries. It doesn't even need to acknowledge their existence.
That's nuts, they probably pay out even more of the total amount for eats orders.
Nuking Mars' polar ice caps is a good place to start.

It will force greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, which will promote the raising of temperatures and formation of liquid water.

Then maybe people will want to live there- the rest will be history :)
It could be anything from 10.000 to 500.000 unregistered illegal immigrants in Sweden right now. Possibly even more.

The government reports 20.000 people are 'missing' but that does not include those that never registered.

The legal status of the terrorist that was caught highlighted the fact that there is next to no control, but nothing seems to be done.

All those people need to work in some way or another.
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"Once enough people have died, prices will reach a new equilibrium."

What a nasty way of looking at people and the world.
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The rates and stuff don't look like the main issue, the quote at the summary of his Uber section gives more insight - "The deliveries are too few". I dislike Uber as much as the next guy, but it sounds like they've either got too many couriers or not enough partner restaurants to make it worthwhile for the guys they have working or them.
Did you throw your stuff in store before you started moving around to other cities? Or did you sell everything and say 'Tabula Rasa! clean slate!'.
Firing someone for joining a union is against the law. In fact firing an employee after a grace period is difficult in Scandinavia unless they are clearly incompetent or criminal.

For that reason it might even be that Uber doesn't worry too much about high turnover because it means that most of their workers are sackable without having to give reasons or compensation.
Wouldnt that just push the "guilt" to the consumer?
And there's the rub. How do we deal wiht this, or head it off? Most people and discourses have their headds in the sand about this
Designing a system that is secure is part of the job. Accurately estimating the total cost of ownership is also part of the job.

Ultimately project management and ownership is responsible, but they won't be interested if we don't make our expectations clear.

Downvoting these sort of opinions is just saying it's too expensive to secure some things. To me that means we can't​ afford to computerize some things in the first place, at least not with the chosen tech stacks.
If this comes to fruition, i will never use software originating from the UK again.
It should be noted that our current financial system has the exact same limitation: an international bank transfer (SWIFT) costs roughly $35, which makes it entirely unsuitable for consumer-to-merchant transactions. This is fixed by using credit instruments to clear payments going from consumers to merchants, such as is done by VISA, MasterCard etc.

A similar (VISA-like) clearing system can be deployed on top of Bitcoin, thus making it behave exactly as our current financial system does today. The lowest layer (Bitcoins on the blockchain/USD in a bank account) acts as the store of value, while protocols on top of this layer are used to make consumer payments sufficiently cheap.
Simplistically: people can either work or not work. Nearly everyone will chose "work" because it's nice to feel useful, even if that work doesn't pay a living wage.

If people are not earning a living wage, societies can either let them die in the street or subsidize them. Most societies will choose the later, because they're made of humans and not monsters.

That means that there really is a minimum wage, but it's paid in part or in full by the society. Companies that pay less than a living wage exploit the "humans don't like watching children starve to death" vulnerability and effectively steal from society. Additionally, paying a lower wage lets them offer a lower price to consumers which can drive out companies that were paying their customers an actual wage.
I've seen noticed so many high voted anti-Uber stories across so many media channels recently - I can't help but suspect there is something more going on here

there are plenty of other companies pushing boundaries in other areas not getting near as much negative PR right now

I don't use Uber but I know many who consistently do without ever having a negative word to say about them
It's at most O(E) not at least. The capacity of a deep network could be much smaller than the number of weights and this is where the VC theory stops being useful.

Deep networks can generalise to situations where even humans cannot. So the memorizing narrative doesn't survive any scrutiny.
This. The last thing I need when loading a new tab is either a) distractions or b) network connections or JavaScript keeping the browser busy.
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It'll happen whether you like it or not.

Acknowledging it doesn't make a person "nasty".
> Minimum wage is just saying "if you can't produce at least $X of value per hour, you're not allowed to work at all". That's not fair.

That's an oversimplification, since it ignores what is paid to people who produce more than $X of value per hour.

Minimum wage says something closer to, "If you can produce at least $X+Y value per hour, you will be paid at least $X", where X is the minimum wage, and Y is the level of profit that a company needs to operate.

Assuming no upward pressure on X, a company will prefer to maximise Y and minimise X. Minimum wage laws are one way to apply upward pressure. Competition over constrained supply is another, but only applies if there actually is a supply constraint.
I believe he meant they cant manufacture all the items he mentioned and rely on trade for some parts.
In case with Android things like drivers or builtin software are often closed source and it prevents community from fixing them or migrating them to newer Android versions.
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Uber not penetrating the market yet is not an excuse for their actions nor does it contradict the statement above.
So its better that Uber didn't offer this job at all?
Honestly, how stupid were the malware authors to use standard DNS for a domain that could take down their shit when they use Tor for the actual key and address communication and everything... it's like they half understood what they were doing.

Well, I guess maybe they didn't want things to get too out of hand and now if they want they can be back up soon with that fixed.
The problem is not street cars vs busses it's busses vs cars. If you let cars onto the same lanes as busses then they become worse than cars. Effectively you can have a high bandwidth street level public transit or congestion because cars don't scale at street level.

The core problem is a single lane of dedicated public transit can move more than 10x as many people as a single lane of roads. In minimal traffic areas you can mix busses and cars, but as soon as roads reach there minimal limits near a city you need to segregate traffic.

PS: Cars do with in low density areas and Extreme levels of congestion pricing are one way around this. If it costs 50$ / day to park in the city you get less traffic, but passing such regulations are incredibly difficult.
I think it's great that this was used to stop the malware, but pre-emptively registering the domain without understanding what it did seems dangerous.

The malware could have just as easily used the registration of that domain as a flag to start deleting data, no?
For tldr the general idea is that we'll need self replicating robots to do the bulk of the work since transportation and human labour is extreme costly.
You might want to clarify what "use uber" means.

If you're just talking about customers who eventually benefit from people being paid low salaries, it's not really a good point of comparison.
Uber's 10 000 SEK per month for working 50 hours is an awful exploitative salary in Sweden. Usually that's the kind of pay you get doing sweat shop jobs as an undocumented immigrant, not working for a legitimate business.
Not at all, no. Throughout the world, unemployment is correlated with the local minimum wage - as the minimum wage increases, unemployment decreases. Somalia (no minimum wage) has an unemployment rate of over 60%. Increasing the minimum wage in US states produces no negative employment effects.

There are, of course, paid professional conservative economists who will tell you whatever their bosses want them to in support of pro-billionaire economic policies.
I don't see which part of my comment implied any solution, never mind the specific solution you've inferred.
Constantly. My company uses a popular framework that supports complex behavior defined largely in a declarative manner using inheritance; with method overrides for customizing business logic.

I also frequently use multiple inheritance and what are called "mix-in" classes in python to make more complex customizations reusable.
> Between the vast numbers who won't even go for the interview and the fact that the few that do tend to wash out after a month, uber eats will soon find themselves with no drivers at all.

A significant number of the drivers are recently arrived immigrants with little chance to get another job. They definitely don't read Breakit. They are not in a situation to pick-and-choose. They might get by on a small wage by working crazy hours and sharing a cheap apartment with dozens of others in the same situation.
I prefer taking the tram over taking the bus, because

a) It's faster because it does not get stuck in traffic usually (mostly runs in its own tracks).

b) It's more comfortable. The ride is smoother. It's quieter. It's more spacious and you're more likely to find a good seat.

I live in a city with many teams and busses and I surely prefer the trams.
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What is this SV software company role that is filled exclusively by underpaid women? I'm trying to think of what you might be referring to, but honestly have no idea.
A GC doesn't check if memory is unused; it looks for memory that's used and frees whatever is leftover. Having a small fraction of used memory to total memory is what makes GC cheap (in compute time). It also means that allocating short-lived memory with abandon is cheap, if that's most of your allocation.
You seem to be reading way more into my comment than was intended.

I'm just saying it's not cheaper to ignore technical debt. It's actually a bug somewhere in the operational budget or business plan.

If the system should run for thirty years on without an OS upgrade, design and budget for that up front. I promise that no one considered that when they configured a Windows XP box and threw it in a lab somewhere. And, hey, maybe that's OK in the short run. But there was no budget or business plan to replace those systems down the line either.
I said this before Elon got excited about tunnels. The people of mars will want to create usable space and the best way to do that will be tunnel boring machines. They'll need a way to reinforce and seal them, but with a boring machine they can have people constantly creating new living and working space with a minimum of materials. This will also provide some mining capability should there be any rock of value there.

What will become currency? In other words, how can you use free markets to get people to provide work most efficiently? In software, OSS seems to be the most efficient development model but it lacks payment for the effort. Likewise once people are making stuff, it would be a waste of resources to have multiple competitors making similar things. I suspect not having patents is the quickest way to get efficient production in a low resource environment. A race to the bottom may be OK when everyone starts at the bottom.

Lastly, It seems like a good idea for Mars to have a product or service that is extremely useful to the people of earth. This would allow them to exchange that for continuing shipments of materials they desperately need. An information service would seem to fit the bill, due to zero mass for shipping it back and few resources needed to create it. But what? Engineers could live and work on mars, but not enough to create a shortage of those services on Earth. Is there any use for the time delay inherent in transmission to Mars? For example, with HFT in the stock market, could a more "fair" system be built with transactions taking place on Mars where there is a large latency built into the system? Of course you'd have to keep locals on Mars from trading in that system. With our constant quest for higher speed an low latency it seems wrong to seek a solution that depends of guaranteed long latency. Something like that, of high value that is unique to the situation could go a long way toward preventing abandonment by Earth but I really don't know what that would be.

I don't thing what it takes to build a minimum viable civilization on Mars will be determined until there is one.
Hmm... it could very well be true.

Perhaps deep networks work well because they learn to memorize "the most common patterns of auto-correlation" they see in the training data at different levels of function composition.

In fact, we do this explicitly in convolutional layers, which by design learn to represent every input sample as a combination of a finite number of fixed-size square filters.

...and the reason why deep networks might be "generalizing" so well is because not all distributions of natural data are equally likely!

In practice, objects with the same or similar labels tend to lie on or close to lower-dimensional manifolds embedded in data space.

...and this concentration of natural data distributions might be a result of the laws of Physics of the universe in which we happen to live: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225

So, yes, deep learning could very well be a really fancy form of memorization.

I hadn't thought of it in this way before. Very interesting :-)
In the US (and most countries), land "ownership" is already a perverted notion. You often must pay personal property tax on the land you "own", the government, through eminent domain, can take the land you "own", etc.
Is there any good research about VC dimension of deep neural nets and usefulness of it?
It would be better if they offered the job with reasonable wages and conditions. If consumers are not willing to pay enough for Uber to be able to offer this, they have a poor business model or are in the wrong market.

You could say the same about any regulation, if you cannot manufacture something at a reasonable price without polluting more than allowed, you need to change your prices or adjust your business model.
> Increasing the minimum wage in US states produces no negative employment effects.

Why not increase it to $500 an hour then? When you increase the price of cigarettes, people buy less cigarettes, when you increase the price of cars, people buy less of it. What do you think happens when you increase the price of labor and why do you think it has magic powers that makes it avoid these basic laws of economics?

What about people who prefer to work for Uber for $4 per hour rather than stay unemployed? Would you tell them "Sorry but this is inhumane, I can't let you do that to yourself and I'm ready to vote laws to forbid you to do as you please with your free time and send people like you to jail if they persist"? Do you know better than they do what's best for them and how they can use their own body? Doesn't that make you an authoritarian?
The missing piece is that no one is entitled to an unregulated market. Capital has the power to employ and in an unregulated environment, more power to determine wages than labour.

But in a modern democracy, labour has a different sort of power and I cannot think of a moral principle that says that labour should not distort the market using its power at the ballot box.

If a pro-unregulated market candidate can't win more votes than the guy who wants to support minimum wages, he doesn't deserve to win. And he doesn't deserve to enact his policies.

So an ancap can argue his point but if he can't win in the marketplace of ideas, then he doesn't win. Because that market is truly free.

That's fair.