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Just found interesting comment from Jack Ma, about US strategy. He said that US had excellent strategy of focusing on IP and design while moving manufacturing and services to other countries. Large amounts of profits were generated, and then squandered on wars (instead of infrastructure). And then there was a nice analogy, in comments sections of the interview:
"When I was 12, I made 100 dollars during a summer job we all used to do, I saved 71 dollars throughout the year and then bought fireworks and spent pretty much all of the money on 4th of July. I think our government is doing the same at a larger scale.﻿"
This. There's a ton of VPN services and while it is in theory a good business model (I know somebody who has a niche VPN business which makes tens of millions of dollars per year), getting customers might be hard.
I am amazed by how many people take antibiotics for no reason. I have a partner since a year and she used to go to the doctor every time she had the flu. And the doctor, to be on a safe side - prescribed antibiotics every time.

When I showed up I encouraged her to stop taking any antibiotics and build up defence system by taking vitamins and adjusting some bad habits. The first time she had flue it was bad, she had it for 3 weeks and was forced in the end to take antibiotics. Since then she was not sick even once (usually she would be sick every 3 months). Her health improved, her defences are strong and whenever she starts feeling bad she just jumps into the bed for 2-3 hours and get out feeling good. Her bode learned how to defend on her own.
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You could make $300,000 a year foiling Russian hackers
I know you said you're not a lawyer, but.... Linux is GPLv2, right? So why is it ok to distribute Linux, but not the NVIDIA driver?
AFAIK, the state of the art in voice synthesis still involves concatenating recorded snippets. Even fancy neural networks need recordings to train on, and will most likely sound similar to the original voice actor.
Update: I have completed testing of a slightly modified version in c++ with SMHasher, details below.

I posted the results in the repo: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/tifuhash/blob/master/tifu...

And my SMHasher fork testing tifuhash is here: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/smhasher
I have had several ideas over the years. I only tried to implement one of them.

What's stopping me from trying more is that last time I tried I wasted a lot of time not working for somebody else and getting paid plus a lot of my own money for infrastructure costs and contractors to develop mobile apps for my product. In the end it didn't work out and I am worried next time I'd try I'd just burn a lot of cash again.

So happy working for somebody else now and making a good salary.
Centralized, as opposed to decentralized. I would say these farms/farmers are decentralized. There's no gov agency, with some academia pencil pusher in some removed city overseaing them. They've figured it out. And they will continue to do so.

p.s. Team of Teams (book) does a great job flying to decentralized flag.
Yeah, I've read through the critique (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294) that triggered to linked blog post and the main disagreement seems to be about this.

From the critique:

"In their new work, Hoel and others claim to make the amazing discovery that scientific reductionism is false—or, more precisely, that there can exist “causal information” in macroscopic systems, information relevant for predicting the systems’ future behavior, that’s not reducible to causal information about the systems’ microscopic building blocks."

I think it would've helped cleared thing up if Hoel actually addressed and clarified the above quote.

Instead (From the blog post):

"Why does causal emergence matter?

The theory does imply that universal reductionism is false when it comes to thinking about causation, and that sometimes higher scales really do have more causal influence (or information) than whatever underlies them. This is common sense in our day-to-day lives, but in the intellectual world it’s very controversial."

At this point I'd really like the definition of "universal reductionism"..

An illuminating example from the critique (possibly taken from Hoels paper). (Basically an example of your 1-3 steps)

"For here is the argument from the Entropy paper, for the existence of macroscopic causality that’s not reducible to causality in the underlying components. Suppose I have a system with 8 possible states (called “microstates”), which I label 1 through 8. And suppose the system evolves as follows: if it starts out in states 1 through 7, then it goes to state 1. If, on the other hand, it starts in state 8, then it stays in state 8. In such a case, it seems reasonable to “coarse-grain” the system, by lumping together initial states 1 through 7 into a single “macrostate,” call it A, and letting the initial state 8 comprise a second macrostate, call it B.

We now ask: how much information does knowing the system’s initial state tell you about its final state? If we’re talking about microstates, and we let the system start out in a uniform distribution over microstates 1 through 8, then 7/8 of the time the system goes to state 1. So there’s just not much information about the final state to be predicted—specifically, only 7/8×log2(8/7) + 1/8×log2(8) ≈ 0.54 bits of entropy—which, in this case, is also the mutual information between the initial and final microstates. If, on the other hand, we’re talking about macrostates, and we let the system start in a uniform distribution over macrostates A and B, then A goes to A and B goes to B. So knowing the initial macrostate gives us 1 full bit of information about the final state, which is more than the ~0.54 bits that looking at the microstate gave us! Ergo reductionism is false."

From this I think we all can agree that finding out how a system with A and B as states is much simpler than figuring out the low level 9 state system. But how that somehow disproved "reductionism" is not clear. I'm not sure that this is type of compression is "controversial in the intellectual world" either?

That doesn't mean the study of "Causal emergence" isn't worth studying of course.
See also: https://diffoscope.org
Austin, I've done a first test of a slightly modified CPP version. Thanks very much for this library. It really is so useful.

SMHasher fork testing tifuhash is here: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/smhasher

And I posted the results in the repo: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/tifuhash/blob/master/tifu...
Thanks for encouraging me to use SMHahser.

I posted the SMHasher results here: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/smhasher/blob/master/tifu...

And my SMHasher fork testing tifuhash is here: https://github.com/dosaygo-coder-0/smhasher
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Can you recommend a book or two on emergence? I've seen it mentioned. It intrigues me. But I haven't been able to find anything sold for going deeper. TIA
As long as the people from 3rd world countries can easily relocate to places with better working conditions.
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> If an old 1970s mainframe is spitting out "broken" csv files

...then that mainframe outputs data following a different document format, one that doesn't comply with the language defined by the standard.

If you need to parse a language, you target a language. You can't simply write a document in english and call it mandarin.

> No. For example, if the field has a movie title with embedded quotes[2]

...then you escape the quotes, and proceed to printf each field.

Is it that hard?
Well. Yes. But I didn't say always. Only that it is (often?) very possible to find solutions in a local decentralized sort of way.
No, Google enforces trademarks after a complaint by the owner.

I believe competitors can still bid for that word, but cannot misuse it (ie, make misleading claims, or claim to be that company)

See https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6118
Duh, haven't you read "Automatic Sarcasm Detection: A Survey" by Joshi, Bhattacharyya and Carman?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03426
Dupe. The other one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530797 has some comments already
I'm talking about regulation, not control.

Companies are regulated already to stop monopolies and we're not living in North Korea.
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Well his parents just had an accident, too...
I mean, pretty much all the founding fathers were under 50. Jesus. Buddha. Mohammed when the Bulk of the Quran was written. Alexander the Great. The list of youngins goes on.
I would much rather celebrated people who having choice between gain and morality choose morality. Uber behavior made it harder for less law breaking less immoral to succeed for a time.

"Being ruthless" is not double edged sword - it is simply unethical behavior that gives you advantage. That is all there is to it. More ethical CEOs face challenges too, pretty much the same challenges.
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I would recommend re-recording the video with a better audio setup, including a good mic or try to process the audio somehow. It's a bit difficult to hear.
How is it blocked. Explicit message? Or just won't resolve?
I had a friend in HS do this to me, I always attributed it to his father being pretty high up at a local newspaper ... ( The Netherlands )
IPFS.
Yes, where is the sexist term for people who spread their bags out over every seating surface? Neither are confined to either sex, but both exibited by one more than the other. Why resort to sexually charging an issue as basic as how you sit, and basic manners.
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a Jobs-ian company that makes them feel like they are part of a a group of with real intensity that is changing the world, and Apple surely did.

Yeap, it sure did:

We were reluctant to show it to Steve, knowing that he would want to commandeer it, but he heard about it from someone and demanded to see it. We showed it to him, and, unfortunately, he loved it. But he also insisted that Apple owned all the rights to it, even though we had developed it in our spare time.

Steve couldn't insist that Apple owned all of it, because Bill Budge wasn't an Apple employee at the time. But Steve could claim complete ownership of the interface card, which he said was developed with Apple resources. Burrell and I were pretty upset, because we did it on our own time and thought that we should be compensated, but it's really hard to argue with Steve, especially about money.

Can't you just feel the unity of the group? /s

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Apple_II_Mouse_Ca...
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Actually, the most depressing part of this, is that they do understand. Turnbull is a noted user of Signal, Wickr, and other secure messaging services, and has pushed for other cabinet and parliament members to use them also.

They know what they're doing, and sooner or later they'll go for a "more equal than others" approach to encryption.
For those who wants to read the article you can redirect to full content through fb: https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
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I have been a hoodie and jeans kind of guy for a long time.

But now that I graduated and started working as a developer, I feel that my attire might be getting in the way of being taken seriously.

Do you have advice (or service) that would help me up "my game" without seeming that I try too hard?
>What correction did you make? Is the chart wrong?

The term is "organic matter oxidation/erosion", sorry ive not the time to explain at length what this term means when I already have highlighted its obvious meaning, but that is what you should revise if you wish to understand my correction to this thread. -- It is not a function which we know we have any significant control over.

Also engineering solutions to global environmental disturbance is no simple matter as shaving milliseconds here or there is. Even if the term "oxidation/erosion" meant what you took it to mean, and if we could adjust that global phenomenon as we wish we could, the effect and side effects of the adjustment are liable to further confound the aim to stabilise the system. (The system whose stability we depend on for everything, which can not be simply rolled back or upgraded)

>Maybe you want to mislead everyone like the media does.

Ive been observing media manipulation against knowledge of global warming, (and many other industrial wrongs) since the 1990s. Its an exasperating form of double-duping that after the achievement of the Copenhagen consensus, the oil funded message of denial started convincing people that it was the science which was a product of manipulation. As you are obviously thoughtful, open minded and concientious, i do hope you realise in time the true absurdity of the idea that AGW science is the product of manipulation and the oil industries are the victim of such a "green conspiracy".
Hah, the tidbit about Lamport having a different view from Hoare/Milner about revealing the control state is really spot-on.
Coming from a mostly process-algebra-oriented background (CSP, CCS and the like), TLA+ can sound both familiar and alien.

Thank you for the series!
While yes, he achieved a lot, I cannot agree on praising him.
This reminds me of all the marketing gurus from 5 years ago that were selling rich quick schemes. They sold a product, they got rich, but in the end they were scamming regular people.

While Travis is not scamming anyone, the methods are similar. Get rich by exploiting barely legal methods, unethical ways and ride to the fame using someone else money.
Also, I think their will be time limit. Like you have to sow in a week or you loose the window for the winter corp. And you know everybody will sow in that last weeks. I think there is some game theory around this.
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Hasn't he already put a lot of eggs in that Chinese company?
That would work if you could prevent companies in China and India just making it and selling it. The problem right now is this is what happens to each new "last line of defence" antibiotic - by the time it gets used in the west it has been in high use in other countries and resistance is wide spread.
Arrays aren't equivalent to slices in Go. Map literals are nice for things like the driver pattern (a map of strings to some interface type; the user specifies which driver implementation should be used to handle some input). It's not about the number of lines, it's about having a declarative initialization syntax. In other words, it's about the number of expressions.

This isn't a killer feature, it jjust means Go requires less boilerplate when doing explicit DI, so the ROI offered by a DI framework is low. If you don't agree that initialization in Go requires less boilerplate, maybe you should be asking yourself what you gain from your DI framework?
"[...] in markets which had regulations [...]"

Sounds like some guys during the prohibition if they could have filed for an IPO.
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Part of that choosing company process, if it has to work, is that people criticize and talk openly. Like instead of using euphemisms like "challenging" when what they mean is "easy work but backstabbing culture" or "passionate" when they mean "a lot of signaling required". It may mean that yes, some companies are sexist and others are cringy ridiculous sjws, but now the moment you openly talk about either heaven help you.

Collectively, we don't openly criticize or nor attempt to fairly characterize cultures. We talk in euphemisms, like "alpha" when we mean "overbearing narcissistic jerk" or "laddish" when we mean "lazy jerk". We talk about "meritocracy" when number one advice for job seekers is "networking", whether you appear confident matters more then whether project you are responsible for is mess and who you are friend with matters more then anything in that company.

If people have to have fair chance to choose companies, then it needs to be fine for people who work or worked in those companies criticize without being punished for it. That is not exactly the case now - now you need to have good friends in that company to figure that out.
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People have tried this and it doesn't work. The problem is mobile genetic elements like plasmids and transposons. What happens is the antibiotic resistance genes cluster together and so the selection for one selects for all the others. Even if you go back to an antibiotic that hasn't been used for decades the resistance hangs around. Bacteria really are formable.
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I was rejected for linking to a THIRD PARTY service that happened to have a paid plan too. Didn't get any revenue from that and couldn't very well offer IAPs even if I wanted to... after being in the store for a year, too. The reviewers are grossly incompetent more often than not.
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So your criticism of google search is that they don't go far enough in appropriating website content?
I agree that what Uber have done --and are still doing-- is particularly impressive, and took a particular type of leader and team. There is no current comparison I can think of.

I also agree strongly with another poster that the current vein of media focus on Uber is suspicious. It makes me worry about lazy reporting --any story about Uber gets noticed, no matter how irrelevant-- and also about who is actively funding an anti-Uber PR campaign - big established taxi companies, possibly? As time goes on, the media's approach makes me more and more sympathetic towards Travis and Uber, not less.

However... everyone should have some standards. It should be possible to run a high-achieving company without requiring or tolerating behaviour ranging from sexism to overt harassment. And the recent example of a rape victim's medical records being acquired and shared is particularly egregious - irrespective of their suspicions, that was well beyond a line, and the perpetrator should have been immediately fired.

I'm always a fan of the newspaper test - don't do anything you'd be ashamed of appearing on the front page of a major newspaper. Many of the things that Uber are criticised for, they'd probably be (rightly) proud of being publicised. But not all.
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If you check news regarding Egypt, there have been several news sites and publications not accessible from the country.
You must be reading https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Cha...
Only in the first world clients pay enough for such a team to make a living. Not a case for other countries.
interesting that Refrigerant management tops the list (of solutions to global warming). I recently read about district cooling, where e.g. cold water from rivers is used as an alternative to air conditioning. Seems to be used successfully in my hometown of Munich: https://www.swm.de/english/m-fernwaerme/m-fernkaelte.html
It's not necessarily that Travis acknowledges that he acts immoral. After all, he was always talking about fighting unjust and greedy taxi companies who are robbing their customers. Surely he slipped with the whole UberX and driver's pay going way to low, but that was a necessary measure against Lyft taking up the untapped market. Would be interesting to hear how he feels about that whole thing and whether he regrets doing the thing which he essentially had to do.

In regard to self-driving, Google would have taken the place and drove Uber out of business if Uber didn't start getting on the same train. In that regard, there's not much empathy you can hold for drivers as their profession becomes a thing of the past.
Is Ektachrome especially red-sensitive, or is that what the illumination actually looked like?
The solution is to stop giving one antibiotic at a time. HAART for HIV [1] showed that to prevent resistance you have to give multiple drugs at the same time. The problem of course is each drug you add to the mix the more you increase the risk of bad side effects.

Of course none of this will matter until we can crack down on misuse of new antibiotics in places like India and China. If each new antibiotic developed is stolen and abused then nothing will work.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS
I think you need an additional primer on the topic of: why I should care about "casual emergence". What's the point? How can it be put to use? Started reading your article but couldn't get into it. Is it just a pointless philosophical notion?
So, I thought genetic mutations were random. If that's the case, why does the amount of antibiotics prescribed matter? Won't these mutated bacteria excel regardless?
>> How do we get ourselves out of this?

>> First, the entire world needs to get on board.

Like the entire world got on board with climate change. Yep, we're screwed.
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And it has to be said that while some people want a VPN for "good reasons" a lot of VPN users will be the abusive kind - you'll need to deal with them too. Hard if you don't have logging, but if you keep logs you'll get fewer clients.
> protagonist is taking photos! just for the kicks

Documenting this stuff is important. The photographer didn't decide to have a war, he's just there documenting it. What you take away from the images is your own interpretation, with more concrete data about what went on than you'd get from the accounts of others.

This sort of thing makes for good art as well, because it's a pretty nice looking light show -- juxtaposed with the caveat that it's all for state-sponsored murder. War is one of humanity's darkest moments, but these photos show that there can be beauty even in life-or-death situations.
Who cares if the company it's rotting inside if they keep generating traction and interest? What a shame!
As I will discuss in part 4, the algebraic approach most similar to TLA is Ralph-Johan Back's and Joakim von Wright's refinement calculus/algebra. However, AFAIK, it doesn't (yet?) handle concurrent algorithms, whereas in TLA concurrent and sequential algorithms are formally indistinguishable (they are only distinguishable by how a reader informally interprets the formula; see the mention of "processes are in the eye of the beholder" in the post).
> was a necessary measure

Ah yes, the favorite excuse of scoundrels. It was "necessary".

Of course it was also "necessary" for Uber drivers to feed their kids. But hey, can't worry about that, we gotta disrupt!
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The world has had success with eliminating CFCs from refrigerants, banning leaded gasoline, eradicating iodine deficiency, dramatically increasing crop yields, eradicating polio, scaling up electrification, plumbing, internet access, etc etc. The idea that we can set a goal like this is completely conceivable.

A lot of the low hanging fruit involves banning the use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals, and at least with the largest producers who raise and slaughter the majority of animals I think this could be achieved.
Yes that is what the article is about, but I'm confused about your tone here. Do you have something more to say or do you prefer snark when commenting on things that don't interest you?