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I also started on something like what you described (mobile-first, nicer-designed version of Anki) a few years ago, but catering specifically to Japanese. :) Not yet launched though.

http://beta.manabi.io/
Can't wait for this laptop. I just hope they make enough of them and we don't have a fiasco similar to that of nintendo.
This is abuse of power in these books, sometimes even quite blatant. Player of Games has probably the best example, since it has blackmail and extortion of a Culture citizen by an AI, with the help of a ship's Mind. Not to mention cheating at a board game.

That said, the Culture does seem like it would be a nice place to live, over all.
Who is, or is seeking to be, the canonical source of truth for AI, ML etc policy/position/etc and why should/how do we trust them?

In twenty years, what body will be directing the policies and laws regulations etc WRT to how humanity deals with essentially what is another "sentient" species?

Edit.. just read this and apparently this is exactly what the EFF is attempting to do...

But the question still remains: how do we trust these policies, how do we request/reject them?

I don't want to deal with this the same way the legal system is currently set up, lawyers and the law is flawed in many respects and I don't think it's a good idea to map the old to the new and uncharted directly.

(Apologies for the clunky language/terms.. please educate me on how to speak of this if you know)
+1

I'm curious how different it would taste if the containers weren't sealed during fermentation. It would be informative to see what their gravity readings were to understand how much fermentation took place during the experiment.
> Once there is a UBI, they'll realize that they're also getting paid

As with existing benefit programs, people will also realize that they are paying. And, as with benefit programs now, even people who are likely to benefit far more from the “being paid” part more than they lose to the “paying” part will often be prone to, and be encouraged by slick propaganda from moneyed interests to, identify with and vote for the interests of those who are on the other side of that equation instead of their own.
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I'm a bit too young to have been online before search engines, but I do remember a time before search engines were generally useful.

Portals (Kind of like a human curated search engine), and bookmarking was way more important back then.

I also remember the local Library having (Pulp) books that featured interesting websites to visit.
> I don't think its a foregone conclusion that people vote themselves bread and circuses, which is I think your primary point.

Or just populism in general - and I think "fear" is a stronger voter-pull than "want": fear of Mexican immigrants committing crimes, taking your job, fear of increased healthcare costs, etc.

As the majority of Americans do have health coverage it's a given that 51% of the population want cheaper coverage even if it means the other 49% will lose coverage then that's going to happen.
Shopify as just one example of a platform is still aggressively growing, no? Beyond that I know for sure there are still niches or unique ways to take to make money. I haven't done it personally, but know of a few people.
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Totally agree. Here is an interesting video about automation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OyrsHmjW0
> It is also worth mentioning there has never been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping"

Saying "it's never happened before" doesn't in anyway mitigate the attack vector. For what it's worth, there have been cases of fraud attributed to screen scraping, but they don't tend to get publicized.

It is pretty telling (no pun intended) that nowhere in your blog post does the word "security" appear, and no details about how you're storing credentials when you do need them. Why should I trust you with a credential from another party if you refuse to tell me how you're actually storing it.

> "We are not liable for any loss or damage that may result from your use of our services. This includes any direct, indirect, or consequential losses; any loss or damage caused by tort, including negligence, breach of contract or otherwise. This applies if the loss or damage was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you advised us that it might happen."

I don't know which solicitor gave you those terms, but they will be laughed out of a court in England as unconscionable. You're not liable for any negligence, even if it's foreseeable or someone told you you were being negligent??
Danale is hiring AI/ML expert to change smart homes
We call this guy "lightning rod". Interesting how we've all identified this actor with different but essentially synonymous terms.
We currently use Goose, a python library, it works pretty well.
Here is an interesting video about automation
"No one should have to do work that can be done by a machine, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger" on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OyrsHmjW0

PS: He is Brazilian, and gave lessons about the field of philosophy to Obama on university.
Even tea prep has changed as dramatically over 1200 years in China. As my (Taiwanese) tea dealer reminded me recently, if not for the Japanese adopting Matcha, it would be almost unheard of today, because it's rare to see it in China now.
I agree with this as well. I tried using Duckduckgo around a year and a half ago or two years ago and abandoned it due to poor search results, but I began using it again a couple months ago and it seemed much improved.
Preventing that sort of situation is the point of surge pricing. Even without tips, drivers are supposed to be getting paid more when demand for rides is greater than the supply. Then they don't need to hope that you're a friendly person; they'll know they're getting paid an amount that's worth staying up that late.
On second look, yes that Guardian source is pretty shitty. I couldn't find some authoritative source for the CO^2 emissions required to produce a new car. My point was that you had to consider it.

> cars used for ride services will be replaced
> more often.

It's not meaningful to consider how often they're replaced, but what mileage they tend to get if we're going to look at how the CO^2 cost of producing the car is amortized over its lifetime.

According to EPA statistics a typical car gets used for 100-200K miles[1], for taxis that number seems to be easily 2x or 3x larger[2]. So for the same amount of moving people from A to B taxis are mor CO^2 efficient.

Of course there are all sorts of secondary effects you're not taking into account. Once people don't own a car because they have something like Uber available to them, they're more likely to use a bike or public transport for a trip they'd otherwise take by car. Just compare somewhere like NYC to LA in terms of how much CO^2 a typical person emits while going about their day.

I don't know what the exact numbers are, but this is a lot more complex than what you're making it out to be.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity#Statistics

2. https://www.quora.com/How-many-miles-does-a-NYC-taxi-do-in-i...
I was formerly a UBI proponent but I think, at least, in the near to medium term, it's too much of a cultural shift about the role of work in life. That's why these days I'm more a fan of a negative income tax coupled with a repeal of the minimum wage. Consider if the "tax brackets" were something like:

* 0 - $2k : -1,000%
* $2k - 4k : -500%
* $4k - 6k : -100%
* $6k - $8k : 0%
* $8k - $15k : 5%
* ...
* $10M+ : 40%

(Something like that, exact numbers to be fiddled with.)

What it essentially does is it provides a government money multiplier on low wage jobs. A company could offer $1/hr jobs, which the employee would perceive as $10/hr. That is, $1/hr = $2k/yr = $20k, after taxes. The negative income tax benefit decreases steadily, until eventually you start paying taxes, but there's always an incentive to work more or get a raise.

Just think of it! At $1/hr there would be a gazillion jobs for things like greeters at every store, crosswalk guards, picking up trash at the park. And people would be motivated to work for them because they're actually making $10/hr.

I think this is more politically palatable than UBI as well, too, since it avoids the issue of "moochers who will just sit around and collect their checks". Since with a NIT, if you don't work, you don't get anything.

I do foresee some issues making this actually feasible. For example, it certainly won't work for the employee to just receive $1/hr and then a big payout on tax day. I think we could adjust "withholding" to actually pay out what the employee will receive as part of their tax benefit, but it will be important to get it right or else they could be hit with a bad tax bill.
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Your police car example is pretty ignorant of the negative upstream affects of the police car. You may as well say traffic is no longer in a traffic jamb once you're past the point of the jamb.
From a business perspective? Yes. If you go out of business it's game over, and it's unreasonable to expect them to provide legal advice.

That said, I don't think the business model on display here is tenable at all and I don't think it will be successful. I certainly wouldn't sign on for this, way too risky.
and why not! it's just another thing we think we're uniquely good at :p
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Orders from the top and a lack of activist employees?

It's not inevitable; much depends on employee culture.

On the other hand, look at Uber.
From the article, H1-B costs an estimated $2,500/person, plus flight and lodging. Let's pretend all 6 people Pentagoet wants to hire are staying in the mentioned apartment ($1,200/mo).

Assuming a 40 hour work week, they could increase the hourly wage by $4+/hr. and spend the same amount of money. That's a ~50% increase from minimum wage.

Now I feel for the business in this particular case. They had a process, they followed it, spend their money, and got staff. Now the process has changed, but they've already spent the money. It's a sunk cost. That sucks.
> Are housekeeping and kitchen jobs hard to fill, critical to expanding operations, and worth significant investment?

No. In the Pentagoet's case, this is about being able to find pre-trained workers without paying the market rate. This place has gone out of their way to establish travel and housing, yet completely failed to look in any major urban area for staff. Ask yourself why that is.
so empathetic he didnt want to give Pixar employees even a cent of equity before the IPO.
1. This only happened on GDAX, an exchange owned by Coinbase. This dip didn't occur anywhere else. Coinbase/GDAX has suspended all ETH/USD trading until further notice and are investigating.

2. According to some on Reddit, it crashed to even lower than $13, some reporting even $0.10. Some were even able to purchase for a double digit USD price on Coinbase, not just GDAX.

3. The market sell order appears to have been for $32 MM.
In capitalism, the system trusts that companies that have already acquired some market and cashflow will continue to strive for more market share or expanded markets, or better profitability, even further the system depends upon that desire to advance our society and balance our markets.

When we talk of people, I think that still applies, we should both trust that most people won't just sit back and be satisfied with a static cashflow, and they will strive for something more.
Yes, true - I just wasn't articulating that as clearly as you have.

I was thinking of "we don't want to rely on drag as a function of descent" rather than "drag doesn't matter, because the control system is fully advanced and capable enough to deal with any variance brought on by drag"
> Others are "something better than C++ for most apps you'd write in C++ today".

As big C++ fan and language geek, I am pretty confident that if Java and .NET had taken the route of all other alternatives in the 90's (Oberon, Eiffel, Modula-3, Delphi,...), C and C++ would be less relevant today than they turned out to be.

This because many people make use of them, just because they are the only languages they know about compilers that produce AOT executables, with the option of static linking them.

Maybe even Longhorn would have been a success, instead of having to wait for UWP with .NET Native.
If they need low-wage unskilled laborers, surely there are high school students or college students who would do the work while on summer break. I worked in a kitchen as my first job (age 16) and it was a great experience, even though it was hard work with low pay. Some of the people working there were immigrants (not seasonal though) and it was a great cultural learning experience in that respect too.

Sure there will be increased turnover and more expenses spent on hiring, but that should be accepted as a standard cost of doing business. Also, hiring young people is better for the community. When a young person has their own job they learn responsibility, money management, and are contributing to the economy instead of getting into trouble.

The numbers of young people working part-time or over the summer has dropped significantly in the past 30 years. I wonder if the ease of getting visas for seasonal labor has contributed to that.
In what was does violating the terms of service of the platform mean that the platform gets to keep the money but not return the goods? You don't get to keep someone's money just because you decided so. That's theft.

I'm not a lawyer, but I think there are probably fairly clear laws on exactly what you can and can't do an an intermediary of payment. I doubt "we decided to deliver your goods but keep your money" is one of the things they are allowed to do, at least for longer than a very well defined period of time. I imagine suspected fraud might supersede this to some degree and have its own rules, but that's what I was pointing out, this isn't a case of suspected fraud, it's a TOS violation, and since Etsy has more insight than paypal into the situation as the marketplace and should know this, treating it like fraud when it's not might be something that could land them in trouble(?).
If you think that's complex, read the spec for the TrueType hinting VM sometime.
I will argue that Go is more of a better C than a better C++
Thanks a ton for the feedback - very useful. And thank you for the bug report - I'll check that out (my initial guess is that you don't have the CARD DISPLAY set to play audio on that side right now - which is itself a problem for being confusing).

Re: monetization. It's freemium right now - 100 cards to try out the app, then three bucks per month for access to all the decks we've made. Completely free to create your own content.

I'll look into Forvo integration - that sounds useful.
Like Uber?
easy:
- get students to drop out of b-school
- encourage them to learn about deep tech field (cs, bio, etc.)
- help them raise $$ for said endeavor

more seriously, I have had numerous people from the b-school world (now VCs) tell me this, more or less. they want people w/ technical know-how, not b-school skills.
Got a link to the one about German laws? Sounds entertaining ;)
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I think a certain amount of anger is justified in that situation.

If somebody's spent the time, money, and effort to create stuff and then put it on Etsy, it's pretty shitty to shut them down arbitrarily.

If they treat people like crap, they're going to get a lot of rude and angry support calls...
Looking at the broader scope of things, it seems to be that the idea of Americans filling low paying jobs directly competes with the relatively small pay these foreign workers are getting.

The question is, are these businesses being artificially propped up by foreign low paid workers, or is it a symptom of jobs paying too low for any American to actual work?
> > a) Address latency issues with writers distributed across the globe

> How? Surely to provide ACID compliance all writers need to co-ordinate a lock if they want to update a record.

Well, there's different systems out there. What you want for something like this is asynchronous multi-master. Which, as you observe, allows for conflicts to occur, which need to be resolved somehow.

> Same with incrementing IDs etc.

The solution for those is usually to have each node assign sequences with different start values, have a system that distributes "chunks" of values (that was what BDR, an async MM version of postgres used to do), or avoiding sequences in favor of UUIDs or similar.
Honor Harrington is honestly one of the most formalic books I've ever read though, and the author seems to have made it into his personal political screed after book 6.

The praxis books are far better, only problem is that there are only 3
Oh my, I have thought about this a lot, and I firmly believe that there is. Sorry for the ensuing wall of text!

Right now I pay for several online services, a gym membership, insurance, a student loan, a mortgage, and an auto loan. Every one of these companies has authorization to pull money from my account each month. They all pay their payment processor a significant sum of money in exchange for the processor running the payments and shouldering the risk of the bank not honoring them.

With an API, I could stop relying on this "pull" model and start using a "push" model instead. Companies get my money only when I explicitly send it to them. I could schedule a payment to go out every month for services I want instead of allowing arbitrary vendors to charge my card (banks do have a partial stab at this in the form of bill-pay, but it tends to be pretty bad).

Presumably since the risk of fraud is lower since I authorized the payment with my RSA key, merchants could pay lower fees to their payment processors.

Now, I'm a little atypical, because I know how to program so I could use the API without help. But I know many people who would certainly take advantages of services built on top of an API like this.

Think of all the people in your life who have accidentally continued paying for something they no longer wanted due to the vendor "mistakenly" continuing to charge their card. Or scummy negative-option marketing companies which loudly tout a free product or service and then continue to charge your card thanks to some tiny section in their terms of service.

The possibilities get better too. You could have budgeting apps that don't let you spend more than $X per month for video games, but still allow you to buy groceries. You could give your children an authorized card with a per-month maximum but still allow them to pay for an Uber home if it's after 9 pm.

I really think this sort of thing would be a massive boon to people and society, and it's unfortunate that banks (in America) are fighting so hard to prevent it.
Can you explain how you get to that conclusion? WeChat seems to be an integral part of Chinese society. If WeChat keeps ignoring Apple, what can Apple do? Pull the app from the App Store and risk people migrating to other phones that have WeChat? I bet that Apple will not take 30% of tips going through WeChat.
Wall street?
"You are right!" + no upvote = bad
What do you mean English being the lingua franca is not a good thing? Do you mean it's bad, or it just is what it is? I think there's benefit to having a universal language, but it doesn't have to be English...
> 1)

Well I know the guy that wrote it - he's one of the smartest and most talented people I know and he's not bullshitting. But by all means, try to break it!
Not in California, fwiw. (Mention only because many people here are in CA, although I know the op is in MA).
>The people that want to learn will be incredibly leveraged and provide a ton of value to society. Those who don't want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence. A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrophic healthcare, reasonable water access, and unlimited data.

Great, so will that come before or after Donald Trump implements socialized medicine and free education? You're definitely going to get your automation, but the profits from that automation are going to accrue in the hands of a very, very small elite minority.
Horizon problem
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Imagine going down a Wikipedia hole where you're just clicking through a random path of links..

I kind of recall the mid 90s like that - while there were search engines, like lycos, AV etc.. for those who were early teens and not in a university exposure to word of mouth of what to check out could be more limited...

But curiosity always finds a way.
> Once you file suit - small claims or not - discussion time is over.

Not true in America at least. Parties can agree to settle at pretty much anytime. Most civil filings don't even make it to trial, and even those that do often end up in settlement.
Last time I checked, I thought their offering was more insulting than lucrative for the work required.
I used to work at Etsy. We buried our heads in the sand and tried to tell ourselves anything to believe that fake shit from China wasn't a real problem. We looked at numbers, we looked at trends and graphs, and we kept telling ourselves the same story: our sellers are delusional - we have the numbers and fake things from China aren't a big deal.

We never shared these numbers with people, and we just took a kind of dismissive attitude to people's (very) legitimate concerns. The people that carried Etsy forward on their backs.
Nice use of a shared Jupyter Notebook for data gathering. https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics
I just thought they should be called Sierpinskites.
They are severely understaffed. I am the most (only, really) senior developer on the team, and they have hard deadlines approaching. Even if they hired a rock star today, it would still take several months to get to know all the ins and outs. This is a complex business-system.
What percentage of companies in SV pay their customer support staff a 'livable wage' for the bay area? If I recall correctly, this community wasn't kind to the Yelp letter girl.
I doubt the guy was trying to pull something over on you. I don't drive for Lyft but I feel like it's one of those small easily missed details that's very important to a small subsection of your customers and no one else cares.

Having used Lyft countless times over the last few years I know I have personally never checked the checked that the plate matched.
I'll tell you something I've always wanted. I want a giant lever that's attached to a "The Price Is Right"-style fixture with tons of tiny lightbulbs. When I pull the lever, the light bulbs start turning on from the bottom to the top. What's happening during this time is my unit tests are running, then it's connecting to the server(s) to begin deployment. Once the deployment begins, the top section starts flashing, and when deployment is complete, the top of the fixture starts flashing "YOU WIN!!" or something, similar to a carnival game.

Basically, I want deploying to be super boring under the hood, but SUPER AWESOME in the office.

Another idea I had was one of those TNT detonator devices, with the handle that you press downward, and it lights up a bunch of lights and then has a little LED animated explosion on the wall. Or the giant hammer thing where you slam a hammer into a thingy on the ground, and the weight goes flying up, and it has to hit the top in order for the deployment to begin.

Ya know what, let's just take all carnie games and turn them into deployment mechanisms. HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE??

Awesome.

...Someday...
Yet somehow the mining industry doesn't seem to have problems paying highly trained people to sit underground for 10+ hours a day sitting around explosives and heavy machinery.

Perhaps you should look up Woofing.