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Globalization is just a new name for a very old process. It started long before Vasco da Gama started European Imperialism in 1497. It had some very bad moments before (e.g.: Great Depression) but it never stopped and will not stop.

What drives globalization isn't the WTO, the Davos elites or evil capitalists. It is technology: steam ships, refrigeration, containers in ports, telecommunications, etc.

Other technologies will come and will accelerate this process. We will surely go beyond "global supply chains", regardless of what orange demagogues think of it.
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You've obviously looked at the comment history, did you find those dead comments insightful or adding positively to the conversation? Or did you, like myself, find them barely worthy of the electron flow necessary to display them on your screen?
> Haskell wants to position itself

Haskell isn't really a thing that could "want" to "position itself".
It's not the parallel type of multiprocessing which Erlang is good for, it's the concurrent type. The platform is largely based around message passing.
> I am unsure why anyone would use Erlang for number crunching.

Good point, I wouldn't use it in production. But I think it can be a great educational tool to learn about implementation of NNs and overall topology.
The trick was to add a little circuit to the player which would keep the signal as clean as possible while reinforcing it. I did a similar thing many moons ago by putting an old TTL chip into the C64 Datassette then wire its gates as buffers. The input was connected to a point where I identified the played cassette signal was present and the output after some light filtering went to a RCA plug to which I would connect my Aiwa deck in record mode. Any copy made that way would work much better than the originals: no more failed loads after 25 minutes waits and no more azimuth twiddling to find the sweet spot.
> Sama, when asked about what would surprise people about YC, answered that people would be surprised at how much software there was. If the updates to the project tracking system only take up about 5 minutes a week, is there any other YC software that founders encounter or can make use of at YC?

There's an internal forum, internal investor database with founder grading and info-passing, I've heard they use a lot of AI on the back end to help them, there's scheduling software, etc. But that's all I'm aware of. I can't say I was particularly surprised at how much software there was.
Do free work if you want to be employed!

No thanks. Will my employer give money away to poor people just to show what good people they are?!

STOP MAKING WORK ABOUT MORE THAN A BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
The High Five: The Seven Kingdoms at War and Floridians Band Together
IIRC the segment was followed by a self-driving car piece at Carnegie Mellon. If thats true then it was a clearly a general A.I. / M.L. piece. I've seen this episode twice and its also possible that a month ago it was re-aired alongside other content.
The box set for David Bowie's Sound + Vision album included a fourth CD that included an extra video track in addition to three regular CD audio tracks.
OK and where are those?
Both of them have worked together a ton and been in the same circles. Of course they are going to work on similar problem spaces.
I doubt there has been any time within the lifetime of anyone on hacker news where people have not worried about jobs being taken by robots. (And sometimes by other people).

I don't think the "theory" of globalization has an impact on that.

There is an economic theory -- acknowledged in the article -- that people, given education, will find the jobs that are created.

Is there any reason to believe this economic theory does not hold?

This article seems to claim that politically, the idea has lost currency but the real question is: what is the reality? Can we educate people into jobs or not?
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This seems like another PR hype :-)
Although, part of the program is an intro to python development (which you can easily skip) https://www.dataquest.io/ is a set of guided lessons that teach you data analysis/science/engineering .
"So we invite the candidate over for dinner."

If you are still working around dinner time, I already failed your cultural fit.
This is slightly off topic but because of this story I went looking for my FCC comments [1] and decided to search for all recent (last week) comments from my small-population, somewhat-limited-ethnicity zip code, and discovered hundreds of anti-neutrality comments with very unlikely surnames. Every one of the ten I sampled failed a zabasearch.com search and looking in the property appraiser's website different owners are listed for the addresses given. Apparently fake comments continue to be common e.g. [2].
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[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2017/05/26/victims-...
I don't anticipate ever using AWT or Swing again. JavaFX would get me interested but I don't see it mentioned. How feasible would that be?
Actually the west disproportionately benefits from globalization, but only the capital class. Anyone who doesn't own stock in a global company gets left behind -- and something like 75% of Americans own no stocks at all.
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"Magic Beans" is accurate. Not sure if you've seen an IBM presentation covering Watson at an investor conference, but it's pretty much entirely hand waving and hocus pocus.
> What it boils down to is, people use "western civilization" as a cover for "white people just like me". But there's no non-racist way to equate that with "civilization".

Do you recognize that your argument can be applied to literally any culture that wants to ethnically preserve itself (just replace "white" with "Japanese" or "Chinese" or "Nigerian" or whatever)? You are arguing that any civilization that wants to preserve its ethnic character is fundamentally illegitimate, which is ironic because that view is at root a direct outgrowth of the European universalist enlightenment tradition. You think you are better than other cultures, and you are using that to self-righteously argue for their destruction.

My argument is contingent on the idea that behavior/personality is somewhat heritable, and that culture and ethnicity co-evolve to a certain extent - statistically, people are more likely to be better suited to their own culture. Finns are better at being Finns than they are at being Italians, and vice versa.
haha, same here, although I send enough requests that it might just slip through unnoticed :D
If you play World of Warcraft for 20 years, it's easily worth $3600, especially paid out in monthly installments.
I doubt it. If anything, they probably just have common origins.

Apply originates from functional languages which did exist at the time, but were not really used outside of research.

Occam's Razor tells me that it most likely came out from "how you use the computer" and then it evolved to refer to the program itself.
I'm surprised this works well. If the method is a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network architecture, you generally would need more than 10 images -- even with transfer learning -- for passable accuracy. Algorithms for medical diagnosis, for example, generally require between 100 and 200 images to do well. Though those are generally transfer learned from ImageNet CNNs. So I'm curious as to which dataset this face recognition uses for weight initialization, or it uses another ML method entirely.
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I don't think so. From my experience, automation (and parallel to it, UBI) as a discussion topic was steadily growing for last 3 - 4 years. Even "Humans Need Not Apply", which wasn't the first well-known piece on that topic, is from 2014.

OTOH I did notice this weird tendency of blaming Trump for everything. I'm waiting for someone to connect the growth of JavaScript and web bloat with the current US President.
In your scenario, I would absolutely assume that they hated my race, and that they had merely hidden it. Overt racism is not tolerated in a lot of places, so racists usually learn to hide it. Sometimes it comes out under stress.

Non-racists don't suddenly start making racial comments they don't believe just because they're in a nasty fight.

Racial discrimination doesn't have to be absolute. Saying it can't be discrimination because she didn't reject this guest up-front is nonsensical. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Facebook tests a GIF maker on iOS
All software is know an an "app" now?
This sounds just like any vendor for Amazon, WalMart, IKEA, etc.

When you are locked in a cage with 1 angry 9000 pound gorilla and 9000 angry 1 pound rats, you don't focus on any one rat. You choose to either focus on the gorilla or the group of rats.

You should probably be thankful that Amazon is using the USPS. I've seen lots of Lyft drivers in my neighborhood making Amazon package last mile deliveries all week -- even on Sunday and in the evenings.

I can't imagine the USPS with pensions and their antiquated policies (especially with Congress preventing them from innovating and forcing them to fully fund their previously underfunded pension program) can match Lyft contractors who require no capital investment and no large contracts.

I think the USPS still sees the writing on the wall. Snail mail is increasingly becoming less relevant for paperwork. My USPS SNR is very low these days -- just a few bills that I can't turn electronic, yet. If not for Netflix, I wouldn't check my mail box but once a month.

If I were you, I would find ways to make Amazon's investments in your organization pay dividends to Land's End and the other USPS customers. Without some distinguishing features that beat email + FedEx/UPS/DHL + Lyft/Uber, the USPS will continue to atrophy. Make sure you and your fellow USPS workers encourage a virtuous circle and don't allow it to fall into a downward spiral.
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> Suh was a spoiled entitled brat who exploited this situation

I really don't see how you conclude that. Barker approve the deal then reneged with racist language. What makes Suh entitled or spoiled? If Barker didn't like the deal she had plenty of time to cancel or just say no upfront.
Presumably, time complexity for most operations correspond directly with CPU usage.

See here for an example with RPUSH: https://redis.io/commands/rpush

RPUSH is O(1) which the best you can possibly get.

ZADD on the other hand is O(log(n)), which is quite good but at a large scale it becomes easier to run into performance limitations, especially on high workloads. Performing O(n) operations on large data sets is out of the question unless you're comfortable with Redis being unavailable for multiple seconds/minutes.

That said, you will have to limit yourself to operations that are computationally simple (ie: O(1) or O(log(log(n))) or pre-shard across multiple instances (or run a Redis cluster).
It's nice to see attention like this on solid business growth (which is how 99% of the companies on the planet actually do it).

VC is great for certain scenarios but it's easy to forget that anyone can spend money and do the financial engineering dance - it's the opposite examples of self-started slow grind that shows the true successes.
It's actually worse than you think. If you look at what is inside those Juicero packets, it's basically just "chewed" up fruit pulp. That's why you can squeeze it with your hands so effectively. If it was actually a masticating machine, it might be useful. But this is literally a $700 device, that squeezes juice out of a bag.
I've often thought about this problem space. Imagine you have a database with all the bells and whistles you suggest. At first, it's great. But at some point, when you start experiencing growth (compute/storage) pressure (many petabytes) all of this metadata adds up.

Does it remain cost effective at scale?

All the source code in the world is a drop in the bucket compared to the raw data collected by a large business.
I did find it odd we have an entire article on wages and no mention of immigration. People, particularly on the low end, are not going to get raises if you import new workers faster than the economy can absorb them.
> We have it pounded into our heads that we need globalization in the form of open markets with no protectionism for US companies and immigration

That's because we went through a neoliberal shift after ww2. Prior to ww2, we were leaders of protectionism.

"According to Paul Bairoch, since the end of the 18th century, the United States has been "the homeland and bastion of modern protectionism". In fact, the United States never adhered to free trade until 1945."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...

We needed protectionism in order to protect our much younger companies/industries so that they can develop and grow and compete against more established british/european companies.

> yet china almost completely locks out foreign businesses and takes next to no immigrants and is obviously a quickly growing global superpower.

They need protectionism in order for their own companies or industries to develop. Otherwise, western corporations would just flood in and own the chinese market.

The problem is when chinese industries mature and their own markets get saturated, they are going to be in the same situation as the US/West. They are going to want to open up markets a round the world to sell their goods to and invest their excess capital.
You think the nutritional content of kale or beets increases when you juice them? Source?
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It's also equal to 3 seconds within an error of 5.2%, which is also more than good enough for casual uses.

But when you're having fun with pi, you generally measure similarity in terms of being accurate to some number of decimal places, and this statistic is accurate to an unimpressive one place (3.1).
Treating this as supplemental media thread, the full http://eastgrip.org/uk_diaries_2016/ and http://eastgrip.org/uk_diaries_2017/ field diaries are also online.

The author tweeted https://twitter.com/elikint/status/885562039720189953 their video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZifcrPajE of the story (5:30).
Right, and there's no universal set of laws -- so if one country bans, taxes or otherwise heavily regulates automation, a country with more favorable economics for it (say, high nationalism, stagflation and a declining birth rate -- aka Japan now or the US in 30 years) would have an independent incentive to deregulate automation to remain globally competitive.
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The host outright said it was related to Trump. I see no reason not to believe her.
Redis is of the the very few applications , that I install manually almost every time.

trick is to use the utils/install_server.sh
> do they really expect people to spend multiple working days on a job interview?

if you read the article they say their previous interviewing practice was homework that took about a week to do (described as "high effort") so it does seem they are looking for substantial contributions.

From the perspective of spending a week on an ad-hoc coding effort vs a week on an open source contribution I can definitely see the value, especially considering that it seems it's up to you what you do (you are submitting your "this is what I did" together with your application and not "I want to apply"/"fix these github issues") which also means you can decide the effort level and most important when you spend it.

Reading the article it seems nothing prevents you from working on this for 3-4 weekends and then applying, which seems completely reasonable and honestly not a bad way to go at it. It really seems a win-win-win: for the company, they get to evaluate you as a candidate, for you, you have a meaningful contribution for your resume even if the application doesn't work, and for the open source ecosystem as a whole, which gets some bugs fixed or features added

I mean, these days to interview you'd still spend several weekends refreshing algorithms and practicing so as long as this is the whole of the technical interview and not just the initial part plus a day of whiteboard algorithm quizzes it'd be a nice alternative.

I am less sure about the "cooking together" part of the hiring process, but if that's the culture they want to foster I guess that's their prerogative, on the other hand I do believe this should be stated up front and not be a surprise, given how not everybody would be willing or able to partecipate due to dietary restrictions and preferences.
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It tags numbers, yes, but actually it doesn't tag ints in particular - there is no integer type in javascript, just a 64-bit floating point one. (This is why asm.js code sticks |0 after every arithmetic operation involving integers: that forces rounding the number as if it were an integer, and therefore allows optimizing the expression to use integer instead of floating-point arithmetic.)

If Dart wants to distinguish ints and doubles, it needs to keep track of that on its own; if it has a JavaScript variable x and needs to know calculates x/2, it won't know whether to round it as if it were integer arithmetic, or return a floating-point value. Usually it is enough to do this at compile time (the function calculating x/2 knows whether it's halving a Dart-level double or a Dart-level int), and so there's no need to make x an object that remembers its own Dart type.

Also, even if JavaScript distinguished ints and doubles, a higher-level language is likely to want to have multiple kinds of things with an int representation: bools, enums, bitfields, Unicode scalar values, etc. Again, ideally that information is tracked at compile time and the knowledge of what to do with an int representation is inserted into the compiled code, and so no metadata needs to be stored at runtime.
Alibaba started as a business-to-business service. China needed that - it enabled dealing with remote companies, which wasn't a big part of business culture. The reputation and verification service made that feasible. Alibaba has "Onsite check", where someone from Alibaba goes to the site and looks at the factory, and checks records to see who really owns the factory. Like Dun and Bradstreet, but integrated with ads and shopping.

WeChat is a comprehensive mobile-first service. China needed that because it's a mobile-first country.
So? Forex is gambling.
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I'm fine with discrimination when it's non-business guests. But once you invite people into your home for business purposes, why shouldn't the same protections apply as they would for any other business? If you feel a need to discriminate in your home, don't use your home for business.
>> So should we go back to white only hotels?

Where people want to have a white only hotel today, they can still effectively have one. They just have to be slightly more careful.

>> Black folks should have to stay where they can find black hotels or black airbnb hosts?

Not what I said at all. I don't think blacks should have any restrictions on where they travel on the basis of their race. But if I was black and I checked into a B&B and got the distinct albeit subtle impression that the person was a racist and only accomodated me because it was too late for them to back out with legal ramifications, would I feel comfortable spending the night and eating the breakfast they prepared for me? Not remotely.

I wouldn't vote yes on a ballot measure to repeal all laws against discrimination, but I'm also not entirely convinced that they have much to do with actually causing the progress that's been made for minorities.
> Excuse my French, but bullshit.

It isn't bullshit. It is truth.

> In Thailand, they opened up markets to car manufacturers and suppliers, with the result that Thailand is now one of Asia's largest car manufacturing hubs.

But thai car companies aren't building the cars. They are just building cars for foreigners.

> In Malaysia, they imposed protectionist barriers and tried to build their own cars. Ever heard of Proton or Perodua? No? There's a reason you haven't -- they're terrible.

Can you name a thai car company?

"According to Paul Bairoch, since the end of the 18th century, the United States has been "the homeland and bastion of modern protectionism". In fact, the United States never adhered to free trade until 1945. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...

The US was protectionist. Korea, Japan are protectionist. Russia is protectionist. And even much of europe is/was protectionist.

You need protectionism to develop your own companies/industries. Otherwise, you become just a supplier for a company.

The difference between thailand and malaysia is that malaysia want their own "Ford/Toyota/etc". Thailand just wants to be a low-end supplier on the bottom of the supply chain.
I don't understand that philosophy. Isn't the ideal that the default is something sensible and you only change it if you want different behavior?
Well before deep learning you could get good performance on people in your training set. Source worked as research scientist for a face recognition company since 2003.
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Figure what out, exactly?

AI isn't just some magic that "figures out" anything and everything.
Economically you can convert between a fixed price and a subscription price. A subscription has a fixed economic value governed by the interest rate. That is if you have a thing that generates $10 every year, you should be able to sell it for $200 (if the interest rate is 5%.)

I think this is something people don't often think about. But it makes it very easy to compare different costs and benefits that involve time. E.g. imagine a building is costing $1000 a year to maintain, and a new building would cost $50,000 to build. You can figure that it would be easier just to invest $20,000 and use the interest to pay for the maintenance. And save $30,000.

But if building a new building cost only $10,000. It would be a good investment. And you would expect to save more money than you would gain from anything else you could invest in with that money.

The same logic applies to subscription fees. If a software license costs either $120 a year, or a fixed price of $5,000. You should prefer the subscription. Hypothetically you could just invest $2400 and use the interest to pay the subscription. Saving $2,600.
IMO Trump was the canary in the coal mine that the world had changed, just like 9/11 was in its time: both are highly visible, symbolic milestones that are loosely associated with the broader cultural changes that had been happening for a while, but are associated with that event nonetheless.
Don't leave out "I will not allow this country to be told what to do by foreigners."

I'm sure someone will try to argue that "foreigners" isn't racist because race and country of origin are different, but the intent is obvious enough.