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Golden ratio strikes again!

Historians in a millennia will probably look back at us as heathens for deviating from using the perfect rectangle to construct our screens.
Don’t get me wrong this is pretty cool, but one thing that makes me a bit annoyed is the way the author frame the video. With the current version of ARkit and most AR libraries these days, there’s no occlusion of the virtual geometry, meaning that you can actually see the blue line and arrows overlay the real world at all time (So some far away virtual arrow will be on top of a real wall right in front of you). That’s a bit less sexy and it’s clearly hidden here. It’s also possible that some directions look confusing with the lack of occlusion and too numerous virtual objects on the screen.

I’m looking forward to when AR libraries use their point cloud technology to also do object reconstruction and virtual occluders using real world objects!
It can't rely on data. The data is collected in a context of a policy arrangement and is therefore tainted by that policy.

Economists think they can look beyond that and divine the deep truths. But they can't. They are looking for the philosophers stone.

If you collect data about a man in a straitjacket you can only predict the movements of a man in a straitjacket. You can say nothing about what would happen if you took the straitjacket off.

The purpose of economics is to embed the beliefs of those funding economists. Particularly the idea that there is no alternative - because data.
So could my phone interview with Amazon have taken place while my interviewer was on the toilet?
Are the new TLDs really black holes for SEO?
So I have read this article by Google http://searchengineland.com/google-explains-how-they-handle-the-new-top-level-domains-tlds-225671 which states "There are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally."

But reading on previous hacker news comments like this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684696 the top comment suggests the they are SEO black holes.

So which is it? I would love some data comparing the 2.
That sounds interesting. What happened when you return to a suspended tab?
Not sure about Loopt, but Yelp did it in 2009.
I understand all very well that and I even believe that what you say is (simplified and idealized [see below] but) true. I'm not arguing on facts (not now), I'm arguing on political opinion about what is best for society: I prefer people cooperating together (e.g., to build a decent social security system) than competing against each other (like in your examples).

> It would be dishonest to claim that the effect I wrote in italics does not exist.

We totally agree on that, except this is one of the reason why I'm in favor of public salaries :).

A question that might be worth asking is: why do one would need so much more money than others have?

If it is because life is expensive and you need this much money to live decently, eat sane food, have your kids educated, pay for your own health care, and put money aside for your retirement, then what do we do as a society for those who can't have this much money? Alice may be twice as productive as Bob, Fob, and Gob, but are her life and the lives of her children twice as important that those of the Xobs and their children? I think this is actually the point of disagreement in our discussion.

In practice, if people cooperate, they can collectively (I'm talking nation-wide, not company by company) obtain good social security, free education, good and affordable health care, good retirement plan, good public infrastructures, etc. All this would be paid for by social contributions, which could lower people's direct salaries, but those social contributions are nothing else but indirect (and collectivized) salaries.

In such a society, what is the point for Alice to be paid twice as much as the Xobs?

Now from the discussion I know that the counter argument to my point would be that if Alice is not paid twice as much then why should she bother being twice as productive? My answer is: good for her! If she really likes her job then she doesn't need money as an incentive to do it as working is what makes her happy. If she doesn't like her job, then she's better of working less. And an additional Xobs can find a job doing what Alice isn't doing anymore because she neither needs nor wants to.

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[] Now I'm getting back at why your example is idealized: secret salaries and the necessity to individually negotiate for your salary is known to have undesirable effects, such as women being paid less. Studies show that in our cultures and societies women are undervalued and have a tendency to underestimate themselves, while men have the opposite tendency. So in practice it may not be Alice who is paid more than the Xobs, even thought she's twice as productive.
I get paid over $95 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfJ3KWPnqqs
>Also more related to your comment the "don't watch ISIS videos it gives them power." I think it's misguided. Just out of curiousity I tracked down a couple of them online and it was very thought provoking. It did not make me fear ISIS more, but it did help me understand the situation more. Just not convinced intelligent people should avoid uncensored information collection

I think there has to be a better way to educate oneself/understand the situation than to watch terrorist propaganda. ISIS does not create videos 'to help people understand the situation more' but to radicalize suspectible people into becoming terrorists
Couldn't agree more.

Same with airline security theater, identifying citizens using biometric markers (Aadhar card in India), pernicious internet monitoring in the UK...the list goes on. I guess the idea is to use the dragnet to catch or deter a majority of the population from thought crimes and preserve resources for the real big fish.
"A lot of textbook management techniques..."

Can you unpack this? Would like to hear more.
No one cares about China or the people of Xinjiang. China probably cares more about them than anyone else.

Human rights is just an opportunity for many to grandstand and make smug declarations while making the flimsiest of excuses with a straight face and hand waving away their own government's actions. Unfortunately so much water has flown under the bridge this is just not credible.

What happened to the concern for all the refugees from Syria now, everyone is fighting to keep them away yet are happy to make sanctimonious statements feigning concern to justify destructive action that decimates entire countries and destroys millions of lives driven entirely by political and economic agendas. This kind of odious hypocrisy is just not tenable anymore.
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Maybe, but I hope there are better arguments for the current system than "it works better than the Soviet Union". All you have done here is establish that an extremely dysfunctional economy can either waste or fail to use its resources, which would mean that America and Western Europe are not completely dysfunctional. This is a pretty low bar.

And as you said, we're talking short term here. Very short term. On slightly longer terms, it really doesn't look so good. Indeed, it takes an absurd level of denial / techno-optimism / magical thinking (whichever you prefer) to look at paleoclimatology and current climate indicators and think it can go on for much longer without global catastrophy.

At the end, if the best we can say of globalization is "For around 40+ years it was great fun for a lot of people. Well, for the most privileged countries anyway. And then it collapsed, and took a great chunk of the biosphere and the human population with it"... I don't see much to celebrate.
What's the difference? If both systems can be modelled in a similar way, how does that not make them similar?

I don't think anyone is trying to make an argument that they are the same 'thing' ("hey, maybe the observable Universe is a 'thought' inside a cosmic brain!"), just that there are striking similarities in structure - which can only easily be seen by a comparison of models.
E basta co sta storia del canone!

È una tassa, pagatela e smettetela di lamentarvi.
After nytimes articles, Amazon seriously has started improving its culture. Managers though still have same mindset of treating employees as replaceable resources. This is one instance after the article came out. My pregnant friend one day sent an email that she would be WFH as she isn't feeling well. Manager replied back that this is not acceptable and you should give a week of notice for your plans.

This might be okay in other fields, but in tech WFH is considered a perk and companies don't care as long as you do your work.
I believe you've got it the wrong way round. The point of Bell tests is to confirm that Bell inequalities are violated. If anything I think the title is underselling it. I would replace "quantum world" with "nature".
http://www.scaleapi.com/ - It's backed by MT, but will get the job done if you only care about getting labeled data and not the 'wow' factor of an AI doing all the intermediate work.
Already torn out because his steps were not even close to being to code and were dangerous. No footings, wood right on dirt. No landings, trip hazards, poor railing.

There's a reason that the steps cost $10,000 (the real cost to the city) to install. They need to be durable, safe and installed properly.
My co-founder became my wife. It was the best move ever both personally and for the company. Just do it!
Really? You don't get? It's really not that hard. I'll help you.

See people having fun -> realize you're not having fun right now or feel excluded -> feel bad

You can stop feeling so sanctimonious now.
Animals that die within 5 years probably don't have enough time to succumb to the effects of radiation. That's just a guess though.
I believe, the Immigration program intends to make up for the lower TFR in US, so that there is a consistent rate of increase in the population.

Until now, immigrants who were not highly skilled (with graduate degrees) were needed to fill the space, but increasing levels of automation and AI, its dangerous for US to not tweak its immigration program to factor this in. If immigrants coming to US have no job prospects, it can only lead to more abuse of immigrants and / or rise in crime.

Immigration need not be prioritized based on the "hot job market", but needs to be prioritized based on those who can remain employed with increasing levels of automation and AI.
Why would you draw such a concrete conclusion?

What about the animals you possibly didn't see and how many animals reach fertility in 2-3 years?
This is why I usually carry a toilet roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTIet1jcYM4
This is the principle behind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype machines.
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Economists started using mathematics purely out of Physics Envy. I am obviously not talking about financial products which require some statistics and complex probabilistic models due to the way they're structured.

All the great economists of the liberal tradition up to and including Von Mises wrote monumental works without the need for equations. It was Keynes who first used mathematics both as a quest for respectability (Physics Envy) and as a way to convince credulous politicians like FDR that this stuff is complex and best left at "experts". The disastrous results are still with us today. And no, Keynesian politics did not end the Great Depression, they actually prolonged the misery and it took WWII and the destruction of all global competition to end it.

Not to mention that what passes as "mathematics" among the economists is laughable among mathematicians. Latin was employed towards similar ends by the Roman Catholic Church (although a plausible defense could be mounted that a standard language better preseved the Doctrine against heresy). Ditto for the complex models sometimes employed by astrologists.

A con game, 'nuff said.
I'd like to use it, but they turn custom operators such as "|>|" into an illegible jumble of characters (in this case, "▷|"). If I'd wanted my operator to be "▷|", I'd have defined it that way.

Now, if they can come up with a way to selectively turn the ligatures off and on, I'll give it another go. Until then, I'm perfectly happy to see the occasional "<=" or something.

Also, that "www" ligature is the stuff of nightmares. Never, ever, with I use that on my computer.
It is not about how much you are earning, but how much taxes you are paying.
I downloaded it and decompiled it here, if anyone wants to take a look: https://mirrors.asun.co/chinese-spyware/
Simply put, the gains Asia made in becoming the microchip and refrigerator manufacturing SOLE SOURCE for the world will not be replicated in Africa and South America.

"Relevance" wasn't the metric. The metric was you very directly seeing numbers at hand and then using the math tool you had and coming to a broad, simplistic and wrong answer about whether "liberalization" is the way forward in 2017.

Many many mainstream economists are increasingly disagreeing with your simplistic and ideological model.
One good norovirus outbreak would soon stop that behaviour.
If you're interested in histograms, I highly recommend "Expressing complex data aggregations with Histogrammar" by Jim Pivarski, where he talks about how for decades histograms have been used in unique ways to do amazing things in high energy physics (HEP, arguably the original Big Data field in compsci):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB4Chl0ly-g

One thing early on is that HEP histograms treats histograms as a kind of accumulator that can stream in data (because the amount of data processed was typically too big to load into RAM all at once), instead of a chart. From that starting point you can add, divide, multiply histograms with histograms to build crazy things.

The results are no longer really histograms of course, but it's fun to see how something that we just think of as a chart can be (ab)used like that.
4k / 28" is 157 PPI, which is only indistinguishable at around 2 feet view distance on average. Better eyesight puts that distance further back.

8k at 28" is "retina" at just under a foot.

So depending on how far you sit from your screen PPI can matter more or less to you, but when we finally get 8k panels we should also finally be getting people in retina range most of the time.

8k / 120+hz is the holy grail for me.
2 more relevant refigures:

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/016c28958aab.j...

http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/poster_...
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Alternatively, the animals aren't radiation hardened and do die of cancer, but not fast enough to get in the way of breeding and multiplying. Or, in other words, while radioactive waste is unhealthy, it fatality rate is lower than having humans around.
For what it's worth, I was there for nearly 3 years (including when this article was written) and never saw that kind of bathroom behaviour. People seemed to follow the general unwritten rules. Conversations were rare, and where they did happen, the usual idle chatter that happens anywhere, while at the sink or waiting for a toilet to be available.

I was there during one of the peaks in staff/toilet ratios. After getting rid of all of the 2 - 3 person offices and replacing it all with open plan office, and then packing us in even tighter (What they referred to as "high density" seating arrangements), actually getting to use a toilet was an extremely frustrating experience. With such a prominent gender bias, the male bathroom was constantly occupied, and a now infamous "toilet ticket" was cut (https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-employees-biggest-compl...).

Eventually they relented, and as new office floor space was opened up in new buildings, they agreed to reduce staff density and set a more practical staff:toilet ratio, along with adding in an additional toilet on every floor.

side note: What would have really helped was if staff weren't selfishly spending 5-10 minutes sitting on the toilet browsing the internet or playing games on their phones. It rarely takes that long to do the necessary.
What's going to be more important on your deathbed: the success of your company or a love you shared with someone, for however long it lasts?

Edit: My wife is the cofounder of our life and family together, and I have yet to find a business opportunity that could ever compete with how she makes me feel.

Maintain perspective. Life is short. Maximize for happiness.
I just want to say that the web browser should be Firefox for the sole reason that most people will install chrome and having both chrome and chromium would be confusing.
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So, what, ethical government is a nonsensical idea and we all just accept autocracy around the world?

You're also putting a lot of words in people's mouths. Many or most of folks who have a problem with things like this are also the people concerned with their own government's actions abroad, and are _not_ those "fighting to keep [Syrian refugees] away".

Everything can be made to look like hypocrisy if you just freely mix and match opinions of completely different people.
"Textbook" was possibly more a nervous tic than a statement of fact -- I've not read a lot of management textbooks...

However, whenever I see generalist managers at work, there always seems to be massive emphasis on schedule risk and at least in organisation I've been in, the proposed mitigation is always regular status meetings (and perhaps other forms of check-in as well).

This seems to have been almost entirely normalised in the software world, particularly anywhere that's gone down the agile pathway: fine-grained tickets in an issue tracker (or possibly cards on the wall -- but haven't ever seen that one in action) and a daily standup with an explicit goal of making sure nobody is "spinning their wheels".
The differences are major. One is made of unconnected stars, largely governed by the laws of gravity, the other one is made of connected cells, governed by the laws of chemistry, electricity (and maybe quantum effects).

The only rough similarity is the looks, and only if you dye the brain tissue in a special way.
Agreed. I'm on NJTransit now but I'd still prefer to have my time back for my own full control!
This article is on the BBC. Iniquitous salaries are not ideal but they are not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is wealthy people who own land, do no work and demand rent from others for the right to exist.

https://whoownsengland.org/

Paying some people a bit more won't fix the UK. Reporting people to the state for tax evasion isn't the issue. Land is hardly taxed in the UK. We cannot just look at what is legal vs illegal. The state is setup to funnel money to the establishment. We must look beyond this to what is moral and what is immoral. Is it subjective? Sometimes. In Kensington council tax is 1K per anum on a 2MM house which may be empty, paying the owner 100K on a 5% increase in land prices per anum whilst residents burn to death for the sake of a sprinkler system.

Read the Grenfell one if you want to be particularly sickened and to see how the UK really works. The BBC won't touch this.

edit: to the guy below asking about downvotes, here's what happens on HN. Any time you mention landlords they downvote and someone flags the post and then you get, even though I've submitted 4 posts today "you're submitting too fast".

It looks like free speech, but it's not. This happens every single time.
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What is so hard to understand in that need ??
You realize this is a press release hosted on the actual project's site, right?
Nope. But that also keeps away distractions. You can pull dependent packages down at home or the office, or even over a tethered phone.
Because they have no choice. It's so hard to cross the border, that once you're in, you have no choice but to stay in. They also bring their families in, because otherwise they would not see them.

Implement a farmworker visa that lets these workers go back and forth as needed, and suddenly they don't have to bring their families here; they can go back for events and festivals, maintaining a healthy social life. They can't be blackmailed by criminals, because they're here legally. You can even charge them a little bit for catastrophic health insurance.
Quotes from Nassim Taleb regarding economists:

An economist is a mixture of 1) a businessman without common sense, 2) a physicist without brain, and 3) a speculator without balls.

Those with brains no balls become mathematicians, those with balls no brains join the mafia, those w no balls no brains become economists.

To have a great day: 1) Smile at a stranger, 2) Surprise someone by saying something unexpectedly nice, 3) Give some genuine attention to an elderly, 4) Invite someone who doesn't have many friends for coffee, 5) Humiliate an economist, publicly, or create deep anxiety inside a Harvard professor.

A trader listened to the firm's "chief" economist's predictions about gold, then lost a bundle. The trader was asked to leave the firm. He then angrily asked him boss who was firing him: "Why do you fire me alone not the economist? He is too responsible for the loss." The Boss: "You idiot, we are not firing you for losing money; we are firing you for listening to the economist."

Discussing growth without concern for fragility: like studying construction without thinking of collapses. Think like engineer not economist.

Success in all endeavors is requires absence of specific qualities. 1) To succeed in crime requires absence of empathy, 2) To succeed in banking you need absence of shame at hiding risks, 3) To succeed in school requires absence of common sense, 4) To succeed in economics requires absence of understanding of probability, risk, or 2nd order effects and about anything, 5) To succeed in journalism requires inability to think about matters that have an infinitesimal small chance of being relevant next January, ...6) But to succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

[On his greatest disappointment]: That I am unable to destroy the economics establishment, the press.

Friends, I wonder if someone has computed how much would be saved if we shut down economics and political science departments in universities. Those who need to research these subjects can do so on their private time.

Being nice to the wicked (or economist) is equivalent to being nasty with the virtuous.
Norway a socialist society.

Sometimes I feel that every place with even minimal welfare is bound to be defined a socialist country, eventually. By that logic, Trump could be a fascist, Renzi is a commie, and so on.
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I'm on the train now. I take a very early train in and that's pretty reasonable. Then the extra time at work and the morning hacking have me pretty well satiated hack-wise. So then it's just time to space out on video, random phone apps, or if I'm a little motivated, coursera.
I meant the headline of the Hacker News post, not the headline of the article. The original Hacker News post headline was "China forces its Muslim minority to install spyware on their phones", which is incorrect in the sense it implies that China is forcing all its Muslims to install spyway on their phones.