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The data points become invalid. You can't just adjust them to become valid, then you are no longer measuring. You are telling the data what to be. There is no math that can do this, which is WHY apolitical physicists/engineers/mathtypes mock climate science.

When doctors tell you normal body temperature is 98 degrees they are dumbing it down for you, instead of relying on bad sampling from the past.

Not that medical science is that great either.
There's a fundamental limit to what is blockable.
Even if all strong cryptography is prohibited and all that can legally be utilised is a backdoored version, a steganographic option can be encorporated in a way that is mathematically undetectable - albeit at rather low bit rates relative to the absolute rate of the stream.

The problem for censors is that there is not such thing as optimal compression for a given stream, since the optimality of a given compression codec is a probabilistic function of all data streams that could feasibly be compressed with the given codec.

What do I mean by this? Inoptimality is fundamentally immeasurable (even when a more optimal version is feasibly calculable, it may be inefficient to utilise it due to the increased complexity involved in encoding or decoding - and the possible reasons behind any given encoding choice are indistinguisable from each other), so a sliver of a data stream could potentially be utilised to package encrypted data in a manner that is fundamentally indistinguishable from encoding inoptimalities.

In a world where a huge amount of out data is ultra-high bandwidth multimedia content couple with personal super-computers, crytographically indistinguisable steganographic communication channels of a more than useful bandwidth are well within the realms of feasibility.
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> Sure, you can probably just pull off onto the side of the road, stop your car, and watch the eclipse for free, [...]

They say not to do that. From the FAQ at the Madras eclipse site:

> Can we park on the side of the highways & roadways?

> No. The Eclipse is occurring at the height of fire season in an agriculturally dominant landscape. Over-heated vehicles are of major concern. Pulling your vehicle off on to an area that is not designated for parking is not only dangerous for yourself and other drivers, but can also produce a fire.
To nitpick your argument, this doesn't change customer security in the way that letter discusses. Apple is still protecting the devices they sell, it's just unfortunate thay China implements network-level controls at a national level, beyond the device.

This is just unfortunately a step in the wrong direction of free speech that Apple could have combated had they wanted. That said, the great firewall crushes VPNs fairly easy anyway, so I don't think it's as big a loss as people are making out.
Change the wheel a given tire is attached to. This is to have a regular "wear" on your tires. Incidentally, you can also regularly rotate your mattress to have a better sleep.
Fear of the Government that is even in your pocket?!

As someone who grew up in the East Block, reading such naive comments as yours leaves me divided. It's good on one hand that you've never came even close to an oppressive government so not even your imagination allows you to grok. On the other hand facing the development in the world, it's quite concerning.
Apple regularly boast about how they are a privacy focused company and just want the best for their consumers by enforcing tight restrictions on all apps. You have no other possibility to install apps on an Apple device but the App Store. Now they effectively block privacy-focused tools in a country that is known to jail everyone that speaks against authorities. That doesn't line up with their rhetoric and people see the hypocrisy.
You change the position of the tires. The front ones are removed and fixed at the rear and the rear ones are removed and fixed at the front.

Allows for uniform wear and tear for the tires.

Some even interchange the left and right tires.
Why bring up capitalism here? The censorship isn't capitalist. Apple could be a non-profit employee cooperative and still be aiding in censorship to comply with local laws.
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Yes, I charge for hosting and support, especially for smaller clients who don't want to know or care about hosting. It means I can do quick fixes and answer questions without either if us having to worry about billing.

I don't make a lot from it, but enough to be worth the trouble. For example, there's a couple of local businesses that I set up single-page sites on github pages. They pay me $25/month, mostly to answer their questions. (Most recent question: "How do I embed a YouTube video into a PowerPoint?")

A lot of my larger clients use AWS or similar and pay their own hosting bills. Support is more if a mixed bag there, but I do try to get a support contract set up.
Yeah, where I sit, papers from two years ago are considered ancient, and the advances if the last few years means I can train things on my laptop in for hours that likely would have been a week of gpu time in 2014. This means we can experiment more easily, and try things out with fewer resources, which in turn leads to faster innovation.

So AI isn't stuck. It's also mostly working on well defined, targeted problems.

Life, on the other hand, works towards a very ill-defined objective function (survive, collectively) over millions of years; all of the emergent behavior we're astonished by is maybe just side effects of working on that objective. (This is a crass viewpoint, but let's stick with it for the sake of argument.)

We mostly aren't working on such objective functions, partly because it's hard to compare results, partly because there aren't clear milestones for success (indeed the goal posts for AGI shift as far as AI advances) and partly because skynet.

In fact, we are consistently surprised by the AI we already have. It finds ways to exploit our fitness functions constantly, and fine tricks and heuristics to gain a couple points on the final score constantly. Click bait comes to mind: we want to surface good content, use clicks as a proxy for quality, and get what we see for instead of what we wanted. Which somehow takes us directly to president trump... (Sure your kid can find a cool way to get out of a chair, but call me when she inadvertantly threatens the basis of the US democracy in the process. And then we can talk about the pressing need for AGI.)
This is the same reason why ~70% of US legislation is for benefits of corporations.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
There is no such thing as "once they decide". Once you notice that what you are doing is immoral, you have to revise previous decisions.

Also, it's not that cut and dry: If your product actually contributes to the wealth of the country, they cannot just ban you without hurting themselves. Just because they legally can, does not mean you don't have any leverage.
Who is doing that? Corporations exist only to generate profit for their shareholders and they aren't shy about admitting that
It just seems like more work. The amount of time buying ingredients, cooking the ingredients, washing up after cooking in order to eat a meal seems out of wack to me. So I always end up cooking more for myself than I should because ultimately I'm sitting there thinking "there's no point going to all this effort for a tiny amount of food".

But realistically that's not what happens, I just end up buying a lot of store sandwhiches and takeaways instead.

Cooking to me seems like a hobby some people really enjoy or at least competent at, if you've got no interest in that hobby then it's easier to just swap money for food directly instead.
The private company argument has limits. Common carrier status for one. At least in the EU there also are exemptions for repairing and interoperability.

In my opinion repairability should extend to the ability for the owner of a device to side-load any software.

If apple wants to police their own app-store, fine. But they shouldn't be allowed to exclude installation through other means. If they had not complete control over the ecosystem then they would not be in the situation where they can and have to play deputy sheriff for the government.
To think about it, it's extremely eco-friendly.

No polluting oils, no polluting coolant fluids, etc.

I'm from India, and for my car, an average of 1$ per 50 miles goes into maintenance.
Apple follows the law while sending lawyers to do the work necessary to block censorship.

How do the law work in China? Is it even possible to block censorship?
You appear to have misread.
Honestly? WebStorm with Emacs key bindings and several plugins. I use Emacs for pretty much everything but web development is not where it truly outshines other tools :(
VCs really need to look in the mirror. We often say on the internet that Innovation can come from anywhere, but VCs don't believe that at all. VCs are only interested in funding their friends living a few blocks away or some college kids living in NYC or SFO. VCs are the only people who can help in spreading the wealth around. Why not fund a startup in Des Moines or Harrisburg. That would help grow those cities and also reduce the stress on cities like SFO. Also it would save valuable money for the startups as those cities cost far less.
Yeah, at the time I could still understand them calling the original Creators Update that way, just to have some marketing buzzword to throw at people, but "Fall Creators Update" is really just the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.

Not only is its meaning just as nonexistent as the first time around, it also just seems like something that some guy thought up on the spot in a meeting, after remembering that he was still supposed to ask the marketing department about that.

It's not in any way a remarkable name and it's going to be confusing to many people as well as to search engines, making troubleshooting any issues with it unnecessarily hard.
Image recognition system just recognize images. They essentially do the first pass of what your brain can do.

You too can mistake yellow and black stripes for a school bus or see an actual leopard in Poland. That's when you put what you've seen in context that you rule out the idea. And if you really want to see something in a picture, you will, especially with faces.

It is no different with computers. You train your algorithm so see school buses exclusively and it will see school buses everywhere. Conversely can also teach it context, for example by taking account of the webpage hosting the image.

Computers algorithms usually have a confidence rating too. They can tell "definitely a school bus (99%)" or "looks vaguely like a school bus (30%), but it may also be a wasp (10%)", so they can be aware of their own flaws. In fact, confidence intervals are often a key part of machine learning.
I guess you didn't watch the video. It's in the video. This is the problem with the Internet, people never actually consume the content they're talking about. Most debates are based on the headline only.

"The cost of living in SV/SF is high, period" has nothing to do with the narrative this article is trying to spin. There are a lot of places in the world where the cost of living is high, and people live just fine. Sure you won't enjoy high standard of living, but that's the choice you make as an adult. This lady is not some special case. I'm sure there are other coworkers who have the same salary as her who find ways to live just fine instead of "being homeless" and trying to dramatize it by pitching to some mainstream media that wants to get traffic from the sensational article.

> So are you saying they're trying to mess with Zucker? sure sounds like it.

No it doesn't sound like it. That's your twisted interpretation.
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Just want to point out that the two don't necessarily have to go hand in hand as often portraid in the US. Things can be legalized without being regulated.
I got a 2017 Subaru Impreza with a touch screen interface. Terrible idea on a car. I'm constantly accidentally grazing the touch screen and changing things that I'm not sure of cause I'm watching the road. Too many buttons is awful, but a touchscreen is even worse. You need some kind of physical feeling when you're not looking at the screen and your brain isn't being tricked by the screen.
It's not that strange. The free market/market economy is used more or less as a synonym, albeit incorrectly imo, for freedom. Seemingly to try to make it true by repetition.

Look at any kind of right-wing politician whose random short bio contains "Loves freedom!" or similar. In practice it translates to "loves the market economy and property rights etc", while the same person seldom sympathize with ideas of a living wage, lowering working hours etc.
doesn't the model S though also give you free access to superchargers (unlike the model 3 where you have to pay)? This should factor in the comparison if you live close to one and/or plan a lot of cross country trips where they are available
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Have someone guard the WordPress instance and run security patches on it is certainly worth money. Nobody wants to keep tabs on that.
>Change the wheel a given tire is attached to.

I don't think I've ever had this done when getting my tires rotated. They just move the wheels and tires from front to back and sometimes from left to right.
It's important to note that Winograd Schemas don't really test if the system understands those sentences, they essentially test the system has appropriate "common sense" knowledge/experience about how our world and society works, i.e., it tests whether the system understands whatever other data sources are usable to find out about this topic.

To give the proper answer in the example you use, a human (or a system) needs to know how such permits are issued and what are the common reasons for refusing such permits. As such, a sufficiently sophisticated pattern matching system is perfectly sufficient to answer such questions - there's a simple pattern difference that fearing violence causes you to refuse permits but advocating violence causes you to get refused. It's worth thinking about where do humans learn this? For the Winograd schemas like putting a trophy in suitcase, it's the basic childhood experience of putting stuff in boxes that we all share, but a machine won't (unless it's raised as a child-robot). For schemas like this one, it's understanding how our society works learned by participating in our society for years, which we all share, but a machine won't (unless we allow machines to participate in our society). I.e. it's not so much a measure of intelligence as a measure of shared background experiences. A human from a hunter-gatherer tribe wouldn't be able to answer the councilman-permit schema, but that doesn't mean he/she isn't intelligent.

The difficulty there is caused mainly by the need to have domain-specific knowledge in a wide range of domains - we will perceive systems as "dumb" unless they share the same background knowledge that most humans have gained by being part of our society and basic schooling, and since the machines won't do that (yet), we're looking for "unnatural" ways of getting common sense knowledge without the direct experimentation and participation that we do.
I'm also curious about the real-world benefits. Generally speaking, if you are using a virtual function, it's because you need polymorphic behavior. Is there a lot of code that uses virtual functions where not needed?
Anyone who takes part in proprietary products with network effects does that?
I'm not sure about "stuck", or that a huge international affair like ITER is a good solution. We could have maybe AI with our maybe fusion for $70 billion in 40 years ;)

But watching my 1yo learn to toddle around and navigate does show just how limited current AI is. With tons of training and battery, we can coax a computer to barely do what my 1yo does on a belly of cherrios and a few hours of trial and error.

There's lots of great stuff and some terrifying stuff happening in AI and I don't doubt more to come, but watching kids learn puts it in perspective for me.
The phone market isn't exactly open. There is more or less a government chartered oligopoly in mobile data industry. Those companies were leveraged to create the initial consumer lock in that Apple enjoys now. Interoperability without Apple's consent is also possible but it's a government chartered monopoly on technology (copyrights, patents, bans on circumvention) that prevents that.

All that being said, you're talking to straw men here. Most died in the wool free market types still see a role for the government in preventing market abuse, including fraud, monopolies, insider trading, etc.
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Electric motors are one of the most rugged pieces of equipment in the world.

Coming from a state run engineering enterprise, where every motor is purchased from the lowest bidder, even the worst quality motors run for decades before even showing signs of any trouble, including mechanical.

For a car like the Tesla, it's hard to believe that the motor will give any sort of trouble.

Also, most electric motors, even those driven by variable frequency drives, are extremely simple in construction and are extremely resilient to shocks and prolonged use.

Almost all modern motors have efficiencies upwards of 97.5%, so you have very less heating losses and mechanical losses even in the most demanding conditions.
I don't disagree.

What I am saying is that writing such articles is embarrassing and reads like a paid hype. Plus the guy really doesn't have much under his belt.

I and many other practical people dislike person cults. Especially such forced ones.
"And most educated people continue using VPNs too. Normal people are becoming experts in encription, security..."

As I'm not familiar with China or its (native) people, I have no grounds to refute the statement above, but is it really true ?

My experience is that a large number of people in the West ("educated" or not) are barely interested even in the information and news that are readily available to them, and mostly concern themselves with sports, gossip and entertainment.

I find hard to believe that most people in China are using VPNs and taking risks on a daily basis to access "uncensored" information, I'm sure that there are quite a few that do, but I'd be surprised if it's not a relatively small minority.
Nice but still not what I need. I need a long range electric car whose interior I won't be afraid to damage from time to time. I need something that moves me, my family and my stuff (skis, bikes, windsurf + sails, mountaineering gears, etc..) to where I need to be, not something for showing-off and asserting status.

The large screen in the middle of the car is a non complete non-starter - lots of the stuff I carry in my car are going to poke nice holes in it: what a joke.

Tesla (or anyone else), please build a cheap, high-impact plastic, no-large-screen interior car with front and rear seats I can fold for lots of room and I'll buy them for the rest of my life.

What I want is a long-range electric 4x4 Renault Kangoo that is not a utility vehicle. I'm sure it can be built.
Rear wheel drive? For those of us in snowy places....
Not sure why this is downvoted. We're in a era when the biggest companies have the same means than small to medium countries, this remark is perfectly valid.
> I wonder what servers their customers best.

It sounds like that point can be accurately rephrased as, "We're censoring you, but we did some soul searching and we think it's for your own good."
The UK has been a leader in developing internet censorship for over 20 years; it's never been just one party or government.

When certain big network equipment companies (this was before Huawei cloned everything) responded to criticism for building the Great Firewall of China by saying they were only supplying off-the-shelf gear already in use in the West, they weren't lying.
One of the two air ambulance services that serves my area has already announced that they will cease service surrounding the eclipse in order to have more capacity near their home base.
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How does this compare to, say, gRPC?

One of the ideas in the gRPC space is that the protocol, at the client and server level, is always plain HTTP/2 and DNS. To do discovery (that is, find the IP of a peer), load balancing, routing, retrying, throttling, circuit-breaking etc. you inject a proxy such as Istio [1] in the middle that modifies the connection with all the necessary intelligence.

This way, the app stays super simple -- it needs no configuration. If it wants to talk a service called "foo", it just naively dials http://foo/ and does gRPC. If you write lots of apps in different languages, they only need the gRPC client/server glue, nothing else.

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I'm using RJSX-mode + emmet mode for JSX. RJSX is a fork of js2-mode so it handles normal js just as well. It has built-in linting that works great but you may still want to set up eslint if there's a need for it. `web-mode` is the undisputed best mode for HTML and again you can pair it with emmet-mode to write even faster.

If you're looking for 'intelligent' auto-completion like IntelliJ Emacs is probably not for you, but I think most people choose Emacs for its keybindings and workflow anyway. The shortcomings are definitely worth it imo.
Exactly what I was also aiming at; such mass exodus events signal either (a) that Rubin hired a bunch of greedy freeloaders that leave after the first signs of struggle, or (b) he is a dictator who's not pleasant to work with.

Both of these aren't promising.
> We are weak creatures.

Ha ha. You're hilarious.

On a serious note though, I don't disagree that indeed your statement above is true but because we are weak creatures, we must rely on systems. Making the world a better place is many a time correlated with some sort of validation by consumers in a market based system. I.e. solve problems/make life better or easier for someone, get rewarded by more and more patronage.

Granted, this is not always the case but majority of the time, this has been in my experience the most unbiased and reliable way to do good in the world. Simply by solving other people's problems for your and others' sustenance, you somehow also end up making the world a better place. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
This isn't the reason(although it could add to it). This is for local news, not the stuff we are talking about.
What would you do with smaller businesses when you decide to quit/retire and they need to take control of their own websites?
Is that figure a monthly value or a "total customer value", e. g. One-time indulgence payment?

And would 26€ per month also remove all Google ads from the Internet?
> But it's not the role of corporate to white knighting a country cultural revolution.

You are aware that that is just your arbitrary declaration of what you think their role should be, right? I hereby declare that their role is to do just that. What now?
When I was 10, I found a rotary bicycle lock + connected chain, locked alone to a post in a park. Having read up on locks even then (god knows how), I tried the method of "pull on it and spin the dials".

About 30 seconds later, it was unlocked.

I used that lock for about 10 years, until I went to University, where the thieves were a bit smarter.