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A meta comment on this article: I have posted this concept here, and on other social media platforms, and seen it posted as well... usually to the tune of a few upvotes...

It reminds me of Keyne's General Theory, where most of the ideas had already been floated for quite a while but were always derided as "crackpot," or basically heresy. It took a well-connected elite, combined with a failure to explain the current situation to really change the Groupthink of collective minds and institutions.

Here, it's similar: an idea which has been floated before, but taken in the hands of an academic is formalized, given a $100,000 prize, and published.

Which raises an interesting idea. If the problem with the radio--as the article showed, Hitler put one in every home--was that an authority could control a bombardment of information-assault on people--the same problem with tech today--should we not also be skeptical also of why authorities have now decided to grant credence to this idea?

And here's the concern: as the article also said, the role of media and newspapers has been to be a "filter." I can imagine politicians and bureaucrats latching onto this as a power grab for authorities--as a means to further marginalize independent media and the social aspects of spreading information.
5 years seems like... short time, as a reminder, 16 years ago the best video game system was Nintendo 64, in 2006 mobile phone were anything near what we have today, Tesla autopilot was first offered in 2014, 3 years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if by 2019 full autopilot is a everyday thing
I don't know why you got downvoted. It's both simple and hard.

I quit facebook back in March. Yep, some people don't talk to me anymore. But you know what? I talk with other people more, and I'm enjoying those relationships more.

It's also hard; this is a top-of-class addiction. There's nothing easy about rewiring the reward circuit of your brain. And definitely Facebook, work email and in my case ycombinator news, are wired in to the reward circuit - for the relief of boredom, or even the relief of hard work (or the appearance of that relief anyway.)
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I switched to a flip phone. The benefits strongly outweigh the advantages of being hooked on a smartphone. My sleep has improved, the quality-time I spend with my kids is actually quality-time now, and my night vision has even improved (this one shocked me the most).

It's not for everyone, but I have a very addictive personality when it comes to technology.

Edit: I see you can't do that because of professional obligations. What about carrying around an iPad - it could be more of a barrier to just random surfing?
Actually I dont' think the analogy is valid. Tobacco is addictive, true. And tobacco has only one use. A smartphone has many use cases (mp3 player, camera, compass, notebook, encyclopedia and many more).

And why would you like to "quit internet"? Yes, many sites try to get your attention, try to manipulate you into buying their products. But you can avoid that. Using ad blockers wherever you can. And regarding Facebook. You can use it more like a newsreader (subscribing to newspapers, ignoring my friend's posts mostly).

Edit: Re smartphone. I also have my phone on `do not disturb', permanently. I try to educate my friends / family members that I don't necessarily pick up the phone when it rings, but I will always call back. They are ok with that.
His job is mentioned in the sentence before this:

> Take 34-year-old Jason Strickland, who works for a land surveyor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He listens to around eight hours of podcasts at work every day ...
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The issue is that free will cannot be exercised under certain circumstances because for-profit have found a hack to shutdown it. Sure completely surrendering it is disproportionate, but for me it would be more akin to banning certain toxic substances in food, like too much sugar cause addiction and health problems so consumers lose their ability to make an informed choice. Here we would simply ban certain practices in media.
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Humor aside, Hobbes would not agree with you. He explicitly denies that the covenant can be breached by the sovereign, and explicitly denies that the people would have the right to remove or alter the government of the sovereign. Any principle of the sovereign "breaching" the covenant is non-Hobbesian, and probably a confusion with the theories of John Locke, which were radically different.
In the U.S., depending on the state, there may be an exemption for friends & family:

https://www.strictlybusinesslawblog.com/2011/08/15/can-a-fri...
>require major changes driven by the democratic process

Marxists tell people what's best for everyone; they don't do what people want.
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Fortunately, food purchased as a PR move tastes just as good and is just as nutritious as the same food purchased out of heartfelt philanthropy.

We care about what people think because we care about what people do.
The coupling of freelancers is not a part of Sieve PRO, but a part of Sieve offering, it's very much different from this. Sorry about the confusion.
Attention as well as free will is a scarce resource on a personal level. I used to seriously question why anyone would buy almost identical Apple devices year-after-year; where-as I'd spend at least a day researching which Android devices were available. The truth is that it's a bloody phone. I was expending all my free will on trivialities and wasn't making choices that actually matter.

I think this problem is more complex than just the media. In general, people are spending their attention and free will on broad spectrum of useless junk. Media, especially Netflix ("what do I do with my free time?"), is definitely a major offender - my point is that it's not the only one.

The modern world has wound up being an attack on free will, malevolent or not. It's exponentially easier to make a choice from a menu of 5 items vs. a menu of 50. There seems to be a biological limit on our ability to choose and the modern world has far exceeded that.
> Microsoft was also hurt by its reputation for bringing products to market behind schedule and full of ''bugs'' or errors. In a letter in the latest issue of Macworld magazine, for instance, a reader gripes about finding ''15 bugs and 7 shortcomings'' in the initial Macintosh version of Microsoft Word. ''Word is typical untested Microsoft software,'' he said.

Very interesting
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Many people who work at Uber are probably very good people.

Uber's leadership, though, has shown time and time again that they are evil. I very much hope the company fails.

Edit:

I am very much aware of Kalanick stepping down. That does not change the fact that the leadership has done many illegal and shady things, ranging from the Greyball which allowed it to operate where it was not permitted and its program for taking away drivers from competitors to their lobbying to classify their drivers as self-employed rather than employees of Uber.

You can't get rid of one person and then say that all of the evil is gone.
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"voluntarily surrendering your free will to distractions brought to you by profit-seeking entities"

That's one way to describe an "industry [that] employs some of the smartest people, thousands of Ph.D. designers, statisticians, engineers [that] go to work every day to get us to do this one thing, to undermine our willpower." From the article.

"People's Democratic Central Party Committee" Nice straw-man that conflates democratic socialism with authoritarian one-party rule.

There is an entire world of alternative possibilities out there for economic and governance systems. Don't throw the socialist baby out with the Soviet bathwater.
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I prefer your style of thinking over the "brute force" method in the top comment. If thinking was an olympic sport, I feel it is more akin to gymnastics than power-lifting. I believe that if you are rational, disciplined, and take your time you can have more accurate beliefs and make better decisions than someone with greater raw intellectual power.

I also agree that premature conclusion is the most common error of thinking. We must be mindful of irrational fear causing a false sense of urgency. Thinking compulsively without forming a conclusion can be a problem too, but it's probably a better problem to have.
Me too, though I'm worried indulging this tendency is building into bad habits, or traits or somesuch.

For lectures, I tend to speedwatch with stops, replays and skips. In some cases, I am 100% convinced that like you, I'd have never been able to stay tuned. The whole thing has a tendency towards escalation, and the result comes with its own troubles.
:) Thanks for this feedback. Will consider and work on this.
> The difference is how we are connected now 100%

I think 100% is misleading.

You could say that a morning newspaper connected people 100% when that was a new thing. Phones/computers only connect us as often as we use them to connect.

For instance something like AR goggles with a constant ticker of information would connect us even more.

I think it's more accurate to simply say that we are more connected. In specifics that the 24 hour cycle of evening news and morning newspapers has changed into an on-demand system that pushes information to people that want to receive it and that anyone can pull it when they have free time.
You "discovered" a problem in Firefox when displaying Youtube or Facebook pages with more than one video, the problem which I mentioned more times on this site.

I observed it before FF 57 was released, on different Windows computers but especially catastrophic on the less powerful ones ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15688195 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15687830, I've mentioned that I also discovered that there are complaints at least since February this year, https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5sikxt/firefox_unb... only to be downvoted heavily, however let's ignore that at the moment) but now on FF 57 it is provably the same. Just produce a page with more videos autostarting and marvel how much (unbelievably lot!) CPU Firefox uses.

8 videos playing on the page are enough to demonstrate it. Fascinatingly, even if they play somewhere on the page outside of the part which is currently displayed, and even if they are not producing any sound (marked as such) they are going to eat immense amount of CPU.
one of the things I love about asking random questions (I care about) on HN is that answers never get constrained in the ways I had devised or expected :)
The same is true for TV and radio. Think of all the popular culture that's been created and paid for, not directly, but by merely agreeing to have commercials on in your home for a few minutes. This still boggles my mind. How can viewing advertisements be an adequate substitute for paying cash?
This may work well for you but there are somethings that cause you to have to check email and Facebook for fear of external consequences which is what the OP is saying. For example Hangouts makes me lose at least half a hour of productity a day but if I uninstalled it and never checked it then I would never talk to all of my friends on Hangouts which is not a trade-off that I am willing to take. Same for email, if I stopped checking email on my phone I could lose my job because it requires prompt responses to emails and I like my job and not willing to take that trade off. But then I am stuck with this phone that also contains all of the other things a phone can do and rob me of my attention that way. It's a Catch-22 of productivity.
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For people who aren't familiar with this incident, you can read about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
I didn't take this course. I have taken compiler classes.

Short answer, yes.

Longer answer, compilers of any sort are hard, because there's both a lot of special cases and also pressure to be algorithmically efficient.

Writing any kind of compiler is going to force you to do stuff with the parse tree. It's up to you to decide if

float a = 1

is an error or not. doing things like constant value evaluation

int a = 1 + 2 + 3
=>
int a = 6

will get you a feel for all the different ways you can transform the parse tree. It's going to feel frustrating, because it's not the language you want to work on. But building up the skills to shuffle ast nodes is really really helpful.

Making your own language is hard. if your goal is a working language, i'd suggest building an interpreter first, so you can really nail down the semantics. at the end of that you're going to have a call that looks like eval(ast, context). you can do a simple compiler by just reimplementing eval, rather than doing the work, spit out the code that would do the work.

also, if you have an adequate interpreter, you can you can write your compiler in your own language.
Let's start a startup making a replacement for the internet! Some kind of locked down phone that lets you communicate with people you care about, but not get high on random information. With a built-in limitation to check for emails only a few times a day. Something you could buy and then ditch all other devices without remorse.
I think SQL Server was a little different in that it wasn't quite from scratch, but was a JV that built on existing Sybase code? They eventually went their separate ways, though, and after the split is when MS really started bringing in SQL Server revenue.

I'm impressed with he way the succeeded with different approaches: plenty of homegrown applications, some acquisitions, some joint ventures. Sure, there were plenty of projects that didn't work out, but the ones that did work out did really, really well.
Did I deliberately avoid the M-word? Maybe.

A solid counter to demagoguery is economic justice and education that encourages critical thinking. People are much less prone to be swayed by that sort of thing when their health, shelter, and food are not at risk.
Maybe they were a little rude, but they have a point ... you just went and infringed on the WSJ's copyright just to score internet points.

Just my own opinion, but I wish mods would delete posts that did such things.
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I'm currently building an ML-powered debugging tool for automatically correcting code based on error messages. It's actually fairly difficult but doable, and we are working towards getting our first product out in the next few months. It has been difficult supporting ourselves during this phase however since we are both from middle class backgrounds and didn't go to prestigious schools. For years I thought I was smart for turning down Princeton and taking a scholarship to a state school and not having any student loan debt. Now for the first time I see the other side of that decision and think about the connections I could have been making during college and how much easier our current road would be. That early friends-and-family money is really important in getting yourself to a state where seed funding is interested in you.
Have a look at "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction", you might find it interesting.

http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
Hopefully it prevents S3 buckets from being set to public.
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Now where's the "migrate issue to a discussion" feature?
1.3x on a new podcast is about my limit. But the more I listen to a specific podcast and the more I get used to the hosts voices the faster I can speed it up. E.g. I've listened to ATP for a couple years now and I'm up to 2.3-2.5x now. I can barely hit 3x and still comprehend, but I really have to strain to understand, which is a bad idea since I mostly listen while driving.

When I first started listening to podcasts in general and played around with the multiplier even 2x sounded like completely incomprehensible gibberish to me. The strangeness of super speed becomes apparent again when it starts autoplaying when someone else can hear. Their confused look is kinda funny though haha.
Your ordering is kind of wonky.

MS-DOS was before MS Word and Excel. It took a long time for Word or Excel to really gain ground against the market leaders, and arguably they weren't really dominant forces until they were packaged together as Office in the 90s.

Windows NT may have started development in the late 80s but it certainly wasn't released until the 90s and took a while to find success.

You also miss out on the main reason Microsoft was able to become a dominant force in so many fields; MS-DOS. DOS was the PC operating system from the 80s into the 90s, until Windows 95 finally took over, and gave Microsoft the money and position to do whatever it wanted.

None of the rest of its software suite would have become dominant without being built on top of DOS and later Windows.
This is interesting to me because the Renaissance festival that has come to my home town for decades has been staffed exclusively by Minnesota natives. It's probably the same festival. I wonder if this decision cost the entire Midwest and Northeast their opportunity to have a Ren Fest.
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Funny, I would say the same thing about advertisers.
They could easily get them if we didn't prevent them from doing so.
In general, I don't believe it's necessary to distinguish one from the other. An organization can simply leverage the former to achieve the latter, can they not?

Regardless of whether it's "heartfelt" or not, Meals on Wheels benefits equally.
I started doing this with youtube science channels, especially after PBS Spacetime changed to that new guy.
> I don't buy into this victim mentality

I don't think we should be thinking about this from a psychological perspective but instead a sociological one. Yes individuals can disconnect and do whatever they need to assuming adequate resources but that's beside the point.

If you think of people as boxes with inputs and outputs I think it's very worth understanding how social media impacts those boxes and what the long term affects are.

Has nothing to do with being a victim. Just if you press this button on every box does something desirable for society happen? Or something negative? Or we can't tell still?

And if it is negative then do we as a society want regulations to reduce the impact?
Keep it turned off until you need it on. When you're done using it, turn it off again.

This is what I do, and it's drastically reduced my information addiction.
The way New Yorkers got conned out of having a con con is the most disappointing thing that happened in politics this year IMO. It's amazing how pretty much every organization and politician right and left got together to oppose a chance for meaningful change.
It's definitely part of the charm. Also motivates you to work on your Polish so you aren't tongue-tied.
Good times when kernel privilege escalation was the worst you had to fear.

I'm not familiar enough with the Intel ME to tell, but could this possibly be exploited with the arbitrary code execution in the ME being used to set the HAP bit without requiring hardware intervention?
It's difficult to get something started on the side when you work for Google for that reason.
Another benefit of this (at least on Android) is that you can set Do Not Disturb to "Priority Only" and have it allow calls/texts from your contacts, but not other notifications. This eliminates telemarketer robocalls, as they're very unlikely to get lucky and spoof a contact's number.

I also turn off the ability of most apps to display notifications. That helps.
Drug deals? You first have to be authorized - you have to give some payment information. So you are mostly easily identified. Then it will probably be under surveillance.
That makes sense. I didn't expect the whole quantum engine to be running on iOS, but I hoped hoped Firefox to be at least as be reliable on iOS as Chrome (also Webkit) or Safari.
Uber's leadership just recently changed hands.
Thank you for the detailed feedback, I do understand very well established freelancers are having a process in place, We are trying to make this for everyone else, not just the pros. If someone is starting freelance, they don't have the process, questionnaire and everything in place. I'll read this again and incorporate the main points :)
I think there are two different aspects to this. The first is about what I'd call "active" vs "passive" caring (using the terms loosely, here). I'd say that passive caring is like when you, by principle, avoid looking for a job in the tobacco industry, or when your helping of people happens through your job. For example, I used to work in pharma marketing and you could say that it helped people find the right treatments or clinical trials for their conditions.

But then there's active caring: for example, when people spontaneously organize a volunteer drive. I admit that I'm more of a "passive caring" type of person myself, and I think the vast majority of people I've worked in the past fell in that category.

What I'm saying though, is that I literally hear people say they joined Uber _because_ they want to use the company's leverage to help people. This is something I'd never have heard in my previous jobs.

The second aspect is about sense of ownership. I feel that in previous companies, it was often easy to fall into a state of complacency because it wasn't clear if anyone higher up was listening to employees' concerns. At Uber, we have weekly all-hands meetings where literally _anyone_ in the company can ask Dara _any_ questions. We definitely had times earlier this year where people were a bit doubtful of the leadership team (especially around the first half of this year) and there were times people felt that positive changes were happening too slowly, but I think that overall there is a feeling that changes are indeed happening and that employees that want to make things better do have the power to make it happen.

Anyways. Not trying to toot Uber's horn. Just my personal opinion :)
I wish they'd leave the math notation as is. Haskell's and Erlang's notations which keep it (maybe with slight modifications) are so much nicer and readable.

Erlang [1]:

[X || X <- [1,2,a,3,4,b,5,6], X > 3].

Pythagorean triplets

[ {A,B,C} ||
A <- lists:seq(1,N),
B <- lists:seq(1,N),
C <- lists:seq(1,N),
A+B+C =< N,
A*A+B*B == C*C
].

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/list_comprehensio...
We've tested this through, will check on this.
Interesting idea. Though I'm not sure how many battles there are where one tech won and other(s) lost and the result led to a significantly different path.

For example, VHS won out over Betamax but Sony remained a successful consumer electronics company and I'm not sure things would have played out in a materially different way had Betamax won. (Though maybe the industry would have been a bit more concentrated.)

AC electrical power over DC is probably one with implications. MS-DOS and Windows are certainly examples. As is Linux. x86? Maybe although I'm not sure how different the world would be if you swap in Motorola instead.
Markets require informational symmetry to be efficient. Secrecy is anathema to all forms of opportunity other then graft and corruption.
You can ditch Facebook and not lose out socially. My life got a lot more social after I got off social media because there weren't easy fixes to my social needs.

Ditching reddit or hacker news is much harder. I mean, how do you even use the internet these days?
You are committing a fallacy fallacy fallacy. If an argument is fallacious, it definitely is wrong. The proposition supported by that argument might still be right however.
Is this lack of transparency a big concern to Kansas voters?