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I think bitexploder is referring to the "Dunbar's number" which is 150.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

From the wiki:
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships.
Have you taken a look at ClojureScript? You might find it interesting.
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Short on content, long on medication ads is how I view Time. Time has suffered from the lack of a differentiated digital content strategy that is compelling. I default to WaPo, NYT, Economist, FinTimes, Atlantic and the BBC.
I rather use Firefox Quantum than Google Quantum AI, yeah I know it's unrelated and hence the article too.
I don't think theirs specifically, but that type of problem is core to all these models. David Roberts has been complaining about this:

https://www.vox.com/2015/10/23/9604120/climate-models-uncert...
Was going to say exactly this. Without the $7500 tax credit, the Model 3 immediately shoots out of reach for a large number of people who want to buy one. Same for solar roofs - without the tax credits, it takes way longer to pay for panels than most people are willing to wait. All the Elon companies depend heavily on government subsidies, whether corporate or consumer, for their success.
Ok, fair point, but you know, some wifi chips have range far larger than advertised. Especially in flat non crowded area where you can have line-of-sight and less noise.

Some youtube video show packets traveling a few miles on a stupid esp8266 chip. I don't know how sparse texas is, but I'm sure you can find a nice % of houses whose distance to each others is lower than 1mile.
also, just in case, https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/931269013967130624

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Awesome article, thanks for that. As someone who almost never even looks at C code, this was very understandable with the inline comments.

What's the reason for using macros instead of real functions? Is this an optimization because macros get inlined at compile time? Does this really bring a lot of value?
On a barely related note: When did Typescript's type system become some shining example of type systems? It's super basic and you can do almost nothing with it. It's not as basic as Go's type system, but it's really very sparse.
Canadian olympic sprinter who was using drugs like everyone else but got caught.

Well I do recall that as soon as he was caught, some in the Canadian media cynically referred to him as Jamaican.
You don't have to lie to people. You can go to church and not believe. I know several people that do that.

So, I'm assuming that you also have some qualms about how Facebook or Google does business?

Does that mean you refuse to use Facebook or Google?

By using commercial services, you are actually supporting them financially. You can go to most any church without donating anything at all.
As long as you're willing to accept the burdens of using FB as a panopticon. You get the blatant ads, the furtive ads, the manipulative filtering, the spam, the agit-prop. Ma Bell never barged in with a jingle when I used to call my grandmother. There is no cost/benefit analysis here. You can't cast this in a positive light relative to any previous means of social connection. It's absolute shit.

I've come to the conclusion that this round of social media is possibly the worst incarnation of technology in the past 30 years. Hopefully the next version is less shitty.
I am not entirely sure why Musk has to be the CEO there. He is a tech whiz and has his hands full, why not appoint a COO material instead to fix the P&L?
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They should've released ESR just before the first Quantum release. Who's going to downgrade their browser 4 versions back? I'd rather switch to Waterfox or Pale Moon or whatever.

I don't use Pentadactyl myself, I probably had in mind another extension (Vimperator).

>By then, the WebExtensions API will be even more powerful and enable additional extensions.
>once keybindings are available in WebExtensions

They shouldn't have released anything until this extremely basic functionality is available to extensions. Otherwise it's just farce. Knowing Mozilla they will never implement this functionality because "nobody uses these extensions anymore" (because it's plain impossible to).

How am I supposed to use Firefox if I press Ctrl-W thousands of times per day? Even if I had an incredible accuracy of 99.99%, I'd still accidentally hit Ctrl-Q several times per day. Shouldn't the most basic functionality of a browser be "don't spontaneously close several times per day"?
Countries affected by this are: Canada and Australia. [1]

1: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/288...
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With great power comes great responsibility - yah I know this is cliche but it is true.

While I would love to see services like HIBP used to improve the overall security of the Internet, I also have my doubts that it will be useful and I speculate that in some instances it may be actually harmful. Naming and shaming the companies who have bee breached at some point in time is only good for a while but not forever. Just like the prison system, carrying the extra baggage of being labelled a criminal at some point is not constructive and in fact, it has been proven countless of times that it is anything but detrimental.

If the service delivers a one-time notification when the breach occurred (sort of a broadcast) that will be very useful and it will help users stay secure while keeping the companies incentivised to ensure their shit is tight. But if the service offers warnings even for breaches that occurred 2 years ago, then I speculate this is only going to make companies pay out ransoms in the form of "Bug Bounties" when they get breached. With the introduction of GDPR this is only going to make it a more lucrative way to make legitimate money through criminal activities.

Last but not least, I know there are quite a few people on this "forum" that actually do security for a living so they may object but I've been also doing this all my professional life and what I've learned is that no one is protected. Banks are just as easy to hack as anything else and people tend to think that all it matters is customer data - what about employee data? What about your government records? It is not so black and white at the end and while it is easy to point out the problems, it is much harder to fix. I know this sounds like an excuse but most pentesters, security researchers, etc. do not run extensive infrastructures themselves and when they write code, while sometimes technically challenging, it is hardly more than a few thousands of lines monoliths with fairly straightforward logic. Most of this software is poorly written (yes there are quite a few exceptions and we all know them). That does not make them/us great codders - just great at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities. The reason I am mentioning this is because with my security hat on I can easily point the problem, laugh at it and wonder why it was not fixed but I have also seen the other side too. Building a company from scratch is anything but simple and you have been doing this for more than 5 years you are likely to have legacy systems already, which is crazy but this is how fast technology is moving. So yes, things will get hacked. We need to change our entire mindset how to run companies in order to prevent this and as far as I know, no one has figured it out yet.
Only 20 foreign movies are allowed into China per year. Unless part of the movie takes place in China.

Lots of movies have a special cut, just for that reason.
> There is no cost/benefit analysis here.

You're literally doing a cost/benefit analysis.

You seem to be assuming that such an analysis implies there there has to be substantial benefits, or something like that. (I'm not commenting here on whether they do or don't exist in the case of Facebook)
I work on proving things about unsafe Rust for my day job, and you really don't know what you're talking about if you think what you're proposing would be remotely sufficient to guarantee safety in a modern systems language. I'm not saying a way to deal with uninitialized data would not help, but that is not the primary source of potential unsafety in Rust, and it's completely infeasible for the language to include all the features that would be required to prove all unsafe Rust code safe (at least, given what we know now--if you have ideas about weak memory that I'm not aware of, feel free to ping me!). However, it is possible to do machine-checked proofs about unsafe Rust, and once those proofs are done, they remain valid forever, so I'd prefer the current approach (which is to verify the standard library and some major third party ones, and make the tooling for proving correctness of other Rust libraries as easy as possible).
edit: other people have said what would be my reflexive suggestion: a domain name that is actually your name would likely get a lot of search ranking juice. Besides having a meta title of your name, you need to have an h1 tag -- and not just the html; it should look like a major headline -- with your name, as opposed to what it is now ("Welcome").

Here's an easy fix:

<h1>Welcome to Viktor Vojnovski's homepage</h1>

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> but it seems logical that a personal website would be returned as the first result.

Does it? If I'm an employer researching a job candidate, and the job candidate has bought their own vanity domain but left it empty of worthwhile content, would visiting that page be a better use of my time than that candidate's Twitter, LinkedIn, or public Facebook page?

The fact that your page itself lists these social media URLs makes your homepage, theoretically, more useful in a broad kind of sense. But it's not obviously more useful than just directly seeing your tweets on first click.

And on a quasi-technical note, think of the heuristic/algorithmic hoops Google's search engine would have to resolve in order to rank a page like yours over Twitter and LinkedIn:

1. LinkedIn page is ranked first because LinkedIn is an extremely popular site.

2. Random webpage that links to LinkedIn page should get quality points because it also purportedly links to the person's other social URLs, and a normal human being would find that useful.

I know Google search logic and variety of signals is quite complicated and probably handles situations like these, but think of how easy it might be to game such a heuristic that gives pages quality points based on the quality of pages that they link to. That's almost exactly backwards of the original Google BackRub algorithm.

Other than getting legit sites to link to you (putting the URL in your Twitter bio might help, though Twitter renders it with a nofollow tag), your easiest bet to get higher is to add content to your site. A blog with intermittent updates would be ideal, but are you really unable to write a public-facing biography for yourself?

The ultimate question is: the purpose of Google and the Web are not to make things nice for any one user. Ideally, Google surfaces results that it thinks humans actually would be satisfied on clicking on. Let's imagine that someone, anyone out of the billions of Internet users on any given day, decides to search for your name.

Can you put yourself in the place of that user and honestly believe you'd be satisfied with landing on your basically empty homepage? Web users don't benefit from all the meta optimizations that you've added, they are there for the content.
No, just that some problems are believed to require superpolynomial slowdown.
Alcohol is factually poisonous to humans. Every day people die, become sick, lose jobs, destroy families, etc etc all due to this poison. The facts regarding alcohol are beyond question.

Will you destroy all of your personal stock of this poison for the benefit of society and forsake it forevermore? If not, why not?
> those tax credits/subsidies will have been greatly wasted

No, for every ZEV credit or tax credit to the consumer, they sold a non-polluting electric car to the market. Even if the company disappears today, the cars will remain on the road.
Have you tried caring less about if you get likes or not, or whether your posts are "successful" or not, and just genuinely share things?

Whatever posts I make on Facebook are usually things I genuinely want to share, whether it's photos while I'm traveling, or link to an article that I find really meaningful. Some people will see it, they might even like it but not press Like, I don't really care. It's something that I wanted to share and I know it reached someone, and that's all I wanted to do. It could be an article that explains really well what Net Neutrality means and why people should care, or it could be an amazing waterfall in Iceland.

Incidentally, I subscribe to certain subreddits about hobby topics (like Dragon Ball Z), and whenever I make posts on them, I (irrationally) care more about how many upvotes (or worse, downvotes) my posts get than I care about my posts' "success" on Facebook. So maybe I do know what you mean, but I see Facebook differently (and more personally and less social-media-y) than everyone else does.
People who level that critique at Apple are the equivalent of sports fans of rivals to the Yankees constantly talking trash about the Yankees. That is, it may make fans of Apple angry (and it did all throughout the 90s and 00s) but it had no impact on the fundamentals of Apple's business. While people were leveling that critique against Apple, Apple was selling millions of iMacs, then hundreds of millions of iPods, and now over a billion iPhones. Now I would say it's extremely shallow analysis of Apple as a business to say they were just repackaging tech (you don't do hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue over the past 20 years if you aren't actually innovating [EDIT: actually iOS devices alone have done almost a trillion in revenue], especially if you don't have a monopoly in the relevant markets).

Tesla is not Apple though. In order for the analogy to Apple to work, Tesla would have to be shipping a massive amount of EVs (and a growing amount as well) while they were being criticized. They haven't. In fact the penetration of EVs as a % of all cars sold is single digits.

If you want to take the perspective of the author of the article, then we can at least say that Tesla may have induced rival car makers to at least get interested in EVs and demonstrated a small market exists for them, but it's not clear that once every automaker begins shipping EVs at scale that it's going to replace non-EVs in the market in a significant way. What if EVs just top out at 20%?

On another level it's kind of a silly perspective to take because real people have invested their money in Tesla. A lot of them might be rich tech workers who no one will shed tears for, but big institutional investors like Fidelity own significant stakes in Tesla, and they're managing 401ks for regular people.

I don't think too many investors who invested in telecom companies during the tech bubble took comfort in the fact that at least society was left with a lot of fiber and infrastructure.

What would Tesla even leave behind anyway? The only thing I can think of is the battery factory which hopefully would be able to produce batteries for other manufacturers. But even that is not clear to me since China is pouring billions into doing that as well (and they're going to have a lower cost of capital compared to some private entity without state backing).
"Soon we hope to falsify the strong Church-Turing thesis: we will perform computations which current computers cannot replicate. "

WTF, has Google gone completely insane? This is so wrong from every angle...
What if the American people wake up to the fact that the dollar is leveraged beyond reason? And realize that it's all a house of cards? And that military doesn't think the dollars they're paid with are worth anything?
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>If customers start demanding refunds a lot of the assets listed on the balance sheet go away.

I know a lot of people who reserved their model-3 paying the deposit. Pretty much they all know that their deliveries are going to be delayed but still put up the deposit. They just don't want to cancel their reservation and lose their spot as long as they get their car.

I think once Tesla's battery problems are resolved and start delivering the model-3s, they should see the cash flowing.
Yeah, I saw that. It seems that the algorithm was trained and optimised only for that video. Person, bike, suitcase, tie, chair, cellphone.
They also are responsible for a shortage of baby milk powder and baby food from Germany, the Chinese buying all markets empty. At least that was in the news a few years ago
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't BQP ?= BPP considered a separate problem from the strong church turing thesis?
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If they have a legit diagnosis for dementia, there are ways to get power-of-attorney as there are many ways people in their condition can act in ways everyone will regret.
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Occam's Razor.

You typed a lot of words when the truth is obvious. Billionaires don't acquire media outlets to make money (directly).
The title is a perfect metaphor.
Yup, most of the progress, such as YOLO, which, while impressive, ultimately essentially amounts to incremental innovation, there really haven't been any paradigm upturning changes.
You could deliberately do that. But most of the time length and complexity correlate. More importantly, when you're splitting up functions to make them testable, you're very much reducing complexity and length in tandem.
It's better to move towards a more open and transparent system that's data driven. However if the system used here will be transparent isn't clear, only that it can be. The builders of these systems can choose not to share the algorithms behind it.

A podcast I listened to a day or two ago [1]; You Are Not So Smart, discussed something related to this that I feel is important to point out here as well.

It's about how we transfer our biases into the algorithms and ML solutions that we build. Given the move towards using algorithms for making decisions like this, it's something we should definitely consider.

If you have the time, definitely listen to this episode. It's an amazing podcast, but this one episode really hit me about how software can affect peoples lives – and not always for the better. How we as software engineers should be more aware of how the solutions we build will be used down-the-line.

tl;dr of the episode would be:

ML solutions, and algorithms designed by humans, are designed by looking at historic data. Historically, a number of races have not been treated fairly when it comes to the justice system, e.g. black people being treated harshly for the same crime as non-black people.

When our ML solutions are built on historical data, it learns those biases as well. Which means that the "racism" is also built into the algorithm as well. Of course the algorithm doesn't have any concept of racism, it's just another feature it uses to compute it's decision. But it is something we as designers of algorithms should keep in mind.

[1] https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/11/20/yanss-115-how-we-tra...
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It is certainly a separate problem. Just as the original comment says: I don't think anyone seriously argues that quantum computers will violate the CT thesis.

(Except Penrose, perhaps.)
If people experience it as a tragedy then it is a tragedy. Just because something isn't bad in some situations does not mean that it is ok in all situations.
I was under the impression that most rigorous network measurement tests used TCP (e.g. traceroute -T) because it was well-known that routers and other network devices along the path often had a separate fastpath for ICMP traffic.
To throw so much money at the enterprise hinges on the assumption that electric cars can be a significant replacement for fossil fueled cars, and displace the electricity production (and other manufacturing costs) in such a way to be much more environmentally and economically viable. Just because we have a few (proportionally) working electric cars does not mean this vision is plausible. The original automobile did not need this kind of extrapolated justification, it was immediately obvious the car was much better than the wagon, and combined with the assembly line established a clear and very large market. I do not see this happening with the electric car.
Will this come to the United States? If so, we better get ready as in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NC6iRwe9ns
I wonder how that TV performs for "monitor" tasks like automatic input switching.

I have a Sony x720e for my macbook for work and my PC for light gaming. It has graphics and gaming modes that have low input lags, but there is a really annoying quirk where when you turn the tv on it has normal (high) input lag until you switch to another mode then back to graphics mode. This means every time you turn on your PC (or plug in your laptop) you have to:

1. Turn on the TV

2. If necessary, switch inputs

3. Options -> Scene Select -> up arrow, down arrow

1 and 2 are annoying since monitors do that automatically but the TV doesn't. 3 is really annoying but hopefully is fixed in a firmware update...

Other than that the screen looks great.

I'm hoping for time to hack on an arduino with an IR LED to automate those steps, haha.
Does it matter? It's still money taken by force.
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Car AI scenario: classifying human as pavement with 100% certainty.
What’s really fascinating about the current state of the art in computer vision/deep learning is just how many of the top research papers basically say “We tried this, it works, we’re not really sure why”
And that analogy is wrong because unprotected sex means not only STDs, but also pregnancies, and the latter are why such ignorant peoples' families continue to exist over generations.

Gambling, on the other hand, does not impart any benefits whatsoever upon its sufferers, and that is why I argued it ought to be allowed for anyone stupid enough to want it.
It's a specific type of luxury ham produced in Spain (ergo the name "Iberian ham"). Since you didn't even know what this product was beforehand you have nothing to get ready for, it won't affect you.
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How does one get hired to be a researcher at google? What job title or level would this be? How does being a researcher differ from being a regular SDE? What background are they looking for here? Do these people write code on a daily basis?