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> Many of them have higher education from western countries.

I think one of the reasons that 'these people' aren't frequently over-estimated (or even accurately estimated) is because almost none of them have higher education from their own countries.

Not that many higher education facilities have a specific 'learning from your enemy' track, and it's not as though there are respected rules around not using your enemy's facilities against them ... but you know what I mean.
I think this is probably the most self-indulgent thing I've ever read.
I've worked with a lot of Fortune 500 companies, and never have I heard a story of where they outsourced IT work and it actually went well. Maybe it saved a few dollars, but invariably it added mountains of inconvenience, delay, wastage and frustration.
> ASIC resistance ... make sure you can't just throw money at GPU and become the king of the hill; CPU friendly

first of all, asics are specially designed hardware, not gpus

second, switching to actual gpu- or cpu- friendly algorithm comes with it's own drawbacks - anybody controlling large enough botnet can perpetrate 51% attack against you
Hmm. That actually opens up a solution: remove the requirement you mention, and we might have sizeable benefits from 1st gen implants in jobs like coding too, we'd just need to switch/translate to languages specifically designed to the make the bes of the implant's particular characteristic.

Though that would soon turn into the mother of all "technical" debt issues...
another option that is a pretty good Heroku clone is to deploy to a Deis stack. https://deis.com I set up a deploy on kubernetes a year ago and it was very close to Heroku -- impressive.
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Hackernews should change the "flag" button to "wounds my masculinity".

After years of using hckrnews.com which shows flagged posts, I think 90% of flagged front-page posts are about harrasment and gender issues often in the tech field.
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Oh sure, US was just demonstrative: I think commodity is the right mindset, both as a user and as a community. Banning it's not going to happen, taxing it will be tricky, and it may be premature to rework anybody's tax system just for BTC.
On the one hand this is true: the things we tell social media are really unreliable indicators of ourselves.

On the other hand, the knowledge social media has about us goes beyond what we enter in it. They know what we read, often what website we visit, what we click on, what we hover over but don't click on, whose profiles we view, what posts/comments we start to type but then remove, etc. Those can reveal a lot of things we don't know about ourselves.
This is the first question I ask on an interview (for a C position). People who know this stuff can walk me through it in a few minutes, and then I can focus on actual problems. Fresh college grads usually struggle a bit with the preprocessor and the linker, but the good candidates can usually figure it out with hints in 10-15 minutes.

I find this works better than a fizzbuzz test; there is always a follow-up question that involves reading/modifying some code, but those who struggle with the first question always perform poorly on the second as well.

The OP does a good job of explaining the basics. I'm saving this link to send to the candidates that do poorly on the questions.
Maybe you should look at historical examples. Are there successful companies founded or led by engineers? Daimler/Benz, Rolls Royce, Siemens, General Electric (successor of Edison General Electric), Amazon, Google,.. Not every good engineer is a good company leader, but those who are make history.
The fertility rate in China is currently 1.57, well below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1. In fact, fertility rates are below replacement rates or rapidly declining nearly everywhere, even in places like India where the fertility rate will almost certainly reach sub-replacement levels in a decade. Africa is the only region that doesn't show this pattern.
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We may need segregation based on gender at the work place
'..are companies going to line up with slave labour conditions to deliver and then shift blame?'

No because we don't drag people off the street and force them to be delivery drivers. There is a level at which people feel incentivised to do this kind of work and there is a level at which they look for something else.
It's probably the context. These examples are mostly (not all) for corporate contexts, complete with highly generalized wording to reduce individual responsibility and promote selective enforcement, as opposed to design principles for democracy or managing physical disabilities.
I'm not op, but I'm a seasonal driver, and I've delivered about 200-250 packages a day on a suburban route so far. My understanding is that the number of stops you have is directly related to the density of your route. So routes with stops that are closer together have a lot more packages.

On my first day a package was stolen, and I got a stapled packet with all of the information that UPS knew about the package (when it was delivered, what location it was delivered to, where the truck was when it was marked delivered), etc. I have to go interview the person making the claim.

We aren't supposed to leave any packages that are of obvious high value, such as laptops, TV's, or any Apple product. Houses with a lot of claims will be flagged and required to always sign for packages.
I'm not really sure how a small block size prevents centralisation?
I agree. I didn't mean bashing people, just addressing some of the more irrational worries confidently as non-issues.

The way I feel it, engaging with irrationality legitimizes it. You don't want to do that too much. If you bend over yourself to explain that people really don't need to worry, it'll only make them feel that there is something to fear.

What I want to suggest is engaging with people on an emotional level, but projecting confidence while doing so.
by not having to run Zookeeper :)?
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Second part of my comment is just proof that personal opinion is irrelevant.
Or anecdotal.
No, population growth is not the biggest problem for China, the median age of China is about 38 years old, their growth has already petered out. The population growth problem is right now mostly Africa and South Asia.

China already has less than replacement ration (2.1) child births, what do you want ? People to not have children?
From my experience, the way you find out there's an issue with the exchange is when you see people posting on /r/bitcoin about having waited weeks for their withdrawal to be processed. Meanwhile the exchange continues to accept deposits.
DoSelect has some good programming problems including API based questions and competitive coding questions.

https://doselect.com/
The disbanding of the military was part of the DeBa'athification doctrine. It also banned all members of the Ba'ath party from public employment, including the various affiliated corporations. Private jobs were surprisingly hard to find, given the stigma and the whole war thing.

So not only the military knowledge, but the people that know how to run the factories and the people that can handle the logistics of such a thing. Not to mention teachers, medical staff, and similar posts.
Of all involved parties, drivers and customers are the ones with least power to influence this decisions. By far.

That's why unions and governments pushed hard to regulate employment to protect workers during the last 150 years.
Sensible advice if not coloured with the chalk of Ayn Rand!

Hopefully I do a good job and it'll be my honour when my children look after the old when they grow up.
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No, we want water efficiency. Agriculture has access to cheap water, thus no incentive (nor the economic ability to invest for equipment) to conserve it.

If they would get water at the normal price, their goods would all increase in price, but from a higher price with the same profit margin they'll be able to save for water saving technologies, which will allow them to increase their margin further (or offer lower prices - as eventually everyone will invest in water conservation methods).

And then cities will have more water and food will cost a bit more.
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The problem is that people who have millions/billions of cakes is convincing people who have one cake that when the distribution happens, they're going to take your only cake.
Every country heavily subsidizes and protects their agriculture market.

There is no free market in agriculture.

World hunger has not been 'solved' and any success cannot simply be credited to 'free markets' for a such a large scale complex human social problem.
If you take just one piece of information from this blog:
Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems
instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once

(The subtitle of Aaronson's blog.)

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Whenever I mention competence is a direct correlation to quantity and quality of practice people cry and create bullshit excuses. :(
I certainly felt no pressure to have children. In fact, up until the moment I decided to have children, I always said I didn't want them.

What changed was my partner's boy, and now my boy for all intents and purposes. It made me rethink my stance and I decided to expand my family.
Yeah, Deis!

I have been a big proponent of Deis even as Microsoft has acquired the team and they've gone more hands-off with the project. It's harder to make the case for Deis when there is nobody you can buy support from...

(Is there anyone left that you can buy support from? I heard the easiest way to get an answer on the internet is to start by "being wrong"... secretly hoping there's still someone out there in the business of providing support to Deis)

I'd also settle for someone who has continued to use Deis in production after the end-of-life date was set, and currently has no plans to move away. (I know you're out there...)

I've been looking at Convox the last few days, because my team actually wants to insist on doing something with ECS. We've used Deis with our developer laptops with a middling degree of success.

The best part of using Deis now IMHO is that when they ask "what are you going to do when you need support and you can't get it," ... or "what are we going to do if you leave, and nobody knows how it works?"

Well there are a lot of 12-factor PaaS and hosts. Pick another one and move on. Or you can roll your own. It's not that hard, there is even a step-by-step guide (12factor.net)!
Also note that the better carriers that don’t do bullshit like this (FedEx Express, UPS) perform better and are very competitive.

I work at a place that has acquired ITIL religion for technology operations. Just like the minimum wage driver, it encourages bullshittery like this and wastes money to provide inferior service. Unfortunately, once you’ve found Jesus (aka metrics), the answer to all questions is more religion.
I'm working for UPS seasonally right now, and delivering packages after the sun goes down is about 3 times slower because it's so much harder to find people house numbers, and people's walkways and porches aren't well lit.

Working night shift isn't particularly appealing either, and residential streets don't have much traffic. UPS has a union who would oppose these changes I'm sure.
I think we ought to be distinguishing between "decentralized" and "distributed". The original web as we used to know it was decentralized. IPFS is distributed.

In social media: [Mastodon][0] is decentralized. [Patchwork][1] is distributed.

[0]: https://joinmastodon.org/
[1]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
Yet if you look at what the West has offshored it's manufacturing, customer service, IT support, etc. All areas that are amenable to automation because the deliverable arrives down a wire or in a container.

What hasn't been offshored are jobs that require a physical presence, these are much tougher to automate.
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I can't imagine how you'd reliably communicate "and then super-elevate right before you fire" to someone either in prose or glyphs on the side of a stinger. You're probably thinking an AT-4, which did, IIRC, have instructions on the side.
This seems interesting but to me there is a flaw near the beginning. They state a btree assumes worst case distribution. That's a feature . Much better than a "this will be fast, if you're lucky" distribution.

But who knows, maybe for read heavy analytical workloads this will be an interesting way of improving performance or reducing space usage.
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Not an apologist for unit tests, but I'll bite here: unit tests are still valuable when you have the capacity to run ful integration tests.

A unit test can run really fast, for one, it can cover future use cases that don't get covered in integration, it edge cases you don't expect to hit, but are still important to cover in case something happens.

I'm sure there are more, good reasons to write unit tests and integration tests, but those two easy pickings are probably the source of your down votes
First, capture, tag, and release a number of US senators. 15 or so should work. Then, reset your traps and capture some more. Count how many of the second capture set were tagged in the first group. This tells you what proportion of the population of Senators you captured the first time, and by dividing the number of senators you tagged by this proportion you can estimate the total population of senators. Divide that number by two to obtain the number of states.
What's the point of giving Google instructions instead of just linking https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/disable-xfinity-wif... ?
So you want a LSM for inserts and the DNN for reads? Seems OK. You still have to update/retrain the DNN after an insert into a larger layer, which will be expensive. So you’d probably get high latency at the 99% (or some high number).
It is a huge premium. In reality it should only be the future value of the current spot, given the current interest rate. For other types of futures (oil, grains) that have storage costs or seasonality there are other factors that affect the difference between the spot and future price, but for financial futures (especially cash-settled) it should be nearly no difference for a one-month expiry.
TPUs are only one part of this eye-opening presentation. Skip to page 28, where Jeff starts talking about:

* Using reinforcement learning so the computer can figure out how to parallelize code and models on its own. In experiments, the machine beats human-designed parallelization.

* Replacing B-tree indices, hash maps, and Bloom filters with data-driven indices learned by deep learning models. In experiments, the learned indices outperform the usual stalwarts by a large margin in both computing cost and performance, and are auto-tuning.

* Using reinforcement learning to manage datacenter power. Machine intelligence outperforms human-designed energy-management policies.

* Using machine intelligence to replace user-tunable performance options in all software systems, eliminating the need to tweak them with command line parameters like --num-threads=16, --max-memory-use=104876, etc. Machine intelligence outperforms hand-tuning.

* Using machine intelligence for all tasks currently managed with heuristics. For example, in compilers: instruction scheduling, register allocation, loop
nest parallelization strategies, etc.; in networking: TCP window size decisions, backoff for retransmits, data compression, etc.; in operating systems: process scheduling, buffer cache insertion/replacement, file system prefetching, etc.; in job scheduling systems: which tasks/VMs to co-locate on same machine, which tasks to pre-empt, etc.; in ASIC design: physical circuit layout, test case selection, etc. Machine intelligence outperforms human heuristics.

IN SHORT: machine intelligence (today, that means deep learning and reinforcement learning) is going to penetrate and ultimately control EVERY layer of the software stack, replacing human engineering with auto-tuning, self-improving, better-performing code.

Eye-opening.
Thanks, I'm trying to institutionalize this and was wondering what would be a good Christmas bonus. 250$ was my ballpark.
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You can definitely 'mine' such a block. The problem is getting the rest of the network to accept it. In fact, with Bitcoin Cash you can basically see what happens if blocks are created according to different rules.

However I image if suddenl 100% of the miners decided 42MM bitcoins is better (because 42), something a lot of users would be opposed to (printing money), things would become 'interesting'.
> I get that's problematic for your modernization efforts, but in that case: eliminate modem rental fees. Bake the fees in to the standard cost of the service and don't let customers use their own equipment.

I love how it's in the interests of public companies to brag about how successful they are. When I see a comment like this, I like to checkout the most recent 10K. According to Comcast's stated figures, they made $8.7 BILLION last year. So, they're doing pretty well. Now, obviously, they can't just give the modems away, but if they would at least STOP BILLING THE CUSTOMER for a leased modem after their costs have been recouped, that would be a HUGE public-relations win.

If we all could buy the modem of our choice, over time, say, amortized over the length of your contract, and then RELIABLY stop getting billed for it, I'd LOVE to just buy it through them. I'd argue that the reduced support costs for NOT BEING RENT-A-CENTER JERKS about the modems would save them a lot of money in the long run.
I think the reason people are 'dumbfounded' is that IS are display a level of rationality and critical thinking that seems entirely at odds with their irrational and uncritical cultural-religious-political beliefs.
It does, and it would, but what are you going to do with those 100 million farmers? Their children are rushing to the cities faster than you can possibly imagine. But it takes at least a generation or two to change a country of poor farmers into an industrial, educated, urbanized society. And until then, you have this problem.
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Facebook also knows a lot about what you do offline, such as the stores you visited and the purchases you’ve made.
Yes and then (in the UK) the labour movement split into working class people and middle class people with a socialist ideology.

As it turned out, the two are not mutually compatible.
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Well, you don't need clean water. You can use your distilled water in a closed loop and condense it using any old water. That's what the big towers on a nuclear power plant are for - they're cooling towers for the condensors.

This could even increase rainfall (and thereby fresh water supply) if you have a source of brackish water nearby to use as cooling water, since a decent fraction of the cooling water evaporates.
Well, I don't think it's possible to design a novel general purpose processor overnight, so I'm not surprised that it's been four years coming. On the other hand listening to this talk I walked away with the impression that they're further away from making real chips (even engineering samples) than the last talk.

Whatever the case, I do hope they make it to market but maybe that's just my own morbid curiosity.
Maybe people would rather not have a repeat of the tumult and violence that accompanied the industrial revolution?
I’m not talking about safety nets. I’m talking about this assertion by the author:

> Of course, if you saw it in your own country, you’d recognize it for what it was—people working their asses off, even well into old age, not out of some perverse industriousness, but simply because they’ve gotta eat.

Even if Japan had a more robust safety net, people would still need to work to eat (and they have welfare). Not necessarily any given person, but people generally. Indeed, we would be counting on exactly the opposite point from what the author makes: that most people would be industrious enough to work these jobs notwithstanding the fact that they could eat if they didn’t. Particular in Japan, which is facing an unprecedented imbalance between working age and non-working age people.
They don't want to produce it themselves, they want to sell it as a license. I read(or heard) somewhere.
Regardless of the settlement of the future, you still need bitcoins to enter the other side of the trade
I have no knowledge of India at all, but I witnessed a process similar to what GP describes in Eastern Europe: 20 years ago knowing a little bit of Windows internals (like how to connect a printer...) was enough to get a job with a decent pay. With time, however, a generic "computer skill" in population grew and universities started producing a lot of programmers (and, a bit later, admins), which made the requirements for tech jobs steadily raise. A lot of my acquaintances lost their jobs along the way and either moved to other careers or got to one of a handful of places where such jobs are still available and secure, mostly in the govt institutions.

I'm not sure if the reasons I stated are really responsible for this, but the requirements in job postings getting higher over the years is a hard fact you can probably check easily.
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In the early talks Ivan said they intend to produce it themselves.
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LinkedIn requires start/end years for any experience and this becomes a way for people to identify a person's age. I have seen it used time and again where people look to see how old a person is, then pass simply on that alone--especially in the Tech industry. There is an article on Slashdot today about how to retrain "old IT people." The problem is the same as race, why are they singled out? In many states age is a protected class, so why is it not getting the same level of treatment as things like race? LinkedIn doesn't require you to list your race... Has anybody else observed this behavior? Perhaps they could simply give the option as the # years spent at a given location, in lieu of start/end?
So. Much. B.S.

There is only one thing that people who have not been dropped on a head interested in. It is called money. Money buys them stuff. Money lets them have a nice roof over their head. Money lets their family not worry about a slum in the economy. Everything else is secondary.

Here's a magic formula: MaxMoney(Min(work))

402 "PAY_ME_MORE_MONEY"

P.S. That's why it is called a job and not hobby or volunteering.

P.P.S. Finance industry figured it out - which is why they are starting to raid the interwebz companies with a great success. In finance everything is solved by paying people more money. Sucky stack? $30K extra. Wear suit? $30k extra. Non-tech manager irritating you? Another $20k extra.
Good old static analysis. "Holding everything as constant, X will increase to Y causing Z ridiculous consequences." Cue that Time Magazine cover with the razor with dozens of blades.