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Thanks; the relevant page in the paper is 25, and very clearly, the people in the group do not doubt the scientific method.

Specifically, the negatively-correlated Scientific Explanation factor is defined on page 6:

"The second factor, accounting for 12.6% of the total variance, was defined by the four items stating that science can explain nature, human behavior, imaginative artifacts, and subjective human experience. We labeled this factor Scientific Explanation."

That is, "Scientific Explanation" is a combination of the following factors on page 8 (it's the 2nd eigenvector in the PCA of the survey results):

-- Nature forms a unified structure that can be objectively known by science.

-- Human behavior can be objectively explained by science.

-- Subjective human experience can be explained scientifically.

-- Imaginative artifacts like music, painting, and literature can be objectively understood using scientific knowledge

I don't doubt the scientific method in the slightest, and yet even with the most optimistic hopes for science, my answers would be:

-- NO, as science (and the scientific method) aren't about that (e.g. the "shut up and calculate" approach to quantum mechanics). We can study the structures and their effects, but understanding them is more philosophy than science, and any knowledge or understanding is always going to be incomplete as the boundary of our knowledge becomes more vast.

-- MAYBE, leaning towards LIKELY NOT, because I think this is equivalent to building a strong AI

-- NO, by definition of subjectivity this falls outside of the domain of science

-- NO, for the same reason.

Nuances like this are absent from the article.

This is some very shoddy journalism.
There is an episode of Star Trek Voyager (The 37's) where they come across a Red Ford Pickup floating through space.

I can't find a YouTube version of the floating part but here it is in the cargo bay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD39p7cVS9g

Would be great to VFX the Tesla into the episode.
I'm guessing that Google had deployed Level 4, built with legacy technology. Very large codebase, strong dependency on a well serviced Lidar, dependency on accurate calibration, dependency on real-time high fidelity maps. A solution scalable to well-managed fleets in good neighborhoods. If this is the case, the others still have a chance at getting to Level 5 in the same time frame as Google. If they play the technology in a right way.
#4: Another motivation for using Alpine is to have a shell available so that quick debugging is possible if something goes wrong. For e.g. use ping to see if DNS lookups are happening in a Kubernetes cluster.
To elaborate: I don't claim to know if there is or isn't anything like that and I'm not interested of arguing about that here.

What I am saying is that if a phenomenon is explainable with less "special casing", we should buy into that explanation rather than a more complicated one. Quantum physics is explainable without the concept of sentience; it's just ABC's of philosophy of science that we shouldn't try to include anything more into our theory than is needed.
The mistake might have come from this 2010 Scientific American article which uses the wrong spelling in the title.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-decade-t...
> So Clojure has dynamic classloaders, but it does not have a replacement for classloaders. And so classloader confusion is something that cannot be solved at this level.

> But I could imagine if you were coming from Common Lisp, or something like that, and saying "that seems like a wart." And it is a wart that we lovingly embrace, for the mighty power of having access to the whole JVM ecosystem.

There's Armed Bear Common Lisp[0], which is a Common Lisp on Java, which gives access to the whole JVM ecosystem. Dunno how it handles classloaders though.

[0] https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/
Bitcoin is a public ledger of agreed transactions. I give you some goods, it's registerd in the ledger that you owe me some number of "thingies". Later someone gives me some goods, and on the ledger I transfer your debt to them, and so it goes round.

At some point, someone offers to give me cash for the thingies registered against my name, I agree and thus they have the thingies, and I have cash.

The clever technical parts are how the public ledger is maintained without there being a central authority, and without having to publicly name the individuals who hold the assets.

I've used that explanation several times to good effect so far.
Wow, that was a surprisingly insightful talk; thanks for linking!

I'm intrigued in particular by the talk's conclusion about (I guess, again) disappearing distinction between volatile and non-volatile storage. To date, I've been a vocal advocate of hierarchical filesystems (not UNIX, but just as a unit of user-facing abstraction). The talk sent me on the way of reflecting whether I'm not just supporting another historical "wrong path". Lots of more thinking in front of me here. So thanks.
Looks like it's not quite official yet - at the time of writing this comment, their changelog page and main website / download links still indicate 12.05 as the latest stable.
The US as a whole really struggles with self-regulation... we tend towards the extremes of seems deregulation or a byzantine web regulations spawning off a new industry that lobbies for answering every problem with more regulations.

Why not create stronger incentives for individuals? Simplify regulations with massive painful corporate fines and jail/asset forfeiture for culpable leadership. Red tape is implementation details, let them figure it out. A laser pointer is the best way to herd cats.
Why just asian restaurants? They're basically fresh water lobsters, you should be able to market them anywhere that serves lobster/prawn/shrimp.
Wondering if these funds may be obligated to work in the interest of their investors vs just maximize dollar value. For example, should a factory worker retirement fund invest in robotic companies that automate workers out of a job? I suppose the argument is that if they don’t someone else will.
As a Python and JavaScript developer I live in Jupyter and the Firefox/Chrome devtools (and I'm starting to get into Observable). I genuinely don't know how to be productive in languages that don't have a great REPL.

I think REPLs might be why I've never really got excited about IDEs. When you're working in a REPL you can answer questions about your code instantly without needing smart autocomplete or context-sensitive help.
> Schools spend an average of a little more than 4 percent of their endowment funds annually.

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> “Endowments aren’t generally used to lower tuition,” said Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University, testified before the House Ways and Means Committee last year. “Typically less than 20 cents of every dollar of endowment income is used for scholarships to lower fees for students. Making college more affordable is not the dominant use of endowment resources.”

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> Critics note that a lot of endowment money goes toward glitzy student centers, athletic fields and pricey academic buildings.

From here: http://wfae.org/post/colleges-pressured-spend-more-endowment...
About half of all tech on the internet today originated by google open sourcing it. Your and other google hate does not take into account the fact that many things that exist on the internet and tech is because of google I cant believe you guys are still crying about reader. Personally I think it was bad move on their part but I really don't get all the crying you guys do for something that shutdown 5 year ago.
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but the expected outcome is, in time, they'll mostly die off in a single extinction event, ie virus, due to their lack of genetic diversity

so it's a problem that'll likely resolve itself, though they could cause permanent damage in the meantime
Well, you'd do a general marketing push, but Asian markets are a fairly narrow target market, some of them specialize in spicy crayfish boils, so it seems easier since the supplier and the demand are both there and you'd get more bang for your marketing buck. But if you could pick up 150 crawfish in an hour with just your hands, think of what a lighted trap could do overnight.
The reward for the Ponzi scheme is the ultimate prize isn’t it; who wouldn’t want to live in paradise forever. All religions run this scheme, as far as I’m aware?
Sure. But I'm pretty sure that there are more Asian people than Cajun/Southern people, and if you want to create a large market, it makes sense to focus on the really big markets.
Apart from the 2016 Christmas Tree lecture [1] (which is even available in 3D [2]), Knuth also mentioned this “mysterious package from Poland” during an earlier (a week earlier) lecture at Brown University [3] (about 25 minutes in).

I love this talk (he gave roughly the same talk at both places, though one was more rushed than the other). He goes pretty deep into history — for example his discussion of Hamiltonian tours (knight's tours etc.) in Sanskrit poetry is at a level of detail that I have not seen in any other published source in English. After knowing that he was interested in this topic, I requested a contemporary Sanskrit poet to write a “knight's tour” Sanskrit poem, and gave it to Knuth as a gift. He loved it!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZB9HvddQk

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DrzK3Z0rg0

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UFkH5ZlVqQ
Hard to say. Waymo has way more miles than everyone else, but the layman's observation is "yeah, but in environments you control with an iron hand and travel over and over on the same rough, predictable routes, albeit with your very rich suite of data points."

A bazillion miles on the same track isn't necessarily as impressive as a magnitude fewer miles on varied uncontrolled/unmapped snowy, icy, narrow, unlit, flooded, unplanned etc, routes.

So, how do I compare Google's/Waymo's vast number of sensor rich planned miles versus Tesla's much lower, much less rich (no lidar) but much more diverse and real-world miles? And everyone else's (Uber/Lyft) in-between play?

It's pretty unclear, for a layperson, right now, who is ahead of the pack.
This adds an un-necessary dependency between services. Team working on service A would need to coordinate with team working on service B to keep same layers. The contract should be to keep the image size as small as possible, and teams can work independently.

Also, python:3.6 doesn't always mean the same layers, since it could be rebuilt with entirely different layers with same tag, unless FROM is locked to a particular layer.
What are those highway-like structures?
An endowment is there to provide investment income over tens/hundreds of years. Spending even 100% of that year's capital gains would be grossly irresponsible. The article you linked is calling for 5% vs. 4%... sure there are probably some institutions being too stingy, but on the whole, taking small distributions is the point.
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This doesn't happen on Kubernetes. The Pod stays in ContainerCreating state unless the entire image is pulled. We are running some Java containers which are >2GB and apart from the time it takes to start-up on a fresh node, everything is fine.
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I am on the same page as you...I think the Apple Watch is going to be the replacement for the iPhone. In fact this will be the largest segment as we slowly see most functions move from the phone to the Watch (yes I realize that there are some limitations due to screen size) but in general you will see much move over while the Apple Glass will take over the other function that you need a image of.
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Flutter will be official development platform for Google Fuchsia, their next big OS*. Google is supporting Android and iOS with flutter So that they can have plenty of apps available already when Fuchsia is launched.

With the big investment they are doing in Fuchsia it seem unlikely they will abandon it soon.
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> risk-takers, innovators, and all those folks you mentioned who simply work harder at the expense of something else in their lives.

Given just that description, you could be talking about parents. The consequences you list for not rewarding them aren't off the mark either.
Cleaner version of the paper is on arxiv-vanity:

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1802.00527/
They're extremely cheap and some of them also come with a blade for cutting seatbelts (inside a notch so you won't accidentally cut yourself with it). Definitely a life-saving tool worth keeping in your car.
Large institutions are wealthier than individuals? Large institutions are wealthier than small institutions? Neither of these realities are surprising or concerning in any of the ways that wealth disparity between individuals is.
I actually think it is a deliberate cannibalization being done with here. But they are doing it slowly as not to be a shock to the system. Look at the Apple Watch...my gut you will start to see every year more and more of the functions on the iPhone move over. The beauty of this is ppl will not bark at this as the Watch becomes the yearly replacement cycle vs. the phone which will be every 5 years.
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> You cannot argue for Common Carrier status in front of a judge if you're not classified as a common carrier by the FCC.

Sure you can, since “common carrier” is a centuries old common law classification that the FCC has nothing to do with, as well as also a statutory classification under the Telecommunication Act inspired by the common law classification, as well as a statutory classification under other laws.

And even for the classification under the Telecommunication Act, one could argue the definition in the Act whether or not the FCC has applied it in a particular way (this requires overcoming the deference that courts give to executive agencies delegated decision-making powers by Congress, but it is not an impossible argument to make in principle.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16313612
On a side note, Mixpanel used to host conferences but stopped after 2014. Anyone know why?
It's kinda perfect. Sexps are readable, very easily and quickly navigable and mobile (i.e. moving some expression(s) around in the program source) w/ something like paredit, very easy to partially evaluate, parse, and they are easy to write. The complexity of the program is almost entirely contained within the tree of function calls instead of partly in the syntactic representations of the operations and literals. It's very easy to teach: we have lists, they contain symbols (i.e. names), numbers, strings (i.e. text), and other lists; symbols stand for themselves when quoted, or treated as variable names if not and evaluate to the values they name; if we don't quote the lists, they are function calls, the initial item must then be a name of a function, and the rest are arguments to that function. The entire program is made up of function calls, some evaluated at compile time, some run time. That is a fairly complete definition of a Scheme and CL like syntax. Furthermore, I find the Polish notation way of writing down mathematical expressions (albeit I seldom use them) as sexps is superior to the infix notation because any possibility of ambiguity is effortlessly dealt with. Basically there's no reason to further complicate a simple and useful thing when the complexity added does not offer substantial benefits while keeping those that the simpler solution offers.
You do make a couple valid points but on the debt side are wrong. The only reason they have such a high debt is due to USA tax policy on repatriation. This has now been removed with new law so what will happen is there prob will not be anymore borrowing anymore. The CFO even mention they will be cash-neutral. Net net Apple will have very negligible debt moving forward and def nowhere near the level it is today or your +$200B.
I agree - but looking at the daily graph of the VIX index - it rose slowly from around 18 to top out at 37. I'd expect anyone holding this position is actively trading and would have wound up the position with a significant profit.
It would be better to use a separate term from "chilling effect" for this. That term has a specific legal connotation and generally indicates a fear of unfavorable treatment by the government for doing/saying something otherwise totally permissible.

This situation involves a private company that is no longer serving data from a domain found to be in violation of the law. It does not meet the same definition.
I understand the sentiment, but I would absolutely refer you to Nicholas Talebs books and his treatment of volatility if you have not already seen them.
There are a few comments here about how private investors are able to provide sufficient funding that startups don't have to go to public markets anymore.

If that is the case, then the self-correcting market mechanism should be : startups don't go public sooner -> employee options are worthless -> employees realize this and start asking for salaries in line with public companies -> private investors don't have enough capital to compete on "liquid compensation" with public companies -> startups are forced to go public

Though I think there is still fair bit of time before this happens; too many people still cling to their beliefs in the lottery tickets aka "perpetually illiquid startup options"
As someone who brought a branch of a US company to Krakow (my birth place), I can only say - great job and congrats!
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I saw that they now operate in Japan, US and UK. We're based in Germany, so not sure whether we can technically use it...
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I’ve used Kotlin enough to be comfortable but Java is still my go to for personal projects.

Java + StreamSupport + RxJava (and formerly + Retrolambda) is a very modern feeling language.

Heavy use of Optional makes the null safety issues a little less worrying and all my apps are built around AutoValue objects which are a bit like Kotlin data classes.
That is a lot of words without once mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley.
I wonder if it could be done in a less grating way? I agree with the general idea of affirming the good in others' viewpoints, but I do find GP's phrasing patronizing. Why not something like:

I agree, and I think there'd be a lot of developers who feel the same way (re: wanting to help, valuing freedom of access to scientific information). I wonder, though, if there's really that much we can do as developers. There are of course some vulnerabilities that can be mitigated with good code on the server, but most attacks are impossible to prevent without the resources that a company like CloudFlare can marshal. Unfortunately, the state of the art for responding to DDoS attacks requires a big network, a lot of bandwidth, and active management.
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How would that invalidate the option contract? As far as the company is aware the option was exercised under the employee name and stays that way indefinitely till an IPO event.

Post-IPO the shares are prob deposited in Computershare and as a shareholder you can transfer it to anyone you want.
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> What happens when the DDoS is just a botnet acting like a huge number of normal users?

I thought that's exactly what the first `D` stood for...
I can put my spin as a buyer on it. Overall it's pretty good although fee are high. The other thing is they do specialize in forward contracts which kinda suck but only option to buy shares of companies that do not allow transfer right now.
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We had this problem in our iOS app, solved it by using an array of ints wich are the increment-operations (well, we had uuids on them as well so we could determine what was new and do a proper merge).

But we merge by using differential synchronization (kinda) to resolve local changes and remote changes (to construct a "patch") by keeping an unchanged copy of the upstreams latest version (from the clients perspective).
Just saw one a few minutes ago. It's actually not even the script you need to allow, it's just an XHR request to adiode.com. I can't remember the other one, I'll report back here when I see it again (usually every couple days).

I saw the adiode.com one on https://www.merriam-webster.com if you want to have a look for yourself.
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Do we need driverless to handle all the corner cases? I’m starting to think this is just the wrong way to look at it. Most of the time we commute home it’s just the same dumb stuff.

We can make an analogy to Starcraft AI-assisted here. What if instead of having a fully automated AI, instead you could train your car to take you home, by driving your route a couple of times? Kind of like how you might train the computer to go harass your opponents expansion and then just call up that subroutine everytime that it’s apropos (still waiting on Blizzard to make this game).

Don’t try so hard to replace the human. Make the human less busy, more powerful.
> In theory my argument should fall flat because of market efficiency. If making decisions so obviously hurts a company's longterm outlook, then that should theoretically be factored into the price of a stock. But in reality quarterlies seem to drive the market.

It shouldn't. Market efficiency is precisely why we'd "lose" SpaceX if it went public now. The market does not optimize for the best future of mankind. It optimizes for short-term profits (those who don't get outcompeted by those who do). It's a powerful solution to some problems, not all problems.
If a startup that hires you is not interested in ever going public does that mean that the stock options they give you are not likely to ever be worth anything?
I don't see how they are a downside. I am sure that VCs and PEs are at least as tough as activist investors in making sure to keep management on its toes. Notions like MVP and ramen profitability were not invented by activist investors, after all.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16307536 - can they be merged?
> Either they are recklessly competitive or confident that the cars can handle any situations they might run into in the area they're releasing them.

I don't think these are the only two possibilities. A third might be that they're confident that if a car finds a situation it can't handle, it'll gracefully degrade. If 1 out of 10,000 rides ends in a crash, that's a problem. If 1 out of 10,000 rides ends in needing to call a human driver for a pickup, it's not.
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The last serious study of VC performance I read suggested that, as an asset class, venture capital underperforms the S&P 500. Pension funds invest in VC not to get access to sweet sweet unicorn dollars, but because their portfolio strategies require them to have decorellated investments.

I've been in the industry long enough to remember working in it when it was very easy for tech companies to go public. It did not work out well for retail investors.
> One of the benefits (for most people) of modern life is that you can hop in a car and drive places.

The price we pay for that is grimly high.