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From airmail to email, the bay area has a rich communications history.

From the Wikipedia page on Airmail:
"Starting in 1903 the introduction of the airplane generated immediate interest in using them for mail transport. An unofficial airmail flight was conducted by Fred Wiseman, who carried three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California, on February 17, 1911.[5]

The world's first official airmail flight came the next day, at a large exhibition in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail
I think the implication is that he broke a law that Gates agreed with and thought was just. I imagine Gates worked with intelligence agencies a lot at MS and it makes sense he'd share some of their world views.
It is not about "asking" then to abandon it. It is about a mismatch between what they say and what they actually do (if you look close enough).

But is it too much of an ask to think that some one who seem to be so dedicated to such causes, won't actually do everything that is in their powers (including giving on luxuries), to advance their cause?
Starlink will be simpler than IPv6 and have tiny packet overhead
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Different airliners are optimized for different cruise speeds, too. Large planes like the 747 and A380 tend to fly faster by default than smaller planes like the 737.

A large passenger jet with an airspeed close to Mach 0.9 in strong tail wind can sometimes show ground speed very close to, or even a bit over, what we normally take as Mach 1.
How does AlphaZero handle the Knight in chess?
Same in the UK but more severe.
>But where they single handedly derail a project due to micro-managing and over simplifying developers’ implementation concerns.

All my managers have been engineers in the past. And over half of them fit this description.

I don't want to downplay the benefit of having some domain knowledge, but the problems described are not a symptom of not having engineering experience. Management requires a good amount of nontechnical skills, and too often a high performing engineer is picked for becoming a manager, with no training whatsoever.
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Overreacting mate? Everything alright?
Well, you can use their OS, which has for years tried to undermine the free and open source communities, but you have to pay for it. And you have to agree for them to spy on you. And you're poor?? That is okay, just give up more of your privacy rights and we already sold all your data, so you will be a good consumer now.

You run Windows. Your mind belongs to us. Your ability to think beyond .NET and C# will soon diminish, and we will give you some mediocre job now based on your mediocre proprietary skills, and your role as a tech worker now be to spread your love for MS to everyone, because if you don't we will stop paying you, and you will have no food and no home. And you will not know how to use anything but Windows.
Has the industry always been able to prevent smart, persistent actors from breaking access locks?

Why should we assume that an AGI which can accumulate experience over time, gain more knowledge, and make connections with others, including human actors, will not ever be able to break the locks?
5 minutes lol. From a surgery perspective: Getting a consult as an intern on a patient with a big case file is like (at least) 30 minutes of reading notes, then you talk with the patient, then you talk with your senior, then you and the senior go talk to the patient, then the senior talks to the attending (depending). Sign out (patient hand off) can take a while depending on the size of the list but I don't know any other interns that don't stalk the charts before they are about to come in so it's usually just a quick brief on each patient and what therapies are going on. Did I mention you do sign out (on trauma) after having been at the hospital for 24+ (sometimes 30 depending on attending) hours? Things can and do still get missed.
Free rider problem. People locally optimize for their own benefit and those same people can rightfully decry the effect. We are all hypocrites from time to time. Let’s not let hypocrisy be a reason to discount a thought or idea. The validity of the idea is not based on whether or not proponent is beyond reproach.
I think his answer would be to admit to selfishness. But to also maybe point out that he has trouble responsibily spending his current endowment and his yacht isn't preventing the foundation from getting the budget it needs and can spend.
I just ended up having permanent hearing loss that I was unaware of until a hearing test. Here is one thing that I learned that surprised me.

I thought that hearing loss was experienced like someone turned down a volume knob. That's not how it works. People experience hearing loss only on certain frequencies. If someone is experiencing hearing loss at high frequencies, they might have trouble hearing only certain sounds like "s" sounds when someone speaks. This leads them to believe that everyone is just mumbling. Because they sound loud, they're just not clear.
I sometimes wonder what would happen if Bill Gates and say Warren Buffet spent a ridiculous amound of money on lobbying, in order to drastically change the political landscape.
> You don’t think it’s sad that people don’t travel more than an hour from a major city and experience the world around them?

Not to be too much of an armchair psychologist, but I think that says more about you than it does about them.

Again, there are people who think it's sad that I've never been to a professional ballet performance. Or that I've never gone wheelin. Or that I have yet to go to the statue of liberty.

Should we all drop everything we're doing to satisfy someone else's idea of a measured life?

> If people had experiences outside their narrow sliver of their daily lives they might be more tolerant of others who live different lives.

You can have an incredible wealth of experiences without traveling very far. Especially in a major city. A visit to Lincoln Center is very different from a visit to Flushing, and both are very different from a visit to Staten Island.
It isn’t pessimism, it’s foresight, combined with an awareness of history.
They get three photons to be entangled, but not "maximally entangled" in the (impossible) way that would be needed for someone to listen to a communication without being detected.
You don’t even need to be near a campus to go to college these days. It can all be done online provided the infrastructure are there. I see two critical problems to address and a third more radical option.

1-Invest in bridging the last mile gap for broadband.

2-Clear headed planning to address the fundamental employment issues undermining labor/per capital wealth.

—-there aren’t enough jobs to employ everyone given current market conditions. Ie lower the full time/OT line to 20-30 hours or so and make better support systems (healthcare for all, housing projects for all that aren’t crimes dens)

—-make programs to help college students prepare, correctly for the labor force.
If something more like APL is within the realm of possibilities, you might want to take a look at the co-dfns compiler (although some of it may be specific to GPU code): https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

However, for 10^6 cells, even O(n^2) algorithms should run in a few hours at worst, so performance optimizations might not be too critical. I'd suggest first validating your idea with an existing interpreter. Building your own tools is always fun, but can also be a huge distraction that you probably shouldn't take on unless your existing options are not adequate.
If you include all sentient beings in your analysis there's no question that the world has gotten _much_ worse over the past 50+ years. The number of animals living lives of unending torture has gone up and up during that time period. Any gains made by humans are a blip in the statistics.

I'm somewhat hopeful that we are in the middle of the time when that start changing, but until it does, I think it's quite clear that things have gotten worse, not better.
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The argument is, why do we as a society allow people to amass wealth on the scale of nations. Instead, perhaps that wealth should be democratically owned, and then put towards what the society needs, rather than what one person decides.
This a playbook that was implemented across numerous places in the last couple decades. Can't ever recall one instance of peaceful reversal.

You are welcome to illustrate with a counterpoint. Something more recent than two millennia ago, preferably.
I'm not going to argue that because Bill Gates has done so much good since leaving Microsoft he's a saint, if you don't argue that because of his history with Windows and MS he's the devil - deal?

How about we meet in the middle and agree that in terms of impact and spectrum he is a pretty amazing example of what you can experience in a single life?

As an aside, Microsoft's failure in the mobile world combined with the pervasiveness of both phones and their vector for surveillance suggests that others are far more responsible for the concerns you voice. I do agree with you that when we have one or a few players choking key points the system is rife for abuse, whether that's the device, the network provider or the OS manufacturer.
This can have its own set of criteria, it’s much easier to protect a special purpose visa. For example just outright ban consulting on the startup visa.
Yep, we should have say in it at the point where we contribute money to his largesse. Ie viable market alternatives.
> Humour me.

It's exactly my whole point that it is unreasonable for me to do so. ThrustVectoring was trying to appropriate the good will and prestige that science has built up without doing the hard work that's necessary for his argument to actually deserve that good will and prestige. It's a kind of free riding.
They’re just computers, you can do all the same stuff. Such as... debugging.
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>I have seen developers spend sometimes an hour or more a day explaining to scrum masters what they just built, so that they can then go "communicate that up" to upper management or project management in opaque meetings developers aren't allowed to attend.

Your scrum masters really aren't. The SM role is supposed to be a few minutes a day, and focus more on how people work rather than the technical details.

Examples are things like telling management that the team has often missed deliverables because a key resource (some piece of hardware, etc) is often unavailable. Or even telling managers that their employees think one of the manager's policies sucks.

To an extent, it's about holding the team accountable as well: Why are some people working on a lower priority item when no one is working on a higher priority item?

Don't get me wrong - I'm no fan of scrum, and am not saying a SM is needed. But, as with management, a good SM is a valuable contribution to the team.
Well something had to be done. People could buy any head unit they liked. There was even a DIN standard size and connector and they would talk to the car's built in display. Aftermarket units were often far better. How is a dealer meant to sell $MANUFACTURER units with a market like that? (/s, clearly)
Because whenever I look into statistics, I lose faith in them http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/exposing-gr...
In press interviews, he's also expressed criticism toward Apple about the San Bernadino iPhone case and about the goal of deploying end-to-end encryption that nobody can break.

(I work on these issues on what's apparently the other side from him.)
You mean it's the future from 20 years ago? EJB was exactly this
I'd pay good money* for a system that would package a PiZero, touchscreen, suction cup etc. into a single convenient package that I could plug into the 12v charging point of my car. Especially if it runs Android Auto!

*A medium amount of money
There’s a balance. A group run by clueless managers is bad. Equally through a group run entirely by engineers that don’t think about or consider anything other than their engineering concerns is bad too.

A good manager knows how to find the balance between “what engineering wants” and “what everyone else wants” and gets the best outcome. The best managers don’t need to be expert engineers themselves but they know enough to have a good BS detector and enough to make decent decisions.
Can confirm that basic details frequently get misrecorded (here in Toronto). At a recent visit, the surgical staff received such a broken telephone version of my original reports and activity in the hospital, that when I overheard the surgeon discussing with the students prior to the procedure I literally burst out laughing (despite having an appendicitis waiting to be removed).

This is just how records like this work, frequently contextually or globally incorrect, I don't think it's really a matter of malpractice, at least not in relative terms; though I guess they could do better, like recording that staff had witnessed me collapse (!) two times (one in the waiting room, one in the halls) before they left me sitting in some random chair in a hallway for a couple hours, during which time I passed out a third time, scaring the bejesus out of the others waiting there, none of whom were patients.

Hospitals aren't really all that great at paying attention anywhere, as far as I can tell; the U.S. has the most discerning customers (and to some extent, some of the last remaining customers in the developed world). In the U.S. you might have some hope of complaining about service like I received, for example how the triage nurse spilled what looked like about 200ml of my blood all over my arm and the floor while drawing a sample at intake, or that when somebody finally called me to the the first room, she didn't even wait for me to get to the locked door (which I failed to do, because I collapsed half way there and needed to be wheeled in, mostly helped by random bystanders) before turning and walking back to sit down behind the desk (not at the desk), where I saw her playing on her phone.
Wow! I had to read this few times, aloud. I'd love to write like this. This is cool.

Anyway, made slight normalization to the plural/singular gender usage.

Yes. I'm usually called in when things escalate either with a team or with a client. So, one late evening (early morning for the client's timezone), I joined a client call with the team leads, including the project manager (hired about a month or so ago). The project managers keep eluding anything that goes to him, was evasive, keep blaming the team. I decided to cushion the blame, apologize to the client from the team and promised to be in direct call with him until the problems are solved. Luckily, I was able to rally the team, beg/borrow other guys from other team and turn around in few weeks. I confronted the manager (after talking to everyone in the project), asked him what he wants from the team, from his life, how does he really want to execute his role. Didn't go well. I think, I might have gotten him fired. In my defence, that was a good decision for the team and the company.
Doesn't seem to me this is a step towards China growing into the preeminent power. More like a small step toward autocratic rule and a cult of personality.

Xi is a fine leader — I don't believe problems would start with him. More so his successor who may have decades of rule.
To do lists are still better on paper, too
you make a good point, but my anecdotal story from experience says you really need 10-30x your average capacity for peak times instead of double. an ideal world would be you have your "cheap" datacenter that you use most of the time, and somehow extend into the cloud for the true rare event when you need 30x. I'm not sure how feasible that is, though
Nokia's retro 8110 is getting a revival as HMD goes high-end
UK politics, in terms of campaigning and image, is almost comically primitive. I don’t know that it’s a bad thing however, that the likes of Theresa May can’t effectively disguise their motives. In the US the whole process is so highly optimized for spin and money, that people spend all day smiling and saying nothing. In the UK they stumble around trying to lie, and failing terribly.

The motives are the same, and maybe even the outcomes, but the quality of the theater is radically different.
One of my favourite examples: resetting the router using a timer instead of scripting it

https://www.howtogeek.com/289178/how-to-automatically-reboot...
It's HTML and some simple CSS. It's enough to make a website look good, and it's fast (as webpages should be) on any moderately modern computer. Why don't we all do this again?
H1-B employees tend to come from the best universities from all over the world. There are plenty of MIT and Stanford grads working at these companies, but the US has a large amount of graduates who decided to study STEM in worse universities with the promise of Ivy League salaries but without the skills.

The vast majority of foreign applicants to H1-B jobs get rejected, and stay in their home countries.
What is "democratically owned"? State owned companies? That has being tried did not work out too well.
And you have to agree for them to spy on you. And you're poor?? That is okay, just give up more of your privacy rights and we already sold all your data, so you will be a good consumer now

This is hilarious. What OS do you think Google, Facebook and the NSA run?
>> Any seasoned/experienced engineer in this field could solve this with known approaches.

The only way to know that with any certainty is to actually have solved this problem in the context of an actual general AI, which of course we don't have yet.
Exactly why I default to no JS. But in cases like this, I load a 20k line webpage and see zero content until it's enabled. Welcome to the modern web.
Two things can happen. We can be a society that ensures social needs are met while allowing vast concentrations of wealth.
> (1) your business scales at a different rate than you planned -- either faster or slower are problems!

> (2) you have traffic spikes, so you to over-provision. There is then a tradeoff doing it yourself: do you pay for infrastructure you barely ever use, or do you have reliability problems at peak traffic?

> (3) your business plans shift or pivot

Anyone at any real scale has a multi-datacenter setup and AWS is effectively just a very elastic datacenter you can tap into. You could just as easily tap into Google Cloud or Azure. You do not need to operate 90% of your business in AWS to use AWS.

> The corallary of this is, for a well-established business with predictable needs, going in-house will probably be cheaper. But for a growing or changing or inherently unpredictable business, the flexibility AWS sells makes more sense!

Its still cheaper to go in-house with a multi-DC setup in anything but a single DC setup in AWS with very few nodes.

Architecture for a decent sized business should be setup with 3 DCs in mind /anyway/. You have two primaries, you scale <insert cloud provider> as needed and only leave some DB servers there most of the time.
There are very few things in the world worse than an article that uses an acronym without first identifying what it is.
I know that many people will think UFO as extra terrestrials, but could it be that these aircrafts are actually stealth spy planes from foreign governments that are doing surveillance over US territory?

We know that the US does regular flights over foreign countries for intelligence and normally we tend to think of foreign powers as "less capable" in their military technology. I think it's quite the opposite. There's heavy investment in military tech. Could be Russian or Chinese stealth spy planes. It would make more sense that this is the case than aliens from outer space.

Stealth planes would behave this way. Dropping in an out of radar, no transmission, etc.

If you think about aliens, if they were to make it to the US, they would need some sort of advance propulsion systems in their space craft. This would likely allow their space craft to NOT fly like normal earth aircraft. Why do they need to be traveling in linear patters as this incident shows?

I think foreign military is a more likely answer to the incident.
One very interesting thing about differential privacy is its connection to generalizability in machine learning. In particular, a model can only provide differential privacy if that model is completely generalizable. Generalizability is the ability of a model to do well on data outside its training set. Non generalized models violate differential privacy because you can find out if someone is in the training set by simply measuring the error rate on that person. A low error rate provides evidence that that particular person was in the training set.

This connection is interesting because it implies that differential privacy techniques applied to machine learning must in turn result in more generalizable models, which is very useful in general. This can also provide a simple "upper bound" on how differentialy private your model is. Simply compare the performance on the training and test set and see how much it differs.
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But if that's true, isn't that just keeping, just barely, with inflationary predictions? Especially given the new tax bill increases the deficit wildly, which will lead to a bond glut / money printing exercise?

If so, what's the market going to do, if not reallocate capital from the stock market to a less risky asset?
> I never had the parking break not engage or cruse control drift.

Well, at least around here those things are required to have an old style steel wires fail-safe. And I know that because I have needed the fail-safe once.

But about selling living-place automation as a package, it is basically the say everybody was doing it since the 80's. The <$100 things are basically a reaction from consumers against the huge packages inability to keep working after deployed for a few years (due to planed obsolescence) and the plain bad deal of depending on a single packager.
There's a vector encoding "queen moves" and another encoding "knight moves". Between them, they cover all possible chess moves. Knight moves obviously are modelled by "knight moves".

Edit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01815.pdf

The information you want is on page 13, last paragraph. The previous paragraph describes the representation of the boardd.
> it is very undemocratic for the wealthy to solely pick causes they care about at such a large scale.

This is my biggest critique about charities, but if there are transparent rules and processes that can be fixed.
But in general, I think the govt would be a in a better position to serve their people than charities would.
While some might feel that it is unfair for the market to decide who gets billions and who gets nil, democracy isn't perfect either. Frankly I feel more comfortable having Bill Gates picking what causes are just than Donald Trump.
I'd argue the exact opposite. It is all too easy to just throw up your hands and say "The world is fucked; there isn't anything to do about it". Empathy is impossible without the belief that something can be done, which is optimism.
I didn't know what part of the world you mean, but in the US the capital gains rate maxes out at 20% for people earning over $425,000 a year and that's pretty darn low.

The question to ask is why capital gains tax should be lower than taxes on wages? If encouraging work is the priority, it should be the other way round.
this is from 2015

(and there's been no activity on the project for 2 years)