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It's a tough problem. In the late 1990's, there was a big wave of accounting scandals (Enron, Worldcom, etc.) Which led to heavy regulation (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). The Act was a well-intentioned attempt to protect retail investors from crooks.

The problem's that compliance is so burdensome and expensive that firms don't want to enter the public markets until they're already large (or if they're forced to when their cap tables get too big).

So this regulation that's supposed to help protect retail investors ended up hurting them by putting growth opportunities out of their reach. If you keep the regulations in place, it makes it easier for the rich to get richer and the poor to stay poor, deepening the class divide. But if you roll back the regulations, maybe the crooks will immediately see that as another opportunity to line their pockets by creative accounting, and in another few years we'll see a bunch of big companies go bust, as the lies can't last forever if the money simply isn't there.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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Amazon, actually. It's something like 5/15/40/40, maybe a current/former employee can chime in.
Apple has been trying to chase power users and professionals off of their platform for years. A switch to ARM is an opportunity to rid themselves of the few remaining holdouts and focus 100% on high-end consumer electronics.
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> isn't a difference in risk

Really? People incentivised into looking for your best interests vs. a managed organization incentivised into dissolving your contract and gaining on average. I can't imagine anything that could create more different risks.

What people seem to do all the time is looking at an SLA and believing the real world must behave the way things are on paper; because there's a signature there. People do this even after being recently burned by the same partner. Some people have the same trust for in house staff, but the usual on high management is to have the exact opposite bias.
I.r.o. the latter question, ask the local recycling company.

Batteries are a fire hazard and a heavy pollutant if thrown in the regular trash, but most of the raw materials can be recycled if disposed of properly.
I liked that feature, especially so for office "luggables" that stays on the desk charging most of the time.

That really seems to spare the battery compared to keeping it at 100%. I've replaced the battery in other laptops much more often.
Apple contributed heavily; they're the ones who basically invented Altivec.
Possibly to make the world a better place.
Companies using different legal entities for risk or tax purposes is common in any area of business with lots of tangible assets. Whatever the Hertz holding company is, it controls everything. There's no meaningful comparison to a startup with random people owning title to cars.

Same thing when you walk into a CVS. "CVS Elm Street, LLC" isn't meaningfully distinguishable from CVS/Caremark, the parent.
Validity of claims is one thing. Validity doesn't equal truth or objectivity. "Fake news" includes cases where the presented claims may be technically valid, but the "lie" exists in the omission of inconvenient claims which would invalidate the intended message of the story. The use of certain agreeable facts to drive a greater agenda rather than inform the viewer. Style is related, as it is the method through which a presenter can evoke a particular response in the viewing subject and entice the mind to follow along and be guided. This sort of psychological manipulation is common in people, beginning from childhood. In advanced forms, you have the con man or other such subversive entity, who has mastered the art of manipulation.
> The standard example is how the Netherlands were rather religiously tolerant, but used to keep track of Jews for tax collection purposes before WW2.

I wrote about that exact example:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide
> If they wanted to go x86 they would just buy VIA?

In theory, but then VIA is a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group, so they'd need to either negotiate the sale with an entity with which they've locked horns in the past or buy an entire petrochemical group???

They'd probably have an easier time buying AMD.
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Its even more meaningless to increase property taxes on everyone than to focus the pain into the new construction. a 30k tax on any new unit might be like 10 dollar tax on all units.

The effect of concentrating a tax on something is to make it happen less, and less construction means higher home prices and higher rentals. San Francisco needs to build 1000 units to bring rental prices down 50 bucks. What you need is not to punish, but to make people responsible for the infrastructure they use, and everyone is responsible for the usage, and new construction even less so: until the building is used, the increased infrastructure usage is less. And once its built, all the dwellers pay sales tax and income taxes as well. They will be brining more than their fair share.

Perhaps you believe that the new construction represent a minority that can be exploited, after all, they found a way to profit from the city. But the ones that exploit it the most are the state and the current residents. SF has one of the highest budgets in the world, per city per inhabitant. It doesnt need more money, it needs more discipline.

But there you have the actual issue of SF and california, things like prop 13 that make it impossible to raise taxes on property owners but it makes it easy to apply sales taxes which are known and accepted to be regressive.
I skimmed the lecture after first ten minutes and as far as I can tell, while it seemed like it would be interesting to someone interested in what Boston Dynamics was doing, it doesn't really say anything about AGI beyond "we eventually want to do AGI and we think doing robot stuff well will get us there." If there's something I missed, could someone say.

Since this is part of an MIT lecture series on AGI, I think the GP is sort-of justified in also asking where that part is.
Maybe a bit tangential, but from an economic it's interesting to see Intel's market cap vs TSMC, given that TSMC is purely a foundry. Nowadays what 10nm or 14nm actually means is a lot fuzzier than previous nodes, but the general consensus seems to be Intel's fab tech lead is either pretty precarious or already gone, so I'm just gonna assume even (which is admittedly a poor, oversimplified assumption).

Then TSMC and Intel are pretty even, which is slightly interesting to extrapolate all manner of conclusions.

Intel has slowly opened it's fabs to outsiders, however the first one was Altera, who Intel now owns, so...
Main point is in 20, 30 years, is Intel's main business going to be fabbing their own chips, or someone else's? I dunno, I just enjoy following the industry.
It was just a stream of consciousness and I was planning on editing it but got distracted. It also wasn't formatted very well. My mistake.

I'm sure this has been going on for a long time behind the scenes. That is what happened when the PPC -> x86 transition became public. Since Apple has it's own ARM chips/fab, I wonder if ARM is where they are going? It would make sense from a couple different points of view: Lower power use and security. Can there be equivalence between the two architectures, meaning would similar CPUs net you a similar workload?

There is much to like about the iOS app store, but there also is much to dislike. Apple is the gatekeeper here, and if they don't like your app, you are out of luck. That's not the case with MacOS, at least not yet. You can still write what ever kind of app you desire for what ever your client base may pay for and Apple can't really do much to stop you. Merging iOS and MacOS would need to address this.

Finally I use the command line a lot. I don't have access to that on my tablet or phone unless I jailbreak it which has it's own risks with doing so. If Apple decides this is no longer acceptable, that will certainly change my choices for getting work done.
> What they are saying is that while he was driving there was an earlier point at which the car did not crash, where the car gave a visual and audible clues. And you have to ask? Why the hell is that relevant? It isn't.

Vehicle notifies the driver it's having difficulty operating the driver elected auto pilot mode based on the conditions. Driver elects to continue using the failing operating mode despite being warned.

I fail to understand how "It isn't" relevant that the driver chose not to take manual control when warned that conditions were not ideal.
Yup literally that. Was my post ambiguous?
I take amphetamines to 'even out'...

Stimulants affect people with certain disorders differently, as the parent mentioned (ADHD, etc.).
It’s already legislated in Europe. The new law, GDPR, is coming into force in May across the EU.
> How to fund basic service infrastructure if not by running online ads, or trading user data?

Subscriptions, combined with community awareness advertisements showing where users' money is going to (and where it is not going to) and why it benefits them.
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I mean, that particular game does run exceptionally well on Linux. I think, even quite a bit better than on Windows, unless your GPU's drivers for Linux happen to be shit, of course.

But yeah, the overall point still stands. If you have a particular game that you don't feel like you can substitute and it's not available on a platform that you'd like to switch to, you're probably not switching to that platform.
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For this reason, I am looking for some introductory materials related to statistics (preferably online reading/pdf) which may help me start relatively easy. It would be great if the materials is written with the perspective of machine learning.

Any recommendations?
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>Turning a complex system into a binary, as you are doing, is not an optimal form of analysis. It introduces significant risk, because you are constraining your ability to consider possible outcomes of various policy decisions. Furthermore, you are basing your beliefs on recorded human history, which is an incredibly small sample size, and you are only looking at the average outcome.

I'm happy to consider exceptions to that rule or reasons to believe it is flawed. (Certainly there are game theoretical reasons to impose protection in the short term in the hopes of coercing the other party into agreeing to lower overall protection in the long term. Though all indications are that the administration gives lip service to that at best — they are fundamentally opposed to free trade.)

However, there is substantial theoretical and empirical work to support this point. Are you proposing an alternative or just handwavingly dismissing it as "science is wrong sometimes"? Unless you'd like to point to evidence that protectionism is good or at least a theoretical framework under which it can be good, the claim is little different from "evolution is just a theory, why don't you consider alternatives?"
Is anyone else surprised by the high proportion of dismissive comments here? Of all Reich's work, this is one of my least favourite, but it is certainly music; not noise, not a joke, and not intended as lazy provocation. Reich himself has notoriously conservative views on music, and here he is repeatedly framed as a charlatan!

I often wonder how society will make progress on truly divisive issues when moderately deviant works like this one remain controversial 45 years onward. How will we embrace the proverbial other, and react to difference with compassion when we can't even exercise these principles through our reception of art?
It is not true that all open-access venues require authors to pay article processing charges (APCs) to publish with them. For instance, in my field, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Methods_in_Computer_Sc... is a reputable journal which is free to read and free to publish; it is hosted by the Épisciences platform which is managed by a French public agency (CCSD). People usually use the name "diamond open access" to refer to such journals, which I believe are the best direction for scholarly publishing. By contrast, we talk of "gold open access" to refer to the situation where traditional publishers charge APCs: as you point out, this approach has several problems, in particular the fact that the APCs are often extortionate (e.g., $2000 for a 12-page PDF provided by the authors in a completely typeset and publishable form). However it's not correct to say that open access is expensive -- that's only the case if one stays with traditional publishers.

It's also important to keep in mind that "Think, Check, Submit" is an initiative backed by traditional publishers (of the "gold open access" kind), and I think they are making this a bigger problem than it actually is. In my area, everyone knows which conferences/journals are reputable, and everyone knows that all others are essentially scams (especially if they have APCs). I have never seen anyone make the mistake of publishing valuable material with a scam publisher.
I feel like the causality is likely backwards from the title - if you are less vulnerable to disease, you can better afford to boldly take risks and explore new situations and withstand the possible negative consequences.
I think the definition of harm has to include some negative consequence. Otherwise you could just say "those of us that are offended by the color blue are grievously harmed every time the Echo is activated".

Even if we accept that sharing anything private is harm, I'm guessing most purchasers of the Echo understand that the device uses the internet to answer queries. How are those foolish people being harmed?
If I read that correctly, I don't know where you're extrapolating that Apple is making this move to replace macOS with iOS / a walled-garden where nobody can create apps for Mac except by selling them through the App Store. If Apple wanted to do that, they would just sell iPads and stop selling MacBooks.

As for 2), I think that's a nice convenience - if you're a developer you wouldn't have to to worry about emulation.

> does anybody have faith that Apple is going to be able to navigate a rewrite of macOS on this scale

Is it really that crazy they would rewrite parts of their OS to target a new architecture? A large undertaking sure, but not that ridiculous... This is Apple, not some random startup lol.
I'd also like to read a comprehensive non-partisan discussion on the matter. HN is one of the more intelligent forums I'm aware of, yet on certain topics like this, I assert that it is plagued by the same one dimensional, emotional, absolutist thinking we accuse others of on other topics.

I strongly believe, and constantly test this theory as I am reading the news and forum discussions, that if there is an aspect of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and probably a few others involved in a given scenario, there are very strong subconscious mental processes that interfere with the thought processes of otherwise very logical and perfectly well-intentioned people.
Probably not a universally unbiased source, but I think that many sources occasionally engage in objective reporting. I also think that number is probably decreasing in these times...
I welcome Limbaugh's attempt to pull this piece off! I'm a semiprofessional musician and organist, generally willing to get way in over my head on pieces, but trying to perform this would terrify me. How would you ever get back on track if you lost the meter?...
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But what -- and work with me here -- if the processor is slimmer. With rounded corners.
Can't believe he actually used the word "kickbacks." At least he's being transparent.
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The article doesn't say that Intel will be gone in 2020, just that Apple will be shipping macs with their own chips starting in 2020. It will likely start with one or two models available for devs, then a launch that covers more of the platform.

Doesn't all have to happen at once, and Apple has been though this before in the PPC-Intel switch, which went rather well.
That's a good joke and I laughed, but this seriously understates the power of Apple's ARM chips. They are pretty impressive. To put this on the pizza scale, Apple is a lot further along than any individual pizza maker. They're a strong regional pizza chain, at the very least.
I doubt that story has changed much.
Have you ever considered that there might be needs and issues at stake whose importance exceeds your preferences as an individual?
That's funny.

I wonder how human intrigues (and the literature/narratives around it) will be affected by ubiquitous computing and networking.
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Why not just set the minimum birthdate to buy nicotine products at 2000, so only 18 year olds can buy it this year, and future generations cannot? Seems like that would sidestep the whole "removing people's rights" argument and gradually just phase it out completely? Has any jurisdiction done that?
Single threaded CPU performance improvements are pretty much tapped out at this point. Process improvements have slowed to a glacial crawl (compared to the past), clockspeed can't really increase much while maintaining the ability to be air cooled, and IPC is mostly mined out. Intel probably has the best processor cache in the industry, and adding more just isn't yielding much for general purpose applications (can't really speak about multi-tenant environments or other specialized applications).

I'd guess, but I don't know, that Apple's performance growth is coming from two places:

1. More multi-threading. Moble chips in general have been getting more parallel over time. It's pretty easy to construct synthetic benchmarks that benefit from this; it's less easy for general purpose applications, although they are coming along.

2. The GPU is improving. It seems like there is a lot of headroom here to improve. Apple's GPU is almost certainly substantially better than Intel's. This isn't really a huge problem for Intel, because for people who care, they can always get a discrete GPU. Super powerful GPUs can be very impactful for certain applications, but they just don't have general applicability.

In general, I'm pretty skeptical that Apple's CPUs are improving in the necessary areas to enable them to switch their pro lines. Moving over their Air and Macbook products to in house chips seems pretty straight forward.
If they are not sticking with x86, it basically has to be ARM. Producing a new CPU architecture is very costly endeavor and other CPUs exist. However because they already have experience making chips for iPhone and friends and ARM is at least "good enough", it makes sense for them to go all in with ARM.
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The user volunteers their health information into the public domain when they tell Grindr their HIV status. This is information that is already visible to other users to some degree.

Declaring your HIV status on Grindr is voluntarily and knowingly sharing your own health information into the public domain. It is much closer to tweeting it out than telling a medical professional imo.
None of that data seems to be "private" according to Grindr's privacy policy: https://www.grindr.com/privacy-policy
> the researcher or institution that wishes to publish pays up front to have the paper published

Isn't this the case with the subscription-based model as well?