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> It doesn't help that the whole section on sigma algebras is somewhat irrelevant, since he doesn't really explore measure theory as the basis for modern probability.

Christ, practically all of measure theory is irrelevant for applied work, in much the same way that an engineer shouldn't care about the definition of a real number.

There's a model of real analysis due to Solovay that used the axiom of dependent choice instead of the full axiom of choice. In the Solovay model, all sets are measurable. Thus any results that require measure theory inherently depend on the axiom of choice.

I'd be worried if I was relying on Choice as an applied scientist.

Edit: same goes for Lebesgue vs. Riemann integration. To quote Richard Hamming:
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann
integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would
or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should
not care to fly in that plane.
This is such a massive oversimplification as to be ridiculous, and it's so rampant in these discussions. Even if every person working a factory floor job was capable of doing this: They aren't supported whatsoever through such a transition, meaning minimum 2 years of living on basically savings, something most people who know "electronics and coding" would have a hard time doing, let alone someone on the poverty line, and the few who manage to do it, say five, can now oversee all four hundred machines that replaced them and their former coworkers. And all of that isn't even going into the fact that they machines they'd be maintaining in your ideal dream world are probably an ocean away being maintained by people who know that skillset already working for slave wages.
A bathroom break in a large factory or warehouse can easily take twenty minutes after factoring in the transit time.
I used to be obsessed with a "dumb phone" that didn't quite have the utility features you described years ago. I think it was called John's Phone? Loved the idea, but hated the thought of owning two different phones.
PWA == “Progressive Web App”
Following the car analogy, many people don’t know how to change their oil, but they could if they wanted. That is a freedom a piece of normal stock does not give you. If your stock truly represented an equal share of the operation, you could work with other shareholders and manage the local warehouse to your liking. It sounds like you’re satisfied with Amazon, so perhaps you won’t get involved. But it would give the warehouse workers a voice if they felt they were being abused.
Does this plan mean living in the town and doing the property management or is it more self sustaining remote?
Just one of the reasons I avoid giving Amazon money.
With the Apple Watch with LTE, Apple _is_ tackling the issue of smartphone addiction.

I've been using my Apple Watch as my sole form of communication for 3 months now, it's great.
Obviously, I wouldn't call this slavery. But in terms of the effect on the employees, it's __in some ways__ getting close.

Do we have a word for this type of relationship between worker and company?

There's something wrong when we (at least in the USA) are said to be approaching but workers (albeit in the UK) can't stop to pee. All this at the hands of the richest man in the world?
An Apple cash cow is financializing your personal data via a vast sprawling ecosystem
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/personal-data-ecosystem/

To pick Up Faddell's analogy, this is like letting big sugar regulate itself. It doesn't and has spent millions pushing red herrings like 'low fat' to protect its profit machine.

In a parallel universe 'How to take on Big Sugar and win'
'Camilla Cavendish, the initiator of the UK’s tax on sugar, says it’s time to start treating it as nicotine'
https://www.ft.com/content/6be1a340-3e3d-11e8-b9f9-de94fa33a...

Money is the only language the tech platform barons speak too, despite all the posturing...
You are right. My point is moot.

Alas, when we could not even fix Hanford with money in the past, I am a little worried about doing it with less cash going forward.
This line of argument "For a sufficiently [blah] ...." rarely adds value, be it "a sufficiently smart compiler ..." or "sufficiently motivated individual".

These add little to no value because in most of the cases where such a line of argument is put forward, there is a sizable set that do not satisfy the "for a sufficiently [blah]" condition. Not only are these sets sizeable, sometimes they are the particularly relevant set.

Many suicidal people have been talked out of it. So its not hard to believe that lack of access to quick measures would have influence.

Digression: I blame movies for popularizing shooting at one's temple. That's how many end up with a botched attempt. If one must, one should take out the brain stem as quickly as possible.
GitHub API. Velocity of adding stars.
I was told when I had it done that almost all of the cost was the paid time for a trained professional to do the IV, since ketamine for medical purposes costs on the order of cents per gram or less.
And neither Japan nor Germany had a 1.4 billion people internal market.
It's possible. But you currently have to write code for each platform; iOS uses a Cordova plugin for this, so your JS has to talk to Cordova. Windows uses its own proprietary namespace which is injected into your app, so you write JS that talks to the proprietary Windows API.

Google is the unique bright light here. They've submitted a web standard, navigator.mediaSession [0], that lets you do this in a web standard way. Unfortunatly, the only browser that implements it is Chrome on Android.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Sessi...
Just for a little anecdotal evidence: I ate some psychedelic mushrooms multiple times about 8 years and and haven't been depressed since. I was previously diagnosed with clinical depression and took a moderate amount of Seroquel for it. I haven't taken anything since and I've been great.
I've dug into it several times. First it was network adapter, which for some reason had a default setting to wake on any received packet (lol, wut?). Then it was waking because there was some setting deep in the system about waking up for scheduled operations. (not scheduled tasks, but timers within individual processes... why???) Now it started again but this time the power management tools report no reason for the wake.
Performance metrics are standardized across all Amazon FCs, so no.
Within a given region, if there is more gray matter, and it is more clumped together, then the distance to nearest non-gray matter will be larger on average. This is what the authors call thickness.
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I'm not the parent, but I bought two OLPCs back in the day in the "Give One, Get One" program.

The software + hardware was really poor, even for the time. (Even the original Raspberry Pi is significantly faster -- I know this isn't a fair comparison, but just for reference)

Also a lot of the OLPC functionality didn't work reliably, or didn't work at all. I bought it specifically for the mesh networking, which was cut entirely. The devices did work over WiFi, but would struggle to see other OLPCs over wifi reliably, even when connected to the same AP. I spent a lot of time reading forums online to troubleshoot and download fixed drivers and such. I remember explicitly wondering "how are children in poor areas who depend on mesh networked internet, supposed to be figuring all of this out?".

The screen was hard to use. The e-Paper mode was nice, but the regular mode was blurry/grainy and slow and dim and just difficult to see. In terms of Software + UI + responsiveness, it felt more like a really big Palm Pilot, and less like a laptop.

---

I loved the mission, I loved the ideas, I loved the design. The exterior of the case really was durable and kid-friendly. I loved the idea of the screen. I threw them more money than was reasonable. I was just fairly underwhelmed by the device as it actually shipped. It felt like a prototype of a dev kit, which is fine. But it was sold as something for children to use, and at least at the time I messed with them, it was nowhere near ready for that.
I never heard any of theses terms or texts, can you provide more background? I tried to search for the one "the Unabomber Manifesto" and it seems to be linked to a "mathematician/terrorist", and in the archive.org there is an article about "bad things of industrialization" and some weird characters, what that means?

Can you explain what i'm missing? I'm young and non-american, maybe i'm missing context.
I don't think that's true?

I had to get a DUNS number to apply to the app store. And it had to be an LLC (I think?) and not a sole proprietorship.

I initially just wanted to use a "DBA" (doing business as) but they don't allow those anymore, they used to in the early days but no longer.
Great, I live a mile or two roughly downwind from a site at Los Alamos where the DOE is removing the nuclear and toxic waste dump used for weapons and research waste here for 30-40 years. I’ve felt somewhat assured that they have the nuclear and toxic material secured, but realistically there’s no reason to believe they are doing a competent job.
> Amazon's total offer was usually about 100k lower.

Come on, that's so misleading. Offers from the big tech companies come in 4 year bundles. There's no way your offer was $100k per year lower unless you didn't get leveled the same at Amazon as you did Google.

I got an offer from Google in Mountain View and despite being CONSIDERABLY higher, the COL difference made Amazon's pay higher. And that assumed stock prices remained the same. They've doubled.
I used to think it was some sort of nationalism, but I think it's mostly because making sure all Americans are treated well is a much more tractable problem than worrying about the welfare of literally everyone in the world.

It is conceivably possible for every American to have adequate food, housing, and medical care, to work in safe and humane conditions, and so forth. Even that seems crazy and utopian to some, but there's a plausible-enough plan that people see it as a solvable problem.

Once you take a global perspective, though, you realize that one of the most cost-effective ways of preventing human suffering today is to buy people in malaria-infested regions insecticide-treated mosquito nets. That's kind of overwhelming to think about. Warehouse workers have to pee in a bottle, but at least they aren't dying of malaria. And let's say we manage to eradicate malaria, or at least contain it enough that we can move on to the next-lowest-hanging-fruit, and you still have to worry about access to clean water, or having their children murdered/kidnapped by the local warlord or rape cult, or the effects of dirty open-pit mining (particularly as overseen by the local warlord or rape cult), or the cultural practice of mutilating the genitals of infant girls, etc., etc. The problems of the world are just so big and so complicated and so multi-faceted that the natural emotional reaction is just to get overwhelmed and give up, and that doesn't help anyone.
I recognize that. I mentioned that Google's one-time $25 fee is quite reasonable to have an app in the app store.
I'm not so sure. ZTE are quite weak internationally and don't ship a significant number of high-end devices. America is the primary market for ZTE thanks to long-running carrier partnerships.

Losing US-made components will be painful for ZTE, but it's survivable. They can re-spin existing designs around MediaTek SoCs and keep most of their existing market share. Losing the US consumer market would have been a massive blow, undoing years of work that other Chinese smartphone manufacturers have failed to replicate.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2017/10/23/how-zte-did-w...
> These giant monopolies on different corners of tech caused by centralization are the very reason we end up having to have these stupid discussions about how everything should work.

NPR basically has a monopoly on public radio, and yet we don't constantly hear about all the evil stuff they're doing. Why? Because they're not being run as a loss leader to sell missiles and landmines or whatever.

Centralization isn't bad as long as the central organization exists to serve the relevant stakeholders in an equitable way.
I came across his stuffs a year or two back while trying to understand some other math topics (various google searches all led me there). He's currently running an open seminar on category theory here: https://forum.azimuthproject.org
In the specific case of IKEA, I'm skeptical because an important feature of IKEA self assemble furniture is that it is easy to transport. Transporting a fully assembled Kallax 5x5 shelving unit from point of purchase to my upstairs would require solving a meaningful number of logistical challenges or paying for delivery. Even getting a Poang chair into my vehicle at the loading dock is an uncertain topological puzzle. The value proposition of Ikea furniture includes trading the uncertain labor of transporting bulky furniture for the certain labor of modular transport and simple assembly. Going further, the economics of end user assembled furniture tends to result in lower prices because the retailer has reduced bulk for stock on hand and reduced shipping costs (at scale, bulk has more impact on shipping cost than weight most of the time).
Thank you! That was very informative (sorry for only skimming the article earlier). So Android and Windows don't require a wrapper, but iOS needs Cordova. I'm sure iOS will catch up soon enough...
iOS has something similar - called 'Night Shift'. I think he's talking about having a theme that is a dark background rather than a light/white one, though.
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You mean like the mandatory lane change warning light which you should engage much in advance of the manoeuvre already?

Why not do so before the merge check?
Interesting! I'd also wonder if it has something to do with surrounding sensing. When you enter a room you briefly orient yourself and check for tigers hiding behind the window curtains, when remaining in the same room your mind is just checking diffs while entering a new room might cause the mind to throw away everything it had established and re-scan for danger. That'd be something I'd be curious to eliminate as a possible reason for the effect.
Not only do you have to be on Windows 10 (Anniversary Update or newer), you have to be signed into a Microsoft account in the Feedback Hub to even view anything.
Charity can't beat profit-driven companies if there is a market. There was a market, so smartphones emerged ... and the OLPC is hopelessly outclassed.
Jokes get you downvotes here, I tried to make a joke and everyone took it seriously.

It is like talking to a bunch of toddlers sometimes, where a sense of humor doesn't exist and everything is taken literally.
Things that you mentioned are still fully functional btw.
I learned BASIC at school writing programs in my notebook... Much powerful way to learn not only having to write the program, but also having to run it in your mind. Of course once at home I could write the source and run it in the actual computer at least.
Fair response, appreciate your thoughtfulness. Your point about lack of advancement is compelling.

Doctors, financiers, etc prove that people are willing to go through life phases that tear them down mentally and physically (could easily argue that for them it can be worse than "peeing in a bottle"), but you're right, they'll all justify it saying "it won't be like this 5 years from now".

I'm curious as to how Amazon would respond to a question like, "what opportunities for advancement do your lower level workers have?"
On top of that DnB sales the shit out of your info. Then if you setup a private llc with a registered agent it allows a way for people(patent trolls and attorneys) to find out who you are etc.

Way to focus on privacy Apple!
This is pretty incredible, thanks for posting.
I think PWAs will win in the long run, regardless of WebAssembly. Both are exciting technologies, though, and WebAssembly will help bring performance in line with native.
It's not strictness being the problem, it's the uncertainty. GDPR seems like a framework to take out anybody at will, because nobody can really conform to the laws due to that uncertainty. If you do anything really disruptive/innovative, you're probably gonna get problems.
FWIW with iOS 11 re: your 1st point, the Safari/iCloud Keychain password store is available to native apps as well.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-ios-11s-password-auto...

I've found it quite useful.
I'm predicting a bleak, dystopian future which will make our current imperfect web look like a golden age of tech.
There must be a chart somewhere that shows customer lifetime value vs. churn vs. licensing complexity.

At some low number of customers, the more complex you make your licensing, the fewer people buy and the fewer people renew, and since piracy is roughly zero anyway, you make your licensing simple.

Then something magical happens somewhere in the middle, where either piracy becomes scarier or your customers are more locked into your ecosystem. Then the more complex you make your licensing, for some reason the more profit you can get out of your customers. It must be this way, otherwise we'd have no way to account for MS/Oracle/IBM.

I wonder where the crossover points on the chart are.

* How much piracy do you take before you make your licensing a nightmare?

* How "enterprise" do you have to go before you stop worrying that making your software a massive pain to install and upgrade won't bleed your customers away?
I really can’t see a way of implementing this without either invading peoples privacy, violating the 5th amendment, making it useless or a combination of those things.
That shouldn't be an excuse for anyone with a shred of humanity or decency.
Less about the legality of it all, and more a question as to why they are so far behind. If Chinese companies are stealing IP, how come their Semiconductor tech lags so much?

I'll also temper my comment by saying the West (US in particular) also engages in same behavior, but with less direct benefit.
Go to San Francisco. You'll meet them.
I disagree only in the assessment that unionization isn’t also good advice for people with desk jobs. The C-level sees us as expensive workers who need to be treated better but still an expense rather than peers.
Anarcho-capitalism largely depends on a belief that human nature is essentially good, and prone to spontaneous cooperation. It is also heavily dependent on reputation, which scales poorly, or on trustless technologies, which aren't yet mature.

I'm still anarchist in 2018, but I haven't been anywhere near the an-cap territory of it since around 2006. Sticking to a political dogma out in the libertarian hinterlands is really only good for pointlessly arguing with other libertarians on the Internet.

That can be fun sometimes, but it's not as entertaining as it used to be, what with everyone pointing at Twitler and saying "You see? This is exactly as (insert libertarian variant) predicted!"
This action is a penalty for violation of the terms of a guilty plea reached in 2017: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-.... The underlying investigation dates back several years before that, to a 2012 Reuters article which reported the sanctions violations.
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Indeed. Orfox for general browsing, Firefox Focus/Klar for sites that block Tor, standard Firefox for the few sites I want to save cookies (mostly web interfaces of local servers).
> I think there are some differences between owning stock and owning the machines. ... When you own the machine, you can physically operate it yourself.

i... sure?

if i'm not an expert in using (and maintaining) that equipment (who also happens to own a space which is large enough and zoned for that equipment, and proximate to the customers or raw inputs for the equipment), owning the corporation that owns the equipment is better than owning the machinery, because it means i also employ people to run (and maintain) the semiconductor fabs and wire bending machines and shit (which have been located in cost effective places) for me, so i can go off and do the things i know how to do well.

> ...when you own a car you reap the benefits of cheap travel much more directly and in a very different way than getting a dividend check.

i also accept all of the risks and responsibilities directly. if i buy into a hypothetical publicly traded ride sharing company, i don't have to worry about any of that.
Why aren't more people on Amazon's ass for pushing their people so hard? This sounds preventable simply by setting production standards to be in line with the environment provided.

Yes, there are important bits in here about tech. But this sounds like a classic case of management abuse
You would think Amazon would be a pioneer in remote IT work, wouldn't you...
I don't know how they fared in 3rd world countries, but before OLPC every laptop was upwards of $800 dollars, if I remember right. There were small low-power laptops akin to OLPC's XO, but you had to pay a premium for those. The concept of a $100 laptop was revolutionary (even though, as I remember, they never really got the price below $200, but still!) and it spawned a whole slew of cheap small commercial laptops (generally called netbooks). Chromebooks are a direct descendant of the XO laptop.

I bought one when they came out in 2007 and there still isn't a laptop that I've seen that is a durable as the XO. My 3-year old at the time danced on top of it, threw it across the room, and dropped it countless times and it was just fine. It came with a complete repair manual and you could use standard tools to take it apart and put it back together, which I did for fun even though I never needed to. The membrane keyboard was almost unusable and eventually one of the kids that I let play with it dug their fingernail into the edge of a key and ripped it right off. It would have been easy to replace the membrane, but by then we weren't really using it much.

The screen was pretty nifty for its time. It was dual mode, backlit or frontlit. You could go outside on a sunny day, turn off the backlight and have a high-resolution frontlit, completely readable (though black and white) display. It didn't look amazing indoors and new phone screens are readable both indoors and out for the most part, but again for its time it was amazing.
> AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere.

I get what you are saying, but somehow this attitude also rubs me the wrong way sometimes.

It's like "Hey, I'll pay anyone a nickle per piece of trash they pick up in the local forests"

Soon: "NiceNature is the worst company ever! They exploit their workers to pick up garbage without proper protection, the employees have no rights or securities and are forced to pee on trees because no bathrooms are provided! Worst of all, they aren't even paid a living wage! /u/ythn is the worst CEO ever, he gluts himself off of the labors of the socioeconomicly desperate!"

Like, all I really wanted was to fix a problem I saw with our local forests, not become a human trafficker...
They didn't - so no
>that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how fingerprint features really are unique

>>This makes it scientifically baseless to claim that an analysis has enabled examiners to narrow the pool of sources to a single person.

While it doesn't narrow it down to a *single person, Fingerprints are still evidence. The litmus is to convince a jury of your peers.
"Joins" isn't in the thesaurus for "was bought by"