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As it's often repeated "correlation is not causation".

Personally, I would only expect the former and not the latter. In my opinio it's more plausible that some other cause causes the increase of popularity on both sites.

The rise of Swift, for example, was caused first by Apple releasing the language, the increase of online articles and communities around the language and its open-sourcing.

This lead to an increase in popularity pretty much everywhere, including SO and HN. These are correlated, but there is no causal relationship between the two.
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This is a great point.

No one wants to be ripped off. Software basically can't be objectively priced. You might be selling £50k per seat software that competes with £50, or free. It sucks to be making that decision.
I think I have never read a piece in which the word "single-minded" is used in a positive way. Mostly people refer to it as a bad thing. Also I don't think that single-mindness really helps developing good software people want to use. Because you already have to think about two things here.
Your username suggests Indian heritage. I find a great deal of Indians interested in this topic, as am I.

I'm not sure how correct this description of enlightenment is, but my personal description of it is simply this: a state of total, mindful flow. Like when you solve a problem effortlessly because you have such a deep, intrinsic knowledge of it. It seems to impart a very profound feeling of calmness and equanimity across my mind.

A rather wise old man once told me, enlightenment is existing with intrinsic knowledge of your "sense of existence". Apparently it's very subtle and not so easy to pin down mentally... Still not sure how to interpret that, but part of me thinks there's some value in it.
I never understand people who make this argument.

"money from nothing" -> "when making loans"

So you understand that that's the exact opposite of nothing right? You admit yourself that it is not nothing.
Doesn't for me, not even close.

But when am I ever on the Google homepage? This is probably the first time in months.
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> Sure, It was really hard to find projects and contribute to them

They also weren't as visible and easily browsable.
Yeah, we did know:
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/coals-link-to-...
Ohi Timothy! Great to see you here :)

I think that full autonomy (level 4 and 5) is an AI-complete problem and a true solution is many, many years away. On the other hand, I'm not an expert (I'm doing an AI PhD but on a different subject) so I may be overestimating the difficulties involved.

One problem with reporting on autonomous driving is that a lot of the technology is proprietary and the research takes place behind closed doors, so it's very hard to understand exactly where the state of the art is. We're left with the announcements from the companies who actually sell it, that will inevitably tend to be overinflated.

As the technology becomes more common, I guess we'll all end up adjusting our expectations, one way or another. I'm looking forward to your future articles :)
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General relativity is not a basic assumption in physics. There is a large feeling that there is something more out there , but that we don't really know what it is . Some theories of dark energy or dark matter work by modifying gravity away from general relativity and in the process create testable predictions.
Thanks! :-) Apple users are more willing to pay in my experience.
I can understand how you feel and I also think your blog post is correct in many ways.
However I think software should be reasonably priced which is most often not the case.

And also people can't pay everybody 5-10 dollar/euro for everything, we would quickly need to pay thousands of dollars/euros yearly to access/use everything.
That's why I think sometimes having another way of "paying", like through ads or maybe some kind of crowdsourced project is a good alternative for some things.
The theory goes: Poor people who need a car should buy a modest car, and keep it running for as long as they possibly can. But some poor people don't do this. They buy an expensive car using weird debt structures that they don't understand, and then when a minor thing goes wrong (traffic ticket for example) they get trapped in a cycle of debt.

I think this probably does happen, but I'd be interested to know how many people are stuck in debt because they bought a product using a financial product they didn't understand vs it just happened.

This thread has a bunch of stuff about these potentially mis-sold financial products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476381
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> However deducing that you're trying to do bit rotation and emitting the CPU instruction when present is not easy for the compiler.

Uh, no. a rotate_left b is equivalent to a << b | a >>> (sizeof_in_bits(a) - b). As far as common instructions not present in language standards go, regular rotates are the easiest for the compiler to recognize.
But this is a bit of a dark area. Even if Google stopped pursuing the patent, who is to say that someone else wouldn't?
The same holds for false negatives.
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It's hard to know how things would have been implemented and how the different parties would have behaved, but I suspect it's clients that would need to be convinced by banks and not regulators.

Taking UBS as an example, the interest rate offered on the current account is 0%. The interest rate offered on the savings account is 0.01% (and it comes with some restrictions, withdrawals above CHF 50'000 p.a. require a three-month notice).

Even if they were otherwise identical, why would anyone put their money in the "risky" savings account instead of the "safe" current account? Interest rates paid to depositors would have to rise to make saving accounts attractive.
That's not a pure LVT anymore is it? Nevertheless my point stands that if you build a larger development on the same land you would put a greater strain on public services without contributing more.

Now you probably want to encourage building more housing on the same land to alleviate the lack of housing (which is why an LVT is so often proposed) but local taxation first and foremost has to fund local public services, or there really is no point. You can additionally penalize leaving land undeveloped, but that should be a secondary tax (or penalty) on top of a basic one that scales with the cost of providing those services, not the primary source of funding for local government.
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Huh? I don't read the GP as advocating for restricting anyone online, even less as propaganda. Did they edit their comment?

FWIW, I do support restricting people's ability to communicate online, in particular their ability to spam me. I'm not talking about global censorship, just me personally, and if someone actually likes spam, then they can enjoy it for all I care.
A court ruling against someone patenting this would strongly discourage anyone else from trying.
^ true
I wonder if we could use this kind of correlation analysis to detect shilling/astroturfing, like when there's a spike on HN that isn't backed up by SO for a given topic. It's also timely I guess since MS seems to have been on a spree lately on reddit and elsewhere.
You should write one from scratch to get a deeper understanding of how hard it is to return highly relevant results quickly. Tokenizing, stemming, bag of words, and tf-idf for ranking get you to an MVP, but then you realize how good production grade search engines are today.

Solr is good. I've been wanting to try Lunr [1] for small sites.

[1]: https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js
Isn’t it already published then?
What is the relative advantage of putting something into the public domain versus releasing under an Apache 2 or MIT license? The latter doesn’t restrict anyone’s use AND establishes a public record to refute what Google is trying to do. Additionally, communications by email could be via GitHub issues and open to all to see.
With regards to WordPress, it’s the lack of policing on the OSS-ness of a plug-in — as you mention — helps create a viable market, but many of the most successful plugin devs sell a premium version tied to a service in some way. Whether the service is necessary is often beside the point, the SaaS aspect can be used as a shield to obfuscate the open source code.

I also think with WordPress in particular, the target customer doesn’t know how to compile the plugin source if they find it. It’s easier to pay than to figure out how to get it for free. Now, whole rings of people sharing premium themes and plugins exist, but the malware often added to those items can turn people off of that method. It’s easier to just buy it.

Honestly, support seems to be the most long lasting option — see RHEL and Canonical and Oracle with their Linux distros. You can use centos instead of RHEL (and could before red hat took it over, for that matter), but you’d need to deal with the the problems yourself or have a person on staff to deal with them. Especially as stuff is more cloud-based,it’s easier to just have a support contract.

The problem with this model for the indie developer, of course, is that the act of offering support has a cost too. Time, extra staff, logistics — and that can be harder to do than the closed-source perpetual license model, where you offer support but it’s understood the transaction is primarily for the software. And just speaking for myself, if I buy a piece of software, I’m not necessarily going to bug the dev every time something breaks b/c I was really buying the ability that use the software that would otherwise not be available to me. But if I am explicitly paying for support, I’m going to be more entitled, even if it’s for an OSS product. Because if I don’t get support and it’s OSS, why didn’t I just compile it myself and save money?
How do you know?

My build-statues-and-blow-it-up example was deliberately exaggerated for clarity and effect. In the real world malinvestment tends to look like asset bubbles, the construction of houses that nobody needs, "airports to nowhere" (like the cases of that happening in Spain) and so on. It may look like beneficial economic activity when you're zoomed all the way in, but when the free money dries up, suddenly it becomes clear that maybe strippers shouldn't be allocated two houses, or maybe airports should be built near population centers, and so on.

Anyone who can print money from nothing can essentially override the judgement of wider society about how best to allocate resources. Note that resources can also be allocated towards savings, but that tends to suppress economic activity, so people whose job performance is judged by measuring economic activity invariably end up attacking savings. Hence the frequency with which central banks try to push down interest rates.
> The concept they tested is similar to Galileo’s apocryphal experiment, in which he dropped two objects of the same mass off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and found that they fell at the same acceleration regardless of their composition.

Typo. Should say of different masses.
Going a little deeper and not contesting your conclusion, I'd like to point out "middle ground" is more a result of survivorship bias than a general maxim.

There are an infinity of choices we make daily that are completely binary, 100% extreme, both on the individual and social group level. They go unnoticed because there's nothing to gain by pontificating "Shall I go 100% in with 'I won't cut off my legs today', or find some middle ground that's not as extreme?" (apologies for the gross example, but articulating inarticulate choices is hard, by definition).

Our cognitive capacity is limited, so naturally we've evolved to consider only the choices that matter. We look for the "middle ground" in only a tiny sliver of decisions.

Which is obvious, but there's an interesting thought in there: To what degree is the presence of "middle ground" in our minds indicative of some potential gain, an arbitrage opportunity? Turning the causality around, can we assume the distinctions that bubble up to our conscious thought are useful hints at profit? There's something primal about spotting gradients: the only place where it makes sense to talk about a "middle".
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I'm not a finance expert, but my intuition is that the market is already good at smoothing out this kind of instability. This is what market makers [1] do and there is no requirement that a market maker needs the ability to make money.

Borrowing costs may be higher because this proposal removes some "free" money that banks can currently lend out. But maybe interest rates will stay the same and instead checking account fees will rise. This could induce some checking account holders to move some of their money to term loans to the bank which the bank could then lend out. It is not clear that interest rates have to rise.

> the money supply is delinked from borrower demand

The money supply available to meet borrower demand need not be created. It already is partially provided by people lending their money for a term to the bank. This proposal merely says that the bank may not use checking account money to meet borrower demand, i.e., it may not represent to a checking account holder that his money is available when in fact it has been lent out to someone else.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker
It's a polically-correct (at that time) revolt against the King and the religion. The word light refers also to the religion (first words of the Bible and the angel of the light).
> Was the last global financial crisis not caused by idiotically lax lending conditions

No. It wasn't.

The housing market began collapsing in certain states as early as 2006 and many banks had problems then. The wider crisis only happen once the central bank totally misjudged the monetary conditions and let demand collapse.

They were talking about high inflation fears in 2008 when it was clear that NGDP was dropping like a stone (look at FOMC meeting in November of 2008). The real 'Great Recession' meaning the large bank failures and the even most of the housing problems outside of the original crisis states only happened after that.

The effect of bad house lending was visible from 2006 but that should not effect all other industries unless the broader monetary system fails.

My favorite 1h talk on the subject:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/12/george_selgin_o.htm...

> And that was in turn because banks can lend deposits without blocking access to that same money by the depositors?

That is how the monetary system has worked for 200 years. Its hard to explain crisis by this alone.

> However that's not inherently a bad thing. Digging holes in the ground and filling them up again is economic activity, but it's still a waste of time.

You can not just assert that economic activity is wasted without having a story why that should be true. The investment are driven by individuals who want to improve their lives, not dig holes and fill them up.
Is this for work, and is search a competitive advantage for you? If not, snap in Elasticsearch and spend your time on your differentiators.
Because it's algorithm and not code.
According to the YouTube video embedded in the article he wanted to sell the game and he was afraid that the price would drop when the rip were available outside of the private torrent site.
Ignoring that you need to fight against both major parties to attempt to put someone against this in office, think of all the dirt this database could uncover on the politician.
In the US, the Constitution is the law. In China, the law is set by the party in power. Apple has to respect the law in China to sell in China.
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I agree - I´m in favour of adopting a scientific approach. There is no scientific evidence in favour of full reserve banking, which is based on even greater misconceptions of how banking actually works than the mainstream theories.

Central banks are necessary to provide the lender of last resort functionality.

Meanwhile, there are several scientifically based simulations of the banking system out there, that could be used as a basis for developing a testable system to experiment on - this is completely within current technological capabilities to achieve.
Mnyeah, I see what you mean, but I wouldn't call that a world model. Nouveau AI is great for classification, so it can certainly recognise what the individual objects around it are.

However, a "world model" should include the relations between identified objects, in some representation that can then be used for inference.

For example, a classifier can label an object in the path of a vehicle as, e.g. "tree", but a world-model would have to go further than that and provide some context about trees, why they don't normally grow in the middle of roads and why they should be steered around or otherwise avoided.

This kind of world model, that places entities in the world into a complex relational context, is, indeed, beyond our current capabilities (at least for the real world, as opposed to controlled artificial worlds).

I really don't think that's controversial. However, I got a few downvotes on my previous comment so I must have misunderstood the comment I was replying to.
This exactly describes me. I need to get professional help!

On the other hand, I live in a country with high unemployment rate, people barely have enough to get by day to day. A friend complained to me recently that he did not get paid for 2 months (he works in the public health sector). Compared to him, I’m living a dream. But I feel misserable.
Great blog post - thanks for writing it. I've had the same experience with people asking for an MIT license on dependabot-core (the public repo that holds the core logic for my SaaS business, but which has no license and a comment saying those who wish to use it for commercial gain should contact me instead). I already give the product away for free to open source projects and anyone using it in a personal capacity, but for a small number of people that's not enough.

Free software is a wonderful thing - it's fantastic that our community shares its work so widely and generously. It is not, however, the only, or the best, model for creating innovation at all times. I'm able to work full time on Dependabot because by providing it as SaaS I can pay myself a wage and by owning the codebase I can protect myself from a larger player copying my work. There's no doubt in my mind that enabling me to work on the product full time is a better outcome for the world than a license that would let others distribute and profit from it.
Yeah because the history of monetary economics is full of radical changes that caused no problems and were easily reversible.

I'm sorry but that is a totally naive perspective. And as somebody from Switzerland maybe putting your lives savings on a 'might work but has no explainable advantages'-initiative is idiotic and that's why people affected by this absolutely destroyed it.
This is correct, and not often understood.
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what a weird question: who looks at a search engine and thinks yea hm that's trivial enough i could do it myself in a weekend?
With that little information from the OP the answer is probably: Use ES or if it's a small side project use your DB's included full text search if it's good enough.
Elasticsearch is incredibly deep, and highly performant. If all you need is simple full text search then rolling your own can be an interesting exercise, but I can't imagine the amount of hours it would take to replicate the features I use on a daily basis.
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Thank you. Sounds like a win win scenario for Google. If the courts decide Google can't patent it, it probably means nobody else can either.
Thanks for the answer, I missed that paragraph. It seems quite disconcerting to me that the average question in the Java tag has been rated negatively the last 4 years. I'm curious as to the specific reason for this downward trend, which isn't reflected in most of the other languages.
Isn't this what we already do? For individuals, our income is more or less profits, which is what we're taxed on. You can claim deductions against your income for the expenses your occurred while getting that income.
And those BASIC interpreters were extremely slow. Clearly there are many interpreters and compilers for the 6502 and almost every other CPU architecture ever designed. Nobody said it's impossible to program the 6502 in high level languages, the architecture is just not designed to be a compiler/interpreter target and it is basically impossible to map many high level language constructs to efficient 6502 code.
Tough to answer w/o more info. FWIW, I've used Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch and have ended up settling on Lucene being the best interface for me.
Yup. And if I had a nickel for every time a patent was granted despite the existence of prior art...
I don't think the primary problem is cost, but that when you build your product tightly coupled with a propretary product that is hard to migrate off of then the vendor of that product can shake you down, or they can go bankrupt or what have you. It makes your business vulnerable, and no one wants that.

Also your production environment crashing because a license expired. Fun times.
A system which uses a LiDAR can be conceptually a lot simpler than one without. It tells you where all the obstacles are (stationary or not), so it naturally circumvents the main problem of Autopilot.
I never talked about software AES. I talked about AES-INI vs Chacha/AVX-256.

Chacha is very fast with vector instructions. Over 2.3GB per second on my core i5 skylake laptop.
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In what deranged worldview is US Telecom an example of the “free market” at work? I think the author needs to look up what that term means and how tightly related and crony the industry is.

Another sterling example of millennial clickbait “journalism”
Are you saying that individual Swiss banks are currently free to make up their own reserve requirements? In the American system, as I understand it, the Federal Reserve (the US central bank) sets reserve requirements which the banks must follow. I thought this was how the Swiss system worked also.

If the Swiss central bank already sets reserve requirements, what would this proposal do?
The last three startups (one is just starting): honest, you can leave the keys to the company with them; not on commission, co-owner of the company; not a big ego; must enjoy the customer contact and the closing of a deal; it is a benefit if they understands the sector well, but not required, depending on complexity of product.
Some people say that they don't have time to contribute back because they have a family and and a life. At the same time, pretty much every company depends on OSS to operate. Shouldn't contributing be an integral part of work?

In my day-to-day, I depend OSS to get my job done. If there is a bug, I am allowed take the time to build a patchset and push it upstream. It's good for everyone. The company benefits from not having to maintain a fork, the developer gets to build his github profile, the rest of the world can also use the update.

People who don't have a GitHub profile is also a signal that they either don't take the time during their normal work hours, or are prevented from contributing back due to company policy.