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> Do you think the government spends money efficiently now?

I also find myself in the habit of asking questions like this, but I think it's the wrong way to frame it. Like many things in life, the question isn't "if", it's "which".

The money is going somewhere, so the question isn't whether the government is doing good with it, it's whether the government would do better with it compared to where else it's going.

I totally agree the government is a pretty inefficent system for improving human welfare. But I still think it's a better one than, say, Apple's offshore coffers or Bezos' plan to go to space.

The US government doesn't have to do that good of a job to do better than the average large US corporation.

> Our healthcare system already spends 1.5-2x more than other developed countries for similar outcomes.

Agreed. Health insurance companies are also giant corporations that would fall under my "tax them more" goals.

(And, if we want to go farther down the "fix all the things rabbithole", obviously eliminating corporate personhood and removing corporate money from elections should come into play.)
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see PornHub launch a YouTube competitor strategically as YouTube is flailing.

They already run a high functioning video network. They really just need a SFW frontend with alternate branding (and no adult videos).
I think it was unintentional but has played a crucial part in the game's appeal. When you get mana screwed, you feel the same emotional devastation as seeing the house win big in Blackjack. I think that low feeling drives players to try again and again.
The dynamic he's describing is about inflation relative to its expected value at the time of the deal. If you expect inflation to avg X% over the course of the loan and it ends up being so, then it's factored into the nominal rate of the loan and neither of the situations he describes come to pass. It's also mainly applicable for fixed rate loans only. So yea, it's pretty reductive.
Oh, it wasn't clear to me that they were limiting their statistic to monetized accounts.
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The irony is that Google is able to take the exact same 30% cut in spite of allowing side-loading and third party app stores.

So I think the class action itself would be difficult to win even if it were allowed to go ahead. Apple could argue pretty convincingly that their app store "monopoly" does not drive up app prices.
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You just need regulation in place to prevent this. In the Netherlands, it's illegal to deny someone healthcare. It's also illegal not to have health insurance. The system works, Insurance is around ~100 euro per month, covers almost all treatments and deductibles are between 350 and 850 euro's per month.
> This is a big shiny object for them that would 'help' in a wide variety of non-emergency situations, so expect abuse.

Did you miss the part where I linked to and quoted that this data is only sent from your phone to the database when you call 911? In non-emergency situations no one will be able to search this database for your location because your location is not in the database.
https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2018/05/16/jedi-ha...

I think this makes Amazon the default winner of the large Pentagon cloud contract. Both Google and Microsoft have shown that they have employees who leak and cause issues for the government.

The Fortune 500 is made up of a lot of very large companies that have at least a division involved in Department of Defense contracts, or in oil, or in sugary foods, or some other endeavor that someone inside Google or Microsoft might find offensive. I am sure they are watching this drama with interest and have no intention of getting dragged through the mud due to rogue employees.

I hope everybody is happy with AWS continued domination of the cloud business.
Would you mind linking to some information about what the proposal is, why it's bad, what the alternatives are, etc?
Beyond the issues of infrastructure cost and litigious publishers as mentioned by others, there is also the user base.

If users are on YT, that is where the content creators will be. And if the content creators are on YT, that is where the users are. Moreover, users have curated lists of subscriptions and creators have large lists of material. Finally, YT has access to a lot of data on viewing behavior, and likes. This means YT should be a lot better at recommending videos to users.

Finally, the creators that most want to switch to an alternative are those who are the most censored. These tend to be more controversial, which means these alternative services gather controversial content. This tends to give these places a bad reputation which pushes away the non-controversial content.

The best bet would probably to take a non-controversial niche, start there, and try and integrate well with YT to keep down switching costs. Its still hard to provide actual added value to such a niche. Alternatively one might take a controversial niche with wide acceptance. For example, gun channels or LGBTQ+ channels. Both are currently demonetized, but both are still widely accepted in broad swathes of society.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_car_fatal...

3rd Tesla autopilot fatality happened at 210,000,000 km, giving a fatality rate of 9.2—14.3 per billion km of autopilot depending on if you take the average just before or just after the third death.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...

USA has an average of 7.1 fatalities per billion vehicle-km.

I’m assuming most of the Tesla kilometres were in the USA. I don’t know if that is a reasonable assumption.
Oh, that's either an issue of an unbalanced deck, or insufficient randomization.

My best decks started with the "rule of 1/3", and added/trimmed 1-2 lands to optimize. The "rule of 1/3" is that 1/3 of the deck should be lands, for best land draw. So a 60 card deck would start with 20 lands, and maybe swap 1-2 forests for elves in an elf deck.

And from a recent card randomizing thread, it takes 7 "riffles" to fully randomize a deck.
What's the point of a self/assisted driving vehicle then? If it doesn't compensate for human error, then it's useless, since humans can already operate vehicles.
You do know that CBP themselves have said that they are cages.

The CBP is uncomfortable with reporters using the term "cages" but have stated that it is not an inaccurate description. -CBS morning news.
Yes, they definitely do. I think there was a TED talk on google self driving a couple years ago which outlined how they used maps.
> The GP is me. :)

Oh, sorry, I didn't see that. (This thread has grown a lot of tentacles.)

> I was only referring to emergency situations

That was very unclear. When you wrote:

> Consider how 911 is but one service

that sure sounded to me like you were advocating making this information available very broadly.
Great article. I'm working on a project to identify buildings, and it seems this technique would apply. Does anyone know of a good buildings dataset, or a pretrained network? 3 million images is no easy task to find... Thanks!
Well, we don't care about your (deliberate?) ignorance. The difference matters to us.

In the case of Paris, the agreement was signed by someone who did not have the authority to bind the US to the agreement. If you felt that we are breaking our agreement, well, I can understand your disappointment, but the problem was your understanding of the situation, not the US's "not respecting agreements". (When someone "makes a commitment" for your country, who does not have that authority, do you want to be bound by it?)
I really liked my wired USB Mac keyboard with numpad. Put after a meeting with coffee it stopped working, and a replacement (magic bluetooth keyboard) is almost 4x the price, which have led me on a hunt for so,thing else. Also, I am thinking a windows layout would work better with windows, which is what my work computer is.

Right now I am looking at:

Havoc low profile[1], because it is mechanical and low

Surface Ergonomic Keyboard[2], because it is basically an ergonomic windows version of what I had.

Can anybody weigh in on these?

[1] https://www.prohavit.com/products/hv-kb390l-low-profile-mech...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/surface-...
> you could buy insurance that would cover all of your long term costs once you contracted some disease

Kind of defeats the point if you're using it to cover known future costs. Insurance can really only insulate you against risk, it's not free money.
would it be more, or less of a cage if they used sheetrock for the walls?

personally i think i'd prefer the cheap fencing material, as it would allow for better ventilation.
>It's also hard to take it seriously when it actually suggests the US government is keeping children in "cages" and then links to some radical left wing blog as proof.

Here is a recent photograph of children in chainlink cages from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-ne...
Seconded. The only keyboard that could withstand my typing.

And because of this thread, I learned they are currently being sold though Unicomp! Now considering buying one.
KBD: Realforce 87U 45g. Hopefully even better when the Norbaforce gets here.

Mouse: Logitech G9x for feel, but the cable and rubber feet are garbage. Microsoft IntelliMouse (Optical) as a close second.
Bazel supports persistent compilers with its worker protocol [0]. It's already supported for javac. It may be worthwhile to investigate how well zapcc can integrate with Bazel.

[0] https://blog.bazel.build/2015/12/10/java-workers.html
No. You misunderstood his position. According to his logic the risk aversion is a bad strategy. So according to his logic, we should both continue driving and continue farming.
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It's a cage. In the picture.

Use your eyes.
If you haven't done coursework in economics reading at least the Wikipedia page on inflation is a really good way to understand more about the issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ri...
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> but traditional uses for Java are hardly touched.

What are the traditional uses for Java that are hardly touched?
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That might help, however, for some reason I don't understand, this proposal hasn't created an outrage similar to the one we had seen before ACTA.

EU "wisely" has chosen voting time to be in the middle of FIFA Soccer World Cup, so many people are just sitting watching matches. This is also almost the beginning of the holiday season and many people are just relaxing, travelling, etc.

Apparently someone really needs that regulation to go through (hopefully it will not).
Even 15 decoders are a pinprick on the core’s area—at least when I saw die area for LRB. Fetch & schedule we’re a bit larger. Most of the core area was register files & floating-vector logic.
> My question is -- of all the people making a lot in their 20s and early 30s, how many are going to be making the same amount in their 40s and 50s?

My answer to that is a question.

Why would these people need to make the same amount in their 40s and 50s?

If the person you know is making $800K (guessing gross), and after tax and expenses, conservatively banking $300 - $400K a year, then when they enter the 30s in 10 - 12 years, they should have about 3 to 4 million CASH, which, if invested wisely during the accumulation period should have grown to another million or so. This amount is enough to retire with a healthy lifestyle almost anywhere in the world (except maybe Tokyo, San Francisco, New York and a handful of other nutty-expensive cities.). So they don't even need to make anything in their 40s and 50s except work to stay busy "doing what they love".
But they separate the children from the adults and then put a bunch of children in a room together. It's really not the material the room is made of that's being objected to.
Apps are extremely tricky. The 30% does seem like a lot but if you consider a few things:

Apple is providing an instantaneous, global distribution network.

Save your ability to market the app, you can effectively guarantee the same experience across billions of disparate devices. The open web can not provide the same piece of mind in terms of security to the end user.

The app vetting process isn't free.

Apple is ensuring quality within the App Store. Bad apps still get past Apple's vetting rules and are retroactively denied all the time. This creates extremely a strong sense of trust between the customer and Apple. Consumers become less and less risk-averse when it comes to downloading new apps from the App Store. Again, I'd argue this runs counter to the open web due to its long history of leaks, hacks, privacy violations, phishing attempts, etc. The Apple App Store currently has the highest bar for an "open" ecosystem of independently-developed software.

Apple provides the service of the App Store at its own expense.

The App Store has pulled in $100BB over 10 years which is great, but I'm sure they'd turn it off in a heartbeat if it consistently caused serious security breaches within the phone.

Tim Cook has gone on record so many times about the personal and private nature of the phone. Whether it's possible or not for a rogue app to circumvent Apple's numerous security safeguards is irrelevant as security is a policy Apple takes extremely seriousl; maybe to their own detriment.

Apple has a history of providing basic, free alternatives to apps that monopolize particular verticals within the App Store.

Calculator, Flashlight, the various flavors of Timer functionality, the new ARKit Ruler app, etc. I don't view these Apple-provided apps as akin to drug stores offering basic alternatives to things like Tylenol etc. it's good for the overall App market economy as it should stem the rise of local monopolies.

Ironically, the only app in which Apple does not offer an alternative is the App Store. The App Store isn't an alternative, it's simply the only way to download apps.

I do see a future where phones will have a heavily-reduced version of iOS that offers a small subset of Apple-created apps without the App Store. The numbers don't lie, most iPhone users do not download apps, or only download less than 10 apps over the lifetime of the phone.

At the end of the day, apps must be vetted for quality because Apple has a brand to maintain. They simply can't allow apps that seriously compromise the performance of the phone or the privacy of the data on it. It's not within the realm of an allowable reality as per Apple policy.

The 30% taken by Apple may be eclipsed by the App Store ad revenue. I assume they'll greatly reduce the 30% cut moving forward as the App Store ad revenue increases.
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For very loose values of credible.
I really like the per error idea - allows for large cases to have no barrier to contest but for the whole thing to not become like patent trolling. Maybe also some sort of threshold for mass cases, like a progressive taxation:

If you're right 95% of the time, you get a discount.
If you're wrong 50% of the time, you pay the full fee.

Who would be in charge of setting these?
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This picture is of children, in a cage, isolated from their parents: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/ceci-ne...
> launched in December 2014[1], so it's about 2.5 year old.

I think there's a typo or math error in there somewhere.
The off-topic news and downvote brigade is the worst part of this site.
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Indeed. Maybe something along the lines of (or building up to) :

"Sshtalk: An SSH-based chat made in assembler" :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829206

The library comes with a lot, but network stuff and Unicode support to name a few:

https://2ton.com.au/HeavyThing/
How do we know they're the parents if they're not documented? How do we know they're not human traffickers?

FWIW when I was 12 my dad drove me across the Canadian border to visit some family, and the Canadian police couldn't verify he wasn't some random kidnapper, so they detained and separated us for hours while they tried to contact my mom (this was before cell phones). A ton of hassle to verify that my dad was who he said he was, but ultimately it was for my own safety. I don't really see the difference, except in the case of the ICE detainees, the parents are also criminals for crossing the border illegally. (Aren't criminals in our own country separated from their children when they're arrested?)

Sure downvote me because it hurts your feelings but logically you're wrong.
Even though this sounds like an incredible minority of employees at moment based on the article, this along with all the other flak the big tech companies are getting could potentially impact legislation on how much power they have and even push towards tougher privacy laws in the US.

Google had their pains when their Pentagon contract was met with opposition and here is a recent ACLU petition against Amazon for using facial recognition with the government.

https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveil...
The US government has been doing this since at least 2014 and nobody cared until the democrats beat every other issue to death trying to make republicans out to be monsters.

I guarantee nobody is going to care about this in 4 months when the liberal money machine decides to use something else to make Trump look like satan incarnate.

TLDR; tu quoque, literally.

EDIT: The shills are out in force today!
I second this recommendation. Although at first glance it may seem like a superficial light hearted take (which it certainly manages to pull off) it is at the same time an extensively well researched book with loads of references, footnotes (omg, the footnotes!) and copies of letters and other text. An altogether impressive book by an obviously obsessed geek.
Survivorship bias.

Just because people can beat stacked decks doesn't make stacked decks okay.
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It is important to remember the lessons of the past here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#Summary

> Data generated by means of counting and alphabetization equipment supplied by IBM through its German and other national subsidiaries was instrumental in the efforts of the German government to concentrate and ultimately destroy ethnic Jewish populations across Europe.[22] Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM's punchcard technology.[23] In his book, Black charges that "without IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."[24]

Given how many players there are in the IaaS/PaaS space, it's inevitable that ICE will inevitably find a contractor willing to support them. But those at the organizations with the most robust and advanced cloud offerings can slow down this process, and thus have a moral obligation to demonstrate to their employers the hidden cost of enabling unethical regimes.
>To those insisting on calling this a cage, I hope you realize that every jail in the world looks like this. These people (not children in the picture) are under arrest for illegal immigration. They are going to be detained somewhere.

I linked above to a photograph for you showing young children (not adults) kept in the same cages.

Even if you don't care about the adults, young children are blameless. In every other type of case like this, when an adult commits a crime and their child is with them, the child is placed in temporary foster care until more suitable accommodations can be found. They don't get taken from their parents and stuck in a metal cage for weeks on end.
While I think we ultimately believe the same things, you're arguing against things I don't believe and don't think I've said. I think you've misinterpreted the tone and content of my post. It's certainly a more aggressive reply on more points than I expected. I don't want to get in to an exhaustive definition argument but I feel I should say something.

I never discounted that Facebook (et al) users also include geeks. We have friends and family too. Never suggested that there aren't geeks in all generations. There are, that was rather my point! They still exist, they're just dilute. Didn't suggest that geeks can't also be popular. Never suggested anything about "true" geeks, that's between you and your anime community. I did actually stress that by "geek", I meant the sorts of people likely to be able to do and enjoy this sort of development.

If it's the only way you can read it, /s/geek/people willing to learn and get stuck in/i
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At the least, this isn't off-topic: the internal rebellion from Google about Project Maven was only a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064776
There is no specific law, or legal precedent disallowing a platform owner from exclusively controlling software distribution for their platform. In fact it’s been going on for a lot longer than the App Store. Several early smartphones before the iPhone were locked down in similar ways. Games console manufacturers and media player vendors often maintained exclusive services software and content distribution right. If n fact since you mention Microsoft, don’t they have an exclusive online store for XBox games? This sort of arrangement has been common practice for decades and never been legally barred that I’m aware of.
I love this paper. The further I get in my ML/stats career, the more relevant these lessons are. I would recommend anyone interested in building long lived ML products to read this.
Because this is affecting those who show up to apply for asylum as well. That is not illegal.

Not to mention that crossing the border is a misdemeanor. Comparing that to something like murder is not discussing in good faith.

"You meet people that support the law and legal immigration (but not illegal) all of the time. Most people hold this opinion."

Again, there is no law whatsoever that states that the government must separate children from parents at the border. Not a single one. And I choose not to associate with people who would support such a barbaric and inhumane practice. They may hold whatever opinions they wish on the subject of immigration, but once they issue support for these inhumane practices, I lose all respect for them and their positions.
You should give me spare keys to your car, in case you can't find your current pair. It's okay if you're uncomfortable with that, because I might have already made a copy without your knowledge, so you should give me a copy anyway.
Then you are arguing that the law that is currently in effect, and which was voted and upheld with Democrat's help, is a "gross violation of human rights."

Maybe you should also petition and push for help on the Democrat side instead of just pointing the finger across the isle.
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That’s irrelevant, isn’t it? I’m gave an example of a game comparable to the one I quoted, which did manage to run fine on Mac hardware of that era, presumably because Bungie was really Mac focused at that time so it was optimised for the hardware properly.
And there’s a not great but decemt enough remake on steam