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I agree with you. Depression certainly hinders nearly everything I try to do.

However going to a doctor is actually expensive in Netherlands. Even more so in US. And from my experience with doctors in NL, they don't actually help you in any practical way. Also I don't want to go and take any kind of anti-depressants as I think it's not a solution that actually works long term. Your body will just learn to rely on the medications.

The solution to depression comes from within. It's just that I can't really find the will in me to continue doing the thing I hate so much and feel 'forced' to do it.
That would be true if Siri and Spotlight were the main entry-point for users to start a web search, and I doubt that.
As a non-American, I find to hard to grasp how a country that places super high priority on access to choices and options can get stuck with just two major parties and just ONE ISP (in most places, that is).
I've only experienced this on the iPhone X, after iOS 11. It happens in many apps, not just Google Maps, and constantly. For example, pinch-to-zoom in Adobe Lightroom often has it jump to a random place in the image. Since nobody seems to be talking about it (and my friends haven't encountered it) I've suspected it to be some kind of physical fault with the touch screen, or perhaps an interference issue with my screen protector, not necessarily a bug in iOS. But who knows.
https://medium.com/byteconf/stripe-is-building-a-ruby-typech...

Stripe are trying to solve that issue.
First thing I noticed failing was Github. Then nothing for a while. I'm not home, but was able to VPN back into my home and run traceroute and it seems to have healed with the route to Github at least.

traceroute github.com
traceroute to github.com (192.30.253.112), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router.home (192.168.xxx.xxx) 0.455 ms 1.454 ms 1.431 ms
2 96.120.4.xxx (96.120.4.xxx) 10.247 ms 16.604 ms 15.646 ms
3 ae113-rur01.d9chamblee.ga.atlanta.comcast.net (96.108.191.229) 17.851 ms 17.839 ms 17.810 ms
4 ae-29-ar01.b0atlanta.ga.atlanta.comcast.net (162.151.88.217) 16.559 ms 16.673 ms 16.660 ms
5 lag-5.ear2.b0atlanta2.Level3.net (4.68.71.45) 17.321 ms 17.411 ms 17.353 ms
6 * * *
7 GITHUB-INC.bear2.Washington111.Level3.net (4.14.98.158) 128.508 ms 122.411 ms 120.312 ms
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
After fighting for a decade of my adult life to even get a green card, the corollary of "Sneak into our country and have sex here for free citizenship" is not appealing.
Adverse possession must be adverse to the original owner's title. If the owners knew he lived there and tolerated him and otherwise made use of the land, then his presence wasn't adverse. See, e.g.,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession#Hostile_pos...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession#Exclusive_u...
Apple wouldn't do search to go head on with Google. Apple's search would be very specific to the domains that it cares about businesses for Maps, music, movies, etc.
Machine learning is still considered "new" or "difficult" so people often respond to posts like this with comments like the one that says "Nothing impressive, existing architectures were used". Writers only get enthusiasm if they raise a benchmark with a brand new approach.

For researchers and people spend a lot of time on ML, I totally get that. There isn't anything new here. In fact, I correctly guessed nearly the entire content of the article from the title alone (transfer learning, using Keras' "Application" models, etc). But why does that matter? It's still a useful article to a lot of people and it's well written.

There is still a dearth of practical advice on how non-specialist developers can solve everyday problems with ML. The truth is that the majority of real projects that real companies need done could be done exactly this way. Using this approach, a developer could get decent results and be done with a project in hours instead of months.

For some reason everyone thinks it's fine to post an article about how to speed up your CRUD website with a Postgres indexes even though it's been done millions of times before, but ML posts get dismissed if they aren't making some kind of research breakthrough. I personally feel like we need a lot more approachable discussion around ML like this in the world. Every dev should feel comfortable getting started with this kind of work if they want to.
Most likely not. Probably more like a backbone routing issue.

Their rate limiting tools like Sandvine do not causing these kinds of outages. They cause hassle for specific protocols and destinations. (rate limits, tcp resets, blackhole) but not massive outages.
I'm only in my early 30's and I am already considering myself 35, at 969 you'd think you'd round up to an even thousand. I'll only believe that exact time if someone counts the rings.
Hi Scott,

what would you say are the main reasons why you in your mid-thirties are a professor at a prestigious university?

Sheer determination and perseverance? Less partying and more learning? Your upbringing?

I’m asking, because sometimes there’s an interesting story behind it, like with Matt Might (http://matt.might.net/articles/tenure/) who found himself in a objectively bad situation — a child believed to die soon — making him reevaluate priorities and getting successful as a side effect.
Some speculations:

1. there are few, as the world has 7billion++ people today and 120 years ago it was around 1 billion. You certainly are not going to meet them.

2. Someone that is still sane past 100 years will not care about bragging his age to us younglings.

3. Finally, we don't ask these people their age. And when we do, we don't believe the answer.

There are some histories of people with more than a hundred year. Li Ching Yuen[1] was a Chinese herbalist that lived more than 250 years.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen
You must have been lucky then.

I had to go through a manual send photocopy of my ID process etc.
Search in general is _hard._ But vertical specific searches & use cases can be tackled by different apps.

I would argue that my pushing for more prolific relationships with developers, you sort of chip away at this competitive threat with more specific, vertical-oriented searching experiences.

Example: I'm searching for restaurants nearby, I _could_ open Google, or I could leverage the Yelp/OpenTables of the app store.

Same thing for travel - flights, hotels, etc. all have apps that could, in theory, better serve the user than the catch-all "Google Search" app.

Maps is a slightly different beast; it's almost as ubiquitous as the "Phone" app itself .
> You ever suck dick for marijuana?

While it's true that marijuana addiction rarely if ever leads to consequences as you suggest, it ignores the real dangers of marijuana abuse:

1. I've personally witnessed someone young and healthy go to the hospital of smoking weed and getting cardiac dysrhythmia. We were young, studid and very lucky that the hippy parents were there to call an ambulance. If we had been alone, who knows how we would have reacted or not reacted.
2. I've also seen a friend getting a long lasting psychotic episode from smoking weed. He's better know and there have been other factors involved but weed for sure hasn't made it better for him and was obviously a trigger.
3. Having struggled with depression, weed can become very addictive and destroy your live and career if you keep sinking into a deeper and deeper hole.

TL;DR Just because it's less dangerous then most other drugs doesn't mean weed is to be fucked around with carelessly. If you use drugs, use them safely and beware of the addiction potential, especially if you are in a high risk of addiction in general.
I think they’re talking about Roomcarnage updates, not DF updates.
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I too live in a densely populated place and easily see the full map. Do you have a screenshot? Here's what it looks like when I open, if I tap on the map it goes to full map (no search bar, no buttons on the bottom).

https://imgur.com/a/5tfuz2p
It's worth the risk?:

This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.justinobeirne.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
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Episode 3 filename has S01E08 instead of S01E03, which may be a typo. I look forward to listening!
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It really is a great book. However my friend & I attempted to make it through and faced quite a bit of struggle. Eventually we'd figure things out but it felt like it would of been significantly easier with the help of a teacher/mentor to ask questions to. Unfortunately it's actually kind of hard to find colleges nearby that even have courses in Bayesian statistics (from an inference perspective). That was frustrating.
OpenStreetMap is just a data project.
It sounds like you are using a third party application (often by a commercial provider) which uses OSM data?

Or you might be using the osm.org website which itself uses 3rd party search applications.

The search on the project website is designed to find data and is not designed to be a competitor for google maps.
Thanks for the answer!

For other people reading, here's the blue/red hats puzzle that Scott was referring to (edited from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_puzzle#Prisoners_and_hat...):

> A countably infinite number of prisoners, each with an unknown and randomly assigned red or blue hat, line up in a single file line. Each prisoner faces away from the beginning of the line, and each prisoner can see all the hats in front of him, and none of the hats behind. Starting from the beginning of the line, each prisoner must correctly identify the color of his hat or he is killed on the spot. The prisoners have a chance to meet beforehand, but once in line no prisoner can hear what the other prisoners say. The question is, is there a way to ensure that only finitely many prisoners are killed?

The solution is that it is possible, and you can look on the Wikipedia page to find out how.

Even more paradoxical is that the prisoners can still save all but finitely many of themselves even if there are infinitely many possible hat colours. For example you could allow the hat colours to be specified by three real numbers giving an RGB value.
> There seems to be a de facto consensus that it is actually pretty boring stuff.

Consensus created not by people with experience de facto. At least not the majority.
Goodfellow book [0] is available for free, http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
A lot of these techniques lose effectiveness at higher humidity. Eventually water and sweat evaporation can't keep up and you're just moist and hot instead of hot.
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Or it could be, ya know, a run-in-the-mill network routing issue.
There is a trade war going on.
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> runs a Visual Basic application on it

Clever, but that does sound a bit messy.
The files are deleted, but any keychain secrets are persisted across app installs.
It's actually really encouraging to hear that Scott has many of the same vices as me.
It astounds me that people get downvoted for the factual observation that illegally crossing the border is, in fact, illegal and results in deportation.
> Customers were also taking to Twitter to reach out to the company about the possible outage. The company recommended that some users try checking the status center online, which would require an internet connection of some kind.

Got to love you need internet to check the status of your internet :)
No question. Just to comment that I enjoy your writing.
Good thing that the internet was built for redundancy so single cuts don't affect the connectivity.
For what it's worth, we let bridges crumble, communities sit without clean drinking water, and are intentionally bankrupting our postal service in the hopes of being able to privatize it. So I would say the Internet is being treated about the same.
Clearly, someone, presumably Bitfinex, is propping up the market. That's what they are supposed to be doing. The question is whether they have the financial strength and will to do it in times of stress.

Historically, price pegs like this break at some point.

Think of Tether as a trading convenience. It's needed only because Bitcoin "exchanges" are so difficult about wire transferring money out. (With real stockbrokers, cash can be wire transferred out within hours with no nonsense. A firm that can't do that goes bankrupt within days.) Don't keep money in Tether for long.
Our bay area home has tremendous southern exposure. Thankfully the attic is insulated, but I really wish we had gables so it would be easier to install a whole house fan. The house itself rarely breaks 80 but I have to use fans in the windows to cool it off at night; I can only imagine how much cooler the house would be if it wasn't (say) 120f in the attic.
HackerNews is served from Cloudflare, which employs caches close to you as well. Seems like Comcast has a problem routing over distance.
Snail mail is handled by one designated quasi-private firm, the USPS. Roads are often handled by contractors on a per-job basis. How would handling it like roads and USPS help?
Here in Atlanta I had a comcast outage on this Sunday and Monday evenings last for 4-5 hours each. I wonder if the current outage is related.
> After the Schmidt/Android thing I think the Apple leadership basically assumed Google would screw them over sooner or later if they could.

That's a level of moralizing that isn't really appropriate for analyzing decisions like this. It's equally true, and for essentially the same reasons, that Android as a whole exists because the Google leadership basically assumed Apple would screw them over sooner or later if they could.

Businesses compete, basically. It's a good thing and the efficiencies that result make us all wealthier. It's only "screwing someone over" in the myopic eyes of the internet fan boi.
This comment ([1]) suggests that oxytocin spray is best used on autistic children, and adults are better off with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367150
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Heh, I did this to our south-facing windows, only to realize in the peak of summer the sun is too high and hits the roof anyway. During lower sun angle times of year, it does help reject heat though.
Well, yesterday I filled in <so and so restaurent>, street, miliptas.

Apple Maps guided me to <so and so restaurant> somewhere in the North Bay...
I work for an ISP, seems the issue was localized to Comcast's AS. Probably a network engineer made a change that went bad :)
Yes. I'd much rather get a list of restaurants within a certain radius -- assuming the list shows me some basic summary information like price, rating, the distance, and whether it's open -- than get a map with a dozen mystery pins I have to tap on one by one:

[tap] Oh, sushi. Not in the mood for that.
[tap] Oh, that's closed.
[tap] Oh, that's too close to the one I already tapped, let me zoom in...
[pinch] [tap] Oh, sushi again.

I'm genuinely surprised at how many people here apparently consider that a better user experience.
> 5 lag-5.ear2.b0atlanta2.Level3.net (4.68.71.45) 17.321 ms 17.411 ms 17.353 ms

> 6 * * *

Obviously Comcast is trying out a nefarious scheme to give their own routers Level3 hostnames, to throw us off their trail, and not, say, a fiber cut. /s
At least they could also have serverless pricing.
Throwaway because obviously the stigma. But yes, it's very real. I am addicted to marijuana. I smoke nearly 3 grams a day; what has become a $1000+/month habit. I've always loved weed but the high salary has allowed me to lose control. I can't sleep or eat without it. Within 24 hours without weed I become an intolerable asshole who cannot eat or sleep. When I do sleep without it, it's full of nightmares and I wake up soaked in a puddle of sweat. I tell myself I am going to quit after every single joint, then I roll another. I know it could be broken with a few months of detox but it's too painful to deal with.

That being said I don't think it has anything intrinsically to do with weed. People are just as addicted to cheeseburgers or coffee. The problem is a combination of personal character flaw, and a society that forces people into self medication of all forms.
Well, that's a terrible idea, except when needed to prevent actual death. Nothing like waste heat generation AND carbon emission generation (to say nothing of manufacturing costs and possible refrigerant leaks).

Thankfully I choose to live in a temperate climate so my heating costs are minimal (gas) and cooling costs are 0.
Not to mention that tuning out is a luxury that only those not currently being targeted can afford. Once you're on the list of targets, the news has a way of arriving on your doorstep whether you're paying attention to it or not.
At least this outage is not local. It took me months to get them to replace the coaxial aerial run from the pole to my house that had been compromised and had liquid water inside the cable and enough pressure to force said water around the cable loops, inside my house, and into the splitter. Water-caused signal attenuation was making for some bad service quality.

I need to consider my plans for obtaining backup Internet. The only real choice is 4G and the only way to pull that off is to somehow run a hoist up into one of the very old, mature oak trees on my property to get an antenna way up above the house (thinking like we do with ham radio antenna runs). I have no usable cell signal in the house except through the personal cell that uses the comcast connect to get back to the carrier.
A 50% mortality rate per year translates into there being a <0.1% chance of living for 10 years. How does that translate into there being "no limit to longevity?" I seriously don't get the claim.
Well I'd like to complain. It's not that there's no need for improvement, but EU rules often end up imposing poor implementations, consequently with no scope for better solutions.
I am pretty confident because of my sources
Furthermore, Google insists on using the location of my VPN entrypoint onto the internet instead of my location (despite repeated attempts at telling it where I am). Apple Maps seems to get where I am regardless of the VPN.
One can justify the name using the fact that the state space is 2-dimensional.
https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
What would be your advice for older (25+) people who want to get into science? Is it even possible? Or should I just accept that the train has left and focus on something else? Can you develop your math/logic/critical thinking skills at that point?

How about if you never excelled at these topics in school? Is hard work enough, or do you think some people are born with these talents?
Imaginary insects as Star Wars characters
Please oh please!
General curiosity since I haven't used iTunes in forever. What does it do that you cannot do anywhere else?
They actually do give a prorated rebate when outages like this happen. At least they did for me.
> wouldn't write a webapp in Rust

https://rocket.rs looks nice ;)
Hello,

As for "careers in science", what can someone later in life (I just turned 60, can't believe it) still do? I have a CS degree from ages ago, and have a scientific mindset (runs in my family, e.g., my sister was a research scientist [mathematician] before retirement). I don't want to retire anytime soon. But I'm unlikely to get into grad school. I can take MOOCs of course, and do. My interest in science tends toward neurology and embodiment.
Same thing on Siesta Key in Florida. Couldn’t reach home or github, wife couldn’t reach Hulu. Google worked fine.
> Who said anything about physics?

You did. You asked about why the universe we live in has a particular property. That's a question about physics.
I'll be that guy: run-of-the-mill
Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
I happened to have a SSH session open all morning to my basement server, and I was getting things through SOCKS just fine, while everything else was reporting connectivity issues.
Scott what do you think is going to be a successor to the scientific paper/academic journal? What do you think of platforms like distill.pub and Fermat's Library and the impact they might have?
I'm much more familiar with MATLAB than I am with TensorFlow so I might be wrong about the lowest-level computation stuff. Part of it is an architecture issue. I can imagine writing a transpiler from MATLAB that automatically dices up the matrix calls to work over a distributed system, maybe with something like Go or Elixir running under the hood and sending the jobs in batches to other processors, then joining all of those results, which abstracts away most concurrency issues.

I find it more difficult to think about TensorFlow this way, because to me it seems more similar to OpenCL or OpenGL, where you are dealing with multiple cores reading from a single memory space and transpiling the TensorFlow code to something like a shader. That type of code works more like SIMD or VLIW and has trouble with things like branching or dynamic codepaths or even reading/writing from/to a computer's main memory.

So what I'm looking for is a way to write at the high-level abstraction of MATLAB syntax and then have the runtime dice that up internally as TensorFlow or Elixir or whatever (that part doesn't matter to me as much). Maybe Julia can do that but I haven't learned it yet. But I want to stay away from the boilerplate - things like binding buffers or carrying the mental burden of having separate vector and system memories.
Turkey Attempted to Stop Broadcast of Assyrian Genocide Documentary
Google interviewing process is a joke. If the interviewer can’t remember the name and is reading the wrong resume you’ve failed.

I pretty much quit half way because I haven’t seen such a disorganized interview process.

They probably get so many engineers wanting to work for them, I think they can afford to let things be broken. Kind of artificially restricting the funnel. Good for them I guess.
This is why it would be better to pay by bit consumed, like most do for electricity. This would encourage carriers to build more infrastructure. It would also create an economic incentive for the ever increasing number of Internet connected devices to be more conscientious of data usage. Of course, we can't have that in the oligopoly situation in the United States.
About two months ago, they took the Internet down for the whole neighborhood 3 days in a row like clockwork to "split the node" (because I went and talked with the crews out on the road to see what was up). No notification, not even for business class customers. Completely bonkers!
But topic is about subsequent parents and child separation, with putting children into foster care.
> I made the same arguments then, and I will stand by this evaluation now.

To whom? This particular business? 999 out of 1000 businesses (each of whose needs you evaluated and found only one of whom really needed Oracle and therefore excluded)?

What was the argument? That they could do it cheaper by hiring (possibly then non-existent) Postgres DBAs and using Postgres instead of Oracle DBAs and spending exorbitant amounts of money on Oracle?

To us, technical people, that argument might sound perfectly reasonable, but to a non-tech executive it might sound cuckoo-bananas crazy.

> It's not that WebLogic, Oracle et al have no purpose, it's just that the people buying these things tend to have no idea what they're doing.

This strikes me as a dismissive stereotype. As you admit, it's not as if they made a choice that failed to function at all. Social proof is a thing. They merely paid a very high price.

Where were all the people who did have an idea of what to do, those 20 years ago? Busy trying to educate them, or separate them from their money? How about you?