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I like how we begin your story in media res with the settler's cabin already established as if ordained by the laws of nature, disrupted from its idyllic divine creation by these warriors perpetrating violence.

Who's rewriting what now?
> what ever tool your using for documentation supports full text search, and tagging.

Any suggestions?
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> In my mind, Waymo is miles ahead of Uber.

I'd say many millions of miles, actually :)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/waymo-7-million-test-mile...
New York City, Philidephia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Detroit, Cincinnati, Toronto, Indianapolis, Chicago.....

All of these are about 400 miles away, some less than 300.

And did you edit your comment, because I think it originally said 500 miles.
Excuse me Sir, but I think you didn't understand what I meant.

- With today's technology, you don't need an intermediate online, 3rd party, feedreader. Devices can pull data from the sources.

- Not only devices can pull the data, but it's often the only way to get data, since mobile operators block any incoming trafic on HTTP protocol for security reasons.

- People don't need to read 1000 pieces of news in real time.

- With a source and a RSS reader, there is NO HUB at all. How convenient.

- For relatively static content delivery problem, CDN already exists, cache exists since decades and is already part of the base HTTP protocol.

- The only thing that protocol enables so far is middle-men that will try to monopolize and control the news ecosystem, while news delivery is already free (for the end user)

Bonus point : the traffic of text on internet is ridiculously small compared to video and other data. That argument is not a valid one to justify introducing another 3rd party
How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article??

"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?"

Edit: this is in response to this idea being floated in the media and this article is responding to it. Thanks child comment for the context.
Baidu just made its 100th autonomous bus ahead of commercial launch in China
I think the Smalltalk systems that use image-based persistence[1] meet that criterion, despite the image itself eventually being persisted in a file system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste...
The most unique feature is the type system which allows you to both model domain problems effectively and guarantee consistency. This reduces a huge number of bugs in compile-time.
> Do you know what else is within 300 miles of Cleveland Ohio?

~50 million people live within 300 miles of Cleveland vs about ~16 million within 300 miles of SF.

https://www.freemaptools.com/find-population.htm
Sorry, but you are giving wrong advice. For example, Roku snoops on everything you watch on TV. Here is a screenshot from Roku's policy https://imgur.com/GGyc2uT
First make sure that the scripts are in a vcs and if it is possible make sure that someone else looks over them before they are checked in. Often the awesome "DB_backup_script.sh" is not so awesome.
If the scripts are not documented document them, so that others can use them and know their limitations.
One way to allow other users to find scripts is to embed them in a grouped/sorted way into a wiki with instructions on how/when to use them.
I think there was so much union suppression in the US, that in many areas, unions only survived where the company was literally risking peoples lives or chewing up their health, like in heavily industrialized factories. And because those lines have been hard fought for decades, there is little trust.
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Most people greatly underestimate habitat loss as the biggest problem for ecosystem decline. The appearance of many animals not seen for 100 years in the Chernobyl exclusion zone suggests that an area contaminated with high level radioactive waste is a net positive for natural ecosystems because it keeps the humans out.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. True, it is in fact the desire to learn was the intrigue of an unknown experience sensation that makes me jump from one ship to the other, frequently. I guess I need to work on my discipline and focus on a single tech stack for a considerable period.
In this scenario there's no moat for Lyft/Uber either. If Waymo can meet demand, they'll be able to undercut ride sharing prices so deeply that most consumers will switch overnight. Banks will be falling over themselves to provide the massive credit they'll need to bankroll the expansion.
This is hard to parse. All software that can be represented as if and goto (and some sort of assignment i suppose)?

when, while and do are just if and goto.

alpha go is all just if and goto. I'm not sure what you're looking for or alluding to.

Is there some other operation that isn't just if and goto? because i think any function you come up with, i can just make a big table of inputs that result in specific outputs.

Heck, decrement and jump if zero is enough. I'm not convinced at all that specific operations are limiting us somehow. Could you elaborate?
I worry about the near future where cell connectivity (ala Kindle Whispernet) is cheap enough for these companies to not even bother using your network to exfiltrate data.
Pairing up advertising to content is pretty standard since forever. Even soap operas got their name because they were sponsored by dish soap makers, who marketed to housewives, i.e. the people who were home during the day to watch soap operas.
While I agree with you, in the context of a "hand wavey" explanation, "more" is not rigorously defined and so saying "plain wrong" is silly. A strict subset relationship is a reasonable interpretation of "more" in the context of an informal discussion.
That's very interesting. One of my current peeves is watching for the next turnoff with various GPS apps. I have to rotate my whole head down to see, since my phone is currently mounted to my motorcycle handlebars[1], and the turn icons are usually small and vague.

The reality is that I want detailed maps for route planning and local exploration, but very simple maps for the actual navigation part.
This is wrong and condescending.
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That's a nice economic theory you've concocted, but it seems like you're living in a bubble. The reality on the ground in the US is that college degree inflation happened every bit as much in the EU by a generation of middle-class people who saw a college education at the ticket to prosperity. Now to get any kind of decent job requires a college degree. Federal loans are handed out like candy, and people snap them up despite not having any financial basis for that decision. Because the loans are unforgivable in bankruptcy, there is much lower risk in handing them out. Because the loans are easy to get, college tuition rises higher and higher outside the realm of real market forces.

The fantasy that the US system is someone leveraging market forces to optimize efficiency is ludicrous. 18-year-old kids have no idea of the impact of 5 or 6 figure loans at various interest rates and their expected ROI. Even many of their parents, who had good post-war working class union jobs with a nice pension and affordable homes they could buy in their early 20s have a blind spot around this because all they know is that the career paths they enjoyed are dead and gone and just some vague ideal that "college-educated" is still a meaningful adjective.

Frankly, it's an embarrassment to even try to sell the idea that the US system is better. The only significant difference in outcomes is that a huge portion of young Americans are destroying their lives with unmanageable debt, where EU citizens may get an inflated degree but they won't be an indentured servant for the rest of their lives.
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Basically any wiki should suffice for those requirements. However, integrating those requirements with other workflows tends to be trickier. Atlassian's tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.) tend to win by default, but if you're willing to do some duct-tape work other solutions are fine too.
You are describing a Memex, and I agree there are no satisfying options.

Some related keywords / projects (from my natural memex): IdeaFlow, Mark Carranza, The Brain, Org-brain.

For input methods, I'm excited for a combination of text-to-speech and neural interfaces like Ctrl-Labs.

Given the level of augmentation users of Anki and Org-mode tout, I'd be first in line for a better interface (like the one you described).
It is surely not too much to ask for. The problem is that the number of software engineers that will buy a MBP every six years is a relatively small market compared to the general public buying MBP every three years that are more gadgety with crap like the touch bar. Apple wants growth and expanding TAM is the easiest path forward.
Sure, but wages are not that low anymore (at least for senior talent) while the real estate bubble can mean it costs more to buy a place than in Palo Alto. This is not even getting to education costs if you don’t have hukou. China isn’t that cheap.

Access to VC is nice, but Chinese VCs ar emote conservative than American ones, the business plans that get funded are going to be very different anyways.
"This is an article about Fred Rogers."

(inserts random paragraph about incels, misogyny and the fear of being shot at for being a woman)

Talk about a big-lipped alligator moment.
Totally agree - and "new paradigms" isn't the same thing as "choke-full of paradigms". What's more, there's as much value in taking things away than in adding them (how about classes for example?)
Actually Columbus OH (2 hours from Cleveland) is considered the sweet-spot city, a third of US population lives less than 500 miles away from Columbus, OH.
not a good read on its topics.

That is a different claim and also one I didn't make.
Don't confuse people "who dared ask, "why are we doing this?"" with people who want reparations, affirmative action, etc. And that's just a second definition I've thrown out there, alongside yours, when there's many more.
One would hope! lol. But seriously, how do you know this? Just curious.
Baidu began mass production of its first L4 autonomous bus
Harder to keep in sync though, if it's not somehow derived from or embedded in the source code for the scripts.
Your Beauvoir quote and clarifications jibe with a statement by David Krakauer: intelligence is search.

In which case, why specific people are more intelligent than others, and whether that intelligencee is highly general (rare) or more specific (common, almost painfully or absurdly so at times), and why, is a fascinating question.

Beauvoir and Proust suggest that the mechanism is technique rather than a more general capacity, and hence focused on specific capabilities. That is, a method effective at crossing some specific divides, but not providing a deeper vision or reach, or higher vantage, generally. That last visualising a conceptual landscape as having peaks, valleys, and barriers (walls or chasms) to be crosssed.

Technique providing bridging capacity, but not view-from-a-peak.
You're attempting to insult a completely invented quote. Or are you both recording one stream of your consciousness and describing your mental state?
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that's what the evidence tell us.
The dialogues were the only parts I could make sense of the first few times I read the book (at a young age). I greatly enjoyed them and found them both amusing and eye-opening; even more so when I could finally start making sense of the prose that accompanied them.
We need more thinking like this.
Sure, but I do hope that there's at least one revolutionary jump per generation. If the next generation ends up with Kotlin, we'll have missed ours
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I'm sure Waymo will make a lot of progress with their massive investment but using SV money as an indicator for a project's ultimate success seems unwise at this point.

I think the real question is whether the big investors in self-driving cars will make progress creating virtual rails for their vehicles, e.g. roads where we can keep pedestrians out.
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That isn’t noise cancelation. That’s normal attenuation that any closed headphone will do. Real-time noise cancelation is impossible for voices.
cortazar’s hopscotch is written that way
These blog posts on deep dives into the .Net internals is one of my favorite side effects of it being open sourced.

I also enjoy the internal blog posts from teams such as Edge at MS.

It is a great time for software to be sure.
Of course they can't, they don't speak.
I also see an effort-reward dynamic, similar to Dutch disease or resource curse.

The specialised activity provides high reward, the generalised little, or at least less.
I'm continually astounded by the Tesla hasbara:

"Tesla and a host of other imitators already sell a limited form of Autopilot"

Imitators? You mean GM, Mercedes and VAG that have had these systems for longer than Tesla are just bad copies of the glorious Tesla autopilot?

Unreal.
Not sure what a "big-lipped alligator moment" is, but I thought the writer tied it all together pretty lucidly in the discussion about competing models of masculinity. Also this:

> Visiting the archives of Canada’s public broadcaster this past May was more complex than usual due to increased security in the building. Five days after Alek Minassian had killed ten people and injured multiple others by driving a white van through a crowd, Canadaland reported that a post had appeared on the Incels.me message board with the subject, “[Serious] our next task: shooting up CBC headquarters.”

Rogers (I learned from this article) got his start on the CBC.
>How can this be the leading sentence in a scientific article??

>"Do we gain insight by comparing President Trump to a chimpanzee?"

If you look again at that sentence you quoted, it has a hyperlink to primatologist Jane Goodall comparing Trump to a chimpanzee.[1]

Because Goodall is somewhat of a celebrity on the subject of chimps, and Trump is...obviously Trump, a lot of various media outlets picked up on the combination. E.g. Guardian, FT, Huffington, Fox News, etc.[2]

So it seems like the author is basically responding to all of that.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aggressive-chimp-and-ma...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=comparing+President+Trump+to...
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>> Silicon Valley firms pay significantly more than the competition,

I'd say another major factor here is that the UK market significantly undervalues talent, compared to the US, Australia and other markets I've heard of. It may be better than continental Europe, but it's pitiful compared to the money in other countries.

Which is why I'm a contractor now, salaries for permanent work in London are not comparable to work in the US, and outside of London they are just plain derisory.
Stable not the best word, apologies. Life stability was in my mind.

- stable health insurance and medical coverage.

- economy big & stable enough that when one job is lost, another can be found without substantial financial injury.

- geographically dense and large network of innovative people (this requires a good university - or two).

Essentially you need a place where you can take risks and fail without causing a total life crisis. that is why SV started as a thing: fruit farms with cheap land. Universities were nearby and the Cold War was in full force: a lot of funding was present. The interaction of knowledgeable people is a huge support base for increased research and innovation.
"random paragraph"? The relevance was pretty clear, especially if you read the entire column.
But a safety belt doesn't drive the car for you.
Great point. Updating my comment.
yes, for amoment thought i was reading wrong article
It's hard to understand what you're objecting to. 1) This is pop sci, not a "scientific article", and 2) the text you quoted links to another article about the most famous primatologist in the world making exactly that comparison.
one really has to wonder why he had to fight for 20 million dollars for children. CHILDREN! do we not care about our kids?

it would be a fun stat to track government spending on military vs children. i dont even want to know the results.
Open-plan offices drive down face-to-face interactions and increase use of email
Ankidroid for android is really good. Not sure about a web interface.
> The founders of America truly had a great vision, and created the foundation of a radically new kind of country that beget the end of slavery in the developed world.

This is just bad history. What on Earth possessed you to write this? One could refute it but it's so made up it's practically fan fiction of the history of the world.
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"A very bizarre scene in an otherwise normal story that veers off into the surreal or strange. Upon exiting that scene, the plot continues on like it never happened."
I don't recommend assessing languages by looking at features individually - how they play together is much more important
'It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer,'' Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, told the NYT in 1997. ''If a reasonably intelligent person learned to play Go, in a few months he could beat all existing computer programs. You don't have to be a Kasparov.''
Another attack surface for self-driving cars
I'm guessing these "features" will be tied to the Microsoft Store, something they're already doing with PWAs.

Many were quick to criticize Valve and Epic about their own criticism of the Microsoft Store, which is why Microsoft is now using a "boiling the frog" strategy to tie everything to the Store over the next decade or so. And this process will likely accelerate once Windows 7 is dead and buried.
I guess this just goes to show there's a variety of reasons people enjoy Hofstadter's work.

Hofstadter, introducing IAASL, said something like: "I wrote this book because people got so distracted by the form of GEB that they didn't get the point I was making."

My reaction: "I understood the point, I just didn't care about it as much as everything else that was happening in GEB."

Kind of similar to my appreciation of Bach himself, in fact. The content of Bach's compositions is frequently about praising God, which has no particular relevance to me. But the form and aesthetics of Bach are wonderful.
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Interstate and major highway signage in the US is really pretty good. And state/region level maps a great for getting around on them.

The main problem is, if I'm on a motorcycle trip I want to spend as little time on those roads as possible. It's difficult to manage enough maps to get at "the good stuff" on a long ride - but a decent GPS will get you details quickly, and deals well with the highly variable signage once you are on secondary highways and tertiary roads.

I think the best bet is a mix of both plus, for me, significant time spent in pure explore mode (no map at all). That's not for everyone I suppose but I've had some of my best travel days navigating by little more than the sun and major features.
We encourage our teams to set their utility scripts as Jenkins jobs (integrated with source control).

- The Jenkins job can have a friendly name, a description, a link to wiki article explaining how it works, and default inputs.

- Troubleshooting wiki articles also link back to the job (_"Getting this error? Try running this job"_)

- We don't need to worry about people having prerequisites on their machines (assuming they are installed on the Jenkins runner). They shouldn't even need to understand the language the script is written in, or how it works.

- You've got the opportunity to integrate and chain jobs together, or trigger them based on events.

- Pretty much everyone knows how to create and run Jenkins jobs

Of course having solved one problem (discoverability and organisation of scripts) you now have another one: Jenkins.
I agree that nobody needs to read TAOCP (or, really, even any equivalent textbook) to be a good programmer.

I disagree with how you've characterized it. I'm unlikely to ever read all of TAOCP and, yes, the reason for that is that doing so would feel a little bit like a commitment to read the whole OED from cover to cover.

But in fact TAOCP isn't really a reference book and it is pretty rewarding, in a straightforward, professional sense. I dip in and out of it sort of at random and I can think of several times when doing so has made me sharper, or when I directly took something from TAOCP and ended up applying it.

My takeaway from this is that TAOCP is a super weird book, one we can't really put our finger on to characterize.
Probably has something to do with that ongoing lawsuit with oracle
Yes. This is obvious but also counterintuitive. People forget that it's a long game and that malware (such as Stuxnet) is patient and penetrates gradually.
I don't really know how the GP thinks it applies, but a big lipped alligator moment is a term that originated from a review of the movie All Dogs Go To Heaven about a scene that is basically irrelevant to the plot or emotional development of the characters and is literally just a musical number starring a big lipped alligator.
> Not so sure about this. I see more of a trend to repeat previous errors because the industry as a whole quickly forgets lessons.

It is a necessary condition, certainly not a sufficient one
That's been true over very large parts of the country for most of the last 15 years TBH. House prices in the UK are divorced from reality.
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Is it? Why?

I grew up in Akron, the former Rubber Capital of the World. There is literally nothing in Northeast Ohio but cornfields, soybeans, brutal winters, and rusting artifacts of the 20th century economy. Columbus could be a good choice for growing tech firms to add a second HQ due to OSU being a pretty decent school, but Cleveland really has nothing going for it. The geographical advantages that led to it's existence and growth during the industrial revolution have gone and will never return.