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> assuming you have some way to change the state of one with out breaking the entanglement,

This isn't possible. Not only is it quantum mechanically impossible to change the state of one without breaking the entanglement, it is quantum mechanically impossible to observe the state of one of them without breaking the entanglement. Remember that in quantum mechanics "interacting," "changing the state," and "observing" are all the same thing.
There's more than a few ways to do it.

Ohm [0] is a good place to start. It's a parser generator. If you can understand the math example [1], you can probably realize how things get built upwards. Then you can focus on what you want your language to do, how you'll interpret it, what problems it would express, &c.

[0] https://ohmlang.github.io/

[1] https://github.com/harc/ohm/blob/master/examples/math/index....

Also consider reading about OMeta, if Ohm isn't your thing.
Thanks for responding. Yeah I’ve heard mixed things about obtaining certificates — in this case it’s considered a “degree” despite having the ‘Certificate...’ label. Nonetheless, I know what you’re saying. I’ve decided to do the one year course in security as I’ll find the structured learning and exams a good way to discipline my learning, and as a result I’ll have more time to apply those foundations industry experience rather than spending two years in college. In the meantime I’m trying to find somewhere else to work that’ll hopefully help me apply what I’m leaning. I guess the need for validation in what I’m already doing is more a confidence issue that’s always made me reluctant to apply anywhere else - a mentality I really need to escape! Thanks for your feedback and good luck with the AppSec!
Honestly none. Not when I compare what I do to anyone I know.

Pay is excellent. Hours are standard, work environment is comfortable. Jobs are plentiful. (Again compared to other professions)

I know my programing skills here are nothing. But after 20+ years of doing this professionally it's clear there are not many people who can do this type of work.

I'm very lucky to be one of them.
As a Brit I feel somewhat fuckup-proofed by being long US equity funds. Both EM collapse and Brexit £ collapse would benefit them.

I still have a couple of gold sovereigns from the last financial crisis, at roughly the same value I bought them. Mostly as a reminder to ignore the goldbugs.
I am working on my first programming language. I decided to use Racket and I am using the book Beautiful Racket and miscellaneous blog articles to guide me.

I started out just working on a set of linked/cooperating libraries and then decided to offer both the libraries and a custom language. I am writing something for my own use but when I release the MVL, I obviously also hope to get users and pull requests.
Technical debt. Some places let this stuff mount up under constant pressure from product or management to always deliver features as quickly as possible. This makes it more difficult to track down bugs or add new features as this mounts. Most often it severely impedes on the ability for low-mid level engineers to write good quality code as the complexity of refactoring the existing issues surpasses their skill level.

I guess the big pain point then is actually having management that doesn't support tech debt cleanup at any appropriate level. Without support, budgeting you'll end up at a point where even as a skilled developer your choices are to a) say to hell with your managers guidance and blow the whole iteration refactoring just so you can even start on the right footing with a new module, or b) write code that isn't as reusable, maintainable, or performant.
Well, say person X thinks we should have fewer H1-B visas. Person Y thinks to themselves "Hey, this is my enemy! He is trying to expel me from the country! He's attacking me! He makes me feel unsafe"

And all of a sudden, you can claim to be firing people for being abusive, when in reality you are firing someone for expressing their policy preferences.

And if we really want to have open debate, we need to discuss these things. Imagine if you are pro raising capital gains taxes, or repealing Prop 13, and someone else depends on that for their livelihood. They will feel personally threatened. Or someone who is pro-life might make someone who is pro-choice feel personally threatened. And I haven't even gotten into foreign policy.

In this modern era where everyone is screaming about being "unsafe" whenever they hear something that they oppose, and everything is personalized, pretty much everything that you feel strongly about is going to sound abusive to you if you are on the other side.
I emailed IBM about 10 years ago, to see if they had a certification program for z/OS, they didnt - it appears they do now, which excites me.
Most of the pain points raised here are a day to day reality, fair enough, but I would like to also bring up another point not often surfaced here:

Fellow developers not aware of the business requirements, or fellow developers not being able to see things from the business perspective and where the money comes from. I know, our code is not monadic enough, but we do really need to solve that problem affecting customer X before end of September, or there won't be enough money in the bank to pay for that fresh avocado on Monday morning.
Or they use EM but are allot more efficient with communication such that they don't leak.

These SETI signals, if they were of intelligent origin, would be showing just how dumb these aliens are. To send a presumably fairly local signal in such a way that it wastes such vast amounts of energy that it can be picked up 3bil ly away would seem like a serious transmitter design flaw.
The system seems broken only because our brains and society are wired to think negatively. Life has gotten tremendously better for just about the entire world over the past two centuries.

Here's a fun data point for you. From 1997 to 2017, the global extreme poverty rate (people living on less than $2/day) dropped from 29% to 9%. Two thirds of the people at the bottom got out of that bottom, in the past twenty years alone. That's amazing.
"claims on mainland in 2008"? Do you have a source or link for that? It's not here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Ying-jeou#View_on_independe...
Fair enough, but that only proves my larger point. If you make a whole bunch of a certain type of loan, and everyone who takes that loan declares bankruptcy, that should be a pretty strong indicator that the loan is a poor risk and you should not have made the loan in the first place. Right now banks are shielded from that risk because the government backs the loan and the law forbids the debtors from defaulting, so it's basically just giving free interest payments to banks.

Without loans to support exorbitant tuition, prices will have to go down to what people are actually able to afford to pay.
You can't reliably know the distance from pavement to any of those things unless you plan on indexing every physical object along every roadway.

I think the most likely scenario is self driving cars won't drive in those conditions, hopefully those conditions don't develop while you're on the roadways or you'll be parked somewhere cold.
Sounds like you're describing a lottery
Untrained or poorly trained managers. The lack of solid leadership that exists in organizations of every size is stunning to me. The jobs I've had where I was my most productive was when I had quality managers leading the department.
BaseCamp supposedly has a 4-day work week policy for the summers. Does anyone know of any other companies like that?
> So by doing business in China Google is undermining its own values and alienating a not-insignificant number of employees who feel pretty strongly about censorship and human rights to chase a buck that they will never get because the Chinese government will make sure that they don't.

By this point, your argument makes no sense as Google violates every internet user privacy world-wide (a lot less in China).
He employs the working class with shitty salaries/conditions but then he keeps some of them out of the streets. Thanks
As the article states, "Not for everyone and not equitably"; however, the intended meaning of "good times" in this isn't "wow, everyone's happy" but "this is as good as it's going to get". The current wage level and (limited) growth, even if not satisfactory, is still better compared to what was in the previous economic downturn, and better compared to what's going to come.

For average wage earners, no matter how hard it is, this really is the good times, as good as they're ever going to be. It won't be better. It will be worse. Be prepared, winter is coming.
One interesting thing to consider is that countries holding larger and larger amounts of each others debt could be stabilizing in geopolitics. If your neighbor owes you $100 you aren't going to punch him because you would never get the money back.
good point. i used to walk and think a lot when i was in academia. the act of walking always added a different dimension to my thought processes, though it's hard to describe in exactly what way.

I'll try to make an effort to do that more often now! thanks
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Expectations for CNNs with Tesla's tech is currently "Does not run into firetrucks". And they're not exactly succeeding right now.

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/

Humans are way, way better than current CNNs on this field. We can talk about cats, shadows, and boulders when CNN-based methods stops crashing into concrete barriers, parked fire-trucks, and 18-wheelers making a left turn.

I don't want to dismiss the work of Deep Learning / Machine Learning specialists. I just want to point out that the problem is incredibly difficult. It is very far away from being a solved problem.

> Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h) and a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead

This is a known issue, a known pattern and has happened multiple times this year. Its repeatable. CNNs today are not working in this case, and fixing it will require a research effort of mammoth proportions.
People think they have it scored when they make 10m, but some still don't stop.

The game at his level of scoring includes different variables in the profit equation. He has to worry if poor people repoduce enough, is the overall population growth expanding, etc.

He "scored" really doesn't apply.

I was told once that if you are a business, either the grow, or die.
Your comment is correct and really should be at the top. The real issue is that many people don't know this can happen and should be warned.
91% of internet users is about 3 billion people. They control a platform that affects more people than any single nation state (2-3x larger than the largest nation state and larger than the top 3 countries combined). For instance, changes in PageRank (which is an unaccountable and unauditable algorithm) affect every user of their site in terms of what links they see, what articles they read, and by extension what they think.

You might argue it's the fault of users for not being informed, but I think that if a company has a significant impact on the lives of 3 billion people (which again, is a larger influence than any single government on this planet -- and nation states have constitutions and laws specifically to ensure that they serve the people and are accountable) then it has reached the point where it either needs to be broken up or be regulated. I don't care which, I just think that this cowboy mentality (that software is somehow special and lives in a world where regulation is always an unreasonable viewpoint to have) has to stop at some point.

Regarding the term monopoly, there are different views on what precisely the term means. Google does have anti-competitive practices which you might argue make them act as a monopoly. You can argue they have a monopoly on internet searches because whenever they change PageRank in a way that negatively impacts some users (or when they make changes to GMail's spam filter so that it starts blocking valid emails) there isn't a rush to a different service because there is no way to co-ordinate such a rush. Instead you have other secondary industries like SEO which exist purely to try to keep websites reachable from Google. The fact they have the power to manipulate how the majority of sites operate clearly means they have significant (and in my view monopolistic) control over the market.

They also have a market share that is actually incomprehensible. Microsoft was indicted under anti-trust laws because of Internet Explorer being bundled with Windows. I think Google acts as much more of a monopoly than Microsoft did in the 90s, and "good guy Google" really is an outdated mental model for a company with that much influence over people's lives.
Managers who call meetings for the sake of meetings.
> I just want Amazon to pay tax like any other business would in the UK, pay employees NI like any other business in the UK, and pay minimum wage like any other business in the UK

I agree with you, but you can't blame Jeff Bezos for UK legislation.
I find it really interesting the difference in views on money between /r/povertyfinance, /r/personalfinance and /r/financialindependence.
> come close to being workable in adverse conditions

Given how people drive in the rain and snow in the Northeast, I would argue human drivers have not even come close to being workable in adverse conditions.

We drive in them anyway, despite often times magnitudes more risk of crashing, because we want to.
This is good. Customers don’t know what they want. It’s not their job. They only know what they don’t want after they see it. Anything that helps customers understand the implications of their own requests cheaper is a huge win for everyone.
I think taxes are a bit better because you're also agreeing to pay your own money (vs only taking other people's money only as the original commenter said). I had a different reading of "taking other people's money by force" as meaning specifically voting to tax a minority group more just because you can. This is based on the GP comment being "We should tax billionaires out of existence" as opposed to "taxes are immoral"

OP can clarify if necessary.
Also been programming since the early 80s and I do by far most programming in my head and on paper (I ‘just have to type it in’; that is mostly bullshit because of the real world vs my abstractions but it does save me a lot of wasted time behind a computer).

Screwing the employer is a tad harsh but I am the employer often and I see people coming up with these things, so I give them some room to play. Usually they just go back to the old ways when they see it is not that silver bullet the Medium article claimed. I just can imagine when someone does this with more power or less supervision within a company as an employee and actually costing the company money for some unproven and resume driven thing which does not necessarily bring any business value.
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I found Jack Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" series in a magazine, quite a while ago: https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
The homeless are usually worse-off than people having a job, so by diminishing returns one should expect to be able to help more by spending on the homeless. In addition, if worker pay is increased significantly above market rate, this will plausibly lead to things changing elsewhere to get closer to market clearing, such as via worse working conditions or additional automation or requiring Bachelor's degrees for pickers.

While we are being utilitarian, it seems clear that either option is far from optimal, and the money would better be spent on the global poor, or farm animals, or helping future generations.
If it doesn't interact with gas clouds how do you build an efficient detector to receive it?
In case anyone was wondering, $68 in 1957 is equivilent to $607 in 2018.
They do index everything, the maps they rely on are lidar generated 3D point cloud fields that make a model of everything around the road, and are frequently updated.
I would spin this a little differently. There certainly are a lot of ambitious people at Google. Googlers have a lot of stock options and/or RSU's and care when it goes up. There was also Eric Schmidt's slogan, something about more revenue solving nearly all problems.

But, the company was founded by idealists and is immune from takeover. It attracts idealists (or at least, it used to). Everything is justified in terms of helping users somehow. Justifying things in terms of getting a short-term stock boost generally isn't done, at least not where ordinary employees can hear about it.
The current system seems extremely fragile to me; it's as if the tiniest miscalculation in terms of government debt versus economic growth could set a country on an irreversible course to hyperinflation (with respect to other countries' currencies).
It seems ridiculous that governments have the power to seal the financial fate of their citizens in this way; irrespective of the actual economic output of those citizens.
I think this makes a strong case for cryptocurrencies; citizens should be allowed to choose a currency which reflects their own level of financial discipline (and not that of their government).
The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem) explores this
Both is probably true, the NSA/gov overreach is bad, but the NSA/US has a significantly better civil oversight of intelligence services.
Where are the electrical power and internet connection coming from?
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And Apple agrees with you as well. Thus they are continuing to sell other models for under $1,000.
really??? you created an account just to post this comment.
Default is definitely a thing,
as are bondholder "haircuts", but that's what the IMF is for. They're coercive but not corrosive to the rule of law like mafia. Former Soviet union oligarchs came about due to privatization rather than debt.
There will always be demand for food, for example.

Land in good climates. Don’t even worry about the houses.

Good education and shelter is pretty close, but not at all commodified or fungible. Real estate is complicated I guess.
That's a super, super weird formulation here. First from the abstract standpoint, the math here is not right. Discussion: https://pastebin.com/qqQ3KGS5 because I don't want to divert from the more important point.

More importantly, you've failed to account for the externalities, entirely. It's not just a bet ("pay for a chance"). Trying the bet--in this case, allowing government censorship to control search results--has complicated to quantify, but significantly negative human rights cost.

So to summarize: I wouldn't think twice about taking your bet--I absolutely would, because the chances are absurdly in my favor (see the pastebin). But I--and generally, the people protesting this--would decline a bet that actually has the right stakes, even if there is a payout.
This is also a good point.

But it's not as easy to interpret as you say. The currency, maturity distribution and interest rate of the debt are all important. If the average maturity is 20 years for 1%, it's completely different from 3 years and 5 percent.

Differentiating debt in foreign or domestic currency is even more important. In the US and Japan all government debt is in local currency. It's completely different problem from countries like Venezuela or Argentina that have also debt in foreign currency. Hyperinflation occurs only in countries with large debts in external currencies.
Do the terms asset stripping or corporate raider mean anything anymore?

In the 70's and 80's lots of todays big names made a fortune buying controlling shares of companies that had spent decades reducing their overheads buy buying (instead of leasing) their corp offices, factory machines, etc until the value of the real assets were greater than the stock value. Then all the assets were sold off, and leased back, with shorterm sweetheart deals that lasted just long enough for the raider to sell the resulting company to someone else (or simply in some cases shut it down).

Wall street has long sense stopped serving anyone but themselves. Its long past due for many of their activities to be made illegal.
So far interesting, but it is very annoying that cynicism became the standard way to drive talks.
I've never once in my life met an addicted person that preferred to stay addicted, have you?
Millions of separate topics on a single Kafka cluster? The way it's designed requires opening files for all of those topics and their partitions so good luck if you're trying that. You'll run out of file handles, then memory, and then the disk access will completely freeze up.
- Technical decisions from non-technical people (especially management and politics)

- False commitment to up-front design decisions, even in the face of absurdities and architectural violations

- Inability to throw away code

- Overengineering

- Underengineering
Sure, as long as you have reasonably well-calibrated cameras and optics.

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: assuming 1920x1080 camera sensors with a 90-degree horizontal field of view, each pixel covers a visual angle of approximately 0.001 radians. If you have two cameras separated by 5 feet horizontally, and your measurements are accurate to within a pixel, then you can measure the distance to an object 500 feet away with roughly 10% accuracy. That's a reasonably conservative following distance at typical highway speeds.

And that's just from a single parallax measurement. By using other visual cues (e.g. apparent size of an object whose physical dimensions are known) and averaging measurements across multiple frames, you can get a more accurate measurement.
> And of course it would be compressed or encrypted or both. So it would be indistinguishable from noise (as mentioned in other replies)

The perennial optimist in me thinks that that all the work on cracking Tor is finally going to pay off when we can decipher alien's sending each other selfies.
You're only seeing one part of the situation. I've been homeless and it wasn't apparent to anyone I didn't tell. That's what makes the issue so hard, the assumption is that you're part of that crowd who needs medical attention when all you need is access to opportunity
> No conclusions are drawn.

What are we calling a conclusion?

> Adolescence is above all a gendered category rather than a social one.

No further justification for this outburst is proffered, and that's a shame, given the rest of the piece is littered with references to published literature. In no other context have I heard or entertained the notion that adolescence is for girls alone, and it is obviously a social category. It's a statement something like "Water above all is an abstract concept, rather than something which wets.", or "The apple is above all a metaphysical quandry, rather than a fruit.".

This is the kind of say-nothing prose that exists to arouse people who peaked in college; it's a shame since the rest of the piece seems to at least get at something.
The muni system is one of the worst functional bus system that I have ever encountered.

Sure there are worse systems that don’t have any coverage (El Paso for example) but they are not functioning so I don’t count those.

Problems with muni include:

- To many stops (like every two blocks).
- Hardly any dedicated bus lanes, bus gets stuck
in traffic too many times.
- Slow and un-intuitive routes.
- Small and overcrowded busses.
- No transfer to BART or ferries.

I recently came across a muni map from the mid 80s and it was almost identical to an up to date one. That might give an idea of how stagnant the system is.
The few good things I find about the muni system is that it has good coverage, frequent busses[1] and is cheap.

[1]: Sometimes too frequent, I sometimes see the 14 being stuck in congestion of other 14s