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This looks very interesting. I always felt most of ML is about one aspect of intelligence - prediction from existing data. While this may work for specific tasks like driving a car or analysing a scanned image, the human intelligence has always been about the Why? on anything. Answering the Why? on a pile of data by connecting the dots using a causal model is also prediction in a sense, but a more generic one than a prediction on a bunch of specific classes or outcomes. For example, a self-driving car algorithm trained on a pre-classified data to detect obstacles versus a algorithm that can answer Why something is a obstacle is vastly different and is much more effective I guess.
I definitely think there is some planning you could and should do.
Customers still use and are willing to pay for homeopathy, but since it's ineffective my doctor doesn't offer it.

Google knows EV is basically snake oil, so why sell it? I appreciate that there's a certain level of anarcho-capitalist sentiment in Hacker News, but lots of people run for-profit businesses that don't take the "If there's any possible way to make money, no matter how reprehensible, I will do that" approach.

If you just can't stand for any for-profit business to ever do anything except to make as much money as possible, let me offer you a (very weak) economic justification you can cling to instead: Offering EV means you need to build a fairly complicated customer services operation, maybe a call center with verification specialists, a whole new team of people with skills your company doesn't have today. It is very unlikely that Google can make more profit on this weird niche business than by spending the same resources on, say, a minor improvement to advertising revenue. There, Anarcho-capitalists, do you feel all safe and cosy in the knowledge that if you squint you can pretend it was all just about money?
> Why would you teach children to help companies harvest their data by accurately filling in forms for them?

They also need to learn not to trust everything they hear.
Agreed. Wireless charging would be helpful.
I think 'ex google' has lost most of it's weight. Even if it was just used by any of the > __30,000__ engineers, it would be diluted.

Adding to that mix is non-technical people trumpeting ex-google/insert some other massive company on their profiles/pitches; it just doesn't mean that much.

Oh, you handled frontline customer service/ad sales/some other mundane role for Google? So what?

Getting in to Google was once a sign of something. I don't see it as a high signal filter anymore.
But it's uncertain whether simply pouring more money into the funding hopper would generally result in studies with larger sample sizes, or whether it would just result in a larger number of surveys with a sample size similar to the deficient ones we see today, as a larger number of scientists manage to cling by their fingertips to the gravy train. After all, there's presumably little good reason why we couldn't have fewer but better studies today, at existing funding levels.
If you are going to include remote effects like competition from poor people getting education, you also need to include an infinite amount of other effects; in particular world stability, the chances of terrorist attacks, 3rd world war, refugee crises, trade wars etc

With the technology we have now the world does in fact have plenty of resources to have basic needs satisfied for everyone (e.g., we throw away many times more food than what it would take to fix hunger). There is no actual need to compete. Such a world is safer for everyone, including the rich, and Bill Gates is one of many working long term towards that goal.

See lifting the poor as a rather cheap insurance against political instability.

We are always one major war or one generation away from having the entire system toppled, and the very meaning of "property rights" that make the rich rich overturned. Civilizations are not forever, whatever the people currently at the top may hope for.

Intentionally keeping the poor poor, and keep concentrating wealth, is not a recipe for stability.
I think the StarVR will get there one day. Here's a review of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFBUvfpQJ8

The only problem is right now they are targeting business, but I hope to see a consumer version one day and if they can get it lighter, comfortable for 3 hours of continuous wearing and can replace a theatre screen.

I don't see why it can't replace a TV or movie experience.
> The equations of physics are algebraic and symmetrical, whereas causal relationships are directional.

I don't agree with this. Quantum measurements are projective and they are very much one way. People seem to want to dismiss this as being just "epistemic" like the way entropy (thermodynamics) is one-way, but not fundamentally one way. Entropy increases only because we can't see all the details. Quantum measurements are not like that.
None of that requires there to be no jack. Im on the phone for hours at a time, need my hands and speaker isn't an option. Batteries are a real concern and getting a backup pair would be expensive.
I certainly have had PC speakers that picked up interference from a GSM cellphone. Cell phones are wireless transmitters that can transmit in the 3 watt range. A typical CB radio is 4 watts. The radio in the airplane is in the 2-25 watt range, and it's trying to communicate with a ground station that might be a fair distance away.

I don't think the real concern was ever that cellphones would cause planes to fall out of the sky, however, there's real reason to be concerned that they could interrupt the pilot's ability to communicate with ATC, which I'm sure could get dangerous.

There's probably no faster way to get everyone to shut their phones off than a "this is your Captain speaking; a cellphone on board is preventing me from talking to the ATC" however.
Bill Gates is worth ~96B as of September 1st, according to Forbes. A report from last August noted he had so far donated ~50B. So, you would profess that the resultant effect on your employment market from Gates' donations has negatively impacted your salary by more than 50%? That sounds like a preposterous claim, but obviously one that cannot be proven.
Health insurance in China is often flipped compared to how it works in the rest of the world, and definitely America. Instead of having a deductible, you have a benefit cap ($100k for the policy I got working for Microsoft). So the routine stuff winds up being very cheap to free, and the catastrophic stuff will bankrupt you. Well, not really, since Chinese hospitals will ask you to prepay your treatment, so bankruptcy isn’t an option.
The rules also allowed a single trader to own 25% of the marked[0].

0: In norwagian: https://www.dn.no/nyheter/2018/09/14/1431/Finans/-einar-aas-...
Does wireless charging meet the same performance levels of wired charging? Doesn't it take much longer to do an induction charge? It's like a lose lose here. Poorer audio quality with bluetooth, slower charging with wireless....
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Humans are not above scorching the earth.

If they owned half the land for anything inside the territory of a potential rival, they would definitely be aware of their advantage and keep some cards up their sleeve for the possibility of losing access to that land.
You need a big asterisk on that: free* market

There are lots of different markets, different regulations of them, different "freedom" of each market, and we need to take into account which regulations make each market work the best. Engage with this question instead — which problems do markets solve well, and what kind of freedom and regulation do we use to accomplish it?
Amazon is using a custom ASIC in their network gear: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...
You're saying he traded directly with Nasdaq, not through a prime broker or corporate entity?

For your average reader, most funds don't have an account directly with the exchange. They go to a Prime Broker such as GS, JPM, MS, etc, who keep an eye on the exposures of their accounts and limit what orders can go into the exchange. So for instance I ran a couple of hedge funds, and we'd get risk reports from the PBs which told us how much they were willing to let us trade. Also they'd do things like allow you to cancel risks across accounts if you owned a stock in one place but were short another. And they'd have risk models that looked at how correlated your positions were.

Now that's not to say that Nasdaq can then just be reckless, but normally the PBs are very large banks that have capital requirements, and even if things go badly, chances are someone will decide they're too big to fail.

PS. This PB thing can go wrong as well, but the idea is there's a degree of containment and incentive to keep things sensible. The senior guy at one of my PBs was fired because he allowed an Arab sheikh to gamble with too much leverage, and the sheikh lost hundreds of millions and ate up the bank's capital. (You're supposed to ask for enough margin that you don't lose your own money.)
Same here, I thought it was completely sandb0xed
Looks fine in lynx on a 80x25 terminal ;)
> Shenzhen is one of world's most livable cities already, a head above of Silicon Valley

Why do you claim so? I’ve never been to SZ, but if it’s anything like Guangzhou or even Hong Kong, I don’t see how the quality of life there is obviously better than Silicon Valley, especially if you are into outdoor activities and dislike heat and humidity.

Or so you mean SZ has much better traffic than SV? Even that I would doubt. Better air quality? SZ is good for China, probably worse than SV. So what are the metrics for “most livable city?”

> A senior engineering cadre nets 25k-30k CNY per month. Cost of living, 7.5k CNY for a bachelor, even if you party hard.

Those numbers are laughable even for Beijing, I hear SZ is way more expensive still. 30k/month is junior engineer territory, and you are lucky if your one bedroom apartment is only 7500/month in rent.
Copyright includes the right to not distribute your work (IMO and under the law). Suppose person A takes an intimate digital photo of person B (with their consent). Person A does not offer to sell it to you. It’s still improper for you to take a digital copy. I think the media companies have that same right in their copyrighted works. I realize that wasn’t your main argument, but feel it important enough to mention.

I agree with your position on the first 3 paragraphs.
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The sad thing is, you just confirmed they‘re doing the right thing. They probably still make money with you as youtube, analytics, adwords „user“ and they never got a dime from you with the products you stopped using (except ads on Search perhaps). Their net income from you probably increased when you stopped usig their free products.
Weren't those phishing compromises?
Not pissed enough to reconsider the heavy iphone xs max investment apparently, which, in the end, might have made a difference compared to continuously feeding them money.
This was the reason for my downvote as well. “No it isn’t” is not very much to go on and saagarjha’s post didn’t merit pulling rank.
I use the headphones for phone calls, I often work remotely / travel and have maybe 3-4 hours on the phone a day on average. Wireless headphones don’t have a mic I can hold close to my mouth, and headsets look doorky, especially if I’m travelling. Not to mention that if the battery runs out I’m stuck holding the phone to my ear (no ability to mute) or on speakerphone (can’t work in an open office or public environment).

Not being able to charge the phone and be on the phone at the same time is incredibly annoying. Sometimes I take video calls on my laptop and I can’t plug the lightning headphones into my laptop without an adapter.

I didn’t think it would annoy me so much but there are times when I need to get work done and this gets in the way, and the alternatives just aren’t reliable enough.

Having a thinner phone is irrelevant because I have to put a case around it anyway.

It’s frustrating that we have so many different connectors (lightning, 3.5mm, Bluetooth, hdmi, mini usb, usb C, usb A, MagSafe, ...). I wish apple would pick one and go for it (usb C maybe?)
Thanks for this. They've come up on my radar a few times. I'd love to hear from anyone here who uses these services.
As I understand it, he was such a big player that he didn't need a broker / basically was a broker himself.
Mind if I ask who? Honest question :).
> I'm confused why anyone would spend time doing this

Plain, good, old fun?
> The real wtf here is that he nearly bankrupted Nasdaq's emergency fund in doing so.

Nasdaq has several exchanges and clearing houses. This was only the found for Nasdaq OMX Commodities Europe[0]. A found only used for financial energy market for Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ_OMX_Commodities_Europe
How do you do that? Just opened Gmail for the first time in ages and it has both swipes to archive as default.. which is stupid.
In America, I've met very few guys who really wanted the wife, and kids.

I look back at most families, and so many started with, "You're what?".

In fact, many of us don't want the things we are told we need?

I think cute Hollywood movies have programed what we say?

(And yes, I know some of you got out of high school/college and wanted the wife, and family. I'm just saying many of us didn't, but don't say anything. Here is another story. It's pretty easy to be anonymous, and truthful.)
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After clicking the "Richard Watson" site logo to see his homepage and getting a broken link, I've formed a negative opinion about his HTML skills.

Apart from that, people with skills have opinions, and vice versa. There's cross-over, noise, debate, and sparks. If all that causes someone to think about the problem, and get informed before firing back a response, then that's a good thing for discussion and learning.
Are you his second account because I can't believe what you write here. The guy started out writing like there COULDN'T be a problem because it's iOS and it supports exchange since 2009! This was no discussion at all. It was pure Apple fanboy gate keeping, insults, selective quoting and completely unrelated topics. Only in his latest comment he's suddenly interested in the problem itself.

As I have written him, I detailed the problem up there where the question looked like somebody is seriously interested in it and not in gate keeping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17994803
I think it's the same personality-traits that made him this money that also made him lose it. Most people wouldn't do these "gambles", and thus wouldn't even ever be in a position to actually lose so much money.
>Flying domestic in the US is crazy expensive when compared with budget airlines in Europe, where (if you look out for it) you can get a flight from London to Rome for £40.

Its $60 for EWR-ATL and I didn't even look hard. $260 EWR-SFO and that's a 5 hour flight.
"Seems like on restart Safari wants to revisit previously opened pages"

I've always found that behavior annoying. If I want to revisit the last page, I can find it in history.
Sure, but let’s remember that copyright enforcement requires work. Are you going to be the one who goes from car to car, peeling off illegal images of Calvin and Hobbes? Out of the kindness of your heart? How’s that battle going to work out for you?
I take it that you use the age to dedcribe how old someone is.

I don't.

I am 48, feel like if I was 30 and plan and play as if I was 30 as well.

I have a job I like, two teenage boys with whom I will go biking in a moment. And beat them in ping pong afterwards.

I know I am 48, but I tym fat from your depressing "old"
GCD?
I don't think it's that silly.

I have major concerns with how automation and interconnectivity have taken off faster than security efforts can keep up. It needn't be a state actor, even - a disgruntled worker at John Deere might push an update to a million tractors that burns out their motors, for example.

The next World War might just be us waking up one day and the lights don't work.
Quants build models using math far beyond what an undergrad learns, including tools such as martingales, stochastic calculus, Black-Scholes (and vast generalizations), Brownian motion, Stochastic differential Equations, numerical methods

You absolutely don't need a PhD to learn those things. Black-Scholes and Brownian motion was covered in my undergrad courses and the rest of the topics you mentioned where covered in my Masters degree. Certainly most of the quants I know in Europe only have a masters degree.
An object-oriented version (assuming mutable strings) might be:

A$.REP("123", 4, 0)

So the syntax is weird, but the concept isn't totally unusual.
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The BeatsX are earplug type headphones that do decent sound isolation. They’re not as snazzy as the AirPods and they have some minor UX frustrations, but for the most part have been pretty good.
So you really think I have one account that’s been posting since 2013 and another account that’s been posting since 2015 and that they have both been posting prolifically just to have someone agree with me?

But as far as the issue. Did you reach out to Microsoft? Did you download the Outlook app for iOS? Or would you rather just complain?
Look again at that comment. He wasn't remarking about a substr, it was the curious syntax where the LHS of an assignment was actually an argument to the RHS function.
I can't really make out what you're trying to say, either.

I'm asking you if you think that file oriented shells like sh, csh or bash (or any Unix shell short of Perl, Python, Emacs or node.js) are reasonable scripting languages for plugging together software components, the way PowerShell is.

For example, PowerShell lets you pass around an array of filenames, and doesn't blow up if there are spaces in the file names the way the shell does. PowerShell enables software components to export and consume rich well defined APIs that take and return actual objects and data structures, not just strings of text that you then have to parse on your own.

Even though it would be extremely useful, Unix shells are absolutely terrible at parsing text and manipulating data structures, and have to call out to other weak programs like sed and awk to do even the most rudimentary parsing, pattern matching and string manipulation.

Historically and until recently, Unix shells weren't even able to add two numbers: you actually had to run another program called "expr" to do that, and forking another process and parsing its string output is ASTRONOMICALLY less efficient that executing an ADD instruction. Unix shell scripting is pathetically wasteful and inefficient, and a huge pain in the ass to program, read and maintain.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/expr.htm

The following is an example involving boolean expressions ( |- or operator ):
$ expr length "abcdef" "<" 5 "|" 15 - 4 ">" 8
output:
1

Everything is NOT a file. You shouldn't have to fork another process and parse a file to add two numbers, or put double quotes around your logical operators for that matter. Plan 9 got it dead wrong. And that's why nobody uses Plan 9, and why modern Unix isn't anything like it.

I get it that you're in a reflexive tizzy about how evil and corporate everything from Microsoft automatically is in your book. But I'm afraid you simply don't know what you're talking about.

Since you're not able to talk about PowerShell rationally, then what about Python or Emacs? They're real programming languages, not lame mish-mashes of haphazard syntax and inconsistent semantics like Unix shells, and they don't view everything as a one-dimensional file like Plan 9 insists. They have actual libraries with real APIs and honest to god objects and data structures, not just files. In Emacs Lisp, files actually have their own local variables, containing any Lisp objects or s-expressions.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC19

And if you really continue to insist that everything should be represented as one-dimensional file, then how to you explain ioctl and fcntl and setsockopt?

The official error code returned by ioctl sums up my point about Plan 9's fatal mistake: ENOTTY: NOT A TYPEWRITER.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter
>"This perhaps is not so true of the founders [of Silicon Valley], but certainly for many of the rank and file people," he said. "If you're a really good engineer or really good at some specific thing, your education typically does not involve you thinking that much about politics, so [being liberal] is not necessarily from deep ideological conviction, it's often more of a fashion statement than a question of power."

Peter Thiel thinks that only CEOs are capable of holding authentic political views. Everyone should find this offensive.
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>It's the closest approximation of the truth we have.

Since that approximation is not the truth, but a tiny fraction of the truth, is it wrong?
You could be reasonable and make larger sample sizes and so on requirements.

While it isn't certain that simply pouring money into funding hoppers results in more studies, it is pretty certain that larger sample sizes (and things like this) cost more money. It is prudent to give enough for these things.

If you want to have more accountability with money, build it in. You might find it costs more or less than current funding levels - I'm going to guess costs will vary with sort of funding. Use equipment funds for equipment. Give researchers and their staff actual, decent, steady wages not reliant on results. (A "negative" result isn't negative, after all, for it disproves something).

And so on.
That's not an excuse for engaging in a trade where one can lose that much. Both the investor and market should ensure there is an upper limit for what can be lost. The market to protect itself (since it or the the insurance mechanism lost > $100 million in this case).