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This quote, and the kind of thinking that engenders it (and is engendered by it), bother me.

Yeah, a cheap laptop can do arithmetic faster than 'the smartest mathematicians'. And the smartest mathematicians can do arithmetic faster than many children. Does that make mathematicians and children 'categorically different things' as well? In some trivial sense, sure, but it doesn't preclude any kind of connection between the two, or require some deep new ontological commitments to model.

I'm all for the current practical approach of using 'AI technology' as a human supplemental. But I'd rather not frame it as (what I perceive) as some kind of mystic, dualistic argument. At least not until we know more about both.

I also don't really think Peter Thiel is worthy of being the keystone of any kind of argumentum ab auctoritate in this particular field.
It's not about how much Apple values their products. Value-based pricing is based on how much value the customer gets out of the product.
I don't think it makes any practical sense. Hong Kong by default is using cremation, unless some rich person have a land for them to keep their body inside a coffin because Chinese tradition prefer keeping the whole body after dead. Even if disposed to sea, they still need to build a grave for them. Cremation only required to have the space of urn to place, and a gravestone. The urn does not take many space. If graveyard is still required to build, it does not save too much space.

The alternative that saving space is just sent them back the urn of ash and people just put the gravestone at home. But putting dead body, even in ash, is taboo in Chinese tradition and nobody would accept it.

It is difficult to execute a policy that opposing the local tradition, and it is not really necessary.
There wasn't exactly instability in employment for Red Hat employees before the aquisition, so I fail to see how your point applies.
Having been in Chris' shoes (being acquired by IBM) I found the reactions of different people in the company most interesting. Several people had the same sort of "Everything is different now that IBM owns us." reaction, but if you unpack that, the reality is a bit different.

For a company like Redhat I can't imagine it will be largely changed in the first couple of years at least, so for that period of time you will be working with the same co-workers, and if you're not in the Redhat C-suite probably for the same boss in the same facilities on the same stuff. So in that regard nothing has changed.

What will be different will be access to a company that has been running for over 100 years and evolved over that time, at all levels. Facilities all around the world. Access to some of the scientists that you may have only read their papers but now can chat with via slack.

If you're currently an executive staff level type (VP, Exec VP, etc) and you're part of the acquisition, you're going to be landing in a whole different world of agendas and counter agendas, that can be tough to navigate. You will want to establish relationships quickly, they will be both rewarding and help you see things that might be coming your way that you would miss otherwise.

At its heart though, IBM is just another company trying to do things to make the world a better place and to profit off helping the world get there. You will find the Finance guys are ones who have the ability to make things happen or not, the marketing folks may often be distracted by shiny objects that don't seem to contribute to the vision, and some of the fading parts of the business are not going into the long goodnight easily.

And if you're patient and look clearly, you will see that fundamentally the company bought you so that you're technology could both improve the company and continue to grow in its own right, and so everyone is "on your side" to a large extent. The biggest danger to your dreams will be your own executives, not IBM. They are the ones who have gone from being masters of their own universe to a star in somebody else's universe, and sometimes that transition affects them in ways that isn't immediately apparent.
I've been doing some interesting experiments with elevation compression recently that make it realistic to have large swathes of the earth memory-resident. If you're interested you know where to find me!
We are currently not sponsoring or giving work permits to foreign candidates. Where are you located so I can better answer?
Insert old man voice "If I had things my way, making hype about anything would be punishable by death."

Not going to lie. If someone ran for president on just that platform alone, where it's illegal to make any overblown promise/hype on tech, the contenders really need to come up with some good arguments for me not to vote for the hype killer.

I'm just afraid what's going to be the next hype train. The blockchain hype train was just plain dumb. It's a super niche piece of tech with really limited uses. Still cool for that. But will never revolutionize the world. This AI bandwagon is getting out of hand. People think all AI tech is perfect 100% of the time, all the time. It's more, works 93% of the time, 23% of the time.

The next hype tech... scares me what it could be.
An Audi SUV's price isn't justifiable given almost every use case for a consumer automobile, but a lot of people enjoy the experience and find it worth paying tens of thousands dollars more than a Camry. By comparison, if you work on a computer for several hours every day and prefer the ergonomics of a Mac, spending an extra $1,000 is a pretty minuscule premium.

And I say that as someone that happily switched from a Mac to a PC I built a few years ago - I like getting the maximum grunt for my money.
Younger children may need more sleep in total, but teenagers' circadian rhythm is shifted later relative to adults and younger children. They need 8 hours or so that starts and ends later than younger children.

Or at least that's the argument made in the book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker.
This is certainly not how trust in human relationships is reinforced :)

Get consent before hacking your friends.~~

Edit: This is awkward - I was sure I read it one of the previous times it was posted. Chapeau!
You might be thinking of numerical error, which rarely dominates the full uncertainty if one is doing the computation right.

You can quantify the full uncertainty in both scale/analogue models and numerical models. In my experience the full uncertainty is much more often quantified in scale and analogue models than numerical models, by the way.

Analogous to numerical error, if the systems under study differ slightly you can quantify the error introduced from the "distortion" as it is often called in the literature.
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Ha, to torture it a bit, I think this can be even more generalized to include more than enterprise software - furniture, office spaces, office design, ALL are sold to the c-levels and their support staff and not the people who work in and with those decisions.
I balked at the party registration requirement when I moved to New York, registering as "Independent" in timid protest.
Regarding multinationals which might place their EU "tax address" in any of 28 countries, those countries which choose to set low taxation rates have (logically) decided they would rather attempt to have a low percentage of something than get a higher percentage of nothing at all.

Q: How many companies would site a corporate office in Luxembourg if there were no tax advantage?
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But it does provide for rather strict limits on subsidies, and a subsidy is indistinguishable (or, actually, defined as, among other things) making one-off tax deals with individual companies.
What if I don't want anyone calling me? I would be extremely angry if I was contacted through voting data.
Did you read the article? The author got consent.
Bad analogy. Car manufacturers provide a legally mandated feature, but the manufacturer does not dictate usage and is not obligated to. The user can choose to not use the seatbelt, which is not going to change the design of the car.
This makes a lot of sense as a system, but who came up with "instant runoff"? should be called "ranked voting"
"Horrible cost"

Actually $500 is cheap. It'd be a no brainer if it were that cheap in the US.

I think 'Ambulance no Ambulance' almost has to be kind of a moral decision, not a cost one: if you don't need it, don't use it because it's a scarce resource that will always be scarce.
Consent was obtained, as described in the article.
You can, or Apple can for a fee?
For decades, I've wondered about this too -- on its face it seems like an intriguing possibility, but deep down I think it was impossible. Reason: Extreme cultural mismatch. Not that they're so different, but because of their overlapping similarities. They would both have wanted to be on top, in the driver's seat, calling the shots. No way they would have gotten along. No mutual respect. Too many clashing egos. Especially during the Jobs years.

Oracle's acquisition of Sun was just sad, because they were wiping them out to make them go away, since Sun couldn't swallow their pride earlier and sell out to a company they considered themselves superior to, like IBM or Apple. So their window of opportunity closed, and they got scrapped and devoured by soulless vultures. An acqui-expire.
That's a very good point. I wish it were Microsoft, Facebook, or Google. But IBM is not the worst case scenario.
The party system is a natural consequence of democracy. The accomplish anything its always more effective to organize with like minded people and work together.
A lot of dead people--not to say 100% because I have no source--had been using oxygen before they died.
It doesn't accomplish anything except paying the land lord more money.

If the same tenant gets to stay, it doesn't increase housing availability. And in fact, house prices up because the market is propped up higher by subsidies.

If the same tenant is priced out, it doesn't protect the renter.
Could you please elaborate on that? Thanks
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No, I was stating that Rust's trait system offer functionality that supports an OO style of programming.

That doesn't really have anything to do with whether one can or cannot call Haskell's typeclasses an object system.
There are many kinds of voting which involve the voters ranking their choices. The difference is in how those choices are resolved. You can get very different election results depending on whether you do instant runoff voting, or use a condorcet method, or use borda count. They're all ranked voting, but they have very different properties.
While IRV weakens the major parties, you still end up with a two party system. If you want more parties, then support a parliamentary system.
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I'm starting to shift more and more to the idea that it's no one's right to live in a specific place. Nobody owes you development. People who live in a city are just exercising their own right to fight to preserve something about it that others seek to take away.

In Boston, for example, I would love cheaper places to live in the city, but there's no way I'd want to see the historic brownstone neighborhoods demolished. If they were, my desire to live in Boston would quickly drop. Much of that architecture is what makes the city what it is. The people there who lived through the West End's transformation realized they didn't want that to continue, and their attitudes toward development quickly shifted. Everyone knows what Manhattan is like and not everyone wants to live in such an environment.

In the end, someone will live there. Someone will work there. Someone will open businesses to serve the residents. Someone will need to employ blue collar workers, and blue collar workers will need the means to get to their job from a reasonable distance.

Some residents don't want to turn their neighborhoods into high rises and traffic nightmares. I don't blame them any more than I blame workers for wanting to be able to live near work and not spend 60% of their income on rent.

And frankly these discussions on HN always dance around the special protected class of persion - people who use urban real estate as an investment vehicle slash secondary home. Tax them harder, make vacant buildings less attractive to own and harder to profit on. Clamp down on unlicensed vacation rentals. Force them to release the property or adjust rents so that people can afford to live there. More units will open up, prices will drop, and no one has to see their street turned into a nightmare of ubers in the shadow of a generic high-rise.
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That was quite amazing read. Thank you for that.
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I bought a 1 TB Samsung EVO 860 one month ago for a little more than 170 Euro. The SSD could be a huge chunk of the manufacturing cost but that means that Apple enjoys a huge margin on this computer.
I like this one:

"Debugging a program is twice as hard as writing it in the first place. So, by definition, if you write the program as cleverly as you can, you will not be able to debug it."

- (Maybe by) Brian Kernighan.
Suckier jobs will do things like make you dirty, risk life and limb, be highly stressful and/or competitive, have little to no extrinsic social rewards built in, require extraordinary amounts of training and preparation to enter, or require extended periods of time away from home.

>Office Administration

It's a desk job that gets you home at a consistent time, and requires little specialized training. It's got sucky aspects, sure, but at that level of candidate competitiveness it beats out a lot of other choices.

>Education

It's got a ton of extrinsic social reward in it. People like and respect teachers, and you get to see the result of your work when your students do well.

>nursing

Again, lots of extrinsic social reward. The people you care for get better and appreciate you, and you're part of the mission to help people get better. Keep the unpleasant cleaning and remove the thankfulness and you get janitorial work, which is male dominated.
The first time I heard about it was called ranked voting, but instant run off is the more popular term. There are multiple rounds, where the least voted candidate is removed, so it makes sense.
I think in most cases the synergies are thinning out rather fast, and the only positive effect that truly grow is financial muscles. If you do not depend on aggressive funding I suspect growing inefficiencies and complexities are the major forces.

An example from a customer that confided that after merging 8 national processes for reporting to various government agencies, the total running cost was unexpectedly almost 8 times higher than before due to the increased complexity and the amortised investment.

I suppose people know this, except the worst kind of bean counters, so this move is primarily motivated by “product brochure“ enhancement, absorbing a competent competitor that show some promise in a strategic area for IBM. The OpenShift business is just another mainframe in IBMs rather long history of "hybrid cloud“ strategy. They've been doing it for 50 years.
I'm bad at chemistry. Really bad. I freely admit I don't have a good answer.

I was going to use Ethylvanillin as an example because it falls under the heading of "artificial flavor", but as I reflect on your question further, I gather that you're telling me that even things known as "artificial flavors" could be acceptable ingredients to Endless West because artificial flavors (like Ethylvanillin) ultimately are derived from chemicals that are derived from plants.
We can train children to become mathematicians.
Healthcare is insane here. I have a relatively good health insurance but a trip to the ER (no ambulance) for abdominal pains still cost me $1600 out of pocket. I questioned going to the ER and tried to wait as long as I could but figured if I have insurance then I might as well use what I have. I should have waited longer. I fully understand why under-insured people will avoid going to the doctor or ER until it's either life-threatening or too late. Sometimes I think it would be better just to get the cheapest insurance and build up the emergency fund more.
Just the other day, I discovered a group that is pushing for this very thing. If you're interested in making this system the norm, start pushing for a change in your local area. https://www.fairvote.org/
> What will be different will be access to a company that has been running for over 100 years and evolved over that time, at all levels. Facilities all around the world. Access to some of the scientists that you may have only read their papers but now can chat with via slack.

I too was in similar shoes. While I agree with much of what you wrote, I disagree with this point. The size and compartmentalization of the company precludes cross-department access.
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I worked in defence as well, and the requirements are not just a 'checklist'.

You're talking about safety, consistency. Lives - and geopoltical situations are at stake.

Do you know what it means if a guided missile goes wayward and crosses international borders?

Or the rescue helicoptor's GPS is unreliable?

Totally agree it's bogged down in bureaucracy ...

But those requirements are real.

You want complicated: work in 'manned space flight' probably the highest safety tolerances of anything. My god I don't even know how we get someone in space these days.

We use the Russian system because it's old school, probably less complicated and reliable.
I think he just buys tons of everything.
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I'm curious if there's a specific criticism here?

I mean, the piece goes out of its way to cite Krugman calling it "among the best-understood issues in all of economics". HN generally discourages old content by labelling it, and the audience-appeal of this piece isn't the authors, it's that it specifically addresses a 2018 California ballot initiative.

I don't think we're going to get a great academic source on the current ballot initiative, because the consensus is that there's nothing new to say! G Sternlieb, The Urban Housing Dilemma (1972) isn't going to hit the front page, but everybody from the Cato Institute to Krugman is working off the same old bases.
Urgh, No?

Zero Corporation Tax allows multinationals to make huge profits and just chuck the money back home, even if that's outside the Union. Yeah, they're probably paying tax on it somewhere, but it's not taxed in the place it was earned. That's the problem here. Countries are losing cash and tax revenue to this.

Your trickle-down economics is similarly unproven.
I ran Engineering for an acquired company and that's pretty much exactly how it went down. You may have actually named the company in your post!

Year 1 was business as usual with things not changing a lot, but some integration work starting. That morphed into "we need to rewrite all of your software to make it better" which then turned into what turned into "build exactly the same thing but in a different language". We were a remote office and as attrition occurred, headcount was either not replaced or replaced by an equivalent at HQ. Morale and productivity were in the toilet with the prospect of basically a line-by-line rewrite that merely translated things to another language without actually addressing existing technical debt. I ended up walking away from almost 7 figures worth of unvested stock.
I’ve worked with IBM for the past 25 years of my life in public digitisation. They are the worst partner we’ve ever had, the absolute worst.

They sell things they can’t deliver, they never drive technology forward unless you pay them to, and then they get angry and confused when you pick someone who didn’t stand still over them.

Back in the day, almost everything we did ran in IBM mainframes, next year we’ll be signing away our last contract on any of our 500 different IT systems with IBM and we’ll never do business with them again if it can be avoided.

And that’s saying a lot, because I think most companies who sell software to the public sector are terrible leeches, but IBM always took it one bit further and never understood why no one loved them.

I mean, they still don’t get why nobody wants watson, and keep on trying to sell it, never realising that what it does for BI is stuff we automated almost a decade ago, and what it does for deep learning is so much worse than some of the smaller setups that you can scale by running them on AWS or Azure ( probably other clouds as well, but being public sector we’re in Azure and AWS ).

I think this will be absolutely terrible for redhat, and we’re already making exit strategies for the two jboss setups we have for when it becomes necessary in a few years.
Well, I guess its more accurate to say it's the only thing that homeowners will even tolerate -- they do in my city. It's the landlords that hate it, but fortunately they don't get a lot of sympathy in my town's electorate.

Now if you talk zoning and granting permits, that's where the hate really begins.

And yes, I'm referring to CA where the housing-as-investment vehicle has distorting things more than most other places.
drcongo is making a statement about the population, and readers can be trusted to not be so confused as to think that this is the official speech of the people.
I'm from the US. You could just replace France with the name of my state in your comment and it would hold. We don't even have scooters yet and they're talking about passing regulation in case it becomes a thing. Some places are really used to using regulation to (attempt to) solve problems and when you've been swinging a hammer for the past several centuries it doesn't really matter whether the nails you think you're hitting are bolts because you forgot how to turn a wrench long ago.
I always roll my eyes when Idiocracy is brought up in this context. It has this old smell of eugenics, as people who take the premise seriously misunderstand the role of education and vastly overestimate genetics.

If you are unhappy with the level of education of the public, then try to work on that instead of feeling encouraged to spread your superior genes.

I recommend Carl Zimmer's latest book "She Has Her Mother's Laugh" for a look at the past and the present through the prism of heredity.
I agree, but it is for some reason! Over a quarter billion in ICO money (filecoin) was raised on proof of replication.
If you really wanted to encourage 3rd party candidates, then Proportional Representation would work even better.

Both are better than first past the post, but agreeing on an alternative is HARD.

The situation in Canada is instructive: the governing left-central Liberals promised to replace first past the post, but reneged on their promise when they realized that the committees studying the issue were going to come back with a Mixed Member Proportional recommendation which would hurt them and help the left-wing New Democratic Party, rather than the ranked ballot mechanism that would help them.

(That's speculation, of course. They gave some other BS reason for breaking the promise)
> 4K/UHD at 27 inches, which results in a) limited screen real estate due to an effective resolution of 1080p at 2x scaling

MacOS's non-integer scaling works surprisingly well on these; I use one with an apparently resolution of 1440p with no issues.
> you still end up with a two party system

Can you explain why you think that is the case?
I mean; a crypto certification that doesn't tell you very much about the effective security of the product doesn't provide very much value though, does it? All it tells me, is that someone thought it would increase their sales enough to justify the time and money; they may not have spent time and money to generate random numbers properly, and may just use 4 all the time; they could probably still get a fips cert, because it's out of the scope of the certification.