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From wikipedia,

Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 1965) is an American mathematician, economist, writer, and managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's investment firm.[1] He writes on investments, capitalism, science, and mathematics.
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In May, 2013, Weinstein delivered a lecture, Geometric Unity. It was promoted by Marcus du Sautoy as being a possible answer to some of the problems in modern physics.[5] Few physicists attended the original lecture, and no paper or preprint was published.

Sounds like he may not have found the answer, after all. He is certainly not a practicing physicist, anyway.
This is a good starting point on all of this (with links to criticism): https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5927

Has this gone anywhere since 2013?
Unless of course they don't want to be paid for it, and the service gets in the way of them returning it to you immediately for free just so they can charge $15 that they get a cut of ;)
Offering this comment in a here's-information-you-might-not-have sense, not trying to be a pedant: What you mean is "selection bias" or "sampling bias," the general terms, not "publication bias" which is a specific instance of the fallacy.
In 21th century, 4k, big screens and high expectations on good looking polished games, I think 54gig is okay.
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Don't forget the smartest chemists, working for shampoo companies (or worse). As was pointed out in Idiocracy.
> My point about it "being harmful at worst" is that it's spreading uncertainty without any actual evidence.

Actually, that's precisely what -you- are doing, not me.

> I, on the other-hand have evidence from a 12,000+ person company that is using all three cloud providers.

I worked at a much larger company than that with over 20K employees that used Azure/O365 and AWS (but no GCS.) Your anecdote means nothing. You're on Hacker News, there are people here that work and have worked for massive media companies, industrial companies and tech companies. Many of which use Azure, AWS and GCS.

Do I wish Azure were better? Absolutely. I have a lot of ideas and complaints where things could be so much better. But I also have just as many numerous complaints about GCS and AWS.
Speaking as a male I take great offense to the pejorative 'creepshot'. Very sexist and offensive.
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I haven't read anyone citing Google also setting up shop in NYC. This might be way off but could Amazon and Google be competing for political influence in NYC?
Would have to be naked shorts. Check out Groupon's IPO.
Isn’t the projected number of jobs 25,000?
This is what I mean by disingenuous. Nobody is getting punished. Uber is being reasonable, which is why the user got their items back, using a standardized process.

Why do you keep saying they failed under some arbitrary scenario?

Again, just because it could've been faster does not mean that it didn't work. That specific scenario is not the majority nor the only one that matters.
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> What you are misunderstanding: being patronizing does not make you convincing.

At least they had arguments...

Being patronizing while making good arguments should be just as convincing as good arguments alone. Unless you're letting emotions cloud your judgement.
I’m too old. I’m telling recruiters that I will not spend even 5 minutes preparing for the interview. I believe that interviews should be based on what you did, not on your ability to memorize a book of CS problems and solutions.if you a company with good BS department (like google, db,...) you can be arrogant and still have candidates, but if you not them, I highly recommend to rethink how you interview people.
Lol, I honestly have never seen an ad for Uber in any website I have ever visited. They are, however talked about and recommended by everyone. So I am seriously curious where they are actually advertising.
Most new hires are probably not being interviewed by devs, but either by 3rd-party recruiters or internal recruiters with HR. When I was working in recruiting, the last thing either we or the client wanted was for the new hire to talk to either the person who they were replacing or any of the potential coworkers. Heck, one internal recruiter I had to interface with at a company I choose not to disclose said to me, "can we ask if they read Hacker News? There's some bad vibes about us there."

Which is when I got back on HN regularly :-)

(PS I did tell the internal person that there was no way that reading HN was related either to a BFOQ or other job requirement; and thus while it's not illegal, it'd be highly suspicious.)
Enjoy Uber while they last
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Air medical transport is only necessary in an emergency, at which point the customer needs it suddenly and has no opportunity to compare prices or refuse service.

This is exactly the market failure that causes municipal fire departments to exist, and should be solved in the same way, potentially by just having the fire department own and operate the helicopter(s).
Not gonna lie- I used them 20 years back. But it was damn simple and great looking with good details. I think their name was "3d home" looks like everybody calls themselves that now
People are worried about "socialized medicine".

In my metropolitan area, almost all doctors are working for one of three very large and expanding private networks.

And more and more insurance offers are forcing members to pick a plan serviced by only one of those networks.

It may not be "government", but their healthcare is already dictated by a single large and not very transparent nor accountable organization. Where employees aren't worried just about making money, themselves, but also about maximizing "returns" for shareholders.
If you are above a certain size you don't go through that. The big ones all have more direct access.

Also: Partner companies. They have more direct access too.
Ok, how long is the modified section then?
For the significant number of people that live in the area surrounding Toronto and work downtown it is sometimes the best option. Driving to work, including gas and parking, costs me only a few dollars more per day than taking the GO train and the TTC. It's also faster outside rush hour times and only slightly slower most of the time during rush hour. It might be an obvious choice in some metro areas but public transit in the GTA is not great.
In mammals at least, smaller organisms have higher metabolic rate. But getting smaller is also developing towards "not existing" :)
almost certainly less than you're paying. they still need to make a profit
Fuck Malibu residents and their blocking of beach access, fake signs and generally-selfish chicanery.
There are various answers which seem a bit sloppy to me. For example, "How do you find the middle element of a singly linked list in one pass?" The answer, without comment, makes a presumption about how to define the "middle" of a list with even length. And it defines a linked list implementation with a magic, invisible head that requires extra code beyond the loop to compensate for. In the "How do you check if two rectangles overlap with each other?" answer, the code will determine that the rectangles which merely coincide at edges or corners are overlapping, without noting that distinction. The vending machine example tries to drive home the point of requirements definition, but the point applies equally to these much simpler examples. I only gleaned maybe 10 examples...maybe I just got "lucky".

Also, the overlapping rectangles example has an error in the explanation. It says "If any of above four conditions is not true then two rectangles are overlapping with each other, as in following diagram first condition is violated, hence rectangle A intersects rectangle B." This somewhat nonsensical statement refers to a diagram that's not there, but furthermore, incorrectly indicates that the rectangles overlap if "any of [the] conditions is not true", when in fact all of them must be false. The code is correct on this point, but the explanation is wrong.
Hospitals understand economics just fine, dont worry about it.
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1) I agree that Azure storage is possibly my biggest complaint about Azure; ESPECIALLY on Web Apps/App Service Plans. I think they are trying to solve this with the new "bring your own storage" model. But we'll see, the latency on the disks when the queue length gets too high is not excusable, imo.

2) This is no longer a thing, though during that transition period it was slightly annoying.

3) This is also no longer a problem.

4) I've never experienced this, the "pay as you go" model has been with me since I started using Azure 6-7 years ago. Maybe they do this for some licensing models? I have only ever paid for compute time, storage usage and egress. I've have used plenty of licensed software too...so I don't know what yours relates to.

Back to #1 though, if the Azure team could figure out why Web App disk speed feels so slow (sometimes), my company would probably double/triple our spend on Azure and drop some of their competitors. This is genuinely my biggest complaint.
I couldn't tell you offhand how to convert between an int and an ASCII character.

...But if you give me a second...

Now that I've typed "ascii character codes" into google, I can tell you how to convert between an int and a character.

You don't have to memorize everything. Well over half of our job is knowing how to find information quickly.
The word offends you as a man? How does it?
I read Indie Hackers, and it seems every non-technical founder on that site uses Zapier, and Stripe.
most of 13th amendment's text pertains to the slavery loophole that Lincoln signed. It was clearly written to not end slavery, but disadvantage minorities and poor people for a perpetually-immobile and captive workforce that would be nearly as cheap as outright owning people in another form of involuntary captivity.
It's about portions when eating Asian food in Singapore my rice always used to finish before the proteins that come with a dish so I sometimes ordered extra rice. Plus Asian food have lots of soups on the sides so I think their carbohydrate and protein intake is more balanced then it looks.
I think the truly remarkable thing about the story was how optimistic Facebook employees were at the end of 2017. A company of that size is bound to make mistakes. Even in the most rosy of scenarios, a complete reorganization of human society around a few social networks was bound to have severe consequences. Facebook is not immune to it. Once you have a large percentage of humanity on your platform, then you will get the best and worst of it.
...and some of the current "App X is better" is because App X isn't as far along as Uber. They likely started later, and are still subsidizing drivers more.

At some point, they'll all wean drivers out of subsidies, and cheap fares will see cheap cars on average.
My mother's family was so poor that they ran out of beans to feed 7 kids one winter. They never stole, hurt anyone or broke any laws.
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> truely and royaly screwed over their search appliance customers

Got context? Are you referring to the (still ongoing!) deprecation of hardware search appliances as announced in 2016?
A waste of resources. The cost of training a doctor in the US is in the 100k's. Doctors outside the US get trained dirt cheap.

If you want to lower physician cost, make a doctor visa. Within 2 years you will be oversupplied.
I've had my ups and downs with Firebase. The dev experience is generally good, but reliability hasn't been so great.

Last year we had a 12 hours database downtime. Our call center was hell all day long. After a number of emails back and forth their support engineers acknowledged there was a downtime and gave us $25 of credit and an apology which doesn't even begin to cover our bad image to our customers.

I've had problems with storage dozens of times where files couldn't be uploaded.

2 weeks ago some cloud functions simply stopped triggering until I redeployed. Thankfully this was on a dev project and production was not impacted.

We are slowly but steadily moving some projects out of Firebase and will not start new web projects with it. Maybe it's better with the Swift and Android SDKs.
Sounds like something that could have been said to dismiss Einstein, the patent office clerk.
In America (my personal frame of reference) I could eat 7 meals a day as a homeless person. No one starves here if they go and look for food. I got food stamps the day I walked into the social services office.

"Starving or stealing" in the US today is a straw man argument.
That's not my takeaway. The article specifically mentions that the algorithm was biased for "equity", to the detriment of "privileged" families. That would allow us to reasonably conclude that probably white families were impacted more negatively by the changes. Unless I'm misreading?
Cheaper than a local hospital though.
Between Bathurst and Jarvis, roughly 2km.
> then it should be supported by the infrastructure needed

What specifically? The store pays for water and electric. The only thing I can think of that the city supplies is the road network.

And restricting the road network would be a very foolish thing for the city to do - they would just be harming themself.
That is a perfectly reasonable preference, but that the insurance system with unclear price differentiations makes difficult. You can make a copay larger for one and then people exert they preferences cost-effectively.
Sales does more optimization than product
Why would you want to work with a liar?
AWS may be the better service, but the console is a huge mess.
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I think you're giving way too much relevance / importance to comments in hacker news.
I don't disagree with anything you are saying. But you aren't hearing what I said, being poor doesn't cause you to commit crimes.

If you have been homeless, you know that there are both good and wonderful people that are homeless and rotten crooks. Neither of which adding money to their pocket would change.
This is a great example of pitching your product from the "Jobs to be Done" perspective. More users (in total) will search "create Trello card from message in Gmail" or similar than generic platform integration.
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What arbitrary scenario? I'm literally discussing the scenario which kicked off this discussion.

The problem is not that it _could_ have been faster, the problem is that it _would_ have been faster if they'd done nothing at all. They injected themselves unnecessarily to slow down something which would have worked fine without interference.

If I find someone's wallet in the back of my car and I call them two years later to give it back, am I being reasonable? I mean, they got their items back. Or is it specifically a week which is acceptable? What's the maximum amount of time that it's reasonable to delay a by-default two-minute interaction?
I officially refuse to do these in interviews (along with whiteboard coding) anymore and I'm very upfront about it with hiring managers and recruiters. My reasoning is twofold: (a) I'm generally not great at these kinds of questions so I think it's an unfair disadvantage and (b) I think that my experience, open source contributions, Apress book that my name is on, blog that I often post to, etc. speaks for itself. However, I will gladly do your take-home assignment. I'd be even more thrilled if we can discuss it during my interview.

It's kind of how in dating people have deal-breakers (e.g. no smokers, no kids, and so on) -- when looking for a job, this is one of mine.

Obviously, the caveat here is huge companies like GOOG, FB, AMZN -- these are big companies that need filters and I completely understand the reasoning behind their process. If I wanted to work there, I would certainly study data structures and algorithms before my interviews.
Simple and to the point, these sites! Just adjust the fonts and spacing and most sites would look much more modern.
> But still, no IDE or tool I've seen does this better.

Why aren't Delphi, Oberon, and Modula-3 immensely better? Each file is an independent module except the one with main. Then the compiler quickly figures out in one pass what all the function signatures are. The minor drawback with this is that the one-pass method requires you to pay attention to declaration order, though a two-pass method renders that approach irrelevant. The IDE has all the symbolic goodness you need, and no goddamn header files. Also it's still easier than dealing with managing the dependency graph yourself as is necessary with C file include order.

I say this as a guy who enjoys C and has done way more work in C than Delphi, but give credit where it's due.
Einstein published papers. To date, Weinstein has not.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/...

I haven't seen anybody claim Weinstein shouldn't have been invited to give a colloquium at Oxford, and had his claims been less extraordinary, I'm sure nobody would have minded if he gave some preliminary details without a paper. They're more informal affairs, these colloquia; they should be about exciting new ideas. But given his grandiose claims, it would have been wise to have provided physicists with the gory details beforehand so they could better assess the merits and target their questions accordingly. That's how science advances. Combine that with an ill-advised major media splash -- well, that's a recipe for a PR trainwreck, which is precisely what happened.

For my part, I've been especially struck by how careful every single physicist I've seen comment on this publicly has been to correct this misperception that the physics community is unwilling to listen to radical new ideas from outside some kind of elistist "Inner Circle." Again, it's an appealing narrative; that's why this particular framing was used, to cut off any immediate objections at the knees. No doubt there are some hidebound traditionalists lurking in the Ivory Tower, but there are far more dynamic, passionately engaged physicists excited about any new revolutionary ideas that could set physics on an exciting new course -- regardless of where they come from.
I know what you mean. Even if you think you are fairly competent, have a CS degree that is a few years back, reading these articles you only realise how many seemingly simple questions you probably could not answer correctly in an interview scenario. I try to let it motivate me, to try to stay on stop and play with these questions a bit, like going to the gym to stay fit and healthy, but imposter syndrome is real.
> The ACA market place is supposed to reduce those costs

Except it didn't and I question whether it was even supposed to. Costs were known to go up, they just mandated discounts for some types of consumers. There is no provider negotiation because the laws targeted the demand side and forced requirements upon them (consumers and insurers) and left the supply side unchecked (providers).

> Having more customers is not a prelude to higher prices.

Having more customers using your insurance is going to raise prices. The argument is not bogus.
Sacrifice more for greater fame and success. People will still make the distinction that they are even greater for having done so, like you are now.
Just went through an interview today that is exactly in the style as you describe it. Gels with my ethos perfectly. I really value this kind of approach.
Why do interviews for dev jobs increasingly becomes a game beaten by "grinding" leetcode or other websites listing questions?

It's like many companies have given up trying to rank applicants based on actual job experience and skills. "You've created and ran successful software for hundreds of thousands of paying customers? That's cool, but if you can't write a merge sort implementation on this whiteboard we'd rather hire the guy that learnt it by heart."
What a new revelation :)
I'm using AdBlock and "AdBlock for Youtube" and never experienced issues except in LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Facebook Ads portals.
The headline matches the original article, but to be truly correct it should read, "Facebook Has Been a Sleazy Company since Day One."
Are you able to get good jobs that way? Not criticizing, just genuinely curious.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/04/as-uber-probes-sexual-ha...

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They burned people with their original on-prem OneDrive bullshit.
The short answer is yes.

Yahoo has proven over and over that they don't understand community or know how to capitalize on crowd wisdom. After Yahoo took over del.icio.us, they didn't know what to do with it despite it being a huge trove of valuable data: 1) desirable, tagged sites, 2) the social network, and 3) the tags/interests of del.icio.us users.

Yahoo made similar blunders when it acquired Flickr, alienating its most active users.
> You could put a function's definition in every source file that needs it but that's a terrible idea since the definition has to be the same everywhere if you want anything to work. Instead of having the same definition everywhere, we put the definition in a common file and include it where it is necessary. This common file is what we known as a header.

In C and C++ parlance "definition" should be "declaration" and "implementation" should be "definition".[1] The terminology is important if you don't want to get confused when learning more about C and C++. This is compounded by the fact that some languages describe these roles in the author's original terms. (Perhaps the author's terminology reflects his own confusion in this regard?)

[1] This is indisputable given the surrounding context, but I didn't want to paste 3-4 whole paragraphs.
Trying hard to spin this as a reasonable effect, when the hospital buys a practice it also enforces all kinds of quality metrics that they need to maintain to get their insurance rates. Its true that a practice that changes no procedure will see a strange uptick in revenue, but those that update their practices, in principle, provide better care.

That aside, i believe this happens because it is illegal for a doctor to refern a patient and "Get a kickback". If the hospital really were the best place to perform a procedure, independent doctors have to be split between sending a patient out, which requires effort, staff & liabilities for the hospital to get all the revenue from it. If the doctor could negotiate with hospitals or other cares, they could do the work and get paid.
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I don't know how to ask this without it seeming dismissive, but how much more difficult is it to live your normal life by someone's use of this word?