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It's a pretty common pattern for a lot of big tradeshows that aren't controlled by a single vendor to become about everything to the point that they're about nothing at some point, especially as the motivations for creating the show in the first place become less relevant.

Comdex, Linux World, and lots more I can't list off the top of my head. I'm a bit surprised that CES has been able to hang in there but I guess the market for electronic gadgets is so huge that there's still a place for it.

There are still huge vendor shows out there which seem to still make sense--though tradeshows can be a bit of a racket for everyone involved--but I mostly prefer smaller and less commercial venues.

I've been to a lot of the big shows though never CEBIT. Almost went at the last minute to appear on a panel a few years ago but it was too logistically challenging.
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China doesn't really need novel technological approaches when they have the political capital and power to just successfully do things the old ways. Moreover, they have an understanding of acceptable losses and human casualties that is more in line with attitudes prevalent when most of European and US basic infrastructure was initially constructed, compared to the extremely safe working conditions now expected in the west.
Prior to BJJ I’d been a good deal of street fights, mostly at bars or in high school. Since starting BJJ I have been in zero. Obviously I’m not attributing this completely or directly to BJJ, but the confidence and discipline you acquire in training does go a long way keeping your dingy in your pants and taking the high road in a pissing match.
Yes, as long as it gets the necessary permits and green-light from my elected officials.

The canceled tunnel was planned to go in about a block from where I currently live and I was excited for it. It wasn't even going to be under Brentwood (the northern terminus was about 2.5 mi away from the nearest edge). The hypothetical question for the plaintiffs might better be: would you be ok with a tunnel being built between 2-4 mi away from your house after successfully consulting with your elected representatives?
> Ideally browsers should implement well standardized, secure APIs for all devices in the world, but we are far from there. Until browser vendors implement the API you need, the only option is to employ this trick

well not only browsers, os's in general ;)
Ethics is a really hard continuum to manage when financial factors are at play.
It's worth noting that none of the moderators or questioners at the talk expressed any skepticism that He had done it. They all took for granted He had.
Whoever is paying for the project. The same as who pays for all the permits and inspections.
If I'm going on holiday or away for a few days or whatever, I disable the cron jobs. If we're just talking the odd day here and there where I'm not at home for random reasons or not following my typical schedule, I don't worry about the waste. The amount of electricity involved is so low, we're talking about pennies.
> My dad used to work in local government and likes to call the automatic opposition, "People united against anything." Today we call them NIMBYs.

I love the BANANA acronym, which stands for "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything".
> A closed system can have energy put in from the surroundings to decrease entropy.

Then it wouldn't be a closed system anymore.

What you call an isolated system is the same as a closed system. At least, in the common parlance of thermodynamics.
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This was a straightforwards application of well understood and disseminated science, it is entirely unlike a secret superweapon. Even if this technique is banned in the US and not in China I have no doubt that many Americans would still play medical tourist to have enhanced babies. There might be large differences in the willingness of Chinese versus American parents to have their children modified but that isn't a matter of government intervention.
> Anyway I like to consider entropy as the amount of usable energy in a system. A whole glass has more energy to release (e.g. by shattering) than a shattered one does. Maybe this is the formal definition of order vs. disorder?

I think this is correct. Like the sand castle example: there are very few ways the grains can be arranged in order to be a sand castle, but orders of magnitude more ways of being re-arranged into a pile of sand. It could then be said that the sand castle has less entropy, and left to nature, will slowly but surely move towards the predictable high entropy state of being a pile of sand. The reverse is not true. Without work the low entropy state will struggle to reach the orderly state of the sand castle.

Someone else mentioned the big bang, which I guess would be the work that created the orderly universe as we see it. But that work was expressed a long time ago and without more work matter will just move to an un-orderly state again.
From Wikipedia:

"The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16 CET, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football match. This was followed by several mass shootings and a suicide bombing, at cafés and restaurants. Gunmen carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were shot or blew themselves up when police raided the theatre."

As you can see, the streets of Paris did indeed become a battlefield, filled with hostile attackers, leading to many casualties. It's easy to see why even Paris was not immune to terrorism/armed assailants and needed to have armored vehicles.
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> e.g. "passionate about software development", "good communicator"

Yeah, this is where bias and other cruft comes creeping in. "Passionate about software development" usually means, "our PM sucks, but he's the CEO's nephew, so you're going to work late to meet deadlines".
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Yep - that's true.

However, they are different companies with different staff, mission statements, and overall goals now. Conflating them to suggest that an ad company is trying to eliminate mosquitos is misleading, at best.
Your numbers don't match your %. 20% is 1/5 and 30% is around 1/3.

Also I think you can drop the English requirement as most people willing to go to China will speak English (it is certainly not independent).

With this corrected, we get around 0.5 which still means it is unlikely they find someone.
The same thing that gives anyone the right to pollute and bring down rain forests and destroy sea life. Might makes right.
>> The scientists involved (who are world-class in this field) have run the numbers on the effects of eliminating these species.

FTA: "It’s unclear what would happen if the world’s disease-causing mosquitoes were done away with. The ecological role that mosquitoes play hasn’t been thoroughly studied, though some scientists suggest we might be just fine without them.”

At least as reported in this article there seems to be a lot more doubt about what could/would happen than you suggest.
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Is that actually true? I wouldn't know it from my travel schedule :-) I do think there tends to be more focus and certainly more small/casual events these days. There are still huge tech conferences, but they're mostly put on by a single vendor. It's the big relatively generic events that seem to have suffered the most.
There's an ice cream and bagel place in town. In the late evening it's consistently packed with people on their laptops or reading books.

One day I noticed the music was much louder than usual, and asked the staff to turn it down. I figured it was a mistake because it was normally much quieter.

They told me this was the new company policy. To set the music uncomfortably loud to make people leave, after finishing their food or drink.

(Around the same time they also instigated a 30 minute time limit on Wifi if you bought something. Even though I was willing to keep buying, I couldn't get through a new tea every 30 minutes!)

Theory being it's more profitable to make your customers leave and make room for others, than to make a place people want to go to.

I haven't been back. Even with noise-cancelling headphones(∗), and earbuds under the headphones, it was too loud for me. And the wifi policy was really annoying.

Sadly, I've noticed ultra loud music seems to be the policy at a lot of places these days. I find Starbucks and Costa ok - but some of my friends won't go with me because they find the music there too loud as well.

(∗) I wear noise-cancellers at most places now. It probably makes me look unsocial or "hipster", but it's to protect my ears from the loud music just about everywhere insists on playing, and helps me concentrate when I'm working in a café. I enjoy talking with people if they want to.
This is what I have been going through for a long time. Everyone around me goes to their 9-5, so I barely even talk about my work anymore with them (even though I love it). You get used to it. I have tried finding people that are doing the same thing as me but with no luck.
Alphabet is a company that still makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising, and invests that money in its other ventures. It's not misleading at all to suggest that this project is being funded by advertising revenue.
All the reports I have read indicated no species has mosquito's or their larva as its primary or even a significant food source. So the impact of wiping out only one species of the thousands of mosquito species as alphabet is planning seems very low risk indeed. This species doesn't even live in the far north where birds eat the larva in the tundra as a part of their diet, so it wouldn't affect birds at all.
In the case of Verily and Google, however, they don't have the same driving factor or competitive advantage. Google's profits and business strategy revolve around advertising. Verily revolves around life sciences.
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> And what business does an ad company have in getting into this?

Yes, instead of applauding the effort of solving a very difficult problem that could help people in real meaningful way, I am just going to go for cheap potshots to show how elite I am.
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So, you do understand why they included the wider historical review then. At least you have got exactly the point they were trying to make by including it in the first place. The literature here historically has been shit and all over the place. Which is the kind of point you might want to make if you are putting forward some other papers based on more recent studies that both opens out the field and narrows the error bars somewhat.
I didn't consent to my current loadout of genes. How would a bundle of genes consent to be some other bundle of genes? What does that even mean?
Yes, they wouldn't be normalized so you can't interpret it as a probability. Softmax is the function that normalizes it. However, even that you can't interpret as a probability of some outcome, because you do not take into account the prior.

For that, you need actual Bayesian techniques.
Why would you imagine a scaled up drone-like airframe would be a lot cheaper than a conventional helicopter? Have you actually analyzed the costs and engineering trade-offs?
Male mosquitoes pollinate many plants that keep ecosystems in balance. Plants that bees normally don't pollinate.

Plus they are a food source for many other animals, including birds.

In Florida, the state uses university researchers to try estimating populations of mosquitoes that can keep ecosystems mostly in balance, along with prevent too much outbreak in disease. Hell, a lot of the state workers are uni grads that deal with mosquito populations. Since the 90s, they've been doing pretty well with all the research gathered since the 1920s.

In this case, I bet we're going to get something similar to Mao's great ecological experiment with eradicating sparrows and whatever the other pests were. Not as severe. But, in a few years, "Yea, that was really stupid".

Humans have a very good history of fucking up ecosystems. We think "we know better" or "I have this great idea!" or even "I have this totally under control". No. We don't. We're morons when it comes to controlling ecosystems. I also find "I don't see how this can go wrong" to be a fault in logic. Just because YOU can't figure out how something can go wrong, doesn't mean it will not go wrong. Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth.
This is why it's important to grow up in the right zip code, do well in school, score high enough on standardized tests, get into the best universities. If you want to maximize your chances of getting to the top, the best way to do that is to know the right people.
I'd argue that Apple are a hardware and software company - the unison of the two has been central to much of their success.
With tropical house being on the rise, I find it really blurry if it's techno or house with the more pop-y stuff these days, especially the funky/disco vibes coming out of the Paris scene right now.
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LA already has a pretty large rail network. Problem is when they try to build new subways it takes many many years to go even a mile and is met with the same lawsuits Elon faced. Fact is, California culture wants it but doesn’t want it at the same time.
Or it could be that that was the one criterion that was non-negotiable. Often there are one or two that are "must haves" and the rest are just wants. If you meet the must-haves, you only have to hit a couple of the wants in order to get an interview; but if you miss them, forget it.
Are you serious? Have you spent any time ON YOUR OWN in a place like Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado? For one, there is the wildlife factor: Bears and moose are dangerous.

Secondly, National forests are a very important component of public lands for hunting: I for one find it awesome that I can stock 1 year worth of organic, grass-fed meat from legally harvesting an Elk on state or national forest land [1].

Finally, hunters - with our firearms and ammunition purchases - actually supply the bulk of $$$ that go towards maintaining public lands and wildlife [2]. You are welcome!

1 - https://www.fs.fed.us/visit/know-before-you-go/hunting

2 - https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-...
Here's an up-to-date example using Rails and Postgres row level security: https://github.com/kuroda/multi_tenancy
It's odds that in his example he use the second highest tier to fit the average user? I call that generous if anything.
It's disappointing (though not surprising) to hear your story about Math Overflow and your location. I think the more we talk about it the more aware people will be so thank you for sharing.

The scientist in me also finds your experience very interesting. For the most part we think of these online platform as "anonymous" because we aren't conversing face to face. Yet our biases find other ways to creep in, often unnoticed.
The kind of people that want to see a brilliant person who is doing good work fail because he is not a nice guy irritate the hell out of me. I'm not totally sold that you have to be an asshole to progress things, but being wrapped up in pussy-footing around and not ruffling any feathers takes a helluva lot of energy out that could be directed towards real goals.
This is very solid, actionable advice that I can follow. Great point about "work doesn't always look like work." Thank you!
Isn't that a realistic risk of being a lawyer in his field?
That’s one approach of many, and ultimately depends on the individual.
Found the format a bit distracting to read, so cleaned it up a bit (removing Speaker 1 ... etc) - https://pastebin.com/5nvvxSWB
This article is nearly two years old. Not that this isn't a great article, but people should probably know that these features aren't entirely new.
I use Logentries currently, and frankly using "grep" on my logs is often faster than extracting what I need from Logentries.
Great advice! That's like saying that it's super easy to become rich. It just takes 2 easy steps: Step 1. Be born into a rich family. Step 2: Get inheritance cash.
State and federal governments around the world allow species to be hunted for public safety and preventing disease transmission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_license#Purposes
I think that would tie in to the enforceable off chain point - if by law Facebook has to respect the permissions you give them, then yes they may have the ability to sell the data you allowed them to read but if you did not give them permission to sell it, then you would be able to pursue legal action.

Which of course would require proving that they did in fact sell it, but it shouldn't be prohibitively difficult to setup a mechanism for taking a data point and verifying whether or not the seller has been given permission to sell it - could have it so that who has access to a given data point and what their permissions are is part of the public record.
Honest question, have you considered it might be on purpose so you are not using Starbucks as your personal office?
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This dates back about 5 years ago, but I found Racket's libraries were rough. Often they amounted to prototype work that never got fleshed out, they were ill maintained, low in quality, and many just wouldn't load. And these were general purpose libraries; like even just basic database stuff.

I moved on to Clojure.
I don't think many people in Chicago even know about it, and experts don't think it'll happen at all. I'll believe it when I see it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/us/chicago-tunnel-elon-mu...
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Real subways need tunnels.
But then there's that research that shows that on average, men will apply to a job if they meet less than half of of the requirements, so if you don't overspecify you'll be flooded with crap applications.

Of course, then you get the research that women will apply only if they meet >90%, so the overspeccing contributes to gender imbalances.
Only reason I suggested OP-1 was I googled and saw he studies physics at Princeton, for some reason I figured he'd be a good candidate for an OP, hehe. :D
Great pay and larger-scale work are not good excuses for human oppression.
It's one thing for engineers to "be the HR department" at small companies. They are willing to let things slide because they know the candidate, especially after interviewing them, that they can fill in the knowledge gaps (well I don't know about the willing to move to china bit).

Contrast that with a large company with a specific HR department that is in charge of taking a job requirement sheet and finding and filtering candidates. These people have no idea what any of these technologies are, so for them it's a liability on their ass if they let people through that don't satisfy the "requirements". Managers, when you write up "requirements" and that is being sent to an HR department, keep in mind you might want to move some of those to a "nice to have" category.

That being said, there ARE competent, non-technical HR departments that do understand technical hiring.

Edit: Ohh... I wanted to add too, it's nice being in a startup where you really don't just "leave it up for a year". In a startup each and every candidate is literally needed when it's posted. It's kinda crazy and shows just how much larger companies hire just to hire if they can just sit on positions for a long time. Are they really "needed" if the position can go unfilled for an entire year?
Thanks for your response.

Do you believe that those certifications are solid investments for any IT professional (from developer and up) or only for those that are looking to become a SysAdmin/Network Engineer? (forgive me if my terminology isn't spot-on)
What? 1/20 == 5%
The most interesting thing was 12% interview rate - is that normal? I was discouraged when getting 20% rates, maybe I need to apply to more stuff.
"Corporate mission statements are meaningless, except to an even smaller group of people."

They are point blank different companies.

Different CEO, HR, contracts, locations, resources.

The only thing they have are common ownership.

There might be some hints in strategic overlap.

They are more like 'different companies' than they are 'the same company'.

They could be peeled off from their parent owner and much would be the same.
Exactly. And on a personal note, my early-1990s self would have _loved_ to have seen traditional martial artists clean up at MMA competitions. I was heavily into Tiger Style kung fu.

But after getting my clock cleaned in a few friendly-ish matches with local boxers and judoka - and after seeing the same results with the far-superior practitioners in the early UFC - I was forced to admit that I had been absolutely wrong about the practicality of my art. My fellow kung fu practitioner (who participated in some of these matches) sparred a boxer, got destroyed, and said something along the lines of, "Yeah, I could totally pulled off some really sweet palm strikes if he hadn't kept punching me in the face for, like, the entire match."

An art practiced in a live manner with a resisting opponent seems to _always_ be more effective in real life, even if it's somewhat handicapped by rules of sport.

Specifically, about six months into studying judo (after switching from kung fu), I got into an altercation outside of a bar. A larger man threw a punch at me, and I instinctively clinched. I was scared shitless and exactly zero of the fancy kung fu techniques of the previous three years came to mind. Instead, the judo techniques I'd trained for much less time - but under conditions of resistance and fatigue - basically activated themselves and my panicked mind just observed as my body dropped the guy onto pavement with a simple drop-knee shoulder throw. Fight over.

It remains one of the most important lessons I've learned about martial arts and the human mind in general: the unconscious mind is in control. And it's less flexible than the thinking mind, but when it's trained appropriately for the situation at hand, it will respond with a speed and certainty (especially when fueled with adrenaline) that feels preternatural.
Sure, Alphabet makes a good chunk of revenue from advertising, and re-invests it. Verily is not an advertising company, even if they get some money from advertising.

Furthermore, Verily has its own profit streams, and isn't doing anything with mosquitos that increasing advertising streams to Google. The projects are unrelated. If I work on software and work and later clean my toilet at home, you wouldn't say the gloves I wear are my IDE and that I'm programming. However, I bought the gloves using money from my software development job.
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