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> Not really, you have to pay competitively of course. But you can safely assume that everybody else does that too.

In silicon valley, the difference between what a FAANG company pays and what almost everyone else pays is... pretty big. Like maybe not double? but certainly half again as much. I mean, you could say they are competing for different people, I suppose, but when a recruiter tells me that they "pay competitively" - that means drastically different things for different companies, even if I am limiting myself to companies within 10 miles of santa clara.

> I noticed a pattern in Berlin where I'm based where the less attractive jobs indeed come with higher salaries. When the work is shit and they bleed engineers faster than they can hire them there's nothing else they can do than up their rates.

Huh. That's really interesting, 'cause my experience (In the US, mostly in silicon valley) is the opposite. There were times in my life where I actively sought out harder and even more dangerous work for more money; but even casting aside any concern over who I worked for, even if I was willing to go work in a war zone, for my skills? the pay was better sitting on an expensive chair in a safe office in mountain view.

Even within silicon valley, the smaller companies and the "scrappy" startups or small companies seemed to me to be a whole lot higher stress... which for parts of my life? sure, I'll take extra stress for extra money, but no, those companies pay a lot less. Which, again, is fine in certain parts of my life; I'm not educated, so I needed to get a lot of experience before I was given a shot at a job in one of the FAANG companies. And it was... really a very different sort of experience; I was 20 last time I had a job where I felt that junior compared to my colleagues, (and I had a hell of a job when I was 20).

I've seen something similar around layoffs; I've been through several layoffs but have yet to get a pink slip myself. and I've always found myself dissapointed that I wasn't laid off; those in the first round get nice severance, a retraining bonus, and a chance to get another job before too many other people are laid off. Those of us who "dodge the axe" end up having to do twice the work with almost no hope of a raise and with co-workers who are afraid of getting laid off in the next round.
Not to belittle anything he went through, but don't discount survivorship bias.
Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems
By the way, I don't want to sound unhappy about the videos, the answer for sure is interesting indeed, I totally don't want to say it's bad content at all, it's awesome in every way, graphics, audio, explanation, ... :D
This sort of comments aren't helpful. Switching to HTTPS will require tremendous amount of work from volunteers. You need to convince me that (1) your usecase exists (2) your usecase can be remedied with HTTPS.
> You're going to lose me at the notion that I'm somehow exercising "white privilege" by consuming/offering alcohol at/around/near work functions or venues.

That wasn't the point of my statement re: privilege. It was more of an allegory to the fact that I didn't get thrown in jail for some of the really stupid shit I did in the past.

Let's also consider the social advantage of those who do imbibe with those who don't in regards to building relationships with superiors at your job.
We also have 500 million neurons in our gut! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system

I wonder why wikipedia doesn't have more info about the function of this system... perhaps it isn't well understood yet.
I've seen plenty of arguments against the claim that the tech industry has a bias problem, but that's only one of a number of inclusion/diversity problems an industry could have. If members of underrepresented_group would prefer to have more colleagues from underrepresented_group, then that's a problem, even if it's not an injustice. If you have friends from underrepresented_group, and having less of a drinking culture would solve their problem, then you have a reason to want less of a drinking culture.

The author probably thinks there is an injustice, because people who write on this topic usually think there is. Nothing that they say depends on the problem being one of injustice.
and namespaces and enums at least.
> I claim that it is bad for internet users to force them to make cookies decisions for every web site.

Which EU law do you think forces this? Please can you link to it?
Kenneth Arrow showed in 1963 that markets can't work for Healthcare.
Where does it say Google shares its data with other companies?
If I were to receive communication from the IRS saying that I owe extra taxes, I would compare my 1040 line by line until I can exactly track where I forgot to include the amount the IRS is asking.

You are painting it as if they were black box calculations: they are not, especially for "traditional" tax situations it's very feasible to follow the forms (automatically filled by turbotax) and understand where your return differs.

That being said, I agree with you that it would be nice if we were directly "billed" by the IRS, but what I wanted to understand from you, and reason of my question, was __exactly__ where TurboTax failed (e.g. exact line of the form or "Oh, I forgot to include a 1099INT via SnapTax that was reported to the IRS"), to get a better perspective of the specific issue.

I've been using TurboTax for 10 years with a fairly elaborate tax situation (W2, multiple 1099INT, multiple 1099B, AMT tax for startup equity, AMT credits, backdoor Roth IRA, ...) and I've always been able to get the number right to the point that I never received any further bills from IRS (though I might get audited in the future, obviously).
Exactly. And that's why drug companies spend 100% of their advertising and promotional budget on the new patented drugs. It's well worth it if they can get doctors to switch prescriptions to the new medications with huge profits and no generic than continue to prescribe the in some cases identically effective old drugs that are now cheap and generic.

And it works. Not to be a big insurance company shill but they're often the last line of defense against your doctor trying to prescribe an identical, brand name product for the equivalent generic.
I was a student in neuroscience, and I got the same impression from people in the field that AGI isn't close. However, arguments were typically from the standpoint of whole brain simulation. We know very little about the brain. And we know computer scientists know less about the brain than the neuroscientists, so how could we possibly be close to replicating that? There would probably be more progress if CSCI and Neuro would communicate more. I don't think the neuro people appreciate the opportunities in the hardware and algorithm space, while the CSCI people don't typically study neuroscience, so AI hugs this interesting intermediate space where it only looks like neuroscience if you squint a lot. Some people think that we need to go all the way to simulating ion channels. I think this is probably silly and we can abstract better than this. In any case you are going to see a lot of disagreements just because of where people want to draw the line for biological fidelity.

AI developments have been phenomenal in the past few years. And the economic return makes me expect that this race will continue faster and faster. I don't think human brain project criticisms make this any less of a reality. Even now it is hard to find a well-defined task that can't be performed better by a computer than a human. Humans are really good at dealing with ambiguity though. So a robot might do better driving on well defined roads with nice lane boundaries, but humans are good at dealing with construction, or negotiating between difficult drivers.

We have already been able to generalize just about any modality you can think of to be processed by neural nets, and sometimes at the same time. If you squint this feels almost like different regions of the brain. (Vision, hearing, speech) But I have reservations about anthropomorphism since it can cause arguments that keep people from just making something that works.

If you think Kurzweil's predictions are a fiction, you are probably right. But I think that's mostly because predictions on those scales are very sensitive to interpretation.

For me, I think the future according to my perception of what Kurzweil is saying will probably be way different than reality. But the future of AI will probably have an equivalent impact and be just as surprising as if my perceptions were accurate.
It's 2019. Can we please stop using the Lenna Playboy centerfold picture in every other graphics paper?

Perhaps in the 70s there was actually a shortage of useful reference images and it had some value -- I wouldn't know -- but at this point it's just creepy.
Reason India does not have enough developers
How is the battery life for a programmer? All machines I tried, esp Windows or Mac, have not given me more than 3 hours for my normal workload (while Ubuntu with i3wm on Pocket or x220 give me 19 hours with the same workload so I do not quite get it but whatever) while reviews give 15 hours on normal use.

I hear good stories about the xps 13 but the reviews and reddit stories about battery life vary very wildly; from excellent to absolutely miserable. I got a HP x360 something recently from work and reviews say excellent battery life under Windows: I get 2-3 hours for my workload, my wife max 4 and she does browsing and wordprocessing. Went to HP: called us heavy users, nothing wrong with the hardware. Same with the macbook pro I have.
$4,000 in 1999 would be about $6,000 today. A midrange Deep Learning workstation is in the ballpark, and while it can't "match the computational capacity of the human brain", it can do plenty of nifty things - including beat the current Go world champion in a match.
Parity 6.0.0
I didn't vote either way, but long term exponential growth in anything is basically impossible.

Think about it for a minute. At some point lithography gave us Moore's "law" (which, FWIIW has arguably already failed). Do you think that can continue forever? Pretty sure you exceed computational capacity of the universe pretty quickly. Exponential growth in cell phone sales happened at some point as well. As did exponential growth in transportation speed.

The idea that we've had exponential growth in anything but lithography technology in recent years is also laughably insane. Do you think programming languages are exponentially better than they were 30 years ago? Do people live exponentially longer? Cars, autos exponentially cheaper or better in some way? Are machine learning algos exponentially better? No, no, no, and no.
> Blood is never thicker than water.

I've heard that the original version of this saying is "the blood of the covenant runs thicker than the water is the womb", which would mean pretty much the opposite of the original. Whether it's true or not, I prefer that version.
Clean floors is all she wants? Doesn't seem terrible. I'm guessing that was a tip-of-the-iceberg kind of thing?
Hmm, current ML has only been worked on for a few years, we have barely scratched the surface. No signs of slowing down afaict. It has wiped the state of the art against algorithms we took decades to think up. What happens after decades of that?

It feels more like there is too many new directions to explore and we don't have enough time/creativity/insights/ideas to fully take advantage of it.
Are there really companies that have alcohol available in the office? That seems very odd to me. I am English, which is very much a drinking culture, but every company I have worked at in the last 20 years has had an explicit policy on not drinking alcohol during working hours. This doesn't prevent people having one during their lunch break if they want to, but if you have enough to be noticeable you're probably going to be in trouble; and drinking in the office is definitely frowned upon.
Curious if you have a link to what sensors you had? Think this is cool and i've been on/off looking for co2/o2 sensors greater than recreational precision
Yes, you're probably right about that being a trigger. Unfortunately moving is not an option right now.
So then when are doctors going to start making less? And investment bankers, too?
Good UIs usually undergo rapid and extreme changes over very short periods of time. The choice of language could make it difficult or time consuming.
>How would you determine if the responder was a farmer, or a hunter pretending to be a farmer?

Farmers already made that choice by sending the message. Whoever wants to attack will be prepared to the point of full domination.

That said, why should space faring civilizations be incapable of cooperation? Without leaving the solar system, we are already in a state of post-modernism and multiculturalism. A civilization that can travel between solar systems can be even more advanced in respecting other cultures.

If there is a risk then it is us, not pouring more resources into research so that we have nothing to offer once somebody else comes along.
Yeah, we have a Nest in our house and I have it set to circulate the air for 15 minutes out of every hour.

We started running it like that only at night as we found that the bedroom would get pretty warm during the summer while the center of the house (where the thermostat was) would stay nice and cool, but after running it like that for a bit, decided to just let that routine run all 24 hours of the day since it equalizes temperatures so well across the whole house.
I do my best to show my mother that I love her. Last Christmas, I bought her some nice gifts. I do it in part because there are mothers like this in the world, and not everybody is as lucky as I am.
While arguing against MMT, the author completely neglects the measures that are required to prop up the supposedly stable operations of the current system - one where the recessions have been periodic, getting deeper over time and continued cycles, and with the last cycle, required extraordinary measures to prop up the system as a whole.
My point is, is that the publisher isn't involved in the prices at all, which as they are the wrong doer suggests to me that this is indeed the wrong tool.

Its like Superman going after Lex Luther's office supplier, rather than destroying his underground lair.
James Demore trolls perhaps?
Because, to opt out for Google requires settings that are hard to find (and seem like they are intentionally hard to find) and set across multiple pages, where it is difficult to know that you have opted out of all data collection. Furthermore, with the distribution and obfuscation of the settings it is difficult for anyone to know how much data Google has, and one of the provisions of GDPR is that companies allow consumers to access their personal data. In this regard Google is even worse than Facebook. I expect that, if cnil.fr is compliant, then clicking deny all stops all data collection.
It's really an XWayland application, i.e. it uses X, whose protocol is forwarded to Wayland. That's why in this article you need to pass -X to Sommelier:

https://medium.com/@kennethrohde/sharp-looking-vscode-on-chr...

That post also highlights how, because it's not a Wayland native app, VSCode will still look crummy when e.g. you use it on monitors with varying DPI. Real Wayland apps have multiple, per-screen DPI settings:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/XWayland

"Multi DPI intends to allow clients to seamlessly move around on a display with multiple monitors connected, where each monitor may have very different DPIs, thus different scales, without any sudden size changes or glitches, while at the same time allowing clients to switch between different scaling factors."
His predictions are hit and miss. From his 1999 predictions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...

By 2009:

Y: The majority of reading is done on displays rather than paper

N: Most text will be created using speech recognition technology.

N: Intelligent roads and driverless cars are in use

N: People use personal computers the size of rings, pins, credit cards

Y/N (premature): Though desktop PCs are still common for data storage, individuals primarily use portable devices for their computer-related tasks.

Y/N (premature): Personal worn computers provide monitoring of body functions, automated identity and directions for navigation.

N: A $1,000 computer can perform a trillion calculations per second.

... seemed a total mixed bag, many 2009 predictions just beginning to coming true today

By 2019:

N: The computational capacity of a $6,000 computing device is approximately equal to the computational capability of the human brain (claims that is ~20 petaFLOPS. Nvidia DGX-2 is 2 petaFLOPS "AI" supercomputer for $399,000). [

N: Computers are embedded everywhere in the environment (inside of furniture, jewelry, walls, clothing, etc.).

Y(easy win): Most people own more than one PC

N: Cables connecting computers and peripherals have almost completely disappeared.

Y/N: People communicate with their computers via two-way speech and gestures instead of with keyboards. (can but in my home and my office most words entered are not)

N: Most business transactions or information inquiries involve dealing with a simulated person

N: Rotating computer hard drives are no longer used.

N: Three-dimensional nanotube lattices are the dominant computing substrate.

N: The algorithms that allow the relatively small genetic code of the brain to construct a much more complex organ are being transferred into computer neural nets.(Could be decades off. Need several breakthroughs to even put this on the horizon)

N: Most roads now have automated driving systems—networks that allow computer-controlled automobiles to safely navigate.

N: Most decisions made by humans involve consultation with machine intelligence. For example, a doctor may seek the advice of a digital assistant.

... few hit but we're mostly heading that way. To me seems 5-15 years premature

[1] https://www.popsci.com/intel-teraflop-chip#page-2
You've got systems or exceptions buried deep in you to help in those kinds of circumstances, IMO. For example, my sense of claustrophobia almost completely vanishes when I'm getting really cold.
It's not an intermediate goalpost. I'm referring to what essentially we're promised by those decrying AI who insist that it will match and exceed humans in terms of cognitive abilities.

As for it being 'game over', why? Is there something inherent in AI that would necessarily be inimical to human beings?
Tom Wheeler actually proved himself to be quite independent during his tenure at the FCC. Many (myself included) expected him to act similarly to how Ajit Pai is now given Mr. Wheeler's previous industry experience. Personally, I feel that he generally advocates for policies to benefit consumers.
"But the fact that it’s only happened in the last 5-10 years makes me wonder if it will last forever."

This is absolutely false. There was a lot of talk about "Microsoft Millionaires" in the 80s and 90s.
Maybe they should change it to closeyourdoors-crackyourwindow.org instead...
This is a common problem in healthcare and I think it comes down to these issues:

1. Pharmaceuticals have natural monopolies on these drugs (due to regulation, market power, etc.).

2. The public and end consumers are largely unaware when these monopolies are exercising their power to increase costs. This is because there is no one price, you don't actually pay the actual price (if you're on insurance), and it's difficult to actually realize what the price of a drug is.

3. Many insurance companies don't have strong incentives to combat price increases. [1] As these prices increase, consumers become more and more reliant on insurance. [2] Insurance companies have targets for what percent of their expenses they are allowed to devote to administrative costs (buildings, salaries. etc). As the cost of drugs rises, they can increase salaries etc. while keeping the percent devoted to administrative costs constant. [3] Insurance companies are also largely monopolies. End consumers usually take whatever their employer gives them and in most states there are only a few providers. As such, they don't have much pressure to have more competitive plans.

4. Pharmaceuticals companies respond to demands to increase shareholder value by increasing drug prices. This is exactly what we'd expect them to do as per their incentives.

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The solution to me is the following:

1. Allow the safe import of drugs from overseas to create a more competitive market (the US has strong regulations against importing drugs mainly due to safety concerns). See this(https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/u-s-make-easier-import-p...).

2. Regulate pharmaceuticals and insurance companies as the monopolies they are, or dramatically lower the barriers to entry in the space.

3. Reduce the power of pharmaceutical companies to lobby and reinforce the regulations that help them preserve their monopolies. They have every incentive to lobby for protection and it's no surprise that healthcare industry has by far the biggest lobbying spend in the US - nearly double that of Oil & Gas (https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYe...).

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The book American Sickness(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IOHQ9LO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...) discusses just how far we are from any type of perfect competition in this industry and the resulting effects on consumers. I really enjoyed it and it's a great book if you're interested in the space.
I am an outsider to the field. I'll just disengage entirely from political discussion and leave it to the experts.
I was under the impression that the issue with twitter was with the maximum length of posts which encourages low-quality one-liners.
Debate on 4chan about GPL
Compressors variably quantize a frequency band based on what is considered to be imperceptible to human ears. Imagine a standup bass is sustaining a note. That has a bunch of different resonances based on; strings, the wood of the bass, and the geometry of the room. In a live setting, those material properties create interference between the source of the sound and the reflection. But they're very quiet and can reverberate on the order of seconds. So most compressors will quantize the constructive/destructive dynamic range to the same value.

In rock music this doesn't matter so much. But orchestras may even use the room geometry as an effect.
Yeah I guess if you're going to change the definition of what you said than you are right.

The point stands that ML is better than human at certain tasks and does it in a different, non-human-understandable way.
After reading some of the other reactions to your article, I can't help but feel HN crowd is being quite persnickety today with semantics.
Where/How do you get your best entrepreneurship tips from?
For a more recent working definition of intelligence, see the work of Marcus Hutter and Shane Legg on Universal Intelligence.

That we don't understand or can't define intelligence is a popular trope not grounded in reality. There are entire scientific and well-established fields that study digital and biological intelligence.
My colleagues are in the psychiatry and psychological therapy fields, and it's well recognised that some parents are toxic and cause serious on-going emotional harm to their children.
Technology at this time is nothing but an extension of human will. There is no indication or path that it has yet left our grasp. Therefore we are the limiting factor. Just as nature or the divine might have been the will that allowed us to emerge.