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> Federal law requires unions to represent all workers in a bargaining unit.

This statement is misleading to the point of it being a lie.

It is perfectly legal for a union to define the "bargaining unit" as "people who join this origanization".

Unions don't want to do this though. They instead want to force everyone to join.
Right, I get that it AlphaStar has decided this is sensible, I just wonder if we'll start seeing pros adopt something similar?

I'm also more generally curious as to what the cutoff point at which adding an additional probe ceases having any value.
Yea exactly. The difference between crunch and extra work to hit a deadline is entirely one of frequency and duration. My wife couldn't work in a more different industry than I do, but she is also subject to the occasional bout of extra work. We support each other and it's no issue.

If I wanted a predictable job that always has upfront hours, I suppose I could go back to making hourly minimum wage with zero benefits.
I also worked for a construction union in the northeast, and our employer sent the worst employee's pay check to the job site via same-day courier to ensure that, once duly compensated, he could be immediately dismissed. The rest of the crew was thrilled to see him go. Construction is dangerous work, and none of us wanted him around.

At the same job, another employee, young apprentice, was found napping. He popped awake and was apologetic. Partied too hard the night before. The foreman sent him on a coffee run to get his head together. He wasn't fired, presumably because the foreman never reported him, and (at least for the rest of that job) it never happened again. Almost 20 years later, he still probably gets shit for it.

Bad employees can coast by in any job, especially hourly ones where the upper management is rarely onsite with the workforce. First dude got fired in short order despite the job protections. Second dude didn't, but (to my knowledge) not because of any union regs.

Anyway, I digress. There is, of course, nothing preventing some union horror story from taking place. There is also nothing preventing even worse labor exploitation from taking place (and we're already at 80+ hour weeks in some cases).

The biggest difference, though, is the labor market itself. The laborers in construction unions are temporary hires for a specific job. At the same time, most construction unions are craft unions with apprenticeships, where each new employee represents a risk/investment to training that person for many years. Nepotism abounds, because if you train a new hire for, say, two years, then they wash out of the program or leave to study engineering, they could have spent that time and energy training someone else.

By contrast, I would expect most gaming unions to look more like a public employees' union. It would represent permanent employees of a company, likely salaried. Not much would change in the hiring process outside contact negotiation. You get the job? Congrats, you can join the union.
I would argue Microsoft's strategy actually makes them more wedded and committed to ensuring the vitality of open source PostgreSQL than anything AWS is doing.
OpenCue, an open source render manager for media and entertainment
They’ve been going back and forth between using the same codebase and separate codebases since the 90s.
There's the ISS-CREAM cosmic ray detector on the space station that can "measure elemental spectra of Z = 1–26 nuclei over the energy range 10^12 to >10^15 eV" Given that CREAM is roughly 2x1x1m^3 and weighs 1258 kg while ATLAS on the LCH is "46 metres long, 25 metres in diameter, and weighs about 7,000 tonnes" it may not be possible to put LHC-class detectors in space

https://cosmicray.umd.edu/iss-cream/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATLAS_experiment
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Can't you click on the minimap to move the camera instantly anywhere on the map?

EDIT: I guess you would still have to wait for the next frame to get rendered, which could add up. True, that does change things a bit, but of course a computer could still do that way faster than a human.
Exactly. Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C, it looks like `void *`, while in Java, it's `Object`. The `any` keyword is just the latest in a long line of escape hatches. Pretty much every language has one.
Sounds like a close parallel to "Hollywood accounting", where nested corporate structures are used -- and abused.
There’s some frustration with tensorflow too. It often feels like there are a dozen different, somewhat incompatible ways to do 90% of something.
> Don't use a CPU equipped with Intel ME or equivalent, or other system-level management engines like HP's iLO.

This is a nice dream, but absolutely not practical in the real world. All the major hardware vendors have an equivalent, eg. CMIC for Cisco UCS, DRAC for DELL, etc etc.

Not to mention the impracticality of not having these when your equipment is locked inside a cage in a datacenter on the other side of town.
Are you suggesting that a significant portion of legislation is because of unions? Maybe a part of it, and probably so at the state level. As it stands, I shouldn't have to be in support of a union in order to support legislation.
A 1915 book created during a time when Germany had a justice system that has since been changed significantly at least twice?

Also just from the plot summary I fail to see how it could even be relevant.
Step 1: frame it as an injustice

Step 2: worry about the details later
So true, I think people come to this conclusion after years...
yes. This is true. https://youtu.be/o6zfp6lRw2E?t=89
>It takes serious engineering effort just to be able to build that behemoth.

Not to mention resources. System requirements for building on Linux:

"
>>A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended.

>>At least 100GB of free disk space."

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
Advice in this article seems to only marginally apply to someone whose measure of success is in an artistic field. You can't get the same marginal returns as the article talks about. Also you're both competing with others for reader's attention, but not competing with anyone, as your stories can only be made by you.
And to add that, what if deepmind could get a poker history of the players at the table to create a poker profile of each player it is playing against. Having a percentage of a player's likelihood of folding and bluffing could keep it an advantage over a purely objective game theory aspect of the game. Maybe a certain player is more likely to bluff 5 hours into a game based off of player history analysis. Going further, imagine if DeepMind could get access to every players history outside of poker ( social media, purchasing records, medical records, etc ) and create a behavioral profile of each player.

Game theory, poker profile, behavior profile, etc could give it a serious advantage over human players in addition to its advantage of never getting tired, frustrated, etc.
I think history is far more messy than you make it out to be. There are not always easy black and white answers.

I don't think the brief colonial episode simply explains the wealth of my country (or many others) - especially as in between it had been completely destroyed.

But that's also, again, besides the point. History was complex. All sorts of people made war with each other, murdered and enslaved. Including people in the African continent. That's what humans were and are. Maybe those warmongering people simply earned their exploits, "fair and square" so to speak - we may not like it, but who is going to take it away from them, and on what grounds?

But the theory that wealth is only a result of exploitation is completely wrong. Our wealth in the modern world is mostly the result of technological progress, not of exploitation.
If you are large enough, anything is negotiable.
> Even strongly-typed languages have this problem. In C

C is clearly statically typed, but among statically typed language it is quite weakly typed.
There's no way to query an address in brooklyn on Google maps
Sure, you could try to populate .ssh/config on every machine you ever will try to login from.

Or you could use the standard port, turn off passwords, and wait for the sun to burn out before someone brute forces their way in.
> Even if you limit the AI to max human APM, it's still going to dominate in these micro-heavy battles because it's going to make every one of its actions count.

right, and we saw that with the incredible precision with stalker blink micro. There are many ways you could make it more comparable to humans. They have already tried that by even giving it an APM.

> You can't fault the AI for winning at the game because of the way the game itself works.

But it does make the victory feel hollow when it wins using a "skill" that is unrelated to AI (having crazy high APM with perfect precision because its a computer). Micro-bots have been around for decades, and they are really good. The whole point of this exercise is to build better AI, not prove that computers are faster then humans.

It would like if they wanted robots to try and beat humans at soccer, and the robots won because they shoot the ball out of a cannon at 1000 KPH. They win, but not really by having the skills that we are trying to develop.
A lot of these debug features are re-enabled on SoC reset so there are quite interesting attacks you can do there just given access to reboot the SoC. Attack before the OS has been loaded and has had time to disable the features and you win.

These are silicon issues as far as I know.
Maybe it's time to limit browser to 2 levels of IFrame and 2 redirects in an IFrame... let the ad companies figure out how to pass/share their data directly instead of adding payload to the browser. It's entirely possible for the ad networks to proxy their requests instead of layers of IFrames, scripts and redirects.

The other side is that any advertising re-sellers should have to put up a bond/insurance against serving malware. If you get busted, you're out. It's up to the advertising companies to ensure that they don't deliver malware. If a campaign includes malware, then it's a $10K fine + $1 for every time that campaign was shown.
If you are going to go to this extent, why not limit the computer by making it control a meat-puppet that has to physically manipulate the mouse and keyboard. And also give the computer carpal tunnel syndrome and get distracted by its questionable past.

For the people complaining about the information availability of 'one screen at a time': what is the difference between seeing the whole map with fog of war and quickly iterating the over the minimap at a very fast rate? Answer: a few milliseconds which would be irrelevant to a human anyway.
Are they trying to make a computer that plays sc2 well or are they trying to make a computer that simulates expert human play to an indistinguishable level and which of those is more broadly applicable to other AI problems?
I’ve watched the reinvent videos where they describe the custom hardware NICs they use with their own custom ARM chips to ensure security and that traffic isn’t spoofed.
> Small and medium sized businesses don’t have the economies of scale to do really cool things. They may begin as startups, but to have impact they need to scale to mega-corps. You can’t build an iPhone ad a small or medium sized business.

To veer off-topic, one neat thing is that the standard for "really cool things" is a moving target. Tools for producing things, like free software, CAD software, CNC machines, etc, make it more and more possible for small firms to accomplish great things, while raising the bar for what we consider great things.
To be clear, whats happening here is that 55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 will always produce a pin for 55 Water St
New York, NY 10004.
Notably, 55 Water Street, The Empire Stores, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (which is a very strange way to format an address including the name of a store) will result in the correct location. Basically every dependent service is affected by this including Lyft, Seamless, and Uber.

Interesting as well is that there's no clear way to submit a bug report to google when the search results are wrong because its not technically an issue with the map data.
The harder it is for a company to fire people, the more reluctant they will be to hire risky people.

The easier it is to fire, the more willing a company will be to hire risky people.

Can't have it both ways.
> But it doesn't really matter, as I said. Nobody who was around back then is still alive today.

Did the people that were alive then give back their ill-gotten gains to the exploited, or did they retain and pass on their advantaged position to their heirs who leveraged them for further gains?
While you are right that the market only has room for 1 president every four years, this isn't true in economics. Startups create wealth (at least they are supposed to) so while there probably is a limit to how fast the economy can grow, we certainly are not hitting that limit anytime soon.
I'm really excited to see what the next XPS 15 will look like.
I'm wondering if it's worth uninstalling Office and reinstalling. If it uses the App Store update mechanism instead of Microsoft Autoupdate I would prefer it. Autoupdate presents a window almost every time a launch an Office application.
I actually like to try to encourage people not to compare Swift's instability period to any expectations people might have based on other languages, because that emphasizes the common desire that APIs should be brought to stability as fast as possible, never to experience another breaking change. I can't express enough how happy I am with the "severity" of Swift's updates. Even if it means breaking changes over a long period, I'm ecstatic to see it, because the more we allow dramatic changes, the better the language becomes (assuming the changes are good and thoughtful, which I think they have been). It gives me hope, because most languages strike me as having many problems.
But nowhere near chrome :)
Google's a 100k person company nowadays.
Back when i started it may have been feasible :)
Can someone say why is using the TSS still mandatory with software-based task switching? Is this a requirement imposed by x86?

In looking at the OS dev wiki I see the following:

>"The TSS is primarily suited for hardware multitasking, where each individual process has its own TSS. In Software multitasking, one or two TSS's are also generally used, as they allow for entering Ring 0 code after an interrupt."

Would you not be able to enter Ring0 after an interrupt with a TSS entry? Is this why it is still required?
Office was available for Mac for many years. The news here is that Office is now in the Mac App Store, not that big of a news.
Anyhow, worth noting that the Mac versions of Office are no near to the Windows versions. They are thin clients with only a portion of the win capabilities, and those which exists are buggy, to say the least.

If I had a Mac, I would go to G Suite, which gives better capabilities for 99.9% of the users, and if I was on the .1% I would go and buy a PC.

* BTW- Wine 4 was released this week, and they also don't support any of the O365 apps, especially not their 64bit versions.
Neither of these are chrome, FWIW
Or, how about blogging about it, and having internet discussions about it that cause Google to realize that this is negatively impacting their image to the public, and that that in itself can be costly enough to them to change their approach, even if not compelled to do so by a court?

Which is exactly what happened here. (whether they change their course is yet to be seen)
I didn't realize they had any protection in the first place. That certainly explains a lot.

Google has a small but extremely vocal (some would say "unhinged") minority of folks who mostly just do activism on the internal G+ and little else. You can even find their names online from the various leaks if you'd like to follow their own proposed practice of blacklisting people they disagree with.

It was always a mystery to me how they manage to stick around for so long.
How many of those 500 actions are actually useful? I haven't watched competitive StarCraft games for years but back when I did, rates were more like 300APM and even then the players basically spam clicked the background or selected random units non-stop and were probably only doing 50-100 actual effective actions.
That is a cool machine. It makes me think of something I wish I had: a portable computer that's (a) only usable for hacking, not surfing or gaming and (b) looks like it's for hacking.

Making good hacker laptops could be a great business. Similar electronics to gaming laptops but with very different industrial design.
Just to clarify - I totally agree and really love Swift now. Obj-c may be stable, but it's never been a language I love, or even particularly like.
Check what effect this proposed change have on @exteranto framework
My take on ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence
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This course looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing :-)
I'd be interested to see its hierarchical strategy and planning, especially across such a long timespan. Does anyone have any good references for similar hierarchical planning work (Feudal Networks, etc.) to look at?
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Another way to think about it is that a human brain is mostly doing transfer-learning, on top of a 99%-baked deep net that was wired up during foetal development from our DNA, where that DNA-persisted model has "seen" hundreds of millions of years of training data.

Humans don't have to learn to process, recognize, and classify objects in visual sense-data, for example. We can do that from the moment we're born, because we already have hundreds of precisely-tuned "layers" laying around in our brains for doing just that. We just need to transfer-learn the relevant classes.
Is it truly merit, or simply what the market will bear?
This blog post gives a decent overview: https://medium.com/tensorflow/whats-coming-in-tensorflow-2-0...
It's commonly understood (but possibly wrong?) that this is how they bin multicore processors. That it's highly likely that a quad-core and a dual-core CPU began life as identical twins, but one or two cores on the dual-core SKU didn't pass muster.

If that's remotely true, and their product offer/lineup is built around the failure rates, single-core CPUs would have resulted in staggering numbers of failures, since a single defective core meant a trashcan rather than a down-SKU.

(If the original supposition is true, then it's highly likely GPU, flash, ram etc work on the same principle. Anywhere you have a die with multiple repetitive units, where a die with less units still has market value, it seems like a sensible way to recoup value on what would otherwise be discards.)
>China wouldn’t have grown to be such a powerful economy if their labor costs were high. The average Chinese is better off than they were 30 years ago.

This is the best defense of sweatshop labor, to be sure, but it’s hardly got legs in the end.

First, “better off” bares defining, and “average” plays a big role in your claim. China is less homogenous than ever before, of course. It’s social make-up is a tremendous mystery for the most part.

Second, are we assuming average Chinese would not be “better off” now than they would be without rabid labor abuse by the billions and free global trade? That’s a heavy assumption to make.

Third, China is a world leader now in a way that it was not 30 years ago. China itself is a world power, and to only measure the “better offness” of the Chinese would be to completely discount the global nature of the stage in which China operates...

The average American is not better off now, and America’s industrial business with China is obviously an important consideration in why.

And, of course, does China impact the quality of lives in other countries? (hint: yes)
My guess is that its less likely it was without oversight, but that oversight wasn't concerned about the contents of messages perceived to be secure. And was this before FOIA? I feel like FOIA put a lot more government entities on alert to keep internal communications professional.
Such a good episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJZcHgqX1g
To be honest it just seems a bit like playing with words. Of course you can use "success" in sentences where it loses the meaning intended in the current context, but it seems clear to me that when someone writes "to be successful" there are implications that it means being successful on some measure that the author finds valuable or intends the reader to think valuable (in order to sell a book or something).

And of course people can argue all day about what is "being successful", since you could mostly put it as a matter of taste depending on what one finds satisfaction in, in life. It is indeed true that someone who doesn't have the same frame of reference for success as the author will have a harder time finding useful information in such a book/article, but that doesn't mean that because the measure of success can vary from person to person, it doesn't exist at all.

When such an article or book talks about that, there is a meaning behind those words that is conditioned by the cultural context in which it is used (as materialistic as it can be) and obviously this is pretty much never meant to be understood as "how to act as to be able to formulate statements that match 'I successfully did .*'", which is how this quote feels like to me...
Please read this recent news about a lawsuit brought by a shareholder against the board. [1] There's more than one man named in that.

> And it really is non of your or my business that any of that happened.

I strongly disagree. If we have to criticize or call for action only when we're personally impacted, we wouldn't have civilized society. Google paid "hush money" to not reveal what happened. Also, more than 20000 Google employees who staged a walkout in November [2] disagree with your statement that it's none of anybody's business.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/technology/google-rubin-s...

[2]: http://fortune.com/2018/11/03/google-employees-walkout-deman...
I bet the very early internal versions of AlphaGo learned from scratch and didn't work very well either.
In my program, nearly everyone who wanted one. Admittedly, the disparity I used is stark and not everyone has those options. But you don't need Vault 100 to be making six figures fresh out of law school.

Even if it's a choice between a small town firm in Mishawaka or Marquette versus $110,000-$120,000 in Indianapolis or Grand Rapids, it's still going to be a major thumb on the scale for people with outsized debt to move to the city.
I'm gonna need you to cite your claim that the other video of the woman being harassed was fake news.

And the full video [1] of the situation does not exonerate their racist actions.

[1] https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/dont-doubt-what-you-saw-wi...
For money that's true (and of course being a millionaire is about money), but for "success" it isn't. Success is a relative term, which does seem to act a lot like a 0-sum game. That is, I'm only successful if other people around me aren't.

While we might all become richer collectively, we will never feel more successful unless we have someone to compare ourselves to.
Or they trained all the combinations but it was best at Protoss vs Protoss, so they publicized those results. But given the reaction to the first AlphaZero announcement and the later follow-up paper (summary: they cheated a bit but it's still incredibly strong) I would give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Corporations are already political.