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I would point out that the equal opportunity espoused in the quote that start that article is not at all the same thing as meritocracy.

A balanced playing field doesn't mean that luck plays no role. It also doesn't mean that you can't provide a safety net and do some balancing of outcomes. It just means you have eliminated systematic biases.
> Companies that seemed to genuinely support net neutrality

Which companies were those? Netflix and google both made statements that they support net neutrality, but I didn't see them lift a finger to do anything about it: it seems to have been mostly a pr move.
We also broke up Ma Bell back in 84 and it looks like they are on their way to fully reuniting as an even larger monopoly.

https://i.imgur.com/rMFqmbt.jpg

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/att-time-warner...
When I was born it was still possible to learn your trade (engineer, programmer) without too much onus if you didn't attend college. Without college now your options are strictly limited. This is one of the reasons why we have a real problem in the US: those who are capable and self/job taught but discriminated against and those who didn't have (self imposed or otherwise) difficulties during school years and were encouraged or raised for success.
It's important to note that if you qualify for The Dutch Highly Skilled Visa you will typically also qualify for the great "30% rule" tax exception, this means that you get 30% of your income tax-free for 5 years, and the other 70% will fall mostly in the lowest tax bracket. (Ostensibly to help you move, but in practice really to make The Netherlands more competitive for highly skilled migrants)

To qualify you need a salary of €54K (lower if you're under 30), which is pretty easy to get in the tech scene so it's not uncommon for startups in Amsterdam to have all their foreign workers making more than their native Dutch colleagues.
More likely someone said "We don't want to put effort into testing Firefox right now."
Yes, we actually do demos all over the world. We are not limited to over water from the FAA as our JetPacks are in the experimental category.
I wonder how people’s perspectives might change if the largest and most influential companies of the next century aren’t American.
Facebook owns Instagram, Whatsapp, and dozens other platforms. Sure, Facebook proper is bleeding users, but the platform gaining the most users right now is Instagram, which is still Facebook.

Google would be fairly easy to break up among Alphabet subsidiaries, and Amazon could be split among Amazon.com, AWS, and Whole Foods.

She actually gets fairly specific about what she her plan is if you actually read the medium article linked in the first paragraph of the OP.
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I used the Zumo platform with a Raspberry Pi W instead of an Arduino board. I added a cardboard casing to house all the components.

https://www.wedesoft.de/robot/2018/06/21/zumo/

Update: Also see Explaining Computers video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZSiqj0NZgU
If you'll refer to what I was replying to, I wasn't talking about physical security being analagous to digital security. I was saying it is illegal to attempt to open and access property that you do not own.
Have you seen Hang the DJ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ_(Black_Mirror)
In this case, a rabbit and duck are approximately the same size and danger level. So few cases where there is harm possible.

What if it was AI looking at bacteria? Or scanning a roadside for IEDs? Or when a guy on a bike when turned and rotated the correct way appears to be a crosswalk paint mark of a guy on a bike?

If our current AI is making different “DEFINITE” determinations based only on image rotation - there is a problem.
No.

[There are some technical details because pi is not a random number, but for the sake of simplicity, let's assume that pi is a random number.]

It's much easier if we'd live in a word that use base 8 instead of base 10.

Let's suppose that we have the sequence of digits of pi in base 8.The algorithm of the GP is to replace {0,2,4,6}->0 and {1,3,5,7}->1 to obtain a binary "random" sequence.

Your alternative is to write pi in binary, and use it as a "random" sequence. But if this is a good "random" sequence then you can pick every third digit and get another good "random" sequence. [Here good means something like iid with uniform distribution]

But if you start at the correct position, it's equivalent to pick every third number of the binary representation and to classify the digits in the base 8 representation as even or odd.

If you choose other starting points to pick every third digit, you get alternative maps:

* low and high: {0,1,2,3}->0 and {4,5,6,7}->1 (like in the roulette[1])

* crazy: {0,1,4,5}->0 and {2,3,6,7}->1

These other two selections produce also good "random" sequences.

The important part is that the projection that is selected maps the same number of elements to each element. In this case the three methods maps 4 elements to 1. This ensures that it maps iid with an uniform distribution to an iid with a uniform distribution.

Moreover, you can pick any arbitrary 4 numbers and map them to 0 and map the other 4 to 1 and it will work as well as the other three maps I used. (This is like the red/black option in the roulette[1].)

---

Back to base 10. Any map that maps 5 number to 1 will maps iid with an uniform distribution to an iid with a uniform distribution. In particular the even/odd map that the GP is using is fine.

With this map you loose a lot of entropy, but since there is infinite entropy you can drop a lot of it and still keep infinite entropy. It's not as efficient as using the base 2, but it correct.

[1] An ilegal fair roulette, with 36 numbers, without the green 0.
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Oh I agree on the layers. I'm all about the defense in depth.
Fair point. I probably should have found a better quote from Pinker. I chose him as his books "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" and "Enlightenment Now" seem to put forward the ideas of art as a vehicle for empathy that the author of this article is discussing.
Laws are fluid and can change back to respond to new situations.
Total replacement of all compiled binaries AFAIR, and then you failed the upgrade in some way e.g. failing to upgrade libc resulting in a completely broken system. I remember I had 100MB of HD to do this upgrade so it was tight.
I taught myself to recognize five as a distinct quantity. Useful when counting up the "spare change jar".

I assume you see 3 objects on a table as a triangle. It's probably not equilateral, but any three objects on a table describe a triangle.

Make sure you can see 4 as a square, not 2+2. If you're stuck on seeing two pairs (or lines), try seeing 3+1 (a triangle and a point) instead. Then incorporate the point into the triangle...

Next, see pentagons. ... That's it.

I haven't tried to see "six"... Five was hard enough. :P
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>>These are not issues that your average American cares about.

Why not? I think there are wings of both the major parties that feel that there is an "us vs the big bad corporations". Both sides feel there are inherent flaws with the current economics, but would solve it in very different ways.

Employment and how multinationals run themselves are things many people care about. They just can't agree on how to fix it.

That said, I don't disagree that pissing off a group of megacorps this early in the race seems like it's just begging for powerful enemies. But it also seems like it's possible this becomes a point that many of the primary candidates pick up. In that case, it basically becomes a moot point since there's no candidate for the pro-FAANG lobby to back in the field that will align closer with their goals. And when it the game becomes <Democrat> Vs. Trump, everything changes.
It's normal for people to be paid $120k/y straight out of college in SF Bay Area. $225k/y is normal for seniors.
why are you bullish on democrats winning the next few elections?
> because Comcast has -bribed- donated to way more congresspeople than google

Is that true? [1] indicates Google spent more than Comcast in lobbying in q1 2015. I have no idea how this varies quarter by quarter and since 2015, but Google spends a lot lobbying.

I would not be surprised if that extends to campaign contributions as well. Google donates a ton of money to a ton of politicians.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/21/google-co...
That's a valid point to make in the general case, for times when you have no good option, and hitting the pedestrian in the crosswalk may be the lesser evil.

But in this case, hard breaking would have been plenty fine and with little downside risk (beyond the general problem of excessive unnecessary braking). The car's computer was aware of an obstacle in sufficient time, as would a human driver have been.
> Watching the fanboys defend their favorite tech giant is incredible. These companies are not behaving in the markets or people's best interest and they are way too big, at a scale that dwarfs most of the worlds organizations.

It's not illegal to be big, it's illegal to use your influence to prevent competition in a way that's illegal. There's zero evidence of that, which is why she's talking about a new law.

And please refrain from calling those that disagree with you "fanboys". It diminishes every single point you're attempting to make, because you sound like a jaded teenager rather than an adult that wants to have a conversation.
It didn’t matter who gave them the news, that’s a helluva impact. A doctor could be in the room and give the same message in a cold manner as many do each day and the family would have felt the same. The blame on reading the screen is more technophobic and sensationalized.
A counter-argument is that even someone like you who doesn't use facebook, amazon, and google is still irrevocably affected by their power and behaviors. You seem to think you've escaped them, but you surely have a Shadow Profile in facebook, you browse websites that show you AdSense ads (google), and oh yeah, your civic institutions are manipulable via popular opinion on facebook. Hmmm, you do have a strong point about Comcast and Verizon, but I think there's a false choice in there.
I don't think anything is bad with Toronto per say (maybe housing prices), he explicitly said states, maybe life just pulled him to the EU
Sure it might be hard to avoid AWS but 1) Azure is coming for it fast and 2) from a customer standpoint using AWS is pretty independent of selling products on Amazon. If amazon were deranking products whos owners had switched from aws to azure, i might have a different opinion.
I like routines, and I am the type of person that becomes a "regular" at various businesses. But, food is one area of my life where I love to explore. There are so many different foods and cultures in the world which express their history in some way through food, to be so bland and banal as to eat the same thing every day. I do almost the same thing every day, I could set my clock by my lifestyle, but when it is time for a meal I always seek variety.

But I don't judge those who do this, because I understand the relaxation of decision points, the ease of calorie consciousness and weight management, and the ability to balance nutrition that comes with a standard meal.
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>As a thought expermiment, what kind of world would most people prefer to live in, one in which success and rewards can be gained by skill and hard work or one in which success is distributed randomly? This article seems to imply that most people prefer the former. If that's true, then meritocracy is an ideal to work toward, no matter how perfectly or imperfectly it exists today.

You mean, the better out of those 2 options. There are more than the 2 options you present though, so the fact that it is ideal doesn't follow.

Some people would prefer the option, for example, where rewards aren't random but evenly distributed.
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The headline confused me. I thought it was a doctor telling his patients that he's dying?
Alphabet spends about 50-75% more than Verizon or Comcast on lobbying. Which is amazing considering they’re not in a regulated industry. When you’re in a regulated industry, regulators micro-manage your business so there is a lot of lobbying involved dealing with relatively mundane and uncontroversial things. Not big picture stuff, but like cities vetoing fiber nodes because they’re ugly. Tech companies don’t deal with that, so it’s amazing they manage to spend more.
I could get behind something like this if it also presented these platforms with a consistent framework for moderating content. They reach levels where they are more akin to public spaces than digital communities, and should have moderation strategies which mirror this.
This isn't always true. The phone system remains well federated, even within a single country. Email is likewise hanging on, although gmail is very popular. IRC is an interesting case, where "networks" have federated servers that load balance completely transparently.
> A classifier generally outputs a vector of weights, so it’s likely classifying, say [0.8, 0.75] and then the output is selecting the highest and saying “bunny”. Then you rotate it, and the classifier says [0.75, 0.8] and the output says “duck”.

The original post actually included the predicted probabilities, which are around 80% for duck or rabbit and 0% for the other class. So the neural network really is overconfident.
All other things aside, as long as we have less NIMBYism than SF I think we might be all right.
I think he hit the primary reason in this paragraph from the article:

We might need hundreds of hours of CPU time for a simulation, then nothing while we figure out what to do next, then another hundreds hours to run a modification.

Now that CPU time is so readily available vs. the mainframe era or even just the pre-cloud era, there's far less capacity-forced "figure out what to do next" time unless you've got an extremely computationally heavy problem or are very resource-constrained. As such, there's a lot less unmet demand for compute out in the world, which naturally brings cost down.
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Yes, did oversimplify the situation. Both Apex and Rainbow have additional characters that aren't initially unlocked. In both cases, they can be unlocked through a currency earned in game, and you don't have to pay cash.

Apex launched with 6 unlocked and 2 locked. After a couple of weeks of play I almost have 1 more unlocked.

R6 you start with none, but can get the 'original' 20 operators unlocked pretty quickly (~15 hours of play). There are another 40 or so that take much more 'renown' to unlock, and I may spend some cash on some of them if I continue to play the game. There is enough learning at the moment that I feel no need for that.

The result is I think a beneficial incentive. It's not '£50 whether good or bad, 5 hours or 100 hours' classic purchase model, the profits there are a result of marketing as much as game quality. Instead it's 'low or no barrier to entry, and money will only continue to come in if I continue to be engaged with the game'. I may end up spending more money on a game (over time), than I would compared to a purchase price, but that will only be on games that are rewarding me for a decent duration.

To me, this means developers are incentivised to make engaging, interesting games that are worthwhile in the long term!
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Even if it worked flawlessly, I wouldn't feel comfortable buying a remote-controlled mobile camera with microphone, even if it's cute as hell. I want my robots offline.
Having read only your comment, I'll jump in and solve the puzzle.

enough

not enough
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"But we need to do X first!" is not a good reason to not do Y, a different-but-still-good thing. All of these companies need to be broken up, and the Department of Justice Anti-Trust division has enough employees to do it.

These monolithic companies are sucking up all of the power in our economy and have destroyed the competitive markets. As the Economist recently said "Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition." https://www.economist.com/briefing/2016/03/26/too-much-of-a-...

Capitalism without competition isn't really capitalism, but feudalism.
It does seem rather daft to challenge claims from book written seven years ago about the next five to ten years by using data from between 50 and 9 years go.
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But Amazon just fullfils orders on most of the products while collecting data , where as brick and mortar stores resell the competitions products
That's my point. I don't feel like we've seen tech companies really lobby on a level where there is any impact on the national level.
It's a legitimate concern. After Standard Oil was split up, Rockefeller still arranged meetings of the heads of the now-separated companies.

However as long as the companies are well regulated and publicly traded, I think the concern diminishes over time. Each manager has an incentive to look out for their own shareholders, their own bonuses. And if activist shareholders suspect one company is subsidizing another, they can happily buy the undervalued company, raise a ruckus (and maybe some lawsuits), and profit when the subsidies end.
Even Exxon only pays business class. I don't think I have heard of any companies giving first class tickets.
s/you describe/the submitted web page describes/

FTFY

What I describe isn't being posed as "dependent types".
Semantics, but, I'm not sure either of the people you cited is advocating climate change.
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> technophobic

Welcome to 2019, everybody!

Won't somebody _please_ think of the robots!
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Part of the problem is that most entities who use CPUs have more then they need. If you want to make money with your CPU then you need to use it either to produce a good or service worth more then a few cents an hour. The issue is that everyone else also has CPUs, so whatever you do can't be trivial.

At that point you're optimizing for the market of your good/service relative to it's cost, and not optimizing for CPU usage.
Fuzzing is a great use of spare CPU time…
I don't know that the purpose is promoting understanding of popular political issues, but it definitely seems to me that work of this kind is fashionable to celebrate in literary circles. Take my view with a grain of salt, though--I'm neither fashionable nor in literary circles.
For those interested in AI: the root of autocorrect appears to lie with Warren Titelman (also originator of things like Undo) who was a PhD student of Marvin Minsky at the MIT AI lab. Warren invented DWIM -- Do What I Mean, like an autocorrect for the shell, when he worked on Interlisp at PARC. Simonyi, author of the first WYSIWYG editor, Bravo, left PARC to go to Microsoft and re-implement Bravo as Word, incorporating a lot of other PARC ideas that were in his head.

DWIM was a bit weird and as I was used to typing what I wanted I didn't really like it (though strangely, macro expansion was tied into DWIM so you couldn't disable it completely). Though it was a lisp thing (and Interlisp-D wasn't even written using a text editor) the best way of thinking about it is if you typed 'mr -R /' into Bash and bash suggested both that you meant "rm -r /" and that doing so on the root would be a bad idea.
I guess the question then would be do you care THAT much about money or do you want to help further humanity's knowledge? Plus private R&D can pay quite nicely, people only seem to consider University research as "science work" when that is absolutely not the case, its just the worst compensated science work. (which is another problem, because for the information we get it SHOULD be well compensated)
That's a summary statement. If you're interested in more details, Stephen Pinker elaborates more in his books.

On the flip side, there are some people who would still accuse him of being glib. On the flip flip side, though, the numbers often support Pinker.

Some of the people complaining have serious academic issues. But some people complaining are simply people who have incorporated some degree of doom-saying or even outright misanthropy into their core identity and find it offensive when someone makes an at-least-semi-decent argument against everything being inevitably doomed. Separating the two can be a challenge because there is a lot of overlap between the two sets.
That applies in very few careers. Many careers are reverse hockey stick and go flat soon. Loosing 5 years means you get to the same spot 5 years later. You loose only the difference for few years.

Don't forget working also adds extra costs for commute, professional clothes, food at workplace etc.

And then you got certain joys in raising kid on your own. Which can be translated into monetary scheme too - how much you have to earn extra to compensate for that by buying all sorts of shit (be it things or experiences)?
I applaud your attitude. The other child commentors have the naive view like your brother that "enabling ads" give some of a positive impact (supporting artists) than the negatives of current ad industry.

The only way to individuals can fight tracking ads now is to starve the industry out. I am tempted to say take the fight forward and install Ad Clickers https://adnauseam.io/ in every browser you get your hands on.
United is still introducing “Premium Plus”, very few planes have the new seats.

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Regarding your second point, that is only good for the consumer in the short term. In the long term it harms consumer choice by making it untenable for smaller companies to sell on Amazon when they know a cheaper AmazonBasics version will be released as soon as they see any success.
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That telepresence robot looks ridiculous. I would absolutely not want to have a serious conversation through it.