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That’s a consequence of the fact that diversification is good. You don’t want your investments and your employment in the same place unless the greater productivity is enough to offset the added risk.

I don’t see any disagreement between what you wrote and I did outside of companies with explosive growth trying to dominate an industry, i.e. VC.

If your aim is to build a cooperative supermarket chain like the Coop in the U.K. banks will happily lend once you have a proven business plan. So someone does need to put up the initial capital but once you have a proven business model you’ll be able to borrow from banks and capital markets in the same way as conventional firms.

Your argument fails to address the sectors where partnerships and cooperatives dominate, law, accounting and management consulting. I’m sure there are others but the fact that every twenty years or so the Big 4 all spit out a giant services company but they don’t change their own corporate structure is suggestive that a partnership model works. And McKinsey, Bain or BCG would have no trouble accessing capital if they wanted to stop being a partnership.
Gecko exists, and DuckDuckGo doesn’t use Google, so it’s not like you have no real options.
What a ridiculous comment. Who exactly do you expect to be collecting this "hard evidence" to prove such a thing to you?

Clearly if the likes of some of the biggest, and most successful tech companies in the world are located in the bay area, that might be proof enough that some pretty impressive minds reside there? I'm merely making the point that IF one wanted to work with like minded, smart people, moving to the bay is one way to maximize your chance of finding said people. I think we could both agree you're less likely to find them in Nebraska, though of course there are some very talented people there as well.

Furthermore, who is being arrogant here? The person who wants to live in and among bright minds, or the person who denies the bright minds exist? Takes a pretty arrogant person to deny that there's a lot of talent in the bay.
To this comment and others. I don't actually even mean that the existential threat is people choosing to leave. I mean that the progression of banned accounts will spread like an actual pandemic because of the rule that any account that associates with a banned account will also become banned.

I mean to say that everything will seem fine and suddenly they will find that their algo has banned most of their users, like a play-store zombie apocalypse. It will seem instant and inexplicable to them, and the damage will be done.
MCAS is a convenience feature that counteracts the plane's tendency to pitch up more than you want when climbing.

Nope, MCAS is required to meet the requirements set forth by the FAA. That's not a convenience thing. Various nannies may seem like convenience things in a well balanced car, but they become far more important in a powerful, poorly balanced car like a Porsche 911 or Dodge Viper — cars that have earned reputations as widowmakers.
Stocks and commodities markets are moved by this, and someone in the know could plan and pounce on the situation. I wonder if that's the real motive, not the potential ransom sought.
What makes you think reference counting leads to shorter pauses than tracing? While it is absolutely true that sophisticated implementations of garbage collection via ref counting can exhibit similar performance to sophisticated tracing algorithms[1], most implementations of ref counting aren't nearly as sophisticated as modern implementations of tracing, and tend to be worse.

[1]: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf
Every pilot on that plane should have been trained on the new system.

How is that supposed to work when Boeing didn't inform any of the airlines of this system?
I've always wondered how the neural network parameter fitting got away with using just steepest descent: In such fully or largely unconstrained optimization, going way back, decades, steepest descent was seen as often poor. The usual, first analogy was finding the bottom of a convex bowl that was long and narrow. Then steepest descent would keep going down hill parallel to essentially the short axis of the bowl and make nearly no progress along the long axis. So, sure, the idea was make a quadratic approximation to the bowl, find the orthogonal eigen vectors and values, and then make some rapid progress to the bottom. That could be conjugate gradients or Newton iteration. Then could build up an approximation to the quadratic approximation and get quasi-Newton iteration. And there were other ideas.

I would guess that somewhere among the hundreds or more parameters to be adjusted, there would be at least two that would determine a bowl such as I described.

But, but, okay, I can guess: The neural network has so many parameters that not doing well on a few of them doesn't make much difference.
> There must be serious network effects, if nobody has risen to eat their lunch.

Anecdotally, I agree with this. Getting people to donate to stuff is hard. If they have to sign up for a brand new service and share payment information with them to do it, they won't do it. So as a creator, you're incentivized to put proportional amounts of work into proportional platforms.

As a user, part of the point of Patreon is to more efficiently distribute micro-payments. There really aren't any good ways to do micro-payments online. Pretty much everything either has fixed fees that make donations of <1$ incredibly inefficient, or it's just a pain to support. So as a user, you're highly incentivized to group as much of your donations as possible onto a single platform so they can be batch processed.

If there was a universal, protocol-based way to send someone micro-payments online that didn't come with any fees, I don't believe Patreon would be able to continue existing. It would be so easy for anyone to outcompete them on everything else.

But I dunno how close we are to something like that. Even in a magic world where bitcoin becomes stable, cryptocurrency still wouldn't solve that problem -- you still have fees associated with payments that make it advantageous to group payments together. Zelle? Maybe? There was an article a while back about cities starting to ban cashless stores, and while I'm normally fairly libertarian, I looked at that and thought, "wow, we should probably have at least one nationalized digital payment system."
How can policy keep up with AI advances?
This 3rd pilot was probably able to figure out the issue due to clarity of mind to not having to fly the plane, pay attention to all the instrument gauges while things are going wrong, trying to diagnosis and correct the issue.
See the link, which is entirely about the film industry union movement.
out of curiousity, where you say Docker is "insecure" what specific aspects of Docker were you thinking of?
You can already achieve rest and vest at some of the big companies. I hear stories of 20 hour weeks if you’re good at managing perceptions. Salaries aren’t bad either.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's the nature of these musl-related issues? Is it because some programs or libraries use glibc specific-features/bugs? Or is it something else? Does glibc have their own non-standard functions?
More to the point, this reflects positively on Lion Air because it means that the pilots in the forward facing seats properly took advice into account. This is good crew resource management.

Check out the Asiana crash at SFO for an example of where CRM failed hard. The pilot flying in that case was told by the other two pilots in the cockpit how to avoid the crash and he STILL flew a perfectly serviceable plane into the ground in perfect weather on an extremely easy visual approach.
Included is JEP 230, a Microbenchmark Suite. It's based off of JMH. Nice to see this included!

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/230

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/12/
I would bet almost any amount of money this isn’t going to work.

In any mesh network, the overhead of coordinating nodes dominates network traffic. This is before you even begin to think about the terms of service violations for all of these WiFi access points.
The symptoms of MCAS are the same as runaway trim

No, they're not.
What happens if your #2 is applied to doctors, car/ship manufacturers, food producers, grocery stores, house builders, taxis, restaurants, software engineers, medical device producers and so on? Every profession caused accidental deaths.

"Legal action" against bad decisions is a must. However, mandatory prison sentence for accidents is a terrible idea.
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Is there a guide to the various GC algorithms? Suppose I'm running an app where pause times don't matter, and I want throughout or reduced memory usage. How much more of this will I get by switching to another GC algorithm? 2%? 20%? 40%?
They'd never get off, there's no pie charts
LOL I love your sense of humor!
Hahahahahaha. Everyone hires a Realtor(tm), once.

My experience: the one time she actually had to facilitate a showing of the house, the alarm system got set off. And when the buyers asked to change the closing date (after plane tickets were bought), she agreed and told us we had no choice. The attorney set them all straight.

A realtor's primary skill seems to be getting you to sign the listing contract.
Condo prices are ludicrously detached from the fundamental efficiency because the supply of urban housing types is so severely restricted, on the basis of all the arguments you’ve just given.

If houses were banned on all but a few blocks, they’d be expensive too.

Urbanization is the arc of human civlization for thousands of years. The automobile era is a weird little blip.
I would pay for this in Nerf form, but only if I can use it on my brother.
Or maybe this came out of an MS R&D arm that had free reign on design and it’s not some overall signal that MS has admitted defeat to Linux on the shell.

I have a hard time believing this couldn’t have just as easily been windows based with the exact same amount of effort. Windows has fantastic developer tooling that I think you’re downplaying quite a bit.

> Powershell is a sometimes great (mostly meh)

Powershell has a different philosophy for sure - but I have seen sys admins do some pretty powerful things with it, and quickly. What can a Linux shell do that power shell can’t (that isn’t specific to Linux platform needs)?
> though I find it embarrassing the FAA was one of the last regulatory bodies to respond

The top 3 officials at FAA are unfilled, with seat-warmers there in an "acting" capacity. I wonder if that's related.
https://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials/
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It’s at least that figure for engagements that result in a transaction. That doesn’t take into account the people they spend 40 hours with and don’t end in a transaction.
This implies that 'normal' runaway trim can be stopped by pulling the control yoke.

Pulling on the yoke will only stop the 737's computers from moving the stabilizer IF it's the speed trim system (STS) that's moving the stabilizer. Otherwise the yoke is intended to adjust the elevator not the stabilizer
There's no such thing as "biodegradable" plastics. Plant-based plastics only biodegrade in commercial composting facilities. This is not something that's commonly known.
Very good point with the math. However with super expensive markets, doesn't their commission then match their increased cost of living to be working there?
Perhaps you could enlighten us all as to what the benefits are to either management and/or employees rather than just making vague comments that have little to no meaning.
It probably is a chicken-and-egg problem. Speaking from my own experience, the comparatively very low software engineer salaries in France drove me to freelance (mostly for foreign clients), and later emigration.

There is simply very low demand for high-skill software developers. Compare the job ads in Paris vs. NYC for instance: the Paris tech ecosystem is overwhelmingly hiring for dirt cheap roles on outdated technologies.

I think it's a mix of culture, and the lower upside French startups can aspire to due to market size and heavy tax/bureaucracy burden.
interesting

what license would you even use for that - it seems everything here allows commercial

https://choosealicense.com/appendix
Ugh, I'm past the edit window and forgot to put a '>' before that first sentence. I was quoting, not plagiarizing, promise!
And you haven't even mentioned the fact that mobile phones can move around, leading to high rates of dropped connections as devices come and go. There's no way this is going to work.
I didn't say the intent was to say opensource is limited to server side software. I'm just saying that talking only about cloud vendors killing opensource is short-sighted. Again, opensource is much bigger.
The rules certainly drive me up the wall. An event I attend annually in a conference hall has an ongoing joke about being sure you know which chairs in the venue are union chairs, and which aren't.

As an attendee, nobody minds if you move the non-union chair, but if you so much as move a union chair a few feet to join an adjacent table, expect to be reprimanded.
I've been doing this for months as well. Works beautifully, I thought I was the only one.
> If we water down the label "fact" so that it represents mere sense data

Not just sense data, but the records of sense data: the records of what was done and what happened during the experiment. Those records make it possible for other people besides the experimenters to know what was done and what happened. Without that the facts would be useless because only the experimenters themselves would ever know them.
I think this is one of those situations where you may not be able to assign fault to any one set of people. Remember that everyone here has the clear advantage of knowing what went wrong and how, the people who designed this may not have forseen any such situation. Also one of these systems, even something as "simple" as MCAS would have involved dozens if not hundreds of engineers in all the design decisions that lead to this issue, including many people who have already retired or done so long ago (remember, the 737 was originally designed in the 60's).

The desire to assign fault to one individual and punish them is a very emotional response to this situation, it means people will not accept that it was an unforseen or systemic issue (people familiar with air crashes have seen in the past some systemic issues, where everyone did everything how they were supposed to but things still went south) without some individuals to blame. Typically crash investigations try to ferret out all points of failure, you might read "pilot error" in the news, but rarely is that the only cause in the crash report.

For example, this crash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965

It identifies some training issues (automation dependence, speedbrakes still being applied while executing terrain avoidance maneuver) but also identifies issues with the FMS in how it manages waypoints and how they are named.

So, for the current situation there are obviously many aspects to be addressed:

1. MCAS software appears to do more than specified, this is apparently what the software update (delayed by the government shutdown apparently) is to fix.

2. Pilots need to be trained or retained on stabilizer trim runaway.

3. The 3 AoA sensor option might need to be mandatory on the 737 MAX.

4. The FAA may need to review their effective supervision of both Boeing and the air carriers.
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I believe you may have misunderstood the comment you were replying to.

They were saying you cannot counteract MCAS's control inputs with the elevator alone. Which is a somewhat unconventional design, in a lot of aircraft the elevator can overpower the horizontal stabilizer, whereas with a bad sensor MCAS will continue to move the stabilizer until you cannot overcome it.

To use a bad analogy, in a car the break is stronger than the accelerator, so if the peddle sticks you can still stop. In other aircraft the elevator is more powerful than the horizontal stabilizer.
Ah I see, I guess I don't use any of that stuff myself. I tend to move between macOS and Linux, so I don't get too attached to system specific shortcuts. That said, I really don't see any of these problems as being show stoppers, and I haven't noticed much difference in battery usage between Chrome and FF.
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Any indication on how this ties in with the Google/Improbable deal for big-world games? Those work better if all the clients are in the same data center, a few microseconds apart.

This only works with Google web clients, such as Chrome, right. It may turn out that all this is just a ploy to force everyone to use a Google web client, giving Google total control over the online user experience. ("Browser" is so last cen.) Then Google can exit games, except for putting ads in them and on top of them.
I only need to run a few different applications and they require very little boilerplate to get this to work. Spring just gets in the way and makes simple things complicated.
Weirdly, having this stack-allocated probably saved the day a bit. If it was on the heap, there's a good chance that instead of an unmapped page, you'd hit something actually available.
You're ignoring the energy and materials costs for building solar panels. Land is not the problem so the difference between 8% and 18% is negligible.
At least from the perspective of the legal profession, the scope of "fiduciary duties" of realtors seems relatively constrained. Buyer's and their agent's interests appear to be misaligned. I can't think of other examples of fiduciaries where, the more the principle pays, the more the agent is compensated, like on the buy side of a standard realtor agreement. Fixed fee or hourly comp. would eliminate the misalignment, but my sense is it's disfavored in the industry.
> Then you have to wait for javascript to load... this is unavoidable.

JavaScript is not “unavoidable,” it’s a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Can you get second order with only the gradient? Even fancy accelerated gradient descents are still first order. I suppose there are BFGS-like quasi Newton methods, but those are still building up estimates of the second order info over multiple iterations.
Pre built jvm binaries that are dynamically linked to glibc are an example.

"At present, some glibc-linked shared libraries can be loaded with musl, but all but the simplest glibc-linked applications will fail if musl is dropped-in in place of /lib/ld-linux.so.2"

https://www.musl-libc.org/faq.html

Some of the differences are listed here: https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
Of course it doesn’t.

His output is “look at all these villains in technology, and cheer on all these heroes who are coming to kick their asses,” exactly in line with his stated mission.

Look, organizing and agitating against the tech community is valid work, but it’s distinct from journalism. For that I look to EFF, which has clearly disclosed set of principles to be activist about, and goes after anyone and everyone in defense of those principles. Often tech companies, but also everyone else.

Not the same thing as choosing an enemy, looking for anything and everything you can use against it, and calling it journalism.
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Especially in light of the current size of the US's prison population. We should be very careful in general about advocating for more prison sentences. It's an easy thing to do, but the societal outcome is a lot more complicated.
Valid point. Here in New Zealand it has been banned. 14 years in jail for sharing it.

I think Facebook acted well. They jumped on it as soon as they were made aware, did everything to remove it. So hats off to them.

I still be think that this monster had great help in spreading the video. A team would have been uploading this on every major site and sharing like crazy to get to 1.5 million ...
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Plenty of sites already do that with images.

The problem is mainly with ads, when 1) there may or may not be an ad available, and 2) you're allowing the ad height to be dynamic, to allow for greater possible inventory.
Whoops, my phone connected to someone on a train that just went past! My phone call just dropped.
I guess my question is; how would something like this scale? With Netflix and Spotify, the media is the same every time you play it, and even stuff like the Black Mirror CYOA have a limited number of combinations, so it's very easy to cache.

Every game has an extremely high number of potential combinations and outcomes, so it's effectively uncacheable. Fan that out to Steam level popularity and diversity of games and it sounds a bit nuts.
They were saying you cannot counteract MCAS's control inputs with the elevator alone.

Pulling on the yoke is not how you counteract a runaway stabilizer on the 737. I've pasted the relevant part of the QRH in a few previous comments. Yes, the stabilizer ultimately has more pitch authority under some circumstances. That may be what happened here, but if I'm interpreting the graphs on the preliminary report correctly I wonder about mechanical failure of some sort.

This gets a bit more complex with the 737 because moving the yoke WILL actually stop one of the stabilizer trim algorithms, but not MCAS.
I don't know what those numbers mean. As a programmer, I am a salaried employee whose compensation doesn't fluctuate with the amount of time I spend working. Working fewer hours and working from home are direct improvements to my compensation which don't get quantified in my earnings.
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Was the greatest trick that Page, Brin, and Schmidt ever pulled, convincing the world that they don't exist?

No, that's ridiculous. There are real people making real fortunes here. If they're not ethical, it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to point that out.
my vote on today's lockin even more than cloud is chrome, the web as mono culture, single predominant implementation that every caters to, thats subverting standards (http2/http3). it is the IE of today, and as you say because websites are not compatible with other, and the death of opera and ms implementations is the nail in the coffin.
tangent: all the backprop mysticism drives me nuts. it's just the chain rule...
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Qt exists as a business today because of its use of the GPL - enterprise customers can't ship the free version of Qt with proprietary software when its statically linked (as are all? Qt programs on Windows). PyQt works the same way, its an independent business run on selling proprietary licenses to distribute derivative binaries without source in exchange for money.

For a lot of business denying their users software freedoms are a value add for them because of the power it gives them to demand payment. They will, in turn, pay back for GPL code to get that ability. If it enables the further development of free software, its probably a net win.
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There are jobs which are extremely chill. Think slower growing but still profitable companies, and then mobile or desktop development so there’s no on-call. 20-30 hour weeks, depending on how good you are at managing work perception and saying no.