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This article is a perfect encapsulation of our current culture of contempt. It is no longer sufficient, or even possible, to just disagree or have different tastes.

"I'm personally not a big fan of that building's aesthetics, but maybe there are others who do like it."

That would have been a reasonable opinion to hold... instead we have: "Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, one of architecture’s premier grifters... The depth of architectural thinking at work here makes a kiddie-pool seem oceanic"

I hope to God I never have to work with someone like the author.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-...
>It is relevant to the parent post because there's legitimate reason for the poor to have animus against the rich, and not vice versa

The parent poster is specifically referring to a specific type of unfounded animus. Namely: having no argument other than "they have more money than me" to justify said animus.
> I'm all ears if someone wants to make a serious case about what should have been built here instead and who should have paid for it.

One of her main points is that this discussion should have been had before The Vessel was constructed. The article as a whole is more of a criticism of the whole system that spawned it than of the construction itself.
Is this even really a comparison? You only watch broadcast channels, and now that you set up an antenna to receive those broadcasts, you're able to get broadcast channels. This has nothing to do with cable TV, premium networks, streaming platforms, etc.
Unlike other heavy-handed attempts by the Chinese government to control their populace, this one seems like it has potential to be a net positive.

On the other hand, I expect minors to get creative at circumventing the blocks. "Borrowing" a parent's ID, for example.
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“Find themselves” is intentionally passive, without implying any cause... the alternatives would be “got themselves into” or “were placed by someone else”

The phrase was used to stay out of the debate about the cause, not to imply there was no cause.
A little bit unrelated, but does anyone else get severe anxiety reading articles like this? I’m currently employed in a well-paying tech job, but it always seems like I’m just one giant disaster away from this kind of thing. Granted, I have a family “safety net” to fall back on in a worst case scenario, which I realize a lot of people don’t have, but it’s always in the back of my mind that the economy could crash, that my skills are suddenly not in demand, or some weird health insurance disaster wipes out my retirement savings. I constantly feel like I need to save up as much money as possible to reach financial independence as quickly as I can so that I’m prepared for some kind of unforeseen catastrophe.
assuming that the R&D expenses largely convert into some kind of assets.

edit: is anyone able to comment how the accounting for this kind of thing usually works?

e.g. if a company spent $1m on R&D, can it arbitrarily add a line item on its balance sheet for around $1m of research outputs as some flavour of intangible asset? (this is obviously not a very accurate way to account for things in cases where the R&D failed to produce anything of utility, or produced much less utility that the R&D cost) or are the assets produced by R&D (if any) meant to be fairly valued in isolation from the cost to produce them?
I think you missed the crux of the argument which is that it’s very proletariat. It does nothing for the community and is designed to benifit the criminally wealthy.

Also it’s ugly af. I hope I never have to work with someone with your tastes if you think that’s what beauty is.
I would say this isn't machine learning, but relevance in general is an interesting topic to apply supervised learning. Of course the training data is the hard part,

An article on the topic, https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2017/08/03/search-as-... (disclaimer I wrote it...)
It’s not just Office. Most of the apps aren’t optimized for a touch UI. At the end of the day,it’s still Windows with all of the millions of services slowing it down, and a processor and an operating system not optimized for low power environments.

The Intel processor it uses is not as performant as the processor that comes in the $329 iPad. The battery life is worse than that of an iPad (https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/surface-go-battery-life)

I don’t even want to imagine the sluggishness of the GPU in the Go.

The iPad has been getting 10 hour+ battery life since 2010.

The trackpad is the showstopper for an iPad for many, but you can use any third party BT keyboard.
> "tech workers" make the same amount in NYC as they do in the Bay Area, they fly completely under the radar and the inequality warriors point fingers at finance instead

As someone in both (my day job is keeping OpenStack working at a hedge fund) and who's been in both job markets: this is because finance actually is the richest. There's literally no point in fixing tech worker salaries in NYC if you're not going to fix finance salaries in NYC. Why is it surprising that the target is the richest? Why do you see that as fickle instead of constant and principled? It would be unprincipled and ideological if people complained about tech salaries in NYC simply because tech is widely disliked, even when there's a bigger target to go after.

> Walmart is practically banned from NYC in an effort to save/protect local businesses, while every major, minor, and luxury retailer enjoys larger than life flagship versions of their stores positioned in space constrained Manhattan.

I am confused by the juxtaposition of these two claims. Walmart competes with local businesses. Gucci does not. If you want to protect local businesses, not having a Gucci flagship has a qualitatively different effect from not having Walmart. (A place like Uniqlo does compete with local businesses, but I would certainly not call any of the Uniqlo stores in Manhattan "larger than life" - they're barely big enough for purpose, and they're all much smaller than the Walmart in my parents' suburb.)
Great idea, assuming the only cause of homelessness is lack of homes. I'm pretty sure this was tried in 1950s in the form of housing projects, the problem is the few bad tennants destroy thesee places for the majority. There is also a "not in my back yard" mentality when it comes to the people already living near where these buildings are purposed. Finally the poor and underprivileged should never be looked at as and oportunity to make money or exploit, even with the best intentions as this article suggests.
Brush your teeth (and gums): https://www.perio.org/consumer/alzheimers-and-periodontal-di...
Interesting, thanks. Based on your experience, did you find any books that were useful?
Saw the pine cone, but I don’t see the shawarma.
Didn’t know about those devices. Doubt they qualify for certification compliance, but I guess it would get you on paper.
canonical maas, ns1, aws, nomad, consul, vault, and a handful of other providers
This neglects the failure modes of nuclear power. The biggest danger, by far, is overheating, fire, and melting.

Paradoxically, a nuclear plant could be made extremely safe if it just dumped all the fuel into the ocean at the first sign of trouble.

With ulimited cooling the fuel can't melt so it will be safely contained within the rods/pellets.

Yes the radiation near to the fuel would be insane, but water is so dense it would be safe to swim around maybe 50 feet away.

There's never been a bad accident in spent fuel pools even though they contain orders of magnitude more fuel than operating reactors. This is just because it's really hard to melt something sitting in thousands of tons of water
I’m not sure I see the problem. If the pacemaker kept the coil shorted except when charging, then even a fairly large AC field shouldn’t transfer much power or induce a problematic voltage. And an MRI is mostly a DC field, which seems mostly harmless.
These categorizations tend to be arbitrary and inconsistent because what is an intelligence is probably subjective. People consider kNN and naive bayes to be machine learning. One is "just" sorting and the other is just counting. The learning in naive bayes and even in some higher order bayesian networks is of a similar flavor as the count structures generated for IR.

Because we understand how these algorithms work, we can always reduce them to just this or that. Prediction in many linear classifiers is just dot products. relu neural networks are just lots of clamped dot products. Random projections on simple count data can generate word embeddings.

Whether or not something is merely model-fitting, super-scaling, compression or AI, AI art and machine learning will depend on the field it originated from. It's indisputable that the algorithms are so reducible but I tend to think that we should care more about functional capabilities when compared to an appropriate subset of a known intelligence's abilities than details of implementation.
I'm still surprised how many people are not aware of client-side rendering being unstable, because they don't see the final result per visitor, but a prediction most of the time. Testing cross-browser is another story, though it can help a bit, is also usually omitted.
Oh, I meant the poly folks proselytize :-) Just that the sex workers I know don't avoid talking about their work; they just treat it as work, as any of us do.

What region are you in? I'm talking about my experiences in both the Pacific NW, the Midwest (college towns), and a few of the larger cities on the east coast.
Do you have more detailed calculations? If the returns are so good, someone else should have noticed.

A big chunk of the tenants will be nice, but …

What if someone refuses to pay? Or die? Or share the room with other 10 persons?

Have you included the cost of fixing the stuff, like the water tubes?
Yep, this is the same reason I nearly create cold fusion at home every few months.
Portlander here, I used to work right by the food carts downtown on 10th and Alder. The hospital bracelet guy is one of regulars, he's been running that schtick for literally years. There's a cast off characters like him who are fixtures there. I'm not against compassion for the homeless, but after running into a few of these repeatedly, I tend to refrain from supporting them directly and give to local charities instead. I'm not even arguing that you made a bad decision, just sharing my own experience.
> I hope to God I never have to work with someone like the author.

Hi, Pot (calling the kettle black).
To be fair, I'd say that that is is better than any of the 1960s-1990s "Brutalist" style stuff that reminds me of Communist-style nonsense. That being said, given that that the average inhabitant isn't working class but a professional, why? Aren't there better alternatives at your price level?
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Yea the information is probably the highest quality tech news out there (that publishes with volume), but I agree it often falls into regurgitating the same narratives everybody else is talking about with zero added value.

I’ve come to realize the only journalism worth paying for comes from exceptional individual writers who are allowed to write about whatever they find interesting (and have something unique to say). Ben Thompson’s Stratechery fits into this category and is often the only person writing about tech who brings unique thinking and new perspective to whatever the topic of the day is.
See that would all make sense if there weren't an alternative - non classist, non ugly, aesthetic and thoughtful artchitecture out there as an alternative; one explicitly referred to itfa.

But you and pesmhey feel the need to ignore that part so you can shove your inane babble into the authors mouth to criticise. Could you not?
Looks like it's funding different projects: https://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/funded-awards
If my country was engaged in sending Muslims to concentration camps, medical genocide (organ harvesting), and all sorts of human rights abuses, then I would very much appreciate if there was a collective effort to get my country to politically reform. Why wouldn't you appreciate that?
I’m specifically arguing that the FTP cycle result IS, in fact, a real world result. So to me, claiming that the EPA needed to do their own verification would be silly. The only reason to do this would be to catch cheaters.

I know I’m naive, and very trusting. I would never have thought a company to have the utter stones to completely fake the results as VW did. If you’ve looked at the depths of their algorithms to do it, you see the effort that went into it. I just would never expect such behavior from one of the largest auto makers. It’s so far beyond the pale to my expectations that I can’t blame the EPA for not catching it.

YMMV.
I think society is okay with some knowledge about individuals. And that information is valuable. But it's still unclear where the line gets drawn that becomes creepy and inverts its value. If you have the corporate structure and policies to be able to draw an arbitrary line, you're likely better suited to capture long-term value than if you have no line at all and willingly scrape all data just to have it (ie, Facebook/Google).

So, Apple having aggregate data is interesting, because it's certainly a monetization, but if they're truly honest and statistically aggregate numbers, I think that might be a fantastic strategy.
I get only about 60 free channels with my antenna but I pay $30/month for my internet... I also pay for Netflix though...

If you use Comcast, you could probably lower your bill by visiting https://ns.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/
The parent poster wrote "poor people who have nothing more to hate on rich people about than that they have money", which sounds like well-founded animus to me.

Here's a way to think about it - what is the corresponding thing for the rich to hate on the poor for? Are the rich jealous of not having money? Are they envious of those who cannot pay more for housing simply because a building of questionable merit faces it (one of the examples given in the article)? How is that founded? The rich can easily get themselves into that position, should they be desirous of it.

There is an arguable parallel in the rich who see the poor as being a moral failure for merely not having money and the poor who see the rich as being a moral failure for merely having money, but a) I think the poor have a better claim to well-foundedness there, even if it is slight, in that the rich quite clearly have the ability to stop having money with a snap of their fingers where the poor do not obviously have the ability to start having money, and b) the article does not seem to say that merely having money is a moral failure - at best it says that misusing money is a moral failure.
It is an interesting question, certainly some parents are invested in the idea that they can "nurture" their child into being a genius. My experience with my three kids is that they were all different from the instant they are born, both in temperament and in interests. For me I felt there was a strong genetic component in what they as children were willing to invest their time into, and things which they really didn't care about.

As a parent what I tried to foster was curiosity. Asking basic 'Why' questions and following those questions to where ever they led. The goal there was to help them experience the dopamine hit that I get when I figure something out, its a great motivator for learning, and to help develop their tools for learning things on their own.

Did that explain why my eldest invented a new language? No, she wanted to be able to swear without being penalized for it. So I think there is certainly a certain 'make my life better for me' component to it as well.

I was pretty obsessed with computers as a kid, and my parents did not have the means to help me buy a computer so I mostly tried to find other ways to get access. And to the extent that they could support that, they did (like giving me a ride to the University's remote job entry building.) What I'm trying to say is that there is also a resource component to it as well, I know and have mentored kids who would show up in stories like this if they had access to a moderate sized bank account to facilitate research.

Bottom line for me is that the two largest influence factors that I've seen have been natural curiosity, and a support network that encouraged that curiosity.
I don't think a society can work if there are large inequalities. The winners have to pay for the losers. At least enough to get them off the streets.
As a computational mathematician... I should clarify; I write programs to construct and verify proofs in discrete mathematics, and also I'm a hacker obsessed with high performance code... I agree that mathematics is in crisis. Why? Because I'm an oddball rarity. My first supervisor was a hacker too, but my PhD supervisor thought I was a wizard. Professors, by and large, can't hack. Those who could, abandoned the field for CS. Students are rarely hackers - often the celebrated kids are groomed through Olympiad, then Putnam, and jump straight into grad school with nary a glance towards a computer -- until they are broken against the only language seen as practical: latex.

Mathematics is innately about computation; every "proof" is an algorithm in disguise, and yet the field fails to attract talent because computation itself is treated with such disdain. Math has its own reproducibility crisis -- we don't write code that performs the tedious operations "left to the reader" and even when we do, journals won't post it.

And I don't see a ton of progress. My old department has hired a few young professors since I graduated... none can hack. It's sad
>It is a Vessel for the depths of architectural cynicism, of form without ideology and without substance: an architectural practice that puts the commodifiable image above all else, including the social good, aesthetic expression, and meaningful public space

or maybe it's just some staircases
> Several people I know who work on poverty wages in the arts industry

I don't have much sympathy for anyone who chooses to work in the arts... One must see the risks taken, and that the rewards are unpredictable.

> elder- or child-care for a homeowner

Are you talking about the very wealthy here? The upper income? The middle or even low income earners that made good financial choices? Looking after children and elderly is honest work.

Are these art workers tied to the Bay Area by anything apart from their choices?
There's not much that's new here - Freek Wedijk estimated the cost of formalizing the undergrad math curriculum in its entirety at 140 man-years, for a rough monetary cost well above the millions-of-dollars range - link @ https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/notes/index.html Expensive to be sure, but not excessively so for a mostly one-time effort. Part of the problem though is that we are still far from having a reasonably-standard platform for formal math that could be expected to fully unlock its benefits. Most of the effort in formalization so far seems to be occurring in domains of "synthetic mathematics", which seem to be mostly self-contained and don't take much formalization effort to reach close to the research frontier.
I suppose the NHS isn't to blame for what the Daily Mail wrote, but it's a bit confusing that they have a page on their website with the title "Fish oil supplements linked to prostate cancer". I now see that it's supposed to be part of a whole series ("Behind the Headlines") dissecting articles about health, so the headline is a quote or a restatement of what the Daily Mail wrote. It would be nice if they put it in quotemarks or otherwise indicated more clearly that they, the NHS, aren't making the claim (which clearly they aren't).
Curious to see how this might compare against Postgres's full-text search.

The text search vector type is pretty much a poor man's bag of words model (with removing stop words and some lemmatization) but instead of counts, you get placement of where the words occur.
It's like the whole thing with vitamin supplements. Unless you are actually deficient in one of them, taking them isn't going to do much for you, and in some cases might actually cause you harm. It's like fertiliser on a field, after a certain point the plants can't use any more and it just runs off to the rivers.

Vitamin C is a good one for that, I seem to remember reading that at best taking large doses just means your piss contains a lot of it, and at worst, if you mega-dose for long periods, it raises your chance of getting some cancers.

It reminds me of the adverts on the London Underground. Every time I travel through London to see my parents there will be adverts medicalising lack of sleep and exhaustion, flogging supplements and "remedies" for what is basically being tired, or "chronic tiredness syndrome" as one advert described it. I'm so glad I didn't choose that life.
No need to do that anymore because they now have their own C++ api, and it's called ... OCCI!
Yes. I won’t survive a perfect storm.
Is that an unusual swingset design? I'm pretty sure i've seen it in lots of places...
Yes, and so is My Little Pony fanfiction in the library of congress [1]. It's not exactly a very exclusive library, nor does the criteria for getting media into their catalog have anything to do with the subjective quality or meaningfulness of the piece.

[1] https://lccn.loc.gov/2016963536
Product manager responsibilities
A bit of a wild idea:

Deduce how important a game is to people by introducing small amounts of artificial delay when playing it. This could be input delay, or maybe the game freezes up for a second every minute, or it takes a bit longer to launch or something.

Measure the dropoff rate. People should be really willing to keep playing great games even when inconvenient, and drop marginally-fun grindy games faster. With a large enough install base, you shouldn't need to degrade anyone's experience very much to get enough data.
I'm a big worrier myself, and these thoughts often get the better of me. I have been unemployed for a couple of months last year, and although I live in a scandinavian country, it was still tough to see others in the same situation struggling.

I think society has a great responsibility in educating citizens correctly. A lot of the people I met had no grasp of technology, or its role in society, which is a big warning-light in my eyes. Everyone is saying "AI and robotics wont take your job", but it absolutely will, as the jobs the new industry creates seems to be STEM-jobs that require long STEM-educations - something not everyone is cut out for.

I feel like we're yet to see the full consequence of technology's role in our society, and I fear that we will end up with a big chunk of people who cannot actively contribute to the workforce.
HIV has a well known cause which makes research more productive. Faster than light communication would be really useful, but we have no idea who to research it or if it’s even possible. Alzheimer’s research is not quite that bad, but we have already spent 10’s of billions and still have no real clue what’s going on let alone a possible way to treat it.

PS: People talk about the huge improvement in AIDS treatments, but by default people where often living 15+ years after infection. Note infection not detection. Extending that was always considered a viable approach.
If it was a duplicate they would be able to show how the hash of the duplicate report was already in the tree. For more information you might want to read about Merkel proofs. For example here: https://www.quora.com/Cryptography-How-does-a-Merkle-proof-a...
A style agnostic components library with a flexible and extendable API
Many games in China implement limits like this. World of warcraft has a fatigue system that scales xp for example
Kind of like bags of bitcoin really.