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Every comment supporting censorship here is just restating the pro-authoritarian censorship rhetoric. Not a single comment on Cahill's points or research.

Cahill, his platform he publishes on and everyone else is allowed to be biased. Just like feminists and the publications they use are allowed to be biased. For every person who thinks Cahill is dangerous, a lot more think feminists are dangerous. But I wouldn't support silencing feminists, just like I wouldn't support silencing Cahill and stopping scientific research.

If you don't like someone's research or position, then show where the research went wrong. As I said, people tend to support censorship ( especially in research and academia ) when facts and reality go against their worldview. This is true whether it is religious conservatives or feminists.

As for software development, the industry should be politically and ethically amoral. There is nothing ethical or unethical about software. No more than hammer makers are ethical or unethical.

The dyspotian future is being created by authoritarian feminists who want to politicize and censor everything from social media to scientific research. That's what I feel we should be worried about.
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It depends on your preferences. I can't stand hot weather, that's why I live in San Francisco, not the East or South Bay.
Is the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect - https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-g...
Do you think people buying cars with autopilot believe they are getting fully driverless systems?
Instead of competing over burgers, could Beyond Meat or Impossible Burger work on brisket?
The canonical example must be TFTP.

Back around 2000, I installed tftpd so that I could boot a VxWorks board. It came locked down for security to the point that it wouldn't even work, and the documentation was no help in making the tftpd operable. After much frustration, I realized that writing tftpd with plain old C and sockets would be easier. I did that.

A decade later, I again needed TFTP. Surely the passage of a decade would have sorted out the issues. Nope! Having long ago lost my reimplementation due to job change, I very nearly wrote TFTP yet again. This time I was saved by the discovery of hpa-tftpd, which actually works.

I wonder why hpa-tftpd is not the default or only TFTP server packaged with Linux. The regular package is, as far as I could tell, non-functional.
If not actively accelerating at them, like it did in San Francisco.
s/10\-25/20\-25/ Even then, WASM does a LOT of things right that Java absolutely failed. Namely: security.
"This is fine!"

https://i.imgur.com/c4jt321.png
>"And even that fails at a far higher rate than we want self driving cars to be."

Thanks, but did you mean to say that people fail at a far lower rate that we want self driving cars to have? Maybe I misunderstood your point?
Since China is also known for all-levels number fudging and revisionism, and state policy and culture has a tendency toward brigading that'd make tumblr blush, the "anti-china propaganda" tends to be a tad more credible, no?
Top 1% if 422k/year. 1.3mil is closer to top 0.1%
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My point was that it appears that Tesla doesn't have a large and varied dataset. It has a small and pre-selected data set, since the cars only transmit data when pre-determined triggers are fired. Thus, it doesn't matter how many 1000s of drivers Tesla "has" or how many "situations" they're in, since it's not actually collecting data from most of these situations.

And Autpilot's performance (including its numerous regressions) suggests very strongly either that it doesn't have a very large data set, or else that it has a large data set of everyone doing roughly the same thing almost all of the time. These are the two most logical explanations for Autopilot's tendency to veer toward freeway dividers even (especially?) after updates.
It is addressed in the article. The idea is that it is not a good proof.

Solving a hard problem with code doesn't mean that you solved the general case. For example your algorithm may work in polynomial time for some specific 3-SAT problems or hashes up to a certain length. It may be huge but it doesn't mean you proved P=NP.

Furthermore, P=NP doesn't mean you can easily solve NP-Complete problems. What if N^100 is the best you can do? It may be polynomial but it is useless. In fact, small steps are expected. And going straight to a workable algorithm is suspicious.
Anything to the left of me is well meaning but naive and wrong, anything to the right of me is batshit crazy.
Without all the bugs and security holes.
Not necessarily, but it's hard for me to imagine what a non-constructive proof of P=NP would look like.
Ya the Beyond Burger is a good veggie burger. The impossible burger is a really good meat substitute, particularly the new version.
Or just use a logger with proper log levels
There's nothing wrong with not letting The Market optimize every square meter of real-estate you care about. Not to mention the selective application of what The Market entails - aren't zoning rights just as real as property rights, that The Market respects? Why not allow The Market to respond to high property prices by redirecting development elsewhere?
Again, this is moral stance that you have, which I disagree with. As assumptions, yours include that the market captures incentives efficiently, that what people value and don't value is accurately represented by flow of money (and thus, of course, that those with more wealth available have more valuable values), and that people do not have the right to speak out against what they perceive as injustice if the market has decided that said injustice is efficient.

Again, corporations are made of people, and those people make decisions. Nothing is "up to the company" because the company is a group of people. People make the decisions.
Yes, but Marin doesn't have the same number of jobs as SF and as out-of-whack jobs to housing ratio. Rent control was introduced a few years after the article and created a new haves-vs-have-nots divide of people protected by rent control vs. new entrants who have to pay vastly higher rates, i.e are subsidizing the former.
Rethink fashions and taboos and check whether these policies have merit?

A market works well when it's not distorted.
I'm in the camp that there should be no incentives for taxes for anything.

Would you argue that potato chips shouldn't be taxed, or that produce should be?
> Chinese culture of copy-catting freely doesn't help.

The problem with that, is that it's a vicious circle. Innovation is the foundation for future innovations. It builds on itself. It lays the groundwork and foundation for what comes next. By leapfrogging and cheating its way to the top (or near the top) they are sacrificing that crucial infrastructure for future discoveries and innovations.

China has to copy & steal IPs because it simply doesn't have the culture to compete. They're one of the least innovative countries on Earth, year after year. And the only way to change that is by allowing its citizens to think creatively, outside the box -- to be able to challenge authority. But China doesn't want that; they want conforming little worker bees who follow the party line.
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The example may be US-centric, but that really doesn't invalidate the point of the argument: that late comers may come to dominate the market by copying others. I really don't need a global example or eurocentric example to make the point, but if you don't want Apple, take Google's Android, IBM'S PC, etc.

Edit: How about Google? They copied Yahoo and AltaVista, and their search engine has become so ubiquitous with searching that it's a word in the dictionary now.
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> you not working there wouldn't bring any real net positive change.

You do not know that. Perhaps them not working there deprives the corporation of their ideas and skills, and frees the person's time and energy for a work helping the positive change.
This may get people out of gail
1981 prediction of elitist takeover of SF basically came true
I’m ok with building materials, architecture, and any range of requirements that a community wants to place on new structures to maintain a certain “look” to a neighborhood. Those can be factored easily into costs.

I’m not ok with a community preventing new development entirely, especially taller and denser development. Even worse is that red tape can delay a project for years if not permanently, making the cost of owning property for development (mortgage, taxes, size of eventual payoff) uncertain.

If you set clear rules, the market will adapt. When everything is banned or uncertain, developers are much less likely to take risks.
Is there really such a thing as culture-less food? The fact that Taco Bell, for instance, has struggled so much in some international markets suggests there might be a stronger cultural element to it than you’re giving it credit for. Yes, it’s a business that exists to make money. But the fact that it does make money is because the food connects with millions of people in the US.

There’s something very unique about the US, which is that we’re taught from a young age that “culture” is something that other places have and the US is just a melting pot. But you can’t mix things together for 200+ years and still seriously claim you haven’t created something just as unique as the ingredients that went into it.
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I can't remember if it was a comment or a post that linked to a really interesting article? blog post? rant? on how difficult actually modelling neurons is. It went into a lot about the genetics and epigenetics of the neuron, but I can't seem to recall the author or find the article. I wish I'd bookmarked it. :/
If anything, talent is getting more concentrated. The Boston region has lost a lot of its tech companies, for instance.
It is a trend. As companies IPO, more companies view IPOs as superior exit and capital raising options.
I may be an Apple user who is interested in such movies as the goonies at the matrix but I’m not going to open an Italian restaurant called iBuca. I just don’t feel the article has enough intellectual relevance to be on the front page of happiness
I think the key thing is that you assume a single dot-product per RAM load. In general you get higher compute performance by doing more than this. You load weights for a layer in the SRAM, then stream from RAM tiles of data that you can compute multiple operations on.

In the same way, to reach peak FLOPs on a GPU you better use the local/shared memory as much as possible.
Totally agree.

Multiple frameworks have done this for many years, but nobody will listen as everyone is interested in the next new, shiny thing.

I do like Svelte in its latest incarnation though, especially when it integrates with Sapper.
That is a very nice summary!

Some of these tensions seem unresolvable though. At some level if I want to toss a Map around everywhere and be able to transparently back it with a database, I'm going to have to accept that operations might fail. I can't have it both ways. In the end, the abstraction is "leaky". I don't really see how Rust or anything else can make that go away.

I feel like the closest I can get to have my cake and eat it too is by having the compiler transparently infer all the exceptions / errors that can be thrown by the calls I am making (like type inference for variables), but leave them out of the type signatures. Then I can opt in to enforcing the checking of them when I want to, so something like

check {
doSomething()
}
catch(...) { // every error now has to be handled
....
}

I guess this is something like what Rust is achieving through the ? operator.
Do you mean "anecdotal" rather than "apocryphal"? Apocryphal suggests you have reason to believe this story is untrue.
really? just google/bing something like "car crashed into a wall/barrier"
Phoenix basically provides perfect conditions for self driving cars. There is very little precipitation. It gets more daylight and sunlight than any other major city in the US. There is little to no vehicle endangering wildlife. The city was mostly designed post-cars meaning there are lots of big newish straight roads and there isn't much pedestrian culture. To put it simply there is a lot of "reality" that exists in other markets that isn't very present in Phoenix.

I'm not saying Waymo can't handle it, but there is a pretty big difference between being able to handle Phoenix and its suburbs compared to Boston and its suburbs for example.
Yes, exactly - it is bizarre. Tech pays very well with no culture of corporate allegiance, yet this generation of skilled in-demand labor with (hopefully) sizable bank accounts does not exercise their economic freedom.

Why?

Maybe fear of radical change and lacking support from peers, or maybe unawareness of what labor resistance actually entails... or, cynically, that their beliefs are spineless social posturing... but I couldn't think of any flattering reasons to walk-out then stay.
>with 2% inflation and 9% return (pre inflation)

9% pre inflation is insane, and 7% is too. If you can do that consistenly, you will be a billionaire hedge fund manager. Ten year treasury bond yields 2.59% per year, anything above it is risky.

Sure, you can stuff 100% of your savings into S&P500, but then you will have to deal with unpredictable 20-40% drawbacks, which take years and years to correct. Last recession S&P500 basically halved.
We don't have open source implantable medical devices either.
I always saw it as a compile target for higher level languages.

As in, unless you're interested in working on compilers or web applications that need low-level optimizations on the client-side despite existing WebAssembly compilers, you won't need to "learn" WebAssembly.
He purposefully framed it as a seriously meant allegation, not as an insult. And then even doubled down on it.
> China has to copy & steal IPs because it simply doesn't have the culture to compete. They're one of the least innovative countries on Earth, year after year.

Funny thing, that's exactly what people used to say about Japan, and then about South Korea. (And the typical work environments in both countries do not exactly encourage creativity or challenging the status quo, either. So I'm not sure what difference that might make.)
A lot of the world's memory is also stored in shadow libraries such as Library Genesis and sci-hub.
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I really hate this type of high-priesthood mentality, encapsulation is really dangerous when it's this leaky.
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In the best case that's a misunderstanding of the political situation in the US. As a reference, recall HQ2 where Amazon was negotiating to skirt property taxes for the next infinity years with the local government. All corporations technically have access to these, but regulatory capture is strong in the US and market incumbents tend to have a lot of weight to throw around to make sure they get favorable tax loopholes and exemptions. Access to these sorts of loopholes is also probably influenced by social network strength which a lot of chinese nationals (especially ones openly representing nationalized companies or the subsidiaries thereof) would find difficult to establish.
Limited routes, geofenced, not truly autonomous, mows down pedestrians even with a supervisory driver.
It is a real PITA when attempting to post to HN via AT&T LTE, same with clicking on any FB link from Google search results.
Comparing U.S government to the Chinese government here is ridiculous. The Chinese government has absolute and total control of everything within its borders. It could dissolve a company tomorrow if it didn't like it -- or do the reverse and allow it to operate at a loss in order to hurt foreign competitors. The U.S has laws against such practices while China actively engages in those behaviors.
Good to see that I am being down voted for my accent/dialect.
Sometimes you’ll build up long lasting, trusting and mutually beneficial relationships with some of your best “customers” (a person you do business with inside a company) you’ll even do business with these individuals across different companies. The times I’ve sent my customers something (be it a swag pack, bottle of drink or anything) it’s been really appreciated. A handwritten letter would be amazing! I did send a hand written thank you letter to a customer once (but the person is a good friend too so it didn’t count as much, although I thanked him for being a customer and wished him luck etc) and he was super excited and happy about getting a physical post card in such a digital age. It definitely is a good thing to do, and helps keep things human.
I think we can see the recent actions against Huawei partly in this light.
> Middle class is a very politically charged term, but the way I see it, "median" ought to describe middle class fairly well

In classical analysis of capitalist economies (starting with, but not limited to, the socialist critics that first identified “capitalism” as a thing) the “middle class” isn't middle in the sense of including the median person, but in being between the capitalist class (that derives support through applying rented labor to capital they control) and the working class (which derives support through labor rents from capitalists), and includes people whose support comes from a mixture of capital and labor, most typically the yeoman farmer or independent tradesman who primarily applies his own labor to his own capital.
> And you'd build more floors until the marginal cost of adding the Nth floor is just under the marginal selling price of the floor.

No, you'd stop much earlier or it wouldn't be worth it.

> (so it always will be an issue)

Sorry, I can't follow you there. What would be the issue? Even the marginal cost of building the Nth floor at which you'd stop would be much lower than current market prices for a similar amount of residential space. So building enough of it would drive prices down.
> aren't zoning rights just as real as property rights, that The Market respects?

No. "zoning rights" are not rights, they are rules applying to property that people own _and are subject to change_ much more fluidly than the ownership itself.
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Holy sh!t never heard of doTERRA before..just went down the rabbit hole..Why is there so much https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking in today's economy? So many hucksters, copycats, and fraudsters. Is it inevitable symptom of unbridled capitalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoTerra
This is just wrong. By many measures, China is one of the most innovative countries on earth. Take scientific citations for example: https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/chinas-citations-catch...
Not the parent, but I am from the US. I don't know anyone who uses i{whatever} as a generic term. When they say iPhone, they mean a smartphone manufactured by Apple. When they say iPad, they mean a tablet computer manufactured by Apple, and so on.
Apple's Chinese competitors are helped by the government. China does not have an aviation manufacturer to compete directly (yet) but it ensures that neither Boeing or Airbus get a significant lead over each other in their controlling market.

The parent poster claimed McDonalds was a successful example, however it only successful because it is now led by Chinese-state-owned agency so the real-estate (which is 99% of the value) is not foreign owned. Same with KFC.

What is non-sequitur? That governments exist and have different rules for their businesses and citizens?
It seems the parent is suggesting that we block Chinese companies from operating in the USA, basically tit-for-tat retribution. Based on "...while their own companies operate freely in those foreign countries"

This might be applicable for hardware sales, but for service companies (including ecommerce, search, ride hailing, all the big USA tech company niches) it's kind of a moot point. None of the big Chinese companies put any effort into working outside of China. In fact my biggest complaint is they don't do any internationalization at all, so if you don't read Chinese you basically can't use anything. To the extend that services even work outside of China they are mainly only used by Chinese people, see for example WeChat or Taobao or Baidu. So I'm not sure this line of action would have any effect.

If the parent instead meant blocking Americans from doing any business with China (as a manufacturer of smartphones, for example), that's likely to have much more downside to American companies and consumers than to China, so we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot.

But all these points are debatable, see all the back-and-forth about the tariffs/trade war. Some great economic write-ups on all sides.
Well, yeah, I mean if you don't care about your fellow human beings or the environment, the current policies are working great.

Homeless people, moms and dads driving 2 hour commutes, people who would benefit from a more tolerant climate unable to live there, people unable to take good jobs... the human cost of people's NIMBYism is real, and it is staggering.

The environmental cost is pretty big too: https://www.redfin.com/blog/why-dense-housing-is-green/
>This has nothing to do with communications or product development. China will not let a non-Chinese company ever gain top position in any sector.

Do you have any evidence that this is what happened in this situation??

> And yes the article is bullshit because this same government won't allow any negative press about their actions either.

Again. Could be true, but how am I supposed to know that your interpretation is correct?
The APIs discussed in that case are only "classical" APIs, i.e. code APIs, not "web APIs", which are really protocols. Despite the fact that recently people have started calling protocols APIs, the two have huge differences from a copyright perspective[1], so that extrapolating from the former to the latter is tenuous, regardless of the ultimate outcome of that case.

Moreover, the court ruling makes it seem that if the intent is interoperability, fair use may apply (only the court rules Google's intent was not interoperability, as their implementation was intentionally incompatible).

Although in this particular case, it appears they can claim copyright violation on the documentation.

[1]: Most notably, in order to be copyrightable, a work has to be "fixed in a tangible medium of expression" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102), i.e. you need to have a specific text (or image) that you can say, this is the work (although then even derivatives are protected). This is true for APIs, but not for protocols (or REST "APIs"). Whether this distinction makes sense to programmers or not is irrelevant. The same distinction holds for programs vs. algorithms: programs are "fixed in a tangible medium", and are subject to copyright, but algorithms are not, and not subject to copyright (but can be protected by patents).
8% is considered the "Progressive Activists" or SJWs, they are definitely over represented in media and the likes of twitter, but are definitely that. 92% is the rest.
And probably it should have been described as an antipattern rather than a dark pattern.
Flutter does its own painting. It's different, and closer to a game engine than what React is doing. That results in different tradeoffs.