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MS is contributing Azure resources, Sony is providing the camera sensors, and they're both working on AI. So they're collaborating on enhancing the panopticon and going to charge people to train it.

I wish I was kidding, but it's right there in the press release minimaxir linked[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19931405
Also lower-latency which is really great for streaming video for example. At least in my case it's the difference between stuttering video and nice stream.
> Popular science [0] claims that ~3500 calories equals a pound.

Kevin Hall, one of the people behind this study, goes to some length explaining why he thinks it's a bad rule. He came up with another that he likes explaining, IIRC it's 10 calories per pound per day. I can't remember where I heard him talk about this, it might have been this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPi1LQHBWBk, he's pretty good at public speaking and explaining.
How many steps total? How long to get through the process? This may work for lower demand markets but sounds excessive in competitive regions.

We've been super successful in mining the late round rejections from companies like Google. Getting to an on-sight is a huge signaling factor, they do the early filtering and we can move fast to an offer
Presumably if Google makes game development for Linux commercially viable, that will make for much more vibrant community support (tooling etc.) for local Linux as well. That plus what Valve is doing with Proton could potentially break the stranglehold Windows has on PC gaming. I personally would go 100% linux on my media PC if I did not occasionally play games on Windows.
No. Aldi and Trader Joe's consistently stock items and carry their own labeled products. Grocery Outlet are discounters who sell what is available cheap in bulk at discounts of around 50%. Many staples are often not available but occasionally high end products are sold at extremely low prices as producers liquidate unsold inventory.
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1) Why do you think their circumstances will change once they're in University?

2) There is the assumption that the environment in which you grew up in does not permanently affect the way you learn, while many studies have proven this to be untrue. The most critical years shaping the way you learn is in the younger years. Once you're past that, there is no way you can "make up" for it just by going to a better college.

A radical solution I believe is to completely subsidize all education and child rearing costs, such that every child will at least have the necessary basic conditions needed for them to excel. Of course, parents are always going to try and give their kids an edge, but at some point there'll be diminishing marginal returns. To relieve pressure on governmental funding, another radical idea is to couple this with an upper limit on the number of children you can have, so people will not "overburden" the system by having too many children.
Thanks, I'm flattered you're interested in learning from me. I'm not deliberately trying to be evasive. Believe it or not, I've been thinking of you as deliberately evasive. Achieving real mind-share with someone is MUCH harder than people think. Jesus said: "If two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven." I'm fully behind your call for steelman/principle of charity, in fact, it feels serendipitous, because I've been praying recently for the Lord to help me better love my neighbors, and those links you posted are highly relevant! Jesus said: "Do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces." Maybe what he meant was, don't condescendingly think of people as swine, but rather, assume the best in them.

Since you want to learn from me, one of my guiding principles is: there's far too much great material to read in a lifetime, so use the test of time to filter it. I'm currently reading the collected works of Shakespeare and finding it far more amazing than I expected. "A rose by any other name" is just one of many passages about names, self-denial, and so forth in Romeo and Juliet; to the point I'm convinced R&J is only a love story on the very surface, and has a far profounder hidden meaning. Shakespeare has passed the test of time. Dawkins hasn't, so I depriotize him. Maybe Dawkins is better than Shakespeare, but I consider that improbable because Dawkins hasn't passed the test of time yet. And if he were so great, he'd have Beatles-level fanfare. I'll read Dawkins when/if an editor asks me to peer-review one of Dawkins's papers or a paper that majorly cites him.

>Do you think the core idea or intent of this discussion from my perspective is the precise definition of the word "memetics"?

That was related to MY core intent (see my prev. comment).

>Yes, answer the questions as written, or acknowledge that you choose not to

Heretofore, I've been attempting to synthesize your comments and reply to them on-the-whole rather than bullet by bullet.

>after already acknowledging you believe the ideas contained within are "extremely, urgently important"

Again, this is like a man saying 'The ideas in Huffington Post are extremely, urgently important', because he read an article there about global warming. The "ideas contained within" are not unique to Memetics, Memetics just happens to be where you first encountered them. They've been around for thousands of years! (And as an aside, as an academic discipline, "Memetics" is just as trashy and low-brow as Huffington Post.)

>This all sounds a bit like those vague but persuasive/useful memes we were talking about earlier. A tangential one at that!

If you think people are laboring under illusions now, think how bad it was in the year 30 AD. Caesar was literally declaring himself a god, and enforcing it with state propaganda. THAT'S the kind of environment in which Jesus of Nazareth was spreading truth-bombs. And if Jesus hadn't done what he'd done, we'd still be enslaved by god-kings today.
> But surely they could provide a large demonstration battery?

They have:

"Pie in the sky? Heard it all before? Perhaps. The part that separates Innolith from all the others who claim to have invented the latest and greatest next new thing in battery storage technology is that is[sic] already has one of its batteries installed and operating [in Hagerstown, Maryland]"
My body, my choice? Or is that only for some things?
>I'm sure Uber can find the budget for that.

I doubt they had the budget for that or they likely wouldn't have been essentially trying to get someone to making their MVP under the guise of a new hire interview.

Keep in mind the OP mentioned that this was pre-launch, when they were still UberCab and only had aspirations to be a peer-to-peer cab app. Long before they started marketing themselves as a logistics juggernaut or world changing self driving car creators for valuation justification purposes.
Damn, now I feel like I made the wrong choice when I bought into the Ryobi One+ power tools. Would be nice if we just had batteries that are compatible across different manufacturers' lines. Sigh.
From your post it's hard to work out if the reason you were shouted at was due to a work issue, or someone being rude?

If it's the later just ignore it, don't let them get your back up; if it's a work issue ask them to explain carmly what was wrong as shouting doesn't solve the problem...
Bet they'll have us walking on our hands before the century is over.
Impact of US-China Trade Dispute on Technology Supply Chain
300km range, so inter-city a lot of places. I live in London - with 300km range I could reach Manchester in an hour instead of spending an hour getting to the right train station to get onto a 3 hour train journey. Or I could reach Calais, France in less time. Not quite enough range to reach Paris, but still fast enough that you could pop over to Calais, go through passport control/customs, and take another one in to Paris in maybe 90 minutes - about the at which I could expect to have gotten onto a Eurostar train.

If they'll be able to land them enough places, close enough, and be cheap enough, this is just about enough range to cause massive changes in transportation patterns. I currently have one international airport within 20 minutes of my nearest transport hub. If I could get into one of these there, I'd be able to go direct to a lot of nearby locations, or reach 6 international airports within 20 minutes and probably 20+ within an hour. I'd be able to commute to the majority of England in the same time I can commute to the centre of London today.... It both opens fantastic possibilities and is a bit terrifying at the same time (in terms of driving energy demand..)
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That’s what makes the question hard. It’s what would you do in this politically dire situation to lead a country while at the same time impressing an interviewer so you can get a job.
> We could have imposed a similar level of discipline on civilian nuclear power plant operators ... when commercial plants started being built in the US in quantity ... Three Mile Island (...clearly showed inadequacies in the way civilian nuclear plants were operated). The fact that we didn't is a political problem, not a technical or operational problem.

Scaling any operation is going to introduce error. It's exponentially harder to control 1,000 outcomes in a civilian operation than 10 outcomes in a military operation. And when the failure scenario is nuclear debris beyond sovereign borders, it gets dicey.

So the real political problem seems to be, "I don't want to be any part of Chernobyl, USA"
AMD is the big winner here, being behind the MS and Sony consoles for the last (and likely future) console generations and the Google Stadia service.

And with their GPU's going into datacenters and a move away from CUDA lock-in to OpenCL (example: https://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2019/05/14/1 ), they're in a great position to increase market share of GPU accelerated tasks like AI and deep learning.
Tell that to graphics programmers. Imagine how much better performance you could expect from games if they could spend their time optimizing for one API, and not making compromises to target a half dozen.
I mentioned this below, but if the test is a perfect predictor of future success, then the people that perform well on it are absolutely worthy of college admissions, and there should be no further analysis required. If the test is perfect, then the characteristics of the people that do well on that test don't matter. The reason we need to do implement equalizers like this is because such a test is impossible.
Large cities have 15% more of everything when compared to a more loose population. Economic and creative output, but crime and disease as well. It's a statistical fact that no one has been able to explain fully.
> You shouldn't have violated their TOS.

Since their TOS are vague, and they enforce it very discriminatory, deplatforming is obviously not about "violating TOS".

> The point is there are very, very few people who have their voices heard.

I agree wholeheartedly. My point isn't that everybody on Twitter automatically reaches everybody else on Twitter. It's that he has the chance. If you tweet something that everybody loves, you can go viral. If you're banned, you can't.

Everybody can run for office, but not everybody can win. If you block people from running in the first place, you better have some damn good reasons, and they better not be "I don't like their political opinions".
If it makes you feel better go ahead. At best you're being kind of a dick to NO-REPLY@... At worst you're labeled a prima donna.

Politely decline and move on with your life.
Unfortunately my visa is attached to my employer for one year. If I look for a new job I have to go through the visa application process again.
I built this around a year ago, but never really officially launched it. I got a reminder that the domain was about to expire and thought to myself "Why not post on HN and see what happens!?"

Would love to hear feedback on the idea / site itself, but would love it even more if people post a job or two! Here's some info from the about page that explains what I'm trying to solve / improve in the hiring process for software developers etc.

A huge number of software developers believe that the interview process for developers is broken. Some interviews suit certain people while to others it frustrates them to the point that they don’t even want to continue the hiring process. We believe that this isn’t good for the company looking to hire a candidate or the candidate themselves. While there’s no silver bullet for this problem, we certainly think that things can be better – much better in fact.

This is why SoftwareJobs.xyz was created. Imagine you could filter jobs by the interview type – now you can! Do you hate whiteboard interviews – fine, you’ll never have to write pseudo code ever again in front of a bunch of other developers. Maybe you prefer to do take home tests so to show your full potential so that you don’t feel under as much pressure and can use your own IDE etc. Or maybe you even refuse to do interviews unless you’re compensated for your time by doing paid interviews?
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> Most billionaires are not willing to move into a high-crime, high-poverty neighborhood with shitty housing

sure, but I don't think any existing laws would prevent them from just buying a second house in a bad part of their home town and using that address for applications and I can't see how the College Board could reliably detect this.
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Indiana Jones of climate science: the professor who escaped a 70ft crevasse
> Walmart has 2,867,125,000 shares outstanding * $1.96 per quarter * 4 = $22,478,260,000 per year spent on dividends alone.

Where did you get those dividend values? According to this [0], annual dividend was $2,08 per share for fiscal year 2019.

[0] - https://news.walmart.com/2019/02/19/walmart-raises-annual-di...
Please familiarize yourself on colonial mercantilism [0] and then get back to me on how "irrelevant" U.S. history is...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United...
I'd say neither. Americans just want to put America first.

It's not bad faith to want that. If that means something that looks like Unequal Treaties, so what? Americans have no reason to care. China can be bitter about that forever, or forget it, or decide that Unequal Treaties are awesome. It really doesn't matter to the USA.

It is clear that the Chinese want to put China first. That is their right, and is to be expected. Americans putting America first is no different.
I built https://freepage.io as a side project, and I still dont have a use-case for it yet :)
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Yes indeed. A lot of commercial GF food is, if anything, higher in fat and sugar than the "regular" gluten-containing equivalent. Just because a product is "free from" something-or-other (whether gluten, lactose, nuts, whatever) doesn't mean it's healthy.

We've gone GF at our house because my wife has coeliac disease. But we use very few commercially-prepared GF products; we cook at home from basic ingredients, and simply avoid the gluten-containing grains.

If you basically went gluten free by relying on products from the supermarket "free from" section, I can imagine it's easy to gain rather than lose weight.
English is preferred for technology. Most people set their operating systems, phones etc to English.
What do you mean that nobody in the US is losing sleep over it? If nobody were concerned by it, then it wouldn't be an issue it all. It seems like lots of people, including the current administration and their supporters, are deeply concerned by Chinese subsidies.

While capitalists might have other, better, opportunities, what about American workers who have seen decades of stagnant or declining wages? American workers being constricted to service and tech jobs, and losing the opportunity for manufacturing work? Surely these people are losing over Chinese anti competitive behavior.

In the short term it seems we benefit from cheaper goods. In the long term, the risks are that we lose industries, make ourselves reliant on unfriendly foreign powers, and lose entire categories of productive labor for our workers.

Your comment looks down on nationalism in a way that I think is a bit naive. Why shouldn't Americans be concerned with the wellbeing of Americans? Are the Chinese working for our best interests? Are they working neutrally for the good of all? Or are they working in their own best interests, or the interests of their rulers?

The Chinese leadership should try to do what's best for the Chinese as American leadership should try to do what's best for Americans.
Mostly likely it's coming from nearby in Southeast Asia and China.
I once tried to look up on google scholar what difference different digestibility made, and if I remember correctly with respect to fiber (the main kind of thing that reduces digestibility) you have to eat like twice the recommended amount of fiber just to reduce the total calories by like a 100. It was something like 80g of fiber, which isn't something you can easily eat without restructuring your whole diet. So the effect is there, but the way you explain it neglects to ask how big the effect is.
Shouldn't that be something like... "lunology"? Doesn't geo- refer to Earth?
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The world is depressing? That's obviously subjective. There's nothing special about me or my circumstances and the only way I can label the world as depressing is if I choose to see it that way, consciously or not. A lot of what you outlined above is purely your mind fucking with itself, because those things, quite literally, are not reality. By no means do I think it is an entirely fruitless endeavor to consider the future, but anyone who lets that lead them into anything negative - nevermind life altering - has themselves to blame.
Their subscription service is looking pretty anaemic compared to this and Stadia.
I agree that storage really isn't up to seasonal demand variation yet. But I also don't think we should take out current nuclear and should run current plants to end of life - even extending their life where practical. But I strongly think that project success/completion data points to new nuclear plants being a poor investment financially and time wise for carbon suppression vs our other options.

I am a bit curious why running a wood fired stove in the winter doesn't meet your heating needs in a modern well-insulated low carbon home? We need a set of different, possibly non-uniform solutions. For heat, why not store power by growing forests in the spring/summer, and burning wood in the winter? Not high-tech I know, but some of the automatic pellet feed systems are very low touch.
Yiannis is a fantastic professor, probably my favorite during undergrad at Maryland.
I don't disagree with you that the system itself has issues.

But the comments here are primarily attacking the "greed" of people richer than them, who would rather spend more money on themselves than on those in need. They're making a psychological argument, and so I am responding in kind by pointing out that these very complainers are hypocritically spending their paychecks the same way: on themselves, not on those in need.
"In the wake of Arab spring in Libya, the people decide that [George Washington is] their next leader." is not what happened. Libya is not the 18th century British colonies.
It was due a work issue. Basically my boss is not happy with performance.
> the big reason why the economy cyles is due to speculative cycle in land values

Baloney. The last one was, true. The Great Depression wasn't land, though - it was the stock market.

And rents these days don't primarily come from land. Your land value tax fits the economy of a few centuries ago, where the income primarily came from land, but it doesn't fit today, where the income primarily comes from other kinds of assets. (The value of the land it occupies is not how Amazon makes money.) All your land tax would do is penalize land compared to other asset classes. And, since you are wrong in your first point (that economic cycles are driven by speculation in land), you would do this for no good reason. That's probably not going to end well.
shrug I eat a ton of sandwiches and avocado toast and have absolutely no problems with hunger between meals, I usually eat one meal a day.

My hunger level has much more to do with amount of food consumed and timing than anything else.
That sounds ... dismissive, but I'm not sure what's actually supposed to be wrong about "non-religious tithing".

Should we give up not working at weekends because it's a "non-religious sabbath"?

10% is a nice round figure. It's small enough that many people can afford to give up that fraction of their income without getting into money trouble. It's large enough that many people will be doing a really substantial amount of good to the world if they give that much of their income to well-chosen charities. And, yes, it happens that some religions have used the same figure, which probably helps "give 10% of your income" seem like a reasonable thing to suggest.

Is there anything bad about any of that? If there is, I don't see it.

I don't claim that there's anything optimal about giving 10% of your income. But I don't see any reason to sneer at people for doing it, either.
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You get better throughput with less speed in dense environments, see pedestrians and bicyclists. The problem with highways is that they are optimized for speed and sparse environments.
This. Precisely this.
Indeed. My story isn't entirely comparable as I didn't do it as an independent. This was indeed billed as an employee of a fin/legal company with offices in ~100 countries.

For some background info for the person you're replying to... I can easily name a whole range of colleagues with whom I could easily complete $1m per person / annum of work (about $4k a day) in billable time.

The problem is you don't get the work without the company name.

Even having worked in this business, with clients trusting me on a personal level who'd love to grant me the work even if I worked as an independent contractor... my clients are other fortune 500 companies, sales goes through a process, which has all kinds of checks and balances in place. For example, if you have no certification for data security (i.e., audited on e.g. ISO2700-1/2), you don't stand a chance to say receive sensitive due diligence docs in order to perform legal work. Performing such an audit can easily cost hundreds of thousands a year, just to pay the auditor. Building an internal framework to comply with standards, regulations etc, costs way more. This makes it impossible for small firms or contractors to compete as they can't average out a $100k audit over $50m in revenues.

Not all work has these requirements of course. But in some fields, and some clients do. Building an internal software tool for a national seller of paint products, fine as an independent contractor. Trying to win a government tender for a tool that handles personal data, extremely likely you won't be considered without working for an organisation that has 10 certifications in place that cost >$1m a year to renew. In my line of work, it'd be very tricky to sell my work to clients as an independent.
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HN is becoming diet conscious: https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...
That's a minor irritation of a similar scale to accidentally leaving their wallet at their summer home and having to wait for replacement bank cards.

Poverty tourism is bollocks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19930923
California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked
Apart from being a snarky article, the author does not propose any actual solutions. So what if a few folks try to hack sleep? Whatever floats their respective boats....