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Free trade is like free markets. I can buy shares of nearly any public company in the world (notably, not including China). I can move my stuff for free (besides shipping cost) to many countries. That is free trade and free markets.

China has neither. Free is free as in no restriction, not free to do whatever you want.

Free to do whatever will make global trade more difficult for everyone as all countries will have tariffs, as it was historically.
RealTalk Speech Synthesis
They apparently want to use it for when a human operator controls the vehicle to get it out of a situation the autonomous system can't handle.
Wiping away the out nuance from words to remove important factual distinctions is not advancing the conversation.
None of the examples were trivia. These were examples of what the candidates got stuck on in a larger interview question, with the ability to use Google to look things up.
>The jury is out on whether the world is fundamentally deterministic...but suppose it is. This does not necessitate that the world is also deterministic at some higher level of description.

Ah, so there can exist counterfactual levels of description which are inconsistent with what may be the fundamental nature of reality. This seems accurate. (C.f. religion)

>We can attach probabilities to different scenarios, but it’s not the case that the weather state at the present time fully determines the weather state in a few days’ time. Multiple different trajectories are entirely possible.

In superdeterminism, the state of the universe at the present time does fully determine the weather state in a few days time. Multiple trajectories are not physically possible, though we are able to probabilistically model such trajectories based on the incomplete information that we do have access to.
What do you mean by "believe"? He said that one of his goals was to accelerate the conflict between two sides of the cultural divide. That's a pretty common goal of terrorism. Am I supposed to not believe him, and think he did it for some other reason?

I believe he wrote the truth about what he thinks and why he did what he did. I don't see why he would lie about that. Whether you think any of his points have any validity or agree with any of them is a whole different ballgame.

I also believe that, in a society that aspires to practice freedom of speech and freedom of expression, it is an essential skill to be able to read something you may not agree with, written by someone who took actions that you oppose, and objectively evaluate the content.

Not everyone needs to or can, but some people had better do it, if we are to have any hope of rising above the hate and division associated with these sorts of acts.
There isn't one. The candidate didn't know how callbacks worked.
I wonder if

“Without water, the lunar surface instead gets deformed, stretching from a spherical shape into a more oblong one and back again.”

Is enough energy to keep the core of the moon hot? Like maybe the moons mass alone for for 4+ billion years would have cooled but the additional force of the earth stretching the moon like a rubber band creates heat energy...
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> Indeterminism at the level of psychology is required for free will and alternative possibilities. That is entirely compatible with determinism at the fundamental physical level.

Not sure I understand/agree with that. Can you build non-determinism out of deterministic pieces?
Each laptop has 10+ devices with embedded firmware.

Like battery, HDD/SDD, display, ethernet, wifi and bluetooth modules, keyboard, touchpad, webcam, SD card reader, BIOS/SMM, TPM, etc.

Some of those might be innocuous and unable to host anything malicious, some might seem so but have non-obvious ways to compromise the system. And some, like anything communication related... sky is the limit.

What's common with those is that they are very hard, nearing impossible to audit and analyze. When was the last time you checked whether your laptop's WiFi firmware isn't doing something nasty? Or your SSD FW?

I think we need to be worried about a lot more than just BIOS and OS.
Yes, you can estimate the depth below the surface by reading the seismic arrival times. There are compressional waves that travel along the surface, which travel at different speeds than the pressure and compressional waves going straight through the moon.
I think quakes last noticeably longer than impacts, at least if they are large enough. On Earth, there's a fairly well-established empirical correlation[1]. Putting a magnitude of 5.5 into the formula given here suggests a duration of about 70s, if that relationship holds on the Moon.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_duration_magnitude
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional .
From where I'm standing this looks like someone put a lot of effort into re-inventing Perl, minus the documentation and user community.
Building a chat app with React Hooks, a pragmatic example – Codementor
I'm not quite where you are wealth-wise but definitely I have had that moment several times recently where I am re-evaluating hiring out work I would have just done myself in the past. I didn't have some big windfall, but pretty much earned and saved my way to wealth. Now it is hard to not do things like fix my own cars as well as bring my own lunch. I do them out of habit now. That's the discipline. Anyways, you don't want idiots working on your cars and you don't want to eat at restaurants all the time.

It makes no sense to me why the CEO and higher ups of the company I work at still work there. They are already set for life many times over. I can only speculate that they share a character flaw that they all see as virtuous. However it isn't--they are impeding someone's chance to "make it" in life, especially the older executives who could have stepped aside a decade ago or more. Even if you just look at the absurd salaries, it doesn't paint a pleasant portrait of greed in America.

There is a great absurdity to life in America. We basically work for the appearance of something that ends up being eaten away to a large degree. Taxes and inflation keep the goalposts moving away but we don't rebel because it's a magic trick and who doesn't like magic?

I don't work because I enjoy it but because it is a means to an end that is a better formula than some other arrangement. I would happily volunteer my time, travel, read, or simply do nothing if I could.
To be fair, I recall having conversations in the 1990s about how MS Word was such an evil proprietary format and that one day we wouldn’t be able to read it. And here we are nearly 30 years later and Word docs (in a much evolved file format) are still here and still widely supported and easy to read using many tools, including open source ones.

Not saying that proprietary formats aren’t still a bad idea for other reasons, but predictions of unreadability don’t seem to have panned out for any common file formats.
Indeed I miss CL's "live coding" every day since.
Someone is making this luxury thing.
Exactly. This article is a waste of time.
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It's actually quite simple: do you take something I said and try to extend it to an absurd use case, to show how such a viewpoint cannot be true? This is that universality formulation in action.

Quick example: I said not vaccinating is risking death, and someone else said I shouldn't drive because that risk of death is higher. That's all it takes!
Is the site down? I'm getting an empty page in Firefox currently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
> carrying a Geiger counter, fearing for you life

Is the radiation that scary? My understanding it that it is comparable to living in an area with lead in the water or eating a high-mercury diet of fish.

You can just do random spot checks and get plenty of data. One walk in a 10x background radiation park isn't going to do you any harm.
> nor you can store in your password manager

Some 2FA apps also allow you to back up your codes to a cloud service.
I am at work right now but I can walk the fuck out anytime I feel like it.
I've done that a few time actually.

My last company they flew me from another continent to do a 3-days assessment, I worked with the team on a legitimate feature(that would be trashed after as they couldn't use the code because I was unpaid). I liked it, I met the team, I interacted with them, I did the task and got a job offer in the end.

All engineers at the company highly valued the 3 days assessment because we got to select great people to work with, but we were getting too many candidates giving up or false negatives, they eventually cut it down to 1-day despite our protests.
That... Seems bad. Sorry to jab but is optics also why they decided on confusing non-standard async syntax?

I always thought that for open source software, the more terrible the website the better it was. A site too slick may ruin Rust's reputation
None of the examples were trivia. These were examples of what the candidates got stuck on in a larger interview question, with the ability to use Google to look things up.

I don't care what kind of abstractions you have at your current company. We don't (/didn't) have those abstractions. If you can't show me that you can do CS101 basics (appending to an array?) in the language that you claim to write day to day, how can I trust you to be able to write the code that we describe in the job description?
Genetics feels like an art of working with an extreme version of a legacy code. No documentation, and side effects literally everywhere :)
I did this for a living in the 1980s--CPUs from TTL. My artistic side wants to build a small running computer from all TTL inside a plexiglas cube with all the chips glued to the walls and the interconnecting multi-colored wires exposed with a small display of something.
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The strongest argument against free will doesn't have to do with determinism (and I agree with Christian List that looking at lower levels is a category error). Even if you chuck out determinism, you still can't say what free will is a supposed to _be_. It just evaporates while you try to examine it, no matter what sort of framework you put up around it.
I'm continually disappointed by how dumb I and humans generally are. My theory is that we're only just barely intelligent in the general sense, on the basis that we only recently developed a technological society and therefore the intelligence to build one. After all, if we'd been smart enough to do it earlier, we would have done so.
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Can't login, anyone else experiencing issues logging into the management page?

>Looks like something went wrong...
If this keeps happening, check out status.digitalocean.com.

>Bad gateway
The web server reported a bad gateway error.

>Ray ID: rayid
>Your IP address: myip
>Error reference number: 502
>Cloudflare Location: Helsinki

I'd like to close one of my test VMs and prevent further fee racking but apparently DO "has decided no" and keep billing :D

E: Nothing is more painful than experiencing technical issues that nobody has talked about on the internet, this is maddening!
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Before you go on disparaging the author and philosophy in general like the proverbial xkcd physicist, take a look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
Chaotic systems are deterministic. Chaos pertains to measurement, not determinism.
Is that a definition?
Nobody puts that money in a bank. They invest it in a mutual fund or similar, so it ends up funding businesses and their employees.
That is not non-determinism; it's just difficult to predict determinism.

I postulate that we cannot build non-determinism out of deterministic pieces - we can just get it complex enough that we can't accurately pre-determine what will happen. With enough data, and a system of sufficient predictive complexity, we can still predict everything, I'd wager.
Too bad the future is so unevenly distributed.
So typical - there is no clear definition, lots of ambiguous terms...People just want to have this free will so much that they always intentionally conflate the terms.

It's not happening, free will is the human-life equivalent of square circle.

1. Determinism or not, free will doesn't exist in either case.
2. Lack of knowledge is not the same as random.
3. Me deciding something doesn't happen because decisions are not points in time - your decision is smeared in space time and it lasts for long. Even when you say "fuck it, it's chocolate" that is not a _single_ moment in time where the decision is made.
4. The whole idea of "me" being a singular, well defined thing is purely an artefact of human language. We are a process, not a thing.

If free will is so real, can you freely choose never to choose again? Of course not. You are forced to choose because the choosing is an unstoppable process which evolves over time. Just like universe. Cannot stop the motion.
>So, not as sensational as the title would lead you believe.

But enough to make me believe in not wanting to get a future job in driving trucks (there's a market here that pays)
See chaos theory: deterministic but intractably unpredictable.

Still, the article makes the same mistake thinking that free will requires indeterminism and alternative possibilities when it really doesn't.
Does determinism prevent you? Why _would_ you want or feel like it? And when that happens, how do you control the deliberation process itself?

Can you freely choose your deliberations? Why would you choose them exactly like that?
I'm not convinced. At least not by the summary this article puts forward. Perhaps the world isn't deterministic (although how could we possibly know?). Even if it isn't, that non-determinism is only visible at the smallest of scales. Whether an electron is here or there is hardly likely to be caused by my mental states. So, if we don't have free will, at best we have random will. That is not free will as most people conceive of it.

To the whole section about human behavior being too complex to explain in terms of fundamental physics, my answer is: it can't be explained in terms of fundamental physics yet. But, again, given sufficient time, research, and computational power, it seems highly likely that eventually human behavior will be explained in terms of fundamental physics. Or at least, we will be able to simulate a human (or higher animal) brain with sufficient resolution so as to demonstrate that there are no other inputs to cognition than current state + laws of physics. I really don't see how our current inability to explain human behavior physically has any bearing on the question of cognitive determinism.
I'm confused as to why they redesigned the website but removed prior functionality.

A few weeks ago people pointed out that the internationalization also suffered due to this. Edit: by suffered, I mean "was removed entirely". I just checked and couldn't find a way to change the locale, nor could I manually set it e.g. by appending /de-DE, etc.

If the new design requires a link to the old design to access removed functionality, is it really ready to launch?

---

edit; these were the languages offered: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Português, Русский, Svenska, Tiếng việt, 简体中文

Now if I want to refer to someone about Rust in Korean I have to link to prev.rust-lang.org, which is weird.
With an "old" gcc I use at work:

echo $(gcc --version) && cat test.c && gcc -static -O2 test.c && echo && du -h a.out
gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516 ...
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
printf("Hello World\n");
}

796K a.out
> I don't think I'd have the guts to walk out of an interview either, especially for a job I applied to first.

Have you no common courtesy? I terminate the process as soon as I find out I'm not a good fit for the company or vice versa, no matter who initiated first. Continuing with an interview when I'm sure I'm going to decline is just wasting everybody's time.
Level of radiation is useful metric, but it can be diluted when "... at average ..." is used. A cold room with one cup of boiling water in it has much lower temperature at average than sunny lagoon, but cup of boiling water can injure or even kill you, while sunny lagoon cannot.
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> we can just get it complex enough that we can't accurately pre-determine what will happen.

Which is observably indistinguishable from indeterminism.
Err replying to myself here... I just had the personal revelation that this could also be a strong argument _for_ free will. If we can't properly examine is by breaking it down, it might be said to be a fundamental property (like consciousness, perhaps?).
Since we are discussing if there is free will or not can I get an answer to who first proposed the solution I describe here [0]. I know I am not the first person to have raised this argument, but I can't find who did.

0. https://www.tillett.info/2018/12/21/the-last-word-on-free-wi...
It was designed for a smaller tsunami, yes, but extensive studies of the area published before construction began suggested that a tsunami of the 2011 kind was possible, and the design was inadequate. The sea wall, for example, should have been twice as tall. TEPCO ignored the studies. They also took General Electric at their word that they should install all the electrical switchgear in the reactor basements (except unit 6), despite this being the lowest point of the plant, and despite previous warnings about flooding risks (and actual flooding occurring during heavy storms predicting exactly what eventually happened). The government oversight was woefully inadequate and basically rubber-stamped whatever TEPCO said was 'acceptable'. For a country so dependent on nuclear energy, the lack of regulation and deferring to the for-profit company has led to such a backlash that all Japan's nuclear plants were shut down and remain so. By ignoring warnings, experts and everything else in the pursuit of profit, TEPCO single-handedly killed the entire Japanese nuclear industry.
This article seems (to me) to be advocating some sort of scientific cognitive dissonance. Where you can 'believe' different (and contradictory) things about the nature of systems surrounding you.

I'm not sure I buy it.
Those few big companies probably have more than enough candidates. If you have too many candidates you need to adjust interview difficulty to still hire only as much as you need. I don't think these companies care that the task is too difficult for 99% of people, or that there are smart people who are not motivated enough to complete it as long as they can get as many smart and motivated people as they want.

That said, finding a job in IT if you are good at what you're doing is a dreamland currently, so declining if you think you won't enjoy working for a given company seems only natural.

Given dynamics above I think you're likely better off not working for one of those top few companies if you don't care about prestige and long term job stability.
Benefits that cost small businesses more than large ones are a huge problem maybe the biggest problem, because it takes an already risky venture and essentially punishes people who want to pursue it.

For example health insurance costs 10x or more either via either the public exchange or for a small business to offer relative to corporations in the same market. That's a huge disincentive for employees to work for you.

If we were really interested in making it easier for small businesses we'd improve social safety nets, not weaken them further with re-regulation. We need to reduce the risk/pressure for employee rather than concerning ourselves with how cheaply we can exploit an underclass.
Well, at least Russia routinely bans LGBTQ-related websites for extremist content.
> I did stumble over the one paragraph where I looked at the referenced source

The source is saying that they have one of the lowest cancer rates and that the effects are all non-radiation based.

Shellenberger didn't provide a reference for Colorado having high background rates - but it does seem to be correct [0].

[0] mtnweekly.com/mountain-lifestyle/health/radiation-levels-in-colorado-highest-in-world
I guess it depends on how you define randomness. Chaos Theory, for example, starts with deterministic parts, but the outcome can be unexpected; this is largely a result of scale and feedback loops. Take the weather, for example: if you could track literally everything, then arguably you could predict the weather with 100% accuracy.
I've found it incredibly glitchy. I have some reminders that somehow duplicate and show up multiple times (all at the same time), and others that will show up and instantly dismiss themselves. I can even be looking at my phone and see them pop up and instantly disappear.

For a long time I thought it was perhaps due to poor sync with the Mac, since sometimes I manage reminders from there, but the same thing happens with the wife's phone and she doesn't sync Reminders. She has a single daily reminder at 10pm. Sometimes it shows up 4 times. Sometimes 4 times and 1 disappears for a net of 3 reminders. Sometimes just 1 shows up. Sometimes none of them show up. It's bizarre.
See you at work tomorrow.
All arguments I have ever seen involving free will, from both sides, are very weak. It is a branch of philosophy that is particularly self-obsessed, and particularly unlikely to make any decent forward progress. The people who write books about free will are self-selected for a tendency to pontificate on a topic that has no foreseeable resolution.
A propellor turns shaft torque into air momentum. You need some kind of motor to drive it.

A ducted fan also does this, though its aerodynamics are a bit different. Like a propellor, there is little compression.

A 'turbine' turns flow into torque.

A traditional jet engine turns fuel into torque with a compressor and a turbine. Confusingly it's sometimes called a 'gas turbine'. It also incidentally moves air, but not very efficiently.

A turboprop drives a propellor with a 'gas turbine'.

A modern 'high bypass' jet engine (or "turbofan") drives a ducted fan with a 'gas turbine'.

An 'electric jet' drives a ducted fan with an electric motor. No turbine is involved.
In that case there is a reason why you feel like it and the only possible outcome is that you will walk out.
Someone on my team once asked an iOS engineer to add a button to a codebase during an onsite interview. That is actually a horrible test to complete in 45 minutes if the codebase is large (and particularly hard if it’s not super well maintained because even just familiarizing yourself with the codebase can take a great deal of time).

It’s one of those things that sounds easy but really, really isn’t possible to do in the time allotted. I learned a lot about interviewing people that day.
For those who prefer not to go to the Daily Mail directly:

"Camera cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against wanted database. One man covered face before officers stopped him and took his picture anyway. He was fined £90 at scene in Romford by police who arrested three other people
Police say they know of human rights concerns but want to make London safer"
Not at all. Many laws only apply to companies with certain amounts of employees.

It is entirely possible to put in laws that are reasonable for larger companies to follow, but not hurt small business growth.
That's the case for many abstract notions no one seems to agree on. Art, culture, nation, justice... No one really agrees on what they're supposed to be, only on single instances. Doesn't make the more encompassing abstraction any less real or useful.
It is not an analogy, but the standard nomenclature conventions when talking about the earth's moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_mare
3 days of work unpaid!!?