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> So where do you draw the line is the question.

That's the whole point: that's actually not the question. Read the diagnosis guide. There is no line there. None whatsoever.

Makes you wonder why we even tolerate psychiatric care ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

> Rosenhan's study was done in eight parts. The first part involved the use of healthy associates or "pseudopatients" (three women and five men, including Rosenhan himself) who briefly feigned auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 psychiatric hospitals in five states in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had no longer experienced any additional hallucinations. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and had to agree to take antipsychotic drugs as a condition of their release. The average time that the patients spent in the hospital was 19 days. All but one were diagnosed with schizophrenia "in remission" before their release.

I repeat "All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and had to agree to take antipsychotic drugs".

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Anyone have insight into what the effect of this was? It seems to me that selecting for shrewdness is something that would be a bit harder after a law like this, and I'd be interested to hear what strategies are used to replace that signal in hiring.
This is the most ominous part of the article:

> TSA staffers volunteer to take on unspecified work at the U.S.-Mexico border.

What are they going to be doing down there?
Sellers can choose to not co-mingle, but then they have to put a separate UPC code on the item.
Bans California employers from asking for salary history in determining compensation.
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On simple vs manipulative advertising being different things, I think mostly it's not the intent of the business advertising to be manipulative but rather just to save money. That is it's not the end that's bad, but the means.

Take our humble 'Painter for Hire' - an honest business looking to do real valuable work for people who genuinely want to pay for that service. That's the kind of advert we all want to see, when we need it.

To the painter, and perhaps even to the customer, it's just all round better if their straightforward advert can be targeted at people who are very likely to need the service, on demand. They can spend the same and reach some multiplier X more warm leads, or spend 1/X on the same amount of warm leads. Warm leads being people who genuinely need the service and are happy to pay for it. There's no real manipulation going on at that level - both advertiser and customer are basically better off for the targeting, with respect to that genuine painting service being facilitated more efficiently and therefore likely more cheaply.

The manipulation in this case is more at the level of the advertising platform itself - i.e. how is the targeting achieved (spying, etc), and what potential negative externalities might that have.

It's an open and interesting question if the ends justify the means in cases like this. I think I err towards saying they don't, but still at the end of the day the positives are undeniable. That is all basically a long winded way to say, I don't necessarily think it's a question of simple vs manipulative ads per se, I think the more important difference for the majority of ads is naive & expensive vs manipulative & cheap ad platforms, with a lot of tradeoffs in place between the two that are really hard to balance for both advertiser and customer.
> You can't reliably and conveniently get "good" bread in the US unless you own a bread machine, and even then you have to pick out your flour carefully.

Or live near a Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. They're not that unusual.
> tl;dr: California banned asking for salary information in job interviews.

They also prohibited seeking salary information from third parties to affect decisions on whether to hire and for how much.
You do. But only, apparently, if you have any have cookies on your machines from any previous google login.
> I the future I would highly recommend overnight Amtrak service. At most someone may ask for an ID.

Every time I've looked at Amtrak as an option, it was more expensive, and took several days to get to my destination.
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Windmills in the hundreds north of Abilene, TX are gorgeous, too... at first. Then it's overload. Then you wish for the plains to be back the way they were.
It's a bit late to determine shrewdness when you've already extended an offer to the candidate...
This ^

I have a couple of real estate apps on the market one of which has been out there for over 10 years. They did really well before the bust and are still profitable but it is a really tough market. I have since moved to other sectors and am happy I did.
> I'd diligently turned off background location for virtually everything

First thing I did with my wife's Iphone. I imagine that with that disabled and permissions set correctly , an iphone leaks less than an android.
That explains the HTML spec but not the DOM spec.
Yeah, performance is a hard issue especially with well established applications.

Experimentation is fun. Good luck, wish I could help you more :)
The article doesn't say that at all. It says that they are going to stop sourcing from small wholesalers and buy directly from consumer brands, essentially bypassing other parties and enabling a factory to shipping center channel. If anything is syaing the complete opposite of what you stated in your comment.
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Hell even at LAX it varies based on the terminal.

Pretty sure the worst TSA award goes to MCO though. I dread flying through there, even with pre.
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Moxie is an anarchist, and has detailed all sorts of adventures like this. Most notably, his Anarchist Yacht Club. There's a documentary out there.
We had brunch at a local diner that is co-located at a small airport. A helicopter took off next to our car as we arrived, and the back door of the diner opened to the tarmac. The security amounts to not allowing small kids to be seated near the back door. It was so refreshing to see that kind of chill and pragmatic atmosphere.
Here are some reasons off the top of my head:

1. Security Theatre: if the goal is security, you shouldn't be able to pay to receive less scrutiny (the baddies aren't poor). I realize TSA aren't the only guilty party here, but they are able to inflict more suffering than most.

2. Nonsensical Rules, like how they treat nail clippers and water as threats to national security, and after the shoe bomber everyone has to take off their shoes, but after the underwear bomber we… still keep our underwear on? Laptops out but a pile of tablets can stay in the bag? "Randomly" selecting elders and children for enhanced screening?

3. Lacking accountability: as stated in sibling comments, the agency has little incentive to do their job efficiently, and with usually only one local airport, people have few alternative methods of travel.

4. Ineffectiveness: lots of normal people have unwittingly snuck banned items through security checkpoints. And as has been much publicized, pen test teams have managed to make fools of the checkpoints many times. And it's not like all those fancy scanner machines and employees are cheap.

So at significant cost to the US taxpayer, TSA checkpoints slow, inconvenience, annoy, and degrade travelers while providing little actual security, only the theatrics of such. We would be safer without them.
> There are great small businesses that still ship very fast, and at competitive prices and since I'm one now

The problem is that there are also a lot of scumbags doing the same thing, and it's impossible to tell the great small businesses from the scammers. I've been burned by that a few times, and it's why I don't buy anything from Amazon unless Amazon is fulfilling the order (where I have at least some recourse).

If I'm buying directly from small sellers, I'm either using their website directly or I'm doing it on eBay.
Maybe so, but Deepmind isn’t training AlphaZero chess any further! Leela will hopefully just keep on getting better and better :)
But if someone needs a painter, they could just use an unbiased search engine, right? There is no need to bother anyone with ads.
I don't get it. There are excellent leakproof cardboard takeout containers available.

They may cost a little more. Is this another example of leave a mess behind for the future to pay for?
Instead of letting the mind wander, it is trapped in a tight loop of looking at one picture after another. Like a book you can't put down, only you never finish it, and it's not at all compelling - just addictive.
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I’m put off by the image of a pretty young lady who reeks of carbolic (phenol).
Why would anyone save money, if not to eventually spend it as the need arises?
Not sure what you mean, why would you wait that long to ask about salary info? Most of the time when I've been asked this in Ontario, it's asked in the introduction, not after extending an offer.
This Guardian article quotes the "food babe". Food babe also had this to say about flying on airplanes "The air that is pumped in isn’t pure oxygen either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%. To pump a greater amount of oxygen in costs money in terms of fuel and the airlines know this!"
(actual nitrogen percentage in air: 78%)
"I think I've mentioned this a while back, but one only needs to look to the Guava library team to see what Google's general position is on community contribution:"

Can you explain why it makes sense to generalize a company of 50k developers, which has released 4000+ open source projects, on the basis of precisely 1 of them?

Why doesn't it make sense that it will end up with a variety of projects with a variety of models?
Especially given that is true of the world writ large?

I simply do not understand this fixation with trying to rigidly pigeonhole Google on open source.
Stockfish tests improvements by also playing random games:

> Changes to game-playing code are accepted or rejected based on results of playing of tens of thousands of games on the framework against an older "reference" version of the program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess)#Fishtest

Think about it, a human makes a small tweak, then they run a lot of games with it and decide if it's worth keeping or not.

That's basically a terrible implementation of a neural network's gradient descent.

Now imagine instead of a human coming up with a small tweak, you randomly search for it and take a holistic view of the board instead of micro-heuristics. Oh, you just invented AlphaZero :)

BTW, since chess is highly parallel, you can run Stockfish on a computer cluster. Using this approach you can equalize the GPU power and have a balanced computer power match (of course, it will be totally unbalanced power-consumption wise). I'm not convinced Stockfish will win with equal computing power.
> I think I've mentioned this a while back, but one only needs to look to the Guava library team to see what Google's general position is on community contribution: contributors need not apply.

This claim is belied by the fact that half of the people who have committers in Go are non-Googlers, isn't it?
Don’t employers have other methods to ascertain a prospective employers salary or pay history other than asking directly?

Not that it should be any of a company’s business, but if they want that info they can get it. That said many cos. use salary services to inform compensation.
Most online library catalogs have a browse function that lets you see which books are shelved together.

A killer app for VR would be to browse Amazon's bookstore virtually. Imagine walking through the shelves of the biggest library in the world, pulling out a book, and reading it (even if it's just a snippet). Add multiplayer capabilities so you can interact with other library patrons and you've got perhaps the most addictive "game" ever created. This could be extended to create virtual product libraries. I would be really surprised if someone isn't working on this yet.
As others have said varies greatly, but it seems most common around here (Beaverton / Hillsboro, Oregon) that they like to stop every block, sometimes on opposite sides on an intersection - which honestly baffles my mind but whatever.
And it's also available on every street corner (an exaggeration I know) managed by shopkeepers who stayed up all night but they aren't feeding millions of people.
Inspite of having 7/11 at every nook and corner ( specially in Tokyo/Yokohama), it would be hard to get a sandwich, obento(お弁当) or onigiri if you go to a convenience store (コンビニ) just after peak lunch time.
Doesn't seem like much of a rebuttal at all, does it?
>Though if I lived in a more concentrated metro area I might feel differently.

I live in a metro area. Physical adverts are the worst type in my opinion. There are methods of eliminating every other type of ad: I use adblockers on my phone and computers, my network is pi-holed, I use plex/netflix instead of traditional TV, I pay for spotify instead of listening to the radio etc. But physical adverts? There's no way of blocking them, unless you consider "never going outside" an option. In a way, not having a method of opting out of billboards feels like they are being pushed on you without your consent, which is horrifying to me.
I hear you. You can opt out of all of it (so far). Checkpoint body scanner opts out to a full body pat-down (which takes maybe 5-10 extra minutes, but not that bad). This new facial recognition boarding system airlines are rolling out can be opted out of. That should be it in terms of biometrics needed to fly. Unless you include some countries' customs, which collect face photos or fingerprints or vials of blood——those you can't dodge without diplomatic privilege or a private jet.
Note: advertising and marketing are not the same thing just like space research and rocket science are not the same thing.
Agreed. Just launched my company to help the types of agents you're talking about: GeneralReferral.com

Brings technology to an underinvested corner of the traditional brokerage.

Could use some marketing help...
It wouldn't surprise me. Bezos is probably at the top of Trump's "enemies list," and I assume (or, rather, hope) that the converse is also true.

I don't think it's excessively political to point out that Trump is exactly the sort of President who would use his Justice Department as an instrument to settle personal beefs.
Well, now I have to rewrite my book :)
> I'm not sure reading the phrase "genital analyzer" makes me feel like you are giving an unbiased description of the events.

I obviously am not a fan of TSA, but what is "unbiased" in this context? TSA tells us it's some sort of security analysis device, which is obviously biased because they've gone and bought thousands so I can't trust them to report accurately on it. It's also not as they say it is - independent security auditors have regularly defeated the device.

Hence I posit that the device is a genital analysis device, as that is another purpose it serves.
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Holy lord, this is awesome.

One thing - will this eventually shift to a paid service or are you hosting it for free forever? I wouldn't mind paying for a slightly more polished version of this in-browser.
Yeah small airports dgaf, mostly because you can't bring down a skyscraper with a Cessna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_as_metaphor

Even though that was meant tongue in cheek, I fear there will be innumerable deaths before this is over. We can discuss who killed them then.

edit: A war-economy-level effort is needed, with the same dedication of all participants, so there is another similar line of though.
All library catalogs have a browse function. You can see which books are shelved next to each other, although it is a linear display and you can't just "walk" to the next shelves.
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if only all of those things were fully flushed out in the various browsers... for instance, it disheartening to realize that it's been 15 years already and useful form elements like date(-time), phone, and email still don't have reliable and complete cross-browser behaviors, validation (i know it's hard, but still), and styling/event hooks.
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> Now imagine instead of a human coming up with a small tweak, you randomly search for it and take a holistic view of the board instead of micro-heuristics. Oh, you just invented AlphaZero :)

I'm fairly certain that the human brain does not work off of FP16 floating point numbers with back-propagated errors being calculated with differential equations to set the weights of our individual neurons. :-)

Artificial neural networks are fascinating self-learning machines. But remember: they're artificial. There's nothing "human" about LeelaZero, AlphaGo, or any other CNN. Especially because AlphaGo / LeelaZero are augmented with an exceptionally powerful MCTS search functionality (no human counts the number of positions they visit and "balances" each node... nobody does that. MCTS is an extremely powerful computer algorithm for search, also an artificial construct)

> I'm not convinced Stockfish will win with equal computing power.

Ehh? The results are 10-Leela / 8-Stockfish / 82 draws. It was an exceptionally close set of 100 games.

Note that Stockfish works with a global hash-table of chess positions it shares between threads. This methodology works with a "low" number of threads (ie: 16 threads, maybe even 64 threads). But it absolutely will not work at GPU-scale (~16,386+ SIMD threads on Vega64, or similar GPUs).

It is not going to be an easy job to "port" Stockfish properly to a GPU-based system, or even to a cluster of 100x racked up computers. How do you efficiently share a global hash table across 100x clustered computers?

I mean, you simply cannot. Stockfish simply isn't designed to scale that high. Stockfish is innately a single-node design that's constrained by the RAM.

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The fact of the matter is: modern systems need a higher-form of scaling. I think LeelaZero / AlphaZero are "cheating", in that they've found methodologies that allow the huge amount of GPU easily be used.

I think this is a wakeup call: that algorithms need to start looking at the GPU more carefully. Heavy compute definitely needs to start thinking about how to scale to 16,000+ threads and work on GPU-like systems.
I'm not sure if you read me as slightly more critical than I had intended or if I'm reading you as slightly more defensive than you'd intended, but I think we more-or-less agree: readability is important both with and without syntax highlighting, and tradeoffs should be considered in that light.

A nitpick:

> But as long as you allow older cars without traction control to still drive on the road, you are making the roads less safe for a certain percentage or class of drivers.

Probably. But if a sufficient fraction of cars have traction control, and we sufficiently improve the performance of traction controlled tires at sufficiently small damage to the performance of other tires, the reduction in the threat of being hit by cars with traction control will outweigh the increase in risk of losing control for those cars without, even before trading off risk between cars (which is certainly more complicated).

I don't think there's a direct mapping back to syntax and highlighting.
Java parallel streams use a global thread pool by default. The problem with this is that if you mix IO bound code and CPU bound code in the same thread pool the IO bound code will block the CPU bound code. If you don't explicitly choose the thread pool your code runs on then you will suffer from impossible to debug performance problems.
I'd like to add that advertising is also economic pollution that goes against free competition.

The theory behind free markets requires that voters are more or less rational and well informed. That they will never spend more on an inferior product. Advertisement distorts that.

I suspect that banning advertisement altogether would make the economy gain a lot in terms of market efficiency. Can you imagine a world where pricing and quality would be highly correlated? A world where information on a product would be, if not correct, at least made in good faith?

I'd love to see that happen.
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So... shouldn't publish this article at all? or publish in the website of Peoria Weekly?
I'd like to suggest an alternative to bashing the TSA. (most of the comments on here)

Let's invest more in non-road infrastructure. We need bigger airports, faster trains, better mass transit connections to these hubs.

Airports are over capacity in the US. I was in Chicago O'Hare yesterday, there were about 100 people sleeping on the floor throughout terminal B and C. When my flight boarded, nobody got up from their chairs, since they were waiting for a different flight, at a different gate, where there was no seating. Not only that, the roof was leaking, there were 10-15 buckets dispersed in the terminal catching rain drops from the ceiling. This is potentially the most important air transportation hub in the country and it is crumbling. There are plenty of other examples of this around the country.
I think you fundamentally misunderstand async await. `vec[fut1, fut2, fut3].map(|fut| fut.await).collect()` will not do what you might expect, although I haven't bothered to read the RFC whether it will be allowed at all. Await must have compiler support and cannot just be some function you call.
You're right, but that's a very customer centric viewpoint - from the point of view of the advertiser this is not so great.

This specific painter pays the ad platform to be the one that comes to you, when you're busy with all the other things on your todo list, so that you choose them and not one of the other 10 painters in your area.

It still doesn't make them bad, or manipulative. You actually want this service and not having to do the search yourself is a bonus, all things being equal (price and service level is in line with the local market etc).
Right. For better or for worse, Go is not a community-driven project. It is a project driven by a (largely independent) team within Google.

Open source =/= community driven.
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Both this article and this comment thread include a number of different ideas regarding controlling (or randomizing) environmental factors: test ordering, system time, etc.

But why do all of this piecemeal? Our philosophy is to create a controlled test sandbox environment that makes all these aspects (including concurrency) reproducible:

https://www.cloudseal.io/blog/2018-04-06-intro-to-fixing-fla...

The idea is to guarantee that any flake is easy to reproduce. If people have objections to that approach, we'd love to hear them. Conversely, if you would be willing to test out our early prototype, get in touch.
Every single person responding to my comment is conflating advertising with marketing. They are not the same thing!

Advertisers are putting customers in touch with marketers for products. Marketers are trying to convince those customers to buy the product. If the advertiser somehow magically knew a priori that nothing a marketer could say would change a given customer's mind, it's in everyone's best interest to not waste any resources on that customer.
In fairness, it didn’t really claim to rebut the post, just add further context to it.
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