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The closer we look into quantum phenomena the less deterministic it looks, so there seems to be plenty of room in between faith and determinism for will, and many other possibilities to boot.
Another fun surprising result from queuing theory is that if you have a buffer of pending RPC's that have some deadline, it is better to service them in a "unfair" LIFO order, as opposed to a fairer FIFO order. [0] goes into more gory details.

In the bank example from the article, LIFO would dramatically shorten the median wait time (~5 minutes), at the cost of really upsetting customers [1]. In the case of a support queue, where the waiters are blind to each other, this cost could be reconsidered ...

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.4895.pdf

[1] from the article, "We really, really hate it when someone shows up after us but gets served before us.
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I find that Dyson makes some of the quieter hand dryers I've encountered, although maybe that's because they tend to be in larger restrooms. Starbucks really hurts my ears with much older style hand dryers in their single-occupancy restroom.
If they were in regular contact, why did smallpox have such a devastating effect on Americans?
What is there to hear about AMQP? Make exchanges, bind queues and send to routing keys. Add cluster and load balance for bonus points.

Now fast-food queues, that is an interesting problem.
> But there are also many examples of aircraft with terrible early safety records that never recovered from their bad start.

From Boeing? They have a history of sorting their shit out. Maybe this time is different, but I doubt it.
Took a piano 1 class at a nearby college last fall, and I agree with all of your points. I did walk away with a firm grasp on major and minor chords, which is something that escaped me in the 20+ years I'd played music.
I could see how in the day of the internet that move might backfire rather badly.

The new plane might quickly turn into a internet meme.
> Obviously people aren't "seeing" anything

Actually, I AM "seeing" something.

Often, with a memory, I can see it in my minds eye just as if it was a picture in front of me. Right now, I'm visualizing a portrait of my mom, and now, the time as a kid I pet the tongue of a killer whale at Sea World.
Definitely 2, since the life of a cell is encapsulated by the the motion of atoms. A spheroid cell converts to a circular plane with ease. All life is comprised of cells, so a 2D plane of life without depth will likely work.

One dimension would have to resolve all interactions to waveforms with the ability to pass through solid objects. So it would probably mean violating physical laws as we understand them. Things would need to seemingly teleport to different points within the dimension, I think.

Either that, or the single dimension is reduced to binary digits, interchangeable, without identity. Then, it's not really teleportation. It's more like kinetic transfer in a newton's cradle, like croquet balls or billiard balls. Spherical cows, perhaps.
There's no shortage of obvious work to be done everywhere (garbage all over the place, homeless living in tents, decaying infrastructure), finding a way to get the elitists who are capturing a constantly increasing percentage of the nation's output to share the wealth to pay for it is the tricky part.
Thanks for the steer. Wasn’t aware of this. Just read her presentation and loved it.
I almost always wait for someone to open the door if there's no way to do so without touching nasty door handles. Or find a tiny piece of paper to use and discard afterward. Or hold the door with my feet while I clean my hand after opening the door with it, if possible. When I go to restaurants sometimes I carry a paper napkin if I have been to the place and know it's complicated to get out without touching anything. Yeah, I'm that paranoid with it...

* Heck, I even change clothes when I get home before seating in my bed or sofa.
You should be happy with all these bullshit jobs: if we would scale down to only productive essential jobs, most people would be siting at home doing close to nothing.

The assumption that we can have productive jobs for everyone is just unrealistic
> Of all the sites on the internet, StackOverflow has the demographics that any advertiser would crave. How large of an inside ads sales force would you need to target higher than average income earners?

I'm curious what you think the world wide demographics of SO are.
Supposedly, the new Playstation will be able to play games from all the others, which is s good thing.
> I think they are actually seeing things.

Yes, this is true. I can also layer images on reality at will. My wife is the same as you. She sees nothing.
But in the real world if a flight is $1 cheaper people will choose it regardless of the equipment. Airlines have vastly different safety records and it doesn't seem to change bookings (Allegiant is thriving despite ignoring maintenance).
So no vetting on new ad tech?
Maybe the effort isn't for the company, but for the distros and their users. Is nvidia packaging its proprietary drivers for Ubuntu?
I was responding to the claim the flight control was averaging the two pilot inputs, because if that was the case then two pilots would have been flying the plane.

Might point was I doubt that this was in fact happening and there was only ever one pilot in charge.

> the Air France flight where the computer was receiving inputs from two pilots.

The link and quotes I posted suggest that was not happening.

The system was just ignoring the other pilot (and that was the designed fault) because it also failed to tell that other pilot he was being ignored.
Absurd. I am a frequent reader of /r/politics. The two communities are absolutely nothing alike.
This isn't some previously undiscovered issue in aviation. This is plain and simple Boeing prioritizing cost savings over human lives. It is as simple as that. There are no technical takeaways to be had from the two tragedies that took place. The only takeaway is that Boeing betrayed everyone but their pockets.
If only my corp allowed me to upgrade the macOS on my laptop, I would be using the latest Safari too instead of messing with Chrome / Brave.
If there's no lock/handle, I 'kick' the door just to avoid touching it.
Or you could just not use Stack Overflow.
> I hope you're not suggesting that it's impossible to write this function without such constraints.

To be concrete about it, that's exactly what I'm suggesting.

Please demonstrate, in any programming language, a derivative function that is parametrically polymorphic - that is, the same machine code will handle absolutely any type that's thrown at it - floating point, integral, string, function, map, set, graph, etc. I do not believe it's possible, unless you have some very different notion of derivative in mind. I would be delighted to learn it is possible, and mildly pleased to learn of a reasonable use of the phrase "derivative function" that's other than what I'm thinking and which makes sense of what you've written above.
I'm not GP, but I like Go because it prioritizes performance in addition to compile times, ease of use, safety, etc.

I don't think anyone is claiming that Go will outperform well-optimized C++, if you're willing to write your server software in it.

Of the languages you mentioned Java would be the most typically considered alternative for server software. You mentioned Go's low latency but there's also some other strengths like more control of memory layout, slices make it easy to avoid copying in APIs, Goroutines can be lighter weight than Java threads, etc. But as long as Go is roughly comparable I think it's fair to consider Go performant, since Java itself is one of the most mature and optimized languages for server software.
Looks like some version of it shipped in multiple devices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
Reading that, years ago, was what led me to figure out how to approach congestion control. Everybody was reading Kleinrock and assuming random arrival rates. Klienrock had done a study of Western Union Plan 55-A, which was Sendmail for telegrams, built with paper tape for buffering and telephone switches for routing. That led to the original analyses of how the Arpanet should work.

The trouble with that approach is that it assumes packets just arrive randomly no matter what the network is doing. That was true for Plan 55-A; delays in the network had little influence on the submission rate for new telegrams. But it's not true once you put a protocol with backpressure, like TCP, on top of the raw packets. Now congestion becomes a feedback control system. I figured that out in the early 1980s and wrote RFC 970.[1]

The idea of having one big line was introduced by banks some time in the 1970s. It helped some. But the big breakthrough came from Walter Wriston [2], CEO of what is now Citibank, who pushed his people to develop in-bank terminals and then ATMs, to get rid of the lines entirely.

A classic piece of advice from retail consultants is "never place an obstacle in front of a customer who is ready to buy". Amazon's "one-click ordering" is the classic on-line example. Gap stores used to be noted for getting this. They had big, empty counters and more than enough people ready to check customers out. All that crap retailers put at checkouts? Few customers buy it, and it limits how much merchandise the customer can put on the counter.

The big queuing theory insight for line management is that if you don't have some idle time, in an open loop situation the line length will go to infinity. In the real world, you start to lose customers. That's how closed loop feedback reacts to retailer incompetence.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc970

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wriston
So you're the guy who gets the bathroom door handle wet, causing me to use twice the resources to wash my hands again, plus extra paper towels if available to dry off the handle.
Prior to the industrial revolution something like 80% of the US population was in agriculture and now it's 1.5% and we are still at near full unemployment. I think the idea that humans will somehow run out of useful stuff to do once we have robots doing the current set of things is a very fixed-mindset way of thinking. If there is money kicking around, people will find productive stuff to do and build companies to do things that weren't possible before.
Having an unclosed tag somehow seems wrong. What was the reasoning behind this?
I kept forgetting my keys at work, so I automated my lock. You can see it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9hKzVNNs0
You can buy stuff that lasts, it just tends to cost a lot more than the mass market products.

Consumers have voted with their wallets and the markets have responded. If consumer behavior changes, the markets will to.
Defer already allocates on stack, in the case where it is only ever called once in a function, in HEAD I believe.

Anyway, cherrypicking a single feature of Go and claiming it's an example of why Go doesn't care about performance feels unfair. There's definitely been a huge amount of engineering effort spent on Go performance, especially latency in the GC. Defer is "slow" but it is probably rarely a bottleneck for anyone's use case. Try/catch are pretty slow in many languages.
I think you're making a false assumption here though, particularly with this line:

>There will never be as much competition in medicine as there is in food (unless it is in the 'Uh, oh, a handful of companies own all of the farms' direction). So, even if we eliminate all regulation it still wouldn't solve the problem of competition.

This may be true, we don't necessarily need that level of competition and a lower level, but still competitive market can handle this. Rather, we're at the other extreme, where regulatory barriers are heavy enough essentially prevent competition, effectively ensuring monopoly.

A good example here would be the list of off patent drugs with no generic alternative. In particular the infamous case of Daraprim, where generic Daraprim could be made, but would have to go through the FDA approval process.
If you think xenophobia actually arises due to people competing for jobs then you are delusional. Xenophobia is a lot older than job deplacement and will around regardless of it.
I agree, if we stop closing factories in first world countries and moving the work offshore, people who formerly worked in those factories might stop complaining about losing their jobs to the people who now do those jobs in overseas factories.

Not sure if I agree with the xenophobia claim, although perhaps you've seen studies or statistics that I haven't.
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You "were just in Japan and saw X or Y" is a pretty poor argument vs actually knowing a thing or two about Japan by living here for a long time. Being a tourist somewhere does not make you knowledgeable in any way to comment about whole country trends.
If I was in the USA, in a heartbeat. I have got so much buy-in in the past by taking senior people on tours and showing them the things I am trying to get them to buy. Seeing things in action is much more powerful for many people than dry documents.
Robot are just means of production, capital. We don't need to invent robot taxes; we just need to increase taxes on those people/companies with the most capital and the most benefits (well, and close loopholes).

The question about approaching full automation is whether all that wealth will be for humanity or for some selected rich people.
Probably not his call. By "we" he's probably talking about the engineering team, which in many cases is nothing more than a conduit for whims of the marketing and sales teams.

The only time they'd do that is if the marketing team decided that the value-add from taking ads off cancelled out the profit loss from taking the ads off.
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It started as a free speech reddit but it has just turned into a mob mentality with horrendous language and the like.

It makes me wonder if social media is a form of a sort of micro mob mentality. A lot of it really brings out the worst in people.
There are a million channels for every one that gets any sponsorship, and there's an equivalent ratio for the pricing of these ads. The CPMs on sponsored content are usually lower than network CPMs until you cross over to the very popular channels, but even then it's really just shifting the production costs of a video ad to the youtuber and paying some premium for their reputation.

It's very hard to scale and again there are networks and agencies that aggregate channels for most campaigns and buyers. Anyway, Stackoverflow isn't producing their own content and the pricing mechanics of Youtube/video advertising is very different than display ads so this isn't really comparable.
It is like with two AoA sensors: if they disagree, there is the problem.
/news and /worldnews are hardly liberal. /news leans pretty conservative on many days.
IMO when anything is rewritten (usually in a modern language), it's faster than the original implementation. That's usually because you have much better hindsight since the entire implementation is finished before the rewrite is started.

I'm sure the more modern languages also help though, but I don't think that using a modern language is the major reason for the speedup.
Came here with the same thought. It's not just the culture at Boeing. We see this everyday in US on different levels of administration. This country is simply owned by corporations and while deregulation was great for the progress which built it, it's not ok anymore.
Looking at the further works of the author, his specialty seem to be shock-value clickbait. So we can probably ignore him.

And the "more and more people" seems to be a crank who organized a silly protest on Boston Common, a quote from a contemporary novelist, and a friend labelled "discerning." Visceral disgust at Renoir calls into question your discernment.

> Hating Renoir is...rooted in the feeling that a modern nude should express some convincing quotient of reality.

Renoir is hardly a modern painter. Should we go back and impose the ideals of musique concrete on Mozart?
Feedback for one, many industrial robots operate entirely open-loop. It was invented in 1927, so robotics has some catching up to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-feedback_amplifier
You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for something like this, without the time to implement it myself. All these years I’ve had to use http://ejtaal.net/mr/ but it’s just getting quite cumbersome.

Do you have any plans to open source the work you’ve done and allow contributions from the outside? I could easily see value in doing this for Lane’s Lexicon as well.
No, I don’t see it. But I’m open to the idea that I am missing something.

Maybe they have an ARM mortgage, and are planning to refinance just before the adjustable period begins, and are worried they won’t be able to get new financing if the home value is significantly lower than the remaining principle? That would be easily solved by refinancing now into a fixed mortgage, but maybe they can’t afford the increased monthly payment that would cause?

That’s the only scenario I can think of, and it seems unlikely to affect many Bay Area homeowners, given the incredible rise in prices recently.

If you understand how a market price decrease would cause a homeowner to be evicted, please explain it.
A tiny nitpick: nothing is free, the internet users just pay with a different currency: their data and attention. Both of these things are much more valuable than most internet users think.

As far as a non-commercial internet goes... well, we can always hope. We just have to wrangle the means of content production and control (heh, heh, see what I did there?). The resources are there to do that and have a free (both as in beer and in freedom) and high-quality internet, what we are missing is... attention of the masses, the most expensive thing.
I looked up what the semantic web actually is and you're right. But at the same time, I was surprised to find that it's all properties! The tags are all divs and spans!

I guess the semantic web is orthogonal to this discussion. My apologies. I guess it's another buzzword that was thrown around for a time. In that case, assume I meant web components whenever I said semantic web.
Not sure how in advanced economies this can be anything more than marginal... Visited the volkswagon factory at their headquarters in Germany last year. One of the biggest manufacturing plants in the world. You get in a little buggy and get driven around for kilometers of factory floor and it’s nearly all robots. Barely any people to be seen.
You’re attempting to force everyone to live with the externalities of your decision.

It’s fine to want density, but stop being dishonest about why other people might oppose what you want.
At least California residents are lucky enough to benefit from vast geothermal resources, which could be used for base load instead of nuclear. Hydropower utilities are mostly peaker plants.
I see huge consequences as you pretty much frame any woman and there's nothing she can do about it. The problem is that perception matters. Many people who are not exposed to technology would not understand / believe that such app exists.

For example, if a person decides to grab a picture of a young teacher and post fake nudes, the teacher may be able to say that the pics are fake, but she might get fired anyway due to decisions made by the school board or PTA. This type of news might be picked up by the local news network and the story will be embellished out of proportions. Regardless of what she says and whether it's true, her reputation would already be tarnished. We've seen a lot of these happening with celebrities. It will be worse if it happens to normal people with no money to hire a PR company or go to court.
Exactly, "sexiness" is subjective.
According to https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust they use a similar algorithm as uBlock Origin. So not really "new", just reimplemented in rust.
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Apple for instance, although their battery replacement program helps. Their macbook air and other very thin laptops have very hard to replace batteries. Not to mention the apple problems (keyboards and flexgate/stage light most recently). Is it worth 3 generations of keyboard problems for some tiny saved amount of thickness?

Google Pixel phones, slate, and pixel book are similarly hard. Dell and Lenovo are mixed, some of the thin ones are hard to work on, some of the thicker ones are great, modular, and easy to work on.
This same argument is true of nearly all companies, including "not for profit." For instance the chair at Mozilla/FireFox pays himself $1.1 million a year, the treasurer $1 million. [1] And those numbers are probably higher now. That's from 2016, the most recent published data on their site. Since 2013 [2] their CEO has increased his yearly compensation by more than $300k, and the treasurer increased his pay by more than $400k a year. And now with Mozilla planning to release a pay-per-month browser (because their half a billion dollars in revenue just isn't enough!), we can expect to see that executive compensation skyrocket even further.

What people like to imagine "not for profit" means is not what it means in practice.

[1] - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2016/2016_Mozilla_Fo...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101637
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You could also say that “not listening to speech you despise is a step in the direction of fascism,” and it’s an equally empty statement. I mean, I guess it’s technically true. But it also means that literally everybody is a virulent and unrepentant fascist in their social lives.
> Fukushima was designed to survive the earthquake, and it did

untrue

It was designed to survive both a tsunami and an earthquake. Tsunamis often are caused by earthquakes.

That Fukushima survived the Earthquake is a myth. The plants had an emergency shutdown and there was very little time for a damage assessment, which would have taken weeks or months.

Whether the plant would ever have been restarted after the earthquake is unknown. It could have been a full loss, like several reactors in Japan, which will never be restarted.
well, facebook and google have that much power (at least wrt the many 3rd party layers), but literally nobody else does :)
The fact that everyone uses StackOverflow and nobody uses ExpertsExchange seems to say otherwise.
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