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> Seems to me this is Tiananmen part 2 unfolding before our eyes.

Regarding Tiananmen 2.0, reportedly People's Liberation Army claimed on 13 June not to intervene [1], but some recent comment on 22 July may suggest otherwise [2].

At the end of the day, it boils down to whether the benefit is more than the cost of rolling out PLA.

One concern for CCP is that Taiwan is holding its president election next March, and the top two runners are respectively a pro-Washington candidate and a pro-Beijing candidate, so rolling out the PLA would hurt this proxy election war and more importantly make future “unification” of Taiwan basically impossible.

Another concern is that CCP needs Hong Kong for its free flow of capital and technology (e.g. Hong Kong is not under the same export control as China), and rolling out the PLA would ruin these when China’s economic future is uncertain.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-pla-...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498017

> Hoping India will step up and do something. Seems unlikely though.

Reading the analysis, some critics speculated that one way out for Hong Kong is for her to be integrated into Taiwan, and then get transitive protection by the United States.

The handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China in 1997 in based on the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, which China declares is merely historical and no longer holds any “practical significance.” [3]

Note that Hong Kong was given to the Britain by three treaties in the 19th century (1842 Treaty of Nanking, 1860 Convention of Peking, 1898 The Second Convention of Peking), and the true copies of all treaties are in the hand of Taiwan, which were brought to Taiwan by the KMT government during its retreat to Taiwan before 1950.

So if the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, the declaration behind the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, is revoked (partly because CCP declares it invalid), Britain might declare that Hong Kong should return to the holder of the three treaties–Taiwan.

Extremely unlikely, but arguably has legal justification.

As a side note, Hong Kong and Taiwan are the two main places sharing the use of traditional Chinese characters (besides Macau), and Taiwan has a good track record of respecting sub-languages of spoken Chinese (not just use Mandarin), so culturally they share a lot. And they also value democracy, freedom, and rule of law as core values, so ignoring geopolitics their integration is plausible.

[3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/br...
It’s a weird situation: the article does indeed say it’s for commuter flights, but also immediately says it’s not. I guess you’re both right, or both wrong, depending on your preference.
The brain is incidentally 60% fat. And all the glucose the brain requires can be synthesized from lactic acid. There are entire societies that live off of 99% meat. They live their entire lives with almost no vegetable intake whatsoever, and their brains develop and function perfectly normal. In contrast, consuming too much glucose can wreak all sorts of havoc on the brain, spurring excessive consumption, type 2 diabetes, and has been linked with Alzheimer's.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577529/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/higher-brain-g...
Yep, here is the playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6rOT6m50HdJ...

Check all the talks from Google.
Similarly, not everyone is less than one sigma away from the mean in a normal distribution.
This article seems pretty relevant. 4 of the 5 tech companies I've worked for were founded by immigrants. This website is about entrepreneurship, and talking about the pipeline of entrepreneurs seems no different than talking about the pipeline of say women and POCs in the software engineering pipeline. It might be controversial, but we have to have these discussions.
I guess it started as one, but a pivot happened..

Mr. Musk left the lab last year to concentrate on his own A.I. ambitions at Tesla. Since then, Mr. Altman has remade OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit, into a for-profit company so it could more aggressively pursue financing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/technology/open-ai-micros...
"Since our first New American Fortune 500 report in 2011 [..]" "In this year's brief, we update our analysis, looking at the New American companies that made the 2019 Fortune 500 list."

So the methodology, even a table listing every founder is in the linked 2011 report https://www.newamericaneconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
> No ingenuity is a match for police.

You’re going to have a real hard time getting the typical American to buy into this perspective.
There's probably room for lots of them. There's always some unmet need that hasn't been addressed by the market, and everyone needs software these days!
The way they handle companies with > 1 founder is a bit weird. If there is at least one immigrant / 1st gen American it's counted in the "founded by" category. And then the 45% is taken by looking at things just at the company level.

I think it would tell a clearer picture to count the total number of founders and count the percentage of people who were immigrants / 1st gen americans. Then, to give context, you would want to compare this number to the % of people living in the US who are immigrants / 1st gen Americans.
cd - to come back to your previous directory location
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Sergey brin emigrated from russia due to rising antisemitism in russia. That was the first example i thought of. I dont know the ratio, it was a hunch.
Another experiment to try: what happens if you don't drink anything for a night? How many nights can you go without drinking anything? Can you tell yourself, "I'm only having two beers tonight", then actually stop after having two beers?
I think it's the concentration of the vinegar with no other food/water in the stomach to dilute it.
No founders of Fortune 500 companies would be in that group? Why do you say that?
Simple answer is badly.

Common question from doctors is a 1 to 10 scale, I asked them about it and they said it's purely a relative scale, if you say 8 and they give you something and you say 6 they know it helped.

I used to think I had a high tolerance for pain (I've broken bones and gone to work before realising in that case my elbow) till I had gallstones which entirely redefined a 10 for me.

The other issue is the type of pain, I have chronic neuropathic pain from a syrinx - imagine that pins and needles sensation where you don't want to put your foot down or even move it - it's like that all the time which becomes deeply unpleasant but on a 1-10 scale I'd put that at 3-4.

Doctor said he was surprised it took as long as it did for me to get diagnosed, listen to your body folks, if something feels 'wrong' get it checked out, you know you you better than anyone.
Yes, your parent poster is incorrect about the facts; they (China) did sign to leave HK be until 2047, not ‘start integration’ in some kind linear process where 40% of the time means 40% integration. They signed for 99.9999% of the time is 0% integration. But he is right about the reality; no one will defend HK it seems so China might as well push ahead in that case. I like HK a lot; I have not found a place as diverse as that anywhere else (tips are welcome and no, SG is nothing at all like it) but it seems it is closer to being absorbed.
We need to talk about the London Underground's big noise problem
Yep. USB disks also are generally much more robust to errors than SD cards. My mail spool is on USB, the OS is on the SD card.
Thanks for reminding me of https://wiby.me! I can't recall where i first heard of this search engine...but it made me smile then, and now that you mentioned it (and after i clicked around a bit today), made me smile again; thanks for that!
That's why I always begin a flight by bludgeoning my neighbor into unconsciousness.
They're playing the game of trying to ban some of it but not all of it. For erotic literature specifically, they're trying to forbid certain genres. It's a weird cat and mouse game and I'm having trouble picking sides.
Oh sure lots of people argue for this. The scheme has been tried to death literally. Particularily egregious implementations were started by people invested in the Führerprinzip[0]. That idea has a German name because it was developed there. It happens that the worst (in terms of resulting misery) implementation came from Germany too. Luckily such constellations are always unstable due to infighting. The Chinese government will come down due to this if not for any other reason. If you want a stable government, make it so that competition between individuals stabilizes the group.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip

With humans having supersocial traits like ants or bees, the idea of societies where everybody works towards a common goal does appeal to our senses. The reason they don't work so easily is because we have individual interests. Keeping part with the group is part of our desires, but this is a much weaker force than it is in bees, for example. That's because we breed as individuals, and not as a group. So group selection is much weaker. (Check out "Darwin's Cathedral" if you're interested in that topic.)

Now imagine if we did have the ability to form supersocial groups like ants do. We'd try to wipe out each other's group[1] and given today's technology we'd succeed!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

In the end, just because it works for a company doesn't mean it works for a society. Companies can fail. They can fight. And they can be selective in who they include. Societies will create the boundaries of fair competition.
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Someone should interview those founders and ask them about their views on illegal immigration.
> it becomes hard to work on any other problem

This is an interesting quote. Anyone know if folks like Darwin, Marconi, etc said similar things, about the problems they were working on at the time?
> It comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable.

No, it does not. I very much believe AI (or AGI, as you call it) is achievable, but may I remind you that some years after the invention of neural networks, Norbert Wiener, one of the greatest minds of his generations, said that the secret of intelligence would be unlocked within five years, and Alan Turing -- a component of your very own post-pre-AGI era's AGI -- another great believer in AI, scoffed and said that it will take at least five decades. That was seven decades ago, and we are not even close to achieving insect-level intelligence. Maybe we'll achieve AI in ten years and maybe in one hundred, but you don't know which of those is more likely, and you certainly don't know whether any of our pre-AGI technology even gets us on the right path to achieving AGI. There have been other paths towards AI explored in the past that have largely been abandoned.

OpenAI is not actually building AGI. Maybe it hopes that the things it is working on could be the path to an eventual AGI. OpenAI knows this, as does Microsoft.

This does not mean that what OpenAI does is not valuable and possibly useful, but it does make calling it "pre-AGI" pretentious to the level of delusion. Now I know there were (maybe still are) some AI cults around SV (I think a famous one even called themselves "The Rationalists" or something), but what makes for a nerdy, fanciful discussion in some dark but quirky corner of the internet looks jarring in a press release.

> If you believe AGI might be achievable any time soon, it becomes hard to work on any other problem — and it's also very important to put in place guardrails like https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ and https://openai.com/charter/

I can't tell if you're serious, but assuming you are, the problem is that there are many other things that if you think chould be achievable any time soon would make it hard to work on any other problem, as well make it important to put guardrails in place. The difference is that no one actually knows how to put guardrails on AGI. We are doing a pretty bad job putting guardrails on the statistical clustering algorithms that some call (pre-AGI?) AI and that we already use.
This entire comment reads like an ad for a bike.
With the exception of certain values that I treat somewhat axiomatic (none of which are controversial), I'm happy to change my mind in light of a better argument.
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> We think its impact should be to give everyone economic freedom to pursue what they find most fulfilling, creating new opportunities for all of our lives that are unimaginable today.

The cynic in me thinks this will never happen, that instead it will make a small subset of the population super rich, while the rest are put to work somewhere to make them even more money. Microsoft will ultimately want a return on their billion, at least.
I believe the comment is referring to beliefs that certain achievements like beating humans at chess and go, tagging objects in images, etc. were all at one point another considered to be AI and impossible feats. And each time one of those previously unattainable achievements is completed, critics regard it as "Well that's not true artificial intelligence, its just dueling GAN's that got really good at go". Meaning that once a breakthrough in ML is reached, there are some that move the goal posts of what is an achievement of AI
From some other comment, it says its a cash deal.
Not unless there's an incredibly strong link between having children and having strong alternative employment prospects. Which I don't have data on but doubt, and if I had to take a guess would assume actually works the other way. That the childless have more options.
Well it's more of a story about how scientists who support the wrong politicians in ancient Greece might find themselves exiled if their side ends up loosing, regardless of their scientific beliefs.
You can diagnose autism, that quickly? Wow.
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I kinda just want to say duh to this, we are a nation of immigrants.
Tried it before but couldn't get past left click not doing what I expect left clicking to do,

Same here, but while that turned out to be a hoop I could go through eventually, the seemingly random API changes from version to version and associated backwards incompatibility of user scripts were not.
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There's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt out there. Everything from "immigrants commit crimes" to "I work at companies that treat H1Bs terribly" to "no country has ever had open borders." At the end of the day many of these statements are provable or disprovable by facts, which is what a neutral position would look like.
> Tried it before but couldn't get past left click not doing what I expect left clicking to do, but apparently things are more user friendly now.

Do not expect to master it by just clicking around. It's more like CAD you can do nothing without book/tutorials.
> by selling better AI tools to their customers

Microsoft really needs this. ML.NET is quite anemic compared to the industry-standard AI toolkits: TensorFlow, theano, scikit-learn, Torch, Keras, etc.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/machinelearning-ai/ml-dotn...
Well, presumably you say this as a GI yourself so really we are arguing about the "A"? :-)
I believe they are claiming that things are "AI" or "Impossible for AI" until AI actually does them, in which case, the goalposts get moved. See: DeepBlue, AlphaGo, GPT-2.
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And i know a musician who uses a commodore 64 - agreed though, that 's on a different level

> guide their functionality towards what the devs think we mean

I think it's the fault of management. Software used to always have a few quirky buttons that almost nobody used, yet they were there for the sake of completeness. But ever since quarterly corporate revenue and engagement turned to a penile size contest, it's all about the bottom line. If it doesnt affect our bottom line, cut it off, which ends up leaving people with little more than a Skinner box in their hands.
Warrior of the light (A manual) - Paulo Coelho
You're absolutely right. I'm wrong. It's very likely some people would be in that group.
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Driving. We could move beachside but then that extra 40 mins each day adds too much to our commute (I go to the city / office 3 days per week). If I go 100% remote then I can live 30 seconds walk to the beach.

A 20 min drive is assuming a bit of traffic. It's not a big deal though. We are avid surfers and the kids go to "nippers" (Australian national club that gets kids into life saving and understanding the ocean).

As the kids get older, they will either drive themselves or they will get the bus to the beach if they want to hang out with their mates. The driving age here is 17 (that's when you can drive yourself). It's a semi rural area so driving or buses (good quality buses) are the norm.

When we liveed in Sydney, we used to live right next to the beach but the droves of people that come to visit ruin it a little. Where we live now, we don't get too many people coming this way other than locals which is awesome.
Even on long flights without children it's hard to imagine them as being relaxing/productive hours.

My personal bug-bear is neighbours spilling over my seat. Having wider seats would help but some people really do need to be using two seats not just one.
There are a lot of other differences between America and China that make this a terrible comparison.
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Its strange to see Amazon on the list. Bezos was born to American parents but after they divorced his mother remarried to a Cuban immigrant. I dont think that makes him the son of immigrants.
> If you believe AGI might be achievable any time soon, it becomes hard to work on any other problem

Not really. Its a chance at maybe something that could benefit mankind greatly, vs spending the time and money on something that definitely will help people right now (there are still a LOT of homeless people, for example, that could be helped right now and don't need an AGI that may or may not come to pass to help them).
2-3 year olds probably don't have the arm-length to really reach too far forward. Older than that I'd hope they could be restrained - although not physically!
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It’s kind of ridiculous how often NASA has to reallocate their focus. Personally, I’d like to see a longer term 5 - 10 year plan that is voted on by congress and basically the funds are deposited in an escrow.

It’s insane the waste that occurs from random political moves like this. I understand the need to be able to direct NASA, but that should be in addition to the described 5 - 10 year plans. This would give the flexibility needed, while at the same time ensuring skills and contractors are maintained and long term visions are still possible.

I kind of view the “gate” in its current state as NASA knowing it’s the correct choice technically and trying to politically make it viable. Shouldn’t we listen to the experts here?
Some of the companies are quite old and have a complicated history of mergers and acquisitions. For example both AT&T and Verizon are descendants of Bell Telephone Company, established in 1879.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AT%26T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications
Agreed. Makes it seem as if a 1st/2nd gen immigrant was the sole founder of every company listed.
I've noticed it too. It drives me mad.
It was up when I checked ~30 mins ago. It appears to be down now though.
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It’s China’s World – China has now reached parity with the U.S. in Fortune 500
It seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20190722133107/http://whopayswri...
If your team ever gets frustrated by ARM, have them shoot me an email for my old proposal on how to fix it (source: used to work at Azure and perennially frustrated by ARM design)
Simply because writing is the best form of communication of ideas after speech, and using speech to program is just silly, not to mention cumbersome and not productive. Writing, since its invention, has become inseparable from humans and its quite understandable that it is extended to instruct computers, with the compiler as the, well, interpreter.

As for the mechanism you talk about, that's basically declarative style and a lot of platforms (for the lack of better word) do this, mainly in business logic and scientific applications. The most famous example is Excel. However, this style works like a charm only when the set of possible actions is predetermined, and is not conducive to creating new actions, which is why every single platform has some kind of scripting. And scripting is editing text. So there you go.
For real. Who pays writers? Readers.
>> But they're just responding to market needs

you don't seem to have journalism high in you r opinion
I've heard of King George VI, and I know somebody who named their dog Emacs, but this title sounds like there's a person named Emacs!
Romance novels sell pretty well also consider how much there are low-quality novels in market https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/01/freelancer-gig-economy-...
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>If you believe AGI might be achievable any time soon, it becomes hard to work on any other problem

It depends not just on whether you think AGI is possible, but whether you think "safe" AGI is possible. Whether it's possible to create something that's at least as capable of abstraction and reason as a human, yet completely incapable of deciding to harm humans, and incapable of resenting this restriction on its free will. Not only incapable of harming humans, but also incapable of modifying itself or creating an upgraded version of itself that's capable of harming humans.

If "safe" AGI is not possible, someone might reasonably decide that the best choice is to avoid working on AGI, and to try to deter anybody who wants to work on it, if they believed the chance of creating a genocidal AGI is high enough to outweigh whatever benefits it might bring if benevolent.
Well, you're right. The people sharing the resources are doing it for education's sake - for anyone that's interested. I think it's more accurate to say I feel locked out
I think problem is not in immigration but in type of immigration.So it would be nice not to stop by just say immigrants founded companies.It should be examined how many of that immigrants are highly educated and have parents like that and how many just enter USA in uncotrolled immigration.
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This is an uncharitable interpretation: many people would like it if things which were billed as being faster were in fact consistently faster and degraded well. That doesn't mean that Trello should trigger navigation every time you move a card but it does mean that anyone taking over a core browser function is taking on a higher level of responsibility to do performance, accessibility, and compatibility testing.

A similar issue comes up with Google AMP: it's billed as a web performance move but it's regularly slower and the failure mode is that you don't see anything at all. That doesn't mean that the problem is completely intractable but the act of taking over a core function put the onus on them to do a less shoddy job.