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>The investigators are also allegedly instructed to “first to protect Uber” and make sure it is “not held liable” for any crimes that are committed by people using the company’s ride-hailing platform.

This doesn't seem much different than say interacting with HR inside your own company or anything like that.

Still a bad look and morally questionable, but at the same time I do agree that the victim can / should go to the police if they wish to.

If Uber did go to the police I wonder what guidelines there would be. Only if there is a confession?
"Enough" evidence? Or just any accusation?

I can imagine a situation where a victim doesn't want to go to the police, and that is their call. I'm not sure it is Urber's job to do it for them.
It's an arithmetic consequence of there not being any intrinsic return. The money won from cryptocurrency trading can only come from other traders, because there are no coupons, dividends, or physical deliveries.
Basically just momentum transfer from a gravitational assist.
What about a country like Norway that bases its entire economy on oil? Why shouldn't they be considered evil too?
Except the market is very inefficient, blind, and poorly guided. It’s just always better than a central government.
Which is why most fire codes don’t allow them on buildings with a bunch of people in them.
Or maybe a metric/imperial mixup
Odd that the New York Review of Books would write about New York.

In my non "top 10 American city" Palo Alto the food delivery people are a mix, with a small proportion being people who speak fluent English with a local accent. Sometimes on bikes, sometimes in cars. Similar to what the article describes.
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I wonder where most of the capital goes in launching these ventures given. The why would give some major insights. Technically a far more barebones app could be used for instance. Unlike mobile games there aren't any small budget cheap knockoffs.

Is it getting it to have enough people at once that it isn't "Nobody uses it because it is empty?" Since apparently even with high fees relative to the product and poorly paid workers it still loses a lot of money.

A lot of those two-way market companies appear to have "waiting for drones to reduce the effective labor cost" as their implicit business model.
I use option 3 at work. I like it a lot. It's not too hard to clean. It's actually the very one you linked a 16oz black Teavana Tea Maker.
I recommend Hannah Arendt's essay Lying in Politics. Summary:

1. Lying has always been considered a valid political tool. It isn't really clear how a government can operate without lying.

2. Lying is deeply related to the human ability to act. Acting involves imagining the world as it does not exist and trying to bring it into existence. Imagining the world as it does not exist is very close to lying (if only to yourself).

3. Lies are often more plausible than reality because the liar knows what his audience wants to hear.

4. History is not composed of facts; it is about collective memory and consensus. Facts exist but history always contains a buried political philosophy that constrains the facts.

5. A significant amount of lying involves fitting reality into overly simplified models.

6. Almost all liars start with self-deception. They often don't know they're lying.

7. Ironically, the people with the most access to information are often in the worst place to determine the truth. Overclassification leads to a situation where cleared officials have far too much information to wade through. The president selects officials who filter information though their own overly simplified models before it reaches him.

8. Lying in order to hide the truth implies a truth, which means that the truth can often be deduced from the lie.

9. We should be extremely wary of highly educated technocrats who attempt to impose a "scientific" viewpoint on political events, always fail, and yet remain utterly convinced by their oversimplified models.
>The OK hand gesture and its link to white nationalism began as a hoax cooked up by users of the website 4chan, who falsely linked it to white supremacy, according to the ADL. It was meant to bait the media or people with liberal ideals to overreact, ADL experts say, and therefore look ridiculous for condemning such an innocuous sign.

This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant uncontrolled new media.
Boohoo. What exactly is your complaint? You did a PhD, learned advanced skills that made you more attractive to a company, and now you are reaping the benefit. Do you think you should have been given the same salary as a PhD? Come on.
"Please don't reinvent the wheel"
Box? Or is that even too heavy for your tastes, given that they've been adding "features" to their product too.
> No, what I really feel is that at work I am not actually treated like a servant any more but like a person.

My experience in FAANG research, outside of the pay > 100x multiplier, has been very different! In grad school we could work from anywhere at anytime, there was no requirement to be glued to a desk 14 hours a day and having to respond to emails on Friday nights or weekends or risk a bad performance review from your manager, no dystopian open office space, unlimited conference travel flexibility, etc. I actually kind of miss grad school despite having made 30K a year as a PhD student.
As a note, it is possible to be in a Ph.D. program and not be an employee of the University, at least in the US. Being on a grad student stipend is usually a choice. Advisors are treating you like that because you allow yourself to be treated like that.

Yes, I have a PhD. Yes, I paid my own graduate school tuition. Yes, I had a successful career in ML.
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In the race to use fancier and fancier tools to make web user interfaces go I think we loose out a lot by avoiding the browser's inbuilt support for these things.

Like how eBay's new search feature does not allow me to click in it and type in one motion. I have to click, wait for it to redraw without the magnifying glass, and then click again to put the cursor where I wanted it, before editing the query.

Or how some sites hijack the scrollbar, or muck with it, or how about that endless scroll that gets mucked up every so often and you gotta start over.

I suppose web programmers need something to do.
Yeah, "Don't reinvent the wheel" is a ballsy statement for a site that poorly replicates existing work.
I get you can’t do all your work on them, but 24 hours of 16 GPUs is $215, using the newest instance type on-demand.

It’s within the reach of many grants to afford a few scaled runs of a technology as a demonstration of behavior at scale.
If you have a reputation in your field for good research and top-tier publications, like a PhD would, then I'm really surprised that you are being treated any differently.

There are some famous computer science researchers with no PhD, but they do have the papers to back themselves up.
> I'm currently en process of making a career out of using very basic machine learning methods and applying them to physical science problems...

Interesting! How do you find customers?
Yes. Someone explained it to me that way once and the term stuck, it could be expressed better. "reluctant?"
Not sure why we don't refer to the original reporting from which this was based:

"When rides go wrong: How Uber’s investigations unit works to limit the company’s liability"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/25/ubers-i...
It seems like a structural problem. Deep learning generally performs better than anything else that is well known but it also has well known limitations and inefficiencies.

People should question all of the assumptions, from the idea of using NNs and the particular type of NN and all of the core parts of the belief system. Because these certain aspects are fixed on faith more than anything else.

If you want efficiency of training, adaptability, online, generality, true understanding, those assumptions might need to go. Which would not mean you could learn from DL systems, just that core structures would not be fixed.
There hasn't been any kind of paradigm shift but there have been a bunch of real although incremental improvements. Improved optimization algorithms, interesting and novel neural network layers.

Some of this is even motivated by mathematical theory, even if you can't prove anything in the setting of large, complex models on real-world data.

The quote from Hinton is something like, neural networks needed a 1000x improvement from the 90s, and the hardware got 100x better while the algorithms and models got 10x better.
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Keybase. I really wish they would get their act together and let me pay them for the service.
Perhaps a victim of Trump's trade war?
I guess my question as a non-serious tea drinker is whether the dust actually makes for worse tea or is just ugly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20998948
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Predatory return policy?

>let me use this video card for two years and then get a 100% refund by shipping it back to Amazon.

Why would I shop anywhere else?
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Depends on the resources. Amazon undoubtedly has much more compute, but they’re not exactly known for their wetlab facilities—-and this question undoubtedly needs both.

That said, I think you are right that academia’s structure may need to change. Right now, we’re locked into a model where projects mostly need to be doable by a handful of researchers (almost entirely trainees) in a few years. Other than these time-limited positions, there’s not a lot of room for skilled individual contributors, which seems goofy when tackling such a hard problem.
Nope.

You're paying not in bitcoin, but in the value of those bitcoins converted to a legal currency.

Otherwise those businesses are just avoiding taxes, it would be better to pay in gold, at least it has a stable price.
Yes. The cost of action is dwarfed by the cost of inaction, but that cost is felt (not so) far in the future. It's a problem with short-term thinking creating a false economy and building up a huge debt.
isoformat() formats date objects into dates of ISO-8601 format (YYYY-mm-dd). It formats datetimes into something extra.
> Citation? All countries have a mix of wealthy, educated students, working class students, students whose parents are drug addicts, immigrants who don't speak the local language, etc. In my experience the US isn't that different from other wealthy countries I've lived in.

Yes, but many European countries engage in so-called tracking of students, putting them in separate tracks for tradeswork, skilled labor, and university such that the "dumb" ones aren't taking university entrance exams.

In the US this has become increasingly frowned upon by (perhaps) well-meaning administrators who feel that to do this is unconscionable. In my freshman year of high-school they had advanced academic and standard groupings in the same school, but removed this my sophmore year. They re-branded all the base-level courses as "College Prep," with "Honors" being the former advanced-track classes, AP and IB courses already being branded as such.

Of course, if you were in the advanced group the counselors and teachers would all push you into AP and IB courses but they also encouraged everyone to take the SAT and ACT tests, to apply to university, and discouraged enrolling in the trades program that the county offered (half-day academic, half-day trades classes).

This type of "everyone goes to college" mentality is why the SAT is a poor academic bellwether.
When I view that page[1] I see two different techniques listed, isoformat() being the second. The first is to use d.strftime('%Y-%m-%d').

In regard to the second, isoformat on a "datetime" will give increased resolution beyond "YYYY-MM-DD", but a "date" object only resolves year, month and day and such a call will indeed yield the correct output (per the linked documentation at [2]).

[1] https://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/99/format-date-yyyy...

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat...
What possible effect can divestment have on the industry? They still sell a valuable product everyone buys.
A beautifully written and illustrated blog post! Cloudflare is raising the bar for documentation on the web.
I worked with a guy who was very much the type to have a confederate flag and grew up worshipping the Dukes of Hazzard. I remember when the controversy started lifting off and they began taking down statues, he was confused and upset by it. I've seen this guy around all sorts of people, and he's about the furthest thing from a racist Nazi there is.

I believe the "confederate rebel" idea is a source of pride for some groups and is ingrained into their culture. Sometimes that may be mixed with antiquated and racist themes, but they're not always the same thing.
Congrats! Wondering if you are considering an online component? Model I am thinking of is something like Qwiklabs which provides hands on cloud training, on real world data and infra. It appears they are generating serious revenue at the scale of 10,000s trainees ;)

https://www.qwiklabs.com/
I just canceled my Visionary account and moved back to my grandfathered GSuite Free Tier. I missed the classification of promotional/social/updates that Google offered and the speed at which the service worked. Sure, I may have been able to create filters to do the same on ProtonMail, but I just couldn’t find the time. CloudFlare’s Warp VPN has also eliminated my need for ProtonVPN at this time.

I may re-evaluate ProtonMail if they ever introduce FIDO2 support. Despite how you may feel about Google, I do believe my account is safer with them than ProtonMail as my Google account cannot be logged into with the appropriate security key.
This site would really gain by having an upvote mechanism, this way users would know what is the "best" way of doing things. Plus, needs more languages.
Submitter here.

Simple: WP is paywalled.

Generally I agree that it's good practice to submit the original source. In this case and since the Verge article is pretty concise I thought it's the better choice.

Mods: Feel free to change the link if you deem it appropriate.
I'd say it's great for anyone. I'm classically trained, but a decades-old university education doesn't enable me to just magically know the idiomatic way to do X in a language that was created after I graduated.

My real question would be, what does this do that Google's Stack Overflow hits don't do. One would hope that the answer is, "Give me advice on how to do it in Python 3.6 that didn't get downvoted to death because there's already a SO question on how to do it in Python 2.7." But the cynic in me knows that, in software, particularly software's social environment, the only effective way to clear out the old, obsolete, broken wheels so they're not always in the way is by re-inventing them.
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How do you go public so easily?
Of course.

They are soft at touch, you can make origamis out of them or even eat them
Maybe they realise that the old rule was just not reasonable anymore, and they didn't want to be unreasonable about it.

Or maybe they prefer to keep the US in the UPU so they can continue sending packages there, even if it is at a higher cost.
There is even a site that tells you how much money you'd need to run 51% attacks on different cryptocurrencies. (It looks like the site used Nicehash payouts as a data point but Nicehash is down/being updated so those values are no longer there, but I found an article with a screenshot from May last year.)

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/05/30/heres-how-much-it...
The last mass extinction event caused by an asteroid was probably only about 66 Mya, about 1% of the Earth's lifetime.
You can easily convert them to another currency though
> "which _might_ produce something else" (it depends on the resolution of info in the date object).

I am not sure what you mean by "the resolution of info in the date object". Can you clarify?
> You're going to need a bank vault to beat an angle grinder.

To beat? Agreed.

With that being said, grinding through a circular padlock takes much, much longer. I'd suggest using one of those for a storage unit.
I applaud the effort, but some examples (in JS at least) appear to be outdated.
Like this?

An American, a Russian and the first Arab astronaut from the UAE all just headed into space together:

https://time.com/5686017/international-space-station-uae-ast...

... I've always admired the capacity for various Space Agencies to put any current (geo)political, social etc. issues aside in the pursuit of science. This isn't a new thing, but you are right - we can all take a page from their book.
Okaaay...
"It's really not that hard. Lots of humans have successfully mated with other humans. You can too!"

The overwhelming majority did so without the use of online dating. I think that speaks more to the quality of online dating than anything else.
Reinventing the wheel is a good idea. It's how you learn. Programmers who say "don't reinvent the wheel" don't understand how the craft of wheel making works.
Yep, I'm fairly sure the jury is out on this, see Bill Gates' recent comments, https://www.ft.com/content/21009e1c-d8c9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1...

My thinking would be if they divest from Oil and Gas, they will invest this capital somewhere else such as Nuclear, or renewable resources.
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I believe their goal is to expand to enterprise customers who would use Dropbox as a replacement for something like Google Drive. They seem to hypothesize that the way to win market share is through collaboration intelligence features and coordination features. I think it’s a bad hypothesis and really if they have a way to win market share it’s purely by being a cheaper / more basic option, then maybe start-ups or small businesses would choose it.

But this goes against the premium pricing and branding they have created for consumer storage plans, and I think hamstrings them from doing anything else really.

And at the end of the day, if Google is worried you’re underpricing them, they have way more levers to pull on to retain or win back customers, and more cushion to absorb losses.

Just seems like a bad business strategy by Dropbox all around. Probably should just focus on how to deliver consumer storage accounts with lower and lower prices instead.
I think there’s a lot of substance there. Objectivism is a morally bankrupt excuse for a philosophical system, and Atlas Shrugged is a farcical,
unrealistic and flimsy narrative awash with paper-thin characters and comical villains that exist only to serve as an excuse for Rand’s selfish world view. His selection suggests to me that he is either emotionally very immature and/or that his primary driver is unabashed hedonism. I find that pretty disturbing. Don’t take my word for it. Walk into any philosophy department at any university and start defending Objectivism. They will tear you down and dismiss you, and for good reason: it’s regressive, egotistical trash.

EDIT: My only regret is that I didn’t say the above in my original comment. I neglected to consider that not all people may be familiar with the subject.
Sorry, but even believing in God makes much more sense.

Bitcoin was a product made to make rich people richer like Ponzi schemes or multilevel marketing.
Don't know.

But in Germany there is one big player in the long distance bus market and they operate their busses with self-employed contractors too. At least such companies would have to rely on humans for delivery in the forseeable future.

Some companies in the delivery space even got bought out by bigger players in the last 12 months here. One only offered a website/app for purchases and no own delivery people, the restaurants had to own their stuff, but somehow this didn't work out. Maybe a cooperative between all the restaurants could have saved this.
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They're very clearly not aiming at being professional, with this trashing focus on random features.
It's been going on for over 4 decades. They recentered the scaled score in 1995 to account for the downward shift in mean due to expansion of access.
The article presents the rising costs couched within the theme of all-to-powerful tech companies like Google and Facebook, which is really irrelevant: These costs are not high because of those companies, they are high because the research itself is incredibly resource intensive, and would be so whether or not large tech companies were also engaged in it. In fact, with Google and their development of specialized chips for this purpose, AI research is probably getting cheaper due to their involvement.

Next, this research will probably continue to get cheaper. The cost to do the Dota 2 research 5 years ago would have been much higher, and will probably be even less expensive 5 years from now.

Also, I think there's plenty of room for novel & useful at the bottom end where $millions in compute resources are not essential. Cracking AI Dota is certainly interesting, but it's hardly the only game in town, and developing optimized AI techniques specifically for resource-sparse environments would be a worthy project.
Sure. Take a step back and look at this with some perspective:

* Neither of us really know what's going on

* Both of us have done private research

* We came up with some numbers

* I shared my numbers, you didn't share yours

Your complaint is that I'm not delegating the numbers to some authority. My complaint is that, regardless of which authority you choose, you're still choosing an authority.

I'm not saying that I'm right; in fact, part of the point of choosing priors is to be wrong. However, when we publicize the process of selecting priors, we of course embarrass each other: If the priors were already well-known and well-agreed-upon, then by Aumann's Agreement, we would have nothing to discuss.
In theory (and practice) you can also (easily) create "classic" epubs or mobis from the Manuscript book source (it's just a meta datafile and structured text). One dream would be to have all Gutenberg books in Manuscripts - it's only a small step from "plain" text to structured text. I'd say way easier than to convert everything to HTML source as Standard Ebooks project is doing - https://standardebooks.org - for example. Anyways, books in (structured) text (formats) will outlive all formats and will still work even without special ebook readers. It's a format like the alphabet (that is, it's forever). If you read it on paper or on a screen or as a codex (paged) or as scroll - it's all possible by design. Anyways, thanks for your kind words.
The higher numbers there (eg. 10²⁸) are irrelevant. It claims a single neuron is operating at 10¹⁶ operations per second—that is, as much computation is happening within a single neuron as is the sum of all computation between neurons in the whole brain!

Bostrom's estimate of 10¹⁷ is much, much more reasonable.

Note that this is still a number biased in favour of the brain, since for the brain you are measuring each internal operation in an almost fixed-function circuit, and for Summit you are measuring freeform semantic operations that result from billions of internal transitions. A similar fixed-function measure of a single large modern CPU gives about 10¹⁷ ops/s as well; the major difference is that a single large modern CPU is running a much smaller amount of hardware many times faster, and uses binary rather than analogue operations.
> women don't need it as much as men.

This is only half the story. The full story goes:

Women can choose who to date, men must compete. Men can choose who to marry, women must compete.

Dating apps exclusively cater to category #1. This dynamic may or may not be creating an entire class of >25yo women who are unable to marry despite the desire to do so.
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