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> I hope they go bankrupt

Ironically, the public would pay for them again
That's correct. They're admirable to me.

Conversely the idea of adults fucking children is not admirable to MIT. So they fired him.

Nobody's talking about censorship, or politicians. We're talking about an organization saying hey we can't have a guy that seems to think adults fucking children is OK being our leader or representative. That's definitely within their rights.

You can try to die on some hill of principle here but 10/10 times if you write blog posts saying something like "hey, so pedophilia is not that big of a deal right?" you're going to have some issues in the professional world.

Not sure why everyone is pretending to be confused.
Lame.

Because there are many more people out there who should be contributing in general.
I was thinking of getting a PhD 4 years ago. I applied and got accepted to CMU master's program in robotic vision. I planned to go through the program and worked my way to get into a good PhD program because I didn't have enough credential to apply directly to good PhD programs. After thinking through it, I decided not to even do the master's.

Throughout my thinking process, I spent everyday and lots of weekends sitting at coffee shops crunching through research papers. And what I found was that a lot of of the papers were not directly relevant to the industries, it's just like what somebody said in the comments: a lot of research projects are like trying to hammer a square peg into a circle hole. I'm sure some of them will make great impact. For example, the research about neural network had been done since the 80s, it just happens to take off nowadays because computers back then weren't good enough. But when I asked myself: "What am I really looking for?" I realized that I wanted to work on something that makes an immediate impact. Especially because I grew up and raised in a developing country, a lot of problems here are super immediate. (i.e. poverty, hunger, lack of educations, etc) As so much as I'm genuinely curious and interested in many of the research topics, I realized that my stamina didn't lie in curiosity and interest alone, but more in the immediate impact I'm making. For example, I learned that I'm much more fulfilled to work on something super practical and can be immediately useful to people.

Even though I didn't end up doing a PhD, I still occasionally spend my time reading conference papers. My curiosity and interest are pretty much satisfied through that. I'm much more interested in exploring interesting applications of such ingenious research rather than doing going super deep in a particular topic and be the one doing the research. Magic Pony Technology is one of the companies I look up to. I think it's a brilliant way of turning research into something practical
> I am much more wary of companies that keep or burning cash for years and years with the only excuse that "Amazon did that as well".

I think about this a little differently. Spending money on free users is actually a much more efficient "marketing expense" than classic outbound strategies (e.g., online advertising).
Levi's are more expensive because they're branded
Good luck enforcing your consumer rights onto a seller on eBay, when you buy something there, you either rely on manufacturer's warranty either you're dead in the water if anything goes wrong with it, if the item comes from less than stellar maker. And that's the main reason a lot of people avoid eBay and the likes.
There is no piece of paper that will ever give you the permission all of us humans seem to desire from the universe.

Get out. Go to a place you like. Do what you like there. Permission is given by doing.

Or in short, if you have to ask if a PhD is the right thing to pursue, it's not. :) have fun and enjoy life! good luck!
It's hardly bad behaviour to wish someone well and it's never been. One shouldn't have to add "and if you do not follow the same then interpret your deity (if any)" to a conversation as the recipent may interpret under their prefered deity as they wish. It's rather sad that even an act of kindness is now seen as bad behaviour simply from refusal to accept that we have different ways of showing it.

As for culture, sure, every single one is at some point guilty of crimes against humanity such as in my country [1], [2], etc and we must be able to look past those things as otherwise it's impossible to change for the better.

We will be different, have different beliefs, different sexuality, different colours of skin, and different languages to convey our thoughts. If we continue to see even an act of kindness as hostile then I don't have much hope people will ever get over differences. It shouldn't be different if they're Christian, Sunni, or any else and extend their greeting in their way to you along with their own way of wishing you well. What matters most is the intention rather than if they're from the same faith as you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sw...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer_crisis
The stdlib documentation is definitely the biggest sore spot of zig for me. It took me a little while to feel comfortable enough digging through the code to start finding what I could do with the stdlib. It slows me down programming using the language significantly.
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Hundreds of nuclear powered military vessels have been built. Several have sunk. There has been no environmental disaster so far, and there doesn't seem to be much concern over putting nuclear reactors on vessels that are likely to shot at and bombed. Nuclear powered merchant ships have been built, but mostly as a tech demonstration [1].

There will never be a solar or battery powered transoceanic cargo ship. The energy density is nowhere near that of hydrocarbons. There is some speculation about liquid hydrogen powered vessels, but at that point one could feasibly argue that nuclear is the safer option.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
This seems to go right back to the grandparent post's closing sentence:

> But, until people get past fashion, I can't expect this will happen.
Zig + UEFI = Comic Neue in the BIOS.

[0] https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1176561072398098432

Perhaps I could see some toy ransomware bootkit demanding the user to pay up or face using your computer with comic neue or comic sans as the default unchangeable font.
What relevance does Groupon have? The two companies aren’t related in any major way. Def not with freemium model or revenue model.
I glossed over your indentured servitude the first time, but would like to know more now. If there are people in indentured servitude, then by the traditional definition they aren't in the top 7 countries. Are you saying if I drank less coffee, then farmers in El Salvador would have it better? If I bought fewer phones, then factory workers in China would be better off? If I ate less food, then wheat farmers in Kansas would rejoice?
Same for Uber.
If we're opening up the floodgate of movies, I feel WarGames really should be up there. IMO, it's just a fun movie all around, but it's definitely computer-fiction.
I don't know about electricbikereview.com, but the reason all of those sites love everything they list is because all they care about is getting that sweet affiliate cash when you buy something. In my experience, the VAST majority of "specialized review sites" are really nothing more than spam trying to drive sales in affiliate programs. This is a different but related problem.
This is because of transfer learning: for example, by default, DeepLabCut starts with a pre-trained ResNet-50. Thus these trackers start out with an excellent "understanding" of the statistics of natural scenes out of the box.
It's more realistic than thinking we're going to get a significant majority of the world's population to significantly reduce consumption while adding two more billion people and having the developed world catch up.
You can use any c libraries networking or socket implementations in zig but I think thats as far as it goes at the moment.
Didn’t mean for it to come off as hostile— I meant that your misunderstanding may have come from misreading what I had written, as I don’t think I wrote about an “inland river.” But even as I wrote it, it’s not particularity clear unless you are already familiar with that kind of map making mistake, so happy to explain. Either way, hope this clears up any confusion!
I might be alone with this thought: Zig seemed really appealing in the beginning, but now I dislike it more and more with each release. It does not seem to keep the simplicity of C at all, it has lots of peculiarities, and it is becoming more and more bloated. I would consider it a C++ replacement at this point, not a C replacement due to its increasing complexity. One of Zig's philosophy was simplicity[1], but I do not think it applies now.

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Al...
The key to thinking about nature versus nurture that I never see mentioned:

If you believe in evolution, you have to believe in the genetic determinism of genes.

Sure, there is leeway for nurture, but a lot of people are holding contradicting opinions (they believe in evolution but not as much in "nature") because we as a society are hiding the truth of human determinism.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#where-is-the-documen...
My pet peeve is that while I want any mechanism I use to be "responsive", everybody seems to market things as being "adaptive", and it doesn't seem to be appreciated that being adaptive is fundamentally opposed to responsiveness.

I wonder if the military gets suckered into buying things that are "adaptive"?
Especially if it turned out the market loved it. Then you're truly screwed. When you're working for a regular paycheck, better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and wrong.
That doesn’t make sense to me and I work in the fashion industry. Unless you want to pay tens of thousands to air freight goods, min time is at least two weeks.
No. The point is that this isn't just a human thing.
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Not even just with companies so ridiculous like WeWork, but also ones that lose profit and hundreds of millions of cash exclusively due to bad business models.
4 years ago I cold emailed and phoned you to ask for advice regarding PhD program. I followed your advice and ended up not pursuing a PhD. And yeah, I think you're totally right :) so yeah, thanks again for answering my cold-email and willing to have a phone call with me 4 years ago!
Banana Republic has, in my experience, better quality 'staples' than the GAP. They have excellent sweaters and quarter zips, for example. I have a weird body shape (I look like a Belter) but haven't had any issues finding things that work

They're part of the same parent company (Old Navy, GAP, Banana Republic).
That's a good way to put it. As my economics professors liked to point out, Black-Scholes was a self-fulfilling prophecy in that the success of the model was determined by the fact that everyone was using it (or some variation of it) to price derivatives.

If it had never been published would it still have been as accurate? Who knows.

When you dive deep it's easy to think of economics in terms of math and forget the fact that, unlike physics, it is a social field and there is no right and wrong aside from what people agree on.
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> If person A comes along and demands that I refer to them by their "preferred pronoun" (even if it is a mismatch for their genetic sex or the grammar of the language being spoken) and I refuse, that's considered an insult.

Yep, there it is.
> The really interesting part will be when we feel the other pain of unsustainable living: resource depletion. Fighting the impact of climate changes is going to be even trickier when we have less energy to do it with.

Energy is the one thing we shouldn't run low on given that we have the sun.
The three-body problem (Cixin Liu). Sci-fi with a heavy dose of comp sci.
I wonder if a spreadsheet and its editor could go in a self-contained HTML file. You'd open it in a browser, it modifies its own source code, and you just re-export or "Save Page As" when you're done?

Furthermore, maybe the data could be in CSV at the top of the file, in an HTML comment, and the editor could be in HTML at the bottom of the file, in a CSV comment, so the file could be opened in either a browser or Excel? Haha
OK, your description did not give that impression, as every time you described something, you said it in the future tense. You may want to communicate more clearly what you have built vs. where you want to take it in the future.
You need a reason if you're going to say that.
The idea that you can cleanly separate the self from the outside reality is probably the flawed bit. The in-between truth is that the self is intricately interlinked with the "outside" reality. Sensory deprivation tanks do really weird things to people's consciousness. The mind depends upon its inputs for proper functioning.
Well, if they want to get elected, they need to do what it takes. All of the high minded stances will keep them from doing anything.

You can believe in social welfare without burdening business with social policies -- i.e. don't increase minimum wage but increase access to the Earned Income Tax Credit and make it easier to get. The same with healthcare, don't force businesses to provide it, the government should provide it. If it takes higher taxes to do it -- I'm okay with that.
Because space man bad
I don't think wirecutter really even tries to identify the best, because they factor price into the equation too much for that. I do find it to be a good source of data about some of the options and tradeoffs, but when I'm looking for truly the best in class, it's rarely their pick.
> transportation, industrial use and electrical production

Transportation, industrial use, and electrical production are all directly related to lifestyle choices.

Transportation is affected both by personal choices in accepting mass transit, using one's car, etc. Transportation of products is fueled by mass demand for new products built in far away lands, as well as cheap produce.

Industrial uses are usually in supply chains for goods people do not strictly need, but want for convenience.

Electricity production is either used directly as a consumer or to support that which the consumer would like to buy.

The greatest myth that has been fed to us in the climate change 'debate' is that there are large corporations out there polluting and burning fossil fuels for fun.
> Our culture has made a very bright line decision

"Age of consent laws vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, though most jurisdictions set the age of consent in the range 14 to 18"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

Things just got a lot murkier, didn't they. Actually, they have always been a lot murkier. Because "our culture" isn't actually homogenous. And these things have changed a lot over time.

> Expressing doubt about this cultural norm

Well, which norm excactly? The one at 14? Or the one at 18?

"some jurisdictions may also make allowances for minors engaged in sexual acts with each other, rather than a single age."

Murkier.

"There are many "grey areas" in this area of law, some regarding unspecific and untried legislation, others brought about by debates regarding changing societal attitudes, and others due to conflicts between federal and state laws. These factors all make age of consent an often confusing subject, and a topic of highly charged debates"

Are all the people in a society that has the 14 boundary horrible beyond the pale?

Or maybe things are a bit more complicated than you make them out to be.
I would add “The Bug” by Ellen Ullman. A remarkable portrayal of software development in fiction. A gift.
You should be permanently banned for this vile, heartless, toxic comment directed at someone who appears to be suffering a great deal. Spare us your irrelevant whataboutisms regarding homeless people, stay on topic in the future and stop being a dick.
You should take a closer look at what actually happened to LTCM. Their model remained profitable even after the crash, and recovered value far quicker than other hedge funds did. The real cause of the systemic failure had more to do with the actions of investors than the fundamentals of the model. The investors were heavily overleveraged across the board, and when they started losing money elsewhere, they initiated a flight to liquidity within LTCM. The flight to liquidity caused them to liquidate positions before they converged, compounding losses. Those positions for the most part actually did converge, but were prematurely exited. Had those investors not liquidated, they would have continued making strong returns.

In other words, LTCMs collapse was the fault of the investors in LTCM, not the fault of the model. There are hundreds of hedge funds that have continued using the same basic model as LTCM, and have lasted through two recessions and several global financial shocks. They have achieved that by learning from LTCM: keep the model, dump the stupidly overleveraged investors.
I should have said, it’s hard to take this link seriously, given that chart.

In other words, I completely agree that we have no idea what the impact will be if this minimum does occur, or if indeed it does occur at all.
I think you are confusing the opening price with an IPO price.

Slack went public at $26, it is at $23.50 today. It is less than 10% less than the IPO price.
People who don't have the will to personally do something about it shouldn't discuss it. It all boils down to you in the end. If you just want to continue with your life and don't care about it feel free to just do that, but at least don't try to persuade others they shouldn't care, you go from inactive carelessness to actively trying to make things worse. If you feel concerned take actions. Who's going to challenge politicians, lobbies, industries, if everybody thinks "I can't do anything and nobody can anyway", we put ourselves in this situation, we can get out of it. I think everyone aware of the issues, aware of the solutions, and not taking any actions is an insult to humanity.
Most of the ethical red flags seem to be identical to municipal government corruption, e.g. enriching family members and giving contracts to companies one owns. It's been going on for hundreds of years, you'd think retail investors would be wise at this point
It's why we're restricting follows. Influencers can go shite.
They were given two options within the law and they picked the cheap one. Expecting participants in a commoditized industry to voluntarily increase their overhead is naive at best. The issue here is with the people writing the rules.
I most certainly agree.
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Established outlets for real business journalism were included on the firm's rate card, including claims they could get stories onto Reuters for $8,360 and the Financial Times for about $50k. Also, lesser known, web-only portals were offered for less than $200. There are fewer and fewer watchdogs (journalists are almost like proto regulators) and some folks are taking advantage of the gap/asymmetry. I know more opportunities are created if you're willing to bend the rules a little. I'd be really interested in how other folks are interpreting these sorts of developments.
Cheaper drones are already used in combination with more sophisticated missiles to overwhelm defenses. Afaik that's what happened with the attack on the Saudi facilities.
What major downside or any protections does SoftBank have with WeWork right now? Is there anything they are getting now or likely to get that doesn’t still have them $7B or so down the hole for WeWork?

The major thing is usually first dibs if the company sells for a lot less than the later valuations. In this case that doesn’t seem likely to happen with Softbank getting back most of their investment
"Neuromancer" is at the top of my list of favorite science fiction books, closely followed by Charles Stross "Accelerando". I don't necessarily like everything William Gibson has written, but I will read it all. I am anxiously awaiting his latest, "Agency".
I see Vernor Vinge mentioned in the comments here. His "Raindows End" definitely needs to make the list.
They've basically provided no proof it's end to end encrypted properly.

Heck even Facebook has a private message system they claim it's e2ee.
I was genuinely curious, you're right about the downvotes. A Chrome ext or a feature like (hide) but site level on HN would be desirable. While at it why not throw in a user level block too? I feel like a lot of people who like phys.org may be downvoting me anyway.
This is a great comment and a great point, but I'm not sure I fully agree with your conclusion. There are still plenty of great companies that are doing the first two, but there certainly is no shortage of the third way. What would be fascinating to me is to categorize, oh, the top N (where N is 5000 or so) of private, growth tech companies that have taken significant recent rounds of VC financing and see how the investment volume skews along these three categories.
> I suspect the future won't be "super weapons" like the F-35, but instead just "mass" weapons like tens of weaponized drones. Where the mission isn't to be invisible but to simply overwhelming enemy defenses (essentially the World War I strategy, but without the massive numbers of dead soldiers).

I think this point of view will come to be seen as anachronistic, much as the WWI strategy was not long after WWI.

Why? There is a fundamental disparity between the complexity needed for a forward-operating offensive weapon, and the complexity needed for domestic defensive weapons. Offensive drones need to avoid defenses and navigate to a particular target. Defensive drones just need to interfere with the offensive drones.

Any offensive strategy you can think of that depends on simple numbers, can be countered with numbers at lower cost. If it's drones, I can build more defensive drones than you can build offensive drones for the same total cost.
(Off-topic) It's sometimes (always?) possible to reply despite the missing "reply" button. Click the timestamp of the post to see it on its own page. That page seems to have a reply button even when the thread does not.
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From my point of view, online reviews are not quite entirely without value, but their value is extremely low. I rarely bother reading them anymore.
You appear to be completely missing the point of my root comment, which is that AlphaGo’s tech isn’t nearly as general as it’s made out to be, even if you stick to Go.

> AlphaGo can play very well on a 19x19 board but actually has to be retrained to play on a rectangular board.

It doesn’t even generalize to the same game with a different board shape. Whereas a human Go master could easily do so.

DeepMind is essentially hacking the common usage of the word “general” in order so that they can make claims about “general” intelligence. And it’s working!
While we're brainstorming, I'd add Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge) and Halting State (Charles Stross).
Calm down there, Hitler. There's no conspiracy to hide any supposed truths of genetic superiority.