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I’m not saying this to argue against your points: I’m a fan of Tangerine bank and have been continually and loudly telling them to remove the balances on the account overview screen as it now triggers “burning a hole in my pocket” psychology.

I only mean to say at least a few fans are actively asking for things to be removed, simplified, and (thoughtfully) refined.
I have often wondered if Microsoft will one day Open Source the Window Kernel.
According to my friends there, a programmer in Sweden makes SEK 30k - 40k a month, or $37-49k. Europe is a low-cost outsourcing centre which occasionally spits out bright people who run startups, just like China or India or Vietnam.
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I don't see the comparison. Starbucks is a successful, 50 year old, company with a good brand and always had a sane strategy. Failure or success aren't random.

What the author is alluding too is the fact that putting a bunch of robots into a pizza store isn't going to turn you into a technology company worth hundreds of millions, that is absurd right from the beginning.
Something I love about the frozen pizza setup is just how much of it is about being sloppy and recovering gracefully. Cut rectangular dough band into circles and circulate the off cuts back into the start. Rain cheese everywhere and let it fall into a recovery tray. These are techniques that also work well in software — it’s often easier to design a system that builds a bad result and fixes it after than it is to build a good result from first principles.
What did Starbucks do that McDonalds hadn't been doing for decades already?
>is 6 months living expenses really holding back your entrepreneurial dreams?

This isn't even that. It's unpaid time. You're just guaranteed to be able to return to your existing job afterwards.
It sounds like Godwin is trying to distract public attention away from his selling-out of .org to a private equity corporation.

https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/15/vint-cerf-and-mike-god...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200115/11301343739/techd...

https://prospect.org/power/private-equity-corporate-takeover...
This highlights an all-to-common error by venture capitalists (and, I suppose, founders): the assumption that someone hasn’t done this before.

Sure, Rademaker doesn’t put their enormous frozen pizza technology in a van. But making pizza with robots? Dude, that’s been done before.
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Pizza reference and all. That book (along with a lot of his other writing) has really influenced the way I see group social dynamics, and the way technology influences them.
Not only that. There's already a pizza on demand system.[1] "Let's Pizza" has been around since 2011. From Italy.
Modestly successful. Softbank didn't do enough due diligence to find that?

[1] https://youtu.be/B4_C1BmT-R8
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So, do you have anything substantive to say about the article? Do you disagree with anything in it? Did you notice that the article actually agrees with you?:

> And so, when we're talking about who's to blame for the fentanyl crisis, we've got to start at home. Why is the demand so high? But in terms of China, and that's what I really focused on in my book in large part, China is not only doing a poor job stopping fentanyl from getting exported to the US, they are even encouraging it in a lot of ways, through the tax code and all these complicated ways that add up to a really troubling situation.

Do you disagree with any of that? Do you believe that China's massive and uncontrolled supply had no effect on the opioid epidemic?
Contributing to the climate crisis seems like a stretch. Bitcoin obviously uses a lot of power and contributes to the climate crisis. Building OSes from source is just a hobby for most people, and probably doesn't register as a particularly environmentally intensive one compared to even reading paperback books.
Yes, I think concurrency is about 1/3 of the book, but it's approached the same way as the other paradigms; you have a basic language, add a single feature and see what happens: what new things can you do? How does the expressivity change? What problems arise? Is this equivalent to another paradigm?

I found the insights interesting, but I would agree they are not of immediate utility to many people's day job.
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But if you can't modulate or demodulate gamma rays (which is anything above a certain frequency), you can't even see if they are transmitting information or not. Even radio waves modulated with spread spectrum techniques look like noise. Who knows what we'll be using in the future.
i would love to see mechanical eyes on the front of self-driving cars to signal emotion/attention, like from the pixar cars movies. =)
> But most web services are IO-bound

Node's still relatively slow for those workloads.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

See how far down in each section you have to scroll to find node, even for workloads that are purely "accept a request and respond with a static string". You'll see lots of Java and Go on your way down.

And most services will have far more compute than just shoving bytes in between services. There's request parsing, response encoding, usually at least a tiny bit of data manipulation.
When she’s describing the robot, reminds me of this

https://youtu.be/X7HmltUWXgs?t=32s
No, companies are there to make value for their shareholders.

They have to do it in an ethical way, sure. But there's also the practical reality of which country the region is affiliated with, and what was the voice of the people living in said region. Denying this voice, just because it hasn't been recognised internationally, is not the sort of activism that for-profit companies should be engaged in.
The Cray's were hard 64 bit machines - smallest addressable unit was 64 bits. This had a lot of implications for software and computer languages that assumed you could easily access bytes.
They might or might not deliver real value, but I’m sure most research scientists view a lot of software as simple implementation rather than real value. I think everyone needs to work together for these complex systems.
Boston Dynamics’ Spot is even pretty darn close to Rat Things (minus the onboard nuclear reactor). Quite the timeline.
The automation in that video seems less than helpful, all the labor-intensive steps are being done by the humans, all the super easy stuff done by robot.

The six-axis robot being used to move a pizza 2 feet was pretty amazing -- I have to imagine they had grander plans but had no idea how to utilize it yet.

The mobile ovens are kind of absurd. I mean, warming it doesn't seem like a bad idea. Maybe even baking it on the way is fine (so long as all the toppings didn't slide off), but what do they need 56 bays for? If they're planning on loading up 56 pizzas and baking them on the way, latency on orders will be horrible. Huge orders are like, 10 pizzas. Seems like if they just baked them and stuffed them right into a warming compartment that'd be more than sufficient.
I really like how Flink is incorporating SQL as a first class citizen.

If you're interested in stuff like this, keep an eye on OctoSQL[1].

We're working hard on event time streaming with exactly-once semantics in pure SQL, being greatly inspired by the work and research done by the Flink contributors.

It's our Bachelor Thesis actually. Though we have much left to work on, with features like distributed execution, so there's still a long way ahead!

[1]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
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2005: We will have fully-autonomous cars by 2020

2020: Making pizza automatically is so damn hard
No, it's the US tech average which is ridiculously high. (Seriously, London has some of the highest salaries outside the US).
> I think the appropriate solution to this would be some form of arena allocator instead of changing the system allocator. But that gets even more complicated with lifetimes and stuff.

If you're doing arena allocation in a compiler you might as well just leak all your allocations (which you could get with bumpalo with a 'static lifetime); then you won't have to deal with lifetimes at all.

> Yeah, I could have tried restructuring my code to try to avoid compiler issues.

Well, my point is that it would be good for readability to restructure your code in that way even in Go. 500-line functions are hard to read.

> But this would have been even more time spent working around issues with Rust. Go was better than Rust by pretty much every metric that mattered for me, so I went with Go instead.

I find the opposite to be true, especially for compilers. It's hard for me to go back to a language without pattern matching and enums (much less generics, iterators, a package ecosystem, etc.). The gain of productivity from GC and compile times is not worth Go's loss in productivity in other areas for me. But reasonable people can disagree here.
Sorry to go off topic but one of my pet peeves is things self-described as "simple". What does that even mean? Is it simple to use? Is the implementation simple? Is it lacking features that I'm going to need and regret it later? I think it's most people's goal to make their software user friendly, but let us users decide that.

Also, when coming across a project where other solutions exist, it's nice seeing an explanation of why you created your solution instead using prior art. What inspired that project? That really helps me when trying to decide on something. Some comparisons would also be nice.

I have been considering using a shell testing framework for a while (at the moment I just write tests that shell out). But when I see project this new when others have existed for a while I'm curious to know why it was created. However I get that because it's new, documentation probably isn't the main concern right now. I don't know if you care about adoption or just wrote this for yourself.

Anyway, looks good. I like the output.
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Maybe starting out a comment with "um..." as though everyone else is stupid, and then following up by merely restating the prevailing narrative, which has little to do with the assertions made in the article. Maybe that's a reason for some of the disagreement.
He also saved the company by betting the last of the company reserves at a casino when they were near insolvency during the early days.
This is really cool - our dashboard uses Vue for the frontend and a Go backend. Everytime I deploy, I think about how insanely slow the frontend 'compilation' + unit tests step is compared to testing and building the Go code. It's one of the things that makes Go a joy to code in for me.

On a similar note, we have some services written in Python and I was doing some research for some static type checking tools. At least in my testing, Pyright (written in Node) outperforms the pants out of similar tools written in Python. Using Go to bundle + minify Javascript sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Could you share which company's auto-braking had the false positives? What is the acceptable false-positive threshold for you to use auto-braking again? Also, did your system tell you why it decided to brake (albeit incorrectly)?
> The housing problem is a problem of demand

Prices are set by the balance of demand and supply. The demand isn't going away. The supply is what we can do something about.

Even building expensive luxury apartments helps, unless no one can afford them at all (which is not what the builder wants to happen). The people who rent those aren't taking up spaces others could have afforded.
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The ones truly at fault are the doctors. They follow “procedure”, which says that a patient under pain is treated with opiates. And so, to avoid any mal practice, they prescribe. And the patient has been told that doctors are the smartest, most prestigious individuals in our society. What’s not to trust? What do we do when societal structures built upon reputation and legitimacy fall victim to profit taking and legal threats? There’s no failure mechanism when a reputed institution fails from the inside.
linking this to the Opium Wars might lead people to make incorrect links between cause and effect. This isn't some pay-back for the crimes the East-Indian Company and the West committed against China back then.

It's simply a few bad apples in an illegal market responding to the demand of the West and seriously why would anyone in China care as long as they don't sell this in China. It is bad-apples who want to get rich quickly but from a suppliers perspective it's short sighted because a dead addict isn't going to come back for more.

The real criminals to blame here are those that get people hooked on pharmaceuticals and then stop giving them the prescription for what they got them hooked on. No wonder they move from pain killers to heroin (or its substitutes).

edit: I highly recommend the excellent "Louis Theroux: Dark States" (episode Heroin Town). He gives a very empathic non-judgemental look into the tragedy of addiction in the US.
Kafka or similar is already used by the existing solutions mentioned in the post.

I think what this adds is a better way of dump processing without using database specific features.
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Yet AI _within_ large companies is producing enormous benefits. If your AI startup is helping customers implement AI on their own data, you may have something. A one page web site on top of your own startup data? Yeah that sounds risky.
oh, so it's not paid.

Then I am surprised to say, there is the same thing in Italy ("aspettativa per avvio attività"), but oddly enough, only for public sector employees, up to 12 months.

I am not sure many people make use of it, I would guess very, very few.
>> What could fundamentally change humanity more than definitively finding intelligent life out there?

Achieving "relative" immortality
NetBSD publishes updated builds of src daily, you can just update to them. No idea about the frequency of package rebuilds but they definitely happen.
As a Pakistani, I thought this was common knowledge. When Google Maps hosted localized maps on country-specific domains, Pakistanis found the Indian version on the .co.in domain and it was a whole thing [1]. Pakistan's even complained to the World Bank for a map of the country that excluded Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during a (literally one) book launch. Some Governments, especially my own, feel slighted at the smallest of things—you don't want to get on their bad side if you're trying to do business with them.

By the way, if you want the official map of Pakistan, it's released by the Survey of Pakistan here[2].

Edit: I want to point out that Pakistan literally bans any website arbitrarily. YouTube was banned for three years in Pakistan[3], and social media websites have been banned many times in the past including (ostensibly) to chill coverage of protests[4]. It isn't too far-fetched to imagine a Pakistan without Google Maps if Google doesn't play nice.

[0]: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1163447/google-maps-shows-azad-...

[1]: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1262447/pakistan-protest-world-...

[2]: http://www.surveyofpakistan.gov.pk/images/downloads/pak3m.pd...

[3]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-youtube/pakistan...

[4]: https://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/press-release-drf-and-net...
Nope. It is a right, not an obligation. Your employer can't stop you if your want to test your wings. Though this has actually been around in some form for quite a few years.

I started my first company in 2001 by getting 6 months off from Ericsson. I wanted to during that time, Ericsson would have to allow me to come back and continue as an employee. Quit permamently after three months. Now I'm happily running my fifth startup.
> There are some exceptions in place for smaller employees too.

No actually you can’t fire the small employees either. It’s quite disturbing really. :P
Your <rant> is basically about you not having (or not willing to budget) enough money to cover the extra risk that the Sweden's work laws impose on your startup. When you think about it like this, the laws and your response to them work exactly as intended.

From Sweden's point of view, the positions you have outsourced will be covered by a company which is willing to pay the price of access to the labor market in Sweden. Which is not unlike a tax.

Did you budget for Sweden's taxes in your startup? Not doing that and then posting a <rant> that you suddenly have to pay taxes and that the existence of the tax code forces you to outsource to Asia would be quite similar to your post here.
Data exists for higher purposes. You can't say 4 6.9 0034 has much intrinsic meaning. In fact, modern approaches seek to encapsulate the data itself, and instead build abstractions to better model circumstances and behaviour, in effect hiding or masking data.

The troubles begin when working directly in the data models, leading to coupling, dependencies, side-effects and narrow perspectives on how to accomplish better designs. In beginning it seems more powerful, until enough complexity creep attained to warrant headache examination.
In SF the chains have terrible quality, but in other places you can actually get pretty good pizza from a chain, if the style you want is in their lineup.

Where I moved from the chain pizza was all pretty good. One day after I moved here I needed something quick and familiar so I ordered the same thing I used to get, and it was awful.

So it comes down to the local management, and in areas where management is sound, the pizza is fine and robots add no value in time or quality.
Compression in your context is as meaningless as Generalization.

Yes, you can say generalization is compression.
> which says that a patient under pain is treated with opiates

Do you have a better solution? For some people the pain can be unbearable.
The system Snowden uncovered is no longer a viable attack vector.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...

While Google is still a huge target, there isn't any evidence that its internal systems are actually compromised now by the NSA.
"When they were turbocharged with specialized graphical processing chips, they were between about 100,000 and 2 billion times faster than their simulations."

Now the critical question is: How much faster is it without AI, just because of the specialized dedicated processing chips?

Otherwise, they might be comparing a single virtualized CPU core against a high-end GPU for things like matrix multiplication ... and then the result that GPU > slow CPU isn't really that impressive.
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I second this. You can limit the ability to add new sources to keep from clobbering feeds. While any non static demo is clearly tricky, it is very helpful.
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They said that was their time budget, but didn't follow up with how expensive it ended up being in practice -- but agreed.
Then they could have bought S&P500 first, then buy into Uber now
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> Are you, [...] going to sit back and watch the project you built get compromised?

How does this work? Do you rip off your glasses, strike a manly pose and run for the data center, stopping only to force the infra team to give you the credentials?

More seriously...

Organize your own IR tiger team outside of management channels? Congrats, you're unemployed tomorrow, together with anyone silly enough to buy in.

Start making rogue code changes you think are appropriate? That would run in to "want[ing] the title without the obligations". Oh, and also probably end up with you unemployed.

So, really, what are you proposing?
Except that "generalization" implies that it works for previously unseen problems, which is usually not the case for AI.

Compression, on the other hand, nicely captures the "learn and reproduce" approach that using AI entails.
Especially since an oven is probably the simplest tech in the entire assembly line, and a relatively short distance (if not the shortest), so it seems kinda dumb to change the line's direction there, both in expense and complexity.
It’s not that simple. The Indian government literally bans maps that depict the national boundaries as different. It’s even a question on their customs forms [0]. Taking a position like you suggest is always a debate and is rarely black and white. Draw the maps differently and suddenly Google stops working. Now what? Not only do you lose business, but any other value you could provide to people in the country has now been nullified.

[0] http://www.cbic.gov.in/resources//htdocs-cbec/customs/forms_...
> This isn't some pay-back for the crimes the East-Indian Company and the West committed against China back then.

Certainly, but with fentanyl specifically it would not surprise me if some of the Chinese smugglers thought that they do a heroic patriotic act.
What a mess. People complain about whiteboard tech interviewing a lot but it seems like other roles are even worse.
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+1, sync replication also reduces availability: any replica downtime becomes write unavailability until you decide that replica is "dead" and stop replicating to it.

There's also hybrid setups of sync+async for durability reasons, sync to a single replica so that if your primary db suddenly catches fire you have a replica that's as up to date as possible, then read replicas using async replication.
The resize_root script wouldn't do anything if the fdisk and disklabel aren't adjusted (provided it's not a raw filesystem file that's being resized as in http://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/build_your_own_ami/ page), so it's kind of expected that it doesn't work all by itself, and that https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/builds.sr.ht/tree/master/images/... is wrong.
Sensor fusion? Absolutely required. Also, I think "AI Fusion" is needed, where different AI approaches evaluate a situation. Maybe a supervisor DNN AI which is looking at the output from the AIs below, inferring patterns.

DNNs (alone) are incapable of Level 5. OTOH, it's conceivable that in this limited domain, a "Society of AIs" might yield 'acceptable' performance ( 1K deaths per year? ).

I would also like to see a given driving system rated at maximum speed for autonomous use. If you're moving at 5 MPH and your stopping distance (reaction time + coming to a stop) is 5 feet, then your 'Zone of Despair' is the 5 feet in front of you (and some on either side). If you absolutely know this Zone is clear, you can proceed with confidence.

It's a hellishly difficult problem; but I don't think it requires AGI to solve 'adequately'.
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