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If there are infinite number of doors, then does switching guarantee us the car?

Also, Game 5:
There are 2 doors. A car is randomly placed behind one, and goats behind the others.
You pick one door.
Monty looks behind the other doors. He chooses 0 of them with goats behind them, and opens them.
You get two options:
Option A: You get whatever is behind the door you picked.
Option B: You get whatever is behind the other closed door.
Should you switch?
+1 for Markdown-Here. It works well enough for me despite it being abandoned.
Facebook is not committed to the principle of free speech in advertising, and prohibits advertisements for a great many things that are legal to advertise.
And then when you contact them it goes to voicemail, they call you back 9 times 3 days later and sell your email address to everyone under the sun :)

OH and then when theyre about to drop in stock price because they dont know how to deliver valuable products, they use the US government to force other companies to buy their product otherwise the US government will kick that prospective customer out of US markets ^.^
I don't buy that argument, which just rewards whoever has the most money to throw at the advertising market (Bloomberg's signal failure in this regard doesn't invalidate the general problem). I like the clearly labeled and non-sensationalistic statements in voter information booklets, myself.

I am of course speaking in general terms about future elections rather than making drastic adjustments in the middle of this one.
How can a car have "quite bad" build quality and yet be "the BEST car you have ever driven"?

Have you not driven any other cars?
> What does "1 inch narrower" mean to you, in the context of this analogy? Are you suggesting the interfaces have different names? Different sized arguments?

Your question is exactly my point. I'm suggesting what I said earlier:

>> I don't think that's a good analogy at all.
As a student myself (American highschool, currently senior year + online dual enrollment) I can't help but feel as though a lot of the math classes I am taking are simply wasting my time. Actually, I can't help but feel that a lot of the classes I am taking are wasting my time.

I would consider myself one of the lucky ones in the fact that I never had to touch anything calculus related. My school tested having students take AP Statistics instead of Pre-Calculus (a decision they have now reversed after seeing that only 3 kids passed the AP stats exam) and I avoided taking Calculus for my senior year because I am taking a math class at a local college instead.

I am also quite disappointed that my college Algebra class feels like the same pump and dump memory game all over again. Then again, it's all online due to Covid so I can only hope that the real college experience is more interesting.

I really wish high schools would stop emphasizing on the "common curriculum" and start giving students more freedom to choose what they want to learn. I also think that there should be a highschool class that teaches you how to think instead of what to think.
This just seems like too little, too late.

Much of the problems I see aren't advertising in the traditional sense, but viral content from sketchy sources.

If they wanted to seriously affect this, they would prevent posts from spreading to tens of thousands/ millions of people without being vetted.
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I have had several of these that I still wear after 20 years. They have been refurbished.
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Maybe they brake automatically - “regenerative braking”? I remember when I was test-driving Model S, the driving experience was very different from an ICE car, because as soon as you took your foot off the pedal, it started braking quite noticeably. To get an equivalent experience to an ICE car, you had to keep the pedal pressed ever so slightly (or change the settings).

Maybe regenerative braking is also when the brake lights turn on.
My 98 Pontiac Bonneville drives better than a Model 3.
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In light of:

> Tesla's build quality is quite bad

> Model 3 is the BEST car I have ever driven

I feel compelled to ask, what else have you driven?
That's true, but we only have 10 weeks in a quarter, and this class isn't many units so there isn't much time in every week. In the blog post, I explain our rationale for focusing on Rust even though I'm aware there are many other things we could talk about. Primarily, I think Rust encourages good programming practices, and, by working through practical assignments, students are able to develop better habits and have a more cohesive experience than they would if we just gave them an assorted list of technologies to know. That being said, I do wish we had spent more time giving students a better awareness of what's out there and talking about useful tools such as fuzzers.
This got me started again on whether I'm a brain in a jar or maybe GPT-5
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Sony had user-replaceable hard disk since PS3. Microsoft never proposed this. I don't think it will change with this generation.
~50 users, beyond that and you'd want to use separate instances.

No self-hosting planned, but private rooms with moderation controls are on the roadmap.
FWIW this misses the context that they'll already be banned 1 week before Nov 3. This just extends that ban beyond the election.
What works for me is scaling the number of doors to 100 (or more). Now the initial guess is correct only 1% of the time, while switching is 99%.

Simulated many more variations at https://simonduff.net/monty_hall/
In view of my other comment, I should make clear that I don't actually think the first bullet is necessary to Penrose's model. If "time passes" during the period after all black holes have evaporated and before the cosmology "recycles" itself, that does not seem to me to be a problem for the model. (Which of course doesn't mean the model is necessarily right, just that this particular issue doesn't seem to me to be a problem for it.)
I’m one of those who feel the urge to correct to/too, their/there/they’re, etc. errors. But, I recognize that the main issue is I don’t know who is on the other side. Is it someone for whom English is a second language? Is it a native English speaker that doesn’t know or doesn’t care to know proper grammar? Is it someone who knows proper grammar but just made a simple mistake? Is it someone who welcomes correction?
Doesn't take long, maybe 15 minutes per if they aren't massive (massive being an immediate red flag to me). Usually skimming and looking for certain things since they are usually very similar / boilerplate. I don't sign up for a new SaaS every day though so it's not a huge inconvenience for me.
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It really is. Every physicist has a dozen ideas like that they realize are stupid, have no evidence for and can't really be proven or disproven with current data.

We call them crazy to keep our selves from going off the deep end and talking about ufos, the foundations of mathematics or the genetic differences between races.
I promise you, if I was to ever start a labor union, I will include that particular proviso.
20 years? lol ill take that bet
(googler, opinion is my own).

Google did the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21456323/google-election-...

As there is a good chance we won't know the result of this elect on election night (or possibly within the first week), the tech companies seem to be getting in-front of a potential problem to keep campaigns from drumming up any kind of fear about the election results after the polls are closed.
Interesting. I read somewhere that Hitachi actually spun off distribution of these things to the US distributor a decade or so ago to avoid their industrial brand being associated with sex and masturbation— would have loved to be a fly on the wall in those board meetings XD
I don't see how what he said is offensive or uncivil at all
That would require that quantum states are not random, but repeat in a deterministic way.
Has anyone else mentioned it here or on the news? Maybe once.
What APIs can I use to create and manage Google Cloud projects, credentials, and billing?

Most things are available under alpha or beta gcloud CLI, but I couldn't find any public reference for the RPC calls.
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> I always assumed the whole 'spell your name wrong' thing that Starbucks did was a marketing thing - they certainly got a lot of social media posts out of it!

Not everything is a conspiracy. Take the average starbucks barista, add in a shop full of customers expecting the line to move quickly, and you end up with a "This looks good enough, fuck it" attitude to writing the name on the cup. Customers that get upset about their name being spelled wrong really need to relax.
I noticed that immediately too and in my opinion reflected so poorly on the over engineering. I remember the PS3 having a lot of silly little nuances that don’t make the games any better. Like the buttons that weren’t real buttons. The PS3 slim cut costs and eliminated all these things.

My sense is that it’s all just a way to help make the price tag feel like you’re getting something premium.
Truth is, a lot of the current spots in the quotas are awarded to outsourcing firms from a single country. I didn't want to specifically name the firms. Naming countries in my comment was insensitive.
Where only one or two anecdotes are presented, there is a larger chance that they may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases
Damn. I bought a Model 3 in Feb of this year, I definitely would have held off if I had seen this first. Anecdotally, my car has been perfect, 0 issues cosmetic or otherwise, but it's obvious I've just been lucky. I really love the car, it's a dream vehicle that exceeded my expectations despite the hype, but there's no getting around the fact that I am sacrificing an unnecessary amount of safety for a cool car. Certainly I could not justify purchasing another Tesla the next time I need a car.
> But you can win me over trivially

I think you will find that most unions support immigration, and provide protections for immigrants.

For example, the largest union in the US, the AFL-CIO, is currently running a "Protect All Workers" campaign[1] specifically for immigrant protections:

> In recent weeks, the federal government took vital steps to address our national health emergency and mitigate its economic damage by passing a series of COVID-19 bills. Unfortunately, millions of immigrant workers who help to build, serve and feed our nation were excluded from the essential coverage and benefits in these bills.

> Congress is currently at work on a fourth COVID-19 bill, and it is vital this one addresses the needs of our nation’s immigrants. It should lift immigrant restrictions on emergency Medicaid testing and treatment, extend work permits for essential workers under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and temporary protected status programs, provide cash payments and other vital benefits to all taxpayers, and halt immigration policies that elevate risk in our communities.

I highly doubt that any of the anti-immigrant posters in the H1B thread would agree with any of those benefits being given to immigrants of any status.

Though that might seem superficial and only skin deep, however the AFL-CIO has been promoting immigration reform for years[2].

Here's what they say about immigration on their site[3]:

> Since our nation’s founding, immigrants and refugees have enriched the fabric of our communities, our workforce and our labor movement. Like it was for generations of immigrants before, the labor movement is the natural home for new immigrants struggling to achieve economic security and win social justice, and our commitment to building an immigration system that represents the needs and interests of all working people is fierce and unwavering.

> The only way to stop the race to the bottom in wages and standards is for working people of all races, religions and immigration status to stand together and demand an end to policies that put profits over people. The entire workforce suffers when millions struggle to support their families without a way to speak up on the job, and ramping up fear in our workplaces only serves to increase exploitation. Instead of deporting immigrants, we need to ensure that all working people have rights on the job and are able to exercise them without fear of retaliation. Enacting meaningful immigration reform is critical to our long-term efforts to lift labor standards and empower workers, and the labor movement will continue to stand in solidarity with all working people.

> America's labor movement is never backing down, not an inch, on its commitment to full immigrant rights in this country.” -Tefere Gebre

> $900B: The amount in lost revenue over 10 years that mass deportation would cost the federal government.

[1] https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-all-workers-3

[2] https://aflcio.org/resolution/labor-movements-principles-com...

[3] https://aflcio.org/issues/immigration
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this thread is filled with some very very aggressive high level instigators, spouting wild outlandish grimdark fantasies that they in no way justify or explain.

there is such a poisonous mentality that has taken root, that is popular. no one at the ietf shares these delusional fears, & it's not because the ietf is a bought out shadow puppet. it's because in reality http3 brings what http2 brought but technically better which brought what http1 brought but technically better.
Tsk, tsk, that's an argumentum ad hominem.
The cooling mechanism is quite impressive. A huge fan, liquid metal, and a heatsink that's ginormous. No wonder that thing can support 8 cores and a GPU in such a cramped container.
Just because it’s electric (feels really nice to drive), the range is good, and there’s a lot of storage space.

Also, some other cars at the same price range have weird feature omissions like no rear seat-warmers or no automatic wipers, etc.

But yes it’s clearly not as well put together as other cars. I don’t see how these are mutually exclusive.
Build quality is not the be-all, end-all of measurements in deciding the “best” car. This is a really common viewpoint among Tesla owners. We have our gripes, but those gripes are overshadowed by other things like the infotainment, acceleration, software, etc.
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What door Monty opens is irrelevant. He shows you a door with a goat, you’re better off switching. He shows you a door with a car, you’re still better off switching. What matters is that when you first choose a door, you have most likely chosen a goat.
Certainly no priest starts a sermon to his flock with "Since God exists". But this is not a church. I'm not a parishioner. And your creed have aimed to harm me in the past. It will take more.
As I say in the blog post, I'm just a grad student, but I have worked in many different places in industry, and from my own experience as well as what I know from others, there is a big need for better awareness of these kinds of issues. We wanted to start doing something to fill that need. I'm certainly not the most qualified person to teach this class, but that's why I wrote the blog post and am soliciting feedback here. Anyways, better to have something than nothing, right?
I don't think the planned Boom plane has the range to go trans-Pacific. Maybe with a stopover in Honolulu to refuel (which could still be substantially faster)
I just wish they would get out of politics altogether.
Once upon a time I was convinced of this, for reasons.

I wrote a simulation to demonstrate how right I was.

I was wrong and you are too.
It's in there (and has been for a while). You can open your network inspector, enable the "Protocol" heading, and look for "h3" requests. For example, if I visit cloudflare.com right now, I see a bunch of requests with protocol "h3-29". If I visit Google maps, I see requests with "h3-Q050". (The part after the h3- is the draft number; Cloudflare's servers use draft 29; Google uses their own thing which identifies itself as Q050.)
This doesn't happen to Dacia either...
Would you care to give context? I see O1 mentioned rather frequently but I never saw it used in recruiting.
Amazon is not exactly a large contributor to postgres...
Sigh...I've been commenting on this case almost as long as I've been on HN. At this point I enjoy fantasizing about a coronal mass ejection causing an electrical storm that would obviate everything to do with it. Well, there's always n-gate.
>fair number of people suggest that Tesla's service is good... stupid slow but eventually good.

This luxury sports car business model. Expensive sports cars are very unreliable and delicate. But they are so expensive that providing very good custom service and repair after the sale is worth it.

They are trying to transform into a market where routine million car recalls kills the business and eats all profits. New cars are expected to work.
No.

If you're playing blackjack, and you hit on a 19, but you have x-ray vision and you know a 2 is at the top of the deck, you're not playing the same game as you would be if you didn't have that knowledge.

Same with the Monty Hall problem. It is a critical distinction whether opening the door has a 0% chance, or a 33% chance, of showing you a car.
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I understand what you're saying but I disagree that it can be reduced to 'buy the right glue' and 'make sure it gets put on correctly' any more it does any more justice to a model CPU to say it's just 'take a transistor and replicate it 5 billion times on a hunk of silicon'. While that's technically true in both cases, it neglects to consider the level of technology that goes into all of the details to make it possible.

I'm not saying that attaching glass to metal is at the same level of complexity as semiconductor fab, but it's a far cry from using some Elmer's Glue to stick two pieces of construction paper together.

And yes, I'm pretty sure Tesla didn't create their own adhesive for the purpose, but I'm equally sure 3M doesn't have an off-the-shelf "Model Y Roof Adhesive, 500ml" product. Or perhaps they did, but the engineering constraints to develop it were those of normal passenger cars, sunroofs, etc., not taking into account the various forces acting upon a 4'x7' sheet of glass at highway speeds, or perhaps the temperatures or speeds of an industrial applicator robot (or conversely, the slowness of a human applicator).

To go back to your original assertion, no, it's not hard to lay down a bead of adhesive, place the glass in and check that it's been done. If in fact the failure mode was 'Failure to apply adhesive', well, that's a fairly egregious and easy to spot problem. If it's 'adhesive failed for unknown reasons after a short period of time', that's an altogether different problem.
Agreed, and it will be super helpful to see how carbon fiber deals with supersonic shock waves compared to steel.

Like I said, it makes a lot of sense to build a platform that can prove that your tooling gets you to a working aircraft. And once you can do that, you can then iterate using the platform to inform your engineering choices. SpaceX has done this brilliantly and is the current poster child AFAICT.

So I'm looking forward to the test program to see how it does, but was chuckling at the over the top marketing speak with which they "rolled out" this revolution.

Step 1: Build a plane (check!)
Step 2: Fly the plane (next on the list)
It's deeper than that. Ellison and Jobs were best friends (to the point that they could be seen in public occasionally wearing matching best friends tshirts).

Jobs died thinking that Android (and particularly Eric Schmidt's part in sitting on the Apple board while Android was being cooked up at Google) was a personal affront to his magnum opus of iPhone, and the rumor is that Ellison agreed to hurt Android any way he could more or less without regard for the costs.
> when the basis is country-specific,

Not adjusting for population when the brunt of this policy is not borne by a country but a person, suggests malicious intent. All countries are treated equal, but all immigrants are not.
The solution here is to pass a law that exempts APIs from copyright, not to rely on a geriatric body of lawyers to interpret laws not designed around technology
> viral content from sketchy sources.

Many of those sources are seeded with promoted links, though. It's true that a lot of conspiracy nonsense is genuinely organic, but a LOT of it is not.
They're also selling a cheaper version with one
Fastening one piece of metal to another piece of metal is a solved problem. Why is Tesla having to relearn that problem?
Ok so a beer talk question to the physicists: By any measure of order, there are more disordered states than ordered states, and therefore any random change is likely to be a change to a more disordered state, leading to the inevitable heat death of the universe. But if this decent into chaos is only about probability, then given infinite time even the infinitesimal chance of spontaneous order will have it's moment.

With infinite time will order spontaneously emerge from heat death?

Was Epicurus right?
It can still be 1/3rd of the scale, even if it's not a "scale model"
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Just curious: could you define better?
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Happy to answer any questions at all about the business or about our decision to bootstrap instead of raise venture money.
In its later years I believe BA and Air France found that perceived costs of a Concorde ticket were actually more expensive than what they were charging, so they increased prices to match perceptions and then Concorde was fairly profitable.

By the time Concorde was actually retired, 9/11 dented air travel demand in general and the thing was a flying dinosaur with not a big enough market to justify an upgraded version of the plane.
Very exciting, thanks!
Check out EFF's Panopticlick demo. You basically answered your own question in your final parenthetical.
> Or alternatively (and quite likely) we'll just hire that potential candidate up here in Canada; growing our tech industry further and competing with American workers in the same time zones

Positioning the country as a cheap offshoring destination for lower-skilled dev doesn't sound like a good long term bet for the local population.
Step 4, kind of a mystery. Why are my odds still the same even though the situation is different?
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