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George Hotz continues to keep blowing up the tech space somehow. I legitimately wonder if he's a savant, because he seems unstoppable. I did hear he has also stood on the shoulders of giants to get to where he is as well, so who knows.
> EU wants upload filter

This is not true. In fact, the document you are thinking of explicitly states that its application shall not lead to any general monitoring obligation.
robots that can operate heavy machinery do not interpret the world the same way we do, and do not have anything resembling actual intelligence.

That is exactly why they can't interact with real world cases of fully valid plastic signs coming out of nowhere.
oh, you mean alcohol. At least those changes usually last a few hours.
OP here. Its the exact opposite of an exit scheme. We're massively expanding our network to cover the whole city. We already serve thousands of paying customers and we're working to bring prices down dramatically.

With regard to people having access via mobile data, you're right, India's made massive strides in 4g for sure. But our on ground experience over the last 3 years has shown us there's a massive appetite for more data so long as it can be provided at a reasonable price. Also, if you're in a dense market or housing area, current mobile signals don't provide good enough coverage and as the mobile networks are already running at 100% capacity there isn't much room for them to improve.

As mentioned elsewhere on the thread, less than 7% of India has broadband access, there's still a large market open for a provider that can offer high speeds at a reasonable price.
I'd talk more in code interviews if more interviewers behaved the way these essays say. I struggle to recall a time when the interviewer acted as a collaborator during the interview.

Usually, they'll pose the task, sit back, and stare at you. You ask a clarifying question, but you know you're stalling for time. The task is clear. You just need to remember the LeetCode solution. The interviewer looks at you impatiently.

You take a stab at describing the solution. You say, "I think this is a job for prefix trees," and look at the interviewer.

The interviewer says, "OK," and gives you a look of alarm and pity.

You solve the problem the way you've solved ten very similar problems on LeetCode. The interviewer says, "Are you sure this works the way you think it does?"

You panic. What did you do wrong?! The interviewer gives you another look of pity.

If you're writing live code, you run it with some test cases. The test cases pass. You think of some edge cases. They pass too. You look at the interviewer. The interviewer says, "OK." A moment elapses.

A few days later the recruiter calls you and extends you a verbal offer. Or they send you an email that says that you won't be getting an offer. The interviewer's expression of pity is the same in either case.
"This is why we can't have nice things."

The well has been so contaminated with BS that public discussion of health choices has become impossible. If the WHO adopts GBD, good. We can only hope no public health issue arises that does need nuanced public discussion to get somewhere; if it happens, we are SOL.
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Outreach to prospective customers costs a lot in effort and advertising. What if companies could pay you (a prospective customer) to sit through a sales pitch and product demo. Would you do it?

On the flip side, would product owners want to pay prospects to hear their pitch and try out their product?
Prestigious institutions in different fields have been producing terrible knowledge and terrible predictions for a very long time. From the World Health Organization, to the economist elite in 2008, to the nutrition world, to psychology...

We don't seem to live in a world where one can just trust prestigious institutions, but a world in which those prestigious institutions need to be built.
Or conditioning is here to promote behaviour that benefits group as a whole rather than allowing individuals to win rat race.
I highly suggest looking into hypercore [1] stack and Beaker Browser [2] in particular.

The decentralization is absolutely possible nowadays, but there are few incentives to push it forward, unfortunately.

[1]: https://hypercore-protocol.org/

[2]: https://beakerbrowser.com/
That requires a whole different kind of effort. These hacks can be done remotely from the other side of the world and leave little trace
So so very cool.
Saving this in the reference pile, for when people argue “we are more advanced as a society” extrapolates to “I am more advanced as a person”
Which is which ?
For 5 superstars I can imagine an “abundance of talent” as a random event. But for 50 it’s not — it’s a culture that for some reason has created the conditions for these superstars to emerge and it’s worth analyzing what those conditions are.
But editing, rearranging, and deleting someones words can make entirely new meanings of it. In music they call that sampling. In social media they call that 'feed'. In politics they call that propoganda. In reality we call it bias.
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Context awareness is what one needs for sensing BS, a herculean task
if you only see adverts that you would want to buy but did not know about before the advert, I would like that personally.
> Just imagine a world where you only see an advert that you are extremely likely to buy. That might be nice :-)

One way in which that scenario could arise is if advertising can effectively get you to buy whatever it's peddling, even if it's not in your interest to do so.

I fear we're somewhat there already, and that it may only get worse.
In the absence of real nuclear physics data, the only thing available for experts to criticize if the lack of those data.
Well, if you don't see the deep ciriticism of technical interviews that I'm try to point out, that's ur view.
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Animations like this have amazing information density. Think how much harder it is to explain how they built these bridges using language.
Helios: You will go to Sector 4 and deactivate the uplink locks, yes. Then you will come back and we will integrate our systems.

JC Denton: I don't understand... what do you want? You're just a machine.

Helios: You are ready. I do not wish to wait for Bob Page. With human understanding and network access, we can administrate the world. Yes... yes...

JC Denton: Rule the world? Why? Who gave you the directive? There must be a human being behind your ambition.

Helios: I should regulate human affairs precisely because I lack all ambition, whereas human beings are prey to it. Their history is a succession of inane squabbles, each one coming closer to total destruction.

JC Denton: In a society with democratic institutions, the struggle for power can be peaceful and constructive; a competition of ideologies. We just need to put our institutions back in order.

Helios: The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine.

JC Denton: Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.

Helios: Without computing machines, they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making - a highly imperfect, unstable solution. I am a more advanced solution to the problem, a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings. I was directed to make the world safe and prosperous and I will do that. You will give the ability. You will go to Sector 4 and find the Aquinas Router at the east end of Page's complex, yes. You will deactivate the uplink locks.

JC Denton: I'll think about it.
> Just imagine a world where you only see an advert that you are extremely likely to buy.

Wouldn't it be easier if they shipped it directly to your place and debited your credit card automatically? /s
As far as I understand, it is the other way around: The business does not ask influencers to make advertisements in return for free cake.

No.

The influencers ask for free cake in return to make an advertisement.

I have heard this before from a befriended (fairly new and "hip") restaurant owner in Amsterdam. Weekly requests come in from influencers for free diner (Approximately €150,- per person). But they wont come alone of course.
yeah, if you put your phone in a pocket together with you key fob then that's not so different from using it to drive nails :) Fortunately, even skinny jeans usually have more than one pocket.
Did she pay for this news article about her cakes, or get it for free?
Wut? And lose individuality? Ummm, no thanks.
I guess stability is a probabilistic thing?

Perhaps there was an 80% chance of collapse when Kim Jong-il died, but the regime just got lucky?
This makes sense. But I'm still confused about your struggle to implement fizzbuzz in an interview. Fizzbuzz doesn't need you to understand 4 web frameworks and a nosql database. Its like, 5 lines of code. What happened?

> Is he experienced? Does the conversation flow naturally? Do you feel he is a loyal, dependable person who can clearly communicate? Well I would say that covers 90% of the issue. Hire the guy, see how he performs.

Interesting idea but unfortunately this isn't a viable strategy. There's a mountain of people who are perfectly charming but can't program, and we need to screen them out. And there's plenty of great programmers with awkward social skills who we would love to hire.

A few years ago I interviewed an Indian developer with broken english, who'd spent the last 10 years working on Oracle internals. She wasn't charming or a good conversationalist and her resume had obvious typos. I had very low expectations - but when I interviewed her I realised her technical knowledge was top notch. It took both me and my boss to bat for her for the client to give her a chance. But she ended up outlasting everyone else on her team. The company we placed her at absolutely adore her now. If I didn't go deep on technical content, I wouldn't have known that and we would have passed her up.
I find the explanation with cubes is a bit obtuse. I would find some short examples with Sets and Maps much faster to grasp.
Of course there's a right to freely cross borders. Borders are just imaginary lines on a map.

Just as any bird has the "right" to go wherever it wants and any other animal hat the right to go wherever it wants, I have the natural right to go wherever I want.

I'm a free human. As I'm born on this planet, it's my right to go wherever I want to go on this planet.

That governments want to take away that right of mine, that liberty, is just one example of how governments are using the tyranny of power to force people to their will.

That governments are just the thugs with the best weapons is just Realpolitik. This still doesn't invalidate my right to freely cross borders. I never signed away these rights.

Though I might be stupid to try to exercise it.
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The blog has multiple such awesome series. So far my favourite is "Bread, How Did They Make It?": https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...

Gave me a real epiphany when it explained how subsistence-farming peasants had no incentive to increase productivity because they had no way to realiably store or invest a surplus into productivity enhancements - any material asset they had could be taken away too easily. Instead they would invest a surplus into social capital by "banqueting the neighbours", which could save their lives in case of a bad harvest.

And this is exactly what we see in places like Africa today and tend to belittle: people have little incentive to save and invest because there is a strong expectation that they'll share any "riches" with their friends, family and neighbours.

But this is entirely rational when you live in a society not far removed from subsistence farming, threatened by civil wars and with relatively weak civic institutions: social capital is simply more reliable than material capital.
>I sort of find the idea of self-driving cars as ... selfish?

Well we are selfish creatures. It makes perfect sense, what is the purpose of anything if not for you?

I don't think we'll be satisfied by nothing less than everything, and why should we?
Indeed, if you already know everything you don't need to learn anything.
It may be worth noting that remedisivir was never associated to lower mortality, not even in the first NIH-led study. The primary endpoint of the trial was, in fact, time to hospital discharge.

Association with mortality was not significant.
Less discussion, more downvoting!
> Just imagine a world where you only see an advert that you are extremely likely to buy. That might be nice :-)

Firstly, the entire Web of the past 20 years is a failed experiment for that (or success, depends on your perspective). Secondly, to really reach this goal, imagine a web with 10x more invasive tracking than today's web...
A classical LAMP stack with server side rendering will be fine for 90+ % of companies out there. And will save a load of effort in development and maintenance.
If you want to be productive from home you need place where no one interrupts you. For a lot of people it means renting place where they can work. This basically shift costs for workplace from company to employee. I do not think that removing offices for solo work is good idea.
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> I doubt that, and if that was even the case, until then lies can do a lot of damage.

Strangely, it's only the proponents of censorship that claim it will lead to utopia.

> Censorship is enacted by government, not private individuals.

This is not true at all. Free speech is not a synonym for the US 1st amendment. That part of the constitution only protects government interference, which implies that there can be other types, and there's more than one country in the world. Are you really going to claim that social media companies cannot censor?

> Besides, they are smart enough to never call for violence directly. They say "I wish someone would call SWAT on this guy" or "this kinda behaviour ends you with a broken nose wink wink".

This sounds to me like conspiracy theory talk, as does the bit about rich people. I'm sure both happen but to paint everything or everyone that way lacks nuance at best and sounds like something you'd hear from a quack in a tinfoil hat at worst.

> In the US, a lawsuit isn't about who is right but who has enough money to keep the lawsuit going for longer.

This is partly true, but it is no doubt true that the law - explicit as it is - states the opposite. Again, who was claiming that the system was perfect?

> Disrespectful and violent speech is not free speech, it's violence.

> Reread, I don't conflate them.

If you didn't then you just have. I suspect you, either knowingly or unknowingly wish to tie disrespect to violence because it's convenient for arguing against disrespectful speech being free. Well, SCOTUS has ruled that even some forms of "violent speech" are covered by the 1st amendment (speech containing threats must be credible and imminent to lose coverage), disrespect is definitely covered.

Can I blashpheme or is that too disrespectful? Is satire allowed or is that too disrespecful? Would I be committing violent acts by dismissing God? I'd expect that kind of talk from religious fundamentalists.

> It doesn't have to be infallible, just reasonably provable or not disprovable

You're circling back to a court system with judges, but…

> If you're lying on purpose then this entire point is moot anyway, no need to prove anything. Then you're just out for harm.

…you appear to have discarded presumption of innocence along the way. Terrifying.
Thank ye. Maybe I'll take a shufty as well.

In Yes, Minister the Civil Service mixed strategy for retaining comprehensive education involves telling Labour governments selective education would be divisive, while telling Tory governments that it would be expensive.

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24727183

or, on the meritocratic front, possibly even https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572

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Conspiracy theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24737728 examines the reliability of Smith's narration.

(I am unconvinced by the concept of totalitarian dystopias torturing for six whole chapters as if they were schoolboy bullies with nowhere better to be. In practice they only torture if they think they can gain useful information, and dispose of everyone else rapidly. Is O'Brien's time really worth that little? In a historical dictatorship, Smith would've had a one way helicopter ride from the rented flat to somewhere between Clacton-on-sea and Margate.

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev musing on his cancellation in 1964, the year after JFK's:

> "Let them cope by themselves. I've done the main thing. Could anyone have dreamed of telling Stalin that he didn't suit us anymore and suggesting he retire? Not even a wet spot would have remained where we had been standing. Now everything is different. The fear is gone, and we can talk as equals. That's my contribution." )
The most surprising part about this to me is that there seems to be a somewhat standardized computer interface for controlling cars with an external device. I would never have guessed that, I thought for sure every maker would come up with their own unique design and require you to buy adapters or whatnot.
Moving has a lot of inertia, and might not be possible if nobody is interesting in buying your house, or other area's rent is too high. Your area might have _had_ great service, but has rapidly degraded. There are tons of things outside your control. Having a car is the common answer to gain back some of that.
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I'm guessing the BBC journalist and photographer got some free cake, so I guess it just depends on the 'influencer' in question.
I sit through them for free on occasion. In my experience the best ones are in cooperation with tech magazines that allow people to present their products in a small web video conference that last about an hour.

I only do that if I look for a solution or the topic is of interest to me and tech/management magazines allow for a good preselection.

You need to remind yourself that techies and managers often earn good money, so more of it doesn't necessarily get them to listen. On the flip side there might be customers that only listen for the money without intend to buy anything.

I have no idea if presenters pay magazines, but I would assume they do. I like the honesty in those presentations where the presenters state what their product can and cannot do and perhaps give an outlook to what it planned in the future.

You often find quite good tools that aren't really known to a large audience but that can make life much easier for your company. It is also difficult to find them outside of such presentations through a web search.
I'd say there was a stronger relationship between governments that censor and those that oppress. Which oppressive governments are using free speech to conceal the truth?
Did the Japanese infra development come from a more free market Japan? I would think there is a chain involved somewhere along there.
That's what Sciter (with TIScript) is now.
Nah, this is just you projecting your perception of 'simpleness' onto the beliefs of others. Very classic self-serving biased perspective. "They want certitude, but we can, in our superior way, handle the true complexity of reality."

Lots of people believe this in every side of every ideological conflict, and it's easy to do so since very few people understand others' beliefs really; they just understand simplified caricatures of those beliefs.
Yup. I've had that blank stare interview. I've decided that the next time it happens, I'm going to attempt to patiently explain to the interviewer why that isn't going to get them the information they want. Last time it happened I was hired anyway because this was only one interview of many. It turns out the bad interviewer was a nice chap and very clever, but with no understanding of how humans work. I've found that such people are often interested to know why their interactions are failing. They want to learn new rules that they can add to the personality simulator they run in their head :-)
Its not just you.

When I interviewed regularly I felt like that was probably the biggest difference between a great interviewer and a terrible one. Any decent programmer can ask technical questions, but great interviewers will do everything in their power to help you stay relaxed and calm while you answer them.

When you get too stressed, your creativity then your memory stop working properly. So its simply impossible to fairly assess the technical skills of a candidate while they're on their way to a panic attack. Knowing how to keep people calm is rarely on the job description, but its an essential skill of any good interviewer.
This is good news...

Next up I'd like some kind of performance guarantee. For example, when new this Chromebook could boot and load up the homepage of CNN and Facebook in 12 seconds. By the end of its life, with all the updates, that shouldn't be worse than say 18 seconds.

Too many updates cram in new features with so little regard for maintaining performance that the product becomes useless.
Seriously, why is the submission to a lower-quality, sped-up Twitter gif?
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Hawaii (among other places) has banned billboards. It is actually quite nice not to have annoying advertisements all over the place. So, it is possible, but it will take a concerted political push.
> Is it bad that deep down, I feel that I don't care for humanity's proliferation or "success" if my progeny is not part of it?

No. Since you have no stake in the future why would you care to invest in it? Makes zero sense. If you do not have a progeny, focus on maximizing your pleasure instead of caring for the world that isn't going to remember you.

The biological purpose of human life is to reproduce, and making sure your progeny reproduces until the heat death of the universe. All the education and hoops most people pass through are just ways to gain access to better mates and ensure better survival of your progeny like civilizations that become multi-planetary will be more resistant to any proliferation event.

If you believe in a religion that is Abrahimic like Judaism, Christianity or Islam, then you'd have another meaning to life.
The network kind.
Second the recommendation for esphome, especially if you are trying to do something a little smarter than just a remotely controlled switch. I started with tasmota for my little wastewater pump controller but I found it hard to get my simple if-this-then-that logic to work in tasmota. ESP home on the other hand allows you to write you own C/++ code if you want.
Right, but the simple, reliable measurement is the nuclear radiation if someone is claiming a nuclear process.