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There is definitely some validity, even if it just boils down to "understand how your ML models make there decisions and make sure you're cool with that". I think the challenge is that a lot of the "ethical ai" agenda seems to be getting set by people that understand neither ML not ethics and end up focusing on superficial issues that are not actually related to ML and are more about "now that you've written your decision criteria down, you may not like what you find". Maybe that's what you're seeing, that what could be more of an objective science gets wrapped in a social movement so it ends up looking a lot less legitimate
I’m unaware of any Core Banking Systems (CBS) that runs on a cloud provider with the exception being Finastra (Azure). Other parts of retail banking stacks? Sure. Not their cores.
I feel there is a big market for better privacy on voice assistants, perhaps even semi-offline functionality, and MS has missed an opportunity there to differentiate.
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Great question, all sorts of things. That I would feel comfortable with at this employer, for the moment, is disclosing historical involvement in 2600 at a very bad time, let's say. This goes both directions; my current employer has been on the receiving end of protest before. I'm already hesitant to have my personal identity associated for that reason, but am doing so in the interest of others finding my resume, hosted on my website.

I don't think it takes long to imagine personal / work boundaries being crossed that are undesirable in the current western world. I think HN has a lot of articles about just that.

My bigger curiosity - is it supposed to work this way?
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Telenor is no stranger to being ordered to do these things when operating in autocratic regimes, and they have a history of complying.

Previous incidents have not evoked any such responses in Norway either, sadly.
> I wish the ghosts of unix past had forseen the need for a way to mark particular variables as, say, 'sensitive' and 'noexport', allowing them to opt out of the default behaviour.

The default behavior is a non-exported variable. If you want child processes to see it, you must export it.
I think the point was that a national emergency system should redundantly use two cloud providers, not that they made the wrong choice of single cloud provider.
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> One example: public transit is a huge economic enabler for dense cities where driving isn’t practical. It’s fine for it to lose money considered on its own, because it drives overall growth.

As I said before, and I'll add a little bit: Please, grab a spreadsheet, start to develop the financial equation for anything you care to look into and think it through.

Public transportation probably has a much larger profit motive than any private enterprise. You have to look at the financial equation that drives the thing. They don't call it "profit", and yet it is exactly the same thing.

What form that it take?

Go research benefit and pensions. People in these government organizations get life-long pensions that they did not pay for. They also get life-long health coverage...they did not pay for. These pensions are unsustainable without the "profit" in the form of ever-increasing taxation, bonds and other methods.

It's money in excess of the cost of goods sold. Same thing. Different name.

I think you misunderstood my perspective on this. I am not proposing some crazy scenario where capitalism runs rampant doing as everyone might wish and make an even bigger mess out of healthcare. Not at all.

My point of view is very simple:

Government is bad at executing on just about everything.

Their role should be to engage in creating the legal and regulatory framework within which entrepreneurs have to function in order to deliver goods and services.

They should not be in the business of implementing any of it. They fuck it up more often than not. Look at the mess the Trump administration made out of the vaccine deployment as a recent and painful example. This isn't a Republican or Democrat thing, they all suck at getting things done correctly, effectively and efficiently.

They should have grand debates (in public) exploring how to engineer a legal and regulatory framework for healthcare that allows our entrepreneurs to deliver excellent products to everyone. No monopolies. No exclusions. Etc.

Of course, they also need to make sure their rule-making deals with all relevant elements of the financial equation.

Simple example: You cannot, positively cannot, lower the cost of healthcare in the US if a medical education costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, malpractice insurance tens of thousands, and a hospital has more lawyers than doctors. It's crazy. So, again, for example, get out of the student loan business and education costs will come down.

There's a lot of "structural" work that needs to be done before any insurance entity, public or private, can reduce costs. I've been saying this all along. This isn't magic. It's math. There's a financial equation for everything and you can't force lower end-user costs if the cost of goods sold is high.

It's the no-free-lunch principle. Probably the fundamental law of the universe, right up there with gravitation.
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There’s a complexity cost, though, right? It’s not free to run two different systems, manage two different billing systems, different tools, pay for cross-provider bandwidth, etc.?

I’m sure there are some cases where the cost is worth the complexity, but I don’t think it’s cut and dried as written here. Most cloud providers are very reliable, and my guess is that you are more likely to have a self-inflicted outage due to the complexity of your infrastructure than the cloud provider having an outage.
Every state that winds up being the target of affluent people fleeing a major urban area winds up with this problem.

It's really a shame that any evenly applied attempt to privilege existing residents (not necessarily property owners) runs into legal issue.
The building code and fire code thing is not true. Building codes are actually very flexible. There are plenty of ways to build a building to look exactly like almost any old building and fully comply with all codes.
> But most would not.

How could that possibly be true? Basically everyone who isn't a rabid anti-vaxxer is trying to get a Covid shot as soon as possible. And pretty obviously none of the participants in a vaccination study is going to be an anti-vaxxer.

> 7 deaths in placebo group; 7 in control group

That's not true. Why in the world would you fib about something that is this easy to verify? There were 3 deaths in the treatment group, 4 in the control. But more to the point, there were no deaths from Covid in either group. It's not that "7 people died of Covid in the treatment group" which you were clearly trying to imply.

Now, why were there no deaths from Covid? Because the size of the trial was set such that they could reasonably expect to find an effect for preventing symptomatic disease. That's why it was the primary endpoint.

Why couldn't they run a trial where Covid deaths were the endpoint? Because the IFR of Covid is "only" 1%. To run a trial that could reliably show an effect on the number of deaths, you'd be looking at 100x the participants. I'm sure you're not seriously suggesting running a trial of 3M people.

> Are you saying that the idea that humans respond to incentives is absurd?

No. I think your suggestions on what Moderna's incentives are absurd.

Think about it for a bit: the early results showed no change in the number of deaths. You're suggesting that if they waited and... ummm.. showed no change in the number of deaths, it'd somehow lose them tens of billions. I can't help but notice that the before and after are the same there: "not showing a change in the number of deaths".

But also, that's 1.5 years from now. There's a lot of vaccines to be sold right now, and that's what their incentives would be focused on. Not on hypothetical effects that their trial was not designed to surface in the first place.

And again, the foundation for this theory is that the trial participants would have agreed to not get a working vaccination for two years, even if on placebo. You've not presented any proof for this except claims about "NIH training".
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azuredns100sla/?cd...

> Azure DNS is now being offered at a 100% availability SLA that's backed by our diverse, geo-redundant DNS infrastructure.

> With this update, Azure DNS guarantees that valid DNS requests will receive a response from at least one name server 100% of the time. For details, see the SLA definition.

This hasn't aged well
Yeah that’s so cool! I’m super keen for this.
I’ve hit you up on Twitter.
My opinion is that a high-level language like Java has no business making me guess how many bytes my numeric values will occupy. It's insane. Since when does Java give a crap about memory space? "Allocations are cheap!" they said. "Computers are fast!" they said about indirection costs. Then they stopped and asked me if I want my number to occupy 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes? Are you kidding me?

Yes, you should have those types available so that your Java code can interact with a SQL database, or do some low-ish level network crap, or FFI with C or something. But the default should basically be a smart version of BigInteger that maybe the JVM and/or compiler could guesstimate the size of or optimize while running.

Thus, IMO, there should be a handful of numeric types that are strict in behavior and do not willy-nilly cast back and forth. Ideally you'd have Integer, UInteger, PositiveInteger, and a similar suite for Decimal types.

Schemes have done numbers correctly since basically forever.
And it's still not clear to me how you avoid the situation where a datacenter with 3 network connections masquerades as three different filecoin storage providers with a very similar set of files.
I got too excited and it's too late in the day; I'll put money down on this one being an April Fools joke. God, hopefully. :)
I would guess it would have a Non Disclosure Agreement attached, along with the mercenary reputation damage one take on by breaking the contract. One would not be let back in the club.
Do you think it wise to break a contract (eg: steal from) a weapons dealer?
> Since determining the client in which an email is opened requires images to be displayed, the data for some email clients and mobile devices might be over- or under-represented due to automatic image blocking.

I wager Outlook users are less likely to have remote images enabled
No, it's not just you. Independent aggregated customer data I've seen has put AWS and GCP with a marginal difference in downtime and Azure with an order of magnitude or two more downtime in comparison.
Even if they’re on a deadend they may discover a thing or two that can be applied somewhere else. But I hear you, your intuition is probably right. But if they left this area unexplored it would still be a loss.
It's unsurprising that the main vector for iOS jailbreaks would be through the web engine. The FreeBSD-based PlayStation 4 was also jailbroken via it's browser.

If you have written a hardened, safe browser engine then you are free to share it to the world, otherwise I wouldn't downplay their efforts.
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Cash App does, but that's the only one I'm aware of.
Zoning has nothing to do with the safety of the constructed building. Isn't the article only talking about zoning?
Ugh, that sucks. Thanks for the info.
Doesn't have to be all eligible people.

There's also natural immunity for the ones who'd rather have that than the scary scientist-designed shot. The most irresponsible ones have the best chance of getting nature's vaccine. Depending on how long immunity lasts, that might drive it very low.

And as far as I know, the vaccines are highly effective and very few people are actually medically unable to get this vaccine. Honestly, if only people who chose not to be protected from it die... too bad for them.
Yes, the word for base 10 is “decimal” [1] and digits do not have to be decimal digits. There are also binary digits “bits” [2], ternary digits “trits” [3], and so on.

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[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_numeral_system
> I am very skeptical

As a fellow cognitive scientist, I am too.
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Sure there is, there could be new variants that the vaccines don't protect against. The criteria for the various levels of reopening were set at the beginning. Those are what should determine the reopening according to public health experts.
Are there different requirements for Coinbase Pro that many users of the "normal" service wouldn't qualify for?
Great stuff, and it’s cool you are working with Doug, I enjoyed his book on search relevance :) I’ll look out for more posts from your team, good luck!
I at the same time laughed and got nauseated just by looking at that FizzBuzzEnterprise code LOL. I'm a minimalistic programmer myself, so the thing I hate the most in coding is over engineered code. Yes , it's a joke, but a joke based on real life haha.
It reminds me of a darker poem ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
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That was my response to the question -- calling something "good" or "bad" is a moral judgment. Try applying the arguments to any other species, which do not construct moral systems, and it should be obvious why calling procreation morally wrong or bad makes no sense.
The agencies are believed to have the iCloud decryption keys.
Don't travel plans, to Europe in your case, also depend on vaccinations and organic immunity (from infections) at your destination? Specifically, I'm not aware of studies demonstrating viral load carrying capacity of immunized individuals. In other words, how would you, as an immunized individual know that you're not a virus carrier?
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I don't know about Ada, but I enjoy Rust's strictness when it comes to numeric types.

> Java-style wrapping integers should never be the default, this is arguably even worse than C and C++’s UB-on-overflow which at least permits an implementation to trap.

EXACTLY. It's f-ing stupid. C's excuse was compilers doing magic on UB or whatever. Java has no such excuse. They just wanted it to behave the same as C/C++ to attract C++ devs.

> At least Java has the defence that they didn't know how it would pan out. C# has no such excuse in copying Java.

My understanding was that they DID know it was wrong and chose to do it anyway because it was more convenient and ergonomic to allow it that way. I guess they realized that was a terrible idea, because the generic collection interfaces do it correctly.

I don't see how const and immutability align with Java's original philosophy of being object-oriented, which is all about opaque objects that control internal mutable state. The very fact that it's taken until now to have records is proof-positive that "everything is an object" was taken pretty literally for most of its life. Immutable data doesn't really jive with that.
Yes, the audio quality is better than my AudioTechnica and Sony cans, and it integrates super well with all my Apple devices.

Totally a lifestyle choice to wear them in my home office where no one can see them!
Personally, I can get 75-80 WPM with two-handed non-swipe typing on my iPhone, with autocorrect on, albeit making a few uncorrected errors. Now, I have never spent any significant amount of time with physical phone keyboards, so I can’t personally compare the experience. But from some Googling, 75 WPM seems to be at the high end of what people could achieve on old BlackBerries. So or oductivity-wise, it doesn’t seem like I’m missing out on much. YMMV.

That said, autocorrect only works for English text. If I’m trying to, say, type a shell command into an SSH session, I do have to slow down quite a bit.
There is a non-zero probability of not being alive any more. I don't think you understand the nature of that game.
There are plenty of property owners who want housing to remain dirt cheap so that the kind of people who need dirt cheap housing stick around and the kind of people who don't need dirt cheap housing don't show up and bring their zoning and their bylaws and their opinions with them.
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I like this idea.

1. Company verifies the bug

2. Assigns it a price according to impact

3. Keeps details hidden until Apple pays them, then reveals the bug. Thus Apple is forced to pay, but bad actors dont get access.

Different bug markets can compete to correctly price bugs.
> with no visible inflation

Inflation lags printing and the lag is longer when the velocity of money is slow, like it is now. Once people start spending again, the inflation will be visible.
Flu vaccines are less effective than what we're seeing with the covid vaccines as well as they're more of a guess as to what will become the biggest flu variant vs after the fact of the covid vaccines. Not really comparable.
It's an emergency alerting system. Low bandwidth, broadcast. Perfect for blasting a few kilowatts of RF via digipeters each with their own generators and lead acid battery banks.
The major cloud providers all aim for 99.999% uptime. Keep in mind that 99.99% uptime means ~4 minutes of downtime a month. I think there are other reasons that banks may not want or have the ability to run their core services on the cloud.
That is not taken into account in timezones though, because it would depend on where you live. For MTC it probably is accounted for to some extent.
True HFT won't think twice about avoiding satellites... The latency is just too high.
This is bullshit. (I might've agreed before I had kids). My kids are the only joy I've ever known, I mean I love my wife lol, but not as much as my boys. Nothing makes life worth living as much as my kids, I wouldn't trade that for anything and I don't think one can truly know what it means to be alive until you feel the pride of a mom/dad when your kid learns to read or do something amazing for the first time.

I say this as an agnostic (ex-mormon), anarcho-socialist(i.e. left-libertarian NOT libertarian party - more aligned with DSA than lib party), global warming believer who believes thorougly in masking-up and calling out any business who refuses to enforce it. In other words, I'm as left and anti-authoritarian as you get on the political compass... This only matters, because you just assume the people "for families" is your evangelist types and right-wingers, not true.

We almost didn't have kids (took 14 years at age 38 we finally had our first) thanks to infertility. I was ready to say oh well, you win some/lose some. My wife who is still mormon but not very active felt that - her whole purpose was motherhood, so we kept trying.

I'm so glad I didn't give up on that... I've had anxiety/depression/etc the past few years. My boys are what keeps me from going over the deep-end, and made me get therapy and lose weight.

Gay, Trans, Childless, Polygamy, Monogamy, Polyamory, whatever your lifestyle I say do your thing, and always have. I've told church leaders to go to hell for bashing people that didn't fit their idea of "family values" (i.e. lgbtq), don't bash those of us who family life is part of our identity.

Edit: That said, I once wanted like 8 kids (cause that's what mormons do?), now I'm happy with 2, though I wish we could've had a girl, but that ship's passed (health reasons), so I'll be happy w/ my boys or maybe we'll adopt.... but as I've gotten older, I think maybe some people are a bit too...ambitious on child-rearing. Like the Duggars... 2-4 should be plenty and economical, I think moderation is a virtual and a moral tenet.
Beyond agreeing with jjgreen on start small…

For motivation: I know it is trite, but The Seinfeld Calendar¹ can be a really useful method to train yourself. If you're an org-mode user org-habit² is an excellent solution for the same task, seeing no red or yellow bars becomes truly comforting. I collect a bunch of "catch up with $junior"-type tasks for this purpose, especially in the New Times where I'm not seeing their faces so often.

I believe one of the cool things about earning the senior badge is how often you have your eyes opened to new ideas from fresh minds. Don't treat the duties simply as management chores, use it as an opportunity to learn about the great code and creative solutions from other people. And, if the code isn't all that great or the solutions all that creative then you've just found yourself a mentorship challenge to tackle ;)

¹ https://lifehacker.com/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-2...

² https://orgmode.org/manual/Tracking-your-habits.html