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I've always wondered about this. I first read about this challenge in "Programming Collective Intelligence,"[0] the O'Reilly book from 2007 that drove me to become a professional programmer. It starts like this:

> Netflix is an online DVD rental company that lets people choose movies to be sent to their homes, and makes recommendations based on the movies that customers have previously rented.

It was a different and exciting time back then! I never finished that book but hope to some day... :)

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-collective-...
“…Hence nothing prevents those things which may be learned from the philosophical disciplines, so far as they can be known by the light of natural reason, from being considered by another science according as they are known by the light of divine revelation. Hence theology included in sacred doctrine differs in kind from that theology which is part of philosophy…”
That’s like, just your opinion man.
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I’d enjoy seeing a more creative approach to recommendations for something as big as Netflix.

A few suggestions:

1. Review channels by genre

2. Trailer TV - let me leave a “comedy” trailer channel running that shows the trailer and movie rating and details at the bottom, let me easily skip to the next trailer (or let it play out)
(I have not looked so this is a genuine question)

Is there an actual issue with the freecad codebase? It has always seemed relatively functional.
>prohibitively expensive to accelerate to interstellar speeds.

But if it's on a hyperbolic trajectory, then it would be just as hard to get to it as to escape the solar system, no?

I wonder what the theoretical distribution of speeds (relative to Earth) of random interstellar debris would be.
Yes. But you don't need the whole math to run the universe. Just a subset of your choosing. And you can go beyond that subset (to a wider god-math) to prove that this subset is consistent.

And the fact that your extended god-math can't prove that it is itself fully consistent (doesn't generate any proofs of falsehoods) is not necessarily a problem. It's enough if no falsehoods were involved in the proof of the universe-math consistency.

And that's entirely possible. Theorem you mentioned doesn't say anything about that.
Are these users doing anything more than essentially just shuffling more crypto around? No.
That’s some great guerrilla marketing (or a business hack). At best, they actually get a better (production) algorithm. At worse, they get thought leadership among the ML/AI community and insane publicity still paying dividends today. Reed Hastings is a business savant.
Maybe it will be possible to only numb specific areas, so that you would still feel pain if you accidentally hurt yourself.
Ian Banks did a really amazing exposition of this where the Culture was rallying to stamp out reproducing nanites and they had to be stopped because if not they'd literally turn the whole universe into copies of themselves. One of the human characters mused that isn't that what all life is trying to do? I think it was in the Hydrogen Sonata, but I'm not sure.
Software engineering isn’t blue collar work. “A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled labor.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-collar_worker

Plumber or nurse sure, but staring at a screen or moving Post-it notes isn’t physical labor.
I'm curious how it does vs Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Legionella
Network access and invention of a currency.
Interesting. In my case I am specifically talking about mechanical design CAD for engineering. We have a huge need for that in my opinion. Freecad might be the closest thing but I suspect it needs more investment.

However what you’re talking about sounds important as well.
Perhaps it fell in 1806 when the HRE was dissolved.

But it wasn’t too long after then that Germany put the gang back together, later teaming up with the ottomans to have another crack at taking over the world.

Was the fall of the Third Reich final chapter of the Roman Empire?

Because it wasn’t too long after that event that another pan-European empire… sorry I mean Union emerged, politically dominated by the Holy Roman Empire… sorry I mean Germany.
Dean Kamen teased us with such a solution, but still waiting for lower cost/available units to become available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distill...
Wouldn't less annoying Cookie Banners lead to significantly less data?

Or maybe asked differently: Is people giving actual informed consent to tracking actually a thing? I mean for most people I know, the reaction to such banners is one of:

- opting out
- trying to opt out but being tricked by misleading design to press a "opt in" button
- trying to out out but failing and then "opting in" out of desperation
- people who encountered the previous situations before and "opt in" since they don't have the time/patience to work through the opt out dialogues and decide that tracking is "the lesser evil"
- Not understanding what this is about and just clicking anything to make it disappear

I can't remember anyone who ever really wanted to agree to such stuff. Of course I haven't done any reliable research on this and it might just be my sampling bias, but I would expect any system which really gives people a choice to get very little positive responses. (On the other hand people are also trained to accept things like ToS without thinking at the end of the user journey, so maybe it works out fine...)

Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea and hope that it will be successful. I just don't see users agreeing to this.
It's not an alternative, and that's my point.
Considering people born with pain insensitivity end up severely damaging their bodies this sounds like a terrible idea.
https://archive.is/qAkGg
It seems a little pedantic to criticize the use of 'real' in economics just because it technically doesn't refer to some objective quantity.

It seems rational to me to seek a collection of specialized models for addressing specific problems (as opposed to a general theory of the economy), because the assumption that stable economies return to equilibrium given a long enough time horizon assumes that such a time horizon exists and it assumes stability. Unfortunately neither of these assumptions seems entirely useful because economies are rarely stable long enough to exist in a consistent enough form to make use of such ideas.

Couldn't agree more with the first point about how a useful macroeconomic theory is useless if it starts from first principles. There's no sense in talking economic theory unless the foundation is built upon some relevant, real-world context.

Anyway, taking a graduate course in macro this fall. Excited to see how my experience compares with OP's.
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E.g. "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity" (Napoleon Hill, PT Barnum, Dale Carnegie, Gibran, Benjamin Franklin; 5000+ pages). https://a.co/b8Ej6o7

Talking points: Peaceful coexistence, #GlobalGoals 1-17 (UN SDGs), "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" by Donella H. Meadows. https://a.co/7MgO0bv
Anything can beat their current algorithm of "push people towards our originals, preferences be damned".

EDIT: I should add in terms of customer satisfaction, not revenue. I am sure forcing their originals down people's throats is great for their revenues.
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this is poor logic. imagine two disinfectants, A and B, both kill 90%+ of known bacteria. imagine that you need 1 part per billion for A to be effective and 10 million parts per billion for B to be effective.

“Better” does not necessarily mean “kills a higher percentage of bacteria”

By the way, this isn’t a comment on the article itself in any way, simply a comment on the logic of your comment
What do you mean? There are absolutely currency exchanges and lenders in the current financial system.
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He worked 10 years there, and was former research director, so.. maybe he knows a bit or two about this prize?

He did work on productionize the 2007 winner, after all.
So we now have synthetic stocks on blockchains.

I expect in short order we will see synthetic asset-backed securities that track the prices of real ones, synthetic macroeconomic indicators that track the real ones, and a full suite of other financial derivatives -- maybe even "synthetic NFTs" that track the prices of "real NFTs."

The number and variety of synthetic securities, AKA derivatives, that could be created on blockchains are limited only by human creativity and imagination.

And all these decentralized blockchain derivatives will be accessible to retail investors worldwide, without regulatory limits on leverage, and without regulatory oversight. Sort of like a massively distributed shadow banking system.

What could go wrong?
Here in Brazil there is a law about providing support for 5 years. If the company don't have a way to fix the problem (lack of parts or same product fixed), they need to give you another better or equivalent product or give the money back.
What if I could get equally good sanitation using ZERO h2o2?
That is a good technical analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the various geothermal methods.
I wasn’t aware of the reclaimed brick market. Thanks for posting. Seems rather strange but there’s probably some good reason to use the older bricks.
>A less-sophisticated approach is to put your tank heater on a timer. Think carefully before you do this.

Do not do this without understanding the lifecycle of legionella pneumophila, or you will face a dramatic decrease in your quality of life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_disease
> (I don't flag comments often but this is a prime example. Hugely frustrated, dismissive, with a bit snarky tone. The comment would be hugely improved by simply skipping the last paragraph. The outcome? A bunch of up and down votes in all the comments below in typical flame war fashion)

Fair enough, I guess.

I do think my last line had merit. I'm pointing a pattern I'm seeing: people dismissing Carmack's object-level argument without arguing on the object level themselves, because they deem that the general ideology of GPL makes Carmack's object-level claims irrelevant.
Yeah the farmer in SE Asia whose family is starving because he can’t get to market will certainly not try and break any rules.

Love these solution designed by people who work from home.
And who decides the split of profits vs. employee compensation? You? In most places it's the market. And these companies pay above market. Way above (double+) in most cases.

If you take this idea, and apply it to say McDonalds, the ratio of compensation for a worker vs. overall profit is much lower than tech companies. Take your soap box and apply it there vs. trying to rescue upper middle class workers with health insurance, houses, and retirement savings.
Just because an news outfit has an editorial bias doesn't mean the actual article is incorrect. If that was the case people would flag certain domains posted on HN without reading the articles.

I looked for other sources besides Washington Times and found them. Could the submitter have chosen a more centrist source? Sure.

Does it change the fact that Facebook is posting these alerts and there is controversy over them? It does not.
> Ah, my information was bad. The study you originally cited specifically mentions CPI-U as the measure they were using.

well the BLS publishes a bunch of CPI numbers, but "the" CPI is just CPI-U. The others are even more specific (eg. CPI-W for clerical workers or CPI for the elderly)

>There's still a conversation about housing taking up an increasing share of the pie that doesn't exactly shine through in that top line number, but no point in belaboring it.

The rise in housing prices has mostly been canceled out (or caused by?) low interest rates. After you adjust for interest rate and inflation, the monthly payment for a house (ie. the price you actually pay) has actually gone down from the 90s.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/...
"Research/Engineering Director at Netflix (2011-2014)" would probably know a thing or two about how useful the contest was. (He also might have worked there before that time in a different role.)
Yeah, how hard is that?

For kicks, an algorithm that contacts you multiple ways if it hasn't gotten a backup OR if the backup has a suddenly has a high diff from the previous backup.
It's somewhat related because OSS password generator logic has better observability than proprietary products.
The fifth and sixth sentence of the article explicitly states the concern of child protection being used as an underhanded and emotional tactic.

While I disagree with invoking child protection as a form of political blackmail, child protection is a legitimate concern. Several populations, of which children are one, are considered vulnerable to exploitation and legislation to reduce exploitation is legitimate.

The problem lies with the fragility of our political system. It is so fragile that debating the effectiveness of the legislation can be shut down with a handful of emotionally charged words. It is so fragile that seeking alternatives which don't impact fundamental rights is overlooked in the interests of expediency.

Of course, creating such rules of thumb is a symptom of the same disease. It is a tool to discourage debate rather than encourage it.
He was the head of the area (Research/Engineering) that managed the recommendation engine. Part of that would be understanding the history.
>measuring stock prices in increments of dubloons to decimals?

"dubloons"? Stock prices used to be in binary fractions. Barely over 20 years ago.

Obviously moving to decimals is going backwards, how many people program with BCD these days?
Hi Dan, I'm Jesse. I work in the public sector and have seen the pains of trying to get regular folk to learn even basic SOQL for Salesforce, let alone the struggles of folks trying to change the way they think to write a SQL query.

I believe there's a huge market for bridging the power of a structured query language with non-"techy" folks, much like how we see no-code solutions popular among folks who would have (self-admittedly) never been able to figure out how to wire up two RESTful APIs.

My approach to solving this in the past was to create a custom syntax with a transpiler that took a type of English language grammar and converted it into workable SQL. Where I branched from your intention was actually for my book on data science in higher education -- I wanted to have a language where a researcher could say something like this:

"Who is more likely to drop: a student with circumstance_a or a student with circumstance_b?"

That's a rough approximation, but I think you can see what I am talking about.

Are you looking at the text-to-speech space for people to babble at their computers? Or are you looking for some kind of GUI system where people can plug things together? Or are you looking for a grammar (like my approach)? Would love to chat.
Headline is misleading.

"Cleaning" is much different from "disinfecting", sometimes the opposite.
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Except you aren’t actually buying ownership of AAPL. You don’t get any voting power or dividends. You are buying a token that the creator pinky promises are worth/redeemable for x shares of AAPL.

Those AAPL tokens are not insured by the SIPC…
Reminder that even Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols knew 25 years ago that Jimmy Savile was abusing children and the BBC upper management must have known many more details about their star, than Johnny Rotten.

Not only was nothing done but BBC's upper management escaped any responsibility for the protection they gave Savile.

One could mention the Dutroux affair, British PM Ted Heath, and many more scandals... yet it does seem that the European elite excuse themselves and instead invade everyone else's privacy instead.
I vividly remember the Sprint ads I would see on TV as a kid where they claimed their voice quality was so good that you could hear a pin drop. Their phone number was even “1-800-PIN-DROP”.
> We don't call corn futures fake corn

/ZC is physically settled[0], so that’s not a great example.

/ES (S&P 500) or other index futures that are cash-settled is a better analogy. They’re also, yknow, regulated[1].

[0] https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/agriculture/oilseeds/corn.c...

[1] https://www.cftc.gov/
Why is this odd?

If he started two years later and there was not a trace of the Prize work at the company, that would be an indicator that the competition was not important. If he started and could still see knock-on effects from the competition, that's an indicator that it was important.

Plus, he didn't just start at Netflix. He "took over the small team that was working and maintaining the rating prediction algorithm that included the first year Progress Prize solution."

Yeah, that sounds like he has some authority on the matter.
I'm an investor in one of these (as a disclaimer and because I'm excited about the tech) -- https://structure.fi/.

Personally, I think this is going to be huge over time. Trading on-chain tokenized stocks 24/7 is a powerful layer above the traditional financial markets.
Translations are not made every day; one has to pick from what is available (and in the public domain at that, for a website like this), and the translation used here is evidently the one published in 1922 in 21 volumes as being by "Fathers of the English Dominican Province" but actually by one person, Father Laurence Shapcote (1864–1947). (Via the article linked from https://thomistica.net/news/2011/9/13/the-shapcote-translati...)

> In 1910 the Province decided to have the Summa translated. Fr Laurence brought out the first volumes before he left England, but the bulk of the work was done in South Africa. In addition he also translated the Summa Contra Gentes (4 volumes, 1923 –1929), and the Quaestiones Disputatae de Potentia (3 volumes, 1932–34). This translation of the Summa is ‘literal’. […] In a way, for students who have no Latin, the Shapcote translation gives a better idea, more of the feel, of the original, even though it does not make conversation with St Thomas so easy.

> Laurence Shapcote never wrote anything: there is no way of telling what his own ‘Thomism’ was. It is a century since he started work. He did not respond to suggestions that he should unmask his anonymity. Readers who are thankful for this literal translation would surely be all the more grateful if they knew that it was done by Laurence Shapcote alone, in very austere conditions, on the Rand and in Natal, doggedly translating his way through the major works of St Thomas.

But your comment is intriguing; I'm mostly struck by the idea that the style of 1950s is so much different from that of 2020s. (For reference, 1950 was the year of publication of Asimov's "I, Robot" collection of stories published earlier, or C. S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"; Greene's The Third Man and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four were published the previous year.) In what sense is the sentence fragment you quoted not modern English? You gave an example of what you're not looking for; could you also give an example of how you would rewrite it?

And what does this have to do with "thou", which went out of use in the 17th century? (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thou&oldid=102516...) A translation into standard English wouldn't have used "thou" even in 1950 (and this 1922 translation doesn't either, except in literal quotes from the King James Bible).

(Of course, neither of us is using the technical meaning of "modern English" which includes Shakespeare too https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern_English&ol... .)
> Most people don't understand how much work goes into actually making a startup happen and flame out pretty quickly...alas...

It's not just the amount of work that dissuades people. It's the overall value proposition.

Usually if you can get someone in the door and they truly believe the company will be successful, they do everything necessary to cling to the company. No one wants to give up a chance to own a piece of a future successful startup. At minimum, they want some of their equity to vest in exchange for the work they've put in to get to this point.

When people believe the company will succeed but don't want to put in the effort, they keep up appearances until their founder vesting cliff. It's unfortunately a common problem for startups to have a zombie cofounder who doesn't want to give up their equity but isn't pulling their way. They want to force the other cofounders to give them their equity as compensation for the (minimal) work they put in.

If cofounders are simply walking away and surrendering equity, it's likely that there are bigger problems than just the amount of work. In these cases, it's likely that the cofounders just didn't believe the company was headed for success.
Are you telling me I can get a loan - say for a car - using DeFi right now?
Oh, I'd believe it! In that case even fairly valued options would be a no-go; you'd have to buy them from someone else: probably tricky, doubly so for incentive options, and it sounds like buying publicly traded stock has a major advantage here.
Matrix vs. XMPP
It was useful, just not in the way it was intended.
From the link you provided and countries you mentioned, the year when same-sex marriage was legalized:

France: 2013

New Zealand: 2013

United States: 2015

Germany: 2017

Other European nations began legalization as early as 2001.

Individual states, provinces, and cities might have acted sooner, but lets compare apples to apples.
"This approach can be deployed far faster than dam construction"

Can we really manufacturer that many hot water tanks in less time than building a damn?
A Mathematician's Lament (A Mathematician’s Lament): https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.... is an outstanding article on the topic.
>Politicians (and other government officials) could use it to imprison almost anyone who protested outside their homes.

Honestly, I'd support politicians' right to have a bit of privacy and space in their own home.

There is a time and a place to stage a protest and after hours at someone's family home is not it.