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If you count being locked out of the Chinese markets, I think the number is actually much, much larger than $50B. But that seems to be rather unrelated to hacking? In fact most countries openly or secretly try to lock out foreign owned busi
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Here's the similarity. I do think US companies suffer from hacking, just like the music and video industry suffer losses from piracy. I think, however, that the numbers reported are exaggerated beyond belief. Piracy losses are exaggera
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> unfair business practices originating from China are costing the American economy more than $57 billion a year, White House officials believe And yet the companies who supposedly lose that money don't care. It reminds me a little
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Typically, you can tell the order between two strings early, after you read just the starting few characters. So for comparison you would usually read maybe 10 bytes per file on average, or 3 x 1000 x 10 bytes = 30KB in total. Or maybe 30MB
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Hashing text isn't hard but to do it efficiently you may need to know the distribution. Imagine you want to dedupe 1000 text documents each 1TB in size. Hashing naively would require reading 1000 TB and would be horribly inefficient. H
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Oh yeah absolutely you can use better structures even without hashing, I was just saying that a hash table isn't always an option. Lack of transitivity: you can still dedupe based on a transitive closure of whatever relationship I prov
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There's one valid objection to hashing (not the one the author expressed): you may have an array of items that you can compare, but you cannot hash. For example, maybe you rely on a third-party service that lets you compare two items b
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Background: https://thewikicabal.com/2019/01/20/waibel-v-wikimedia/
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Do you think the hiring process at Microsoft somehow selects fewer people with strong political views? Or perhaps the employees are the same, but the corporate executives and culture encourages or discouraged certain behaviors?
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I suspect that as long as humans remain the same species, we'll never get to the point where the majority of the population is informed. It's just not fun for most people; or it's too hard; or both. The trick is to find a sys
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I didn't say people had "no interest in politics". I said people had "no interest in being informed or educated". A large voter turnout indicates interest in politics. A large voter turnout does not indicate interes
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> today's western democracies are the best place, and time in history, to be alive > OP's position is basically "everything was better in the past" [that's from your other comment below] I think the past was h
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The article and the comments express the desire for news to be an effective tool to inform and educate the public. While appealing, this idea has never worked in the past, and there's no evidence that it can work in the near future. Th
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Great lectures, with a lot of intuition about recent research and clear explanations. Some videos are already online, starting with https://youtu.be/8rXD5-xhemo
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https://youtu.be/8rXD5-xhemo
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Since you make a very strong claim on a very complex topic, would you mind if I asked you to share whether you have expertise / credentials on drivers and security? Edit: I'm not sure if it's considered appropriate to ask for
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> [we will reach] no-fail image based object detection level of advancement [...] my most optimistic wild guess is 10-20 years You mean using cameras without LIDARs right? Presumably Waymo itself (cameras + LIDARs) is roughly at that lev
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If Uber was not reasonably confident in their predictive models, they'd be shifting rates by like 1% per week to test the waters, instead of 25% in a day. And if Uber can have good predictive models, maybe independent economists who st
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I agree with you. I guess I'm asking how likely is the (quite appealing) scenario you describe? The volume increase will more than offset the price drop -- otherwise Uber would have no incentive to drop the price in the first place. Wh
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I can't quite understand the economics of this rate drop (which happened only in the LA market, btw). Here's my analysis, please let me know if you see anything wrong with it. Uber makes 25% commission from the per-mile fee, so th
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> They're not getting any ad revenue from me, so why am I stuck with their recommender that only cares what it thinks will cause me to spend the most time on YouTube. I can think of two reasons. 1. If YT recommends good content to p
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They were searching the engineer's laptop for the code, so I assumed those were software patents. But maybe there's a decent amount of code even in a hardware patent?
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> This engineer has filed over 30 successful patents over the past 2 years, and all of these inventions are used in our products. From my limited experience, typical software patents are either ideas that might (if you're very optim
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A very interesting read indeed. In this case, it seems the original attempt didn't survive the influx of people from outside who were not interested in a civil discussion. Perhaps a smaller, invitation only, forum might stand a better
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> Politics is so heavily polarized that 'I assume they will assume'. [...] Intersectional issues (race/gender/class), some things about China, obviously religion - they're all so loaded it's hard to have a d
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I'm curious, do you think without your disclosure, people would have read your post differently? Occasionally (both online and in real life) I feel that whatever I say tends to be interpreted in the binary: "are you with us or aga
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HN and Reddit often seem to have very different views and concerns from the general population. Not sure if it's because of the echo chamber effect (reinforcing each other confidence by agreeing), or self-selection (people who share th
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> legislation and law enforcement exists to modify incentives in cases where altruism, self-interest and a sense of social responsibility are insufficient to keep order. Here's an argument I've read many times. Within a few dec
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I wouldn't consider it a mistake if Asimov predicted that by year 2000 we'd have flying cars or general AI. I don't see any clear argument available in 1950 about why this cannot happen. However, not imagining that technology
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I'd love to see that but I don't have my hopes high :)

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