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Almost certainly degrees Celsius. Has the "°" symbol in the "too hard basket"? (to be fair I did copy and paste it from your comment, that's the fastest way I could get it done).
"Andrew Ng (I believe) compared worrying about evil AI to worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Berkeley AI prof Stuart Russell's response goes something like: Let's say that in the same way Silicon Valley companies are pouring money in to advancing AI, the nations of the world were pouring money in to sending people to Mars. But the world's nations aren't spending any money on critical questions like what people are going to eat & breathe once they get there.

Or if you look at global warming, it would have been nice if people realized it was going to be a problem and started working on it much earlier than we did.
That moment when you become a victim of Poe's law... Software development is stupid and crazy now.
I say this stuff is pseudo-intellectual. Painful to read indeed.
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He is strongly critiquing the notion that "there will be robots, there is basic income and it's better than what we have now, just because." He labels this notion "Accelerationism", and then the final section tears it apart (even the section discussing it is constantly pointing out its flaws). To wit, the closing paragraph: "Though the times are bad, the accelerationists presume that the state of the left will get better simply because it can, in principle, get better. An imaginative (if implausible) account of the future, accelerationism is a weak account of how anyone might be persuaded to get there. [...] The accelerationists seem to be telling us: forget about [political effort], [automation] will do that work [of distributing power to the masses] for us! But politics can’t get done by machines."
We judge them by the way they present themselves. This is the first item on the first listed recipient of a grant. Apparently, Mozilla think that this is the most important thing.

So your argument is invalid.
I believe we only need to go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
>But politics can’t get done by machines.

Can't it?

Democracy is simply voting, which can easily be handled by machines.
There's also the question that the USA and also Europe, have taken as immigrants from the third world, the very best people from those countries.

Imagine the world situation, if instead of migrating into the USA, Steve Job's father had remained in Syria, had married his wife, and have raised Steve in Syria, to become the computing mogul he came to be! Don't say it wouldn't have been possible, Syria, as all the other third would countries before 1970 were as advanced as Europe, after hundreds of years of European colonization or adminstration.

So instead of Apple iPhones, we'd have Tafaha iPhones, made in Syria, and no islamists bent to destroy our civilization.

So, indeed, it's quite probable the world would be better if we raised walls around the muslim countries, if migration was the exception and not the rule, and if we left well educated third world people in their own countries to organize and direct them on the path to progress instead of leaving those populations in the hands of islamists.
There is "after capitalism": it's after our current flavour of capitalism.
If you don't explicitly specify (de)compression method (z for gzip, J for xz), tar will try to guess it.
A point made by Engels in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State is that over the past 10000 years, the economic system has been completely upended several times.

10000 years ago hunter gatherers lived in primitive communism. Then slave empires arose in the fertile crescent. After Rome was sacked, decentralized feudalism became dominant. We still see its vestiges, England and Japan are ruled by royals, officially. Capitalism began taking hold only a few hundred years ago. It may be permanent in our lifetime, but it will surely be replaced in time. I doubt production will be for the purpose of enriching heirs 10000 years from now, or even 1000 years from now (perhaps even sooner).

Marx said capitalism will run its course, until its doing more harm than good. Then it will be replaced by a different system of production.
>there isn't a good business to be made from putting out fires. //

This used to be how it worked, at least in the UK. It's probably quite a good business; there I'd a question of mutual destruction for the rich if they just let poor people's houses burn but also I feel there's a factor of social morality at play too. It is socialism, at least in part, that has brought democratised healthcare and schooling, firefighting and policing. Profit motive thankfully isn't there only social driver.
TL;DR: The article is lamenting the inability of the modern, technocratic left to offer compelling paths forward out of the current economic stagnation.

* The editors point to previous boom/bust cycles, and the tendency of strong workers movements & chains of strikes/riots/unions to emerge during the bust periods and demand an economic shift towards greater workers rights / less control by capitalists.

* They then point out that no such strong workers movement is emerging in this bust cycle.

* They claim that this is because there is a strong line of "accelerationist" thinking among the modern left (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism). TL;DR on accelerationism: most of HN's libertarian leftism -- embrace automation, adopt basic income, make everyone their own producer (3D printing, off-the-grid electricity, etc.).

* The article claims that this movement will not succeed without significant political change alongside its technological advances, and that no such political effort is currently happening, as far as the editors can tell. "The potential alone for this sort of mass liberation isn’t a guarantee that it will ever take place"
For those of us not particularly skilled at Haskell, could you add some comments on the actual code, or at least explain some of the lines? I get the English part of the algorithm, but I don't think I'm up to speed on some of the syntax being used in your solutions.
For some reason, no one here has mentioned discrete math.

Discrete math is the branch that is most likely to make you a better programmer. Not Kahn academy, etc.

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs70/fa15/
What we have is welfare states, not democratic socialism.
Discrete math would be the most relevant branch for CS.
> > Several crashes later, the gloom has returned, and the signs of autumn are once again most recognizable in the pronouncements of free-market capitalism’s erstwhile boosters.

> I tried to read this sentence 3 times now, and I still do not know what it means. The same holds for entire paragraphs.

Is that sentence really that hard to read? I mean, it's definitely overly flowery, but it means almost word-for-word "After many financial crises, there is a lot of economic pessimism around again, even among free-market capitalism's biggest proponents."
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> However, this 'end is near' cult that would have us believe the ice caps would have been gone by now and island nations would have disappeared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

How about you just ignore the cult and look at what actual scientists have to say? You are mostly displaying complete lack of clue, just as some of the cultists.

> There are people that actually believe Chinese smog is from CO2!

Yes, the world is full of idiots, big deal. That doesn't mean that there aren't some quite good scientists who have some pretty convincing measurements of what is happening right now to offer, and who certainly don't expect CO2 to form a fog or whatever in our atmosphere.
Isn't that mostly just because of how tar is designed? It's a concatenation of individual files with headers, so you have to decompress the whole thing to get a file list anyway. At which point you might as well save the decompressed tar in temporary.
Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years - Economist Magazine.

Harnessing the energy of people across the planet by letting them trade with each other has so clearly been a disaster for everyone, has it? Essentially, isn't this capitalism with all its fault lines? One way or another it can be got to work for everyone's advantage.
I asked this question on StackExchange a few months ago http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/183465/fastest-way-o...

That's my problem with GZIP, in this particular use case anyway.
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Yes, sure, having to pay for each tweet is a drawback compared to the commercial version of Twitter.

Please note there's a donation mechanism [1].

If others like what you write, there's a chance you can get back some of the money you spent on tweeting ;)

Still, using blockchain technology has positive aspects, like some kind of censorship resistance. That is, if some country is going to block access to Twitter again: who knows, can this be an alternative? Not saying access to the ethereum network can't be blocked at all, though.

[1] https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet/blob/master/TweetAccount.so...
I believe integer sorting doesn't have a lower bound of O(n log n), because you can do more with them than just comparing.
For me, as a Python user, I've found that gzip is currently the only compression format that allows streaming compression/decompression. I don't want to have to store hundreds of gigabytes of data and THEN compress it, rather than compressing it right during file generation. I haven't found any other compression lib that supports this out of the box.
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When you go to vote, are you only ever concerned about the mechanical action to place a cross in a box?

There's quite a lot more to politics, and politics in democracy, than just the act of voting.
> One of my good friends from China is gay and if he goes back home, he could actually be in danger.

Where's he from? There's no taboo against being gay in China in general. What is the source of this danger?
I just use my EC2 and forward traffic using SSH...
The article misses (but the comments here touch on) that all compression algorithms have a built in obsolescence, even the fancy shiny xz.

It's not the algorithm per-se that go obsolete, but their use in specific cases until all are diminished. Whether lossy or lossless, eventually other technological advancements renders them unnecessary.

And it seems that strongest algorithm is usually the earliest to be widely adopted; these are almost never toppled.

Just like .gz, look at MP3 or JPEG -- 'better' alternatives exist, but the next widely adopted step will be to eliminate that compression entirely. The first radio station playout systems were hardware MPEG audio compression, and the next most widespread step was to uncompressed WAVs. Even video pipelines based on uncompressed frames are becoming more widespread. Eventually the complexity and unpredictability of compression is shunned for simplicity.

Read the gzip docs and the focus is around compression of text source code, a key use case at the time but barely considered these days -- tar.gz source archives exist almost only out of habit; they could just as well be tar.
I'm not familiar with that issue, but you can set the path to any extractor in /etc/atool.conf or ~/.atoolrc

# ~/.atoolrc
path_zip /path/to/preferred/bin/zip

See atool(1) for details. http://linux.die.net/man/1/atool

As far as I know, different zip formats are not auto-detected. However, it does (optionally) use file(1) to detect the file format, which can be overridden with the 'path_file' option, so a hack may be possible?
The first and main test for an advanced AI is to be able to provide its creator with a big sum of money in a sustainable way. Why would anyone wish to share such a useful technology? What I think should be handy is to find experts or partners for protecting the research with strong closed walls, a womb for the baby AI device to grow up aimed to take over the world of business to get the necessary resources, probably in a creeply way, to full expand itself and provide his creator with the best reward you could imagine.
I am not sure what your point is? Yes MP3 files were not the right choice years ago, but today who cares.
I think it would be decent tradeoff to not be spammed and datamined (although datamining certainly is possible as it is an open system).
great read. thanks for that.
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More accurately, don't put your data in someone else's cloud. It could be a lot worse. A company could sell your data when they shut down the product, and there's not much you can do about it. What happens in a few years when Slack is no longer a hot new thing, revenue slows, and another company buys them out because they'd really love to mine that awesome dataset.
You're using big words, but you're citing the Telegraph and Guardian?
For those struggling with this, the last three paragraphs sum up the author's thesis pretty well.

It's actually more of a critique of current leftist ideas (from a Left perspective) than anything.

quote:

Getting less work seems unlikely to come about without the fight for solidarity, the chief intellectual achievement of the workers’ movement, and one that none of the accelerationists see fit to mention as an ideal worth preserving or even renovating. This is despite the fact that automation—or, more broadly, the increasing precariousness of labor through technologically assisted means—has always been dialectically connected with it. What tech enthusiasts call“disruption” is in fact almost always directed at forms of organization that preserve a modicum of workers’ control over knowledge and the products of labor. Because London taxicabs are controlled by people who have built up impressive maps of one of the world’s most complex cities in their brains, they ought to be replaced by self-driving cars operating on Google Maps. Because high school teachers have professional systems of accreditation and training and have unions to protect these, they must be replaced by lower-paid short-term Ivy-League graduates and cyber charters.

Automation isn’t a neutral, inevitable part of capitalism. It comes about through the desire to break formal and informal systems of workers’ control—including unions—and replace them with managerially controlled and minutely surveilled systems of piecework. An entire political and legal infrastructure has been built up to make these so-called tendencies seem like the natural progression of capitalism, rather than the effects of fights—sometimes simple, sometimes violent—to deprive people of whatever sense of control they have over their work. The only reason such work has ever not been totally shitty is that some attempt to preserve such control was made. This — not some implausible notion of a fully automated postwork future—still remains the surest of utopian impulses, the one most likely to deliver the things we want.

Though the times are bad, the accelerationists presume that the state of the left will get better simply because it can, in principle, get better. An imaginative (if implausible) account of the future, accelerationism is a weak account of how anyone might be persuaded to get there. We recall Lenin’s comment about how communism would be “Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” The accelerationists seem to be telling us: forget about the Soviets, the electricity will do that work for us! But politics can’t get done by machines.
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I can make you a company in an hour for a few hundred bucks. How many do you want?

Creating a company is not hard; building it is, but employees contribute to that as well.
I work for a FTSE 100 company and the dev manager and CTO in the division where I work are very well connected. I don't think the size of company is necessarily the only factor here.
Yes, I agree. That feature shouldn't really be more than a few hours work.
Well I am not sure what to add. Rather than arguing about FLOPS we should really be looking at how well computers can meet or beat humans in some activity. On the things we are bad at computers are already out in front, but at the thing our brains are good at (vision for example) they have a long way to go.
Try this:

curl 'http://graphql-swapi.parseapp.com' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-binary '{"query":"{ allFilms(first: 3) { films { title, director } }}"}'

The query param is just for easy sharing online when you build a query.
It's a commonly held belief that gun violence is linked to mental illness, but it doesn't appear to be true:

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/12/mental-illness-wrong-scap...
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Last commit was less than two months ago, and all but one open issue is tagged "enhancement".

It could be a lot more dead.
The majority (representatives) vote a law that says we take money from some and give it to others. Democratic socialism seems like a reasonable name for it, even though it's not necessarily taking from the owners of the means of production nor necessarily giving to the working class. Though I guess welfare state is more "official".
Her CEO stint will get an textbook example and taught in university/business schools.
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The xz installed on my system carries a rather promising -T option, but then this text below it

> Multithreaded compression and decompression are not implemented
> yet, so this option has no effect for now.
I suspect there will be quite a lot more stories like this now that businesses are seeing "devops" as meaning a developer that must do operations/sysadmin activities.

Not everyone can be versed in everything. And not every company can afford to learn from this mistake, they must learn from others.
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Yeah, that particular series has ended in the manga, I'm aware of a few key upcoming events but tried to avoid reading the manga so I can keep some of it a surprise. Did you start reading the manga for the next series too (or watch the film)? Has it got off to a good start (in your opinion)?
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We're talking about AGI, an area where speed can represent a difference in kind, not merely degree. The same sort of distinction goes for cryptography too.

One sort of exotic computer architecture I had in mind was a massively parallel (billions of "cores"), NUMA type machine. You can't really do that with an FPGA, can you?
Lets start by figuring out how to control humans before we start on the AIs.
Oh, right, that seems obvious. Wonder why it's not obvious to everyone...
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People aren't desensitized to advertising, advertising adapted by using more subtle techniques designed to undermine our critical thinking by targeting us subconsciously. There's no reason propaganda dissemination couldn't adopt similar techniques. Think how scary a really smart AI that could subtly manipulate people's opinions would be, and how it could orchestrate populations to behave in who knows what manner, without them even knowing it's happening.
Short-term, yes. What's the filter bubble already, if not the outcome of a super intelligent centralized AI silently and invisibly deciding what's best for us to see, molding our own artificial world dynamically based on our supposed preferences, excising away every possible serendipitous misalignment with our digital self as it is perceived by the machine?
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Ask HN: Accept counter-offer?
I'm looking for some guidance on a decision I'm facing.

I've been headhunted for a more senior role with another company. I had been comfortable with my current role, but after seeing what's on offer, I feel like the step up would really suit me from a job satisfaction POV.

When I discussed this with my boss, she agreed that I would be a great fit for that type of role, but should consider a more senior role that is about to open up within the company - one that is similar to the headhunter's offer.

From my research, general consensus seems to be not to accept counter-offers from my current employer, but in general, they usually refer to a salary increase only.

Do you think the same rule applies to counter offers that include promotion to a more senior role?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Thanks.
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> Capitalism is simply the codification of a monetary transaction to which both parties agree.

That depends on your definition of "capitalism" and "economy".

If you use "capitalism" in contrast to Mercantilism and feudalism – which seems to be a rather unpopular view in English-speaking countries for some reason –, then it makes perfectly sense.

Although it would help to actually read it.
Suppose it's impossible to build one that runs in a reasonable timeframe without access to optimization via quantum tunneling.
"If the machines turn on us, we can just stop repairing them."

Never understood this reasoning.

We are not talking about machines vs. biologic life, this is a false dichotomy. We are talking about intelligence.

Intelligence is the ability to control the environment through the understanding of it. Any solvable problem can be solved with enough intelligence.

Repairing a machine is just a problem. The only limitations for intelligence are the laws of physic.
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A fair number of those lifted out of poverty were in China. Haiti is still the poorest country in the western hemisphere, despite having capitalism forced on them. A black-and-white view of the world misses a lot. Economies wouldn't function without public utilities, roads, militaries, etc.
> I'm sure we'll see it in the USA because "the rest of the civilized world" is doing it and they'll probably just conveniently reinterpret or otherwise dodge the First Amendment.

Interesting POV, I was convinced Europe copies this kind of law from US and Canada.
Short review of two recently published books around this subject: https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4960/where-next-for-capi...

I've just started reading Matt Ridley's book and so far an enjoyable read.
> When I owned an Amiga they kept on changing the archive format to find a better one that saved space.

It happened on DOS too: ZIP, ARJ, RAR, ...

That was back on the days of floppy disks (which usually had at most 1440 KiB) and small hard disks (a few tens of megabytes). Even a few kilobytes could make a huge difference.

As storage and transfer speeds grew, "wasting" a few kilobytes is no longer that much of an issue, and other considerations like compatibility become more important. Furthermore, many new file formats have their own internal compression, so compressing them again gains almost nothing regardless of the compression algorithm.

The reason both ZIP and GZIP became ubiquitous is, IMO, that the compression algorithm both use (DEFLATE) was released as guaranteed to be patent-free, back in a time where IIRC most of the alternatives were either patented or compressed worse. As a consequence, everything that needed a lossless compression method chose DEFLATE (examples: the HTTP protocol, the PNG file format, and so on).