skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assumes we'd recognise the interaction as an interaction.

A super-intelligent species would have no trouble modelling and manipulating human politics from behind the scenes.

It's naive to assume that an interaction will look like the old explorer or conquistador model - a ship arrives, someone gets off it, and then demands to talk to the chieftain, or starts killing people and blowing shit up to make a point about power.

The set of all possible - and effective - interactions which doesn't look like that is much bigger than the set that does.
If it were that easy, Tesla could do the same. It is not that easy. While you or any other spiv can buy a collar on $10k or even $1m worth of stock for a super short period (1 month, 3 month), it is an entirely different thing to:

- But options for multi-year expiries (because that is how long the disposal will take, after the obligatory lockup)...

- ... in a stock that is 1000x less liquid that your usual AAPL or GOOG...

- ...on a short notice on $325 million worth of stock, i.e. a huge percentage of the free float of the stock, making it impossible to hedge for any bank that offers the collar.

tldr: You are a bit too cocky given your lack of knowledge.
If we discover intelligent alien civilization, there'll be a massive effort put into simply tapping into their culture. Their internet, TV, magazines, history, everything we can our hands on. The sheer volume of cross-cultural exchange which would be suddenly and immediately valuable would be enormous.
They are special Africa versions though. Engines that burn less clean, much simpler electronics... You can buy them in the EU but only for export.
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Yes, but it is pretty thin soup!
It's probably signatures of the construction workers who worked on that section, rather than graffiti.
In addition to the privacy and security concerns mentioned by other comments, I've noticed that a browser with JavaScript enabled and a couple dozen open tabs often causes the CPU fan to emit annoying noise, while the same workload with JavaScript disabled is blissfully silent and battery-preserving.
You should give VSCode a try. I was pleasently surprised about the quality of the debugger. A part from the UI I didn't have any other complaints.
Conversely, by 2025 there might be living humans on Mars (if Elon Musk gets his way). And while that's not enough to form the basis of a backup civilization, I'm somewhat more interested in the effect on global zeitgeist it's likely to have. The feeling of the times is, I feel, an underestimated factor in how democracies pick their priorities - and the early 21st century has been very down on itself trying to figure out practical, post-conflict economic realities.
They use their donations to pay their lawyers though, right?
The comparison in the article is pretty odd, but it's still amazing to see how much effort goes into engineering F1 cars. I wonder what they could produce if they were allowed to run free and didn't have to deal with F1 regulations.
I'm curious about this line in the post:

"connect your LinkedIn and Github accounts to enable the free faucet"

Really curious: I can see how connecting a Github account may be valuable for a company pushing a developer tool, but I'm not sure I understand why they'd want a LinkedIn account. Perhaps to try and determine where you work?
I really fail to see how the planned lifetime of F1 engines is related to its potential fuel efficiency. If anything, I would expect the engines could be made even more efficient if they were designed to last 300.000 miles, at the expense of power output. I find it hard to believe that tuning an engine so far it will wear down quickly will improve it's efficiency.
See comments on reddit too: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4njrt0/golden_...
Incidentally, the Raspberry Pi image was recently updated and has better multi-core support. Pretty nice for a near-instant boot terminal, although the non-UNIXness of it becomes a little bit grating when trying to remember how to SSH in a hurry.

(On mobile, so I'll add the link later, but http://taoofmac.com/space/os/Plan9 has my notes)
They'd be as wide as the track and so frail people'd be killed for getting on a kerb at a bad angle :X
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I live in the Triangle area of NC, but if you know what to look for, you can find the same thing elsewhere. CO is another great place.
I like your post for the most part, but "Unless we can make it there in 1.198 years." is just nonsense for the sake of being pithy. We could do a decade easily. And it still doesn't get us to anywhere. No need to act like people die from a year in space.
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I think you may be confusing the intellectual right-wing with the, e.g. evolution/climate change-denying right wing.

There is a lot to be said for the need for differing opinions on, say, social mores, finance, healthcare, government, and philosophies of life in general. That is to say, I agree that the intellectual/philosophical right-wing is indeed not at all similar to the caricatures we see.

I have a hunch, though, that highly religious and closeted people (of the "Do not be educated lest you lose your humility" kind) are almost tautologically biased against evidential "scientific method" models of the world, as opposed to one where all truth flows from $HOLY_BOOK. And if you'll look closely, it is this part that is ridiculed, largely for the unquestioning nature of its beliefs and worldviews.

Aside: I have a feeling I'm stepping on the wrong side of the Slate Star Codex "outgroup" essay with this. If there are any logical fallacies in this, or anything similar, I would appreciate comments. I'm not a seasoned observer of politics or society :)
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Of course they are opposed. Uber demonstrates that regulation is unnecessary and generally harmful, and typically only exists to rip off consumers.

Taxi regulations typically limit supply (raising costs for consumers), protect drivers over passengers (in Vegas a complaint against drivers must be notarized), and protect favored ethnic groups (c.f. Shiv Sena's taxi law in Maharashtra). Can you name any contemporary real life problem that taxi regulators solve better than Uber's own regulators?

I'm aware that historically, taxi regulation purports to solve real problems. But I claim that in the modern economy, Uber has solved every single one of those problems better than regulators can.

Of all the cities I'm familiar with (NYC, Vegas, Chicago, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur), I can't think of a single instance where a regulated taxi gave me better consumer protections than Uber/Lift/Ola.

So again, the simple question: what problems that currently exist would regulation solve?
Could they just disable support for the U-NII-2 channels in the hardware? Those are the ones that require DFS and I would find losing them to be preferable to manufacturers trying to prevent people from using OSS.
It's great terminal emulation doesn't exist in Plan9, but with that you lose 99% of terminal application functionality, especially curses.
Masks would be overkill, were the designed mechanism widely available on Ubuntu 15/16. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/779554/how-to-install-apt-pac... .
Very nice, I played a bit around with it but there is 1 thing that bothers me. The sliders all start at the left but the value it represents isn't at the left. Some sliders should start in the middle to be right.
And one can ask why this PPL would not be a "legitimate organization" like the EFF or ACLU.
Unfortunately this seems to be less and less true over the years. When I got my MacBook about 4 or 5 years ago, it only had 4GB of ram and a pretty slow hard disk. If have upgraded it to 12GB Ram and a pretty good SSD, this is why I can still use such an old MacBook. For the new ones, I have to decide the RAM, and disk upfront and can't replace them anymore (this is especially worrying with the small lifetime with SSDs).

I wish Apple made their pro products more bulky so we can upgrade the hardware and let the air products be the sexy, thin ones for Starbucks hipsters.
Why would they want to hide? You are making a very strong claim about the motivations of aliens.
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I still use my 21" iMac 2007. It does the job for household computer, usually my mom use it for web browsing and emails, but I can do dev work relatively nice on it, El Captain installed btw.

It will hit 10 years mark in May next year, I shelled out $1.6k at the time for it, 2 years ago upgraded RAM from OCW, and installed SSD, upgraded magic mouse, and it works really nice! I think I used the hell out of it, and it is amazing machine!

While your concerns and gripes about Apple Dev. environment are 100% true, there are some reasons why are they so. And in a few years I think that will change, Swift will change it! Imagine you can compile swift code on Linux now! It's nowhere near usable for serious development work, but I think with Swift, Apple addressed that problem too, so I think in 5 years you won't need exclusively OSX to dev for Apple devices. I'm sure it would be the best way to do it, but who knows we shall see.
> Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.

And … nothing is provided to indicate that said probability is higher than that.
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RISC-V architectures hold the most promise there AFAIAA.

BSD-licensed, cutting-edge architecture and it's got the right backers.

FreeBSD is already ported to it. There'll be a range silicon implementations. Cambridge's lowRISC is likely to be the first SoC, with design completing this year.
Facebook accounts are quite valuable.

Off the top of my head:

* Spam/advertising using multiple accounts, groups, and pages.

* Spreading malware via Messenger, pages, and groups.

* Selling page likes and video views.

* Email harvesting and private personal information gathering.

* Grabbing photos from private albums.
Why did you put a tl;dr on a comment that is two sentences?
> Specifically, the odds of abiogenesis are ~1/2^n, where n is the complexity in bits of the smallest self-replicator. n is bounded below by ~100 or so (or it would have happened in a lab somewhere), and is bounded above by ~1 million (the smallest existing bacteria), so we know it's somewhere in there.

If the odds of abiogenesis are 1/2^128, and if that is the source of life, then we're the only life in the Universe. As the article indicates, there are only 2^73 stars.
No worries. I'm currently in the process of re-writing it for the second edition...
Fascinating, thanks for pointing this out! Discovering a new kind of life on Earth that has coexisted with us without being noticed would be a huge event of course, and it would probably challenge what we regard as life in a general way.

This would be good stuff for a science fiction story as well.
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They just had the company valued; they didn't ask for that sum. Musk saw the valuation and ended negotiations. So no $2B offer was tendered; no refusal occurred.
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There's an emulator, IIRC.
Do you really think that a highly competent organization that's hired hundreds of data scientists can't estimate/discount the base rate of fat fingered/random bad ratings?

(Fun fact: I don't know about Uber, but I know Ola does exactly this. They use "how would you handle this exact problem" as a warmup question on their interviews.)
> functional languages like Haskell where you're forced to use functional algorithms for all computation

No you're not. Haskell supports mutable, imperative, algorithms just fine.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Data-I...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Contro...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm-2.4.4.1/docs/Control...
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You can sell stock. SO not much difference, except to Musk who can print stock (and can't print money).
But the point stands that owning a resource extraction facility in a foreign country on the other side of the planet isn't a trivial undertaking.
One of the biggest things I see with the article, outside of the poor comparison, is this:
Sure, gaining electricity from coal or oil isn't clean. We know that. But we can make that better by switching the sources for electricity. Wind, water, solar, and nuclear power are all cleaner ways to produce electricity.

A hybrid car - or an outright gasoline car - always must rely on oil of some sort to be able to run. We do not have a clean, reasonable alternative for this as we do with electricity.
So you can publish papers by making up numbers?
But I think this actually happens with normal life as well: Individual species of bacteria try to conquer a biological niche by shifting conditions such that only they can survive. But by doing this they invariably create chemical by-products that can be harnessed by other life forms, thereby fueling their growth. It's an interesting question whether there are any biospheres on Earth that are colonized exclusively by a single species of life (I doubt it).

So although it's a very valid point I'm not sure if it's a sufficient argument against the hypothesis of having two independently evolved and fundamentally different types of life on a given planet.
It's a lot for a racing engine. Back in the 80s they had four engines per car per weekend. They'd put in a higher powered engine for qualifying on Saturday, drive it for 4 or 5 laps and swap in a new one for race day.

You just can't compare racing engines to road car engines. A race engine idles at the same revs as a road car redlines.
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> How is that an awful UI?

Let's start with the easy stuff: how long did it take you to notice that the example in the GP's comment was wrong? Did you have to check Google, or do you have the `policy-rc.d` magic number exit codes memorised?

The `policy-rc.d` mechanism moves the decision as to whether to run a daemon on installation to a really unexpected place. What should it be? Well, what I always ended up googling for was an option in the `apt` system, because that's what handles installation. I want `apt-get install foo --no-start-daemon`. I want something self-documenting I can set in `/etc/apt/preferences`, if I ever want the choice persisted.

> You can do it

doesn't make for a good UI. It makes for a Turing tarpit. Systems should make the common case easy; in my experience the common case is either you want a fully-working system, with everything started automatically and usable defaults in place, or you want services stopped so that you can configure them and start them later. I've never heard of anyone wanting per-service whitelisting - not to say that people don't do this, just that it's sufficiently rare in my experience that having the default optimised for that use case sucks.

> A choice has to be made.

I'm not arguing about the default. I'm saying that the specific mechanism you have to use to change the default behaviour shouldn't take googling to figure out.
Accident are stuffs that cannot be predicted.

Car insurance companies do this on a daily basis and make consistent and reliable profits betting on the outcomes.
No, it does not. It implies that one has been at a particular level for some time, whilst the other has only reached its current level recently. chrisper was very clearly not comparing the release numbers, as xe said. One only need read xyr prior comment in this very same thread where xe was talking about outdatedness of what is currently available.
$499 is a big investment for the majority of the population and assumes you have a monitor and an iOS device already. It's not a sum many people will drop just to try it out. For a lot of people it means completely adopting the platform.

A new Apple device could potentially last you 5 years but Apple has also been known to obsolete hardware in as little as a year.

The majority of developers making iOS apps do not make $100 and that's not assured income, its potential.

If you happen to work for a professional shop with a team, chances are you want to do CI or automation. It's a pain. If your IT department manages your machines then they need someone dedicated to maintaining enterprise security policies on your Macs, it's a pain for the user and the admin.
IIRC, it wasn't a screw up. It was Jobs changing from a plastic to glass front panel at the last minute because his prototype scratched too easily.
Too bad their overall engineering and manufacturing quality is let down by two factors:
The cars are uncomfortable for tall people.
The body rusts a lot faster than some competition. (Highlighted by the otherwise high reliability)

Both would seem to be relatively trivial issues to fix. After all, many other manufacturers have done that.
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Interesting[0] story from a friend of mine who is a real engineer:

Back where he used to live at some point road authorities increased speed limits and found that average speed decreased. His explanation was simple: once speed limits matched drivers expectations they started to respect them. (Other explanations that I can pull from thin air now is police promising that the new limits will be enforced a lot less leniently than the old, or that speeds went down because of saturation congestion.)

[0]: although unconfirmed for me IIRC, maybe someone here can tell me were to find data
People tend to conflate the concept of text based interfaces with terminals and curses but it's possible to have text interfaces without curses. Most plan 9 applications have text interfaces but do not use terminals.
When I was a foreign student in Taiwan in the early 80s, the taxis were numerous and cheap, and were a reasonable substitute for the (numerous) buses. Pile in a cab with 2-3 friends and go anywhere in Taipei for a dollar or so. You did get ripped off from time to time, but overall a very convenient system. The system in the U.S. is expensive and limited by comparison, cronyism and monopolistic.
> Actually 7 is released on 2012 while 16.04 is released on 2016.

Observe that that was chrisper's original very point.
Humble Bundle. Their pricing idea is great and can be applicable to a lot of different businesses.
I could be bothered. When you say you have a paper, is that something yet to be published? Or is it just sitting in some dusty corner of the Internet?
What's the curses equivalent?

For what it's worth, anything that does more than just print to stdout breaks in 9term.
Well, for the 1st 200 years, by myth and legend. The silk had to come from somewhere.
Do you mean Plan9's terminal? If so, the whole point of it is that it's not constrained to emulating TTY.
Sometimes a divided country is better than a hopeless one;

1 billion Upper caste/Backward caste/Scheduled caste/Scheduled tribe Communities in India HATE each other for the past ~2000 years;

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

They should live in separate countries;

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Aren't you fed up lately with all the noise you get when searching for something? I mean, people do have the right to express freely, but when I search for something, I'd like to limit the results to types of sites like Wikipedia, Goodreads, Medium, but exclude all the Wordpress, blogging platforms, anything that a kid,can setup, because the've read somewhere that if they write content for words people search, they'll get rich. Lets separate the natural from the monetization greed. We have an AdBlock list. We need a FarmBlock list.

I forgot to say, they want to write content not because they have something to say but because thet want to target the first result on your first search page.
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The average speed of F1 is well over 100mph. So current FIA regs call for an 8 hours of life, right?

I guess I should have said "several" instead of a "few". I did not say a "couple" ;)

Also, they could be designed to go longer but they'd be a lot heavier. That would negatively impact the energy efficiency.

Again I'm a huge fan of F1. From an engineering and $$ standpoint it's amazing. Doesn't make the article any less disingenuous though.
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The intuition that your native enemy is likely out to get you

So what do you propose as a solution? A closed, xenophobic culture will likely not accept any outside help.

Universities teach liberalism

No, they don't. They teach critical thinking. We had that discussion on HN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829194

Or rather, they shouldn't. I understand that identity politics on US campuses is a real thing, but I'd be hard-pressed to call anything about that liberal: it's about as dogmatic as the Christian church during the inquisition.

There have been no major scientific discoveries seen as directly beneficial to the human race for some time now.

Sure. That computer you're reading HN on probably wasn't possible with the knowledge of 30 years ago. But "major scientific discoveries" is a perfect True-Scotsman phrase, so I don't expect you to agree with me on that.

the discovery of DNA and the Human Genome Project has had no meaningful effect on people's lives

You mean how we can never predict who is most likely to develop which cancer [1], or which cancers are curable [2], or who is most at risk from developing Alzheimer's [3]?

That their wages haven't gone up in decades

Ah, so that's the problem. Have they considered that their tribal enemy's wages haven't gone up either?

[1] https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/risk-assessment-screening/...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/health/genetic-test-change...

[3] https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-di...
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it's not mild clickbait. it's the definition of click bait. it states a very controversial conclusion, as if the argument is finally settled, while the body has little new information and fudges around with statistic that "it's likely probable that there is or once was another species".
I haven't read that book but the voting pattern the American working class exhibits is widespread, and so is unlikely to stem from its unusual love of success alone. This quote from a now-defunct Telegraph blog by Ed West captures the core of the matter (in a somewhat inflammatory style):

>Liberals are baffled and infuriated that poor whites vote Republican, yet voting on tribal grounds is a feature of all multi-ethnic democracies, whether it's Northern Ireland, Lebanon or Iraq. The more a majority becomes a minority the more tribal its voting becomes, so that increasingly the Republicans have become the "white party"; making this point indelicately got Pat Buchanan the sack, but many others make it too. ...

>The Economist recently asked if the Tories had a “race problem”, but it may just be that democracy has a race problem.
Protip: if the greatest possible discovery in astrobiology is confirmed scientifically, you won't hear it first in a New York Times article whose title is "Yes, there have been aliens"...
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It's interesting that Zynga and Groupon could be considered as part of a basket of "decent results". I mean, I'm sure a16z made out quite well, but both companies are worth a fraction of what they were sold to he public for. A less generous interpretation is that the early investors in these companies pulled a fast one on the public. "Getting to IPO" shouldn't be a measure of success, but that's just me.
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