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I must have to admit that I have been disturbed by your patronizing attitude about claiming to "teach" something regarding Plato, Kant, etc. You did not connect your "arguments" with the ideas of those philosophers either. This kind of attitude is not very productive, and not welcome in a community like HN.

Bringing up names of some classical, old-fashioned philosophers as if they represent some kind of absolute "truth" never works to support an argument (see: appeal to authority). Plus, we are talking about Plato who confused actual reality with abstractions, and Kant whose ideas had have led to "instrumentation" of reason; both of whose outmoded ideas have been criticized thoroughly in recent social thought.

I would similarly suggest that you "haven't been doing your reading" on Foucault, Baudrillard, Adorno, Horkheimer, Deleuze, etc., but I am not going to do that. Still I hope that you would emphatize with my situation imagining the case that I did.

Textbooks aside, let's look at the real situation at hand with some clear, simple, direct language.

> The US military could lay down its arms.

They don't.

> I assure you, no one wants peace more than a professional soldier.

I, for one, don't believe that they do. And nobody can quite assure anyone whether they do want it or not.

> Someone will collect signals intelligence.

Why is this even necessary?

> The people who work at the NSA read the headlines.

If they really do, this makes the situation even worse because they are either too uninformed (or even stupid) to understand the ethical implications of their work, or reading the wrong headlines.

> I'm fairly certain there's are many very active debates within the NSA

But about what? To find out, just refer to Snowden documents to see what exactly they have been having debates about. By the way, how could you be so "certain" of everything?

One might or might not further counteract to my points, or comment that I am overreacting. But it doesn't really matter. The more we talk, the more get away from the actual reality of what is happening.

What is happening is, SURVEILLANCE.

Those who defend power of surveillance fear nothing more than "privacy", which they call "conspiracy".

I wish we could spend more time participating in meaningful action instead of getting lost in rhetorics.
As far as I know military devices always use the anti-spoof (encrypted) military code, and never the commercial code.
An acquaintance who worked directly for him would disagree with you.
Another aspect of this is that chips are rectangular but wafers are round. Smaller chip means less wasted wafer area.

Intel has an advantage here: they use 12 inch wafers while other fabs use 10 inch wafers. This improves their relative yield.
Historically, antibiotics and birth control have a well proven impact of that sort. This was not just a phenomenon of the 1960s. Other historical times and places where you could prevent pregnancy and disease also saw the flourishing of "free love" philosophies.

Actual serious consequences is a big part of what drives people to view sex as very serious business. Most people are happy to see it as just another form of play time if you can nix the threat of death, maiming and babies with a fairly high degree of confidence.
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Quantum Biology looks interesting, I'm in no way qualified to opine, yet I am fairly confident we're still a long way from a complete understanding of body and mind!
> In France, the organic law does have constitutional force and thus overrules statutes.

This may be a shocking revelation to you, but countries that aren't France aren't France.
If the area is already geothermal...
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> the author goes and poo poos [...] spec, despite the fact that would "fix the bug" exactly as requested by throwing when you gave non-sets to the set functions.

I noticed that as well.
There's a whole website (with science-backed material) devoted to curing men who experience mental and physical problems after watching too much porn:

http://yourbrainonporn.com/
> And while that's not enough to form the basis of a backup civilization

Or that might accelerate the end of civilization due to our inherent tribalism - the US isn't quite a backup of Europe as a 16th century European would have imagined. Who is to say there won't be a Planetary Mutually Assured Destruction?

The Expanse (books and TV series) explores some themes around planetary identity & politics in a fictional future where Mars and the outer solar system has been colonized and Earth is seen as a meddling 'old country' by some.
I don't know much about AWS, I assume it's not that different from Azure which I do know. If I'd be asked to create an architecture like that with a small team on Azure, I'd create an IoT hub, connect it to stream analytics, put my logic in there, and dump the results to a database (SQL or Hadoop or anything), adding some Power BI on top of that all for nice charts and graphs that would be embedded in my service or app. All that secured using Azure AD and monitored with Operations Manager.

That would be a total vendor lock-in architecture, but I'd never have to think about configuring redis clusters, failover, backup or anything. I would have no idea what technology stack is below it. It scales, and it just works. The only devops work would be to create a deployment script that would automate a deployment from sourcecontrol. The initial setup of the whole infrastructure would cost a few days maximum, and none of the hard operations problems would be mine. I'd click boxes like "Geo redundant availability: yes/no".

I think that's the benefit of these expensive cloud services. If you do low level stuff yourself on expensive cloud providers like AWS or Azure, you are doing it wrong.
AFAIK they can patch the Intel ME firmware and often do with BIOS updates. I am not sure about AMD PSP but that don't have access to the network so patching it is less important.
On the other hand: Technology also makes it so we are less isolated. The more realistic some of this stuff is, the less isolated we'll feel - hopefully. It has potential to lessen some of the encounters we dread and some of the work we dread - no one really wants to be treated like a fast food worker. Some of us would really rather not deal with random people when we are shopping.

Folks in new cities have instant communication with loved ones, and some of us meet folks and fall in love. The more realistic this stuff is, the less lonely some of that stuff might feel.

Sexbots can easily mean that a well-matched but sexually incompatable couple could have a stable relationship, for example, each with their own respective sexbots. Or a happy couple could get a pair to enhance their own relationship or to explore things their partner isn't as comfortable with. My spouse and I (who met on the internet and used to live on different continents) actually plan on getting 2 (at the same time to avoid akwardness) when they become affordable.

It might be that along with learning normal stuff, we learn different sorts of things in school to help take care of our psychological selves so we don't fall in a trap, but I doubt any of that will be needed. It won't really feel like we are isolated in the sense of solitary confinement, and in a generation or two it'll all seem a pretty natural way of life.
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> Pontificating over unanswerable questions is little more than a waste of time.

You clearly don't understand philosophy. Some philosophers like hearing their own voice talk about such questions, just like some physicists are themselves crackpots. Most philosophers are trying to properly define an otherwise ill-defined subject, and the only way to do that is via various types of thought experiments, just like Einstein did when he formulated his theory of relativity. Or did you not know that science is natural philosophy?
Certainly an easy way to keep people who suck from producing children.
The remote access part is called AMT[1] and is part of the Intel vPro[2] feature set. It most certainly is not enabled in all modern Intel processors. Further, it requires a compatible processor, chipset, and BIOS for it to be enabled.

There is a common misunderstanding in these discussions that the ME features of the Intel processor (included in nearly all modern procs) allows for hardware level remote access, which isn't true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_vPro
Can these questions be answered? What would an answer to any of these questions even look like?
> Set union can't be done efficiently on arbitrarily sized sequences. At least one of the two arguments needs to offer fast set membership; ideally the larger one, hence the requirement that all arguments be actual sets.

This made me very curious about efficient set union. Here's a pretty straightforward set union in python:

def set_union(coll1, coll2):
result = set()
for item in coll1:
result.add(item)
for item in coll2:
result.add(item)
return result

Apparently that isn't the efficient way to do it -- what is?

Regardless, the article strongly suggests that one of the two arguments to clojure.set's union does offer fast set membership, since only the second argument is permitted to not be a set.
I'm sure Intel would be happy learn from you how they could avoid investing all that money.

To misquote George Burns, too bad that all the people who know how to build fabs are busy hanging out on HN instead...
>they have to do what is expected of them

In a corporate environment, this is not much different than it is in America. Also, if you own a small business, you never have to participate in corporate tribalism. I've met plenty of people who own internet cafes, fried chicken deliveries, anime stores, etc. who slept reasonable hours.
His key example seems...odd.

Yeah, spinning up an Elasticache instance with Redis has some complexity...it's a managed service. You have to tell it some things for it to be managed for you.

If you don't want to learn about it, you just spin up an EC2 instance (which itself is not really any more complex than spinning up a VM in any other virtualized platform), and install Redis onto it. If your experience is in Linux sysops, you can -totally do that-.

That's really the key thing about most of these cloud providers...the barrier to entry really is about learning how to spin up a basic VM. All the other offerings, as complicated and unintuitive as they may be, are opt in things, designed to solve common needs. You want a scaling NoSQL DB? You can spin up EC2 instances and install your favorite flavor. It's then on you to ensure it scales properly. Or, you can read up on Dynamo, determine whether it fits your needs, then do the grunt work of setting it up in AWS, and let Amazon manage it for you. Etc. Complaining that taking advantage of ~all~ the offerings is a huge mental burden seems silly; of course it is. THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM. But nothing is stopping you from just using EC2 to start, and using those other services only as you find the time and drive to learn about them and determine that you can benefit from them.
Obviously all that works fine for English, but is sub optimal for other languages.
I wonder, since QWERTY is not going away, perhaps the future is custom key-binding as opposed to single, better layout such as Dvorak.
I'm not sure I get this - are the workers coming in to replace them actually in the USA physically? Are they staying in the USA physically?

I mean is this offshoring / outsourcing or is it replacing with cheaper workers?

Why can't the existing employees compete for the jobs? I mean WIPRO must have going through some pretty big pre sales workups, so who else was competing?

I think what I mean is that doing this in secret implies that no one doing the actual job was ever consulted about the viability of outsourcing / replacing them / so you never get a real understanding of the costs or opportunities for improvement (essentially automating a bad process)

In summary - any company that does this cheap shot is usually one that is going to get its ass handed to it by a better more automated competitor.
I think this would have been a much smarter way to code it! Default slow and safe, require an added flag for more performance. That would make it much harder to end up on the timing-sensitive / high performance implementation by mistake.

Probably the trap was since the constant-time algorithm was the new code, "backward compatibility" would suggest adding a flag to select the new algorithm.
I am not surprised that companies that are broken enough to do the outsourcing in the first place are also often broken enough to have this term in severance agreements. But it really should not be standard.
> On the flip side, you think the marriage rates are low now? Just you wait...

Is this a bad thing? If there are people who would prefer a sex-bot partner over getting married, how good would you expect their counterfactual marriages to be? Would it be better if someone took the sex-bot option away and they got married instead?

And I don't think under-population is the problem we're facing...
I have dozens of apps (but anecdotally many fewer than average) for a bunch of things. I have 3 book readers from different vendors. I usually use one, but if the book I want isn't available, I try the others. I have several streaming video apps which I use when traveling. I have a metronome and various audio recording apps for practicing music. I have apps for various airlines for when I'm traveling. I have a few restaurant apps for ordering on the go, but I don't usually use them. I also have several games. Then there are simple info apps like the standard stock app, weather app, maps, etc. Also calendar and email. Oh, and I take lots of photos with my phone even though I have a very nice DSLR (which I also use a lot). It's a really useful tool.

I think I'm in the minority in how few apps I use, so it seems to me that you're even more in the minority. And that's fine, but don't assume everyone else uses their device like you do!
A+ extreme reductionism.

I never said "nothing is free", nor implied that, but merely that users need to cognizant of the goals of "free" language maintainers (especially when there is a corporation rather than a person as BDFL) that do not necessarily align with the goals of the median or average user.

Now that we are on this topic, I'm starting to think maybe it's worth paying for a programming language so that the goals of the maintainers are better aligned with the goals of the users. That being said, there is real value to the ability inspect the source. As such, it's very difficult to do open source as a paid product.
That's right. I live in the US and never saw any problem with napping in the college library, but one time I fell asleep out in my car while waiting for my child's class to end, and someone woke me to see if I was ok. Well I was just fine until you woke me, thanks!
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Curses has nothing to do with the unix philosophy, and "terminal application" should not be confused with what is actually characteristic of unix: its IPC and IO model, and its possibilities for composing programmes through those. The fact that you most often utilise these features through a terminal emulator that runs a shell does not mean that curses and the ilk are essential to unix because they happen to draw interfaces in those terminal emulators. Curses it not more or less unixy than any other windowing/UI-widget library.
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I've been reading that for hours now, absolutely fascinating. It's like cargo-cult legalese.
Also, I've been thinking on what you've written about cooperative multitasking OS'es and why preemptive concurrency took over.

Cooperative multitasking is easier in regard to design of OS or language that implements it - but honestly, almost all production code today is glue logic and almost every app is big and messy - e.g. XCode takes ~150MB just to start on my Mac
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Ugh, those things were always so gross. I don't understand why liking computers is so correlated with, well.... hygiene issues.
Except computer behaviour isn't emergent from its structure, it's emergent from its programming which happens after its structure is fully formed. And neural structure changes during its operation, which most computers don't.

They aren't remotely the same thing. Certainly you can simulate this operation of neural structure, but to suggest they are effectively the same is to suggest that cars and mice are effectively the same. They're both just made of matter aren't they?
How long until robosexuals officially receive equal protection under the 14th amendment (for US robosexuals)?
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It is simply a cost issue. Look at North Dakota during the oil boom, for example. It turns out paying $150k+ gets you plenty of applicants willing to work 120 hour weeks out of a dormitory.
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I just listened to Altman discussing this at a recent interview and it is obviously something he thought a lot about. If you can't watch the video he says that ai is an amazing resource and YC is funding a basic income study in oakland as well as open ai. He also points out that doing a task that a machine or computer do is pointless. I find myself agreeing with what I believe his conclusion was;

we (humans) want ai and will all be better off for it. we are heading into a shift on the order of the industrial revolution and the best course is unknowable. we should harness this technology, try to distribute it bu collaborative building & information dissemination and study the idea of personal fullfillment & a basic quality of life.

In short, the answer is definitely not to stop working on it because it is just basic game theory that someone/entity will not. We need to leverage to fix the problem it creates & learn how to allocate our resources by studying this immeadiately.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FuijDaj8DvA
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Yeah, he licenses SparseSuite out for commercial use.

His personal payout would be very tiny (if any at all), after U of F's take and money his lab gets. But at least its some funding to keep his lab going.
These regulations are intended to protect airport radars of a type that have a very narrow beam width, which ought to provide a reasonably accurate bearing along which to search for the offender. Offending transmissions can be further tracked using dirt cheap off the shelf WiFi equipment, especially the stuff that has a spectral scan mode: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/spec...

If the offending transmissions are not intermittent (ie. an access point is operating normally, but with DFS off and a high transmit power for broadcasts), then it's probably feasible to pinpoint at least the correct building by searching on foot for a few hours.
I'm not sure you can say it's considered acceptable or unacceptable at this point. We haven't decided as a society yet, because they don't exist yet.
Great. The more options the better. For the men and women who can't form relationships. This is better than nothing.
Technology doesn't take anything away from those that actually want to have contact with other people in real life.
I respectfully disagree. I claim the probability of human existence could have been less than 1, just as the probability of heads when tossing a fair coin is less than one, even when heads is observed as an outcome. We simply can't observe "tails" in this case.
When we were in Kyoto, we could see a homeless man with a sleeping bag from our window. He would smoke a cigarette and carefully shake the ash into a soda can, presumably for later disposal, rather than onto the sidewalk.
People who exclusively suck tend not to get pregnant.
Hopefully one day textbook prices can return to a sane level, say between $30 and $80. Today's textbook racket (I don't want to call it a market) is obscene.
Why must it be done? Tell me. So far not a single person in this thread has given a strong argument against the TPP. Not one.
You own your computer as long as you need it and then throw it away. AI is just a better computer running more advanced software.
That's why they invented non-alcoholic beer.
Abbott contracted with Wipro, who appears to be performing the work locally, though Wipro claims only 20% h1b labor.

Abbott tried to reduce the role of foreigners in the layoffs. Only about 20
percent of the workers brought in by Wipro would be foreigners on H-1B
visas, Mr. Stoffel said, while the rest would be American workers.
Non-linear DNA computing. In addition, getting systems to compute based on words - see: https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234...

e.g. Austria - Capital = Vienna OR 12 x 12 = 144

We continue to mimic nature in our scientific endeavors and the brain, as the best pattern matcher we know of, is no exception.
It's standard for lots of things.

I had to sign such an agreement to stay through an acquisition.
China will need this to prevent civil unrest, so it will probably be sooner
I hope it goes well, William. It was nice to take a couple classes from you at UW in 2014.
Sex has long been a far more casual activity than commonly portrayed. So, people often have huge misconceptions about people's behavior both past and present.
Why is it considered acceptable to enslave
AI robots

AI is largely hypothetical at the moment, and whether such things are ever acceptable or not will depend on the form AI eventually takes, if it ever exists at all.

"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams includes an animal that has been genetically engineered to want to be eaten [1]. If AI took a form where their personalities could be precisely configured, they could simply be configured to joyfully consent to whatever fate their creators had in store for them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1nxaQhsaaw
That doesn't sound hard to me - you just use a high level type that implements the coercion/conversion rules of the dynamic lang types.

GC lang to non-GC lang is a more interesting challenge. If anyone has transpiled a gc lang to C++ I'd love to know how they did it.
The point is that it should not be.
I thought dynamic loading of functionality like this was against the App Store rules? Or did they ease up on that particular limit over the years?
We have to recreate neighborhood congregations. Topical meetup groups that meet weekly with social activities to build a local community. Kid-friendly activities that happen during meetups so people can bring their whole families. Congregations that become so strong that people choose neighborhoods by the types of congregations that exist in the neighborhood. Like cohousing[1], but with a lower barrier to entry.

[1] http://www.cohousing.org/what_is_cohousing
I agree, I was merely sharing my experience.