skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone going to actually address the thought experiment itself? The 20% is "obnoxious people who hijack civil discourse and decorum to allocate outsized influence for themselves" and yes they exist on the left and the right. I will talk about the "regressive left" or whatever the hell just as soon as we have talk radio and cable news filled with left-wing ideologues and a bunch of socialists in Congress who would sooner burn down the country than negotiate with our center-right President (or really, center-left President would more accurately mirror the current situation but whatever).

You think there is much chance of that happening, like ever?
> This sea change took place over the course of two centuries
> Farmers tilled their fields until retirement, while their children went off to school and became electricians, factory foremen, real-estate agents and food chemists.
> Truck drivers won’t be so lucky.

After computers were invented, it took decades before telecommunications switching systems used them. The web was invented to help researchers publish their work and link to each others work using hyperlinks. Most scientific publications still happen via PDF.

Author is probably underestimating the inertia of human beings.

> Wouldn’t a self-programming agent be able to free itself from the shackles of the control systems under which we place them?

> If an AI wants to serve humans, it would assign a very low expected utility to an action that would lead it to start killing humans. There are fundamental reasons to think that if you set up the goal system in a proper way, these ultimate decision criteria would be preserved.

OK, what are they ? Besides, what about the moral aspects of enslaving AI ? At what point do we say that a machine's wishes are not equal to a human's ? If a machine has the capacity to form complex thoughts and emotions, should it not have the same rights as a human being ?
Ship-of-the-line has faded, but fleet-in-being was invented(?) around battle of Jutland and has remained important aspect to stifle the enemy from maritime trade.
I remember that. One of the crypto libraries was implemented by using unsafePerformIO to access a global handle to /dev/urandom rather than accepting another parameter.

For what it's worth, this bug was an outlier. The pitfalls of unsafePerformIO are relatively well-known.

For contrast, there a bug in PHP's opcode cache that causes memory corruption in our setup. The best we've managed to do to deal with that by patching PHP to bump the refcount of some object to a billion. The failure condition is sufficiently obscure that it took us multiple man-months to figure that much out.
Nice simple analogy
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> [...] it's easier to manipulate the far fewer people who do the aggregation for final results.

That problem can easily be solved with transparency. In Germany I can do my own tally of the election results as every state reports the votes down the individual polling station. For example, here are the results for Berlin from the last Bundestags election: https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2013/ErgebWahllokale/w...

I can also observe the count at my local polling station. They are required to announce their results orally after they're done counting and I can confirm that this is the result reported online.

I've been an election helper and I've always checked that the results online match those that we reported. I never did my own tally, but if the results are close I'm sure someone does them.
VS2015 only got support for C99 because of the C++14 requirements.
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Because ocdtrekkie was using Microsoft's open source strategy to imply that Microsoft is no longer pursuing the same goals as before. EugeneOZ explained that Microsoft's strategy does not preclude their earlier goals.
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" The services waste these ‘big war’ resources on our insurgency campaigns. F/A-18s were about 10k per flight hour and perform worse than platforms such as the Super Tacono"

The Tacono example is interesting. You can read about the A29 procured by USSF in 2006 looking for an alternative A10 , cheap and fit for purpose. [0]

[0] "The WWII-Era Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money" ~ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow
How do you feel about the new games like Cities Skylines? How would you rate it against SC4?
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Exactly. Worked pretty well!

One would note that India spent $2.3 Billion on INS Vikramaditya[1], which was also an ex-Soviet aircraft carrier, of roughly similar vintage. It was fitted out though, so the comparison isn't entirely fair.

Nevertheless.. $20M vs $2.3B

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Vikramaditya
I think this issue could be overcome by a proxy/delegate style system. With the ability to change proxy/delegate at any time, we would have ongoing accountability and move away from the problems of election cycles. Even better from a representation viewpoint (but more complex from a design viewpoint) is the option to have different proxies/delegates for different decisions/topics.

The real problem is balancing tradeoffs, particularly between spending and taxes. Currently (in Australia at least) the size of the expected budget defecit is a crude metric for the overall financial responsibility of the government and is a factor in elections. If citizens can vote independently for spending versus taxes, then there is nobody to hold accountable (tragedy of the commons).
Here is a response to this "independent" report: https://www.ria.ee/en/e-voting-is-too-secure.html
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Not a fool proof system but a little helpful: In Germany you can request a second (and a third, and a fourth...) ballot.

So fill out the first with fake vote, take picture, ask for second (first one is destroyed), fill out second with desired vote.

This obviously breaks down when the person coercing you is with you in the polling station.
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The US doesn't know how to build submarines?
> it makes me wonder if aircraft carriers are obsolete and we just don't know it yet because there hasn't been a naval war since then.

Aircraft carriers probably made the difference in the Falklands war.

> Tanks, planes, and aircraft carriers, to name a few, either didn't exist or were insignificant in WWI

Tanks played a critical role in the closing years of WWI. Planes were significant (though for reconnaissance rather than attack).

> WWII ended with bombers dropping nuclear weapons (another platform and strategy still in use today).

Bombers dropping nuclear weapons is barely a strategy that exists today. Some countries retain the capability because if you already have a heavy bomber and a nuclear warhead it doesn't cost a whole lot to make them compatible with each other, but the only serious delivery mechanisms for nuclear weapons are missiles.
Not exactly, as CloudMounter supports Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive too. Also, iCloud compatibility is planned for the future upgrades.
Because in the real world, distribution of capital has a little thing called "opportunity costs".

A bunch of people are allocating large amounts of capital to shams when they could have been making productive use of it, this both gives rewards, social power, and encourages scammers/fraudsters, but also forgoes investment in otherwise productive activities that could benefit us all.

In addition, there are very real concerns about government involvement, as well as the social consequences when mom/pop/sister/brother/anyone we care about loses their money to such...

I could go on...
It's not about engineers.

The theory of international relations still maintain that diplomacy between nations is essentially anarchy. The reason why the seven seas are so peaceful today is that the top dog (U.S.) has been favorable to free trade.

The reason why regular citizen doesn't have that "global notion of society competing for resources" is twofold: A free trade works. B pax Americana related propaganda has been broadcasted for what, 7 decades now.
Really interesting product selection - obviously on the pricey end when the market here is looking for hacky project type prices, but an open version of Joan for people to get playing with your stack at that £299/$350 price point might work for feeding dev support further up the chain?
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^ last time war games were exercised in asymmetrical warfare they got beaten so badly they transformed everything in a scriped farce
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sad to see that people still thinks "it's sad to see" that somebody can have different opinion.
Well, maybe intelligent does not necessarily include expansive.
whops, sorry for the wikiwand link. Just wondered why I was getting downvoted.
I find it pretty ironic that Google constantly tries to optimize for every byte in some of its products, pushes for speed and mobile optimization, yet ends up completely negating that in its advertising offerings.

This and the malware that gets through. Stop allowing arbitrary Javascript in ads, and that's it - problem solved. But nope, the cat and mouse chase goes on, and maldvertisers are always a step ahead.
Maybe try studying some algorithms during weekends? It will help you in interviews and will also help you become a better programmer.
C++ is supported in kernel space since Windows 8.
After 4 years at a company you have influence. Use it to start a small project in stats or whatever. Talk to people in the business if you need to, and build something on the side that is useful for them. Use your influence to get the project funded later.
probably he means not ones USA can export (as in, non nuclear) like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbel-class_submarine
Seems like you haven't tasted great lettuce! Try one grown in Finland, it'll blow your mind. I miss Finnish vegetables more than anything else!
There's an important property of democratic voting that you're missing: Not only Computer Science PhDs with cryptography experience should be sure their votes aren't manipulated, everyone needs to be.

That's much easier with physical systems.
Audits aren't that useful, the DAO was 'audited' soon after creation and none of its flaws were found: https://blog.slock.it/deja-vu-dao-smart-contracts-audit-resu...
It's absolutely different case. Microsoft don't care if tools they use will be open-source or free - no. They only care if they can attract developers by playing role of "openSource company". It's not your case.
Both, you and cuddlybacon are right. A long time ago, they worked under the assumption that the FS is case-sensitive, and all the games I installed back then had title-cased folder names. Gradually, Valve stopped caring about this, and my games stopped working. I had to go in and manually change some game folder names to lower-case. It then kept some small files under SteamApps and the downloaded games under steamapps. They have fixed that now. Now, I have both CONFIG and config in my Steam folder.

How would it work? By a combination of magic and "we can't be bothered; the users should figure out something".
I'm not sure if I'm reading your comment correctly. I totally agree we should aim towards educated and politically active society. However, educated bit should come first. Then we can start making it easier to participate. Tiering the barrier of coming to polling place won't educate people by itself.
Yeah, but imagine this on deserts. You havae too much light and almost no agricultural land. So, use panels to gather light, use hydroponics/aeroponics to grow plants and now you can distribute your sunlight to many levels of racks (which can be underground under panels which means even more efficiency than on normal land.
Many of your reasons disappear when everyone has a smartphone. The software can convert whatever representation of a location into whatever description helps find it. That I think is better than locking "directions to help the postman" into the address itself. The postman's app can tell him how to find your street.

The idea of what 3 words is that it's easy to remember. Your suggestions are not. That's a massive weakness.
Alright cool, why did you decide to go with Scala instead of Java ?
Because with deep learning we quite recently got a new tool (someone figured out how to use GPUs for training) that lets of do a lot of those imitating things we couldn't do before.

A lot of fruit that suddenly became low hanging.
It's heavily related to culture and your influences growing up.

For example: I'm from East Germany. I grew up in a free country (after the reunion). I have a well-paying job and never had trouble getting access to all the household items etc. that I need. So over time, I have emphasized the role of property as a liability (although I'm not as radical in downsizing my inventory just yet). When I can always buy stuff that I need (or borrow it from someone), why own it now?

My parents were socialized in the GDR, where every single item in your household inventory was acquired through hard work, saving, and good connections to the people who can acquire certain luxury items live TV sets or silverware for them. It's very plausible that they take pride in an extensive inventory.

My grandmother grew up during World War II. Having had to flee from the destroyed remains of Berlin, and having lived in a time of cruel scarcity, it's no wonder that she, too, attaches a higher value to ownership than I do, and always keeps a fridge full of deep-frozen food whereas I always buy Just In Time.
I wouldn't bet on it. Every safety feature added to the standard since C99 has been quietly dropped by compiler maintainers.

People could write safe code in the 70's. The point of C was to write high level (kinda portable) assembly. Not safety.
Some kind of logging maybe?
Not necessarily true. If the task is too easy then you will get bored fairly soon.
seems relevant:

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuW4oGKzVKc
I don't think that it's intended to replace DRAM. It's going to be cheaper than DRAM (price-wise, I expect DRAM / 3DXpoint ≈ 3DXpoint / NAND), but significantly higher latency (the article says an order of magnitude, but those figures don't seem to include bus stuff etc, so it might be a bit more. Total latency will likely be in the range of a few hundred nanoseconds). That, and the limited durability (much higher than NAND, but still limited).

I think this is going to be amazing for "in-memory" data bases: it's cheaper, still very fast, has higher capacity and is persistent (the article doesn't even mention that). But it won't replace DRAM any time soon imho.
This system is incredibly accurate. The switch/server room in my company's office is located at renamed.random.wires.
Taiwan is not going to get F-35's either. They are lucky to get newest F-16 blocks.

Taiwan has lost spy war with China. Their military can't be trusted with secrets. Highest ranking spies include army general (electronic communications and information bureau chief), defense attaché to the United States, vice admiral and presidential aide.

I don't know how effective Taiwanese counterintelligence is, but if we assume that they capture just small percentage of spies, Taiwan is open book for China.
>mansplaining

Thank you for injecting sexism into a technical discussion.
This is just a lot of buzzwords strung together in no particular order
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Voting procedures are handled at the state level, subject to terms from the federal government regarding basic access and fairness, so there is a lot of variety. I lived for twenty years in CA and I could have said the same thing about my polling experiences except for doing the counting (you can volunteer to be an elector and after some basic training do so, they just don't let the general public wander in to the best of my knowledge.)

Experiences vary.
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Look up the Swiss style of democracy. They have elected officials for day-to-day tasks and frequent referendums for subjective matters. From what I saw, their referendum campaigns are great. You can make your own opinion with an hour or two of research, tops. Even with the very limited time, IMO few hours a year is worth it to be more involved with shaping your own society. Best of both worlds.
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That really is an interesting issue. I've been noting a few more posts here on hacker news recently getting flagged for "personal attacks" that I, personally, would have interpreted as someone calling out nonsense, and that not calling them out was more offensive.

Regardless of whether he does or does not sound like a shill ... how do we extend this to things like:

- Pointing out Nimby's in SF housing markets?
- Calling someone a salesperson/marketer/advertiser (which I view as offensive...but is often highly-accurate/true)
- Pointing out the self-interest in boosters talking up tech/bitcoing/etc

Indeed, in many of these recent observances of "personal attacks", what I view as actually happening is silently assenting to the worldview of an original poster/article and protecting that worldview. Contrary opinions or valuations or interpretations of events are taken as "personal attacks", which can be really quite repugnant when, sometimes, the more morally questionable/civilised position is in fact that of protecting the right to point out that which probably should be attacked in any reasonable discussion/society in the first place: (say, saying Theranos looks like a bunch of scammers/grifters, various startups and SF culture looks eerily like the past practiecs of get-rich-quick-schemes and boosterism)...
>They are lucky to get newest F-16 blocks.

Would that we were also so lucky, rather than lighting trillions on fire for an aircraft that's going to turn out inferior to the 1980s era craft we're already flying.
In our culture we always strive for a "better" job. Better jobs pay more, and have more societal prestige and status. In our culture we associate better jobs with being managers. The higher up the management chain you are, the better job you have and the more important you are and the more money you get. (and more money is always better too). If you can make it to CEO you can make 1000x the lesser workers who do not have as good a job.

Is that a valid cultural paradigm? Are management jobs always "better"? Should they get paid more because they are so much better and more desirable positions to have?

Sometimes this attitude seems like a remnant of a feudal age where the management positions were held by nobility (our betters). Certainly some of the pay inequalities are now forming the basis for civil unrest.

The craftsmen are the true heart of the companies production and IMO the rest of the team should be focused around supporting the craftsmen rather than the craftsmen focused on supporting the management. (regardless of your product)

I think our culture is a little broken.
I've been involved in automated testing with a robot for point-of-sale systems. The pinpads are secure devices, so there's no way of injecting commands, and there's no adequate bug-compatible simulator. It's cute watching it carefully insert a card, type in the PIN, remove the card, etc.
My understanding of flow is that it is triggered when the task is neither too easy or too hard. It's a sweet spot that maximizes your engagement with the task at hand.
I still won't use ad blockers, I find them akin to stealing from content creators, but I'm getting close.
It looks like the fact that the button is missing, is an acknowledged bug, if you read through this conversation on Twitter... https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/742511355614224385?...
Great! Now I can see very fast, what has changed...
We don't build diesel-electrics like they would be probably most interested in. Something like the Russian Kilo class[1] is more in line with their needs than a Los Angeles attack sub or a boomer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-class_submarine
I guess talking to my phone is just weird for me, since I am not used to it, but I do all those things manually.

I check the weather with one touch on the home screen.

I don't need to navigate to work, because the trip is short enough and there won't be any heavy traffic.

The alarm is set to 6.30 anyways, I don't have to change it daily, so I just left the standard weekday setting.

Not hating on your use case, but I am always around people and I think I would get several odd glances, when talking to my phone like that.
I'd like to add our app hyperPad to this list
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It's a bit more visual programming rather than actual code, but programming concepts still apply.

We're being used by hundreds of schools around the world teaching kids to code :).
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Yes, but that is only one middleman, not 5 to 7, and my point had to do with the banks playing catch up to consolidate them as one middleman taking the collective cut of the 5 to 7 others.

I took the equivalent of $250 USD out of a Malaysian ATM with my Bank of America debit card. I was charged a $3.50 ATM fee by the Malaysian bank. BoA charged me $5.00 ATM fee, AND an $11.00 foreign transaction fee based upon the amount. I know they hedge exchange rates, but they already took the $5.00, and $11.00 is a lot more than my Bank of China account charges me 3x less to take money out in the US on my BoC debit card.

My credit card is not too bad, but the merchants are paying fees too on top of the 5 to 7 middlemen. Bitcoin or other would only be an improvement. People make the claim they want a bank to call or email with issues. Well, you cannot even email most issues to BoA. I have tried. You need to call them. They can send you secure messages in online banking that you can reply to, but you cannot initiate an issue.

I'll take the lower, single fee, that although not fully anonymous via tracking, is better than high fees with no real benefits. Trust me, I'm not delusional on this, only wishing for the better deal for me.
I found ^ the difficult thing. Although working with PCs for more then 20 years (although mostly Windows, only some Linux) I had no idea that it could mean Control. And therefore I needed to google what it means as an OSX keyboard shortcut. ⌥ was obvious, as it is printed on my keycaps, ^ not.
I think one of the biggest strengths of U.S. military has been ability to pour money in R&D without wasting it to unneeded projects. This happens via embarrassing cancellations, but anyhow it seems to work to some degree. Now U.S. can pretty much rely on having the newest tech on all fronts, while everybody else is scrambling to have fleeting glory of adequate gear fielded.