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Your assumption is that billions of dollars can be simply converted into poverty reduction.

It seems possible to me that the technology to turn money into less poverty not only doesn't exist, but that the social structures that make men like Bill Gates rich also make it difficult to create such technology.

Your implicit argument is that todays rich somehow care more about improving society than yesterday's did, which will cause these concentrations of wealth to lead to a different outcome. I'm not sure I see much of a difference between Gates and Carnegie. Different ideas about what the world needs, but not a particularly different approach to capital.
wonder how many potential uber/facebook founders there could have been which instead decided to graduate and work at a big company for the prestige.
Sure, there are also papers about theorem proving and stuff. I can't fault the GOFAI (Good Old-Fashioned AI) part of what MIRI does. I do believe we need more of that kind of research and it will let us understand current AI better.

But superintelligence and AI risk are made out (by many) to be the most important thing in the world. Basic research isn't that. It's just good. If we fund math and theoretical research, our descendants will be better cognitively equipped to deal with whatever they need to deal with, and that's pretty neat. I see the basic research MIRI does as a special case of that.

Wait a minute. Is the superintelligence hype just a front for convincing people to financially support mathematics and philosophy? Maybe the ends justify the means, then. But too much false urgency will create a backlash where nobody respects the work that was done, like Y2K.
That depends on where you live. For me, it's fine, because we have lots of interesting and/or annoying weather. For others, it's the same boring sunny day every day.
Most of the Otto engineers are still in San Francisco, and many of them are working on self-driving cars (in addition to trucks).
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> why the focus on "new research"? Is "old research" not good enough?

Because the NYT is a newspaper and they need a reason to publish a news article. This is known as a "hook." The hook in cases like this will be something new being published. It's hard to hook readers by announcing: What we've known since the 1970s still holds true. Just doesn't work.
If society becoming less racist toward them led to an Asian economic boom, the black community should be rocketing upward any day now.

But I suspect rather, this author is confusing cause with effect and attributing success to a change in attitudes toward Asians rather than successful Asians changing attitudes toward Asians.
Hm. I went to Stanford. Famous for diverse, risk-taking non-mediocre graduates. I guess its the exception that proves the rule?
the touch bar is simply garbage. In 2 weeks of usage including heavy xcode use I have yet to find a single instance where having the touch bar was better than having the function keys.

Not only that I'm pretty sure the battery issues are due to not being able to turn off a constantly updating touch bar.
> Understanding of others is probably more correlated with an elite education than not.

In my experience, it is independent of education. I've dealt with the social service people early in my career and encountered people with true empathy (along with folks who had no business giving directions much less life advice). You find these folks in many careers and at many educational levels. If anything the focus required for intensive education might push people away from the understanding of others.
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Please show me the upvote button.
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> If your goal is to win, wouldn't you want to play the move that always leads to a win 10 moves ahead

Sure, but the King's Gambit is just an opening, and you'd have to rely on lazy mistakes to guarantee a win 10 moves ahead that early in the game.
Devices are supposed to be shut off / put in airplane mode to prevent interference with avionics. Intentionally jamming a part of the spectrum would be counter-productive.
This too. No doubt they accumulated much hate for different reasons. Guess it would be better said if it's gonna be a boom or bust. I've been feeling like an IPO isn't going to happen for Uber for about a year now. There's a passage in Ben Horowitz's book that went "we drove so fast off that cliff we didn't leave treadmarks", paraphrasing. That's how I feel about Uber once news came out about how they were doing in China, then the new about spending near $1B in 6 months. People argue with me that institutions are dying to get into deals like Uber, but I don't know many institutions able to burn billions a year into a single investment. They get investors, they get loans. It's all good until no one is willing to put up more money and then it just fades away (or acquired like someone else said, but at what valuation? look at twitter from $70B to $11B now).
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have the storage solved for the rest why not just use that same storage mechanism? If you're using local storage on your legacy applications and are essentially bound to the one node why couldn't you tag one node and use hostpath in kubernetes?

Since these applications are fundamentally not designed for something like kubernetes what everyone seems to be asking for is Kubernetes to provide network storage that has the good things from NFS but faster. I could be way off base here but asking for a simple and performant solution to this problem from projects like kubernetes just doesn't seem reasonable. Network storage, particularly the type that provides traditional filesystem semantics, is a hard space all on its own.

To put it another way, it sounds like people are asking kubernetes to take single node applications dependent on traditional filesystems and provide a magical performant network storage layer to make those failover seamlessly between kubernetes nodes with no (or tunable?) data loss. For those asking for this how would _you_ go about creating such a system? Just thinking through that a little should make it clear that what you're asking for isn't just a solution to a very difficult problem, it's a solution that is, I think, worth quite a lot of money to the person/group that solves it elegantly.

I would genuinely love to be proven wrong here so by all means destroy my argument with extreme prejudice.
The fear of recognizing a caste system is that once you use words to describe something, the words themselves become a tool to reinforce and then codify that system.

I mean, India itself seems to be a prototypical example of that.
He's usually so much funnier than this! Something must be going on. Maybe his dog died.
OSX is effectively a microkernel in name only, its a microkernel with a single monolithic UNIX kernel client, and has virtually none of the advantages of a real microkernel setup with multiple clients sharing tasks.
"Our analysis suggests that you do. You've been denied entry."
"Can you show me the details?"
"I'm sorry, we're not permitted to do that. The software just gives us an approve or deny response. Please move to the red line over there."
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"Please move to the red line, sir."

I enjoy visiting the US as a tourist (hiking, etc). I also tweet occasionally about politics, including US politics. A move towards analysis like this would concern me a lot, largely because I can see it operating as a black box and leaving no options for review.
> ¹ I'm aware that APT actually uses GPG, but it does (did) so fishy manipulations both before and after invoking GPG on the signed files, that, if this would've happened in a corporate setting, I'd have rather peculiar questions for the employee who wrote that code.

From the openSUSE, I brought up my concerns about us not using HTTPS and it boils down to the fact that few mirrors want to host stuff over SSL. And if not many mirrors will do it, the benefit to users is diminished (you can't force the usage of SSL on the client).

On the plus side, openSUSE does serve a copy of the GPG signing key for the ISO over HTTPS (from the main site). I just wish that there were less steps required to be sure that the ISO is official.
FYI, some of those are due to content being non-secret + already digitally signed and wanting to assure they can be served from the "Cache Server" within enterprises to help speeds.
I was on this flight. The flight wasn't late; but we almost had to be diverted because no one came forward with the device. It took about 30 minutes and 4-5 reminders from the flight attendant and pilot to resolve the issue, making me think the person either forgot he renamed it to that or he himself was pranked and didn't realize his phone was renamed until he took a second look. I was hoping someone didn't buy a galaxy note 7 as a gift and had it in a bag somewhere. But yeah, definitely one of the more interesting flights i've been on :/
It conveys more relevant information than just the name would, in this case.
This may sound naive, but what are the incentives and/or how are the developers of Lichess making a profit. The site is one of the best executed webapps I've ever used. What motivates the creators?
No, that's not the problem. We know that many bad guys don't bother hiding what they're saying or reading.

The problem is that border security is going to over interpret normal text written by normal innocent people.
That is fine though. ATS just ensures you are using TLS v1.2 and such, but doesn't enforce expiration / CRL / trusted roots / etc. That would be done in app, usually using default built-in frameworks but sometimes with custom logic to do things like certificate pinning.
The benefit is to normalize unreasonableness. And to add another scene of "doing something" to the never-ending production of Security Theater.
The scenario described is almost literally a modern interpretation of yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater. [0]

Speech used to incite panic or create a riot can absolutely land you jail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
Thibault simply wants to deliver the best online chess experience. Period.

It's purely donation driven and he pulls a small salary from whatever's leftover after buying enough servers to keep the site up.
If it weren't for the 1% (smartest not wealthiest) we'd still be living in caves, we'd have no cure for disease, we'd have no internet (or Hacker News!). I, for one, am extremely thankful for elite/ivy educations and for what these institutions and their graduates have made possible for the rest of humanity. If the only price we pay is that they don't know how to talk to dumb people, that's a price I feel is worth paying.
Well, given the fact that the grsecurity folks violate the GPL, in not sure what recognition they deserve other than "you can now get their feature in a free software, mainline kernel".
Aha! I was looking for this recently. Doesn't appear to be on https://about.gitlab.com/installation/, which is where I stopped my search for it.
Why isn't everything normally distributed?
From the article that was linked in a few posts up: He was running a major spam operation, and he got into a list of known spammers arranged by SpamHaus (an anti spam organization). The list happens to have about 100 people.

It's said that he received a few letters from the FBI and other law enforcements while he was running the operations. Nothing specific.
I went to Stanford, and I disagree. Sure, there are exceptions, but most fellow alumni I know are very boring.

For example, many live in San Francisco, work for Facebook or Google, and do little of note besides the following:

- have an "interesting" hobby
- work out at the gym
- hang out with friends at the bar or club
- work on their career
- start a "start-up"
- travel
- ... other very self-serving pursuits

Most recently, I am very disappointed in my fellow alumni for not standing up for this professor:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/ex-stanford-...

And actually, I am seeing to it that alumni and current students do something about this. Enough is enough.
I think that's a good rule of thumb but you can certainly do it if you know what you're doing (which includes having the right hardware).
I really like ack over grep, and there's a vim plugin too.

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Nuclear strike isn't particularly bad. Hiroshima + Nagasaki was 200k casualties or so. That many people are killed every year by sugar. Traffic kills over a million.

Any kind of worrying about theoretical future death is silly, especially accidental death like the kind you are asking us to devote resources to. Why should I care about theoretical future death when there is real, actual death happening all around me?

Heck, if you want to worry about future death, why not worry about climate change deaths, which we can actually model? At least that gives us some chance to do something about it.

Of course I'm assuming you actually care about public health. Maybe you are just worried about your own health, and nuclear strike is relevant to you because it has the potential to pierce through the barriers that distance you from people who are actually facing mortal peril.
India: Maybe inside the alt.right's religious fever dream. BTCINR volumes are negligible; USDINR has barely moved. Demonetization remains quite popular, and supermarkets remain as full as before.
Javascript is mentioned in the charts but as of this writing has no hits on the discussion. Is anyone using Javascript or Node for ML?
The remarks here on HN dissing this article piqued my curiosity

The other day I read a comment observing that commenters here have an almost Pavlovian response that compels them to disagree with the article. That seems right to me. A while ago I wrote this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300542, which touches on similar themes.
Right, but game theory tells us that for every single position, perfect play either leads to a win for one player or a draw, and for every position, there is a best reply.

To the extent that an AI approaches perfect play more closely than a novice or masters from the 19th century, shouldn't we go learn from the AI?

One interpretation of Stockfish here is 'I don't think this is a very strong opening'. To the extent that it's correct, stronger players will not play that opening very much, so spending time to learn it seems potentially wasteful.
Volunteer with your preferred local political party. The path to getting into politics can start as easily as showing up until people know you, and having good ideas that enough people agree with. Your job as a politician would be to carry those ideas to the structures of power (town council, school board, whatever).

It's pretty time-consuming, but it's a big responsibility, making decisions that affect lots of people's lives. So, trade-offs.
> but we can certainly model them

Our ability to model quantum systems is feeble indeed. Anything more than about 40 qubits and it starts costing millions of dollars. 50 qubits just forget about it.

There's plenty of quantum condensed matter physics that is just completely impossible to model.

Even in chemistry, there are huge swathes of molecules that we fail to be able to model. This is hopefully going to be the "killer app" of quantum computers, btw.
If one comes along, it's very possible. rusti describes itself as experimental still, as far as I know.
To those who didn't bother to click the link, it's a proprietary app that has EULA restrictions to stop security researchers from trying to exploit it (basically ensuring that any bugs won't be disclosed to the authors).

I pass.
I think Germany being safe is a result of culture, not anything with cameras. Many, many modern problems are fundamentally cultural issues and things like CCTV cameras are either masking or exhibiting their symptoms.
If virtual machines with live migration is what you're after, vmware is not your only option. You can get largely the same effect without involving any iscsi/FC/SAN tech with another open source project, which happens to originate from the same place as Kubernetes: http://www.ganeti.org/

Ganeti has been battle-tested for about a decade too, supports an assortment of storage backends, including some clustered ones like Ceph, can do live migration between hypervisor nodes, and it's a nicely maintained Python app with some Haskell parts in it.

ganeti came out of my team at google in the mid 2000s, fwiw. I did not work on it, but I've certainly used it. It's pretty nice.
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> Why are quantum effects complicated?

because of entanglement.
I had only heard of it second hand; I thought it was already communicated upstream. Oops!
Ah yes, the Theil + Palintir influence starts to show.

On one hand, maybe cool that you can list GitHub to show you are a professional, on the other much larger hand this data collection is terrifying and could be used for so many bad policies.
I mixed up "zoo" and "park", but you are still in a really bad place when you suggest that the same ethics apply to animals and people. The death of a wild animal is natural. The death of a person, when it's preventable, is a tragedy.

You said "it kills their instincts" as a reason not to feed animals. Regardless of the fact that humans also have instincts, why is "it kills their instincts" a reason not to feed people? That's what I was asking. Our society is not ruled by instinct, and should not be.

> I'm suggesting that maybe if we don't give them free stuff, they will go home

It's like you don't know what a refugee is. Their home is gone. A major city was just destroyed.
If Haskell were strict, what would the laziness be like? (2015)
The jamming would not be routine--not a substitute for keeping a channel clear--but would be available as an emergency measure if for some reason it became necessary.

Depending on how much of the spectrum is jammed, the pilots might have to fly without some avionic support for a time until the issue is resolved, but they should be able to do this, anyway. If they can't fly on manual, then a passenger with electronics designed to interfere with avionics could crash the plane.
I could see that in a similar manner of wanting to quit your job. You make moves so that it can happen quickly, you save up some cash, you make some calls, but you don't pull the trigger so to speak until you just can't take it anymore; something pushes you over the edge.

But that doesn't really matter, does it? I mean we now know we're being spied on either directly, or indirectly (wink wink). Data collection is spying. Metadata collection is spying. It's happening; both parties vigorously support it; and it's most likely unconstitutional. That's what matters.
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This is clever but it can't be a good captcha. Computers are really good at understanding a visual chessboard and even better at actually finding the best move.
Why's that? Nobody will be sad when you do so there's that silver lining.
Love this. I've been looking everywhere from reddit, twitter, hn to forums for inspiration for ideas (because I suck at coming up with my own).

I have more ideas about brick / mortar businesses (i.e. buy this thing off website X, rebrand and sell for Y% to make profit) than I do about SaaS business (which is my primary interest).
Pardon me here, but I don't understand what you mean by "the docker image most people use is unofficial."

I was under the impression that everyone used the fully featured official docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ee/). We've been using this for over a year without issues now. Is there a reason you need the unofficial version? Does it do something different?
There are lots of sites that provide lists of vetted ideas, what am I missing?
Either way, a major safety decision basically came down to a political decision over finances. And because nuclear power was involved, the downside became huge. Even when nuclear power is designed to be safer, it comes down to the whims of human politics. Why risk making the downside of a poor political decision so massive?
That's great, but it doesn't really seem to tell me anything at all about what it is.

From what I saw, it looks like a site that helps you make a variety of line drawings. Next time I need to make some line graphs, I'll check it out.
> it will be trivial to exceed human capabilities. Logic gates can switch millions of times faster than neurons

You're equating speed with quality. There's no reason to assume that. Do you think an AI will be better at catching a fieldmouse than a falcon? Do you think the falcon is limited by speed of thought? Many forms of intelligence are limited by game theory, not raw speed. The challenge isn't extracting large quantities of information, it's knowing which information is relevant to your ends. And that knowledge is just as limited by the number of opportunities for interaction as the availability of analytic resources.

Think of it this way: most animals could trivially add more neurons. There's plenty of outliers who got a shot, but bigger brainded individuals obviously hit diminishing returns, otherwise the population would've shifted already.
It's funny. When I first read this article it must have left a strong impression for me to have recalled it now, in the wake of the election. I see someone else felt similarly.

I also remember a HN comment on it saying the blame for writer's inability to communicate across the class divide was more likely a profound lack of social skills. A point of view I'm still not entirely sure I agree or disagree with.
This is a fair observation; Manhattan always feel to me very impersonal. However, I think the parent comment is referring to the Interstate Highway System construction in the '50s (and the broader 'Urban Renewal' movement of that era), which razed many of the dense neighborhoods in smaller cities to make room for highway construction. The relevant comparison isn't Manhattan to Scarsdale but the life one could once live in Hartford or Newark to how those cities are today.
Isn't positional play all about recognizing that some positions are better by virtue of giving some soft advantages that will only be realized further down the line?
I've always wondered what it'd be like to go to Stanford and then just end up at Facebook or Google, alongside many state-school graduates. Would it be a massive let down? Sure, you might have learned more at Stanford than at your peers' state schools, but you are only using as much of your education as your peers are using.
What's wrong or boring about any of the things you mentioned? What would you do differently?
Another of alt.right's religious gospels is about BTC being the new 'gold'; about how BTC and XAU will rise as the world is set to plunge. I can't speak for the latter, but anyone with a two bit brain can see that BTC much like USD is negatively corelated with gold. It is currencies like CHF and JPY that ironically track XAU!