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The migrant crisis is often attributed to the Syrian Civil War; how was the Syrian Civil War "caused by inadequate US foreign policy in the Middle East"?
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I've been hearing about this supposed "disengagement" since Obama was elected. I will believe it when I see it.
In this case one suspects OP wanted both meanings...
I almost fell off my chair. First of all, every operation the US army did so far was the cause of destabilisation. While the military industry is a huge business alone, it's causing harm everywhere else. The US traded stabile far east for oil (Afghanistan), now they are creating conflict to find a cause to grow the military economy.
So make random noise illegal? You laugh, but this is precisely how these people think. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number.
Their argument for that is that their devices are reliable enough. Maybe they do a bit more checksumming in their SSD controllers (they have their own ones nowadays)
Buying a "New Yorker" magazine on a news stand cost me upwards of $8

So even print is not that cheap it seems
The countries he banned also all happen to have had historically antipathetic relations with the US. It's hard to tease out one thing from the other; it would have been illegal for Trump to pursue business in Iran.

I think ultimately Trump's foreign policy is going to end up extremely military-directed and won't be that much of a radical departure from what we've seen recently (not that that is necessarily good).
This is why food waste killllls me. A field was sown, carrots grown, weeds picked, carrot harvested, inspected, washed, shipped, stored, sold, aaaand... it rots in my fridge and goes straight into the trash can off to the landfill. Ugh.
It's pretty cheap to get the file size with decompressing the whole blob. You can decompress just the first hundred of so bytes of the .git blob object, which starts with "blob {size}\x00". For example, using Python:

>>> import zlib
>>> f = open('.git/objects/00/331d4c2e12984f70df4a3dd3bc7296825faab0', 'rb')
>>> zlib.decompressobj().decompress(f.read(100))
b'blob 11708\x00...'

So that particular file is 11708 bytes. It still requires an open and read operation. But they could cache that on a per-file or per-tree basis, so it's very doable.
How is Trump not a plutocrat?
You have to evaluate both arguments to a XOR op to know its result. Short circuiting it has no natural meaning.
and why Medium?

No seriously, what's the value proposition?

Youtube at the time had an awesome "free" service when most others were littered with ads and had terrible video players.

Instagram had an awesome mobile service that was hip and clicked with it's users.

Medium is at best a crappy bloggr that was once pretty awesome but now that it has a lot more users (and worse a lot more writers), the quality of content has dropped significantly.

I've read articles about from people who are basically using Medium to do content marketing and worse yet, do dumb challenges like 1+ article / day challenge - case and point: https://medium.com/@larrykim

Medium is quickly turning into hipster 9gag or buzzfeed.

I'm definitely not saying we don't need a Youtube for written content, but imo, Medium is not yet it.
I definitely encountered such issues in solid state physics. But they are very rare. The likelihood of a crash or an obviously wrong result is perhaps three orders of magnitude higher.
Excellent link, thanks. I found the following comment sobering:

"Countryman: It’s not going to be the (main) embankment failure, but it’s a failure. If it does happen, there’s nothing saying that the ground is going to stay where it is. That force of water will start tearing that hill apart​,​ and it could eat back into the reservoir and drain the reservoir."
I don't think many geeks think that anymore.
> In my ideal anarchistic society

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp12102002.shtml
I think the current situation with NATO is different than the alliances of WWII.

Lets say that Russia invades Europe. If NATO doesn't respond, then the alliance is null and everybody fights for themselves. Which isn't a good situation to be in, given that countries in Europe don't have the capacity to take on Russia by themselves, I mean given our experience from WWII.

We learn from mistakes and history teaches us that an invader will not be conservative about where to draw the line. The world also thought Germany will stop at Czechoslovakia too and they were wrong.

And nowadays we also have nuclear weapons and during the Cold War the presence of NATO troops in an area was enough to deter the advancement of the soviets and vice versa.
I'm not sure that's true, I just think the price has to be right. For example, I would gladly pay a penny (UK money) per month to access an ad-free Medium, even though I never consciously visit that site, just because it's such a small amount of money that it's not worth bothering over. Same would go, for example, for Hacker News.

Obviously, a penny is a ridiculous under-exaggeration, but I feel it demonstrates the point well; 60,000,000 times a penny isn't bad money. And clearly a real-world business model would charge at least an order of magnitude more than that.

The real problem here is transferring that money in a cost-effective way. Would it be impossible for a central gateway to manage that task, charging providers a small fee for the service?
To the AI, there is nothing aggressive about the "laser gun"; as far as it was aware, the "laser gun" could be any tool. It was just doing what it had determined may help it achieve a better score.
Bait.
I'm not really working on Google3 (the shared code base) but I hope the following answers might still be helpful.

Same repo: projects in Google are encouraged to use other project's code. You can only do that if the versions of their dependencies match.
The general guideline is that all projects use the latest version and move in sync.

Breaking Changes: I have never been involved in such a huge breaking change, but I would expect that the conversion is done gradually. Ideally, some teams are also helping in the migration (or sign up as guinea pigs to test the latest versions).

Automatic refactoring: These refactorings are done with a tool called Rosie. Search for "Google refactoring, Rosie" to find some papers/documents about it. One of the first hits was this document: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-store...
> China could take the opportunity here to open up its own political system

Not going to happen unless the current leaders somehow end up deposed.
Ask HN: Which ONIX tools do you use
At work I deal with a lot of ONIX xml files (About ONIX for Books Product Information Message: http://www.editeur.org/83/Overview/)

There are a lot of tools for xml-editing, currently I use the following ones, but i am interested if anyone knows different (and probably better) ones? I prefer open source software, but also commercial software is interesting:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ -
https://www.altova.com/de/xmlspy.html -
http://www.xmlcooktop.com/ -
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-xml-editors-and-tools-0
That's not a crisis. World War II was a crisis.
Note that China's attitude towards foreigners is currently in a state where even opening up the job market to recent graduates without work experience (if they have good grades) is big news: http://www.ecns.cn/2017/01-15/241676.shtml

AFAIK, previously only "specialists" were granted an employment license.
The AI can minimize loss / maximize fitness by either moving to look for additional resources, or fire a laser.

Turns out that when resources are scarce, the optimal move is to knock the opponent away. I think this tells us more about the problem space than the AI itself; it's just optimizing for the specific problem.
I agree that in the past, we did receive a reasonable ROI for military expenditures. However, I don't think we can hang on to that, given the wider use now of other currencies for international trade. One solution for preserving influence and saving money would be an accurate accounting of where our tax dollars go: there is a lot of money that 'goes missing', some on legitimate black projects, but likely most is simply stolen or otherwise misappropriated.
I was under the impression that as a YC applicant one is not required to live in the US, just to incorporate there.

The uncertainty surrounding the entire adminstration and it's policies gives pause for thought and has introduced a rogue element into the calculation (at last for me) but only time will tell if many others feel this way and act on these instincts
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The "laser gun" knocks the other player out of the race.

It's not the name that makes me consider it aggressive, rather the fact that it works by harming the other player.

It's probably true the AI doesn't distinguish "aggressive" tools from other tools. Isn't that one of lessons here? If an AI isn't taught not to be aggressive, it will choose to harm other participants when that's the most effective strategy.
Underwater, yes.

Under a stream of water moving 65,000 CFS, ripping out chunks of solid cement, probably not so much.
You might want to stop imagining things and keep up with the reality. Because the reality is that Russia has basically no military stations around the planet in foreign countries and yet is constantly portrayed as aggressor.
Why would they bother when all of Trump's cabinet is plutocrats and they're pursuing a radical pro-business agenda?
A political party that dragged the US into two wars with minor countries with insignificant military resources, both of which could be totally dominated with an air war. And the US still had terrible trouble trying to keeping those wars "won".

Not exactly the same sort of conflicts and anyone who thinks they are comparable is a menace.
> ROI on our military industrial complex is global stability safe for commerce

I am not sure if this is the case in the long run. However , I have never seen ROI calculations when it comes to something like the use of military apparatus. IMHO, the amount of collective hurt that has been generated by military interventions might backfire in numerous, unpredictable ways. At the end, a small number of people profit (e.g. those who finance successful military operations), while soldiers, victims of war pay the price for hegemony status.
When Russia becomes a normal country, with a government that doesn't feel the need to threaten its neighbours all the time.
Because books cost money to print? And take time to write? Stop burying the lead.

I am still not hearing any good arguments about NNT's actual ideas, just loose ad hominem that doesn't really represent anything other than sentiment on the commenter's part. You call him pseudo-expert, I call him well-read polymath with good ideas. Potato, potahto.

The problem of induction, that's basically NNT's core point.

The process of induction is pointless and impossible for creating models of unbounded processes with past data, and applying it is a recipe for creating huge catastrophes. Unknown unknowns make theoretical knowledge useless for forecasting. Phenomenology is more useful in most situations.

In essence, economists, top down intellectuals, central planners, etc, are wasting time and energy and resources and creating even worse problems and NNT loudly proclaims that they are doing so, this makes them uncomfortable and they like to say nasty things about him instead of his actual ideas.

Pretty familiar story, you know you've won when they attack you and not the idea's your talking about.
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After the round of elections in France and Netherlands this spring, and Germany this summer, Europe may or may not start disintegrating, depending on the outcome.

Ms. le Pen may not win this time, but she will one day. A correctly timed scandal or major terrorist attack in the second round may sink her opponent. Moscow, London and Washington are hard at work with her, to make this happen. When she, or someone like her, wins in either France or Germany, the EU comes to an end.

It is very difficult for me to understand what strategic goal the new White House administration intends to achieve by disintegrating the EU and thereby pushing parts of it from the American to the Russian sphere of influence, but I'm sure they have thought this through very carefully.
Again imagine if MS focused on user experience and used blink / WebKit - instead of rolling their own.

We'd have a more standard and open web with fewer set backs. More engineers working on the same engine. A larger team working on a shared native application for everyone to build on for them to sell ads too. It even makes good business sense for them now. One can dream right?
Point is, Julia is by default GPLed and the GPL is not The Cancer That Is Killing Julia (or Octave or R). Without the GPL, Julia doesn't have FFTW, Suitesparse, or GMP.
The article at first suggests that more intelligent versions of AI led to greed and sabotage.

But I do wonder if an even more intelligent AI (perhaps in a more complex environment) would take the long view instead and find a reason to co-habitate.

It's kind of like rocks, paper scissors - when you attempt to think several levels deeper than your opponent and guess which level they stopped at. At some intelligence level for AI, cohabitation seems optimal - at the next level, not so much, and so on.

We're probably going to end up building something so complex that we don't quite understand it and end up hurting somebody.
I recommend treating the interviews like you would treat a tweet or a comment on Hacker News, just more detailed. If you plan on making a critical life decision based on the veracity of a specific claim, do some research first, and perhaps contact the interviewee.
I'm not sure how this relates to US allies questioning the reliability of the US? Our allies (as a country not necessarily it's population) are usually involved in the same conflict and support the same worldview towards Russia.

It's been widely reported that allies are increasingly military spending and reassessing defense strategies after comments/actions by Trump.
Progressive left double speak, nothing new.
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I don't really feel safer knowing the US would go to war with a nuclear power over a bunch of Eastern European republics, no.
You know, rather than being scared by this, I think it's an excellent opportunity to learn how and when aggression evolves, and maybe learn how we can set up systems that nudge people to collaborate, perhaps even when resources are scarce.
To be honest it smells like AI has become something you just talk about because you have something to sell. It was called web 2.0, then big data, and now it's AI.
I guess now Putin's got a buddy in the whitehouse the Europeans are going to have to do more stop the red army rolling westwards. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trum...
As an example of why this is difficult: when integrating with legacy systems you often have (1) no API (the concept didn't exist / contractor didn't bother to isolate one), (2) no comprehensive documentation of the legacy system's internals (often, not even source), & (3) no human expert available with experience on the legacy system.

Turning any kind of genetic / ML system loose on that? How would you even write test cases, short of backfeeding production data? And expecting the result to pass muster with auditors?
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To a first approximation, every nation subsidized their automotive manufacturers directly (government ownership, policies) and indirectly (contracts for building military vehicles, building highway systems and regulating the industry).
"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that any country in the NATO umbrella being hit would lead to the United States retaliating decisively."

How?

http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-to-invad...

Also, do you know what the UdSSR "ax theory" was? Or the "ed-escalation" strategy of the 90ies?

Look at the map. The Baltic states can't be defended. At least not with the military that is there in the moment. Could they be taken back? Unlikely because Russia would immediately retaliate tactically (nuclear).
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KVM & Xen have good support for both in my experience, seems to work well. No clue about support in janky proprietary solutions, but seeing as Amazon, DO, etc all use either KVM or Xen, with the extreme budget providers on OpenVZ (where you get a glorified chroot), your probably gonna be using one of those two.
Current Storage vs Capacity Levels:

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/dee79515

The overflow lasted for 45 hours.

The water level appears to be dropping quickly at the moment:

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/dee79515/2/
Sort of. Russia needed to annex Crimea prior to the Ukraine joining NATO, which was becoming more possible after the revolution in Ukraine. Russia didn't need to act prior because it isn't threatened if the Ukraine isn't looking towards joining NATO. Crimea is hugely important to Russia because of its port access, which is why Turkey is now becoming more important to Russia (If they have the Crimea ports, Turkey controls Mediterranean access). A parallel story for the Americans would be if China suddenly signed a military treaty with Panama, which means that they could presumably restrict sea access significantly.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620518
Active overlapping discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13632708
I've family in Chico and we've toured the Oroville dam... it's massive, tallest in the US, of the riskier earthen dam type and holds back a great deal of water (3,537,577 acre feet (4.36e9 m^3), Shore length: 167 miles (269 km) (WP)) which is sent through the California Aqueduct.

Also note there are internet hobgobblins spreading false rumors (over 400k views on YT) about a risk of flooding Silicon Valley, which is over 150 miles (210 km) away, well north of Sacramento. Primarily, the risks are to lowlying areas like farmland and those immediately downstream of the dam in that area around Oroville are at most potential risk. Furthermore, the evacuations were mostly precautionary given the unstable/riskier nature of earthen auxiliary spillways. Estimates of non-auxiliary spillway repairs are already in the hundreds of megabucks. :(
https://github.com/marblestation/benchmark-leapfrog

This are not valid benchmarks at all.
What is the point to run N-Body sim with all particles set to 0.0 ?

Where is the result of the sim ?

Why it will be not validated at all ?

To make this look like real benchmark one will need to use the same start condition and then validate that result for all languages is the same.

It would be great to have C++ code using Eigen library for example ? To show the difference .

Also this is naive O(N^2) sim that could be speed up using Fast multipole method (FMM), but of course this would be much more complicated to do this in Rust or Go as in C++.
Gosh I remember how many IO errors occurred on those early and / or cheap CD-Rs like 'Transonic', 'TDK', 'Maxell' and all those other dreadful light green or light blue coloured Cyanine ink based coasters. I remember trying to backup my MP3 collection many, many years ago and trying to afford tens upon tens of decent quality Verbatim or similar brand discs and burning them slower than their top rated write speeds in an effort to make them as durable as possible.

I remember getting my first 40x or 50x writer, that thing sounded like it was going to blow apart at any moment, I think I used to limit write speeds to a maximum of 16-24x at most.

And then hard disks (or hard discs which I believe is an equality technically valid spelling) started to drop in price, ended up with a pile of those quantum fireball 850's, if you had these you'll remember having to 'tap' them on the top to help them spin up as I assume the baring fluid / grease would harden enough to prevent the drives from spinning up if they'd been powered down for more than a week or so.
You're technically correct, but the football analogy switches context so that the meaning of aggressive is no longer bad.

I think the point bencollier49 is trying to make is that we simply gave software a specific set of rules to train it. It doesn't know how we perceive the actions it is performing.

The game could be described as two people eating poisonous apples in order to prevent the other person from dying. In that case, the currently greedy one would be the hero.
vBulletin is another one to add. I've looked at the source code and it's full of comments along the lines of "// I'm not sure if this needs to be here" and "// Not sure how this works."
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Imagine you only had 4 bit numbers (range 0-15) and you tried to do swap 14, 15 (1110, 1111). You can do that with xor but not with the add method, because you can't store a + b without a wider variable.
This reads as click-bait, here's the original blog post and research paper by DeepMind:

"Understanding Agent Cooperation"
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=13635218
Counter-rotate the left and right discs.

Also, drive them from the edge, not the center.
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I remember reading about this when environmental groups were trying to raise the alarm like 10 years ago. I recall quite clearly the attitude of condescension and arrogance from the state and fed officials quoted, as if anyone would dare question their unshakable engineering authority.

The sad part is no engineers were ever involved as far as I could tell, this whole thing was just a kick the can budget gimmick. Gotta really start digging into stories like this more instead of taking authorities at their word.
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It's not clear if the damage was already there and accelerated by the influx of water or if this was just freak damage caused by the influx. I seem to remember John Oliver doing a piece on infrastructure and Dams were one of the things he highlighted as being especially precarious through underfunding of maintenance.
Why is this getting downvoted? Use your brains.
Ok, I was wrong. Two weeks. Mea culpa

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/world/europe/ukraine-cris...
>every operation the US army did so far was the cause of destabilisation.

The 20th & 21st centuries have seen thier share of blunders but our NATO partners and allies in Asia seem to still want an active United States presence. The post WWII liberal order hasn't been perfect but many would argue it was headed in the right direction, generally.
The US is just pouting, and it's shameful.

We need adults in the room, being thoughtful, pointing out, for instance, that withdrawing is not a form of strength, and only permits other countries (China) to fill the vacuum. The vote for DT was a nihilistic, anti-establishment moment from a demo that wants change but isn't willing to think about what kind of change.
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Disturbing, yet morbidly entertaining. Thank you for the smile.