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Indeed. Note that Netflix has never offered a filter by rating, or the ability to hide already-watched or disliked content.
So the majority of the population will make their income from gray market work? I can see this being feasible only if we have fusion power, some kind of benevolent dictator and a fully developed social safety net. I do _not_ see this as an inevitable equilibrium state extrapolated from the current economy and political thinking, so if it does happen it will have to be the result of decades of hard dedicated work, much like our 40 hour work week.
For sure there are cases (plenty of them) where the second principle continues to hold (entropy goes up). I was just pointing out that there are very natural example where that principle breaks down at cosmic scales. Such an example is exactly how our planetary system was born.

People know vaguely that in a few billion years our Sun will collapse and it will either become a supernova or become a star where the fusion reaction is a higher one (instead of hydrogen+hydrogen->hellium, something like hellium+hellium->carbon). At some point possibly after trillions of years, all the nuclear reaction converge to produce only iron, and from that point on there's no more fusion and fission, and later on the heat death of the universe occurs. Well, even if there are no more nuclear reactions, the universe will not die from reaching a maximum state of entropy (heat death), but may continue to evolve forever, going periodically through states of higher and lower entropy.
Not true, when we outlaw mining...
Yeah, pretty much. I've never actually done it, but I know I could do it if I needed to.

If it sounds mysterious, think of it this way: Imagine you were thrown into a room with a computer, internet, and endless food, and the only way out of the room was to solve this problem. I bet you'd figure it out within a week or two, or a couple months max. (If only to go have a shower.)

One thing to watch out for: Solving modern problems can be pretty unsatisfying. Before you experience what life is like at a modern company, you tend to think of them as functional, orderly, and planned. Real companies are almost universally dysfunctional, disorderly, and haphazard. It's very rare that a plan is conceived, followed, and deployed without growing some warts and throwing in some hacks to get it done.

So I think you should enjoy this time, where you're free to think of thought-problems like "What's the most correct and extensible way to solve this problem?" instead of being forced to solve them on a time crunch.
> Isn't there a contradiction in supposing that the AI is superintelligent yet completely misunderstands the reasons for its own existence? If it so radically misunderstands the intentions of its creators, it is not very intelligent, much less superintelligent.

The problem is that you've instructed it to maximize Facebook's corporate interests. How do you leave room for "the intentions of its creators" while doing that? The contradiction is in selecting a narrow guiding purpose for your superintelliegence's goals but still leaving room for fuzzy ill-defined other things.

> It also isn't clear to me that intelligence can exist outside of society.

Sure. How certain are you?
You sir are a gentleman. Good job!
When the goal is marketing or communication it's rational to use the more popular ecosystem. The huge ecosystem gives you a huge advantage in getting things done and there are no bonus points for being right in advance. This is as true with blogs today as it was for flash a few years ago. Over the past five years many companies have essentially set fire to their money making HTML5 versions of their flash games, reinventing the wheel for multiple tools in their setup and extend development time only to find their HTML5 versions got worse reviews and were still buggy on some browsers.

And unlike flash vs HTML5, your choice of blogging back-end does nothing to extend your reach. Flash sites weren't usable for iPhone users but WP absolutely is. Not only that, but there are thousands of free themes and plugins to optimize the experience.

The rational way to pick a platform is to evaluate them based on the advantages they offer you now. For most sites now that's not going to be flash. For most blogs it's going to be WP with the occasional feeder post to Medium/LinkedIn/Facebook.
But government revenue is almost certainly the wrong thing to optimize for. You probably want to optimize for something closer "wellbeing of the median citizen," although there's of course a lot of disagreement on what the actual right metric is.

This is a very practical difference. For the sake of easy math, let's assume that the maximum-revenue point on the curve is a 50% tax rate. It then follows that for every % you charge someone over 50%, tax revenue decreases. Which means that at this rate, every additional X% of tax is actually decreasing total economic output by 2X%! And assuming that we're on a smooth curve, that means that every X% you DECREASE your tax from the Laffer point is creating 2X% of economic value. Now, based on how fairly the created value is distributed and how efficiently you believe the government can spend its tax revenue you may have a different opinion on how much value you're comfortable destroying to increase tax revenue, but I'd submit that 2X is quite a high number.

I believe we need much-higher-than-0 taxes, but "we're still below the Laffer point" is a poor argument for raising them.
> * Futures is a crate that provides a common abstraction for delimited continuations

I'm familiar with Java Futures, but can't tell if it's the same concept as what you're talking about. What exactly is a "delimited continuation"?
It turns out that just moving those limbs, even if it's under external power, is a very effective form of therapy. So don't worry, your fondest wishes are coming true.
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Same here, but it's still gratifying to hear that it's making a difference for him plus advances in motorized exoskeletons have the potential to help lots of other people, too.
This is a good point as well. On BSD, we don't have `pv`, but we do have ^T. This will print some sort of status for just about any long running process. It prints very specialized status for certain programs aware of it.
That $200 million is only vaguely related to the situation, there isn't any technical reason that the long term plan to switch to the Karegnondi Water Authority supply required the short term switch to the river water.

It's not even clear it represented real savings. This article is written sort of after the fact, but it sounds reasonable to me.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-c...
>Read more: The CIA's Stash of the Dankest Emoticons

It's similar to Buzzfeed but oriented more towards the male demographic.
Finance, in this case, is a way of framing sustainability. If your city puts out less than what it brings in, it's not sustainable.
Specifiying a large block size used to help a LOT with performance. From memory shell redirection used a tiny blocksize. On Solaris at least.

And if you use dd then you probably should specify a bigger block size than the default of 512 bytes.

But yeah, most usage is obsolete.
I am heartened that these stories appear to becoming increasingly common. Like the frog boiling in water, good things can happen without us realizing it as well. And they're worth calling out.
This expenditure was approved by the previous administration. As for the current administration... I'm sure the free market will figure out ways to improve water quality. High taxes are the only thing preventing that from happening.
It's an assumption that the current administration will deal with it at all. Consider its denialist position on climate change and the evisceration of the EPA budget, it's entirely reasonable to conclude lead elsewhere isn't a concern worth doing anything about. Besides, don't plutocrats drink only bottled water?
The best analogy I can give is to JavaScript promises, where you can do something once the future is resolved. In Java, this would be like the CompletableFuture class's thenApply function -- where you can write code that picks up once the future has been resolved.

A "delimited continuation" is that basic idea of having your code pick up once a future finishes executing.
I don't think the situation is that different. Linux being the kernel, there are lots of "Linux distros", some of which are almost as different from each other as FreeBSD and NetBSD. For example, consider the many package managers (deb, rpm, Nix, etc.), init systems (SysV, Upstart, Systemd, etc.), graphical environments, etc.

The BSDs have a different philosophy where the kernel and userland go together as one package. Linux distros reuse the same kernel and rely on GNU for many tools, but are otherwise free to do their own thing, just like the BSDs.

I doubt the GPL is what really keeps Linux together. Rather, since the Linux kernel is developed separately from everything else, and is such a huge thing, there's little incentive to fork the kernel along with userland. You develop a new userland (as with Android) and keep the kernel.
OP might not have been aware that Lusitania was filled with ammunition. The point doesn't change.

The point is still about how rules aren't worth anything because they'd be broken anyway. Example: Filling a civilian ship with ammunition.

It doesn't matter who started it first.
It also doesn't care about file type. If you want to copy a malformed file dd will do it - cat won't.
The only remotely realistic way to capture an asteroid is to start with one that's already in a temporary, unstable orbit.

If asteroid mining is ever economical, it will either be for relatively small masses of extremely valuable minerals (not iron) or to build things in space that are meant to stay in space.
I dunno. Linux the kernel may be singular, but the userland is trying its level best to recreate the Unix wars...
Terraform allows you to store your configuration changes in version control. Instead of manually clicking buttons in AWS or any kind of IAAS, you can set up Terraform configurations to set up IAM users or spin up EC2 instances. This provides infrastructure configuration that is clearly documented.
The "comfortable professional class" doesn't like having their contempt and hate called out, so they mod down their critics.
Agreed that's a much better analogy. In this case the "retailer" already maintains such records. The government isn't even asking for the list of all purchases by all individuals, just the name of who purchased a particular item.

Sure in the course of getting the answer to that question the retailer may sift through the records of all purchases, but this is data they already have.

This is hardly something to be outraged about. Title implies something much different.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I guess you are just making fun at the misspelling of "quintillion".
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Nice! MacOS has it too (unsurprisingly)

Linux, not. I wonder why.
You'd be assuming poorly, then. The most common 401k(k) matching is actually 50%.
I think that one of the main problems with the Tongariro Crossing is that there are not a lot of similar hikes (in NZ we say "tramps" and "tramping" for "hikes and "hiking") that attract tourists, so if you're not heading to the South Island it's your only real choice for this sort of trip.
I was excited to see this, but I found that the interviewer spent too much time talking. I got too frustrated and stopped listening. I want to hear what Cook has to say, and the interviewer is only there to facilitate that.

I'd encourage the interviewer to go back over the audio, and measure the amount of time he's talking vs. the amount of time that John Cook is talking. If it's greater than 20% or so, then that's a problem.
In my internship this past summer, I used terraform to easily describe the infrastructure and deploy my application on AWS. I.e, what type of EC2 instance I wanted. I really enjoyed my time using it.
This probably has more truth than most unix admins would like to admin.

"Why do we do it like that? I dunno, that's how I learned how, how do you do it?"
It's wonderful that the pun works either way!
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So you're proposing we throw good money after bad?

The city failed. It it's not financially feasible to fix it so it is self-sustainable at a level of investment that can be paid back in a reasonable amount of time, relocating is a perfectly acceptable proposal.

People have every right to stay there if they can afford to do so, but if they are going to ask others for financial help bailing them out, it's not in the least bit unreasonable for those spending the money to do so to dictate how that money is spent. If the city has no hope of recovery, then saying the money can only be used for relocation is perfectly acceptable. What's not acceptable is expecting others to support your unsustainable city in perpetuity.
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So Codec and UdpCodec from tokio-core are not related ?
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An ordinary company would not disclose so much details about the outage. GitLab's openness required them to do so, and they had no choice but posting these "lighthearted commentaries" about people involved. The amazing thing about the event is their level of openness.
What's the release date?
Medicine Hat tried the same thing, and it seems to have worked pretty well.

Maybe we don't have to go all-in or nothing, but start with less desirable cities.
I'm on a remote dev team in three states, but luckily the same time zone. To me, the timezone issue is much bigger than remote or not. Whiteboard - that is one thing I miss, but I lost that while I was in the office!
Funny how econ 101 doesn't predict the systemic damage that a precipitous price drop can inflict on an economy.
Has anyone tried using this to implement a game or any complex GUI really in functional reactive style yet?

I've been playing with ScalaRx a bit (not to be confused with RxScala...) and it's a really clean feeling abstraction for GUI, which I normally hate.

It'd be interesting to see similar ideas applied in Rust.
Yeah, they seem to be independent traits.
There's $118 quintillion of unmined iron on earth right now.
The parent comment’s implication is that the administration does not have any plan for dealing with the problem. It was phrased in a sarcastic/jokey way, which doesn’t always read clearly on the internet.
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This post was intended for Tokio users, who would know what it is already. The author even said "this probably isn't relevant to HN" to me.

The main website shows this off, and it's the project's blog. I don't think every single post on a development blog needs to re-hash the whole project.
I haven't used Flynn, however I am using terraform. Main purpose is to completely automate AWS configuration so we can bring up entire site in CI. This makes it really easy to have staging and production deployed from CI.
Question: Will cat do a bit-to-bit copy between disks?
> being 65 with no savings or income whatsoever.

I'm watching this happen to my own and friends' parents. Pensions gutted in industries / jobs that are dying or dead and nest eggs drying up very quickly to pay for health insurance and living costs. Most of these people did everything "right" that was within their means when it came to planning ahead and they are fucked.

If they were in an even lower economic rung of society, I would imagine what they are experiencing would be much worse. As in homelessness, malnutrition and death from easily treatable illnesses.

This is not something anyone wants for their future.
Opsec safety is not the biggest problem with autonomous driving. It is a secondary problem at best and one that can be addressed (though certainly there is room for improvement) using normal security techniques.

Correctness is the biggest problem with AI safety. Note that "adversarial ML attacks" fall under correctness.
I played RT2 as a teenager and spent hours playing every scenario. They had a few futuristic ones like colonizing Antarctica. US historical were the best.
There might not be a 1:1 relationship between the increase in price and decrease in demand but raise prices high enough and you limit who can possibly even afford it.
$50k is a massive sum for a lot of people...
This is a great example to support a hope for the day ideology retreats from mainstream consciousness as acceptable thinking. Today, it dominates acceptable thinking about politics.

By contrast, science, which relies on testing hypothesis, is a method that has propelled the world forward. Could you imagine if we still thought ideologically about nature--Isaac Newton did, and that's why he spent so much time on his work with alchemy and in the Bible.

It's easy for smart people to get caught up in ideology, but it won't bring us closer to solving problems.

When Feynman famously defined what science is, he said 'it doesn't matter what university you went to, who your advisors were, how smart you are, or what your last name is, all that matters is if it agrees with nature.'

Hopefully more and more will start supporting policies on the basis of evidence that they improve human welfare (i.e. economic, health, education outcomes), rather than if they fit into their ideology.
Hawai'i has a "local rate" discount system that is >=20% cheaper for well near everything. It doesn't seem to have any problems...
The cost and risk associated with such a task is way out of SpaceX's scope.
lol I'm using prezto, and I was pwn'd! Looks like OMZ is doing things nicely where prezto fails :)
Everything is a financial decision at the end of the day. You can't just wish away the laws of economics.

Let's say that regulations dictated that they had to spend this money and they didn't have it. Add enough of such regulations and a shrinking tax base and eventually you have an insolvent city. What do you propose we do then?

Near as I can tell, it's reasonable to have such regulations so people don't get hurt by people making decisions with consequences they don't understand, but eventually this will lead to insolvency and we need to have a plan to shut down cities that become insolvent and support relocation efforts when that happens.
Whenever I see a blog post like this, if I don't know what the project is, I click the "Home" link to see if the homepage offers a more detailed description. I'd hope Tokio's is (relatively) clear in the detail it provides, is it not?
Or just drag it into orbit under the guise of space mining, then drop large chunks of it on governments you don't like. Unstoppable once nudged into a drop. Completely annihilate your enemies.
AT&T, Charter, and others, have toyed with the idea of blocking Tor and VPN unless you buy a higher tier permissing those services. AT&T was charging $30 a month extra for this tier. And even now there are many reports still of performance tuning when using VPN, slowing down the connection.

These are classist policies and should be illegal. It is not OK in a civil society to say privacy is a product people buy, rather than a right.
Quite late, but that was never in question. The issue is whether this was. Also, a source on the exact quotation would be nice.
>I have not found a good HTTP client like Python's Requests or Guzzle from Php

Have you tried HTTParty? https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty
I've been travelling on a road trip in NZ for the last month or so (with a few more weeks to go). Even now, tail end of the summer season, the country is packed.

I like to drive around with just a rough route, see a place I like and stop for a while, but that just hasn't been possible if I want somewhere comfortable to sleep. Motels are mostly very small (6-12 rooms) so there's not a lot of availability. I've had to book in advance (and have a super-flexible route, skipping some full towns and even regions) to be able to get anything at all.

There's chronic under-investment in hotels and motels. It doesn't look like much (outside the cities) has been built since the 60's and 70's. It's like if the US never built Holiday Inn Expresses, Hampton Inns and so on and was just relying on mom-and-pop downtown motels to house everybody, or if there were no Premier Inns in the UK and it was still just seaside B&B's.

That does give what little accommodation there is more character with a more personal service, but it's still mostly poor quality and a tiny number of rooms. With some motels (luckily a minority) it's been clear that the near 100% occupancy all the time means they just don't care, somebody will rent the room however bad it is.

I don't think it would be much different with a motorhome or camping, official campsites look full and unofficial campsites are everywhere (and many of those campers do trash the place, giving campers and tourists a bad name and building some real dislike of them in the country).

There are also a few high-profile cases of tourists driving on the wrong side of the road (or just badly) and causing accidents and deaths.

The growing (and very understandable) anti-tourist feeling in NZ should correct the problem in the long run, as tourists feel less welcome and tell their friends that.

It would have been better if the government funding for attracting people to NZ (too fast) had instead been spent on infrastructure (including help with building brand-new motels).
Well, google is one third party that I would count as a violation of my trust--obviously, that does not necessarily apply to every possible third party, if that is what you are getting at? Nor would it necessarily apply to google, if the specific content was meant to be shared with google, or whatever.

My point is: Yes, it is obvious that other people can violate my trust by sharing information with third parties, and I might not even know, as that doesn't even require email or computers. People could be sending copies of snail mail letters I send them to some company offering them 10 cents per piece or something ...
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Right but randomly posting in a link to Veblen good on Wikipedia because it's one example of when raising prices doesn't lower demand doesn't mean it's in any way relevant to this discussion. Almost no one would argue that this kind of travel is a Veblen good.
This is such a motivational response, not sure if you intended it to be so (to that degree). Either way, thank you.
I think the trick is to do sudo sh, or some such.
I'm aware, but the second definition I think is also valid, and perhaps one that many people are more colloquially familiar with. After all, a match (singular) is a 1:1.
dd is awful and error-prone for this sort of use.

Use noerror, but forget sync? Corrupt output file if there is an error. Use a bigger bs so it's not slow as treacle? A single faulty sector blows away a whole bs of data, and your output image may get unwanted padding appended to the end. Recoverable error? dd's not going to retry.

Use ddrescue or FreeBSD's recoverdisk(1). They're faster, they're safer, they're more effective, and they're easier to use.
Most lakes and streams at high altitude in the Sierras, Cascades, Rockies, etc are safe to drink. Once you're above the tree line you don't have to be worried about giardia because few animals live that high up.
Gosh yes. And SimIsle!
Good article.

I would just add that Russia's geography has had an odd impact on its culture. It is close to Europe, so it has had to modernize to have the economic and military strength to resist invasion. But it is so vast and hence hard to conquer that it could without going all the way and becoming a free market liberal democracy. So the country is always going back and forth between modernizing and returning to its authoritarian traditions.