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Rome. When congress is powerless for years, and bad things start happening, congress will give all of its power to the executive branch, and be cheered for doing so. Phase two is the executive selecting their own successor. I don't think Rome was ever a brutal dictatorship, but it turned into something like a monarchy.

It's not a thing that'll happen today, or perhaps even in five hundred years, but that's the historical flight plan. We're obviously structured for the executive branch to soak up all the power, eventually. (at least it has so far) The executive branch has pretty much completely taken the power of declaring war.

Congress can't really pass a budget any more. i kinda think in the next 50 years they'll give up that power and just rubber stamp whatever the executive throws at them.
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Hackers are intimately familiar with the fallibity of technology. If hackers shun something, maybe it's because they have reason to.
once we get that space travel will be indispensable. you'll have to send retires to other planets, maybe say you have to leave your planet of birth.
the whole premise of a singularity is that we will hit a point of exponential technological growth, extrapolated from the accelerating pace of technological development over human history and usually based on the idea that we'll make a self-iterating AI which will lead to runaway intelligence. The "singularity" specifically is intended as a tipping-point where the acceleration of technology becomes faster than human capability (i.e. the approaching-vertical line on an exponential curve).
"women/girls who choose to compete in weight lifting"

That is where the problem lies. When a 6 year old girl tells her parents she wants to become a weight lifter, her parents will say "how about ballet instead?". When a 12 year old girl tells her class mates she is a weight lifter all her friends will laugh at her.

The cultural norms prevent girls to participate. If they are strong-willed and decide to pursue weight lifting despite all of this, they would have a good chance to become very good because of their determination.
> but HolyC is an amazing name for a language

For those who don't understand the pun:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See
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I don't think there's a big difference from what we do now. Right now we use our hands or speech combined with phone/glasses/watches/computer as tools to communicate with the internet/information. This technology would just cut out the middleman. It would create a lot of interesting opportunities and combined with VR would create extraordinary worlds.
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Seems you migt want to read this sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13974771
There comes a point when you start wondering if some people are just willfully stupid.
Yeah, I wear daily disposable contacts for doing LARP stuff where being hit over the head with rubber swords isn't uncommon, and I am increasingly astigmatic; my old optician was unable to find daily disposables that would correct the astigmatism [ * ], while my new optician could. (The new contacts are amazing.) It's totally worth keeping looking.

[ * ] Wearing lenses that correct for short-sightedness but not astigmatism is weird. I can see perfectly well, except that text is unreadable. Just text. I wonder if this is how dyslexics feel.

Additionally, I normally wear glasses, and whenever I put my lenses in my first thought is always 'wow, my feet are huge!'...
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Thanks for your answer! I'm afraid I'm not a fabricator of platinum electrodes... I hope you find someone who is!

I'm thinking about the immune response from the brain, and whether implementing this array of sensors can be done elsewhere than the actual brain, connecting to nerves instead of neurons, essentially creating a virtual limb. I guess it kind of misses the point of this whole thing, and can't reach as far as brain-implementations, but with the advantage of being more feasible as a solution. I think what I'm getting at is whether we need lots and lots of sensors with very high resolution data, or if we instead can ensure the computer interface is consistent enough that a "muscle memory" can be formed for controlling the virtual limb. I guess I don't have a question really haha, thanks for your time and replies!
Why should people be able to tell the difference vs the outcome of those products, unless someone (investors?) is specifically just buying into the AI hype itself? (in which case, this is nothing different from when everything was "social")
The financial impact of this is an interesting angle to me.

Considering that many of us hope to retire (or at least not have to work a stressful job) a lot of effort goes into saving up enough money to last just ~20 years after finishing work.

I'm not sure how most of us would be able to ammass sufficient wealth to be comfortably retired even for 60 years (ie live to "just" 120-130 years of age).
Why only "mostly"?
If only the users realize that!
I don't think it's reasonable to equate 'technologies that existed since the 60s' with 'technologies that are ubiquitous today'.

I'm in the bottom 15% of my country (UK) by income and I have access to things like: near-instantaneous hot water at all times, affordable next-day delivery services from a pocket-sized device I carry around with me, international air travel that is affordable for me, efficient fridge/freezer technology, fresh groceries from around the world at every local convenience store.

And yes things look a lot less impressive if you filter out information-technology related things. But advancements will always look less impressive if you filter out the most impressive advancements. The fact that we are close to permanently connected across geographical boundaries now isn't something to be dismissed out of hand. The level of effectiveness and miniaturisation of communications devices (e.g. 'true wireless' earphones with mobile internet) is really approaching the point of being practical telepathy insofar as it can be used.
there is already one. http://www.shiftjs.com/#/home
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I don't understand what this gets you. You'd be on camera, accessing the store using your own amazon account, wearing a mask. Do you think you wouldn't be caught?
Ok, so if you understand the creation of money and you understand that google is super good at engineering, can you see the link between those two things?

Below is the answer, tip no. 2 to YC: add spoiler tag.

They are using their monopoly and benefits (their clients borrowed money at low interest) to build data centers that use lots of cheap finite energy instead of actually trying to innovate.

The only energy added to the planet is sunrays, the only way that energy is stored is by photosyntesis, we have consumed millions of years of sunshine in 200 years.

If all internet systems where async-to-async you could probably close 10 nuclear power plants immediately. (btw we only have 50 years of uranium left at this rate)

Solar and wind to electrivity are net energy negative and require more fossil energy to manufacture than they deliver in their lifetime.

Talk about "doing no evil".
Amen, brother. I struggled with contacts for the longest time, ditching them and getting lasered was the biggest life upgrade I could've imagined. Small haloing at night is a tiny price to pay.

Everyone is different of course. My contacts were getting increasingly uncomfortable for me, so it made sense in my situation.
I've picked this book up in the bookshop several times but the page count puts me off.
Don't underestimate how valuable the right to be sued is. If other people have no recourse if dealing with you goes badly, they'll naturally be reluctant to trust you.
There is NO WAY I'd EVER give facebook or any other random internet service any real identification (that includes phone number).

Forcing someone to provide real identification for a service that didn't require it to sign up in the first place is just ludicrous.

For all intents and purposes my email is the sole identification available for a service like facebook. Further, a passport picture isn't worth squat because there is nothing linking my email to it anyway (and a passport picture can easily be forged or copied).
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What you're describing is exactly how HN's comment rating system works right now.
Not sure that really changes the point: Disney has a bunch of things aimed at different age ranges, just not using the Disney brand.

The latest X men film, 'Logan' is R 18, as was the previous one. And Buena Vista have a bunch of dramas aimed at adults.
Chain smokers can also smoke 2 packs a day every day. While holding a job. You just can't do that level of marijuana.
This is what happens when the bottom-line requires employees some type of performance: the technology developed has its merits and is performing, but the data is "inflated."

The rate of results requested in the today world is very high, so although a lot of people with a lot of talent are working at Intel, I do not pretend they are able to do better than this.

Certainly the practice is deplorable. Welcome in the magic bubble of the "marketing fuss"!
Actual real research in AGI was a thing when I was doing AI research in the late 1980s early 1990s (I got out just as the last AI Winter came along in the early 1990s.)

Consider things like SOAR - that was explicitly an architecture for general intelligence. Whether it was any good or not is another question - but there was an active good-old-fashioned AGI field back then.

Mind you - one of the reasons I left AI research to do web stuff from '92/'93 onwards was I was pretty sure the symbolic approaches in favour back then wouldn't scale up and that there really was only intelligence on one side of a computer screen.
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That map makes no sense. Hawaii ruled by Caribbeans? California is mostly Portuguese? No sign of Spaniards? I call it BS.

This is a really poor piece of PR for Ancestry.
Even when studying STDs, or the effect of child sexual abuse, or how couples deal with infidelity in a marriage, or.....?
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In future many people will cover their faces on public. With cameras, face recognition and personalized ads on every corner; that is the only adblock.
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According to Kurzweil (and I don't see anything wrong in his logic), improvements due to genetic selection will pale in comparison to exponentially growing intelligence that's outside our biologic brains (but may be interconnected).
> why are Americans so paranoid about falling under a authoritarian regime?

Ah, the age-old question. It's one of the most prominent differences, if not the most, between mentalities on the opposing sides of the Atlantic.

The answer that I've come up with - having touched on this topic in my political science studies and as an American - is that not only was the US founded on the notion of breaking away from an authoritarian regime, but personal autonomy, freedom, and rights are very strongly valued and this narrative gets drilled into us from a young age.

We're taught in elementary school (up unto 5th form) about the glory of the American Revolution and how our Founders, praise be unto them, birthed our nation with the Declaration of Independence and crafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, laying out an infallible system of government with intrinsically limited powers. /s

In middle school (6th to 8th form, give or take), this view is more or less reinforced; in high school (9th to 12th form) this is pretty much never revisited, since you move on to learning about world or European history. Maybe you'll take a class on government and do a slightly more in-depth survey of the structure of US political institutions, but it's superficial at best. And in university? Well, there's no obligation to take a history class. That's for people who care about history, and jeez, who cares about history?
> How is this not an obvious eventuality for everyone here?

I remember immersing myself in the Guggenheim's exhibition of Italian Futurism, 1909-1944 [1]. It was a rich display of the future course of humanity, per Italy's interwar and war-era fascists. F.T. Marinetti's Electric War: a Futurist Visionary Hypothesis [2], which I read in the Guggenheim's upstairs reading area, comes to mind:

"Up there, in their monoplanes, using cordless phones, they control the breathtaking speed of the seed trains which, two or three times a year, cross the plains for a frenetic sowing. ––Each wagon has a huge iron arm on its roof which swings horizontally, spreading the fertile seeds everywhere."

I remember the Aeropittura paintings, putting the fascists' obsession with planes front and centre [3] [4].

What still stands out is how certain they were in their airplane-based civilization and "abnormal growth of plants, as a direct result of artificial, high-voltage electric power" [2] future. Spending a few hours in that reading room, I could suspend disbelief and start convincing myself that this future was not only possible, it was inevitable.

They were wrong. Linear extrapolations are a good starting point. They're bad for long-term predictions. Don't put too much faith in what you think is obvious in the long run.

[1] http://exhibitions.guggenheim.org/futurism/

[2] https://books.google.no/books?id=c-B9EJGYbAMC&pg=PT210&lpg=P...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeropittura

[4] https://www.pinterest.com/salvador_vico/aeropittura/
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If this sounds interesting, please email dillon@rankscience.com with a brief blurb about yourself.
You still need some staff, sometimes items are damaged, the item doesn't scan, the payment won't go through, the customer changed their mind etc etc. You can't get rid of all staff.
I am assumming this is a rant and I know that Jessie knows this stuff. It is just that I cannot handle the patronizing/condescending tone of the post.
With their long lost half sister is on the jury and their mother is the Bailiff. I'd watch that if there was nothing else on.
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> we can invent new technologies, but we can't stop people from being shitty.

Since it's this that is the primary reason that all of the next generation of technologies are incredibly dangerous existential risks, and is related to why other mitigations for existential risks are underfunded compared to the grand projects of being shitty to each other, it seems to me that fixing this should be the main priority of human research.

It involves coming up with at least workable answers to a lot of difficult questions and is a bit of an ethical minefield, but if you believe, as I am inclined to that the alternative is extinction, it seems pretty important to at least make a stab at it.
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Not the programming interviews I've been in (on both sides).
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A few missing slides that contained over hyped stats from the marketing department is crossing an unacceptable ethical boundary?

How do you describe IME and it's implications then? That's the ethical line the enlightened should be offended by.

Sorry to be harsh, but such a bold headline from a site that no one has heard of (with a probably accurate name) feels like It was written by a PR droid whose free beer account just got cut off by Intel.

Also; who gives a crap about low end SSDs? I doubt anyone you know will ever even see one of these in the wild unless you decide to buy cheap gear for some kind of statement or other..
Chatting for 40 minutes about programming languages isn't any different. Also, there's no expectation to do so.
Please, don't go ahead and paste code that downloads and runs a script from a source not under your control and can be MITM'ed.

Besides, who knows who is going to control `nudge4j.appspot.com` a few days from now.

Sigh
That might be true if your market is other businesses. The courts are largely closed to normal consumers though, because of cost and the perception that justice is for sale. I doubt many mainstream consumers consider "can I sue this company if things go south" when making a purchase.
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The graph is different as it shows the wealth share, not the income share.

> I'm not going to try and debate anything with someone who thinks economics is the only measure of life, you're too narrow minded.

I don't think money is the only measure of life. Then what do you want to use to measure it?
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"2nd iceage" and "uncontrollable
acid rain" doom and gloom.

It would be an interesting object of study in the history of science to look at old papers in these fields, and at the structure of funding, who was benefitting from funding given to these research subjects, how political pressure was used to silence critics of the scientific merit e.g. forest dieback etc. In retrospect we know that none of the hypotheses held up. Why did they gain such a currency at the time?

The "acid rain will destroy our forests" doom/gloom seems to have originated from a single person, Bernhard Ulrich [1] from the University of Göttingen. His dire warning gained immediate currency in a political climate where a new form of left-wing activism (now known as "Green Party" in various countries) was beginning to emerge. Political activists from the "Green" side of the spectrum effectively demonised all criticism of "acid rain will destroy our forests" and lead to generous funding for any research that seemed to corroborate the doom/gloom, triggering a self-reinforcing spiral.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Ulrich_(Forstwissensc...
You give your work a catchy name because you want other people to help develop it, via attention, promotion, word of mouth, etc so other people can find it and fund it.
To do so you speak in their terms and their terms are catchy one-liners. Don't be bitter about it, some people just don't have the level of concentration to deal with our specifics.
Despite the quite high bandwidth of the human eye, we only use it for serial input.

Despite being a massively parallel processing unit, it appears that there are only a few queues for data input.

Applying the awesome pattern matching power of the brain to a lot of data simultaneously (in parallel) is not something our brains appear to be capable of.
Perhaps it would require too much energy and get too hot?
Re: pledge() in OpenBSD:

In FreeBSD for quite some time there is Capsicum and CloudABI has been included in FreeBSD 11. Definitely worth a look, especially the second which is also present in DragonFly.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Capsicum

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As a neecomer I really appreciate that you don't judge based on the accounts Karma. I have to say that it scares to engage in a discussion with someone as experienced in HN as you are, but I can't help but to congratulate you for the amount of time you have put in an how it has turned into a great account.
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Interesting take on how consistent little things matter and how they can make or break things.
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Well OTOH, in the land of the blind, one-eye is king - this goes for a lot of subjects. If you can give a general introduction to AI or the latest update, you can write for thousands of online outlets, each of which attracts some views and therefore money.

Simple economics. Volume pays more than quality.
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Yeah, I feel like the notion of a dedicated front end engineer as oppossed to an engineer working with a contract designer is relatively new. A few years ago, I was working contract at MS, and they had this concept of DevOps which seemed so weird to me. It was like a marriage between IT and engineering. Only in the last few years has DevOps come to stand on its own as a dedicated discipline.

which actually gives me some perspective for the speed at which FE tools seem be iterating. I'll have to keep that in mind moving forward.
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Why shouldn't there?