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> Then you draw a vacuum and heat the cavity

What are you heating if it's a vacuum?
How can you heat nothing?
If I simulate a map I get a map. Are minds like maps, or like nuclear reactions?
This is exactly the kind of blind non scientific belief that the article is decrying.

There is nothing magical about anything. There is however a bunch of unkowns, and a lot of knowns that point in directions away from singularity babble.

This is exactly the point of the article - that we aren't going to a singularity, we are going towards a "Cambrian explosion"
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ProTip: Since these forums are predominately internet-savvy, you're likely to hit more people who are testing the waters rather than trying something that solves their problem. Just don't forget to add "pay me" button. It would sound risky but it's worth it. There is nothing worse than building something that no one is willing to pay for. Trimming down early makes sure that you're building a solution that genuinely solves a problem.

At the nascent stages, you don't need to add numbers, only people who are delighted to use your product and are willing to pay for it.
Check out how we, the 'wise modern civilization' splash all our chemicals and shit into the rivers and oceans, and then eat fish from there.

I bet we will be looked at as 'these savage guys were totally dumb, look at them, it's unbelievable' about 50 - 150 years later.

Also, you americans take away your babies from your mothers after few weeks, putting them to a cold hearted institutions, making them frustrated for life? In exchange for what, extra 1 % of GDP from working mothers? That's a pretty bad deal I must say.

Most people in Europe would see this as a barbaric practice, as we know children need a close contact with parents till at least 2.5 years (don't you study developmental psychology there?), and our social systems support that.

(wanted to show that we both are 'those dumb indians' from some more civilized point of view)
It's not illegal but if the current levels of corporate encroachment into our personal lives continues then this sort of stuff should be made illegal.
Since conferences usually have flaky and broken wifis, does it work well offline?
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"First, you have to be aware that structs can increase your binary size. If you have structs into lists they are created on the stack and they can increase your binary size."

I don't get this. Is it saying that structs can increase your binary size and as a separate issue they are created on the stack. Or is it saying that because structs are created on the stack they can increase your binary size? How would that work if stack allocation is something that happens at runtime and affects your memory footprint rather than binary size? (I don't use swift so I might be missing something here)
Thanks for the article, this would have been helpful to me some time ago. I found out the hard way that data quality in logistics is generally quite poor.
"But linux wasn't made to be easy to use, to be quick and easy to install, to install other software onto, etc"

For what it's worth (which may be not a great deal): I have installed a lot of Windows and Linux over the years, but my Windows experience has been lackin further and further behind these last few years. A short while ago, I had to a rare chance of setting up two identical machines side by side, one with Windows 10, one with Manjaro, an Arch Linux derivative. The Linux install finished sooner and with less need of interference than the Windows one. It also didn't require preparatory messing round with weird licensing codes and what have you, and of course it didn't require one tenth the amount of postprocessing to reach the desired level of functionality - compare the twenty second operation of setting up a LaTeX which worked to the corresponding twenty Windows minutes of setting up one which didn't.

Your anecdotal mileage may obviously vary.
I think my software engineering undergrad course summarized it up, and they emphasized the difference between soft eng and programming with that you can really can call any form of programming as really just playing with or handling code whereas engineering involves licensing, researching techniques that involve optimized solutions and moreover adherence to some form of moral engineering ethics that might not be written as part of law.

Moreover, I don't think theres a big issue with using programmer or engineer, but I dont think that the word programmer is stigmatized but rather because its now an older term and not as recent as software engineer which is more trendier. You could think of it as how the word "phat" was used in hip hop to really just mean cool whereas nowadays kids would be confused to hear you use the word.

I think it speaks more of a change in the era where new words are considered cooler and just spread on their own, something that probably happens all the time, just like how young people adopt new slang.

In fact, if we switched the position of programmer and engineer in terms of how they were used in history where all programmers would be used to called engineers, maybe you would instead say that the word engineers is stigmatized.
> only in US?

Nope, everywhere. Hurt people ego and they will attack you without giving it a second thought.
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Would individual humans still have their own consciousness or would all of humanity be one giant highly optimized organism that has no individual needs, desires, dreams or fears? The concept of human could become irrelevant and our whole existence with it
For one, normal human can do long division as fast as a calculator, and can handle numbers that will bork many calculators. (edit - look at human calculators, and the era before calculators were common place. Even now elders I know can eye ball numbers and calculate percentages / factorials and ratios)

And for another, Calculation != AI, far from actually.
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> Ok, you completely lost me on the point you are trying to make wrt "C compiled with C++" however I wholeheartedly agree with your penultimate paragraph.

Use the platform C++ compiler, but write code only the language subset common to C, that could even be compiled by a plain C90 compiler.

The only exception being, wrapping C++ SDK APIs into C like wrappers.

A pattern I have seen too often.

Dismissing indies is the wrong attitude, they were the first ones to adopt C and Pascal, C++, Objective-C and nowadays C#, Swift, Java.

Sony does use C# a lot on their internal tools.

Nintendo uses Unity for prototyping.

Microsoft and Google are using Unity and Unreal a lot for their VR work.

All of them invited MonoGame developers and supported them porting MonoGame into their platforms (PS4, Switch, UWP Xbox).

C++ might not go away, people still write games in C and Assembly, but it will become that very thin bottom layer at the engine architecture diagram.

Just give it time, eventually even all major C compilers became written in C++.
It seems premature to make judgements about efficiency when there is so much we do not understand about brain function and consciousness. When you can replicate all brain function, lets compare efficiency. Comparing to an asic reveals the source of your error rather than defends your position.
Cool but where can you get Phantom 3 standard for 330 USD? I'm seeing $499 on their official website.
and he only can play Go... what a waste for a such big AI. AI can beat humain on some special part but they are designed by us, then they are wrong and bad, specially when you only need to unplug the battery for that they die, too easy, come on AI do something more than that....
This isn't directly obvious, so I'll clarify. Anyone who has used this app - all of your notes are publicly available by following the link above.

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>Just my opinion, but Amazon, FB, Apple, and all these companies that these thought leaders like MG Siegler, Stratchery, and Gruber write about aren't interesting.
They won at the same game by outcompeting others at selling commodity junk.

First of all, all 3 companies have very different business models.

Second, Apple never sold "commodity junk". The company sold (and sells) on the high end of the market, they take a different approach to design than competitors, use more expensive materials, machining, etc., design lots of their own internals (from logic board part to processors, even their own OS and programming languages, and create their products end to end (hardware to software), and come to market with lots of firsts (e.g. from small stuff like magsafe or the best trackpad in PC-land, to hi-dpi etc). And of course have won all kinds of design, quality awards.

Third, Facebook doesn't sell anything (except ads). What's the "commodity junk" they sell? Their service is junk? Compared to what? MySpace and similar competitors, whose websites were crap even at the time? What's the better social network people aren't on?

Fourth, Amazon? Has a first tier store, a first tier web service business. What's the commodity junk they sell? If you mean actual products on their store, then they sell everything, from expensive high end stuff to mass market cheap products. And of course, for ages, they started with books -- where there's nothing "commodity crap" about them, books are books, whether a high end bookstore sells them or Amazon does.

>Same way. They had leaders whose business won the lottery

If your explanation of 3 of the biggest companies on earth is "won the lottery" then you're missing a lot. Might a well invoke God.

>Selling crap isn't interesting. Show me somebody that makes a similar-sized dent in human health, the environment, or world peace then I think the fawning Medium articles will be worth it.

You conflate businesses with NGOs or revolutionary parties.

Which is a valid comparison for some aspects, but not one that can conclude that "businesses are not interesting" when speaking about business.
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That's true, but it doesn't matter. It's still broken.

That's why we have automatic release after a set time. Because it's a problem for the public even if the vendor has zero resources. The ability of the vendor to fix the problem is not related at all to the potential damage the problem can cause.

Worst-case scenario? The software is shutdown and/or withdrawn from the market because the vendor can't fix it. Not that the vulnerability isn't announced.

What we need is a public and open way to do this that doesn't involved walled gardens.
I live and often walk past a place with an amazing view of some world-renowned scenery. Almost every time I walk past now, I have to hear the annoying buzz of drones filming today's happy bride and groom.

I used to think drones were cool and wanted one, but now I just find them a bit irritating. I do like the footage they can take though.
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There are legitimate uses of airports by drone enthusiasts who rent out whole airfield for weekend gatherings and events. The clubs in my area fly almost exclusively this way. I wonder how the restrictions will fare in this case.
>The author regularly conflates Amazon's price and Amazon's value.

That's because the price is also important, it's not some 1850's world, where value is everything.

People can sell on the price and make billions.
in fairness, "Cortana" and "Siri" both sound pretty effeminate to me (and speakers of romance languages)
I didn't read this at first because I thought it just sounded like it would be some opinionated clickbait full of strawmen and superlatives. But then I caved in and read it and it turns out that my instincts were right. Then I saw the author was Kevin Kelly and I felt sad. Almost as sad as when Steven Hawking said we should discontinue the SETI program because it is most likely that aliens will want to harvest our precious carbon and organs and enslave us if they found out we were here. UNSUBSCRIBE!
>To me, Amazon is being used decreasingly by everybody around me.

Yeah, just not by anybody that actually affects their rising retail revenue.

I'm not even sure how this idea about "crap" works. If you order e.g. a Dell or an Apple laptop or a Sony camera or a WD HD or a Philips bulb etc, on Fry's or Best Buy etc, you'll get something different that if you order those on Amazon?

What's the idea here?
If it wasn't permanently inhabited, then it's not a city. There are the remains of massive camps in Russia built out of Mammoth bones and tusks that held many thousands of people, made possible by massive culls of migrating herds, but these are not permanent settlements either.

Living permanently in the same place on a large scale is a completely different way of life compared to living a mainly nomadic life and gathering at special sites from time to time, even if you make a permanent mark on those sites.
Microsoft should hire this programmer: https://i.redd.it/sd72mfmj7ety.jpg
well, of course, we did not work on this project exclusively for 2 years. but, yep, we're really happy with our CEO giving us such a long time to think about/perform the migration.

thanks for pointing out the problems with Safari. For me it's working with the latest versions of Safari/OSX. Can you send a screenshot via the support tool at swat.io?
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> In this case only the database server really needs ECC ram.

That's only true if the database is read only. Otherwise, you will still insert corrupt data into it.
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Not sure why this isn't at the top. This is crazy.
Is it time to change your ESP?
Airports are not usually places that radio jamming equipment is tolerated.

I've read about training birds of prey to kill drones, seems dangerous for the bird to me though.
You can deploy any static website with GitHub. You can't just run backend code and can't have a database there.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. A simulation is about "changes in the state of a system over time". Not sure how you can simulate a map?
Once you have a one big win under your belt, it becomes easier to hit other big wins because you have greater access to capital to diversify your bets as well as much better deal flow. He did have an incredible run, which I would attribute to equal parts hard work, skill, and luck.
One, what normal human being can perform long division as fast as a calculator?

12/43523523452. Go.

Two, AI is applied statistics. What do you think AI is?
>Just a few months ago, I was able to buy something at Best Buy for only 10% more (~$30) than it would have cost to order from Amazon.

Being "able" to buy 10% MORE doesn't sound like any kind of a deal. In fact, it sounds like the opposite...
Actually, to see how well DeepMind has mastered certain video games with minimal instructions, AI already can look in certain cases superhuman.

What EVERYONE is missing, though, is that enhanced human intelligence is inevitable. And will be vastly more "intelligent" than superhuman AI. Though as human intelligence increases so will AI naturally. I think enhanced human intelligence will have immeasurably greater impact and probably greater impact than any conceivable technology since it lets us engineer who we are. What is a world like that's inhabited by 7 billion Leonardos?
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Siri is absolutely a fairly common Nordic woman's name, I know several people with that name.
By the time you mount those panels on a floating structure the lifetime energy yield may well drop to zero or (most probably) negative. Building a ship has a huge energy/emissions cost as the raw materials have to be mined, refined, transported, formed and assembled.

I'd recommend this site for a good overview on where our energy really goes and what might be achievable with renewables: https://www.withouthotair.com/
In C, static structs that are not zero-initialized or uninitialized (i.e. that are statically to something else than zero) increase the binary size (they go into the data segment, i.e. even if you only initialize one field of a struct, the binary contains a full image of the full struct); this has nothing to do with the stack in C, but I don't know about Swift.
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The flashing skin color changes alone are pretty incredible.

It's surprising that it comes across as so intimidating and disorienting, even on video. It's really a powerful advertisement of offensive aggression in that example.

The mind recoils in confusion, and begs for the flashing to abate. It's punishingly relentless.
No.

The hype chamber in SV is on overdrive on AI at this point.

Singularity AI concept has gone from the neat Sci Fi idea it was, to being treated as a serious possibility. This is Absurd. The modern version of Malthus, and a community of people who pride themselves on their reason, should do a basic sniff test.

The author has it correct - human brains themselves are significantly impressive on a weight/power/capability scale.

But forget all of the intelligence debate, consider the things that people magically ignore: emotions.

Take a look at how people who are depressed function. They measured as being more aware than (better assessment of their surroundings/relations/self assesment) people who were not.

At the same time, they lack motivation, or desire - there is a lack of impulsive force to move forward.

Intelligence doesn't give human beings purpose. Emotion does.

This isn't feel good psychobabble, its a fundamental part of good mind/body housekeeping which a huge chunk of SV follows every day to reach "peak performance".

How are you going to create a general purpose AI which has any motive force?

Its actually MORE LIKELY, that if a GP AI is created, its just going to sit on its ass and pretend not to understand instructions.
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I agree that the GP missed the criticism, but…

That's not how margin trading works. It is a loan, but it's collateralized against your existing holdings. Most institutions will only loan you a percentage of your existing holdings (somewhere between 30% and 50%). Additionally, if the market value of your existing holdings dips such that the total loan amount is greater than the maximum percentage loan, those assets can (in most cases) be immediately sold to pay back the loan. This is called a "margin call".

To use your example, if you were using margin from an institution that allows for a 50% rate, in order to get that $10k loan, you'd have to already have $20k available in a relatively liquid assets (stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds). If the value of your holdings ever dipped such that you held less than $20k, thus making your loan greater than the institutions 50% limit, some of those assets would be sold to pay down the loan.

There are additional safety measures built into margin accounts by brokers that offer them such as ensuring that the collateral assets aren't 100% allocated a single risk prone stock for example. Margin is a very well understood and safe business model for many brokers.

My understanding of the criticism of the GGP is not that Robinhood's business model is unsafe for Robinhood, it's that it's unsafe for their target market (casual stock traders). The idea is that casual trading is, for most of the population, gambling. Depending on your moral stance on gambling, using "free trades" as a marketing funnel for loans designed to be used for gambling falls somewhere between grey and repugnant.
Probably.

Then again, how much progress did SF make on homelessness under Obama?
For a much better and more constructive read toward the effort of a stringent definition of intelligence, I would recommend anything from Shane Legg - most pragmattically this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.5951v2.pdf
Reservoirs filling with silt may reduce storage which would turn the dam in to a run of river plant. Less control over when the electricity is made. Also reservoirs could be dredged out to allow the silt to continue its way downstream.
True, but you know how it is ... the management of these companies would prefer to do nothing if it is possible. They'll put most of their efforts into that strategy.
After doing a little research it's worth noting a few key things:

1) This attack is not using 0-days. It's using vulnerabilities that have been in the wild for almost 6 months now, and are so trivial to exploit that some security researchers called the exploits "amaturish". These types of devices have been used to DDoS lots of internet infrastructure. What, short of something like this, is going to get those devices and their manufacturers to secure their hardware, given that Mirai wasn't enough to convince them?

2) I honestly think that finding/making a legal means for this sort of scan (specifically, scanning to check for trivially insecure devices, and bricking them if cannot be patched) to happen on a consistent basis is something that the EFF or the like might want to look into. The problem with a vigilantes is that they lack accountability, so while I might personally approve of the current approach from what I can see (even as I recognize it as illegal), it could take easily take a turn for the worse. I think having a standard around need to survive X number of hours connected to the internet and that a certain number of devices (say 10) need to survive 6/12/18/24 months down the road or face recall would be starting point. There are a lot of contingencies to work out for this, such as personal DIY projects and the like, it's not 100% fleshed out.

3) As far as I can tell, the analogy is more along the lines of a bunch people buying a bunch of stereos and/or loudspeakers that are trivially hackable (but the consumers aren't aware of that), and then putting them everywhere. If those loudspeakers and/or steroes started disturbing the peace, or getting used in ultrasonic attacks on power lines or water mains, you can bet that police would be destroying them, and/or allowing others to do the same.
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Fossilisation takes much longer and very different conditions over millions of years.
Pure nonsense. Or did you try a distribution from 2002?
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