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Yup, when you consider that WASM can be polyfilled with Asm.js it's pretty obvious where things were headed.
Have we established that Uber knew about the files?
You're a different market segment. They're not planning on selling cars to people working on their 400,000th kilometer. No carmaker is. They all sell cars to people who buy new cars, preferably every couple of years. If they succeed (and the cars can last as long as a well loved Camry or Hilux) You may be able to acquire a second hand one to your liking in a few years.
Winter is coming. Robots are exponentially different from that generation of machines.
We think even if AGI is only invented in 50 years, then it's still worth doing some work on the control problem today, so our view isn't that dependent on whether we're currently in an AI investment bubble or not.

However, if you did really believe the hype, and think that ML will lead to major breakthroughs in the next decade or so, then that would make it even more urgent.
A recent related topic on LtU: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5402

Stroustrup's Rule:

- For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.

- For established features, people want terse notation.
That's a controlled environment, though; Samsung almost certainly creates a customized build of Chromium for its TVs and can simply keep NaCl enabled if it wishes. They aren't beholden to the same policies that apply to the consumer Chrome releases.
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> I voted for Trump precisely in order to scare the everloving bejesus out of the US progressive left.

That much seems to have worked, but...

> Because if you guys don't get your shit together and start looking after even those people who don't agree with your politics, and believe things you think are contemptible, and live lives that you don't understand and don't want to - we're going to end up seeing the kind of enormities which will make history forget Hitler's genocide, just as Hitler made history forget what the Turks did to the Armenians.

I'd say mutual hatred across the political divide got much worse, not better, as a result of Trump, so on that ground your effort seems to have backfired.

I'm not sure why you thought that voting for the leading merchant of that kind of political contempt would mitigate it.
And they only need 100k. For a multibillion dollar company, that's pennies.
Oh that, right. I thought it might be something else.
If I said "yes" I would be refuting my own argument :-)

I composed the words in the above comment, but I don't actually know if the substance of that argument is original with me. It is heavily based on things I've learned in other places, but I don't have any specific recollection of having seen the argument being framed in exactly that way before. It's possible I invented it, but I doubt it. It's not a particularly deep insight, a minor variation on a deeper theme, that "meta-Godelization" is not algorithmic, a fact that I first learned by reading Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach." I don't actually know what the original source of that result is (I should probably go find out).

But I'll happily take credit for the pedagogy if it somehow turns out I got there first.
I assume the "University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute" means Nick Bostrom. I read his book by now. It is not the unimpeachable revelation that everyone makes it out to be. His view of the future is built on several weak leaps of logic.

The Open Philantropy Project is also unproven and the first anyone heard of them was when they made the news for deciding that one of the world's most deserving charities is the roommate of one of its founders.

The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a major think tank best known for downplaying climate change. I can see why they would provide validation to a bunch of tech bros who are also unconcerned about climate change because they're concerned about the sci-fi robocalypse.

You might as well have just listed Less Wrong on there.

I trust none of these people to decide how to change the world. Sorry.
A car that gets 250 km on the European NEDC test cycl will only get 150 km when driving at leisurely highway speeds with AC loaded (for example Nissan admits to this on their very own website for the Leaf); and even less than that at actual motorway speeds.

But it's all right. I mean, just for road safety you should take a 30 min break after every hour on motorway unless you're some sort of superhuman. Who could argue it's not a perfectly decent range for travelling? (edited for clarity)

And you can spend that time just thinking where to invest all the money you save from oil changes.
Leaded gasoline damages the health of others without their consent. Restricting pollution is obviously not the kind of "regulation" I'm talking about.

We should abolish mandates requiring nutritional labeling, safety ratings for cars (carmakers far exceed government safety requirements anyway, because it's good for business), restaurant health inspections, and building codes.

That is not to say we shouldn't have nutritional labeling, safety standards, and restaurant inspections. But it should be voluntary, in response to consumer demand for certified safety and quality.

Apple didn't become the largest company in the world by producing shoddy products. The market rewards a reputation for quality. In other words, society evolves toward safer and better quality products over time, whether it's through government mandates or simply changing consumer preferences and increasing consumer awareness.

I would argue that the agricultural and food safety regulations have contributed to the modern industrial agro-business model, because they are naturally geared toward more centralized operations. Small farms that slaughter and butcher animals on the premises for example face significant hurdles due to agriculture regulations. Cookie cutter solutions mandated by the government kill diversity and encourage consolidation and centralisation.

The government can play an active and positive role, by creating voluntary opt-in certification programs, that act as market signals for quality. For example, it can create a voluntary food safety certification that participating companies that meet its requirements can advertise with a seal on their products.

The government can fund public information resources to better inform consumers of the options available on the market and how they compare in quality and risks.

I am not arguing against a government role in the economy. I'm only arguing against mandating a cookie cutter solution that abridges the right of an individual to decide for themselves what risks to incur.
Unanticipated

I'm just a normal person with nothing to do with this, and I expected such "surprises" from the beginning.

I remain convinced mankind should not mess with this.
Lead-acid batteries are the poster boys of recycling.
You mention systemd getting a lot of hate, but I've never had any problems myself with it or know anyone who has. What sort of things do people dislike about it?
I'm not advocating for Uber to do what I said but given what's been written about their ethical practices, it's what I would expect from them.

The problem is, how do you differentiate between equity whose grant is meant to manipulate a party of a crime and equity justly earned by working there?

If I were Uber, I would fire him and if possible, revoke any equity he had to absolve the company from any accusations of implied manipulation.
Depreciation, insurance, gasoline and maintenace have each been about a quarter of the cost of my small japanese car over 15 years. I keep a detailed spreadsheet.
Only someone that knows very little of philosophy would say such a thing. Oh, and I doubt you'd appreciate someone similarly pissing on your profession.
Those are handled by `util.promisify()` by having the original function define special properties on itself `Symbol('util.promisify.custom')` and `Symbol('customPromisifyArgs')`. But it's not something handled by default (e.g. resolving an array if the callback gets more than 2 arguments passed to it).
Quite a coincidence. I recently went back from XFS to EXT4 in my work laptop using Arch Linux, and before that I went from BTRFS to XFS.

I went from BTRFS to XFS because I got some really bad corner case of performance in BTRFS. My work consists of mostly backend development using Ruby web stack and PostgreSQL/Redis, and often my laptop would freeze completely and only get back after a dozen of seconds. This being in a SSD was unacceptable*. So I decided to go back to XFS and for some time everything went well, no more random freezes.

In this weekend I updated my system by running pacman, as usual. Chrome seemed to consume all memory and the system freeze during the update. Ok, not bad I thought, I rebooted and tried to run pacman again, hopping that only some files was corrupted, however sufficient files were corrupted that I needed to reinstall all packages in the system. Another freeze during the update and my system was essentially death after reboot. I tried to recover using chroot however multiple files were broken beyond repair.

So I decided to go back to EXT4, and reading this article does make me more confident that this shouldn't happen again.
"Also, if he is so convinced and he doesn't care if people know, why wouldn't he publish his (very expensive) results?"

My guess is that his "knowing" is emotion-based and at best his results are inconclusive.

The alternative would be that he has clear evidence supporting such visitation, and I find it difficult to believe that such a thing could be kept under wraps.

Personally, I don't care if Robert Bigelow believes in the Loch Ness Monster as long as his company can produce viable habitats for orbit and beyond.
Information asymmetry is the problem.

We might want quality and be willing to pay for it, but still buy the cheap junk because we can't reliably identify quality in the marketplace. Paying more for a product could get more quality, but it might just be paying more.

It's a variation of the cherries and lemons in the used-car market.
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The problem is "Prolog is the database" is that there isn't a great solution for persisting that database, which is usually what people mean when they talk about databases. Sure, for SWI-Prolog there's Persistency but that a) doesn't help you if your data doesn't fit in memory, and b) doesn't give a lot of the same guarantees as something like Postgres about durability through sudden failures (as far as I can tell, the docs sure don't mention it). It's closer to SQLite than a database you'd use for a production web app.
"Thought" isn't really the word. I hoped that progressives would draw a salutary lesson from such a reverse, instead of doubling down on the rhetoric and behavior that's brought us to such a pretty pass.

You're not wrong that it was a rather forlorn hope. It was the best I had in any case, so I went with it. But maybe it hasn't completely failed - we here discuss an article in which one of the long-standing and most highly-respected collective biens-pensants of the left tries, in its characteristically subtle fashion, to convince its audience that such people are human, not mere homunculi - worthy of compassion, not mere contempt. What is that, if not at least tenuous cause for hope?

And in any case, it's easy to criticize. Let's see you suggest something constructive of your own - serious question, now: the DNC having ruined Sanders, what have you got that's better?
Yes, but I'm the one who made the original claim that "there is no algorithm for constructing a Godel sentence". So I'm the one who gets to say what I meant by that :-)
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It's about round trips in large cities. For example, if I want to drive from san jose to sf and then come back that is about 220km in one day for 2 hours on the highway.
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I agree. Google doesn't want a license agreement. As pointed out below, yes, there is investment, but I think Google/Alphabet is out for blood and the investment dollars will be recouped in the civil settlement if not the arbitration with Levandowski.

Either way, I don't think Google cares. They want to be first on the market. And based on how badly Uber has been flouting the law, I suspect Google gets there first no matter what. This just slows Uber down.

It won't matter though. Money will change hands. And that's about it. Google/Alphabet/Waymo/Lyft will be first to market in a pretty shitty way, followed by Uber. The tech world and early adopters will go nuts and in this case probably die in a fire. Then Apple and Tesla will come in with a far superior safety/user experience and take over.

None of this really matters at this point. It's a waiting game. This is what Apple always does and what Tesla has started doing: wait for the early entries in the market to do their thing, learn from their mistakes, and pwn the market later with better UX and marketing.
It sounds like you bought it used? While I'm unsure of a Tesla's longevity, it looks like you could buy a used Tesla for $35k these days. Which is cheaper than your $15k + $42k. No gas -- but I'm not sure how much it would cost per kilowatt hour. Now if you were to get a Tesla $35k and install a solar roof for $10k then you're looking at $45k and a renewable energy system, taking power out of the oil companies' hands and actually cheaper than the $57k... and that would be "free" power indefinitely -- way cheaper than the fact that you will have to continue to put oil and gas in your car.

Speaking of which, did you factor in the oil change costs? Assuming $30 an oil change, you're looking at $12k in oil changes. That's now $69k for your Camry.

Plus, the Tesla looks cooler and has faster acceleration than your Camry.
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LTSB don't even have the Windows Store
Ah, yeah.
> Isn't that untrue in California?

IIRC, you are correct in suits under California law, but this has no effect in suits under federal law that happen to be heard in California. How that applies to this case may be complicated because it involves both state and federal law claims in federal court.
Forgive me if I misunderstand but won't android apps work on Chrome OS devices well at least the newer ones anyways?
It's still fairly hard to do in a living room, if you want to do anything novel.

You need probably low 4-figures of equipment first; a -20C freezer for DNA/buffer storage, small centrifuge, thermal cycler, some way of getting genes into a target, and incubation space for whatever you're modifying. Preferably you'll also have consistent temperature control and an extremely clean environment. You also need a source of primer sequences, which are short customized sequences of DNA used to tl;dr get a lot of copies of a DNA sequence which you only have in small quantities.

Nothing too difficult, and much of that equipment can be DIY'd for the home lab. But many chemical suppliers also won't ship to residential addresses or onboard individuals as customers, so you'll need to incorporate and shop around a bit. And wet lab protocols can be very finicky; you'll probably need to run through your workflow a lot before you get to the point where you can semi-reliably go from start to finish without fucking up. Often, you won't know exactly how you fucked up, but you can't argue with a lack of results.

It's possible, I think, but it's also time-consuming and difficult.

Anyways, if you did get a reliable setup working with say, micropropagated plant specimens, there are far more interesting prizes than seeing what non-coding DNA does. Plants make all kinds of cool stuff, from scents to flavors to alkaloids. And they've demonstrated an ability to take genes from things like jellyfish for e.g. autoluminescence, too.
BTW, I know that database workloads are not optimized in CoW filesystems like BTRFS, and I could disable CoW for PostgreSQL/Redis, however this is just a development machine with maybe a hundred database transactions per second, so this shouldn't be a problem.
It might be your processor only supported AVX512 in emulation — the article makes it sound like only the Phi currently supports it natively.
It's a huge difference for minimum frame times at 4K if you intend on getting a smooth 120fps.
Well an async function always returns a Promise. await simply blocks until the Promise is resolved to continue execution. Thats why I am wondering why they decided to await only on a single Promise.
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Chrome and Firefox probably dont run on their OS.
An interesting area of research would be into how much of the 'dangerous' aspects of human intelligence come from our historical survival needs, and how much is an innate aspect of intelligence as we know it

Is it possible to build a self-aware intelligence that we as humans can relate meaningfully to, without introducing the conflicting traits/balances (baggage) that we've inherited from society/our parents
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You might like the make_esc/errify pattern [0]. You can apply the same function to any number of error callbacks in order to unify error handling. Works great with Iced CoffeeScript but also works well without. I can provide more examples but I think you'll get it.

[0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/el-borracho/blob/master/src/re...

P.S. Iced3 compiles to ES6 await so all of this has been working together for quite a while.
Why are you using an SSH client in your web browser?
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Yes. This sort of cost-benefit analysis also ignores some intangibles such as:

"When we're interviewing people and they find out just how backwards our CI system is, the smart ones will laugh at us and work somewhere else and we'll be left with just the dumb ones."
> [New] research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance indicates that falling battery costs will mean electric vehicles will also be cheaper to buy in the U.S. and Europe as soon as 2025.

The article isn't predicting that we'll soon all be driving a Tesla Model S or claiming that electric cars are price competitive right now.

There aren't a lot of cheap electric car options right now, but the situation is improving. The Chevy Bolt is available now, and the Model 3 should be out in a few months or so. They're still more expensive than I would care to spend on a car, but eventually as costs come down, it's not unreasonable to expect electrics will show up in lower cost vehicles.

I'm kind of hoping someone puts out a well-engineered low-cost electric without any of the self-driving or always-on-phone-home-wireless-connectivity stuff, or any other features that aren't absolutely required. No infotainment, just an FM radio and window cranks. Maybe not even AC or power steering. Just a simple small car, kind of like the VW beetle was in the 1960s.
⃰Unfortunately, still only after factoring in regulations.
I am referring here to the fact that first-order logic is sufficiently expressive to describe how a Turing machine works, making FOL Turing-complete and thus, as a special case, making every computation you can carry out on a computer expressible in FOL, as a first-order formula that is satisfiable iff the TM accepts the input.
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You could give a Tesla buyer $5K tax credit or you could give decently specified bicycles with locks and lights to 10-20 people for the same money.

We don't tax non-smokers for daring to breathe nicotine free air, yet we shifted away from governments paying for hospitals with tobacco revenue. Tobacco is crazily expensive nowadays and it takes so long to buy it (with the new all brown packaging looking the same) that it seems to be priced out of accessible addictability. I think ICE motor cars will go the same way, plus there is that external cost of everyone benefiting from clean air.
For now. In 5-10 years the debate will be "why do we have gas cars at all now that electric cars are all faster, drive farther, don't pollute, and are solar powered."

In my opinion, not having to deal with oil spills and carbon emissions will certainly win out in the long run.
You'd think so, but the BBC found similar problems when launching their streaming services.

Annoyingly I can't find the link, but IIRC the BBC originally looked into making everything it had ever made in its giant archives available to stream. Even for the content the BBC produced and owned internally, which is a huge amount, they determined it simply wasn't possible to offer the full BBC back catalog all the time on their service - tracking down the various rights holders, actors, and other parties to the content to renegotiate for streaming was an impossible undertaking. A real shame - a readily accessible public database of all of the BBC's content would have been incredible, especially when so much of it was paid for by UK tax payers.

The last Labour government in 2010 was looking at options to legislate to absolve the BBC of these responsiblities, but sadly it didn't go anywhere. This is absolutely a problem that will need legal changes to fix for old content, realistically.
Chrome OS has no native SSH client, but Google published a NaCL based SSH client:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...

It's useful outside of Chrome OS if you have a security perimeter based on TLS with ACLs and auditing already in place and you want to use it for SSH as well:

https://github.com/zyclonite/nassh-relay

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/assets...

Google uses a similar setup internally.
I don't think you'll see anyone saying that a car with 150km of actual highway range is good for long-distance trips. Which is why a bunch of carmakers are building or planning cars with much longer ranges, similar to Teslas, which are fine for road-tripping.
> RAM returning garbage while the CPU is still executing instructions and sending commands on the SATA bus.

When I read it, I got the impression he was saying the DRAM was going crazy while a DMA transfer to the hard-drive was still going on. That doesn't require the CPU to be functional when the DRAM is corrupt, only the DMA controller. I can't personally say if that makes it any more likely though.
I bought an 8125 back in the day, so I could go into small comm closets and work on equipment with out having to drag in a laptop. I powered it up a little over a year ago to pull some stuff off it, then after I was done with doing that, the USB port broke...
> When I ask, "Is it possible to draw 7 perpendicular lines?" I want the answer, "No."

Depends. Are we assuming you can't draw in seven dimensional Hilbert space?
I wouldn't call it a "Linux Desktop" if you can't run a standard SSH client. Chrome OS is it's own beast.
If I recall, Google/Waymo claimed in their filing that he had never used the Subversion repository in question from that laptop in the course of his employment, until that moment. They further claim he actually searched MoMA for how to access it as well as how to do end-to-end setup. He then left not long after that checkout. That is unusual, if true.
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Thats assuming that its selection mechanism works at an individual level, and not a population level.

After all a colony of bacteria is (usually) a set of identical clones. As long as a few survive, the DNA lives on.
Hehe. As you get older you don't have time to wait for things to evolve, which long time ago already have evolved. Technically it's possible, because we have seen it. Now all should go into one device. What's so difficult about it? I would have thought, that an engineer comes up with something better than the marketing team.
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