skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will the US military shoot its own citizens?

There is actually evidence[1] that they wouldn't. Soldiers tend to actually take things like their oath to defend the constitution seriously. They also tend to get actual training... unlike the police, who already shoot a disgusting number of people each year.

Stocking up on guns is a somewhat[2] outdated tactic, and everybody loses if this turns into a shooting war. We are far too interdependent; loss of even "insignificant" amounts of infrastructure can easily have a "trigger effect"[3] that cascades across the remaining infrastructure.

> party

That's a significant part of the problem. We need to learn to avoid tribalism/factionalism asap. Most people can discuss specific issues, but when a group identification becomes part of the foundation for your identity, disagreement becomes an insult. We're seeing a lot of this now, unfortunately.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752635#10753894

[2] individual circumstances will vary

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKELMR6wACw
This is strange. There should be no restrictions for Germany. We'll check that.
that's not the biggest issue.

if you have an AI that is pretty smart, and you add a lot of money, then you have a pretty big problem as since you can scale it, and let it do what you want. i.e. side stepping democratic approaches. or causing large scale unemployment.

Later, you have the selfaware-ness problem, but that's less of a concern in the shorter term.
? Engineer? Doctor? Lawyer? Scientist? Software development company? Building? Security? Transport? Restaurant? Produce delivery?

No? Sigh...
He's talking about a form of Strong AI. Not what we have now.
I'm less worried about "the singularity" than companies where strategy is set by AIs optimizing for shareholder value with no other constraints.
gRPC relicensed to Apache-2.0
as part of joining CNCF. We explain the reasoning here: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2/

(I'm the executive director of CNCF and wrote the blog post. )
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But his company is among one of those companies that are ruthlessly pursuing AI technology for its own commercial purpose, like self driving car. Did he just contradict himself a little in that sense?
It didn't happen
When you have 1000+ torrents seeding 24/7, even the tracker lookups add up. Usually you aren't downloading. Most of the time, torrents stay idle which will make DNS requests a significant portion of the total traffic. Sure, this might seem overkill, but when the VPN is already slowing down things for you, you do whatever needed to shave those seconds.

OpenDNS look up for Google just now took me 500ms, even without the VPN. I use tunnel mode for DNS on the NAS, which can easily double it.
In all current _serious_ languages, maybe, but also Piet exists: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
If he would be really concerned about AI, then there would be no auto pilot in Teslas. I'm pretty sure he would benefit from a regulated AI research somehow.
A very good book for graphics programming, covering all kinds of algorithms is

"Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice" from Foley and van Dam.

The 1st edition used Pascal, the 2dn C and now the third one uses C++ and C# on their examples.
I bought this book, the author became famous after writing 1 famous blog post, about "Giving less f*cks". Now he has turned this into an entire book and it reads more like a self-help therapeutic diary from a troubled soul than anything else.

I don't know why it's getting so much traction, it's really quite poor in content, writing style (and skill) and full with filler material.

It could not be any lamer.

He has a bunch high-level-also-book-publishing-friends, who are helping out with a massive amount of marketing, it seems.

It's a great example of a poor product, marketed the heck out of it.
This is a whole other set of problems, which I agree will only get worse. However they don't really represent the threat Musk discusses - superhuman / superintelligent paperclip maximizers and other Yudkowskian nonsense.
Yes, but only in so much that it's luck that anything is next to anything. The Turks wanting to control the region was a natural decision at the time. The area was a major trade center due to the Hellespont and Anatolia became quite wealthy from trade between the Greeks and Persians. When Rome conquered the area, it was the richest spot in the empire.
F#'s features don't feel that useful after working in OCaml though. I've tried it for various projects, but OCaml is honestly just as good in all those situations. I wonder if there's some specific type of project where F#'s features will really shine.
My mothers neighbour is working part time and averaging $9000 a month. I'm a single mum and just got my first paycheck for $6546! I still can't believe it. I tried it out cause I got really desperate and now I couldn't be happier. Heres what I do, •••••••••>> http://www.joinmate2.com
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thats perhaps a good point
That chimes with my experience travelling in China a lot in the late 80s and early 90s. I was travelling on business sometimes as much as two months at a time and working closely with local people installing and debugging machinery in factories. One of the most interesting places was Jiexi in south China four hours on a dirt road from the nearest airport. Most of the houses were rammed earth but the place had a lively market (it was a 'small' town of about 30k people) and a substantial concrete multi-story overseas Chinese hotel where we stayed. The hotel lobby was one of the few places in town that had a television so it was always crowded with locals watching it. In conversations with people there (mostly through our interpreter) it was clear that the ambitions of most people there were much the same as where I come from (UK but living in Norway); they want a house to live in, a fridge, a washing machine, a television, a decent income, and a better life for their children.
Is it too late for Germany?
Dealing with poorly behaved surfaces (specular, luminous, reflective, deformity) in 3D reconstruction.

Figuring out human interaction intent from force measurements for cooperating with a robot in a collaborative task (moving a table together).

Both language agnostic.
Not at all. Cars and roads are fantastically dangerous, many thousands of people die every year, but we still build cars and roads.

It's the same for AI. We need to treat the risks responsibly which means researching them and making informed judgements. That's what he's talking about.
How is rationality not a consensus between beings? Where is the absolute objective measure for reason?
I think this is an overreaction (pun accidental).

There are two things here: The copyright license, and the patent grant. Copyright applies to the concrete implementation. You have to agree to the license to be subject to it, and to legally use the code.

A potential patent applies to any implementation. Even if you write a clean-room clone of React, if it uses the same patent, Facebook has a patent claim. But that means the patent grant is not specific to the code; it doesn't even require consent, Facebook could allow you conditional patent usage even without your knowledge! A corollary is that you are strictly better off with the patent grant, it imposes no additional constraints on you.

License with no patent grant: Facebook can sue you for infringing patents, even if you are using a clone!

License with patent grant: Facebook cannot sue you for infringing patents, unless you do it first.

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Second, I think the philosophy behind the patent grant is twofold: 1) that software patents are not legitimate. Enforcing a patent is not seen as a legitimate right, but an annoyance, like pissing on someones lawn. From that point of view, it seems not asked too much from somebody to refrain from doing that. (I don't know if that was the idea of the people who drafted that license, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

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Another, unrelated observation (and please don't invalidate the first observations if this one is wrong as internet commentators are wont to do):

I see nowhere in the license [1] that it requires you to take the patent grant. Is that true? It would be silly to refuse it, because you are strictly better off with it, of course.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/LICENSE
I prefer to be paid in Schrute Bucks or Stanley Nickles, thanks.
I love bitcoin but if you think I'd recommend buying it at this specific instant? Hell no.

Between now and a couple of weeks even maybe a few months after aug1 there are a lot of questions that very smart people don't know the answer to with regard to the architecture and maintenance of the current blockchain. There is a very real struggle going on right now with regard to who has support as to potential changes to its architecture.
That's a big claim and kudos if you really pulled it off. There is also the aspect of relevancy in addition to speed.

I think the best way you can showcase is to build a few sample proof-of-concept search engines. For e.g., How about a search engine for Wikipedia? Project Gutenberg? StackOverflow? All these datasets are freely available. You can set up a search engine for this and easily let anyone be able to verify your search engine's speed and relevancy.

Lastly, in addition to both speed and relevance is how easy it is to install, customize and extend.

Hope that helps!
I have started the habit during lunch to walk for at least half an hour a day with a coworker. The experience has been nothing but positive.
I would say one should go for Ripple and Bitcoin, as the prices are going down for now, it would be a great time to invest. For ripple the reason is that it is very cheap, compared to other CrypCurys and thus investing in it gains you more and faster retruns. Bitcoin because it is one of the most known CrypCur and is down for now, which I think would surely go up.
Google "Goldman Sacks starvation" sometime.
Phones are an essential service, TV isn't.
Not to mention that patent law explcitly does not accept independent discovery as a defence for patent infringement, so I doubt that Apache 2.0 has any defences for that. I also don't believe GPLv3 does either but I would have to read through it again.
The irony of using Youtube, a platform that rose to fame after hosting pirated Viacom content, to highlight IP theft.
I think you are mixing up things here. I am talking about principles on how to solve tasks in programming, you are talking about differences in programming languages.

But the thing is: what is right in programming was the same in C 40 years ago and is exactly still the same if you use Erlang. And it is also the reason why many old programs still work because previous generations applied the basic principles much more diligent than we do (because there is the next NodeJS around the corer, etc. smirking)
Can opt out of being murdered on the street by staying in your house 24/7
If you compare factory lines from 100-150 years ago, we've cut out around 90% of the workers.

If you look at office spaces pre and post computers they have roughly the same amount of people.

AI is going to do to the office space what robots did to factories.

It'll be a slow unnoticeable process for the most part. Automation of a single process may save as little as 5 minutes a day per workflow, but eventually it adds up to a position not getting rehired as it usually would have.

Sure the AI business will create jobs, but not as many as it replaces and try telling a lawyer to go back to school to get a relevant education.
have some live demos and practical use examples.
Weird, kinda like the US.
In what sense do bacteria 'care' about survival? Natural selection doesn't give a crap what organisms care about, only the outcomes matter.

You can't code around selective pressure. If one of those MeeSeeks has a bug or design flaw that makes it persist after it's finished it's assigned task, guess what?
Mikrotik wAP ac [1] positioned in center of home with a Mikrotik Hex POE [2] as the main router and DHCP server. There is TP-Link HomePlug [3,4] between router and WiFi base station.

The wAP ac has a stronger and more reliable signal than any other WiFI unit I've tried (various Linksys, Asus, and BT units).

The Mikrotik gear is rock solid, but not exactly what I'd call consumer friendly. Great if you know or want to know something about real routers. I got fed up with buggy consumer routers and decided to go with either Mikrotik or Ubiquity rather than struggle to get the right hardware and firmware combo for Tomato et al. Nothing wrong with these, but none of my existing hardware had an image on the various options.

[1] https://mikrotik.com/product/RBwAPG-5HacT2HnD, $89

[2] https://mikrotik.com/product/RB960PGS, $79

[3] http://uk.tp-link.com/products/details/cat-18_TL-PA4010KIT.h...

[4] Always, always change the HomePlug network name and password :-)
What if there was no patent grant, and just the BSD license?

Then you have no patent protection in the first place! You are in the same situation as when the patent grant expired because you sued them. I don't see how this is any better.

You do not give them a license to use any patent. You are right that in practice the non-enforcement means that they can willy-nilly use your patents. But if we are arguing about factual ability vs legal rights - they can probably already to that, due to the fact that they likely have more money and better lawyers then you do.
It may have simply made it easier for more cosmopolitan Turks to leave the country. Or, maybe integration would have harmonized them with Western society. Who can say?
Fuck, this sounds a lot like a communism.
Hello, I did google it and all I got was he was jailed for 11 years after being convicted of a mysterious charge called "Inciting subversion of state power (煽动颠覆国家政权罪)".

It's not a charge that means a lot to those educated in the west, who would probably view it as a thought crime charge.

Can you explain its use and value better?
It never made countries richer. Only poorer. In this case, it will make the planet poorer.
the thing is we like a lot of primitively irrational things like friends, family, love, fun, art, aesthetics, community. Do we really want to be set free of these things?
It would be substantial (that is, having substance) if the grandfather post perhaps included an example of how the western media screws up its China coverage. I have no doubt there are a lot to choose from.

"Oh the coverage is all wrong" is a pretty empty statement by itself.
I think the spirit is that patents are not legitimate. Suing for patent infringement is not considered exercising a legal right, it's considered being a dick and vandalizing someones property. So this is not to be read like a contract between to businesses, but like a truce.

It might as well say "we agree to not destroy your business using dirty tricks if you don't attempt the same".

Of course, opinions on that are divided...
Would there be a necessity to get close to a satellite to destroy it? Some sort of rocket could be launched from quite far away without needing much fuel if it was already in a similar orbit.
The President of the United States goes around saying CNN is "fake news", and you're trying to tell me that nobody challenges the Western news media.
That sounds like it's SoA. It's the forgotten intermediary step between a monolith and a microservice architecture.
the "14" in "14nm" does not refer to any particular dimension. Most structures in an 14nm chip are quite a bit larger than 14nm. It has been many years since the X in "Xnm" actually measured anything.

eg: https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Slide...

More details exist online, for example this writeup: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/246902-intel-claims-th...
I can imagine the .NET interop is a big deal, especially if you need to do anything on Windows. Also, parallelism can be occasionally useful.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:42.be has it as well.
If anyone other than Musk was saying the EXACT same thing no one would care and they would have been laughed at.

But Elon says something and everyone loses their minds.

Let thoughts stand for themselves. Why attach so much weight to the speaker?
Elon Musk is a geek who learned to drop exactitude when communicating to the masses.
Run Pharo Smalltalk Methods in AWS Lambda
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> It's unclear that it's even possible to emulate general intelligence by computable functions, let alone that it's possible to improve it to superhuman capacity.

Rejecting the physical Church-Turing thesis is not really plausible.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/
This is a nice ideal, but not how the human brain works.
Using something unchangeable (such as one's retina) to derive a key for encryption sounds like a great idea, until the key must change.

You can't change your retina so easily.
Maybe you can use our index...this is interesting if you join to us and help develop search platform Bubblehunt.
Imagine if every user can get own search engine. And if your solution is better, why not?
Write me if this is interesting for you :)
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In that case, I can't wait. Every office I've worked in lately has been overcrowded, noisy, and distracting.
The difference is this: Assange and Snowden exposed state secrets. If Liu had done that, he would have been executed a long time ago.

I don't agree with Snowden's treatment either, but it's important not to confuse freedom of speech with dissemination of confidential information.
The announcers at my station bafflingly repeat the automated announcements word-for-word!
If you liked the story, you'll like this video of 40 years of Japanese street fashion: https://youtu.be/xmsxWmKz-B8
The AI Doomsaying research has been in full swing for at least two decades. Refer to Nick Bostrom or the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the latter of which Peter Thiel supported starting around '06.
[disclaimer, work for digital science but not figshare]

Figshare currently has versioned dois, so you can refer to a specific release, and the API will let you download each one. I might put some small tooling around this as I release data there myself.

To add on the feature requests, for academia having trust that the data will survive the company going away is something important to me.
Requirements gathering and scheduling and the ilk are but a part of computer science. They shouldn't be, it is a different discipline. This is what a systems analyst or a designer sighs be doing. Now maybe in a small company a programmer had to wear multiple hats, and it might be a good idea to learn some of that. But in specific it isn't a computer scientists job.
MD5 is broken for passwords because it is too fast. Sure, if you use PBKDF2-MD5 with a random salt and 100k iterations you're going to be fine but that's not what anyone in this thread, including you, has been talking about.

You started off saying MD5 is fine, then backed off to saying it's fine with a salt, then fine with two rounds, then suggested 1,000 is okay, now we're at 100,000. At what point do you stop making excuses and acknowledge that your original advice was garbage, and backpedaling repeatedly is not helping your case?

Further, it is impossible to categorically prevent weak passwords. You can impose length restrictions. You can disallow common passwords. You can require special characters. But people's ability to come up with weak, pattern-based passwords fundamentally outperforms our ability to stop them, and at some point restrictions become so burdensome that people stop signing up for your app altogether.

"Just block weak passwords" is ridiculous on its face and you either know it and are arguing simply to save face, or you don't know it and are infuriatingly overconfident for your level of incompetence. I'm past the point of caring which.
It seems like Google is the only one that stands out.
> Cars and roads are fantastically dangerous, many thousands of people die every year, but we still build cars and roads.

The statistics aren't that straight forward; for example, young men under the age of 24 are significantly over-represented in traffic deaths, so it's not entirely reasonable to assume the cars or roads are inherently dangerous. On top of that, we drive 3.1 trillion miles every year in the U.S alone and falling off a ladder at work kills about twice as many people than roadway fatalities do.
LOL facebook, move fast and break things.

this one was FAST :)
Each one of the concepts you mentioned has a semantic opposite. So our irrationality can go both ways.
Nice idea. FYI I just tried it on my Mac (10.12.5) with Safari as a default browser and Safari crashes every time it's opened to do the login to any service. After a couple try also eul crashed.

Will stay at the window for updates :)
I hate Facebook but I also hate patents so I like this license and wish more projects would use it because lawsuits impede progress, damage the economy, and no matter what the laws are curious smart people will always invent.
Globally, median wages are increasing at their fastest rate in history [1]. Wage growth for the middle class has stagnated in the US, but not nearly as much as some people (myself included, until recently) believe [2]. The primary cause of this slowdown in wage growth is slowing productivity growth [3], while the major secondary cause is growing income disparity. Growing income disparity can be traced [4] directly to growth in regulatory restrictions that impede the free market, and not automation or technology.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0207/Progress-in-the-glo...

[2] https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/where...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/sources-of-real-wage-stag...

[4] https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...
From reading the wiki article, it says the goal was to replace the payroll system for 89,000 people by 1999. By 1997, it went live in a staged rollout for 10,000 employees. Within the same year, the performance of the software improved 8300%.

Sadly, Chrysler was bought[1] out in 1998 and the project was canceled in the year 2000 for unknown reasons. 1999 when it was intended to be fully deployed, Crystler was in the middle of a reorganization, which would lead to layoffs of more than 21,000 people in the next 3 years.

I'd guess organizational politics had more to do with the cancellation than anything the development team did wrong.

[1] Oh, sure it was labeled "a merger of equals", but consider that the share price fell to 50% within a year afterward and Crystler was eventually split off and sold... it just makes me think of the Time Warner + AOL merger.
The relatively new client framework for SharePoint Online is also based on React.
Be extremely afraid: Elon Musk has a grim warning for US governors
Aside from allergies and special cases (lactose intolerance for instance and other problems down to genetics) there are no unhealthy foods in the sense in which you put it. There is the question of a balanced diet whereby some foods should be eaten in very moderate amounts and with attention to one's own body chemistry.