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Its been awhile since I've built a computer with my own two hands, but either that man's hands are really small or hot damn AMD Ryzen CPU are huge.
Chargebacks usually have some form of review/dispute process as well. What's bit-coin's process for disputing the disappearance of my wallet's contents because of this fork?
> I'm not sure, with this kind of power, if we are quickly approaching a Great Filter or not

We're approaching several.

We -- or rather, some members of our species -- are clever enough to build amazingly powerful technologies (nuclear weapons, biotechnology, maybe strong AI), but as a species we seem to often use them unwisely, either because political leaders are power-obsessed (in the case of nuclear weapons), or because some technologies might become able to be harnessed by individuals/groups without much resources (DIY biotechnology).

It's like toddlers playing with matches on a petrol-soaked carpet.
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Because, if we acknowledge that more than one culture exists, then we will attempt to compare them. However, as everyone knows, all peoples are equal in all ways - any other conclusion is literally fascist and deserving of public shaming. Thus there is no culture because there are no differences.
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It's not the technology to tackle environmental issues that is lacking, it's the political will. Not going to space doesn't magically solve the problem of entrenched carbon-emitting interests having the power to block a short-term mandatory transition to renewable energy.

Given that, it absolutely makes sense to colonize space, as Mars can't be ruined in the same way that we're ruining Earth, and the petroleum mining industry won't be coming along for the ride.
Real, actual question: would it not work to just inject t-cells deep into my taint in that case?
how would you chronicle Donald Trump misfortunes with an "uplifting" POV? Risks with "uplifting news" is talking only on details, naives anecdotes that ultimately don't shape as much the world as what's reported in the NYTimes.
"I'm guessing never since you didn't even know it was the law."

Assumes facts not in evidence. I'm well aware of the law. I'm also well aware that the law specifies a pretty low cap on what airlines are required to give.

Offering people worthless vouchers and then bumping people involuntarily for a mere 4x their fare for that segment is very much not what I was referring to in my original comment.
DNA of which organs should the border agents examine in that future?
I am in the Apple ecosystem and the "pair" process is incredibly slow, even when it works. I'm arguing about seconds here but it's usually like 15 seconds.
Texas makes sense (austin) but florida seems like a curious market to expand into.
Note that when the popular press worries about the destructive potential of "CRISPR", they don't mean CRISPR specifically. They're using the word as a stand-in for the general trend of the exponentially decreasing cost of genome sequencing and editing techniques which probably, eventually, will reach the level where they can be done by teenage hackers. And that is something that requires concern and attention, even if I don't think it merits panic.

I think you are much too sanguine about this, which I've noticed is a tendency among programmers in general. We're used to a world where bugs always have fixes, and can be patched and the fix spread worldwide instantly, for free. None of these things are true in epidemiology, and it causes us to make really bad metaphors that don't apply in this world. For starters, "responsible disclosure is good" and "security-by-obscurity is bad" are obvious truisms in software but not even remotely true in epidemiology.

> viruses have already had DNA editing machinery for millennia, search up retroviruses.

But viruses are subject to evolutionary pressure that puts a ceiling on how bad they can be. Most of the worst human viruses have a "pick two" of 1) airborne 2) highly infectious 3) fatal, because a virus with all 3 burns itself out and can't survive. Engineered organisms do not have this ceiling.
No, at a high level I understand how it works. I didn't claim CRISPR is a virus. I'm talking about people using other pathogens to piggyback CRISPR edits.
Nationality is a race now? Great, when I check the race box from now on I'll just put "United States!"
you're very naive. i think you're probably still an undergrad or maybe have never done serious math.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s...
Maybe with human review, but that's how you get the one-click team they talk about in the article to scale, no?
Really? Humans are unparalleled when it comes to doing things in the physical world. An AI interested in doing things in the physical world could do much worse than to assemble a team of humans and give them a reason to want to accomplish the things it wants done.
When did techcrunch get bought out by Buzzfeed? 'did your head just explode' is such a link-bait-douchy title
1870 through 1970 saw some amazing stuff invented. Take the transistor, for instance (invented, IIRC, in 1948). From that, we get these amazing chips with 4 GHz clock speeds, plus parallelism. It's all transistors...

... except that we didn't have such chips in 1970. We had, what, the Intel 4004?

That is, for things invented from 1870 to 1970, we have had at least 45 years of development after invention, and perhaps as much as 145 years of development, for those inventions to reach their full potential. Things invented in the last 20 years? Well, by definition, we haven't had more than 20 years of development after the invention. We're still where transistors were in 1968. At that time they were beginning to appear in radios, and had some use in mainframes, but there was no sign yet that they were going to completely dominate the world.

What could the current stuff be? Some AI techniques invented in the last 20 years could become huge. CRISPR might.

By the way, it's also kind of unfair to compare the amount of invention that occurred in 100 years to the amount in 20.
Perhaps the ease of working in the US tech industry (via the TN visa) is, in some part, responsible for driving talent towards these university programs?
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This is completely and totally true.
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"Space hostile and empty."

This is a feature, not a bug. There is a small fraction of humanity that has the desire to do very hard and physically dangerous things. Another fraction who greatly enjoy empty spaces and prefer having great influence over the culture they live in. On Earth, very hard and dangerous can be found, but the activities are either recreational (mountaineering) or involve hurting other people (military, criminal life). Physical empty spaces are still around on Earth, but culturally empty spaces are gone. All land on Earth is either claimed by nation states or must remain unsettled by treaty (Antarctica). Have a small sub-set of humans desiring to leave the over-crowded tribe and cross that river, ocean, or desert for the chance to start their own tribe/civilization is probably necessary for evolutionary survival of the species.

Complaining about the waste in NASA's budget for human exploration, that I can understand, as they have not really advanced that cause since the moon shot. But to dismiss real human exploration all together ("drunk with nostalgia and romantic ideas of exploration"), when a certain fraction of people need it for a fulfilled life, seems closed minded. Maybe a crack will form if you read this. With a world GDP of about 80 trillion dollars/year a few billion/year of public funds for human space flight does not seem unreasonable.
There are some good points in this article, but it glosses over the ineffectiveness of early 20th century medicine.

Insurance pays for medical treatments that are helpful, and pays for medical treatments that make the patients' conditions worse. Doctors don't have to care too much about the effectiveness of what they promote because they get paid anyways.

The formation of the Medical Guild (1845 -> 1935) is at the root of the world's healthcare problem. Modern doctors don't appreciate the corruption at the foundation of the modern medical era.
If you're trying to compute from first principles (atom by atom), yes, exactly - that's a very hard problem. And if you're rearranging entire protein domains rather than point mutations - that's an intractable problem. And it is precisely the problem we are trying to solve - how can you have any idea what the function of a novel protein will be when you are swapping around hundreds of amino acids at a time?

We've taken a different approach. A 'small data' approach, where we manually, and semi-automatedly ingest hard-earned empirical data about each domain, and make it computationally accessible. We give heuristics and logic to a biologist's intuition about 'this protein never seems to work when it's at the N-terminus', rather than trying to compute why it doesn't work by simulating the movements of 100,000 atoms over 10ns. And though many (generally synergistic) interactions won't be predictable in this manner, many will be. We help get you to those designs likely to work as quickly as possible. And the more empirical data ingested, the faster we think we can get you there. Further, even if it's not 100% effective at predicting the single best design, enriching the search space of a large (and expensive) screen is itself valuable.

Life already mixes & matches DNA to create new functional all the time, we're just making that same process explicit and accessible. It turns out the function of any given protein domain is actually reasonably robust to being split up and rearranged. Especially when the goal is 'some function', or 'good enough', and you're not messing with or trying to tune a protein absolutely required for life.
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Then how does one explain the USA and Japan (just as two examples out of many) - both wealthy countries with very distinct cultures?
I was wondering how to get show notes from a podcast automatically, so I have built this project on a weekend. Don't expect a bug free app, this is an experimental project. Feedback will be very appreciated.
These types of "AI" would also benefit from some old fashioned rules-based systems too, so that they could be audited for legal compliance (for example, it is desirable that they provably do not discriminate against protected classes in the US)
"Not to spoil too much", you say - and proceed to identify the novel of which GP's comment spoils the entire plot.

Granted, more than thirty years after publication I'm not sure spoilers are still worth worrying about. But, you know, internal consistency is a thing, too...
This doesn't make any sense though, as there's no reason they should be exclusive priorities. I, personally, would vote in favor of putting many things on hold until we increase humanity's resilience to catastrophic events by settling on other planets, but I recognize that priorities aren't mutually exclusive.

Anyway, what's the point of focusing all efforts on Earth if human civilization is going to die out here anyway? That's the path we're currently on, and stopping space exploration isn't going to magically fix that. Wanting other baskets for the egg of human civilization is just pragmatism.
Yeah, you need a special permit now if you don't have a Chinese ID, even of you want to visit Koktokay, a recently added restriction. Our tourguide managed to hustle us in by promising he would bring us back to the gate upon leaving, proving that we had not crossed the border I guess. But he told us that was probably the last tour he ever does to Koktokay.
No, they are very easily parallelized and even use the available GPU for the last dozen years.
That's the whole point of what Scala is doing.

Allow flexibility to support such requirements later on, without forcing people to break source and binary compatibility, unlike in Java, C# etc.

That's the reason why you can e. g. implement or override a def with a val.
If you have a mandatory flush to disk anytime there's a snapshot, they suddenly become a lot more expensive. They are still atomic in that the operation either did completely happen or not at all happen, if a crash occurs after the command returns, i.e. you don't end up with a partial or corrupt snapshot after you reboot.

The need for a snapshot to be on disk when sending, what you cite says you get an obscure error "stale NFS file handle" not that you get missing files. If you're silently getting missing files on a send/receive, that's a bug and should be reported.

I use snapshots quite a bit both for data, backup/replication with send/receive, and for root fs, and haven't had problems with it. The known problem with Btrfs snapshots is that they are deceptively cheap to create, but become expensive later on to delete due to back reference searching, freeing extents (or not if they're still held by other snapshots) and updating metadata. Dozens to small hundreds aren't normally a problem, in my use case I don't notice performance problems.
Charging is optional but supported.

Random video of A8 wireless charging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME8nFtbTH44
It's midtown, in New York City. Infrastructure is space-constrained, a problem we've had since soon after the Dutch left. Shouldn't be a shock to anyone.
'Wouldn't it be a much more rewarding goal to research and execute systems that could send humans one way to planets in our galaxy'

Presumably a precursor to this is creating ships that can get to planets within our solar system, for example mars. This is just one step in a long line of potential goals as we learn what's possible
And yet the people who maintained the protocol and scaled transaction throughput while it grew to tens of billions of dollars in value largely dispute it. If SegWit could activate without a hostile takeover, it would be much easier to demonstrate why there are no scaling issues.

A lot of ignorant people want to throw the baby out with the bath water though, so ultimately we're probably going to have two chains, one that does it the way the talent in the community says it should be done, and another that shifts responsibility around to a few scaled entities. My money is not on the latter.
This is a HEDT processor that comes in the package of their server processors (up to four dice and eight memory channels, over 4000 pins total). These are large, because there's a lot in them ;)

The desktop series has a more usual size.
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Fail fast is also a terrible user experience: why did my app just disappear, did I do something wrong? It implies blame to users that may not be at fault.

Sure, fail fast is very useful in debuggers to help a developer find and fix problems. But this is why we have debuggers. Debuggers are a terrible user experience, we don't need to force every user to live in a debugger and decide themselves which errors matter.

Not every exception is "fatal" and "might look like it is working ok" is often good enough in the pragmatic real world where you can't control everything.

Also, just because you've never accidentally caused a machine to BSOD on a deadlock or catch fire from an improper halt in a "fast fail" of multi-threaded code, that just means you are one of the lucky ones. There are disastrous consequences to bad multi-threaded code during "fail fast" teardowns of threads not privy/cause to the error. There are enough nightmare scenarios to keep a multi-threaded programmer up at night.

I appreciate your concern that developers sometimes ignore errors they should fix instead or handle more appropriately. "Fail fast" in a debugger works to help that. "Fail fast" in day-to-day operation isn't the right solution, at the very least for making users possibly hate you because you'll never properly handle 100% of exceptions.
37 here - god no. I think it was mentioned that you could but other than knowing it was possible I’ve never seen anyone do it.
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I understood it very well. The issue is that his case is an edge case and facebook likely doesn't care--the algorithm creates more engagement than it destroys.
That bug was acknowledged a while ago.
If done well, the chrome would be more clever than that. There should be "log in as [username]" and "stay anonymous". Unless websites want to start validating email addresses to let you read their content, they'll have to accept "stay anonymous" because it would be indistinguishable on the server's end from getting a brand-new user.

So you'd have an idiotic banner pissing off your users and the considerable majority would click "stay anonymous", gaining the site operator nothing.
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Those people were flipping. I'm holding.
>Since you can't favor certain service you also can't faster connection for only some data. Say you are paying for a 10 Mbit connection and buy a game for download. Even though you only need a fast connection for a certain amount of time/data and you've already paid something, there's no way to for the provider to buy high speed data to you. Instead you permanently have to get a faster connection just to have a good experience with service you are already paying for.

The ISP can't choose for you which services/end-points get favored.

You could get a 10 Mbit/s flat and 100 Mbit/s volume with some User interface to choose "Everything to the flat, [super awesome online shop for games] to the volume"
Interaction (or observances of interactions) with people, discussion of matters that occur in the news, etc. The notion that there are statistically significant norms of behavior within cultures is considered outright false, full stop. The reasoning? That is racist and therefore it is false. Whenever race/gender/religion is involved in any discussion, the correct answer is "everyone is the same", you don't even have to look at the science, that is a waste of time because no other answer is possible.
The Arctic is full of mercury, and scientists think they know how it gets there
In the case of the UK, there is a sealed letter in each Trident sub with instructions from the PM in case the nation's leaders have been terminated.
Interesting. I was always taught to simply reduce the square roots as much as possible (ie sqrt(8) = 2*sqrt(2)) and leave the square roots, as it's often more precise than an arbitrary number of decimals.
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tldr: Postgres is faster than everything, charts are in the penultimate page.
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So you're happy that Comcast allows you to not grossly overpay for their service if you have enough roommates? Kind of a weird endorsement.
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> Eventually you hit Amdahl's law: Some parts of the build (I'm looking at you, autoconf configure scripts) simply cannot be parallelized and they slow the whole system down.

Linking a large C/C++ project can take some (a lot of) time as well. Linking is of course in general a rather difficult to parallelize problem, except if there is no linking (e.g. because the runtime links everything at every application start cough).
This makes Go much more accessible to coders who prefer this style of development.

Can't wait to give it a shot!
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> ... funny jokes the navigation voice cracks when you're stuck in traffic

I guess that we've been using different products.

You can use public pins on the map to communicate with other drivers and sometimes it's entertaining to read them. However, in my case the navigator's voice did never joke or tell anything it should not tell. Navigation is not a toy.
I do a lot of analysis that often boils down to "do X a hundred million times". Getting a 6 core machine setup earlier this year didn't make a difference for most things but when I want to run something like that (most days) it makes a huge difference. Bringing an almost all day task to an hour hugely changes the workflow.
This announcement is essentially two Zen CPUs mounted on the same microchip module (MCM) so yes, the package is "huge" relative to previous CPUs.
He may have died of Cancer, but while being denied proper care, serving an 11 year prison sentence for what amounts to an attempt of speech. And its censorship appears to have mostly worked for its intended audience. Truly a sad conclusion.
Building stuff from source takes less time.
But most federal outlays are entitlements. Breaking it out by entitlement type doesn't change that fact. Military spending presumably includes space/rocket related R&D.

And the total as a percentage of GDP has gone up extensively, which a stacked graph doesn't show.
I don't think you need a completely custom from scratch lifeform. It seems to me you just have to find a flexible existing pathogen that can tolerate a CRISPR edit sequence tagging a long. Perhaps a virus is too small, maybe some common gut bacteria or fungus can be weaponized.

Admittedly, we're a "long way" from that, but for me, I define "long way" as 20 years. Centuries? Seems way past the singularity horizon for me. I think it's really hard to say at this point something is too hard to be solved in 100 years unless it's something that defies the laws of physics, or takes ungodly amounts of mass or energy.
They most definitely were. It should also be noted that most transactions already occur off-chain at exchanges.
So vampires would suck your blood.... as a way to rob your bank account?

I think we may have a good (trashy) sci-fi novel here.
There is still an amazing amount of coal in the ground. Check out the Powder River Basin in the US which, for one example.
Best headline ever written.
For anyone running the macOS high Sierra beta, don't install this yet. I installed it, but it refuses to sync anything on (1) an APFS drive or (2) a network share. The error dialog says it requires HFS+.
> Normalizing sending the audio from formerly private areas

I call B.S.

Why?

It has been normal for decades to send audio from "private areas." Phones, for example. Cell phones now mean you send audio from nearly any location with cell service.

I expect that Amazon respects my privacy, according to their own statements and terms of service. Activating the sending of information is only done intentionally, with the use of a trigger word that I don't otherwise use. This is no different than pressing a button on a computer, or dialing a phone number on my phone.

The expectation of privacy does not change just because I have a device with a microphone, at least from a legal perspective.

Obviously, this still requires trusting the service provider, government, etc.
They "upgraded" the system in Disneyworld (FL) a year or two ago. The new system will be going live in Disneyland (CA) later this year.

However per friends working for Mickey, the new system will not allow SoCal Residents Pass holders to schedule FastPass in advance (i.e., before the day of the trip). For that, you'll need the pricier season passes. SRP holders will be given the same priority as normal ticket holders.
Standard office computer here is a quad core (AMD APU), and it actually makes quite a bunch of stuff faster (e.g. conversion of scanned documents) compared to the previous-generation dual cores.
I would disagree. Having money helps in a lot of things. For one, if you've got money, your family probably isn't struggling to eat. If you've got money, you're likely living in a better area of town.
They've been in development for a couple years now.