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Your comment is literally FUD. Copyright law gives the authors of the GPL'd work exactly no rights over your independent work. Distributing a GPL'd binary along side other works cannot have any impact on those other works. (Otherwise every Linux distribution would be in violation). The GPL is built on top of existing copyright laws which simply don't provide that kind of power. So there is no risk because there's no conceivable legal mechanism in copyright law which behaves like you claim.
Doesn't FreeBSD use Clang exclusively in the base system these days, and gcc from ports?
Yeah, I wish Air India had more international flights at a reasonable price.
Most major international transfer airports (e.g. Narita, Hong Kong, Schiphol, Changi, even Moscow) have nice air side connections that don't require entering immigration. Ya, they'll still security screen you, but it is much quicker than when initially broadening.

America is unique in requiring all passengers to go through immigration, but in that case they are usually going somewhere else in America anyways so it would be a port of entry. Sucks if you are transferring in Miami to go to South America, however.
>Most of these skills seem pretty vague. How would you quantify "Judgment and Decision Making" in a generic sense? Seems a bit too context dependant to make that generalisation.

You don't need to "quantify" it. You just need to be able to exercise it. It's one of the things that people you know when you see it (especially in hindsight) whatever the domain (so the fact that it's context dependent doesn't matter either).
Coding, that is implementing something, is about as mechanical as it gets. What you describe as requiring judgement and decision making is engineering. It's not often part of software development these days, as companies focus almost exclusively on the mechanics of data structures and algorithms.
High level reading comprehension is certainly beneficial for understanding complex matters and making decisions based on them. Does an average person in industrialized nations have reading skills at the level of a partner at law firms or a successful consultant?
Other questions are:

- Would other intelligent species consider our AI machines alive?

- Would other intelligent species consider -us- alive?

----

Suppose we build some robots, that know how to learn on their own, teach each other, process raw materials and construct copies (and better versions) of themselves from it.

And we send them to an uninhabited planet far away.

Decades later, they have a "civilization" of their own, and are colonizing other planets, all on their own.

Would they, to an external observer looking for intelligent life, fail to meet any of the criteria for it? If yes, how?

----

Suppose there's an alien species that "sees" in a much wider spectrum than we do; from ultraviolet to infrared, and can see light polarity and perceive billions of more colors than us.

They can also innately detect magnetic waves and other phenomena, so they can "feel" way more than humans do.

Their natural lives also last for far longer than humans, so their thoughts and plans span decades and centuries, and their minds can casually consider enormous scopes without any effort...

Would THEY consider humans "alive?"
Awesome resources.

Thanks a lot!

I'll have to check them out and study up a bunch of stuff it seems.
I'm a EE, and a licensed PE. I wouldn't do this.
> Particularly for people new to it.

I'm pretty new to it still, and boy do I disagree with this. I hadn't touched web development for about five years, prior experience being largely JavaScript-free after being chased well off by an employer's MooTools monstrosity, and coming to the modern JS world, with React and even Redux (though I think its APIs feel really clunky), was awesome.

These tools are less "Heath Robinson" and more prove that you understand what your stuff is doing, but that's a feature--I'd rather put in the spadework up front and be more assured of it doing expected things when it runs.
My experience with reading comprehension is that it is moderate across the board in white collar jobs. But general writing ability is horrific. Almost half of the professionals I have worked with seem unable to put coherent thoughts into words.
FWIW, this post is awesome. Thank you for sharing it.

I just submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108546
Theres no way to detonate a pack like this. 18650s have a pressure release, so the cstch fire but dont explode. In the very unlikely event that fails, a cell could burst, but it cant cause other cells to burst unless the entire pack failed to vent under extreme pressure.
Try a Surface? The Surface Book is the best laptop I've ever owned.

Biggest complaint I see, though, is that it doesn't have USB C yet; which I guess you don't care about.
Most people are either spending miles or company money. And if they're spending miles, it's still usually miles from company money.
Correct, you wouldn't be able to pack it that tightly together for the reason you theorized, but the point is it doesn't take a lot of space for the fuel itself. Radioactive waste is far more than just used fuel though as another person here has repeatedly pointed out.
I was under the impression that the MGU was manually controlled by the driver via controls on the cockpit. Also I don't know if that 1000HP figure is correct. AFAIK teams don't disclose power ratings to the public.
This isn't unique to Telsa, all vehicles are becoming more difficult to repair as computers and software replace what used to be handled by mechanical systems. I would actually much prefer to drive next to a Tesla knowing that the guy behind the wheel (potentially staring into space as it drives itself) hasn't implemented any "hacks".

A similar argument exists for why DIY battery banks are not ideal. It's not inconceivable that some dedicated hobbyist engineer pulls it off in a safe way. But how would you feel if you were over in your neighbors garage and noticed he had haphazardly wired 600 18650 cells together based on a design he found on the internet?
Please excuse my ignorance - what is a licensed PE?

Edit: Thanks for the answers. 2 questions:

1. Why would you not do this?

2. Were you to do this, what precautions would you take?
Perhaps I’m way off (I haven’t had a lot of experience with machine learning), but mapping this sort of thing seems like something a neural network could learn to do extremely well. There may be hardware limitations or reasons to why this can’t be done, but in general optimising an engine’s performance looks like a problem with very measureable inputs and outputs, which would seem to lend well to a machine learning problem.

From a naive perspective, if engine manufacturers aren’t already investigating machine learning to optimise performance, it seems like something worth doing.
>Consider: "Reading comprehension": at a moderate level that's basically everyone in the industrialized world.

And yet, even HN comments (by native english speakers) illustrate every day that this is not the case. Except if we have a very low bar for that "moderate level".

In any case, when they that you need "those job skills" they don't mean "you need them in the average level that everybody in the industrialized world more or less has them". The mean you if if you're good at them, you have an advantage.

>it's hard not to think that the allegedly high incomes are unstable and/or only for the best performers.

Isn't that the whole point of the list? It's not like they say "any kind of skill in Management of personnel". They say you need to be good (best performer) in it.

>Consider: "Service orientation." Uh, like in the service industry?

No, like everywhere it is applicable: "Service orientation, aka personality traits and a predisposition to be helpful, thoughtful, considerate and cooperative".

(Besides, there are extremely lucrative jobs in the service industry. Service industry doesn't mean being a waiter. It can also mean e.g. running or owing hotels).
What do you mean by "implementing something?" Like, implement an algorithm whose logic is already known? Isn't that just translation? And anyways, how often does any programmer even do that?
I can't imagine working without an ESC key. I think many of the complaints could have been alleviated if they left this one key on the machine.
It's the experimental part of the high level language that is the problem. I agree you shouldn't teach it to students. It just leads them down a divergent path away from what is done in industry. It isn't addressing the needs of the student, only their short term "wants".

But the language is just a small part of the design process. You have to be learn to design HW. The HW engineering project tailors the tool choices around the requirements of the product. It is assumed that engineers know the fundamentals. They can adapt to any high level synthesis tool.

Vendors training courses for all fancy HLS tools are done in a few days at most. They don't have a semester for any newbies to learn Verilog/VHDL or C/C++ first. It's assumed you know them.
But in context, in his books, part of his point is that it can be hard to predict when uncertain processes have potentially huge tolls --- which is why he's so excited to point out that bankers have lost in financial catastrophes more than they've made over the lifetime of the field.

Which, to bring it back to my point, implies that there are lots of these processes. There are a lot of things you can say that about. It doesn't add that much to our risk calculus to observe it.
> As for nuclear waste, put it in Antarctica

You do realize it generates heat, yes? :)

(Admittedly not a lot outside of used fuel, and then only for a handful of years)
With more modern tech it should be possible to make quite a small decoder that fits into the body cavity, then shoots out the MIDI via Bluetooth LE. (And fix the latency issue to boot.)

Do you know if anyone has attempted such a feat?

Am embedded electronics designer, for context.
Tesla supported Kevin Mahaffey and Marc Rogers when they were hacking at their friends model S and trying to get root access. The model 3 repair support guide just came out and has diagrams of the battery pack down to the cells. Yes, they dont put the design of the car on github. They are hardly "incredibly proprietary" though.
Professional Engineer
Japan does not seem like a happier place by any stretch of imagination.
Professional engineer
Professional Engineer. There's an Engineer in Training certification first, typically gained by passing a Fundamentals of Engineering exam in college. Then you work for a few years under a PE and take an exam to become a PE yourself.
traefik for automatic LetsEncrypt SSL proxy to expose docker public subhosts

portainer for nice docker mgt ui

discourse for forums
wordpress w discourse sso

netdata for health monitoring

pg

actionherojs for microsvcs

simplesamlphp

shinyserver

cocalc for notebooks

looking at nextcloud if i can get libreoffice to behave w ssl
I submitted this after 'brlewis linked it (it's his piece) in a comment because it really hit home. Like, I've never used Mithril, but I dove into React (both web and React Native) this year and it reminds me of when doing web stuff was fun. Which, for me, was before anyone was actually using JavaScript.

There are a lot of skeptics about modern JS frameworks, and I get it (my inclination in every programming environment I've ever worked in is to avoid frameworks, etc. until I know I need them), but boy is this a big, and awesome, change.
Hell yeah! We're finally iterating on the problems that have made web development suck -- state management, non-imperative models, reasonable abstraction layers, modularization, etc. Fatigue is a good problem to have, it means people are trying really hard to solve important problems.
Kids are human people. Why should some of us have no expectation of privacy, while others do?
On x86 and arm64, yeah. MIPS and Sparc still build with base GCC (4.2, last GPL2 version). I'm not sure what arm32 or ppc uses by default these days.
Might it be moral to destroy all life on Earth, thus ending all pain?
I've been watching MotoGP recently instead of F1 for some of those reasons. Much more enjoyable, dangerous and unpredictable. And you don't go around an oval unlike indycar.
Tangential, but I recently discovered how to find refurbished (read: early 2015, pre-Touch Bar/USB-C models) for sale on Apple's store site, even when not listed in the refurb section. Found it when trying to avoid buying a new one myself.

I wrote up a quick explanation here: http://www.joshualyman.com/2017/08/find-hidden-apple-refurbs...
> People tend to look for more "balance" when they are unhappy with whatever their main focus is

I disagree with this. I'm simply unhappy working on any single thing for too much time, no matter how fun or interesting it is. It's having a few things going on simultaneously, and being able to switch between groups of people to interact with (where the null set is also one of those groups), that has always kept me happy.

Sometimes it's as simple as being tired of being around people, in general. Balance in this case means having some alone time. Sometimes it's just being frustrated and tired of computers and the internet, in general. Balance in this case means getting out and going on a weekend trip to a national park, away from internet access. Sometimes it's that you enjoy your work but you don't enjoy the way people at work treat you sometimes. It's not a dealbreaker or showstopper, but you need time with those few close friends that you feel comfortable around.

It's especially true when you work on a startup or anything else that necessarily involves not being your true self. I spend most of my working hours being what my teammates/investors/customers want me to be, not being myself. That doesn't mean I'm unhappy working on that focus, it's just mentally tiring and exhausting to deal with what's involved in turning that focus into a company.

I spend the rest of my time being my silly self and let my imagination run wild and invent freely without dealing with people, law, ownership, money, or any of that nonsense.

None of this means that I don't enjoy what my main focus is.
Someone licensed by their (US) state as an Engineer, and the only person (in most states) who can legally call himself an Engineer.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure
Having just downsized to a smaller more central apartment, I can understand this. There's no room in this place to shove my array of techno toys in a cupboard; instead, there's an ugly corner of the room that's currently a mess of cables and junk. I'm sizing up a little rack cabinet and some rack-mount gear to hide/tidy things into, but even then, if this thing has to sit out permanently, I can see the appeal of a braided network cable or some such to make it a little less unsightly.

Shrug.
Modern cars suck for "car guys" because they're impossible to repair without specialized equipment and expertise. They're great for everyone else since they need so little repair compared to cars in the past.

It's the same for computers. You shouldn't need to fix your computer. It should Just Work throughout its entire service lifetime. Especially if it's as well built as an Apple.
I'm not sure how relevant it is as an appeal to authority measure, but in the US there is a Professional Engineer license. It's mostly relevant when you have to sign off on designs for regulatory bodies.
Unrepairable black boxes? This isn't really true of Tesla.

Sure, it would be nice if they could make service manuals and service parts more freely available, but the same could be said of all car manufacturers.

There are guys on YouTube who have re-built entire Teslas from near-scratch using salvaged parts from multiple vehicles. Guys with no formal training and no previous experience with EVs. Tesla does not do anything to make their cars hard to repair.
I'd rather use old cells than shady new cells. New cells are the dangerous ones- manufacturing defects can make it through QA, but everything gets found after a few years of use.

What area do you work in?
The G4 Cube...
I'm confused. Is having a long blue bar low risk or high risk for automation?

Equipment maintenance seems low risk, unless robots start repairing themselves. In which case..
I am glad to read articles like this since I specifically opted to get the non-touchbar MacBook Pro when the new models came out. The only annoying thing about the non-touchbar model is that the specs are not quite as good.

I tried it out in the store and I decided that using keyboard shortcuts will always be faster than using the touchbar which the article linked from this one mentions.
The new Qantas fitouts are pretty comfy on the long distance routes.
The pull request currently contains 81 commits. It is NOT a single monolithic commit.
We know that humans go to great lengths to teach our ways of communication to animals, but we are aware of no such initiative from animals to teach humans their means communication. Maybe we are the only species that is interested in inter-species communication, or maybe we are just too stupid to recognize it when it comes from other animals, or maybe such high level intelligence doesn't exist in other species.
This was started long before Silicon Valley...
What Should EA Mobile Learn from Zynga
The most important thing about machine learning is you don't use machine learning unless you have to. The problem here is not with the ecu maps themselves, but that their hand coded program that determines where the car is on the track had a bug.
Trump Cybersecurity Advisers Resign in ‘Moral’ Protest
> However, as hard drives became larger, users had to scan more and more applications to find the one they wanted.

Not really. I only use a handful of desktop apps due to the rise of self-hosted and browser apps.
Most fuel is used carrying all the fuel around. There is absolutely an optimal distance for fuel burn.
How many other law enforcement officials have been pardoned (prior to sentencing) for contempt, stemming from disobeying a federal court order?
This is all PR.

In bet now it's way more energy demanding than before just because there are way more people involved.

More journalists/media and many more support staff to work on hybrid tech.
It doesn't surprise me that the new MBP with touchbar is selling well; there really isn't an option if you want a large(ish), desktop replacement machine. I bet if they had one with and one without it would be a different story.
Tesla does not do anything to make their cars hard to repair.

I'm not in the EV or Tesla communities, but I remember reading something about "activation" being required?
New accounts comments can be autoflagged for various reasons.

Vouch for it, as we can see someone has. The system works.
>There's a reason that 18650s aren't generally sold directly to consumers
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=18650 has pages of them.

The last flashlight I bought requires them too.
Does it count as decision making if I decide to use a Switch statement instead of an IF statement?
This cant become federal law, as it totally guts a portion of that little thing called our constitution.
But.. this is states law and why "states law" should be seen as a means to subvert the US and its light of democracy.

How Unamerican this law is. Mr Trump is seemingly forever bringing us closer or on par legally with his favorite country and its Leader Mr Putin.
Why is the title changed from the original?
I imagine they'd be less suitable for growing opium poppies though.
I agree, however I do think it's nice to be able to upgrade your system without having to take it back to the manufacturer. I can't afford 16GB right now but in a year or two I can install more RAM and continue to use the computer. With the current Apple products even this simple type of upgrade is impossible.
Are you saying they shouldn't trust anyone to protect their privacy, that I can agree with, or that they don't have a right to it?

I've been teaching my kid he has a right to privacy since the day he asked about having a baby monitor in his room. I told him why it's there, how to turn it off and that we'll take it out completely if he ever wants it gone. If his school forced this on him, I'd explain to him why not to carry it every where he goes and why he should never use it for personal communication.
I don't think there is an official Waffle House in NY -- I don't see it on their locations map; and googling for Waffle House Brooklyn returns some random local establishments. Would love to be wrong if you have a location for it!
When I saw the Idiot Bar I thought immediately of the "MacBook Wheel" video from The Onion.
On macOS everyone I know uses some sort of search, be it Spotlight or Alfred or QuickSilver, to open apps. This generally works well–I can open most apps in under a second.
Honestly would expect showers in first class.
Yeah. It's a total misconception that Lithium batteries can "explode". Sure, there's a fire risk if you have faulty or unprotected cells.

But there's no explosion risk unless there's something very wrong with the way they're packaged.
I got a new MBP with touchbar for work several months ago, honestly at first i was overjoyed by the laptop. A single universal connector for everything? This is amazing. The touchbar, will be awesome, i can replace those barely used function keys, with things of value.

However after several months:

- The touchbar is borderline useless. When i rapidly switch between various apps, sometimes the touchbar doesn't realize that hey i am in a different app.

- Numerous times i have had the touchbar freeze and become completely unresponsive. This is extremely frustrating, when i am trying to esc out of something, or i am trying to do some normal work. I also had a time where i unplugged my headphones, and itunes decided to play through speakers, and no amount of spamming mute on the touch bar would make itunes shut up.

However my biggest issue is with USB-C, which i thought would be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

- I have seen some TV's/projectors, where USB-C <-> HDMI just flat out does not want to work on these devices. Then i need to fumble and pray that i got lucky and packed my VGA cable. Even worse is when it does work, for whatever reason with the dongle i have seen some cases where i am locked to stupidly low resolutions like 1024x768 or lower. Yet my coworker can plug his mini DP into his older macbook and has 0 issues.

- Numerous times i have wanted to take control of a big screen and plug my laptop into it. Unfortunately i didn't bring the dongle. Instead i have been forced to do a hangouts and screenshare my desktop while a coworkers laptop is connected to the big screen.

- The lack of actual quality dongles, i have 2 highend 4k monitors, that do not support USB-C, they support display port. Unfortunately i have tried almost a dozen of these cables, and i cannot get a solid dongle that gives me proper 4k at 60hz like my coworkers older macbook laptops can do.
Can the Truth Be Repugnant? Should It Be?
The 2016 and 2017 MacBooks have sold very well, and even outsold many competitors combined.

I love the Touch Bar. It can be unexpectedly convenient and, once you allow yourself to get used to it, going back to a keyboard without one feels very antiquated actually.
Re: average level vs good at them: part of the problem is that they mix skills that almost everyone has to a certain degree (like reading comprehension) with skills that very few people possess (like coding).

Re: any kind of skill vs being the best performer: they're clearly not referring to best performer skill. Part of their analysis is based on "Time to enter [which] depends on how much training it takes to enter the jobs in which the skill is important." So the level of skill has to be something like entry-level skill for the lowest level of job using the skill. Otherwise the time to enter measure would be meaningless.