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At first glance, the obvious solution seems to be to create intelligence the same way nature did: some sort of evolution. Some sort of algorithm where multiple "networks" mutate and reproduce in some way, in response to some fitness function. Mutations that make a network more fit result in an increased reproductive rate, while other mutations decrease that rate.

Evolutionary algorithms have been around for a while but haven't really taken off. Maybe the problem is that you can't get from zero to intelligence with a single fitness function.

Think about it: the "fitness function" for our single-called ancestors was not how well they could thrive in a post-industrial service economy. Nor was it how well they could thrive as hunter-gatherers in the African Savannah. It was a very, very different fitness function.

To get from zero to humans, nature had to evolve single-called organisms, then mitochondria, then basic multi-celled organisms, then animals that lived in the ocean, then amphibious ones, then land-dwelling ones, then mammals, then apes, then early humans, then modern humans.

By the way, I left out the overwhelming majority of the steps.

At each step, the evolutionary pressures on these organisms were wildly different. Each set of pressures was necessary in order for the next layer of complexity to evolve.

I think that if we want to evolve an intelligent entity, we would probably have to do it like this.
Well, it's been surreal. GG
Any endurance athlete can verify. You learn quickly to force liquids and energy because by the time you realize you're dehydrated or weak, the competition might not be finished but your race is.
Why condemn calls for violence against Nazis instead of mentioning the actual Nazis on the platform? Some even have checkmarks.
What if who you pray to affects who you vote for?
It's not a strawman. It's what would have to happen according to the GPLv3. The fact that you could design a system that allows for user-replaceable keys doesn't change the fact that iOS is not that system, and that if GPLv3 code gets into iOS then, according to the terms of that license, owners of existing devices would need to be allowed to replace the code. And the only way to do that is to release the root signing keys. You can't say "well they could design a future device to allow this", because that hypothetical future device isn't what we have today.
But after 15 years my house is paid off. With renting, you're paying for the rest of your life. After my mortgage I only pay taxes and upkeep which is a fraction as much.
Thanks! I only use username/password with my local mac and linux development systems. All of my cloud stuff is managed.
I guess some people feel that social apps shouldn't have to jump through these hoops for having the wrong opinions or fears.
> It's pretty telling that no evidence whatsoever is provided for this claim.

FWIW, I'm technically a Millennial (born in 1984, Millennials are born 1982-2004), and I'm a living counter-example to the article's claims.

I love living in the suburbs, and I have no problems whatsoever with "visial monotony and social conformity". Really, I'd love to just be an anonymous cog in the machine. I want lots of space and no noise, and I'm visually in love with with the look and feel of sprawl.

The only demand I make is that I strongly prefer living in southwestern and some midwestern suburbs that make use of an arterial grid (e.g. Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Columbus), and I despise the loosey-goosey layout of northeastern suburbs (I have family in NY... the suburbs there feel rural, and I just don't like that). Cities that use an arterial grid tend to place shopping centers at every intersection of arterials, and I like living close enough to one of those intersections that I can walk to the supermarket if I need to. That is the only kind of "walkability" I care about.

Interestingly enough, a recent local tragedy actually brought to light just how much of my age group in my area prefers suburban living. Last weekend, there was a mass shooting at a football watch party in a suburban home in Plano, TX. The shooter and the victims were all fairly close in age to me, leaning younger (the shooter was my age exactly, one other victim was a year older than me, four were 1-5 years younger than me, and three were 7-10 years younger than me). All of them are Millennial suburbanites living in a pretty conservative, sprawling suburb. Furthermore, as I found out after the shooting I have multiple friends who live in that neighborhood, all of whom are within two years of my age. Whatever this alleged trend in suburbs is, it didn't seem to affect Millennials who attended UTD in the mid-to-late '00s.

(As an aside, this has been pretty devastating--the suburbs of Dallas are tight-knit enough that everyone knows each other, I have mutual friends with almost every single person involved, we all went to the same university, and I'd met one of the victims before. Part of the reason I'm writing about this at all is to help me process what happened. And my friends who live there are seriously freaked because their neighbors just got murdered and there are cops and tourists all over their neighborhood now.)
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I think Google, Facebook and Amazon have far bigger network effects than railways. Also, the network effects are different making Google and such exponentially more powerful.
Carry less stuff? The amount of crap people haul around for their kids is astonishing.

The only reason I drove anywhere with my son was because our region wasn't easily walk-able. That, and travel sports (though if the immediate area was walkable, that would have been reduced to weekend games).

He's since moved out, and we've traded our single-family for a TH in a denser area (though still suburban). I walk to work, walk to the park, have access to many trails, and only drive on the weekends to run errands. It was more QOL-improving than I ever imagined.

Anyway, I've grown to hate suburban sprawl. I find dense suburb packed around transit to be much better from a QOL perspective.
This headline would have looked better yesterday. Too bad the author couldn't get it out quick enough.

They might be really embarrassed by this title a week from now.
The friction between madrid and <insert almost any of the other spanish cities> goes back to the Civil War days. This is the consequence of the Franco dictatorship and its repressive policies (i.e. you're not allowed to use your own language).

Those wounds were never healed because the repressors were never judged and tried (unlike in Germany or Argentina).
Also "why though?"
> isn't because its hard or expensive, but because they are getting stupid good deals from private investors to burn through cash.

It's actually both reasons combined. It is more challenging to be a public company today vs 20 years ago, in terms of regulatory compliance and investor pressure. And the private capital markets have massively expanded in that time, effectively enabling any sum of capital required by a private company (as demonstrated so well by Uber). If you're a successful private company, you do not need the public capital markets except as the final liquidation exit. The public market has become the last stop on the exit train, because that capital has the greatest annoyances / friction / pressure / activism with it.

Let's say you're a successful, Yelp-like company. You're not Uber or Facebook. You IPO. You're growing solidly. But uh oh, you miss your quarterly number, you deliver respectable 22% growth instead of 27% growth that was pegged by analysts. And forbid you dare to lower guidance so much as a penny. Your stock is gonna tank. Follow that up with a few quarters of good growth that doesn't hit the expectations, and you're going to find a pile of big activist types pushing for a sale of the company (that is still growing nicely). If you're a private company, and you barely miss growth expectations, your valuation is not going to get cut in half.
It took me some 15 years to realize I had been chronically lacking sodium.

Fixed that problem; running is better than ever.

Sometimes you know you're not fine, but the cause isn't obvious. An athlete who is dehydrated might feel something is off, but not pin it on dehydration. Maybe just a bad day, or not enough sleep, or recovery from some earlier workout or whatever. That's a problem: even if the body tells you something, the message isn't always interpreted right.
Just like the option to open in a new tab or window exists (or used to, I have not checked in years)
I don't believe that link supports your claim.
It seems more likely that it is someone who wishes to harm US/Cuba diplomatic relations rather than the Cuban government.
Saved you a click:

* There's a couple websites that pretend to lookup a vehicle's history, but they're just scams. You will be encouraged to use them by emails that are obviously scams.

* Article links to products the author is trying to sell; this is an ad.

* Your VIN is not in for a scare.
Don't get me wrong, i wish i wouldn't have to install one single extension and that this would be a built-in feature or that the website having a video to show me won't auto-play the damn thing from the get go, but this is the world we live in.
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More informative, but a nightmare to read. Thin gray font on a white background?
I think that machine learning, particularly deep learning, will increasingly be used in combination with some of the older AI techniques to produce hybrid systems, which will solve previously intractable problems. AlphaGo is a great example; of course it used deep learning, but it also used classical search, as well as reinforcement learning.

The point is, progress isn't linear but exponential: each new technique multiplies our capabilities.
We have kids, we struck a balance of one car. Older kid is able to walk to school, wife drives to work, and I can take the bus or ride a bike to work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TempleOS
Very good game and idea, congrats :)
I think it's reasonable to classify it as "don't ask, don't tell".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14927517

I've never seen anything more effective at enabling content that is routinely censored by credit card companies. [...] Patreon is a layer of abstraction that has enabled a startling opening up of opportunity for censored content, and that's shown in the NSFW side of Patreon.
Interesting to consider vertical integration questions in light of this.

Were Google just one of many available app stores for Android, would this be a weaker case? (Or: would railways have been regulated as common carriers were there several parallel railways next to each other, or if the track owner was not the only person operating trains on the line?)

What if OS + Store integration was done at the cell phone manufacturer level? What if they all ended up settling on the same default store (say, Google's?)? Would it depend on why they had selected that one? Would it depend on how many others existed? (And same question if OS + Store integration was done at cell network operator/phone reseller level.)

What if there was a plethora of app stores that various phones came with, but they all or almost all independently decided an app was not representative of them, or distasteful, or inappropriate?
Google store is the only practical way of distributing android app.
FPGA are not new stuff (have been here since the 80s) and no, downloading a FPGA netlist/design/config is not "downloading hardware".

Misleading title.
Well, that it did produce intelligence once; not that it necessarily always does.

Although I do tend to think that given enough time (some millions of years), other intelligence will evolve on earth, from parrots or elephants or dolphins or octipuses or something. Though there's no evidence of a brain growth spurt that led to us, in other species; and it's not settled why we had it.
The problem with studying humans is that you need relatively blank slates so you can have proper control groups. Experts or non beginners are hardly blank slates, so are much more difficult to study in the lab.
I thought it was till, plant, harvest, and in between you just wait for nature to take its course. Do they have occasion to patrol a field with tractors more often than that?
Well, I'm sure you've heard of company restructuring. A company HQ can be moved anywhere, and a company restructured for legal freedom and tax efficiency. So, in all likelihood the EU Googles and FB will be structured similarly (maybe to evade EU laws if it were to become restrictive).

And you're back on square one. Instead I suggest vote with your dollar, choose a different service that better suits your needs than making more govt regulations (and infringing on everyone's rights)
Not sure where you live, or what you think the typical software dev does, but that seems extremely far off the mark in my experience, even for 10+ years ago.
> The fuchsia kernel is running on GCE, with support for network and
disk coming very soon. That's how I intend to run builders for
build.golang.org.

Wow!
Any moderation would be a start. Gab's whole raison d'etre is to be an unmoderated social network where you can post the hate speech which would get you kicked off more mainstream networks.
> Frankly, I don't get it why so many people in tech are so biased against smaller independent businesses such as taxis and mom-and-pop shops

As a tech person I'm not against smaller independent businesses. I actually support them as much as I can. However, I also support convenience. Smaller businesses should strive for convenience, and tech businesses should consider supporting and enable those smaller mom-and-pop shops to flourish. Lyft and Uber are, in fact, doing exactly this, by solving a transportation problem for a lot of smaller guys. Like me. I save a lot of personal money because I can get around on-demand and don't need to own a car. (I rent for longer trips, and the amount I spend on Uber+Lyft+Enterprise+Zipcar is much less than the cost of car ownership.)

Taxis are very, very far from your innocent mom-and-pop shop. I'd be quite glad if they die. For the following reasons.

- Taxis regularly rip you off when they drive by meter (I say this from experience). Uber drivers don't. Seeing the car on a map with your destination and route gives me peace of mind.

- Being able to set the destination on your "taxi"'s GPS navigation system using your own phone is amazing. You can just click on addresses in your calendar events and get a car without having to spell out street names for taxi drivers. It also helps a LOT when you are in a foreign country to be able to just click on stuff and physically get there, no questions asked.

- Taxis don't have a carpooling system. As a customer, I want lower fares and lower carbon emissions. In fact I bike most of the time and seldom drive a car because I don't believe in 1 person per car as a sustainable form of transportation. Taxis don't solve that problem. UberPool and Lyft Line are taking a step forward here. It's a step toward Public Transportation 2.0, the way I see it.

- Not all taxi drivers take credit cards. Especially outside the US. Uber solves the payment problem in a lot of parts of the world.

- In about 95% of places where I use Uber/Lyft, taxis don't really run around on a regular basis. You have to find their weird phone numbers, find a phone, and call them. And sometimes they don't show up for 45 minutes. Having a system that tells drivers where people want rides is a lot more fuel- and time-efficient than taxi drivers trolling around looking for business. (Guess why taxis are more expensive!)

- ONE app to get you a car on-demand, in any country, anywhere. How cool is that?
Stop making sans serif fonts for code!

Code has to be readable. Those serifs aren't merely decoration: They're visual cues that help your eye intuitively determine which letter is intended by a given shape.

Sans fonts may look "clean" but they actually take your eye longer to read.
million dollar app idea right there
Best would be stopping huge video downloads and auto plays. Sound is distracting but not that important as users have various levels of mute capabilities.
Infrastructure costs scale approximately linearly with road frontage. 1000 feet of road with associated water lines, power lines, street lights, etc, costs roughly the same whether it serves ten households or fifty.

A sustainable development will necessarily have a high number of households per foot of road frontage. This will not have the suburban look and feel of single-family homes with yards. At best it's going to be medium-density townhomes and row-houses to eliminate wasting infrastructure on the space between houses.
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It's that plus the schools, at least in this city.

If we lived in the city, it'd take ~2-2.5x as much money to buy a house with one fewer bedrooms than our current 'burbs house has (two of our kids could have bunk-beds I guess) and probably 500-100sqft smaller overall and in kinda so-so shape, and that's outside the heart of the city and not in a ritzy neighborhood (but also not a slum). Then we'd also have to hope our kids got into one of a couple good waiting-listed charter schools, or else pay another $2-3K/month for private school. We couldn't afford that at all, and even if they got into the charter schools we'd be living like paupers thanks to the much-higher mortgage (or rent).

So, lifeless, boring 'burbs full of seemingly-intentionally-ugly houses it is.
When you say we shouldn't have to rely on luck, do you mean in terms of not being harassed, or more generally? Because if you mean more generally, I don't know how you do that without severely curtailing people's freedoms.
Some ISPs (I don't know if it's accurate to say most) have last-mile or middle-mile equipment that does not support IPv6 and they can't afford to upgrade it, hence kludges like 6rd. Of course good ISPs don't use kludges, but then you're getting into no true Scotsman territory.
I doubt that's the case for anyone, much more likely that it's who you pray with.
This is very task-specific.

For some reason lot of people seem to find it hard to imagine that there could be a mid-way system between the extremes of client/server - and that in fact the hybrid system is what we have today, where there's a genuine mix of local processing and storage for some tasks, with remote processing and storage for others.

More, that the app economy is very much this hybrid, where users buy specific tools to do specific jobs locally, instead of running everything remotely, or independently programming applications from the ground up on their own hardware.

Browsers are almost a side issue, because browsers are like a terminal, but only for a standard selection of popular applications - to some extent the lowest-common-denominator jobs that have the most utility for the widest demographics.

Other jobs and applications still don't fit into the browser, and likely never will - even when there's a benefit to being able to collaborate. (E.g. I can't make music in my browser. If I want to collaborate I still have to send files over the Internet and wait for someone to edit them. Or I can use a mediocre collaboration system built into a DAW. But technically and socially, there are too many limitations to the in-browser experience to expect that live collaboration will become a thing soon.)
HCI's methods in particular are too expensive to test the conjectures we normally offer about our designs though. A sizeable team of experienced programmers designing, building, or maintaining a significant software product can't be paid for on anyone's research budget, so everyone uses small, short-term projects written by undergrads (or maybe MS students) instead. The results may be real enough, but they won't address our actual questions.

Looking in the other direction, I would like to think that even the most theory-obsessed PL people can appreciate that "intuitive" and "powerful" can both arise from clean design, but I've also been told, "your proofs are boring" as though that's a bad thing.
So what's the moral argument we've come to here? Lock people up who negatively affect you? Is that just?
He wasn't suggesting giving the nanny equal income, but just enough that a $6 load of bread would not be unaffordable. (You don't have to be very rich to afford the occasional $6 treat.)
It definitely constructs a face, but how accurate is it?

Would be interesting to see a measurement of error against a known result. Maybe try rendering an image of a 3d model of a face, then attempt to reconstruct it from the rendered image and measure the displacement from the original model.
Hi Accessibility guy! I haven't had a chance to work directly with someone in this field, so this'll be fun.

Quick experiment - changing border-size, border-radius, and intensity. Basically things get darker and more filled in the higher the level of consequence. Would this fly for the vision impaired?

https://imgur.com/V4J3B8V
As a father of three, I applaud your decision. I'm sure you don't need my validation, but too often I feel like people with kids pressure others to have them so I'm giving it anyway. I very much wanted kids and there are still times I had to tell myself it will be worth it. Just to be clear, I have no regrets.

In my eyes anyone who figures out that they aren't ready for or just don't want kids before they have them is very wise.
I disagree. Most technologists agree design is important in PX (PL + tools), but programmers are more willing to put up with poorly designed experiences in exchange for the latest technology.
Easy transition from programmer to project manager
After having invested $300MM in Uber, this is an interesting diversification strategy.
1) One trouble with imitating biology is that stochastically driven processes tend to achieve maxima by exploiting environmental circumstances that are not intended or considered to be part of the design constraint. See for example the genetic-algorithm designed tone differentiator circuit on FPGA, which achieved extreme efficiency but the experimentors could not explain the circuit's behavior based on known theory, moreover, the circuit ceased to function correctly when tested outside of the lab it was 'grown' in.

2) Biology has to satisfy many constraints which are not hard limitations on artificial brains, such as:

* Thermodynamics concerns, surface-area to volume ratio

* A tightly controlled operating temperature of 97-99 F

* Weight (wetware brains must float on CSF because they belong to moving animals)

* Size
Organized religion is primarily a form of politics though. Before we had the left and the right, we had various religiouns jostling for political supremacy. The concept of separation of church and state is fairly modern and not fully implemented yet.

Case in point: US imagery invokes a lot of God stuff and Germans still pay church taxes. Most religions in most of the modern world are also tax exempt organizations etc.
Man are they good at marketing. They just knew this precise conversation would come up and created the perfect brief counter-argument preemptively ("hollywood quality masks").
If you have a way to fab these downloads into a piece of hardware, then it effectively is.

Just like downloading some bits with a .mp3 suffix is "downloading music". You have a way to instantly turn that into music.

Synecdoche is a figure of speech whereby a part refers to a whole or vice versa.
Maybe that's why Canadians are considered so nice, because all the "hard driving" types have left the country and gone, mostly, to the US.