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A 150 year old "secret" society of black women. Nice article about a seldom discussed group.
Twitter has all kinds of echo chambers: left wing, right wing, neonazi, whatever.

People self-organize into those, so everyone tends to be a member in one.
Permutation City is probably the best hard sci-fi novel I've ever read.
> My second example is a gui. It feels to me like your program couldn't in any way define the interface layout. All it could do is 'receive' and 'issue' events. It would take a specialized compiler, and a whole separate mark-up language to actually define the interface. How do you change the interface in response to input?

As one example, the program might be written in model-view-controller style:

* Your "model" is a type `Model`.

* Your "view" is a function of type `Model -> Display`.

* Your "controller" is a function of type `(Model * Event) -> Model`.

The runtime is responsible for feeding your controller events to get a new model, then running your view on the new model to create a display, then actually rendering that display.
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What's a contemporary (state of the art) way of authenticating users on the web? Where / how do you learn about it?
I remember reading about that. During storms they close their boat, so the water can't get in, and then they wait it out.
Nothing like reframing the debate. Sort of like 1 star Amazon reviews where someone complains about never having to recharge a USB battery pack...
The "never create your own crypto" meme is a destructive one. There are many cases where existing algo's will not fit the purpose and one needs to create a new one. Most often this is required in mediums where resources are constricted. From personal experience new-brew crypto was often unavoidable in broadcast conditional access systems. I'm not saying this to defend IOTA crypto, at all. I am saying it because HN is full of genuine crypto profs and experts repeating the no new algo meme and lynch mobbing anyone that disagrees.
In addition to all other greatness, I'd argue that Fairchild had crucial role in West winning the Cold War; Soviets did not have a silicon valley and they never got very good at semiconductor engineering. I'd imagine most people on HN can understand the importance of electronics and computers in 70s and 80s.
After being accused of 'manspaling' a few weeks ago which in this case is ridiculous because I was explicitly asked by the woman to explain something, I started thinking about what it means to be a man and feminist in 2017. Women do not have a monopoly on stupid people, men, women, and, perhaps, non binary persons, explaining stuff they already know to them. Cry bullying is extremely toxic.

I adore Alice Walker, E. Annie Proulx, and Margaret Atwood. I've read the Feminine Mystique and the Second Sex. I, however, have yet to read Sylvia Plath.

While ruminating about feminism, my thoughts eventually after a few days lead me to my 10th grade English teacher, Mrs. Debra Schmitt, whose mission in life was to get both young women and young men to speak up and be heard. I remember her saying no one should be insecure about their writing.

I did a search for Mrs. Schmitt which returned several news stories about her suicide by a stream. [0] We read in her class a book by Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar, which starts with the heroine being denied burial rights by the town priest. This made me think of Sylvia Plath. C. S. Lewis said he would never have to cross the room to meet Hamlet because Hamlet is always by his side. I sometimes joke I would never have to cross the room to meet C. S. Lewis because Hamlet is always by my side. I don't have time to read now. Nonetheless, the next person I read will be Sylvia Plath. Maybe she has some answers to my current big question. What happened to poor poor Ophelia?

[0] https://90swoman.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/r-i-p-feminist-lit...
Yes. You're missing that it increases the value of my BTC investment. I don't really care about centralization - what I care about is making money.
Spot instances are shut down cleanly via the usual stop semantics (which includes all the shutdown handlers provided your OS supports them). Assuming your database software supports clean shutdowns via SIGTERM, everything should be fine.
The key is to move up and down with them. If you are stationary, then you are looking at things like 5 meter high waves with a 10 second period. So you go up for 5 seconds then down for 5 seconds. You get used to it.

For sailors, they tend to be going more or less downwind which makes the period longer for a given wave height. Assuming they aren't going straight down wind, their sail also forms a sort of feedback system which keeps them heeled over at a fairly constant angle so there isn't a lot of boat rocking going on.

You can see typical values at http://www.stormsurf.com/page2/papers/seatable.html
Note that is in "feet@seconds" and the blue values are typical, the white cells wander off into computational fantasy.
There's a flaw in the original comment, and I wanted to make it clear through a provocation.

You don't replace social media with books, there are books I never get bored by, I've read Dune almost 20 times, and I'm sure I will read it again sooner or later.

Social media content is based on engagement, not on enjoyment.

You don't enjoy the content, you enjoy scrolling through the content at the point that once posted, the content is lost, unless it gain real traction, you won't be able to find it again.

Books never run out of battery, when you watch TV you are not actively skipping through ad, you passively ignore them.

Think about it: when was the last time that you interrupted reading a book for watching the TV or a movie?

But how many time you've watched your phone while doing something else?

The addictive nature of the "you might miss it" content is the real danger and it's what the article talks about.

We are at a point in history where going to a bar and drink it's healthier for you mental health than staying home with your phone.
Right, and where I'm going with this is that we should take the JavaScript model to its natural conclusion and use it more pervasively in other domains. In other words, more applications and domains should be configured via sandboxed and interpreted programs that can easily reference other programs

However, the difference is that I don't think we should use an untyped and Turing-complete language for doing this (which is my primary objection to JavaScript). Also, I think the mechanism for referring to other programs should be more lightweight (i.e. just dump the path and URL into your code and you're done)
- EBS, being block storage, doesn't recognize the filesystem format on top of it, and therefore doesn't recognize if you formatted the block storage as ZFS and therefore will not use ZFS snapshots when using Amazon's native EBS snapshotting. If you wish to use ZFS snapshots, you have to build that on top of what Amazon gives you, along with all the other aspects of ZFS storage, i.e. building a ZFS storage pool from separate EBS volumes. I mean, it would be nice if Amazon had a hosted ZFS solution, but so far, doesn't seem like it.

- Yes, you get a notification, but it's a proprietary notification scheme that your application must be designed to poll for. Why can't Amazon use standard signals like SIGPWR to indicate imminent shutdown?

- Just because it isn't smart for non-spot instances doesn't suddenly make it smart for spot instances ;)
No experience yet with the Duel variety. Regular 7 Wonders would be one age of explanation, then the second age without explaining and finally some explanation around the Guild cards again by the third age. The second game would be without explanation.
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> The 32-bit version has a fully open source kernel, the 64-bit version's kernel is closed. Light details and strong hinting of drama here...

Huh. That thread really makes it sound like KolibriOS has violated if not law (which may not apply everywhere) then certainly the ethics of authorship credit on derivative works. You don't just remove and replace copyright statements on someone else's licensed work. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html specifically says: "If you have copied code from other programs covered by the same license, copy their copyright notices too."
I decided not to use FDF or AcroForms / XFA to create the output PDFs. I just thought it would be easier to render the data as plain text, shapes, and images. However, I do parse form fields from AcroForms / XFA forms.

I'm not sure about the pros and cons. If a customer needed to generate PDFs with data in the FDF format, then that's something that I would be happy to build.
To clarify: the idea is that both the view and controller are built into the interpreter. The interpreted program builds the model and is written in a a purely functional and effect-free language
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Ah yes, the mythical self-driving car that solves Americas traffic problems despite being the exact size of a normal car (bigger, even).
I left academia 20 years ago after completing my PhD (in physics).

Getting the PhD was an awesome experience : intellectual effort, nice peers, teaching was great and the parties in the campus were memorable. One of the greatest periods in my life.

By the end I started to feel two things which drove me away : the begging for money and the feudalism.

I was payed peanuts (which was ok) and was not willing to spend a big part of my time looking after funding. I was a physicist, not a negotiator or economist.

Then came the medieval feudalism where the mere fact that you had dr, or prof or whatever was supposed to make others kneel in front of you. I did not kneel, told a few professors (after they provoqued me for a long time) that their contribution to the school was useless (no science, no teaching, no anything, just sitting idle on their tenure) and inserted of telling me what I did not know (that they were super heroes of finding, or whatever), they told me that this is not a way to address a professor. I had a laugh and said good bye.

I have a great job in industry, look at these years in awe but would not come back. At least until something changes towards meritocracy.
That's the point: if you get bored by a book, you stop reading the book, if you get bored by infinite scrollable content, you keep scrolling looking for less boring content, that never shows up.

It's the same effect that gambling has on the brain.

You keep playing, even though you keep losing.

That's the danger and that's why books, the TV, movies, radios (music in general) and other form of entertainment are not equally dangerous, because usually you are able to stop before it gets too far.
Yes, we had a storm at the end of the first week. 6m high waves. We dropped the para-anchor, locked ourselves in the cabins and waited 36 hours.
Good luck imposing anything in US now, with the current corrupted head of FCC.
Are you counting the impact on the ENI's available bandwidth and additional instance costs needed for more network throughput? As I understand it, EFS requests are issued through the front end interface, while EBS requests go through the storage backplane interface.

Also, NFS has different behavior with respect to buffer caching that needs to be taken into account. It often does not cache as effectively as block storage does.
I'm not entirely sure. What about a subreddit? There are already some similar things (not about solar), e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/ and it seems to work out pretty well for them. I expect most of the HN crowd (or the relevant people, anyway, who might not be on HN) are familiar with reddit already and similar subreddits (/r/electronics, /r/hardware, /r/raspberry_pi, etc.). Simple upvote system, and comments already baked in.
you realize there are more people that contributed to the construction of that universe than just Scott right? (at the least Philip k dick) and none of them have come out agreeing with him, let alone that if it's not substantiated by the source material then it doesn't matter what anyone says (and indeed the are no clear indicators in either of the films that deckerd is a replica the)
That's actually not a problem. You can always connect to 10-20 good servers (like linux distribution ones) and fully saturate your domestic connection.
Sounds a bit like safe tcl, a subset of tcl you could embed into your own program for untrusted scripts.

https://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/safetcl.html

Minus the type safety, functional approach, etc...but similar in purpose.
I wrote this explanation for the intentional lack of a stable device driver API a decade ago, and it’s still relevant today: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/the-linux-drive...
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I once had a very strange
conversation with a
Lacanian psychoanalyst,
the sort of person I don’t
normally interact with. We
were talking about whether
machines could be conscious.
He got very cross and said,
“No, of course they can’t,”
and I said, “Why not?” He
said, “Because they don’t
have a mother.” This is
almost what I’m beginning
to think might be an
interesting point.

I tried to find some references for this but I am not having much luck so far. People are social animals, and respond to isolation poorly, so maybe there we find at least the beginnings of the idea, that people are only fully people in society. And entry to society more or less demands an upbringing...
I'm curious, is there a good article or source that contains an accurate summarization of concerns that bona fide AI researchers have?
But when I can't even get that speed under favorable conditions then it is dishonest to advertise that speed. If you can't even get that speed when connecting to the ISP's own server a few miles away then you aren't getting what you pay for.

When car companies advertise the fuel efficiency of their cars those are realistic numbers for regular driving because there is a standardized testing protocol. You can trust the number because it is regulated, so why can't we hold ISPs to the same standard?
not really ;)
An ISP should be able to provide a max throughput from your house to anywhere on the internet, where max throughput is defined as the size of the bottleneck controlled by the ISP. Of course you won't get 50mbps to a server with 2mbps ingress, but you should know when your ISP is the bottleneck.
Finally? Somebody? In philosophy this is about as normal a statement as "always check your return values" is in programming.
I'm halfway through this book and I highly recommend it. I'd say its required reading for anyone who wants to be an architect.
Ofcom is a regulatory agency in the UK, this article has nothing to do with the FCC and the US.
> Assuming your database software

You're assuming that people are saving their state in databases to begin with. If you're saving state to a database in production, typically you're communicating with that database over a network connection, and not running the database on the same machine as your application. Containerizing databases is a whole separate issue.

OP's specific example is saving /var/opt/gitlab to an EBS volume and expecting to be able to move it from one spot instance to another without corruption. That strikes me as insane.
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I think you might be... extrapolating a lot from this.
It seems most of my comments these days are singing the praises of this book. It should be practically mandatory reading for anyone in the field. It ties concepts together and builds understanding in a way that doesn't rely on specific technologies. I wish it had been written and that I could have done a whole course on this in grad school.
I know what you're saying - I've done a few of his exercises and using the iPad app makes that very easy to do. Literally, simulates the same experience of getting the $200 edition with all the color plates. Drag a shape over another and see the effect.

Color is relative. Got it. What else does it offer?

>> The book is not supposed to be about “scientific progress”. It’s supposed to be a pedagogical tool aimed at artists. If you want a technical explanation, you are looking at the wrong book.

I understand and I wish that was the case! However, the popularity of it and its fame as a text book (see Amazon reviews) combined with his claims of explaining how brain perceives color - indicates that it is used as THE color theory reference. I have a problem with that.
>Still, the cost of an on-blockchain transaction will probably go up to $1000-10000 in current US dollars

I have a btc holding in cold storage of ~$350. I value the security and control of controlling my private keys+being on the main, trustless, chain. I suspect many people have a similar situation. What are we to do when txn costs rise as you describe?

I know plenty about the Bitcoin protocol, but I havent had time to do DD on Segwit or LN.
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A lot here depends on how you view generalization. Consider the Atari playing AI developed by Deepmind. It reached superhuman capability on a variety of different games given no domain specific knowledge. It had access to just the visual information and its score.

It's natural to claim that's not generalizing since it's in such a specific domain as well as the fact that it had access to its score. But I think you have to consider that life itself starts in the exact same way. We're little more than a vast number of evolutions starting from very simple organisms who's only purpose was to seek out sustenance. They had an extremely simplified domain with limited input thanks to fewer senses. And they also received a score. They were 'informed' of their sustenance and if it fell below a certain level, that was game over which they were also informed of --- at least in some manner of speaking.

I think the ultimate issue is that it's rather disappointing how unexciting it all is. And so we constantly shift the goal posts. Going back not that many decades ago it was believed that a computer being able to defeat humans at chess would signal genuine intelligence. Of course we managed to achieve that, but the matter of how it was done being so unexciting and uninteresting led us to shift the goal posts.

The achievements we're regularly producing now a days dwarf anything those speaking of chess=intelligence times could have even imagined. Nonetheless we still now go, "Nah.. that's not REAL intelligence either." But I think we will, up to the day we do genuinely create generalized intelligence argue that it's not 'REAL' intelligence. And I imagine we'll be arguing that's not 'REAL' intelligence even afterwards. Because it won't be magical, or exciting. I don't think there's ever going to be a "we've truly done it" moment. It's just going to be clever ways of teaching increasingly sophisticated tricks leading up to the point that a creation becomes more effective at most of any task, including assimilating and producing new knowledge and expertise, than we are.
Why? The gitlab init script to stop it is being run. It's a clean shutdown.
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Wouldn't it have been interesting if there had been a not-quite-AI chatbot as part of the hab's computers?
Let's get to 10M monthly users before we worry about 20M monthly. I like the thoughtfulness but don't think it is insurmountable.
Do you work for Facebook? It's OK if you do. It's OK if you don't accept what they do. It's OK if you don't love your job. We need to go out into the world and destroy parts of it just to survive.

From 'The Way I Am', sung by Merle Haggard and many more:

I wish I enjoyed how I made my living,

Did what I do with a willing hand.

Some may run but that ain't like me,

So I just dream, keep on being the way that I am.
Could you outline some of the problems you think current research isn't addressing?
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A variety of workplaces have bureaucracy in place to require additional justification beyond manager and even manager + skip level approval.

Whatever your thoughts on the suitability of a workplace like this, know that the most time/effort efficient way to get a raise can legitimately be to show up with an offer which demonstrates a higher market value than current salary to justify an emergency retention pay adjustment
I think it is a mistake to only focus on the concerns of the researchers and scientists. If you use the atom bomb as an example, the concerns a sociology professor or philosopher had for the bomb might be different than then concerns of a nuclear physcicst, but both were worth paying attention to.
Amazing accomplishment!

Strange thought: A future where we have VR world records, crossing a virtual realtime ocean. Sitting for days in a chair, rowing and rowing.
A novel that qualifies as hard SF in which every character is an AI? Saturn's Children by Charlie Stross. 100% not what you have in mind, though. (You'll enjoy it, though.)

OTOH, I always find "Hard SF" a self-defeating category. I mean, anything with humans living on a different planet is pretty definitionally not Hard SF. Even Solar System stuff like The Expanse has troubles with economic plausibility. That leaves us with... well basically a couple of Vernor Vinge novels.
You will notice a difference if you live in a house with multiple people streaming at once. The most typical use case is a big family that wants full HD on their tablets plus a 4k stream in the living room. That requires a 100 mbps connection due to speeds slowing down in the evening (part of what the article is about), and needing a bit of extra speed to prevent buffering.
What industry is this? Haven't seen this in finance.
Wales wants a private jet.[1] Not going to happen from Wikia.[2]

[1] http://gawker.com/5192786/jimmy-wales-definitely-not-getting...
[2] http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financ...
You realize the article specifically cited the 1982 movie by Ridley Scott, right? It's most definitely substantiated in that movie, as Scott pointed out. He set the whole movie up for the final unicorn scene.
> Laws would probably have to be re-written to categorize them as a money transmitter, because there is no fiduciary duty for the Lightning Network Node

American law draws two circles. One is for entities with know your customer (KYC) requirements. The other is for entities with a fiduciary duty to their clients. The second circle is inside the first. Lots of entities with no client fiduciary requirements are required to know their customers.

TL; DR If you’re handling others’ money, or helping others transmit money, directly or indirectly, you have a KYC liability under current law.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
> even those expensive services with SLAs etc. very carefully define to what part of the connection such guarantees apply.

That can be done with consumer broadband as well. The problem with current marketing practices (at least in this neck of the woods) is that you can have a defective line on the ISP's side of demarkation box or be renting defective equipment from them, and they will still try to deny responsibility. Then you have things like congestion. It may be mostly outside of the control of the ISP, yet it can still be estimated in order to ensure that marketing claims are in line with what is being provided.

The list of reasons provided by the article just reeks of blaming the consumer. Sure, the ISP should not be responsible for the consumer's poorly configured networks or computers. On the other hand, they should be accountable for problems on their end or misrepresentation of service levels.
Rodney Brooks is a bona fide AI researcher.
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