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this thread is full of doom and gloom.

is there really no non-apocalyptic perspective on this? consider: any other "apex" predator in history never stopped to research and ponder on effects of him demolishing the ecosystem.

the fact that this makes rounds in media and grabs attention and creates social pressure gives at least a glimmer of hope that something will be done about it.

if it's not too late.
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That's a lot of ifs, and you're still subject to external risks. But yeah, it is indeed possible to manage risk at great expense, noted.
I wish wish wish USB-C was that reliable across the spectrum https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c
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Research should never be funded by government. Government contractors should be bound by rapid response accountability. Basic science operates under the mantra of "we don't know if it will ever be useful", which is fundamentally in conflict with accountability. It's too facile for elderly established scientists (or even younger ones) to pitch misguided fanciful research projects in the name of "the public good" and effectively swindle public coffers for their own flights of fancy.
All of which is only exacerbated by the über-rich buying property as investments, leading to almost completely empty neighborhoods, which obviously can't support convenience stores, laundromats, bars, cafes, bookstores and all of the other local business that support and are supported by locals.
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I was split between using Emacs and Vim for last 2 years (I used Vim for last 6, and learned Emacs 2 years ago). But what made Vim my main editor is fzf and ag, and smooth workflow that I had in terminal. But I have to say, ivy and counsel made my Emacs experience much, much nicer. But I guess that I got too deep into Vim already that I kinda got used to it so much, that I appreciated more that "terminal" workflow.
Please post proof of "obscene insults." I find this impossible to believe. Arthur didn't engage in that way on the Slack server.
"I am pretty tired of people saying things like this, without fail, in every thread about economics. A simplified model is better than no model at all."

Funny. I'm pretty tired of people saying that a terrible model that makes terrible predictions is better than no model.

The unifying feature of perfectly rational, perfect information and a perfectly competitive market is not that they are the best way to simplify economic models, it's that they're the best ways of creating models that conceal true sources of profit.
If you believe this that deeply, then I'd expect you to have some evidence of the ineffectiveness of recycling – but all I'm seeing here is really rather a lot of nonsense.

In the UK, for example, around 40% of plastic packaging waste is successfully recovered or recycled [1]

It's obvious that this percentage must become higher, and that packaging waste overall should still be reduced. But by taking steps such as standardising materials, reducing colorants and promoting better treatment of recyclables by consumers, there's no obvious blocker to this percentage increasing further, with recycling remaining a useful tool to reduce the environmental impact of plastic consumption.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... – p19
>The question is- if we don't know anything about this unknowable threat, how can we protect ourselves against it? In fact, since we're starting from 0 information, anything we do has equal chances of backfiring and bringing forth AGI as it has of actually preventing it. Yudkowski is calling for random action, without direction and without reason.

Are you sure you read the essay? That's literally the question he answers.

At any rate, we do have more than '0 information', and if you make an honest effort to think of what to do you can likely come up with better than 'random actions' for helping (as many have).
The right metric would be per hectare, indeed :-)
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The "end of contentEditable" spin in this is weird. CKEditor 5 uses contentEditable. And that's a good decision—getting bidirectional text, IME, touch selection, spell-check, and screen reader support right without contentEditable, while possible, would require you to reimplement a _lot_ of browser functionality, which would necessarily lead to a blowup of complexity and download size.

So sure, the new CKEditor does more or less what Quill, Slate, ProseMirror, and most other modern WYSIWYG components do—it separates its data model from the editable DOM. That's good, but not new.
No patches available for most devices, and unlikely to come.

HTTPS-only traffic is unaffected - you could run that on top of an open wifi, and the worst that could happen would be inaccessible sites due to bad certs. VPN doesn't help if you're interested in local network services.

In all, treat any wifi network as untrusted, and the issue is moot.
Interesting discussion. If these were user-space threads, like FreeBSD ~20 years ago, there'd be no problem. When fork() is called, the whole user-space threads package would be forked, along with all the threads.

So the obvious question is whether it's fundamental that with kernel threads the fork() system call doesn't clone all the other threads in the process? Yes, that's not how it's done, but could Apple choose to implement a new fork_all() system call? I imagine it wouldn't be easy - you'd need to pause all the running threads while you copied state, but is there a reason it's actually not possible?
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> If you asked software engineers some of their “least hated” things, you’ll likely hear both UTF-8 and TCP.

> UTF-8

I spotted a non-python programmer.
It's the same person! That person is me.
This article (http://scienceline.org/2011/07/lawns-vs-crops-in-the-contine...) is about water usage, but it states that there is more lawn acreage in the US than the 8 top irrigated crops combined.

(Discussed here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lawn-largest-crop-ameri...)
(original here: http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVI/8-W27/milesi.pdf)
I agree. I also think that autism spectrum disorder is a meaningless catch all. But I further believe that these catch alls are harmful and should not be used. When I was in school I read a lot of papers on autism, and I found that almost all studies found that there is no general biological cause for autism, but there were always outliers. Some 20% of autism sufferers, for example, have significantly raised serotonin. I think, that rather than concluding in study after study that, "though some subjects showed signs of raised serotonin, this was not found to be a reliable indicator of autism". We really should have created a new disorder "speech delay with elevated serotonin disorder". And started studying that as a separate dissorder. Maybe we would have gotten somewhere. But instead, the US spent millions, perhaps billions of dollars trying to figure out the one and only reason why some people can't walk. "Oh no, it can't be because they don't have legs, 90% of people who can't walk DO have legs!"
Bughouse, starcraft, and other important games need to be modeled as simultaneous-decision games. Plain-vanilla MCTS is designed for alternating-decision games.

To see why this is important, consider why min-max (which MCTS approximates) actually works. At any given point, the equilibrium strategy for the player to move is the move that maximizes their payoff, and the utility for each move can be found recursively.

In simultaneous decision games, calculating the equilibrium strategy (which may even be a mixed strategy) is more complicated. See http://mlanctot.info/files/papers/cig14-smmctsggp.pdf for various ways in which MCTS can be extended to simultaneous-decision games.

It'll be interesting to see if DeepMind picks up a search algorithm someone else has researched, or if they come up with something entirely new.
If it's the first time you've seen it, can I recommend the article that started it a few weeks back https://unwttng.com/compression-decompressed
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That's a great point. The other day in a teacher parent conference a 30 year veteran elementary teacher told me that the "attention a pan" of kids was down to 5 minutes. After five minutes on a subject the kids would completely shut down. Every five minutes she has to completely switch gears - within the same subject and same topic - just to keep them entertained enough to not lose their focus. "Digital media have shredded their ability to focus."
I'll respond with my ancedotal experience as well. I live on a farm and the bugs are irritating as ever. There is a lot of pesticide used around here and I have used pesticide as well on the lawn. It hasn't decreased the number of bugs.
That is absolutely how it works.

Unless you disclose your prior CTC no one will call you for your interview.

Start ups are a different case.
Journal subscriptions aren't a replacement for textbooks. eBooks are. And the margins on eBooks are lower than print books.
Better yet, would be to simply have tinted contact lenses, so that the eyes wouldn't be "identical" but they would still give 3D vision.
> Vim is the best lightweight single file editor there is.

Are you serious? Do you know about Vim buffers? The `:b` command? The `Ctrl + 6` command? The `m` and `'` commands? These commands alone make Vim a far superior multi-file editor than anything else I have seen.

Now if you add plugins like `NerdTree`, `CtrlP` or `fzf` to the list, I don't think there is any other editor on the planet with the exception of emacs that comes anywhere close to multi-file editing productivity that Vim can offer.
My bank! the only Dutch bank that did not need any government support during the crisis. They also don't have shareholders but are formed as a cooperative structure. And I think they stopped handing out bonusses for their top executives after the baking crisis.

They are pretty big on farming here in NL, and abroad.

They did have a scandal of Libor fraud rate. But they responded with a big apology and the guy in charge resigning. The current chairman has a background in Mechanical Engineering I think, in stead of some Wall Street / City guy.

Might not be perfect but they're a pretty decent organisation as far as I can tell.
> It's interesting that you invoke Adam Smith, given how strongly in favor of redistributive policies he was.

That's exactly my point - he used lighthouses as an example for redistribution through government, and he was famously wrong, as lighthouses were not primarily built by the government. So this is very similar to using fire departments now.

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How do you reconcile that? Should I be "forced" to pay for blowing up women and children over there, while you think having to materially support the poorest in your own country is an imposition — even immoral? How is that in any way in keeping with a philosophy of individual liberty?

I see a lot of criticism to US military involvement that takes only lost lives into account and does not even try to calculate all the lives, lost and saved, to see if utility function ends up above or below zero. Therefore, I can't take this arguments seriously.
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> Android doesn't expose a proper Linux to userspace and Google has been clapping down what we are allowed to do with the NDK since Android 6.0.

Would you have a link to more details/reading on this? I wasn't aware.
I'm a software developer and I still find I prefer print over screen, both when engaging in field-specific study or just simply reading for pleasure.

Most of the free tutorials I use are found on websites though so that's how I do most of my learning.

When it comes to tried and tested texts like Pragmatic Programmer, Effective Java, Web Application Hacker's Handbook etc. I will always buy the hard copy textbook and forego the use of the eBook.

I had a Kindle Paper White at one point and while I used it a fair bit when travelling, I still preferred stocking a bookshelf with hard copies for reading at home.

Something about the experience of flipping through pages makes the whole process that much smoother for me.
Flying once a year will, for most people, form a significant percentage of their total CO2 footprint. So cutting that in half by flying once every two years would already be a big improvement.

Flying 5000 KM apparently produces approximately 1 ton of CO2. The 2010 rate average CO2 footprint per capita was about 7 tons a year, and the goal by 2050, if we mean to have a reasonable chance of keeping warming by 2100 to less than 2 degrees centigrade from pre-industrial levels, is a bit over 2 tons. So if you fly at all, making a conscious decision to fly less will help.[1]

Yes, the requirements to meet that goal of sub-2-degree warming by 2100 are pretty severe.

[1]http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/carbon-targets-for-your-footp...
PAC Fundraising with Ethereum Contracts?
I Created Hex-to-RGBA because I wanted to make the process of converting CSS Color Hex Codes to RGBA Effortless. Hex-to-RGBA is one such extension for Visual Studio Code and for Atom that makes writing css colors in a very neat and clean way.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that we are at a stable equilibrium. The temperature and weather systems of the planet have continually been changing since forever. Do you consider the last ice age part of the somewhat stable equilibrium you refer to? It is impossible to hold the current state, it will inevitably change, it is just a matter of how fast, how well we can deal with it.
Wouldn't you need their social security number?
[OT] Does anybody have any idea when the Windows x86-on-ARM phones will come out? That's what I'm really waiting for and not seeing much information on.
I'm wondering, how does Google Docs do it? And how do they achieve having a reasonably compact size?
I'll cc this here with formatting changes (extra \n and ---) for Hacker News:

---

### Background

- PAC: Political Action Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

- https://github.com/holographicio/awesome-token-sale

### Questions

- Is Civic PAC fundraising similar to e.g. a Crowdsale or a CappedCrowdsale
or something else entirely, in terms of ERC20 OpenZeppelin solidity contracts?

- Would it be worth maintaining an additional contract for [PAC] "fundraising"
with terminology that campaigns can understand; or a terminology map?

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address,
or just accepting credit/debt card donations,
what are the risks of a token sale for a PAC?

--- Is there any way to check for donors' citizenship?
(When/Where is it necessary to check donors' citizenship
(with credit/debit cards or cryptocoins/cryptotokens?))

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address,
or just accepting credit/debt card donations,
what are the costs of a token sale for a PAC?

--- How much gas would such a contract require?

- Compared to just accepting donations at a wallet address,
or just accepting credit/debt card donations,
what are the benefits of a token sale for a PAC?

---- Lower transaction fees than credit/debit cards?

---- Time limit (practicality, marketing)

---- Cap ("we only need this much")

---- Refunds in the event of […]

### Objectives

- Comply with all local campaign finance laws

--- Collect citizenship information for a Person

--- Collect citizenship information for an Organization 'person'

- Ensure that donations hold value

- Raise funds

- Raise funds up to a cap

- (Optionally?) collect names and contact information ( https://schema.org/Person https://schema.org/Organization )

- Optionally refund if the cap is not met

- Optionally change the cap midstream

- Optionally cancel for a specified string and/or URL reason
> Tell me about the small mammal BRAINS that you have cryopreserved and revived with any evidence of retention of memories or prior training.

Nobody has revived a small mammal brain because unlike kidneys, we don't yet have the technology to transplant brains. Brains are easier to perfuse with cryoprotectant than kidneys, so they tend to be preserved better. Cryoprotectants seem to be tolerated well by neurons. It is currently possible to cryopreserve & thaw rat hippocampal slices while keeping structure intact and over 90% of cells viable: http://www.21cm.com/pdfs/hippo_published.pdf

> Tell me about any nervous systems at all which you have successfully preserved and revived. Doesn't have to be a mammal, I would settle for an insect. Tell me about those please.

People have cryopreserved & thawed nematodes with an 84% survival rate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23995406 The cryopreservation of many kinds of insects (usually in larval or embryonic form) is doable as well. Some of these organisms have thousands of neurons.

The whole point of cryonics is to take advantage of the difference in technology required for preservation versus revival. Saying, "Cryonics is snake oil because revival doesn't work yet." is demanding evidence that can't yet exist even in the case that cryonics works.
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This is an excellent essay about both writing and being so different.
And that's how you end up with a system which very few top performers want to work under.

I positively shudder at the thought of a system which coupled my compensation to years of experience. That is in no way a reliable gauge of ability and smart companies know that.

Nor do I want my coworkers knowing what I make. That fosters an atmosphere of competition where anyone who makes less than me is jealous.
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https://twitter.com/TizenHelper/status/920507238485233664 Some pictures from a demo booth. Runs Ubuntu 16.04.2 on 4.4.13-1.
I'm doing this when I move to a house with a garden, in a couple of years (my girlfriend needs to finish her PhD first).

I'll still want some lawn to play ball and such, but I'm all for keeping some wilder areas in the corners, let whichever flowers want to grow, grow there.
If everyone in society had a college degree, they wouldn't increase salary by $80k. They already don't for most people and if you increase the supply...

I don't see how your interpretation is based in anything other than wishful thinking.
I collect textbooks as a hobby. It amazes me to no end how the textbooks have changed in the last 120 years. It's especially fascinating to look at math and engineering books from the "Apollo program generation". One thing that sticks out is the huge amount of text that guides the student in building up a deep mental picture and lots of thought-associations in all of these technical books. Somehow after the 60s this approach that is fairly consistent going back a 100 years suddenly is replaced with books that feature a ton of pictures and turn into 'trick and exercise' books until they completely explode with color and small text snippets in the 90s. I have my suspicions that the earlier textual approach might have had its merits. Not sure if anyone has done a comparative study on the effects of organizing text books and their long term effectiveness
Depend upon how old.

Not sure as I still can download their OSes in App store. Not that I trust Apple to keep there forever and I download them from time to time. But I think I have all since I can get it from App Store. Good to run them in VM as well these days.

Strangely you do not have Sierra or High Sierra there.

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And keeping old program running as meant all old bugs and old virus run as well. Not sure I live it.

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But as long as you have more than one major OS, it is fine to have different approach. Not that you cannot run Sierra now so your program cannot run. Just a deadline instead of we are still using Win 7 after 6 years. Or Win XP per Wanna Cry.
https://www.dol.gov/wb/media/pay_secrecy.pdf is a good summary, starting with discussion of the federal situation and then quoting state law

here's the executive order mentioned at the beginning of the linked PDF: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/0...

here's NPR on the topic: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...

here's the atlantic on the topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/when-th...

From the Atlantic article: Gag rules are a "widespread, illegal problem that the law has failed to address for decades. Gag rules violate a fundamental labor right and allow for discriminatory pay schemes."

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In the UK, apparently the situation is similar. From http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1811 , "The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to prevent employees from having discussions to establish if there are differences in pay. However, an employer can require their employees to keep pay rates confidential from people outside of the workplace."

here is the paragraph of UK law referred to: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/77
> talk about things like Chinese starts that are specific to certain cultures

Came here to make this point.

It's Chinese Opening, not Chinese start – similarly recall that you have the French Defense / Italian Defense / Scandinavian Defense among chess opening variations and none of these implies that that opening variation is specific to that culture or nation.
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It doesn't use rollouts at all:

> AlphaGo Zero does not use “rollouts” - fast, random games used by other Go programs to predict which player will win from the current board position. Instead, it relies on its high quality neural networks to evaluate positions.
Thinking about it some more, one problem would be what to do with threads that have just called a system call and are waiting for a response. To have both parent and child process system calls complete without errors would require cloning the kernel state, and that's not trivial. It some cases, there's probably no good answer, short of causing one of the two system calls to return an error, and that in itself would confuse a lot of user-space software. I suppose you could return something similar to EAGAIN, but you'd be dependent on user-space handling that cleanly. Maybe you could hide this under libc?
I become temporarily dyslexic when I have a migraine, it's just after the blurred vision stage.

I have trouble pronouncing letters, the sounds they make are jumbled up when I read.

It feels like dyslexia to me but I wouldn't know for sure.
https://www.elsevier.com/editors/editorial-boards

> Editorial board members are selected by the journal’s editor(s), with input from the publisher.

hrmn.
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If you're going to carry a tablet and a BT keyboard, you might as well just get a light Chromebook instead. While I can run Linux locally via crouton, I mostly just SSH into my workstation and resume my screen sessions.
Nobody's asked this, so: I've been fascinated with operational transformation for some time, but I haven't found anything that breaks it down into understandable steps.

I vaguely recall that last time I poked around I found an extremely high-level algebraic breakdown that made no sense, and only after a _lot_ of digging was I able to turn up an actual example implementation that wasn't 100% useless (because contextless) theory.

I fear that understanding OT is a case of for example spending 6 months reading Etherpad.