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This is a great comment, so thank you for that. Obviously one cannot disprove the existence of a God. I suppose I am thinking more of dogma that contradicts with observable phenomena, things such as the age of the universe and the planet, the evolutionary process, and things of that nature. And to their credit, some churches have adjusted their dogma in the face of contradictory scientific discovery.

I suppose I am painting with a broad brush when I assume the motivations behind religious beliefs. Either way I am way off topic here.
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Favorite conference quote ever: "So other than unicorns barfing rainbows, what is Docker?"
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Wolfs, dogs and coyotes interbreed, too. And coyotes have long been thought their own species. (They are quite fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf .)
>My kids are dual-citizens and I chose to mostly raise them here

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Japan didn't allow dual citizenship.
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YAGNI. Seriously. That pretty much describes the main problem with Java - "maybe we'll need this coffee maker to also do julienne fries in the future!"
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Their "Team" page takes a whooping 37s to fully load for me, and transfers 10 MB over 69 HTTP requests. This suggest an average download speed of ~275 KB/s, but I have a 40 Mbit/s download link. Just... wow.
We didn't meet the other humans (Cro Magnon) of the time either. So our evidence is just as good or bad for those guys.
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> we love our Hawaiian shirt Fridays

Please no.
Have you read Debt: The First 5, 000 Years by David Graeber? While a lot of it is kind of... socialisty, it does a good job at describing how the standard "barter--> money" econ history is anthropologically wrong.
Cute pattern (an homage), nothing wrong with crafty stuff like creating fun tile patterns like that, but the whole “scene”, the pretentious fluff and the stupid amounts of money being spent on this stuff is moronic and pompous.
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Incase any Ai / tech minded people are reading, this is a relevant quote:

> As fall semester kicked up, RoBhat hand-picked 100 Twitter accounts with automated behavior to serve as “ground truth” data to train their model. They picked accounts with several red flags: ones that joined the site, say, a month prior but had tweeted 10,000 times, or ones that were followed by thousands of other suspected bots.

While I was skeptical they could train a model without actually knowing for sure which accounts are bots, their assumptions here seem to make sense. There is a certain "tweets per day" ratio that can't be easily maintained by a human.
> Face to face means seeing the other person's face. You have instantaneous feedback when their face shows signs of confusion, excitement, boredom, maybe unhappiness at your words. Misunderstandings can be cleared up immediately.

In theory. But when you are dealing with a lot of "anti-social" people who have a hard time communicating verbally, or integrating socially, it usually has the opposite affect, ime.
It's hard to be worse than YouTube.

"Here are some videos you've already watched, mostly that you've already liked, but also a few from the same channel, and even a helping of some you've disliked but which other people have uploaded duplicates of."

And that's Google, the AI experts, with a crapload of data on my viewing and others' viewing habits, including in depth learning features such as length of time spent on videos, liked videos, playlists, etc.
Your answer still works for your formulation of the question, "I never hit her."

It's not that it's a true Catch 22, it's just leading and begs the question.
In my experience that's a firehose with no meaningful real-time quality metric available. Perhaps there's something I'm missing.
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It is hard to take seriously anybody who uses M$ outside high school computer club.
Articles about home working often ignore the social aspects too. I enjoy working in the office for many reasons but top amongst them is the social interactions.

Like many many engineers I was attracted to the role because I would work with other people like me, geeks and nerds (I realise there's a potential side critique about cultural homogeneity here). Being in the office is fun because I can make relatively obscure Cosmere or boardgame references and folk get them (not everyone but in normal society no one does). In that way it's relaxing, even if it's still a workplace.
I haven't, although I've seen it discussed before. I just grabbed a sample of the eBook so I can check it out. Thanks for the mention!
> Elimination of exploiting classes and abolition of family are two things that certainly require massacring people. If you see any other realistic means of achieving these two points of Communist Manifesto, am all ears.

I mean if you want to strictly adhere to the Communist Manifesto then you're probably going to end up with strike and violence in some form. That still doesn't mean you have to massacre people to evenly distribute property and wealth. That could be done through a judicial system if a government was so inclined. It just so happens that autocrats prefer massacring people. That has been true of capitalist dictatorships as well as communist ones. Communist dictatorships killed far more people to be sure.

If you want to look at Communism as a very strict system that can only exist in the way that Marx conceived then yeah you'll probably end up with bloodshed. But every sort of political system has a number of different interpretations and modes of implementation. The Communist governments we've seen thus far have taken a few different forms so it's entirely possible that a more benevolent form of Communist government will take root somewhere. I just don't think mass killings is a key component of Communism as a system. Mass killings were how Communist autocrats seized power and maintained power.
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> There were periods of relative peace in world history for longer than that

That is definitely not what I have read¹. What era are you thinking of?

¹ One quickly googled up article: https://medium.com/future-crunch/the-decline-of-war-8760f9a5...
While I'm here, does anyone know of a good application to map my AWS environment for me, kind of like this seems to do, but without all the extra overhead? This seems to offer a lot of awesome stuff, but what I would really like is something to simply generate a one-time picture of my aws environment.
The risks you take in your business should be calculated risks. 100% of your business on data you haven't somehow ensured access to? Bad calculation if you ask me.
Ask HN: Can a startup please share their sales email template?
As any one man operation I have found my first customers now struggling with on the next level. Internet is littered with templates but hoping to hear from a insider SaaS VP Sales or Marketing. Our customers are car dealerships and medical clinics.
It looks like a Zapier FaaS Enterprise IoT thing.
Why don't you ask a question? I am not an MBA. I wrote Harvard's Ultrix manual, C on SunOS, Windows and Linux. I sat at whiteboards with Steve Crocker, Sunil Paul, Mark Pincus and Brad Cox across telecomms, finance, early Net and XML protocols and even early bioinformatics. Do you imagine we channel future visions from God out fingertips?

Let's eliminate some cases. I know some people work on entertainment software or short term content. Others work in departments "against management" for take home pay. I never care about those projects or those people working on them. My words do not apply there.

Interesting hardware is not virtual but involves complex supply chains. The same goes for productivity software interacting with the world already in motion. New training often costs more than new tools. DC folks making NASD broker registration reality are essential personnel in tight supply chain relationships. Any error on a Congressional Report can tumble decision makers into felonies or disrupt global commodity markets. Same goes for folks writing device drivers or porting libraries to new hardware. None of this is any app buried in app stores or Office Space TPS reports.

In such greenfield or release cycle projects the right team size and composition will get there first, avoid mistakes, clean up markets later cheapest or occupy profitable niches longest.

Software projects concern progress and reach and thus "pass the bus test." Nature is not kind to the shy. Individual problem are just problems. Anybody can consult from anywhere if they can make a living that way. Otherwise, nobody cares about homebodies. Never project socials problems or commute logistics as values or virtues. Skunkworks remains the model for focus and shared responsibility. Software is not the deliverable. Tools and answers are the deliverables.
I think you're on to one of the major points. It would be great if companies could run entirely on asynchronous communication. Companies who do this well, and job functions that jive with asynchronous communication, can more easily support remote work. At some companies and with some jobs though, it's totally impossible.

When Mr. Exec wants a status update, and he wants it RIGHT FUCKING NOW. I'm not going to E-mail you and hope that your inbox doesn't have 10,000 other unread messages, or text you and hope you respond. I have to physically hoof it over to where you sit, apologize for interrupting, and get the info Mr. Exec needs. That's hard to do remotely.

If I know in advance I need a response about some topic, sure, try async first. If the deadline's a day out, E-mail, if it's an hour out, text or IM. But, after that if you don't respond, I've got to be the bad guy, break your concentration, and call you. And, if you don't pick up, I'm headed to where you are physically.

If your company culture embraces remote work it also must embrace responsiveness and a communication style that clearly conveys when responses are needed.
I imagine in the future employees will be given a stipend to use at places like WeWork etc... as the cost dynamic just wont workout for the amount of extra work they are getting out of people by them coming into a giant downtown office that costs millions every year to keep the lights on. Especially in areas like programming where solitude is necessary for creativity.
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I would love to know what "heterogeneous humans" are. Dictionary definition: "originating outside the organism" - which sort of makes sense for, say, collection classes like arrays....I think I need a T-shirt: "I'm with Heterogeneous"
That's a compliance/governance issue. Working for a financial services utility in risk management, I would be shocked if any startup can do this properly.
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Why pay for expensive SAAS when you can create your own?
Not sure why you chose to illustrate this with a photo from over 50 years ago. I'd like to think that our understanding of earthquake safety has evolved since the 40s? 50s? whenever those structures were built.
It is not uncommon for volume to be a component of a grading rubric for early stage art and design courses and other creative disciplines. It gets students with years of formal training focused on figuring out the one right answer to develop the practices and habits needed when searching for better answers...and note that the criteria of the story is "better" not "correct".

For what it is worth, volume was often a component of project rubrics in my first three semester long studios in architecture school and the working artists I know these days work at their art as every day as anyone with an office job.
It WOULD BE great to have alternatives to AWS.

Here, fixed that for you.
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A discussion on "how a contributor can get the attention of a maintainer" touched on this briefly two weeks ago:

· How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15538112 (2017Oct:140points,45comments)

And a checklist for the reverse, as you discuss:

· https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/921921604140937216
Any commute is a commute. And if the only possible commute is driving 60+ minutes, citizens should seriously consider changing their city (in both meanings of the verb), rather than pretending a virtual workspace is as good as real one.
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1) The gargantuan Chicago Mercantile Exchange says they'll start trading futures contracts on Bitcoin later this year.

2) There's a "flight to safety" quality to Bitcoin. It's proven secure in the face of 9 years of constant attacks. Ethereum is newer and not as proven yet.

3) Bitcoin has a much more powerful mining network, currently cranking 10 exahashes per second and growing fast. Ethereum is at 100 terahashes per second (about 100,000 times less), and growing slowly.

4) Bitcoin is scarce and deflationary. Ethereum is abundant and inflationary.
If people not liking an idea means they don't like all ideas, how do you identify your bad ideas?
Me, too! Humans are very good at instinctively making decisions, so if you can present a problem in the simplest possible manner, intuition can take over and solve a problem much easier than when the problem is defined using, for instance, algebra.
The author is a Harvard PhD and Mount Holyoke professor. Maybe he hasn't lived a very adventurous life, and as a consequence has convinced himself that high status is more important than interesting experience.
> Chief Executive Officer Nigel Toon has said his goal is to double or triple Graphcore’s 60-person team by the end of next year.

Not produce anything of value, just x2 or x3 costs
I don't think China has the nuclear warhead stockpile to kill 1 billion+ people. Wikipedia says "Current stockpile (usable and not): ~260" which means each would have to kill 3.8 million, which basically means delivering each perfectly into a major city. That's a non-trivial operation to put it mildly.

That said, I don't see any objective (rational or otherwise) of either country that would be advanced by such an attack. And again, we're talking about an attack that will kill 1B+ people, not just any nuclear attack -- that's a different story. Still low probability, but at least there are semi-rational objectives that could motivate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
It was bound to happen, the dynamic control flow of pytorch makes this really interesting compared to Edward.
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Isn't it terribly irresponsible then to allow a service that's subject to such issues become the main form of communication for a government?
The proof looks similar to the proof that every continuous function can be integrated over a finite interval.
The threat is that companies can create fake "educational non-profits" and lie to people and even get their lies into classrooms, presented in the pseudo-objective light of educational material.

I do not know which nuclear company funds this "non-profit" but its bias and bad faith is obvious.

When I was a student teacher, I was put into a program, at the time funded apparently by Visa, who's sole purpose was to deliver anti-regulation propaganda to 4th graders. The program seems to have since expanded its list of sponsors to many other large financial institutions [1].

The material I was teaching included demonstrably false claims, including the claim that WTO promoted free trade included sufficient environmental protections. Along with cartoonist pictures of jumping dolphins and people smiling an planting trees. When the reality of WTO mandated free trade looks like this [2].

[1] https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/financial-repor...

[2] https://blog.positiveluxury.com/sys/uploads/2015/01/slashbur...
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Hence the massive burnout / dropout rate?
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Because the people buying it and driving up the price don't care about block chain or alternate economics or anything like that. It looks like stock that keeps going up. Plenty of people are buying it purely as an investment.
I do not want to attribute to you a claim that you have not explicitly made, but you seem to be suggesting that, because of the difficulty, current performance does not rule out the possibility that CNNs alone might eventually be able to perform as well as humans (in terms of things like using existing knowledge to speed the assimilation of new knowledge, including new knowledge in new categories.) Maybe so, but that very much remains to be demonstrated (and the burden of doing so would rest with anyone who wants to make the claim.) Meanwhile, Hinton cannot be faulted for attempting to improve on the process.
Ideally, they would both know how to do your job, and get out of the way.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll work on the validation part of it.
> (For human languages, governments often push towards splitting. “A language is a dialect with an army”)

Goes both ways. Nationalists often push towards lumping language varieties spoken inside the country (e.g. calling Low German "German" and not a variety of Dutch); sometimes they also split with the variety spoken in another country (calling Dutch "Dutch" and not a variety of German).

Note: I don't mean to imply anything about the current governments of Germany or the Netherlands, but more about the time around the formation of Dutch and German national identities.
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All of those (along with stage magic and illusions) have plenty of material (in bookstores and elsewhere) describing either the mechanics, the long odds, or debunking them largely as pseudoscience and/or scams. So it's clear that some people at least can recognize them.

I think it's also possible for humans to be 100% aware of the "adversarial attack", and still use these types of mediums for light entertainment. This seems to describe many people who occasionally buy lottery tickets for entertainment, and would probably apply to many who attend and produce modern stage magic shows.

(In fact, I notice that some of the top modern crusaders against con artists who do use illusions and paranormal / occult claims for adversarial reasons are stage magicians themselves -- James Randi, Penn and Teller, Derren Brown.)
Wait, RethinkDB stores data?
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Am I missing something? Why are they staying in these areas? They can do the same jobs where RV parks nearby.
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I currently have a client moving from an on prem environment to Azure, which was chosen because they are 100% a Microsoft shop.

After using AWS since about the time it launched, and then GCP for the past couple years, Azure is a constant headache. As I type this I’m waiting for resources in the region to stop throwing allocation errors. I also have another terraform config running that’s been trying to delete only 6 VMs for the past 20 minutes. Spinning up a single VM takes way too long as well.

I had random conversations with shops that are doing very large Azure deployments before I started this project and they all basically said “yeah Azure sucks, but with all the credits Microsoft gave us it’s basically free.”

I would never recommend a client use Azure when the two alternatives are so much better. The only reason seems to be free credits or they’re blindly committed to a Microsoft ecosystem.
Is it really? Creating abstractions for resource allocation seems quite useful from an evolutionary and societal perspective.
Even with a rig like that it will take around 10 months to break even. Ethereum will be moving to proof of stake in the future. There is no set date but it could be in approximately 1 year. At that point all these gpu rigs will need to switch to other less profitable cryptocurrencies.

We're reaching the point where it may not be possible to break even before Ethereum switches to proof of stake. Consequently, it's recently become easier and cheaper to buy gpus suited to mining.
> Deploying US Marshals to their headquarters and server farms. Arresting high level executives.

I think Google's managing director in Brazil was arrested a couple times for refusing to give some information to Brazilian law enforcement or refusing to remove some content.
Rent decreases because the demand curve shift?
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There's already a really cool python project called Pyro (python remote objects): https://pyro4.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intro.html

I haven't used it since I was in undergrad (>10 years) where I used it to communicate between nodes on a small cluster, but it made RPC really easy.