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Underwater technological civilization isn’t possible, tool making is very limited, no fire, no complex chemistry, no real evolutionary path to a technological advance society without uplifting.

While possibly there aren’t that many restrictions on where life can evolve and even where can different levels of intelligence can evolve there are likely quite a bit of restrictions on where and how technological intelligence can evolve.

Which puts some restrictions or bias towards both biological/evolutionary traits and as well as environmental ones.

While I think we’ll find life in very strange places eventually and life that will be very strange any technological species we might encounter would be something much more similar to us than to anything else.
"cannabis distillate fruit terpenes" without the quotes will get you going. Sadly most of the commercial producers are incredibly tight lipped about their processes, but there are some sites like https://skunkpharmresearch.com/ that share information pretty freely.
Isn't AI just applied ML?

Or is it an operant/classical conditioning sort of thing, where AI is specifically about training programs to act rather than to perceive/categorize things?

I suppose you can have AI that incorporates no ML (like most video game AI), but I'd imagine that will become vanishingly rare in the future.
> ...beating the market is pretty easy

I pretty much stop reading when I get to this point in someone's comment. This statement is as ridiculous as it is irresponsible.
I had major problems using LiveReload and BrowserSync during development (two tools that automatically refresh a local website when you make changes to your code). After a few saves, it was too slow to use. Chrome and Safari would refresh about twice as quickly, and remain fast.

57, once it got closer to Beta, was the first version I could develop with.
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The WPA was an reasonable countercyclical government response to a massive cyclical downturn in private-sector employment.

That's not the problem UBI is intended to address, and the WPA would be an exceedingly poor fit TO UBI’s problem.
The most anti-user "User Agent" thing of Chrome, in my experience, is their refusal to let me open my myriad dev sites with bogus certificates claiming some bullshit HSTS problem, without giving me a "do it anyway, you stupid browser" button.

So, literally, I still use Chrome (because I'm too used to it), but I do all my dev work on Firefox, which has a dev-friendly user policy.
I get the comparison, but personally I think it only works if we found tool-using behavior in aquatic species that shows they are actively modifying their environment to improve their survivability, so that they can have some meaningful basis for judging us as like them. Such as dolphins using agriculture. Otherwise we're just part of the freak show up where there is more light and less pressure.
Cannabis distillates.
Basically. Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. If the asteroid had never hit the Earth, maybe they still would. The earth is probably only inhabitable for another billion years or so and has been inhabitable for 4 billion years, so we're 80% of the way through the Earth's habitable life.

Maybe it's not atypical that life-bearing planets don't end up producing a technologically advanced one. The Earth is an example of how a planet can have complex animal life for hundreds of millions of years without any of them being able to invent cake, and habitability is relatively temporary.
My friend and I wrote this guide called ML4Humans.
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> Why would DDG be any better? It's just Bing wrapped in incognito.

Turns out DDG is not "just Bing wrapped in incognito"[1] so you actually answered your own question here. But even if it were, the incognito part is enough to make much much better.

Then again each has his own preferences[2]

[1]: https://duck.co/help/results/sources
[2]: https://twitter.com/ganeumann/status/268389572533170176
Excellent GUI frameworks on most platforms.

Much better unmanaged interop story: [DllImport] (btw it works on all platforms, e.g. on Linux it imports from .so libraries), structures, unsigned integers.

Better multithreading: thread pool, synchronization contexts, async-await.

Unsafe code, pointer arithmetic.

LINQ
Well, it's all makes sense as to why you are so pessimistic.

Why, because I was writing software professionally before you were born? Maybe your Dad and I sound a lot alike because we’ve heard that young person saying something about wolves for decades. And your argument to the contrary? Your Dad and I have been hearing almost those exact words (different examples, of course) for decades as well.

You seem to think it’s different this time. Maybe is, maybe it isn’t. But perhaps you can understand my skepticism. Any article of “predictions from 20 years ago”, from any time period, will probably back me up on this.
I wasn't actually interested, mostly just trying to point out that your holier-than-thou attitude isn't really helpful to the discussion. I really doubt that you're some kind of data science deity because you got an engineering degree.
The sun isn't the only source of radiant energy (visible light, IR, UV, etc) in a planetary system. Chemoluminescence and indeed heat itself (infrared (IR) emission) are other sources. I would think that living in a thermal environment closed off from the sun, creatures would be likely to evolve bioluminescent emitters/receptors or even fully developed IR Eyes in order to gain survival advantage.

1.) https://voices.nationalgeographic.org/2014/03/14/from-night-...
Naming is still one of the most difficult things. Then again we get used to bad names, and keep on... (For example why The JSON standard persist on calling things objects, rather than say... maps or dictionaries)...
I was part of their crowd sale, and I still have no idea what they're trying to do :/
regime: 1a, 1b, 3.
Hi everyone, Zuzu is built with a vision of empowering customer-facing teams with an AI assistant which will help them save up to 65% of the wasted time in search of the right product answer. Would love to know your thoughts on this :)
Ok, it may seem a good idea to mix everything and create a new product. Maybe it is. The problem is the network effect, how to overcome it? How to get people into a site without any people? Very hard.

I don't like the idea, however.
Numpy can be compiled against a multi-threaded BLAS, for example MKL.
Exactly: they have a stake. That shouldn't give them the right to make unilateral "no" decisions for everyone else, but that's basically what we have in SF.
Just as beer went through it's 'extremes' phase, weed is going through this right now too. Beer was super hoppy, then super stouty, then had loads of coffee, then loads of NO2, then sours, then glassware.

Finally, beer settled on the 'all-day-IPA': a beer that tastes good, and you can bring to your niece's birthday party but not get too tanked to be able to drive her to the hospital after the bounce-house gets out of hand.

Weed needs that for a recreational substance that 'relaxes' but still allows for emergencies to occur. Think a bag of something (bitter orange chips?) that kids won't eat outright, that comes in low/variable dosages just enough to chill with, that will allow you to drive your kids to the hospital should the need arise. It, frankly, needs to be an 'adult' thing, not juvenile and bacchanalian as it is perceived to be today.
Yes, this is a joke. I don't think anyone has ever submitted HN to HN :) but it's my favorite site.
Is there a protocol for looking for life in an environment like Enceladus that would sufficiently guarantee sterility of the probe?

It seems that guaranteeing sterility would be sufficiently impossible to render Enceladus permanently unapproachable.
A question as I consider moving to Firefox. On Chrome I've set my search engine keywoards so I can open a new tab and type "w foo" to search Wikipedia for "foo". And similar things for DuckDuckGo, Hoogle, Amazon, etc. On Firefox I can do something similar if i'm willing to click on a small icon rather than hitting enter or move to the search bar with ctrl-k, type my term, then press tab a bunch of times to select the right engine. Is there any good extension to give Firefox Chrome's ergonomics here?
> If needed you can add another index or run a subquery first, but the answer to this question can be found out in < 10seconds in the real world more quickly by testing it than even spending the time thinking about it.

This is true for some situations. But understanding indexing and databases can save you from headaches that come from structural problems. Not every query performance issue can be solved by throwing more indexes on a table and using it.

It's the idea of prophylaxis. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

And if you are using production as a testing environment and waiting for problems in production to tweak your queries, then you probably won't last long in software development.

Indexes are the basics. Everyone should have grasp of it at the basic level.
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Granted my experience in Toronto and Montreal are that cabs are easy to come by, relatively inexpensive and accept NFC payments...so maybe on the consumer side they have less cruft than US cab companies and may be less immune to complete disruption by the big rideshare companies
I am also worried about this, but how do you deal with it on mobile?
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I believe if you type "badidea" at the error page it will let you through unconditionally.
Too late to edit, and just reread.

Addendum:

> if I let my list grow larger I'd never finish

I'd never finish any books. As there's always something new to read the task of reading will never be done. But if I start new books without considering the number currently being read, then the odds of getting back to and finishing any other book is pretty low.
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does hangouts.google.com work in FF (too lazy to try it)
Something that will relax, but not prevent from taking Grandma to the hospital on an emergency notice.
From what I understood from the article, it's not a pure P2P model, but a hybrid model, which makes it particularly interesting.

I think the conclusion of the article is very good: the experience is great in "free play" (when you're running around a world and people appear/disappear), but (very) bad for doom/overwatch/csgo style PVP (= the crucible).
A peer to peer online game is a game where people are going to cheat a lot. You don't have to inject code to cheat, you can inject bits into the network stream.
How do you motivate a pharmaceutical company to share R&D they spent millions acquiring?
How would you propose "splitting" a modern web app between two programs, one to retrieve its content and another to render it, without the sort of tight integration between these two programs that would be needed to again lead to the kind of "kitchen sink" situation that we have today??

IMO the problem is not the kitchen sink nature of web browsers, the problem is the kitchen sink nature of the web itself. It needs to be split into functionally separate parts that can be interfaced with different programs and workflows, instead of being a huge, integrated 'web' that is in turn parsed by a similarly huge, integrated program, the browser.
Eh, I think most people use them somewhat synonymously nowadays. ML is a subset of AI, which has become buzzwordy enough to lost most meaning IMO.
I think the original comment came across as saying that western Europe is thinking that the UK's military would no longer come to its defence against an invasion of its territory, which is a bit insulting the day after Remembrance.
In my experience, users who know the Back button exists are already one step ahead. Some users don’t know Back/Forward buttons at all. When they open a link that replaces their current page, they have no idea how to go back; they close this tab, open a new one, uses Google to search for the original page and hope to find it. Furthermore actual pop-up windows are associated with ads but a new tab? Not so much.
> 1. Are there any specific extensions you need? Happy to add them to our outreach list.

for me, vimperator/pentadactyl and tab groups. i can't use a browser without them so i won't be upgrading :(
I have a 1/1 there, and the only extension I have loaded is the new version of Tree Style Tabs.
I think the best thing to do is look at each transaction separately, read a few sources, and reflect on what made sense, what the sources were all agreement about, and what seemed like a pitch.

Consumer advocacy agencies usually have excellent advice. Credit unions seem to have well-intentioned advice but the information can be incomplete.

E.g if you're about to buy a car, read a few articles about getting car loans, don't just take the dealership finance person at their word.

I've been meaning to get around to making a decision tree for technical people who never had to bother with this stuff but I don't know how much time I need to dedicate to "please don't buy a jetski if you're unemployed".
and yandex.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources
Precisely, IOW they're just for show and are basically GIGO when you're completely honest, but they're a psychological device required both externally (as leverage one way or another towards clients) and internally (it's motivating to see something go forward, even when you know it's completely bollocks†). Just to say that this definitely subscribes to the basic idea that they "are meant to project an idea of objectivity".

BTW, you forgot the part about giving improving metrics to satisfy management and maybe get a raise (vs 100% not getting one), or a nice story line about how you managed to improve team velocity YOY by 50% through magic on your resume, which in the same way is "reducing an engineer to a few quantities" and equally "turns my stomach" as for alexandercrohde. Most of the things I've done to introduce improvements are immeasurable because they're changes that are mindset shifting or technological leverage therefore there is no metric associated because of the pervasiveness of their effects.

† if you're doing, say, 10 push-ups, instead of "1, 2, 3" try counting each number twice, like "1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3". Magic, you've done 20. You know it's a mind trick, but it'll still work.

†† Going from email+phone+hallway communication, silo'd knowledge and SPOF Bus Factor to a serious issue tracking, knowledge sharing, and automation on GitLab. Going from manual machine building to fully automated system provisioning and one liner deployment. Any associated metric would be either completely immaterial (e.g confidence and well being) or produce an off-the chart ratio (just computed one just for fun, that's a ~1800% improvement in human cycles — not even counting failure modes — it's so beyond ridiculous it doesn't even mean anything).
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This is good advice. Whenever I'm sure I'm right, I try to get people to walk me through whatever they are proposing because I know they will eventually step through the problems that I see, but they don't yet.

But, you know, sometimes it turns out that I was actually the one not seeing some things clearly and by not coming out of the gate as a jerk about things we can both walk away having come to a collaborative solution and everyone feels good.
> To shield the game from hacks on PC, Bungie is preventing applications from injecting code into the game.

Whats different to like every PC game since 19something? I mean thats a core component of most anti cheat tools and copy protections? (And - spoiler alert - they never really work)
Except it does. It has the functionality to do BOTH.

The tagline of giving the option to either disable ads or replace ads is to provide a way to enjoy an ad-free experience or to receive only optimized advertisements.

A big reason some users dislike ads isn't because of their entire existance but rather their tendency as of late to be malware-ridden or cause drops in webpage performance. These are the things that cause some users to enable ad-blockers, and Brave is the only way I've heard of that has pushed the envelope of a BETTER ad experience.

From their blog, the first is a great introduction to what Brave is about[1], as well as their response to an attack on their ad-replacement ideology[2].

[1]:https://www.brave.com/how-brave-works-for-you/

[2]:https://www.brave.com/braves-response-to-the-naa-a-better-de...

Also a quote directly from Brave:

[The user interface] shows the major choices that Brave enables:

You’re game to try our default mode of operation, for a better ad-supported Web. Just leave the Replace Ads item checked. This is the default mode of operation. We insert ads after blocking without hurting page load speed, and those ads will support the sites you browse. We choose ads based on browser-private user data with no remote tracking — not even by our servers.

You want to block all ads and trackers, but you’re not sure about our plan to insert better ads with high performance and privacy. You can do this with Brave by checking Block Ads. We want you on board even if you’re just blocking everything.

You’d like to try Brave without ad blocking or replacing, to get whatever ads and trackers you would experience in other browsers. Check Allow Ads and Tracking. We still protect you with HTTPS Everywhere and other defense by default.
To prove a random number is truly random you would have to prove the random number generator that gave it to you is truly random.

If the output was plotted (from the minimum possible output to the maximum) and run a sufficient number of times, I would expect the chart of the output to have a very good distribution, and not have any serious hotspots.

To prove this, my solution would probably go something like:
Probability of number N being output = 1 / MaxPossibleNumber

Then I would run a test a sufficient number of times (depends on what MaxPossibleNumber is) such that as the amount of numbers generated approaches infinity, the percentage of times any particular number is output approaches 1/MaxNumber.

The harder part would be making sure sequences of numbers don't repeat. In addition to looking at the total distribution, I think I would also want to log the order in which the numbers were generated and then run an algorithm that looks for sequence repeats.

I am NOT familiar with how random number generators work, so this is a naive solution off the top of my head and could be completely wrong, but w/e.
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I remember that one. The game is that you can make one single change to species/environment, and he parts the clouds. His opponent ups aggression, and his opponent's species wipes his out. They send their game out into space, and another species gets the game, thinks the game is altering real species causing drama.
The problem is that flows like GDP count the "same dollar" multiple times. When the dollar moves from one place to another, it's counted. (To preempt the pedants: Yes, there are exceptions as to exactly where these counters are. Not every movement is counted.)

That's drastically different from having to have a large pile of "different dollars" to make a large purchase like this.
I disagree. Pot will never be the new craft beer; however, edibles do have potential. The problem with universal pot is that it travels through air, and the smells from some of these strains is unbearable if you are not a pot user. Another problem is contact highs, if your a non smoker you can literally catch a contact high from being in the presence of someone smoking a strong strain. Beer on the other hand is odorless and your usage doesn't directly affect others.
"The tool guarantees safe travel from any point in the ocean, above, on, or below its surface..."

Expecting a software tool to "guarantee" safe travel seems like having way too much confidence in that tool.
I use a magic trackpad for scrolling and the delay before scrolling is there in either case, but it was off.
In Firefox, you can right click on any search box and there's an option to "add a keyword search"

For a Wikipedia search, you'd set the keyword to "w" and then you'd get the identical behaviour you have in Chrome when typing "w foo" in your Awesome Bar.
Yeah there's been many complaints of people getting DOS'd in pvp play because it is relatively easy to find the player's ip address.
The known probabilities will go down, but that evidence is very weak with a sample size of < 1 solar system.

Personally, I've always assumed less than 100% of life-bearing planets will have intelligent life. Earth would have failed less than 1M years ago, and our species may not be around for long.

The interesting question, to me, is how often does life arise? If we find two origins in our solar system... that would change everything.
Funny how you are replying to a comment about privacy and less reliance on google and you are saying chrome is good becuase you can send all your browser history to google.
I have also used Mathematical monk, who was simple and good in introducing basic concepts and tools related to ML. https://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk
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FWIW blocking sites with bogus certs and not allowing a user bypass is exactly what the HSTS RFC requires. If you were testing the HSTS feature of your website, Chrome is doing the right thing. It's possible to clear Chrome's cache of HSTS-enabled sites btw: https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/clear-hsts-settings-chrome-...
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It would only be a wash if you currently believe the chance of developing intelligence is > 50%. To me, the fact that intelligence is rare on earth makes me think the odds of developing intelligence elsewhere is rare too.
I completely put all the blame of the costs of jerks on management and you should too. Every jerk you work with was hired by management! Jerks don't wonder around the street, finding their ways into offices and meeting rooms and then start talking over people.

Management hires jerks and puts people into situations with the jerks they hired.
Certs are worthless. Generally, the most terrible programmers out there are loaded down with certs.
The article doesn't convey the complexity very well.

Destiny keeps PvP and PvE separate. For PvP, it's traditional PvP. But for PvE, there are multiple worlds made up of interconnected regions, but because of processing limitations (even if it's MMO, it's still an FPS), the sub-regions are individual instances. So you need seamless transitioning between regions, while having to find you a populated instance every time you cross a region boundary. Oftentimes you will be doing a 20-30 minute activity that has to cross multiple instance boundaries, so your actual quest state has to persist separately from the physics simulation. If you take their design of the game as a given, then yeah, that's a bit more complex than most MMORPG's.

It's not really about matchmaking. PvP has explicit matchmaking, and in PvE lagging hit registration is generally inconsequential because it's not a competition. It's more about the fact that Bungie tried to work around the problem above using P2P servers.

The problem arises when PvP is still handled in a P2P-ish way and you have hit registration problems. On a quick read, I'm not sure I fully understand it though, because if the physics server is dedicated, then why are there still hit registration problems?