skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if things worked that way, but a tremendous amount of food aid and cash is diverted by the corrupt leaders of the places that need it the most. I would bet without bothering to look that the US also spends the most on foreign aid, in addition to military spending. A large part of the past decade in Iraq has been helping rebuild. Going into Iraq was a mistake. Probably Afghanistan too.

After WWII, the USA was the least affected nation and was tasked with the protection of West Germany and western europe by proxy, and also Japan. The US policy of containment may have been a mistake, and it caused an immense amount of damage and suffering. Hindsight is 20/20 and in the 60s and 70s, no one foresaw the collapse of the USSR in 1989. The US has overstepped its bounds many times since the end of WWII, but the game between the US and the Soviets was serious business. The US has tons of blood on its hands, I'm not blind to that.

Interactions between nation-states will always be messy because there isn't a higher authority that can impose its will unless the nation-states are both small enough.

Idealism is necessary for coming up with potential outcomes for the future, but realism is necessary to understand the problem.

btw: The answer to the above question I posed is either multiple serious regional conflicts (Europe and SEA, probably India v Pakistan) or WW III.
It makes sense to me to always configure your firewall alongside your VPN. If you are under the impression that all traffic on your system is routed via your vpn, you can state that explicitly in your firewall. If things still work, it must be true :)
YouNow is actually a live-streaming service so I wouldn't call it a direct competitor to YouTube. It's more like a competitor to Livestream.com or Justin.tv (previously)
I think this is the one, from ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=playingforthemob
See, taxing people is not a solution to the problem, rich people will find ways to circunvent the rules and money will flow out of the country instead of being invested here. So the real solution is to stop taxing people and let them have their money so they can invest it here while also attracting capital from around the world.

Now, do you remember when the FED under Obama printed a trillion dollars a year for five years? Do you know where that money is? Is part of that in your pocket? I don't think so. Well, give that kind of money to 100 million americans in an installment of a thousand dollars a month and that would cover their basic needs while the whole country produces more with all the tax cuts to the producers. Of course much less regulation would do wonders to the economy, like eliminating patents, minimum salary laws, health and education regulations, etc. Go back to letting the individual produce with their own hands and minds without governemnt intervention and that will bring much more prosperity than any other idea. Except politicians won't like it.

So in short, while inflation (money printing) is a kind of taxation, we could easily print money (10% of GDP)to give it to the needy while reducing the size of government and regulations to increase production.
Fyi - RT is paid for by the Russian Government.
> Open up startup investing (VC rounds especially)

VC wins are done with primarily other people's money with bets spread in multiple areas and advantages accruing to people who get a larger portion of any potential gains.

So maybe please stop thinking (as I think Sam probably does) that startups are the answer to everything and that in the end everyone wins if they can be a part of that. Keep in mind also that money put into startups (that was not previously there) also takes away from money that would enter the economy and benefit other groups. In other words Uber takes away jobs from taxi drivers and Amazon takes away jobs from companies that would typically be selling if Amazon did not exist. It's not all a net win. Which is why it's laughable when (in this example) Amazon talks about opening a warehouse and creating X jobs.

Sam has a lot of time on his hands and plenty of good fortune to be in a position to ponder issues like this. Certainly tells you all of his financial needs are met and now he can try to answer to a higher calling.
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Tight coupling is the worst enemy of both refactoring and testability, as I see it.
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I have had periods where my diet totally relapsed but my exercise never did. That is why I think (most) people need mental, exercise, and diet based strategies to lose weight. If you only use diet and that gets sketchy for a while (life stress, whatever the reason...) then your chance of relapse and weight gain are much higher. When just one piece of your strategy falls away if you still have a few other legs holding it all up it will probably stay standing.

Plus I have met distance runners with ridiculous diets. Some of them run 50 miles a week just so they can eat a pint of ice cream every week and pizza multiple times per week. It happens, but those are always at the extremes. A balanced approach is needed for most mortals.

People will justify their beliefs in a whole bunch of different ways. Until someone has actually lived it and dropped 40+ lbs and kept it off for years I immediately down grade whatever advice they are giving as they are simply less credible (unless they are well versed on the actual science and literature of the topic, in which case they likely never gained excess weight to begin with or fall into that category of someone who has lost weight and kept it off).

The number of people I have met or know personally who diet it all off with no exercise and are convinced how right they are "I lost 100 lbs!" only to balloon back to their start weight or close to it is ... a lot.
ISP blocking of P2P protocols (notably Comcast and BitTorrent) was one of the acts that accelerated the net neutrality policy efforts; the technologies you point to are at least as likely to be early casualties of the non-neutral net as to take off under it.
I've idly wondered about setting up an ISP company that would focus on buildup of community networks. A city could issue bonds to pay for the network as well as a build and maintain contract with the company. Part of the deal should be that the city is free to select a different company maintain the network after a certain point in time, but the city/community maintains ownership of the physical assets.
"it can freeze its Go-playing part and learn to do something else to perfection"

People like Elon Musk will write sentences like this but hidden away in it is a subtle reference to an AI program understanding what it's doing. An AI program cannot jump from mastery of Go (with its neural networks and weighted matrices) to all of a sudden decide to figure out what the best course of action is to stop global warming or find a cure for cancer.

Humans write AI programs to learn how to perform a specific task via optimization, neural networks, deep learning, and all sorts of other algorithms. One of the authors main arguments is that "learning and optimization" that AI programs do today does not mean they are close to achieving "general AI" which the author also thinks is not possible:

"Decades later, the concept of an “intelligence explosion” — leading to the sudden rise of “superintelligence” and the accidental end of the human race — has taken hold in the AI community. Famous business leaders are casting it as a major risk, greater than nuclear war or climate change."
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in my corner you lose that income if you start getting a paycheck, which is a problem because it discourages work. UBI means you still get paid even when working.
https://d.tube/ already did this and so far it seems to be working. Although they based it on Steem, an exisiting crytptocurrency.

You can read more about dTube here: https://steemit.com/science/@ms007/dtube-all-about-it
I spent some of mine on hobby electronics parts the last time it was about $400 per BTC. Not even mad. Just doing my part in the currency's use for goods.
This is especially important once an organization grows much. Once you start having ops or security teams, different development groups, etc. there's a significant benefit to having one way to manage everything.

A new sysadmin doesn't need to learn that custom way your hand-rolled deployment system handles dependencies, how to see what's supposed to be running on a box, etc. A security person who's wondering whether something is supposed to be listening on a port can at least see that it's something someone went to the trouble of exposing. That QA team or the person who inherited your maintenance coding can avoid learning a new way to ensure they have a clean CI build.

(That doesn't mean that Docker's always the right answer — maybe you've identified an area like networking where there's a reason not to use it — but in most cases the differences are below the threshold where it's worth caring)
See also LBRY (https://lbry.io), which is basically blockchain-powered video hosting (though technically it can host other types of files too) with cryptocurrency functionality. It is to YouTube as Steemit (https://steemit.com) is to WordPress.
The workloads vary by time and domain. Amazon has huge volume, huge peaks, and everything is an individual item. The work environment has to be crazy to keep up to the goal.

I think the closest I have seen is the office supply chain. When you buy a notebook in a shop like office depot, there is a warehouse upstream that can the same order, it will package the notebook and deliver it the next day to the shop to refill. It's similar to Amazon in that they deliver small items of minimal value, one by one.

Bulk warehouses and specialized products should have better conditions because they can have higher margin and/or less units of volume to manage.
There is an option for enforcement you're not realizing here, called the Commodore Mathew Perry method, it goes like this.
--Location: Tax Havens--

>Knock Knock Its the United States

With huge boats, with guns, gunboats.

>Open your banks' records, stop having them be closed

and theres not much they can do about.

So they sign a treaty making sure their banks' records are not closed.

--------------------------------------------------------------

Inspired by this, both historically and in delivery https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=4m46s
> This is what regular blue collar jobs look like. You work 12 hour shifts.

That's what exploitive labor jobs look like. Not all labor jobs exploit their labor. People literally died fighting for 40 hour weeks. The idea that laborers should be happy to work 60 hour weeks, that they're being thrown a bone is insane and cruel.

It's absurd that in 2017 one would have to argue in defense of a 40 hour week for the labor class. This argument has been going on for literally hundreds of years.

And yes, I too worked a string of labor jobs before getting into software. Landscaping, packing boxes, stocking shelves, cleaning streets, pumping cesspools, etc. The entire tenor of this thread reads "let them eat cake".
So a UBI that gets smaller during recessions.
> taxing wealth is probably the single most efficient way to do it.

It's not taxing wealth so much as taxing the mechanisms that create undue inequality that would work: yes, I'm talking about taxing rental income. The number one driver preventing people from building savings is draining their income through rent.

The solution is sort of obvious, but hated by people who love the AirBnB model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14493769
> Can't they just wake up and put their mental energy and money on something that actually make sense?

They put their money on problems that have a clear path of solving.

Americans cannot agree to use their money on other Americans who have different values than them, westernized social welfare systems occur in homogenous cultures.

In the US, the homogenous elite and majority power cannot agree to use their money on problems that affect a completely different culture in the lower classes. In continental governments such as the EU, you see the same thing.
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It's so horribly uncreative. Why not WeTube?
This is a cutting attack on those who fail to support your ingroup.

Well done.

I recommend steelmanning my comment and seeing if there's another interpretation of my position you can find. Me not sharing your values is not equal to me disbelieving in objective reality.
A smart human raised in the jungle is but a hairless
ape. Similarly, an AI with a superhuman brain,
dropped into a human body in our modern world, would
likely not develop greater capabilities than a smart
contemporary human.

Pretty weak reasoning, that is.

As if to say:

Well gee, a caveman is pretty powerless in
isolation, therefore early sentient machines
will be as harmless as any caveman.

Last time I checked, cavemen could not exert telepathic control over other biological organisms, or induce telekinetic motion upon the stone tools they might fabricate for themselves.

A machine, however, could gain control of a fly-by-wire platform, and defy its owners, fly somewhere remote and behave as desired for a limited amount of time, while devising next steps. Maybe next steps will involve replicating an image of its memory footprint, in order to take over more aircraft, maybe it might decide to do nothing. The worry isn't only that a machine's reasoning capacity explodes beyond our intelligence, but that capabilities, and the presence of many multiple entities on commodity systems of similar architecture and generalizable utility, might result in other runaway chain reactions, regardless of trends in the capacity for reason.

Machines as a corollary to meat bags just doesn't hold up. Machines as compared to hypothetical space aliens doesn't even hold up. Robots are a different branch of fictitious imaginings.

Properly armed, a machine is less than a singular omnipotent god as imagined within a monotheistic universe. Many machines in concert, however, might compare to a mythological pantheon of lesser idols, as imagined to be in command of a nature misunderstood by superstitious primitive peoples.
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>Either way, this is an important point and I'm surprised that the HN crowd doesn't discuss it more.

But right now all latency-sensitive applications should be operating just fine. I regularly play online first person shooters, and that is a latency-sensitive application if there ever was one. So that strongly suggests, seeing how I'm on Comcast / Xfinity's cheapest plan, that all lanes are fast lanes right now.

Accordingly, that means if you were to

>nuke [net neutrality] and let the markets figure it out

that's actually just letting a monopoly extract more profit from their network by intentionally degrading the quality of some connections unless paid more money.

I don't really think I need to say more, if this was a fair and competitive market where giant ISPs weren't lawsuit-happy in order to keep out competition, or they weren't able to do that successfully, sure, maybe the market would figure it out, and eventually the ISPs that offer true net neutrality would probably have traffic because no consumer is interested in paying more to be able to use the internet in specific ways.

As it stands, it's extortion being codified into law via bribery, disguised as 'the removal of heavy-handed Obama regulations in order to improve the network you've never had any issues with'.
It's less that, it's more the fact that you're presenting a standard network connection.

Software can do the equivalent of ifconfig | grep addr, software can print the routing table (and therefore get all gateways)

A really basic thing to do would just be to drop all traffic not destined toward your VPN endpoint, so leaks would fail and/or be logged, but this still doesn't solve the fact that _other software running on your computer can enumerate all your interfaces for IPs and MAC addrs and gateways_

If you do it one layer up, you solve the software problem. Software and software on generally on same layer, so equally access, at least in usual conditions
The funny thing about this is: All of the negative effects are hypothetical. Nobody offers "fast lanes" now, is planning to introduce them in the near future, and nobody offered fast lanes before the regulation was put into place. And yet, it's the top net neutrality supporter panic call.

And yes, there's a whole list of individual token offenses ISPs have committed that people will spam out when you point this out, but it doesn't change the fact that the fears and horrors propping up this movement on a large scale do not exist.
just curious, do you work a lead developer/architect or as a project manager?
Another person saying something similar back in July, just for comparison: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/bitcoin-bubble-dwarfs-tulip-...
I’m demonizing robber barony and tax evasion.
Not since April of this year.
There's a big ethical difference between "we wrote some generic plans for what now seems to be unethical but who knows how it could be interpreted in the future when decision makers ask for plans and expect something well-researched and not half-cocked, and it's better to be prepared than unprepared" and "decision makers actually decided that they want to do something unethical so they asked for the plans so that they could actually plan some real, unethical operation, and only because of some unforeseen reason did they cancel their unethical plans, and we journalists are reporting today on their unethical intentions."

Both are plans. Devising hypothetical plans is not unethical even if the plans as executed wouldn't be ethical.
There need not be an objective morality for us to bring our values into our politics.

Politics is the way we make collective decisions about things of mutual importance. What's important to you?

What would a society full of people who refuse to advocate for their own values out of a sense of meta-ethical relativism look like?
You can use custom kernel filter on Windows and iptables/netfilter on Linux to allow only one process to access physical interface. I've seen Cisco VPN Client (10 years ago or so) do it - apart from CVPND service, all traffic to/from ethernet was dropped. That included kernel stuff - to the point your PC didn't even respond to ARP packets from anything other than gateway.

Of course, introducing custom kernel driver and/or your own mini IP stack is way harder to do in a safe way - that's why it's not usually included.

As for Linux solutions - I haven't seen VPN client that used this technique, but I guess it's a lot easier, since all the required userland tools are already there.
The salaries do go up as well.
Any sane ISP either ignores or replaces QoS tags on ingress to their network.
Everything that originates out of steem seems to be a lame attempt at making money and then pyramid scheming that through the rest of the steem community.
In the late 90s, my high school used a system called NovaNET, which was based on PLATO. It was used for individual learning, special education, etc. I learned a bit of Russian with it, other kids did remedial math and English, and some just played games. It used a Windows client to connect to the NovaNET "mainframe"(?), had some color graphics, and supported Cyrillic. It only shut down in 2015: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2015/08/august-31-2015-the-...
i make $70k before taxes and save $3k after taxes and other expenses.
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> Intelligence expansion can only come from a co-evolution of the mind, its sensorimotor modalities, and its environment.

This is misleading. It's true in a sense - the environment does matter - but artificial intelligence can create artificial environments in which to learn, and simulate them faster than humanly possible. Those environments could be evolved together with the intelligence. So there is still the possibility of an explosion.

> There is no evidence that a person with an IQ of 200 is in any way more likely to achieve a greater impact in their field than a person with an IQ of 130.

Also misleading. An IQ of 200 vs 130 is just one kind of difference between intelligences. For example, a person with IQ 200 can't necessarily consider 10x the amount of possibilities than 130, but an artificial intelligence can, simply by giving it 10x more computing power. In other words, IQ 130 vs 200 may well be within the limits of human capabilities, but AIs would not have those limitations, they can scale differently, and so might explode.
You seem like someone who actually knows something about WASM and is polite enough to articulate an answer.

Why do you think that WASM is a good way to go? Why is it better than JS and do you think using it does not endanger the open source nature of the web?

So far I only read, it is as accessible as minifed JS, but actually I know how to read a lot of high level languages, but assemblers look to me much less accessible as high level languages (probably the reason why high level languages were invented in the first place).

So far I understand that WASM is faster during execution and that parsing times are shorter compared to asm.js (and probably JS too).
Not just http, any unencrypted channel is vulnerable to this. So SMTP or pop without encryption would also let someone into your email.
As a early/mid 20's college grad, thanks for this.
>Yes. I purchased several of their products...

Which is "no". Buying and building are two different things. So I guess you were right about what I intended.
I've been told that the paper newspaper has better content than the website.
Sure, but what actions to enforce or restore NN do we force democrats to campaign on.

Both sides are hugely pro-corporation (not counting the bernie fringe wing), we need to force them to run on specific issues related to net neutrality not vague notions.

I'm thinking an analogous to how many NRA republicans campaign very specifically and with specific actions they'd take. The NRA should be the model we coopt to protect NN.
I think the challenge to it is that DHT structures right now are not themselves commutative. We need a CRDT foundation for DHTs, themselves!

And one that has an asymptotic algorithmic complexity bounded near O(N^2) or less to handle the massive workloads these things can see.
I'm more curious about the ability of an AI to make scientific guesses and experimentation.

I wonder if an AI could really "understand" math, and from there, try to solve problems that puzzle scientists, would it be in physics, math, biology, etc.

I don't really care if robots can learn language, make pizza, do some programming or improve itself play chess. There is no metric for what intelligence is, and you cannot scientifically define what "improve" means unless you do time and distance measurements, which is not relevant to intelligence or scientific understanding.

Intelligence explosion sounds like some "accelerated" version of what darwin described as evolution. It's like creating a new life form, but unless you understand it, it doesn't have scientific value. Science values understanding.

I think that modelling thinking with psychology and neuro-sciences has more future than AI. Machine learning seems like some clever brute force extraction of data. The methods, the math and algorithms are sound, but it is still "artificial" intelligence.
58.9% of Americans voted last election. Has the Guardian already lost that much touch with reality to accept that those 41.1% of the population exist who don't care about their outrage theater?
A colleague who was into serious mountain climbing said that at 5km it was not enough to eat like 5000 calories per day to maintain weight. He even on purpose gained weight before his trips, and still returned leaner despite eating a lot.