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Dutch is a Germanic language, like German. However, it contains many loanwords from other languages:

* Greek

* Latin

* French

* German

* English

Dutch teenagers get to learn all of these languages (although to be fair only the most difficult education called gymnasium will follow Latin or Greek and they're allowed to pick one of these, ditch the other).

A lot of these loanwords from Greek and Latin you'll find in other Anglo-Saxon, Romanic, and Germanic languages.

The Romanic and Germanic languages also contain some loan words which you'll find within each other.

More recently, the USA and English have become rather dominant and important in the last centuries, and we're much less distant from each other thanks to technologies like aviation, radio, television, and Internet.

Its like figuring out you got some of the same DNA as someone else while you got the same ancestors like for example the gene for being tolerant to lactose which Europeans generally have whilst Asians don't.

The other side of the blade is that we're also in a bubble; our own bubble tells us English is important for it is in the tech-industry which is the general population of HN. These people are generally proficient in English.

Yet if you go to small villages in France or Germany or The Netherlands (and probably about any country in the world) you'll find people who speak say a dialect of their native language and that's it. Because they don't live like globalists.

That's OK, we should accept that (tho in the EU its rather expensive to translate to and from all the languages!). There are people (as well as AI) who can serve as a bridge between these languages.
You'd be wrong. The latest generation of veggie burgers are incredibly good. I actually got a taste of the Beyond Burger from a promotional Economist truck and it was really, really good. It's not perfect, but I'd say it's an 80-90% match in terms of flavor and texture to a real, grilled juicy hamburger. Instantly superior to generic fast-food burgers. Not yet competition for high-end stuff. And I'm not sure they have produced a credible steak. But veggie burgers are now a solved problem.
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I would never have thought that anyone would want to replace something with Scheme)))))))
How about something supported by Gadgetbridge[1]?

Or someone looks to be building their own Smartwatch[2]

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/
[2] https://github.com/no-go/UART-Smartwatch/blob/HEAD/README.md
But you miss out on being a hipster with irrational preferences...
Obviously you haven’t been to Sheepshead Bay. Ba dum dum
> Why people think that AI with a gun more scarier than a soldier with a gun, I would never understand.

In two words: scale and miniaturisation. A rifleman has inherent limitations -- he cannot move unaided beyond his walking speed, cannot be made to weigh on the order of a kilogramme, and he must sleep and eat and shit. He cannot lie in wait indefinitely, and he cannot fly either. He has, in the godawful vernacular of the defence-contracting industry, SWaP (size, weight, and power) issues. His face is as vulnerable to bullets as yours or mine, and a 12.7mm (.50 BMG) round will walk through his body armour anyway. He is human, and the harm that men with guns can do is thus limited.

Stuart Russell uses the example of micro-UAVs with AI-based targeting software and each armed with a single-use shaped charge (for anti-personnel use or breaching doors) -- 10^6 of them will devastate a city, with extremely little human/logistical support needed. A million riflemen could do a bunch of killing, but they will be slower, easier to stop, easier to detect, and will require a lot more support and infrastructure to remain effective.

What do we call weapons that allow very few men to kill millions without placing themselves in any hazard, again? Russell (rightfully, in my judgement) classes this sort of use of AI as "scalable WMDs". Lethal autonomous weapons shouldn't be compared to a "soldier with a gun"; appropriate comparisons are more along the lines of "flying landmines with face recognition".
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You will also sound very off and instantly recognizable as a foreigner when speaking some of them.

I.e. here's Stephen D. Mull[0] speaking Polish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRVUZpi660

He is REALLY good at it for a foreigner. It's 100% understandable (both content as a whole and every single word on its own) but it still sounds clearly off (a bit too soft and very American, Polish accents vary a lot in places but no native Polish speaker has one like his) and he makes some mistakes with conjugations and weird phrasing that no Pole would use.

[0] - American ambassador to Poland at the time who also says he has no Polish ancestry so I assume he learned via this American program at the minimum (plus his own practice in Poland).
TL;DR: I lived this situation on a shitty firm. It's depressing. But "good" firms do exist, don't lose hope!

I lived this situation : I got hired as a developer and got involved into making the product better and improving our processes. But the firm was (and still is) utter shit. It was painful and I was unhappy.

Some people there are still trying to do a good job and they have had several episodes of burn-out. Some other just lowered their standard and accept to get paid to poop some ugly code and apply useless processes (some might be happy, but most of them are dead inside). I just gave up on this nonsense and quit, and was lucky enough to find a much better place. My new firm (not that "new", it's been more than a year now) is not perfect and can definitely be improved... But motivation and commitment into improving things are actually welcome, and it works!
I always found it interesting that English is classified as a Germanic language while it is more similar (vocabulary and grammar) to Romance languages than to some Germanic languages, including German.
So does this mean that if I pick a Lambda with 1600MB I get twice as much CPU than a 1536MB one?
and chroot, too.
> True vegetarians don't really care too much about these products.

That's not necessarily true. I've been vegetarian my entire life, and I'd be interested in such products. Probably not as an everyday thing like some eat meat, but certainly as an option to choose sometimes.
> As though the invasion of privacy might be acceptable ... depending ... for what reasons. If it's unjust, it's unjust

I don't really agree with this. Intentions matter; the act of breaking into a house is way different if it's done to stop an in-progress assault vs. commit one.

It can obviously be argued in the actual scenario we're discussing how benevolent / evil / potentially unknowable the actors we're talking about actually are, but I don't think intention is irrelevant.
Granted, I don't know if what I do qualifies as "scientific programming," but I'm a scientist working at a company that makes measurement equipment. I don't write software for widespread use, but use programming as a problem solving tool for modeling, data collection and analysis, visualization, and so forth. I rarely run a program more than once before I change it.

Now, maybe I'm excusing myself for being relatively un-disciplined, and in fact I am working on improving my programming discipline. For instance a colleague and I have begun to use git for a code that we share.

But when I hear people being told that they shouldn't use ad hoc programming tools, and the resulting reaction from those people, I imagine myself in a similar conversation.
Who said anything about managing?
Govt should merely own shares (30%, or more, of each company, not 30% of companies), and let existing capitalist/free-market incentives continue to do what they're good at, driving innovation and efficiency.
While replacing, at least partly, what they're not good at, which is distributing the profits fairly to all contributors, and supporting the wider society that enables them to operate at all.
Alternative of hacknews
Hacknews has lot of great article of tech. But I found that nowadays it is full of vc and greedy news.
Is there an alternative ?
Human lice haven't split into two distinct species; the "human" lice - the ones that have been with us for as long as we've been around - are now head lice, and we picked up pubic lice from gorillas after we "lost" most of our body hair. (It's still there, of course, but not in a way that's useful to lice.)
Fascinating, this is a well-formed argument. To be frank, it's borderline the best argument for space development that I have ever heard. There are many things that we do well on Earth, but there are some industries where the arc of progress has stalled. In a broad, long-term, theoretical sense we all understand that Earth has limited mineral resources, but this is a weak argument. We are not near the depletion limits of this planet for the resources that we need the most - at least nowhere close enough to justify the poor mass economies of space activities.

Space might be the only place we can make heavy industries start to behave similar to software.
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That is why I get a little annoyed when people say many things like Car, phones etc are way more accessible.

I dont need a Car, nor a Smartphone nor any of the example they gave. I need Food, Water, and Clothes. Three most important things. Then I need Shelter. First three is solved, the latter happens to be the root of all evil.
This is a crazy coincidence. Me and my sister are trying to get help for my mom right now for the very same thing, and our grandma was a WWII refugee from Finland.
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Docker uses pivot_root and not chroot, IIRC.
Title is confusing. Silicon and silicone aren't the same thing.
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What is the shortest compiling deployable ETH pyramid scheme you can write in Pyramid Scheme?
These guys started from a kickstarter 3 or 4 years ago, and are still in business. I bought one but never had time to use it. https://mbientlab.com/
Russian and all the slavic languages are classified at 44 weeks, not 24 weeks. FTA, the hour estimate is 1100, very close to your 980.
In business individual productivity is not necessarily the most important thing. Companies are about collaboration and communication and if the tooling doesn’t support that then it’s at odds with the company’s needs. Maybe those two finance guys are less productive but now it’s auditable, regulatory compliant, redundant/backed up, and resilient to either of those two people leaving. That seems like a win for the company even if it’s not a win for employee productivity.
The various civil wars going on right at this moment would suggest its not much of an issue...

In fact no country in the world except the USA, France, UK and a few others have the capability to project power beyond their neighborhood.

The concept that you wage war with countries on the other side of the world for vague reasons is a purely American phenomenon.

EDIT: a few words
Do you know how many people use 4 digit passcodes, or no passcodes at all?

Do you know how many people share that passcode with others, intentionally or unintentionally? Family members, spouses, etc. repair people who do screen replacements. Their buddy, who can text for them while they drive.

I’m sitting on a plane and saw the person next to me enter her passcode. It’s 258085.

That is not a secure 6 digit passcode, it’s a vertical Tetris shape. Humans are great at pattern recognition, particularly when it’s in a grid format and leaves finger smudges.

I could easily pick pocket this woman’s phone and ruin her weekend without much effort at all, just from reading this article.

But you say her 6 digit passcode is quite secure?
In my experience, the difficulty to sort-of understand written foreign language is _nothing_ compared to learning to understand spoken language.
My friend just put a boardgame up on Kickstarter, was funded within a day by friends. [0]

Board games offer easy prototyping and are enjoyable by a larger audience than computer games (which typically require certain hardware + specific twitch skills)

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1019118800/sun-rush-str...
I'm teaching myself Japanese now, and plan to take courses later. I don't even plan to be super fluent in 5 years, but it's an interesting challenge to do while I'm not in school anymore.
Its hard for me to imagining dropping something like that after a 5 year commitment.
That last part doesn't happen: it's part of the intelligence agreements not to do that.
I'm sure it's perfectly adequate for processed meat, where you're not really tasting the meat itself as much as the salt, sugar and other spices added to it.

If they can make a schawarma meat substitute that tastes the same as actual schawarma meat and has similar mouthfeel, I'm perfectly OK with that.
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Were there any legit icos?
This is probably also skewed toward learners of a certain age. I'm a bit older than the likely target demo. I can read and write Spanish and German with proficiency and a little Korean, but I have great difficulty understanding the spoken languages.
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Issues associated with societal risks resulting from AI are left unaddressed in this report.

That grounds the conversation in a particular way.
Sure, for processed meat products, substitutes can be just as satisfying and rather close in taste. I have to say that visually some of their products are pretty much indistinguishable, especially the chicken.
Sure, I meant we cannot impart the property of transparency to a gold bar by "programming" it. Programming isnt a magical spell that can rewrite the causal interactions that take place in the universe.

> and you'll find a whole lot of things that most people wouldn't call "conscious"

I disagree. I cannot think of anything with a nervous system engaging in the particular neurochemical reaction I'm talking about not being conscious. No example comes to mind?

I dont mean any old reaction. As, the digestion of wheat. I mean the specific kind that define neurological systems.

> why do the details of the biochemical activity matter beyond being a particular physical realization of some differential equations

Because the "details" we're talking about are the causal effects.

> precisely emulates the behavior of that biochemical activity

For the same reason you cannot programme a gold bar into transparency. Or program a table into an elephant.

Or to put it another way, a program which "precisely emulates the behavior of gold" doesnt turn machine into gold.

A program which "precisely emulates the behavior of digestion" does not digest pizza.

A program which "precisely emulates the behavior of" consciousness isnt conscious.

By "emulation" you mean, "imitation in form". Since it is only the FORMS the program and the nervous system share (or, gold, whatever). Ie., that they can be both described to an extreme level of abstraction in the same way. But the universe isnt abstract. It isnt a form.

A program simulating a gold bar may be an instance of some equation that a gold bar is -- but possesses none of the properties that make it gold.

A machine which imitates some highly abstract equational description of thought is as close to thinking as a bird is to an aeroplane. The bird's heart will burn as much jet fuel as your machine will think.

The universe isnt taking place in the abstract, it's taking place in the concrete. You have no soul. Your mind is not a program. You consciousness is not ideal. It isnt a number. A pattern, a structure, an equation. These are descriptions. Your mind is something your body is doing -- as so it is for every known thing that has a mind.

To speak as if the mind could be abstracted enough to a description that may be realized in silicon is to believe in an almost magical power of electric.
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Well I didn't mean to claim it's 100% reproducible in the title. But we finally started working towards reproducible builds, we still need a way for users to easily reproduce builds, publish the results somewhere. And test with more differences, luckily Debian has done a lot of effort in this regard!
A few years back, I played around with TI's EZ430-Chronos: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-Chronos?DCMP=C...
It's not sleek like modern fitness bands/watches but is hackable.

TI has more Smart Watch components and reference designs here: http://www.ti.com/solution/smart-watch
My bad, I should check my color blindness.
Seems like a good a place as any to note that I actually discovered this bug in high school programming class circa 1999. If only blogging was popular back then I could have been internet famous! (Surely this bug has been rediscovered many times, just predates the self-aggrandizing blog-post-for-everything era)
Consider the possibility that the fact that they concealed evidence would be highlighted by the judge to the jury. Thus they may well be punished for it in the current trial.
Its a classic mob/tribal way of life. If you show a difference from the majority, then the majority may have a tough time integrating with you.

And, why would they want to really? Learning a language is a daunting task. Yeah, you can do it, but its more than just learning words. Its about discovering a whole new culture, and that takes a lot of energy.

Its a complex issue. We all have our daily lives. Good things and bad things happens to our culture, associates, friends, family everyday. Its hard for a person to want to take on any more challenges.

On my end, I am learning Korean. Partly because they are a big focus point of (potential) conflict to our culture. Partly because I want to watch Korean Dramas without reading sub-titles. I'm about 7 weeks in, and I feel drained trying to learn the language. Still gonna power through for the greater good.

TLDR;
The world could be a better place, especially from learning another culture. I'm learning Korean currently. Its hard, but I want to really know more about them.

Most other don't have the time because ... well, umm.. "have you seen the latest Bitcoin price!!!??"
I've seen that repeating pattern many times too, and I've been the IT guy as well. IMHO the solution is to serverize and automate the Excel models. See my profile for links to my product that does just that, even for sheets with VBA and addins.
There's better ABI compatibility than in the languages where you have to rebuild after every minor version bump. The C++ standard library version (and to some extent, the compiler) should be considered part of the platform.
The process of evolution doesn't have a "purpose" or "intent".
ground meat needs to fight back.

I don't think "meat" is at the level that can replicate ribs, roasts, bone-in steaks, barbecue brisket and burnt ends yet.

when they do, then real meat better start fighting hard.
We work together with a few Debian developers involved with reproducible builds in the reproducible-builds project, so yes a lot of work is shared which is awesome :)
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I started skimming towards the end. It sounds like there's some genuine weakness introduced here. But I'm also getting the impression there's some of the "security people" mindset Linus was ranting about:

"Forgot the original password? There’s no going back, you’re stuck with what you have unless you are willing to factory reset the device and lose all data in the process.
If you ask me, this was a perfect and carefully thought through solution."

I'm not sure how you can consider it a perfect solution that users are losing their backups and hammering Apple for support about the issue. The suggestion to make another backup via iCloud is not terribly useful to those who have lost their phone.
This argument pops up all the time, and has for years.

I recall seeing it when Eric Schmidt at Google said something like “don’t have anything worth hiding, and then you won’t care if you are hacked”. Excuse my brevity, but you argument and his are dumb arguments. These devices are incredibly powerful, and allow us to interact with one another in ways pen, paper, snail mail, and landlines never could (let alone the security risks those mediums have, which cannot be mitigated).

Devices can be incredibly secure. Manufacturers and service providers should prioritize that over mindless convenience.

I would agree with you, however, that you should not put your entire life into any insecure device. And it seems the iPhone is not an insecure device (I’m frustrated, and I have a 20+ character keyboard passphrase! Let alone 4-6 digit code)
In the future, Arch also wants to make their iso also reproducible :-). But first the packages have to be reproducible.
Great. So someone figured out how to make a product that looks like and tastes like meat, and it likely is hydrolized soy protein with a nice mixture of artificial flavors and colors. Yeah, why not harm humans instead of animals.

I think a better approach to the problems that come with our “out of control meat consumption” is to drastically reduce meat consumption and eat it consciously. Much better than getting lost in the artificial flavors of frankenfoods .. No one really needs to eat meat more than once or twice a week.
Before every bubble bursts, there's always a widely-held view that "this time it's different" [0]

Whether there is a bitcoin bubble[1] or not[2], and whether it's a about to burst or not, it's definitely being said a lot.

[0] http://uk.businessinsider.com/benedict-evans-says-there-is-n...

[1] https://qz.com/1067557/robert-shiller-wrote-the-book-on-bubb...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2017/11/27/fi...
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Do you have a hobby that's orthogonal to your tech career? I try to go to photowalks and photo meetups as much as I can. I end up meeting a more diverse set of people and because I'm a "techie" they'll often open up about their tech problems. Giving a few suggestions for free then provides an opportunity to ask them about how they could improve the automation in their lives.

Another option is owning a house, or taking some interest in the various maintenance folks that run an apartment building. You encounter lots of people with no systems, but not enough knowledge/time to get something working on their own. Or, even better, those that have been burned with custom shitty software. I had to get a tree trimmed and the arborist was a goldmine of information on the software available, and the problems his company had with it. Markets like these are ripe for disruption with simpler and cheaper SaaS solutions.
"True vegetarians don't really care too much about these products. They're quite expensive, and many of us have a particular love of good vegetables and cooking techniques. The meat is not really missed."

Just because you've chosen to willfully deny yourself the flavor and texture of meaty goodness, that doesn't mean that other people don't still crave it, whether animal- or vegetable-sourced.

And no, I do cook a lot of veggie dishes (my girlfriend is a strong proponent of traditional German veggie dishes) and every single one that has been touted as "so meaty and satisfying" has definitely been found lacking in that area.
I guess Americans are different - I make effort to try to understand immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asian countries as form of bridging the cultural divide and attempting more harmony with others regardless their origin. I guess Danes are too lazy or boorish for this.
My comment doesn't assert or assume that.