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Separate projects like this is how a lot of these "RHEL Enterprise $FOO" are actually made.

RedHat / Suse / Ubuntu / $Vendor take the upstream project, tidy it a bit, package it, get it integrated in their ecosystem, and add an easy installer.

Having it in a vendor neutral foundation means that all the vendors can colaborate, and not have one group with a massive advantage or complete control over a roadmap.
The government was made up by conspiracy theorists. It didn't actually exist except as a constant in all their theories, so while people dismissed the theories about the government doing this or that, they eventually forgot that the government wasn't actually a thing.
I wonder if this will increase demand for "ride sharing." Anyone who takes an Uber/Lyft will automatically have at least two people in the car, allowing them to use this highway for free. I suppose this probably depends on how long the commute is and whether the ride would be <$40 (or <$40 + gas + car depreciation).
I see a number of comments about taking Vitamin D for mood and SAD issues.

My goto site for supplements is http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-o...

It essentially ranks supplements based on the amount of research there is to support the claim (so the same supplement can show up in multiple categories). You can see Vitamin D is backed by a lot of research for various ailments, but the category for which there is least evidence is mood related disorders.

On a side note, be very wary of the supplements you take (in the US). There is virtually no oversight in their manufacture, and various groups' investigations have shown that the claimed dosage can be way, way off. And the inactive ingredients may be false as well. Relying on well known companies did not seem to make a difference.

I recall an interview with a pharmacist at a hospital that had decided they test the supplements they had in stock - given that they were giving them to patients. They were rather shocked.

If anyone has a good resource where a group tests different manufacturers' supplements and has some kind of reliability rating, I'd love to know. I pretty much stopped taking supplements when I saw how unreliable the claimed dosages were.
When the time it takes to get a burn is 10 minutes or less, you might as well treat it as exposure = burn.
First line: "What if the state covered the cost of living?"

Who is paying for the income? It's not "The state". It's everyone else, by taxation. You're telling people you have a right to seize their earnings for their labor. You're literally taking someone else's money, and giving it to someone else. UBI is nothing but people ignoring the moral problems of seizing assets and saying "The end justifies the means."

If a billionaire philanthropist wants to sponsor UBI voluntarily, that's a different matter. Or if you want to donate to a charity that funds UBI, please do. It'll be an interesting economic experiment. But taking assets from people and giving them to another person is wrong, no matter how good the outcome is.
The question that I keep coming back to is what are the implications of investing/speculating in a technology well before its implications are understood?

Adam Ludwin, the CEO of Chain, talks about how when the dot-com bubble happened, everyone knew at least to an extent that online retail would be a thing. Social networks would be a thing. Digital media would be a thing. The required ingredients were competition, Moore's Law, and time.

Bitcoin is different for a few reasons. It doesn't solve economic problems for most people in developed countries. It's also a development far deeper in the technology stack, a change in ledger management and accounting procedures. The last major update to this was double entry in the Italian Renaissance, which allowed the formation of corporations. The one before that was the invention of zero.

We don't know what the implications of Bitcoin will be. I think a much better analogy for the current bubble is the South Sea Company, since that was essentially people speculating on a new asset class (equity) that was poorly understood at the time. But saying that it's a bad investment because the use cases are not immediately obvious misses the forest for the trees.
Universal Basic Income is necessary for humanity to reach to higher goals in their evolution. Wasting 8-10 hours of the day doing a job that robots could do much better is not the best use of human intelligence. Imagine the discoveries and inventions that would happen if humans could devote all of their time to their passion. The benefits drastically outweigh the minuscule downsides
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> Would you say GPU compute was envisioned in the 80's?

Sure, why not? What is a modern GPU if not a bunch (well, a very large bunch!) of vector processors? Vector supercomputers were a thing in the 1970'ies, parallel vector supercomputers in the early 1980'ies. The 1980'ies also saw the beginnings of massively parallel systems (e.g. Connection Machine, Transputer). So take the state of supercomputing in the 1980'ies, extrapolate using Moore's law up to today, and you might arrive at something quite close to a GPU chip.

Now, that this chip full of vector processors would be a side-effect of the $$$ available for graphics rendering, largely for entertainment purposes, is probably a historical fluke few would have predicted.

But my point was that Quantum Computing really is different. It's not a general purpose computing method (in the sense of Turing completeness etc.), and AFAIK so far all attempts at it require very low temperatures in order to drive down thermal fluctuations. Sub-K refrigerators have advanced considerably in the past few decades, but still it's far away from something portable.

> I don't think we understand the quantum world and quantum computers well enough today to define 100% of the things we'll be using quantum computers for 50 years from now. We'll start with cryptography, molecule interaction simulations, and some optimization problems, but I think we'll think of new ways to use them in the future.

Oh, absolutely. I'm just not convinced it'll be something every Tom, Dick, and Harry will use to go about their daily lives, even 50 years from now.
> It's the only asset that doesn't require me to trust an institution or an individual. It can't be confiscated. It's rules are known.

If we really want to take this argument to an extreme, the government can kill you, torture you, throw you in a jail cell, or otherwise apply force until you give up your bitcoins.

If I thought the world economy was on the brink (I don't) I would buy non-perishable food, water, firewood, a generator, fossil fuels, solar power, etc. Of course the government could kill me and seize all of that too, so I'd probably want to buy a bunker in some remote part of the world.
So if bought inflation-protected securities from the us treasury, they would have paid >300% from 2008 to now? Or does the us treasury use the journalist definition of inflation?
I think you are right, but it hasn't happened yet. China keeps growing and developing with what seems to outside observers such unbelievable might that it's psyching people out. I think the rise of strong man rule and neo-fascist ideologies in the West and elsewhere is a reaction. "We need to become more totalitarian now or we will be left behind!"

Bubbles always psych people out. They always go higher than anyone expects. They always make the nay-sayers look like fools... until they don't, and the nay-sayers end up looking like prophets.

My brother in law lived and worked in China for about 10 years. He went from thinking China would conquer the world in the first few to thinking China is Enron.
You can, and I do. But most sites use it in a way that breaks most of the functionality if you don't enable it. This is bad, and encourages bad habits to those that don't know what they are doing.

> Yes, there are potential threats from running javascript, but javascript still relatively less threatening than everything else...

yeah, all of those plain html attacks have been pretty damaging.... oh, wait, there are hardly any, because html makes sense, and is designed with the user in mind. JS is the opposite.

> including every other kind of executable code that can run from the web, such as java applets, flash and silverlight.

Those are shitty too. But just because they are worse, doesn't make JS acceptable.

> I understand you don't like javascript, but you're overstating the malice of forethought behind its application in all but the edge cases.

I'm not overstating the malice of forethought. I get that 99% of JS is by people who want their site to work well, and use it with good intentions. But even good intentions, done wrong, lead to bad results.
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Indeed. Most engines are pretty bad without their opening books. There was surprisingly little stress on this.
Good.

Every time browsers get new features people (ESPECIALLY ad networks) abuse it for tracking and other nefarious purposes.

Battery level, light level, probably even gyroscope stuff. Hell they fingerprint canvas which isn’t even an iOS thing.

I don’t want these issues. I LIKE these restrictions so random sites I visit (and even worse random code injected in them) can’t watch me as easy.

Apps have issues but I control what apps I download and can delete them. At least I have a _chance_ there.
The JVM is not a no-go, it's just that I'm prejudiced against it ;-)

I have to maintain old Windows XP laptops with version 1.4 JVMs so I'd rather avoid having to install it on a server just for a small chat system.
Four hours to learn on a high speed computer is what millions upon millions of games? Thousands of human lifetimes lived out in four hours. The four hours to learn thing is fake news and distorts the reality of how many games and trials the machine actually went through.
It's just a state of mind man!

Funnily enough, it only ever bites me when I want to read something like this. Or use some site or service that requires auth via Facebook.

The idea of logging-in to Facebook now, having not done so at all in ... maybe a year? – I just expect to be overwhelmed with the volume and underwhelmed with the significance of whatever it is my 'friends' are posting that it's just easier to never login again.
Traditional social programs are a safety net for single people like those going through divorce and such. Under UBI, it just puts a lot more pressure on those people, while at the same time alleviating the pressure on multi-income households. It's might force people to stay together in unhappy marriages, etc. I see that as a problem.
Fair enough. I was just trying to make the point that something being on pubmed doesn't mean its anything close to an NIH recommendation and chose arxiv as it would be familiar to a CS audience.
I agree with it too! Very bad website. I am a FED. I can build better websites!
from the paper:

> Training proceeded [...] using 5,000 first-generation TPUs

> We evaluated the fully trained instances of AlphaZero against Stockfish, Elmo and the previous
version of AlphaGo Zero [...]. AlphaZero and the
previous AlphaGo Zero used a single machine with 4 TPUs.

So the 5000 TPUs processing power or energy consumption should be compared with those spent in devising Stockfish, not running it.
There does seem to be a fair bit left to write (or clean up and open source from Hyper.sh and Intel)

e.g. the entire testing repo is empty

I would suggest we are looking at a conference driven development release
This is called the wrench problem - a motivated individual with a wrench can steal all your wealth. It's something to take seriously.

The good news is that it doesn't scale.
Ha ha ha! :)
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The quickest way to tell that bitcoin is a bubble is when shysters start making breathless posts like yours.

Bitcoin as a populist movement?? No sir. It is pure greed (and probably a healthy dose of good old fashioned MtGox style exchange manipulation) driving this bubble. Nobody buying right now is participating in some kind of mass uprising against the man. They are buying, holding, and praying they can unload their stash onto some greater fool right before the whole thing collapses.

No safe haven asset is as volatile as bitcoin. Bitcoin is over 9 years old. It still can’t, and never will, scale to handle even an order of magnitude less transactions than visa. The blockchain is worthless for almost every application. Bitcoin, at this point, is pure hype.
Encourages co-habitation anyway.
It would be much much useful, to show which ones are actually properly supported by IE, probably would be less work.
That's no different than it is now. Single family homes are incentivized to work more and thus contribute a disproportionate share of taxes. It doesn't matter what you spend those taxes on.

Then again, multifamily housing has less access to the mortgage interest deduction, which cuts the other way.

Basically, this is the deal we've already decided on in our society, and AFAICS it hasn't caused problems.
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It's not a meta-analysis either. It cites a meta-analysis, which has different conclusions.
> One of the probable factors is the lust for fair skin.

I think this must be cultural. Certainly in my experience in the United States, the lust is for tanned skin. There are even tanning salons, where one can lie down in a machine which floods one's skin with UV.

Now, I personally love fair skin, and have never understood why others seem to love a tan so much.
Walking to the nearest casual carpool pickup spot is closer & faster to city for most people vs walk/walk+bus to BART.

Regarding the mixing with humanity point, I think you'd agree sharing a car is a tad more intimate than sharing a sardine-packed train car.
Sooo... how much savings South Korea has and how it compares to how much money was invested in bitcoin so far? I other words, what happens with the price in South Korea will put half of their savings in bitcoin?
You mean that they finally started to pay attention to the ludicrous crap they were giving money to that advertisers wanted nothing to do with?

What a surprise. It was deserved and a long time coming.

People need to learn that whatever horrible thing you put online doesn’t automatically get you paid. Advertisers don’t want to sponsor “anything” because it reflects poorly on them.
I disagree. We have all the technology and processes we could ever need to distribute and charge people dollars for things.

Creating a whole new kind of currency with its own special rules is a huge undertaking. Not to mention the ongoing pain-in-the ass cost to every citizen when they have to carry around and think about a new special kind of money that can only be used for one thing.
I wasn't talking about zebras in isolation, I was talking about something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8HJ2RJwcJM except there were more crocodiles and the zebras were forming less of a line.

Yes, that individual zebra probably knew it was done for the second it was surrounded. Struggling didn't make a difference for itself, it made a difference for everybody else. And if the zebras had just stood there going "you first", they would ALL have died. That's the point. That's how we do, and I don't see anyone debating that main point.

It's not even selfless, it's the difference between thinking in terms of quarterly profits and one's own comfort in one's own lifespan, and destroying the planet and society in the process. If you want to think of it in terms of DNA, if other humans survive then still more genes similar to your own get passed on than if NOBODY survives.

> Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

-- Hannah Arendt

Who also often pointed out how many intellectuals have this talent to not see the woods for all the trees, and how talking about serious things with average people is often more fruitful. Chomsky made the same point, though I can't find the quote for him either.
Ag workers were routinely exposed to ridiculous levels of dangerous pesticides for most of the 20th century.
Kim Dotcom, a German citizen, is being extradited to a country he has never set foot in, for something that is not a crime in New Zealand.
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No - 5000 TPUs were used for training, but the 100-game matches used just 4 TPUs (bottom of p4 in the paper)
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I disagree. I think people understand that computers are fast, so millions of games is implied in "four hours." The fact that it only took that much time, starting from nothing, is still incredibly impressive.
Yeah to be clear I think there is lots of good science supporting increased vitamin D intake possibly including some of the work cited/described here. This article just doesn't seem notable, novel or particularly well written beyond the grabby title.
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Would UBI be available only for citizens or everyone living within the borders?

Thoughts?
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... Or maybe they should just pin this news to the top od HN because price of bitcoin is sort of developing story.
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I've made no comment about medical bills or people who legitimately lack the money, who have other legal protection. I'm talking about people who rack up debt and try to escape the consequences just because it is advantageous to themselves to do so. I personally know more of them than I care to. I apologize if the wording implied this was "most cases" of debt in general.
I think a lot of the broad criticism of C++ is from people who don't use it professionally and have a superficial understanding of it. Professionals usually have specific criticisms of C++ (based on actual problems) which non-professionals interpret as "everyone hates C++". I use C++ professionally and I'm rarely frustrated by it. The language is getting better over time, which is nice too.
I’ve accidentally taken the road during toll hours when I left work earlier than usual.

This is exactly the point. If you can accidentally take a road without impedance that is supposed to be "off limits" then it's not really "off limits."
Explaining your reason for trusting it doesn't detract from the fact that you are just trading entropy around. "Proof-of-work?" What work? I spent a undefined amount of power from the grid to render a string of digits in a specific pattern? I can flail against my keyboard or pipe /dev/urandom to a file is that worth $16k? Can't you see that you are engaging in madness? Just because you have defined the method of your madness doesn't make it any less insane.
> a change in ledger management and accounting procedures. The last major update to this was double entry in the Italian Renaissance

That seems wrong. I'm not an accountant, but I have a damn hard time believing that accounting practices haven't changed significantly since the Italian Renaissance...
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A round-the-World travel ticket.
Good point, I think you're right that Google could never do that.

The same applies for the EU though: It would be quite a hostile act to ban Google from doing any business in the EU, so I think this won't happen either.
I never understood this argument against more roads/bridges. Even if there is no improvement in latency (travel times), isn't the increase in throughput (number of people traveling) and the associated economic benefit worth it?
I can be wrong but I guess he means source to find strategies for the robot.
> I totally disagree with #2. What relevance is the country I reside or the country the company was founded matter?

As you live in the UK, and you noticed business you thought was local or US based turned out to be from the Philippines or Russia, would you care? It's essential the country be included.

> You know their registered name

You know more than that, you know the specific legal entity you are dealing with - the name is part of that, but it's what the name signifies. It's accountability, exactly like every other verification platform: Instagram, Facebook, whatsapp, GPG + university directory with keys, GPG keybase. Oddly enough the verification process for verifying individuals on these platforms is almost identical to EV's.

The only place we trust random pubkeys and a network address is the web, and that's because GeoTrust wanted to save money in the early 2000s.

> are they big/small, reputable, been established 2 days or 2 years, have 5 staff or 500 staff

You are confusing identification with approval. See: every platform listed above (except Twitter, which does actually confuse them and in currently in a heap of turmoil over it). Also your passport - it doesn't mean you're a good person, it just means we know which person you are.
I think the price will stabilise at some point with small fluctuations (just like gold). So soon you won't be able to make money from buying in early.
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My main concern is that the people in power (the ones with money) will direct resources to deluxe infrastructure because they can afford it and neglect basic infrastructure. When I hear people in Congress talk about the US system being the best in the world it's already clear that they haven't experienced it from the view of somebody with little money.

When I drive around LA this trend is visible. Rich neighborhoods have nice roads and don't allow street parking so they don't get much traffic. Poor neighborhoods have bad streets and get a lot of traffic.
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> maybe don't allow the undefined behavior in the first place?

So your problem is with C and C++, not Clang?

> I think if I had something like this accidentally in my code then I would want it to tell me that something's wrong instead of just giving bizarre results.

Then you misunderstand the problem.

Compilers don't seek out UB and then generate zany instruction sequences to spite the programmer. Instead, they assume there is no UB in the program, and optimise accordingly. If the code is bad and contains UB, all bets are off.

When I say 'all bets are off', I really mean it. Bizarre things happen in practice, legal by virtue of UB. I've read tales of bad C code printing that x is 0, and then evaluating that (0 == x) is false. (This was due to the compiler taking advantage of an 'is zero?' flag in the underlying CPU, which didn't perfectly align with the bits that stored the value of x.)

A good blog post on UB: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
To paraphrase:

> One might ask: Wouldn’t it be great if the compiler provided a warning or something when it detected [the UB]? Sure! But that is not the compiler’s priority.

This approach is part of what makes C, C. Very few other modern languages share this approach (the ones that do tend to be C based), and instead set out to have no UB. Java and C#, for instance, have no concept of UB.

It's impossible, even in theoretical terms, to build a perfect UB-detection program. This follows directly from Rice's theorem. The best we can do is better-than-nothing static-analysis tools, and dynamic-analysis tools. Neither can be perfect and exhaustive.

The good news is that these tools can much better than nothing, even if we know they're always going to be imperfect.
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