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No, he means 64-bit. Most games use 32-bit floats, (which pose far greater practical precision/range issues in many scenarios involving multiple scales and reasonable distances) and this is what most GPU hardware has focused on until relatively recently. Only newer, higher-end GPU hardware has native support for 64-bit double precision geometry with game-level performance. It's quite easy to run up against the limitations of single-precision floats. It's an issue where I work and we only deal with data at city-block scale, and far worse if you have to work at solar system scale like Star citizen, hence the need to move to 64-bit doubles. You can work around the problems using multiple reference frames and conversions, but it's a pita. I'm not sure if Star Citizen has gone down the route of a full 64-bit pipeline (limiting it's target audience GPUs) or if it's a hybrid system. I'm guessing that it will need a fairly high spec GPU to run anyway.
Are you suggesting that paddle.com gets around the RBI restrictions for companies based outside of India selling to Indians?
This looks a lot like Clojure's standard library, and you could probably steal more ideas from it, e.g transducers https://clojure.org/reference/transducers
> Because mathamaticians have thousands of years of history where they learned how to write math in a way that is readable to other mathamaticians.

No, actually, they learned to write math in a way which is a trade-off between readability and ease of writing (which is perfectly ok). The problem is exactly with thousands of years of history: the notation which is convenient to write on a clay tablet or papyrus scroll is not necessarily the best notation to use in an interactive document format displayed on computer screen.

Fiction writers have as long a history as mathematicians (or much longer) but they don't insist on writing in Latin or Middle English. It is arrogant to think that the notation and practices of contemporary mathematicians are ideal and impossible to improve in any way.

Lastly, writing for other mathematicians is a problem in its own right. There is a difference between conducting your day to day work, where you can write your equations on clay tablets for all I care and writing an article with a purpose of explaining your work to others. Most of the math papers completely ignore this and instead of honestly explaining the matter, authors focus on promoting themselves as great scientists.

There is a lot that can be done to improve understandability (I used "readability" for this earlier, but understandability seems to fit better), to reduce the time needed to read and understand math papers. It would benefit everyone, yet almost nobody does it. There are reasons for this, I'm sure, but it still makes everyone worse off.
Got to love the 'privacy' instead of 'piracy' typo in the first cable screenshot:

"2. Summary. In a visit to Sweden last month to raise the growing concerns about Internet privacy in Sweden, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA), together with ..."
If you're looking to be user-friendly, I'm not sure "encrypted" would work, because many people aren't going to know what it means.

I'm thinking specially in its inactive "not encrypted" version, where people aren't going to appreciate the gravity of a page being "not encrypted".

I bet the folks at Google already thought about this through.
When can we have an AI that plays Third Reich? But not too well, I want to at least have a chance.

I'm actually not joking. I wonder how much different it would be to teach an AI like this how to play more complex games. I imagine Axis and Allies wouldn't take much, but Third Reich is notoriously complicated. The quickest war-length game I've played took a week of playing 3-4 hours per day and games like that seem to me to be much more similar to real world problems, with multiple different sorts of trade offs that interlock with each other.

Are neural AIs like this actually feasible to train for problems like that or are other AI techniques better suited to it? What about games with multiple different game systems, like board games with a card game element to them like Settlers of Catan? Would you need to use several different types of AI to optimize different parts of the game?
Nitpick: "without causing a conflict of interest" is incorrect, as there most definitely was a CoI. You probably meant to say "conflict of interest scandal" or words to that effect.
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Copyright holders have been sending those kinds of settlement demands in Finland as well. They seem to be monitoring the torrent swarm for relevant IP addresses so that they can demand that ISPs hand over account holder's names. ISP are by law required to hand over this information if the users has shared something illegally to "a significant degree".

They settlement demands have been between 500€ and 3000€ and they have usually been lowered in the cases that have gone to court. A few have however ended up footing legal costs in the tens of thousands.
Does it talk much about the financier Carl Lundström's role in TPB?

He never gets mentioned much for some reason*

* Because of his far right connections
There's the extremely annoying tendency at least at German streaming providers (iTunes, Amazon/Google Video) to remove rental access to movies about nine months after DVD release or when a second movie of a series is about to arrive at the theatres. Only buy access remains accessible. Now that physical video rental stores are on terminal decline, online stores have an effective oligopoly without real competition and push customers towards paying a maximum. The only alternative in this case remains thepiratebay.
Some cursory Googling indicates that the last few years Apple has managed to keep its taxes paid at a rate of between 18% and 19%.

For comparison, the Republican tax plan currently being debated in Congress is capping at 20% or 21% (depending on which day's negotiations you're looking at). And I personally am paying a rate around 36%.

I wonder what rate you think Apple and other large companies should be paying, and how much the rest of us would have to pay to give them that cut.
Ok, thanks for the discussion, I don't think we will agree but I understand your point of view.
Very cool that you are doing this.

I had an AP English teacher that took us 'off book' after we finished our tests to teach us real-life stuff (how taxes work, credit cards, etc.) for a few days. More students should be getting such a primer before college.
Not everyone can borrow $15000. Wealthy people seem often not to realize that poor people don't have access to credit on the same terms that they do.
I think he is saying that there are companies monitoring the trackers.
> led by those junior dictators in Poland and Hungary

You watch too much main stream media. Turn off your TV and start thinking instead ...
There is also the issue that movies in Germany and such only have the German Audio track in 5.1, but the English one is in 2.0. How ridiculous.
I am curious how ignoring the connection between being a Roma and your likelihood of engaging in criminal activity is beneficial to anyone? It most certainly doesn’t benefit the Roma.
They are still to blame for the mugging, even if the reasons are understandable.
Pretty misinformed and seemingly bitter, especially for a self proclaimed yogi.

It is liquid capital - and its value is $86mm since you could liquidate this at any moment without moving the order book.
I was able to install on Ubuntu with Software Center after downloading the deb. The UI is a big improvement for classical music.
>At the time there were some rumors that Sweden would be placed on the US Trade Representative’s 301 Watch List. This could possibly result in negative trade implications. However, in a cable written April 2006, the US Embassy in Sweden was informed that, while there were concerns, it would not be listed. Not yet at least. “We understand that a specialized organization for enforcement against Internet piracy currently is under consideration,” the cable reads, while mentioning The Pirate Bay once again.

Typical, not so subtle, blackmail.

One wonders what would happen if, say, the leader of some disclosure website was residing in Sweden and a superpower wanted him...

(From a comment below on TPB case: "The judge was Thomas Norström. Swedish public radio revealed that the judge, Thomas Norström, is a member of several copyright protection associations, whose members include Monique Wadsted and Peter Danowsky – attorneys who represented the music and movie industries in the case. According to the report, Judge Norström also serves as a board member on one of the groups of which Mrs. Wadsted, the Motion Picture Association of America’s attorney, is a member." -- hurray for independent justice in any case..)
You're confusing poverty with lack of money. Poverty is measured more accurately by looking at social capital (community connections that lead to jobs, family stability, etc). The world bank measures poverty in terms of health/capacity to work, life expectancy, and other factors beyond access to money alone.
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As I said in another comment[1], I'm not even talking about software engineering, just a good practices of everyday programming.

Could you please tell me why do you think that the name `x` is better than `element` (when talking about some set), the name `X` is better than `training_set`, and the `∑` is better than `sum`?

[1] Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15914024
If you look at the figures you'll find out that such a defense network could never have worked as a deterrent and wouldn't work today either. Russia had and still has a gigantic amount of conventional troops including heavy artillery and thousands of tanks, and can easily gain air superiority in any local conflict.

That's why the US always insisted on a first nuclear strike option during Cold War, which almost lead to the total destruction of the world in 1983 when the Soviets misinterpreted a NATO maneuver as preparation for a first strike.
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So no Tor exit nodes in Germany, I suppose ...
HN has talked about funding UBI via a land value tax before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15264024

It makes a fair amount of sense, and puts the incentives in the right place.
I've had the same thing happen with a flight that was booked with my credit card on the same day that I cancelled it (probably some guy at Mastercard making some extra money).

Booking a flight seems like it's something that's very easy to track down who benefits, doesn't it?
For the one TPB that has survived, there are several file sharing websites (decent ones that are actually usable) and torrent sites that have been pulled down and the copyright owners have prevailed. I think this more points to the technical acumen of the ppl behind TPB.

I am not taking strong sides against or for fighting piracy. I do hope the greater share of the profits do end up with the original authors and not the content distributors.
But most Germans don't care for the english track in the first place, being used to subbed dialogue.
Yep, it is easy for an expert to move to EU, but people going hungry in the article above are not experts in technical fields.
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Can be called "Über Doodle".
Seeing this coming out now means in several years Poland will be "liberated from corrupt government" by Russia, and like every time before, our "friends" will stand aside.
So why do I have to go to a paywalled site to read about free online content? OP and NYT can both take a damn hike.
I don't think it's gonna make a difference. At least in Amazon ES, most reviews are written by top reviewers who have made their "career" by first reviewing small products bought by them and after that they're gifted other, bigger products (using 100% OFF coupons so they appear as verified purchases). The moment you find a review with several pictures and paragraph-separated long texts you know it's a paid review with zero value.

And Amazon ES is full of those.
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It's really cool that many torrents that are over 10 years old are still seeded.
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> the stereotype "gypsy = criminal" is still incredibly harmful

How so? You just state this as a given, and in fact, that also could be seen as a stereotype.

> people are ill-equipped to handle these thoughts in the brain simultaneously

Actually, the evidence is that people are very well equipped to handle these thoughts simultaneously: they use the stereotype only as long as they have no further evidence.
The strongest claim is that the original agreement was positioning SC as a showcase ad vehicle for cryengine, but, with CIG moving to the lumberyard fork, this is clearly not happening. Basically SC was married to cryengine until death do us apart, but now crytek is lying sick in deathbed and CIG have run off with their sister (because, despite all metaphors, CIG are still a company, not a spouse) instead of sitting at their bedside, holding hands as long as it takes.
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> It's already possible if you have technical skills.

By and large, an American engineer moving to Europe is trading down in a big way - including but definitely not limited to financial compensation.
"no fail quick buck"? If you listen to mass media for the last several years whenever they mention bitcoin they tell you it's an incredibly risky investment.
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I'm still waiting for Stripe to launch in the UK's Crown Dependencies. I'm based in Jersey, and we have no (easy) marketplace payment solution.

Currently using Safecharge, which is quite good, however the setup process requires submitting 10+ documents with details on the company structure, UBOs and nature of business.
> AlphaZero neatly side steps this by generating it's own training data by playing itself. If how to do this was "obvious", it would have been done a long time ago.

Learning by self-play is nearly as old as AI itself. TD Gammon, one of the very first algorithms to reach superhuman levels in a nontrivial game, learned by self play. The basic ingredients for AlphaGo Zero, Monte-Carlo tree search and use of a convnet to evaluate board positions, were known already.

The major contribution of the AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero was IMO the realisation that MCTS acts as a "policy improvement operatior", and that reinforcement learning becomes far more stable when it's used in conjunction with MCTS.

It's a major contribution and could represent a big shift in the field. But we won't be able to judge how big of a contribution until the research is more reproducable.
I like that approach but would have preferred a DIL-like form factor like they did in the Duo board, so that it would be protoboard-friendly.
Still interesting though. I'd like to test one to one and one to many connectionless board to (nearby) board communications through ethernet w/o magnetics; should be interesting for some applications.
These companies are the scum of the scum, tbh, I recall I once got a letter claiming I must pay about 6000€ for illegally downloading "Debian 5 Linux Netboot ISO" and "Ubuntu 12.04 x86 Full ISO" or something along those lines.

They sent some awfully scary letters for what amounts to legally obtaining an ISO file.
I don’t think we can poopoo it that easily. The expansion of NATO is one of Russia’s biggest grievances against the West. Russia is in an historically vulnerable position right now which is a large part of the reason why they’re behaving so aggressively and recklessly.
If you're struggling to make ends meet, it's probably not going to be that easy to get someone to lend you fifteen grand.
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> I especially like the early slides that help frame AI vs ML vs DL so that people can have a realistic understanding of what these technologies are for.

But they're wrong! I read "Deep learning drives machine learning which drives artificial intelligence." This is very wrong. I stopped reading.
I've been in academia for three decades, and have yet to pay a cent to download a paper. I don't know any colleagues or students who have done so, either. I doubt that they make much money from per-article fees. I think they set them high so that universities will be forced to subscribe.

My funding councils want people to publish in open-access journals, but they don't provide extra funds for the doubling of cost that's involved. The money has to come from somewhere, and the main cost item tends to be student stipends, so professors tend to continue publishing in pay-access journals.

I've been on both sides of the "fetch for a friend" process. I've had to ask friends to fetch copies of papers that I've written, for which I've paid page charges, because my university had to drop the journal in one or another waves of cost saving.

And for all this money, the journals do very little in the way of contributing to the process, nowadays. Reviewers work for free, as do most academic editors. Technical editors seem to barely exist anymore, since authors do their own typesetting and journals rely on academic reviewers to help with English.

Academics are caught in a narrowing vice as they move through the career process. Papers have to appear in high-reputation journals, or else. And those journals just happen to be expensive.
IIRC it does, but only briefly. He bought advertising space on TPB and it became a controversy. The TPB guys were falsely accused of being right wing extremists for doing business with Carl Lundström.
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It reads fine for me (but I'm using NoScript and Adblockers). You can access the Gabriel García Márquez archive at [1]

[1] https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...
In Switzerland piracy for private reasons (non-commercial) is legal!
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First, let me say that I can totally understand your position and the Polish position in general. Russia is and has been (as Germany has been) an agressive imperialist country (I would wish Germany thanked Poland more for stopping the Russian march on Germany in 1921).

I can also understand your point as a country that had
defence agreements and ended up occupied after WW2 while your defenders claimed victory.

But IMHO it accelerated (imperialist) Russia (again) on an agression path but more importantly weakend NATO, as NATO acceptance in core countries like France, the UK and Germany decreased. Acceptance of NATO in Germany is lower than ever, basically because NATO is seen as not committing to promises made and seen as an agressor in large parts of the population because of this (not my POV).

"a covert landgrab like the one that happened in Ukraine wouldn't be stopped."

NATO is so weakend right now and a shadow from the 1980s NATO that with a different government than the current conservative one, Germany will not commit to defend baltic states if Russia plays the Crimea Russian minority shenanigans. The current US government won't either.

In no way will NATO countries use nuclear weapons to defend baltic states compared to using nuclear weapons in the 80s.
> AlphaZero neatly side steps this by generating it's own training data by playing itself. If how to do this was "obvious", it would have been done a long time ago.

It was done a long time ago. Arthur Samuel's chequers program (1959) improved by playing against itself in thousands of games.

People can and do improve that way too: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/playing-against-you...
I have once robbed by a Gypsy guy, right after I thought to myself "I should judge him". It was late in the night. He was backed up by an obviously non-gypsy guy. Needless to say, I've been more skeptical since then about interactions like these. BUT, it was not only he was gypsy. The whole situation screamed danger. That's where stereotypes are powerful and useful, for your own safety.

On the other hand, whenever people are casually talking about 'darker skinned faces', in Romania meaning gypsy, then we're talking about something else. These are the situations where people are just promoting a gratuitous sense of pride and superiority for its own sake.
It's more of an assessment of capability rather than raw size.

For example the air component of the USMC is larger than the UK RAF but the latter is more experienced and capable in long-range power projection.

The IDF/AF is smaller than the Russian air forces but many times more capable.
You can scratch Stingray from the list unfortunately:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/stingray/learn-explor...
Would they want to move?

More importantly, would they be willing to learn the language?
You might enjoy an Orwellian access to your child's location, but as they grow it tends to suffocate the child's development. Many friends of mine who had been chained like this during middle school and high school proceeded to go to college and fall flat on their face in various ways (as their parents weren't there to strictly mind over them).

Kids can walk home on their own just fine. I used to walk a mile to school in Portland, OR and I was far from being in a safe neighborhood like I'm in here in Seattle. But, despite that I never had an issue during those years.

Instant reachability and the expectations surrounding it can easily snuff out personal development of children, at least one of my friends never left home, dated, etc, mainly due to his mother's incessant calls (80+ times if he didn't pick up, totally insane).
> ISP are by law required to hand over this information if the users has shared something illegally to "a significant degree".

ISP's only hand over data by court order but in the past few years, court orders have granted this right to pretty much every request from the copyright holders. ISP's are now contesting this and there were two recent judgements in the courts to allow ISPs not to hand over the data. See this [0] (in Finnish).

So the situation is now better in Finland, partially because the predatory abuse from copyright holders' law firms sending out tons of "fines".

[0] https://www.turre.com/operaattori-voitti-oikeudenhaltijat-tu...
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IIRC there are Tor exit nodes in germany, they also filter some traffic but only on the lowest amount of effort they have to do legally. Ie the usual suspects: illegal porn, illegal torrents (usually also porn) and websites not conforming to strict german industry standards.
The Reddit thread linked in the GitHub issue is interesting:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_loo...

There are several scary things about this:

- Unknown Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their permission

- Mozilla developers can distribute addons to users without their knowledge

- Mozilla developers themselves don't realise the consequences of doing this

- Experiments are not explicitly enabled by users

- Opening the addons window reverts configuration changes which disable experiments

- The only way to properly disable this requires fairly arcane knowledge Firefox preferences (lockpref(), which I'd never heard of until today)
One of the complicated parts about this for US citizens is taxes. If you are a US citizen you have to file taxes with the IRS for your worldwide income, even if you are living and paying taxes in another country. I assume most EU countries have a tax-treaty with the US, so you wouldn't have to pay taxes twice, but it definitely makes it more complicated.
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