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There is some light but it's from obscure political ideologies.

Nakamoto's Bitcoin, Yarvin's Urbit, Friedman's Seasteading.*

These seem concerned with the technical debt we have, used loosely.

As the famous Ycombinator talk by Balaji Srinivasan pointed out these kinds of projects have a common theme of starting from first principals.

I blame the stagnation on the rejection of nuclear energy and biotechnology by our society. We built a fine collection of mythological fog stories around each of them, nuclear might produce mutant children and kill us all, biotechnology might produce race/class war (more mutants). Where have all of these misanthropic ideas been cultivated? Hollywood and the Universities. Actually I blame people like Mr Stross for this, the breed of people who decided we had a moral imperative not to support the use of these technologies.

The piles of fissile material, petri dishes and computer circuits don't contain any urge to murder us all. The existential funk started proper I think like yourself, with the failure of Communism, and then a loss of faith in democracy (increasing numbers of non-voters), lots of apathy.

This is why I feel like we should revitalize the old Victorian spirit of exploration, get the body moving, work together in gentleperson clubs (hacker spaces) and that shall produce more optimistic individuals. Then when we toy with new ideas we shall be less so inclined to view them darkly. I'm open to suggestions.

* To Charlie (who will be reading this thread and can tell me exactly what he thinks) I suspect these sorts of possibilities have a whiff of sulfur about them? I'm also curious to know if you've read Nick Land's essays. Context: Yarvin/Land are accusing Mr Stross of the thing he was flaking the transhumanists with, namely that his socio-political (socialist-democrat?) beliefs are a thinly veiled form of Christianity, where original sin is discrimination and paradise is multicultural utopia.

I suppose after a thousand or so years it kind of seeps in everywhere even when it becomes assumed it is on its last legs.

The story of slow moving AI is compelling, but since The Election there has been 24 hour news/outrage coverage of how we're all going to hell ever since - so at least one paperclip maximizer has influenced the motivation to make the talk.

The trouble I think is that nearly everything I can imagine Mr Stross supporting as progress basically backfires because at least half the public will have you for lunch over infringements to liberties. Once you're being tossed between the bulls horns of the left and right it's hard to imagine positive outcomes. At the start of the talk microtransactions were mentioned. That seems like a much better route because it is not partisan in nature.
OT: I don't get social networks.

Till today, I don't see any value in real name social networks like Facebook. They should present content I want but they don't, they show upvoted content from my connections which is wrong from a consumer and entertainment perspective.

My friends like or share mostly content of people because those people are kind of high-profile in their circles. Not because they post good content. The typical example, we all know, is some boring dude working at a VC that just raised a new fund who hourly posts really crappy content on FB and gets hundreds of likes every single time. Now, guess why. This happens all the time, everyday, every minute, just go to your FB feed right now and check how many of those high-status animals post again and again some random content which is liked and shared by too many likers.

So, the status of my connections determine which (lousy) content I have to see? No thanks and this is why I prefer interest-driven platforms such as HN.
He connects the corporation to the description of the Chinese Room. A corporation is a very big room full of people with human level intelligence under an artificial union acting as one.

Perhaps you can find other areas where that breaks down, but as far as reasonable guesses as to what will happen with AI in the near furture, this is the best I've heard so far.
I think you meant to s/detrimental/fundamental/
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Recommendations... woohoo. Depends on what fiction you like (I prefer Sci-Fi and Fantasy). I'll give you a couple I prefer.

For Buffy fans, [1] has a huge number of stories, both in-universe and crossovers with other worlds. [1a] to [1e] are a few of my favorite authors. Hotpoint's crossover between X-COM and SG-1 is absolutely amazing.

For other worlds, [2] to [5] are the most well-known sites for fanfiction. One of my favorite stories is [6].

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What I normally do is I download the stories in the .mobi format - tth and ao3 have that feature in the site, and for the others you can use the FanFicFare plugin for Calibre - and then upload them to my Kindle. This allows me to read in bed, which is bad for my sleep but I like it :)

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By the way, English isn't my maternal language either - reading a lot of stuff on the internet is pretty much how I learned it.

[1] https://www.tthfanfic.org

[1a] https://www.tthfanfic.org/Author-3980/Speakertocustomers.htm

[1b] https://www.tthfanfic.org/Author-7859/becuzitswrong.htm

[1c] https://www.tthfanfic.org/Author-15310/Cordyfan.htm

[1d] https://www.tthfanfic.org/Author-22082/DianeCastle.htm

[1e] https://www.tthfanfic.org/Author-7284/Hotpoint.htm

[2] https://www.fanfiction.net

[3] https://forums.spacebattles.com/

[4] https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com

[5] http://archiveofourown.org/

[6] https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/taylor-varga-w...
The people working on the major browsers aren't fools. If they were optimizing to get meaning across, they'd have done one hell of a better job than half-readable, non-accessible mess we have now that requires megabytes of divs and classes to markup, and a supercomputer to render.

Point being that the "empire" does not give a hoot about meaning. Their priorities lie elsewhere.

edit: Example. One day Steve Jobs just felt like flash didn't belong on his platform. At the time, flash was everywhere. Where is it now? I'm not shedding a tear for it--just using it as example of what a top-down enterprise the web actually is compared to what some people would like to think.
The difference is who owns and pays for what. Running a centralized application for more than a few people on donations and goodwill is a challenge.

This is why I am a huge fan of distributed and federated networks. The idea of you and your buddies being able to split a dream host subscription, but instead of being locked into your own forum hangout, you can interact with a whole global network of fellow self posters and VPS renters. We are in the early days of high-quality federated interaction for non-nerds, but we will get there.
Are you sure that extracting document structure from a screenshot is a solved task? I'm aware of "What You Get Is What You See" [1], but they are nowhere close to 100% accuracy even for reconstructing the original markup, which does not even require making inferences about the meaning of the content.

You seem to be overestimating how close to practicality neural-network approaches are for most problems. Very much of the potential application space is still firmly within the domain of research. That doesn't mean what you described is completely impossible, just that you could get a PhD for pulling it off.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04938v1 (incidentally, I noticed that the version of the paper that was accepted for ICML 2017 no longer has the HTML part)
Not my submission, but why remove "bad" from the title? We're not allowed to express a negative sentiment anymore? Don't want to hurt someone's feelings?

It's a confusing title in this form. Sounds like it will be a lesson in how to do systems programming, but it's really a complaint about a bad experience with some systems programming. Let the title say what the thing is.
Our team (mostly cognitive scientists and engineers) is nostalgic about the past of online communication and concerned about its future. Our platform, Lyra, provides support for effective conversations rather than social networking and advertising. You can read our history of online convesation - and more about our approach - here: www.hellolyra.com/introduction
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The article itself doesn't, some of the quotes from relevant papers do. It seems likely that studies are often done comparing treatments, and at least one of the quotes has context supporting that idea.
In Rust, you still have to declare types for function parameters and return values. So, if you prefer to declare types everywhere, break your code down into single-expression functions!
This was between 1999 - 2008. Our quarterly bonuses started out at 20% and the yearly raises were 3%.

But even at 5-6% raises, that doesn't compare to the roughly 11% "raises" I've received by jumping jobs 4 times since 2008.

As far as money isn't everything. Yes there is a trade off between how much I'm willing to accept and commute times. All in all, the only reason I go to work every day is for the compensation.

As far as I can tell, the gravy train is over as far as being able to make 10K to 20K+ to switch jobs if I still want to be an active developer and I'm not willing to relocate. I'm okay with that. Now the criteria for jobs are what new skills I can learn, comparable compensation, new challenges, and work life balance including the commute and work for home opportunities.
That 38-per-year number seems ludicrously high. The last time I wrote a check was five years ago, for an earnest money deposit, and I don't know anyone who writes them much more often than I do other than a few elderly people, who still use them as their primary means of payment.
Just FYI, some of the Paperwhite models have that same 300 ppi as the Oasis. There are 3 Paperwhite models, the original, a slight upgrade refresh a year or two later, and another upgrade a year or two after that which gave it the 300 ppi screen.
call me nostalgic, but i refuse to let go of that internet. There are plenty of alternatives that dont get a multi billion dollar TV ad blitz, and theyre worth checking out

https://freenode.net for a classic IRC experience, free of charge.
https://mastodon.social/about for a distributed open source twitter-like experience
https://diasporafoundation.org/ for an alternative to facebook that respects your privacy.
Resistors are cheaper. Much better for the bottom line.
Unfortunately, you missed out on the brief time in history when they did exactly what you were asking for.

MySpace had no likes and no algorithm to filter your activity. Neither did Facebook for several years, nor did LiveJournal (and all the other social blogging platforms), or even Instagram at first.
So the definition of explicit or not has to do with the computability of the question.

Method resolution is not computable in a dynamic language with monkey patching.
Hence, not explicit.

That's a good point.
But it does work like that, and drug tolerance is why you can eat a 30mg XR and be normal and I would be flying off anything more than 5-10mg IR.

Adderall has a lot of utility for regular people, it works exactly like caffeine. Eventually all that dopamine from the amphetamines is going to ruin all your receptors, hth.
You mean SEPA transfer?
You might like my “qp trie” code.

https://dotat.at/prog/qp/README.html

It is in a rather experimental proof-of-concept state, but it has been adapted for production use in the Knot-DNS server.

The main correctness tool I used was a custom data structure fuzzer, with various sanity checks including a reference implementation in perl that produces the same results as the real implementation under test (when it works).
they would never do it "to drive customer upgrades".

That isn't never do it. That's never do it for a single specific reason. Why add that clause?

I guarantee no word in that statement is wasted on meaningless fluff.
I recall being a bit confused about the terms, "social web," and "social network" when they were beginning to be bandied about to discuss Flickr and Facebook et al. The Internet was already a social network. You had irc, nntp, http, ftp, etc etc... communication protocols. For communicating with other humans.

The only thing Facebook did, in my experience, was make the web anti-social. I distinctly recall when my group of friends had stopped calling around each week to figure out what we were going to do on the weekend. I was calling people to find out what they were up to... and I got that condescending call to action, just get on Facebook.

So I did. I tried it for about a year or two. And it didn't make the web any better or more social for me. It would recommend events to attend and I'd go... but people would just be in their cliques not talking to anyone outside of their groups. Even learning about upcoming concerts and events required a Facebook account. People stopped calling and hanging out. It was all very passive: like, like, comment, meme, har, har.

So I closed down my Facebook account and haven't used it since 2009 or so. The "social web" has only become more anti-social.

Most of these web services made quite a lot of interesting innovations and such but I can't help but wonder what the web would've been like if we'd stayed true to its roots and improved the protocols and infrastructure instead of centralizing everything behind walled gardens.
Our most talkative meters are currently broadcasting 4 packets of data per hour. Water meters with autonomous power are limited to one or two (for central hot water supply) packets per day. With all the randomness added collecting data for successful key bruteforcing will take months or even years. On the other hand, using 64 bits allows us to use 16- or even 8-bit microcontrollers, which is beneficial to power consumption. Of four recources commonly metered in Russia - electricity, water, gas and heat - three should use autonomous power. We also making an autonomous plug-in modules for popular "dumb" electricity meters - to simplify installation. They broadcast once a day too so the battery could last for 6 years.
An open conversation service needs to be open to all, not just people with tech skills; we need to prevent large numbers of people feeling locked out of discourse, or left behind.

Also, many of the distributed/federated services we've looked at have rapidly devolved into niche communities often centred around sexual content. These two reasons lead us to think that a centralised service is more open and approachable.
really? fall in love with our ikea creations?

More like procrastinating with the pieces sitting inside the ikea box until I really need to put the thing together.
Tiananmen sq. 1989 price was a minimum of ten,000 in keeping with United Kingdom
No, long-distance trains had four classes: SV (two beds per cabin), Coupe (four beds per cabin), Platzkart (six beds per cabin) and Sitting (no beds, just benches). This classification goes back to Tzar (pre-revolution) times.

It has nothing to do with air transportation which has been developed in Soviet era, where everebody was equal.

edit: minor mistakes.
There's Revolut, Monese, N26 to name a few where you can sign up without ever stepping foot into their office (via a phone app, by proving your ID either via video call or make a photo of your ID) and the entire process takes a few hours at most to verify on their end. After that, use your phone security (fingerprint, face ID?). Do you have that in U.S? Probably not.
I did agree it was contextual whether you are a top performer within your peer group (in my case, I'm the developer lead for the company). But we don't just compete for jobs in the company you work for now, you compete in the entire market. How you define your market is based on location and willingness to relocate.
batteries seem to be tricky for everyone (remember the exploding samsung notes?). visibility into the battery status and official replacements after 1 year for $30 seems pretty darn good to me.

more generally the useful lifespan of iphones is definitely more than a year. i was recentlu able to sell still-perfectly-functioning iphonr 7 for almost half it's cost new. my 3-year-old ipad mini only started feeling slow a couple months ago. this seems better than what my friends with android experience, anecodotally.
> Most online banking interfaces are a read-only view of recent transactions.

What year is this, 1997? Is this normal in the US? I'm beyond amazed. Using online banking for transferring money is such a normal activity here (has been for at least 10 years).
It’s appropriate to compare a sudden change in a stable, mature market to a much less developed market that might not make a change at all. China has built entire cities without people moving to them. Just because a government demonstrates a strong imposement of will does not ensure wide adoption. Anything that dramatically changes a mature, replacement-driven market will materialize quicker and more profitably in the immediate.
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Maybe "unknown solution" could work too, since it was an unsolved mystery, then someone solved it but didn't share the solution, so it's a secret to anyone else.
> they did exactly what you were asking for

No, MySpace and Facebook didn't what I was asking for because they didn't have any feed then.

With MySpace and Facebook in its early days, I could just stalk profiles and both didn't serve me any content based on my interest. On MySpace I could browse through some music genres but this is not my understanding of an interest-driven site.
It's absolutely hearbreaking to see the independence, critical thinking and self-determination that Western society has been building up since the Enlightenment, weakening under the forces of big data and targeted advertising.

Communication should be open, profit should not be involved in discourse, and advertising should not corrode conversation.

Viva la revolucion!

www.hellolyra.com/introduction
To reduce power consumption by using simple hardware. See my answer to @mrb above.
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The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), he/she is guilty of murder.

The concept of felony murder originates in the rule of transferred intent, which is older than the limit of legal memory. In its original form, the malicious intent inherent in the commission of any crime, however trivial, was considered to apply to any consequences of that crime, however unintended.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
>We pretty much already have that with the PKI system that web browsers (and other programs) check when verifying certificates for various websites we connect to (including this one).

As an aside, it took a seismic event (the confirmation of mass government spying) to actually get it implemented properly, and the US government did file a few lawsuits about being able to openly break encryption with a back door. We're fortunate to still have it fully intact.

>It doesn't require government intervention. It does require configuring servers that doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, labs, insurance companies, etc use to authenticate themselves with each other and a number of authorities to verify their identities (like the CA bundle that your web browser uses to verify that the server you connect to is indeed Hackernews and not some rogue entity).

Yes, that's more in line with the solution that we implemented (well paid to have implemented) with the outbound email interception and website redirection. All PHI goes through TLS via the website.

>PKI is a powerful tool which certainly can be used in a healthcare setting. Unfortunately, because of organization inertia, it's probably not going to happen (despite the fact that the technology behind it has been around for decades).

Ironically, they use it heavily in integration from third parties. Their SFTP/FTPS was locked down. They use a login whitelist and PGP signatures for login, everything must be encrypted with asymmetric PGP keys, folders were locked down, the works.

Many of our larger clients requested that all email and fax correspondence go exclusively through those SFTP/FTPS channels. Smaller clients had difficulty handling that on their own and usually had to call in a local support guy eventually.

>PKI is a powerful tool which certainly can be used in a healthcare setting. Unfortunately, because of organization inertia, it's probably not going to happen (despite the fact that the technology behind it has been around for decades).

It certainly happens in the bigger companies. They don't mess around. It's the smaller companies that struggle with it because they don't readily have the expertise.
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My world has been (near) paperless for almost a decade. Perhaps I'm special?
That works as long as you never need to drive more than 100 miles from home.
Still seems weird that in avoiding sugar, you're going as far as not eating fruit, but you still have milk.
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Do you mean Google? Whoever makes the CSS spec? Who or what exactly are you railing against, other than "shitty web design"?

Shitty web design is shitty web design. Google and Mozilla themselves didn't make the Smithsonian Magazine site a bloated monstrosity, nor can I think of a reasonable way for a browser to prevent sites from sucking without ruining the "non-geek" user experience on better-behaved dynamic sites and web apps.

Anything not supported by HTML or CSS directly will inevitably be implemented in Javascript. We've already been there.
Twitter has had a feed from the beginning and served you content you wanted, as long as you subscribed to the right people. It still does, as long as you only follow a few people.
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The argument is not that we should update asap. The argument is that we should not reconnect using 1.2 when 1.3 fails.
There is still the normal version negotiation mechanism in TLS that would allow clients that are willing to use 1.2 when the server does not support 1.3

The issue lies with servers that do not adhere to the standard regarding version negotiation. Your proposed solution (the 'insecure fallback') is about making a client deal with this in a way that is insecure when TLS 1.2 is insecure.
Our proposed solution is to change version negotiation so the faulty servers continue to work.

As you noted, 1.2 is still secure. So at this moment, we don't need 1.3 (save for the advantages like 1RTT handshakes).
Thus there is no security benefit to adapting 1.3 earlier.

Now, if 1.2 ever becomes insecure, insecure fallback means MitM can force 1.2 and then attack, even if both server and client are willing and capable of using 1.3.
It is true that when 1.2 is insecure, neither clients nor servers should be willing to use it.
However, slow updating or 'compatibility' might see servers and clients still support it.
It is those servers and clients that are vulnerable under insecure fallback.
Under normal version negotiation the only weak systems are those that only support 1.2 (presuming higher versions are secure).

Thus, if 1.2 were broken, insecure fallback leaves more legacy systems vulnerable than normal version negotiation does.

In my personal opinion, non-compliant servers are broken, and we should not try to support them. But I understand how reality makes that infeasible.
One of our team members used to do this job; luckily, she managed to do it with deep learning, so didn't have to spend too much time looking at unpleasant images.

This experience is one of the main drivers that pushes our team to develop an open, nonprofit conversation platform on which harrassment is difficult by design.

www.hellolyra.com/introduction
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During last weeks, this framework save my workmates a lot of time. I hope it can help iOS developers to speed up their development.