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So I've been in trouble on HN (probably rightly so) once before for pointing the finger. With that in mind...

The problem is that 'their' only objective is to undermine 'our' goal of having a balanced, honest discussion that arrives at some kind of valid, valuable truth. If a troll or discourse control agent can undermine that process, then they've 'won'.

And it's pretty easy to do. Actually, demanding sources is a great tool for undermining absolutely any discussion you like.

Someone claims something you don't like? Demand evidence/sources. If they can't produce them, you've won. If they can produce them, call into question the bias or veracity of the sources. You win again.

The basic tools of the troll trade are well known - derail, distract, discuss to death. Question motives and bias, use whataboutism, sling mud, lead a discussion into the long grass, debate every single point to death, ad hominem attacks, play the victim...

I think communities perhaps need to become more aware of those discussion patterns and vote according to whether something is using troll tools, rather than whether you agree/disagree.
> To keep the billion people who live in China safe from civil war and rampant terrorism is already a great achievement -- even it comes at the expense of some nice things such as human rights.

Some nice things? Nice things??? What the actual lord upon almighty.
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Reminds me of this guy: http://fortune.com/2016/09/30/donald-trump-stiff-contractors...
When were these “two decades”? Illegal downloads in Western Europe and North America only flourished on a large scale for a decade or so, between the rise of Napster and the point when it began to feel more convenient to many people to pay on iTunes, use a streaming service, or just hear whatever you want to listen to free on YouTube. The traditional music industry was challenged by filesharing, but it has also been decimated by changing formats that diminish the importance of the whole album, and a glut of content where it’s hard to do promotion when you’re just a drop in the ocean.

People who torrent music – I am still one myself – can be passionate about it, but we are a shrinking minority.
and "yarn upgrade-interactive --latest"
They talk about China yet still a few realize that we are as well going into that direction. CCTV are everywhere, Facebook and Google have our identities, what we like, what we look for, what will be our probable next move (also in terms of real world position) and our routines.
If ever a Chinese that feel safe in his home comes to the outer world (to us) he would say "how could this nation is so undeveloped to not already have a better security likes us" and we would be amazed and reply how he does not, instead, feel so stalked in his state. But still, if we were to go on a third world nation we would ask the same and the local people would reply at us the same way as we did to the chinese.
In the EURO Zone, SEPA transfers worked really well for me so far:
- SEPA fee is less than 1 EURO, regardless of the volume (e.g. with UBS, but some banks might rip you off)
- it takes at most 2 banking days, but half of the payments made before the bank day opening, are transferred during the current day in my experience
I think it's a pretty well established in learning theory that the combination of neural network topology + the training procedure sets up an implicit prior (it establishes a bias towards the type of things the network will learn more easily from the input data). In fact, this is a corollary of the No Free Lunch Theorem.

The problem is that these are extremely high-dimensional spaces, and even narrowing down the space within which the prior might be defined (much less finding the prior itself) is mathematically difficult. Hence the progress is slow and halting—it's consisted of discussions like what the representations fully-trained neural networks find within the early activation layers, which means the question is being investigated empirically, without the benefit of a fully-fledged theory.

Initeresting, the 'nature vs. nurture' debate can be viewed as basically a discussion of learning priors in the context of human beings. Turns out the truth is pretty subtle—for many problem domains, humans (and animals) can be made to learn a very large set of things with repeated training, but we also have strong priors, so some things can be taught much more easily and quickly than others.

Our brain networks are primed to learn certain things, e.g. ducklings have a prior that the first animate object they see is their mother. It's possible to force a duckling to unlearn its maternal imprinting, but only with repeated and large amounts of negative conditioning. It seems pretty likely that this prior is embedded in both the topology and neurochemical functioning of a normally developing brain.
Seize all its physical assets and make it illegal to trade with. Bitcoin is arguably impossible to control, but real world assets not so much. Property rights as they currently exist are ultimately enforced by state violence. A number in a blockchain only has meaning if those who enforce physical property rights allow it to.

And if the AI manages to actually assert control of property on its own, it is no longer a market actor, it is a revolutionary army.
There seems to be a third option provided by someone, kali, working at Snips: https://github.com/kali/tensorflow-deploy-rust
Neat, but none of those seem to ever be able to scale enough to be able to completely replace plastic straws.

I wonder if a cutting bar and reel system can be made that can cut and bundle the straw on the fly as the grain is harvested.
Haha... right now I have my desktop that I can show, which isn't perfect but I have an idea of where I want to go and how to get there (mostly). I am still running i3 for compatibility, but definitely moving towards Sway.

I've seen some great looking desktops that I still need to mimic, and the make them more fluid/responsive for multiple devices. I would like to review and look at what George Singer is up to:

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

Seems like he may be offering VR devices for developers that are able to demonstrate some requirements. How cool is that? I would like to take something like Sway, and add or combine it with a project similar to SimularVR, with a Vulkan backend. That is the end goal.

I will likely just start with Sway and build a kick ass plugin and application manager that uses containers. I will re-explore the current application isolation solutions, such as AppImage vs FLatpak vs Snap, but likely try my hand at building my own.

Part of that process is repeatable builds. I would like to build the OS compilation into the decentralization process, and make distributed (and localized) compilation a core component of the crypto solution, as it will later be used for rendering all types of resources on top of something like IPFS and Git.

Ideally, package maintainers will be solely focused on automated builds directly from source repos, so that everything is compiled and versioned automatically, so that you can switch software versions at anytime, with some compatibility-script support for DB and data changes.

Anyway, that is a lot of talk, so I will have to share more when I make more progress. It is a longer term goal, but feel free to help me get started:

https://discord.gg/R6NQ7aj

For example, you can see a UI kit here that I would like to utilize initially, although I am still inclined to try to implement my own idea here, which involves combining a
probably a lot of smoke and noise, I'd watch it though
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The main page renders from cache I think but the question pages won't load. Anyone else experiencing this? Maybe it's just their European servers or something.
Well, it is technically not a bill as the suggested changes to the law have not been proposed before the parliament yet, but it suggests concrete new versions of the law. So what remains is basically for someone to copy-paste the appropriate versions into a new document and then having a vote on it.

A clarification is that the investigation was about "If the existing sanctions for the most serious copy right crimes need to be increased", as well as some related issues.
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> [...] how/where you would fetch the gem package without the language based package manager, and how this is linked to system deps?

You unnecessarily constrain yourself too much. You don't need language
specific package manager at all for deployment. For building a binary
package you probably need it, but not connected to network. And then you
need it with network for downloading source tarballs to include in source
package (SRPM or similar). Note that the source package is an important step,
as you want to host all necessary code yourself, without relying on randomly
changing policies of package registries like NPM.

The sad part is that language specific package managers cram together
downloading, building, and installing, instead of providing them primarly as
three separate steps. (You usually can run each separately, but crippled in
some whay, e.g. you don't get proper dependency solving for download, or you
need to manually order building the dependencies.)

> [...] how [binary packages] is linked to system deps?

Normally. Your application requires libpq.so? You mention it in Depends: (or
allow the build scripts to detect that). You need sloccount? You mention it in
Depends:. You need crontab entries? You put them in /etc/cron.d and add cron
to Depends:.
Easier said than done at least in Spain. Poor opening hours and poor customer service. It's one of the reasons I'm a fan of crypto for the ease of transferring.
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I remember it for the amount of demos that went wrong. It takes courage or desperation to demonstrate a project in that state.

Also, somewhere in there is a quote by the project lead that I still remember today, something like this: "There aren't many companies that can afford to mess up a demo. [pause] We're not one of them." The last part sounded like a panicked attempt to backpedal on what he just said.
I think it's rather obvious from context that he means low-income. There's no need to go desperately searching for something to be outraged about.
The benefit is articulation and the ability to create and respond to initiative. The measurable benefit is the strategic success of a person's later career.

Another way to think about it is whether you need to be told explicitly what you do for a job or whether you are given a field of problems to solve for (implied tasks). One of those is far more limited in risk and potential while the other is far more benefited by higher education.
> Well, it is technically not a bill [...]

Yeah, was not sure how to explain the distinction, hence my quotation marks. Sorry for being vague.
1) I don't what bank you're using but it's really bad

2) It's been a LONG time since we can transfer money really fast at a really low cost
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> I'm not sure what you mean by gender bias,

> I'd [be more?] likely let to a woman than a man

There's your gender bias. When you are more likely to let to one gender (female), than another (male).
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In addition to having zero real world value other than speculation and hype value, the currencies have very real negative impacts on the world.

The one that worries me the most is environmental (power cost, gpu/asic manufaturing).

It also sucks for projects that actually needs to use computational time for real world problems like folding@home and seti@home.

And it sucks big time for PC gamers.
I would recommend that rather than copying "arXiv-Vanity", your team should focus on improving and contributing to "Engrafo" since there are many errors in the HTML conversion. And, leave everything at "arXiv-Vanity" since there is no point of having 2 different places doing the same exact thing.
The "Lazy Kerbal" approach: go straight up to get out of the atmosphere as soon as possible (stupid drag) and turn right once you pass the Kármán... Err, Kerman Line (at 70km). Start burning near apoapsis until your periapsis is >=70km as well. If your initial apoapsis was high enough, you'll make it to orbit before re-entry. If not, revert to launch. Efficient? Not at all, but certainly effective and simple.
Swede chiming in here.
No. The typical Swede feels that it's one of the less serious crimes there is. Under speeding, far under DUI, under possession of drugs for personal use, maybe on par with parking violation.

We had quite a movement for digital freedom about a decade ago when the Pirate Party was on the rise and there was opposition against surveillance from FRA (Swedish equivalent of NSA), but the average person doesn't care and I think even the previous activists have been in a state of fatigue and silent acceptance for years now.
You seem to vastly overestimate the choices people have, especially those who live in rural areas where there are more people than jobs, and many people live paycheck to paycheck. You mention "not having enough money" -- yes, that's exactly it, and many (most?) of the people in that situation don't have a way out of it. You can't get a better paying job where you live if there isn't one, or at least isn't one you're qualified for. You can't keep your job at home and travel to a city to interview for a better job if you don't have the money for transportation, or can't get (or afford) the time off to interview.
"we now have more people creating quality music than ever before in the history of the world"

Where exactly are you getting this? I find it extremely unlikely, and I'd bet the opposite. Just because it's now easier to discover artists, does not mean that there are more of them. My position is based on the many former artists I know who abandoned what they did b/c of the futility of being able to support themselves.

But the issue is bigger than just creating the most amount of art. On a moral level, an artist should have some ability to control how their art is distributed. Just because it can be easy or free for others to enjoy it doesn't mean that everyone is entitled to it.
from the Moon I can see how it makes sense. From Earth I still have trouble to believe it would work.

That being said I had trouble believing you could land two rocket boosters simultaneously so at worst I'm not surprised, at best it works
Thought experiment flawed assumptions. Can't reduce Adwords revenue by 50% overnight (unless by a bug). Think advertisers set budgets, they just get spent on different searches.

What could be reduced is the quality, and that could lead to gradually losing of revenue over time. So you have a trade-off between increase of quality here and decrease of quality there. So it really boils down to the ratio of these two quality changes.
But heating and cooling is not symmetrical. We can heat a processor much faster than cool it. So, if we need to cool a processor 10x faster than we can, just use 10x more processors, and switch them in order, to allow them cool after use in overclocked mode. Using this simple technique, frequency can be raised by few GHz, which is important for serial computations.
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I couldn't help but imagine an older version of Erlich Bachman from Silicon Valley while reading the name throughout the story.

https://i.imgur.com/qXUq2eX.jpg
I find that the typical developer’s typical work doesn’t require irrational numbers at all. Of courses those specifically doing numeric computing would be best served with traditional floating point, but I truly think most don’t. Maybe my experience is biased then.
As someone who subscribes to the Coherent Extrapolated Volition model of friendly AI[0], I find machine theory of mind a step in the right direction.

If we want superintelligence to have a meta-goal of achieving what we ourselves would’ve wanted to achieve if we thought about it really long and hard, its ability to model our mental state appears to be a requisite.

We’d want it to work that way to avoid the potential “paperclip catastrophe”, where AI eliminates all of humanity as a side effect of achieving an otherwise innocuous goal.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_control_problem#Indirect_...
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> export default class extends Controller {

I know it is vanilla ES6, but at some point it starts looking more like Java than JavaScript. The boilerplate necessary to convey a simple instruction is directly proportional to the averaged speed of everything else (authorship, maintenance, execution, testing, frequency of reuse, and so forth).
> Cryptocurrencies are still 100% hype & speculation; a solution in search of a problem.

Just because you don't understand it, it doesn't mean that it has no uses. Beyond criminal activities, crypto assets have tremendous uses. I have practically moved all my assets to the crypto world and it has saved me a lot of money on international transfers, bank fees and I'm getting better return on investment.
Based on what? What has China done in the last 40 years that would even close to imply that?

There is still a part of China that is not even controlled by China (Taiwan). They are surrounded by lots of other powerful countries, Russia, India, Japan and so on. The US military is driving around right in front of them.

They are getting accused of wanting global hegemony based on thing like building bases in the South China Sea. Something that other countries have done before China.

Seems to me if anything China has behaved incredibly passive. Maybe in the back of their minds they have the idea that this strategy will lead to some kind of soft hegemony but that is just speculation based on nothing.
Great find! So, not exactly consistent with the NYT piece.
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There are a lot more people than at any time in history. Getting food and housing is also significantly easier today than it was in (most of?) the past. It figures that there are a lot more people creating music today than at any time in the past.
You probably don’t need an automatic admin framework
I know biased stereotype is bad, and I totally agree not all Uyghurs are bad. I went to Uyghurs restaurant regularly and had Uyghurs classmates in college too.
Turbolinks is a feature in Rails. See for example https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
> That suggests that the typical Swedish person feels that sharing copyrighted content is a heinous crime, on par with homicide.

Well... I'm not sure that's how you should see it. For example, skimming the document I mentioned, they have a section "Konsekvensanalys"/Analysis of consequences. There they address for example socio-economic impact, but not "popular opinion on the matter", or similar.

I think it would be more appropriate to see the investigation as objective (to some degree), and the final voting by the parties (on a potential future bill) as their considerations how this would impact their popularity. If the objective conclusion is that X should be done, a party may still not vote to implement X because of peoples opinion on the matter.
> corrupt politicians, dictators etc, especially from third world countries

How is that Switzerland issue or responsibility? They can't judge people for what they do overseas.
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This has a lot of similarities to intercooler.js http://intercoolerjs.org/ which I really enjoy when I don't need a full SPA type experience.

Can anyone with experience of Stimulus suggest why I'd pick it over intercooler?
Unfortunately they get crazy bloated when we transpile them down for older ie. I believe we’re going to be using the new Babel stuff to hopefully easy that a bit. Ie 10 is still a sore spot though :/
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An incompetent government and corrupt politicians can ruin anything.
Including their own immigration policies by being dysfunctional and in the end boosting the anti-immigration forces on the other end of the political spectrum.

Interesting times.
Well, you had to admit that with auto-complete, it is pretty cool to just type a couple letters and tab your way to heaven. Have you tried Rofi? There are some descent themes, but in all honesty the terminal is great. It is a text-based dynamic solution which makes it extremely versatile and compatible.

What is more natural than just typing and tabbing to what you want? That is some simple voice navigation stuff as well, or once you get to VR, then tab-complete can be like auto-suggest.

Have you seen Vim with perfect horizontal, vertical windows, and re-scaling? I have, and it is glorious! Once you add proper icon font support and Airline, it is hard to beat... yes, Neovim is probably better.

However, it is a matter of time before chopsui or another UI toolkit comes along that will essentially wrap around all these great terminal applications in a way that will create the layouts and styling that web users are mostly used to. I hope instead though that, it is more general, and that information is decoupled from design. Instead, I hope that sites will be able to request to change layouts, and that we will build better decentralized marketplaces for developers.
Very nice indeed. Immediately ran downstairs to verify a Websters encyclopedia dictionary I bought in the UK around 1997 only to find it wasn't the version with all the prose. It's still a very nice illustrated (and heavy!) dictionary, but not quite like what jsomers describes.

So downloaded the version he offers for download and am now installing the dictionary using the steps he provides.

Thank You, really looking forward to using it.

edit: and his install steps still work, using it in the dictionary app right now. Super!
one more frontend library !
But by that definition, what linux isn't 'based on mainline linux'? Unless they're offering some guarantee that they'll keep their patches up-to-date...
Why don't apache update web interface.
It's just not fun anymore, I get all retrograde feel to it, but in 2018 it's plain annoyingly ugly and hard to understand what's going on on the page.
Yes, I had a friend who was an ex heroin addict, she needed huge quantities of any sort of painkillers to get any effect.
Computing and storage capabilities can grow (practically) without limits.

Human information consumption, however, has limits.

Therefore, I don't see the problem.
I was imagining a corporation with no owners but with a board of directors.
I could not find a definitive answer on Twitter, but does that mean Eve players will become one of the biggest XMPP users group? I wonder if Eve enables federation and chatting with outsiders using regular XMPP clients.
> it withstands both the force of acceleration and the atmospheric drag at its worst

Not to mention that the payload must also be able to survive these high accelerations.
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I’m not very informed about intercooler, but from the examples it seems to focus on AJAX requests. Stimulus is more about DOM manipulation, things you would’ve used jQuery for (except $.ajax and related). Toggle classes to show/hide things, move things around (mostly also just by toggling classes these days), create/duplicate elements, stuff like that. Stimulus also does some AJAX, but I can easily imagine these two work together in one page for different elements.
+1
especially with China backing North Korean regime publicly/privately