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Power, corruption and lies.

Those people often stand to personally (financially) benefit from unethical business decisions. Engineers have to think through all the dirty consequences, and still draw pretty much the same salary.
Agreed. Thanks for sharing links. There's also an assumption that military necessarily equals evil. Do you think everyone who works for the NSA is out to curb our civil rights? It's not possible. And in fact, it's what a lot of people who work for the government or military believe in protecting.
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Ask HN: Should patent law be so restrictive?
Is the current system of protecting patents useful? Makes sense why trademarks and copyrights are enforced, to prevent companies selling products fraudulently. But what's wrong with someone copying/improving upon your invention and selling it under a different name without restrictions? What's the pros and cons?
The problem with this argument is that Pinker could have written the same book in 1930.
That defense didn’t work at Nuremberg.
we seriously need a better solution for toilets. toilets use huge amounts of water. if you want to have a toilet in a moving vehicle, or anywhere that is not directly connected to a sewage line and a giant water treatment plant, then you are just out of luck because all the mobile toilet solutions out there suck. it amazes me that a good solution has evaded us for so long.

when considering how to travel where-ever i want and for cheap i considered a van or rv. in both cases im stuck chasing after land installations that allow me to essentially use a toilet. with the rv, you have to offload somewhere and with a van you have to be near someone else's toilet.

the best solution i can think of is to have a special toilet that uses plastic bagging. a continuous sleeve of plastic is fed through the toilet and lines the inside of the "bowl" and is sealed at the bottom of the bowl forming a plastic bag. waste is collected and then the plastic material is rolled out -- so the bag descends and is replaced with new plastic material above. plenty of extra plastic is reeled out and a heating element comes in and seals the bag above the waste, simultaneously creating a new "bag" to catch waste and sealing completely the waste in the old bag. the end result is a completely clean bowl and fully contained waste. the waste bags could then be disposed of in an incinerator or a processing plant at some later time. the bag could be made biodegradable and a sterilizing agent added to the bag before its sealed to allow the bags to be disposed of without processing.
Oh, I'd assumed the Perth->London one was the same sort of deal, but turns out it's an actual route with passengers and food and all. That is pretty impressive.
AI, like any other militarily-beneficial technology, will advance whether some societies want it to or not. Nuclear weapons, drones, armored vehicles... These are all similar examples where being the ethical "sucker" is extremely hazardous to the survival of your state.

The access people have to possible neural enhancements will be dependent on the rules of their society: Chinese social ratings, US economic status, Russian political connections, etc. Will a criminal have a harder time getting neural enhancements in China or the US? Our definition of what a criminal is will be wildly different in edge cases.

I think an interesting, current corrolary is nootropics and meditation. These are not going to inherently make you a "good" person,and they are easily accessible to anyone who wants them. If you want to train your brain and increase your self-control, it's ultimately up to you what you do with those advantages. Formal consequences emerge when new behaviors are perceived as detrimental to society.

In terms of how neural enhancements will.make us smarter, does it really matter? If the output is what you intended, at what point do you need to focus on how you got there? Anyways, pick a challenge and put an enhanced and unenhanced human head-to-head. We'll discover our new capabilities through experimentation, just as we always have.
Yes. Still, you can pry my mechanical keyboard from my cold, dead hands.

The home button on the new iphones feels _weird_, almost as if there's this strange, unnatural delay to the click actually occurring. For something that purports to be "just like real life" it does a poor job.

The click on the mbp trackpads is not too bad though.
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Right. That's the entirety of their moat, plus brand recognition. What would Google have to spend to overcome that?
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Here is another my Lidar project:
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That project has a wiki: https://github.com/iliasam/OpenLIDAR/wiki

A big article in Russian about it: https://geektimes.ru/post/275442/
All I will say to that is that, as programmers, we should learn to distinguish between historically attributable derivation (evidenced fact) and vague conceptual notions such as culture and even more derivative, fuzzy and subjective notions of the potential equality of instance thereof (opine). This is why I spoke in generalities and placed "Japanese culture" in quotes, because it is a vague and popular term without a meaningful and precise definition.
>"Justice Scalia also wrote:
“It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service — M-16 rifles and the like — may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right.”

[1] https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/justice-scal...

I think for a weapon to be 'compliant' with US's second amendment a couple of criteria must be met

a) must be in current wide use in military

b) must be capable of being carried by a single person (which is why tanks and fighter jets will not qualify)
This follows form 'individual' focus of the bill of right.

c) must be capable to aim it at a single person (which is why explosive or RPGs would not qualify).
This follows from the notion that Bill of Right in general, does not condone collateral damage or collateral effect.
As this is Individual's right, and therefore presumes individual's responsibility.

I also find this linguistic analysis of what 'bear arms' meant in 1791s, interesting/educational
[2]
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=255
You could probably just invert any non-ASCII character, and you could probably do this programmatically over an existing font.
American music and movies, until recently, did not originate in any large part from CIA psy-ops. Popular software products like the ones produced by Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. don't really have much to do with the defense industry, at least beyond military being the first major customers for computers.

Defense spending is a small parasite on an enormous private market for cultural and consumer products, of which the U.S. is and was a major exporter, respectively.

Added:

Defense agencies drive innovation because they have external constraints which force them to try to procure things which haven't yet been invented. It's similar to the way that automobile races are used to drive auto innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention, and necessity is not unique to defense, but defense necessities tend to produce extreme engineering efforts.
As an engineer, founder, and investor I'll note that there's an ethical mandate for investors as well; when I started drone.vc I committed as a Quaker to not investing in "offensive" technologies.

Separately, RE: bringing internet to new places, there's reasonable evidence to show that introducing broadband lifts GDP[1], so whatever you may think of Facebook, giving people high-speed connectivity to the whole Internet is probably a net positive. Disclaimer: I helped start Facebook's Connectivity Lab but no longer work there.

[1] http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/391452529895999/WDR16-BP-Exp...
Me too. Maintained a small (100 or so) fleet of Slackware Linux desktops for a support org in the early 90's. Rare, but did exist. Was the install 13 1.44mb floppies? Seems to ring a bell. Lots of waiting for the prompt to switch out the floppy. And a more intimate relationship with "dd", "kermit", etc, than I remember ever encountering again.

Also, whoever wrote x3270. Thank you!
Cure death? Or cure the debilitating diseases that occur in later life?
This reminds me of the movie "Cube", which is about a sadistic torture chamber built by accident through a network of government sub-contractors who each built some innocuous part of the thing, which was then assembled through layers of opaque bureaucracy. It's a terrible film, but I always thought that premise was hilarious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)
Sure, the side walls fall in... but wouldn't that happen more easily near the surface, with loose topsoil, than for deeper rock? Meaning, that if the top part hadn't fallen in yet, the lower parts wouldn't have either.

Perhaps pressure with depth is a factor, tending to press the sides together. Amd the deeper material might not be rock, but e.g. sand or other loose material.
In addition to cloth diapers, babies got potty trained significantly younger than they do now. We had our daughter ~90% potty trained by her first birthday. From what we've found looking into it, that was extremely common until the past 50 years or so.

Its not uncommon now for 3 year-olds to still be in diapers. That's two full years longer in diapers, simply because parents either can't be bothered to potty train their children, or have been told its not possible to do it earlier.
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To your knowledge.

Yes, you need time money and profit. Agreed. But if those things go against the military's goals, or you're unable to convince them otherwise, you're in trouble. At a certain scale you need to have the nod of those in power. It's a fact of reality on this earth. I'm not saying it's good or bad.

And I don't know how millions being lifted out of poverty, 10000 miles of high-speed rail in ten years, and so on, in China is necessarily oppressive. Or how the sheer virtue of someone being Iranian makes the project bad. I'm getting a lot of black and white vibes.
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For 22 years I used toilet paper until I traveled to South East Asia where every toilet has a seperate sprinkler. After a few toilet visits I decided to give it a GO. Man, toilet paper feels strange and plain stupid now. Water is way cheaper, doesn't hurt your "behind" and I feel cleaner afterwards. Paper seems an invention to sell something we really don't need (by Mad Men :-)).
Maybe if it is a disability and you require something like a service dog in the workplace to cope with it. I know some people with physical problems require special chairs.
how does this not contaminate your washer with feces?
I would be curious if all this plastic in your plan actually saves resoures over water.
Thats wrong, which you'd know if you actually read it.
Have you actually used 3D touch? Because I use it just about every day, so much so that it's one of the biggest things I miss when using phones that don't have it. It also isn't touted as a major selling point anymore -- it just quietly exists, serving an extremely useful purpose as a better "right click" for touch screens.

The touch bar I agree is major marketing hype.
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Perhaps he also tried to check his ancestry, and thus his DNA was on file.
Ask HN: Why can't I visualize myself walking through a doorway?
folks living paycheck to paycheck cannot afford big upfront costs like this. even if it saves them money in the long term. too bad personal finance isn't a thing taught in public schools.
I'd probably use cloth nappies if I were a stay-at-home dad. As it stands, I'd much rather put some of the money I'm earning towards the convenience of disposables.
But how many of the "non-innocent" people who have been killed in drone strikes had actually been found guilty in a fair trial?

And of those who had been, how many were sentenced to death?
How much you want to bet? I’ll take 50/50 odds.
Yes, scuttlebutt even works great over mesh networks and intermittent internet.

http://scuttlebutt.nz/

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
It looks like we can finally simulate the experience of this classic: http://pbfcomics.com/comics/freaking_vortex/
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> The military application in question is legal and is approved by a duly elected government that supports it politically. In earlier days, employees generally would see this as just doing their jobs in developing technology that their employers wanted developed and would not concern themselves about ultimate uses and applications. In other words, doing your job is personal and, as long as you do it honestly and work hard, you should not be faulted for doing it as requested by your employer.

This is basically the "just following orders" defense. Your argument rationalizes doing nothing.

As a moral person I think you basically have two choices: either don't work on things you think can be used for evil or if you do work on those things step up and make sure they are used responsibly.
Yep, and that's exactly why suits and management are so important -- their competence determines whether the business survives.
Given the existence of tools like this or https://github.com/uber/pyflame, I get really amazed at the monopoly of NewRelic. Nobody seems to be even attempting a start-up in this space, which is amazing given the amount of money that everyone coughs up for NewRelic.
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That's not true, it started showing up in Sierra when the MBP's with touchbar were released. But every mac gets the option.

Source: I also made the switch to capslock-as-esc when I got the TB MBP and it made me decide to switch the keyboard on my other two macs as well.
I don't think it's quite as far fetched or far out.

The fundamental point of the neural lace is increased bandwidth OUTPUT from the human mind so that it can be INPUT for some other process.

Bare with me...

Right now I am using 2 thumbs to output this message. Not very efficient. I could hop on a keyboard and up my output bandwith to 10 fingers. That would be faster but still bottlenecked on the mechanics of my hands. Sure I could use voice buts it's loud and mostly words only. Not great for quiet rooms or coding with special characters.

Now imagine an integrated set of circuits directly connected to my brain. It wouldn't have to be many. Let's say 10. Now with training I could learn to activate each circuit. Even if the training was only for a digital signal of 0 or 1 that's 2^10 unique signals. Not to mention these could be modifiers of other outputs. And the real kicker is this signal generation happens at the speed of thought. Imagine coding in an IDE at that speed!

I didn't touch on the whole AI threat but the point is simply that if we need to be defensive or offensive against an AI we need to be able to output meaning quicker than running to the server room and unplugging HAL.
Even if you know you’re losing money, if you can’t afford to invest you can’t invest.
There are a couple of ‘facts’ listed here that don’t line up with my current reality and very recent knowledge (3 kids, most recent is 18mo).

First off, 12 changes a day is a huge outlier - even for a newborn. 8 would be a more reasonable number, and it drops down to the 4-6 range in the first year, and by now we’re at 3 if we don’t go swimming.

Second item that sounds waaay off is $1000/yr for diapers. Again, that has to be an outlier based on the worst possible set of assumptions. A box of 168 diapers lasts about a month and costs ~$40. That doesn’t add up...

And finally, many of the charities I work with will hand out diapers or cards for free diapers to anyone who asks. If you’re really in a bind, call a local church, women’s shelter, or commissary! We really do want to help, but we have to know you need it.
It’s an insult to roaches to liken them to cancer. They’re not particularly destructive. Termites are more like cancer.
Cool, looks like it was inspired by:

https://gifbook.io/
Novel thought. I could definitely see an argument for it falling under 2A.
It's also a stock button you can add to the touchbar...
> I'd be surprised if there was ever a period where blind testers could tell the difference.

If you read the study which OP summarizes, it claims to show that blind testers NOW definitely CAN tell the difference.

The best "new" violins of today are better than old strads, where "better" is defined as any of:

(1) objectively produces more sound volume for a given level of bow pressure as measured via a db meter at a specific location

(2) subjectively "projects better" (either alone or against an orchestra) as judged by listeners

(3) "is preferred" as judged by listeners.

The people judging in the tests for (2) and (3) have included the performers themselves, skilled listeners, and unskilled interested observers. The results seem to be really consistent - most listeners unambiguously judge the newer instruments better.

So no, it's not like wine tasting. At least, not anymore.
The name is dope. Roaches suck when you have them in your house but they’re a cool species. When all is said and done and the sun is going red, this planet will still be host to a few species: humans, rats, and roaches, among others.

People hate them, but they’re one of the animals most similar to us. We hate them because we don’t like to admit our nature.
Shallow thinking. I personally believe the idea has value only in relation to how well it can be executed upon. If can be built easily, then it will be copied anyway.
When you pay for residential water, you're not actually paying for the water. You're paying infrastructure costs, the cost of running the pumping station and repairing the pipes to your house.
Elon musk has talked a bit about this company. The goal is to develop a device which will help increase our low output "bandwidth", not make us smarter.

Has the feasibility of such a thing even been explored before? I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss it, I know some types of information have already been decoded from the brain, at least parts of their goal have been proven to be conceptual possible.

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/03/06/mi...
Detergent and water gets just about anything clean..

However, you presoak them, and scrape a majority of the feces off into the toilet at change time.
Can somebody just go out there and paint the road?

There have been at least two other video near collisions of people driving on that section - it seems dangerous.
Do you think your washer is somehow not already contaminated with feces, from washing underwear?

I read an article a while ago that tested and found substantial fecal residue in typical washing machines, without cloth diapers going through them. Can't find it now among all the cloth diaper related search hits.
These all seem well thought out and reasonable. Thanks for sharing
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If you didn't have in home access to a washer and dryer (that is, assuming you do) would your opinion change?
$30 is big upfront costs? Seriously?

Of course, that may be a bigger sum in 3rd world countries. But they don't have Amazon there at all and probably don't use diapers either.
Singapore to London on a 747 is 12 hours not 22. Typo? Or you’re misremembering. I’ve flown this route many times.

Travel times haven’t really improved in 40+ years. A quick search shows a 747 flew at ~614mph and a 787 at 583.
You don't only feel cleaner. It IS cleaner. Developed parts in asia and the middle east have toilets with sprinklers. I don't understand why Europeans and Americans love their stinky butts so much. It's disgusting!
sounds like this is your way of saying "they were asking for it"
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Adding on: the touchbar 13" has 3x3 MIMO wifi (supporting up to 1300Mbps), while the non-touchbar one only has 2x2 MIMO wifi (going up to 867Mbps).
I don't think that's why they fail. Lack of adoption primarily due to difficulty of use is mostly why they fail. Lots of us are willing to donate our resources, but that won't affect the success or failure of the platform.

People need to be working on simple to use platforms, everything else is secondary (including scaling and featureset). Max effort needs to be towards onboarding, wizards, easy walkthroughs, etc. It's a goal in a project I'm doing and I urge others to prioritize similarly.
Diaper services - https://goo.gl/images/dNqx4d
If your point is "Autopilot only works on perfect roads" then they might have well pull the plug right now.

Dirt, snow, rain, fog, dark, and other common conditions could obscure even correctly painted lines, and it just isn't realistic to expect perfect roads throughout such a large network anyway (in particular as human drivers can infer the line is meant to be there from the neighboring lines).

At its core, a system like Autopilot is meant to stand in for humans. Plus in this video where they reproduced the accident there was a full chevron pattern so the argument is flawed/wrong anyway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QCF8tVqM3I
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> there is no chance that all web developers would or even necessarily could switch to Rust. But the framework war will take a very interesting turn if Rust gets faster access to the DOM than JS can provide, and is also a faster language than JS,

Maybe a good way of kicking this off is if someone writes a DSL/hosted language that compiles/transpiles/whatever down into Rust. Have this language be nice and easy to write (a la Python) and have it's compiler turn it into performant Rust. Kind of like how Nim works with respect to C.

This way we could let web devs worry about the actual logic that runs the animations and stuff but have it compiled down into efficient, performant code. Everybody wins: we can finally get rid of JS, code that runs on our machines gets safer, faster and less resource hungry and JS devs are happy.
I read it, but I thought it might be contextual. You mention things you do that other rich people can afford, but haven't tried, whereas you don't mention the things everyone has, since everyone has them.
I have to disagree with you, all his arguments held back then, there was just less data. He also concedes that the statistical modeling relies on violence afflicting a proportion of the population, rather than absolute numbers - all well and good but an important distinction. Also your point is entirely fallacious anyway in the context of this thread. His book highlights a trend which cannot be disentangled from the historical context which gave rise to it.