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> Technically the base interpreter is a subset/restricted version of Python however

The base interpreter is written in a subset/restricted version of Python, but it's still Python. You can run Pypy as an interpreter on top of CPython or pypy.

And IIRC the restrictions mostly have to do with static type inference so you're mostly limited in how dynamic/weird the program gets the other big limits being magic methods being unavailable (for user-defined types) and most of the stdlib being off-limits.

So it's Python in a straightjacket, but for most interpreter implementations it's probably fine, as long as you're not using an overly interesting parsing strategy (hello pratt parsers) an interpreter tends not to use the more dynamic/odd corners of the language I think.
Unfortunately, what a lot of people seem to miss is a lot of online political advertising is done through consultants or agencies. Disclosing that information not only hurts the politically independent agencies, but it also means there's not going to be a direct link from the ad to the candidate like people think.
I am, and have been. That's why it's so outlandish to me - I keep user data in mind all the time. Finding out you're leaking sensitive personal data is a slippery slope I (nor my clients) want to go down.

Are you implying that it's not outlanding for professional programmers to not have these things in mind?
Or the government can leave it behind their remote servers along with their cyber weapons for anyone to wander by.
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Disaster is too heavy of an adjective there. You may not like it. But interacting with mailing lists using mail is common practice, possible also with mailman and majordomo, and probably with most other mailing list software. You should also be a bit nicer when talking about an open source project hosted for free for everybody.
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Ask HN: Is the future of software development going to a “no code” basis?
That seems like a legitimate use case.

(it was a genuine question!)
I actually like the consistency of knowing where the bikes will be without having to check an app. I have a dock less than a block from my apartment that is consistently stocked with bikes. It's convenient and less mental overhead than checking an app.
I keep hearing phrases like "debate" or "the issue", but there is none. Mathematicians and computer scientists universally state the fact that crackable encryption is not encryption. This is totally understood. Across the aisle sits a group of prosecutors and legislators whose argument devolves to "but if we wish hard enough, maybe...?" and who insist on trying to plow ahead with a discussion as though it were something to be discussed.

There is no "debate", or "the issue". There are only those who understand reality and those who refuse to do so.
There is tagging for that. Though that may end up requiring some discipline to be really effective.
I was referring to the parent of your post.
> recursively self-improving AGI- is the ultimate first-mover advantage: the first company or country to have AGI will very likely be able to leverage that into keeping anyone else from getting it

How? This doesn't seem axiomatic.
Most of the expense in government/military contracts comes from the many, many layers of "management" that have to be continuously fed a diet of large stacks of cash. Then you have to factor in the perverse incentives created for the contractor, where the longer they can drag a project out for and the worse of a job they can do and the cheaper the people they can hire to just barely get the sign-off for completion at the end, the bigger a success it is for the contractor. I worked for quite awhile doing maintenance on a system which was originally developed by an external contractor (one of the ones whose names appears in the comments on this thread). There was originally a contract to develop 3 separate systems. After years of delays and renegotiations and whatnot, 3 separate contracts had been given to the company, and once the government got sick of throwing good money after bad and said 'just give us whatever you have', they got 1 system delivered. That took 9 months of continuous effort to get into a state where it could be used. You know what you call that? A stellar success. At least, if you're the contracting company.
can you use this to properly replicate the functionality of dropbox, though?[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
An interesting question. When is education completed, anyway? But a potential way to answer the question is to look at conversion rates. Some digging would probably bring up some data for one religion in particular but at the very least we could establish an upper bound of ~87k in South Korea for that religion, granting the wrong assumption of all current members being converts post-education https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/country/... Still, I'd bet it's > 0.

Ben Casnocha wrote: "Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion."
This is a great response. Thanks.

> Not by choice they aren't.

This is why I was glad to see this in TFA:

>>> ...while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research."

Even for Weak AI, history tells us that these factors -- policy and industry collaboration -- tend to be significant ingredients in successful safety reforms.
See: basically every instance of Goodhart's Law. Remember, "AI" in these terms is basically just stochastic optimization (ie: machine learning), so the whole range of problems with throwing mathematical optimization at a vaguely-defined intuitive problem crop up. And there are a lot of those.
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Would you mind elaborating a bit? What am I not understanding? The way I see it is that tens of millions of immigrants came to this nation since slavery has ended, most with little or nothing and were able to make lives for themselves and in many cases set up their descendants for middle class (or better) lifestyles. I see no reason this wouldn't apply to freed slaves and their offspring. To be clear, the issue being raised is slavery, not racism or discrimination, which I specified as separate in my original post. I would be very curious as to how slavery specifically is still affecting modern economic inequality when not lumping it in with the separate issues of racism and discrimination.

EDIT - I would also like to point out that a fundamental point of this article was that the economist discovered it was basically more fair and easier to escape poverty prior to 1970.
check out China's track record wrt to human rights, free speech, censorship, government control, you name it. Imagine if they become the 'world police'
I seem to remember that one of the first offencive actions by the English against the Germans in WWI was cutting the German communications cables in the Atlantic.

Ref:
https://warandsecurity.com/2014/08/05/britain-cuts-german-ca...
China has ambitions of regional hegemony, and a large air force that would find forward-deployed concrete airstrips very useful if called upon to support those ambitions. Sri Lanka has neither.
Solving crime is not a right. The government trying to is (a right of the people).

Privacy (and hence encryption) is a right.

End.
Why "million dollar"? Sure being financially secure is great, but are people working in the industry now really just in it for the money?

I guess we know the answer with VC founders, but are technical people really not interested in making cool things that let them live a comfortable life?
Regarding Seattle and Portland, while it's true there are bike share programs, I don't see them used very often. The few who are using the bikes are either tourists (minority) or the homeless on stolen bikes. Additionally, just about half the limebikes that I see are abandoned under bridges or broken and unusable.

Portland itself is a very bikeable city and a lot of time/energy is spent to improve and grow this infrastructure. Traffic is getting to the point where cycling is faster for inner-city trips, but as I live outside of the city it's a non-starter because public transportation from my end of town is severely limited.

Seattle doesn't seem nearly as bike friendly, and while it's certainly faster to bike or walk during rush hour, it doesn't seem nearly as safe as Portland. I certainly have no interest in cycling in Seattle, driving is bad enough.
I've wondered about that claim. Was there an asterisk next to that claim that said (*compared to Black Tar Heroin)? Given how crazy addictive it turned out to be shouldn't Purdue be held accountable for false advertising and public endangerment?
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Pretty interesting project, is it PHP only though? All examples seem to point towards PHP or is it a generic solution?
If all we cared about was solving crimes, we could make US law enforcement much easier by doing away with a lot of things, such as certain amendments to the US Constitution.

But law enforcement is only one component of a functional society.

And the rest of us, from time to time, have to deal with the criminals who have yet to be caught by our acceptably-efficient law enforcement apparatus.

This includes people who like to steal information, many of whom are probably out of US law enforcement's reach.

The author doesn't address that problem, which I can understand, as he's a lawyer and former fed prosecutor. And while it's tempting to tell him to stay in his lane, we're stuck with him and others like him.

And it doesn't seem possible for the people (whom government doesn't really trust, despite platitudes uttered for generations) and the government (whom the people do not trust, for reasons I have a hard time impeaching) to agree on a system for safeguarding information.

Which is too bad, because most people would probably like to help enforce laws, espeically those involving children and other vulnerable types.

BUT, we live in a world where even the most open and free societies do the following:

1) Use the police (more accurately, the threat of legal trouble) to silence, bankrupt, and intimidate problematic people.

2) Defeat or ignore the controls designed to prevent abuses of power.

3) Refuse to hold government institutions accountable for malfeasance.

It might help Dr. Rozenshtein's case if he would apply his gifts to solving the political problems listed above, which might restore the trust between government and governed, which in turn might get him the tools he thinks government should have for enforcing the law.
Does anyone have a history of self-hosting compilers / interpreters? I bet there is more to flesh out here than what Wikipedia has to offer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#Hist...
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housing is too expensive. should move some companies to Sacramento. SV is a valley, it's surrounded by sea and mountain, it can't expand anymore.
I never understood why it was any different or why they attempted to compel others to 'dump everything they had publicly'. No one who comes across something as powerful as AGI is going to think : Yeah, why don't I just publish everything about it. A maturity step has seemingly occurred post funding
Without inflation it grows even faster.

Warren Buffet literally describes inflation as a tax - I agree with that. Taxes are [should be] a way of redistributing wealth more fairly.

Responding to your later edit: yes, wealthy people have more opportunities that come from wealth, and therefore can expect their wealth to collect more wealth disproportionately quickly. Inflation does work to correct this.
Were you also posting narcissistic photos?
Indeed, inflation is a way of transferring wealth away from the wealthy, and helping debtors (people with student loans, auto loans, mortgages, credit card debt, etc.) and the poor (people without money saved). It also correlates with reduced unemployment.

A legal change to make minimum wage track inflation and dramatically increase (double?) the currently unlivable federal minimum wage would also be helpful though, as would restoring workers' rights (especially collective bargaining rights) which have been gradually but systematically eroded for the past 40 years.
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How are they not valued? A stay at home mom lives the same lifestyle as the husband that works (and vice versa for stay at home dads). They live in the same house, eat the same food, go on the same vacations... If you're doing those things for free then you're implicitly being paid equal to the other partner who's living the same lifestyle.
the choice I made to contribute to society by having a family

You thought about it long and hard and decided "what society really, really needs, more than anything, is another one of me"?
Could you explain your premise?

I don't know of any "no code" development happening currently. Am I missing something(probably)?
This sounds like racism and discrimination (which I mentioned as separate issues). And they are indeed separate. A country need not have had slavery as an institution to have racism and discrimination.

EDIT - I would also like to point out that a fundamental point of this article was that the economist discovered it was basically more fair and easier to escape poverty prior to 1970.
> The AV1 format is and will always be royalty-free

Not sure how they can make this statement.

VP8 was patent encumbered all over the place and eventually required licensing from MPEG-LA. Surely AV1 would be infringing on at least some of HEVC's expansive patent pool. Unless of course Google is willing to indemnify user's against patent infringement lawsuit. Which would be really big news.
> This is a very ambitious project.

I’m quite certain the word you’re looking for “Ambiguous”. The entire landing page was confusion personified, with loads of promises and assembly-language-like marketing that only a few exceptional people with limitless amount of time will dedicate themselves to be trapped by
I wanted to be first to market on a big data cluster with heavy emphasis on built in/plug and play ML for other startups and small businesses. Not the kind of thing you can have a go at from Dad's garage.
What is the best way for designers to help with opensource projects? These projects are often very developer oriented.
Not even remotely true. Getting a post-secondary education, learning to be financially responsible, and not fucking up in any major ways (debt, crime etc) are what helped me escape poverty. Also the support of government programs that helped to fill in gaps when I was struggling
About seven years ago I met my wife on OkCupid. The only reason why I messaged her back (after had messaging with her several months earlier) was because of the frontend visitor feature. She had visited my profile randomly again. Turns out she said she accidentally clicked on to my profile intended to see someone else.

I haven't used OkC since then, but I thought I'd share that in the context of this blog post ;-)
Learn to quote properly please. Only include what is relevant to your reply - anyone can access the whole post if they want more context.
Matt Blaze said it best: ‘When I hear the if we can put a man on the moon we can do this, I’m hearing an analogy almost as if we are saying if we can put a man on the moon, well surely we can put a man on the Sun’.
that looks like jupyter notebook or the floydhub service he talks about mid-article
I want to launch a discussion on the future of software development. It’s a fact that front-end development will be deprecated in a near future with tools like Webflow, Squarespace or Wix. This will mean that the future of front-end development will be made by designers or anyone with good sense of style. My question for debate is: shouldn’t we already have a tool that allowed us to build software on a visual / no code matter?

A non technical founder that don’t want to waste one year learning to code should have tools available to build software without knowing any programming language? Makes sense or is this just utopian?
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enacted structural gatekeeping processes like many years of education, and low minimum wages to systematically repress groups

See, that's just silly. There was no meeting of "the 20%" where we all talked about it and had a vote and decided to go ahead with our Evil Plan(tm). Or if there was, I was busy that day.
I'm not interested in lab grown meat.

I don't each much meat anyway, but the meat that I do eat is grass fed & finished and raised semi-locally. I prefer the path closer to nature than to the lab.
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From wikipedia:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1), is an open, royalty-free video coding format designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It is being developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium of firms from the semiconductor industry, video on demand providers, and web browser developers, founded in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
Software without code is like food without ingredients.

Either somebody will describe to the computer what to do in sufficient detail that it can do it, or they won't. If they do, their description is code. If they don't, the computer won't know what to do and you don't have software.
What happens to an economy when there's negative population growth? It shrinks unless you dramatically change the economics to permit shrinking while also not making everyone poor or otherwise destabilizing society. Thus far our societies have been predicated on positive population growth, and if that can't happen by birth rates then it must happen with immigration.

About the closest approximation to a shrinking population society, is Japan. They have negative native growth and also don't bring in immigrants. And as a result they have widespread consolidation, aging, and ghost towns. And also the really unanswered questions about how to deal with an aging population with so few youth to care for the old, and where the money comes from to maintain standard of living. The main way they've done this is technological advances as an offset. OK, so is there a limit to such advances as compensatory elements of a shrinking society? Uncertain, but there probably is, and then what happens?

There's way more known what happens with societies that have strong population growth than what happens to shrinking ones that also survive. Typically the shrinking societies end up in the realm of anthropology and archaeology.
> Coercing developing countries into taking out loans they can't afford to build infrastructure they don't need has been the USA's MO for decades

I'm not arguing against your point, but do you have any specific examples? The wiki article doesn't really offer up anything, do we just have to read the book?
> China acquires territory over important infrastructure in foreign countries, not unlike how the US has military bases worldwide.

Well, China is an authoritarian dictatorship, while the U.S. supports democracy and human rights of the locals. In fact, the U.S. has done more for freedom and democracy in China than the Chinese government: 23 million Chinese people in Taiwan have those things because the U.S. protects them from China's own government. (Yes, the U.S. also does some bad things.)

There is a big difference between a foreign government controlling a military base with the support of the local government, and a foreign government controlling the major ports and railroads due to a debt trap that the local government can't legally escape. Again, the U.S. is imperfect, but the world has seen enough expansionist dictatorships to know what they do.
> See: basically every instance of Goodhart's Law

No, I asked for specific examples. This is part of the handwaving I'm talking about. Can you give me something other than the maniacal paperclip optimizer?
Please see my first reply.
Perhaps this is one of those things that can't be easily 30-second summarized, lest understood without a modicum of effort! (Besides you sound, frankly, somewhat uncharitable --so I will stop wasting your time and refrain from trying to persuade you further.)
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Mutations in nature can happen totally randomly, with no guarantee that they will benefit humans. Whereas in a lab maybe something will go wrong, once we get it right, it's right forever.

On the one hand, I'm not aware of any research that says eating organic foods is more healthy. Also I think it's people reacting to new things, like some people hear lab grown meat and are grossed out, others are excited about a more efficient way of farming. New technology is always divisive it seems.
What, that's not how everyone decides to have kids? Weird
You can imagine the future however you like; however, as you chided a sibling poster, "read the article." The technology on offer does not do those things.

But yes, I think you can make a blanket statement that decisions will be made on the margins and any savings to the consumer will be incidental.
Is it racist to suggest that being called a racist is worse than living under the effects of racism? Probably, yeah. Are you a racist? I don't know; I'd assume not. But I think you're right: calling people racist isn't super useful. Given that this isn't the Jim Crow era, racism works differently. Instead of people being actively, loudly and vociferously racist, we just tend to not notice all the many ways that whiteness helps us out, and then plead innocence when asked why we're not doing more.

I mean, think about NIMBYism (or any of the examples above where access to some economic benefit are restricted). White folks have most of the assets; NIMBYism means the world's most vibrant cities become more and more off-limits to non-white folks, who then become even less likely to hold and grow any real assets. I'd call that racist, but again, it doesn't really matter if the people who benefit from racism are Racists with a capital R. They may not hold racist beliefs, and yet they can still benefit from and promote racist systems. We're all complicit in these systems, because they persist today. Denying that, I think, is a way to keep racism working.

How do you fix the real root problem without naming racism and the people who benefit from it as in some way complicit in racism? I don't know. "Racist" is a high bar, and it lets us ignore that so many of us are responsible for the persistence of racism.
That's fine. I don't hide who I am. I've discussed things on various accounts/mediums over the years and more increasingly have no concern about restricting my identity. Maybe you can make accurate assumptions as to why this is the case.

In any event, speaking freely and openly in this manner helps put my at ease knowing I at least got the information in its raw form out in the open. Whether or not you believe my framing, arguments, commentary is up to you. Whether or not anyone inquires is up to them. The information was put out there and that clears my conscience in a manner about the times ahead.