skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of this extension is to isolate Facebook. So yes, when you click a link to Facebook, it will open it in a dedicated Facebook container.

It would be counter intuitive if this is how the standard Containers extension worked, but for this specific extension, you are installing it to isolate Facebook, so I think this is how people would expect it to work. If the extension did not open Facebook links in a dedicated Facebook container, then I think the extension would not be doing its job correctly.
I tried again a couple of months ago. The only way I can describe it is that I have a muscle memory with 3D software that largely transfers between most packages. With Blender I feel frozen in my tracks.
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They aren’t.
To quote: “No conclusive evidence exists that [nanobes] are, or are not, living organisms, so their classification is controversial.”

You say nanobes aren't life, but then you say you don't know? Pick one.

“Life” is not well-defined. The textbook definition you might have seen in school would misclassify fire as alive.

Sorta pretentious to just define life to fit existing narratives when you don't have an explanation. We have to figure out more instead of stopping at what we don't understand.

Will check out the podcast. Love Brian Cox.
This entire post is ad-hominem and does not make an argument against the content of the linked article.
>Python seems to handle complexity better, but only on the surface. (Basically Python has nice data structures, great string formatting, and .. that's it.)

It's a complete scripting language, with tons of features, from a comprehensive standard library with something for most needs, to a packaging system, isolated environments, async io, and more. And lots of expressivity in structuring your program (including optional types).

So, not sure what the above "and that's it" means. That it's not Haskell? Yes, it's not.

>Setting up the Python environment requires something, because Python comes in many flavors (2 vs 3, system installed, user installed, /usr/local) and there are a bunch of factors (pip, pyenv, pipenv, PYTHONPATH, current directory with modules, requirement for python-dev headers, and GCC to compile native parts of packages, and then of course maybe extra shared libraries too) that can affect the "script".

If you're doing dev-ops with such scripts, you already need to handle the environment in general.
IPython. Seems to work for simple stuff like `ls blah`, but I'm not aware how far this stretches, and is probably not super safe to use.

EDIT: Seems I've only tried too basic things - it works thanks to %automagic, and seemingly %man is a thing. Other option is to use %%sh or %%bash, but that's a bit verbose.
It's an issue of safety margins. Just consider the airplane.

- A two-engine plane can operate on just one engine

- In the event of losing power or losing both engines, a plane has a certain glide capability

- Runways are built allowing a certain amount of overshooting

- A bad approach allows you to circle back around and try again

- Planes can land and takeoff with significant winds and precipitation (including cross winds)

- A plane can actually land in a body of water (as happened on the Hudson).

Now compare the safety margins for a dead stop rocket reentering from space at Mach 30.
> concerns that the U.S. agency could be promoting encryption technology it knew how to break, rather than the most secure.

If they were going to do this, wouldn't they submit it under a pseudonym?
I was thinking this was the use case for Hyperloop and the boring company... take an underground shuttle to the launch pad in 30 minutes or less...
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So the most PR-friendly use-case is that the caller deceives the business? OK.
Argh, brain fart right there. Yes it should be the VMWare Workstation not Fusion.
> Or do they have to pass some astronaut-like conditioning test?

I wonder about military applications. One would imagine that special forces groups would meet requirements. Being able to move SEALs around the world in a matter of minutes would be a boon for force projection.
I’m curious - was it your first 3D software? I’m wondering if it’s a difference of learning from the ground up on it vs coming from other packages.
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Our software business is not dependent on shrink-wrap EULAs and neither is Apple's.
Its possible to write 2-3 compatible Python code. Furthermore, for basic "scripting" its reasonable to assume no external dependencies, so no need to worry about packaging, pip, pipenv, etc.

The major disadvantage of any "comfortable" language aside from Python is that they aren't installed by default on nearly every distribution of every OS.

This is why, for example, Ansible only requires Python 2.6 on managed nodes, allowing literally zero installation on almost any host you want to manage.

If you already have a good mechanism for packaging and distributing software to all your machines (which I think is a reasonable expectation for Google) then go ahead and use whatever language you're well equipped for. But know you'll be sacrificing the easy and wide distribution that using Bash or Python brings you.
Yes it's not legal, same as Hackintosh.
By your definition once 1 is added it’s not a number we can understand.
Snowden caused this.

That's pretty interesting, one way or the other.
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Nope, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
I'm not a software developer, I'm a technology enthusiast.
That's only one of his exploits. That this guy talk with a straight face about "enlightenment" and "ethics" is "funny".
All Raven Ridge processors have ECC support[1], but it additionally requires motherboard support. Would be great if some laptop manufacturer would undercut prices of current ECC laptops by >1k$ by pairing Raven Ridge with ECC or we get at least a µATX or ITX board.

[1] https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/amd-ama-starts-at-12pm-...

edit: As AMD is already throttling DRAM speed dynamically for Ryzen Mobile to conserve power, it would be an interesting experiment to see if they could throttle ECC DRAM even lower, so that it consumes less power than normal DRAM.
Rocket launches take a certain amount of planning and favorable weather. Plus, they are impossible to hide. All in all, not desirable.
You’ve hit most of it. The desire is a lowest common denominator. Python, Ruby, etc would be great except that in some of the places there arent current versions and beyond the most mundane you end up wanting 3rd party packages, which complicates your packaging or removes that lowest common denominator property.

What it begs is for a new tool. A single file, statically linked “super shell” that lets you do structured scripting and has builtins for a bunch of common things (reading in addresses, daemonizing processes, reading the process table, etc. and that tool needs to be build able on nearly everything. Now I like rust and the attention it is getting and the interest in safety and correctness. I can’t think of many places where I’d reach for bash but be happier writing rust, a lot of it is 15minute disposable programming jobs. At a glance, I think I’d trade 5minutes of set -e to find some error I skipped for 45 minutes of trying to rejigger things to properly borrow some shared value.
Why wouldn't you install Bash then, if you want to run shell scripts on those platforms?

I mean, what are the use cases? Where universality is important (so let's say when someone embeds scripts in Makefiles), I understand the need for POSIX, but other that I can't even come up with a good use case for having sh as default. (Maybe to save space, you ship the embedded device or Docker container with sh, sure, but then what kind of script you'd want to run there? Okay, maybe all of them, but then even on alpine installing bash is one quick command.)
I never got into TF2 because I was all into TFC and found the lack of accompanying grenades in TF2 a kind of dumbing down of the game. Nades and concs were crucial to use along side your main weapon and it was no fun without them. Sadly there are only 2-3 active TFC servers left :'(
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The article also states why that omission is irrelevant.

> And the article makes the mistake of assuming that life force is the physical driving energy

No, it’s simply a tautology: if it interacts with physical entities, it’s physical. EM radiation itself is a physical phenomenon, so it doesn’t provide a magical escape hatch. It doesn’t matter what you call this mystical force; by virtue of interacting with a physical system it must be subject to rules of physics, no special pleading can change that.

> There are lots of randomness in quantum physics

Yes, but that is provably a fundamental property of quantum systems, not something we can ignore or manipulate nilly-willy. Your Einstein quote predates relevant experiments that disprove this hypothesis. “Who are we to argue against Einstein?” is therefore a classical argument from authority: we are arguing based on evidence (and new theoretical underpinnings) that Einstein, at the time he uttered the phrase, didn’t possess (in particular, Bell’s theorem). Your objection is exactly like refusing to acknowledge relativity, saying “Who are we to argue against Newton?”

Anyway, if you’re keen on an argument from authority then consider this: who are you to argue against the consensus of the smartest minds working in the field of neurobiology? I hope you can appreciate how this argument sounds less convincing if used against you.
Privacy? What privacy? It most jurisdictions in this country I can search property records, obtain the names of those owning if not in residence, property values, when purchased and so on. Then I can cross reference other government databases and eventually onto private setups like the one in the article.

people and washington are bemoaning what happens at Google, Facebook, and the like, yet totally ignoring all the information readily available to the public for anyone to take from government itself.

Example, if you know a street address or owner's name in Cobb County Georgia will allow you to search. The amount of information available there is and the type is far more dangerous than what was discovered via a facebook quiz.
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This is hardly the first time suspicion has fallen on NSA proposals.

As linked elsewhere in this thread,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Yeah, sorry. I worked on tab sync and the debugging process would be involved enough that it’s not practical to do over HN comments. In practice there are a couple concrete things that can cause this, and but all should be reported in about:sync-log.

Not sure how to help more specifically than that.
Ironically this reads like a very well written student essay despite being written by a statesman at the dusk of his life.

Why? Well, as he says at the front of his essay, he'd never considered AI (a field funded by ARPA (later DARPA) through the height of his power) and so his musings (whoah, a car driver needs to consider novel situations! People ask the Internet for stuff immediately relevant to their needs and interests!) are, frankly, the first thoughts anyone will have when they first think of machines that think. The thoughts I had as a teenager in the 1970s and I don't claim to have had any special talent.

I always believed that Kissinger is very smart, and this essay doesn't change that. But I always believed he was intellectually extremely lazy (rather than being the steely-eyed Vulkan of Realpolitik who could see through the bullshit) and this essay also doesn't change that.
The second thing is not more portable than the first (unfortunately).
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This is not related to Cambridge Analytica. It's the University of Cambridge, in the UK.

>Though “Cambridge” is in the name, there’s no real connection to Cambridge Analytica, just a very tenuous one through Aleksandr Kogan, which is explained below.
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Interesting, this article isn't even in the top 500 although it has 4 upvotes as of now which most of the time gets an article at least for a short time close to the front page.

Is rt.com being shadow banned?
True, but it's one of the first with hard evidence to use against the NSA.
Your bounty of perks link is just to a slideshow of 6 generic things, mostly applying only to on-site workers. Is there more information available?
Off-topic rant aside, Can't Henry Kissinger just die already? is a despicable thing to say about anyone. If you want to get a point across, don’t rant it, and don’t open with something vile. Not liking someone, or a conviction that they’re a terrible person is no excuse.
History ended in 1989. Surely Kissinger was listening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history
"While you sign on to the Internet and blithely zap and receive electronic mail, visit Web sites and bare your soul in on-line discussion groups, you are increasingly being watched and tracked. Every move you make on the Internet can be followed, and the information gathered can be used against you."
Prescient.
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Kissinger is right.

The number of strategic threats due to AI are exploding. Social media manipulation online, voice to text from tiny microphones, hacked autonomous devices, hyper targeted predictions of unstable systems, autonomous devices smuggling dangerous material (arms, fentanyl, fissile material), or even hard AI in the far future.

It's even decaying democracy itself. I know plenty of good people that would make great politicians but absolutely refuse to run because they understand how much dirt OSINT would pull up on them and AI only makes this worse because of advanced stylometry.

The problems with cyber are real. AI and cyber security in an increasingly cyber physical world are something we aren't prepared for. We can't even get non-trivial amounts of humans to believe that global warming is happening let alone anthropogenic. Since at least 2016 the CIA has listed cyber as the number one threat to global security each year, despite the DPRK getting access to usable nuclear weapons and ICBMs.

That's the scale of the risk / hazard we face with AI and cyber security over the next decade. It's worse than North Korea getting nuclear weapons.
I really don't like the `/usr/bin/env bash` approach (it came from the ruby world I think?). It's less portable than /bin/bash in my experience - I've been in environments, usually older ones, where it doesn't work at all. But /bin/bash works everywhere. You also can't pass command line arguments. And it's slightly more complex than just invoking /bin/bash.
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We sync tabs and history more aggressively than we used to now. Among other times, se do a quick tab sync when you put your laptop to sleep or etc. Still not as aggressive as chrome though, which uses a push-based system, but much improved from the past.
Ah, I forget that rockets are no where close to planes...

At best one could maybe speed up pre-planned movements, as opposed to allowing a QRF to more rapidly react.
I really enjoyed this series by Socratica: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi01XoE8jYohWFPpC17Z-...

Just for entertainment value, specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfS2H1y6tzQ
Surely this is language dependent! Different languages apply different emphasis to the use of verbs vs nouns/gerunds. There's plenty of good work in that area. I presume the students were all Hebrew speakers?
Pseudonymous submission would also be a reason for suspicion.
what will ground an AI in human ethics?

What grounds humans in "human ethics?" Is it thoughtful rational decision making or whims of the powerful at the time?

And which human ethics are you grounding in? Aristotelian, Cynic, Stoic, Theological?

There seems to be a common idea that humans all share some ethical framework or thread that is similar. I don't think that holds. In fact I don't know if there is any single ethic that you could argue every single human holds similarly. Maybe you could argue, will to survive and reproduce, but even that is highly variable.

The idea that we should or could build some kind of ethical homogeneity into our engineered intelligent systems is absolutely silly.
On their "OpenAI Charter", they list several basic principles they'll use to achieve the goal of safe AGI, including this one, which I find pretty interesting:

>We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.”

If I'm reading that correctly, it means that later on if/when some company is obviously on the cusp of AGI, OpenAI will drop what they're doing and start helping this other company so that there isn't a haphazard race to being the first one, which could result in unsafe AGI. That sounds like a well-intentioned idea that could cause more problems in practice. For instance, if there are multiple companies with almost equal footing, then combining forces with one of them would give a sense of even stricter deadline to the other ones, possibly making the development even less safe.

Also, they only mention assisting "value-aligned, safety-conscious" projects, which seems pretty vague. Just seems like they should give (and perhaps have given) more thought into that principle.
Like this? http://www.blackcatsystems.com/GM/GeigerCounters.html
If I used the term, I would reply, "A safe powerful AGI is one with a less than fifty percent chance of killing more than one billion people." (Because most of the work is pushing the failure probability sigmoid from 0.999+ to below 0.5, and people will disagree on how much lower than that it could be pushed.)
Why would they? A national security organization should be concerned with keeping their citizen’s traffic from being snooped - not snooping their citizen’s traffic.
A lot of creatures reduce contact with something that just caused them a lot of pain. I'd have asked if they ruled out whether the snails also withdraw a bit after someone stabbed them with a needle. The subsequent test on Petri dishes lends more credence to the theory, though, that the reaction is stored and moving.
I'd recommend going through a good university's economics textbook and doing all the exercises. It's much easier to beat the market by fundamentals than by technical analysis, though a knowledge of both are important.
The post could be not related to the subject of the article but it's related to the author of the article.

It's clearly not ad-hominem because the comment is not rejecting the claims of the article, only expressing his opinion about the author.

On the other hand, I have to agree with the criticism about the tone that other comment express. It never improves the debate to wish somebody dead.
Right - normal Containers are useful if you don't want sites you visit to track you by associating your browser with a FB account. Facebook Container is for when you don't want FB itself to track what websites you visit. (Normal containers also help if you just want to log into multiple FB accounts at once.)
try this :)

http://thecodinglove.com/
>Mac's are very secure and polished exactly because there is no PCs and only Apple hardware.

This seems obviously false, given the untold thousands of people running Hackintoshes (i.e., non-Apple hardware) with no reported security issues. I've run a Hackintosh for 5+ years and I've never had a problem with security. As for polish, my selected hardware is far better than what I could get from Apple, at 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the nearest comparable (but still inferior) offerings from Apple.

I'm talking desktops. Laptops might be a different story. For desktops, Apple engineering has been lagging and just generally underwhelming for at least half a decade now, and I don't think they have the interest or even the ability (culture, etc.) to regain their hardware chops.
People used DB logs with hashes for verification at least as far back as the 70's. Blockchain on it's own is just a slightly different form of the same thing.

So, while Blockchain has nothing directly to do with being distributed, that's just a useful feature but requires proof of work of some kind, or someone can quickly manufacture several blocks.
To address your first point - the rocket has 3 sea-level engines on the spaceship stage, each of which has enough thrust to land the ship on its own if the other two fail. (This is partly a byproduct of it being much lighter during landing than takeoff as most fuel has already been burned.)
How very nice for those other capitalists and their sentimentalism.

I look forward to having an employer whom I can help to outperform their overly-sentimental competitors.
Interesting way to put the blame on someone exposing the crimes, instead of those actually doing the crimes.
IMHO. There is no error. A person who is aware of their actions but not the causes by which their actions are guided, are not free. A human may have the capacity, but it may not be exercised, and if it is not, they are not free.
Anyone remember [TUNES](http://tunes.org/)? They had a great collection of info about OSs. This seems to be what's left online:

- http://tunes.org/cliki/operating_20systems.html
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With Althea you are the driver and fully in control.
I thought of Rust because of the strict typing. If something TypeScript-like could compile to Bash, that'd be amazing. (Maybe there's something like that already.)

But now, to think of it, just using Node + TS (+ yarn) sounds better than Python.
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Why can you not modify the editor environment that you use often?

Hard to see I need to deal with environments where I can do nothing but keep the default every time I use it.

Once you get the speed that is tuned to your liking, the default sounds like you're walking with legs strapped.
Your rush to judgement here is unwarranted. OP said nothing about whether what Snowden did was good or bad, just that it was a factor in the ISO's decision.
You're thinking like a technical person. The management caste needs face to face time, in person, where you can get social cues. Drinks, meals, walks together, golf games. Not Facetime or Skype.
This is a great story, it's like triple-dipping. You're getting a) paid to b) learn and c) look at memes.
at larger companies you often have recruiters focused on specific areas - so they can know more. At places I've worked we've had just an engineering recruiter and just a sales recruiter and etc...
It’s about time Intel offers consumers ECC RAM support.