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> You obviously know that it's a crime in Germany. The parent's friend obviously didn't.

Again, if I go to another country, it is my personal duty to familiarize myself with their laws.

Just because I never read an US criminal code does not mean I should happily start murdering people once I walk out of JFK. After all, how could I have known murder actually is a crime in the United States, given how often it happens there?

Of course, a sensible person wouldn't start murdering people at the airport just after touchdown because they did not learn the host country's law. A sensible person, however, would also not start using that kind of greeting.

> Are you actually in support of rule of law no matter what, or is it just this law you like? For example, are you OK with China executing Falun Gong members?

To my knowledge, China does not execute Falun Gong members for being Falun Gong members, but for crimes which just so happen to be considered capital by the Chinese authorities. If or if not any given executed Falun Gong member actually is guilty of that particular crime is the actual question.

> Are you OK with ISIS killing gay people (it's the law of Islam!)?

ISIS is not considered to be a legitimate government of anything, so obviously no.

> Are you OK with slavery as long as it's legal?

Slavery is not legal anywhere in the world.

> Or are you just angry about Nazis especially out of all the other horrible groups in history for some reason?

Fun fact: German law also forbids the use of other organization's insignia under the same law, namely the PKK's (Kurdish terrorist group/communist party) or the FDJ's (Former East Germany scout-like youth organization). And I am perfectly ok with that, even though Nazis are particularly problematic: They are an actual danger to our society.

> What about the Romans? They were pretty brutal - do you want to destroy the property of people who write roman numerals and write Latin phrases on things?

Differently from the Nazis, the Romans were law-abiding people who did not try to overthrow a legitimate government.

> It has nothing to do with safety. I grew up playing Wolfenstein 3D and watching the History channel. Nazi symbols were completely normal and everywhere. It was in no sense a crime or an indication that you're so mentally ill that you're going to crash your car.

Hey, in Germany, if you show you do not care for laws repeatedly (or once, involving a vehicle), how do we know if you care for traffic safety laws? There have been cases where we took away the driving license of people who parked in a no-parking zone repeatedly...

(and personally, I think a lot more people need to lose their license for life. It's a privilege, not a right).

> Please don't make personal judgments. I explained my reason.

You have a convicted nazi criminal in your family and have at some point have had nazi symbolism on your car. Yeah, your explanation is a very likely story.
The point of the economist article is that those reliably huge profit margins and free cash flows may not be so reliable in the future. Nvidia is doing a great job and has released some amazing technology.
The culture of silence is certainly changing; as the article states, libraries are becoming more multi-use, and separate soundproofed reading rooms are provided for those who desire silence.
I think Japan's debt situation and the unstable nature of a lot of young people's careers (gigs, temp jobs, etc.) are scaring off family formation. Which is the wrong response for the economy, but the right response for the person.
I love how the top response to this article contains the following:

There is plenty of room for debate on many subjects. There is no room at the table for the ideologies masquerading as "conversations" in these circles. These bigots lost their seat at the adults' table long ago. To invite them back with their notions of racial supremacy and their desire for theocracy is a bridge or twenty too far.

But if you listen to people like Dave Rubin, Sam Harris, etc. you see that they fiercely oppose theocracy and institutional racism. The straw man is real. Liberals like this only further alienate people and make the "Intellectual Dark Web" (I don't like that name because it sounds like some underground, illegal activity even though it's all done in the light of day, broadcast on youtube for everyone) grow.
> I'm sure he didn't know that law.

Let me speak it out for you again:

It doesn't matter. Ignorance does not protect against punishment.
I don't want to comment on the "intellectual" part, but by what fancy interpretation is this a web, much less a dark one?
What IS this article even about aside from name dropping "celebrities" ?
It could just ask the questions and send the user the short list to work from.
There is no He. It is them. "He" has made edits every single day in more than 1700 days. It is clearly a group.
Your don't seem to entirely grok just how many books there are available in deadtree format, and how small a fraction of them are easily (and legally) available in electronic form, not to mention professionally laid out and typeset. Plus how few people actually have an e-book reader.
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I think that was just Reitz, and it's been removed. But that's why I pointed out that there officially is no "officially".
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My apologieis but there is an ocean of misconceptions and a galaxy of misinformation, in that comment.

>> The complexity of language looks finite.

I have to ask what your defintion of "language" is because by formal language theory the only languages that are finite are, well, finite languages- which are simple than regular languages, which can be descirbed by a regular expression.

And I'm pretty sure that nobody has ever managed to write a regular expression that can describe all of human language.

>> Translation between all the European languages works fairly well. Asian languages, not so much yet.

In fact, translation between "all the European lagnuages" does not work at all well. For limited domains and for languages with lots of examples of translation, it works alright. Stray from that assumption and the results quickly descent into incomprehensible gibberish.

>> We're way ahead of where things were in the "AI winter", 1985-2005. This time the startups make money and do useful things.

Making money is a measure of progress of the industry- not of the science.

>> AI used to be tiny - about 20-50 people at MIT, CMU, and Stanford.

That was true back in the '50s, when the field began. In the '80s and '90s, at the hight of GOFAI and expert systems, there were several thousands of researchers working on AI.

For example, the 5th Generation Computer project was a massive effort by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry which encompassed pretty much all of that country's computer industry with huge loads of funding- not to mention the reaction in the West who panicked thinking that the Japanese were aobut to do to their computer industry what they had done to its car industry.

You might have heard of the failure of the project- but it took thousands of people a long time to fail. So, no, AI was not tiny, by any sense of the word, for any time after the first years of its birth.

>> (Me: MSCS, Stanford, 1985. I met most of the greats of classical logic-based AI. Trying to hammer the real world into predicate calculus just doesn't work. The expert systems guys were in denial big-time about this.)

Last week I met a guy with a background in theoretical physics, who works in high-performance computing. Am I now qualified to contribute an opinion about theoretical physics and high-performance computing?
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I'll preface this with noting that I did my own research into both sides prior to writing this. I don't have a horse in this race one way or another.

Something is not right here. This is not the first attempt to discredit a major organization - fivefilters previously ran a campaign against The Guardian (http://theguardian.fivefilters.org/), with much the same kind of conspiratorial tone that I detect in the page on Wikipedia. The fivefilters folks seem to be surprised that this user is spending so much time editing their favorite articles.

The articles in question have had quite a history of "interesting" editors pop by. Look for example at the page on Oliver Kamm. The fivefilters folks allege that Philip Cross is suppressing information about a pending court case. The edit history (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver_Kamm&offse...) shows something much different:

- 05/01, 86.63.4.158 adds some information about this "court case", which is really just a crowdfunding request for pending legal action (sourced to a blog). This user gets reverted several times by Cross for adding poorly sourced material.

- 05/01, User:Leftworks1 re-adds it, and gets into a revert war with Cross, User:ScrapIronIV, and User:Cullen328 (all of whom are reverting the poorly sourced stuff). This user has only ever edited the Kamm article.

- 05/02, several IP address editors, in quick succession, attempt to re-add that section. Three established editors revert. Protection is added to prevent anonymous users from editing.

- 05/04, protection expires and a pile of anonymous IPs start to add the material again. Total of 12+ attempts.

- 05/07, Leftworks1 comes back and attempts to add the court case material again. Protection is added back.

- 05/09, the article is edited several times by User:Ubli9917, User:Ubli4351, User:Ther7514, User:Ifit8488, all of which are accounts created 05/05, who have made exactly 10 edits to unrelated accounts (to gain autoconfirmation), and who then promptly tried to add the court case to the Kamm article.

So what this reveals is that a number of sockpuppet accounts, anonymous IPs, and such have been trying to push unsourced crap through onto Wikipedia, and Philip Cross (and others) have been trying to get it removed. This gets played out on other pages, too. Just look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investiga...

While Philip Cross might have a certain bias in his choice of articles, I can't help but view this particular fivefilters article as a very biased attack on an established editor who happened to step on some toes. His Wikipedia opponents, apparently tired of fighting him with sockpuppets and normal edit procedures, have taken to an external medium to decry him. Wikipedia has many layers of dispute resolution, but other than an AN/I posting by a largely uninvolved user, the aggrieved opponents of Philip Cross appear not to have attempted any form of real dispute resolution. Until they provide evidence that they have attempted to work within Wikipedia to solve their editorial dispute, I would not pay this fivefilters article any heed.
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Obviously 1000 is a bit more than the grandparent can 'name' directly, but I would in fact like to see some evidence indicating the presence of at least 1000 US companies that pay in crypto.
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This article fails to mention another reason; cities in Finland are built in such a way that going to the library is feasible. I've lived in both Finland and the U.S., and commuting in Finland is much easier. Commuting in U.S. cities takes a lot more energy, and the thought of it is often painful, so people just don't go in the first place. At least where I live...
Once upon a time, kids (in the US) could afford to go to state schools without racking up horrendous debts.
Now, the in state tuition in my state (NH) is over $28K a year. Education was once a societal priority. Maybe we should, as a society, value educating our populace as much as say, we value imprisoning them? [1] It wouldn’t surprise me that we societally do value it but something is thwarting us from getting what we value.

[1] $30-$60K year https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cost-of-a-nation-of-incarce...
Has anyone involved in the articles actually attempted to engage Wikipedia's normal dispute resolution procedures? I see one editor who reached out to CoI, but this editor is not actually involved in the articles.
In all fairness, you need to be a particular brand of idiot to show communist glorification on your clothing in the country that was subject to the violent break of the liberalization that we now know as Prague Spring. Anyone who has read anything about Czechia knows about that.

I would expect czech police there to be more "nah, above my paygrade" when it comes to foreigners than German customs officers.
Thanks for the vocabulary fix. As for the risk, google for the effects of too much acidic drinking to teeth and esophagus. People remove deep rust from iron using vinegar, I'd rather don't underestimate it myself.
You have made an assertion that a certain thing is a common occurence on Wikipedia, and have multiple times been asked for sources. The fact that you are still refusing to provide any sources (all the while claiming it is “really common”) is clear grounds for dismissing your point out of hand.
I agree! But when you read news articles you know and expect that the information will have a political slant. But on Wikipedia, the information is advertised as neutral and free of bias, which it isn't. That's the problem with the site. People are treating it as "the truth," rather than just one source among many.

People need to be aware of how incredibly messy the Wikipedia editing game is, and that it is dominated by politically affiliated paid editors. Believing otherwise is incredibly naive.
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There are far more productive Wikipedians (Cross is 308th) who are easily attributable to individuals. 30 edits a day is literally nothing - Cross probably has WP open in a tab at work and checks it like email. Someone makes a negative change to a page he's watching, and he reverts. Easy way to rack up hundreds of edits in a week. (Source: I used to do exactly this for about a year).
The article date predates the Bitcoin spike of the end of the 2017. Furthermore, aren't cryptocurrencies more of a niche hobby than an actual growing field in the industry?
Many people have no problem using libui. There are even many bindings available that people use some of which have documentation. I was able to start using libui instantly, but mostly because I already have experience using other GUI libraries.

People that know C should be able to read and understand the interface file at:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui/blob/master/ui.h

The function / variable names are informative enough. There are examples which should get you started at:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui/tree/master/examples

Even if they would add comments to the interface files (that may be used to generate docs), it will not add much value if it will become as follows:

// Set window title. First argument should be the window and the second the title as a string
uiWindowSetTitle(uiWindow *w, const char *title);

What I think is more important is adding tests etc. Tests can then also serve as a kind of documentation.
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I really like HN on mobile for its speed and full functionality without JS. But things get ugly once you click a link. Do you have a trick for that ? An HN proxy that would link to non-js version of websites ? A mobile browser that lets you quickly turn js back on when a site seems broken ? I guess there's a way to browse the web without painfull ads, newletter popups & co.
... which pretty much catches nobody's attention unfortunately. If Wikipedia does have the goodwill, then something has to be made to bring the average user's perception of trustworthiness down to the level of how much trustworthy they really are, and maybe even less. In the context of trust, false positives are worse than false negatives, since an individual may simply build up trust by referring to other resources and relieve their scepticism.

I'd say Wikipedia is really to blame for creating this false sense of trust on their platform. Not that they are completely unreliable, but they are less so than they seem to an average user.
You're culturally oblivious. Stop being so insulting. I wasn't rude to anybody but I'm suddenly facing a barrage of abuse. I get it that Germans have a penchant for imprisoning people because they're insulted. But the rest of us don't have that luxury. Just stop being an asshole to people you talk to.

I wasn't using whataboutism. I was showing an inconsistency in the commenter's general claim. Do you also really believe gays are being assholes if they have sex in Saudi Arabia? That they should show respect to the culture that has a deep shame about homosexuals?
The issue with French and why it works so badly is the assumptions people made when designing the speech-to-text by starting from English. The core issue is that spoken French and written French are two completely and widely separate languages, with a much much greater difference than English. So the current approach to try to use books and mapping words to them isn't just working well.

What I mean is the current approach is pretty limited.
IBM is not the same company it was in the 1980’s. Lou Gerstner laid off 100,000 people in the early 1990’s. Now most of its employees are non-US based:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html
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>> I was very interested to read the story a few days ago about the relationship between compute resource and results in deep learning. https://blog.openai.com/ai-and-compute/?

Aye. My reaction to that graph was that this rate of progress can't be sustainable. If industry was throwing good money after bad to find out for how long you can keep ussing bubblesort given more and more compute, before having to develop a better sorting algorithm- that's what it would look like.

>> Answer sets explode all solutions and then eliminate contradictions, we couldn't have dealt with them in the 90's (much less in 1985) as the idea of having 10G data structures in memory would have made people lol... but now so what?

ASP is interesting. There are symbolic learning techniques that learn answer set programs from data, did you know that?
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I am surprised that ocornut/imgui [1] is not mentioned anywhere here. I used it for an admin interface in a past project. The author makes it a point to do work on the library based on donations (such as from Patreon, or PayPal). I suppose that's the main reason the project is alive and kicking today. OpenSource projects that are somehow financed - are in a much better situation than projects done on a spare time budget.

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[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
> The site's still very minimal at this point (imagine a slightly-more-functional HN with separate "groups" for different subjects),

Maybe then you'd be interested in this project I'm doing:

https://www.talkyard.io

It has features from Reddit, & Reddit like sub communities, groups & permissions, ... + Slack like chat, StackOverflow Q&A. There are improvements over HN: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-.... — I'm wondering if it is further ahead than what Tilde is currently, and maybe can time be saved if using it? Then you & I could add features to Talkyard that Tilde needs ... (open source)

... Or maybe, since you've been coding for half a year? you've come a long way already ... and it's too late to consider using something else?
If there's an editorial dispute, please solve it in an editorial manner. Editors opposing Cross on Wikipedia have shown prior bad-faith activity. For example, User:Leftworks1 created over a dozen sockpuppets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investiga...) to push their viewpoint, only to get smacked by several editors including Cross repeatedly.

If there's a real editorial dispute - if anyone wanting to "correct" the bias on the articles is actively doing that, with reputable sources, and getting smacked down, then you can bring that to dispute resolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution) and come to consensus. But yelling about Wikipedia being broken or unfairly targeting people is just bunk until you've worked through the process.

In case you think this is me telling you to submit to the bureaucracy - that's exactly what I'm suggesting. If you have a dispute in the real world, you would go to the courts and use the legal system, not just yell about it endlessly to passersby.
Nope, I'm saying they fabricated their own scenario that none of the documentation actually backs up. Maybe you should read it too.
Not only, of course. BTW I have consciously avoided saying I disliked it.
Duplex is a demo right?

If AlphaZero (which doesn't impact users directly) and Duplex (which isn't released yet) are the best recent examples I can understand why there's negative press appearing.
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We are many people that don't use adblock because we don't want to, not because we don't know how to.
We can call it a data optimization problem, but that does not tell us anything about how we go about solving it, or even what we are optimizing for.

Alternatively, perhaps what's being optimized is so general that generalized AI is not, and cannot be, 'just' an optimization problem in any useful sense. Something like the biologically-inspired 'maximize lifetime production of descendants' does not get us very far.
I think the parent actually argues that GT doesn't have understanding.
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It's a bunch in my definition, which is already more than "can't earn a salary in cryptocurrencies"
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This makes me wonder if there are easier ways to get more blood flow to the brain and enjoy the protective benefit, such as sleeping with your legs up every night, or showering with very warm water every morning and evening.
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AMD has already significantly disrupted and diluted Intel's hold on the market. They have literally forced the market from anemic 2 core chips on laptops held in place without movement for 5 years by Intel.

And on the desktop to 4 cores as a minimum and 8 cores for performance at a fraction of the price Intel demands. There cannot be more disruption to Intel than this.

Intel's days of micro gains and controlled markets as progress and with it oversize profits are over.
If only there was some sort of mechanism to decouple the content from the design. Some sort of "sheet" of styles, that different users could choose according to their own preferences. It could even be targeted to specific dimensions and devices.
What has pro-russian to do with anything? Even if they are or were Nazi sympathizers that doesn't change the fact that Wikipedia is being gamed by someone with an agenda. 1700+ days of edits without pause? It is clearly a group behind that account.
That is true, I did not want to deny that.

However I think that it is not very speculative to say that, if more people knew about content blocking, more people would block unwanted content. My intention behind assuming his knowledge/competence was only meant to exclude nescience from the list of potential reasons for him to not block content.
> I'm pretty sure everyone knows it's edited by strangers on the internet

I can assure you that there are at least some who are unaware that even they can edit a Wikipedia article. My housemate (a computer engineering student) didn't. My girlfriend seeking her doctorate degree didn't. My 2 roommates who managed to get to the first 100 at our national examination, also didn't.
How about starting something and then write an Wikipedia article about it?
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