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Thanks for the explanation!

The fact that dep parses import statements (as does Glide) is something I've never liked. It means that if you run "dep ensure --add" on something not yet imported, it will complain, and the next "ensure" will remove it. This is never in line with how I actually work. I need the dependencies before I can import them! There's no editor/IDE in existence that lets you autocomplete libraries that haven't been installed yet.

It also means that "dep ensure" parses my code to discover things not yet added to Gopkg.toml. That's upside down to me. I want it to parse its lockfile and nothing else; the lockfile is what should inform its decisions about what to install so that my code works, my code shouldn't be driving the lockfile! If I try to compile my code and it imports stuff that isn't in the lockfile, it should fail, and dep shouldn't try to "repair" itself with stuff that I didn't list as an explicit dependency.

I'm sure there are edge cases where the current behaviour can be considered rational, but I don't know what they are. As you point out, dep has to do a lot of work -- but why? Running "dep ensure" when the vendor directory is in perfect sync with the lockfile should take no time at all, and certainly shouldn't need to access the network. Yet it takes the same amount of time with or without a lockfile.
Imagine coating my dick in diamond like coatings.
My wife will still complain it is too freaking hard.
Some information that might help answer your questions:

http://us.whales.org/wdc-in-action/why-protect-whales-and-do...

>Why isn't it like the other situations, where we choose not to eat dogs and horses, and leave those who do in other countries to their own devices?

This is not the case. I'm not sure who you mean by "we", but there are many animal rights activist groups trying to stop the killing of dogs and horses:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/481199/Week-long-dog-ea...

https://www.habitatforhorses.org/the-horse-slaughter-argumen...

All of these animals have various levels of intelligence. Whales are very intelligent, as are dolphins.
This is a great idea, but for some reason it feels like a contest after I could guess 6 out of the first 10 correctly.
AI winter is not on its way. We constantly get new breakthroughs and there's no end in the view. For example, in the last year a number of improvements in GANs were introduced. This is really huge, since GANs are able to learn a dataset structure without explicit labels, and this is a large bottleneck in applying ML more widely.

IMO, we are far away from AGI, but even current technologies applied widely will lead to many interesting things.
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There is a whole industry for distilling manpages down to stupid chunks and making blog posts it seems.
bravo. this describes a very real trend in the job market. the term "super job" is a useful handle.

i guess the post-2008 "super recession" emboldened all these companies to demand "self-starting, high energy, ninja rock stars who thrive on chaos and multitasking with no supervision" to fill all their "super jobs"

but now these same companies need to adjust to the tighter labor market.
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For our second anniversary I got my wife a Moissanite stone to replace the relatively poor (I1) diamond in her engagement ring. It's larger, much more flawless, more attractive all around, and cheaper. She's happier having a beautiful stone without me wasting a bunch of our money on a diamond. (Wouldn't have bought the diamond in the first place, but it came with the ring, which we both loved.)
I turned 30 three years ago and I was barely a living being with no hope despite some success (in that I was holding down a decent job but my income was nowhere near enough to buy a house).

Four years later - I'm about to get married and we're thinking of buying - or living overseas. My income has gone up. I have so many friends.

There's no timeline. There's no time limit. My aunt got married for the first time and then she got retired. A friend of mum's got married for the first time five years ago.

My life isn't yours and don't set a timeline by it. If you're stuck in a rut try and get creative, but most of the things you try - you'll still have to try something else afterwards. There's nothing wrong with having a few experiences, especially if you're bored of social media and video games. And so many people will envy you for it. "Success" in adult things is just when you're too busy to try new things - lots of people would love a bit of failure.
Sure, but have you heard about Moravec's paradox? And if so, don't you find it curious that over the 30 years of Moore's law exponential progress in computing almost nothing improved on that side of things, and we kept playing fancier games?
Collisions are not the problem. Gravitational perturbation is the problem.

If most planetary systems are anything like this one, planetary orbits are quasi-stable, and a visitor could easily destroy that stability.

It would take a while for that to play out - anything from months for a very unlikely very near miss, to many millennia for a distant visit.
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A lab publishes an exciting result, what does the physics community do? Wait for replication. Or if you’re LHC, be very careful what you publish.
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Nope, I am still blaming government (and I am in no way a Musk fanboy)

Self-driving tech has been there for decades. Convoy driving of trucks (one human-driven truck in front, several trucks following its lead) on highways was developed in the 90s.

On well-maintained infrastructures, automated driving is a problem that was solved before deep learning. The fact that we don't have an automatic lane-driving mode for highways as a standard feature in new cars is a political failure.

In 1997 a huge and successful demonstrator for an automated highway system was made. And legislator did not follow up by allowing on the road the systems they spent more than 10 billions to develop. [1]

In my opinion, a technology should be considered ready/safe enough if it is x times safer than the average driver. Zero accident is a crazy requirement. 10 times safer as human is much more reasonable but no politician will accept that.

And obviously it is easier to develop a safe system on some well known and well maintained road segments (e.g. highways) than on 100% of the roads and dirt roads on the North American continent.

So yes, the only way for an economic actor to get into there is to bend the existing rules, as rules for automated vehicles were never made. You can't sell a car saying "no need to look at the road, I'll drive for you" so you put a disclaimer, while making sure people understand that you actually made a self-driving car.

You can't sell a self-driving car and argue that your rate of accident is acceptable because the laws for such a notions are not there. A single accident in your self-driving car (that may be 10 times safer than a manual car) and you will be considered responsible.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-national-automate...
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You own an ISP and couldn't even fathom a guess? Which ISP so I can remember this little exchange?
Industrial synthetic diamond production is around since at least the 80s and from all we know about De Beers, they are certainly not trying to get the price down.
Does such a thing exist?
I'm referring to jewelry in general, which has existed for tens of thousands of years.

Fashions come and go, but whether shell beads or diamonds, the point is the same.
Yes, I am familiar with it.

What do you think of recent papers and demos by teams from Google Brain, OpenAI, and Pieter Abbeel's group on using simulations to help train physical robots? Recent advances are quite an improvement over those from the past.
I sure agree there are many interesting things going on, there is no question about that. Also most of them are toy problems focused in some restricted domains, while a huge bag of equally interesting real world problems is sitting untouched. And let me tell you, all those VC's that put in probably way north of $10B are not looking forward to more NIPS papers or yet another style transfer algorithm.
A lot of people said the same thing in the '90's about "Neural Networks". Senior colleagues of mine have vivid memories of consultants coming in then saying much the same thing "in 10 years this will completely revolutionize your industry (manufacturing)."

When I first start working in 2004 "data mining" was the big thing and it was going to solve all our problems. Nowadays I'm hearing the same thing again about "Machine Learning".

It's pretty natural to be skeptical people make big promises it ends up being a lot of hot air.
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Blaming the users doesn’t seem like a winning strategy. If the system needs users “guessing” about its behavior maybe it should be gates behind a test with periodic checkpoints as the software behavior changes.
And, most CIs cache build dependencies these days which is an easy work around.
Thank you. Exactly. Even worse each node could live in a different page. Hash maps can span multiple pages, but the lookup should succeed in 1 or 2 tries for a good hash function.
Yep, it's because of GDPR.
>understand almost everything said...

If by 'almost everything', you mean stuff that a non native English speaker could have understood anyway, then yes.
If you are dealing with physics, like a satellite course, "wall time clock" is irrelevant. Wall time clock is a human construct that is ambiguous in many edge cases, dependent on position and local politics.

Indeed, your son's friend's age is an ambiguous notion, Hence the need of a more precise contract than a simple date.
> Climate change should be debated

Yes, by people who are trained scientists and researchers. We don't need more poorly informed, mathematically weak, statistically challenged, dilletantes yelling into the mix.
There are a number of sites where people post serial fiction as it's written, chapter by chapter, and many popular web serials began with opening chapters of around 500-2000 words (2-8 pages). These sites usually offer writers validation in the form of likes or star ratings, a view counter, and comments from readers (who will often respond with short affirming messages like "looking forward to chapter 2" or speculation about where the story might be headed).

Royal Road is one of the newer and faster-growing sites, notable for being the biggest home of free LitRPG stories. Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a site mainly for fan works, though there are a number of people posting original fiction there. AO3 is currently a closed site with a queue to get in (most stories can be read by anyone, but an account is required to post), there's usually a waiting period of around 10 days after you submit your email address to the waiting list.

There are also some forum-style sites like Sufficient Velocity (and its progenitor Spacebattles), where the forum software allows authors to "threadmark" certain posts in a thread and label them as chapters to separate them from the posts that are discussions/comments. Readers can choose between "Reader mode" (which just displays the posts that have been labeled as chapters by the original poster) or a regular forum mode (where they can see all of the comments from other posters between chapters). Although this forum-based approach might make it feel like it's less optimized for sharing stories (as opposed to sites that are tailored specifically to that purpose), I've found that the forum setting makes people much more likely to comment on stories. While these forum-based websites might not have the biggest audiences, they certainly seem to have the most engaged audiences, which I think makes them more valuable if you're looking to validate a story idea.
You could, but the premise of using a tree was to avoid unpredictable rehashing latency, if you start compacting the tree every now and then, you basically pay the same price.
I was with you until the last point...

> Just like modern steel would produce a katana infinitely better than folded crappy steel that the originals were trying to overcome

That's not an undisputed fact.

There has been a lot back and forth about the lost knowledge of previous generations and the romans supposedly used a superior cement which we can no longer replicate.

but to stay closer to your example: while the smelting of the metal has seen a lot of study, that doesn't mean that we're able to produce a superior katana.

You also need the smithing -- and need to figure out how the metal should be. That's of course possible, but hasn't really seen much study. So while we could theoretically produce an infinitely better katana -- thats not practical because of the money investment to figure out what that actually means.

Most enthusiast say that current katanas are at best on par with the old ones, often sub-par.
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>Also most of them are toy problems focused in some restricted domains, while a huge bag of equally interesting real world problems is sitting untouched.

It always starts with toy problems. Recognizing pictures from imagenet was also a toy problem back then.
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I think this is a rather different issue than the often rehashed paywall discussion.

There is no easy way around it for a large portion of us, and most likely the sites are blocking EU citizens because they are throwing around so much personal data, that they believe it would be impossible to adhere to GDPR.
Reading through a long man page in terminal to get to el' result and then find and use cmd extensions. vs 2s google "how to inurl: tcpdump http packet"
You’re right on the details, my bad for not looking up the dates and books, but the argument would be the same, except to say 1600 years or so prior to the cited work in the article, meaning the article is incorrect in its facts. If I was writing an article I guess I would have checked my facts ;)
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Alternatively, buy the author's book:

http://amzn.to/2oWv6KK

Or search with the title, the author republishes his articles later.
Articles like this should really include incident rates per miles driven for the self driving vehicle and compare that against human rates. Without that this feels a lot like an intentional effort to mislead. What matters are the crash rates. E.g. - how many humans crashed into an unmoving vehicle yesterday? An immense number but of course they also drove far more miles as well. So the question is exactly how many miles?

The first milestone for vehicular automation is not perfection, but to simply be better, and in the worst case - comparable, to humans. Given the media's tendency to try to make big news out of every single self driving vehicle crash, it seems like we're already approaching (if not passing) this first milestone, as these articles are relatively rare while these vehicles have driven hundreds of millions of miles in autopilot. I can't find the latest number, but back in October 2016 Tesla already had 222 million miles under autopilot. It's safe to assume it's now some substantial multiple of that.

Some time it would be interesting to see media releases around the time we transitioned from horses/carriages to automobiles, to see how the state of the media has changed. Or perhaps it has always been this way. "I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. - Thomas Jefferson, 1807"
This seems over negative. Just the opening argument, that companies were saying "that fully self driving car was very close" but "this narrative begins to crack"

Yet here they are self driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRMTWqhwzM&feature=youtu.be and you should be able to hail one as a cab this year https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/09/self_driving_taxis_...
I think your missing the point.

You can maybe drive a truck, but there is a lot more to a logistics pipeline then actually driving the truck. Without power the whole scheduling automation etc. has to be done manually, and it's by now simply impossible to do every automated job manually again.

Your logistics pipelines could maybe run at a few percent efficiency if every step is manual, but by then your trucks will be raided on the streets.
That paper shows the chemical formula emits CO2. Are you sure this is the same process?
Yes, I had overlooked that Go probably doesn't have anything like the crates.io index (https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index) to allow instant discovery of versioning metadata. And, AFAICT, even MVS would have the same problem here and would take the same time to resolve, since it still needs to access the network to fetch remote repos to discover versioning metadata; rather than pointing the finger at SAT solvers, it looks like vgo should be tackling Go's lack of a central package host (the vgo manifesto mentions "proxies", but it seems that those are just intended for solving the problem of persistent availability).
> "but in an aircraft auto pilot systems are actually more primitive than Tesla's offering."

I contend that while that's true, it's not something your typical consumer is aware of. There is a common misconception that modern airline pilots simply press a button then kick back as the plane takes off, flies and land itself.
npm CLI is run by Npm Inc. Npm makes money by maintaining the CLI as their primary selling point. for profit. Yarn is also have many paid engineers from Facebook and Google contributing to it as their day job.

These things are not real free open source software by any means
One of the things I liked about "Diamond Age" was thinking about cheap diamond as a building material...
how practical are examples ignoring https?... or am I mis-understanding target use case?
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Thats nice, so is the article's examples. But what I always need to lookup is how to make the operations work on especific columns, rather than on whole lines.

I mean without resorting to awk.
I'm skeptical, and side with Rodney Brooks on this one. First, reinforcement learning is incredibly inefficient. And sure, humans and animals have forms of reinforcement learning, but my hunch it that it works on an already incredibly semantically relevant representation and utilize the forward model. That model is generated by unsupervised learning (which is way more data efficient). Actually I side with Yann Lecun on this one, see some of his recent talks. But Yann is not a robotics guy, so I don't think he fully appreciates the role of a forward model.

Now using models for RL is the obvious choice, since trying to teach a robot a basic behavior with RL is just absurdly impractical. But the problem here, is that when somebody build that model (a 3d simulations) they put in a bunch of stuff they think is relevant to represent the reality. And that is the same trap as labeling a dataset. We only put in the stuff which is symbolically relevant to us, omitting a bunch of low level things we never even perceive.

This is a longer subject, and a HN is not enough to cover it, but there is also something about the complexity. Reality is not just more complicated than simulation, it is complex with all the consequences of that. Every attempt to put a human filtered input between AI and the world will inherently loose that complexity and ultimately the AI will not be able to immunize itself to it.

This is not an easy subject and if you read my entire blog you may get the gist of it, but I have not yet succeeded in verbalizing it concisely to my satisfaction.
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I have to wonder how mature tactics are given there must only be a handful of fields in existence, if any. If the winner is determined by ceding the fewest goals, then I'd imagine defense is the priority. Also, shifting the focus of attack quickly would surely happen- why spend much effort to attack a well defended goal with a lot of traffic in front.
> Is the article available to Europeans somewhere

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tesla+in+Autopilot+mode+cras...
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You sure about that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IqpUK5teGM

Tesla self driving cars have crashed too. Arrogant people like Elon Musk are making a bad name for the hardworking AI developers who are actually trying to make self driving cars faulty proof.
It's still a little weird that 'you are being a meanie', etc reliably gets a moderator callout but 'overt bigot' does not.
I think in Scandinavia it is different because we actually have laws saying you cannot force people to work the extreme amounts of overtime that they do in USA or in China. So older devs could be using the time they have more efficiently. My experience is also that older devs are very sought after. It could also have something to do with the shortage of developers here though.
The person posted same false fact/conclusion that there is data to prove autopilot is 40% safer all over HN, it looked to me as a misinformation campaign,

You are right though, it may look as a PR campaign but I can be sure, it could be just a misinformed fanboy
Could you start making websites which are readable? Jumping icons, moving background, flickering colors, gray letters on colorful backgrounds - all that makes me hard to read... so I'm sorry, I'm not going to read that.
Yes, but it's probably rubbish clickbait. They locked me out of the site when I opted out of tracking. Good riddance and I look forward to their receiving a hefty fine from the EU for GDPR non-compliance.
You are doing it wrong if you are "reading through a long man page".
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It came to pass because they collectively were being overfished and by the mid 80's some populations were in great decline. Many have rebounded but the moratorium remains. It's one of those things which once it starts, it's hard to shut down --think of any cause-like program. Once it achieves its initial goal, and its raison d'etre disappears, it finds another reason to exist --in this case it seems mostly momentum (from public perception).
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It is deviously brilliant. Play on people's emotions, equate a diamond with "till death do us part", make it almost shameful to even consider reselling that stone.

Is there any other product where resale is "voluntarily" limited like that?
There is no conclusive study either way. The only real data we have is the two confirmed deaths in Autopilot accidents in over a billion miles driven with Autopilot. That is not enough data to draw a definitive conclusion, but it at the very least shows that there is not a huge problem that makes it dramatically more dangerous.

For comparison the overall casualty rate for the average car in the US is somewhere near 12 deaths per 1 billion miles driven.

I wouldn't say that Tesla's have proven safer, but I think saying they are "statistically indistinguishable" from human drivers is relatively fair at this point.
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Rephrased: at what point should Tesla remove this ambiguity from their marketing materials?