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Looking forward to the world market being so flooded with Chinese and indian diamonds that the price dies.
Same reason I can collide with someone on the sidewalk while the universe is expanding at tremendous speed. Over short distances, the expansion can easily be overcome by others forces like gravity or my muscles excerting force through friction against the ground. However, given enough time, there will be less and less objects that are close enough to be able to collide at all. Lots of time though, and there are already now lots of things over galaxy could never ever collide with.
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The reason I can't stand npm is that a lot of their employees are extremely vocal massive cunts.
Not that simple. It doesn’t matter where the connection is coming from, what really matters is if the person is european.
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I’m pretty sure diamonds are expensive due to artificial scarcity introduced by debeers holding on to huge quantities. No need for some fancy ideas there, they should really rename that paradox to some material that wasn’t market manipulated so heavily.
Mate is what Gnome 2 was like but with obviously modern things added in since its based off Gtk3 like Gnome 3 is basically.

I personally use KDE it gives me a 'full blown desktop' feel and surprisingly uses way less RAM than if I ran Windows 10 directly.
comm is probably the most useful command I never remember how it is called (and apropos doesn't help).
Right, mwm would do perfectly and it’s what 25 years old now?

Just getting back into Motif myself, love it.
The article, however, is about minke whales, even the photo's caption is "Japan's whaling fleet killed 333 minke whales in the South Ocean last year, including 122 pregnant females."
It gets even more fun if you need to answer questions like: "When this event was scheduled 6 months ago for today at 2pm, what UTC time did that represent then vs now?". Timezone rules also change. So when you're dealing with past and future you might also need the timestamp of the timestamp!
If something doesn't shine already. The only way to detect its existence is to send radio waves and see if something bounces off(Like Radar).

I guess the point people are trying to make here. If you can't see light coming off an object, then while traveling at interstellar speeds means it will be harder to spot objects until they get too close.
Maybe, but it's never going to force you to reboot to install some shovelware that you don't want and can't opt out of.
I started with i3 but moved to bspwm. There is not much difference between the two and it is all about configuration and what is easier to setup. Multiple monitors is something that is always a problem in my experience. It is great that gnome deals properly with this issue for you.
Which is part of what "getting better" means.
In any other tech company, the employee would get booted asap for sharing toxic, hateful stuff.
There plenty of options. The wealth of Linux ecosystem
Spent 2 weeks using Budgie Ubuntu in virtual box, put it as my main desktop at home on the weekend. It really has improved a lot.
The Google Duo demo was definitely very impressive. The only caveat I can think of is that they didn't say how often it works. That might have been the one success from hundreds of calls.
See also this fascinating paper by Scott Aaronson [1].

[1] Aaronson, Scott. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computer Science. https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
> True, but then again Google/FB/etc offer better access to a more targetted audience at a reasonable price.

I'm not so sure in this specific case. If I were a (cue pejorative stereotype for emphasis) scumbag ambulance chasing lawyer - I doubt there's anything in Facebook or Google's ad targeting demographics that'd give me quite the same opportunities as a rough-and-ready demographic of "people at or close to hospital emergency departments" to try selling to...

I hope (but am prepared to be shown otherwise) than neither Facebook nor Google have an easy way to target ads to people who've just posted "Faaark! Just been in a car accident! #YOLO #GladIBoughtAVolvo #ShouldntHaveBeenTexting"

(Evil-idea: I wonder if anyone's using siome combinations of accelerometer and GPS data to detect potentially traumatic events and selling that data on?)
Perhaps similar to a printing press however
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this Sway? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sway
One asian species extinct 2007. A second species from USA will be extinct most probably before 2020. Maybe this year. We know currently that the Japanese sea has several cryptic species and a exclusive fauna shared with pacific countries. Japanese whale Eubalaena japonica is critically endangered, (around 50 animals remain in the planet if I'm not wrong).

So yes, we have solid reasons to do it. Hunting one common species will lead to collateral damage, honest mistakes or direct abuse against critically endangered species.

And when we wipe top predators very bad things happen typically, bad for humans.
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There is the wider political issue on fishing rights, namely whether fishing in international waters should be regulated. Japan have always enjoyed support for whaling from China and Russia notwithstanding their geopolitical conflicts elsewhere because their interests align. So did Norway and Iceland as both nations have significant commercial fishing industry.
I recently discovered that youtube-dl works on v.redd.it links, so you can download and share the vids directly.

But I'm with you 100%, their video and image hosting is super slow, and needs to be paused/unpaused a few times before loading or playing anything.
Hi, why in your analysis you spoke only about the companies that are not doing so well in self driving leaving out waymo success story?
They are already have been hauling passengers without a safety pilot since last October. I guess without the minimum problem otherwise we would have heard plenty in the news like it happened for Tesla and Uber accidents.
Is it not too convenient to leave out the facts that contradict your hypothesis?
Four ships (or a ship and three probes) arranged in a tetrahedron, where the distance between each pair is precisely measured with a laser or similar. Changes to the edge lengths of the formation show a nearby gravity gradient.

What’s one wavelength per minute if the formation is 1000km?
Ahh... the old Tab Clear strategy. Brilliant when you can pull it off.
I was thinking just that when reading the paragraphs about the uber accident.
There's absolutely nothing indicating that future progress is not possible, precisely because of how absurd it seems right now.
Source is on github,
https://github.com/oxinabox/oxinabox.github.io/blob/master/n...
Feel encouraged to mess around with it
I think part of this ridiculousness may just be that the common lexicon doesn't have enough words for AI. "AI-assisted Intellisense" at the moment seems to boil down to a marginally novel way of ordering autocomplete suggestions, and like...

It's not wrong? It's neat, it's potentially useful, and it's powered by something under the umbrella of "AI". The problem is that that umbrella is gigantic, and covers everything from the AI system providing routes for the AI system in a self-driving truck on AI-provided schedules for a hypothetical mostly-automated shipping business, to a script I whipped up in ten minutes to teach something 2+2 and literally nothing else.

So we get to the nonsense position where there isn't a better way to describe a minor improvement to what is essentially the ordering of a drop-down list except by comparison to the former example.
A graph database like datomic wouldntc force you to have every company have the that information.

Or so I understand
Also it's not released yet, as of May/30/2018.
If it's say a scheduler for an application, you might have an activity that occurs every x seconds. At a previous job events like that were often scheduled such that x was a different prime number for each task, in order to minimize regular simultaneous executions. A system like that could easily end up with tasks running on a leap-second.
God, I hate that highlighted text, because it's always some faux-deep quote that just pisses me off. Like I might have appreciated it if it weren't for that stupid highlighting making it look like it's a teenager stopping halfway through a presentation to look at you and make sure that you caught he said something intelligent.

I get irrationally angry at that highlighting. BTW ublock origin might be able to block the popup, if you right click -> block element
This sort of space real estate is the biggest hindrance to developing long term interstellar traveling tech.

With so many asteroids and planets lying around. There is no real motivation to travel very far distances for resources. Once you start mining the first set of asteroids and settling your race in space. You could grow organically, and at some point mine a terrestrial planet. At that point you have so many resources at your disposal it doesn't really make much sense to move out to very large distances unless for science or your population is just multiplying beyond control.
I've tried to use Gnome a lot, it's IMO a great desktop but it also has problems. Personally, I've simply been sitting on XFCE, despite wanting to switch to Wayland a long time ago merely because XFCE has been proven less resource intensive on both laptop and desktop...

I do hope there will be a wayland-based XFCE-like Desktop for Linux at some point...
You are right, as a German myself. I wouldn't.
I guess if you are used to American customer service and manners in general, German directness may seem very rude and I wont deny, 'good' service can be hard to find in Germany. But when Germans complain about that, most don't really mean Service with a smile, but rather competent, to the point service without to much sales pitch or grumbling. I would think fake smiles would be looked at very suspicious over here.

I guess in the end its a matter of taste, if you prefer your bad service personnel to be hiding between shelving to avoid customers or serving you a fake smile while staring through you and wishing they were dead.
Stopped reading after the first half. The evidence for the idea that deep learning is failing is that Deep Mind haven't produced anything revolutionary since Alpha Go Zero which was published not even a year ago? And that preformance doesn't scale linearly with the number of parameters? And speculation about why Lecun made a certain career decision? Not very convincing.
I'm very sad to hear that. If she started asking for that even before you got married, I'm afraid her expectations will grow. This leads to unnecessary stress and is a cause of many problems, at home and at work, also health problems. I very much doubt she can change her character later on, even though I hope she does. As others, I wish you good luck in your life.
Brains are not magic, and will be reproduced eventually, but DNNs are a fundamentally weaker architecture and won't be enough. Neural nets can solve some problems that brains can solve easily and lots of other ML methods couldn't solve, which is great. But the space of problems that brains can solve and neural nets can't is still rich, and will remain so until better methods are developed.
Not all black objects reflect radar, black holes don't reflect at all.

I think if you were to encounter a black hole, esp an inactive one, in interstellar space, you'd probably just get sucked in if you didn't notice the black disk...
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The author wants to remove JavaScript from their desktop and does this by disabling all extensions in the hope that it will also disable Gnomes JavaScript engine. What the author does not appear to understand is that extensions are written in JavaScript because Gnome shell is written in JavaScript.

Gnome works very well for my workflow, and I find much of the "bloat" to be quite useful in day to day usage, but can understand the desire to remove things like maps and Tracker if you don't use them. My single biggest issue with Gnome stems from the performance of Gnome-shell which lags and stutters its way through animations leading to a desktop which often feels like it's struggling even on powerful hardware.
How do you update the tzdb?
I'm satisfied with Cinnamon. If any dev happens to read this: thank you and keep up the good work, it's appreciated.
There are so many things to note about this ICO:

a. This is one of the longest running ICO. It started last year somewhere during summer.

b. EOS's terms are rather ominous:

block.one is building the EOS.IO Software but it will not configure and/or launch any public blockchain platform adopting the open source EOS.IO Software (the “EOS Platform”). Any launch of an EOS Platform will occur by members of the community unrelated to block.one. Third parties launching the EOS Platform may delete, modify or supplement the EOS.IO Software prior to, during or after launching the EOS Platform.

The EOS Tokens do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features, express or implied, including, without limitation, any uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features on the EOS Platform.

Some argue this keeps EOS from being sued by SEC. But given the way Bitshares launch was handled by the same guy I think this might be a problem.

c. The CTO or the head tech honcho for this is a guy called Daniel Larimer, who has been pumping out one coin after another - Bitshares, Steemit and now EOS.

Every coin has some new fangled Proof forumla:

Bitshares had DPoS

Steemit has "Proof-of-Brain" (I kid you not)

And everyone of them is touted as the next big thing. AFAIK this is unique in cryptocurrency world where people tend to evangelize one particular coin.
> So let's talk about memory. I know it's every programmer's least favourite topic

I thought that was time zones? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181046)
Same here, only one app, Anki, took the time to inform me they had changed their privacy policy (although they didn't block my account before I accepted the changes).

I don't think they have less trackers. I think it's even easier to unintentionnaly add a tracker to an app because some of them come with dependencies when you're not careful. See https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/reports/ for some reports on what tracker typical apps use.
The GDPR's scope is EU (or EEA, I can't recall) residents in EU territories, it has no provisions at all for EU citizens who reside outside the territory.
There's some info about tactical consequences here:

http://aaa.t0.or.at/documents/aaarules.htm

> "Meanwhile the penetration of the defence by two opposing teams imposes upon the defence the task of counterbalancing their disadvantage through sowing the seeds of discord in an alliance which can only be temporary. This will be achieved through exhortation, body language, and an ability to manoeuvre the ball and players into such a position that one opposing team will realise that its interests are better served by breaking off the attack and allying themselves with the defending team. Bearing in mind that such a decision will not necessarily be immediate, a team may well find itself split between two alliances. Such a situation opens them up to the possibility of their enemies uniting, making maximum use of this confusion. 3-sided football is a game of skill, persuasion and psychogeography."
Third party tools will still be necessary, to work around short comings.

I imagine a tool to update all your imports to the latest release will be needed by the majority who don't need reproducible builds, so you get versions with known bugs fixed. MVS seems to be essentially pinning to the oldest possible version, and having that entrenched in your software is going to suck the big tech debt when you do need to update. Hope none of the known bugs are data loss or security related, and good luck monitoring each and every one of your explicit and transient dependencies for updates on a larger project. A tool to update your dependencies to the latest version when convenient or for automated CI tests seems required to me.
The point is that the profits may not be as grand as the current level of hype may indicate

Edit: additionally it could be a dead end because the hype tends to narrow the directions we explore with ML. If everyone is obsessing about DL, we could be infuriatingly ignoring other research directions right under our noses.
Already too bloated, better use twm instead.
> I'm starting to wonder when the first AI-enhanced shoes are going to come out.

Wait no more:

The first connected cycling insole with artificial intelligence:
https://www.digitsole.com/store/connected-insoles-cycling-ru...

The World's First Intelligent Sneaker:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/141658446/digitsole-sma...
There's a pretty spectacular performance boost too. Microsoft stealing my electricity and computing power to run bloatware and analytics on data they steal from me is just too much.
In the past I thought the idea of "really controlling what's going on with your computer" was just purist mambo jumbo, but windows 10 came to prove me wrong.
I had more or less the same situation with my last remaining Windows machine (mainly for games).

I thought Windows reboots were supposed to get less over the years but it has only gotten worse and I've got less autonomy over them with Windows 10. Go away from your computer for a little while and come back to a reboot (a little hyperbole).

Now my gaming PC run Void Linux and with native Steam and Wine (PlayOnLinux, Lutris) I've got access to most of my game library. It's easier to just ignore the few games that do not work on Linux nowadays.

Diablo 3 runs pretty well on it.

(Still, I prefer to avoid Window'isms on Linux so no Gnome, Pulseaudio and other complications (which Void Linux makes easy to avoid).)
Really depends on the country also since Tesla will not fix anything beyond the slightest of cosmetic damages you have pretty much pristine cars getting totaled by the insurers.
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The use case for this is what?
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And we don't even need synthetic diamonds to bring the prices down, it would be enough just to liberalize the diamond mining. De Beers is artificially pumping up the prices by limiting the mining that they almost entirely control, it's a typical case of monopoly on the resources.
The extra mass of the planet would increase the rate of fusion.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/14/
The fourth estonian startup to reach $1B valuation after Skype, PlayTech and Transferwise.

Impressive — considering the size of the country (and its history).
As a dane that is a pretty funny name for a serious company. Abe Mor literally means 'monkey mum' in danish.
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Quick summary of what happened next for anyone who comes across this thread in the future:

Under pressure from outside, the wikipedia admins decided to reopen this case. They fairly quickly came to consensus that Cross was violating the paragraph of the biography-of-living-persons-conflict-of-interest policy quoted above and banned him from editing Galloway's article.

There's continuing discussion of whether Cross is doing anything more seriously wrong.
It's easy to say for us, but imagine a young man in love, dreaming about this wonderful future, with any things already arranged, and happy that the lady would accept his proposal. Maybe he planned to spend $1500 and he hears $2000. Breaking up at this point (frankly, you couldn't be together after withdrawing your proposal) might seem like petty ("Isn't your love fake then? Come on, it's just $500!")

That said, I don't envy anyone being in such a situation. I see no easy way out.
While I agree there is underinvestment in non-tech sectors, I don't see why that would change and they will use deep learning. There are lots of profitable things in non-tech sectors that can be done with linear regression but not done.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just going off what others with a deeper understanding of theoretical astrophysics than me are saying.
> Why do you need gnome for that?

From the article:

– laptop to work correctly when connecting it to external displays or projectors

– first class support for high-DPI displays
> For everyone who says they are too bloated, someone else says they are too spartan.

Sometimes it can even be the same person depending on their needs.

On my coding laptop I swear by i3, it's fast, simple and powerful. Everything is just a keystroke away. On my entertainment machine though (TV, music and games) I find gnome much better because friends can use it and these tasks are better handled with a mouse.

This is the fundamental problem with convergence as well, different devices have different use cases and you can't make one person happy all the time.
What is that class of decision-making problems? It's nice to have a machine really good at playing chess, but it's not something I'd pay for. What decision-making problems are there, in the same class, that I'd pay for?

Consider it as the perfect lab.

Seems like a lab so simplified that I'm unconvinced of its general applicability. Perfect knowledge of the situation and a very limited set of valid moves at any one time.
That's my reasoning as well, regarding the biological part. On the one hand, it seems to be an incredibly energy-efficient solution, but has several detractors as well (in a lighthearted fashion: lack of scalability and high-bandwidth networking, several billion years of legacy code, etc).

On the other hand, it's unclear whether computers will continue to get faster in the fashion that they are today for long enough. If not, then huge efficiency improvements would be necessary on the software side, though those do seem to be happening as well.
Poor De Beers: a vertically-integrated monopoly, keeping diamonds more profitable, low resale value and artificially (pun intendes) desired by brides since 1938.
You are correct, but Windows and OS X cost me more time in the end because I'm unfamiliar with them.
YouTube captioning in English works surprisingly well, the improvement over the last few years is huge. It still chokes on proper nouns but in general it mostly works.
Surely this is flawed as there is no motivation to try and score? All 3 teams could just sit back and essentially do nothing all game. Goals are often conceded on the counter attack in regular soccer so by going for, what is essentially a futile, an attack on an opponents goal they have a much higher risk of conceding.
An easier way: try XFCE or another GTK based desktop environment.
Wall clocks just track UTC. Today they have leap seconds because we defined UTC to include leap seconds, tomorrow if UTC or a replacement universal time no longer has leap seconds then wall clocks won't have leap seconds.
How does Mate do with: Connecting and disconnecting projectors and external displays on the fly? HiDPI displays?
I agree. The AdTech sphere is keeping the current hype alive more than anything else. There's some obvious imbalances in AdTech that should lead it to a damning end soon enough.
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In theory, there are two separate experiments (ATLAS and CMS) on LHC because of this. In practice, they are probably not independent enough.
> Platinum is a boring metal, visually, difficult to distinguish by eye from steels, aluminum, and titanium.

Platinum has very low reactivity so it doesn't rust, corrode, whatever easy, unlike the others. That's why it's considered valuable, because it looks almost the same after a lot of time.
> the romans supposedly used a superior cement which we can no longer replicate.

Could you recommend a related source I could read more about it from? It seems not that complicated to do a chemical analysis of the cement still existing in many Roman constructions.