skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a European I hope we find the courage and the strength to allow ourselves to be militarized as we where at the beginning of the 20th century. I think to a certain degree a military conflict with China would not be a bad thing. Here we have achived quite a few things of which each of his own would be worth dying for.

Typical western values are seriously underrated and are not taken seriously.
The money is only useful for the goods and services it can purchase. Labour conditions is a classic case of the government is mandating allocations of resources that a free market would not make; it isn't going to result in more goods and services being produced. The same workers are not going to produce more because of labour law enforcement.

The three outcomes are:

1) Workers get a bigger proportion of a smaller total

2) Workers get the same proportion of a smaller total

3) Workers get a smaller proportion of a smaller total

The pro-labour-laws types have to be very certain that they can force outcome 1, but there are 2 ways in 3 that the outcome is bad, on net, for workers. Especially if the job they were working in was the best option they had. Workers might even be getting less overall (through reduced job availability) when individual workers get more due to reductions in the number of jobs created.
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>Wage theft may result in some bad problems as well, but I can't imagine it leads to more people being stabbed or shot.

This is something of an absurd stance in a country with high-cost, private insurance like the US. People go without treatment, and sometimes die, out of fear of the associated cost. But somehow stealing money from them doesn't cause them bodily harm? Especially when a vast majority of this wage theft is being done to workers without employer provided health insurance?
It is a easy feature for companies to implemented that feels like they made something new and important :-)
This comment doesn't really add anything to the discussion; it simply restates the concern that started the subthread.
You don't really know a language until you've program with it awhile. You are not going to write many significant programs in 24 hours.
An EU directive states that no worker can be compelled to work more than 48 hours per week. Workers are allowed to opt out of this limit, but that opt out must be truly voluntary.

It is possible that German law may be stricter than EU law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive_2003
I visited in September (emerging into low seasons). There were two flight options into Vagar (FAE is the airport code): 1 - Edinburgh, Scotland / 2 - Copenhagen, Denmark. These options do not fly everyday. So if you're using Kayak, etc. and there is no flight, increment your dates until you see a flight. We actually arrived via Edinburg and left via Copenhagen.

We rented from a local rental car [1]. It's a small operation. There is no specific car rental place, they will tell you where in the parking lot the car is, the car's license plate, etc. and you'll find it with the keys inside.

We found a place via AirBnB. It was like 10-15 min away from the airport, and we found the location ideal to explore the entire islands that's accessible by car (or car/ferry).

Our hosts(this was the true AirBnB experience) would prepare us freshly caught fish for breakfast. We became friends with their very playful(intelligent) Border Collie dog. And when we left they came with us to the airport to send us off and we all had a bit of a teary eye moment.

The people are rather friendly, the driving is easy and accessible and it's just a magical place. It'll become the next Iceland, IMHO. With lots of IG hipsters wanting their photos on top of one of these cliffs.

If you can, take a drone. Just be careful with the birds.

But yes, you can easily (I would recommend it) DIY your visit there.

[1] http://www.unicar.fo
Why is the goal AGI? I get it from a climb Mt Everest POV, but not for society as a whole. We already have 7.x billion general intelligences. Is the goal to replace humanity? Because being human, I’m not on board with that.
This looks awesome. Does it work with CockroachDB?

Because I was imagining something like Knex when I read "interface for" I'll mention that this is a Graphical User Interface.
It seems like a reasonable idea, but personally I wouldn't trust any company that operates as an MLM as Legal Shield apparently does. It's hard to even find good information about such companies given the prevalence of astroturfing by their members.
Since it's unlikely that Simon and Speck will win this competition, given that there are other credible lightweight designs which will probably be better-analyzed since they're open, it's hard for me to see this as anything but a good thing.
LibreOffice is already working in ReactOS AFAIK
I follow the German blog https://www.finanzwesir.com/blog/etf-laufende-kosten for such topics, he has a podcast, too.
Other than Google Reader I'd include Hangouts and Picasa. And as someone else pointed out, latitude. It was broken but they could have fixed it. Odd that they have all the creepy spying capabilities but don't let you use them. Maybe they're worried that it'll let people see the creepiness for themselves.
The NSA has always had a shitty reputation. They are one step above the CIA who will fuck up a cup of coffee.
Not knowing the UK very well, but you have had and still have strong unions with political representation through the Labour party. If labour isn't organised you will not get good (for the working class) policy. Politics is the formal battle of interests and if labour doesn't show up to the fight, the capital owners wins on walkover.
>will cut hours or people instead.

This is the exact same fallacious "threat" used against minimum wage hikes.

I'm reality the employees don't get fired or have their hours cut (c.f. dube, Lester, Reich). Profit margins take the vast majority of the hit instead (c.f. draca, Machin, reenen).
Calling free is unnecessary in many kind of utility code. Writing such utilities in C++ may even slow things down due to useless free calls duplicating the job of kernel. As for threads and mutexes in C using multiple forked processes and communicating using pipes is still a valid option that does not require much if any RAII.

Note that am not arguing that RAII is unecesary, it is just I completely agree with the author that RAII is much less needed in C then in C++ due to different code style and structure. Plus there are static code checkers and/or compiler options that allows to enforce various RAII patterns in C.
The economist and other media love pointing fingers at others. That's easy to do. Everyone knows China is not a democracy but we are which makes surveillance here much more problematic.

Yet we do not see any serious examination from the economist on threats to democracy from surveillance. Infact it is at the forefront on hit pieces on Snowden accusing him of treachery [1] which means their concern for 'surveillance' is entirely fabricated.

Why is Assange still stranded and Snowden in Russia? What consequences has there been from the revelations on western security services and rubber stamp courts? No answer from the economist because they aren't even asking the question. Yet another cheap ploy to use 'human rights', 'democracy' and 'freedom' to attack other countries while soiling these principles.

The economist is a principal cheerleader of neoliberalism, shock therapy and other exploitative economic policies that directly lead to corruption, theft of national resources by uncontrolled privatization and oligarchies in third world countries. Nothing to do with democracy.

This kind of hypocrisy and grandstanding has run its course, its a dangerous distraction designed to lull readers into complacency while entrenched interests that publications like the economist support make democracy more and more meaningless.

[1] https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2014/01/10/tr...
I'm guessing the problem - as with most small retail stores in Manhattan - is rising rent. Ironically, that is resulting in plenty of retail vacancies.
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So then we might as well just leave the factories in China then?
That can't really be it, can it? Then we just add patients who need a blood transfusion, two who need corneas, someone who needs a liver, and so on, until we're positive that the expected value of life is higher.
I'd wager the optimisations you're talking about happen just fine if blah is a static function, where the compiler can assume nothing from the outside will call this function, so calling conventions can be broken at will.

Seeing as blah isn't a static function, I think the calling convention for C that g++ uses somehow dictates that a memcpy is to be used in this case.

Note that I haven't acually tried this, so no guarantees.
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Cetaceans are highly intelligent, supposedly more so than other mammals that we eat, which I think counts for something. If not, why stop at whales? Why not primates? Why not other humans? Have I made my point?
Techies are highly-paid relative to many other workers, but they're being exploited by they're being employers in many of the same ways as their low-wage counterparts, including collusive depression and theft of wages. Death march culture and the Google-Apple wage-fixing scandal should've demonstrated this to everyone.
The article states:

"Another reason for taking this route is that extensions like TrackMeNot and AdNauseum obfuscate your existing data-sets stored by third parties. Using these extensions for a few months, we break Googles ability to understand and monetize your data. Because by then you have created havoc in the data-set they have. And the things they assume about you are invalid."

This is fascinating. Couldn't this technique of generating lots of random noise if it gained wide spread adoption completely destroy the surveillance business model?
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And if you don't do it right things can get all screwed up in a hurry. California tried to do this with some really bad rules (power companies must by power in an unregulated spot market but sell into a regulated market for some number of years) in 2000 and ended up with the bankruptcy of PG&E, rolling blackouts, $40 billion lost by the state of California due to manipulated inflated prices, and the only successful recall of a California Governor in history. [1] for the gory details.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
Why does your link list maximum fines in millions why other links say billions?

"Three complaints worth €3.9 billion were filed in the early hours of Friday morning against Facebook and two subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram via data regulators in Austria, Belgium and Hamburg. Another complaint worth €3.7 billion was filed with French data protection authority France CNIL in the case of Google’s Android operating system for smartphones."
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/max-schrems-f...

edit: To me, the difference between 'suing' and 'complaints' seems unimportant if the potentials fines from a 'complaint' could be so high.
The game I bought my first soundcard for was X-Wing. The card was the Pro Audio Spectrum.
Many concerns in this paper, especially about deep learning being data hungry, limited capacity for transfer, and integrating prior knowledge are addressed by recent papers in meta-learning and learning-to-learn [1,2,3 and many many others] both in the supervised and reinforcement learning contexts.

In the case of meta-reinforcement learning there has been recent work [5] which seems to indicate that this mechanism is very similar to how learning works in the brain.

In fact, my group recently published a paper [4] about learning-to-learn in spiking networks (making it biologically more realistic) and showing that the network learns priors on families of tasks for supervised learning, and learns useful exploration strategies automatically when doing meta-reinforcement learning.

While I don't claim this is the right path to AGI, it's a very promising and new direction in deep learning research which this paper seems to ignore.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.5.32...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400

[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09574

[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0147-8 (Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/04/06/295964)
"your sound card works perfectly!"... Or was that from Warcraft ?
I agree but how should this actually work? I feel like we have no options here. Everything comes from China, beginning with my mobile devices.
> I very much doubt it is sustainable.

What if you're wrong? You have doubts, where's the evidence?

> What we are seeing today is essentially a low intensity conflict

This part I don't see at all. Who are the sides in this low intensity conflict? The examples in Wikipedia are distinct identities or states. What identities are in contention in China?
Took like 10 seconds to find a species that likes to munch on the mosquitos --> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
What is in your "resistance box"? Sounds a bit sinister.
How much of this can we pin on IBM's overhype of Watson?
I disagree with the thought that the Vienna circle had anything to do with the course of math and science. They were mostly philosophers, with fewer scientists if you look closely, and their contribution was to philosophy, not science.

Also: they had no direct link with Einstein's work (he conducted his research decades before they even existed), he only attended some of their meetings. I'm also pretty sure Von Neumann had nothing to do with them, same for Boltzmann (who was dead).
>but I think a lot of that is corporate propaganda to be honest

I think it's both. My best friend makes $31 / hour installing plastic car door clips on an assembly line. That's a ridiculous wage for what he does (literally anyone could do his job.)

I'm happy for him and his family, but there's also a negative aspect to labor costing 3-4x what would be competitive in an open market.
I'm ok with there being people in the world smarter than me. Why not machines too? Maybe we could make better decisions with more rational agents? Maybe we could democratize intelligence, let everyone have access to clever reasoning? Maybe doing soul destroying work isn't the trait that makes us human and we can let a machine have a go?
Ah yes, sorry it was taken down indeed, I forgot.

Generally, we don't like the concept of "positions to be filled". Instead, like to craft custom roles around strong T-shaped candidates. So if you're strong on algorithms, but you're also a strong full-stack engineer, we want to chat.

Because we recently just hired someone with that profile, we took down algorithms post, to diversify the profiles, but it doesn't mean we won't hire another one :)
Your victims will have very clear memories of their wages and conditions from what happened to them last month when they went to work. They are making a proactive choice to get out of bed, go to work, and do it again. They aren't being forced to work for their employer.

> That's not true in the least.

It is perfectly true, just not a very normal case. I'd put it to you that I was a bit more involved in the negotiating than you were.

> No. Just no. Why do you feel that employers are entitled to cheap labor?

I don't think that. The argument is that employers and employees are entitled to sort out wages between each other and are entitled on whatever they agree to. I don't think the government has a role tilting the power balance in favour of employees.

I'm in favour of things work hours being explicit in any contract and being enforced. Being expected to work unpaid overtime is obscene; the contract hours should be longer an the wages lower so people know what is expected of them.
"Mrd" is short for billion, seems like they missed that while translating it.
> In the West we have a false sense of security that totalitarianism will inevitably fail.

At the height of civil war the western classical liberal democracies looked weak and near collapse while Soviet looked too strong and awesome until one day it just collapsed. It is a bubble boy vs Sewer Rat thing. The bubble boy looks extremely clean and insulated from bad things until one day it just dies of common cold. The filthy NY sewer rat however survives carrying in itself 10 different types of plagues.

> China seems committed to making totalitarianism "work."

We need to take a backseat and realise that American media simply does not get China, India or Japan. They are judging the world from their own spectacles which might be wrong. An average Chinese today is freerer than an average Chinese 30 years ago despite all efforts by their government. An average American today is less free than an average American 30 years ago.

I am incredible hopeful for India and China in upcoming efforts. I recently spoke to a Chinese attache at local embassy. He was as ecstatic to be outside China as now he could access Youtube and Facebook. He considered his own government moves to ban these services in his country absolutely stupid and saw them as a hindrance to help China emerge as a soft power.
The thing with C is that there are plenty people that can code C and know what they're doing, but there are many more that either do not know what they are doing, or don't but think they do (which is even more dangerous). My experience mirrors yours, but I do believe these good C programmers exist.
Why would you get a DCMA letter? Your webhost would get a DMCA letter
> I very much doubt it is sustainable. The cost of policing is quite substantial and the productivity lost is hard to replace which adds to the cost.

Why do you think the Chinese government can't sustain the cost? Intensive policing is manpower intensive, and China presently has manpower to spare. They also don't have to deal with democratic pressures to contain the cost and redirect the savings to programs that benefit the general public.
Think of ban as a variable between 0 - 1. Sanctions = 1.0 and Tarrifs < 1.0. Tarrifs are sanctions.

(Increasing taxes on something is a partial ban).
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That's not how laws work. Someone has to prove they are innocent if another person claims they aren't to regulators. There is a cost to that. There is no way the law can know perfectly who is 'misusing data' beforehand.
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2008-2016:

"115 right-wing inspired terror incidents. 35% of these were foiled (meaning no attack happened) and 29% resulted in fatalities. These terror incidents caused 79 deaths.

"63 Islamist inspired terror incidents. 76% of these were foiled (meaning no attack happened) and 13% resulted in fatalities. These terror incidents caused 90 deaths.

"19 incidents inspired by left-wing ideologies (including eco-terrorism). 20% of these were foiled (meaning no attack happened) and 10% resulted in fatalities. These terror incidents caused 7 deaths."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States...

https://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigation/2017/06/2...
Committing your node_modules folder is definitely a bad idea. To me, the right answer is to use Yarn's "offline mirror" feature to cache the package tarballs themselves in your repo. They're smaller, it's a lot fewer files, and it's platform independent.
What exactly should they be concerned about? It's not as if they have even the thinnest possibility of having any impact on such things. There are more important things for them to worry about.
That point seems to go both ways.
Smart pointers and vastly more type safety is not a safety net?
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Visited Vienna for the first time in 2016 and was equally stunned!
When I looked at it, they were only required to protect defense systems. For civilians, they had no strong, legal requirements. They did have a mandate to spy on them, though.This is why you can't get ahold of their TEMPEST- or Type 1-certified gear despite the nation's enemies using attacks those block with high confidence. The stuff they recommend is the stuff rated by them to be easy to moderately-difficult to attack.

So, dual nature is misleading unless you're a defense contractor or agency. The SIGINT group has all the money, power, and executive backing. That last part means even IAD's honest folks will get overruled at some point forced to compromise somehow. There's definitely people trying with the security guides, funding things like Cryptol, and so on.
As automation reduced societal labour requirements, will that make societal repression via human labour more feasible?
I went through a huge Thomas Bernhard phase about a decade ago that pretty much killed fiction for me. Nothing could really compare after it, and so that's when my non-fiction reading path began.
>the Mongoloid group of peoples to this day still have a substantially higher IQ than average

You're claiming haplogroup C3 has substantially higher IQ scores than other groups. Do you have evidence of this?
Applied Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering [pdf]
Because getting the best grade on a test doesn't get your ass kicked. This motivates you to get good grades in the future.

Source: grew up in Russia went to school there and then also in USA. Doing well on test in USA earns you phyiscal abuse from footballers who were "counting on the curve". Then the school refuses to investigate because football is apparently more important. Doing well in Russia earns you admiration and respect of your classmates.
CnC was a Dune successor. Red Alert was a CnC spin-off.

Warcraft (one) was a Dune2 clone with crappy pathfinding. But they did add ability to give orders to multiple units at once!
I know that. So it doesn't necessarily apply to governments.
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Well, people have been complaining about that continuously for the 30+ years I've been on the Internet, so have fun complaining, but you're not going to get anyone to change.

And it's clear from context: Almost everyone who does that is from the USA.
What about the intended consequences?

I personally would like to put on trial for crimes against humanity ever single person arguing for a delay in using this technology. Let them argue in court why hundreds of thousands of people (mostly young children and pregnant women) should die every year so they can pontificate about "unintended consequences" from the comfort of their armchairs.

For the record people do not have a natural immunity to malaria and removing all human pathogen spreading mosquitos would have no direct impact on any natural ecosystem.
What you're saying is basically a city-dweller's perspective of what nature is like. Tonnes of people live close to nature (both literally and figuratively) without any serious threat from nature crushing you.
Dune2 did not require mouse, keyboard all the way. Same as with Early FPSes (I played Doom, Heretic and Duke Nukem 3d on keyboard)