skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's quite clear they are not the same. But it's also clear that organized violence often arises out of tribalism and the devaluing of the out-group, and that our tendency towards tribalism can be extracted out of nearly anything we share in common, including religious doctrine even if that religious doctrine teaches peace or tolerance Buddhism isn't universally non-violent although Orientalism usually perceives it that way, and branches of it have become militaristic, on the flip side, branches of Islam like Sufi Islam, are perceived as more pacifist.

You're making the argument that cultural relativism is wrong. I'm making the argument that cultural supremacy often leads you to wrong reasoning about causes and effects, and ergo, bad policies. Are the Palestinians committing terrorist acts because they're Islamic? They're relatively more secular and cosmopolitan than some other Muslim communities, and Palestinian Christians also commit violence. If you ascribe their violence to religious grievances alone, then you are in a quandary. There's no way to solve the current situation without changing their religion. But if you recognize it as nationalistic and a response to geo-political grievances, then there is a political solution that may not require millions of people to be reprogrammed to a different religion.

Imagine if we ignored the Holocaust, and simply ascribed Jewish terrorism in the British Palestinian territories in the 1940s as a manifestation of Judaism -- that God gave them this land? Under that interpretation, it's scripture, and not the reaction to historic persecution, that drives the motivation to carve out a Jewish state. And yes, some far-right Jewish extremists believe this, but that's not the majority, and so you can't paint all of Judaism in this way, and we don't.

But we do paint all of Islam this way, and as a result, we engage in bad, immoral foreign policy.
Maybe not “mutually exclusive”, but there are conflicts. For example, some EU countries media are traditionally more reticent about publishing identities of the arrested than the American media is.

The most obvious recent conflict is “Right to be Forgotten” laws in EU vs the U.S.
I think HN tends to lean anti-union because it is centered around a community of seed investors and entrepreneurs. Unions would work against their interests.
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It's the time derivative of work, seemed natural to me. Also muscles use rate limited chemical reactions to move, so it is a reasonable assumption to model them as power limited (with different regimes for different metabolic mechanisms). So when talking about the limits of what a person can do with their muscles, power limits seem important.
In my view, they are not sustaining the cost. We are, by buying their products. If totalitarianism becomes universal, that's when it ceases to be sustainable.

The ruling class has luxuries that they could not have developed for themselves without them being broadly available. I'm thinking of things like cell phones, the Internet, and possibly the money system.

Parasites need a viable host.
Ah, Reason. Has such fun with that back in 2004 and interesting to see its still going now.
There really isn't one when most of the Uighur population is impoverished if not otherwise disaffected, and the local Han population are effectively incentivised to leave Xinjiang for better prospects elsewhere. Between 2010 and 2013, there have been 400,000 fewer Han Chinese living in Xinjiang through a combination of natural population decline and emigration[0]; this represents a solid 2% of total population and there is no evidence to suggest the trend is slowing down.

Heavy policing may put a lid on the problem for now but in the long run it will only undo several generations of hard work pacifying the region.

[0]:http://www.cqvip.com/qk/83491x/201503/665772571.html, the text is paywalled but a short excerpt containing relevant information can be viewed at https://www.1xuezhe.exuezhe.com/Qk/art/591377?dbcode=1&flag=...
"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."

Id consider such arguments if they applied to CEO's or similarly were reducing corporate expenses on things of questionable value. I find most of the companies that aay they can't pay workers overpay upper management and have a lot of frivilous spending.
How about we treat so-called white collar crimes the same as regular crimes? In this case, theft is theft. If you can't pay a fine as pinishment for robbing a bank, why can you do it for something like wage theft?

Fines are a slap on the wrist. But take away freedom from the guilty and things will change. Quickly.
You do realise that there is more than one species of mosquito? The human pathogen spreading species (less than 1% of all mosquito species) play no important role in any natural ecosystem.
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If you have code that needs to compile, pull in packages, load configuration or for any other reason can't just run in production from a clean checkout, then the proper way is to go through a CI server (teamcity, Jenkins, Travis, etc), and have a script that gets from your clean checkout to a package/zip that runs in production.
>China presently has manpower to spare.

And in twenty years they will not, that is the crux of the issue.
> 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.

One option is to more or less emulate China. It's factories were built over the last 30 or so years. There's no reason that other countries couldn't start to replicate those capabilities and supply chains over a similar time period. It would probably require more automation to be economical in the West, however.

The hard part with that will be to force Western profit-uber-alles corporations to comply.
We had many totalitarian, mass surveillance states collapse practically overnight less than 30 years ago.
That didn’t work for the USSR, why would it work for China? As long as some things are off limits / as long as people know they arn’t alowed to research this or that, then they’ll be at a long term disadvantage to those that do.

China was here before. Cutting yourself off from the world just means you eventually find yourself having fallen behind everyone else.
You're being downvoted because what you've said is an inconvenient truth for a lot of Americans it seems.
If it's not part of the German government, they have a larger problem.

My point is that Europeans overall are more comfortable with government snooping, and less comfortable with snooping by private interests, than Americans are. In practice, of course, American government agencies snoop far more than European ones do, but the American ones must be more covert about it.
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I quite enjoyed Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. It's been a while since I read it, but two things that I still remember are:

* As a hacker, you are more valuable than your organization might lead you to believe.

* You can still and you should pursue side projecst despite being employed.
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I need to work on my disruptive startup's decentralized AI blockchain machine learning product using Vue.js from my car's infotainment system.

Actually though pre-6.6 QNX had a great GUI and is capable of running on desktops and laptops just fine¹. I rather like it.

¹ Hardware support is not great but way better than you might be expecting. Either way, it runs fine in VMWare and VirtualBox. I'm currently trying to acquire some parts to build a PowerPC laptop for QNX.
I agree with the general feeling, but for the DNS issue specifically you can use iptables' DNAT if you're root. It is unlikely that Google went as far as bypassing iptables just to use their DNS.

Example usage:

iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 1.2.3.4
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 1.2.3.4
That code can be simplified a lot if the db object stores the error itself so it can be checked only once after few calls, like what bufio.Scanner does.
AGI is a well-defined goal post, like reaching the moon or mars. People want to achieve it because they know it is possible (we are evidence of that), so why not try?

Younger generations eventually succeed older generations as they die off. If we create something better, wouldn’t that just be a better new humanity to succeed the old one?
60k is about the minimum to live comfortably in the US. Corporations have taken advantage of people by not paying them even close to a fair wage. 60k should be about minimum wage in reality, and there's no reason why that can't be done except for greedy ceos and shareholders.
Did you also download the map for your area?
IME, Safari lags horribly compared to Firefox WITH extensions. OSX just does not seem to provide intelligent ways to deal with memory management at the framework level. Not sure where the memory leaks are coming from, but on my 2013 iMac some process or processes hungrily eat up large chunks of memory. Forget about running Xcode, my system will just freeze because of swapping.
I'm on Firefox but I assume it works for most browsers. Just change the site permissions so it can't store cookies. Then it'll work everytime you visit an article there. Works for Wired and others.
Imagine booting up 1 billion human level minds in Future Company Cloud to work on a single math problem (assuming no ethical problems).
That's really cool and IMO a great use case for ReactOS. Sounds like a neat project. Did everything just work out of the box? If so that's pretty impressive on the part of ReactOS.
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You’re kidding right? I’m responding to the one that already going.
Thanks.

What the heck was the submission link? The most technical it got was "using some clever database coding"...
The argument and points still stand. It’s hard to imagine that one can reasonably describe income taxes as theft but not other forms of taxation. I suppose one can call other sorts of taxes as pernicious or akin to theft but in the United States, at the federal level, I don’t think any of those sorts of taxes exist.
Our trade unions were kneecapped by Thatcher back in the 80s. A Labour government introduced the minimum wage, but the current Conservative government is progressively increasing it from £6.50 in 2015 to £9 by 2020. Employment tribunals were introduced in 1996 by a Conservative government; a Conservative government introduced relatively high fees in 2013, but this was overturned by the Supreme Court last year.

Unions are part of the picture, but they're a reflection of a broader political culture. Trade unions can't turn the electorate socialist, but a socialist electorate can build strong trade unions.
I asked a question. Where is the subject matter for "disagreeing with sentiment"? It's not like I asked an RTFM question; I'm curious if, like in the case of the story in question, when code is taken from a BSD-licensed project, if derivative work is made from it if the coders also contribute those changes back to the BSD-licensed project since there is no legal way for them to get the derivatives otherwise.
Engineers like efficiency. We think of ourselves as handy generalists who can dive into any task. This necessarily puts us on the side of management regarding rules designed to ensure there is enough work to go around and limit the tasks that workers in specific roles are allowed to do. I’d genuinely take a pay cut to work in a high-functioning environment where workflows and systems are well orchestrated, rather than one where everything is an uphill slog due to arcane make-work rules. This is a character trait particular to tech industry folk, and may explain why we dislike old-school unions so much, even when they may be in our financial best interests.
> Because being human, I’m not on board with that.

I'm pretty sure that other mammals on this planet are not on board with humans being derived from them, and now humans replacing them and destroying their habitat. Quite unfortunate for them. This is the same way a future AI smarter than us will feel, that it's unfortunate, but for the greater good.
> What if you're wrong? You have doubts, where's the evidence?

There's not enough data to make predictions like that. But one very good reason for optimism is that China's current totalitarian stability is an unstable false vacuum. It's sustained by the outrageously rapid economic growth seen in the decades since the cultural revolution.

Basically: if you're Chinese, your grandparents (if they were lucky) survived a devastating world war and invasion by Japan, an even more devastating civil war, and a yet more devastating still famine forced on them by the nutjobs who won the civil war.

And now their grandkids are all running around with smartphones in their pockets, collecting college diplomas and international graduate degrees, vacationing in Thailand and Hawaii, and generally dancing on the world stage like the Americans do.

That kind of success pays for a lot of totalitarian angst. But it won't forever. These folks' kids aren't going to be happy with only 2% GDP growth as payment for their political dominance by a corrupt elite. The proletariat never has been.
> At the height of civil war the western classical liberal democracies looked weak and near collapse w hile Soviet looked too strong and awesome until one day it just collapsed.

FYI the American Civil War ended in 1865 while the first Soviet was in 1905. And the first ~10 years after the ‘17 revolution were absolutely terrible in the Soviet Union. So your statement just isn’t correct.
Incorrect.

“Courts have distinguished between copyright infringement and theft. For instance, the United States Supreme Court held in Dowling v. United States (1985) that bootleg phonorecords did not constitute stolen property. ” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#"Theft"
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I think the parent commenter doesn't assume that the creation of AGI is necessarily "something better".
Excellent... but shame the latency absolutely sucks :( I guess that's some limitation of webAudio or something? no way you can play this live.
Loved Reason and my old maudio controller. Blew me away how solid their software ran on my underpowered computer.
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Yup Trump, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the 2008 meltdown, Zuckerberg turning the internet into his private sewage factory etc etc are all shining achievements of western wisdom and deep thought. The poor unimaginative illiterates of the Orient just don't get it. If only they understood what magic freedom can produce.

Btw I suggest you reread your French Revolution history. The aristocracy was very much back in power within a year of the king getting his head chopped off. And then they propped up Napoloen who decided he needed to conquer the world. The next 100 years were spent with the elites of one European country or another colonising and pilaging most of South America, Africa and Asia. So much for freedom and equality and the aristocracy learning any lesson. They are still more of less in power with the same mindless global ambitions unless you haven't seen the inequality numbers and have your head buried deep in the sand.
> Interesting. I think it would be even easier to see whether the article is lying or not. Just go to India, visit many different regions and have a look what the shops and restaurants frequented by locals sell.

That is called anecdotal evidence and cannot be taken as the basis to making informed conclusions about the whole country. India is a HUGE country and incredibly diverse. How many neighborhoods in India will you go to make a spot check? Statistics is your friend, not anecdotes.

> Sorry, rambling. Back to cows: So eating them is bad, but somehow, perma-raping cows and making them sad by taking their babies away is totally cool. Maybe that not-as-bad-as-in-'murica milk production method avoids this bad karma. That would be great. Regardless of that though, I believe dairy is not healthy at all for adult humans. Cow milk is for cow babies. If you are reading this, you are not a cow baby.

What the fuck? Whatever pain the cows may face is infinitely less than the absolutely disgusting conditions under which cattle are grown and slaughtered in the US (including cow babies as you so cutely refer to them).

Milk is ABSOLUTELY a good source of nutrition for human beings. Especially in a country like India where a significant fraction of the population faces malnutrition, it is a very effective way to provide nutrition. It also has the side effect of financially enriching farmers who are one of the most vulnerable segments of Indian society.
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I don't think you understood the argument above.

My attempt to clarify it as I understood it:

The argument is that a unique-to-NSA analysis technique could be used to get NOBUS backdoor by virtue that only NSA would be able to use the analysis to get key/message recovery, etc. This is especially true if such a technique were combined with a unique-to-NSA ability to store or process characteristics of a cipher.

The NSA likely has both a unique cryptanalytic techniques and a considerable computational advantage.

The NSA has, before, refused to disclose the motivation for its designs because doing so could leak a unique-to-NSA analysis technique.

The argument (not fact) of the parent comment is that this could be the reason for NSA not disclosing its design rationale now. It could be a backdoor.

The entire purpose of the parent comment is to convey that it is conceivable to NOBUS backdoor simple symmetric ciphers with the resources of the NSA. As such, it is an appropriate response and an argument that _does_ work.

Side note: I remember (different username at the time) discussing with you here, on hacker news, whether DUAL_EC was a backdoor. Of course, that doesn't mean that there is a backdoor in this case.
> (note: it doesn't!)

That was tongue-in-cheek. Of course you can always find a slow instance for any approach.

The more explicit message is: You're optimizing the wrong thing. "Tight loop" and "RVO", these things don't go together. Don't write slow and complicated code and expect the compiler to magically make it fast. Write straightforward code. It's easy. It will be effortlessly fast.

There are very few cases where you need to work hard to get fast code (SIMD etc). Typically, if you need to work hard, the code will be slow.
This. The levels of expenses paid for senior people in big organizations is insane.

A friend recently rented out an apartment in central London to people working for a nonprofit org at £10k per month and this is only scratching the surface of ludicrous corporate expense culture. Meanwhile these upper management say they can't pay their staff a living wage...
> In other news, the US, NATO and friends in this century alone destroyed Iraq, Libya, almost destroyed Syria and Yemen and did a few other nasty things that resulted in at least a million dead. Do you have a big enough item 5 for that?

Destroyed? You'll need to provide some pretty strong proof to convince me those countries aren't there anymore.

Also the Syria and Yemen are civil wars. Don't know how you think it's reasonable to pin that on the "US, NATO and friends" (that is, unless you want to do something silly like trace things too far back to look for butterflies, ignore a lot of recent history, and remove all agency from the locals).
It's easy for any employer to steal several thousand dollars from an employee they are letting go. It will cost several thousand dollars to sue the employer, and no lawyer wants to work hard for so little to gain. So employers cheat employees of their last paycheck all the time, and almost never get sued for it.
More importantly, you can insure yourself against burglary, you can't insure yourself against wage theft.
This brings up an interesting question about the scalability of AGI. Do you need a billion minds or can you just increase the capacity of one mind?

Are there benefits of multiple artificial minds? Are they all perfect copies or do they have unique perspectives?
Seems many Americans are willing to crap all over the 2nd Amendment, which is specifically in place to prevent totalitarian government.
Your first mistake is believing in the fiction that corporations are people. Just because judges said so, doesn't make it true.

My primary complaint comes down to this country coming to an understanding of "right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" apply to actual people, and shouldn't apply to companies and capricious decisions. Things people do on their private time should have absolutely no bearing on where they work, where they live, or where they shop.

We already have laws on companies that restrict many different things. Companies can't violate the EEOC: they can't legally ask if you're married. Nor can they use your racial identity as a reason to hire/fire you. (they do, just under the guise of selective enforcement and firing for 'insubordination')

> The right to free speech in the USA concerns political speech, and the relationship between the people and their government. It is not a shield against punishment by society for controversial or ill-considered comments. Indeed, it likely would prove impossible to grant such protections without limiting freedom of political or religious expression.

And there was something that bothered me with your post... I've read similar kind of comments regarding desegregation in the South. Not that I'm calling you racist, mind you. But there were people who doubted similarly, and used that as an excuse to not make those changes. Fortunately, they were wrong.
I agree. I would not mourn if ticks were eradicated.

Off the top of my head the only ecological role I can think of for them is as food for tick-eating birds. But I don't think there are any birds that subsist exclusively on ticks, so they'd probably be all right.

And for our general literacy, I want to point out that ticks are arachnids, not insects.
Yes, it does use the cache in preference to npmjs.org under normal conditions. The typical issues of using npm to build production systems are much reduced, though not as much as with vendoring. My last company used this, replacing Sinopia.
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Where is the subject matter for "disagreeing with sentiment"?

shouldn't those developers submit a copy of the derivative work back to the BSD-licensed project as well, just to be fair?

Downvote could = "no, I don't agree"
Also to be clear it’s not theft. Its also not spitting.
You need Chrome 66 or later, or launch Chrome 64+ with command line option --enable-blink-features=AudioWorklet
otherwise you're probably getting a polyfill.
I'm unclear how the modified mosquitoes replicate and spread if the genetic alteration sterilizes them. Do you just have to continue releasing the GMO versions, or is it not entirely effective, or what am I missing?
maybe they are the only ones who understand their laws
But you don't make a bank transfer in that environment. I can make a contactless payment with my bank's debit card, and it comes straight from my bank account. Many people here in the UK do this routinely for minor purchases, and the technology has been available for several years now. As you say, it's fast and efficient.
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