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"Plato's influence on Western culture was so profound that several different concepts are linked by being called "Platonic" or Platonist, for accepting some assumptions of Platonism, but which do not imply acceptance of that philosophy as a whole."

Does not support that the "Platonic" is Platonic Realism, which is what your chief claim is and what it would implicate if the term conveyed acceptance of the entire philosophy. It merely means the acceptance of an ontology of abstractions—which is implicit when there is discussion of it, otherwise how would it be discussed?

Even if you believe Platonic Idealism and Realism are the same (which is usually meant to designate the classification between 'soft' and 'hard' Platonism), there are even different Platonic periods.

Nonetheless, it's clear that I didn't communicate this well if I'm in this conversation. Which I don't think is irrational since my discussions are usually restricted to academic contexts where this usage is ostensibly vernacular.
That it’s as infrequent as non existent and that few samples are extrapolated to make statements about state of the world.
The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia
Google’s disregard for the ethics of the arrangement is further supported by this interview with one of the Googlers who organized the resistance to this project:

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military...
I wonder if a service like UpWork could take this cultural knowledge into consideration and change their design? I often see jobs posted that are straight up impossible... and they get bids. Someone will post "I want everyone who sees my AdWords ad to automatically Like my Facebook page" and they'll get bids from offshore IT shops claiming they will deliver exactly that. Those posting the jobs are completely unaware that what they're asking for is impossible and borders on the nonsensical. I've always figured somehow educating those people might be the solution, but perhaps instead just presenting potential work situations differently to cultures who say 'yes' to everything including the ludicrous might help?
Love this leadership from Jeff Dean and the team at Google AI. Technology can be an incredible lever for positive change, but can just as easily be a destructive force. Always import to think principally about how to ensure the former is the case and not the latter.
I believe it continues through March 2019.
The World's Largest Tech Companies 2018: Apple, Samsung Take Top Spots Again
Hi, my name is Dan.

Now you know one :)
Often times it's when expectations don't align with reality. Disillusionment stems from having been sold an idea that turns out to either be unachievable or a lie.

One such example is a middle-aged man who believes being a man means having a family you can provide for and protect, loses his job, and his wife leaves him. Another example is someone who grew up believing that lasting happiness comes from being wealthy and popular, and after throwing all else aside for 30 years realizes that it isn't the case.
I noticed there was one particularly phrase missing from Apple's WWDC this year: artificial intelligence.

It wasn't mentioned one time. Never in the presentations, none of the talk titles had it included either.

Machine Learning was mentioned and Apple also released many updates related to it, but never did they call it artificially intelligent, or use the phrase artificial intelligence. Not a single time. Go ahead and watch it if you haven't already. They'll never say those words.

Pretty remarkable considering it was a developer conference, I wonder why?
You actually are implying that there are no bad guys? Under no standard of humanity would ISIS or the Taliban be confused for good guys. There are a lot of grey areas in the world for sure, but acting like badness is just a matter of opinion is ridiculous. There is evil in the world.
The thing is, it's not their business. They just show that they saved money and get promoted on to another role. The mess, when it becomes apparent, is for someone else to clean up...
There are only 50k coal miners in the USA. I'm not at all against generous job retraining programs, but why does the rest of the country/world need to be held off any progress on this issue for the sake of a relatively small group? There are individual companies that have more employees.

After 9/11 the airline industry lost something like 40,000 jobs. We didn't resurrect the WPA then. What makes coal special?
I'm guessing it's something like

individual entitlements: giving money to slackers, encouraging them to be lazy

entitlements on coal: helping hard working americans get/retain their jobs

not that i agree with this line of logic.
Kind of an ironic end to @a2_4am’s project to reverse engineer the copy protections on all this software (https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am). Rather than his DRM-free versions, Archive.org will probably prefer to use these .WOZ flux-track files that keep the copy-protection intact.

Still, I suppose 4am’s work exposed quite a bit of the history of copy protection, even if we won’t be using his rips. The docs he wrote outlining his process of cracking the DRM (and his gradual automation of such) are valuable historical artifacts all by themselves, and I hope they persist in the Archive even alongside the .WOZ rips.
How Seattle spent $54M on homelessness in 2017
If they wrote Organic Molecules people wouldn't know what to think either, when it comes to clickbait, this is quite off-white area still.

> NASA confirms predicted levels of organic carbon in martian soil and long term measurements help scientists identify possible cyclic releases of methane on mars

This is a general public press release (besides being 80 characters to long for a HN news headline), not a scientific paper. Also NASA's existence is quite directly releated to how many people think it's important. As long as science need PR to get funded, this type of headline and artistic renderings are the lessest of all evils.
Apple owns 1/3 of the market. And insofar as it’s skewed upmarket, rather than a randomly distributed one out of three people, it easily owns entire social circles.

On what planet is 1/3 dead?
> We will then need to figure out how to sequence the chemistry of of these lifeforms which may require us to redefine the definition of "life" altogether.

I don't see how; we don't have a definition of "life" to redefine. We basically operate on the simpler system of having a big list of things that are life -- everything is categorized as "alive" or "not alive" without reference to a general definition of the category.
Trump has confirmed himself that he does not read. Not books, not the news. It is widely reported by his own cabinet the man does not pay attention or have the depth of understanding of well, anything.

The thing about Obama being a muslim homosexual is fucking stupid and not worth responding to.
Let me see if I understand this. The disk authoring machine would lay down a true spiral, right? And the software controlling the read head would know this, and follow/emulate that spiral by stepping the head in a 1/4 track every 90°? So while the continuous spiral moved underneath the read head, the read head would mostly follow it but with some "quantization" error? (Not large enough to cause issue with reading, but impossible for an OS-level utility to replicate when copying the disk)
A suicide vest isn’t racially prejudiced. Identifying those that are wearing them isn’t an emotional appeal.
One example I can think of is private colleges. Many in the US have made public statements dedicating themselves to uphold principles like freedom of speech. Organizations like FIRE do a pretty good job holding them accountable to those principles and there are many instances in which they have documentated policy or enforcement changes made due to their activism.
Because everything, the whole logistical system is based around that and optimized for that. Think about it as an ecosystem. The flexibility of oil is second to none. The second you start to "pollute" (no pun intended) the ecosystem with other sources you are making it more complex and more expensive as you are suddenly introducing foreign materials that needs to be handled differently.

It's not as simple as many would like to believe.
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Thanks, quite interesting tips!
If NASA went on Patreon I'd gladly help fund them if it meant they could just do great science without needing to worry about 'impact'
I was mostly joking... I understand how dependent types work and don't think those researching it are of "ill repute."

It's worth pointing out though what is the real flaw with union types and dependent types: syntax might obscure it but the actual program is riddled with conditional logic and it is very hard to reason about such types in practice. People like to call this "pattern matching" but in reality such code, where each function is generally doing if (x instanceof Y) over a set, is exactly the sort of code that we try to avoid in modern systems.
This may be a dumb question since I'm pretty ignorant of the chemistry and geology involved but if Mars had ancient oceans with micro organisms (a big if still I know), might it have oil deposits? Seems like that would be pretty useful for future colonization efforts.
Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind?
I have the same problem! They have a manual and a cookbook, but nothing real entry stuff or something similiar like the Go Tour.
https://haxe.org/blog/haxe-online-training-courses-are-comin... <- this looked real promising not sure if they still gonna do it.
It's a good point, and if anybody thinks an arms race isn't already happening then they are very naive. While we're debating the morals of this, the Chinese, Russians and many others are trying to make it happen. For all we know, they may have already succeeded, and we're discussing the morals of it while it's already in full production a few thousand miles away.

The relevant research papers, knowledge and skills are widely available across the world. There are some advanced courses at Chinese universities right now that can only be seen as 'AI for military'.
ATS is an amazing language, but suffers from being mainly a one-person effort.

doublec's ATS articles are probably the most accessible introduction: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/index.html

Other than that the documentation is very decent for a one-man research project. (I say "research project", and it is, but it has huge practical value as well.)

Still, I have very high hopes for ATS.
> lets put 28000 people out of their jobs

Minor correction: I keep seeing totals around 75,000 jobs[0] though I'm not sure if it includes all their subsidiaries[1] - some of which are classified as associates.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/233051/number-of-employe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE
> The uranium drag line, trucks, ships, trains, and smelters are all fossil fuel powered, and that doesn't include the prodigious amounts of steel and cement needed for a nuclear plant.

There is considerably less ore mining and refining involved in nuclear compared to renewable, due to the orders of magnitude higher energy density.

It's fallacious reasoning, because by that standard, NOTHING produced by the current society is zero carbon. Nuclear itself is zero carbon, just like wind or solar. But all three require material that could conceivably be produced in a zero carbon / 100% offset regimen. So the correct approach is to push for zero carbon transport, zero carbon cement etc. Or just tax the carbon to get it to a planetary safe level and let the market allocate.
Why? There have been warnings, economic indicators for years that coal was not sustainable. That coal based jobs would be destroyed. These folks had ample time to adjust their lifestyle, to retrain for new industries and such. Instead, not only did they not take proactive steps to remedy their situation, they fell for a hucksters false promises and voted for him.

Why should I respect these people?
> also got me over the Rust hype to some degree

You can't just throw a detail like that and not tell us more. :D
Parties? What’s that?
Sure thing. How do you get such a JSON value into an application though?

What I'm saying is to use env vars. You could put your JSON straight into an env var, or if you want a persistent JSON file on disk then put the path to that file in an env var.
And don't just assume that software has been archived because it's a commercial release of some kind. New software gets discovered all the time from personal collections.
Have you seen this -> http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2013/01/machine-learning... ... Specifically the image at http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ME24ePzpzIM/UQLWTwurfXI/AAAAAAAAAN... It seems like a good start.

There are myriad resources but none that I can think of that cover all the different problem types.

What are you interested in specifically?
They have one of my favorite logos: https://landscape.cncf.io/grouping=landscape&landscape=monit...
Tantamount...not the slightest. Social media is a cesspit that hawks fly over to prey on you. Create tight knit communities (like immediate family) and leave it at that.
The zoning and permitting regulations prevent you from building reasonably on land that you already own. There are plenty of wealthy individuals and developers in San Francisco who would love to tear down two or three shabby Victorian houses to put up a five-story 20-unit condo if they could only get the project approved.

San Francisco in particular makes it extremely easy for neighborhood residents to impede projects that would be automatically approved in any other city [1, 2]. This is why nothing gets built here, it has nothing to do with the cost of land.

No developer can afford to put up with a five-year battle with neighbors who complain about the shadow that the new building will cast onto their back yard, or to pay for fifteen $X0,000 bullshit environmental studies that the city will make the developer conduct as a "compromise." And remember, these are for designs that are completely up to code and that are zoned legally.

[1]: https://sf.curbed.com/2013/4/17/10252934/what-the-heck-is-di...

[2]: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Discretionary-...
I'm sure many US employees were against it, and they were rightfully exercising their voice.

Google may have offices all over the world, but it's an American company, and like people (Corporations are like people, no?), it must be held responsible for its actions.

I would argue that the public should be especially wary of 'global' corporations such as these (Facebook is another one) that suddenly grow a conscience when it suits them.

Surely a company with such high morals and ethics should easily withstand regulation and public scrutiny that protects the national interests of the country that's responsible for the majority of its profits, and provided the fertile ground from which it sprang to life.
Burning down a house does not count as a remodeling.
Talent, like luck, is an illusion. It does not exist. There is only skill, which is acquired through time, experience, and practice.
Funny, my immediate assumption was that it was a bogus claim.

Most "news" about some uptick in a rare thing in a small subpopulation is just noise. It's like reporting on which city has the highest cancer rate. Of course it's some tiny town where the small sample size causes some outlier.
Yep, those scars are very, very deep. The thought that Microsoft seemed a lock to rule the computing world made me a very miserable IT person for many years.

Now I don't think about them much at all. I'm not thrilled that they now own a vital part of the OSS world, but I'm optimistic their overall irrelevance to my life will persist.
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Indeed. It's like we've been accruing technical debt for centuries by taking the "easy way out" until our technology was developed enough, and now need to pay it all back, with interest.
What have these people done to deserve such treatment? Have they made strides to further their education? Have they embraced modernity? And where has that "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality gone? As far as I can tell, the coal industry a small, whiny, retrograde minority that refuse to engage with reality. They done nothing for me except ruin my future from the other side of the continent.
For me, it was when I reached a point where there was nowhere else in my area that excited me.

For eight years, I had worked in both small and large agencies as a .NET developer, working on a whole range of sites - some tiny ones, mostly medium ones, and the odd behemoth. I had a few user group talks behind me and a good reputation amongst my peers.

My breaking point was when I thought to look who else was hiring, and couldn't find anyone I was either excited or scared to work for. Sticking with agencies would've been no different to what I was doing, and the larger .NET houses were fairly boring affairs. I had made a career as a .NET developer without moving into enterprise, so I had no intention of doing that now.

So, I decided to jump not to the next big thing, but for something different. I now work with startups outside of the .NET stack, and the challenge of switching from being a solid .NET dev to a beginner in various languages on the Linux stack is both exciting and scary. Sure, I could make more elsewhere, and I've put myself in a position to look stupid, but I forced a change and hopefully the change in scenery will push me towards a more complete understanding of development, and onwards to the next big thing.
>Do you think a leaker might selectively leak with the intent to paint a particular picture?

Possibly. As I said "...that we're aware of." Anything beyond what we know is speculation. This is the information I have available. Let me ask you this; if there was real debate and concern beforehand, why is it only now that Google has decided to back out?
Well, the Gaussian shows up a lot because of the Central Limit Theorem. A lot of additive processes will converge to the Gaussian.
for private repos this is supercool. was already on keybase, now it makes even more sense to use it more
Doctor salary accounts for only 8.5% of healthcare costs in the US, lower than most other Western countries.
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Germany: 15%

Australia: 11.6%

France 11%

UK: 9.7%

US: 8.5%
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Probably someone else will do the dirty deed, but now 1) it won't be Google, and 2) it'll be someone willing to do more evil than Google.

That said, your argument does not avoid complicity in behaving badly or potentially doing so. It says only, "I'm a shit, but I'm willing to be a shit because there are other shitty people in the world who will behave badly even if I behave well, so I choose to behave badly because it serves me and the outcome is probably the same either way."

Of course, if your business partners adopt the same Machiavellian philosophy toward you that you espouse, one day they'll probably speak those very words when they turn against you, since someone else probably would have.
This is an important question, microsoft controlling the servers that host most open source code is not great but what they really bought was the community. If those developers move a small project no big deal, but, those same developers will never start another project on github and will of course stop recommending github to corporate clients. Github will become VSS.
PyPy isn’t compatible with several things I (try to) use, namely TensorFlow.

That’s another thing on the list - I don’t like needing multiple versions of the interpreter installed.
The airline industry is scattered all over the country. If you lose your airline job in, say, Chicago, there are a lot of other jobs in Chicago. But coal is the backbone of a big chunk of Appalachia. If you lose your coal job in Welch, West Virginia, there's nothing else. And if there are a few other jobs, the number of laid-off coal-related people absolutely swamps the openings.
If they really believed this stuff, I don’t see why they would have had so many resignations over the issue. Had somebody brought up the ethical aspects when the project was being discussed, they wouldn’t be scrambling to limit the damage now.
I believe you are mistaking Miguel de Icaza with Nat Friedman (probably because of Ximian).
As much as I appreciate the conflict of interest here between doing good, making money, helping the US government do its thing, and simply chickening out for PR reasons; I'd like to provide a few sobering thoughts. AI and misappropriation by governments, foreign nations, and worse is going to happen. We might not like it but that cat has long been out of the bag. So, the right attitude is not to decline to do the research and pretend it is not happening but to make sure it ends up in the right hands and is done on the right terms. Google, being at the forefront of research here, has a heavy responsibility to both do well and good.

I don't believe Google declining to weaponize AI, which lets face it is what all this posturing is about, would be helpful at all. It would just lead to somebody else doing the same, or worse. There's some advantage to being involved: you can set terms, drive opinions, influence legislation, and dictate roadmaps. The flip side is of course that with great power comes great responsibility.

I grew up in a world where 1984 was science fiction and then became science fact. I worry about ubiquitous surveillance, un-escapable AI driven life time camera surveillance, and worse. George Orwell was a naive fool compared to what current technology enables right now. That doesn't mean we should shy away from doing the research. Instead make sure that those cameras are also pointed at those most likely to abuse their privileges. That's the only way to keep the system in check. The next best thing to preventing this from happening is rapidly commodotizing the technology so that we can all keep tabs on each other. So, Google: do the research and continue to open source your results.
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> In the past we've seen other countries deal with Iran while under sanctions, and we've gotten nothing out of them other than speeches at the U.N.

> I kinda think I like this better.

I think this is immensely unfair - you cite one deal that got a lot of press due to a series of unexpected about-faces in the US position. There’s no reason to believe that agreements of this nature are made but not publicized.

Also, I'm not sure I understand how this action relates to the sanctions placed on Iran. What is your reasoning?
> Some of these are wrong. Number 2 is an example. A company with a req out specifying that it wants n years of Angular experience won't countenance you if you don't have n years of Angular experience.

My experience, both hiring and being hired, is the opposite. I have found that lists of required technologies are actually mild suggestions. We're probably both right, which implies that we're moving in interestingly different bubbles.

> Introverts may as well find another line of work, especially since you will in most cases be working cheek-by-jowl with your co-workers at long noisy tables

Again, our experience is completely different. I have always had my own desk.