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Let's be a bit more positive on Humanity's progress eh?

Humanity is on the cusp of three major technological breakthroughs that will quite literally change everything.

1) AI. Even if we don't reach ASI in the near term, we'll have ANI to help us research new technologies in months/years rather than decades.

2) Asteroid Mining. Whether it's Musk/Bezos/A. N. Other, the very first time someone brings down an asteroid. It will herald the dawn of abundance for precious metals. What will happen to prices is another topic. But this will allow researchers to develop even more exotic materials.

With better materials resistant to heat, more conductive elements, etc, etc. Humanity be able to build what can only be dreamt of.

3) 7 Billion (now). 13 Billion with Mars, 50+ Billion with Europa, Titan, Ganymede, etc, etc, etc. There will be a time where Humans will stretch beyond this solar system. Imagine how many breakthroughs will be possible with 100m researchers and AI trying to crack something?

What will make this possible? With 1 and 2, we'll be able to finally crack fusion reactors. This will enable faster space travel than with current engines. Habitats will evolve from those initial Mars missions and will sprawl into mega cities. Who knows, there may even be Luxury apartments hovering in the upper atmosphere of Venus.

All this progress is exponential and if you stop to look around. The seeds are being sewn right now. By 2050, some things we consider Sci-fi will be reality.

Oh and I'll just throw this one in.

4) Nasa has been doing some work on the Alcubierre drive. Who is to say, that the issues that cannot be surmounted now, will be in the future? For those that want to know more.
I'll leave a channel that goes into such things [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kkCGRqZWaSIK3BmLC8vaw/vid...
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We wanted free news and look where that got us. Hopefully the open source research model also doesn’t go in that direction eventually.
> I think tools 1 trillion years from now that stumble across that headline will wonder what humanity was.

We will be lucky to still be here in 100 years.
This is a good contender for the next Ig Noble prize.

My knee reaction with such articles is "I am glad that the guy is not payed with my taxes" but then I wonder how many of such useless papers where actually trampolines for useful ones (by bootstrapping ideas, suggesting "some uses of vibranium which, in that specific case could be replaced with titanium", etc.).

This extends to topics like astrophysics of galaxies far away (which we will not reach within 7000 years), particle physics (which work at energies which cannot be replicated outside of the lab), ... I am well aware that things which happen around these topics (say, the need to better understand magnetism in accelerators which can lead to better tomography or something) but are these money pits really needed as catalyzers?
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The background temperature of the universe now an trillion years from now is not significantly different. It's 2.73 Kelvins today. Even if it goes very close to zero, that's not a big difference.
Here is an article citing a Charlie Rose interview from 2005.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interv...
This isn't the right solution.

A large funding body just needs to announce that starting from 5 years in the future, they will only count articles published in open journals on the applicant's track record.

That will fix things quick smart.
I don't want to threadjack, just will point out many of these stories can be found in Reddit's EX communities: exjw, exmuslim, exmormon, and similar. The evolution of these communities into support groups over time has been fascinating.
I believe you can replicate the bang functionality in Google Chrome, should you use it.
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You're conflating metadata with the HTML meta tag. Please consider that everything is metadata except the bare text.

The point of the message above us was that the content on this site is not formatted properly as HTML.
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Relax, my friend. If you accept the Many-Worlds Interpretation at all, then you're constantly splitting into parallel copies, millions of times per second, with every little decoherence event that takes place in your brain. Whether or not you use a quantum random number generator is totally beside the point. :-)

(But if it makes you feel less terrified, you could also choose one of the interpretations according to which "only our branch is real." As far as anyone can tell today, there are no consequences for any experiment we'll ever be able to do.)
http://www.aispace.org/bayes/index.shtml might help?
Microscopic hair analysis is a classic example of pseudo-scientific "evidence" used to secure convictions. The FBI has washed its hands of it:

FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis Contained Errors in at least 90% of Cases in Ongoing Review

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1996772-joint-press-...

Ditto bite-mark analysis:

https://phys.org/news/2015-05-fbi-hair-analysis-problems-rev...

Yet, this kind of "expert" testimony was accepted for years and years. People went to jail on the basis of flim-flam.
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>I think there's a tendency at HN to be very protective of google

There's a tendency to be very protective of a wretched business model more than there is of google in itself. It may seem people come to google's defense a little too much on HN but that's only because google is the largest, most important corporation at the front of the business model that matters most to hners: advertisement and abusing user data. How else could any of the funded startups that provide free online services survive if they didn't get their money back through some other means?

There is a vested interest on HN and other similar places on the web to show solidarity toward any individual or corporation whose livelihood depends on this because the second you start questioning companies like Google and Facebook, you start questioning the very livelihood of everyone involved here.
By this time in the future I hope we have worked out wormholes.
I've seen some commits on CAF regarding KaiOS's involvement, but where exactly are they hosting the source for their projects? Do they have any intentions whatsoever to release the sources?

Firefox OS goes from open-source to closed-source KaiOS, now funded, in part, by Google. Sad.

edit: Oh darn:

"Many parts of B2G (especially Gaia) are under a permissive (Apache) license which allows modified code to be released under another license, so not all of B2G necessarily has to remain open source. It’s made of many components though so the legal situation is probably quite complex, there are likely some parts that Kai OS Technologies should provide the source code for."

Oh well.
I live in the Netherlands but grew up in the U.S. and I often go back and forth between Dutch and English when searching(depending mostly on context). I have also used my google account while living in the U.S. and later in the Netherlands (this used to really mess up google calendar). I’ve been searching for “World Cup” (English) on google.com. I get results in English, but they are parsed from the national Dutch news channel and they link directly to highlight clips on their YouTube channel. Seems like there is a probably a lot of complex integration between Google and local broadcasters to pull that off, and it might work just for me because I spent a lot of time setting language and locale settings to try and accommodate my unique use case.
Don’t be so sure. Even though summer gives you more direct sunlight and longer days, it also knocks down your efficiency (and weather patterns in some areas will be more inclined to cloud over those months).

In the US the same is true with wind as in Europe. Places with good summer wind resources are uncommon, but California has a few of them.
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Imagine two RC cars driving in opposite directions on a crumpled up, (virtually) infinitely large blanket with an uncountable number of ripples. The cars' top speeds are 10 MPH. On top of each car is an ant watching the other car.

Both cars start driving off at 10 MPH in opposite directions. From an ant's perspective on top of one car, the other car looks to be going 20 MPH away from it. Then someone starts pulling the blanket underneath the cars from opposite ends at 5 MPH. Now it looks like the other car is going 30 MPH. Now imagine for each ripple on that blanket, another hand appears and starts to pull, and the outer edges are pulled at 5MPH from the reference point of the nearest ripple.

From the perspective of an ant on one end, it can eventually get to the point that the other car is warping off at 100MPH or more. And as this blanket spreads out more and more, things speed up more and more as well. The cars never technically exceed their speed limits of 10 MPH, but the space that they occupy is being pulled apart in a way that they seem to be exceeding 10 MPH from each other's perspectives.
The lower 128k on the PCjr is shared with the video controller. Contention caused by this dual access is what slows it down.
Unfortunately, I think you are right. We haven't done so well in taking care of this planet that is perfect for us, we evolved for it.

People talking about living on dead, inhospitable planets / moons are just getting carried away with mental science fiction masturbation imho. Which is a fun activity in itself and with merit I agree, but realistically. Very soon, the very best minds we have are going to be on how to save humanity from destroying itself here within the century. Not looking to colonise the stars.
That’s too bad. I wanted to work on the product a few years back but I could tell they really just wanted me to work on consulting projects, and the Sprintly work (if it ever came around) would be a “reward”. Too many aspects of it made my Spidey senses tingle to accept.
One of the main points the post is missing is the distinction between a placer and a router. Most (all?) PCB design tools do not come with a connectivity-based placer. They only ship with a maze-, grid- or shape-based router.

Placement and Routing together is generally the domain of the very-expensive EDA tools inferred in the main article.
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Thanks!

Given your particular situation, it sounds to me like you should not only buy QCSD, but buy 200 copies of it to give all your friends and family. :-)

More seriously, the overlap between QCSD and WPSCACC is actually relatively small---e.g., WPSCACC just has one short section about quantum mechanics, whereas that's at least half of QCSD. QCSD is also written in a much chattier style (but at the same time, it has more space to exposit basic material). I can't guarantee that you'll like QCSD, but I hope that gives you a sense for the diff.
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> it's hard to engage meaningfully

There we agree!
Trump's Approval Rating Rises Among Hispanics
Solid discussion about Part 1 a month ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17166054
I was on the fence about whether this would be construed as too political for HN but I think it is personally quite interesting to see support from Hispanics up 10% despite the huge immigration battle currently being fought.
KaiOS, like Firefox OS before it, is not and can never be a potential competitor. Google is investing to help get its services on a popular feature-phone system for the ultra-low-end in developing nations. That's basically the extent of it.
Were these posed photographs? I find this effect happens on candid photographs or action shots, both of which I consider much more valuable than posed photographs.
Water is already running out in many areas of the world. Rains are failing worldwide.

No water = no food. Where millions perhaps billions of people are on the move, societies will break down. Look what is happening on the European and US borders and the hysteria it generates when the migration is but a trickle of what is to come.

Yes humanity and technology is moving forward at record speeds, but at what cost to the world majority? To the environment.

I think by 2400 is a rather optimistic figure, it is likely to be much sooner
Aside:

Have you ever considered a DIY youtube channel?

If you, @slededit, others on this thread did something like Louis Rossmann, that'd be fantastic. I've never even seen a dentist's x-ray machine, much less seen it used for DIY design. That'd be amazing to watch.

Louis Rossmann
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w

(But maybe y'all would dial down the rhetoric from an 11 to a 8 or 9.)
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Plenty of mathematicians are older I'm sure. I know Wiles was 40ish when he proved Fermat's Last Theorem.
Why isn't it the right solution?

And why 5 years and not tomorrow?

By "large funding committee" you mean a grant-providing one? If so this is more or less the main culprit of my comment.
With code you need to be able to programme. For OSM you just need to know something about an area. Do you know what the name of that street is? That there's an italian restaurant on that corner? What the house number of that building is? etc etc
In a parallel universe, a candidate who is worried about a divisor of zero has his head stuck in the tiny details and is unable to do big-picture thinking. Personally I've gone my entire career without seeing a divide-by-zero bug. It's the last thing on my mind. If it's possible for Z to be zero, it will be caught in CI before we deploy/cut a release.

In your first snippet, would you expect a candidate to tell you that `f` might be undefined?
50M bees sounds dramatic but can be only one hive.

Happens a lot in Australia too (another poster mentioned NZ). Example: https://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/18-stolen-b...
What's wrong with that? Most new technologies come about in that way anyway.

You wouldn't be on the internet today otherwise.
I'm not sure that in a "production" setting, step by step specification is better than a "full featured" dashboard. Supposing I have ten parts, the step by step process is a slow way to communicate it. A random access form is probably better for sophisticated users (and sophisticated users are a bigger segment of the sheet metal market than first timers).

Don't misunderstand me, the program shows a lot of work and polish. But animated transitions are low priority if I'm ordering sheet metal. When I'm ordering sheet metal, my time is probably money.

Good luck.
It's scoped in that you choose what gets loaded. I think it's generally a good idea for a library to provide specs as an optional namespace and let you choose whether and when to load it.
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> I am curious what are the human rights that get violated by having cameras

Privacy is a human right.
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If you halve the temperature in kelvin, you double the number of calculations you can do.
currently moving away from google to protonmail.

And they were at least working on a VPN service too, last time I checked.
Before going down this path, it's important to understand the substantial performance implications.
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I think bee theft has happened in big cities like Chicago, Berlin and NYC beekeeping https://nycbeekeepers.blogspot.com/p/nyc-beekeeping-groups.h...
Like the other poster, I was at Google during those days, but I do not want to say too much. I never dealt with Apple myself, but I knew people who did, for both Maps and YouTube. None of them were particularly delighted.

The All Things D article is nice when it comes to drama and gossip, but omits details behind words such as "there were a number of issues". Those twists might be mundane or boring for a good story, but made the divorce even more inevitable. The relationship was doomed to fail.
Yes they could. The OSM licence requires a share-alike, so OSM would be able to use anything Apple add, but all that's required is a database dump. It would be up to the OSM community to "merge" it back in if they wanted.
nice example of using soft power. quote from article: "“An integral part of my dream was to show the countries most exposed to communism the other side of the coin—the fruits of the free world.”
Stratechery has a great article about how Google chooses to show their local results over more useful results from its competitors:

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/

The relevant explainer video:
https://youtu.be/k9UqqmIJW4g
Like a Lazer pointer? Or, i suppose reflex face paint would work too.
> if we can't test the thing then the universe isn't going to punish us either way for believing or not.

If we can’t test the thing then what we are discussing is faith, not science.

Nothing wrong with faith and beliefs but I think it’s important to differentiate between these things and science because often times science is used as a basis for untestable beliefs and then people really start to think that those untestable beliefs are actually backed by scientific research.
It's not so much vandalism that is the issue, it's that rampant automatic edits can end up removing meaning from the data (by smoothing out meaningful differences and the like) or if they aren't careful enough, create a giant mess.
Ask HN: AWS lambda pricing/lock-in concerns
We are building a data analysis app, and AWS lambda seems to offer a scalable, secure, and easily administrable engine for the computationally-intensive parts of the app.

The pricing structure is reasonable for now, but we are uneasy about becoming dependent and locked into lambda, should the pricing change dramatically in the future (this is Amazon, after all).

Is this a valid concern? And, if so, how can it be mitigated?
Yeah you can totally reinvent your component system yourself, or you can just use React which is used in production on thousands of websites and big products with top-level support of hundreds of engineers.
>> In general, AI connected to the cameras can be made to do both.

Even human beings are not always able to identify illegal activities, let alone AI.
In America the Keycom/KeyFax system (based on the BBC's Ceefax) was tried in a few cities. You needed to rent a terminal that connected by telephone line to a server. While the US had other text only service-by-dialup systems like The Source and CompuServe, KeyFax was the predecessor of the graphical systems like Prodigy and QuantumLink/AOL:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/CARLSON/history/Keycom.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4982KbJDG-E

(For astute viewers, watch the end of the video and see a very young Oprah Winfrey doing an ad for her morning show)

In Chicago, a read-only version of KeyFax was broadcast for a short while on Channel 32 (WFLD) during the overnight hours when the transmitter was usually dark.

https://www.retroist.com/2018/05/09/chicagoland-gems-keyfax-...
Sorry, I should have specified. Electronics the size, functionality, and build quality of each synthesizer module.
We can produce more food than ever with less energy. Knowledge transfer is always improving, and with computer programs it will be even easier to transfer knowledge.

You guys need to clarify what "a collapse" is. Not eating as much meat? Do you really think that we would not be able to power our computers or not be able to produce rice/wheat on any industrial scale?

The amount of FUD spread without any foundation for it is maddening.
But rewriting from scratch will be a good test to see if software engineering really is in as much if a better state in 2018 as people assume.
Use an abstraction like Serverless so that you can easily switch to another provider.
Happened 8 years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11460897

[ed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120229200201/http://internetey...
]
Not OP, but thanks for saying this. I think I care too much too often.
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Then again it's the third result on DuckDuckGo when you search for 'polygraph' so it's not like it's that hard for search engines to find it.
That implementation for "keyword" is simply horrible. If it's correct that most errors caused by bad input to functions come not from verification but from an arbitrary place in code where a type-specific operation is applied is correct, that's more horrible. This deeply discourages me from touching Clojure ever.
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Here are some I find invaluable:

* FZF. Perhaps the best fuzzy finder for Vim https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/

* ALE. Asynchronous Linting Engine, totally awesome. https://github.com/w0rp/ale

* Polyglot. A "best of" language pack. https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot

* Plug. IMHO the best plugin manager going https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.

* Fugitive. The best git wrapper there is https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

* vim-test. A plugin that helps you run tests from inside of Vim. https://github.com/janko-m/vim-test

Outside of that, switch to NeoVim if you haven't already (https://neovim.io/). Or give Oni a chance, it looks really promising (https://www.onivim.io/).
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"...a lot like working as a plumber to clean old clogged drains..."

Working IT (aka DevOps, continuous tech support), it's just cutting & pasting strings. Maybe some data quality stuff.

Gods I miss product development. Actual design & programming.
Do you have a copy of either of those series (or are they online somewhere)?

This BBC project says it only covers the 80s.
Right now the only serious effort to consider how to do so is the Alcubierre metric and its variations. Nobody knows how to build one, or what matrials could build one, or how to turn it on or off. Unless you have a cunning way to cheat, such as making the inside bigger than the outside, it requires in excess of minus the rest mass of the observable universe for a plausible sized object. There are further objections, but above my level.