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No, it's not. Or at least, it contains ...

> John Saro Balian, 45, pleaded guilty to one count each of soliciting a bribe, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators as part of a plea agreement he reached with prosecutors. The document was ordered to be filed under seal but appeared on PACER, a public online database for court documents.

> According to the agreement, filed in U.S. District Court, Balian agreed to cooperate with federal authorities by responding truthfully and completely in interviews and court proceedings. He is scheduled to be sentenced in September, when prosecutors are expected to recommend a reduced sentence.

And it doesn't contain the "corrections" ...

> 5:15 p.m.: This story has been updated to remove references from the filed plea agreement, which was ordered sealed by a judge but publicly available Friday on the federal court’s online document database. The changes were made to comply with an order issued Saturday by a U.S. federal judge. The Times plans to challenge the order.

> 3:40 p.m.: This article was updated with a statement from the Glendale police chief.

> This article was originally published at 10:55 a.m.
This is sorta it. SNI is the only unecrypted part that leaks the server hostname. CN/SAN blocking usually has a middlebox that decrypts the connections so there is nothing to be done here.

If somebody can MitM your encrypted connection to both server and DNS, encrypted SNI stops working to my understanding.
1. No they haven’t

2. There are limitations of free speech in every country, including the US. It’s a matter of where the line is drawn.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/leslie-nielsen-s-gravesi...
Interesting, I think some people said this was an inspiration for Silent Hill.

Looking at the map, the closest distance to a water source is the Susquehanna River which is about 15 miles away. Would it be feasible to pump water from all that way to build a geothermal plant? It seems like it's an awful waste of energy.
That only works if the server you are visiting is behind a CDN with no resources served directly from the dedicated host.

The encrypted SNI would primarily be useful to make censorship and MITM attacks harder.
This is about 10-15 miles from where I grew up. There are several of these ghost towns that dot the area where mining, iron furnaces, or coke ovens once existed. There is one town not too far from this one that is now under 10-20 feet of water as it was flooded when the Conemagh dam was built.
> Will general purpose AI consist of essentially layers and layers of AI's that can handle progressively more abstract inputs, models, and patterns?

This will very likely be the case. It has already sort of been the case in the AI that we have already built. The best understanding we have about the real brain - is something similar to that case.

Notably, we also want it to be the case, we will try to make it work first in that way, before any other way, because that's the only way for us to be able to understand it. We would rather have a machine that we can still understand at least on some levels, instead of one which is just a black box. So of course we will want to split it up into several levels which will be easier to understand, at least individually.

> Can we achieve general purpose AI through purely algorithmic means

No one knows. The only way to know is to actually build something, then progress slowly by iterating and doing more experimentation, trying to implement new ideas etc. Focus the attention on the most lucrative ideas. This is what the AI community is doing right now.

> What if this model ended up producing true general purpose AI, but the amount of input synthesizing and modeling required so much processing power that the speed at which general purpose AI could operate is no faster than a human brain?

I don't think it is even a common idea that it is a specific goal of general AI research to make it "faster" than a human brain. Faster for what? Thinking faster? Being smarter - sure? Being more agile in terms of not requiring sleep, or being ever-vigilant while things like driving for exapmle, sure. But faster? What would that even mean in practice? We already have machines that are faster than humans at physical tasks, they don't require GAI.

Producing a brain which works at the same speed as a human would still be a tremendous achievement and would transform the life on earth as we know it. Even if it would be 10 times slower than a human, it would be an achievement.

Even if this is a slow AI, we could just copy it multiple times and make them work together. Like people are working together now. If you only have 10 people in the world sufficiently knowledgable in a field, they can only do so much work and progress. If you could copy each one of them 1000 times, those copies could pursue different paths simultaneously and the progress would be much faster. Or why not copy a perfect store clerk so that no people would need to do that anymore?

Ability to backup and restore certain snapshots of a brain would be amazing.

And of course, if there is a physical way to speed up a brain - it would certainly be much easier once you have a working brain, than right now would proper understanding of how it even works.
In-car navigation systems do that, because they have access of stearing angles and speed.
A redistributive property tax.
What benefit are you getting out of journaling?
That's why https://archive.is/g8jV7

And if that goes too, I have a local copy :)
This is the wrong way of looking at things. 2 is always the replacement rate except in the case of an immortal population. You're not considering that you reach an equilibrium between deaths and births after one generational cycle. Imagine for simplicity that everybody gives birth at 1 and dies at 4. Let's look at when people have two children, starting with a genesis population of 10.

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Year 1:

age 1 = 10

births = 10

deaths = 0

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Year 2:

age 1 = 10

age 2 = 10

births = 10

deaths = 0

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Year 3:

age 1 = 10

age 2 = 10

age 3 = 10

births = 10

deaths = 0

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Year 4:

age 1 = 10

age 2 = 10

age 3 = 10

age 4 = 10

births = 10

deaths = 10

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Year 5:

age 1 = 10

age 2 = 10

age 3 = 10

age 4 = 10

births = 10

deaths = 10

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Etc. The only way to see a longterm increase in population is with a birth rate > 2, and similarly the only way to see a longterm decline is a birth rate of < 2. 'Longterm' in this case meaning just one generation, at which point the equilibrium kicks in. Of course not everybody dies at the same time, but the effect is identical when you look at an average with some distribution - which is what we have.

However, this also makes the assumption that everybody makes it to the age of fertility and that everybody is fertile. Both assumptions are incorrect so, in reality, the equilibrium point for population stability is even greater than 2. In reality we would expect to see a decline in population if each couple had exactly two children.
Hi Tixocloud, apologies for the late reply.

Onsite is preferred at present, we are however open to trialling remote work (with the necessary changes in team to ensure you aren't left isolated). If you send in an application I'll get in touch and we can discuss options.

https://nested.workable.com/jobs/502090

Thanks,

Ed
Using the Esc-key for vi(m) is crazy nevertheless. It's a really long reach.

Personally I have rebound Left Ctrl to Esc, and Caps Lock to Ctrl, but an option would be to rebind Caps Lock to Esc. 'jj' is also fine, but since rebinding Esc to a closer key, I started using it a lot more often, where I would have used the mouse.
I think of it as a guy building a shelf. He hangs the shelf, puts a level on it, and it's clearly not level, but only off by say, 2 degrees. Job done. Pay me. I won't mention to the person who hired me that it's off-spec.

To be fair, this happens all the time in the US, that's why we have building codes, building inspectors, etc.
What would "meaningful progress" entail for you? How would your life change, how would the life on earth in general change? Great achievements in science (aided by AI)?
I find that definition is typically only used by people who are more interested in “offence” than “freedom of speech”.

We should obviously all have the freedoms to be offensive, because like you say, offence is essentially arbitrary. But we draw limits on that freedom all the time - for safety, libel, or public order reasons, for example. The real argument should be about where that line is drawn, and not those silly straw men about “they are going to arrest me for calling a man a man”
How about we educate those who are not smart to become smarter?
> GOFAI was abandoned

GOFAI, as a 10ish year era of easy money for CS research agendas, was a relatively cheap investment and ultimately a tremendous financial, economic, and scientific success. If you're using functional languages, sql databases, or networked computers then you're benefitting from GOFAI. ATM you're using all three.
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Good read.

Like the author, I was also the kid at ball games who always wanted a ball. I frequent my hometown team's games as a season-ticket holder. I don't always get a foul ball, but when I do, I give it to a kid.

When I don't get a ball naturally, I go to the vendor that sells authentic merchandise (see: genuine) and buy a used game ball. It runs me about $30. It comes with a sticker on it to verify its authenticity. I peel sticker off and rub away the residue. I'll then find a kid who's been working for a foul ball all game and toss them the ball.

They'll celebrate as if they won the lottery. Their parent will usually come find me and say how I didn't have to do that, that their kid is so happy; I joke to them "in 15 years, tell them I bought the ball to give it to them because I knew how badly they wanted the ball."
Rebind escape to Caps Lock, you're fine.
It a total overstatment to say that 'The Soviet Union wanted self-defense pacts with England'.

The new Stalin biography by Steven Kotkin goes into great detail about all these negotiation. The way you frame it that the SU 'was not given'that is not how diplomacy works.

The SU might accept a deal with Britain IF they agree to literally everything the SU demanded.

But in reality it was a very clear strategy by Stalin to avoid a 'Imperialist-Capitalist Block' and he had this strategy as early as 1922.

At the same time yoir interpretation of Japan as 'getting encircled' is a very benefical interpretation. The western powers stopped selling them oil because they were a relentlessly agressive empire that attacked China and was talking about far greater things. Not selling an empire like that the resources to expand is not the same as 'encircling them'.

P.S. There were almost no German subs in the pacific, so it not suprising that no ships were attacked there.
Ballmer massively increased MSFT's business.

Revenues grew quite substantially under him.

Under Satya ... not so much.

Have a look here: [1]

Satya is a better communicator, and he seems like a nicer guy. This is naturally going to make employees 'feel better', but really that may not be what drives the business.

The stock price was obviously trailing revenues for whatever reason, maybe analysts just didn't like Ballmer, but irrespective, he massively grew the business and the reflection in stock price would have been inevitable.

Jury is still out on Satya.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...
Can someone just put this in an ISO standard already, so I know how wide to make my hallways?
I'm not saying they're fake - I am just saying people believe what they see. So a specific or general disclaimer of "the colors might not be accurate" would be cool, if it's the case for a specific photo.
Jesus. Stop acting like a little child.
Or, you could go with Hackett, which is a Haskell-like language implemented in Racket: https://github.com/lexi-lambda/hackett
I can't find it now, but hiking in Kyrgyzstan I took a screenshot of OsmAnd+ and Google Maps. On Google Maps was a river and empty space; on Osmand 3 rivers, uncountable paths, among those the ones that lead to the summit I had as a goal, plus natural water sources (like waterfalls, etc), and all that with detailed countour lines to have a quick visual of the difficulty of each path.
A point-to-point flight on the BFR will include a suborbital trajectory that should last half an hour, and take you halfway around the globe. It's target price is ~10,000 USD, but I'm sure (if it happens) then the first few years of flights will be substantially more expensive.

I'm as skeptical as anyone that SpaceX could pull it off, but the numbers work out. With half-hour flights, BFR could do 10 routes per day whereas a Boeing 747 could only do one. So even if the ship costs five times as much to build as the Boeing, it will amortize in half the time. With such short flights vehicle flight staffing could be a quarter what current airlines staff, and there is no need of meal service. Note also that Gwynne Shotwell said that she has a personal interest in seeing the BFR fly and she firmly believes that it will. She's not Elon: Gwynne actually has both feet on the ground and runs the _business_ side of SpaceX.

The only real hurdles that I see are the high-G launches and reentry, and of course reliability. Current launch vehicles have a ~1:50 launch failure rate. I'll fly on that, but I won't put my kids on it.
The first Macbook Air was a seriously limited device, style over substance. Expensive, weak CPU, mechanical hard drive, low battery life.

It was with the second generation (2011) that they knocked it out of the park, where they added fast Core i5/i7 CPUs, SSD, greatly improved battery life, two (!) USB ports, choice between 11' and 13' models.

And most of all they sold it at an entry level price (for Apple standards). Considered that the competition at the time were bulky Sony Vaio, HP and Dell "bricks", it was like a laptop from the future.
I wonder what the flat-earthers think of the first video. They probably just call it fake news.

Regarding the second video, does anyone know why the limit of the atmosphere is visible?
There's only one country that's ever used them.
It's interesting that the article doesn't have a comment to make about other familial arrangements brought about by shorter marriages and relationships.

For example, I'm older than my brothers, yet the oldest of them is not a middle child, because he's not a brother of my other brothers.

When families start spreading like this, a kid can be both a middle-child and a firstborn simultaneously - it becomes relative. And the attention that their position supposedly gives them becomes harder to measure.
Just curious, would it enable Signal and other tools trying to avoid censorship by doing domain fronting without the cloud provider (e.g AWS Cloudfront) noticing.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16970199

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16868564
Specification gaming examples in AI
Researchers Mount Successful GPS Spoofing Attack Against Road Navigation Systems
1. Yes they have.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5715727/Police-threa...

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/201...

2. The restrictions on speech in the US mostly relate to other crimes, like inciting violence. You can’t be arrested in the US for saying something that’s too offensive (like they do in the UK every day).
Same here, always enjoy watching baseball even if I am not invested in who wins.
http://www.antonis.de/qbdown/qbcompil.htm
One thing to note about railcar is that it completely lacks the network stack, but it will probably be my "starting point" if someday I decide to evolve `rabbitc` into something "more serious".
As the other reply says, this has been done for in-car systems at least since the late 90s. Heck, I had a company in the gnss space ask me this as an interview question probably 7 or 8 years ago.
Having a child is the #1 thing one can do which is bad for the environment (impact), worse than driving a car, using airplane, or becoming a vegetarian.

However by dietary choice you can reduce the damage, and you can also reduce the damage by educating your child with good manners concerning the environment.
> would improve their chances of succeeding at a given interview loop, by preparing

It seems to me that you're presupposing that "success" equates to ending up with an offer.

I posit that for some professionals, success is actually deciding (ideally mutually) if employment is desirable/beneficial. The decision may well be that it is not, but that would still be a success.

In this latter situation, preparation time might be better spent researching the background of the team on would be joining, the company itself, and technical and cultural environment, in order to ask better questions during the interview, rather than studying so as to achieve what could be, arguably, described as gaming the technical screening portion of the process.
Strawman - most people are not working in a cafe or park, but an office where you have to plug your laptop into actual things - projectors and so on. And almost all the projectors I use at my work, my customers' work, or the last few conferences I've been at, are HDMI - which is cool because I have an HDMI port right there on the side of my [2014, may-it-last-forever] macbook pro. It's next to the SD card slot where I can put in the SD cards from my rather nice digital camera, so I can edit photos when travelling. I earn money from photography, so as someone who is technically therefore pro, both of these connectors are useful for pro work, that isn't just typing things in cafés.
This is how I move my refrigerator when I need to clean behind it (albiet without rope or a team of people), and it has occurred to me previously that this is probably how people in the ancient world moved large objects such as the moais. I was actually under the impression that this was previously considered, and rebolek's answer above actually reinforces that.
There's another option besides "not having children": "having less children."
As a responsible parent, this will not be supported on my home network.
why spam? this is an aggregator from few sites where owners are selling apps and websites. These apps are real, I've contacted owners of few app sold and they are legit.
That's the thing I was thinking about.

And yes, zero gravity, thank you.
The suggestion to "use SYSTEM instead of END" is suspicious.

SYSTEM spawns the system shell as a sub-process. If one would EXIT from the spawned command.com/cmd.exe, QBASIC would pop up back. I think a user of programs written in this way would find themselves surprised.
I'd recommend doing a fresh install on another partition if you can and see how it goes. 95% of Ubuntu installs work like butter but there's always a bit of risk getting all the video drivers and suspend and resume working right.

Use it for a few weeks and decide.
They actually didnt have a plan for Baku. That was way to far. However there were oil fields in Grozny and Maikop that was their actual goal.

They actually almost got one of the cities but Fall Blau was a total desaster and the German spearheads were opposed by to many soviet troups.
Sorry about not seeing your reply yesterday, HN is not as helpful as Reddit so I have to scan for them manually which can be error prone. I just went through your talk. It was definitely interesting. Despite my confidence in the high-performance abstractions that Spiral allows, I do not have much experience in doing high performance optimizations myself so such field reports motivate my efforts.

So Julia can definitely do flexible data structure layouts, but looking at your code I am starting to understand why it took an expert such as yourself to show me this example. Had you not told me that the link is to a map kernel I would have difficulty figuring it out on my own.

This shifts my objections from 'Julia cannot do it', to 'macro heavy code is quite hard to grasp'. In Spiral you could have written all of this without the need for macros. Spiral does have (text) macros, but their purpose is to do language interop and not abstraction.

The use of macros is a typical anti-pattern in languages whose type systems are too weak for the problem at hand - I am decently sure that with sufficient macro magic any language that has them would have been capable of performing these same optimizations.

One immediate benefit of a powerful type system that I'd like to point out is that Spiral allows reflection over tuples, which is a lot more elegant solution to a problem of a function having variable arguments than the C-style varargs mechanism that I see Julia using in the examples you've shown me. Also, in Spiral reflection is done using pattern matching rather than if statements.

Another benefit is that Spiral has no need for separate static array machinery. Because literals can be a part of a variable's type and if not, unless explicitly prevented the literals tend to be propagated through function call boundaries (join points). Assuming they are known at compile time the inlining of tensor dimensions in loops is actually the default behavior in Spiral. I've yet to do benchmarking to see how helpful that is, but I am sure it would help reduce register pressure.

Your examples are not quite enough to get me to apologize for my rude behavior, but are enough to get me to shift my views a little so I'll change the offending sentence so it reflects reality more accurately.
It’s not silly at all, because that is literally a law in Canada.

There are also 0 restrictions on offensiveness in the US. Any restrictions on speech are restrictions on other crimes. You can’t incite violence for example. If your straw man of what free speech means we’re true, then a gang leader could freely sit behind a desk and direct others to commit crime on his behalf all day because all he’s doing is speaking, right?...
Webpack 4 course: What is Webpack?
I believe this one is the bug on the website as the actual listed project price on the source website (bordeline.biz) is $3,500
Hong Kong's density is an excellent example of how it could look. For America though, there's enough room but for certain metropoles throughout the world as well as The Netherlands... no, they're pretty much full.
> My understanding is that Rust uses LLVM coroutines[1].

IIRC it doesn't. Coroutines would induce a significant cost (one stack allocation per future) which would make futures unsuitable e.g. for embedded systems.

My understanding is that Rust will compile futures into state machines. So a future would be a closure with a data object that's a sum type with one variant per suspend point, that contains all the variables and references that are in scope at that suspend point. (That's also why Pin needs to be added for futures/generators: This set of variables may be self-referential.)
Lots of Google rules don't apply to specific, known-to-google "mes".

Google knows who you are by your devices, IP addresses, browser signatures, cookies, and other metrics. They don't need to verify your identity anymore, in fact they could probably tell you things about yourself that you don't even know.
Very interesting article, thank you for this recommendation!
>At the time, macOS worked well on spinning platters, while having an SSD is pretty much a necessity now.

Is it? Or just what we're used to? If you go to SSD speeds, you can't easily go back.

I don't think OS X / macOS needs an SSD any more than it used to (if you boot as HFS+ volume). It will be faster with the SSD (of course) but it wont be slower with an HD than it would be back in time, just because it's HD.