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Anyone remember cutting themselves really badly on AT cases? I still have scars from raiding a bunch of ex-office machines
True, but you could argue that this generation will define what that path to general AI will look like... ethics, laws, regulation, warfare... certainly in this generation we will see a huge impact on the society which doesn't require human-level intelligence in AI.
This is the solution. It also solves the problem that all your candidates are cluster so tightly together by grade score that it is impossible to separate them by any ranking process. Just set the threshold to enter the lottery and go from there.
If you enjoy that, you may like "a masterpiece of creative genius", the [Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System][0] as well, it's one of its kind and I'm still amazed how and using what technology they were able to make tunnels and canals into the rock under the city, of course how they did stop the stream until they finished the construction.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shushtar_Historical_Hydraulic_...
You can't really prove either one proposition. I've heard that Witches use the peace sign in their rituals to fight Christians. I would be interested to hear more about that. Any Wiccan around here?
If you believe in strong AI during our lifetimes, that should increase your expected likelihood for exploring space.
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That is basically the case in Norway. Both the mother and the father gets 15 weeks mandatory each, and the rest (of a full year) is divided between them as they themselves see fit, iirc.
>> Why do people care so much about what others look like in a field instead of doing what they're interested in?

That cuts both ways. Many people will not hire someone who "doesn't look the part" because they think that means they can't do the job.
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I like the interative approach - especially if its the local community that has decided to adopt it. But this arrangement undercuts the power of a central authority (especially if its effective)
See also:

Back to the Future: Lisp as a Base for a Statistical Computing System

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-20...
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This is not something particular to America. Europeans have always stressed the continuity from antiquity. The pope uses the title "Pontifex Maximus" which was one held by Ceasar. Emperors (like the Holy Roman Emperor and the Zar) claimed to be the legitimate emperor of Rome. The Enlightenment thinkers were also heavily inspired by Rome and Greece, although preferred republican Rome to the time of the emperors.

The reason we know so much about Rome and Greece is that we have a lot of written material - histories, literature, poetry, letters, laws etc. Archeology is a relatively new science, while history (the study of written accounts) have existed since antiquity.

History is not just a question of what happened, but also about the effect of what happened. For example the Egyptian or Sumerian literature and philosophy might be just as magnificent as the Roman, but since those languages were lost it simply did not have the same effect on subsequent culture as Rome had.
The oldest actual automata mentioned in the article is explored (including mechanics and a demonstration) in this YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBlusUD3Kg

Note that Hero is credited, and the date is 10-70 AD, but Hero's contribution was to posit the mechanism by which the theatre worked, which was first described by Philon of Byzantium in the late third century BC! [Source: My thesis, submission deadline 28 September 2018 ;)]
Also the existence of nuclear weapons could be a force towards world peace, because they force the powers to behave more peacefully, because wars have become to expensive.
Depending on your definition of "hotspot", most of them can. Provided the phone has bluetooth, you can address it from your laptop as a data-modem through pppd.

The cons are the setup, which may or may no be canceled out by the geek-cred from having AT modem commands whiz by.

The pro is the usually longer battery life of a dumb phone which means you can be fully online, anywhere, for the duration of your laptop battery.
I have the Nokia 216 (which you can - or could six months ago - buy in the UK in Tesco for about £25) and it also suffers from the same limited text storage capacity: I think it's probably the most annoying thing about it, since it's clearly so unnecessary (unless it tries to store the messages on the SIM and that only has limited space? Not sure...). Otherwise I would moderately earnestly recommend this phone - it does everything you would want of a mobile phone in the late '90s, plus the BBC News web site works quite well in the browser!
> suppressing the birth rate

And the birth rate will go up if men are forbidden to work for half a year when having a child? That seems highly doubtful, it might as well go further down because some people actually like their work.
I agree that those sorts of cases are very hard to deal with. However, I think the "fake news" the MPs are trying to combat is actually really trivial stuff that pretty much nobody on HN would pay attention to. Stuff like: "Yoko Ono: ‘I Had An Affair with Hillary Clinton in the ’70s’". Just absolute nonsense where anyone with a modicum of critical thinking would realize that such a story would be on multiple news sites. I think it's possible to at least eradicate basic fake news like that with education.

We can try our best to teach kids statistics and how to analyze them, but I agree that is a very hard problem as many people are just mathematically illiterate in general anyway.
Hmm.. but isn't a JITted emulator on a modern PC actually much faster nowadays? Just asking.
Adoption is one thing. Paternity fraud is another. Many men do not want to raise children that are not biologically theirs. The current system in France (and in many US states) forces men to raise or pay child support for children that are not biologically theirs. In some cases this even prevents men from being able to have or raise properly children of their own.
> Then the only way to reconcile it is to have the government pay.

Sure, and ideally through an additional corporate tax based on overall wage cost for a business. Seems like a daft expense not to mutualise against at a national level, rather than what is today essentially a corporate lottery.
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> HPC means an aggregation of computing resources to deliver orders of magnitude of higher performance than one could get from a single workstation.

> the post I was reacting to was claiming that it cannot be 'real HPC' without high-speed interconnects

That was me, and that's still my point. The perception of users that have the embarassingly parallel workload isn't particularly meaningful. We already had the pretty generic terms "grid computing", "distributed computing" and "cluster".

What's the point of nomenclature like "HPC" if it describes something that's indistinguishable from that single workstation merely multiplied by some large number, somehow attached over the Internet?

If it's not "real HPC", then what is a better term of art to describe the sort of computing that can deliver high performance to workloads that include ones that are not embarrassingly parallel?
On the sliding scale of law regimes that try to regulate human labor, going from a universal declaration of labor rights all the way down to chattel slavery, this is rather progressive for that part of the world.

Naturally no one in European or Anglophone countries would countenance such a thing, but in Asia this can provide women with a means of self-determination that they didn't have before.

I remember reading a book about Britain's service class from the Edwardian era until the end of that culture after WW2. Service class culture replaced something far far worse. And the ugly labor regimes that replaced those were better than the service class. If you had an issue with the way one particular factory treated you, well, there was another one right down the road. If you had an issue with the way your masters treated you, your options for finding better employment were far more restricted. This dynamic caused women to leave the service industry in droves to go work in factories.

The classist society in Britain had been fighting a rearguard action to maintain the service legal regime for decades, until WW2 thoroughly annihilated any chance of it ever coming back.

Nowadays any time I hear about some crazy contract law, I immediately think about what human agency is being liberated here.

Amazon link for the interested: https://www.amazon.com/Servants-Downstairs-History-Britain-N...
I think there’s a misunderstanding here. He’s talking about modification of the Mac between Apple and the customer. I thought you were saying it’s pre-encrypted, my fault for misunderstanding.
"It's the logic of state developing over time. In classical logic a statement can only be true since negative eternity and it will be true until eternity."

You can fully encode change of state against time with classical logic, it is a fundamental underpinning of solvers for digital synthesis (specifically the extension of SAT solvers to timing analysis).

It's been used, in production, for decades now.

Are you sure this works the way you think it does? I might be wrong but I'm getting a very low signal to noise ratio vibe from your comment.
This is a terrible article and the results don’t mean what this will be twisted into - it’s not asking whether there are any adverse effects of trigger warnings, only whether people think there are. People think a lot of things that are incorrect.
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Extracurriculars have been moved away from in the UK because you're basically discriminating on class. I went to a uni much like the one you describe, Imperial College London. It has it's problems but I wouldn't have traded all the engineers and scientists for lit students. Pretty sure we produce our share of investment bankers. A uni discriminating on extracurriculars and perceived sociability is insane. We're supposed to be building a meritocracy not constructing weird model societies based on your own preconceptions of what that would look like.
You are basically describing the study of economics.
What does that have to do with anything? AIUI they have compiled their own distro (which is not Ubuntu). It leaves the rest of us with the problem of how (or even if) we support this chip. Do we offer two versions of Fedora, with twice the storage, twice the build time, and toolchain changes to support these two architectures? Or do we compile Fedora without RVC, impacting performance on chips which do support RVC? This is an unfortunate (but long-predicted) side-effect of not making RVC mandatory for Unix-like RISC-V systems.
> Where does that happen?

In Spain. Also, it is still an objectively worse proposition for companies to hire women who are expected to have children soon than to hire other people. For several reasons (in Spain's current situation):

1) Even if you don't pay the employee's salary while on maternity leave, you still have to find a replacement and train them.

2) Paternity leave is shorter than maternity leave. And it can be transferred, something many couples do (usually in the paternity -> maternity direction). This translates to longer absence periods, and "rustier" comebacks after that.

3) In our society, mothers still carry a larger fraction of the burden of having children. That is, even after maternity leave is over, schools call the mother first if their child is ill, or gets injured, or whatever. Women are more prone to ask for flexible or reduced hours, etc. These are all inconveniences for the employer (w.r.t. employees in other situations).

I'm not saying I like it this way and I don't claim to have a workable solution, just describing reality...
Hi, thanks for reply.

I see your point ; I think there is actual and genuine interest in privacy and decentralization from what I see within my friends circle, but I may be biased because I'm active around ssb myself (and my friends may very well be interested in this because ... I'm interested in it). Time will tell :)

Regarding incentive for legal reasons, there's an other possible one that may happen (mentioning it for exhaustivity). Yesterday, I was reading an article about how an extreme-right candidate was favorite in brasilian elections. I was thinking : "oh look, an other fascist about to seize power". It feels like it's been a recurring theme this decade. And this is terrifying : could you imagine what the gestapo would have been with access to facebook data?

It doesn't even need the entire world to go mad before the incentive for privacy becomes very strong, 10 or 20 countries with strong engineers would be enough to kickstart it.
This is what happens in Norway to some extent. You are given 12 months parental leave to share between the couple. The mother has to take 6 months. The father 3. The remaining 3 are decided by the couple.

That's oversimplified as there more options and scenarios but the fairly common situation. Like you say it takes away women being seen as such a liability from becoming mothers from what I saw in my little bubble while living there for a few years. Also as fathers have all this time off it encourages the mother back to the workforce. And for me it really helped in my day to day baby duties involvement.

I've brought this up many times to people pushing for better women's rights in the workforce as something they should fight for if they do want a more equal workplace vs more an egocentric position of leave/benefits for themself.
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For hard drugs you may be correct, however there is a booming online pharmaceutical black market where BTC reigns king.
There are cultural differences here, specifically those that involve what the concept of "liberty" means in practice. Americans tend to focus on freedom "to", which is exactly what you're talking about here: employees should be free to choose whether or not they take maternity/paternity. Europeans tend to focus on freedom "from", i.e. employees should be from from worrying about whether the decision to take maternity/paternity will hold them back or not.

You can frame it the way you have if you want to, but to some cultures, having the government tell people what they can and can't do is the only way to ensure true liberty for all.
So out of curiosity, what would be some optimal sets of characteristics for being admitted to top Ivies?

Are they largely looking for people with ‘change-the-world’, ‘make-a-big-impact’ potentials and great academic records (with the former being the more important criterion)? Or something else?

I expect these criteria can be described in words and it is not only learned through apprenticeship as supposedly there are tens or hundreds of officers doing the filtering.
> Where does that happen?

In Poland for example. National Social Insurance pays you 80% of your salary for up to half a year of maternity/paternity leave. Additionally mothers often abuse the system and ask a doctor to say their pregnancy is threathened, so they are on a sick leave for months before birth.

It doesn't directly incur additional costs for the employer, but it's still making 20-35 y.o. women with less than 2 children slightly less attractive on the marketplace because training an employee just to have her disappear for a year or 2 is a big overhead.

Of course - employers can't officially discriminate basing on age/gender/number of children, but you can't prove they do, so whatever.
Coming from a European perspective as well, I do understand the idea behind Harvard's admission process.

They want to mold a group of people that are coming from the money, brain, physical and societal elite. It is not a school, it is an elite network generating institution.

The academic aspect is their legitimacy generating element. If you take this viewpoint, everything they do makes sense.
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super interesting topic. I'm currently also looking more and more into how UNIX and the network layers manage complexity in abstract terms. Would've loved if the article would've been a bit more specific in terms of what takeaways from the conference might be of interest for software.
Agreed. I don't know exactly between what poles this valley is, but I know this is the uncanny area of it.
It's really not a meme that the tools suck. They still suck. They suck a lot less than they used to but they still suck. The latest version of Vivado still doesn't properly support basic constructs of systemverilog [1]. That doesn't fly in the world of software engineers.

The compile times are still in the order of hours, and there's no guarantee that you won't get to the end of your compile and find out either it didn't work, or it did something that you couldn't possibly have meant to happen. You don't know what went wrong because you've got a 27MB log file 97% of which is 'WARNING's.

[1]:https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/55135.html
You assume much too positively that human beings are rational.

> which can only be bought from some previous owner(s)?

This assumes that there are previous owners are willing to sell. Also, not all shares are created equal. For example, most stock setups (see FB) are setup so that no matter how much stock is lost or diluted by the original owners, they'll still have majority voting rights. You can probably imagine how tricky this starts to get knowing just those two things.
The solution to these problems IMO is to make maternity leave protected strongly by law, and make paternity leave exactly equivalent. Make no distinction by gender when it comes to maternity and paternity leave.

Obviously there's the associated job of changing perceptions around taking the leave, which will vary from country to country, but by making the risks associated by hiring a man no different from those associated by hiring a woman you move towards eliminating this gender imbalance.

As an additional benefit, both parents are more likely to have time to bond with their newborn or newly adopted child and share the burden of early parenting.
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From my understanding, US transactions can take a week if you're unlike and the banks need to shovel around a bit.

And tbh, the banking situation in the US is just amazingly bad. Horrifyingly bad if I believe the more out-there stories I hear from people.

The only time I got charged a fee was for a transaction into the US (the fee was currency exchange fee and nothing else). And the fee was seperate so the transaction amount was unchanged.

Yet in the US it seems possible that banks will take a piece of a transaction for themselves.

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There has been big debates about this in Norway for as long as I can remember. One of the arguments for the "father's quota" is that when fathers were not "forced" to take at least some parental leave, there was an implied policy many places that as a father you left all the parental leave for the mother, with all the inequality that follows. Personally I am very pro the father's quota, as no employer can now (implicitly) force me to not take it.
And not all historical non-paternity is due to marital infidelity -- it was very common for unwed young parents to have their children raised by their parents as a younger sibling.

A couple raising their daughter's son as their own is Y-chromosome non-paternity despite being a direct descendant.
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That's why some places force the father to have parental leave as well. They're normally allowed to swap 1-2 months among them max.
Why did they choose to not have RVC? Also, what happens if one of these groups working on RISC-V decides they need to add a couple of more instructions in there? Is there a group that you can send your patches for the review like Linux kernel? I do not understand the compatibility of the risc-v cpus!
>We tend to forget, hardcore gamers makeup a large audience of the whole industry.

This isn't really the case.
Especially if you talk about pure revenue.

Hardcore gamers love overestimating their relevance.

You talk about keyboard and mouse. That's an even smaller segment compared to mobile. Or even console.

Motion contrails have stuck around in mobile, for example steering cars.

And there's are room scale VR experiences like that Starwars one.

https://www.thevoid.com/dimensions/starwars/secretsoftheempi...

There's even Mario kart VR:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/17/16487714/mario-kart-vr-a...
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I’m not American. I just hear the term bandied about a lot (including by my equally-foreign, US-college educated fiancée, who has regaled me with several horror stories relating to young women on her campus).
This was changed to a 15/15 week split this summer I believe (with the remainder still split as the couple sees fit).
I've been considering going back to having a desktop on my desk and carrying a lightweight laptop; versus using a desktop-replacement at both my desk and on the move.

I was considering a 5K iMac (and I may still go for one; it's still a great 5K display with a decent computer thrown in) but I'll admit, the Hackintosh route intrigues me.

I remember in my last few years of Highschool I had an original EeePC running Lion: worked great, until the SD card decided it didn't like being thrashed and went a bit melty on me.

Roughly what did your setup cost, and how much of a pain is it to maintain?
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One of the most intriguing projects involving blockchain I’ve noticed is e-Estonia which I would file under useful, however it may not qualify as solely a blockchain-based product. Here the reasoning for incorporating the (KSI) blockchain is to prevent tampering.

Citizens have access to a number of digital services that includes but aren’t limited to voting, banking, and healthcare.

They've reported;
“Since 2014, more than 27,000 people from 143 different countries have been granted Estonian e-residency”.

I find this example to be exciting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Estonia

https://e-estonia.com/

https://estonia.ee/enter

> A lot of the grand visions behind blockchain mania are indeed compelling, and I suspect something blockchain-ish will take off at some point in the future.

Totally agree. Recently had a discussion with a friend regarding what we felt would be an ideal approach to implementing blockchain and email. Essentially and selfishly how we needed it to behave.

Naturally upon doing a little bit of research lo and behold this endeavor had already been taken up. Exciting I found myself thinking, That’s pretty cool my friend agreed. Fast forward and read past a few more paragraphs and again lo and behold this project is an ICO and with this token you can send emails and blah blah blah.

Very disheartening (at least for me personally) to say the least. Not to say a project like this will fail, just saying that it seems the imagination for blockchain products as of now seems to be limited to just ICO’s.
In any case, getting raped isn't a breach of fidelity.