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Umm, the Indian Supreme Court legally recognized the "third gender"; quoting from the article [1]:

"When the Indian Supreme Court acknowledged that gender is a non-binary form of identity that goes beyond male and female, the victory came as a nice surprise to many."

[2]:

"India's Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling that may offer gay people a glimmer of hope. It is the right of every human being to choose their gender," the court said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female. The court ordered the government to provide transgender people with quotas in jobs and education in line with other minorities, as well as key amenities."

There are many issues that need to be fixed in India. But there are also many areas where India is far far more progressive than the US, at the very least.

And this change has been accompanied by a social movement; should be faster, but change is happening.

[1]https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-history-of-indias-t...

[2]https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/16/india-transgende...
Then again for a robot, living in silicon valley is a perfect fit... they only need a cupboard, no bathroom or working kitchen.
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Disappointed to not see any philosophy of science subjects in here, whilst it is really the cornerstone of “thinking about AI”. Yes ethics is highly relevant, but I think it is more important for AI / ML practitioners to be able to reason about the foundations, methodology, and limitations of AI from the perspective of human knowing, what constitutes intelligence, scientific reductionism etc. I suppose US schools are more focused on the first order skills (how to do it) instead of second order (what and why).
There are huge philosophical implications of the rise of AI outside of “just ethics”, which we don’t teach students enough. Knowledge vs information vs data, auto- vs allopoiesis, the structure of scientific revolutions, different forms of consciousness etc. In short, programmers and data scientists need to spend more time thinking about thinking when they are at school!
Ctrl-Shift-Enter opens a new "window" -- this is the terminology in the Kitty docs; it's a new terminal within the same frame, both being visible at the same time.

Ctrl-Shift-L goes through all enabled layouts. A layout specifies how the "windows" are arranged. Simple splits are available among others. I like the stacked layout: window 1 fills the full height on the left half of the screen, all other windows are stacked on the right half.

There does not seem to be a way to control the borders within the layout with the mouse; e.g. temporarily resize window 1 in the example above to be 80% of the width. That's something I sometimes miss. It's configurable, of course, but not ad hoc.
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Legalised is more or less correct in this case. Decriminialising something means it could still be illegal, as a civil offense.

Importantly, like the US, UK and Australia, India is a "Common Law" nation. That means court rulings set binding legal precedents which can only be overruled by higher courts or actual legislation introduced later. In short: A judgement becomes law.

This is opposed to "Civil Law" societies (most of the rest) where court rulings do not set legal precedent, and might only be "persuasive" to other judges in other cases. Plenty of exceptions depending on the country, which court, etc. but that's a general overview.

Perhaps for people from Civil Law countries it would be odd to hear that a court has legalised something.
Wouldn't that depend entirely if the law was only in criminal law? If so, decriminalize would remove all of the illegality?
Because they're paying top dollar to some of the brightest people in security right now?
Because they're a high value target that uses their own products in their fleet?
Because they've shown that they care about security and were willing to step up their game to achieve it?
Because they routinely share their expertise in form of either open source contributions or scientific papers?
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> Many of the largest companies in the world started in markets so small they looked like toys. Over time, each of these companies grew their markets or created new ones to dominate.

A typical VC (elevator pitch or pitch deck) asks for the Total Addressable Market number, leaving no space for "in the future..."
This is exactly the reason why in the standardized versions of PDF, PDF/A and the like, Javascript is banned.
Or make your procrastination time really worthwhile. I force myself to do chores or other work when I'm procrastinating about a particular task. This also means I'll have more time later.

It's also important long term to train yourself to not procrastinate. The trick I use is to immediately work on something when I recognize procrastination. For me, it was always getting started that was hard. When I fail at this, I do the chores above.

Another trick is getting up early. Did I get up at 5am to read HN, or did I get up at 5am to workout and get some solid work time on my side project?
Another article that centers not around the person, but TempleOS: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp...
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It's like every second post on AI/ML tries to convince everyone how difficult it is and how you need 16 years and 3 PhD's to even approach the level of mastery that they have of this subject.

While may or may not be true - definitely not helpful for a student aspiring to learn this stuff.
This can't be new, is it? I graduated with a BSc in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto almost 30 years ago. I still have my varsity jacket with an "AI" shoulder patch.
I would assume the characters themselves are copyrighted.
> Assuming that at some point we will stop writing code and machines will generate programs for us instead, then we need abstractions that make this possible: a way to describe the purpose of a program that is precise enough to generate code satisfying the purpose

The industry-standard term for a specification precise enough to enable building a program from it is "code"
Is that notation really in use? It looks very, very strange.
I'm assuming it won't take more than a couple decades for someone to invent a way to fix the specific gene and do that in reproductive cells. With IVF and embryo selection, the undesired trait can be selected against. In Brazil (I lived there) you are allowed to search for genetic traits in embryos and select the ones for implantation based on that. The only trait doctors are forbidden to disclose is sex.
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Is anyone actually taking this serious? As if all other countries are any better.

Uh, German data protection laws, yadda yadda - they didn't stop the police from raiding several activist non profit organizations a couple of months ago, with no repercussions.

The "US jurisdiction"-line is just tiresome and weak. Show me the country that guards user data that isn't part of 5 eyes and where attempts of the state to gain access to said data is actually penalized.
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As another user of iTerm2, I am currently using several keyboard mappings from key to key (like Tab being interpreted as Esc), do you know whether Kitty supports that? As far as I can see in the docs, only examples of key to action are shown.
Yes! wtf is it with this these days? double quotes in google search used to have meaning... now you just get spammed with completely irrelevant crap and only a few instances of results with that word hidden after the first 20. It's like they are trying to hide from you that there are only a few _real_ hits.
Please suggest better methods then.
Holding US states to higher standards than foreign countries surely is hypocritical.
> He's telling the OP to go and read up on various books with the implication that they haven't read anything on the topic.

It is possible that OP hasn't read a sufficient amount of books, or read the wrong books, or misunderstood parts of the books he read.

The implication you are taking offense to (OP hasn't read books) does not follow from that.
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Same here as well. And I've been finding DDG to even given better results increasingly often, at least on the sample of searches that I've used multiple engines for.

The one thing I really miss is insta-results for things like 'population of USA'. On the other hand, I think Google was going a bit too far with that and started giving insta-results that at times were subjective, or even simply wrong.
A big Indian conglomerate, Reliance, recently launched a service called 'Jio' that basically disrupted the entire mobile internet landscape.

Broadband access has improved drastically as well in the last one year. I've gone from paying $40/month for a 16mbps connection with a data cap of 80GB to $12/month for a 50mbps connection with no data cap.

It's come to a point where I don't think at all about data usage or my phone bill.

Which is why I say that AMP is a solution in the wrong direction. If India can make data so cheap, it's only a matter of time before other markets follow suit. AMP is a solution to a dying problem, not an emerging one.
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I look forward to the next National Geographic article in this series where they document in detail how American Jews came to run a substantial proportion of U.S. media!

edit: I need to put this more judiciously :) run => exercise control over
The modern definition of "LGBT" is, for the most part, a cultural construct. Behavior we in the west would consider "homosexual" today, including the act of sex between persons of the same gender, was considered perfectly normal between "heterosexual" people in certain contexts and pre-Christian cultures. It wasn't that long ago that men kissing one another on the lips was a common practice of platonic affection.

If you look beyond the rather limited filter of "western liberal cultural change" you'll see that, while yes politics and societies shift over time, acceptance of same-sex relationships has been the norm in many cultures more often than your comment might suggest.
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Of course, the blame is on marketers using Facebok to manipulate elections. The programmers who make Facebook's entire marketing platform possible are completely blameless in this, aren't they?

I really expect more nuanced comments than this on HN.
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They're not really. They just don't care enough about the privacy of all the people that don't matter to them. It's still troubling, because there is every reason to expect that people that have done nothing wrong will have someone poke around in their data for the wrong reasons, but I don't have a problem understanding why people are prepared to disregard them - most people will be noise to the NSA. Meanwhile most people are potential revenue to a marketer.
Isn't the original purpose of society to control access to sex?
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The whole ROS ecosystem is huge, most of research platform robots are ROS enabled.
Check the PR2 (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/PR2), Turtlebot (https://www.turtlebot.com/), the Nao series (http://wiki.ros.org/nao), even Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot (http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=drcsim_atlas_siminterface...) or Nasa's Robonaut (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/Robonaut2).

It facilitates work by not having to rewrite a bunch of code every time.
Also, most robotic related libraries like OMP, or TF are supported.
Could be even faster with modern tech like HTTP2, HTTP2/PUSH, gzip, brotli and all that while looking much nicer with some basic CSS. Some additional speed could probably be squeezed out with something like anycast DNS.
I think OP is joking about the taboo against sex and focus on marriage in Indian society.
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This is a different "kitty". Anyone has a kitty.conf with solarized colorscheme?
I believe it's only supported if the font has a defined italic version, and it's unable to generate italic from a regular face.
I knew the headline was coming. Just waiting for the day they start charging for using AMP.
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The most impressive thing about Roomba is its physical durability. My Roomba must have traveled many many miles over the past 5 years and it looks battered like WALL-E. I have replaced all the peripherals over the time but the gear goes strong and my Roomba still does a great job.
IRS? So, morally kind of like the guy who computerized dissident tracking in USSR.
it is painfully expensive, especially housing costs, the average 1 bed flat is as much to rent as a 2 bed house around here, there isnt an affordable living option for single people that doesnt involve living in a shared house with an ever changing array of random strangers living with you and in many cases you dont even save that much by making the sacrifice of your own bathroom and kitchen.

why someone doesnt convert some of the huge number of large empty buildings into small, affordable 1 bed accommodation for single people? im sure if it were more affordable we wouldnt be seeing the ever increasing number of homeless people about.

when a large percentage of your income is spent on basic living costs it can take only a small financial hit to see you totally stuck, many people, especially those on minimum wage struggle to feed themselves properly let alone save money for a rainy day.

its already a huge problem and there is little sign that the situation will improve, if anything it only stands to get worse as buy to let landlords sell up and the remaining properties get increasingly expensive to rent. of course its actually much cheaper to pay a mortgage on house than it is to rent one, but those who are renting arent doing it out of choice, they do it because they cant afford to save a huge deposit and likely dont have the credit rating required to be considered for a mortgage in the first place despite the fact that they already manage to pay much more every month in rent
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It sounds like you need a different grade of Roomba, one that avoids really nasty things and can gracefully fall all the way down stairs to go from the top to the bottom of the house.

A fair amount of machine learning is needed if a Roomba is able to do things like identify 'nuggets' left by pets, 'cat sick', mystery yellow liquids, slugs by patio doors and beheaded shrews. We as humans have no problems identifying such horrors so long as the lights are on, but for a Roomba things are not so easy.

A version of a Roomba needs to positively look for such unsavouries and report back via the app that the house is clear. This is not that far off what the other iRobot robots do - the military ones - so hang in there, one day there will be a Roomba for you.
> The only thing I can reliably trust google is that when I type a search query, results will be meaningful

Even this is getting less reliable, image search at least.

Reverse image search (from what I can gather from using it) used to try and match the image to existing images it knew, then tried to tell you where it came from and what it was based on data it gathered from the page it came from.

Today it appears to use a machine learning to decide what the image is, then show similar images of the same object with the same visual appearance.

The difference to the end user is before if you searched using a still of a film it would almost always successfully identify it and provide links related to the film and the location of the still in particular.

Today if you do the same then Google will identify the picture has a woman in it using ML and return a search for the word "woman" with just random stock photos of women in similar images then the search listings will just be links to Pintrest boards containing the searched image.
I use !gvb on duckduckgo to search on google with verbatim turned on. It's the only way to make it work more-or-less properly for me.
I think most of the, informed, praise is for the fact that he did it rather than than for what he did, if that makes sense. As a solo effort it's impressive and made more so because of his illness.

Having said that, I think the two main areas that I've seen praised are the "coding the image" approach he took which has its predecessors in Lisp machines and Smalltalk. Also the pervasive hypertext and embedded media.

Of course, those things aren't especially original and it's not obvious to me that he took them in directions that are especially novel.

On a purely speculative level, what might catch on (though I give it a very small probability) is that TempleOS is a deliberately un-networked OS that gives complete control to the user. It's not inconceivable that, as paranoia becomes the sensible default, more folk will decide that that's a good place to be. I doubt it but you never know.
How can any human come up with the idea of hunting creatures that are 200 years old? Where do we get this sense of superiority?
In my experience CloudFlare has too many false positives outside of US/EU networks. I often cannot access websites that are behind CluodFlare. It would be a really sad day if they became a gateway to 50% of web traffic.
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I'm pretty sure that this is not an example of irony. There's no unexpected or ambiguous element in the British covering news in India, as they have had an interest in the subcontinent since 1600.
To get ROS and a few more robot related software tools and libraries as nice binary packages robotpkg might also be of interest: http://robotpkg.openrobots.org
Criminal law is not a neat container. A crime is simply anything which is defined as being a criminal act within a given piece of legislation.

You can "decriminalise" something either by eliminating the entire piece of legislation, or by amending it to remove the criminal act within it. In the case of the latter, that leaves open the option of replacing it with other words that might indicate civil penalties. If that happens, that is still decriminalisation, and would be distinct from legalisation.
Definitely not something I've seen.

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are all things I've seen as standard
> dynamic loading and runtime modification of code, which modern systems rely on quite a lot under the hood

Can you provide any example? I can't think of any and it sounds very interesting since you seem to be implying that it's common. I assume that "dynamic loading" means something more sophisticated than loading a dynamic library at run-time?
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It's a huge ecosystem of components, but from what I understand it's pretty ubiquitous in the research robotics and commercial space.

My startup is using it to power an autonomous customer service robot. ROS modules handle things like pose calculations, trajectory planning, collision avoidance, and basically all other interaction between software and hardware. From my perspective as a developer on the user-facing software, it's basically a simple event bus and RPC framework that has a load of prebuilt datatypes and modules for handling common robotics tasks.

Caveats – a lot of modules seem to follow pretty sketchy coding practices compared to what I'm used to in other industries. It seems to be a bit of a paragon of bad design. There also seems to be a lot of version confusion – lots of packages seem to support different subsets of versions, with most of the community possibly on older releases. There's an ongoing ROS 2.0 effort that I think uses MQTT as the transport. But I'm not a ROS expert, so take the above with a grain of salt!
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I included links to past popularity ratings. That article makes it clear that Trump has been unusually unpopular from his inaguration.

> The average is 42.98% approval.

I don't think your polling model actually means anything. As the RCP data makes clear there's an enormous spread to those polls. What do you think that average represents?

> Obama's rating for this quarter, at least according to Gallup was 45.

Why do you only consider Gallup's poll for Obama at this time. Why not consider averages? Isn't that your model?

You seem to be trying very hard to suggest that Trump and Obama have "basically the same" popularity at this time but it doesn't make any sense. Trump's approval rating never rises above 45% for his second term but Obama's approval rating almost never falls below 45%. It's quite a stretch to suggest their popularity is comparable.

[1] https://qz.com/889644/obamas-approval-rating-from-his-first-...
I would really like to see a Java program beating a C program in this use case. Say, outperforming it (or even matching to same order of magnitude) on DCT/IDCT even by using SSE2 vs SSE/MMX. Can only say am immensely sceptical.

Another thing is these kind of gains with instruction level efficiencies are exceedingly rare and your typical VM program never runs any code where SIMD extensions would make a difference.
How can a single guy computerize the whole IRS?

It probably just "happened" while he was its head. It would have happened anyway. Because progress.
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