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> That is...not the critique I believe anyone is making when they call the singularity the "geek rapture."

I think you read the article correctly, and that this is precisely the critique being made. The way I seen it used is, "this quacks like religion, so it is religion, therefore it's all bullshit".

The arguments about the nature of Singularity and possible time frames are made from applying logical reasoning to extrapolate from observable facts. The reasoning can, and absolutely should be criticized on the object level. But just dismissing it because it sounds sorta, kinda similar to some religion shouldn't be considered valid criticism. It's a thought-terminating cliché.

> I believe the phrase is used to critique the singularity for the way it is used to hand-wave away a huge set of problems.

Such uses of the concept should definitely be shot down. But it's not something I see popping up frequently among people discussing the concept seriously.
I'd love to see a Joe Rogan interview with him.
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A lot of that could be solved by just only allowing one account per person (no corporate/organizational at all) and requiring your real name, with any trangressions handled through the usual mob rule chaos. Nothing says this has to be a platform for healthy discorse, it just needs to hold well enough to announce block parties and post pictures of your dog
Is PyPy not high quality?
Hobson's choices are not meaningfully consensual in the first place; the sarcasm used reflects this.
I get that you're expressing a personal opinion, but in this form it's just vacuous snark and doesn't belong on this site. Maybe you could rephrase so that we might stand to learn something?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is some speculation that dogs use their sense of smell to determine the passage of time. The theory is that when an owner's scent diminishes to a certain point they know that the owner will soon be back. Dogs that normally wait at the door or at a window can be tricked by the reintroduction of the owner's smell and will fail to get ready for the event.
Nobody said anything about quotas except you. The GP said they were working on sourcing their candidates differently.
Given recent reports, and just a feel for general attitudes, I feel that we've gone from "we should do something" to "whelp, looks like it's going to get a little rough", especially at the governmental level. As TFA points out, there's not much we can do at an individual level that will make a whole lot of difference (no, your Tesla isn't going to save the polar bears, and neither is my Leaf). Vote? Eh, maybe. If the recent IPCC report is anywhere near the truth, what chance does a politician stand if they promise to do what's needed? A snowball's chance in...well, Fairbanks in about thirty years.

So on the one hand, I've been trying to do without driving when I can (not as much as I should), avoid flying, recycle my shit even back when I had to pay for the privilege, all the hippy stuff I'm supposed to do to "preserve Mother Earth". But to what end? Looks like I'm getting the losing end of this game theory/prisoner's dilemma experiment. I'm old (gettin' there, anyway), and we don't have kids. Won't be my problem, or the problem of anyone I care about. So the other side of me wants to say, "fuck it", turn the heat up, and quit worrying so much about the environmental impact of our RV.
This is a good interview on the subject you mention http://www.econtalk.org/bent-flyvbjerg-on-megaprojects/
There is no way of not leaving DNA samples on a crime scene.

Humans lose tiny particles of skin, hairs all the time.

I can see how this powerful technology can make 99.99% murder clearance rate reality, changing the world for better.
Is Saudi money becoming radioactive?
It seems like there should be biological parent-offspring "escrow" such that there's no hard feelings or unwelcome awkwardness.
Is intolerance towards minorities contagious?
Yeah ok, I don't have anything to point to which refutes that.

An analysis of the breakdown of the contributors to the Australian housing bubble in 2018 would be cool to see, though. Probably some kind of even split between significant foreign investment in property, negative tax gearing, zoning laws, transport infrastructure issues and a one-off $900 payment that went to middle and low-income earners a decade ago.

Damned trickle-up economics.
Good luck maintaining a fleet of this junk. Want to get your data from a non booting machine? Gotta break the screen! Batteries can't be replaced with breaking the screen either. Defiantly not a "business class" machine you can swap parts to keep your fleet going... Try fumbling around with one for more than an hour, garbage!
> that would be Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat

or "amateurs", as the post would call them.
Perhaps you mean world's most reliable currently active launch vehicle? At your link, I see the retired Atlas 2/2AS also had a perfect record, with more attempts (63 successes of 63 attempts).
It’s hard not to read your response as implying that no one should ever complain about anything unless it catches them off guard, or that no one should ever challenge the status quo.
That's why I said it should be optional. A lot of people wouldn't want this. Some would. I definitely would.

For me the potential delay in the event of a lost/stolen/upgraded device is well worth it when the flip side is the potential nightmare resulting from the damage done if the person gets into an important account.

It seems to me like requiring some secondary form of authentication can always be bypassed at the discretion of the agent helping you because there will always be a possibility that the customer lost/can't remember the secondary key or ID.

Although, now that I think about it… UPS does something interesting to verify your account. They ask you to input a unique set of numbers that appear on your last invoice to link your account and verify your ID. Not foolproof by any means, but it's enforced for every authentication by design. Definitely more secure than the current PIN.
Canned air upside down works reasonably well and is easier to handle
Informal formal, mostly. But sometimes semi-formal for events.
> (and getting worse in some important areas of employee happiness)

Would you mind elaborating?
Judging from how hard it can be to sleep during a full moon while camping, I'd say the reason humans aren't generally affected by it is because they sleep underneath opaque shelters that block direct light.
> California prohibits non-compete clauses in their contracts and nullifies the enforceability of non-competes from other states for workers who take jobs in California.

There are silicon swamps, silicon deserts, silicon mountain, Route 1, and so on. And then there's SV. IMO non-compete unenforceability is the valley's secret sauce.
> Why would it be public domain?

Copyright is supposed to protect creative works. There is such a thing as a threshold of originality. There are database rights, but that is separate from copyright.
I think the distinction between async and sync messaging is really critical here and highlights a different form of communication that folks are incorrectly using Slack to solve.

When I was at Facebook, this type of communication was extremely abundant and took place on Workplace. When you are pushed information, there is some expectation to respond (as highlighted by the author). However, Workplace's opt-in type of communication via feed didn't have this problem. And interestingly isn't really prevalent outside forums and groups (which I don't think are used commonly at companies).

I think splitting out that kind of behavior was beneficial, it wasn't email (which is a push that people ignore), but rather a subscribe where there was no stigma to be late, and people could take their own time to catch up on posts.
> It's a contemporary euphemism for "trickle down"

Really? Trickle down proponents have co-opted the rising tide aphorism? Ugh.
You did this again. "Einstein field equation which describes space-time curvature" is mathematics. Formulas are correct, and they will stay correct long time after GR will be abandoned. You just need to do one more step: translate mathematics back into physics. Lets me quote very beginning of book about Quantum(Integer) Mechanics:

Chapter 2

The Formulation of Quantum Mechanics

2.1

Basic Theoretical Concepts

Every physical theory involves some basic physical concepts, a mathematical formalism, and set of correspondence rules which map the physical concepts onto the mathematical objects that represent them. The correspondence rules are first used to express a physical problem in mathematical terms. Once the mathematical version of the problem is formulated, it may be solved by purely mathematical techniques that need not have any physical interpretation. The formal solution is then translated back into the physical world by means of the correspondence rules.

I cannot measure space-time with ruler, not touch it, nor walk 10 seconds ago, nor curve it. It's just mathematical abstraction. When we translate space-time back into physics, we will have coordinates of points in 3D space and time points, which we can measure with ruler and clock.

Same for gravity waves. If we want to translate this back into physics, we will need to reinterpret results of Michelson experiment. He has two predictions: 1) ether is stationary, 2) ether is attached to planets and objects like atmosphere (see Master of Light book). He failed to find ether wind, thus theory of static ether was abandoned. But he also struggled to find any deviations of light travel time, so that led Einstein to think that c is constant, so he developed his GR theory. Michelson-Morley experiment was redone with precision of up to 1E-17 (distance to Alpha-Centaur is just 4E16m), which was good for GR. But then LIGO found that speed of light in vacuum is NOT constant. Thus, GR is not valid anymore. So we should return to theory of Ether, or you need carefully explain to me why you still think that c==constant and GR is valid.

I understand that you may be invested heavily into learning of mainstream theories, but every theory has limited life. If you think that I will change my mind if I will spend some more years on learning of SR and GR, then I should inform you that I think that formulas in these theories are mostly correct, but they lack interpretation, which lead to lack of intuition. I tested my theory on students and it's working well. I can explain what Ether, double slit experiment, atom, and many other things in short time. I hope, with intuition and formulas they will do much more than with just formulas.
That's not for your benefit, that's for them to verify you're a human / not a spammer / collect information (at least that seems like the most reasonable explanation to me).
30 billion a year for an economy the size of the EU is a rounding error.
Nobody is forcing anybody to do anything, but even compared to tech itself, the open source community tends to be less diverse. I think it's fairly clear that there is a large number of qualified people who are not adequately represented in the open source community at the moment. In order to not miss out on these people, we need to a) try to get more such people involved with the open source community through outreach, etc and b) once we get to that point in our hiring, make sure that our hiring funnel is not just restricted to the subset of the population that happens to already be active in the open source community. In my opinion, the key is just to have a sufficiently wide funnel at the top to avoid injecting bias at the top of the funnel.
They had that 10 years ago and called it "system restore", but they couldn't figure out how to actually...make it work.

Besides, msft makes money by selling SaaS. There's no financial incentive to protecting consumer data since the EULA indemnifies the company for any damages caused by their products.
> How is it contrived? Have you ever run into a natural situation where someone invited you to pay a negotiation game with strangers for a limited amount of time?

I run into these situations every day. Like the littering scenario mentioned in the article.

And this is a tiny version of real-life when dealing with pollution (which crosses national boundaries), climate change, and more.
I love that proverb, but look at the flip side, the nail that sticks out gets pulled out and discarded....

Unless it's a coat hook. The lesson I think is if you're going to stick out, be useful.
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Tips-from-Moderators/Pay...

It uses Verisign's VIP app instead of Google Authenticator (or Authy or whatever).
If someone posts trolls by you with political bait, please don't bite!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Automotive telemetry data in many countries is subject to multiple regulatory regimes, not the least of which is GDPR, related to use of this data and who is entitled to access it. Exclusion from copyright protection would appear to be at odds with these regulatory regimes. Entitlement to access usually includes the government and manufacturer.
This is super out of date. A lot has changed in our understanding of the livability of mars.
Corporate crooks. Fail.
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> 1. A language that has an optional GC and a borrow-checker is better than a language that only has a GC or borrow-checker.

Disagree. It is worse to have two worlds that are poorly integrated with one another. Dividing the ecosystem in two would be a terrible idea.

> If GNAT can do it, why can't the Rust team not do it?

Because Ada isn't Rust?

It's not that we can't do it. It's that typechecking complexity has a cost, and Rust is already operating at near maximum feasible typechecking complexity.

> 3. A language that has full support for OOP including inheritance and traits (or mixins) is better than a language that has less of these features.

No. Not every language needs to have every feature. Every feature has a cost. Not enough people are asking for inheritance to justify its cost at this time.
I've been programming with Python for over a decade. I mostly understand, but I do try to avoid when possible for maximum clarity. Expanding function variables is fine and clear enough, but multiple levels deep in a comprehension and it can get pretty thick to try and keep it all straight. This article is nice that it covers all the patterns I've seen.
That's just the first product - open-core.

We will be making more products in future, some OS, some paid. So yes, monetization is on the cards :) - but our first goal is to create real good value!
There are odd reported cases of people being chimeras and carrying two different genotypes in their bodies. But again, extremely unlikely - but I suspect we will find out more and more about the exceptions which break the expected rollup of model of locations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28genetics%29
If you have a gender imbalance of 27:0 that is not predicated on self-evident physiological differences, there's a cultural problem that artificially limits the pool of potential candidates. It is in a field's best interest to fix that.
What in particular are you asking about?

There's nothing to stop you from using JavaScript in the browser to do any number of things.
The problem is IMO that NOTHING is really fun if you are depressed (or sleep deprived, for that matter). Sure there is some reciprocity, mundane tasks make you even more depressed. But if you get depression under control, then you will either find a way out of those tasks, or learn to enjoy them.

I don’t think that shitty tasks themselves can cause depression; it’s all about the social context of the work you are doing. Is your boss bullying you, or telling you that you are not important to the organization, or does she try to punish your mistakes? Are you working just to support a study you are not really into, because you think you owe it to your parents? Is there another job you would like better, but you dare not change jobs because you are afraid you won’t earn enough to support yourself? That’s the way to get depressed about the tasks you are doing. Sort out the social context, and you might even realize afterwards that the tasks were not so mundane after all.
Sorry. I understand. I will refrain from doing so in the future.
A bit off-topic but the nagging and distracting on that website is insufferable. Firefox reader mode did a great job of cleaning it up and making it readable.
> just cannot be bothered dealing with "you're doing it wrong" comments when my fix isn't deemed worthy.

Please just post it. Ignore comments. Your fix will most likely prompt them to write their own fix for the same thing in the following weeks or months. They may not even mention you or use your single line of code in their branch but it's you that gave them ideas and belief that problem can be fixed.

If you want to get things done on the internet then post your almost right solution and look at all the people that rush to correct you.
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I'm pretty sure that's when the US Airforce launches the X-37b and claims ownership by repossession.
Exactly. 99% of workplace coms don't need to be synchronous. Slack assumes that they do. Thus you get tons of noise and chatter and the feeling that you have to check it all the time.

Hell, even the idea of a chat room isn't productive to getting "work" done at all IMO. If you aren't watching it every minute, you immediately lose all the context and knowledge. It's such a waste.
I was just making a joke, with a few layers :)

Part of that joke was that I probably got your gender wrong while summarizing, and I made it like I missed what you said about the “HN contents” because I skimmed too fast before I summarized in my own comment.

Kind of meta that the comments which we may look to, before reading the article, may themselves have skimmed it and missed the point!

To make the joke more obvious I also replied to my own comment!
Wow. The ticket numbers in that article were surprisingly high, but I still wouldn't have expected that natives could guess the highest-ticket zone in advance. State Street is hugely high-traffic, obviously, but if you asked me to predict the highest ticket block in my city I don't think I'd have a hope.

(Hmmm... now I want the answer. Time for a FOIA request of my own perhaps?)
So the fact that he's peddling basic fear mongering doesn't put you off in any way?
You need to be out in open and a very dark place, and with very clear skies, to really notice how bright the moonlight can be - in cities it's just not noticeable. Honestly it never affected my sleep since I was usually dead tired from whole day of hiking and I'm not very sensitive to lights anyways, but I remember on more than one occasion that some people in my group complained not being able to fall asleep or about sleeping bad in semi-transparent tents because of super-bright full Moon.
Consider that there are a significant number of people who don't know they have more relatives than the ones they know and love. If the information is public, it becomes an avenue for blackmailing.

Scams about relatives already happen without DNA [1].

Depending on what state in which you live your insurance coverage or cost might change too. [2]

There's also significant risk that your DNA will be sequenced in one jurisdiction but, because of The Cloud, it gets analyzed and stored in another jurisdiction. For example, the EU and US have very different privacy laws.

Some DNA analysis software employ stochastic algorithms. That means that the answer they provide can be different if run more than once, especially if run with different parameters (such as sample pool). [3] [4] Some customers know this and will ask for their data to be reanalyzed.

Some companies make the DNA available to be downloaded by the customer. That file can then be used for your own analysis or research. It could also be uploaded to other companies for different analyses or conclusions.

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that your grandmother, who uploaded her DNA to a foreign company for a new or different analysis, has given a foreign adversary private information about you and your potential medical hazards or secret relationships.

[1] https://www.khou.com/gallery/news/investigations/consumer/vi...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/04/4--risks-consumer-face-with-...

[3] http://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/impute/impute_v2.html

[4] http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/software/admixture/
Robin Hanson wrote about similar experiments in 2010: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/looking-too-good.html

As others here have suggested (e.g. jpfed, Tade0), it seems that extreme generosity can be regarded as establishing an undesirable behavior standard. The post suggests a workaround, if your productivity/generosity greatly exceeds others: under-report your output and give credit to others.
All that training in fluent, technical Russian, as the manuals haven't been translated.
What sick minded individual thought this is important to find out? So many of these science experiments amplify the reverberations of eugenics in my mind. Justifying the torture of animals in the pursuit of knowledge and good deed.
What would that achieve?
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The question is, could an animal do this with no natural light as humans can’t.
I think the basis of comparison is that both projects would have been better off with a more focused mission scope. In the case of the shuttle, it should have focused on launch and return of human crews and left BDRs to launch payloads. In the case of the F-35, the branch-of-service requirements were sufficiently different that individual platforms should have been developed to address each specific need.
Note that converting sunlight to electricity (what the 30% figure is about) is also quite different from using sunlight to convert CO2 to glucose (what the 6% figure is about).

Apparently the first stage of photosynthesis effectively does convert sunlight to electricity and does that with 90% efficiency, which is far beyond what our technology can achieve.

Source: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2014/12/03/...
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IOS apps might also need a Stack (however full).
Sounds like a company to avoid. Name them and shame them.
Productivity would go even higher if you stopped using for the other 4 days. Synchronous chatrooms have very little work value in my experience. You either miss out on a ton of information from all the people chatting or you have to watch it every minute for updates. Nonsense.
Another clarification: most of these VC in China is in a few, huge deals by Alibaba, Tencent etc. If one looks at the number of startups that are getting funding, China ranks very low.

I have lived in China for 15 years, am located in Beijing and am a founder of a startup.
>bought a home for $200k in Western Massachusetts. Paid in cash so I no longer have to pay rent/mortgage

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm sure you considered this, but... why put all that cash down when you almost certainly could have got a low interest mortgage and made more by putting that money in... well anything really?
Even if he was an American citizen, as long as he wasn't on American soil, we can overlook that if jobs are on the line right?

I mean if they only killed a few dozen Americans, not selling them billions of dollars of arms is not going to bring them back right?

OK, maybe it lots of non-citizens, maybe a bunch of German Jews...

Can you see where I'm going?

S.A. could instantly clear this up with a video chat if they haven't killed him.