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Move to a better country.
Assume not, many of the moments in the show have been lived by myself and others. More so - I think the reality is that the truth goes even further than the fictional works we see.
Why not just go to a monastery? It's just as structured, but with better food, scenery and the meditation/prayer/spirituality element helps when you return to civilisation.
I watched a 60 minutes segment about horse cloning. An oil heir from Texas became very interested in polo, a sport where horses are rode and where the genetics of the horses are what decide the winner more or less. So instead of starting his own breeding program, this guy started a horse cloning operation in Argentina — its absolutely fascinating. When asked how different horse cloning would be from human cloning, he shook his head slowly and said that horse cloning is probably extremely similar to human cloning and that human cloning could be done very, very easily. When asked if he would ever consider cloning humans he gave an emphatic “no” and said that he had been asked by “some of the wealthiest people in the world” to clone humans in some capacity, and that he refused every time. Gives me shivers :P

It is interesting that there are both the means and the demand for human cloning. It stands to reason to assume that it has been done.

Cloning is a remarkably simple process from what I have read. Basically all you do is extract an egg from a female doner, take out its dna, insert a skin cell from the animal you want to clone, pull current through the egg to activate it and then place the egg Into a surrogate mother. The extraction and insertion of dna is literally done with a very small needle — no nano-tech or black magic. Just a needle. It really is remarkable.
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> It was pretty comical in the locker room between guys searching for food, some guys getting IVs.

It's impressive that they made such an extreme effort, but I'm not sure I would use the word "comical" to describe needing medical treatment. (I mean, lots of athletes receive medical attention and presumably nobody considered it a life-threatening emergency, but that part still doesn't sound quite "comical".)
Anyone know how big or sensitive their dishes are? I wonder if they could be used for some fun astronomy stuff when not being used to talk to sats. Also curious about the transcievers and so on. Not sure if they'd disclose any of this due to security concerns.

Also, I'm guessing you need to provide your NORAD ID and FCC license so these dishes don't get used for sigint.
Probably not, but there's a big difference between information being drowned in the midst of other information, and carefully pruned information from that pile and then put into an article whose sole purpose is to draw attention to it.

Regardless, it's a very poor decision made by the author to reveal it in such a way, with maps, etc.
My heuristic here is that if they don't say abstractive then it must be extractive. Simply because the former is so much more difficult.
Here is a thought for you:

If Google actually were to do anything to help they Anne Franks of China, do you think they would announce it to the world to debate on HN, or do you think they would do it in secret?
I liked my 10 days, however, there were times I felt a bit like a prisoner. The same schedule each day. Nobody else around you exists. No eye contact. That being said I'd like to do it again.
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The research quality and funding is just one factor. The more important factor is quality of life. Things like air quality and being able to get along without knowing Chinese.
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Our job was to build a game teaching electronic music fans how to use synthesizers so they can start making their own music. Synthesizers can be very confusing, so we decided to break them down module by module, control by control. At the end of the page you'll find a button leading to the game. Follow the white guidelines to recreate sounds created by other players. Assuming HN might know a thing or 2 about synths already, you could also try the Make Music section. We add our favorite submissions as levels to the game every week.
You are most likely getting down voted because your suggestion is already policy and law in most(if not all) states. Applied in different ways and at different levels. For example local police(city/county) critical incidents are investigated by the state level agency, and a state agency CI would be investigated by either the FBI or neighboring state agency.
This, I think, is what a Philz Coffee did when it opened near me. The very first day, or week, there were a bunch of really attractive people there in indoor and outdoor seating. After a few days the quality dropped off.
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But then there's Outline, from Alphabet's Jigsaw.[0] It utterly simplifies the creation of private VPN servers on Digital Ocean droplets.[1] They use Shadowsocks obfuscation. It's apparently effective against China's Great Firewall, and seems popular among Chinese dissidents. So the main intended application is pretty obvious, no?

So are they playing both sides? Or trying to con the Chinese government? Or just a large and loosely coordinated organizarion?

0) https://jigsaw.google.com/

1) https://blog.digitalocean.com/digitalocean-outline-jigsaw-vp...
Anything in particular you would highlight? I've been following const generics development, but other than that I'm not too clued in. Thanks!
Have you watched it? Seed yield has absolutely nothing to do with the scene I was referring to.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/supreme-court-mons...
> a Justice Department study ... nine of 10 Native American women and girls who survived rape or sexual assault were attacked by assailants of a different color, most of them white.

If anyone wants a source, this is probably referring to page 38, table 9 in https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/223691.pdf, showing that 57% of sexual assaults against American Indians were committed by white offenders (who represent 77% of the US population). But I'm not certain I'm reading the table correctly, if anyone wants to double-check.
As the USA continues to fall further and further behind the Chinese, I wonder if one day we look back with regret at our liberal vs conservative values, neither which seem able to meet the unstoppable logic and sheer force of will the Chinese government and citizens possess.
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This is a bad idea. The article mentions that this will most likely impact people of color and the poor. My other thought on this is, who is building these models for the AI? Does this person have any cultural bias?

This is an invasion of privacy for unsuspecting citizens and an invasion of civil liberties. Just because you make a mistake once in your life doesn't mean you should be beholden to it for the rest of your life. Nor should you be subjected to harassment.
I was going to mention this article. You beat me to it.

I found this rather interesting that people get locked up to escape daily life. I can see it from both sides. There are times I wish I wasn't doing the same things day in and day out, but I value my freedom to much to lose it.
We run all Java so that is a no go and at the scale I'm talking about don't think I would trust those solutions. Thanks for the input though!
Same thoughts:

1) I did try on https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-prisonstay-idU... and from 20% and 40% summary I have no clue of the actual meaning of the article. It seems that it just gets some sentences out, but they don't really combine in summary as a whole.

2) And seems like it has some fake news element as well "fake: 0.343". Confusing.

To sum up my experience:
I confused, real: 0.9; fake: 0.1.

Anyhow it seems that has some great potential and may be useful in some general knowledge fact summarization in the future.
> Police officers are vitally important to the co
mmunities they serve.

I thought their job was "to enforce the law?"
Why not just book a relaxing airbnb?
I don't know exactly where they are pulling those numbers from; but last time I checked, reports of average working hours around the world were averaged over everyone, even part-time/temporary/seasonal workers. So the average for full-time workers is much higher, and the average for part-time workers is lower. The overall average is useless for anything other than loose comparisons between countries.

As a South Korean, my impression is that full-time workers in desirable positions tend to put in around 2,500 hours per year. We recently introduced a new law that puts a hard limit (for any given pair of employer and employee) of 52 hours per week, averaged over a 3-month period. There's been a lot of pushback from businesses that either require or encourage working even more hours.
you mean you want to know if advertising fraud is a crime in those countries and the us agencies will work with the agencies overseas? extradiction is the circus for the media and to please the lynching calling folks, not the justice.
I’be used both Duolingo and Pimsleur. Although neither will make you fluent, I would say that Duolingo is a toy and Pimsleur is a tool.
It is _very_ common to charge the phone and listen to the music at the same time. Maybe only for me ... But I won't ever buy these 1-port-for-everything devices.
Eh, domain specific knowledge can be a huge win. I’d guess space swat team would be worried about rocket fuel, but usda might be worried about herbicide. I would be on board with an fbi run certification system. Organizations send agents for extra training.

I sorta like consistency though.
And I said he was asking the wrong question.
"Issues: 1"
> ... indeed they would be liable for anything bad that happens if they don't ...

Legally liable? I highly doubt that.
Does anyone ever build something and then advertise it as heavyweight?
Thanks for your insight. This is currently close to what we have in production for one of our systems and we are building a brand new system that shares a lot of the same requirements, just fishing to make sure we aren't missing anything :]
Count and sum an iterable in a single pass? Use complex numbers. (Python)
Yeah lambda functions won't suffice for the kind of jobs we run. Plus we are a full java shop and the don't want to pay for the cold start times on lambda for the jobs that do end up only taking < 1 minutes.

Thanks for your thoughts!
I agree and think all the "shocking" and "bizarre" assessments are clickbaity. He did a similar thing against Karjakin. It's a smart strategic move given the situation and his advantage in the tiebreaks. Having watched the Karjakin tie-breaks, I can't wait. It's going to be so exciting. Having said that, if Caruana should defy expectation and prevail it will also be a great story and counterpoint to Carlsen's strategic calculation.
Yes T2 performs quite admirably! If your CPU-bound workload doesn't use much memory, smaller sizes of T2 Unlimited can be a much better deal than C4.

T3 gives you both threads of your physical core and commensurably more CPU credits per hour to utilize them. You may notice that even T3.nano offers 2 vCPUs where T2.small has 1 vCPU.
I'd be interested to see comparisons/benchmarks against FoundationDB. DynamoDB transactions make dynamo a serious alternative to FDB now. I can see the two manage advantages for FDB being: 1) you can deploy it on premise (which is potentially important for some B2B companies), 2) it shuffles data around so that hot-spotting of a cluster is eliminated (which dynamo appears to still suffer from).
No; async/await produces Futures, which is what actix-web uses.

It will use a slightly older futures, but that's why there's a compatibility layer, and I'm sure they'll update fairly quickly after stabilization and so you could just use that version as well.
He trusted in himself that the position was not as strong as it appeared, and decided to let another game decide the outcome of the tournament.
That's awesome! One suggestion -- if the VA slow-rolls anything, call up Pelosi's staff. Not only is she your local SF rep, she will be looking for quick wins as she takes back the gavel and improving transition opportunities for vets is hot right now in DC.
For workers we run only Java and run everything on AWS. We have an existing production system that uses a combination of SQS, DynamoDB, and Postgres, and EC2s to achieve something very similar to this. Just want to check all the boxes before we dive into building out something for a new system coming into production that shares many of the same requirements.
I know I am going to get a lot of criticism, but hey freedom of speech:

First of all, I live outside of China and I am not against freedom of speech and human rights.

Let’s take a look at it at another angle: if Google drops dragonfly, the Chinese netizens will end up using “Baidu”, is it better or worse for the netizens of China? For the very least, dragonfly improves the situation from monopoly and gives much better/accurate/scam-free/spam-free search results. That is one way to improve their online experience.

I could be very wrong, but what I understand is these people oppose dragonfly because the government can restrict results, okay that’s not very ideal, but at least the government cannot force it to give false search results, right?
Yeah, I was hesitating whether to write most. The thing is though, even those non-free states are not as brutal on policing as the US.
Normal people who are using the software to get something done just maintain a local fork where they can fix fires as fast as they want, then treat upstreaming (if any) as a background task that is allowed to take the necessary time.

E.g. numerous GNU/Linux distros maintain local patches for numerous packages: kernel, gcc, glibc, ...
Some of these take years to get upstreamed, if at all.

The problem is that this process doesn't work so well for people who just want to leave their imprint on that project (that one and only official project, not their private fork).

Saying I'm not going to use this as my main tool if I can't have a more or less free reign in shaping the destiny of its one and only official version comes across as a bit of an infantile tantrum.
OK, so I'm curious: do many companies in the bay area pay more for engineers (on either an expected value or a worst case basis) than Google does? Sure, some of those startups will make their early employees very very rich, but most will fizzle or fail.
Caruana's been under time pressure over and over and over in this match, and blundered his way into zero losses as a result.

Time pressure is practically where he lives, because of how much time he spends calculating. The idea that he's suddenly going to completely forget how to play when the clock is running low doesn't hold water. Especially when he wasn't facing any immediate threat on the board; the advantage for Black was there, but it was theoretical/positional, and was going to take significant work to convert into a result, or even into lines that would make Caruana have to sweat through the next series of moves. And the engine games keep showing that all of Black's advantage can be thrown away with one or two inaccurate moves even very soon after the draw occurred; Carlsen's well within his rights to decide not to risk that just to try to toy with his opponent.
>Also, you reply reeks of thinking that I accept the premise that the U.S. seriously considered other options and ruled them out in the first place. It

This[1] sounds like "serious consideration" to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
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In those places, you can probably get better care outside prison.
CRISPR in individual humans sounds potentially great.

Touching the germ line is a hard pass.
I thought the main problem with nuclear fusion is neutron capture converting the structural materials which are no longer fit for purpose.

I'm quite keen on aneutronic fusion, Boron 11 + a neutron, which converts to three alpha particles which can lose their energy to magnetic fields generating electricity, no need for any Victorian steam engines.

The huge downside is that works at much much higher temperatures, but if you can't solve the neutron capture issue...
And this is why every survey I've ever taken has pissed me off and now I don't take them at all. I've never felt that the information gleaned from a survey was honestly useful for making decisions.
Annnnd I am so comfortable staying on Win 7
And my computer is powerful enough so that I don't need to buy a new one in ~5 years
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -jwz

emacs is now well beyond that.
If that's a hobby for them then they are just gardeners. If they are gardeners, then I sincerely hope that they get zero consideration from those who are supposed to help farmers.
Developers can often be "force-multipliers" even if they don't see it themselves. Yes there's the 10x developer that can get 10x done than the average person.

But there's also the 10x dev that can help others be 10x more effective. Those types see a problem, and write an insanely useful tool.

Also, welcome to thinking like a manager.
Part of the reason Apple has such high update numbers is due to the dark pattern of presenting "enter your passcode to update tonight" (when you select "later" instead of "install now" on an update alert) in the exact same style as the normal passcode entry screen. I'm sure a significant number of people have inadvertently updated their device through that method.
Oh, that's for sure, it's just that pointing at this particular hit piece is not the most convincing argument. Otherwise, it's entirely correct that business climate in Russia is far from transparent.
Western Europe, NZ, Australia, Canada. The US has always been an outlier amongst the rich nations: more religious, more violent, etc. None of the attitudes referred to by the parent would be 'hyper-' anything in most of these nations.
If I read it right what you mean than probably we are on the same side. Yes, the problem you described is the exact problem I am trying to prevent in every organization that I join and I actively call out outdated development/managing practices and shame them/blame them.

People who propose that managing their precious infrastructure cannot be bestowed on those inferior developers are the real hindrance to any business which want to go forward fast. They simply don't realize that the lack of decentralization of project management and lack of empowering teams creates a terrible communication overhead and grotesque, half baked solutions.
Yeah we are already using SQS for a similar system that's currently in production. We don't need a forever queue as part of the goal is to keep the queue as empty as possible at all times. What is really important is making sure that only one job (with a distinct set of params) can be scheduled at one time and run by only worker at one time.
I'm not a Fortran or C programmer (so take this with a grain of salt), but as I understand it, Fortran is so optimizable because it's arrays are not fundamentally just a memory layout with pointer math. In Fortran, arrays are abstract entities, which allows the compiler to lay them out in the best possible way to take advantage of vectorization for the current code. Originally, pointers weren't even a feature of the language, though they were bolted on in a later version.

Sure, an expert programmer can replicate this speed in C by being careful about memory layouts, etc. But in Fortran, everyone gets it for free.
Yes, but genes are one of the last equalisers out there. To an extent, obviously - your genes come from your parents - but rich and poor alike have both benefitted and suffered from their genetic makeups. Before long genetic engineering will be commonplace but almost exclusively among the rich. Arguably, much like dieting, exercise and tutoring.
I genuinely doubt that any amount of hand wringing or letter writing will slow the pace of this research. It's too enticing. The potential benefits are so overwhelming. I'm not even convinced outlawing it will stop its march. If I were a billionaire I would happily fund research in whatever country allowed it. We're looking at a development that could be equal or greater than the invention of the vaccine, and it's not worth taking it slowly
Thanks for the answers! And sorry, I was being US-centric. Doesn't really matter which government we're talking about, I don't think any of them would offer any protection.
He lives in the UK, as I already said. And somehow avoided being sued by Browder who also lives in the UK.
Monasteries are a Western tradition. Some Buddhist temples and Christian organizations offer a similar program in South Korea, but most people who aren't religious don't feel comfortable attending an overtly religious program.

Edit: Most Koreans would think of monasteries as a Western/Christian thing. Culturally, modern South Korea is much closer to the West than to India or even China.
Interesting. Do they need a warrant for this? It doesn't sound like it since they mentioned working with "private sector partners."
I was just at Ubicomp, and I'd say the level of quality coming out of China was lacking (and a lot of universities outside of China to be fair). But only the papers from China raised red flags if their results were real or not...
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I guess they don't look at the intermediate version. For an official answer you can send an email to info@ycombinator.com
His videos on the Youtube Numberphile channel are worth a watch [1]

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That's weird, it took me half a year (commuting daily) to go from "carrying phone in jeans' back pocket is practical" to "I have to take out phone from the pocket _every time_ before I sit". No problems ever since. But I guess I learn fast ... Unless it's setting up some wireless crap.
I said the moral position is disingenuous because it is both inconsistent and opposite to what he is describing, when considering all things related.
> Fixed trailing parens so #emacs will stop laughing at me.

Yup, avoiding things trailing is a must in sextoylogy.

For some reason is not a surprise to find than the program calls a python here. Looks the right tool for the job in both senses of the phrase.
"Ad Network #1 rented more than 1,900 computer servers housed in commercial datacenters in Dallas...spoofing more than 5,000 domains...leased more than 650,000 IP addresses...$7 million in ad fraud"

"Ad Network #2 carried out another digital ad fraud scheme...botnet...more than 1.7 million infected computers...download fabricated webpages...$29 million in ad fraud"
Yes, exactly the issues that the rest of my post went into. I believe we're in violent disagreement.
This isn't even an argument; it is partisan quackery.

FWIIW Browder was pro-Putin until Putin stopped letting him get away with tax fraud. Citations available: what do you have?
His anti-putin credentials have been questioned.
One of C's big problems is that it doesn't provide many efficient abstractions, and fixing that problem will lead you to something which is not like C for the same reasons Rust is not like C.
Not parent but I think secrets in this case are similar to the divide of information between FTEs and Contractors in many companies. In addition, this is more of an exercise in cementing patriotic duty in the minds of citizens rather than actually preventing classified information leakage.