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The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi, is an entertaining space opera with colorful characters. Second book in the series just came out last month!
I guess at the pleasant end of the spectrum we end up with something like the Culture - where meat-based citizens are treated with indulgent care by the god-like AIs leaving us to do the only thing we'd be uniquely good at: having fun.

At the other end of spectrum we are either deemed irrelevant, a nuisance or abused for eternity in the simulation spaces of evil AIs (see "A Colder War" by Stross or indeed works by Banks and Vinge that describe particularly unpleasant possibilities).
> science does not have a mechanistic explanation for future-seeing

Sure it does. Medical science deals with delusional people all the time.
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No, if there's no ground to do so. Chemtrailers believe that there are gigantic conspirancies to subdue humans (and ultimately worsen the condition of the whole humanity) but we shouldn't take them seriously.
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Sure. Doesn't seem very significant in this particular instance though - OTOH, silencing bad news is known as "shooting the messenger".
> Obviously that's not possible when receiving mail via SMTP and providing access via IMAP.

Afaik on desktop all those involve the use of the ProtonMail Bridge application [0]? At least that was my understanding when I couldn't get my Thunderbird setup to check ProtonMail accounts, it requires the Bridge application.

The paper is weird in that context because the Bridge application is mentioned only once in the whole paper, as a side note: "For simplicity, we group it with smartphone applications."

But from what I understand their whole Outlook client setup wouldn't even work without it, so desktop clients are just as secure as the smartphone applications when they use the Bridge?

[0] https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/imap-smtp-and-...
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Both your argument and the argument that you're criticizing make assumptions on what intelligence is and what are the properties that define human-level intelligence. How can you know that consciousness is not a prerequisite for human-level intelligence if you cannot define human-level intelligence?
Intellectual property contracts are common in finance. I had a clause that, if enforced, would have prevented me to work for two years in the industry, while offering half my usual salary in the meantime. I think it's fair (doesn't hold you off forever and also doesn't starve you while you're out of the game). In my case, it wasn't enforced when I left (which is more bad news for me than good, since it just means I wasn't valuable enough :)
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Ah, I see. That reminds me of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8389648/ (7 years ago, just normal AVX).

I also just found http://redd.it/8dhp7q asking about AVX512 slowdowns too.

TIL about FPGA feed handlers. (http://redd.it/56tw4n, one of the first hits for the term, was mildly interesting)

Hmm, good point about not needing speed. Yeah, 24 execution units each capable of 3 billion ops/sec is probably more performance than is needed :)

Interestingly, I would have imagine HFT as needing ABS-style hard realtime. But no, it neither needs that nor is simple enough to be encapsulated by that sort of embedded-style approach.
Are you sure? I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure they won't argue that applies links without summaries as well. And what about thumbnails?

I mean the "fair use" laws weren't exactly clear cut either but seemed generally sane
Everyone seemed to dislike the movie Transcendence, but at least it handled the opening of pandora's box scenario well.

Hard take off is not likely, simply because to go from a cat level intelligence to above human the resource requirements would be enormous. (If evolution needed hundreds of thousands of years, it's unlikely that a cat-level agent can do it that much faster without being noticed by a group of humans.)

But humans like to play God, and also play with fire. It's just a matter of time to play with Skynet and oops it's really Skynet.
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>A page attempts to put you off by making you manually deactivate hundreds of different services if you object to them (though they of course have a handy 'enable all' button).

I see this often too. Doesn't this directly contravene the text of the GDPR, much less the spirit of it?
And even if you defy computational constraints, it will still be constrained by physical limitations. You can experience the world just so quickly. Stuff needs time to happen and you being faster than stuff won't be any help after a while.
This is just not the reality. There are a lot of vendors "supporting" Linux with proprietary drivers. Valve is not scared off. Neither Autodesk, DaVinci, etc., countless game devs/publishers.

I get that you want to create a buzz around your proprietary software on Linux, but stop acting like you are not late to the party.
Those who start stock trading, or gambling, quickly learn (the hard way) to differentiate between the brain's delusion of prediction, and the cold hard truth of statistics, randomness, and probability.

But if one is indeed right about their intuitions/senses/dreams containing some truth beyond the computable bayesian prior probability, they would definitely stand to make quite a sum on the stock market.

What particularly bothers me is that, say that the brain had somehow managed to develop a science-defying future-prediction ability, why on earth would it not develop and explicitly use that ability rather than subtly injecting vague clues in dreams, or say raising vague feelings in one direction or other? In a darwinian context, wasting such effort and valuable computation is rather atypical.

And if it did indeed somehow inject this future-prediction in its subconscious estimates for likelihoods, we would be seeing humans doing things which defy the accepted laws of knowable randomness, like predicting coin outcomes with better than 50% probability (similar, longer-timespan experiments could trivially be devised ).
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Hm, then what are the merits you see, and why are they insufficient, why do you see the whole argument as groundless?
Singularity is a religion full of bullshit.

Resist reduction!

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/resisting-reduction
Communication within a civilisation is quite a bit different from highly speculative permanent signals to billions of starts in the hope that someone is listening. And even if someone is listening, they might not be able to answer. So this sounds rather unlikely to me.

A bigger issue is: would they actually send spaceships on multi-year journeys to other solar systems? If they would, then why aren't they already here? Some of those civilisations must have a million or billion year head start on us. Plenty to colonise the galaxy, yet we see no trace of them here.

So the odds of there being interstellar civilisations out there is extremely slim. I think our best bet to find alien civilisations is by detecting the signature of alien megastructures; Dyson Spheres and the like. Tabby's Star sounds to me like the most likely way we might find alien life.
Your proposal is exactly what the GDPR pushes for in Recital 26 - it exempts from the regulation "personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable".

So the onus is completely on ad firms and publishers to stop trying to find tricks and loopholes, and actually follow the regulation as it's intended.
Curious whether Uber or Lyft riders will change their behaviors as the toll on public transit becomes more salient..
> But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys?

Ideally, it adds a cost to including third-party cookies and tracking users. Editors of websites could choose to be more respectful of their visitors's data, and then they would be able to provide a more seamless experience without annoying popups.

In practice, apparently they are not willing to do that, either because money brought in by privacy-violating ads offsets the cost of losing users, or because they have not given much thought to it and are already used to showing lots of popups anyway, and think that one more will not change much.

> I personally think that there should be a limited, well-defined set of data that can be transmitted to ad exchanges under an assumed consent. Fully anonymised and broad demographic data (eg: age range, sex, city, etc) for example. Anything beyond that should require an explicit consent.

Fully anonymised and broad demographic data does not require consent, since it does not allow identifying users. As far as I know you could store the age range of users in a cookie and give just that to your ad exchange, although you should tell them at the time you ask for their age.
The Oath consent is not just an overlay, it's a separate page that TC redirects to. Not as easy to block as on-page elements.
I didnt see almost anything hard about Three Body Problems. I only read first book, because the story was not that interesting.

I dont really read sci-fi that much, but Blindsight has been ten times better when it comes to hard scifi
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What you say is true for silicon, but Turing complete molecular machinery is already out there, we just have yet to master its intricacies.

The nightmare AGI scenario likely involves molecular computing using a chemically optimal code-base and engineered lifeforms a version or two up from current DNA microcode.

This is most likely to be created by a human-AI collaboration, which will be innocuous enough in itself.... it's the creations at this level that have the potential to replace us. Would that nesecarily be bad? Or just an enhanced form of human evolution?
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I worked for one of those companies that created user-generated content (UGC) marketing platform. The basic idea was picking images from Instagram (IG) and feeding it to the client's site so that they could have the lookbook page. I am not an IG user but was surprised IG exposed these images for anyone to use. The original poster on IG has no idea something of this sort happens. If I recall correctly the client can also use the images in FB ads and stuff.

I understand some people using IG want fame and stuff but I just felt we were stealing people's pics and making some profit out of it without even telling them and it just saddened me. Every time I was asked to work on a feature I would just start questioning myself WTF am I doing? Is this what I want to do?
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As an aside: The ML-ML/MachineLearning and JS-JavaScript/Jane Street interpretations makes comments on anything even tangentially related harder to parse. Reason coming in and closing the loop has not made this easier. I wonder whether this affects anyone else.
> I expected better than fanboy-ism from the HN crowd.

Are you new here?
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Most medical expense comes in the last months or even month of a person's life. It's an interesting moral dilemma on how to optimize expenditure vs the value of more time. I feel like one can invest a lot into very little return. My own anecdata from friends who are gone from cancer is a lot of expensive and even promising treatment to ultimately end in disappointments.
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TC, to their credit, works really well without JS, so it's just a matter of disabling it.
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Not absurd.

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I can't say, sorry. The dev told me in private and I don't want to violate his trust. Suffice it to say, people on HN usually know it.
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I just don't buy this. At all. Why don't we see the Tour de France peloton rolling through on wooden bikes? They can afford the best of the best.
I guess the only solution for news sites now is massive mergers into a handful of news giants that do have the brand name to stand on their own without needing links from aggregators.

Of course it would help a lot if they also dramatically revised the way they offer their content on the internet. Many news sites are rather awful.
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Why are the results in a video instead of a table? I don't want to wait for dmd to know how much faster you made it.
Linux has large software vendors.
> Better than carbon

[citation needed]
Oh, looks like you're right on IMAP. But they still receive mail via SMTP from other servers, there's no way around it if you want to be able to receive email from people not using your service. You need to be confident that their receiving servers encrypt your email without storing an unencrypted copy elsewhere.
It's not "rude", and it's not "mean" to describe something accurately. Using those adjectives is simply projecting your emotions onto a technical discussion.

LabVIEW is a cash cow that NI pushes on schools and junior EEs to make them think they're software developers, it allows them to write horrible cruft that is generally impossible to maintain. In almost every case I've seen, it's actually easier to rewrite the whole mess from scratch rather than try to decipher what someone a decade ago did as a hack that got turned into something people depend on.

You're clearly one of NI's rabid fans, you believe what you believe, but if you take personally criticism of a really poor tool, you know the rest..

I can create things in LabVIEW if I have to, I've done it and I've debugged and rewritten other people's abominations in it as well. The concept of visual programming languages is badly flawed for a variety of reasons and LabVIEW portrays each of them thoroughly.
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>The obvious solution here is of course that interstellar travel is so impractical that even in a million years, nobody will ever colonise another solar system.

It's also entirely possible that a civilization that colonizes another solar system won't also inevitably colonize the entire galaxy. I think people assume this because the mathematical progression makes sense and because the precedent of humans colonizing other continents makes it seem intuitively plausible, as if space were just a bigger ocean. Decades of space opera and science fiction stories have turned the metaphor into an archetype.

Yet if it is true that rockets and radio waves are all anyone ever gets, then every new colony is an investment of hundreds or thousands of years' effort or more, assuming there is always a stellar body nearby with a planet which is amenable to colonization, as if stars were equidistant from one another, and assuming all previous colonies continue and survive.

Many people seem to assume that either the entire galaxy must be converted to computronium by Von Neumann probes or no life exists elsewhere in the universe, but to me, detecting the signs of interstellar civilization anywhere in the universe is the least likely possible scenario even if life is common.
I don't trust SourceForge.
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Really enjoyed reading this, thanks for the post!
Time spent doing it right up front pays off when someone has to maintain it.
Why? Why not? If you need to move 1000 people to a given destination over an hour, and you run every 15 mins, and 1000 drops to 800, then approx every 20 mins will do.

But that's not drop in service (as it will be spun). That's just a common sense response to the needs of the market.

The problem is, any elected official who champions such common sense won't get elected / re-elected. Simply because it will be sold to the public as a drop in service. This why public programs always grow and too rarely never re-adjust (smaller) when appropriate.

Note: The article did __not__ say why ridership is down. It mentioned the reliability issue but doesn't name it as the sole reason. For all we know more people are walking because the need the exercise. Or perhaps those at the bottom of the economic ladder can't afford to ride.

Obviously, the former is good news. Healthcare is expensive. Obesity is a real issue.

Obviously, the latter is bad news. And few elected officials what to be the ones to say they haven't been doing what they said they were doing.

Or perhaps tourism is down? Which again, is not a feather in any politician's cap.

Anecdotally, I live in Central NJ. To take the train to NYC I have to pay approx $10 to park. That makes the round trip approx $40. In my mind, at $40 p/p p/trip, that's coming up on $50, opposed to a (psychological) shade over $25.

The article makes no mention of possible external factors.
Thats an interesting idea, but not sure if that would be 100% legal.
Sounds a lot like what people at Rigvir are doing (https://www.rigvir.com/our-company/about-rigvir.php)
> wide spread micropayments

I see this on HN a LOT, but I am really not sure it's a great model. The thing about ad-supported revenue is that you can still consume the content if you can't afford it.

I'm simplifying a little, but the people who convert on ads are basically subsidizing the content for the rest of us. In our society the people that fall into the conversion group are generally wealthy and the people who fall into the latter group may or not be.

But the point is that with micropayments only the rich have access, and with ad-supported revenue everyone has access. I think most people prefer the latter.
I would estimate at least 50%.
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This sounds worrying. Shouldn't your browser prevent this from happening?
I wish that Jupyter used some kind of similar trick, to allow quickly recalculating a workbook starting at some cell.
"Swift has been taken over by theorists who debate academic things or solve yet another corner case in their type system, making a complex language even more complex, rather than deliver what their users (developers) actually need to build real-world apps."

I often wonder why they didn't choose a language like C++ instead of implenting their own language again? I mean, C++ has its faults and some argue that it is too complicated but you can still do plenty writing simple C++ without going over to the complicated stuff.

"NSInternalInconsistencyException " ouch

"Swift code can still crash in a way that the caller can’t recover from, thanks to things like nil unwrap failures"
Out of interest, what happens in this instance? Does a nil unwrap failure not throw an exception of some kind?

Code analysis that is part of C++ compilers catch a lot of these NULL scenarios, particularly if you use something like SAL on your code as a standard practice.

With regard to the last C++ template example, why can Swift not do this? It is possible to some extent in C# with generics but what is Swift missing?

I ask these Swift questions being a complete novice with regard to it; I've got a book I mean to get around to reading one day...

XCode is indeed rather buggy (but always has been???). It does do code analysis for C++ like identifying dead code (point 17 in the article) but I don't know about other languages.

As for Flutter, it's written in C++ but the examples all appear to be in Dart - any way of actually writing the application in C++??? Some pointers (excuse the pun) would be welcomed. (It appears impossible at the moment - you need to learn yet another language like Fart to be able to write for it...)
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So you've picked a metric "profitability".

First one paywall, third one no evidence, second one correlation causation. It's head smackingly obvious that the most profitable companies tend to be the largest/most publically visible, and the most vulnerable to lobbying for quotas, and with the most ability (since their profit is based on being a big boy who can extract rent) to implement whatever is socially desired at the time.

Take tech, look at the most profitable companies, they're also the biggest, they're also the most lobbied.

Per your final comment, the job of senior executives is not always, (or even normally?) focussed on market research/product. Old Apple being the famous exception.

There's gap between your prose and how watertight the evidence you presented is.
People knowing is not enough. They should also care enough to vote/protest/etc differently
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probably explains his naivety in agreeing to extradition from hong kong instead of skipping to china...unless they figured out a way to pressure him into returning
Carbon bikes are made from hollow tubes, hollow tubes can buckle / collapse, plus carbon bikes are designed for lightness, not sturdiness. Wood can take a beating, but is a lot heavier.
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What's the story over in gdc and ldc land? I presume since the plumbing for this sort of thing is already there (presumably), they might already be doing these sorts of AOT/incremental builds.
1. Lots of self-hostable solutions are available.
2. Unfortunately for mailing lists, those self-hostable solutions very often make it way easier to plow through conversations.
3. Out of sheer curiosity - have you ever had an actual e-mail conversation with multiple persons involved in replying to each other's e-mails? I do it daily and it sucks.
I received one. It's strange that they don't say anything about how it happened or who had access.
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With proper browser design, you could support both models.

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Whether or not sites would suffer the added complexity probably depends on how much money is on the table.
>But what value is there in constant boxes that users become accustomed to clicking through like trained monkeys?

If the consent boxes all have sharing options disabled by default, which they should, and only appear once for each site then I don't really mind all that much. click
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