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>Unless you believe in something supernatural providing extra computational capacity, we know that the physical limits allows the manufacture of a sub 20W computational device in about 1.5kg of matter with the capacity of a human brain.

(I point out that there is a lot of evidence that the size of the brain in the human has little to do with the IQ of that human. It's not at all clear that you could scale something that works on whatever principles the human brain works on by adding more neurons the way you can scale a transistor based computer by adding more transistors.)

If the self-improving AI stops when it reaches human intelligence, that's amazing, but it's not the singularity.

What I'm saying is that the 'hard takeoff' theory is wrong because making a thing that can make smarter copies of itself... isn't going to mean you get something infinitely smart. It means that you get something that bumps up against the limits of whatever technologies it can use or discover.

Yeah, maybe we'll come up with some new tech that makes slightly-better-than-human brains possible, and those brains will come up with a technology that makes god-brains possible... but there's no evidence at all that what we'd perceive as a god-level intelligence is even possible.

We have no idea how close to the theoretical limit the brain is.

>It may be impossible to reach the same using silicon, but we know it is possible to get there somehow within those constraints.

To get to a human-level intelligence, sure. I'm not saying that AGI is completely impossible, just that a hard takeoff to god-intelligence AGI before we wipe ourselves out or die from other causes is... unlikely.

really, my most important point is that human-level AGI does not necessarily lead to that AI creating smarter copies of itself until we get to the singularity /because physical limits exist/

(I mean, I guess then you are placing your bets on where those physical limits are)
Which also tells you something...if there were as many cars in Pripyat, the situation would have been similar. In other words, the two emergency situations differ in most aspects.

But yeah, buses scale far better than individual cars, that's for sure.

(Oh, and btw, given the long-running tinfoil campaigns against federal agencies in general and emergency response in particular, I can totally see how "This is FEMA, everyone get onto our buses, we'll take you somewhere safe" would prompt an orderly evacuation. Not.)
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That page compares proof assistants. Haskell is not a proof assistant and it is not designed to be. I don't think its presence or absence from the list provides any evidence for your opinion about the language.
If by holding your hand you mean stuff works out of the box, then yes it isn't great. I did manage to get hidpi working in just 1-2 days (not with wayland, nothing works on wayland, let's give it just 5 more years and I'm sure it will happen), and it also goes to sleep fine, trackpad is not as bad as I expected it to be. All perfectly great achievements for 2018.
There are some projects that aim to improve the merging model of Git, such as pijul[1]. Git uses "three-way merge" and it is fairly well-known that the repository state you end up with for non-fast-forward merges (merges that need merge commits) is not necessarily well-understood in all cases. Pijul uses a more efficient algorithm that has well-understood merge characteristics, and is designed around patches not repository states (which means that conceptually patches are the core -- rather than in Git where patches appear to be core but are actually all generated on-the-fly).

It should be noted that Git was not unique in its design. There were many source-control systems that had the same model that pre-dated Git, it's just that Git was fast and significantly easier to use than the other tools. The previous tools would not have been usable for developing Linux, and so Git was obviously necessary.

[1]: https://pijul.org/
>American Girl in Italy" which appeared to be a lady being leered at by a whole load of guys.

When you are not good looking, leering behaviour is called harassment. So, this painting promotes harassment it seems.
I think the parent means why not have a safety mechanism stopping the counterweight from falling? That would stop the lift shooting up.
So, yet another device to carry around that used to be part of the functionality of a laptop.
They turned down buying Google.

Zuck smartly buys his competitors.
Presumably the cabin didn't move too fast. An elevator doesn't just snap a cable, drop 84 floors in freefall, and only /then/ apply the brakes. A lift isn't suspended by a single cable in any case, it's suspended by 7. I suspect the media is making this all sound a lot more exciting than it was in reality.
I ordered a machine similar to that a few days ago. Went with the i7, 64gb of ram, Nvidia 1050 ti, and 1tb of nvme ssds. Cost me only $2700, which is significantly less than what I'd get with a mbp. I'm pretty confident that I can swap over to Linux if I really need to, but I doubt that will be necessary. I'm going to be doing a lot of work with ionic, android, and virtual machines, nothing too crazy.

I also though about going with one of the system76 machines, but the terrible battery life spooked me away. I'll probably still get one early next year, though.
The continuous output of a car is certainly not 100KW, unless you keep the first gear to travel at 60km/h literally drinking fuel...
Sorry, I should have been more specific. They used the US Government locality pay supplements to determine a percentage that you got in addition to your base salary, they did not actually use the pay scale itself.
here are other superconductors that need to be cooled to just 150K

Don't those very high temperature super conductors only work under under extremely high pressure?

Also most higher temperature super conductors are very tricky to produce in larger quantities.
As will manufacturing in Asia.
I suspect they were talking about products for marketers.
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- My parents, for always being so articulative in every important sphere (education, health, finance, relationships)

- My wife, for placing the faith in my gut instinct and guiding it with her solid planning skills

- Common Lisp

- HN

The above 4 have all combined forces in ways that I cannot appreciate enough but I know have been crucial in giving me a happy and peaceful work and personal life.

I with my wife are doing our bit to give back whatever good we have received. Thank you.
How did you reach that conclusion?
Not really, I think that now superconductors that can be cooled down by just liquid nitrogen are considered high temperature.
That’s 77k.
As long as you don't step into an empty shaft or fuck around with the doors if the elevator is stuck between floors your risk of injury is just about 0. The lift in the article didn't fall 84 floors, that'd have kicked in the governor. A lift is still perfectly safe if a single cable snaps.
Look at aerial views of the Paradise fire area -- trees survived almost everywhere where buildings burned to the ground.
You're really not providing much insight other than "electromagnetism is weird and that means it must cause black holes instead of gravity, because I find it to be more confusing than general relativity". The way you're talking about the topic in general makes me think that you are trying to make it sound more complicated than it really is, to the point of stating misleading things that are almost to the point of being factually incorrect.
i had just that in mind when thinking about unspoken consequences.
I am not sure why they put the -240C figure in the article, but if their superconductor really needs that temperature then it’s not high temperature.
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At the risk of sounding a bit picky, I've got to say that's a weird quote, though. Which generation of men has not been raised by women?
End to end encryption was added after the aquisition.
>multiple neural networks trained on different datasets all feeding forward to some master net

What you have described is just a larger neural net or at least is indistinguishable from one.
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Honestly I don’t know about the 150K one, but if I remember correctly the cuprates didn’t need high pressures.
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In other words, this falls flat as "reasonably anticipated" gets shot down by cost.
This is actually a well oiled machine at Twickenham, home of rugby, where the capacity crowd is nearer 80000.

There is just the one station and, come end of the match, there are no additional trains put on. People just use the regular commuter trains that are on the regular routes up to Waterloo station in central London. Even when there is a match you can get the train as a regular traveller although getting a seat is unlikely.

Only a modest amount of staff are needed at Twickenham station for crowd control. There is practically no parking at Twickenham so that crowd really does have to get the train or park far away from the stadium in a residential street.

It takes people a while to diffuse down to the station so there are packed trains for a good couple of hours.

The same trains also serve Ascot where the horses race. So you can have a train half full of people in rugby shirts and half filled with 'silly hats', as per the fashion at Ascot.

Not only that but the same trains can carry thousands of more people heading up to London for the Notting Hill Carnival (again no parking, drinking likely).

To further stretch the capacity of this small commuter line, you can also have another younger crowd on the same trains and at the same time heading to Reading, which is at the other end of the line, for a rock festival.

This can all happen with 'weekend engineering work' on the line, delays being merely typical for South West Trains, i.e. ten minutes late with the odd cancellation.

There can be delays due to drunken people deciding to press the alarms and opening the doors in between stations, or other such silly behaviour.

Despite all of this trains come through, people get to where they are going and everything is remarkably orderly. The mood on these trains is more like the atmosphere on a lift - you know, nobody talks, everyone behaves and there is no confrontation. It is really quite remarkable and efficient.

Come Monday morning and the commute to work, now that is when the trains on this small branch line get seriously packed. Being able to move your rib cage for the purposes of breathing is not so easy at 7.30 a.m. on those trains that did such an excellent job of getting everyone to the rugby over the weekend.
Personally I think Redmine is a bit too much for managing personal life. For capturing and managing tasks I use OmniFocus. But I think the problem is not the capturing but the doing. With BaaS a real person helps you to achieve your tasks.
Vietnam is now making their own cars too! Imported cars are 200%+ tax, which is great because it is keeping the numbers of cars lower (better for a motorbike based culture). Sure makes you pause at how wealthy people are here when you see a Lambo driving around Saigon.

Vietnamese also generally can't drive well at all, the education and penalties are mediocre at best. Huge numbers of road deaths here. There is videos all the time of someone mistaking gas for brake or drunkly running over a few motorbikes [1] (Lucky she is rich, she will likely not face any jail time and the articles about it have magically stopped).

[1] https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/saigon-woman-arrested-in-d...
Frankly I don't think they bother. It's not a huge issue.

Sequencing will run to a certain coverage (or depth), aligning multiple fragments so that each nucleotide is sampled e.g. 30 times, which would weed out contaminants. Saliva is generally considered 'good enough' (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497576/)

They might just use an anti-microbial agent in their collection kit to prevent growth of bacteria until it reaches their lab (plus you don't want bacterial nucleases to fragment your DNA).
Sorry, but Windows 10 is absolute dogshit. Even if you're using a Linux compatibility layer, you're still running a Windows host and being subjected to all the bullshit that comes with it including spying, forced updates (bringing forced restarts!), ads, and general worse performance.

Luckily, it takes all of 30 minutes to just wipe your hard drive and install Ubuntu on your ThinkPad and you'd be much better off for it.
Well tiktok is not for sale.
The scam part is taking out a loan with the intent of not repaying it.
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Funny how Google also consider those places where I have stopped just for a minute.
Don't beat yourself up. You pushed through this, waited for her becoming better. There's nothing weak about realizing that it can't go forward at some point in time, especially after she recovered (and not before).
According to GDPR, in case 1 they can transfer the data to the acquiring entity only if they are GDPR compliant too, and in case 2 all data sharing must be opt-in, not opt-out, so they can’t increase the scope of sharing without notice and affirmative consent.
Doesn't that just mean the space cameras are getting better?
Facebook sells ads. Full width banner, half width banner, full width/half width combo pack special promotion, that would already be three different products in that business (these are not Facebook products, just simple examples of what can be called a "product"). On this level, it's easy to get to hundreds of "products" without even trying.
I tried watching the video, my Dutch is a bit rusty.
As a warning to others, there is a nsfw bit.
Given the error rates shown for this product it seems unlikely this is anything but BGI sequencing.

The BGI (MGI) have been pushing out new instruments, reportedly with lower error rates (and much cheaper than Illumina).

They’ve also been building out service centers outside China, and I suspect this is where the sequencing being done by this service is located.

Universities do sometimes offer sequencing as a service, but I suspect not at as low a price point as the BGI, even for those universities with attached genome centers.
You may want to take a look at Apple's Embedded C++ implementation for I/O Kit, which is grounded strongly in object-oriented programming and inheritance: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De.... Of course, it does drop the very features you seem to enjoy, namely multiple inheritance, namespaces, and templates, but I think there is more reason to this apart from "these things are complicated to implement/hard to use"–I/O Kit was based on NeXTSTEP's DriverKit, which was written in Objective-C and offered none of these features.
There is a lot in 'logical inference' that we still don't really know how to describe well enough to tell computers how to do it. (I mean, I think it's super interesting how we figured out how to teach computers to do pattern matching... but I think logical inference is a different sort of thing that won't fall to the same tools)

But really, I think your idea that we're mostly 'post-hoc justification' is interesting. I mean, I've read some research to that effect, too; but it's... creepy and doesn't line up with anything reasonable about free will or really about long-term planning.
Yeah I loved his reply
The service Facebook provides through their website is awful. I have no reason to use it, and have tried repeatedly only to be beaten back by their incompetence and even apparent malice. So maybe their graph is the best, but what are they really doing with it?
FB is a victim of their own success. "Everyone" has FB. Now some people grow out of it, use smaller apps to do what they used FB 99% of the time. The world moves fast, FB cannot change with each fad as money for the next qtr is on the line. They are buying new competitors but frankly they should not be allowed by the governments.
>They would just get dreaded “your are posting too fast” error and all their future posts and comments are automatically de-ranked forever with no recourse or appeal to these higher powers.

Hear hear. This is by far the worst part of HN. It makes me very annoyed, more than any discussion on this site has, to see that I'm posting too fast... By having a discussion or responding to multiple people. What a horrible restriction.

HN is open source and you can see how they put a flag on your account if they think you argue too much.
Just want to note that the country in this topic is SOUTH Sudan, not Sudan.
I've only glanced at this, but this caught my eye:

> The header only nature of Kvasir and very sophisticated use of the volatile keyword

This isn't a particularly encouraging sign…
>> I’m driven by answering problems in astronomy,

- This can be used as a guiding light, go look for interesting problems to solve where computers can help. Multi disciplinary profiles are always a better career option IMHO. when working in the right org working on the problem you like solving using the right tools and a friendly work culture, is way more fun.

>> but I want to make sure I do it in such a way that the next person can build on what I’ve done

- Much simpler way of saying reuse which is so abstract.
"Sales Safari"[1] is probably one of the best ways to find which topics will sell.

General guideline from Russel Branson's "Expert Secrets": Pick one of the 3 major hot markets (health, wealth, relationships), pick a sub-market, then create a new niche in that sub-market (not recommended, but you might succeed competing with an existing niche).

"Stop your Divorce" [2] was written in the same way, and seems to have sold pretty well. (Also netted the counselor a lot of leads because his phone # was in the book.)

Interestingly, there's a counter argument to the advice presented in the "Parrot Secrets" book: [3]

[1]: https://shop.stackingthebricks.com/sales-safari-101

[2]: http://www.stopyourdivorce.com/

[3]: http://goodbirdinc.blogspot.com/2013/06/internet-fraud-targe...
Interesting. When New Orleans or Texas flooded we heard about how we shouldn’t build in places prone to natural disasters. Much less of that talk here about building in the forest.
I thought the idea was to create an AI that was way smarter than a human? I mean, if you just have human level AI, that's not gonna cause the singularity unless there aren't any physical limits preventing it from scaling itself up, and scaling itself up a lot
What I would like is a set of characters and a font that I could use to enter
immediately readable math formulae into my text editor, so that I can take
quick notes at a conference, or whenever.

I can already do it, to some extent, for instance, this is the summation
equation from page 5 in the pdf above:

ₙ ⎛n⎞
(a + b)ⁿ = ∑ ⎜ ⎟ aᵏbⁿ⁻ᵏ
ᵏ⁼⁰ ⎝k⎠

But, the scale is off (the summation is too small) and the characters are a
mix of sub- and super-scripts and modifiers (in other cases, diacriticals),
and multiple characters in the case of the long parentheses. I have to go
hunting each of those characters down every time I want to use them, because
I'm never sure exactly what characters are available. And even when I do, I
still have to look them up most of the time, because of course I can't
remember the unicode number for Modifier Letter Small k off the top of my head
every time I need it (although by now I've learned the ones for
super/subscript i and n by heart, mostly)

Worse, there is basically only one free monospaced font that will display
all of those characters (DejaVu Sans Mono) and even that doesn't cover all the
symbols I might want to use. For instance, I use the "entails" symbol a lot
and that renders as a ⊨ in DejaVu Sans Mono, so I have to put it togehter with
what I got: |= or \= for the negative.

Each of the methods discussed in the pdf above (as far as I've read in it,
which is not too far) are far from ideal. They're all markups, so they all
require at least some mental rendering. Why can't I have a script that lets me
write each special symbol as one character, or at worse, a few of them like
for the large parens, above?

____________________

Edit: And you'll need to set your broswer's font to a monospaced font to see the equation above properly :/
Doesn't the Snowden phenomenon kind of make his point? His leaks spawned a shitstorm of US/Western media coverage and even court cases against the government. What happens inside China if a Chinese national flees the country and blows the whistle? Basically no challenge to the government, media blackout, maybe his friends get sent to re-education camps, etc.
Hype generation
Yahoo bought plenty of other "next big things" Geocities, tumblr, flikr, viaweb, Broadcast.com, del.icio.us, zimbra, and hundreds of others besides.

It wasn't clear at the time Google would be any kind of success, you are looking at things with hindsight.
> Luckily, it takes all of 30 minutes to just wipe your hard drive and install Ubuntu on your ThinkPad and you'd be much better off for it.

But how long it takes to fix all drivers and other Linux issues (WiFi, sounds, video, mouse...)?

I used a few Linux versions last year and none could do the switch window feature without breaking (alt tab on Windows).
No, not really, since you'd have to carry around a USB to Lightning charging cable even if your laptop had a standard USB-A port.
What is the redundant step? Do you not use "git commit -a" -- or does it not work in certain cases?

Staging is quite useful if you want to create several commits (perhaps fixup commits, perhaps whole commits) based on the current repository state. This is why you can do "git add -p" to add parts of files to staging.

You mentioned later in the thread that you prefer stashing -- but Git doesn't let you stash certain files (you have to stash the entire state), and in addition stashing has a much more awful UX than commits (it's represented as a stack which means you have to pop elements off it -- and you've then lost that stack entry and you can't pop the stack with uncommitted changes). If there is one aspect of Git's UX that needs to be massively redesigned it would be "git stash".
As someone in Europe, I don't think the Chinese government has much of a reach, or even interest, as far as myself goes. I don't like them, but they're more regionally oriented.

Whereas the U.S. government regularly meddles around the globe, no matter where you are.
Thank you guys! Your nicknames look like some UNIXy command line tools. :P
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I have a suspicion they A/B test the little things, like is it better to show the price in dollars or the local currency, and is it better to have a 'add to cart' or 'buy it now' button.

They miss the big changes like 'shall we show all the products in a 3d immersive VR gallery' or 'make a site which downloads all data and works entirely offline'.

Those big changes might usually fail, but if you never try any of them, you'll end up with a site that looks and behaves like it's from the 1990's, while the rest of the world has moved on.
I'd have bought it on the spot if it were on my side of the Atlantic ocean, even if it's a 914/4. This is a small piece of history that deserves to be preserved. Then again I'm the perfect target for that since I'm both a car enthusiast and appreciative of Sagan.