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I wonder what percentage of users got past these in the days before looking up answers online. Some of these I know I wouldn't have solved, or would have taken an enormous amount of time like the Plundered Hearts example.

I recall people examining the raw data of some of these games to find text strings that could explain how to solve them.
I'd recommend reading the actual law, as passed by parliament. Knowing your rights and legal options under the law and based on that approaching your MP (if you are still registered to vote in Australia) with your concerns to encourage them to address them.

To do that you really need to know what the law actually says and requires. Here is a start: TCN/TAN are not limited to Australian citizens. Revoking your citizenship will not shield you from being issued a TCN/TAN, but will lessen the value of your voice in engineering change.
> I am also intrigued about what this means for criminality and how the line between illness and evil is likely to shift given the role of microorganisms in behavioral dysfunction; and more broadly, we don't like to admit it, but it seems that completely amoral factors can be the cause of moral, amoral, or immoral behavior.

That line is already in trouble because of genetics research, psychology research, etc showing that people's actions are less based on deliberate choice than they'd like to believe.

Of course, this all causes issues for society since (for good or bad), a stable society kinda needs to at least pretend humanity have some general sense of free will otherwise a lot of things (like the aforementioned justice system) stop making sense.
Number three sounds really cool. Command line interfaces is what I eat and breathe all day because there's no replacement for it, and I've often thought how that is stuck in time. I'm not sure what the proper solution would be, otherwise I'd have made it, but it sounds like this might be worth a shot.
Which would already make it superhuman. We are good at learning, but not that good.
They did focus on these early though. Literally their first fully autonomous drive on public roads was with a blind individual, explaining how the technology was going to be transformative.

Video: https://youtu.be/ArYTxDZzQOM
Is there a tutorial, course, or book that covers those four points specifically you recommend?
The au pairs issue had such a short time in the media, it's frustrating. The fact that a minister can overrule existing policy for individual cases means that any ministerial position is ripe for corruption. Both au pair cases were referred to the minister because of personal relationships with the minister as opposed to the cases themselves being worthy of reporting to the most senior level.

If there's a problem with policy, change the policy. Don't do favours for your mates if it contravenes policy. It's not fucking hard.

The fact the minister hasn't been fired is quite damning about the status of Australian politics, and highlights the need for a federal anti-corruption body.

What's worse is that this particular minister is the one forever pushing for lower immigration, greater protection for Australia's borders and showing no remorse for sick children in offshore detention - but fuck, my mate needs a French woman, who's previously worked in Australia despite only having a tourist visa, to look after his kids because he and his wife are rich enough not to have to parent their own little cunts.

shakes fist at cloud

/rant
The US people are talking about per gallon and you are likely quoting per liter.
Yes, I've heard about that :)

I would hope to be able to learn Danish eventually, or Swedish if I moved to Sweden (which I would prooobably prefer, though I'm not sure; being on either side of the bridge would be the best of both worlds, surely).

Thanks for the feedback. I'd probably be looking at a university position at the time I'll be considering a move (a couple of years). To be honest, I'd be really hard pressed to teach or talk about research in anything but English, even my native Greek- I've done all my studies in the UK and I can't even think about computer stuff in an other language. So it's great to hear lectures can be delivered in English.
Never heard about it before. How did you find out about that one?
what bugs me about this is I don't know how founders don't feel like employees from the moment they get themselves on vesting schedule...

[edited - removed my ranting]
This will be a feature of the Librem 5, if they manage to deliver: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
It's a great option and is installed by default on Fedora.
>How will Tesla be competitive with the Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW, Porsche, Lexus, etc. electric cars coming out in the next few years? It may not be a good idea for Tesla to buy more plants. Maybe they should look for a buy out.

It is clear that the market for EV's is going to explode, and so there will be plenty of room for Tesla plus various competitors. I think the real questions are which new companies will be in the new market, and which of the incumbents will make the transition and which will fail.
Yes I'm not claiming this to be a viable product. However I bet apple could find a way to sell this idea as a lifestyle.
Ha, I will! I once had a guy behind me on the train whip out his penis and pee on the floor. Looked right at me in the reflection of the window as he did it. He wasn't even crazy, either, as far as I could tell, just antisocial.

And yes, before you say it, that isn't an everyday occurrence. But jackasses refusing to take their bag off the seat so you can sit down is. As are people who can't be bothered to take a shower, or think that cologne will make up for it. The list goes on. Many people are just unpleasant to be around, and I don't see any problem with that observation.

For me, public transit comfort comes down to a couple things. First, the hard plastic seats make my butt hurt, and standing makes my left foot ache. Sorry, I'm getting old :). Second, the 2x time it takes to get anywhere means I'm on that terrible seat for even longer. And third, because yes, it's absolutely true, I find that perhaps one in ten people is unpleasant enough that I want to be out of visual and/or aromatic range.
The simulator isn't intended to fully replace real world training, the reality gap is a well known issue. However it's obvious that with *just real world training that you will never be able to get sufficient data and fail on easily predictable problems as described in the article. A lot of that post is spent on saying how hard it is to build a good simulation, but what is hard for some companies can be much easier for others.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/12/03/physx-high-fidelity...
Nice, thanks for the heads up and the info. Yeah, I've heard about how hard it is to learn Danish for that reason. Sounds like a friendly place :)
There is no shortage of food. Even with the Western world eating a rich, meat based diet, there's plenty of food; no need for everyone to go vegan.

What there is, is a problem with distribution.
Which weed-killer's effective against astro-turf?
I agree, but let's go deeper... I'd wager is there is a way to rank "empathy/kindness" in a more objective way, and that the current social environment is distanced from that objectivity.

Now even if we could perfectly, objectively rank it, should we immediately jail the bottom 1/3/10%, or should we wait for them to commit a crime? Should we give lighter sentences to more empathetic people who commit crimes, assuming they had better reasons to do it?
A vesting schedule is useful if you have cofounders, or VC investors.

You want to know that your cofounders (or a VC will want to know the founder) has a very real reason to stick around, especially in the toughest years.

Otherwise, you could jump ship at anytime and keep ownership of a huge part of the business.
How about once you factor in time to walk to and from the station.
It is an awful lot of Microsoft stuff, now that you mention it. Kind of surprising on hacker news, but then I guess the open source stuff can't ever be called discontinued.
Cheaper? Where I live in the US, chicken is much more expensive than beef, unless you're comparing it to steak.
Warrant canaries aren't necessary (nor are they legal in Australia). The law allows you to provide aggregated statistics on how many requests you've received in a 6-month period.
so about half a year ago when they were preparing for public release they decided to change safety level constant from 0.99 to 0.999

That's my theory as well. Remember, Uber killed a pedestrian earlier this year. Fortunately that didn't result in self-driving cars being banned or regulated out of existence, but they may not a get a third chance, so it makes sense to be even more cautious after that.
It’s always been this way. It’s always easier for governments to do x, y, z if they have more control over their citizens; it’s our job to make sure that there is a balance between losses of certain freedoms and the benefits that we can get by losing those liberties.
Sounds like a friend of mine who loves the time to read a book or work on his laptop.

I look out the window of the train, though, because otherwise I get motion sick. It's lost time to me.
I wonder how much Apple was helped by the battery debacle in the iPhone 6s. I am sure a lot of folks upgraded because their phone was horrendously slow. Now that Apple has fixed that problem and seemed to make iOS 12 faster than 11, upgrade incentives have gone down.
Wait, what do you mean? The current owner of Symbolics authorized the development of a new I-Machine emulator? Who is working on it, Kalman Reti and Brad Parker? This is very interesting news, please elaborate.
What a dumb article. The fact is that human beings can be good or bad, rational or irrational. That being the case, what we need to understand is what makes the difference, so we can make efforts to maximize the good behavior and minimize the bad. I don't see how anyone can disagree with that.
Missionary position.
This: https://twitter.com/alfiedotwtf/status/1070047303275175936

Which is absolutely brilliant.
No, that's right- I'd definitely try to learn the language (and I hope I'd make it eventually). I'm just wondering if it's possible to move there before I'm fluent in Danish, or Swedish.

To clarify, I moved in the UK 13 years ago when my English was still pretty bad and I had a lot of trouble for the first couple of years. It didn't help that British people don't speak other languages and are very proud about their accents -which I love, btw, but they make it real hard for people with only a serviceable level of international English to get by, over here.

So I wanted to know if I'd have the same problem in Denmark or Sweden. From the rest of the thread, it sounds that, no, I'll be fine with English for a couple of years until I'm proficient in the local language. That should be all I need :)
Apple has a subsidiary incorporated in Australia, which is necessary to do business here. They can just shut up shop, and fire all their Australian employees (though Australian labour laws might make this difficult to do without being sued for unfair dismissal).
>Or you could just ensure that you don't have access to production systems in your job.

Okay, so this just pushes the problem onto someone elses plate - the operator/sysadmin. I've known a few Australian operators. The law doesn't specifically target 'only people who can write code' - it applies to anyone who has access to the systems the Australian kooks and spooks want to infiltrate.
It also applies to former employees. Yes, you can be asked to hack into previous job's systems
Imagine you run a secure webmail provider where all data is truly encrypted and served up to the user that decrypts it using a 3rd party javascript library that isn't even hosted on your site.

Based on the wording of this they could compel you to target that user and serve up a javascript decryption library of the governments choice.

In a similar vein they could compel Android/MS/IOS system updates to include trojans in search of decryption keys.

Edit: This is a good argument to only use Linux or BSD. Unless you had some sort of management contract it would be near impossible to be directly targeted with system updates. They'd have to get the signing key for your distro and intercept/rewrite package downloads. I bet you this is standard affair for high value targets. If you were paranoid you could update or mirror through a proxy.
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It's from statistical inference, e.g., when the goal is to find the values of a model's parameters that match the sample. So if the model is y = f(x, params), inference gives you params, and prediction gives you y for a value of x that you haven't seen before.

Also, shouldn't the verb be inferring?
Dead link? I'm on mobile if that makes a difference.
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Pretty simple: there are countries where these activities are highly illegal. I'll become a citizen of one of them instead.
Was actually very interesting in your reply until

> etc

I haven't seen that one.

Made me wonder if this was honest or not.
That's why in-browser email should never be considered secure against an actor of this scale.
You have managed to build a mighty straw man which you then knocked down with skill borne of experience. Congrats.
> At first, they will mostly be your kids, minus some small percents here and there. But as the generations pass (10, likely less?) the relationship between mother and child will become looser and less obvious. The child won't resemble you, won't behave like you, and sooner than you'd think, won't think of you as a parent.

Without genetic engineering, how much are your descendants in 10 generations going to resemble you anyway?
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This is now a Radio Yerevan thread!

Q: Is it true that the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide?

A: Correct, and his last words were “comrades, don’t shoot!”
It’s not about being babysat, it’s about downside protection for VCs. If you’re competent and believe in your business (which any founder CEO should be and do), your personal assessment of the risk of you leaving should be effectively zero — meaning this term (“founders must adhere to this vesting schedule”) reduces to, “sure, if that makes you happy, let’s negotiate on more important things.”

Not agreeing to this term (or negotiating heavily) when accepting investment capital can be a huge red flag for this reason. It immediately weeds out people who aren’t committed to the business.
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There’s no such thing as a non-removable battery, just different degrees of difficulty in the removing. If the iFixit instructions [1] look like too much work, most malls have some guy in a kiosk who will fix your problem for a relative pittance. There are services on eBay that will do a 24 hour turn around for $35 if you don’t live near a mall. We are talking about something you may need to do once every 2-3 years.

Helpless posts decrying the lack of market options come up on on almost every thread that mention smartphones, but they really shouldn’t on a website for self-professed hackers.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+S6+Battery+Repla...
The FYIFV story seems pretty much made up: https://web.archive.org/web/20051228022236/http://www.kuro5h...
Maybe it checks the placeholder for 'name'
Is that true for anything less than a subway/metro train? Light rail is slow, buses even worse, there are many benefits to public transit but speed is rarely one of them. And in the rare cases when it is faster, it's in a handful of extremely dense cities that only represent a fraction of the population, and only for specific use cases.
Permaculture doesn't mean food forest. A food forest is one form of permaculture, but it is by no means the only form, or even the ideal one. The hype about food forests comes from how effective they are in tropical climates. But it isn't actually very efficient in temperate climates. Temperate climates do need to rely heavily on annual crops. Those crops can be grown using permaculture, we don't have to trade our potatoes for chestnuts.
The idea of airport surveillance is itself dangerous, since "profiling" is prohibited. Either do it the way El Al does it (obsessively complete inspection of all persons boarding an aircraft) or forget it. Half measures don't accomplish the stated purpose and are only a means to population control, not for "security."
Take the time and create an iso of that and throw it on GDrive/OneDrive/Dropbox.

Will be a lot easier in the future.
Increased airport security allows nation states to defend themselves better from situations they create.

e.g. the u.s. impinges on countries around the globe. we could never survive the blowback without strong border security.

as partwise beneficiaries of the booty, we Americans are expected to endure the dangers of releasing our biometry.

to answer your question, the u.s. used to be the oppressed... england left us well-enough alone when we rose up, and we were growing internally, not bombing six countries at once, like we are now. so no one hated us enough and we had little hate for immigrants- we wanted them to help us grow. but then WW2 happened and we sold our souls to Saudi Arabia for oil the grow. And simultaneously, the military industrial complex happened. thats how its been for three generations now and hardly anyone wants to pull out.

yes there were many other terror operations between 1800 and 1940, but their side effects, without widespread media, couldn't be leveraged to stymy the citizenry.
yes that's the thread, thanks
You misunderstood me. In my example XYZ was a combination of specific Windows API's to be called, not a technology. For the foreseeable future Windows is here to stay, and regardless of the programming language used if you learn its API's you'll be king.
You sound like a suit. Too many acronyms.
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The High Court's powers are defined in Section III of the Australian Constitution. In fact, s73 explicitly disallows parliament from stopping the High Court from hearing an appeal from a Supreme State Court.
I've got a standing bet with several of my friends that is along those same lines. I haven't gone quite as far as saying it will require true AI, but I did put down money (just dinner, I'm not a big roller :)) saying we're a minimum of 10 years away from being able to buy any kind of level 5 car.
OpenDoc is unnecessary on Lisp machines, in Genera you can already build applications by combining any CLOS classes that exist in the system. There is no rigid "application" black box that needs to be broken down into OpenDoc components, everything is an object that calls methods of other objects.
So last year based on new treasuries issuance the neutral rate was 6.2% before unbacked credit emissions like student loans.
Sounds like you just have poor public transport. It doesn't have to be that way, and I've never experienced anything like it in Europe.
My favorite is ULMFiT, although to be fair I'm an author on that paper... ;)

Frankly, all these papers are pretty great. But perhaps the most impressive results are BigGAN (amazing image generation) and BERT (doing things with NLP that I don't think anyone expected to see so soon).
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On a micro level, it could always be little better or worse than it is, more or less authoritarian, we can debate the details of the moment ad nauseum.

On a macro level, the global population keeps growing ~exponentially on a finite planet. This inevitably results in loss of freedoms/liberty. You can see symptoms of this everywhere.
Other than being a bit cheaper due to not needing a driver, would they differ from what Uber provides now?

Asking out of real curiosity, not trying to debate.
This is as outrage as forced implementation of external device into a person's body. All civic person should rise up and protest against it.
>Sometimes I think HN is filled with young people with uncomplicated lives :).

No, if these are big issues for you, you likely live in an American low density area where public transportation is scarce. In large metropolitan areas (which is after all, where most of the world already lives, and will live), getting on and off public transport is usually not a problem.

I have relocated to Tokyo for example about a year ago, and for me, a trip to the grocery store is usually done by foot (same is true for other appliances), and multiple forms of public transport are in walking distance.
I'm not quite sure what the point of this article was. So it's not about Apple phones but about smartphones? And the conclusion is that s/he is happier now... good for them? This was quite a long article for how much the author really conveyed.
so you are saying you are not negotiating about your ownership of the company? WTF...are you really that desperate for their money that you are basically an employee of a VC subsidiary now?

grow up people, and found companies that actually can stand on their own.
morning: upright at a table at the coffee shop

after lunch: prone, sprawled out on the couch at home
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>It immediately weeds out people who aren’t committed to the business.

Wouldn't this be equally valid as "self selects for people willing to take a worse deal" or even less charitably "self selects for suckers"
> and HN

If you have specific evidence of abuse on HN, please tell us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. If you don't, the site guidelines ask you not to make such insinuations: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Overwhelmingly, people decide they're seeing astroturfing as a reflex response to any view they sufficiently dislike. That is an internet sauce that we all need to get off of.

More explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... The point isn't that astroturfing doesn't exist, it's that on HN, users need to comment about it factually and not simply do fantasy projection. The latter is the most common case and therefore the null hypothesis when this comes up.
Let's by clear why this is very flawed reasoning.

First, the argument is that if people do not have free will, they have no moral worth, yet society has moral worth. But no reason is given why society, composed of individuals rendered worthless, isn't also rendered worthless.

Secondarily, learning doesn't require free will, as empirally demonstrated by our pitiful machines today.

You have to state your axioms up front, and frankly the "news" of no free will is the greatest carte blanche to redesign morality anyways.
>Windyws Phone's tile setup is still the best home screen setup for mobile. As I peep at my Android home with pretty wallpaper with acres of bhank space and uninformative icons, I pine for the informative, intelligent WP tiles.

So download widgets to show what you want?