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Undemocratic liberal states only stay liberal for as long as suits wealthy elites. Venezuala is technically a democracy, but, as I said in another comment, you also need strong institutions for a functioning democracy. Venzuala has a weak court system and Maduro didn't allow opposition parties to take part in the 2017 presidential elections, so it's not exactly a model democracy.
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The Siberian Traps massive igneous province (translation: near-continent-scale volcanic eruptions) have been dated to within 13-130ky. Still long by human timescales, but a geologic eyeblink, and well below 1My resolution.

The incident waas also associated with dramatic increases in atmospheric CO2 and mass extinctions.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Burgess-Bowring-2015-Siberi...
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Whether it happens or not, if the disruptor doesn't have a business model not based on targeted advertisement, I don't see how it will be different once it becomes large enough.

My hope would be a decentralized service, where everyone hosting an instance determines their own business model, or a paid service. None of which will be as fast to iterate, and be able to crank out features as fast as Facebook can ...
Right, what I'm saying is that we should uphold objective standards rather than just saying independent journalists are generally more/less trustworthy than established ones.
Hacking an object designed for A, to do B.

See: MacGyver
Of course it's harsh when you pull the quote out of context:

> Like Go-Explore, this post had interesting ideas that I hadn’t seen before, which is everything you could want out of research. And like Go-Explore, I was sour on the results themselves, because they smelled too much like PR, like a result that was shaped by PR, warped in a way that preferred flashy numbers too much and applicability too little.
For Open Access articles, Unpaywall [1] (or at least its API) usually can find a direct link to the PDF (or HTML if available). For example, this is what I use in Flockademic [2] to be able to directly link to the articles themselves for researchers that have added the DOIs of the Open Access articles to their ORCID iDs.

Point being, if articles can be freely distributed, that paves the way for discovery services to provide better interfaces to the research.

[1] https://unpaywall.org

[2] https://flockademic.com
They issued a correction:

>Update: A previous version of this article said the Zen blanket raised $1,2 millions, the amount they did raise was $800.000.
It will get disrupted when people realize the cost of putting their personal life online. The Cambridge Analytica incident was a good start but we need many more cases like it to start making a trend.
Media has always been biased like that, because they report the news relative to the established opinion at the time and place where they are published. It is easy in hindsight to pick examples that paints a picture of manipulation.
I have not read this very carefully, but these conversations seem to be worried about classical cryptocurrency attacks -- we have rational agents who try to maximize their money. A threat of someone loosing all of their money will prevent one from doing something.

However, in my example, this is not the case at all. A PR firm or EvilCorp does not care about success of cryptocurrency, they just want to make sure that "The Citizen" will fail. For example, your link talks about "penalizing both sides hard" like it is unavoidable -- but this is exactly what EvilCorp would want.

I don't think I have seen analysis of the prediction markets which assumes actors who are willing to lose money to get the desired results.
Yeah, if he calls me directly on the phone or via text messaging (SMS, chat), there's nothing wrong with that. A definite no about my name and other info being in the database of a political party without my consent, based only on my friend's approval.
Yes it does. And that meaning is people whose political views are very far into left wing politics. Left wing politics means: "Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy". Which EU countries are not enforcing equality laws again? Which EU countries don't have massive taxes to fund huge welfare states? All of western Europe has been in the grip of far-left politicians for over half a century.
Yup, but it's not very lucrative vs. risk, thus rare. This doesn't happen all that often because the payments need to also go somewhere, and following the money is apparently easier in electronic form. Plus there's a safety/security layer - you need to authenticate payments above a certain low limit, bank vouches for what's below the limit, etc.
It is exactly a system gesture.
> Chinese "AI" companies with 10 digit valuations and nothing more than a fancy website.

That's one thing, but the hundreds (yes, hundreds, literally) AI-enabled chips and SoCs, from small and medium not-so-well-funded Chinese firms are real - most of them contains some RISC-V hard cores by the way.

Some of them will be bought by those fancy-valuated hype-enablers, and maybe even prove their initial valuation at the end.
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I don't think this is correct:

"Grossly, 0.07 nanometers per metre per year expansion everywhere would be impossible to hide from solid state physics, and even several everyday polymers and ceramics; an expansion term would have to appear in accurate descriptions."

On a small scale, the effects of the expansion are overcome by other forces -- this doesn't mean that the expansion doesn't occur - merely that its effect is locally overcome and so it doesn't pull apart arrangements of atoms and molecules which are bound together by other forces.

This is even described in your second link.
It's not Facebook's fault, I agree. Or at least not just Facebook. It's our society, it's capitalism, it's the fact that we've accepted for decades that as we all collectively get richer and richer we'd accept that some would earn 100k$ a month and others would earn 600$ and that's all fine and acceptable. It's bound to break. It's obscene. The fake news are just a convenient way for people to find scapegoats. As long as people will look up and see people who earn a 100 times as much as they do how can we ever imagine that they'll accept even more sacrifices? Is it fake news that every time somebody talks about raising taxes on the riches they respond with threats of job cuts and moving away? How can you expect any kind of solidarity in this situation? This can only lead to a revolution.

The gilets jaunes is not a political movement, it's a fuck you movement. Like many of Trump's electors in the USA, like Bolsonaro's electors in Brazil, like many of the M5S electors in Italy. Populists and fascists always have a simple answer to everybody's problem, if we can't give the people a solution, they will, and they'll win.

Greed is killing us all. It's killing the climate, it's killing democracy, it's going to be the end of us. Merry Christmas everyone!
So this is what Android/Windows people think of iOS...
> still plans to use the Chinese company's phone mast antennas and other products deemed not to be at the "core" of the service.

So apparently phone masts aren't "core" to a _phone network_?
Undeniably, and as per my observation.

The challenge for us is how to engage people who are clearly smart, but lack the same concerns that many of us have developed.
> the protesters seeing this video will know that surrendering to the police will probably get their arms and feet broken

The ones getting their limbs smashed weren't protesting, they had destroyed and broken in to property with the probable intent of causing more damage.

All of this in a setting where police is massively outnumbered while being pelted with 10 pound rocks, bottles, fire crackers and tear gas.

Giving someone a beating to incapacitate them (no time for arrest & paperwork) is fair game in my eyes.
There are different types of things being conflated as "fake news":

- fiction not labelled as such: items invented from whole cloth with no regard for evidence. Conspiracy garbage. "B52 FOUND ON MOON".

- correctly reporting an official statement that turns out to be false, without checking the underlying facts ("WMD in Iraq": the newspapers accurately reported what the officials said!). Various other sorts of bad, sycophantic or "yellow" journalism.

- hostile propaganda, malicious lies, racial slander, and the like: protocols of zion/blood libel/etc material. Similar slander of Muslims. QAnon and Pizzagate. Previously the mainstream media refused to touch this stuff, but now it's being spread to a large audience via social media. Various sorts of government psyops, including but not limited to Russia.

The problem is that people correctly see the "old fake news" (2), but then replace it with even less accurate news (3).
It’s not xenophobia to be wary of a non-allied state having access to your sensitive computer networks.

Hell, the U.K. should be just as worried about American products, tbh. Having a home grown electronics manufacturing industry seems like it should be a national security priority for everyone.

America moving all of its electronics manufacturing to China was complete madness, imo, though I understand the chain of events that led to it.
I think that's totally fine. Only the US can spy on their own citizens, plus on the entire world.
Yes. Not sure about IGG but KS takes a 5% cut on funds raised.
I don't know Pitfall, but generally speaking, the games that are hard to solve are the ones with sparse rewards.
In the game, do you get points when you overcome some obstacles?
If not and you only get points for successfully completing the entire level, then it becomes very hard for an agent to learn: How can it know if it is improving within the level itself?
Presumably you can also keep Chromium running and keep a pool of tabs to reuse. Doing this it would pretty fast I imagine.

Depending on your use case you can also disable security and open as many iframes as you want in a single tab. Not sure how this compares to multiple tabs though.

Of course you'll run into cold start again when lambda has to scale.
And the media does the same.
> I don't think it is fair to consider large-scale censorship as the only other alternative. Having some kind of neutral editorial process to filter out the unsubstantiated, hateful opinions and leave room for a more nuanced discussion raises the level of discourse, and is the model that have been offered by traditional media for a long time.

The problem with this view is that one person's hateful opinion is another person's oppressed minority opinion. There aren't many objective truths, moderators just end up enforcing their own world view (which we've already seen Facebook do).
Author of Poetry here!

I've never seen that error before.

Which version of Python do you use?

And feel free to create an issue on the issue tracker: https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues
Don’t worry. Chinese AI companies tend to secure contract from government or state owned enterprise. In that case honestly it worths that 10 digit valuation as long as they maintain that relation, just imagine the scale of the monitoring network for example. And according to my friend working in Chinese VC, few targets at actual consumer or even small businesses.

So it’s not surprising one can’t find a service entry point from their fancy website unless they are AI e-commerce startup.
He said "I'm sorry, I know this is disruptive" as my two small children cried behind me, unsure why someone had banged on the door so early in the morning.
But that is a big asterisk, which was my point. Only the compiled and running program is actually forced to working with physical memory. All stages before that is just modeling.

My belief is that we should stop conflating data types (input and state modeling) and program types (domain modeling) so we can advance to more productive workflows. F.ex runtime reflection should never have been a thing, instead the focus should have been on macros and staged compilation, most meta programming can probably be better evaluated design time rather than run time.
>unless you actually want censorship on the largest scale ever in history

that's what they want. The media and many government officials have been implying that the citizens are simply too stupid to be trusted with filtering their information so the glorious government must restrict what they're allowed to see. At what point will they decide the common man is simply too dumb to vote and get rid of democracy as well?

All this talk is demeaning and shows what our cultured elites really think about us, that we're a bunch of dumb cattle that need to be controlled
Without having to hack and/or expose I/O pins, anything with a USB port that can run the open source code can be given wireless communication capabilities with a very common and cheap chip
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> I think it is fair to criticize unedited internet communication in general, as we have just recently learned that this form of communication did not result in the improvement of public discourse

It depends on how exactly you define 'improvement'. Millions of people, speaking freely to each other, finding new friends sharing common interests would disagree with you.
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> This alone is impressive, but [Ted] isn’t done yet. He realized that this method of transmission was generating some strong frequency harmonics which extended far beyond the theoretical maximum 1 MHz frequency of his UART SDR.

i.e., blast noise all over the spectrum. There's a reason why real transmitters are more expensive than a serial port adapter.

This kind of RF pollution is illegal for obvious reasons and if you manage to disrupt something important (emergency frequencies, mobile networks...), it's gonna be expensive.

Don't try this at home!
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This has been the default position of every administration in my lifetime. If times are bad, we need stimulus. If times are good, we can spare the cash to goose the growth.

Headline could be “Trump Agrees with Keynes: In the Long Run, We’re All Dead.”
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People really wanted to hate Hillary, and to some extent this was because she was endorsed so heavily by the media. So they latched onto every little thing that could be used against her.

There's really two parts to the populist wave: "establishment politics isn't delivering what we need" and "we must turn to what seems like a Man of the People". The first has some extremely valid points, the second has (mostly) been a total disaster.
> And also give car owners an incentive to keep their keys safer, given how many vehicles out there are vulnerable to this. Just fixing this for new cars is only half the solution.

Why is it always up to us to deal with the consequences of all this poorly thought out new crap?

It sort of reminds me of the way they want us to believe that "identity theft" should be our problem to clean up, when its really caused by banks poor security practices.
link is dead (404).
For me personally, athletic achievement signals hard work. Which is quite useful.

Now I'm sure not everyone thinks that way.

Certainly kids who actually engage in sport will realize this.
Yup. In addition to this, for every extremist/unsavory group that gathers on FB there are probably a bunch more wholesome (or at least unsavory) groups that have a chance to congregate for almost free (minus the cost of some privacy). Facebook is accelerating volunteer orgs, philanthropies, and all sorts of other organizations that do good, but that doesn't necessarily get reported on, an even when it does the cynical.

Again, I'm not defending Facebook, but it's pretty peculiar -- they just seem to have been in hot water every day for the last few months. Maybe it's a vicious PR cycle where regular media outlets are now being incentivized to report on FB's negative press because that's what's getting clicks.... because negative press is being produced.

[EDIT] wanted to add that this is part of how people get sucked into conspiracy theories... No one has time to verify and fact-check every single fact, and editors/media outlets are doing it less and less these days. A few lies mixed in with a bunch of facts are sometimes really hard to find but can have lasting impacts on your world view/view of some subject. Of course, sometimes conspiracy theories, outlandish-seeming claims, and smear jobs are sometimes true and justified.
Not often I find my local rag referenced in HN, but I'm intrigued... where in the article does it mention UK intelligence? Martlesham is BT's R&D facility.
Is everything a conspiracy to you?
A suggestion:

- Verizon/Oath could make a reasonable exit and get some of their investment back

- Users could continue using Tumblr

- Tumblr could continue to exist

if Verizon/Oath sold it to Mindgeek or a similar adult focused company.
We know these methods. They're not high-tech. Swamps, wetlands, tropical rainforests.

The same landforms which are most under assault by human activity.

http://www.esassoc.com/projects/wetlands-carbon-sequestratio...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=carbon%20sequestration%...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2002...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environment-and-deve...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=car...
The standard response is: what if your friends do have something to hide and you end up questioned and detained because you had conversations with them. What if the sites you visit outs an embarrassing medical condition?
Yes, maybe.
Thay may be unrelated - most stock markets went down about that much today (and I'm glaring at my own stocks at the moment - none in Atlassian, they're down an average of 4.23% as of now)
and don't think about doing that while in a country where you don't know their native language. The challenge that Google gives you will be in that language, with no way to change it to English
Really good video of the attack in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8RrmEizVg
Ah, that would be it. There's no way to tell you are heading to victory.
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Go-explore is weird for me. The main reasons for it's success are all based on very specific thing that barely transfer to anything such as the ability to save a state and restart from it at anytime (in this case using features from the emulator). It look almost like an engineering project.

I don't like bad-mouthing the work of others, so I kind of feel bad for saying that and maybe someone can prove me wrong: But is this not borderline "cheating" (in quotes because obviously there is no agreed-upon rules)?

The goal never was to solve Montezuma's revenge just for the sake of it. We could have done that way before by using hard engineering.
The interesting thing about this game is that it reveals inherent flaws in our reinforcement learning approach. And so, if you manage to solve this game using a domain-transferable approach, surely that means you have made some significant progress in RL.
That's doesn't seem to be the case here?
AM & FM audio transmission

Amateur TV

Ham radio

Point-to-point communication

Radio telescopy

Receiving satellite signals

Lots of opportunities to reverse engineer existing signals
A sad day for democracy, but this fact restores some faith in humanity.
They know. This is a move to extract value from a problematic platform. It was never about the users except as a growth metric to valuate, and sell, which they did. The life cycle is complete, and the remains are being butchered for sale. As much as I love liberal boobies, its still a walled garden you chose to play in.
Yes, this is a good solution but only if you don't have any sort of session data that you want flushed out after it runs. One could argue you could use browser contexts (incognito tabs) to have ephemeral sessions, but unfortunately that feature doesn't work in --single-process mode (which AWS Lambda requires).
Insulting the royal family in the UAE or Saudi Arabia will also get you jailed.

In Thailand a lot of people jailed for Lèse-majesté get pardoned by the king. This king is new though so that might not continue.
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Here's a nice video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ey02HT_1Ho
This kind of research should be done by universities or already profitable companies. Using someone else's VC money for this seems questionable at best.
> Try the two with a chess timer

Of course voice will be faster--eight out of ten times at least one involved party's main goal is just to get off the phone.

Optimizing for time is a mistake. Optimize for disruption (I can switch back to other work while waiting for a chat reply--there's context-switching overhead there, but not nearly as much as a phone call), retention (I can refer back to what someone said in chat, rather than "hey, Jane, what was that hostname again?", waiting for an atrocious speech-to-text conversion, or manually seeking around in a call recording), and mutual investment in communication (professional or not, a synchronous call usually has at least one participant that wants to be there less than the other[s]--in chat, people can participate when they're most interested in doing so, meaning that their contributions are less half-assed).

There are situations where sync is best (trying to pitch something or persuade colleagues of something is a big one--it's just easier to reject/be reluctant without engaging critically via chat for some reason). But a lot of the time chat is more efficient.

I've found that many people I've worked with who strongly dislike chat are not practiced or comfortable writers in general, and, after some training (if such folks are willing, I've had them take documentation, presentation-building, or RFC/RFO writing tasks as practice), they tend to be much, much happier about (and better at!) textual communication.
Yikes, did not know that.
Yeah, that was strange. But suddenly it went back from page 2 to the front page again, around pos. 15
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