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> 59.8% of respondents who drank in the past 30 days identified as White/Caucasian

That's very representative of the country as a whole, wherein white, non-hispanic people make up approximately 61% of the population.[1] Rather than supporting the author's point of view, that statistic seems a good apology for an opposing viewpoint.

> How many of you reading this hang out at crack houses or opium dens? I realize this is an extreme example, but I’m being serious...we don’t go to these places because we don’t use those substances...

Actually, ...[2]

I believe the author has it backwards. Alcohol use isn't contributing to bad work environments; bad work environments are contributing to alcohol abuse.

[1]: https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...

[2]: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/07/25/use-of-illicit-drugs-...
Swap can be encrypted just fine.

As for RAM encryption, Linux already supports it, if you're using a very new AMD CPU with SME: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
The O'Reilly book Designing Data-Intensive Systems is a good overview of a lot of the concepts mentioned in other comments, and most things you come across in typical backend development and operations. If that doesn't answer your questions, it'll certainly point you in the right direction.

https://dataintensive.net
I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving from simple immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.

You seem to be missing a key ingredient: billions of years and endless branching iterations with the totality of all non-sequestered resources available. Even if you scale that to account for the more rapid iteration theoretically possible with machines, it doesn’t paint a rosy picture for any of our lifetimes.

Plus, in organisms the software and hardware are both subject to mutation, and exist in the context of a global system of competition for resources. That only tangentially resembles work done on AGI, and only in the software component. We can only design and build hardware so quickly, and that adds more time. I’m not hearing pushback against the possibilitY of AGI, just singularity “any day now” claims that seem mostly calibrated to sell books and seminars.
Interesting article, but it fails to address the idea that causal link could go the other way. So for example I might connect better with teachers who have some pedagogical skill/training, or teachers who put some effort into their lessons.

I can confirm that I dislike teachers who can't be bothered to properly prepare their lecture. I also find it easier to make connections with teachers that do put effort in.
In my industry (it's one of the businesses that are involved in NEMA) the use cases touted for 5g are vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle<>infrastructure although I think 5g's going to prove too expensive and Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) will predominate.
To get a good model of what is happening, look at the history of the tobacco industry: on the one hand is money on the other—public health. Money can reject reality almost indefinitely.

More examples: climate change, sugar, war machine.
(most humans can't do this task and survive)
There's only one atmosphere around you.

Faster means that your download takes up less spectrum. Allowing more users to have a good experience at the same time.
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Ask HN: How to write a good TOS agreement? for side projects?
I'm currently making a small, noncommercial side project. The project is going to be a website that users can post content on, so their personal data will be processed. I'm based in the EU, so GDPR compliance is a must. What do I need? Should I write the TOS and privacy policy or just wait and hope nothing bad happens? If I should, what should I include? How to write it?
Hey I'm from www.Levels.fyi - this is exactly what our site was built for. The link above is a copycat site and you can see the latest leveling info / compare with other companies on ours.
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Hmm... the irony! It's almost as if one group constantly has a chip on it's shoulder and I was insinuating they should cut their crap! Huh! :-D
No. Keeping them running uses less electricity than spinning them up with our workload. The disks are floating with rubber connectors in the case and the noise is nothing we can hear to the bed.

http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series...
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What's the issue with the image? In the form used it's not even remotely explicit, or really even suggestive. Do you have some moral objection to consenting pornography? On what grounds? People just shouldn't be sexual? What business is it of yours what Lenna chose to do with her body?
Talking about human intelligence is necessary because a computer that can perform a task better than a human can perform the same task doesn't mean it's intelligent, e.g. my iphone is not intelligent because stockfish can destroy me at chess.

Intelligence is the ability to reason abstractly. Humans can do this. It's not clear that anything else can.
We don’t need 4g. Anyone who says otherwise is blatantly lying to themselves.
That version has no basis in history, nor does it make much sense if you think about it. That said, I agree with your sentiment, just wish there was a more well known quote conveying it.
Our data: public by default, private through effort?
Ah, I mentioned it a little while ago in another comment thread. Microsoft bundled it with older versions of Office and Windows, and is included in their TrueType Font Pack[1]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/lucida...
Since the infrastructure is beholden to governments, one must assume that the data link layer is compromised.
Asset inflation is THE problem in developed countries.

Why?

1. Because there are people alive with large debts on the other side of those inflated assets. Any deflation will kill the lender (if borrower defaults) and the borrower (if the asset's value declines or they can't make any more payments)

2. There are entire populations unable to make asset purchases because assets are too expensive, thus they are left out.

The Fed's actions jumpstarted the economy by creating this massive inequality and has left out many behind.
I think this falls apart on Mojave. I use 27" Cinema Displays that are noticeably less readable even with the various font smoothing settings. Perhaps I haven't found the right combination.
If my 3 year old son got terminal cancer I probably would sit and think about the fact that global life expectancy has gone up and child mortality has gone down and while this is horrible for me at least less and less people are having to experience this awful pain.

I think I would legitimately attempt to find solace in that. What else would you do?
Just feel bad?

Going through terrible things is awful. Going through terrible things with a philosophy that allows you to take the most charitible interpretation of it is the least awful. It's still awful, but less so.

Can I ask you a question?

Is it your belief that we can live in a world where no one feels bad ever?

Or...

Is it your belief that there will always be some minimum degree of suffering in the World that is irreducible?

Which one?
That’s a good point. Lots of fragmentation leads to lots of different approaches to similar challenges.

I had always thought of the top-down development of Windows and Mac as a negative but now see the benefits because it forced developers to get behind tools and technologies.
> allow the strike to pass the edges of the zero circle

That's what pretty much everyone does when whiteboarding.

> When the strike passes the edge of the circle, it's no longer a zero

When a second stroke is added to the oval, it's no longer a zero to most people, other than programmers.

When no such stroke is added, it's also the letter O to most people; far more people than just Danes and Norwegians. Nobody is jarred by the appearance of a letter in the middle of a number. The ambiguity is embraced in informal English, where zero is pronounced as "oh", like 007 being "double oh seven".
Can you recommend the lowest cost CO2 sensor that one can buy that would give reliable readings?
He was rather famous at UT Austin for asking if the colors on the slides of speakers' slides meant anything. I believe it was some form of hazing for prospective faculty. Also, there was some discussion of the difference between a stack data structure and a networking stack.

On the other hand, everyone who I personally know, who took one of his classes, really liked it and him.
What if human beings were physically connected to a growing network of perfectly organized facts and information? What if that network could even assist with basic logical reasoning tasks? Would that be enough to say we’ve reached the singularity?

It doesn’t seem like it now because our phones aren’t quite physically connected to our brains, and the internet is far from organized, but I’d venture to say we’re already pretty close. A more interesting question to me is whether this is really anything we want.

If human machines were infinitely intelligent then they would all agree. So you wouldn’t need more than one. Sure, the ultimate human might need 7 billion pairs of eyes but those eyes wouldn’t need any more brains than to fuel up and locomote. Furthermore any human-like tendency to doubt oneself or fall in love or “rock out” would be deemed useless and therefore overridden.

Understanding that the purpose of a human is to pass on genes, and that there’s little human or genes left in her, the ultimate human might therefore conclude that her sustenance only disrupts the purposes of organic life forms. Her next and final act would be to destroy herself.

This is how I see the end of humanity. Not in a violent clash between artificial and organic intellects, not in a symphony of mushroom clouds, but with the final flip of a switch, in cold, calculated resignation.
People who make enough to have agents negotiating their salary (famous actors, professional athletes, other celebrity types) are usually looking at an order of magnitude higher compensation than even the best software developers get. At the lower end of the spectrum (lesser-known actors, musicians, etc.) agents are known for enriching themselves as much as helping their clients. They are just sort of accepted parasites on the way compensation is handled.
Namespaces are considered a deprecated artifact from TS < 1 and most projects suggest turning on lint errors for using them. Even if you do them, they are simple syntax sugar for an IIFE pattern that has been common in JS since forever.

Enums are simple syntax sugar for constants patterns you could write by hand easily.

Other than decorators and JSX-related stuff (also behind compiler flags), TS has been pretty strict about keeping only to Stage 3+ ES proposals since 1.x. Decorators got a strong push from Angular-based teams and JSX gets a lot of attention from React-based teams, so its also not like TS is adding stuff "just because", they are doing it for real world project engineering needs.
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The fine people on the Genode project did yeoman's work for constructing something sufficiently complex atop seL4. Without their exploring, mailing-list cajoling, implementation, and write-ups our seL4 work would be significantly more painful, and it's already unpleasantly painful as-is.
Writing code is trivial part of what I would expect from senior - making correct decisions about architecture and talking intelligently about code are less trivial parts that make difference between senior and junior. Ultimately, when senior cant write code, that can be found relatively quickly. When he fails at decisions it takes more time and causes more damage. When he cant talk about code, then he is suitable to some positions but not to many others (so it all depends on position at hand).

I don't mind interview having also part where code is written at all. Be it dummy feature or breadth/depth first search or fizzbuzz or any other simple reasonably sized assignment. But in case of senior as in partly decision maker with not much direct supervision in the long term, you need those other capabilities too.
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I always say this, but reading that makes me think thank God for the NHS in the UK. Health and education should never be a business. The pharmaceutical companies are so strong and greedy in the US they want people on their drugs, rather than look for preventing the problems. They often lambast and send confusing scientific studies out to ensure no alternative therapies succeed over their drugs.
> I guess them raising us as children, changing our diapers, making sacrifices for us etc. doesn't count for any kind of paying it forward because..... me, me, me, me, me.

But having children is a choice. A choice that they made. A choice that comes with huge responsibilities.

I'm all for having and expressing gratitude within reason though.

But I no longer see life as some gift I should be eternally grateful for. And even if it is a gift, its not one I asked for and should be required to pay for.
> The family was for a long time the safety net for people

In these times also a lot of abuse was not recognized as abuse.

> Out of the two I trust my family more than I trust a bureaucrat that has no loyalty to me.

We trust companies to feed us and house us, and government to regulate them; if social programs were properly funded and efficiently administered there's no reason why they couldn't be as reliable.

There are political forces that seem to want to privatize everything for profit, these same forces have an interest in destabilizing working government programs and/or making them unreliable, difficult-to-use, or untrustworthy, making people think that non-private entities can't perform as well.
It seems silly to reject regulation without seeing it and assuming the worst. After all, we already have the worst—closed source manipulative chat apps that exploit for profit for a small cabal of capitalists.
Good thing Danish doesn't have A through F, or you wouldn't be able to stomach hexadecimal.]

Likewise with O; the commonplace zero with no slash would likely look like a jarring typo also, if Danish had that letter.
The EU is bringing a copyright law in soon, who knew the EU would be the one bringing down the internet
Not unique. One could convincingly argue that this effect exists in many fields. Art (ie art history major vs artist). Music (ie violin player vs film score composer). Restaurant reviewing (ie critic vs chef). I'm sure there are many more.
Slightly off topic, but I wonder how much net savings (% world GDP?) would we have if there was no need to secure our communications. At least some energy and time would be saved as a result, comms would be faster.
> CO2 is heavier than air, so concentrations may be higher closer to the floor in a closed room with little movement

How significant is the gradient? Would it make a noticeable exposure difference to sleep in a high bed versus a mattress on the floor?
I agree with you. If security is the goal, trusting a nation state with the rules would be antithetical.
Huh? Of course most humans could do this. Obviously humans who have lived their entire lives in modern human society will have serious difficulty, but this is true of literally any animal taken out of a wild habitat.
Yep, and it's not too far off the mark. Without foreign workers, foreign products and services, where would they be? The country would be largely uninhabitable without western technology for building, desalination, transport, food imports etc. It's a hugely ironic contradiction that it is so critically dependent upon the developed and industrialised world while also simultaneously despising it and working against it in various ways.
Not sure that’s controversial ; )
He’s also been wrong his entire life. There’s a reason Google hired him: to make AI look good, despite being a near meaningless term.

Edit: diction.
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This is good and all, and many of the comments here explore the nuances. Something all of it seems to miss is that one persons "senior" engineer is not another persons "senior" engineer. This designation is meaningless and it usually is a failure of a company to properly assess their needs when creating a role. Some approach it by using a wishlist of framework and language knowledge (that quickly turns into a checklist). Others approach is by years of experience doing x,y,z. Fact is, a "senior" engineer is code for "person I want to hire who is right for the job and who needs little guidance". Many people fit that bill.
I've always wondered if the salaries in the industry are just keeping pace to what all salaries should be at. What if they're not the bubble, but instead everything else is just lagging? I guess that depends on if you think workers should be able to purchase a home where they live, pay for child care, and not live paycheck to paycheck.
> What makes a social network a social network?

I'd boil it down to something that offers 2 way communication instead of read-only (I'm not including clicking on a link [GET request] to get to a different page as part of 2 way communication, although technically it is). If it has a commenting system, voting system, or any other way for a user to be able to change/alter the information that is displayed on the site/platform to other users, I'd call that a social network.

News sites used to be more like news papers. You could only read the article. Then they just about all added Disqus/commenting systems, which turned them into more social networks.

A typical weather type app is not a social network. It only shows the weather.
No, it's security against a specific class of attacker that your threat model is considering.

We know there are nation states that build profiles of each user based on their HTTP requests, but we don't know of any that have written custom software specifically to target Debian users.
Once we get computers as smart as a mouse, we'll be at most 3-5 years or so computers as smart as a human. We will have solved at the major challenges in AGI and it will simply be a scale problem then.

Saying we don't have mouse level AGI is simply saying human AGI is greater than 5 years away, which isn't a remotely contentious statement.

The difference in intelligence between an amoeba and a mouse is enormous compared to a mouse and us. People greatly under appreciate how intelligent and close to human a mouse/bird/pig are in the grand scheme of things. Emotions, behaviors, motivations, goal setting, memory it's all there already. A flat worm, an ant, a fly - those are the large stepping stone accomplishments.

Think about rate of very long distance communication in humans. It took us tens of thousands of years to get to 2.4 kps dial up modems, and only few decades to get to common 300Mbps. The important signal is seeing a 100bps modem, not a 100Mbps connection.

So the real question is how long until we can replicate a worm's intelligence?
You said so much without pointing out any material benefits to humanity.
I've been looking at this book the past couple of days; have you read it yourself? If so what did you think?

Edit: I decided to go ahead and buy it since it was pretty cheap on Amazon. The table of contents had a lot of the information from the other comments. Thanks for the recommendation!
Well put. Thanks for this, and sorry for your loss. Your last paragraph is something I'd never considered before, but makes perfect sense and hits a bit close to home.
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Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series aren't quite 'thrillers', but one of the recurring plotlines is the existence of Neanderthals who were cloned from ancient DNA samples.

And one of the largest moral issues in the books is that they are owned by the company that synthesized them; it's fiction, but you can see why people are extremely concerned about the concept of companies owning both genetic sequences and their end products.

What happens when genetic treatments start to fix birth defects in unborn children? Will we allow the companies which produce those treatments to lay claim to the child's organs which would not have otherwise existed? I sure hope not, but I could definitely see it happening in this day and age. It'd be a whole new kind of vertical integration.
I mean, this is a lot of journalism in a nutshell, and the NYT tends to be far, far better than most.

If you cancelled your NYT subscription, may I ask what other daily newspaper you find to be as informative but more objective? Or have you given up daily news altogether?
Default size 16, spacing 1.4? Good lord that is way too big...

(props for remembering set values between reloads though)
You're saying he was just watching normal porn?

I remember specifically thinking "well, embarrassing sure, but everybody does it, oh well"

Why rob a bank just for some embarrassment?
Okay, I don't think you're acting in good faith. Sorry, but thats not the response you get from someone not writing flamebait.
It's not secure because any widely rolled out physical layer is by definition compromised.

All infrastructure in a country is beholden to that country's government, and that will never change. Any attempt to put encryption into a widely used physical layer will fail, because no committee will agree on an effective implementation that actually works (governments WILL subvert any committee). Governments will insist upon backdoors or sniffers, and hardware has the disadvantage of being in one physical place, easily targeted by a government.

The physical layer is compromised, and always will be.
It looks like things have moved on quickly since the other year when I was more involved in this! This company does some good products, some of which are fairly easy to interface: https://www.gassensing.co.uk/products/
Any mirrors? This seems to be a good topic as MMT keeps coming up.

Newb question here:
People that "advocate MMT" are basically saying it's fine that our deficit keeps rising because geopolitics and inflation/tax control?

And the people disturbed by that actually want our existing tax structure to start making headway against the debt instead of increasing it?

And secondary question to this, is MMT a mostly left theory (because we need to pay for the free stuff)?

I'm not trying to cause arguments I just want to make sure I got how people see this issue.
Would be interested to find out because if its just uncalibrated plotting out the relative differences it still would be useful (e.g. seeing a X% increase on whatever scale the sensor using at night versus day could provide enough of an indicator that something is going on and more investigations are warranted.)
https://medium.com/@markjeftovic/the-disturbing-rise-of-mode...
Do you know a chart of how fast a plant turns over carbon dioxide? I'm trying to search, but the results are mostly global warming related.
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This one (especially HN commentary) is a good read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18806315

After reading it all, I don't really see him as being any more successful in predicting than you and me. You get some right, you get some kind-of-in-the-right-direction, you get some wrong, and some are just laughably wrong.
> worm's intelligence

Done.

http://openworm.org/