skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's your understanding.

Maybe you don't work in the US, or come from the US, but are a microsoft employee. Maybe you you do not fully agree with the united states military policies or with their use of technology to further US military objectives and began working for Microsoft because, despite their flaws, you love tech and want to improve the world. Maybe you did not think, like the founding fathers did, that a standing army ought to be needed. Certainly, it's a new age and not every ideal is practical, nor what we think to be practical a good idea.

Whatever the reason, you now have a conflict of interest; a change in the corporate mission statement and identity that is sudden and significant.

Furthermore, suppose you do work on the Hololens project. You wake up in the morning to find out the knowledge in your head is now national-security critical, which means your head is now US Government property and you will be subject to a mandatory gook risk assessment. This will affect your ability to travel, send funds abroad, contact family abroad, whom you may be employed by, and all sorts of other requirements you did not sign up for upto and including special conditions delivered by the G-Men themselves to you and if you refuse you, like many others, may become a disappeared persons statistic.

You did not apply for security clearance, and you have not been paid for the privilage. Perhaps you were a H1B working on that project who's H1B was ended by it.

There's a long tradition of companies making a great consumer product, and the military hiring the willing staff or convincing the principal architect of the need, and making a great military weapon. What's going on here is people are being drafted.

Good, creative IT people are hard to come by and they are pretty opinionated about not producing monstrosities because they are more capable than anyone of imagining how those weapons can be abused. Windows, Azure, and Office are all stagnating, dieing technologies at this point; Satya is looking for future revenue 5-10 years out.

Microsoft has to play a certain amount of politics and be in the right circles to be allowed to do things like buy Github or Linkedin, both of which given their history of abusing labor they ought not to have been allowed to do. This problem is not something that is going to go away, and alienating your engineering staff is a great way to lose experienced, critical engineers to competitiors and even foreign governments. Satya is playing with fire.
>>If the mechanical model also does this, it it conscious too?

That's a big 'If'. You really have to arrive at something working to even ponder upon that question. Right now you are at:

if (false) {
is_conscious();
}
The rocket equation itself, no, but the planet mass would also have drastic effects on the evolution of species. On our planet, high density fibrous plants like trees have an advantage when it comes to access to the sun but what if on a bigger planet, that advantage goes to plants than can emit a spidersilk-like material to float on the wind in colonies? There goes a practically infinitely renewable building material that can be used for almost anything until the industrial age. How can a civilization get to the electronic age when they spend all their time between extinction events hauling rocks and mining ores to build 2 story dwellings?

There's just so many unknowns.
The fight over launching Spotify in India is about to get messy
NPR has also learned of several complaints against Walmart with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as a lawsuit — all by greeters with disabilities who previously lost their jobs after demands changed.

The threat of court action or penalties is one of the few things that will cause giant corporations to rethink discriminatory policies such as this.

And it's not greeters that's Walmart's problem. It's Amazon. Walmart needs to be out-Amazoning Amazon in several key areas, and so far it's basically been a game of catch-up.
Air pollution shines from this alarming map
Good thing this is extensively illegal under federal law.
Seriously, if I'm a foreign adversary, I am infiltrating these companies to do two things: steal IP, and spreading company ideals that stop them from working with the US military...and I don't rule that out as something that is happening.

Anyone that thinks if the US suddenly stopped every dime of military spending today would make the world full of rainbows and gumdrops is incredibly naive. I'm glad that Microsoft took this stand.
companies that think that they can treat aws like their own colo and dont have any semblance of budgeting will always be surprised by their bills. the cloud can be very expensive...it can also be significantly cheaper (think: a retailer with mostly static websites with some light javascript here and there that peaks on black friday). doing an analysis and being responsible can help here.
> I can never understand those protesters

In my opinion, the potential for the technology that microsoft could develop for the military is just as dangerous if not more so than chlorine gas, which was used in WW1.

You should watch this video [1]. It is about Einstein and Fritz Haber (who was the father of chlorine gas). Einstein was horrified at the way Haber was so casual about mass murdering people.

Speaking for myself: I have never and will never work on any weapon technology that is meant for killing other people. If I was at MS and someone asked me to do that I would raise hell like these people and absolutely refuse to do it and quit.

There is no reason or need for an arms race on super high end weaponization of AI between the US, Russia, and China. That is super dangerous and crazy talk. We need peace in this world, not more high tech weapons.

I support the action of the protesters at MS 1000%. Hope that helps you understand them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFe253TYmA
Okay, that's fair. You've won the semantic argument, I was wrong to argue that DANE doesn't add new "trust anchors".

The central point of your comment is still completely wrong though. DANE does _not_ add new trusted actors, and has no significant negative security impact.
it can but if that blade or the enclosure dies, the system is sol...also, procurement can be a pain
>>Apparently, the computer learned chess better than the long developed programs by only playing the game with itself for four hours!

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man...

Basically the machine isn't exactly thinking. It simulates a model of thinking.

There lies the biggest difference.
I really enjoyed reading this piece right up until he labeled Steve Bannon a fascist. Because this comment is so wildly nonsensical, I lost interest in the rest of the piece and hit the back button.
Why would you do that? Just because? Taxing a faster form of public transportation just to shepherd people onto trains? Makes zero sense.
I think this is an oversimplification of the reasons people could have for protesting. The military is not just about resolving conflict through material power. It supervises a massive industrial machine which twists our entire country around its values. Dwight D. Eisenhower described the situation in 1961:

> Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

> Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

> This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

Stopping this "total influence" from affecting the values of your employer is a separate goal from ending war altogether.
Musk could accomplish exactly what you’re saying on a blog (just as Bezos did on Medium recently), or through a PR release written or approved by him. There are numerous ways he could communicate more effectively to the public without mainstream media filtering. Why do we act like Twitter is the only way to do this?

Twitter only encourages misunderstanding and posts without thought. The character limit is a big driver of this.

If Musk wants to take his company private then he can do whatever he wants, but there is a different set of rules for CEOs of publicly traded companies for a reason.
Depends on your definition of "Asian" :)

People in the Indian sub-continent eat cilantro heavily and use in various ways. Thai food uses cilantro a lot, and I believe it is also present in Middle eastern food, though I'm not 100% sure.
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seems like a pretty widely held view?
Exactly this. The whole conclusion is a beautifully illustrated strawman.

I’ll fight Fascism in any way I can, and I’ll stand on any side of the aisle and denounce racial supremacy in any way shape or form, but holy cow did this web comic jump to some pretty zany conclusions at the end.
Working link to download Patterson's 1956 paper Age of meteorites and the Earth PDF:

http://booksdl.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1016%2F0016-7037%28...
How strange, you might say. What other big tech companies have failed to implement this important standard?

Has Google, for GOOGLE.COM? No.

Apple? No.

Microsoft? Negatory, good buddy.

Oracle? Norp.

Netflix? Nopers.

Facebook? Nah.

Twitter? Nein!

Cisco? Nyet.

IBM? Nervenvarn!

Salesforce.com? Nay.

Stripe? Absolutely not.

Braintree? Perish the thought.

What about Github? What about no!

Bank of America? Bank of no DNSSEC.

Citigroup? Bullfinch! †

Surely Schwab. But, alas, no.

Goldman Sachs? Not on your life.

JPMC? Nah.

Aha, NASDAQ! No way.

DNSSEC is moribund. It's a failed standard with no support, and its position worsens with each passing month (it's taking hits from DoH, from RDAP, from CT, from MTA-STS, from multi-perspective lookup, and also from serious security operators not trusting the DNS to begin with). Not implementing this pointless IETF boondoggle is one of the more forward-thinking decisions AWS has made.

† (A website assures me that this is in fact a synonym for "nope").
I cannot agree more.

It’s simultaneously something that’s incredibly important, but also weirdly under-valued.
Eating meat goes back like 2 million years. Don't even pretend there was some worldwide trend for veganism in 7th century BCE.
Thing is since the switch wages have kept pace with inflation even at the low end, and logically the poor have the least money so by extension the least exposed to inflation of cash on hand. Either way nobody should be holding money but instead using it to buy productive assets in which case it wouldn’t affect them right? On average home values outpace inflation in the US too, and that’s most Americans biggest investment. It inflates away debts, too, in that the principal always decreases in value in constant dollars.

Thus, it’s not clear to me how inflation affects any invested individual, it’s just a regular haircut for unproductive capital. Any other wealth accumulation would be a failure of tax or social policy not monetary policy.

Inflation doesn’t come at the expense of savers because savers don’t save cash, that’s because of inflation, and its not a bug, it’s a feature. It’s exactly the incentive you call out — to allocate your capital to investments which outpace inflation instead of sitting on it. I can’t think of any good reason a wad of dollar bills should be worth more tomorrow (or even keep value) by virtue of me just ... having them — can you?
> So they are volunteerily sabotage U.S. military to help the Russians and Chineses.

They chose to not support the war industry in general, the country is irrelevant. Ultimately, that is all we, as individuals, can do - to participate in something or not, diminishing it by one.
Wasn't the worst of the ozone thinning over the poles? Not sure the ozone layer actually affects sun exposure in Australia or NZ.
With an important caveat: it’s almost completely eradicated _for now_. Civilizations come and go. Perpetual human progress is only possible if that’s what the strongest group of people want and are willing to fight for it. “Live free or die” wasn’t a cute mantra; it was a rallying cry and a warning.

In the US, slavery was eradicated literally by the sword.

The real genius of the Founding Fathers of the US was their distrust of human nature (and consequent aversion to centralized power).
Things like this are always tough to see on the micro, because individuals that didn’t do anything wrong are losing their jobs. On the macro, it’s tough to blame the business for doing the right thing for themselves.

The market places immense pressure on incumbent businesses to innovate to cut costs, reduce inconsistency, and provide fresh experiences. These are the basics of capitalism and any individual agent is _required_ to adjust their personal work policy to maintain their position of employability. Employability is always transient. Any personal skill, specific job category, or asset has a limited period of time that it will be useful to the market.

Some obvious examples of this happening:

* Walmart has been piloting robots that can take inventory and clean [1]

* Short distance Autonomous food delivery robots [2] [3]

* Autonomous vehicle delivery of humans and goods [5]

* Haidilao (huge Chinese hotpot chain) has been piloting robots that deliver food to your table [4]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/07/busi...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/22/starship-deploys-autonomou...

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

[4] https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/29/haidilao-robots/

[5] https://www.frysfood.com/f/grocery-delivery-nuro-self-drivin...
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Indeed - the Talos machines are the first new PPC desktops in quite a while. The IBM POWER CPU series is far from dead, just post-Macintosh / PS3/Wii/XB360 consoles, it's not really something you see in the consumer space any more - apart from Talos, which I'm pretty excited about.

(Disclosure: I work for IBM.)
>These are the basics of capitalism and any individual agent is _required_ to adjust their personal work policy to maintain their position of employability.

The same capitalism doesn't work when it comes to housing, healthcare, etc. That's why ordinary people get pissed off.
urgh - so simplistic and completely without nuance, just merrily spinning it's own logic and coming to weird ultimate conclusions. This stuff is seductive because of it's format, but conspiracy theories also layer the logic on slowly until it's so thick you don't know where to begin to pick it apart.
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I'll add, too, that anyone who wants to try TLS 1.3 right now can do so with the latest source builds of the Caddy web server. We just merged support for TLS 1.3 a few minutes after the Go 1.12 release: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/pull/2399

If you have a domain name pointed at your machine:

$ caddy -host example.com

(Roughly equivalent to python -m SimpleHTTPServer but with HTTPS, and production-ready.)

Or if you just want to try things out:

$ caddy "tls self_signed"
That means this has more to with ability to communicate/signal your consciousness. For example if a rock is conscious, how would it inform us that it is?

Without the ability to communicate, consciousness means nothing at all. Then of course communicate how? Hand signals, hand writing or voice are equally mystical forms of communication given that these are waves(light and sound). That's already Telepathy category. We just don't feel it as magical because every one can do it.

I'd imagine for a humanoid species without ears or even a idea that something like sound wave would exist, talking would be synonymous with Telepathy.
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As bad at it seems right now, please believe me that situation isn't worth ending your life over.

My email is my profile and I'm happy to talk to at any time, about anything.

I'm a founder and have a pretty extensive network of other founders that are eager to hire good table. I am happy to see if I can refer you to some good companies, or otherwise help you out.

Stay strong. Things will get better.
It takes ~20 LOC to setup scaleable asynchronous I/O w/ IOCP. It's been like that since 1996. So that's the benchmark as far as I'm concerned.
Not biologist, but I wonder whether these model organisms are valid. One might expect that today's single cell organisms may have had multicellular ancestors, but have kept the--I struggle for the word--the required genetic machinery for multicellular form in dormant/unexpressed fashion, but otherwise relatively intact and ready for expression given certain evolutiinary presures.
This would be in contrast to the original evolution of multicellular life.
Edit: I see others here have expressed this idea already, and more elegantly.
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On the long term scale, absolutely not. Plutonium-239 has a half life of 24,000 years, a length of time 5x longer than all of recorded history. Can you predict what humanity and earth will be like over long time spans like that and that your low environmental drawbacks remain in effect the entire time?

I also have my doubts about your "low environmental drawback" assessment. When have wind or solar, etc. caused anything remotely like Fukushima or Chernobyl?
Not a Mars spacecraft, but SQLite has definitely been used on some CubeSat missions in LEO. I know because I'm the one who did it. :-)
This is why I would suggest a baseball bat rather than pointing out where "mute" is. Bonus: effective against the angry property owner as well!
How about, "after decades of searching using all of the best available tools, none has been found".
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Stay strong brother. You'll make it. You have good experience.
Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?
It's interesting that some on this thread have raised the problem that protesting military technology hampers you compared to your potential adversaries. This is a topic covered in-depth in Dan Carlin's Hardcore History episode "Destroyer of Worlds" [1], which talked about the development of nuclear weapons after WWII.

One point of contention was the morality of developing the hydrogen bomb and people will ask the question "what if our enemies have it and we don't?"

On the other hand, anyone having a particular capability greatly increases the chances that everyone will have it. The US thought the Soviets would take 20 years to develop the atomic bomb. It took 4 years thanks in no small part to espionage efforts by the USSR. Part of the reason why this worked is people who didn't want a world where only the US had nuclear weapons. It would be too dangerous.

So for any military tech that US companies develop consider how likely that is to stay in their hands and not be stolen by China.

On a personal level I support employees holding their employers accountable. If you think you're absolved of moral responsibility for what the company does let me ask you this: why then aren't the lawyers who work for patent trolls or the price gouging executives at Big Pharma or those who worked for Big Tobacco?

[1] https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...
>Never install anything that isn't in the package manager.

If I wanted to not get any work done I would be using Windows instead.
Thanks for your feedback. Use them or lose them. So for <40 age we can do what you advised squats and stretching. But what about >40? please suggest.

Also I want to add https://superuser.com/a/914862 the first comment of the accepted answer tells other side of the story(out of memory stuff). This is just for the analogy. What do you suggest for that?
Right. So European countries that burned oil and coal way back to bootstrap their industrial economies get to enjoy all the benefits, but developing countries have to stop development at their current level, and surrender all hopes to ever catch up?
"Trusted actor"? Seriously?
It's 1943 and Germany has taken over most of Europe and it's looking like Russia might fall as well.

Are you saying you'd never help the Allies develop weapons that might help end the war?
I agree with your feedback. Specialists are required here. But do you know any hack to improve joints quality specially knees under two buckets. 1- Age > 40 and 2- Age <40.

Thanks
What fantastic news!

> The tortoise is said to be in good health, but underweight. It is believed that she is about 100 years old.

I suppose it's easier to have relict populations survive without inbreeding issues when they've got century-plus lifespans. I'm glad they've relocated the tortoise to a breeding center - hopefully we'll be able to preserve them!
>>When something has enough complexity to be aware of the boundary between "it" and everything else, then we have a being of some kind.

Not necessarily. Humans learn anything through inputs of sight, sound, feeling and smell. Different conscious bodies could have different ways of learning about things around them, and hence a totally different model of reality around them.

They can't tell us anything about their consciousness for the same reasons why we can't talk to stones.
>There is no reason or need for an arms race on super high end weaponization of AI between the US, Russia, and China.

I feel like I'm stating the obvious, and you probably already understand this point, but I'll make it anyway for the sake of advancing the discussion. From the perspective of the world as a whole, an arms race doesn't make sense. From the perspective of any single major player (United States, Russia, China) advancing your own military technology makes sense regardless of if the other players do so; if they do you have MAD (maybe) protecting you from being exploited, if they don't you can exploit them. We can argue that the major players "shouldn't" be trying to exploit each other, but the fact is that they are, and the best defense against exploitation seems to be military power. So it goes.
>c.f. apt-get upgrade or similar, which takes a few seconds.

Except when the package isn't included, or it isn't the version you needed, because then you have to spend 40 minutes trying to install all the dependencies and building the package from source, instead of the 3 minutes it would have taken to install an .exe on Windows.
>preserving the lives of citizens

this is completely false. a war is never about killing citizens but about imposing political will. without a defense, the occupier would simply impose their political system on the occupied. a government, being a political entity, is only forcing people to DIE so they can maintain their political hegemony over some people.
The rovers would only receive about 4 hours of sunlight in a day, so Li-Ion batteries are used to store enough charge to keep it running reliably.

Newer rovers like curiosity are using radioisotope generators which should last a much longer time.
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Not sure I see the connection. People who disagreed with slavery just didn't have slaves.

At any rate, what ended slavery in the US? War!