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How can you honestly claim that you want to support arguing in good faith, and yet sincerely speculate whether Jonathan Haidt is some sort of alt-right goon?

If you wanted good faith, you didn't start off the conversation well.
Ah, I actually didn't know about the ctrl-tab shortcut in 2.79, tho the ctrl-1,2,3 seems nice now.
And the transform orientation, you mean the alt-space in 2.79? Another bad one removed... tho looks like the shortcut is unused in 2.8, so it could be set.
A showstopper is a showstopper. Yes, physics can rule things out. But so can economics. There is no reason to give the first priority over the second, if the second is sufficiently bad. And I will claim those practical considerations render fusion very dubious. And yes, they change over time: they have gotten WORSE for fusion. It used to be that fusion was competing with fission to be that post-fossil energy source. That was, perhaps, not too unreasonable, especially if the fission had to be with breeding. But now, it competes with dramatically cheaper renewables.
That insinuates Nazis or Slavers are in a position of power. The hierarchy is switched though: Nazis have to debate students how hard they can be punched.
I want to know what that "invoking" sentence actually means. What exactly did Kushner actually say? Either he did something possibly illegal, or the media is attempting to leave the reader believing a damaging lie without actually saying something they can get called out on. We'd need the original quotes to know which. Until then, we can of course each just assume the reality confirms our prior beliefs.
Right, that's what raising an issue with the software maintainers are for.

Aside from anecdotes, there's little value in further discussion beyond the PSA that is the original post; save for prevention/recovery of such events.
I agree with the above, but imagine the same argument where "the machines" is replaced with "subject-matter experts", or "politicians acting on the advice of subject-matter experts".

The accumulated knowledge and skills of not just specialised individuals but entire institutions, working on highly technical and abstract areas of society, seems like it has created a kind of empathy gap between the people ostensibly wielding power and those who are experiencing the effects of that power (or the limits of that power).

> "... turning them off would amount to suicide."

Although this conclusion appears equally valid in the replacement argument, it sadly doesn't come with the wanted guarantee of "therefore that wouldn't happen".
Yeah would love an answer here too
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> IMHO the key part to creating automation is to make sure you operate in environment that you can fully control.

This pretty much is the opposite of an employee onboarding environment. Much of the discussion here is about automating things via scripts. A typical large enterprise uses a bunch of HR and related systems that are fairly resistant to automation. If you can automate, it may be a massive saga involving cooperation from the vendor of some arcane software.

e.g there is no concept of a "clean environment" when you are interacting with a benefits system, a payroll system build last century, a manual procedure where Barry downstairs has to cut you an access card, etc. etc.

You can aspire to automate these steps but they are 100 x as hard as running bash scripts on a box. And onboarding new employees does not typically happen often enough to justify the effort.
“Stained” [1] and “A Study in Keith” [2] are two of my favorites by Andrew Sorensen, who’s mentioned in the article.

Both start silent while he types the setup code. The first has a visual aspect, the second only has the code displayed.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TIaMRis8J0

[2] https://vimeo.com/2433947
> This is a flawed analogy. The conceptual basis of nuclear weapons was well understood as soon as it was learned that the atom has a compact nucleus. The energy needed to bind that nucleus together gives a rough idea of the power of a fission weapon. If that energy could be liberated all at once, it would make an explosive orders of magnitude more powerful than anything known.

Extrapolating as you seem to be here, when should I expect to see a total conversion reactor show up? I want 100% of the energy in that Uranium, dammit - not the piddly percentages you get from fission!

Seriously, I think you overestimate how predictable nuclear weapons were. Fission was discovered in 1938.
I'm surprised to see the amount of downvotes that follow negativity pointed at Microsoft. What's going on here?

EDIT: Oh. I see. I wasn't aware that OpenAI was a YC thing. I've been a member of Hacker News through various accounts for countless years, however this is the first time I've seen moderation pushing towards an obvious YC agenda. Very interesting...

EDIT2: Actually, after reading the comments - I find it more likely that Microsoft/OpenAI stakeholders are participating heavily. Over 800 upvotes for this post makes it quite remarkable... I'll leave my tinfoil hat over there...
The backend engineer position lists ruby experience as a Strict Requirement. The linked explanation makes sense when trying for fast growth. However, the text is about 3 years old now so my question is: Do you expect this policy to change in the near future?
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At Apple, it's the norm in the sense that Cook replaced Jobs.

There was the interregnum during which Apple was more like other companies, but then Jobs returned, and here's what we have.
I'm sorry, I still don't understand.

The only interpretation of that I'm coming up with is that each step of the process would be kicked off in Slack.

Wouldn't that mean people could easily stomp on each other's toes? Wouldn't there also be tons of needless noise as each of us does our workflows?

I use Slack daily, but we don't have any automation hooked up in it. I realize some teams drive deploys, alerts, and other stuff through it. That makes sense to me - this does not.

Am I missing something?
For IRAs just use vanguard S&P 500.
I strongly believe in freedom of movement - but any time laws are bent or broken they open the door to selective enforcement - and selective enforcement can be undetectably discriminatory. If a law is silly and we all agree it is then we should get rid of that law.

If it's legal in your jurisdiction to be held in holding for going 3 MPH over the speed limit then the only just course of action is to either repeal the law or start throwing everyone into holding for that infraction - ideally that goes on until public will leads to the law being repealed. If that law is only occasionally enforced then it's enforcement leads to capricious and unjust state of the law.
I'd love to hire some talented individuals with this level of experience. Any recommendations on where I can post positions that don't attract the typical west coast brogrammer set?
The titles at Apple don't really translate to other companies. Product marketing at Apple for example decides on how big features work.
Clippy/Bonzibuddy were before the time of deep nets so all you can expect from them is a bunch of predicate logic but not real learning.
As a long time Emacs user I was recently shocked to see that everything that needs to be painfully configured in Emacs comes from free with VS Code (I don't feel the need for an IDE for the code I'm producing). But the value of Emacs is that everything you learned is solid and probably won't change. Most of the information in the old O'reilly Emacs "Learning Gnu Emacs" from 1992 is still valid. That's deeply reassuring in world of fucked-up js frameworks and endless new useless features. I'm happy to have a stable editor. Apart from technical aspects it's important for me and for some people I guess that my editor is free. "Free as in speech", not open-sourced as a marketing strategy by corporate monsters.
With statistical validity? To p = 0.05? I don't.

But picking one form of "silencing" (people whose invitations to speak on university campuses were withdrawn, blocked, or cancelled due to threats of violence), and measuring it by how much I read about it in the press, it appears that the right is blocked more than the left. And the press is not currently disposed present things in a way that makes the right look more sympathetic.
No, but it indicates that it's also subject to Israeli restrictions.
biology, especially genomics, is this way as well. Every day you see research articles where a scientist studied something and the PR folks (or even the paper) present it as a solution to a major medical problem. I spent a good part of my graduate career attempting to write code that duplicated the results in papers; I'd say about 75% of the time, I convinced myself the paper was simply wrong due to technical errors that a bit of data science was able to uncover.
I wonder if a journal could be established that emphasizes code integrated papers, something that might accept submissions as jupyter notebooks for example.

Edit: Perhaps one way to encourage this is via topic "reuse" papers, which present further detail on a previously published papers topic, but this time with code and more detailed discussion. It would at least help the situations in that the author gets some reuse of effort, but in a way that still shows new information and advances the field.
One concern about lithium cells is safety. Shorting alkaline cells won't do much, and even nimhs are relatively benign, but lithiums can start fires or explode when mishandled. Shipping lithum cells is for that reason bit of a hurdle too.
It has happened once, so not exactly the "norm". Also I imagine the circumstances that would require them to pick a new CEO will be very different from last time.
Similarly, I think I got started because AOL added a "feature" of free web host space, and curious about such new features I explored using it. As much as Usenet laments that first part of "Eternal September" when AOL opened up a ton of such features to become a "real" ISP, they also launched a lot of test space for early website design for some of us. (At one point I think I had all 5 screen-names that AOL allowed per account just for website hosting. I was privileged in that no one else in the household ever needed to use AOL much, I suppose in hindsight.)

I remember moving stuff to GeoCities and Angelfire and weirder lost cousins like XOOM only when AOL started adding hidden fees for web space (I recall something like they started with a 10MB/screen-name free cap and then dropped to 1MB/screen-name cap), and then it was more important when the cost structure of AOL itself couldn't compete with other ISPs and it was time to move on from AOL dial-up to DSL.

It's a shame that "free web space" stopped being a competitive "feature" for ISPs. I like the tilde.town aesthetic of bringing back shared shell space. I sometimes wonder if there were a way to make something like that a "feature" that any kid "already has access to and should explore", but doing that at scale seems tough. Maybe more reason to see if we can do interesting things in decentralized web and decentralized web discovery mechanics as most people's home computers are already more capable than many of the very web servers ISPs used early in the web when free space was a competitive feature (they are just locked behind too many NAT layers and firewalls, for both good and bad reasons).
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I honestly wouldn't mind this at all, I think there's a lot he could and does add to the company
So it’s been almost two years since the capsules paper, and they still have nothing but mnist results? A bit underwhelming...
This is excellent, happy for both sides
So if you aren't the tallest person around then you don't deserve to have a relationship?
well the money is clean now and Sequoia followed the lead, so nobody important cares about that, lets stop spending resources on whitelisting monetary transactions to begin with.

the audacity to try to limit capital flows based on owner behavior was always misguided. if you disagree with something Alisher did, then you have to indict the people that actually did it. vilifying money is just lazy.
Honest question, do you think liberal speakers are getting invited to places like Liberty University in the first place?
> Meyer, the sister of Jared Kushner, was speaking at an event in which she was trying to attract wealthy Chinese investors to the 1 Journal Square project.

> During the presentation, Meyer reminded investors of her brother's recent role in American politics: "In 2008, my brother Jared Kushner joined the family company as CEO," Meyer told a crowd, adding he "recently moved to Washington to join the administration."

> The comments coincided with a visual display, which included a photograph of Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/draft-kushner-visas/...
This doesn't make any sense.

Where do students hold a position of real power, especially a position where they are inflicting violence on Nazis?

Where is this debate happening?
I love this site! My company started because paying freelancers was such a headache...it is a pain point close to my heart. https://outvoice.com
Did you just make up that definition? The only result on Google is your comment.
Be sure and write some special firewall rules before running this...
> Any recommendations for chargers that don't require paired batteries?

I've had a Powerex MC-C9000 [1] that I have used for at least a decade with no problems, mostly with Eneloops. It does not require pairing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Powerex-MH-C9000-WizardOne-Charger-An...
I checked in Firefox and a given Slack uses 200+MB at load and then optimizes down to 140MB at runtime for a given Slack, of which ~60MB is JavaScript and ~80MB is page elements. So if those numbers carry over to Electron-Chromium, then it's 100MB of "I'm a browser" and 140MB of "I'm a webpage full of dynamic and objects". They certainly will not carry over precisely equally, but it puts some scope on it to consider.

(Gmail uses 250MB at runtime in the same Firefox instance, for comparison; I didn't test it in an Electron-like container.)
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Probably not. Honest question back: Why do you think Liberty University is the yardstick, rather than public universities?
It's worth bearing in mind that when Haidt refers to problems of "political correctness", he's not talking about polite society, or political rhetoric, or what's allowed on television; he's talking about universities specifically, based on his own experiences (and Bret Weinstein, and Nicholas Christakis, etc).

In his latest book, Haidt clarifies that there are legitimate roles for activism, solidarity, and taboos; his argument is that the activist telos is at fundamental odds with the telos of universities as truth-finding institutions.
Yeah, yeesh. So I'm in the market for an ultrabook and eventhough I had 8 GB of ram in my desktop over a frigging decade ago there still exist laptops with less than 16 GB today. Not only that, the cheapest 16 GB model is over a $1000 more expensive because now I must have an i7 and everything else.

And no, not even with 16GB will I tolerate what slack uses even with their new version.

Yes, I do consider upgrading the ram myself by replacing the soldered ram-chips. And do not for a second imagine I'm doing that so that I can send text messages@!
Google Docs on what device? Their iOS apps are famously bad on slower iPads (like the original Air) but the website with a correctly configured browser on a reasonably-specced laptop or desktop is very responsive, once it loads. Of course, I'm not a fan of it myself, but the input lag isn't the reason.
Those are all impressive technical achievements to be sure, but they don't constitute evidence of progress toward AGI. If I'm driving my car from Seattle to Honolulu and I make it to San Diego it sure seems like I made a lot of progress?
Why should anyone respect China's patents when they flout patent law that puts them at a disadvantage?
Bucky fuller, Dymaxion House, circa 1930:

> The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times — all of them factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. A key design consideration of the design was ease of shipment and assembly.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house

Nearly a century later... "Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days" Aug., 2018 ~ https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/08/02/prefab-housing-compl...

An interesting detail: "Kennedy notes that the cost of trucking to Berkeley from the port of Oakland was more expensive than the cost of shipping from Hong Kong."
This client-based scheme would be totally vulnerable to spamming / general messing about. Doing it in the server requires an actual request, and should still allow them to filter out attempts at gaming the system.
A lot of metro-area services that extend into Richmond don't have chinese language support, and moving to a neighboring city will present a number of issues as signage very quickly drops off to english only once you cross the Fraser. Additionally interactions with officials are likely quite stressful if you're very weak in english - the local Services BC almost certainly has quite good language coverage, but law enforcement would be hit or miss - ditto with emergency services (Ambulance, Hospital, Fire).

Lastly, if you're going for residency or citizenship then you'll need solid english or french comprehension, and you'll likely be going through the downtown vancouver citizenship office.
> emacs is, by default, worse than $IDE

Depends on the language really.

For anything Lisp[0], Haskell, Ocaml, Idris, Coq, I haven't found a better development environment than Emacs. Probably because Emacs is usually one of the first to support a lot of languages and then maintains the lead.

> The world has moved on, emacs is a relic of the old world and I finally feel fine in saying that.

«It works. I’m grateful for things that work. Not many things do work, you know.»

0. except maybe Clojure?
I didn’t used to fee this way. Or rather, I kind of did, but didn’t really /care/.

Then I had a kid, and the question of “do I trust this thing to go into or onto my kid’s body?” actually mattered.

Suddenly, my purchases from amazon drop like a rock. Partly for classes of item I don’t trust getting from them, and partly because I’m just getting habituated to shopping at different outlets.

Moreover, this has become a “known thing” in the online mommy groups in our area. My wife has told me she’s heard exactly the same thing on her fb and mailing lists; increasingly, “don’t buy amazon” is a given for conscientious parents.

I’m spending a lot of money on this tiny human, Amazon, and none of it is going to you.
Because we aspire to the rule of law, even if they don't.
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> worrying about that distinction is like arguing against the fungibility of money (did that dollar bill in your pocket, which you got from an ATM, "come from" your job or your side gig?)

That's an interesting argument except for the fact that the source of money is extremely important for fraud and tax purposes. Money laundering is specifically the co-mingling of "inventory" to hide the source. Amazon is product laundering.

When the product comes from "Sally's Supplements" then if there is an issue with the product then that's first and foremost Sally's problem. It might go up to Procter & Gamble or maybe it doesn't get that far.

The source of the product and who supports it is very important.
The easy way to fund a new military plane is:

- remove one bolt and raise in the air

- slide out rev 30 "parts" from beneath bolt

- slide in rev 40 "upgrade parts" (fuselage, wings, engines, etc) underneath the bolt

- fly "upgraded plane" without a lot of pesky 'new plane" studies

Additionally, in parts of california, how to build a house:

- find existing house

- pick a wall

- remodel everything except for that wall

- reap tax benefits in your 99.9% new house.
Sure. We're one of the largest lawn/garden/agriculture distributors in the Southeastern United States.

But there seems to be a lot of other companies that rely on legacy RPG. "The Four Hundred" from IT Jungle seems to be a good resource to IBM i-related information.

https://www.itjungle.com/newsletter/tfh/
At the volume of retail though how impactful are those price improvements over the long run?

My gut tells me it can’t be much, but I have zero data to back that up on and would love to find some.
I disagree with this description.

Retail flow is primarily uninformed - "noise", not "signal" (i.e. "alpha" in finance speak). Retail traders might trade based on Twitter news, Reddit suggestions, weather, gut feeling, sudden money needs, ...

Institutional traders are big and slow and they have long-term alpha (if any), I don't think they'd generate much worry for HFTs/market makers... The real worry is other HFTs, small, short term (well-funded, more rational) traders that do have "alpha". There, you're faced with negative selection - by trading passive (market making), you should assume that your order is more likely to be filled when the counter-party has better information (more alpha/signal than you) so you'll lose in the short term.
There's a bit of doublespeak going on here. What could they mean by "take any steps to formally renounce their citizenship" that doesn't include (from the naturalization oath):

> I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;...

They won't require you to formally tell the other country you are renouncing it, which is good enough for practical purposes, since most other countries don't allow you to renounce your citizenship simply by telling some US bureaucrat you renounce and abjure it.
I've heard very different things, sorry. Folks getting harassed and their marriages questioned for not fitting into white, monogamous, cisheteronormative definitions.
The US army trains to protect the political nerve center of the US.

In other shocking news when it rains the ground gets wet.
I'm not sure how well that technically fits - even putting aside euphemismitic misappropriation of the "People don't like it when you hurl terms of abuse at them and think you are a jerk - how unfair!" there are ideas which fall into politically incorrect which don't offend the dignity of any class but are held abhorrent or insane for another reason. Advocating for gay marriage in the 1950s would offend both the mainstream of both the US and the USSR for instance.
"So whoever decides who get to use (i.e. supplies) that land - let's call them the landowner - is adding value to that economic activity."

The ones who decide what to do with land need not be their owner. See the practice of eminent domain, public lands, and non-capitalist economic systems.

Allowing the concentration of ownership in to a relatively few hands at the expense of the many has been an absolute disaster for the overwhelming majority of the population.
My point is that the conclusion is specious.
I think the point is: life as we know it will almost certainly outlive humans, by a lot. We're just hoping our ride will be somewhat lengthy.
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