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> This anti-Facebook stuff is mostly just politics

Some of it is politics, but some of it is Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly lying through his teeth about failing to protect users' privacy. At a certain point, it stops sounding accidental. At worst, it was malicious enough that they were fined $5B for it (and should have been fined more).

If you're going to make the claim that Facebook is not as malicious as everyone says, you're making the more extreme and difficult to believe claim, and you should cite some sources. As it is, it just sounds like you're not interested in reading about their abuses even superficially.
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> "Even if I become the number one, there is an entity that cannot be defeated,"

Because of the complexity of the game, is it not possible that this iteration of DeepMind could be defeated through an adversarial approach?
Eh, the good part of a computer Rubik's cube solver is not seeing the cube solved in nanoseconds, it's in making the computer. The cube itself is just a unit test.
The problem with runtime debuggers is that they are only really useful in a development environment. Outside of that you have to rely on core dumps, logging and various other post analysis tools.

Which is why projects have to built the debugging into the product in one form or another. A topic that is far to broad/long for a posting here, but most projects end up implementing in various forms if they live long enough.
Wait wait wait, I grew up in the Baltics as a Russian speaker. What you go through as such there (especially in Latvia and Estonia) is actual discrimination. As in: some people started to change their names to hide their Russian origins. What you have in Ukraine in comparison is a gentle reminder to please at some point learn the language of your country.
Am I the only one reading this article with the take away that the ai is not his primary reason for retirement? I understand that the title has its own conclusion but it seems overly sensational to me.

> He actually quit the KBA in May 2016 and is now suing the association for the return of his membership fee.

> "... [I] have something else to do," he said, asserting his only dream for now is to rest and spend time with his family.

Edit: Meant to include the part where he's planning a high profile set of games against another ai.
Vs code can't open two windows properly though..
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Maybe in chess, instead of measuring time, they should measure kJ spent.
Welcome to the club, Gophers!

It would be great to have something similar to SonarQube for Go
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I use the Visual Studio debugger on an almost daily basis, and it'll be hard for me to use another tool if/when I leave my industry. Conditional and data breakpoints are gamechangers.

To be frank, I didn't use debuggers much at all throughout my tenure at university, my internship at Amazon, and my first few gigs in the games industry. I still had bugs, but I was able to solve them mostly through printf, gut checks, and dousing rods.

But when I got to AAA console game development, the leads had to show me how to use the immense power of the VS debugger, and now I have difficulty imaging life without it. Different scales of problems require different tooling to manage.
> who would it make more sense to go after first

Both as the effect is global, and if the differential is 2:1 both have much room for improvement. Though you must not conveniently forget that much of China's emissions stem from being the world's manufacturer. A hell of a lot of European and US emissions have been globalised to China, rather simply a billion Chinese adopting a Texan lifestyle. I'd be interested to see per capita global emissions after someone accounted for globalisation of manufacturing and services, and brought all those imports back home, emissions wise.

Yet even after outsourcing all that heavy industry and manufacturing, the US has, by far, the worst per capita emissions on the planet. It is completely beyond my understanding when numbers sometimes come up on HN, how they are able to use so much for a family. The lifestyle isn't 2x UK, France or Germany. Not just CO2, but water use too. It beggars belief to be so wasteful for so little gain.

Everyone should be doing more, whether tiny or the largest. It really should be a race to the bottom - for national, and global pride.

I'd encourage you to harass my country all you like - decidedly mid tier on climate action and emissions, precisely because they are mid tier on a globe that is not doing nearly enough. Complaining it's worse elsewhere just reeks of trying to evade or ignore the issue.
Interesting indeed. I talk very fast too, generally. In my presentations and talks(only few I had given), I used to talk fast and people will loose interest in the talk. I got many good feedback to slow down a bit, I did it by adding pauses at relevant points (still in practice).

I have kind of two hypothesis especially for me. Why I talk fast?

a) My local/native language is fast paced. May be due that in English too I am talking fast.

b) My mother also talks very fast. May be I got certain traits from her.
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I think most people will still play Go for fun or some competitive level...

But if you're being measured against AI, I don't think you'd find it much fun anymore.

As someone else commented, we're not faster than cars. But if you were at one point the fastest entity, and then people keep saying "well, a car is faster than you"...I can understand that he'd feel it diminishes his value and that'd be pretty discouraging.

He will play another AI program soon and isn't quitting Go all together, but will find other things to do.

'Lee didn't deny that his retirement decision was also influenced by a conflict with the KBA over the use of membership fees. He actually quit the KBA in May 2016 and is now suing the association for the return of his membership fee.'
Facebook's $5B fine and current antitrust investigation are far beyond the realm of tinfoil hats.
As a small SAAS owner I’m always very ambivalent about these things. I use throw away email addresses myself but there is nothing more annoying than seeing the same users sign up over and over again for trials.

I think 1/4 of my signups are anonymous accounts.

Only upside is that they are a dead giveaway for non converting users so there’s that.
To me, there seems to be a misalignment between your job and your expectations of a job. It sounds like there may be meaning of life questions or at least hidden emotions in this as well so I would go to a therapist to help me figure things out.
Other than being OSS (w00t!) how does this differ from inboxalias?
> But what I doubt AI will ever be able to do is create art that speaks to us.

This is your opinion, but you then go to mention things that are not necessary to create "art that speaks to us" (look within itself and find what mortality means etc.).

What if we advance AI reasoning skills to a point that it can find high-level patterns in how artists go from different human feelings (as described in litterature and other mediums), takes in a lot of the entities we can relate to (animals, what humans look like, etc.) and some aesthetic ones (shapes, colorometry, textures, ...) to create a new piece of art that optimizes for: "Likelihood of speaking to us"?

What then? It seems like an AI doesn't need to be mortal and self aware to do something like that.
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> Getting China and India on board has been a non-starter so far

China is ahead of schedule in reducing its emissions. Consider also that being the first to switch to renewables or other energy sources means we develop technology to replace existing infrastructure that we can then export. The first-mover advantage on this is obvious.
Basically, yes: some prototypes have been made in labs, but haven't really seen the light of day. Wikipedia has an article about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

As noted in the article, HP says that memristor memory may be commercially available by 2018, so I guess we'll see then....
Unless something changed recently, it is weird to say that GNOME/KDE is heavier/lighter when they are both insane resource hogs. I use Xfce or MATE nowadays.
After having spent an insane amount of time in late 2017/2018 building an HFT bot for Binance I can say this is a pretty solid article.

In our case we were doing triangle trading between BTC/ETH/USDT pairs and had our buys/sell delay down to 3-7ms. At one point moving 0.3-0.7% of Binance’s daily volume.

Few notes:

* Finding an objective point of truth for value when all of the currencies are floating is hard but vital to success. This was the hardest problem we encountered. We tried taking the realtime average of BTC and ETH across all exchanges, we tried tying it to the shortest route to USD, and several other routes... but ultimately this is where we ended up “losing” most of our alpha.

* Order books are seemingly simple but the devil is in the details. This especially matters for paper trading.

* Efficiently using API limits at exchanges is an optimization problem in and of itself.

* Our model was relatively simple but we focused on speed and edge cases. For instance Binance would rotate IPs on their load balancers and we’d constantly check the latency between each open SSL connection and use the fastest. Further we wouldn’t decode the buy response to plaintext we’d just read the raw stream.

After several epic months our entire project fell apart after a cryptic phone call about “institutional access” that didn’t follow the 1s websocket update. The access was quiet expensive and we said no to it and shortly after all of our strategies went to crap.

Best we could tell someone was front running us due to an artificial delay for our account (delay between trades went to ~20ms up from our prior steady speed of 3-7ms) and/or a bunch of the trades in the orderbook were bogus.

Frustrated we tried our strategy on another account and the delay dropped again to our normal range and was profitable again (the orderbooks were slightly different between bots!).

It was in that moment we realized playing in unregulated markets is not fun or something we wanted to continue to do. Intermediary risk was something we didn’t account for.

Further we realized that there will always been a better resourced or more dedicated team willing to fight you for your alpha.

After months of effort and a ton of fun we decided it was best we went back and focused on a problem where we could build a long term competitive advantage.

Edit: typos and formatting
I think Crimean Tatars might disagree.
Idealistically, it seems we could just let everyone do what they want, and it will all work out. As we're seeing over the last few years, this doesn't work.

Lobby to change the laws to whatever they "should" be, and enforce them. Personally I'm behind whatever Congress decides, but I'm very much not behind lawlessness.
"I find it interesting to observe that most 2A defenders are totally willing to support bills funding their potential adversaries and limiting your ability to organize."

I think this is a salient point and I appreciate you making it.

"And what, may I ask, are your pea shooters going to do against the firepower of a corrupt nation state?"

I am tempted to point your attention to the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu[1] where, poor, badly organized militia members armed with what, I think, could be characterized as "pea shooters"[2] held off the full force of the US Military in a warzone.

However I don't think that's a productive discussion because it easily gets bogged down by tactical details and it's hard to make an apples to apples comparison, etc. (although I encourage you to read about it).

Instead, I would simply say that I expect repressive, authoritarian behavior by states to expand to fit whatever vacuum is available and the presence of an armed populace places a ceiling on how far that reach will go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

[2] Shitty AKs and old, Russian RPGs.
How isolated are they from one another? For example, if I manage to replace the Dock first, does the Dock need to provide a lot of interfaces for the other parts of the DE to call into?

For example, when an application is started from the spotlight search, its icon pops up in the dock (if not already there) and becomes active, and when applications exit they become inactive in the dock and optionally disappear.
I don't think the claim has ever been that it would result in less bloody conflict. On the contrary, likely more bloody.

I think the claim is simply that it can potentially change the outcome.

And before anyone disagrees, how many soldiers died in Iraq & Afghanistan at the hands of insurgencies?
There's only two questions you should answer regarding risk assessments:
- how certain are you that you are right? 100% is not credible answer for anyone in this debate.
- can you afford being wrong?

The difference between the two sides here is that of one the answer to the second question is yes and for the other one it's no. If you are a climate change skeptic you might lean to being probably or very probably right about that but not 100%. The consequence of not acting because of that if you are wrong is that we mess up the planet. Vice versa, the risk is much lower and we are looking at maybe doing things at a bit extra cost that don't do long term harm.
I thought about a couple different ways that could be implemented, without requiring a login. For example, you could make the channel a public key signature, then only accept POSTs that can prove they own the private key. The problem is that it makes it trivial for people to anonymously host whatever they want on my server...

As it stands now, there's a bit of game theory involved. You can shared a channel publicly, but if even one person doesn't like what you're publishing, they can bring it down. This essentially forces people to keep their channels for private use.

This is also one good use case for charging people for private namespaces/channels.
Your ISP knows what IP you use, and Google has your ISP's phone number.
Are we losing something as humans by automating so much? I mean I'm all for technical progress but at some point our computers will have killed so much of what makes us humans.

Chess, go, driving, flying, math, written language, music... when does it stop?

The standard answer is that we will automate all the dull parts of living and allow everybody to work in some sort of higher order capacity. That sounds great and all, but what happens when our systems learn how to make music as well as we can ourselves?

At some point we will simply become consumers of our machines and while that's a comfortable existence, certainly we are losing something as a species with all of this automation.

Maybe I'm old.
Seems like most of these use Adobe Experience Cloud. I'm guessing they offer some kind of HOWTO to set it up as disguised.

Good on Adobe for keeping it up. Flash wasn't enough to fuck the internet up for years.
> dominant factor that explains most of the variation.

A dominant factor can also only account for less than half of an explanation if there are enough factors. E.g. Peer group is 40%, parents are 30%, teachers are 20%, TV/videogames/groups-seen-but-not-interacting-directly-with 10%. Here peer groups would still be dominating but parents and teachers are significant factors as well. These percentages are close enough that it would be ridiculous to just focus on one (or even the first two alone).
And top-level Go players believed their best tournament matches to be works of art, unmatchable by computation.

That belief grew into a sort of shared perception that they were artists in pursuit of a perfect expression of their art. For many top players that belief was ingrained from an early age. They believed themselves to be doing a service to the world, making it a better place by creating new art that was a unique expression of themselves.

And then AlphaGo (and successors) shattered that worldview. This is part of the natural sequence of the collapse of a suddenly, surprisingly invalidated worldview. Part of me feels sorry that he has lost his place in the world. Another part of me firmly believes in the mediocrity principle, and that the worldview he represents was obviously far too human-chauvenistic to be correct, and it's a good thing it's dying.

And part of me hopes you can give up your human-chauvenism before the same thing happens to you.
That is legally not true.
If you're going to pedant, at least fix your first "correction" so that it includes its subject.
Exactly. The victory of Trump over Clinton is a random occurrence- the difference in the polls was very small; but what the nation considers normal, how it reacts to events, what it considers worth discussing- and how that discussion can be framed if you want the people to engage with it- these things depend on the average of the country's culture, on its identity.
Having lived in three different European countries, I can tell you that there are surprising cultural differences, sometimes obvious and sometimes much more subtle, and that they have a big impact on how the country behaves as a whole.
Author here, Pushback has been a side project of mine for a few years. It has been a playground for me to learn web development and continue learning about mobile. The goal of Pushback is to make a simple API that can utilize all the features of push notifications. Right now it just has actionable notifications, but it'd be cool to add some other things such as location and custom notifications.
I've recently started to use Pushback to communicate information to my friends, family, and co-workers. I had a cronjob that scraped classifieds for minivans and it would post a message to Pushback. My wife could then see the post and leave a comment if she liked it. We ended up getting a van for a pretty sweet deal. Another thing I use it for is to coordinate what time some of my co-workers are riding the public transit. We can just select which time we're thinking of on the notification.
I hope it can be a tool that helps you make prototypes quickly without much hassle.
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I would recommend reading _Born to Run_ by Christopher McDougall. Later in the book he addresses this very topic and expands much more upon the topic of humans and long-distance running.

Humans sweat, which most (all?) other animals don't. In that way we can dissipate heat through our breath, like other animals, _and_ via perspiration, meaning it takes us much longer to overheat.

Additionally, humans stand upright, allowing us to disconnect our stride from our oxygen intake. Other animals' strides correlate (mostly?) 1:1 with the breaths they take. So when a cheetah outstretches in its stride it breathes in and when its legs come together it exhales. Humans stand upright, meaning we can breathe however we want regardless of our stride and speed. We can take deeper breaths because we don't have to exhale every time we stretch our legs.

Humans are the ultimate marathon runners, even more so than horses, evinced by the fact that there are some people throughout history who have run hundreds of miles in the course of days or weeks. There's a theory touched upon in the book about how this allowed us to dominate the animal kingdom before we even had tools. Humans could relentlessly hunt and exhaust animals as long as they could keep them in sight or otherwise keep up with their tracks.

I'm not doing the book or the topic justice, surely, but if you're interested I highly recommend the book.
It does too much. For example:

> $ git sync
> # Stash, Fetch, Auto-Merge/Rebase, Push, and Unstash

Good luck if any of this actions fail. With raw Git you can easily correct the problem and move on. With leGit, you'll be left wondering how screwed the current state of your repo is.
This is degrading and short-sighted. Why wouldn't an AI fear death?

What is your fundamental reason for thinking that silicon-based computation is better than neurotransmitter-based computation? How can you believe that any two forms of computation are fundamentally different, despite countless examples of different systems all being equivalent in the Turing-completeness sense?

I believe that arguments like yours, in the relatively near future, will be looked upon the same as arguments that black people aren't real people.
Hmm. Interesting. Would love your thoughts on near-death experiences and the many world interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. When I had my first trip (400~600µg) I was alone in a room and had a couple of near-death experiences. And then a couple of more trips later (150~250µg on average as I'm not mentally prepared to take high doses again) many weird things happened in ways that I could only describe as synchronicity-ish that have clearly saved my life (during and after the trips), and I'm now convinced I have actually committed suicides or died in an accident (during and after those trips) in many horizontal worlds and my consciousness had somehow floated to a world i.e. this one where I have not yet killed myself (like in a quantum suicide experiment).

Would love your thoughts on near-death experiences and "horizontal worlds". For me what's interesting about psychedelics has always been that it is about death and consciousness. Any sort of hallucinations that could be categorised as "visual" or "audio" were just the side-effect as ultimately all senses converge to a single point, or a zero-dimension singularity if you will, an infinity encapsulated in the void, and that is death itself - or at least that is my interpretation of my experiences.

Also could you describe things that mushroom had shown you that you wouldn't be able to handle at bigger doses? I had only taken mushroom once. I'm always under the impression that mushroom is a weaker psychedelics than acid but perhaps that is inaccurate. Would love to learn more.
That’s extremely loaded, and not true. I’ll unpack it all if someone is curious but in short your statement is only true if you define wealth in terms of faith-based fiat currency or define wealth as central bank issued scrip. There’s a reason credit is readily available. It’s a scheme that only works until it doesn’t, which is objective evidence that it makes for a very hollow definition of wealth.
"Meanwhile, Google is set to make an announcement in February about how it will treat third-party cookies in Chrome."

Google: our ad and analytics tracking cookies are first-party cookies if you're using chrome :)
What do you usually work on? Since you say you’re bored, can you ask to move to another project?
Does anyone care to explain what the big issue with syslog is? I've been using syslog-ng in production for years and it's performance has been flawless. Is there something I'm missing re: security? Is the issue the weakly-structured log formats?
You can make an argument for something, without demeaning something else
In other news, interest in online chess has never been higher despite Kasparov going down in flames in 1997 in what was billed as “the brain’s last stand.”

Can we please stop flogging this tired “man vs machine” narrative? Not only is it totally unnecessary, it also takes away enjoyment and appreciation for the flourishing in games like chess, go and poker that can occur when man and machine work together.
Except that's exactly how it happens in the US, it's "Los Angeles" /lɔːs ˈændʒələs/ and not "Los Ángeles" /los ãŋxeles/ because the majority of people there have been English speakers ever since the US conquest of the Southwest.
A bit more information about the work done around performances and what's still being worked on:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-perfor...
The point is more that all that "data loss prevention" stuff will not prevent someone who has access to the network to get data out.