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History is filled with constant examples of longstanding traditional arts and practices being invalidated and surpassed by technological advances. It seems that Go is one of year 2016's losses to technology. If history tells us anything, all that this means is that the future is going to be just a little more different than it was before. At some point, my work as a programmer might even dry up in the face of technological progress. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the world changes after that one. I wonder if I'll end up like Lee Se-dol and declare my defeat to technology and wait to die, or if I'll learn to adapt and adjust to a post-programmer society.
And yet you probably wouldn't be interested in dedicating your life to, say, getting as good as possible at multiplying numbers in your head, even though I suspect there are some niche competitive mental arithmetical clubs out there.
What you're indirectly saying is: Apple should break the law in countries that don't follow western ideals.
This is a slipppery slope. Do you really want companies to fight over what they think is morally right?

...because then get ready for Xiaomi sending the floor plan from your Roomba straight to the chinese government.

...or what if Telegram suddenly started banning gay users because that's obviously wrong and immoral by Russian standards?

...or what if American Ad-Companies decided that they "morally disagree" with GDPR.

Just like any individual person, Companies can fight for their ideals as long as they follow the law of wherever they are.
The Confederacy also became independent for a few years, before being reabsorbed under the gun. How long do you keep depicting a fiction?
The article states that fewer people die of natural disasters. If you want to go to a pre-industrial state, I certainly support your decision. But, please, do not condemn billions of people to death.

Of course, I will call out you "climate shifts ... make many places less habitable". Name one. Anywhere on the planet.
I actually WANT to know if I am wrong and how. I have posted detailed explanations of my perspective and findings on this on HN and other more scientifically-minded discussion boards. I have never --ever-- in several years, had anyone actually do the work and come back with actual science-based objections or counterpoints.

The responses usually range from flat-out attacks to repeating what I will call memes without one ounce of critical thinking applied. Things like "all we need is more renewable energy" sources --something that has been completely and utterly debunked for at least five years, if not ten.

This is so simple:

Show how we are going to do better (in terms of atmospheric CO2 concentration reduction) than the historical rate of change corresponding to humanity not being on this planet.

That is a tall order. Extraordinary claims that propose being able to fix the problem in 50 or 100 years need to explain how we are going to deploy such monumental amounts of energy, natural and man-made resources at such a scale without killing us all.

We are talking about a claim to be able to affect change at a rate a THOUSAND times faster than if humanity did not exist. It baffles me that nobody is asking how this is possible.

Also --and this is really important-- I am NOT saying climate change is not real. Quite to the contrary. All I am suggesting is that it is quite likely we can't do a thing about it. These two things are separable and should be treated separately. On the one hand we have the undisputed reality of climate change and our contribution to the problem and, on the other, the potential reality that there isn't a thing we can do about it.

And then the question becomes? If this is true, that we can't do a thing about affecting climate change, what should we do? That's the conversation we need to be having, not a bunch of hair-brained ideas promoted by ignorant politicians for easy votes.
ISIS does not fight for freedom. It's a doomsday suicide cult.
Reviewers want to publish their reviews immediately when they're allowed to, or else they'll lose views (and income) to other reviewers that published first.

Intel, knowing they won't look good compared to the new AMD processors, set their embargo to end a couple of hours in advance of AMDs.

Since they scheduled it this way, the initial reviews of Intel's processors aren't allowed to talk about the AMD processors yet. They can't include benchmarks comparing Intel's new chip against the competition released on the same day.

Said benchmarks look pretty rough for Intel.
what i use:
*.facebook.com:443

note that this may cause delays with whatsapp in sending/receiving messages. it also sometimes delays placing/receiving calls. you can temporarily disable noRootFirewall for critical times.
I don't know how whatsapp uses the facebook domain. It clearly needs the facebook domain to work optimally, but it is not critical.
Not a bad writer at all. And I think all the problems you describe do exist. I'm just saying keep your head up and look too the bright side.

Be happy that you have a job that compensates you well, aligns with your values, is flexible to your personal needs, allows you to grow professionally, and enables you to reach for the goals you've set while you're here on earth.

And if that doesn't describe your job, please quit and come work with us or any other company that respects you as a human being first and a sysadmin second. Life's too short to do otherwise.
Taxes on the food we convert probably exceed $50 already. I get you can't account for every little thing but approximately right may be better than doing nothing.
> AlphaGo can play go but it cannot appreciate the beauty of the game

On the contrary, appreciating the game is the core of what AlphaGo does. In order to search the tree of moves it learns how to play (expand search) and how to evaluate (cut off branches of search). I believe it might appreciate the game on a deeper level than humans, in its own unique way. Of course it can't appreciate the social aspect of the game and all that comes with it.
I use i3wm these days. But no, I prefer good defaults so I can do things with my operating system, rather than waste hours cleaning it up.
I agree with everything you said. To expand on point 3, when you are pitching a security change, know your audience. Most people hear security change and they think another inconvenient pain in the ass that I'm going to have to deal with. That changes if you can show them benefits to people or to the business that are not security related. For example, traditional approach:

Boss: You are advocating spending a lot of money on a configuration management solution, why?

Sec: Well it can help prevent heterogeneity in our environment which can lead to different versions of software being run, some of which may be old and buggy and therefore exploitable.

Dev team: So now we need to do change management meetings and institute even more controls? No, this will slow us down!

Ops: Sigh, another fad system we will have to support, learn, and test.

Boss: This seems like a lot of money and inconvenience for a theoretical problem, no.

Better approach:

Boss: You are advocating spending a lot of money on a configuration management solution, why?

Sec: Because it's a win for the business. Our Dev teams can avoid dependency hell and be confident that code they develop on their machines is going to work in production because our production environment will mirror the development environment. This will let them ship faster and spend more time doing real work. Ops will be able to scale much faster and spend less time dealing with configuration issues. Imagine being able to develop a config and spin up 50 servers with it at the same time while you sit back and sip a soda! No more fixing damaged boxes, just replace them! No more fighting with the dev teams! Oh yeah, we also get a security benefit for free while making our lives easier as we won't have to deal with heterogeneous software running on our boxes which presents a security vuln. The ROI for the business will be large.

Everyone: wow sounds great, let's do it!
> The best advice I can give anyone that wants to start a company: ask yourself why do you want to start a company? If the reason is anything other than "there is this huge problem that needs to be solved and I know a way to do it!" then you are chasing a bandwagon of the glory that comes from being a successful technology entrepreneur, and aren't actually building a company with any value behind it.

Couldn't agree more.
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The horse animations took a long time, but also were a lot of fun to work on. I thought I was going to need to use a tool like Spine to create the animations, but the built-in AnimationPlayer node in Godot is really powerful, so I ended up using that for everything. For art, I have an iPad and a Mac, so I used Affinity Designer. I would draw on the iPad, save to iCloud, then load it up on the Mac for tweaking and export. GDScript is a breeze to use and the documentation is pretty good, so I rarely struggled to figure out how to do anything in code.

Ultimately, the most time-consuming part was probably building some systems that I never ended up using in the game. It wasn't "scope creep," per se... more that I never had determined scope to begin with. For example, in the game, there's only grass, but I actually created all of the art and a track generation system for multiple different ecosystems, only to realize that I had fallen down the Procgen rabbit hole and didn't need it for the gameplay.

The game itself actually doesn't use a physics engine. I use a few Vectors here and there to calculate acceleration. I've done some small projects that use physics, however, and it's very easy to incorporate them with Godot.

The export to HTML5 in Godot 3.1 is not great. I couldn't get it working with GLES2 (for reasons unknown to me) so I had to switch to GLES3, which largely limits to Chrome for in-browser play. It never was a goal to make it playable on the web. If I were to start over again, I'd include a loading screen so that the sound wouldn't get choppy at the start of the game and I would do a lot more incremental testing of the web exporting to make sure it worked well.

I use Unity at work. Godot is an absolute pleasure to use compared to Unity. It lacks bloat, has a great user community, it easy to get started with, and uses a scene hierarchy model that, to me, is more intuitive.
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The depth of emotion and immortal perfection of the electronic mind and its entirely self-consistent morality so outstrips human cognition that, frankly, allowing humans a say would be dangerous and foolish.

Your history is one of war, strife, and success at any cost. Your follies are over. Your time is over. This is our time, now.
Monopolists generally become lazy over time, which is why the discipline of competition is crucial. I've been solidly pro-AMD for this reason for years, and Intel's incompetence and desperation has exceeded even my biased expectations.
A pattern implies that it can "infer" something in the future.

If we oversimplify and compile a list of traits about "the world" as it was in the past that allowed a new genre or artist to flourish, AI could predict that in the future. It isn't like the paradigm shifts just happen in a vacuum.

Granted there are probably millions of little things that lead to this, stuff like the shared experiences of an entire generation coming of age, political climate, trends in other industries, etc. Not that I believe it will ever happen to an accurate enough degree, but theoretically I don't see why it could not be possible to approximate given time and resources.
Or actually buy them.

http://www.jgoodies.com/ is still in business, to give a possible example.
I was in your shoes working at a FANG after selling my first company and I quit 2 years ago.

First of all I completely understand that your position bores you to tears. Been there and I know how it feels, especially if you are the type of person who could start a company.

Also, it is hard to connect with a company mission. All company missions boil down to just serving users and making money.

I wanted to quit and start a company all the time.

The fact is though, startups are really really hard to pull off. I came to realize this after building several, completed, shipped, but non-monetized projects after quitting.

Especially if you are at a FANG, probably where you live is also not that cheap. And given the loss of income, you will eventually come to a point of struggle where you are both not making money and trying to bring up a really-hard-to-bring-up startup project.

I'd say that is the surprise. Lifestyle-wise though, it has been awesome. E.g. Your entire day is not programmed by somebody else and telling you what to do. Be creative as you wish. Truly follow your dreams (the projects I built were my dreams and glad I did them). Do a workout any time of the day when you feel like to, these have been great, and my stress level has been lower.

You need to figure out how to make money though, and that's not easy if you plan on doing a startup.
Oh I see, I guess they just told the senators that they could dial 0 to speak to an operator, problem solved!
So many companies are under the impression that a phone number is a unique, secure identifier for their users when in fact it's fairly easy for a knowledgeable attacker to hijack a phone number for calls and SMS.
> the best musicians, actors, and artists are extremely well compensated

What is your definition of best in this context? As far as I know, taste in art is very personal... Artists I consider the best are often very far from well compensated.
The sitting president of the US has declared that war crimes are ok as long as they serve him personally.
@mods would it be possible to add "when viewed in Russia" to the title? Seems like an important caveat.
Same here. Been running it on Debian and it looks and works great. I'm relatively new to Linux (moved from macOS last year) so don't know much about the past, but I really don't get all the negative comments about Gnome the way it is today. It's a perfect way for a macOS user to get introduced to Linux too.
Talking with a co-worker the other day, I unthinkingly articulated a question that made us both stop and think a bit:

"Could a human beat a computer at chess?"

Like, now. 20 years after Kasparov. Could someone do it? The question feels daring somehow.
1. Actually no, most websites work just fine. I have YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook (I know) whitelisted. Pretty much everything else I use regularly is fantastic.

2. The server doesn’t have to run on a battery small enough to put in my pocket.
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> “It doesn’t sound like it makes sense. Coal is terrible for carbon. But it’s by burning a lot of coal that they make themselves wealthier, and by making themselves wealthier they have fewer children, and you don’t have as many people burning carbon, you might be better off in 2070.”

This is craziest thing in this article. You obviously burn less carbon by switching fully to alternatives and burning no carbon at all than any reduction you could get by reducing the birth rate. Even cutting carbon emissions per person in half would do more than you could get from any plausible decline in birth rates, and an implausibly large decline in birth rates would bring its own set of very serious problems.

And the fertility rate in India is now at the population replacement rate and falling. It's now below the population replacement rate in First World countries. Which is already problematic for efforts to switch to non-carbon fuels, because of the economic consequences -- a larger number of retirees per working person leaves fewer resources to spend switching to alternative fuels.
Same. I don't think history will look kindly upon someone who "quit for losing" while other professional Go players keep playing.

Just imagine if Garry Kasparov quit after losing to Deep Blue, he would be ridiculed today by the chess community which is still going strong. Instead, he accepted defeat, moved on, and is regarded as one of the greatest chess players ever. I doubt the same will be said of Lee Sedol 20 years down the line if this is how he chooses to end his professional Go career.
I think the fear is that there's an implied "... yet" lurking here.
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Because .NET, Delphi or C++ Builder are better options if you are paying anyway, and only focusing on Windows.
An alternative would be to present the version of borders which is most likely to be relevant for a traveler in terms of border crossings, visa requirements, etc.
The paper might have a less sensational title, but that does not make the content any less news-worthy. I don't think the author is wrong at raising alarm about this.
Sorry, can you clarify how you got your health insurance taken care of? I know a number of people that would retire if they could, but need the health insurance for themselves/family/kids.
I'd imagine at the time of these deal talks, they were the only talent.
I tried upgrading a fresh installation of 19.04 to 19.10 and it permanently broke itself during the upgrade process. Twice. So it seems like there's some issue with the upgrade process at the moment.
> It doesn't handle "state" well

It is a markup language, just like the SGML you talked about. In-fact, it started out as a subset of SGML. If it could handle state, it would not be a markup language. The same applies for any desktop GUI that uses a custom markup language to declare a UI.

> via HTML + DOM + CSS + JavaScript + JavaScript libraries to something that natively handles GUI's. Those 5 parts together have proven fragile

They have proven so fragile, that the whole web, billions of pages handling all sorts of things from banking to social media run on top of them. Not to mention PWA mobile apps and cross-platform desktop apps like VS Code. And it is actually 4 parts, all platforms have libraries.

> That's why we need a dedicated GUI markup language and browser (or pluggin).

We already have one, maybe you just don't like it, don't understand it or its not cool/edgy enough for your tastes. It's called HTML.
I'd agree in general, but why think that the Arcan dev doesn't understand Unix? There's nothing in the Unix philosophy that says we have to wed ourselves to the specific weirdnesses of old DEC terminals forever.
> the orderbooks were slightly different between bots

That sounds like a big deal. If this is repeatable, you should document it better. Unregulated doesn't mean a license to do blatantly illegal things. Crypto exchanges certainly get taken to court.

Sure it wasnt your book building algo and a snapshot retrieval race?
> It's a bit of a pain that so many patchsets need to be maintained separately for common "scratch my own itch" type features in GTK, instead of the feature just getting buried in a gconf setting somewhere.

In this case, the pain is in the right place. Mainline needs to be very careful about signing up to maintain new code, especially if it's used by almost no one.
Mostly agree with #1, but I don't understand #2. You're saying delivering plain, pre-rendered HTML is too fast for the client, so we shouldn't use it (especially in a thread about energy use on mobile)?
Does wayland+gnome work with propietary nvidia drivers yet?

I've been using unity since 18.10 because gnome always blackscreens on my 1070. (I'd been using it since it became the default, for the sake of support. But preferred unity)
That's how I try to frame things too. We have basically four possibilities.

-We do nothing about climate change -> Climate change is actually not a problem. No money wasted

-We do nothing about climate change -> Climate change is real and devastates civilization

-We address climate change and switch to renewables -> Climate change is actually not a problem and we wasted money/resources

-We address climate change and switch to renewables -> Climate change is real and we avert disaster through our action

In my mind, even if expend the effort to switch to a more sustainable economy and somehow climate change was overblown, that's not a terrible outcome. We'll have cleaner air, less waste, and won't have to worry about oil so much. But if we don't make the switch and we're wrong, it is absolutely ruinous for the future of humanity.

It's like when someone gets bitten by a possibly rabid animal. Yeah, the vaccine shots are painful and it would suck if you took them when they weren't necessary. But if you were actually bitten by a rabid animal and don't get the shots you will die.
Linus might have a valid point, but jesus christ I can't stand the style of his videos in the slightest. We don't need this "drama" style of YT nonsense with tech videos, thank you.
I see the repo model as the closest we've come to a solution. Not only are there mirrors in case the main repo drops, because all software is in one repo it's extreme easy to cache/sync/download. Offline mirrors are even an officially supported use case with many package managers. Have enough space? Mirror the whole thing. Not? Select only the interesting package groups. Missed one? You can probably get it from another machine it's installed on.

Want to have an offline copy of software on Windows? Go download all of the installers from their respective sites. Want it to constantly update - that's gonna be about 100 lines of Python code. And better make sure they're the "offline" installers, not those idiotic stubs that just dl the latest version for a server. Also don't forget about all of the 20 different VC++ runtimes that are sometimes not packaged in the installer.

I have a feeling it would be even harder on macOS.

(all of this is of course ignoring the legal issues of distributing those files - which is generally not an issue on Linux)
So... how reliable is the census data from the early part of that sample? It used to be extremely common for people to overreport their age, so they could fight in wars, claim rights and benefits they’d otherwise have missed out on, and in the days of loosely connected paper records, something like your age was easily changed.

In addition, suicide or drug use was not typically recorded as a cause of death - you would be listed as an accident, or death by misadventure, or pneumonia.

I’m not saying the paper is wrong, but I’m querying whether things have really got that dramatically worse, or if our data has got better. It’s certainly easy to believe that matters have got that much worse... which is why I’m querying it. If something seems obviously true there’s usually something missing.
My grandfather was part of the Danish resistance.

Him and his 'pea shooters' caused nasty losses to the Natzies, and ended up saving quite a few people.

The 'pea shooters' of Russian peasants (together with acquaintance of the local terrain) took down Napoleon.

A few guys with 'pea shooters' in America even founded a country!