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To be clear, by client-server they mean a connection from a client application directly to the database. For example, in PostgreSQL you can use the command-line tool psql or a graphical tool like pgAdmin. Typically these client applications connect to the database over the network. It's impossible to connect to SQLite over a network, unless you put its database file on a network filesystem (which is risky, as pointed out in the page you link to).

With web apps, the clientele don't connect directly to SQLite. They connect to the web server, like Apache, and through some PHP or Python or whatever, your web server connects to SQLite. From the point of view of the database, your web app is the only customer.

As for multiple writers (which, again, would be going through your web app), the same page has this assurance: "For many situations, this is not a problem. Writers queue up. Each application does its database work quickly and moves on, and no lock lasts for more than a few dozen milliseconds."
It's not clear to me that Orwell was saying that. And neither of the passages I vite are talking about laws as such. The Declaration of Independence was certainly extralegal, and perhaps it is more foundational than any given body of law, even.
I upgraded my Intel Compute Stick to 19.10 Lubuntu last month from 16.04LTS. It's running great and I didn't have to mess with any of Ian Morrison's wonderful tools he made for running Linux on the Intel Atom platforms. Not saving my resolution settings across reboots is a slight issue, but that is something I can fix. After reading the article maybe I should try Gnome again.
Be honest, Ubuntu feels fast 'cause people compare it with bloatware/telemetry overflowed Windows 10.

If you wanna a really FAST distribution - try Clear Linux from Intel.
But all of that cultural content happens in peoples' heads, not in some abstract, external, durable space.
Garry Kasparov had to face a similar situation when defeated at chess by Deep Blue; However in the long run he used it positively to advocate for a hybrid type of game where a human and a machine collaborate in playing against another (human, machine) pair (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess).

As an aside, there are inevitably more and more things for which even the very best are not sufficiently intelligent _alone_. However, we are social creatures and we collaborate (typically with other intelligent humans) to achieve things we wouldn't have managed otherwise (think just at the space program as an example). So... we only have to adjust a little to accept that we could also collaborate with machines in the future.
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As a person sometimes overly distracted by grammar, I would like to thank you for using the "As a [description of subject], [subject] [rest of sentence]" construction correctly. Getting this wrong, which is called a "dangling modifier" error, is common. Examples from today's front-page HN discussions:

As a new (1 year) coder starting out at 39 years old, this sounds very similar to the path I envision for myself.

As another former Googler, yes, searching the entire monorepo was a frequent occurrence.

Corrected:

As a new (1 year) coder starting out at 39 years old, I envision a very similar to the path for myself.

I'm another former Googler. Yes, searching the entire monorepo was a frequent occurrence.

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The problem is the closing ` is being treated as part of the URL.
Wars are literally about destroying things until the other side gives up.

The new money goes into the economy yes, but wherever you replace things instead of adding things, any 'value' of the defunct equipment is pretty negligible, isn't it?

Let's say we decommission a coal plant. On the one side you have the human support materials (furniture, office supplies, etc). On the other side you have the equipment for power grid tie-in. All of these could be redistributed into non-coal related businesses.

Isn't there a lot of stuff in the middle that's scrap? It had more value than that. Both objectively and subjectively (sunk cost fallacy), there's going to be some loss associated with the process.
Well you compare a heavy JavaScript based DE (Gnome) with a C++ one (KDE, with Qt). That's also unfair.

But if you try i3 or OoenBox, they are way faster
Well, the entire purpose of the infosec industry is to cover for the sh*t practices in the software development industry (and no it ain't engineering what most of these people practice).

So you have to expect that if your vendor is CADT your security is going to be full of holes and undiscovered bugs, critical missing features/etc. Move fast and break things also means shed-loads of bugs, many of which could be exploited by an enterprising individual for gain.
After reading Merchants of Doubt, I always read any article about the environment with a pinch of salt. Going through the author list of articles published on Forbes: he definitely has a clear pro-nuclear bias, and a strong anti-renewable bias. Digging further, his organization, Environmental Progress, is indeed largely considered to be little more than a pro-nuclear lobby group. Michael Shellenberger himself is largely perceived as a nuclear salesman.

At a personal level I used to be rather pro-nuclear, but certainly not anti-renewable. In any case, I think it can be helpful for the readers to have a little bit of background when reading such articles.
While I can understand Lee Se-dol's frustration, I think there are better lessons to learn from Kasparov's acceptance after the Deep Blue vs Kasparov matches.

Cyborg chess is the future of chess. Period. Chess players use computers to train themselves and explore openings in human-only settings, while programmers / cyborgs play correspondence chess.

Go is not finished as a game. A new tool, MCTS + Neural nets, has been developed to explore the "truth" behind the game at ever increasing rates. Its not about how to beat the tool, the question is how to best utilize the tool to improve self-play and self-learning in the game of Go.

Or alternatively: how to best use the tool to play ever more perfect games of Go.

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Come on, none of us are really "human" anymore since the advent of cell phones. We all use our cyborg-capabilities to search the internet and fact-check ourselves every day. Programmers use stack-overflow to teach themselves programming and remember obscure details (using our cyborg capabilities to tag, search, and sift through information ever faster and faster).

Go is the same thing, except we only learned how to become cyborgs two years ago.

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Give the world-champions each a copy of AlphaGo on equal computers. Have them play Go against each other WITH computer assistance. I guarantee you that a more beautiful and perfect game will result. Let us welcome the age of Cyborg Go as we step into the future, we shouldn't be scared of it. We've become cyborgs in many other tasks, and Go is no different.
And in the end, what value was created?

"Liquidity in the BTC market"?
I wouldn't trust a "news source" with headlines like "Climate-Fearing Millennial Snowflake Self-Triggers During Hunger Strike" further than I could throw them.

Their clearly biased against EVs because "libtards" drive them.
It has happened (and still happens) in the US when white nationalist militias have a lot of guns. The cops don't want another Ruby Ridge or Waco; see also Cliven Bundy.
When you go to the hospital, every machine, chemical, glove, needle has gone through an FDA approval process or has been manufactured to pass FDA standards.

There is no FDA or NHTSA for web technologies.
Wait, poor working people read?
I guess the players don't realize how mismatched they are with the AI. AI spends many, many factors of magnitude more compute to achieve the same goal as a human. There is no comparison between man and machine at this point. From a pure efficiency standpoint, humans are vastly superior.
*if you use their app.

You don't have to use their app for day-to-day usage via Bluetooth, however, they make it impossible to initially setup noise canceling functionality without the app.

I'm extremely grateful that the Bluetooth protocol is broken up into specific functions, so I know that if I connect my headphones/car/etc. via bt audio it can't also send data to the cloud through my phone.
You know what they say, old habits, they die hard.
Of course! But if you look at the map of Russia it's mostly only English and Russian.
The region most at risk of famine-driven political change is North India - if the wheat growing belt shifts far enough because of climate change there will be massive disruption.

African agricultural productivity is so low that proper technical (and institutional) investment can easily cover the expected (large) population growth in the 21st cent.

Climate change will be catastrophic if we don't decarbonize sufficiently, but it will not be apocalyptic.
"I can easily fix your statement. Watch me:"

But that's missing the point. My point is entirely about what the media calls "facts" and what gets called "facts" in these sorts of discussions and by "fact checkers", not whether or not in some hypothetical universe the media could indeed deal in objective facts alone. The fact that it could be done correctly does not mean it is done correctly; or to go with a traditional philosophical formulation, ought does not lead to is. Correcting me doesn't help anything, you need to convince the media.

And you will not do that, because dealing in psuedo-facts suits them fine.
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What metadata has yet to and can be encrypted? The recipient, the send time and the message size seem impossible to encrypt.
Ask HN: What's the Next Buzzword?
This is just out of curiosity, but what do you believe the buzzwords of the future are? Assuming all variations of the almighty "AI" are buzzwords are the past?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords
I think this is just the shock due to the recent ascendancy of AI in Go. The next generation will grow up using Go engines to learn and improve their play. That's where Chess is at right now. The top Chess engines are extremely useful for research and improving your play.
> I would counter with the fact that in physical endeavors it's apparent to us that we are not #1 - our household cats are more agile than us.

Not in the case of our household cat. He isn't called TheBlob for nothing (out of his hearing of course!)
> As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization.

I think most reasonable people agree with this statement. I've personally never heard about the collapse of human civilization in the near future due to climate change. Having said that, this article sounds a bit too optimistic.

Some people attribute the Syrian civil war to long droughts and climate change [1]. The science is disputed but regardless of the cause, we can all see the backlash against the flood of refuges in Europe. Now imagine the scale of mass migration is one or two orders of magnitude larger; do you really believe you can persuade voters by saying that the solution is less expensive than WWII?

I think the real danger of climate change will be political. Who is going to pay for it? The countries which are most affected don't necessarily have the resources to manage it and the countries which have the resources might have a hard time convincing their citizens to bear the cost of it. This requires a coordinated international effort.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/03/global-warming-helped-cause-sy...
Your point seems to be that so long as we can keep shoveling food into people's mouths, the rest of the effects of climate change are irrelevant.

That's bullshit. As the climate shifts "natural disasters" increase and make many places less habitable. We're already seeing this now and it's only getting worse. As these places slowly become uninhabitable, people immigrate or die and poor people are on the cusp of that.

I suppose this article is from Forbes so it's all about how fairly wealthy people will fair so the chipper attitude makes sense.
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> Well, the provenance and the prestige greatly affects the price of a work, that's why people care about it.

That sounds like a chicken/egg problem. Do people care because it affects the price, or does it affect the price because people care?
I've tried KDE Neon, but ran into issues installing Nvidia drivers. The only Ubuntu flavor I've found that supports them really well is Pop_OS!.

I get it, I should be using FOSS drivers, but I do a lot of work involving neural networks and CUDA, so Nvidia's drivers are non-negotiable.
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It is part of it too, but the courageous hero without competence ends up dead. Roman legionaries used to joke heroes are the people they kill. The minimizing of vulnerability in an extreme situation combined with ability to overcome it and the courage to do so defines a heroic struggle. The caregiver is the foil, the maximizing of vulnerability around others and the social integration of such is the classic back and forth.

A scene in a A Bridge Too Far (ww2) shows an implementation of it. A soldier has a near-dead friend in his arms that he knows is alive, he dodged live rounds to keep his friend from a group of Germans in a forest clearing. He arrives at a MASH style base camp and seeks treatment from a doctor. The doctor is overworked and prejudges the friend to be dead, indicating that he should be left with the row of dead soldiers he was unable to save. The soldier demands treatment and when it is repeatedly rejected he pulls a gun on the doctor, threatening to kill him. The doctor eventually relents, treats the friend finding him alive. The soldier puts away his gun and capitulates to the punishment incoming to him for breaking the rules, the doctor reports him to the MP and manufactures a slap-on-the-wrist for the soldier. The doctor after having been exposed to near death and allowed the soldier to remain apart of the social system asks him "would you have shot me?". The soldier pauses and silently salutes.

That story would never have happened if it were not for the hero's ability to survive in a hostile environment and achieve his goal of returning alive with his friend, courage or not. The friend would never have lived if the doctor had not risked being vulnerable to having another death on his hands because of an arrogant soldier.

They both gave that friend a chance at creating something of enduring value from successful missions in the future and an everyday life for the friend himself.
Glad to hear it. 18.04's NVidia on Wayland situation is so broken it's ridiculous. It's a major headache for any kind of machine learning workstation.
Baloo appears to be the KDE equivalent of GNOME's tracker. Not sure why both would be running on the same system.
The study says that the measure of teacher performance is correlated to student height. The measure of teacher performance is supposed to be correlated to student success.

What I'm saying is that if student success is already correlated to student height, then anything that measures student success will also measure student height.
OpenVPN has the duplicate-cn option available, two connections with the same common name are then allowed.
NYC data goes back to 1999, but only for some basic things like test scores. They probably don't have the consolidated links between students and teachers outside of the years they analyzed, due to differing data formats and general laziness.

It's a terrible paper in general though, for example it references Bitler et al. 2015 but never provides a full citation.
That is such a complicate movie plot threat.

Far more direct to just spread those rumors through social media. Which more people pay attention to and believe than .gov. Or just make actual bomb threats.
Doesn't mean we stop making music or poetry. Because the perfect note or word structure without the backstory takes away from the experience. If someone has a history it becomes part of the poem or song to the listener.

The doctor could be replaced though or used as a secondary verifier.

The song is a funny thing.
It could be given to a cool looking group and do well. It could be given to someone older and flop. The song is just part of it.
AI cannot out strategize. It is purely tactical, and can only be such due to the branching factor.
I would never, ever buy a Bose product.

Apparently the app uploads every single thing it can get access to, and you have to install the app even to (!) turn noise canceling on and off.
> because in the end it's just a bunch of code running statistical computations

At a low enough level, our brain seems to be just a bunch of neurons firing impulses at various rates that can be described as statistical computations. Why be so sure that the right neural network wouldn't understand what it is to be human and mortal, understand suffering, have emotive value, etc?
Plenty of people give up on plenty of pursuits because they realize that they can't innovate or the whatever their "top" is.

Plenty of other people don't care and continue to do what's new to them (and what often turns out to be new to others.)
Time is long. I predict this comment will age badly.
That’s what I was trying to say but didn’t successfully, the BEV fires I’ve seen in testing accelerate quite a bit faster. Plus, the battery tends to be located below the passenger compartment, whereas fuel fires tend to start in the engine compartment. It doesn’t feel like the two types of vehicle fires are directly comparable by frequency of incidents alone.
That's the most common informal meaning of the word. The most common formal meaning is "not thorough or detailed", which approaches but doesn't quite capture it's use here (i.e. "looks like a hand-drawn sketch").
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We're creating more complexity every day. Kubernetes, microservices, microfrontends, "big data" lakes, etc etc.
Now instead of securing a physical server, or even a VM, you have to somehow secure thousands of interconnected endpoints in PaaS products in a cloud you can't even debug appropriately. Is it a surprise our software is worse than ever these days?

We've added complexity but we haven't increased our capabilities. What software can we make today that we couldn't 10 years ago? I'll even stipulate there could be a few examples, but 99% of the stuff we build today could have been built faster, cheaper and secured easier 10 years ago.
How does this work with numerous Emacs keybindings which surely conflict with browser shortcuts? If you press Ctrl-N in the Cloudmacs, will your cursor move one line down or will the browser open a new window?
Thank you, and well said. It bothers me when I get called a racist and a xenophobe for saying that border security is necessary, but the current admin has taken it too far. It's not black and white! We can't let everyone in. That just doesn't work - some security is necessary. Turning people away for vague reasons or race/country of origin when they otherwise would be let in is a whole other can of worms though.
Why not? If a hypothetical AI had a world model as sophisticated as that of a real person and had complete understanding of human sensory and emotional processing, what exactly would preclude it from making such an art piece?

Of course, current AI can't even make an 8th grader's essay (which is not to say that it isn't impressive). But what these artists did was not magic. As far as we can tell, the brain is a purely physical entity. Unless you believe in dualism, which would be fair enough, there is no reason to suppose that what we do could not be replicated by something "artificial".
>> Did you actually READ the article.

Something else that is useful to read are the Hacker News posting guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular the following suggestions:

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.
I am not sure why you responded to me, is it because I accused some people of using bad statistics so you try to deflect it ?

It is pretty clear though, Tesla has expensive new cars you need to compare them with similar cars.
He'll still at go-boxing though, if that's any comfort.
I'm a huge Tesla and Musk fan but I'll point out the feds are investigating spontaneous fires, not those associated with collisions. I saw a video of this happening with a parked Tesla. How many gasoline vehicles spontaneously burst into flame?

Of course it's still rare, and I'll also mention that the Model 3 has a newer battery pack design and is not being investigated.
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
I wish he'd keep it running, then write on lessons learned turning $200K into something much less, should such a loss be manifest.
Maybe it's time I give Ubuntu another shot. Unity was too bloated for my tastes and Gnome has always seemed kinda subpar. Lets see if the gnome changes can change my mind.

Does Ubuntu still have advertisements for Amazon search and whatever other crap they were pushing?
> it presents the "most true" version of reality based on where you're coming from.

The fact of which country controls a territory, which country's laws apply there, which is the local currency, etc. does not change based on your politics. What google is doing is just PR/politics - they are just taking what they see as the least risky path for their business. It's not useful to say Crimea is part of Ukraine because for all practical purposes it is not. If China decided to crush Hong Kong protests with military and establish full control - would it make sense to pretend it is an independent state if Western nations decided to declare it so for political purposes?
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The AI may very well take no enjoyment in the narratives it's creating either. Both for this and for sharing emotion, in principle it merely needs a model of human enjoyment or human emotion, not to feel the enjoyment or emotion.
I don’t get what this is supposed to convey. The post has nothing of substance, takes a shot at Facebook but seems to immediately absolve it, more so with a really shallow security and privacy requirements list. This speaks more about Mozilla than Facebook. They can do a lot better in what ever it is they are trying to do. At the very least explain what the post is intended to do first.
> Yeah, in the cited study is almost all externalities.

Negative externalities are a type of subsidy.
> As the article says, climate change won't destroy human civilization.

And why are we so sure about that?

As far as I can tell by what's happening in the oceans, climate change may very well destroy all surface-dwelling multicellular life.
Not sure if you are joking or not. 218% of FPL is $56,135 for a family of four and only $27,228 for a single person. What this means is that you can make up to that amount and get a huge subsidy, basically giving you free insurance.
> Been doing extreme over-hours in the hope of fixing stuff once and for ever, only to realize your job becomes more and more like shit-shoveling, since management starts to feel invincible (and protected by your contributions)

Isn't that when you start earning a lot of money?
Well, I hope -- by among other things, a careful use of encryption -- to avoid facing the pipe wrench :D

Dying for a course can be a choice, but I would like it to bring some meaningful benefit to society. Just taking some lackeys with you doesn't seem all that useful to me.