skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 2015 mbp is the closest a laptop got to being perfect for me. Screen, battery life, trackpad, finish and performance. All in a beautiful balance.

I used to dislike macos so much that went mbp 2015 > thinkpad > sp4. I realised how much better macbooks were than their comptetition that I bought it again only with more storage. I think Surface line will bethe next thing for me but it was still too buggy for daily use.
I think this is targeting a different part of the "supply chain". Not the people that will directly use it (African farmer) but rather the people that will donate it to the endusers (NGOs).

So this is basically enterprise sales. "Turnkey solution". Sure it could be assembled cheaper but it's also a lot easier to fundraise for such a turnkey solution because it's easier to imagine a shipping container that turns into a farm. Your donation will go to one of these boxes which we'll set up in this African neighborhood...etc.
On what distro/OS? On Ubuntu you get to pick the root password during installation
The architecture is horrible though. I would suggest you to use a real framework next time instead of rolling your own jQuery mess.
I'd say, there should be a report that assembles all this data and makes proper statements on facts that cannot be disclosed. I personally don't have enough time to read and verify all these links to be able to reconstruct the full picture. I just see that some parties report the intrusions (and I agree that it's likely happened); US government publishes some BS as a proof; some parties discuss the impact of Wikileaks publication on elections; some link all this together and build a theory about Trump winning because Russia influenced the elections by publishing dirty stuff of DNC (it's at least not obvious that the actor thought that victory could be achieved by such means and that there existed any intent to alter the result of elections that way).
This way off base. They have dedicated scientific research labs. This is just one example them giving a peek: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-published-first-artific...
Pollution

- Air cargo - 0.8063 kg of CO2 per Ton-Mile

- Truck - 0.1693 kg of CO2 per Ton-Mile

- Train - 0.1048 kg of CO2 per Ton-Mile

- Sea freight - 0.0403 kg of CO2 per Ton-Mile

So I see this competing with air freight, not sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp...
Also see what happens with Gnome.
I agree. In my experience, Project Euler is more computer science for mathematicians than math for computer scientists.
Putting aside speed, what is possible in quantum computing that's not possible in classical computing?
Is it still only 32 bit? The 4 gig ram limitation made some complex processes much slower than they needed to be.
No. Stop reading reddit.com/r/futurology or that _awful_ article by waitbutwhy.
Sure its a possibility but we're still making baby steps and tiny tools, pastiches of intelligence as opposed to genuine intelligence or conscious.

People who ask questions such as this often don't consider that it remains eminently possible that AGI is an impossibility for us to build. Also remember that anything an AI can do in the future a human + an AI can probably do better. Right now at least they're just tools we use and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Play Batman: Arkham VR on PS4 and if you're not convinced then you'll never be...
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>Well, this is semi-popular technical writing directed at people who are not theory-of-computation researchers.

Nothing wrong about directing a technical writing to people other than "theory-of-computation" researchers. Most people are not theory-of-computation researchers, not just laymen, but also also statistics researchers, topology researchers, geometricians, logicians, etc.

>If all scientific writing would be written like this, then all papers would be at least hundreds of pages long and skip important details.

GP obviously means all scientific writing aimed at the same kind of audience.

Theory-of-computation researchers would obviously not need such a volume at all in the first place: they already know this stuff, and they can just directly read pure research on P vs NP, not some summary of what P vs NP means.

That said, all scientific writing (including those aimed/produced by experts in a field) could take from the quality of the wording, and the attention to clarity. It doesn't mean it has to also follow the lengthy introduction to its subject.

In other words, it seems to me like we're splitting hairs, while the intended meaning was pretty clear from the GP's comment context.
Yep. It's always about "the space between the buttons" in code bases. That's not pretty; I know that. It's a huge source of human suffering. But I wonder how reducible it truly can be. As they say, its (still) early days yet.

That (email thing) would be awesome, Nick. Thanks.
I have this argument almost every day. Thanks for writing it down.
Inkscape is used in every Finnish gymnasium (high school). This is due to the new computerized matriculation exams: https://digabi.fi/tekniikka/ohjelmistot/inkscape/
Try your monitor in 1200x1600 mode
In MySQL you have to change the bind-address but also allow the user to access from any IP (%) in order to access from any IP. Opening the service to the whole web is not enough
There's also Linux alternative if you feel like giving it a go. https://pinta-project.com/
Moon may have large lava tubes
Making sure the Direction flag is clear on entry and return is a somewhat hidden requirement of stdcall (Windows calling convention), but it didn't crash if you set it in WindowProc and forgot to clear it until Windows XP.

More recently, Vista had (accidentily?) 16-byte aligned stacks when using OpenMP with MingW, but the exact same binary crashes on Windows 10 when it tries to use unaligned SSE instructions.
oops -- you're right.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html

Legal in C99, available in C++ on gcc/clang.
Mirror: https://github.com/tsteur/open-source-tag-manager and https://github.com/lindsaymacvean/seventag
Ubuntu all snaps session (edge r309)
It was to my understanding that some NP-complete problems - like factorization - are (theoretically) solvable in P time using quantum computing, all within (and indeed as a result of) the constraints of quantum mechanics, perhaps utilizing Shor's algorithm. And that this fact does not imply P=NP, but rather that we'd have a computer that could perform some exponential functions as if some logarithm were applied to them.

I'm no expert, but at the very least I believe it's recognized that some subset of NP problems, perhaps not NP-hard, should be solvable as if they were polynomial, using quantum computers.

That said, my knowledge of this subject starts and ends with things I've read on the internet, so I could be mistaken. Either way, this[1] was a very interesting introduction to some of the implications/concepts that are involved with this.

1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
This poses the question: instead of paying out a monthly UBI, why not give every citizen the equivalent lump sum up front? They can then decide how to invest that money themselves.
The electricity may be dirty, the electric train is not. Even with a dirty electricity, an electric train is more efficient than a diesel one (EDIT: braking regeneration).
What I Learned Implementing a Classifier from Scratch in Python
Within the context of the article at large and his work in revisiting old cases and getting convictions overturned, I think the more likely reading of 'colored by the cop dramas he watched growing up' is that he's taking inspiration from the characters pursuing truth at all costs, with 'to hell with 'the system'' attitudes, etc.
IIRC, even if you enable remote connection, the passwordless login is still only authorized locally.
Many "real names" cannot even be used in the "real world" because systems don't support it.
I agree with your comment, but just a small nitpick: Peter Shor and Umesh Vazirani are probably much older than 40 :P
Inkscape now has a design team, started by Xaviju of rethinkscape (see the link in another comment). Do join the fun in the dev mailing list and IRC #inkscape-devel
Unfortunately, if you live in the US, the answer is nothing: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-197

"no published works will enter our public domain until 2019."
No, it is never just that simple. And I don't believe anybody would say such a thing.

I can imagine being in a position where shipments can be ordered 15 days in advance, but where 45 days would be unacceptable. (train vs ship)

If that's the case, you set up your logistics to come by rail, rolling in every 15 days, instead of air and you save a bunch on your shipping.

There's so many variables and volume here, it probably makes perfect sense for a whole lot of businesses.
>From an European point of view, the mobile world was set back a decade (if not more) by the tech media's fawning over Apple and Google's entry

As a European I couldn't disagree more. Have you see the crap (including Nokia and Sony) that passed for smartphones before the iPhone and Android devices came along?

You also make it sound like some big conspiracy for "the tech media's fawning over Apple and Google's entry".

If there was that much better European mobiles where were/are they hidden?

That some standards (like the above for headphones) existed and were lost, I can accept. But nothing much else...
I don't have a single source about this. But some hints are: 10 years ago every µC manufacturer had it's own core and instruction set and basically sold them exclusively (maybe apart from some 8051 stuff). They were AVRs, PICs, V850, PPC, etc. Now when you look that the portfolio of those manufacturers they nearly all have at least one product with an ARM core in their portfolio. Some might even already stopped releasing new chips with their proprietary cores. Others have done that not yet but are planning to do this in the future (I've heard of at least one).

Another hint is when you actually get in touch with a lot of complete product designs. The amount of ARM cores that you will see in there seems steadily to incline.
> Given you're no longer contesting the original supposition, should I assume your agreement?

That's how a debate works, no?

I wanted to look at a different scenario, because I think there wasn't really a difference in opinion to begin with. A good way to conclude an argument is to find a point both people can agree on and work back to the original topic.

In this case, it seems you misunderstood my initial comment as that I refuse to change lanes. In turn, I misunderstood your initial reply as telling me to avoid the left lane.

Perhaps I also exaggerated my refusal to change lanes in response to a tailgater. I didn't mention that I use my turn signal to let them know I'm looking for a chance to shift. If the opportunity does not immediately present itself, I begin to gradually slow down until I can change lanes. However, I find about half the time they're too impatient and don't give me the chance to shift safely.
At my local Groovy users group if people bring laptops the vast majority are Mac. At the last Groovy US conference virtually everybody had Macs (as in a non-Mac laptop stood out). These aren't Apple conferences or even startup meetings, these are real users.
Safety has to do with memory corruption that lead to security exploits and unrecoverable data, not panics.
I didn't see Ada or ATS mentioned upon a quick read here. I don't program in either beyond exploratory play, but they seem to fit the need here no?
It depends what you're developing for. These days, a lot of developers are web or app developers and for this purpose, Windows is terrible. Most app and web dev tools fit neatly into a *nix environment. You can get up and running with a few lines in the terminal, whereas you need a clumsy installer or cygwin and a manual with screenshots to start on Windows.
Paint.NET is for raster images, not vector like Inkscape.
Congrats on your PhD. Can you suggest any review articles for those of us who would like an overview of the current state of the art? Thanks!
Or they tried and failed. Unless you have inside information you can't know what happened. And as no one else seems to be able to produce 10nm CPUs, it's not unlikely that Intel had problems shifting to it as well.

Intel has done very well in the past by always being one step ahead of the competition. I'm sure that they didn't stop doing so.
Accesslint.js – accessibility warnings for dynamic web content
Better automation != General AI
On Ubuntu specifically if you do the quiet option (for example as part of an automated script) then it will leave it blank. Even with the prompt it says it's optional but encouraged.
Why isn't this just mens rea?

If I use WIFI as it's intended there's no mens rea. If I misuse WIFI to block your access there is mens rea.
Factorisation is very, very, very unlikely to be NP-complete.

P is a separate class from the class of problems considered efficiently solvable; BQP is the class of problems that are efficiently solved by quantum computers, and it is believed that BQP is strictly larger than P.
Indeed. Plenty of people drink ozonated water as part of natural health remedies, and you don't hear any reports of serious problems.

Breathing it is a different matter; it can do terrible damage to people's lungs.

But ingesting it in water doesn't seem to be a problem.
> Also why don't you use Krita?

Because GIMP is for general image & photo manipulation and the product vision for Krita is to be a painting application.
What is the strongest argument for impossibility being a possibility?
Not in C11, they were removed due to security issues and became an optional language feature.
"Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
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42“ E-ink Whiteboard ”Quilla“ from Quick Logic
I had to do that, the MacBook Pro is very heavy
>a balaclava, a beanie, a coat hood, and gloves

I think parent asked why the average person needs them, not about why outliers in the arctic circle would.
Thanks for your answer, I think on the same line as you, but I was here with a colleague that believes it's soon possible so we wanted to check what the community feels like it's gonna happen
Sort of. ES >= 2.0 only binds to localhost by default, so it's at least not by default exposed to the internet. Versions < 2.0 suffer from exactly that flaw: No auth, bind to all ports.
You're right, and less scary :D
Better automation done in a right way can solve huge human problems
>Patenting something like that is basically the definition of "not wanting to play fair": to make a compatible device, you have to indulge Apple's rent-seeking.

Either you don't believe in patents at all, or this is a fair patent. Apple did find that workaround, others had lots of time until's Apple entry to find it, patent it themselves or open it up.
Same here. As a quite graphically-challenged person, Inkscape is the only tool I feel reasonably comfortable using, and can produce passable results with. Most of the other graphics tools I have tried confused me to no end. In Inkscape, maybe the UI isn't as beautiful and flashy as in other tools, but it's very understandable and the amount and arrangement of tools feels logical to me.

I can't speak for people who don't suck at design, probably for them Inkscape falls quite short, but for me it was a godsend (despite the presence of some bugs, namely copying and pasting to/from different instances used to be a lottery, let's see if it's better in this version). Kudos to the team.
“By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was
not so easy to get a program right as had at one time
appeared. … It was on one of my journeys between the
EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the
realization came over me with full force that a good
part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent
in finding errors in my own programs.” - Wilkes

That cuts deep
There are actually plenty of references in there to publicly available numbers such as revenues, profit etc. and links to plenty of original data points, but for ease of reading I've mostly added them as links rather than lots of data.

That being said, I take your point there isn't data available to back everything up (as you'll know, companies are pretty selective about releasing some data points), and so I've leant more on press sentiment in those cases.
Proof of any damage or an apparently hostile action that could cause damage, that was confirmed to be done by Russian state actors. Crowdstrike report shows only signs of intrusion, but you would not expel 35 diplomats for a radar touching your airplanes, right?
Optional in C11, not accepted in ANSI C++17.
This is the first research paper they've published; they do not have a strong research presence precisely because they did not allow publication of research carried out at Apple, making it difficult to hire researchers whose career depends on said publications.

Furthermore, AI is very different from the fundamental research underlying quantum computing.
But also, the company succeeded due to the people who worked there working for less than market rate. Obviously dilution and all of the (fairly numerous) ways your share can be reduced are a risk factor and need to be taken into account, but still valid to feel hard-done by. Just because it's fair doesn't mean it's an easy pill to swallow.
my point being that some people treat AGI as an inevitability and I think we're a fair way off a proof.
Yeah good point, you're right. The root user is defined as root@localhost, not root@%.
Ah alright. Looks like I have some more reading to do this morning.
Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment
I think the moral of the story is rate equity like that as worthless and refuse to work at a discount for it. These contracts are complicated and as a programmer you likely won't completely understand them unless you get a lawyer involved.
I would look for hardware errors - I haven't had to reboot my MBP outside of system updates since back when Mavericks had buggy graphics drivers. And I have all kinds of crap running.
ES did have the same default, but that changed in 2.0. Since then the default is to bind to localhost only. However, ES does not at all provide any authentication without a plugin.
"hack" is the wrong word considering we're talking about DB instances exposed to the Internet without access controls.

Please don't say "hack" when you've been auto-pwned by something that uses an OWASP TOP-10 to get you. It's carelessness, inexperience, possibly negligence or anything in between. But for sure it is not a hack!
There are arguments, notably in "The Emperors New Mind", that assert that consciousness must be based on quantum mechanics in some ill-defined way and therefore that "algorithmic" computers can't therefore be conscious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Mind

NB I didn't find this argument particularly strong, but it's a long time since I read it. The brain would have to be doing something spectacularly strange for it to be impossible for us to emulate in one way or another.
When we talk in real life, or on the phone, we don't have to stop listening to the others when we speak. So this isn't about just music, but also voip, conferences (Facetime, Skype, etc).
I once got an offer, accepted it, then had some issues with IP contract. They offered me 20% more.

That means I probably could have gotten 30% more than initial salary. So just adding 20% on top is not always enough.
I would argue that theirs was not a stellar year, and imho their momentum stalled relative to other tech giants.

So hence they ended up in the 'losers' column.

Of course that doesn't mean they had quite as terrible year as some in the list...but for ease of reference it's a binary list rather than a gradient.
Some problems can be solved immediately, in a single clock cycle, that are intractable for a traditional CPU. For example, cracking RSA encryption.
What a joke.

Got a source saying that the i7 I buy from Intel is somehow inferior to the one that ships in an Apple product?
Unsurprising. On their signup page at http://www.sigaintevyh2rzvw.onion/ it says:

Are there any rules to using this thing? Generally we are
pretty chill, all we ask is that you don't use our FREE
service to:

Spam people
Threaten people
Harm people

Everything else is cool with us.

Looks like he broke rules 2 and 3.
I also never had such problems, but others did have these problems, and that's what counts. (Everything else would be victim blaming.)
None in the pipeline as of yet... But what's your usecase? I might be inspired enough to start something?
This is a good point, and arguably a weakness in the Turing test, the headline grabbing Eugene Goostman chatbot's limited success was from a similar "social engineering" style technique, of tying slowly, changing the subject, telling its own stories and claiming to be a distracted teenager with poor English.

In response to the comment by Coincoin, each judge gets to pick "Human, Computer, Not Sure" for both participants, so they're at liberty to respond "Human, Human". It's true that the "real" human might make someone more likely to declare the "fake tableau" a chatbot, but the perceived disability might also make them less likely to risk declaring them a computer.
Thanks, I'm still working on a much better landing / about page... Stay tuned!
Yes, god forbid they tried to make it as universal and as flexible as possible.
Sorry to be harsh, I just tend to be harsh as a push-back to the seemingly exceptionally popular belief that AGI is inevitable.

Its just lots of that stuff from the waitbutwhy article really rankles me: e.g. having an x-axis for "human advancement" and then only valuing recent developments while under valuing things like writing or the printing press or treating intelligence as an integer value where an AGI can keep multiplying its intelligence and become completely unassailable by humans. There's a lot of bollocks intertwined with people that hope for AGI and it upsets me. I feel like it devalues and undermines the current progress that is being made.
For me, this is the gist of the article:

>> But NTPsec is a lot smaller and cleaner now at 62KLOC of C (that’s just 27% of the original size). It’s been brought up to pretty tight C99/ANSI standards conformance, and the few remaining platform dependencies are either already well isolated or can easily be made so.

Then they have a section about future plans and a short comparison of two possible languages. I'm surprised that you're surprised Go is virtually non-existent in this thread.

Hackernews comment sections are strictly for endlessly typing about Rust's memory safety features to seemingly no end. You will find this behavior under any article that mentions C or C++.

At this point I don't care about downvotes because the whole finding-valuable-comments-to-learn-from experience I've had in the past is getting harder and harder to attain to. So instead of bitching about that, I will just go upvote someone who is downvoted.