skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Humans communicate in much more complex ways than computers. Facial expressions, intonation, language, body language, etc. All things we do not quite understand.

That's the medium - but how many bits of information, after compression, are exchanged in a conversation between humans?

It's true that facial expressions and body language are difficult to measure with a camera, that intonation and speech are difficult to measure with a microphone, and that duplicating them with an artificial face on a monitor, a robot, or a speaker are all very difficult programs for humans to write.

But this isn't what Musk was trying to communicate. He's saying that the amount of information contained in the combination of these human communication mechanisms can be compressed to about 10 bits per second.

Imagine us talking for a minute, compressed to a movie script. Your wetware could easily use my expressions to come up with an estimate of my happiness, sincerity, confidence, truthfulness, sarcasm (and so on) on a scale of 1-10. These values might change from sentence to sentence. If you're very observant, in 60 seconds you might get 10 estimates for each of a dozen emotions with 3-bit fidelity from these observations - only a few bits per second of actual information transferred. And I might be creating sound waves that could be recorded at very high bit rates digitally, but aside from a one-time characterization of my voice, I would perhaps speak 200 English words in that minute. 200 words, averaging 4.5 characters each, with a 20% compression ratio, is only on the order of 4 bytes per second. And most of that is overhead for grammar.

Or imagine meeting two aliens in a wormhole/portal that's only going to be open for 60 seconds. You attempt to convey as much about our society to them as possible vocally, while I'll attempt to use a computer. Afterwards, you might be able to have politely (to a human) said "Hello, we come in peace" and smiled, be able to describe the sound of their unintelligible speech, and be able to make a sketch of their appearance. I'd have recorded the entire exchange in 4k/60 fps video, from which we could probably reconstruct the anatomy under their equivalent of skin, and my only communication lag would have been gesturing that I want to give them computer equipment containing Wikipedia and Archive.org and whatever else I can download, transferring it at a few pounds of multi-terabyte hard drives a second, and get computer equipment back at the same rate. Or if you want to remove the sneakernet exploit, fine, we can hook up a Thunderbolt cable and send it across, or even just play individual frames of text or images on high-resolution monitors and record that video. From that, we could learn an incalculable amount about each others' species. From a minute of talking, we would learn next to nothing.

The medium is irrelevant. The question is how much information can be exchanged. And computers win that with no contest.
We get our information mainly from the media. They decide what the majority of the country knows and doesn't know, and who gets a pass and who doesn't, because most of us don't have the time or desire to obtain first-hand knowledge of what's going on in the world.

I didn't vote for President in the last election, because he became a clown with his antics and she (IMO) is a crook. I'm not partial to one side or the other: I hate all politicians equally.

I'd like to hear facts about what is happening in the new administration, but have had to stop listening to all media because it is so incredibly lopsided it's infuriating and only gets me agitated.

Whereas the media used to report primarily facts, it seems to me that now they primarily report opinions, speculations, and prophecies. We're not able to form our own opinions on issues based on facts, because we don't hear many facts, and the facts we do hear are definitely not in any kind of balance on the many sides of complex issues.
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I glanced at the Clive Thompson article. I disagree. I feel movements like "software carpentry" (https://software-carpentry.org) are a good indicator of what mass computer literacy will look like in the workplace and society as a whole. Essentially more folks will know how to develop small scripts to support their main work (or customise their home automation systems). In turn, I also suspect, in the long run, programmers that act as the equivalent of a scrivener (the 'blue' collar workers of those articles) are going to dramatically decline as a percentage of folks engaged in software development.
Personally, if I can help it I'll find a small dirty old corner of some country side road veggie stand, for really fresh semi organic unprocessed foods. And if also if I can help it, I won't shop some where with an IPO. I just can not come to believe a process groomed to attract investment dollars is even half way close to the goal of being some what good for society, any part, any where in society
Is this far enough along to have comments from congressmen/senators/Trump for us to know how this will end?

It seems like something most would agree with
I do not get why everyone thinks that encrypted email is GPG.

S/MIME is supported by almost all email clients.

S/MIME is far less of a pain (but still some pain and could be improved).

It has a model of how to verify that keys belong to the right person, that actually works in practice in contrast to GPG where you basically have to verify keys by hand (adversarial CAs are a problem, but probably only for a tiny amount of people).
Kid was drunk and driving.

This is pure parental failure -- nothing more to gain from it. Father is hurt and lashing out for someone to blame instead of taking responsibility for raising a kid that wasn't capable of making good choices.

> Jon Speckman instead blames the Model S’ acceleration in an interview with Indy Star today:

> “This is a vehicle that travels from 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds. She’s clearly having to swerve to miss a vehicle going the wrong way on a one-way street. If her foot should happen to hit the accelerator, it’s like a rocket ship. I don’t know why they have to make a car that does that.”

Presumably he knew first-hand how the car worked when he bought the car, and gave the keys to his daughter. It's not like he can say, "I don't know how my kid ended up in a Tesla S... maybe she tripped?"

Being drunk and driving any car can kill.
Sure, we are able to work/communicate remotely. But the problem is that even remote work on super-computer is limiting and reduces the iteration cycle. I prefer to run small and fast experiments on local machine, fine-tune for significant time and after this send them to big cluster. Once in this stage, observing the progress from coffee shop is more like a "gradient addiction" for me. Why? On local machine I get much faster iterations and find errors quickly. In Elon's words, the "bandwidth" between me and machine is higher. The merge started, but there is still a lot to be discovered in order to broaden the information flow.
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Back in 2014: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/ios8-to-stymie-tracker...
One of the biggest turn-offs when I'm thinking about clicking a link to an article is seeing that it's at Medium. So many things there are of such low quality that I can't imagine wanting to pay for it. If anything, I would pay whomever could find a way to forever remove half-baked think pieces and Silicon Valley posturing from my life.
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The only recent proxy invasion that I know about was Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine where the invasion was Russian but none of the combatants bore Russian insignia. What are you referring to when you say US proxy invasions? Iraq and Afghanistan were direct invasions.
"... as soon as their machines were better than their bodies, it was time to move. First their brains, and then their thoughts alone... they no longer build spaceships. They were spaceships." Arthur C. Clarke.

It seems clear that this biological implementation is going to be obsolete some time soon..
Eyeroll, I have no desire to merge with a calculator.

Humans, and even the 'lower' animals for that matter, out compute computers even today.
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The folks at DeepMind continue to produce clever original work at an astounding pace, with no signs of slowing down.

Whenever I think I've finally gotten a handle on the state-of-the-art in AI research, they come up with something new that looks really interesting.

They're now training deep-reinforcement-learning agents to co-evolve in increasingly more complex settings, to see if, how, and when the agents learn to cooperate (or not). Should they find that agents learn to behave in ways that, say, contradict widely accepted economic theory, this line of work could easily lead to a Nobel prize in Economics.

Very cool.
If the system has facilities for classifying data by its "relevance", one would expect those to be used by those who fired Binney yet arranged for his system to be installed anyway. If the system relies on only "relevant data" ever being entered, then it's useless and always was.
You keep plaintext archives and drafts of your messages, because that's a fundamental feature of email clients going back 3 decades.

To my knowledge, mutt doesn't store decrypted archives. Drafts are stored in /tmp which can be a filesystem stored in RAM. I think using Mutt also takes care of your second point.

Your third point is the biggest problem with any system where security is bolted on (e.g. SMTP, POTS, etc.) - your end may be secure but your interlocutor is liable to compromise you one way or another. Though, as you say, this isn't a fundamental property of all encrypted messaging systems.
Musk is talking about a direct brain to computer interface. Video/typing/etc cannot be compared, even remotely. You're missing Musk's point if you argue down that path.
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You should turn off your fingerprint readers. Courts the world over are starting to agree with law enforcement that they have the right to take your fingerprints, and they have the right to do whatever they want with those fingerprints short of disclosing them to the public.

Sooooo... fingerprint auth is a useless security measure even for normal citizens.
Isn't disabled SMS overkill for most casual thread models? As I understand it SMS would require someone to MITM the telecom network OR snoop the local antenna when you receive it on your phone. Which is a danger if you expect, like, nation-state adversaries.

But if I'm, say, protecting my GitHub account against Russian mafia hackers, that still seems perfectly fine?
But when I learned about this problem, I checked my several hundred discs between Sega CD, Turbo CD, Saturn, and even Dreamcast games and found DOZENS had this problem. Several expensive games I owned were mint—except when held to the light I could see one or more little white dots that proved my game had damage. Some of these I went back to play after not touching for years and found they now would occasionally lock up or not play at all. I had a few FACTORY SEALED games that I opened and found the same thing.

It has been a nerve-shattering nightmare for a collector like me.

So should I worry about my factory sealed copies of FF7 and Xenogears? Also, is there any sort of "rot" that may occur with cartridge-based items? I have some unopened NES and SNES games as well.
It's a bit frustrating to have entire points responded to with only an assertion to the contrary. You questioned the honesty of my argument ("you really don't know what BI is"), so it seemed reasonable to point out what I perceived as a fundamental problem with our conversation. I can't particularly see what I would have said differently to keep our thread from slowly going off the rails, but I apologize for my part.

I'm done beating this dead horse if you are. But perhaps you'd view my argument in a different way if I said that I don't have a philosophical problem with BI, and that I'd support the idea iff interest rates were back up to say 10% ? The main point I've been trying to get across is that in the current monetary environment, BI seems akin to adding a second garden hose to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom.
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Just use a TOTP app, at the moment. Note that because there are no U2F alternatives means that you shouldn't use U2F - not that you should settle for an insecure device.
True, but let us acknowledge that those are edge cases. For the average person encrypted email has never been a thing.

I hope PGP remains around for people who do need it. There are people who have a real need for secure communication, and they are probably able to invent a cover story to explain your meta-data leaks. (everyone knows I buy widgets and from him: it is no surprise that we don't want details about our negotiations public)
No, no he's not.

GP was questioning the implementation and OP is merely identifying a clear weakness (regardless of who you says, it is a trade-off). Not quite an appeal to authority, but it's pretty damn close.

What exactly about the post is a discredited argument? I'm genuinely curious. WhatsApp can be doing anything behind the scenes without clients knowing about it, how is questioning this a bad thing?
Is it just Mass Storage that'd disabled in USB or the ports themselves?
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before WWII the powers had conflicting colonial ambitions, now its a post colonial world, so what matters is access to resources (these you can again buy with money, but the fight is over conditions and price).

I think there were several transitions that made the world a more civil place: one was the realization that free labor is better than forced /slave labor, the other one that you can do without colonies. (There was also the axial age, but that was along time ago)
I think I am unusually permissive about where I allow contractions. I'm always tickled by that E E Cummings poem that just barely pulls off a rhyme with "year" and "appear" in its last line, "...and April's where we're.".
Here's the actual paper: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/papers/multi-a...

Don't expect any crazy deep insights, but it's a useful read if you want to set up a similar experiment or understand the research methodology.
It's the foreign section of mbl (morgunblaðið).

Morgunblaðið is a highly partisan newspaper in Iceland owned by the fisheries industries. It's run at a loss but noone cares because their primary purpose is propaganda for their owners (to some extent this is the case for all media but they are particularly blatant about it).

The english-language section on their site is just a place for them to sell ads-disguised-as-news to tourists. They have low-paid teenagers translating stories from the Icelandic version to maintain some semblance of being a news site. You'll never find good information in these, and oftentimes it's just plain bullshit.
I worked pretty hard on something like this many years ago. I am not a coder so it was a formidable challenge and I never really got it polished or complete. The goal was to create a blank canvas where anyone could organize instructional content from the web (i.e. KhanAcademy, YouTube, etc) into their own class. Each class topic was structured like a subreddit for each topic, with the best results hopefully filtering to the top
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I am curious as to why you've posted this as a tarball on a private website instead of to Github, Bitbucket, etc.
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Warmfuzzies and novel experiences.
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Let me know where people plug directly in machines, I will look forward watching a brain being hacked.
Reminder that open source projects are not provably more secure, nor is it easy (or even possible in many cases) to assert the source you see made the binary in question.

Yubikey has been around a long time and has made every effort to be a transparent company with a support for open source. Truth is, that is sometimes hard to do.

I found this article rather interesting, back when it first came out: https://www.yubico.com/2016/05/secure-hardware-vs-open-sourc...
A little less than a year ago I worked on a bioinformatics project in rust, and I think it came out very well. My perception was that bio is a field where most practitioners rely on high speed code written by someone else that can be called from their perl or python code. I see something very empowering with rust, where people can write high performance analysis without having to shoehorn their workload into an existing toolkit or framework.

That said, while I'm really excited to see rust go more places, astrophysics seems like one of very few fields where practitioners learn a high performance language as a matter of course, and so rust may have a less empowering effect for them. I would wager that after paying the upfront cost to learn it, students and researchers may see improved iteration time from fewer bugs. But it seems like rust may have an incremental improvement to offer which is not as powerful as the transformative nature of its potential in other computationally intensive fields.
Mmmh, the problem of modeling social behavior is in defining the reward function, not in implementing optimal strategies to maximize the reward.

In a game where you are given the choice of killing 10,000 people or be killed yourself, which is the most rewarding outcome?
Quantitative Easing and the US Fiscal policy. Look it up.
Coffee sucks all the kool kids are drinking kool-aide .
My workplace only gives us 2 weeks off for paternity; but I was able to take an additional week off as vacation. tbh, it still wasn't enough.
I think that has to do with writers, not with Medium itself as a platform
He's the boss. He despises idol worship, but if I have to name one person that has the most/best influence on my life, this is the one (for the past twenty years). I highly recommend his work.
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Wait – Yubikey is associated with Google? Or did you mean that whatever alternatives people suggest mustn't be associated with Google?
That sounds interesting. Do you have anything you could share on the topic ?
I remembering learning that the most powerful force acting on a building or tree was inertia. Watching videos like this makes that much more clear.
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I think it would be more fair to call this "HTML & CSS" tutorial than a "web development" one.
you spelled rectal wrong .
Interesting. Is that on purpose, to help lose fat, or to get the body used naturally handling a wider range of temperatures (I've read yoga prescribes that to some extent), or something else?
> /me closes tab and gets on with day :)

Rude dismissive instant messaging language, that doesn't contribute anything to the discussion.

This wouldn't have received any downvotes:

> Ah shame. That's a deal breaker for me. Having open source programming on the device itself is a must-have for me because of [insert reason].
I don't think you understand what I'm saying.
I'm torn about this.

Brought to you by the person that wrote "Rolling your own crypto" (see earlier discussion linked below), with the motto "Impossible? Like that would stop me."

Some fields of knowledge in certain phases benefit from iconoclasm and Sturm & Drang, but is cryptography one of them? On the other hand, many existing implementations are so crufty that a fresh wind might help (if only by pushing more experienced cryptographers to put out better implementations).

At any rate, at least the writer followed through, though I'd not be inclined to use this in production anytime soon.

http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/rolling-your-own-crypto

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13221923
> Don't forget about US proxy invasions and the global drone program... and so on, and so on...

One occupies and annexes land, the other plays war games and regime change. If you are arguing that there is no difference between the two, do so.
The decline of GPL?
Getting all your news from Facebook is like eating only potato chips
A Russian invasion of China would be an interesting strategic problem. They'd have to go through Siberia, Mongolia, or Xinjiang to get to the meaty filling.
They probably didn't https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/46405/did-cellebrite-decrypt-sa...
GitHub is far more intrusive than SourceForge (don't get me wrong on quality though... SF is a piece of crap). Remember GitHub has a lot of people's credit cards! Even Facebook doesn't have that.

GitHub could easily some day sell user information (if they are not already). The could sell it to recruiting companies (like my own company) or they could sell it even to ecommerce companies like Amazon.

Comparing GH to SF is not really even remotely useful because things have changed so much (in terms of technology, biz models, users ...etc ).
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AI is impotent at making free decisions because it's deliberately constrained by the programmers to think rigidly and inside their own custom black box

That's a strange assertion to make. And false. AI cannot make what you would call "free decisions" because it lacks the level of complexity necessary to trick you into thinking it can, the way your brain tricks you into thinking you make "free decisions". The idea that we're intentionally crippling AI because we have no room for it both overstates our ability to create intelligence and understates the financial incentives for anyone who creates it.

mars where we can unleash AI and watch it make free decisions, which I suspect Musk is trying to do

So, the real reasons he's given for wanting to go to Mars.. I guess those are just a smoke screen?
Sorry, that example wasn't my data, it was to illustrate question.
The tech is the same; what's changed is the user's expectations.
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According to musk:
In an age when AI threatens to become widespread, humans would be useless, so there's a need to merge with machines, according to Musk.

Then why won't the machines just kill the humans and take over?
The video linked in this post will only make sense if you accept that x e^(theta i) and x k are respectively the rotation part and the scaling part of a linear transformation of x. I'm not aware of any other way to intuitively grasp an expression like e^(pi i).
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TOTP with Yubikeys is great. You just need the Yubico Authenticator app to access the TOTPs. Works fine on phone using NFC as well as on my (Linux) desktop using USB. New phone? Install YK Authenticator, tap the YK and use your TOTPs.
Really, because the vast majority of my communication happens over phone, text or the interent. Micro expressions don't exist in these medium at all, and are therefore not nearly as important as you're giving them credit. Critical thinking is important, but don't mix that with sour grapes.
No, they exist under legal authority of host nation.
Remember headlight wipers?
LA Times has more great photos.

Google "Major sinkhole on spillway at Lake Oroville" to avoid the paywall.

http://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-lake-orovil...
What? The world is round? Let's start tying nooses.