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You are correct. You don't need to do a whole brain simulation to achieve AGI. Instead, you need to understand an incredible amount about its processes, design, and overall nature. At which point, you need to translate this into the computational domain. A lot can be 'left on the table' so to speak. The fundamental problem arises with how deep your understanding is so as to know which parts you can leave on the table and which parts you can't. As far as then putting this into a functional computational system, you would need an extensive knowledge in this domain as well so as to know how to structure the software to best exploit the hardware. Lots of prototypes, performance testing, scaling, etc until you have a sound 'feel' of what you can expect and where things and you need to go. That being said.. Yes, I can run my stack on a consumer grade CPU/GPU. I have designs for hardware architectures that don't quite exist yet but all of that can be emulated in software. Latency is the only consequence of current hardware which can be trimmed with effort. Latency when too high can be abstracted with time scaled simulation. So, there is absolutely no blocker in hardware for developing AGI and yes it can be done on affordable consumer hardware .. If GPUs don't continue to be resigned to ponzi schemes and RAM prices come back to earth. That being said, if I need to, and if things don't change down the road, I'd be more than happy to spin my own hardware to keep costs in order.
That is a very different implementation.

It's a cool idea, taking advantage of the fact that gifs can be partially decoded, then generate the next frame on the fly and then send it over to the client as part of the same request (hello comet!), but there's a number of practical (to the extent that either of these are practical) differences.

The svg can be downloaded, or cached, and it's functionality preserved (and can be viewed with a browser, even in offline mode). The gif solution technically would take an infinite amount of time to download. It requires an ongoing connection to the server, and it cannot be cached or distributed via a CDN.

So, not the same thing at all, but very interesting.
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Why does it have to be voting
why not use your phone? Navigating watch ui's are horrendous. Plus you don't have to charge another device every night.
I didn't say anything about types. :)
I said functionally equivalent.

What it means depends on the definition of "functionally equivalent" of course.
The first version, which is types, is the most immediate and obvious, but as you pointed out, not that useful.

Abstractions, however also works at the semantics level: if A behaves like B trough the interface S, then you can confidently say that for any F (of type S -> S'), F(A) behaves like F(B). So you can just test that A and B are not distinguishable (property testing is very good at this) and feel confident about your refactoring!

The definition of behaves like depends on your language. Usually, this doesn't account for performances, as you point out, but only for the observable semantics. This is known as parametricity[1]. If you really want to get into the deep end, [2] demonstrates all that for a (very rich) ML module system.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametricity
[2]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/papers/2017/mapp.pdf
First I don’t mean SoftLayer’s cloud. I mean their physical boxes. A dual processor Xeon that is all your own is a lot.

Second, it depends on your expertise. And you don’t need scale. I ran a successfully bit of infrastructure on SL with seven servers that was quite a bit cheaper than an equivalent AWS setup. I was pretty much solely responsible for the infrastructure and still my responsibilities included more than 80% coding and later management. Given my salary at the time, it was quite cost effective.
Word "yes" in romance languages. Basque is not a romance language.
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Even if your random() is cryptographically strong and not just an LCG, many samples over time will still be able to extract a signal.
You can try one of these:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/unta...

http://planarity.net/

https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
Consider that this two term limit was a clause in constitution and is now being removed. Who is going to put them back, possibly decades after, and how are they going to enforce it?

Let's say Xi has hypothetic son Xiao, a spoiled brat whom he's going to pass on the country in 2042. What are the chances that he'll be stopped by such a clause when he removed the terms limit in the first place?
That adds noise to the signal. The signal can still be recovered with more data, so while this helps, it’s not a complete solution.
There're certainly other government forms outside western democracy and pure dictatorship
Your point is what, exactly?

Doing research into things, publishing results, and shorting is perfectly legitimate. It's how Lumber Liquidators was found to be using formaldehyde. Just because someone says something you don't like, and they have a short position in the thing, doesn't mean they are wrong.
@gaius: Now I'm blocked from responding to you. The only source code I could find for Microsoft, is for debugging, and doesn't give you access to all the source. You have to use a smart card that they send as well.

Here is the license for Android:

https://source.android.com/setup/licenses

Where is the license for Winblows?
Banks, perhaps. Everyone else (conservative pundits, fiscal pundits) seem to be declaring imminent crippling inflation on a regular basis, yet it never seems to happen, even when the banks/govt take the action (or don't take the remedy) to this threat.

Qe1 and Qe2 in the US were both accompanied by much hand wringing and doomsaying (for example), but the logic of the fear never made sense to me.
I have a feeling that both have unrealistic expectations.

Graduates: I won't say all, but I do think many modern graduates allow themselves to be too easily distracted on a mobile computer they own.

Employeers: High expectations of engagement and 'loyalty', but low pay, low benefits, and lacking support in the environment at work. Somehow able to remain productive when in a highly distracting environment with no expectation of actual tranquility for focus. Is masochist the kind of professional they're describing?

Ultimately this is one of those issues where a clear set of expectations and some metric of measuring them should be set; then an independent review party should measure if just the metric was being met, or if things were normal but the metric was still being met.
Humanity as a whole is starting to be able to break our ‘locks’ with gene editing. It took a long time partly because biology is very complex and fragile. Its complexity is shaped over eons and we still do not really understand it that well, but we finally found some ‘hacks’.

There is no reason to presume that a software system built by a team of humans will be nearly as complex, unless the AGI itself is not too bright or cannot self-improve to be smart enough to understand itself, or sufficiently clever to find a way to social engineer toward eventually getting access to its source code or to reverse engineer itself to an extent that even humans can.
perhaps the priority is encouraging investment into capital.
VW basically does what everybody else is doing (see news about Daimler and BMW). The state-owned aspect changes nothing, it just says that 30% of VWs profits go into the pockets of the German state of Niedersachsen instead of the pockets of a private investor.

That was the key point of the original discussion about Gates' money and rising inequality, so the example is very valid.
I've had zero issues with Kirkland Grain Free dog food from Costco. It costs about $1/pound give or take depending on the protein source (they offer Salmon, Turkey, and Beef). The carbohydrate source is from sweet potato.

I've used this site and their deep analyses to understand what is optimal (according to them): https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-reviews/natures-doma.... They also have a newsletter that emails whenever a recall of dog food/snacks is initiated.

Both of my dogs (smallish breeds) have been able to switch between with minimal effort to transition all that slowly, and their weight has been stable/healthy despite not nearly enough physical activity.
While the Cuban Missile Crisis was playing out China and India were fighting a small war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War .
You’re not blocked, HN just rate-limits comments :-)
In addition to that, it's been my experience that their Engineering skill diminishes over time, like any other skill that isn't getting the maintenance that it requires, and they seem to be largely unaware of that. Despite their now-undersized technical knowledge / capabilities, they can still be found forcing technical decisions against the better judgement of their departments actual technical leadership. I've also had this same style of manager become a rate limiting bottleneck by forcing _all_ cross-team decision making to route through him. We gamed that, of course, because we had to, but it was still tacking days on to "decision making" that we had to suffer through just to do our jobs.

Want to watch an Engineering team go from: can produce and deliver to doesn't have a clue? Just get yourself a couple of these jokers to be your Engineering teams management.
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I'm not sure how that article applies; it discusses the hazards of using a PRNG. I think the actual objection is that it just increases the number of samples required, but doesn't fix the problem.
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Kenneth Reitz comes out with yet another good UI (in terms of library) to accomplish daily mundane tasks, with joy.
Both of you are correct. One need only have understanding. You must maintain a yet to be discovered understanding of the human equivalent and have a depth of understanding in computational systems. While the understanding is non-trivial, the translation effort from one domain to the other isn't much effort. Computing resource capability scales with $$. I decided to do something unorthodox and start with limited computational resources. It drives the innovative spirit ^_-. If your processor is to 'slow', you can simply create a simulated abstraction of time and go from there. Computational power doesn't bog down/limit the effort, one's own understanding of the problem space/domains does.
Love this stuff. It's like an illustrated version of Jorge Luis Borges' Book Of Imaginary Beings, which is likewise a wonderful catalog of all the strange things the human mind can dream up.
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200 self driving trucks on the roads of sweden in just two years time?

I seriously doubt that. Maybe the technology could be here but I doubt the legislature will be.
+1

I'm writing this form a throw away for obvious reasons. The H1-B system or the green card system does not distinguish between TCS/Infosys/etc.. and bay area engineers making a lot of money.

I made over $300k+/year at one of the large tech firms. Because the US limits green cards from people born in a single country to 7% (same upper limits to India / China and Montenegro), me and many of my friends have to wait 70+ years. (https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-how-long-legal-immigr...)

I paid a lot of money in taxes for a long time. Over a decade, this was taxation without representation.

Many of my american friends could not believe how bad the system was. It took several beer chats with hours of question answering before they realized that you had no way around this if you were born in India. Before anyone says EB-1, remember that EB-1 was meant for nobel laureates and requires a lot of luck to work out. It's ridiculous - a person I used to lead in my job who was born in Spain got their green card in under 2 years because of where they were born, while I had already waited a decade.

Life is short and there's no point waiting for 70+ years paying taxes without representation.

I'm back in India starting a company. The access to venture capital here is improving, and it's so much easier to be creative without having to worry about immigration status. If I hadn't move back to India, I would have moved to Canada. They have really got their immigration system right.
hi - i took a look at the sqlite db. not to nitpick, but you have 4 indexes there?

the overhead of indexes at tiny data sizes like this is minimal, so no surprise that sqlite or pg will compare favorably at laptop scale (FWIW, i ran this on a 4-core macbook pro with no GPU (i.e CPU only) and without indexes, mapd runs the query at ~1.5 sec while sqlite takes ~6).

however, the bigger point is about how this experience scales. take a look at this public demo - https://www.mapd.com/demos/ships. it's 11 billion geo data points, and you'll see the same low millisecond response that FridgeSeal is talking about - again, no indexing (to verify, go to dev tools in your browser, turn on SQLLogging(true) in the console and look at the query times reported for the round trip. i'm sure you appreciate that the overhead (both creation and maintenance) of indexing scales with data size, plus sqlite/pg dont (AFAIK) offer anything by way of GPU-rendered charting.
Really looking forward to using this. BeautifulSoup is great, but it's counterintuitive (I always need to refer to documentation even for very basic aspects that I've used dozens of times before) and it's often slow and has some really weird xml bugs)

Also check out newspaper3k if you haven't seen it. It is high level, but really useful for a bunch of simple scraping related use cases
Well, you and the poster are about to be disappointed. I did the comparison recently for 512GB memory servers and Google Cloud is now the same price as SoftLayer, while AWS is a bit more.

https://thehftguy.com/2018/01/15/the-inevitable-demise-of-ib...

If you are willing to pay a lot of money upfront, which you are since you're talking about building your own datacenter, AWS and Google will both give you huge discount and be significantly cheaper than SoftLayer.
I'm not sure the word "dubious" means what you think it means. Are the employers dubious?
Clickbait. "If you are a convicted felon" is missing from the headline.
This works also great in startups where nobody really knows what he is doing and no one has firm grasp on what people produce/should produce except impressions. Knowing who really produces requires good management that has time to look at the details. That requires stability, non panic mode and sane politics.

Overworked manager will take overconfident person over humble cautious one, because the illusion feels good.

Those overconfident people rarely do nothing and are completely incapable. That is strawman situation, basically.
Oftentimes they eventually succeed, altrough it takes more time, is overall somewhat less effective, their code is harder to maintain or something of that sort.
That does seem interesting. I was looking at whether it was possibly to flash/replace the head unit software if a few years old Camry the other week, but didn't find anything useful. Do you happen to have info on which android forums someone should look in?
Honestly you sound like you want to be dramatic about everything.
It works with GNOME image viewer
Yes, but they've also raised rates a number if times in the last few decades over -fears- of inflation that wasn't yet present, even with employment/wages weak.

The Fed tries not to screw employment up, but I've not heard if them taking action to impact employment while they will for inflation. Even when inflation is too low by the Fed targets.

All of this, however, is my only lightly informed opinion so I am open to being shown any errors.
The same reasons would apply elsewhere, they're not USA-specific, so they don't explain why it's not possible to do the same thing that's successfully done elsewhere.

Sure, there's some inherent variance always - the same thing happens in many industries and doesn't prevent them from offering fixed quotes; the service provider is the one best qualified to estimate the expected variance in their costs and offer appropriate pricing.

Sure, there may be special requirements that justify charging extra for a particular case; that's not an obstacle from telling the customer about that beforehand. Well, not in ER, but most care is not ER.
>but also are very childish, immature kind of behaviours

the tech industry and many other sectors of the 'knowledge economy' actively push for this. By removing rules and management from the workplace in an attempt to muddle people's work and private lifes they are bringing inappropriate behaviour into the workplace.

This ranges from general lack of oversight to 'clique building' to even drinking at work, and people who are in a minority have a hard time fitting in in that environment because it often turns into an informal boys club.

The same thing can be seen in open source communities where testosterone charged rants on mailing lists seem to be encouraged rather than discouraged.
Measuring the total runtime is only one of many kinds of timing attacks. The most effective timing attacks do not do that; instead, they measure time taken to access some specific memory areas _after_ the execution of the target code, in order to work out which cache lines were loaded by that code (this applies to both data and code caches, btw). These are "timing attacks" since they ultimately come from a measure of elapsed time, but not necessarily the time taken by the target code itself.

Also, when a thread is sleeping, the OS will schedule other threads, which opens many additional ways for attackers to notice that sleeping started.
This is indeed an important discussion. I was looking for some similar experience in the top few comments but couldn't find it, so I thought about writing my own. From my experience its about the person in the role, not the role itself. Two of the best managers I had were non-technical but they could read people. They kept their distance from the technical work but would step in when required to control. Ofcourse this also means that they hired good engineers to begin with. A good engineering team can run by itself when it comes to technical work.
Thanks, this helps a lot
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People who have authority over where money flows tend to authorize it flowing to themselves.

A group of people who each controls the destination of a money flow but can't choose themselves choose each other, thereby choosing themselves.
If we're getting stuck on terminology: SVG were never images, so if you called them that, or you thought they were, that was a misconception that can be laid to rest. SVG is a graphics document format, not an image format. It was from the outset designed to allow interaction and programmatic behaviour and its specification explicitly includes sections on how its document model should be exposed to ECMAScript for dynamic document behaviour.

As for where this will work: any SVG document viewer that implements the full spec should render this correctly, but you're correct in that it won't execute as document when used as an <img> source in the browser. Not due to anything related to SVG, but simply because that's what the HTML spec says <img> tags should do for any and all content pointe to by the "src" attribute:

"The src attribute must be present, and must contain a valid non-empty URL potentially surrounded by spaces referencing a non-interactive, optionally animated, image resource that is neither paged nor scripted."
(https://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-preview/the-img-element.html)
I should have put this in my first comment. I don't like it because I am a Chinese too.
Because this doesn't work at all, and would only help with one very specific kind of side channel (e.g. remote timing).

I've written about this before on this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16069502
Presumably the management at Dropbox has no reason to throw away money. He received this on a vesting agreement and has to hit goals to receive it.

He has run several multi-billion dollar units at Microsoft. Likely he had many other opportunities on the table.

Fact is it takes more than code to build something that lasts. You need to know code, understand people that write code, but there is a lot more to it than code. This guy was hired to multiply the efforts of hundreds of coders -- so all he had to do is improve each of them 5% to justify his salary.
As an aside, it's always nice to see a clean, readable web site like this.
Same! Python requests is one of my favorite libraries of all time. Kenneth Reitz is a treasure.
How is removing hard limit on two terms "crossing that gap"? It'd be a much greater leap if Xi wants to rule indefinitely. Xi (and the communist party) wants stability, and he has to answer to what the people want to keep staying in power
My optometrist told me about this 30 years ago. He called it learning to "interpret the blur." He also encouraging people to use glasses as little as possible so that the eye muscles don't get lazy. It may not eliminate myopia, but it can slow it down, especially in the milder cases.
Because it's from this page https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
I don't think that the two are really that comparable. The US is much better equipped to help thwart a Chinese invasion of Taiwan than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion would be very far from an easy operation or even a sure win. And even ignoring America's historical support of Taiwan against China, if China were to successfully invade Taiwan, it would change the security situation of the area to such a degree that even military brass would be vary wary to not take a stand.

> Outright war would be costly and endless and frankly unwinnable.

I'm not sure why you think this is the case. If the US were to try to invade China, then yeah it would basically be unwinnable. But why would the US do that? They would only be trying to contain them. If they could help thwart and invasion and then shutdown the Chinese navy, then they would basically already have won by any reasonable measure.
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It is not "complete bollocks",it just not as efficient as it appears to be. The reason for the (supposedly) higher efficiency of ternary logic is so called Radix Economy (wikipedia has an article). Properly implemented ternary (with a split power supply - positive, negative and ground) would have the same noise immunity as binary.
Large software companies pay premiums. Tata, Infosys, Cognizant, et cetera are the bad actors. https://www.economist.com/news/business/21714994-it-firms-ne...
Mass labor being paid to much is somewher around #837 in the list of problems we need to solve.
> At one point my GPS/stereo touchscreen hit some bug, and the only way to "fix" it was to pull over at a rest stop and power cycle my truck (turn off, then back on again :facepalm: ).

be glad you even have this option.

in my car, sometimes android auto freezes in a way that it will never recover from. this would be a minor annoyance if I could just reboot the thing while driving (and why not? it shouldn't hook into anything essential), but I can't do that. worse still, I can't even hard reset it by power cycling the whole car. the damn thing goes into sleep mode or something and maintains the broken state. only way to fix it is to turn the car off and then wait n minutes for the system to finally shut down.
I hope projects like this stick around long enough to provide some postmarket support after the manufacturer gives up.

I've been waiting far too long for Mazda to ship their promised CarPlay update and I'm wondering how I might take matters into my own hands.