skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that people constantly underestimated the required computing power, as more and more finer details of the brain and cognition are unraveling. That doesn't make my argument invalid. I don't think we need to do a full brain emulation. That's the worst case scenario.

We're getting pretty good at computer vision, what's lacking is the backend for reasoning, for generating the distributions for object segmentation and scene interpretation. Basically the supervisor. (As unsupervised learning is of course just means that the supervision and goal/utility functions are external/exogenous to the ML system, such as natural selection in case of evolution.)

My example illustrates that yes, we can give an upper bound on molecule by molecule climate modeling, but that's just a large exponential number, not interesting, what we're interested in is useful approximations, which are polynomial, but they being models, they need a lot of special treatment for the edge cases. (Literally the edges of homogeneous structures, like ice-water-air, water-air, water-land, air-land [mountains, big flats, etc] interfaces. And the second order induced effects, like currents, and so on.) That means precise measurements of these effects, and modelling them. (Which would be needed anyway, even if we were to do a back to the basics N-S hydrodynamics model, as there are a lot of parameters to fine-tune.)

For the brain we know the number of neurons, the firing activity, the bandwidth of signals, etc. We can estimate the upper limit in information terms, no biggie, but that doesn't get us [much] closer for the requirements of a realistic implementation.

> Yet we have failed to realistically emulate a worm.

http://openworm.org/getting_started.html#goal seems to be matter of time, not lack of understanding. ( https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm#quickstart ) But maybe I'm not up to date on the issues.

> it's high time to give up on the delusion that more power, naturally coming in the future, will somehow enable a creation of predictive brain model, for this would truly be magic.

a) people are saying exactly this for years, that we have enough data already, we need better theories/models

b) they fail to accept that more computing power and data is the way to test and generate theories.

> The brain is not a Rube Goldberg machine that manages to produce any sort of work simply due to its excessive complexity

A Rube Goldberg machine is simple, just has a lot of simple failure modes. (A trigger fails to trigger the next part, either because the part itself fails, or the interface between parts failed.)

> Its discrete elements aren't really small by today's standards,

If you mean cells, or cortices, agreed.

If you mean functional cognitive constituents, I also agree, but a bit disagree, as they are small parts of a big mind, all interwoven, influencing, inhibiting, motivating, restricting, reinforcing, calibrating, guiding, enhancing each other to certain degrees.

So in that sense consciousness is a big matrix which gives the coefficients for the coupling "constants" between parts. A magical formula if you will. But not more magical, than the SM of physics.
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maybe we can suggest they write about Mother Teresa >> https://www.huffingtonpost.com/krithika-varagur/mother-teres...
Microsoft’s Office Online (their version of Google Docs) has the same behavior on Firefox with right click clipboard functions as GDocs, unfortunately.
Facebook, along with the military industrial complex is among the places I wouldn't work for any amount of money. Privacy is a human right and Facebook is by far the worst human rights violator and enabler in this respect. Their behaviour is clearly evil, exploitative of human nature and at least for some people using facebook decreases their overall well-being and mental health. People like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94s0yYECeR8 are clearly intelligent, articulate and competent, yet they are working on a product that is explicitly designed to be addictive and create an echo chamber, as he nicely explains in the talk (if you are curious how click-bait is formalised go to ~34min).
This is just a single LED. And you are asking about specs of some future product that may use it.

I think you can make background dark (from transparent) by using good old LCD technology. Because that's basically what LCD is about.
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Maybe even the return of AIM.
Maybe i'm an outlier, but with zero prior experience in image editing software, i've found GIMP UI much more approachable than Photoshop. With PS i felt that the UI was much more tailored to experts or at least to people that knew what they were doing, whereas with GIMP i found the UI to be more beginner-friendly and discoverable.

So yeah, YMMV. What a shocker! :)

> Downvote all you want--I know open source can't handle criticism, but I really don't understand why they don't try to make it usable.

I'm intrigued by this. Do you genuinely think that the GIMP developers don't want or don't try to make it usable or to improve it as much as they can? What do you imagine? That they decide to spend their time contributing to a FOSS project and think "hey, today i'll try to make this thing that i love a bit more obscure and unusable!"?

I'm genuinely curious. I seems totally bizarre to me to think that way :S
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Meh. Getting hyped too much.

- The app is actually not "official" as endorsed-by-the-government. This was always a election-canvassing application branded as "Narendra Modi" app when he was the candidate. This is maintained by the BJP (ruling party) alongside their other apps.

- The app uses Clevertap, which is also used by lots of Indian companies, especially in the mobile world.

Nothing wrong or illegal here. For an application by a privately owned organization in India, there are no data residency requirements either afaik.

Eliott has tweeted about finding flaws in the INC app (opposition party) as well, but if they are similar, don't expect them to be changed.
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The crazy part is, while I have the same issues with every release of Android Studio – the same project in IDEA works just fine, without any trouble, ever.

In fact, JetBrains quality and reliability has been much higher than the piece of shit IDE Google has been producing.
I can imagine the author of the original tweet grinning wide at the marvelous stupidity of the entire media world. Just a little inspection is enough to realize how ridiculous the whole controversy is.

The 'spying' here is nothing more than using an analytics service called Clevertap. I haven't come across many apps/websites that didn't do so, in one way or the other. It's a fucking industry. If tracking the activity of an app's users would amount to spying, then I guess entire fleet of third-party SaaS services would need to go (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Zendesk, Intercom).
I'm getting all my zip archives with x-zip-compressed MIME type. Any way to convert it to application/zip or make it work with x-zip-compressed?
What on earth does their stance on Brexit have to do with there position in the select committee?!
> Unfortunately, when one tries to say anything the response is "you go fix it then, asshole!" but I don't know how to develop desktop apps, so...

There are other ways you can help!

As someone with experience using graphics applications, you could look into making UI mockups of the changes / improvements you have in mind. Seeing the mockups might get someone interested enough to start work on user-testing, prototyping, implementing, ..., them.
Another day, another bunch of irresponsible reporting in the cryptocurrency world.

Wired fails to disclose that the first mentioned correspondent is Andrew Miller of the Zcash foundation. He previously published a blog containing much the same content about Monero.

https://z.cash.foundation/about/

http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/04/19/monero-linkability/

So how much money are some people making today on Monero shorts and Zcash longs thanks to a front page Wired article?
Down votes but no explanation. XSpec's level of untraceability goes quite a bit beyond Monero's.
> really cheap, clean energy solves pretty much every problem of scarcity

How does it make rent in San Francisco affordable?

How does it make enough grass-fed premium beef for everyone in the world to eat steak every night affordable?
I hope we will start asking ourselves "do I even need React for this project?".
I hope this hate on FB ends already, I'm tired of seeing the home page of HN polluted by it.

We all knew what was going on on FB, so acting surprised is silly. And we all know this won't change nothing because most people don't care and will happily keep using FB. And we also know even if people stop using FB they will keep using WA/IG. So what's the point? Is this only a problem now that Trump took advantage of it?
I wonder if this will affect their tax arrangements, as they have been treated rather nicely up till now.

In 2014, Facebook paid £4,327 in tax to the UK. The next year, they paid £4.16 million, which seems to be an improvement but then in the same year they were given an £11 million tax credit, so not so much.
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Which makes me sad reading an article prioritizing all the military applications, because Lockheed Martin.

It's like a real life Iron Man movie script.

I prefer the Superman version of limitless energy.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
Microsoft will start monitoring and censoring Skype, Xbox, and Cortana
Subversive technology? I 'ardly know 'er!
So far no Facebook employee has answered this thread (unless they did so between the lines). Considering that Facebook has 25k employees, this must mean they have some very harsh policy on keeping quiet. Either that, or a strong culture that brainwashes them to actually believe they are working towards the naive mission of connecting the world. Or all of the above.
I do 'ls' as a reflex I don't know why.
For network monitoring I like:

nethogs

nload -u K
I think the rise of darknet drug dealers is something positive. They're less dangerous than street drug dealers.
> This is like every other Android app out there.

Really?
"asks users to provide access to as many as 22 personal features on their devices, "

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/namo-app-asks-for-swe...
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There are some niches where you can invest in some $100k equipment and then basically just lease it out to people, or operate a very simple business where all you do is operate the equipment.

Some examples:
- cutting prescription lenses
- power washing/landscaping equipment
- food carts
- printing T-Shirts
- plotters/CNC machines/3D printers

I know a few people who run side businesses where all they did was buy the equipment and hire one employee to operate it.
I actually thought that they went much further then they were required with the exports. I know of services that dump RAW JSON archives.
Yes. Key management is not so simple.
> stupidity of the entire media world

Half stupidity and Half sinister. The journalists and the opposition would apparently want to use the lack of tech literacy among the broader population against them.

Also, it's driven by fear. As in, the opposition doesn't want the BJP to have a app which they can push notifications on election day :)
Facebook is "dieing" as much horny guys acting inappropriate towards women has been "solved".

Basically, not at all unless you live in some strange activist bubble that has nothing to do with the real world.

All this really did was create a nice buying opportunity yesterday in FB stock.
Ahhh. TIL!
Paint.NET is by far the best the best picture editor I've seen. Not nearly as feature-reach as GIMP or Photoshop so not an option for graphics professionals but for casual usage - it's bloody amazing, extremely intuitive in particular. I use Pinta on Linux and Mac - it's not as great as the original Paint.NET but still very handy while GIMP is like vim - you have to study it before you can use it (and you are going to forget what you have learnt if you don't use it regularly).
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India or otherwise that's basically rare.
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Did you stop to think that perhaps GIMP's developers are in fact its users? I'm an engineer and I draw as a hobby. I don't mind developer-oriented features in my drawing program. If I wanted Photoshop, I would be using that.
You wouldn't. If the filesystem is hung, or if some common path is never yielding out of blocking-no-matter-what-calls (e.g. stat()), then the presence of the hang itself would indicate an issue. The isolation process for me would probably be something like:

1. df -h; notice that it hangs.

2. Log in to a new shell, 'strace' the old process or a new one doing the same thing, see what path it was choking on.

3. If the breakage is on an external/network filesystem, reboot the host in almost every case. Unless it was happily completing day 364/365 of some incredibly important task elsewhere, it's just not worth my time to remount a dead share and go clean up everything that was broken trying to talk to the old one. I've had database servers lose some random NFS share that the DB process wasn't using, then crash months later due to PID exhaustion because some monitoring script in cron that kept trying to talk to a somehow-corrupted mountpoint and hanging forever. Yes, timeouts and client programs should be able to handle these failures perfectly in theory. Given my experience, I have very little faith in theory matching up with reality.

4. If it's on an internal drive, check dmesg/syslog (if I can) for any smoking guns. Reboot and see if the problem goes away. If it does, unless I can find something blindingly obvious indicating that the issue was transient and unlikely to reoccur, I'm probably reprovisioning the system after a hardware diagnostic. Even if the server isn't critical and just serves a cat blog or whatever, it's not worth my time and repeated head-scratching to deal with issues like this more than once per host.

5. If I need data off of the questionable filesystem, I'll get it exclusively via a recovery environment; not worth the risk in the case of a flaky/failing drive otherwise (this applies even if the server itself was virtualized). I hope the server had some sort of LOM console set up so I can do that, otherwise someone's getting travel expenses for my trip onsite.

Edits: grammar.
When was this? I remember getting a similar impression like a decade or so ago but I think now GIMP definitely has devs that are interested in usability. And usability has certainly improved in the last few years, although it still has some serious annoyances (for my workflow / taste).
Because already popular posts tend to get more popular and that encourages more engagement, and for the advertisers engagement (likes/comments) are far more important than accuracy or completeness.
> Down votes but no explanation

Consider the obverse: a promotional link with no explanation. A short blurb about why XSpec is better than Monero might help your comment stand stronger on its own.
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As much as I dislike facebook, a lot of these articles these days just seem like "piling on" (albeit deserved) and quite frankly unsurprising to most people _here on HN_.
Not official? I recall Modi urging his follers on his radio talk show to download his app on multiple occassions.
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This is a nice even-handed review. It has been hard to get a clear picture of what Peterson is about and I've had to sift through an awful lot of partisan spite-pieces on both sides to try to get to the bottom of what's going on with him. The following paragraph jumped out at me here:

"The politics in this book lean a bit right, but if you think of Peterson as a political commentator you’re missing the point. The science in this book leans a bit Malcolm Gladwell, but if you think of him as a scientist you’re missing the point. Philosopher, missing the point. Public intellectual, missing the point. Mythographer, missing the point. So what’s the point?"

I think part of the problem with our initial impressions of Peterson is he (or comes across) tries to present himself as these things kind of like he misses the point of himself sometimes .. but maybe that's just from having been taking such an embattled position so long.

The article goes on to describe Peterson as "a prophet". As a student of psychology I don't personally think his views are "groundbreaking" but he does take a set of very well worn ideas and attune them to modern times.

I read Bertrand Russell's "Conquest of Happiness" [0] a number of years ago and to me it seems to tick a lot of the same boxes, but perhaps in a less timely fashion.

It's easy to think Russell managed to get his views out without annoying anybody but he had his fair share of partisan controversy in his time as well. It's only after the dust has settled that we view him as one of the most important western philosophers of the 20th Century.

[0] https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222834
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Fair enough. Thank you so much for replying by the way. Assuming I can show my friend the public key I received over the server, and she verifies it, then everything else can work as described right? As in, it wouldn't require anything as complex as the Signal protocol to send messages securely?
With that logic, you can argue against any debugging facility in software. Log files? Only developers think those are cool, useless!

FWIW, I have missed better tools for performance tweaking in competing (Adobe) products, so while I don't know if the one in GIMP would be useful, I can see why one would want something like it even as an end user.
This was obviously never going to happen and is absolutely the right decision for Zuckerberg and Facebook. House of Commons select committees bagging a big scalp invariably turn into show trials, with MPs possessing a completely deluded sense of their own insight into a subject queuing up to play to the cameras. The spectacle of having Zuckerberg there would have been absolutely excruciating.

So, much as I'd like to see Facebook deleted from the internet, at least we'll be spared the embarrassment of the world witnessing the caliber of our elected representatives.
The guy featured in the article is using Facebook as the bad guy instead of him. Just because Facebook allows you to post these if you are tricky enough doesn't mean Facebook is responsible for people being scammed by them. It is a weird type of projection or something like that -- a denial of responsibility. Weird guy.
Flying apartment buildings. Lolz
Well GDPR is going to have teeth soon and Facebook is a prime case to test its boundaries and prove those base fines will be enforced. It's important to see the outcome and sentiment of the EU and UK in regards to Facebook from a legal standpoint as it helps inform smaller companies of where the proverbial line in the sand is drawn. I think it is likely in their best interest to keep Facebook in the news so as to improve the optics when the inevitable GDPR violations trickle into the Data Protection Agencies of the EU.
To me this feels like concern without regard for the full differences. With bank accounts you usually have the restriction of "as many accounts as you can afford" where with bitcoin addresses you can have countless. So someone could just as easily watch you drive up to the bank and know you bank there. Keep your private addresses private, duh.
Use Analytics is a big business. As in, people make apps like battery saver or flashlight just so they can get millions of downloads, later track the other app usage and sell data.

Only here, they went little overboard with permissions like a flashlight. Like why the hell one would need it. I can see why other permissions are required though to use some of the app features.
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Who is acting surprised?

Why do you think it is inevitable that people would use WhatsApp or Instagram if they decide to leave Facebook? Is that really as obvious as you are making it out to be? Is there any evidence of that?

The point is that finally, FINALLY the mainstream is paying attention to the potential ramifications of having a consolidated identity on social media, and how they potentially could have their perception of reality distorted by using such services. Now is the time to embrace changes if they come, not to get complacent at the news cycle based on ones own personal cognitive biases.
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They really do not need the small scale app to do so, when they can easily control facebook both virtually and literally.
This actually seems more damaging and disgusting than all of the Cambridge Analytica news. Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable.
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I do not subscribe to this kind of news, nor do I support the political viewpoints of the various parties in India. I agree with you on the crux.

Having said that, Non Politically, I do not support 'analytics' solutions and find them morally wrong. In that moral line, I wont justify wrong industry practices even if everybody does it.
>It's that people are working out what it is they've agreed to to use the service

If the vast majority of users are only working out what they have signed up for now, after using the service for years, then it would be hard to argue that Facebook's users have given informed consent to a contract, which is generally a legal requirement here for it to be said that you have agreed to something.
Right? I know it's not completely analogous, but the federal government blocks a US company (Qualcomm) from buying another American company (Broadcom) over concerns about the Chinese somehow (which I still don't fully understand), but allows a Taiwanese company to buy an American network hardware division? I guess the government doesn't give a shit about consumer products.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least run the numbers properly. Off of 2.2B active users[0], 0.00001% comes to about 220 users. Overly pessimistic, yes; less than one user, no!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
Hey but all those users agreed to have their information used this way, so what's your issue?????

/s
Now we see the propaganda machine at work.

Not satisfied with sticking to the important story of FB's monstrous track record with personal data, the news media must turn each cycle into a full on character assassination. Regardless of how I feel about FB, I'm more disturbed by the media pattern.
They’re the only option available because tiny mobile keyboards were pretty damned annoying, too, while also carrying the cost of dozens of potential points of failure, taking up a considerable amount of real estate regardless of how long the keyboard is actually used, and forcing a particular key layout on the user. I honestly don’t think I’d buy a phone with a hard keyboard, even if there were decent options for one.
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That might not be useful for most users, but could be useful for people in resource-constrained environments. I have a friend with a 2010 MacBook Pro, who is constantly monitoring resource usage as he edits photos etc, and has to close apps, delete files to make space for more Photoshop swap, otherwise the computer just dies.