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> Umm, has anyone considered just not doing this activity?

Since I've become aware of the long term repercussions of repeated head strikes, I've pretty much stopped watching football. I used to watch every game (NFL and college) I could and now I'm down to basically tuning in for the Super Bowl and that's it.

On the plus side, I've started watching baseball more and I think I enjoy watching that game more than I ever did football.
...until you try to heat it to a reasonable temperature, the walls melt, and all your atmosphere off gases in to space.
It's not even clear how to evaluate whether anyone "comes close to building AGI".

Have they defined what "AGI" is supposed to be? I can't find it on their website.
> Surface RT: introduced: 2012; Discontinued: 2013; Windows support ends 2023 (11 years)

"Support" here doesn't mean much if there are no new features, nobody driving an ecosystem making applications.

It's like the slow death of Blackberry 10 and the Palm Pre.
There’s no similarity to antivaxxers here. Natural wines are mostly consumed by wine lovers, not health nuts, and the main concern is what the heavy processing is doing to the quality and distinctive character of the wine.
I can also "hear" something when I scroll on some computers, but I hear them with my ears, no headphones required.

On one particular susceptible computer I did a bit of testing, and scrolling white background pages made the noise, but black background ones didn't! Scrolling a completely white page also made the noise. And it depended on app, some apps were immune, it seemed to only happen on GPU-accelerated apps, like browsers.
Correct. I did the same thing with RX 560 and it died within 2 weeks even though "GPU temp" was never above 60C (normal desktop use, I never gamed on it).
I found it bold.
I am GP. I’m talking about testing colony tech somewhere where failure isn’t fatal. Rockets are only part of that, but it’s not really testing by the time you have the rocket capacity to make a colony in Antarctica.
Evolution of Android Homescreen and Navigation
(Replying because I can't Edit, for some reason...)

I'M SORRY! I was thinking of LTE Direct, which is crippled by design. Please disregard my statement about "WiFi Direct" needing a cellular tower.
That's called coil whine, often a result of shoddy power components or construction (and often in either PSU or GPU).
I don't get this. This is about tracking humans. If you're worried about AIs tracking humans through areal cameras ... let me put your mind at ease : this is "tutorial" level stuff.

Granted. There's getting it to demoable state, and there's getting it to work under all conditions, getting it stable, getting it tested, and so on and so forth.

But still, this is not exactly state of the art anymore. This ship has sailed. Over and done. Genie cannot be put into the bottle. The US army has this option now, and very soon essentially any professional military will have it. A quick course on AI will enable you to do this, and I assume that the US military has enough such people available.

Same with tracking specific people in (high-res) cams. There's a computational cost, but this has been done and described so many times. If anybody wants to build a network of cameras that can track specific people by their faces, there's nothing stopping them at this point.

So why get all worked up about this ? What's the big deal ?
AI advancement in Healthcare
Find a remote job, enjoy the double pay?
It is, especially at large enterprises. Most companies also now make do completely on laptops (or even chromebooks) and have no need for desk machines.

For the small or midsize companies though that need that extra power, building can work if you have the talent in house. Cheaper, more standard, and more powerful parts and everything is very reliable these days so its no longer a major support issue.
> It is not a better currency in any reasonable way besides illicit uses.

Oh yeah?

* Donations to wikileaks. Paypal froze their account and there are tons of examples where they have done this without good cause.

* Legal businesses like marijuana sellers, porn, escort services and gambling platforms have had trouble using and keeping payment services. Some have been forced to only accept cash payments as they couldn't accept credit cards.

* A way to accept irreversible payments digitally. Credit card charge back fraud is a big problem.

* Credit card companies take a 5-10% fee. Cryptocurrencies are much cheaper (see Bitcoin Cash as Bitcoin is not a good example).

* Send money to remote countries, for example to countries in war, Argentina or North Korea. Western Union is slow, expensive and cannot be used to send everywhere. With cryptocurrencies all you need is internet (sometimes a VPN as well).
> The attack requires privileges access to your computer or your mail server in order to modify your existing messages

True, if your computer is hacked, you are fd (as always may I add).

But, the point of PGP and S/MIME is to provide end-to-end encryption, i. e. from the sender to the recipient. You don't trust the MTAs and MDA in between, their only role is to transmit the email.

So this flaw is kind of critical. However, it's far from being the end of the world, this flaw is somewhat visible, if it was exploited massively in the wild, it would have been known by now.

As a side note, S/MIME or PGP email is quite horrible as a standard, first the title is not encrypted by default, and being able to mix encrypted and not encrypted data in the body is really weird.

I don't understand how something like that could have been considered good. There are probably 1 or 2 gotchas, but having an all or nothing encryption seems preferable, the whole message apart from a few headers used for delivery (sender, recipient, DKIM, etc) should be completely encrypted or not. Also, if remote content was forbidden for encrypted messages, this would be a good thing.
I've made almost $500k within a year. I don't run a bot and I don't have a financial background.
> And yet he still has 4 billion dollars

Well, no, they doesn't seem to be true, but he has quite a bit net worth, as a result of generating mediocre returns on family-derived wealth. Unless he negotiated with his Creator for what family he would be issued when sent to Earth, that's not really much of an endorsement of unusually strong negotiating skills.

> and is a president of the US.

Mostly a product of an unusually weak opponent, not negotiating strength (to the extent there is anything arguably unusual about negotiations by Trump on the road to the White House, it's the “who with” and not the “how well”.)
It would be more accurate to say that they couldn't have made it any _easier_ if they tried. v4 doesn't have the necessary forward compatibility for that.
If This Is One of the Sexiest Things You've Ever Seen, You May Be a Narcissist
The Coherent 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 (286) and Coherent 4.0 and 4.1 (386) distributions can be found here -- with the blessings of the copyright holders:

http://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/
I think maybe you're reading something between the lines here that isn't actually there.

I think I'd summarize this article as being about groupthink more than anything else. The wine world is overwhelmed with all sorts of rules about what's good, what's not, how something should be produced, and how it shouldn't. "Natural wine" is an attack on all of that. It's just saying, "screw you, we're going to potentially disregard every single rule in the book, and we don't care what you think of the result."

I think this paragraph sums up the whole article:

"The inconsistency, the impurity, the strong smells, the bits of stems and yeasts that sometimes make it into the bottle – all this signals to the consumer that natural wine is an alternative to the bland, monotonous “perfection” of commercial products, in the same way that slight asymmetries distinguish handmade furniture. Natural wine offers a nothing-to-hide-here image at odds with the stuffy culture of the traditional wine world. To many people for whom a restaurant wine list represents a hellish combination of a geography, history and chemistry test specially designed to make them feel stupid, there is something very appealing about upending the critical hierarchy, or at least being told it can be ignored."
Even among gamers I’m not sure if the bewildering array of random LEDs is well received as a generality. I’ve built all my PCs for 20 years now and my gaming machines have always been as boring as I could buy and build. My computer shouldn’t be so loud and distracting that it takes attention away from what’s in front of me. Additionally, it’s bad enough to be a computer nerd of any variant and a brightly lit PC with a side window that has some half naked woman on the blower fan would repel most women away from that zip code.
"wake on USB" could save you from manually switching the PC back on.
Also, clicking on "Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification" sends me to https://arxiv.org/ not to the paper.
I've been interested in passively cooled PCs for a while now. Particularly, I've been considering building a computer which outputs its heat into a wall using heatpipes and a metal plate heat spreader. Although I can't find any case of this being done by anyone else, so I'm not sure if it's a crazy idea or not.
Creating a typeface which you own is cheaper than licensing a third-party typeface, at scale.
Why do they use a screenshot with a typo for demonstration purposes? Beautiful is misspelled as "beutiful". Why are all these companies designing their own fonts. It's not needed and for primarily mobile-based apps it ends up being jarring.
I have a 5V-2A phone charger which whines. So it can happen even on low-powered devices.
There is a reason why there is no VC investment in the content whatsoever. I maintain a website since 2004 for doctors to learn about medical technologies, i.e. new FDA approvals, interviews, product reviews, etc etc, like TechCrunch for doctors. Fourteen years of every day reporting! We should be able to sustain ourselves via ads, but we barely survive. Why? Because of the invasion of privacy, because Google follows users, and it can display ads for doctors on Candy Crush. So who needs journalism? Google doesn't.
Yes. This particular candidate should definitely not be hired, but there are probably some other great candidates who can "discuss the pros and cons of MEDDIC" or whatever but aren't getting an interview.
> on Chromium and Chrome there's a nice feature to block third party cookies. For obvious reason, it's not enabled by default but it's there and doesn't affect the performances.

In my Firefox I have an option in Preferences :

Accept third-party cookies and site data: Always/From visited/Never

Is this the one you are talking about in Chrome? Because in that case it very much exists in Firefox as well.
Activity has ceased unfortunately. The last articles are from 2016.
> split into its constituent liquids by reverse osmosis and reconstituted with a more pleasing alcohol to juice ratio

I'd regard that with the same esteem as one of the factory-made whiskeys. Technically true, but violates the spirit of the spirit.
i’m ashamed that i clicked on this
So the South Korean foreign minister is just making things up?

Or maybe you have a preconceived notion you are unwilling to reconcile with the evidence in front of you?
What if AI makes play too predictable?
"Work free overtime! Win prizes! First prize is a $50 gift certificate at Chili's. Second prize is a steak knife. Third prize is you're fired."
The regulated financial sector is incredibly concentrated, and often it became regulated as a result of lobbying by large financial firms. New York's Bitlicense for example was lobbied for by banks and it resulted in all but the largest cryptocurrency firms exiting New York.
Flat Hierarchy In a Design Firm: Where Are All the Principals?
Thanks, but it's not really a metaphor. The internet is literally infrastructure. Sometimes, when new and exciting infrastructure opens, such as the first metro line in a city, it's a destination in it's own regard for a brief while, and a good place to meet fellow railroad nerds, but then it just becomes infrastructure, and it's not a particular good place to meet anyone.
Compared to Google Reader, I very, very strongly prefer slow deaths.
They are a threat to U. S. in the sense they do not align themselves well to U. S. interests and have lots of nukes. But they are no Germany&Japan level threat; sure, their actions and demands need to be taken seriously, they cannot be labeled as 'terrorist', but at the same time, decades after 2nd world war, they did not begin any large scale military attack on the West, and there is no indication they desire/plan to do so.
Some noise, depending on the texture can be even pleasuring.

coil whine is highly unnerving while low fan sound is relaxing.

we like stimulus, the clicky keys of my old hp48 is neat, the insertion sequence of pioneer 32x slot-in cd drive was amazingly subtle; not long ago I revived an old HP tape drive, the tape rolling and the head gear was also beautiful.

Also, it was as cute as informative, it's a clear state change side channel. Often software notification about hardware are decoupled so much that you don't trust it; plus they're invasive, unlike a tiny led, a click, a tiny motor ramping up.
Am I the only one who thinks of smartphones and tablets as silent computers?

Granted, they can't do what this person's high-spec workstation can do, but they do most of the computing tasks most people use (used) noisy fanned computers with clacking disks for and in many cases do those tasks better.

And unless I'm just losing my hearing, my smartphone is completely silent as long as I don't accidentally press the Golem Invoker, er, Siri button.
a "disgruntled customer"
I've built a fanless desktop too last year. Because I only use it for browsing and as a media player, I've chosen a 35w i3 CPU with integrated GPU. This way I could use a cheap semi-fanless PSU - which never switches on its fan - because the system just never exceeds its consumption limit.

Because of the 35W CPU, the system was cheap and easy to build.

What I have learned from it, is that my screen has a silent buzzing sound... :)
Any plans on expanding to match-making model?
That is mind blowing for me in a couple ways.
* You have (at least) seven tiered support structures.
* You have only one 'competent' shell programmer in your 'reachable' project scope.

No wonder these types of language policies are in place.
And Python 2 has run for 18, if we're counting by major versions. Heck, as long as you're okay with little changes like booleans not looking like integers anymore, you can run your Python 1 code 24 years later.

But imagine if Python followed the example of Perl. Python 3 becomes a curious side project, everyone moves back to Python 2, which goes on for decades without new features. At last, Python can have all the popularity and relevance of... Perl 5?
Whatsapp use for elections in India
It probably took a week just to put together this post.

I bet it's great for recruiting though. Kind of like google letting researchers waste half their time writing papers and going to conferences.
To be precise, not all AMD Ryzen stock coolers have LEDs. The Wraith Max, Wraith Prism (successor to the Max), and some Wraith Spire coolers have LEDs.

For first-generation Ryzen, the -X models were often sold without a bundled stock cooler, which limited uptake of Wraith Max. Some had Wraith Spires with LEDs, others without.

For second-generation Ryzen, all CPUs come with stock coolers. The Ryzen 7 2700X has Wraith Prism and the 2700 non-X has Wraith Spire w/LED. The stock Wraith Spire and Wraith Stealth coolers for other Ryzen 2000-series CPUs do not have LEDs.

Of course, you can always turn the LEDs off.
I just don't think the _possibility_ of a backlash (for defensible numbers, no less) justifies withholding information about personal safety. It's not like we're talking about sales figures, production stats, or other trivial things.
I really hate the so-called term “catfished” it’s a completely contrived word that came from a 2010 movie that probably 50 people actually saw. “Ghosting” is another one, but at least you can use context to sort of figure out what people are actually talking about.

A bit off topic, but this adulteration of language — from an obscure pop-culture reference, is a bit silly.

Obviously the author agrees that most people don’t know what the term means or he wouldn’t feel compelled to explain what the heck catfishing actually means in the second paragraph.

Urban dictionary != real dictionary. I guess in another life I must have been a member of the Academie Française. Or maybe just too old to be cool.

It’s so fetch apparently that I and a large number of non-Buzzfeed aficionados just don’t get it.
> We all know it's stupidly common for the government to monitor it's civilians.

Here's your problem. The fact that many people do something does not make it right -- it's a logical fallacy / conflation and it seems our brains are very vulnerable to it. Is it really so hard to believe that many people are wrong? Why does quantity equal quality?

I mean, it was very common to have slaves as well. Did that make it okay for the slaves?
> Law really needs to evolve. We are not settling disputes between norman kings and saxon lords any more.

I agree, but funnily, I think the thing the legal system would evolve into in order to facilitate "functional resolution of these disputes fast, without abuses, mutual destruction stalemates" etc. would end up looking a lot like independent binding arbitration.
What or who are the trusted entities whose thoughts or designs are acceptable?

Casting political problems against technical problems is a tough endeavor.
They make it a federal crime to offer securities to non-wealthy people. Characterizing all such offers as scams is a prejudicial over-simplification, and the kind of sweeping and presumptive generalization that rationalizes repression.
There are motherboards with higher quality components or isolation that eliminates this problem. The Pyra (open source mini gaming computer) recently solved their problem with the noise:

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/stop-the-sirring-no...
I was hoping to find out from the story why this catfish lied in the first place. If they passed the interview so well they must be someway good.
Hm, this reminds me of two interesting tidbits.

One is the good old P1 125Mhz router we had like 10 - 15 years ago. The only active cooling in that system was in the PSU and that thing throttled it's fan off during normal operation. It had zero moving parts outside of the PSU. You couldn't even get fans for those CPUs. These old systems were fun :)

And beyond that, this makes me think of the computer requirements of coal mines, and I think mining in general. In a mine, a piece of compute has a defined maximum energy emission per square inch surface. If you exceed that, you risk coal dust explosions, which are rather inconvenient, loud and adverse to throughput. The stuff in the article is very similar to industrial computers in such a setup. Quite interesting.
> Rule #2: Take a long hard look at a candidate’s social profiles.

> Rule #4: Google is your friend.

That are one of the main reasons I don't post with my real name on the Internet, and I don't have an LinkedIn account. I don't want people to interpret what I put on the Internet in their own way when it comes to the decision if they should hire me or not.
Yeah, pretty sure it's a good thing for those companies/projects. Someone who could've been sabotaging their work just quit right away, so they can get someone who will actually like working there. It's not like the employee takes away funding or resources (well, unless they're a genius/influencer, but then again, a good enough motivated replacement is fine).
F5Bot can do this easily.

https://f5bot.com
Raspberry Pi + i3 + Chromium + Emacs = <3

100% quiet, not super fast, but fast enough.
> Stating that chemistry explains all the components of life just fine is literally pretentious.

Name one biological proces which defies the laws of chemistry.

Saying:

> Maybe chemists should stop researching since they already explained everything?

Is like saying “Computer scientists should stop researching since they already explained everything in terms of NAND gates”.
> people are going to have to do what they should have been doing in the first place, namely choosing their news sources carefully and paying more attention to subtle and not-so-subtle bias. It's a huge mistake to rely on media credentials as a proxy for likelihood of telling the truth, yet that is the entire concept of journalism as a career path.

Media credentials are a way to aggregate that trust on the long run and invest decades into building a reputation of integrity. With the expectation that it will be profitable in the future, people will come to rely on you because they know how costly any damage to that reputation is to you.

In the model where every internet page is a source that has to vetted individually, the journalists are indeed obsolete but not because they weren't useful; now every citizen must do their own full journalistic investigations before trusting anything written. Most people lack the skills and education to do that work and society is, on the whole, worse off.

People will not be doing what "they should be doing in the first place", we will get the misinformation soup that served us with Trump, Brexit, antivaxx and the score of post-truth social ills.
Is publishing a book the same thing as writing code?
Are you in Boston by any chance?
In my case also, unless I set the sound volume of built in speakers to 0. Since they are not connected anyway that solves it for me. It is still annoying that we have to put up with this though.
Universal Principles Of Design [1] mentions this, as well. Rather counterintuitively, the solution for reducing brain injuries in football may be to remove helmets altogether.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592535879/amsi-20
Let's also not forget that North Korea's nuclear weapons facilities were recently damaged in an earthquake.

As we say in finance, if you think the world undervalues a thing then you buy it, and if you think the world overvalues a thing then you sell it. Kim's weapons program suffered a significant setback, making it less valuable in his eyes. Meanwhile the rest of the world still places a high value on getting Kim to abandon the program.

In other words, Kim probably has more to gain from abandoning the program than he does from trying to repair the damage. Even if we had a sack of potatoes in the White House, it still makes sense for Kim to try to make a peace deal right now.
> Most news in the largest nations is in the hands of a handful of gargantuan monied interests

But they are also at odds with each other, and can gain advantage by exposing one another. Just like with politicians — a true democratic system is designed with crooks and liars in mind, and balances them one against the other.
But I never seen any good guys in my history books or in the news.

You wouldn't characterize the Allies in WW2 as good guys? No better or worse than Germany or Japan?
> a catfish is someone who creates a false identity

By this definition, U.S. Marshals Service is a bunch of catfishes: https://people.howstuffworks.com/witness-protection.htm/prin...
The audio production world which goes to great lengths to reproduce audio equipment, I would love to see shaders faithfully replicate classic monitors.
Another vote for A Man in Full.
I always add ‘set -ex’ to the top of my bash scripts to exit on any non zero top level return code and to print out all statements being run including expanded variables or inner statements.
High pitched electric buzzing or hard disk screeching seem to be worse than fan noise nowadays with all the great coolers available.

That being said, within a year of using Windows 10 four (!) of my hard drives have begun making loud screeching sounds. They're technically fine, but still unusable.