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Do you have any specific examples of AI products that are allegedly secretly using humans (don’t bother dropping specific company names)? It strikes me as something that would only be viable in very narrow cases.

Anything customer-facing and low-latency, like human language translation, image classification, or speech recognition doesn’t seem viable at even modest scale. Anything involving large amounts of data, like analyzing financial data or server logs, seems potentially doable though still unlikely.

In general, it seems like the main advantage of AI products today is either latency of output or size of input, both of which seem difficult to fake by using humans. If a customer has a small amount of input data and wants a small number of results that are indistinguishable from what a trained human would produce, surely they would have no misconceptions about the current state of AI, and would just hire the human to produce it.

Of course a company marketing an online service that sells AI-generated musical compositions could cheat by hiring experienced human composers. But if there’s any money in such a service at all, I expect the customers would want to be able to generate a huge number of compositions, something that humans would probably not be able to do at any appreciable scale. If the customer wanted a single composition that sounded like it was composed by an expert human, I’m pretty sure they would just hire the human.

One thing I certainly could believe is common is human sanity checks on AI output, but that doesn’t strike me as bad or dishonest unless the seller is specifically claiming (for some reason) that no humans are involved. I could also definitely believe that companies fake AI demos for potential investors or future customers.

What types of AI products would be best-suited for humans to be able to viably fake?
Yes. Of course terrible things do happen in China. But the assumption that Google's product will cause this to happen is currently just someone's imagination.

The product hasn't launched yet, might not ever launch, and we don't know how the product will work if it did launch. I'd hope they're thinking about how to make sure nobody gets in trouble, but we currently don't know what precautions they came up with.

There are lots of companies working in China. We know of one incident involving Yahoo. Do we assume without evidence that any other companies working there have caused dissidents to be tortured?
I think it’s fair for a device manufacturer to say you have voided the warranty if you load a 3rd party ROM onto the device, the device manufacturer has no control over the 3rd party software, how safe it is to run etc. If the 3rd party rom bricks the device why should the supplier pick up the bill when they haven’t approved the software that did the damage?
Have you lived or been to new mexico? Mundane life is what results in actions like that. Boredom breeds strange creativity.
>so they're able to sift through the news in a reasonably balanced way.

That classic Hilary is really a lizard person balanced take on the news.
> While a bank can create a million dollar loan without any reserves at all, [...]

Wait, what? I thought a bank cannot hand out any (book) money without backing [1]. I.e. if they want to loan me a million dollars by crediting it to my account, they have to balance that by "borrowing" the million from another bank or the central bank.

In other words, my bank account does not really sit at my bank. They cannot create money or a loan by just writing to a database [2]. And the other way around is also true: they cannot take (electronic) money. If I wire transfer money into my account, they don't just make an electronic note of it. They have to, in the same instant, deposit the money at another bank. It's always the case that another third party C makes the note "customer A deposited money into bank B's account at bank C". In a sense, the whole banking system is built on distrust.

This is the reason why, at least in Europe, banks "have to" "deposit" money overnight at the ECB, even if it costs due to negative interest rates. It's not a thing they conciously can or cannot do, but taking or lending (book) money always involves an upstream bank - unless it is cash of course.

[1] That might not be the right term. Financial English is not my strength :-)

[2] It would be an interesting model if individual banks could actually create money and anti-money, like the Dirac see model where an electron and a positron are spontaneously taken from the vacuum. Although you would have the same problem with the infinite vacuum energy, which would correspond to inflation I guess...
I didn't know the name "Isis" had actually seen its popularity affected that much in the US? It still feels like a beautiful classical name to me, but then we never used the English name "ISIS" for the organisation, here in France.

It's a shame that the multimillenial name of an ancient god could be ruined for some people by an organization that lasted less than a decade, I hope this effect doesn't last.
Of course they do. That's what fractional reserve banking is all about. Banks borrow money (e.g. from depositors, on the money markets, from other banks) and lend out the money they raise while keeping a "reserve".

A typical bank's balance sheet will contain deposits on one side and loans on the other. Without deposits, or other sources of borrowing, a bank cannot lend money.
One does not need a pure functional core to have benefits of such design. The key idea is that the core code should not change or even read the global state. It should only be allowed to access or change what is explicitly passed to it.

For example, to avoid excessive memory consumption to sum matrixes one wants to code it like A += B, not like C = A + B. Yet one still benefits from all the testing, design etc. benefits of pure functional code. At the end one call always get a functional version just by turning A += B into C = A; C += B.
DigiCash lacked the novel, decentralized proof of work consensus introduced by Bitcoin and I also suspect the general public was much better able to participate with 2008 broadband than what we had 1998
Yep, it’s pretty much the same feeling, having experienced that, too.
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Don’t forget that in 2015 the NAFTA requirements that allow Mexican trucks on US roads were fully put into effect so now we’ve got heavily polluting Mexican trucks on Southern California roads now.
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Last time i tried was a year ago so things might have changed but then i think lack of GUI libraries, and libraries in general, is the ugliest part of Rust ecosystem. Language-wise it's very friendly but once you want to interact with the outside world you many times end up having to wrap existing C or C++ libraries with FFI and that's not very fun. Especially not C++ libraries as C++ doesn't have a standard ABI and can't be called straight from rust so you first have to wrap the c++ library with 'extern C' and then call that C interface from rust FFI. Also making sure the C++ lib and rust is compiled in a binary compatible way on all platforms is quite a challenge.

Good IDE support, with autocomplete and integrated debugging, was also missing but that should have improved i believe?
> Web animation is treated in a different way. Since we are accustomed to an almost instant opening of web-pages in a browser, we expect to transit between different states quickly as well. So, the duration of web transitions should last about 2 times shorter than on mobile devices — between 150–200 ms.

So, let me get this right. Animations on th web should be fast, because we're used to the web being fast. Animations on mobile should be slow, because we're used to mobile apps being slow?

> In other cases, the user will inevitably think that the computer freezes or has troubles with the internet connection.

But on mobile, that is normal?

If I ever need to write a mobile app, I think I've got an idea to make my app feel a lot faster than its competitors.
The problem with your proposal is that the meaning of the "bolded" item is not immediately -or perhaps even with careful thought- obvious to anyone except the person proposing the idea, or the people who have already encountered the same idea beforehand.

We don't have a widely-understood cross-cultural shorthand for annotating an item's 'newness'. By contrast, we are all familiar with objects retaining their identity while they move.

When I minimize my window in macOS, it physically transforms and is sent to its new location. I know where the window I was working on went, and I as a person would have a good reason to be able to somewhat or even mostly comprehend this even if I hadn't ever seen macOS before.

With no animation, the large and prominent window I have been using would immediately disappear with no indication where it went, and the minimized icon in the dock would be highly likely to be overlooked. It would also look almost exactly like "closing" the window, and it would be easy for an inexperienced user to think minimizing a window and closing it are the same thing. I can assure you, this blurred conceptual distinction is not an imaginary problem.

Sure, I don't personally need this animation because I'm an experienced user already. However, in almost all cases it is fundamentally flawed to approach interface design by considering only the needs and preferences of experienced users.
Have you used RLS recently? It’s improved quite a bit for me
Unless I'm missing something, why doesn't every bank have an "internal narrow bank" that takes deposits and puts them at the central bank?

Actually, I thought that is exactly how banks have to operate right now... All deposits are settled in the interbank system or ultimately with the central bank. You can't just deposit money in a bank, because "depositing" $100 means telling an upstream bank that your bank now owes you $100.
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Then how do the banks profit from deposits, if they can't use them for lending?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_parity

"Covered interest rate parity (CIRP) is found to hold when there is open capital mobility and limited capital controls, and this finding is confirmed for all currencies freely traded in the present day."
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The standard way to do this would be to query `information_schema. tables`.

PostgreSQL's approach isn't the most intuitive but it's well documented and very powerful. A few aliases could probably help, it's good they've added `quit`/,`exit` this time around.
There’s a risk that your money isn’t covered by the deposit protection schemes of either country, so if the bank goes bust you lose the lot. Even if you are covered, the amount you get back could be limited.

With that factor built in 6-9% doesn’t look so good.
I can live with it if all the cars sound like spaceships from the movies.

In fact, that would be a hell of a business prospect - custom ship sounds for your whip. That alone would convince me to go electric.

Except for that one guy who's car would make a screaming sound as it passes by.
The one other thing I'd add about standard pitch notation is that you do have to memorize what flavor of chord each of the seven triads without accidentals is in order to infer what modification an accidental will make. But this is just seven facts to memorize, instead of unusual addition and subtraction tables.
With edge detection. Normally edge detection means looking for local sharp changes in brightness and marking them with a white spot. The edge detection used in this case looks more sophisticated to me. I don’t know how it works
You could try OpenCV Canny Edge Detection:
https://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/da/d22/tutorial_py_canny.html

Example with video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ndxtb0q76c

Obviously would need some tweaking but could be a good starting point
I LOLed.
> Here’s how languages backed by large corporations win. They have the resources and the optics to know why these non-fun features are important.

Getting started on an official autocompletion story 6+ years in, is a demonstration of this corporate-backed might?

Something like C# and VisualStudio going hand-in-hand from the outset is a demonstration of corporate-backed tooling might.
Why does the meaning have to be obvious to inexperienced users, at the cost of making things worse for everybody else? We don't let untrained users drive cars unsupervised, and cars are much simpler than computers. I say that considering only the needs of inexperienced users is a fundamentally flawed approach.
They're a propagandist's take on the news, with their own slant (but probably not an agenda). Balanced, no; but not completely right wing nut job, so they're tolerable to find out what's happing in the non-right-on liberal space.

Often wrong, often hilariously so. Continually confusing personal and tribal loyalty with patriotism and idealism. For example, criticism of Trump means criticising the office of the presidency, or disrespecting the US if you are not American; or a republican showing some independence of thought is letting the team down. I don't think they understand idealism at all, they can only conceptualise self-seeking behaviour, everything is framed as that, in part because that's what sells the show as a reveal of the hidden motives.

Dvorak in particular gets extremely agitated when foreigners criticise the US, or express an opinion on US politics. He seems unaware of how much US politics directly affects other countries. He is also almost as ignorant as Trump in understanding how critical the US hegemon has been to peace (albeit on US favourable terms) after WWII.

They had no problems imputing a link between Bill Clinton as president setting the morals for the nation (and making blowjobs ok!), but completely fail to do the same for Trump. Balanced, nope.
It’s the use of 0-9, a-b that I find awkward and object to.

Why not have 16 notes per octave? Uh... wow, well, because it sounds bizarre and would make it difficult to play all existing western music in addition to confusing to every musician practiced in contemporary standard music. Why not 8? Hmm. Are you actually a musician or just speculating?
Wait, Greenwald is now considered faux pas?
I think one of the original ideas was to "show where something had gone" - when you minimised a window, both on Win XP (if I remember right) and OS X, it wouldn't just "disappear" but would animate down to the taskbar / launch bar. That way you get fewer people confused about where their window went.

I suppose you could just about make a case that when you have a modal element like a form to edit an item, if it takes up most or all of a small screen then having an animation to expand it makes a visual difference between "you're now on a new page" and "this form has popped up, but when you close it you'll be back on the page you were before - it hasn't gone away".
The level of realism can be gauged from the examples they provide right there on the page. Of course your results may vary basing on the initial bulk of data of realistic source images you use.

You have the code right there on Github, just install it on some PC with powerful GPUs (or rent one), tune some parameters, train the network and you can do the same things.
>As a regulator and central bank, the Bank of England has not offered consumer banking services for many years

Wikipedia says this, but not why.
Pinker has a pretty good explanation in his book, "Enlightenment Now". His answer boils down to:

1. More people now live in a market economy which produces more goods and services for everyone, even poor people

2. Better leadership. Eg. In 1976 Mao in a single act greatly improved the trajectory of most of the world's poor - he died.

3. End of cold war meant end of US and Soviet support for many civil wars and ugly dictatorships.

4. Globalization and industrialization

5. Science and technology
The feature that sets DMT apart from other psychedelics such as LSD or mushrooms is the persistent environment called "hyperspace". In short, various psychonauts over the years have discovered an environment - for lack of a better word - they named hyperspace, which consists of surprisingly similar perceived attributes _over many different observers_.

Experienced LSD/mushroom users know that there is a tremendous degree of subjectivity and symbol/archetype emergence in their trips. If I only had a few words to describe the LSD/mushroom experience it would be "lack of clarity". It's as if one is looking through a scanner darkly (personal unconscious).

With DMT, this is not the case. There is no perceived intermediate filter, nothing impure or fuzzy. One feels as if one is already there and directly interfacing with the space itself. Rather than exploring his own psyche, a DMT user feels like he's exploring an entirely new space. This becomes apparent even when dealing with the difficulties of trying to use shared language to describe the experience with other explorers in order to discover common attributes [1].

[1] https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Hyperspace_lexicon
The actor model is prized in the talk. Yet actor model is not functional. The problem is the message queue of each actor. It is an imperative storage and one can get all nasty problems of imperative code from apparently functional code patterns.
It can make it clear what happened after user interaction.

Was an article added to the list during a refresh? Did the correct item actually go away after deleting it? It's easy to miss updates without animations. Even if you don't miss the update an animation will provide an additional confirmation that the correct thing happened.

On touch devices there's also the fact that animations mimic input gestures. Imagine swipe-to-delete without the item actually moving, that would be super awkward to use...

Of course, like anything, it is possible to mis-/overuse.
K8 on a cloud provider, yes. Self hosted k8s hell no.
They can do, quite a lot of money is on deposit at the Fed. But they may find it more profitable to lend the money elsewhere. All true government issued money is either in the form of banknotes and coins or deposits held at the central bank.
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Looks just like edge detection + contouring from RGBD data.
No, it's about the radically different life style than in US. In all Eastern Block countries, at least in cities, women were expected to go to school, work and pursue their careers regardless of their marital status. Partially because of lack of money so families needed both salaries, and partially because of communistic ideas of equality, for a woman to be just a housewife was not very common, nor respected life choice for the generations who grew in socialism. It was something reserved for old ladies and wives of politicians. And education was free so there was a lot of women (and still is) in natural sciences, and they naturally later moved into IT as it grow more popular (and started paying better). Also women had (and mostly still have) many benefits that were not that common in West, like long fully-paid childbirth leaves, easy getting free days when kids are sick, long vacations, etc. Socialism had a terrible productivity and was bad for 100 and 1 reason, but it was stimulating time for people (regardless of gender) to do science and tinker with stuff.
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They're looking for volunteers in the UK for psilocybin experiments:

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Yes, it’s just there’s certain bad publicity associated with the name these days due to some other people known by the appellation Isis.
Ok, so if you agree, there is no need to give the caveat "massacres happen". I recognize that you don't mean anything by it and it's a natural response when you are somehow associated with something icky to try and rationalize it. Still, it comes off as trying to soften the significance. If this was a discussion of war crimes perpetrated by some other country, would you feel compelled to point out that "massacres happen"? Americans committed the crimes, and America is responsible, period. Let's not try to blunt it. There's a measure of humility to be gained here, if we look for it, instead of a way to save face.
Here's a nice description of how it works in the US: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b... . From the link, the crux: "The reality is that banks first extend loans and then look for the required reserves later"

I'm not familiar with the mechanics of the European banking system so I can't speak to that.
100% is the conversion of a loan balance to leverage exposure. The capital requirements vary between banks and regulator, but they are typicaly 3-5% of the leverage exposure. A leverage ratio requirement of 100% would make lending uneconomical. To achieve a return on equity of 10%+, you would have to charge over 10% on your loans.
Somewhat normal tactic for retail and loe-wage workers.
My friend has a 10 year old daughter named Isis.
Hedging against currency movements is fairly trivial and doesn't cost much, I've gone down this route in Vietnam after getting annoyed at being forced into investments by low interest rates ( putting savings in most western banks is going backwards).

1 year deposit pays over 7%, the currency moved in my favor but still happy taking out the hedge.

Getting a far better return than the riskier corporate bonds I hold locally.
I do not like defining myself with '-ists'. Instead I will generally refer to the '-ism' and point out where I agree and where I differ.

I have found this position has the side-effect of being an easy way to spot who is just playing team sports with philosophies. They are the folk who get really angry with people who agree with them on specifics, purely for not using a subject label self-referentially.
Probably because anything engine- and exhaust-related is heavily regulated, while some „auxiliary noises” less so.
There are banks & credit unions that pay interest close to the fed funds rate. Unfortunately just not the mainstream consumer banks.

Some examples:

Goldman Sachs (1.90%): https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings/high-yield-savings

Ally Bank (1.85%):
https://www.ally.com/bank/view-rates/

Alliant Credit Union (1.80%): https://www.alliantcreditunion.org/rates
They are unsecured liabilities. But like all liabilities the bank received an asset when it issued it (cash or else), and like all liabilities the bank must have sufficient assets to pay it back on demand. The bank may not have the necessary liquidity to pay back all deposits at once (some of these assets are 30y mortgages) but it has an asset (otherwise is not solvant).
Can I check, the they are progressives and the bubble makers are the lawmakers allowing conglomerates?
> Albert Most discovered this bizarre compound a few decades back by smoking the venom from the glands of a Sonoran Desert toad...

I wonder what sequence of events leads to one deciding "I think I'm gonna smoke the venom from that Sonoran Desert Toad."