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Not sure why you're getting down voted for this since I was going to say the same thing. My feeling is that AGI is 10 years away, certainly no more than 20. That's coming from a pure computing power and modeling perspective, for example just by putting an AI in a simulated environment and letting it brute force the search space of what we're requesting of it with 10,000 times more computing power than anything today. Finding a way for an AI to focus its attention at each level of its capability tree in order to recruit learned abilities, and then replay scenarios multiple times before attempting something in real life, are some of the few remaining hurdles and not particularly challenging IMHO.

The real problem though (as I see it) is that the vast majority of the best and brightest minds in our society get lost to the demands of daily living. I've likely lost any shot I had at contributing in areas that will advance the state of the art since I graduated college 20 years ago. I think I'm hardly the exception. Without some kind of exit, winning the internet lottery basically like Elon Musk, we'll all likely see AGI come to be sometime in our lifetimes but without having had a hand in it.

And that worries me, because if only the winners make AI, it will come into being without the human experience of losing. I sense dark times looming, should AI become self-aware in a world that still has hierarchy, that still subverts the dignity of others for personal gain. I think a prerequisite to AGI that helps humanity is for us to get past our artificial scarcity view of reality. We might need something a little more like Star Trek where we're free of money and minutia, where self-actualization is a human right.
As a cyclist this is well said. I’ve learned to accept it but try to avoid it. My wife (not a cyclist) wouldn’t dare right one in traffic.
When you're spending more time at work than at home, occasionally it's nice to have a beer at work. Don't get me wrong - I'd rather be at home, not working, drinking a beer but it's natural that drinking and work collide when you are working too much and are already stressed.
IIRC, IPs ending in .0 or .255 were unreachable from some older Windows systems.
WeWork banned meat at company events or on company expense accounts [1]. Would it be that hard to do something similar for alcohol? Then, bringing it back to Google, if people misbehave after having alcohol - then they bought the drinks, and came to a company event while intoxicated.

When I was at OpenDNS, @davidu used to say something along the lines of, "When you try to host a big company party with over 100 people, you expect to have to fire somebody for their behavior there. Don't be that person." Maybe the costs don't outweigh the benefits of work parties.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/13/wework-m...
I’ve done this: you interview with the other companies and negotiate a good offer — the best you can — and then see if your current employer will match or beat it. Easy.
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IIRC DDR4 already has pretty much the same energy consumption as LPDDR4, LPDDR4 gains when not in active use (sleep / hibernation). LPDDR4X does improve on LPDDR4 by a bit, but I don't know how sensible ~20% less energy consumption on RAM is in a server context. Especially when you're trading density for it.
Definitely not. I am currently in an industry where getting drunk off the job can (eventually) get you fired. Mostly because drunkards are potential security threats with a well-proven recipe for developing and exploiting the opening.

Our Christmas parties are as boring as a carbide drill bit.
oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market.
The fun thing is that when people mention the "grey goo" disaster. Well that happened. Evolution "didn't progress" for 3 billion years. Then the oxygen catastrophe made sure the grey goo was on the back foot for a few hundred million years (ie. it accidentally almost completely destroyed itself. Whoops)

And the branch of life we're part of ... adapted faster to the new circumstances.
LPDDR4 has some mitigation for rowhammer, and LPDDR4X is a variant of it. So I don't know that it's immune, but it should be more resilient.
100% agree, if you don’t take the lane and ride on side of it cars try to pass far to close for comfort or safety. The middle means I’m claiming this lane please pass on left.
Yes, for O-instance it could be as small as the command id.
50% of the board with votes breaking for shareholders sounds a lot like the workers don't actually have any control at all. What prevents the shareholders from just consistently railroading the workers, forcing everything to a tie, and then having the decision break their way?
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all of the EU has had the similiar banking system[1] for ages now. Tax handling can be an issue, but i won't see how this is different between the different taxes between US states.

Also, culture and language are major barriers in the european market, legislation less so (especially if you ship physical products).

1: https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-...
Newcastle robot surgery inquest: 'Risk of further deaths'
I might prefer these as well, but I think the standing ones fit more use cases than the sitting ones. For example, what if a woman was wearing a pencil skirt?
They're phasing much of the go and replacing it with rust.
> flight computer switched to alternate law when airspeed was unreliable so they had full control of the airplane

Alternate law still enforces bank angle protection. With full control (direct law) it could have entered spin. (or maybe they could realized situation earlier)

Stall warning was confusing because pulling up even more removed warning temporarily because extreme AoA was interpreted as sensor failure.
Agreed. AoA indicators are extremely useful but until recently most pilots learned to fly without them, and they still should. The loss of an AoA indicator absolutely should not prevent a skilled pilot from flying the plane.

Losing an AoA indicator entirely is probably easier to deal with than false readings from one, but again, a skilled pilot should be able to tell when the readings are false and fly the plane.
Taking your place in the lane is much safer than riding in the gutter.
Does this also mean we don’t fly planes because of terrorism? I sympathize for the family and such a tragic situation but let’s not blame the biker nor declare biking as not the right transportation because drivers aren’t all awesome at driving.
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Why rust? Didn't Ada and SPARK already pretty much solve the problems rust is tackling? rust feels like the systemd of languages: came out of nowhere and very heavily evangelized.
We have separate curricula: one for all employees telling them "don't do it", and a second for managers telling them how to handle reported incidents and other things they may observe.
Depending on how well this works it could single handedly convince me to buy a Note 9. I've been wanting something like this for years.
The issue was he wasn't trying to ask a question but argue with the president and taking time away from other members of the press to ask legitimate questions. He disagreed with the president stating it was an invasion and the president answered him with he believed it was an invasion. Trying to go back and forth wasting time. There wasn't anything else to add which is why the worker came to grab the mic to provide it to the next person. This is common in these interviews since there isn't a lot of time and there are a lot of questions so they try and let everyone get a question in and they only have the one mic. To be honest this is being blown up more than it should but in watching the full video of the press conference Jim was trying to grand stand and was rude. I can understand why this happened. There were other press members there who pushed/challenged Trump on other topics but were respectful and did let go of the mic.
Cloudflare Workers does well here with their KV keyvalue store integration.
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Yeah, that works until they pass you anyway and you get hit by their mirror. Of course it was a BMW.
The question is, do we want "human like" intelligence, or "human level" intelligence? I'd argue that they are two separate things, and that the term "AGI" as widely used, is closer to the latter. That is, we want something that can generalize and learn approximately as well as a human, but not necessarily something that will behave like a human.

Of course if your definition of AGI involves the ability to mimic a human, or maybe display empathy for a human, etc., then yeah, you probably do need the ability to experience lust, fear, suspicion, etc. And IMO, in order to do that, the AI would need to be embodied in much the same way a human is, since so much of our learning is experiential and is based on the way we physically experience the world.
>Trump was literally refusing to answer the question.

He answered the question, but Jim didn't like the argument.
60 FPS is not enough, many people have monitors with much higher refresh rates (120 hz, more). You have virtual reality which basically requires a higher refresh rate than 60 FPS to begin with. Using a runtime component for garbage collection is highly sub-optimal.

Rust is possibly an ideal language for game development. Standard Rust has no runtime component, which is perfect. It's also a high-performance language.

The ecosystem for Rust game development is immature, but there's progress being made.
You’re paying twice because the fees pay for the delivery service/infrastructure, while the ads pay for the content. They are made by different companies. You might as well ask why you have to pay for Netflix when you’re already paying your ISP.
Also I understand pilots are discouraged from taking risk when flying a small private plane on their free time as it could hurt their professional license. But on the other hands that’s the sort of experience that becomes handy in those catastrophic failure scenarios.
> oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market.

Even when Excel , Chrome , Gmail take 30-50 seconds to open up ? And your laptop freezes when you are dealing with more than 10000 rows ?

That's your opinion i guess.
The plane in question was a highly-modified P-51 taking part in the Reno air races. Looking through the report it was routinely pulling 4G in the turns already (at ground speeds of 360-380kts) so quadrupling that in the face of structural failure isn't beyond belief.
>> I'm a progressive, but there is no peace without being ready for war. I just hope we don't find out too late, and China has much better smart weaponry

> Quick question: in this hypothetical where China presents an existential threat to the US, what happens to the Chinese economy when they invade the largest consumer of their domestically produced goods and services?

WWII was not bad for the US economy. The car plants were converted to build tanks and airplanes, then they were converted back when the war was over.

I don't think China poses an existential military threat to the US itself in the medium term, but it does pose one to Taiwan and potentially some other countries in the region. Unfortunately, the main thing that contains that threat and maintains peace is US military superiority.
Our brains already do it, likelihood is 100%.
Nothing would stop transistor based computers from doing it, though they might be very much slower at it.
>Any pilot would react and correct in a second at most.

I can only speak to my personal experience and I don't have any sort of advanced pilot's license: I just did the very first one - PP/ASEL. In that course even prior to instrument training I was taught to not fly by the seat of my pants.

The way my flight instructor explained it the human body is easily fooled and will quickly adapt to a new normal. So you had as an example a pilot getting used to a slight tilt and assuming this is normal, so they keep correcting for the tilt and worsening their situtation.

Even as a lowly PP/ASEL I'd still validate any reaction by reading the instruments before assuming a feeling of falling is accurate. Would that take thirteen seconds? Hopefully not, but it would take more than one.

Combined with the idea that airline pilots do less and less hand flying and also have many inputs in the cockpit trying to tell them what's happening and therefore may need a few seconds to integrate all that data and then react with a potentially rusty skill I'd feel comfortable saying a subsecond response seems unlikely.
I'm on an older Fiesta. If I were buying a new car today, depending on priorities (for me, manual, hatchback, sat radio, safety), I'd be looking at an Impreza (only model that currently hits every checkbox for me), Corolla Hatch, or Elantra GT. (Possibly Mazda 3 hatch or Audi A4 if I'm willing to make more compromises.)
But it can be used for that. It's just a tool.
The Lounge is included with my project HomelabOS (https://gitlab.com/NickBusey/HomelabOS).

I've been using it for a while now and it's been working great. Nice, simple, and quick to load.
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They thought of that; the current allocation scheme will be used for IIRC only 1/8 of the IPv6 address space. If that's ever exhausted, there's still the other 7/8 which can be allocated in a more conservative manner.
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Not sure why you're tempering your position by calling it cynical. That's just a judgement. What evdience is there that it is cynical (and inaccurate)? Your analysis is in line with the trend, and few speak up without tempering their critiques. The rise of leftism makes no attempts at tempering it's effects - just like it did not in Russia or China.
Every previous instance of this particular scam I've seen mentioned before used a password that the recipient recognized.

I personally received this exact email just the other day, containing a password that I confirmed I actually used a very long time ago on a now-defunct site (which was known to be in at least one password dump).

I don't buy the "an incorrect password might freak someone out" argument, because the whole point of this scam is that the recipient recognizes the password. Without that password recognition, the inclusion of the password is harmful (because it proves the sender is full of shit) and at best makes the email have no more persuasive power than one that didn't include a password at all.
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Be willing to bet more than alcohol a common factor would be men being the alleged perpetrator. Another would be the alleged perpetrators are probably in superior positions/title to the victims greater than 20% of the time.
To be honest (given the lack of thoughtfulness that went into writing this article), I do think it was done intentionally, but I also think the author did not consider how doing so undermined his argument entirely. The author's primary argument is that all of these practices of the liberal elite are done to "prop up class dominance", and that this need to "prop up class dominance" is one thing that makes mainstream values inferior to (presumably the author's) "socialist values". This is of course undermined when the author chooses to engage in exactly the same act of "asserting [...] moral superiority" that he is basing his critique on.
I agree it's convenient for the biker, but it's confusing for cars. As a driver making a 4-way stop I see a biker approaching from the side. I know he's planning to roll through the intersection. I can either wait for him (yielding my right of way) or take my turn (forcing him to make an unplanned stop). Meanwhile that indecision further disrupts the flow of traffic.
'We Will Win Because History Is on Our Side'
I also knew someone who was very successful and died too young leaving behind 3 kids, a beautiful wife, amazing house etc. (I'm not being flip, this is true). He died in a car accident.

I'll take the relatively small risk of being hit while biking in exchange for the 100% chance of the very positive benefits (free exercise, no traffic, free parking). Driving has about the same risk of killing you and 100% chance of making you fat, miserable, and angry.
Erlang/OTP on OpenBSD
1. zero because Intel still has no support for LPDDR4 in their laptops

2. I don't know that it would make much difference, IIRC energy-efficient RAM has a huge impact on idle/sleeping power, but when everything's running full tilt other components way outdraw RAM's needs
Looking closely at what they said, it seems like the AOA sensor was automatically making trim inputs which caused the plane to ultimately develop a very nose-down trim condition. Basically a high tech version of a runaway trim control which is why you often see split trim buttons so a switch failure can't cause a runaway.
According to their usually up to date json[0], the IPs are already in use and all 17+M have been assigned to the Singapore region (ap-southwest-1). According to the json they are available for both EC2 and other infrastructure as well (ELBs, API gateway, etc).

[0] https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json
It's called an artistic attempt. A successful one I think. I found his work beautiful and interesting.
The whole point on Dex is that you can connect a phone to a big screen and a big keyboard. Well, maybe your clients will provide you with a decent screen and a decent keyboard. (If I were a consultant, I'd pack my own. At this point lugging a laptop starts to make sense.)
Reformatted list for mobile:

1) Divide up that goal into pieces.

2) Take those initial pieces and divide that up.

3) Take one of the bits from 2, and create a lame, incomplete version of it

4) Keep polishing that bit until it's great
It's on a weekly cycle, with peaks presumably on the weekends. Maybe more home internet connections than workspace internet connections are IPv6, so there is an uptick in registered IPv6 connections when people are at home. (Note how the trough between Dec 24th and 31st is also significantly more shallow than the usual one.)
Why not NOT ban alcohol at work, and when an employee fucks up, just fire him ?

Is that really not a solution here ?

at the end of the day, people should be accountable for their own actions, and i should not be punished if i want to have a beer after working hours with colleagues because a tiny minority of people at my company cant drinking responsibly
I'd bet that more than 20% are males.
You should re-read what I wrote, because I certainly didn't blame the biker. I wished him good luck while acknowledging the fault lies in the "idiot" drivers who are checking their phone rather than paying attention.
A "hill climbing governor" should be a trivial addition for any scooter manufacturer.
It's worth noting that my role is head of product, with a background in design and business. I'm not an engineer.
Yes, usually still delivered through some horrendous flash/quicktime mashup that requires you to stay on the page for x num of minutes before proceeding to the next page.

I honestly dont mind the idea of taking any of this training, but I loathe the fact that I'm prevented from completing it at a pace I'm able.
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Wow. Didn't know this. I can understand why they do it this way--it's probably the lowest drag solution to the problem. But it sure swaps my connotation of what "trim" and "elevator" mean.
They do use a database dump. What's more - according to Have I been Pwned, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org does show up in some databases.
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I was about to get rid of my superbook by sentio and this may have changed my mind.

Having owned the note 1, 2, 4 and now a pixel 2, I left because of the poor history of timely and current updates by Samsung.

If Samsung could provide the option of running native Android like LG is, this would be a compelling option.
For someone who's not in the loop, can someone give a brief explanation of what pain point this solves?

The space of 'easy deployment' and 'scale' seems incredibly crowded, from reading the headlines - what makes this different/better?
The avoided the MacBook Helium that would have disabled modern iPhones...
Get BetterTouchTool.

It allows you to fully customise the buttons making it infinitely more useful.
It’s not about the historical reasons to why it became this high but I don’t think that if the situation would change to the point at which Israel only needs to spend $10 bln a year on defense instead of 20 their economy would suffer.

I also think that the defense industry is a red herring to some extent at least as far as it being the secret sauce behind their high technology industry.

I would argue that the large immigration from Russia after the collapse of the USSR helped them more than their compulsory military service, as the joke goes when GLONASS goes down Russia dials +972.
No. The vendor should not have created the shoddy software in the first place.

Why are we protecting them from embarrassment? They are incompetent and they should be embarrassed about it and they should pay the price, up to and including corporate death and the jailing of the executives, engineers and everybody in between who was responsible if the fallout warrants it.
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What Are Top Crypto Exchanges Right Now?
Do you see any scenario in which a 4-way yield would be more dangerous than a 4-way stop?
So does the S8/S8+.
I completely agree. In this case, there are at least four groups: automobile driver, motorcyclist, bicyclist, and pedestrian. We are nearly all biased, but when we exchange roles, I'd argue that most of us (including myself) will point the finger at the other group because it's so much easier to see the faulty behavior from an outsider perspective.

That's human nature, and it's exactly what's happening in politics at large. People from cities don't understand people from rural areas and vice versa. We think we're all so far apart, but in reality, our views are all grouped really close together (they're all human views). This is why we face major challenges solving larger problems, like global warming or plastic in the ocean, because it's easier to counter-attack than to do the work to change our own behaviors despite the faults we see around us.
The signal integrity at 0.6V at whatever frequency these are at, across a connector must be horrible. Are people doing this?
Yeah, it exists in hardware implementations too, but most devices that have IP stacks (of either IP version) do it in software because they're general-purpose computing devices.

And it's the general-purpose computing devices that are lagging in IPv6 support, not the networking-centric hardware implementations. It's been quite a while since business-quality networking devices shipped without IPv6 support.

For those home / small-business routers which still lack support, that is probably going to be a software implementation either way, and at the very least the software nature of any IPv6 implementation added through a "firmware" update (really just an OS update) won't be a performance bottleneck for those devices.

In some of those cases a firmware update has even been released by the manufacturer, just not applied. In many more, IPv6 is supported by the networking device and the software/firmware but simply disabled, or not supported by one or both of the ISP and the end-user device.
ok now I'd like to know if these epigenetics marks are sensed by the egg and selected against - does the egg refuse to be fertilized by stressed sperm ?
> who police (something)-police?

This is the problem. The question is “who polices …?”, not “who police …?”, the rest of the sentence structure aside.