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Okay, it's a magical god-given treasure, which is as good a definition as any in this context, which illustrates the problem. When most talk about general AI, what they talk about is artificial consciousness. That's fair enough, but you can't build what you don't understand.

If someone says general AI is possible because consciousness is not a magical god-given treasure, I'm allowed to ask what is is instead. That would give me a model to at least see how someone would approach it, something to falsify against.

General AI is to current AI what flying saucers are to airplanes: if you look at the latter it's easy to envision the former, and seeing the technological advances it seems inevitable. On closer inspection though, a whole new sets of concepts--some very improbably--are needed.

Flying saucers would need some gravity cancellation property. Not impossible by itself, but far from a natural evolution of aircraft.

By analogy, general AI would need a workable model of consciousness. Again, not impossible by itself, but also not a natural consequence of current advances in the field of AI.
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He was a shrewd maybe ruthless businessman that's for sure -- but he's doing amazing things with his wealth now -- maybe this is his penitence?
Kdeconnect comes to mind. It is more aimed at working on wifi, but you can probably make it work with ssh tunnels or vpn.
I have one major problem with this advice. This advice is only actionable for people who either already have financial security and can afford to take time off, or who don't have day to day responsibilities that demand your spare time, like childcare.

If you have all of that spare time, then by all means try to follow that advice. But if you're short on time for life or financial reasons, it's much trickier, and you have to find ways to make many small adjustments to get to a career change.
...or, the usual IQ tests of the 1950s did not adequately measure whatever Feynman was particularly good at.
What are you talking about? They have turned it into a software problem. Name another company where you can make meaningful over the air software updates that affect more than the dashboard?

Also while I am a Tesla fanboy, I work in automotive technology and interface with many of the major car companies daily, so I'm not just getting this from articles.
It works well on the other devices too, you just need the dex station.
From context I'd guess he means 45% male, 45% female, 10% non-binary.
Male, female, non-binary.
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I had a classmate from France in my class at a US college. He opinion was that in American you can think big and fail and no one looks down at you for it. Not the same in the EU.

Same with becoming wildly successful. In America those people are looked up to as role models. In many parts of the EU, being the "tall poppy" is a bad thing.
Generic ideological discussions, like the thread below, are off topic here. They're always repetitive, usually nasty, and never go well.

We detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407327.
Certainly. I agree 100%. They lower the bar, and that increases their frequency. No question about that. However, you can say the same about literally any military technology. Bulletproof vests have the same effect. The question at hand is: is this lowered bar leading us to make bad judgments?

I see people pointing at cases where civilians were killed and saying "See! Its bad!". But that isn't an argument that it was a bad judgment. Collateral damage is, unfortunately, inevitable with the technology that we have. The question we have to ask is: is the amount of collateral damage we're causing worthwhile and/or could we substantially reduce collateral damage without harming our objectives. And i've basically never seen anyone even attempt to make that case.
Is that a problem of the EU or China? Things become cheaper when you don't care about the wellbeing of your citizens.
And the scumbags who run this site are also book-burning lying scum who censor all non-communist opinion.

https://archive.fo/kx1RF
I'll take it a step further -- why does work need to be fun?

It's my meal ticket, not my hobby; it needs to be tolerable.

The "fun at work" meme is, IMO, a way to keep people in the office longer a la the GOOOOG's Gilded Cage.
I.. uh.. congratulations on the pregnancy?
And the free, online textbook How to Design Programs.

https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/
This isn't new.

The "sanatorium" concept was lost somewhere in the 20th century. The sanatorium idea was the cure by the gradual restoration of health.

Today is almost medication every time. Zero to little attention to physical and mental health restoration. It's like plastic surgery.
I mean, sometimes I wish feature development would slow down. Lately it seems like each release of macOS is worse than the last one.

Also, it really comes down to whether or not it's a long-term win. Apple certainly has the capital to make it happen if they decided it was worth it.
The fact that we are still seeing 128GB non-upgradeable SSD’s on a base-level Mac is insanity.

For any poor soul who has had to do mobile development work on one of these, the ‘you are low on risk space’ notification is like a spectre that haunts dreams.

The environmental impact alone of non-upgradeable units is a serious issue in my eyes. Previous Macs have lasted me up to 8 years or so with nice and consistent upgrades over the years.

The small amount of thinness or whatever it is has been the trade off is not worth it.

We’ve lost the exterior battery button, we’ve lost MagSafe, the butterfly keyboards have had scathing reviews at best, and, in what seems like the most open statement of ‘we’re not even the same company any more’, they’ve even removed lost the trademark glowing Apple on the back.

It has moved beyond the point where I need to draw the line and will be building the most compatible hackintosh I can as my next laptop.
We have an example AGI - the human brain.

We have an example superintelligence - humans working together in groups such as corporations are a superintellgence.

So from that, the invention of a human-level AGI naturally leads to superintelligence - lots of the AGIs cooperating.

The question then becomes of whether we're going to get to AGI. Evidence points to yes. AGI (human intelligence) is a collection of abilities and the machine learning community is steadily making progress on them. Speech, vision, machine translation, question answering, summarization etc. are all being worked on and steady progress, or in many cases - rapid progress, is being made.

Unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning are the frontiers and both have advancements in just the past couple of years (GANs, predictive learning, inverse reinforcement learning, imitation learning, domain randomization).

Unsupervised learning in particular is likely the key to AGI and only recently has significant progress been made on it - predictive learning (as Yann Lecun calls it).

(Personal conjecture - the next couple of years when a larger number of people investigate predictive learning might lead to AGI - in maybe just 2 years).
To make a living?!
I see a lot of potential for abuse. Maintainers should not have the power to make everything they don't like disappear. Neither do I see what this feature tries to solve that say filtering out closed issues with `invalid` tag doesn't.
Is it running on the hardware with upstream drivers, or it's libhybris based?
I've not tried it, but how easy is it to fake the ID? Like, does the photo feed to a person that OKs the ID manually, or does it just look for some vaguely rectangulary shaped object?
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The positive aspect of banning alcohol consumption is that it's an objective measure. If somebody is a drunken lout pawing his employees, save the victim more exposure by drumming him out for the alcohol.

With the possible exception of salespeople entertaining clients, there's no need to drink on duty, and if you do, there is a consequence.
Do you have an example? I could possibly imagine this being a problem on a local /24, in that after you apply the netmask the local part is all zero bits. But for a remote DNS server, I cannot fathom how this could be a problem.
Own a Segway/Ninebot ES2 w/ the extended battery pack. Top speed 20mph. Have clocked over 300 miles on it. I live in Boston, Bird tried to launch this summer and Cambridge/Somerville local gov freaked out (rightfully so). I use my scooter for 10 mile rides on the bike path, communing and short haul trips. It gets locked up in my apartment when I’m done with it.

I honestly don’t know if I’d trust public scooters, purely for safety reasons. (I use Zipcar which is a hit or miss most of the time, some of the cars are really filthy and broken since you can use it at 18) How often are they inspected? Do the scooter companies keep maintenance logs? Who fixes them? Do they use contractors or have in-house staff? Where are they souring the parts? These things are used way more than mine. I’ve fallen off my scooter twice and really fucked myself up and I always wear a helmet. One fall I hit the back of my head behind my right ear on the pavement first. You can easily kill or cripple yourself or someone else. An adult at 165lbs going 19mph packs a punch. They are not toys. There’s huge liability here.

This feels like when Uber rolled out. Nobody trusted them and it took time for regulators to catch up. These tiny electric vehicles are awesome and represent way more to come. I just hope nobody gets seriously hurt in the process.
I want a chart like that but for journalism.
The word is "loan", they gave you a loan for which you are expected to pay interest.

Also if you're aware that comparable bank loans can be cheaper why not investigate that?

Lastly, if you don't need the money, all you did was agree to pay Stripe $2000 to hold theirs. :(
New York and Chicago manage to handle streets just as busy with regular 4-way intersections. The problem with any K street intersection is the bizarre access roads on each side that confuse drivers to ill effect.
Scooters seem unnecessary in densely populated cities. Most high-density areas have good public transport within a few minutes walk of your destination, and the footpaths are too busy to ride a scooter on anyway.

They are much more useful in medium-density cities and suburbs where the roads and footpaths are less busy and public transport is not as effective.

I love using my scooter for commuting and errands in my low-density city, but I can't imagine riding it through a busy CBD - not on the road or the footpath. And yet that seems to be where most of these scooter rental companies are deploying. It seems crazy.
Consider the service, http://www.lasso.net/go/index.jsp

It is terrific for saving collections of content. It is even better if you want to publish a collection or collaborate privately.
Is there way to develop and test this locally? It seems like you constantly need to deploy to now to test new changes?
As far as I know, the compatibility layer for running Android apps on Chrome OS is closed-source, which means that any OEM wanting to do this would need Google’s blessing and access to their source code. However, if there were a phone that did this, I’d buy it for sure.
> Both the fish and the electricity need to be considered in a long term utilitarian framework.

Says who?

You have an infinite regress problem here. You eventually are going to have to fall back on non objective feelings about how the world should be to justify your actions.
He gave a non-answer to the question "why are you categorizing it as an invasion" by saying "because I consider it an invasion".

Why is this an invasion and not "a group of refugees and asylum seekers"? Why are you using specific, strong, and decisive language to demonize this group? What is illegal about seeking asylum, since presumably that's what this group would want to do in order to enter the country?

It is being pointedly obtuse to say that his answer would be considered satisfactory by anyone. That's not to say that the situation didn't get heated on both sides, but let's not pretend Trump was just being a super nice guy by staying off the golf course long enough to answer these assholes' questions and didn't deserve to get some serious questions answered after a midterm election.
Termux is incredible. You can even run Arch on it https://github.com/sdrausty/termux-archlinux
There's no excuse for secretly averaging widely divergent inputs, especially in alternate law (which the plane wouldn't be in unless something is going wrong). It should have picked one and indicated to the other pilot that his/her input was being ignored. IIRC this isn't an issue on the Boeing design, only Airbus.

One the contributing factors was that the stall warning cut out when the nose was pointed higher up, giving the copilot the impression his attempt to full nose up was the right decision. When the nose lowered the stall warning kicked back in. IIRC this was because the computer saw the full nose up as an "impossible" condition and decided not to issue the stall warning. As the nose lowered certain values came back in-range so it issued the warning.

Without these two wildly incorrect behaviors the plane probably wouldn't have crashed.
Are there a lot of people asking intentionally daft questions in this thread?

"Gee willikers Wally, shouldn't we fire people for missing the highly informative HR-mandated 'be polite' video?"

No?

"Really? Gee, Willikers, why not?"

Anyway. These things have been a complete joke for a long time:

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tv-funhouse-se...
From that article:

> So, the objection that humans cannot solve every problem only shows that humans might not be complete halting oracles, but cannot show that humans are not partial halting oracles.

I don't get it. We can already easily making Turing machines that answer the halting problem for certain infinite sets of Turing machines, so there's nothing unique about the human brain in this regard.
Please keep ideological flamewar miles away from this site. It's predictable, therefore tedious, and usually nasty.

HN exists for other things: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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What % of incidents were first offenses? Unless it's a really low number, firing after first offense won't reduce the total number of incidents enough.
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Is the trim setting (pardon my lack of knowledge) easily visible to the pilot?
Science isn't about formal proofs
I'm cynical and have no trouble believing that results were twisted immensely prior to the rule change in 2000. The incentives are huge: profit, prestige, or simply job security.

I do wonder if this chart misrepresents something, though: there are studies that produce incidental--but genuinely valuable--discoveries. It's unclear to me if that accounts for the pre-2000 results or not. With the new rules, would there have to be another study stating the new objective?

I'm not questioning that bad science occurs, but I am questioning what this graph really tells us.
Yes why don't we all account for every edge case in every single thing we say. Perhaps it should have been, "What I sometimes say to some people who are looking for a job in specific industries in certain age groups in given regions of the world, provided they have the resources, intelligence, financial security, and time to do so."

It's a casual blog post not a piece of code.
Macbook aside, I always wondered how many laptops it takes IFIXIT to determine how to take the laptop apart. Is there always a sacrifice laptop where they dissemble regardless of breaking stuff? Then they take what they learned on the "real" laptop?
It is a shame that doctors have now started leaving patients suffer out of fear of addiction. Surely there has to be a middle ground? I feel there is a risk they go too far and by not addressing pain in people they put those people at higher risk of doing desperate things like take other drugs available on the black market. I hate the feeling you get off opiods. But when I threw my back out over the counter medications did not even come close to touching the pain. It truly was crippling. Doctors would not give me anything but a family member had a handful of I forget what now but it was a prescription opiod of some type from a past surgery and it was the only thing that would even take a dent out of the pain. When my back came back I immediately stopped taking anything for it. But I truly do fear it happening again. I know I won't be able to access stronger pain medications if I have it happen again.
I don't follow this comment. What would you plot on the vertical axis?
If China won would assume Europe would stay out of the conflict while the US and China fought each other. A fight with China as the enemy would probably end up dragging in basically the entire 'Western' world.

Of course, it's all pretty insane to speculate about, since:

A: Most countries now seem like they're trying to avoid actual wars as much as possible, and most remaining issues seem to be sparked off more by extremist nutcases/cults than a country's army trying to invade or fight off another.

B: The US, most of Europe, China, etc have nuclear weapons, so any actual war between any of them would probably end like everyone's worst fears about the Cold War made reality. Don't think there'd be much trade or economics left after that.
Why? Your boss tells you to do something. You either do it, or she fires you. If you expect anything different, you are deluded.
Are you planning to support multivariate statistics?
I hate gab with a passion, but I can’t see any obvious way that this could conceivably be valid - gab hasn’t violated any actual laws, nor is it accused of such. Simply being a social network for racists, homophobes, and anti-America nazis is not a crime. Nor should it be, i’d Like to be able to know if someone is a user - but mostly as a “are these people dangerous” check.
That sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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Yes, that's a real problem that DBAs routinely grapple with. To address the problem, RDBMS vendors typically support hints and "plan management" features that allow DBAs to "pin" a particular plan once they've determined it's best. However, this usually requires a knowledgeable DBA; many developers would prefer that the database automatically chooses the plan, even if it changes from time to time. CockroachDB will definitely want to support both kinds of users.
Well Slack is an electronjs app.

I think developers are still chasing the ‘write once run anywhere’ Holy Grail. This time it’s JavaScript.
Clinical trials != scientific studies in general. Motherjones is doing a great disservice implying equivalence.
Last I checked Zig is more concerned about overflow conditions than Rust(numeric overflow, stack overflow, OOM etc.) and boasts features in that vein - so it competes, but not in the same territory.

If you are writing a kernel it's highly likely that you'll end up in a lot of scenarios where you have to use unsafe Rust, in which case Zig would be the better language for the task. Admittedly, it would be nice to have some of both, and they both have room to get better. But I see Rust as more of a "libraries and applications" centric setup, where it's the right thing for a web browser and the wrong thing for a device driver.
Absurd. I'd never work at such a company, in part due to the type of people that kind of policy would attract. If this rule was enacted and I was already an employee, I'd spend the money to bring large meat spreads to all of the events.
I'm astonished that floating point ever gets mentioned in the context of AI - I went to static point (integer multiply and bit-shift) in the 1980s for neural nets. I wasn't able to sell the idea to Hinton, way back then, but that was because he didn't give me time; he was busy tossing me out of his office for mentioning a new parallel-processing computer.
Apparently not for every atom. The space is small enough to save us from grey goo scenario, at least until nanobots invent NAT.

https://xkcd.com/865/
You're right, I can't find that he actually said this. Guess I'll have to pretend that he did. :)
Yeah I hesitated at putting radiation therapy in there because I didn't know how targeted it was. Thanks for an informative response.
Science is about verifiable proofs (verifiable within reasonable time limits) which somewhat means the same thing as formal proofs in the grand scheme of things. Correct me if I am wrong

Edit: forgot to put in time limits
I miss you Tcl. Upvar, uplevel, how's it hanging guys? While this is a neat little repo, this is totally unnecessary in Tcl. Being a much more flexible language than a C++ inspired OO, it had its own idioms that were much more succinct.
Oh for sure, NJ home prices do not tell the whole picture, but the truth is that even with these high taxes, a Software Engineer at a top company should easily be able to afford to live there, even with a spouse that doesn't work.

3.5k a month is affordable to people who make 130k+ a year, which is less than a new grad makes at Google, where this is absolutely cheaper than anything within a comparable commute to google offices in the bay area at all, or around Seattle in school districts of similar quality.

New York Metro is in no way cheap, and I was never trying to make that argument, just that it can be substantially cheaper than the existing major tech hubs.
You are literally talking to somebody born in the 90s that 1,000% sees cars as a status symbol, and all of my friends do too.

If we see a modern Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, or McLaren, we all pay mental respect to the owner/driver because we know what depreciation + upkeep cost for that driver.

A $15/hr call center rep leasing a $27/mo $699 iPhone for 18 months is so far from the scale of $300k supercar that it makes me physically angry to have to write back to this.
Til it snows.
The downside of this though is that unexpected positive results sometimes get buried. For instance, clinical trials have to report all adverse effects but not positive effects. We've had drugs tested for symptom X fail to have any effect, while causing bald people to have their hair grow back. Yet the company we were testing it for wasn't interested and those results never made it into the public domain.
Most programmers, esp from ALGOL-like and C-like languages, hate the syntax. Decades have been wasted trying to convince them to overlook it. Clojure was a surprising exception. Whereas many languages that stayed close to languages people were familiar with got adoption.

Better to hide the LISP'y core underneath a syntax similar to a widely deployed language. Julia was a brilliant example that's getting a lot of uptake vs scientific LISP's as predicted.
> spying on the passengers

I'm not familiar with this functionality of curl. Is there some undocumented flag for that?
When I first got my medical license about a decade and change ago, pain was the fifth vital sign and we weren't doing enough to deal with it. I (as a California requirement) even had to take CME to do a better job on treating non-malignant pain. Little did we know how the profession was being manipulated.

But what I think will happen, and some of the comments in this thread illustrate, is that the pendulum will swing in the other direction. Medicine doesn't know what to do with chronic pain. We can't define it, we have imprecise anatomic correlates, and no patient wants to be told that some fraction of it is in their head even though it's likely a combination of neurologic and psychologic factors. I remember throwing some obvious seekers out of my office but I had a lot of credible chronic pain patients when I left general practice, good people laid low in difficult ways, and I wonder what's happened to them since.