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Yeah, but after making millions, instead of investing heavily in a crack team to shape things up, they just tackled mobile instead, completely rebuilding the game in another engine, and adding lootboxes, etc. all while slowly driving away their core fanbase.
If anything, Servo has shown that nobody needs to rewrite an entire engine for improving the state of the art.
Servo is modular and can integrate it's style engine or it's layout engine or it's rendering engine into other engines. Btw it use Firefox spidermonkey for js.
If mozilla wanted to bring a new inovative layout/anything module into chromium they just could, but they don't want to improve chromium, sadly.
Reinventing the wheel with totally redundant pieces is not a goal. Mozilla should focus on reinventing the critical pieces of chromium and only them.
They fail to understand their real utility and statistically become inexistant thus their funding too.
If only there was debuggers for brains of decision makers, the world would be in much better shape.
That's exactly the argument I'm dismissing. It's not much of a miracle for the orb to transmit light as one would naïvely expect. Rather, it suggests that somebody didn't do their homework.
Any malicious intervention would as you say have to be very subtle to pass system tests. Given they cannot know whether and when the planes would ever be used against them, it would be playing the long game at best.
While I'd love to see a Larry Ellison vs Mark Shuttleworth Geek Celebrity Deathmatch, I'm sure Oracle would sue anyone they think they could convince to settle out of court. Extracting as much blood as possible from their customers without killing them is in their DNA.
That makes no sense. It's all about the training.

A human can tell ML that the balls in the example are either perceived red (illusion) or reality (brown). The computer will use that training model for future decisions.
You are saying that on a story about 8chan's /pol/ board, which is populated by people who have been deplatformed from other places.
Yeah, exactly.

I know people in the journalism industry. Many people on this site see to believe they can be replaced by bots.

Good luck with that, and if it ever gets implemented, good luck with your communities and political systems ...
Firefox did this when they taking over IE domination. Chrome come later.
I want to believe that, but how do you evaluate models’ usefulness if you refuse to acknowledge facts and data, and just yell “fake news” when they point to a conclusion you don’t like?
> Isn’t the article linked here exactly the correct and valid answer of whether the earth orbits the sun?

Is it though? I'm genuinely curious. For example, in our current reference, earth almost always is orbiting the sun, but what would happen if the entire system was not contained in the galaxy but in the middle of space (not attached to any galaxy), how would the planetary orbit change?

Another question would be if our solar system was closer to the center of the galaxy, would the orbits of the planets stay the same or would they be skewed because of gravitational forces from the center of galaxy + other solar systems?

> Another valid answer to whether the earth orbits the sun might be 99.87% yes and 0.013% no.

I'm not sure if you're an astronomer or have a weather of knowledge or PhD in this topic but from the article, the answer is given as "Technically, what is going on is that the Earth, Sun and all the planets are orbiting around the center of mass of the solar system," writes Cathy Jordan, a Cornell University Ask an Astronomer contributor." That would be the only correct answer it seems. If the center of mass happens to be direct center of the sun or skewed one way or other is irrelevant to the fact. However, I could be wrong in my understanding.
I hesitate to demonize 8ch solely on the basis that they require legal protocol to be followed. I expect all organizations to require warrants before handing over data to the authorities.
"Brown" is already going with "what humans would think", from the sensors that try to capture the image according to the peculiarities of human vision, to whatever representation the system has of the social construct of "brown".
I don't see how you can put ads, trackers and node tooling in the same basket. Also the node tooling is helping to contain the frontend bloat.
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I guess Bloomberg might have something to say about PCBs not being a security risk. Did they ever back up that story in any way?
An Apple II reference, I believe. But didn't only the Apple IIe have those arrow keys?
http://www.apple2online.com/web_images/RFP%20Apple%20IIe.jpg
Except that in the US defense industry, anyone working for a foreign company is to be regarded as a foreign national (even if they have a subsidiary that is in the US).

While a part of me agrees, I don't want the Chinese to have access to even non-critical things. What if they insert some kind of small component that can be embedded in a PCB stackup that siphons data from a bus, or introduce a high Q resonator that creates an easily discoverable signature when hit with a certain frequency, or something else (like The Thing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)?

x-ray inspection at the bare-board level would check for both of those things (of course), but usually x-ray inspection is done by the assembler after boards are populated - not before - and I've never heard of it being one on a bare-board as an inspection step post receipt. So something like this actually could be missed.

You wouldn't even need to do it to every board, you could do it to some fraction of them, and have (essentially) a secret frequency vulnerability lying in wait. Basically it would invalidate your stealth/LO (obviously this is dependent on shielding and a lot of other things, but you get the idea).
Here in the UK, donating old/unwanted clothes to charity has been a thing for a long time, at least a decade.

Many supermarkets accept various kinds of recycling, and many have a large box for clothing, which goes to places like the Salvation Army. TBH, I've no idea what they do with it though.

There are also door-to-door collections, where a bag is put through your door, for collection a couple of days later - of course, anyone can do this, and there have been cases in the past of unscrupulous people claiming proceeds will go to charity, but instead pocketing all the money.
Maybe going a bit off tangent here but really let's all agree that Dockerfile.s are just not good enough for building any kind of software through time. There's no lockfile system and caching is just awkward to work with.

Dockerfile.s must be progressively replaced with Nix recipes then we'd get lockfiles, upgradable dependencies, some day even reproducible builds!
relabeling everything "blockchain", especially things with lots of established use before the existence of blockchains doesn't seem to have an real value outside of marketing obfuscation, at least to me.
You may want to look into whether it's a learned phenomenon and also consider getting them tested for color blindness.
Given that it's a fighterjet board, it's probably just a glorified FPGA breakout board.
Yes, but then again I personally view a hell of a lot lately as propaganda. Which most is. Whether it's actually factual or click-bait is a whole 'nother story.

Edit: fat thumb typos
Hasn't the Turning test been discredited as a test of general AI?

Overall from reading the abstract it seems like a pretty obvious conclusion. Same applies to robotics where the only successful cases are very constrained.

It has recently occured to me to ask why we have decided to try solve autonomous driving before solving any other seemingly easier robotics problems. Other than robo-vacuums, which aren't particularly complex, we have jumped straight to trying to solve one of the hardest unconstrained robotics and AI challenges in automotive environments.

edit: Getting downvoted, if you disagree could you reply with why?
While the stealing part is likely true, everytime a Westerner has dismissed the innovation ability of China, they've typically been wrong. China has long passed the phase of being an imitator with low cost manufacturing abilities, and matured into an innovator.

There probably is still a cultural tolerance of IP theft, but that too will pass in a decade
Check out https://www.dominodatalab.com/ - you've pretty much described their product.
Wow, don't be so dismissive out of spite. You even hijacked an unrelated comment for your slander.

People don't upvote "60Mo software for drawing 1 curve", they upvote a "simple tool to design spline curves".
My pet theory is that most animals know they’re conscious and know they are part of one consciousness.

Humans evolved an illusion that we are alone in an individual consciousness because it was an adaptation: the mistaken belief makes it easier for us to kill, and kill in large numbers. Which happened to work well for us. It let us kill off any humans who thought there was anything wrong with carving out a new world without regard for the cost to other creatures.

Without that adaptation we never would have created civilization.
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Why doesn't DNS simply accept the fact that either:

1) your hosts are public

2) DNS is a stateful protocol and different clients _may_ see different responses by server? (e.g. return false denials for unauthorized clients)
I have a similar attitude toward audio books. When someone claims that listening to an audio book is largely the same as reading it, it strikes me that this could only be true of books which aren't especially demanding in terms of comprehension. The idea of listening to audio book of Hegel or using an audio book in lieu of textbooks to study for school seems crazy to me.
IQ is a highly outdated concept and making wild assumptions about correlation unscientific. Reading becomes more effortless with practice.
One can legitimately spend 20 minutes reading a single page...sometimes it depends on the thought, craft and skill of the author but relies on the reader to actually give a damn - enjoying reading for the sake of reading...

One authors view - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/07/howard-jacobso...
Actually you can just download it, stick the “public/” directory in a web server (or load it in your browser) and have it working without Electron, which I just did as a quick test:

https://sentido-labs.com/tmp/Curve-Studio/

Even save/load with “Export JSON” and “Import JSON” seems to work!

@antixk: since it works as a website anyway, I’d recommend doing that yourself because it’s much easier to give it a quick look this way.
That's for new-manufactured boards. My guess is this whole run completed years ago. And surely new boards will be farmed out to some other Mom & Pop PCB shop. These companies are everywhere, electronics assembly is not meaningfully "high tech" any more.
For a visceral encounter with extremes on this theme, read Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Aurora".
I got a console and a bunch of games when the toy stores started closing them out. Still have them all in the basement.
If that command really were used as the article suggests then you'd think it would be followed by a bunch of other sigint derived from an increase in activity by the units that received the command.
Most languages are terrible in nitially. More important I think is the ability to evolve.

And JS is evolving, faster in some areas than others but it is evolving.
Compared to the first time I used JS, now its very convenient language with some quirks. But the main reason actually it is rising in popularity so much is that's probably the most cross platform language today. And I am ot talking about what you compile language to, I mean what do you use to ship software to people.
If ai us better at all things wouldn't it also do a better job of anylizing the data as well? I can't really see any jobs being left for humans once the dust settles all the people will be gone there already is no place for most of us.
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Large swaths of the internet are left-leaning zones. It should be no surprise that places without algorithmic controls enforcing viewpoints are going to counter-balance what they could otherwise find on normal sites.
For the current clinical trial mechanism to work at all, you are relying on a deep level of trust and professionalism. If you don't have that, you're going to have to imagine a radical, nearly complete transformation of how this sort of science is being done. If you do have that, I don't see what tracking a small piece of it with a blockchain really buys you.

Do you?
Is this paper any good? The way the abstract makes me wary of the results claimed.
Hacker News readers have little appreciation for cultural nuance.
Right. That's what I was back in the '90s.

It's not actually all bad though. At least in the educational software business of the time, there were various companies run by people who were trying to do more than personally enrich themselves. It's on a continuum... some were trying to do a lot more than just enrich themselves. Some were willing to do a little. For some, it was strictly about grabbing the most money, whether it was a short-term or longer-term play. Of course, no one running a company can simply not consider the money. And economic realities can force the hand of anyone.
> However, the only reason this is possible is because we have web standards that are independent of a single browser and vendor.

This is an important point. One thing that led to IE's downfall was its lack of standard compatibility. At the time, there were real web standards. Today, the "standard" seems to be whatever Chrome does. (Indeed, despite good standard compatibility, the pre-Chrome version of Edge suffered in terms of real-world compatibility, and that was an animating reason for the switch to Chromium: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...) So we are very differently positioned than we were when Firefox/Chrome overtook IE.
I still get the urge to play the original UT. It is weird that instinctively that era of games feels mere years ago but it is more like 2 decades. Perhaps it’s that the leap from ZZT to UT seems far more vast than UT to Fortnite.

People should pay more attention to Tim Sweeney. He appears to have a much better grasp on how to run a tech company using an open platform than the more well known Silicon Valley CEOs. The Unreal Engine may not be explicitly open source as in Linux, but it’s all viewable and the licensing terms are reasonable.
Symbolic computation libraries for Python are lacking - there's SymPy, but it can throw a "NotImplementedException" at you if you try processing some more hairy formulas... Would be great if SymPy was improved.
(IANAL but...) I’m pretty sure it’s legal to record anything within your own home if you’re the one that set it up. That’d cover placing devices that delegate that recording to Amazon.
Fixing a ripped pair of pants? Probably, I’ve watched my mother in law fix a pair of pants on her sewing machine in a couple of minutes. Let’s say it takes 5 minutes of fully loaded labor time and de minimus materials, that’s $60/hour, which isn’t terrible, especially since repair is likely to be an on demand thing that supplements more profitable lines like alterations.
Thanks for locating that line. I think between the two of us we've figured out all the relevant parts of the system and assessed what is going on with post ids and ips in the database.

At minimum, from my understanding, ipv4 addresses look 100% recoverable with the database and $hashSalt, and 3 upper octets recoverable as long as you have hashSalt, secure_trip_salt and an archive of the thread.

Of course this is just from the board software perspective, so the next layer in assessing the privacy of the users with regards to what the FBI can get, is the server, hosting, and upstream providers whether intentional or otherwise may have additional identifying information , for example cache or logs that can be correlated with the posts.
The article has a paragraph basically claiming the internet / apps would have killed those companies anyway and I think I agree. Perhaps a more visionary businessman could have found a way to develop the IP in a transition but ultimately they were kind of doomed like most games companies are. It's a brutal industry.
I graduated high school 5 years ago, and in that generation (of video game culture) our social game was League of Legends.

Everyone was always online. Ya, we liked the game, some even cared about their rank, but the beauty was playing with all your friends and talking over Skype. I'm glad that kids have the opportunity to be social in a time where technology often makes us lonelier
Was this written by GPT-2?
It seems like you are missing the original point. People aren't working around bugs in Chromium, they are (either inadvertently or intentionally) developing apps which rely on the buggy functionality.
> I'm sure Oracle would sue anyone they think they could convince to settle out of court

It seems that they are convinced that they don't. Installing separate ZFS modules on Linux seems to be compatible with the CDDLv1. Oracle has had time to mull over the decision made by Canonical and they have not made any moves.

Even if they had a case, Oracle has many customers using Linux and Ubuntu. Losing goodwill and messing with their customers software providers is net negative.
What do you hope to gain from combative dialogue with such people? Are you trying to change how they vote, or shop?
The weird thing with propaganda is that it can often be completely true in each part but represent a lie in totality.

You run ten completely truthful stories about X doing something but no stories about Y doing the same thing.

The perception then becomes skewed towards Y.

Is manufacturing a PCB in China for a critical piece of defense equipment a security risk, possibly, it's also a possibility the same is true if they made that PCB in France or Israel or Japan (though I'm sure the threat curve is different).

The other questions I'm curious about are things like, ignoring the F-35, how much other equipment in service is dependent on Chinese manufacturers - electronics are everywhere and China is the nations factory (of sub-assemblies at least).
I think this is exactly the point of people having different reading speeds, though. What is uncomfortably fast for one person is normal speed for someone else, including considering all of the implications of each sentence they're reading. I don't know that I could read the LoTR in two days, but I do know that the pace of audio books is painfully slow for me. My natural speed would be substantially faster than the audio book and I wouldn't be racing through at an unpleasant pace.

And I believe what the parent was trying to say was that we've been conditioned to believe that a certain speed is normal, when perhaps most of us are capable of reading (and fully comprehending) at a much higher speed, though I don't know enough to have an opinion on that.
I'm zooming in on one pair until each is about one hand-width in diameter. The effect is still present for me.
Lessons learned from rewriting code
I am skeptical of any paper with this result, because several very plausible events would likely prove by example that computers can respond as a human would. It requires accepting certain assumption though.

1: Physicalism is true. Nothing exists that is not part of the physical world.

2: The physical world obeys mathematical laws, and those laws can be learned in time.

2.1: The physical contents of the human body can eventually be learned with arbitrary/sufficient fidelity.

3: Any mathematical rule can be computed by a sufficiently advanced computer. (Edit: or maybe a better assumption: the mathematical laws that underlie the universe are all computable.)

4: Computational power will continue to increase.

Subject to these assumptions, we will eventually gain the ability to simulate full physical human beings within computers. Perhaps with some amount of slowdown, but in the end, these simulated humans would be able to converse with entities outside the computer. In all likelihood, computers will pass the Turing test long before this. But if they don't, simulated humans seem like something that is certainly possible or even probable, and therefore the result of this paper is likely incorrect.
Blizzard with Overwatch comes to mind. But it's pretty much the same scenario.

Netflix might also be a good example shifting from DVD renting to streaming.
I can read blazingly fast. I used to read sometimes two books in a day, and I destroyed the fiction section in the library of every school I went to.

But now I mostly read non-fiction, and in light of the fact that I remember maybe 8% in detail of the thousands of books I've read, I like to take things very slowly. I'll read a paragraph, stop, think about what I just read, and sometimes read it again just to help things stick.

I break up long articles into multiple sessions, and after each session I try to recall in detail what I just read, and try to form insights and draw connections which help to cement the data into my brain.

If I'm skimming for information, sure, I'll just churn over the text as fast as possible-- But these days I'm reading for knowledge's sake and not escapism. And even when I read fiction, I like to exercise my visual memory and try to imagine every last detail while I read at a leisurely pace.

I see nothing wrong with this approach and thusly I think WPM outside of a desk job is meaningless and not some number corresponding to intelligence that we should be trying to maximize.
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100% this. It's about replayabiliy. Some games have it in spades as the game elements involve interacting with other players making each play through experience somewhat unique. Others are very dull to play again. Single player offline games are quite rare these days for this reason, the last big one I can think of was half life 2.
This sentence sums up the paper:

"Turing machines can only compute what can be modelled mathematically, and since we cannot model human dialogues mathematically, it follows that Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test."
I mean RF is a solved problem, there are no secrets in that part of modem design anymore. You can pick an off the shelf cable modem RF frontend (AD9866 etc) and implement 4G baseband. What you will need is experienced software people and IP rights.

On a tangential note Intel totally screwed DOCSIS modem chipsets, after taking over TI's Puma product line, by stuffing it with x86 cores and assigning work experience students to write firmware, after all everyone can code x86, right? :) Puma 6/7 can be DOSed by as little as 10KB/s stream. Supposedly there are firmware fixes, but from what I gather they just move critical processing tasks from integrated x86 cores to external ARM SoC - prevents DOSing, but latency issues persist.
Apart from the obvious value of solving the problem, part of the point of taking moonshots is that you invent a whole lot of valuable stuff along the way, even if you fail.

And in this case I mean moonshots literally, because NASA was one.
1) malicious actors get information from multiple sources and combine them. We talk about this with data sets that are leaked. I wonder what that means for things like this and China as a state actor

2) contractors on military projects are highly regulated. I wonder if any laws or contractual agreements were broken by this
Universal healthcare? What does that mean?

In China, we only have one type of healthcare, the one that needs to be paid. There is no healthcare for free here.

(Unless of course, you're a high ranking CCP party member, that way you can enjoy all the goodies from all over the country for free, including free blood plasma from young people* to keep you feel good when you're old. *Caution: HIV maybe included due to technical difficulties).