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Ask HN: Is General purpose AI going to sneak up on us?
I have been following the ai space for a few years now and everyday there seems to be a breakthrough in fields people believed impossible to solve by AI systems. Although the general consensus is that good AI is quite a bit far away ,could it be we are vastly underestimating the capabilities of self learning systems. from my view all the basic ingredients for some form of AGI already exist.So i fear that we might create AGI as in spontaneous combustion of gas in a hot day.
Microsoft had always been developer-friendly.

They just haven't been friendly much towards developers outside their ecosystem, as soon as they have monopolised the given ecosystem.
Yes, for a long time it's been the case that to run qmail you have to really really want to run qmail. That's why I put so much effort for so many years into cross-platform packages of qmail in pkgsrc, and that's why we have "Meeting all common needs with OS-provided packages" as an explicit goal for the notqmail project.
Other aspect is, ice cover would of been greater in the period a few hundred years ago, let alone longer. So has the possibility that these are the remnants of a past glacier melting and depositing these bones - has that been ruled out?

As for losing is (mentally) - mad honey was more of an issue back in history than today. So could see how some village feast/celebration/`ritual` may of played out with this given Nepal is noted in history as having issues with it and less than 30km from this site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayanotoxin#Mad_honey_intoxic...
> innovation can be fueled by war and military research

This reminds me what I read about Leonardo da Vinci "pitching" for funding and sponsorship, with various inventions for military use like crossbows, catapults, steam-powered cannons, armored tanks..
I guess it's nice to know that these super rich guys think about exactly the same stuff as I do when I'm taking a stroll.
Art 3.9 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
Reinforcement Learning for Real Life
Right. So my employer is at $10B today, and our growth is such that achieving that arbitrary $25B is a reasonable goal.

I've been with the company since we were less than $500M.

So at what arbitrary point do we cross from being a good guy to being an evil corporate titan that must be broken up? I don't feel like we've gotten evil; it feels like as we've grown we've built a greater capacity to server our customers better.
What would it take to get the internet community to really see the danger of AMP?

Some kind of social media campaign?

AMP will rot away a free and open internet. The internet will be turned into a walled garden for Google/Alphabet's sole benefit. (or at least a large enough chunk of it to make avoiding Google/Alphabet nearly impossible)

Edit: clarity.
In the U.S. there is Yoshi: https://www.startyoshi.com/
It's time for double blind testing!
RGB uses less memory than RGBA (obviously), so if there is no alpha channel I don't want to allocate the memory for a channel completely full of 255 bytes.
The author is in no authoritative position to decide who does not deserve attention or an opinion. Everyone does, otherwise how will we disprove/prove claims we have no access to, or let opiners do it?
Fintech's Grip on the Developing World
Don't use PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB for analytic work - they're super-slow at that. Try systems like MonetDB, ClickHouse (not a full DBMS) etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_column-oriented_DBMSes
Column stores are where it's at.

(Not relevant if you need to process transactions.)
My Safari iOS is crashing opening that link :(
Thanks for the link. Did not know this.
No, it's also needed to install a self-made app on my phone for longer than 7 days at a time. That 7 day restriction is far too low to be reasonable for normal use.
> I think Apple's approach is the only reasonable one for the general population.

The general population uses macOS just fine.
I assure you, that is by design.

What most amazes me is how blatant this is. Late-Stage Capitalism in it's death throes?

The last time there was a multi-country, "common-goal of the general people" popular movement like we are experiencing was prior to World War 1 and the movement away from Monarchy to "Constitutional Monarch" on one end of the spectrum and Communism on the other.

The overwhelming opinion of: "We don't have to live like this." has a very strong force of momentum to it.
Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time [pdf]
Thanks for sharing! As an amateur street photographer myself, this really resonated with me. I've found that street photography can be extremely unforgiving but the drive to capture and understand urban life is addictive. Would love to hear other peoples' experiences with how to be more successful at street photography!
Moi j'assume.

Serein sans la fume.

J'contrôle, je résume.
I don’t know what will replace it yet but React will fall out of favor and become the next jQuery. Maybe it’ll be static sites or native web components or something entirely new, but it but it’s coming.
Sure, it's a mere token for Apple, but it is a significant, recurring financial and logistical hurdle for me when I simply want the ability to use my pocket computing/surveillance device -- which I've already paid for -- in ways I deem fit.
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For Windows, .Net Core 3 lets you create Windows GUI apps using the standard Windows frameworks (UWP/WPF/WinForms)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-3-and-support...

For cross platform there isn't an official solution, the closest would be deploying as an Electron app.
All decisions made 20 years ago. The future is UTF-8.
Niche that you might want to target: splitting grocery delivery.

Why?

In the UK, it is common for grocers like Tesco, ASDA, or Sainsburys which offer grocery delivery to require a £40 minimum for an order. It is quite hard to hit that minimum with a week's worth of groceries and ordering groceries for longer than a week is less useful because meat & veg expires. Therefore, it would be nice to be able to split a grocery delivery with flatmates or with the flat across the hall. There is a coordination challenge here.

It would be nice if I could sign up for an account, my flatmate could sign up for an account, we could link our accounts and then we could add stuff to the same Tesco cart--with a record of who had ordered which groceries and who owes whom when someone hits the "thats enough groceries in the cart. please deliver" button.
There is some benefit to real-time ability in an OS. Mainly, to prevent one application from freezing up the system. That's happened to me both on Windows and Linux. Took work to wrestle it back into my control again.

I remember people who used the QNX demo disk on old machines describing how they could do big compiles in the background with the system still responsive to input. I'm guessing the parts interacting with the user had higher priority.
Supporting full distributed ACID transactions is the holy grail for databases, especially if you want them with minimal performance impact. For single instance settings we guarantee full ACID semantics and in a cluster setting ArangoDB supports atomic operations. Getting full distributed transactions working and minimizing their performance impact on writes is something we are still investigating. The new streaming transactions API in v3.5 brings also improvements to handling of transactions in a clsuter but are not distribuzed transactions.

For more details please see our docs https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/transactions-transactio...
A lot of businesses look similar when comparing the basic idea. When you compare on execution things can get dramatically different.
> everything was two open ended and complicated, could cripple the system, stuff was open for exploit

Maybe on Windows, but on macOS this has never been generally a problem.
This is the first time in a while I've seen something that really gets me excited about software.

The promise of "run anywhere" has more or less been fulfilled by the web, but it leaves a lot to be desired: shared code is duplicated on every site, the only language available has... quirks to say the least, and performance is always an issue. This seems to solve a lot of these problems, while usable webAssembly is still a long way off (and doesn't resolve all the issues above).

I have seen lots of cool stuff from MS wither on the vine. Hopefully this does a little better.
If you even think thoughts like "... making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival" you are unworthy of your wealth in my eyes. Apparently they are also unworthy in their own eyes, I mean they have very little faith in their ability to reason with people and get a fair (micro) economy going based on fair capitalistic principles without any coercion of free minds. These are not people you want around when rebuilding society and not people that have an intrinsic feeling for the "golden rule". I have the feeling the author met a particular small group of rich sociopaths. I wouldn't want to insult any social rich people by grouping them with this kind actually.

In any case, someone will kill you while you are putting that collar on someone else.
I would argue that dropping and creating indexes is much less work than refactoring large parts of your codebase just to change a data structure.
Also, you can have multiple indexes on a table and the RDBMS ensures that they are always synchronized, which is something you won't achieve if you code the data structures yourself.
They looked me up on LinkedIn using my email address and called by boss to ask me about the service.
It isn't worth anything. This saves them money.

Plus in all cases they bury it in the terms and expect nobody to notice/opt out. It is a practice illegal elsewhere[0] and Apple doing something to save themselves money doesn't make them the consumer's hero, it is still an immoral anti-consumer practice that should be illegal.

Now if they required that you select opt in during sign up, that would be quite different. But that's not the case. Instead it is on Page 14/15 on an agreement you don't even need to read.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_arbitration#Consumer_...
Fargo Public Schools and Rome City School District Face Third-Party Data Breach
There are a ton of frameworks, but most deployments choose either Django or Flask, unless they have some really specific need (asyncio is one).
No, people who intentionally misquote Gladwell peddle bullshit.
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/complexity-a...
Many times AirBNB is more unique - for instance I stayed in a houseboat in Amsterdam, That's an experience you can't get at a hotel.
I’ll give one example. I’m sure you can think of many more.

Tax law is part of finance and is a system that is overly complex. If tax law contains loop holes then by definition it is too complex. Loop holes are created unintentionally when a creator of law adds a rule to a system. The loop hole is an instance of complexity added unintentionally and is therefore an example of unneeded complexity within the system. If a system has unneeded complexity it is then over-complex.

Do you want more? A forensic expert was used to dig through the complexity of the GE fraud. There are plenty of examples there as usually such experts are necessary when a system is complex and in the case where complexity is deliberately created to hide fraud: overly complex.
That article is a list of irrelevant nitpickery and mischaracterization of Gladwell.

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/complexity-a...
Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide
This guy started working on his startup by “scratching his own itch”
I was imagining using a separate model just for providing tags as they are very accurate. It would theoretically give gpt-2 useful data.

GPT-2 has not (yet) been trained to predict POS tags to my knowledge, nor BERT, or ernie 2 or xlnet has, but I think they have great potential to improve POS accuracy.
I would consider it a mandatory equipment of the household. Primarily I take them on trips to remote 3rd world countries where you can't rely on quick quality health care, even though most of the time I come back home with them untouched. For me its usually Sumamed, plus whatever specific for destination (malaria pills, stomach/throat, eyes etc.). Just beware of the expiration - they may lose potency and better renew them.

I am not sure I would use them at home in case you describe though - I would just run to emergency if possible. Also antibiotics don't work with viruses, fungus or parasites, so its not a panacea.
I don't see anything great about being casual. If I post some underwater photos on Facebook then I absolutely think hard about making them super cool! I don't waste my friends' time by posting sloppy garbage.
Indeed. As someone outside of the US I actually moved to be a bit more skeptical of some of Bernie’s ideas thanks to the podcast.

Something ironically the adversarial 1min sound bytes hadn’t achieved
Choice quote:
"a good point coming out of the wrong mouth doesn’t count for squat"

While I'm no fan of Alex Jones, the tone of the article towards the end saddened me. The article seemed like it was approaching a genuinely insightful conclusion, but veered at the end in a somewhat jarring contradiction of the conclusion the first half was approaching.
So let me ask, why make this comment? Why reply like this? To shut people's concerns down? There's no value here. There's nothing to be gained. Conversely, sometimes it's OK just to let people complain: without the sentiment, how do you know if people still care?
Why can't he impartially present his guests ideas and let his audience decide for themselves what is BS and what is not? Whose job is it to police thought crimes?

If you want the mainstream viewpoint on whatever someone is talking about, go read or watch the mainstream, there's no shortage of people telling you what is acceptable already.
Beaufort Scale
How do you know steph could have developed the same way it he were taller?
Scenes from McDonald’s, where distressed America takes refuge
Trello is often good enough. With Featmap, I wanted to create the user story mapping tool that is juuust perfect for my use cases. Hopefully, other people will also find it useful!
Vendr.com: A SaaS to keep track of your SaaS subscriptions.

and a 6.5k or 10k PER MONTH for someone to buy your SaaS subscriptions seems super expensive. I'm not too versed in the SaaS market but is this really something that you need a dedicated "SaaS expert" to manage for you?
> And signatures are only good for 7 days.

And again, how does that restriction protect users? As I see it, it's entirely user-hostile: it ensures any self-created apps aren't really usable.

If the limit was significantly longer, I would mostly shut up about all of this.
It's an article about enabling a jailbreak and you are mad that people talk about jailbreaking needing to be a thing?
Amusing but not surprising that the 2018 list of removed URLs is in this list.
Awesome - it happened I was exactly thinking about a tool like this when on a long meeting call today.

I have clients that refuse to use another tool, refuse another sign up in their email account . In the same time those clients are mostly chaotic to unorganized and we tend to repeat the same points over and over again in the course of a year until all points are fulfilled (web platform dev work).

This tool seems like the just Trello enough for ONE single view - no explanation to give - will try this from next week's meeting call on
it must be taken into account that there will be no blood sampling, and a preliminary diagnosis will be made on one exhalation. And the price of the analysis will be quite low. Do you really consider it a bad result that today, 9 out of 10 people will be able to know exactly about the presence of cancer by taking 5 minutes of their time?
COM was incredible for being able to hack bits of various programs together.

I worked on a spike once to try and get a modern web browser embedded in a proprietary business basic language who's UI toolkit only exposed some COM/OLE stuff.

It was an unholy abomination of unmaintainable software, but it worked and worked well. It made me think a lot about how things would have looked today if ActiveX managed to keep it's foothold.
He's Canadian I believe; so while I'm not sure how his care in NYC would be billed, I think it would be still covered by OHIP (the public health insurance in Ontario Canada) or maybe travel insurance.

Certainly all the care he received in Toronto would have been covered, assuming he's Canadian.
Zope 2 was so ahead of the market when it appeared I had trouble explaining my clients it didn't need a SQL database to persist the data.

I wish it had gotten more attention and care in the past decade.
People can put whatever they want in their own .qmail files. That doesn't affect anything unless qmail believes those .qmail files are relevant to what it's delivering. A user controls .qmail files for a domain if and only if an admin has configured qmail to delegate that domain to that user.
When pension funds are not actuarily balanced, there are 3 options: raise the retirement age, reduce monthly payments, or borrow from future generations.

It seems most countries go with the obviously wrong, yet politically plausible option 3.
So, in other words, an entirely different situation.
Google have been experimenting with POWER in their datacenters for a while now: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/03/19/head...

More historically, Google have been building their own networking gear for some time https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-con...

I'm focussing on Google in particular because they have always had a strong preference for Open components wherever possible and they've traditionally taken advantage that openness wherever they think they need to even if that goes against common practice. (There's a story I can't find the link to where, in the very early days, they wrote their own patches to Linux to work around some bad RAM chips that they'd scavenged from somewhere.)

If Google can get an advantage then they will take it. They will also invest heavily, over years, to research these advantages and opportunities.

Their attitude to things like ARM is still fairly accurate at the scale of their datacenters: https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf
Volocopter reveals latest air taxi design
Mastering Remote Meetings: How to Get–and Keep–Your Participants Engaged
It’s pretty obvious what the point is. It’s to complain about the soapbox / complaints in hopes of seeing less such comments in the future.
Yeah I can see this being a bottleneck for inspecting large arrays. Maybe they‘ll add more transports over time.
The same idea was built in Austin and acquired. I had the same thoughts.

http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2018/05/02/meta-saas-acquire...
72% of consumers make purchases from brands they follow
That normalizes away, because the hours required is based on relative comparison to others, not some objective measure of talent across fields.

Math has low information volume, but it is slower information. A good historical treatment of a topic may be 2000 pages, and a good math treatment of a topic may be 100pages, but both requiring the same amount of time to study and comprehend.
Related https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2012/08/if-int...
It might be a lot of pages, but Django has some of the best documentation out there. Speaking as someone who had to recently use it for a project for the first time, it was very easy for me to find the information I needed in their docs.
OK, but that's not what the license linked to from the package page says. It doesn't say "Some products are unlimited use, and others are restricted as stated here". It says all products are restricted as stated there. It does not discriminate between commercial and non commercial products.

> All the packages I've listed do not have any free-quota restrictions so they don't require a paid Developers license to enable unrestricted usage, since they already don't have any restrictions.

How does that line up with your license that states "small projects and evaluation" only?

I'm not doubting that your intentions are for the licensing to be as you state, but that's not what your license says :)
If a problem is presented, someone is going to bring up a solution. The right solution has been the same for a long time, Apple hasn't implemented it yet. Maybe they'll never implement it, but maybe someone will consider alternatives because of the comment.
Learning a New Web Framework and Being Productive with it in a Few Weeks
do you see the interview as a way to learn or understand how someone else thinks on specific topics

Except Rogan isn't necessarily even good at that. All you'll really learn about are the talking points they want to present to the world. Without pushing them on some issues or asking them to argue or defend those points it's impossible to understand how they actually think about the issues. Or as someone else in this thread put it, if you're not pushing back at any point then it's just an infomercial.
No, we had HTTP in '91, but the web was small and consisted almost entirely of information about physics and computing.

And we didn't yet have a graphical web browser that ran on Windows or Mac. And MSDOS was AFAIK never adapted to allow the computer to interact with the user while something was downloading or uploading. (I.e., it lacked the necessary kind of multitasking.)
Amazing info.

> libpng compresses the image rows multiple times with different filters to optimize for size, this filtering process is not optimized.

Is there a way to disable this multiple-pass approach to get a slightly larger image that is generated faster?

> The choice of zlib also makes a big difference, stock zlib is very slow, zlib-ng is the closest to a fast zlib alternative.

I'm looking for benchmarks but I haven't found any that make it look good. This one makes it look nearly equivalent to zlib: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/?visible-plugins=z...
Hip replacement may become more common at younger ages
I think that's part of the point -- to encourage customers to ask for Apple Pay and get merchants to adopt it.
This was years ago, when Git was relatively new (around the time Mercurial was at v0.8-0.9).

Our "Git expert" was the one who blew away a month of work.