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I think Congress needs to pass legislation banning such an insane, stupid idea. And we should stop calling it "artificial intelligence," as if some software is actually intelligent comparable to humans. This is just software and as with all software, it has bugs. Trusting it to not start a nuclear war is essentially saying, "this software, which we can't even explain how it works (cause ai), is bug free." Insane. This whole ai movement is dangerous but not because something like Hal or the terminator will be created but because stupid people like these will convince the government to put such weapons under the control of buggy software no one, including its creators, understands with horrific consequences. All so we can make sure that the whole world is destroyed in case of nuclear war. The insanity is truly mind boggling.
I have the opposite experience with my old Lenovo B8080-F (Android 4.4.2) 2GB RAM that I use in the bath. If it wasn't for Firefox, this thing would be useless. Chrome takes forever to start up and is pretty much unusable on any modern page.
HK protest is probably the most high-tech protest ever. I suspect many governments are studying it now to learn from it.
Amazon testing payment system that uses hands as ID
Forced to resigned is what actually happened. the Mozilla board is irrelevant when pretty much everyone at mozilla (and elsewhere) was against him.
https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/28/after-supporting-prop-8-br...

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> How could people tell that it was from that food? And how do they go, yeah, we just forgot to do X

There's no need for people to understand what is going on. People have a tendency to try random stuff without any reason. The folks who accidentally do the right thing survive, while the others die.

And it's also important to note that probably not a single person came up with the whole procedure. People might use a recipe that worked for a similar plant, and adapt it. A lot of people probably died or became ill. They likely never realized their mistake. It's just that over the years the people who did it right had an evolutionary advantage and survived, and now we wonder how they figured it out, when it was all just an accident.
> Rosling gets mentioned fairly often, and is clearly something of a personal hero

"was", unfortunately.
Nothing wrong with logitech keyboards! It's a bit like high end audio, once you've tried it, it's hard to go back but it's certainly not something you absolutely need to do to get by.

I don't need to worry about someone stealing my current keyboard though, it weighs over 6kg!
The Process of Outsourcing Software Development
Now I've got 2 problems!
I am not sure it was as erroneous as people say. In Mexico they grow "tomatillos" which are similar to tomatoes except they are smaller and stay green. They need to be cooked to be safe.

It could be generation of breeding them selectively in Europe that made them safe to eat raw.
> Nardoo, a type of fern, is packed with an enzyme called thiaminase, which is toxic to the human body. Thiaminase breaks down the body's supply of Vitamin B1 [...]

A slightly tortured sentence - B1 is thiamin, so thiaminase is an enzyme that breaks it down by definition, not some sort of (in)convenient coincidence.

(Perhaps it's deliberately avoiding using both 'thiamin' and 'thiaminase' for fear of confusing the poor reader, but I might have opted for 'is packed with an enzyme that breaks down the body's supply of thiamin (vitamin B1)' - or just not name it beyond B1 at all. IANAJournalist, though.)
TypeScript vs. ReasonML
I don’t see the point of using an SQL like language instead of actual SQL unless you need to support multiple different RDBMSs.
I obviously have no idea how this product works. But it is true that for many companies it is just that we built a rule based algorithm and we call it AI because it sells better than calling it machine generated content.
Algorand Staking Program a Major Success for the Crypto Staking Industry
If Google was rich, they would fix their mistakes, but they don't have money for that.
If I had $25 to buy one keyboard, I'd probably get something from Logitech. The typing experience wouldn't be good by keyboard enthusiast standards, but more than good enough to actually get things done and not complain about how things feel.
Why not remove PAL* and delegate authority to local commanders? I'd rather take the risk of trusting a human over a human designed, highly complex computer system.

In the UK, due to the lack of land-mass to absorb a strike, the PM issues final orders to the commanders of the Trident subs. This is part of the deterrence strategy.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
Comparison with Looka (and Brandmark), both of them are excellent competitors and it just raises the bar for us. But we want to be different in several ways.

More automation by AI - That's our main goal. If you create logos on Looka and Brandmark repetitively, you'll observe patterns. That happens because although Looka and Brandmark are applying AI, they are still getting a lot of information from the user before making logos i.e "select the logos you liked", "select the color schemes you like". We want to do away with all these things and only require the brand description. This cuts the time in less than half according to what we've measured. Below are some of the AI use cases we are working on. No other website is doing that right now.

AI Based Coloring - Our colors are not hand-picked by us. They are entirely generated by machine learning algorithms. We are also working on icon coloring using AI where the icon will have multiple colors entirely added by AI.

AI Based Icons - Almost every website including ours is using repositories of icons from websites like Flaticons, Nounproject etc. We are working on adding another layer where the icons are generated by the AI system itself.

AI Based Suggestions - We believe our in-browser customizer is relatively easier to use than others. We give the user an option to just select items that are suggested to him/her by our machine learning algorithms. We've got extremely positive feedback about this and are happy that people are liking it.

These are some of the areas where we're trying to be different than our competitors. We also offer more affordable prices than both Looka and Brandmark.
In the past 100 years, there have been several incidents where humans have averted war by refusing to follow orders. There have been far fewer incidents of humans causing nuclear war by either following or disobeying orders
A few months ago China banned Canadian pork on the grounds of forged export certificates (without specifying which exporter). It was seen in Canada as more retaliation over the arrest of the Huawei exec.

Now they are looking pretty silly with vastly less pork being produced domestically.
Are you sure? Microcode updates.
Hong Kong almost passed a law allowing extradition to China, a country lacking the rule of law. This is why the legal code failed to mollify the population. It was the law itself the protesters were protecting.
So you see all those places as having "too much equality"? And that, particularly, caused lack of innovation which made them too static?
I came here to see if someone already mentioned Colossus.

Funny trivia: there are parts of that movie shot in Rome, my city; you can see the Vatican, San Peters, the Orange Garden, the Janiculum and Isola Tiberina, specifically the hospital "Fate bene fratelli", where I was born.

The Americans meet there with Russians, joining forces to stop Colossus, and you can see written on a wall a mirrored "W Lenin".

The writing was actually there before they shot the movie, it was not added on purpose and stayed there until not long ago.

https://i.imgur.com/wIha0mr.png
Battle of Brody [Germans Dislodged Out of Ukraine and Eastern Poland]
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The Endless Intensity of Rafael Nadal
Kroger asks customers to quit openly carrying guns in stores
Have you tried it recently? It used to be very hectic, but it isn't anymore (I'm using Beta, not sure if it landed in Stable). It's pretty much identical to Chrome's now.

You can also start it from Menu -> More -> Task Manager. The only thing I'm missing is a handy keyboard shortcut (Shift + Esc works in Chrome/ium).
My logic is that it's good to invest in a good mattress cause you spend 8 hours a night in one, good shoes because you spend another 8 hours in them and a good keyboard as I'll typically spend a lot of my day typing.

Now, the main reason I've not just bought one good keyboard and continued is honestly because the custom mechanical keyboard community is so nice. People design their own keyboard cases, caps, parts and there's so many ways of putting your dream keyboard together.
How in hell "AI" gonna put the emotional/cultural dimensions and what the brand (history) stands for?
IBM sold off their keyboard division to Lexmark, and eventually Lexmark decided to stop doing keyboards, so two Lexmark employees bought the tooling to make the very last model of the "Lexmark Model M" and still make them to this day under the Unicomp brand.
There's this bot on Reddit which summarizes articles: https://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotld...
Migrations and integration databases don't mix. One works in a code-first paradigm, the other is database-first.
Čapek warned us of this in 1921. Give a machine inteligence enough to be dangerous, without the emotional safeguards of humans and disaster is certain to follow.

AI controlled weapons... Holy shit... Stupid ideas like that makes contemplate moving to the middle of the Pantanal or Amazon jungle to live of the land, away from all this madness.
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五大訴求，缺一不可。
Five big demands, can’t do without any of them.

五 5
大 big
訴求 demands
缺一不可 fixed expression “none is dispensable” (缺 lack 一 one 不 no 可 can/possible)

The five demand in question are the ones there is broad consensus on, see other threads.
Yet people die every year from improperly prepared fugu, improperly chosen mushrooms, unripe ackee, and other dangerous foods. And that's just food-related risks.
> I really don't like using a tool as a crutch to a systemic deficiency of a team,

Very valid point, but then this becomes a discussion of how much you want to create mitigations in the system vs. educating developers to topics of, for example security. The larger a team becomes, the harder it is to police that every single query in your system is sanitized.

Still on the security side, Software architecture tell us not to repeat ourselves, and if sanitizing query strings can be done centrally through an ORM, then why shift the responsibility to code review processes that are especially prone to failure due to their human nature?

As you said, these kind of become a crutch to people who don't know SQL. People begin to rely on those instead of knowing the underlying mechanisms -- but hey, that's the price of any abstraction. Probably this same argument was used when high level language compilers (analogous to the ORM in this discussion) were introduced.
Pork consumption 2016 in metric tons:

China 54,070,000
America 9,452,000
Brazil 2,811,000

It's estimated that the supply gap will be 20,000,000 tons in 2020, I don't think Brazil can supply that even if they ditch pork.

The whole planet can't supply it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237619/export-of-pork-in...
Livestream of Porsche Taycan Unveiling
> In Python, mistyping a property of an object doesn't result in an exception.

Sure it does. It doesn't on assignment, as you can modify the object however you like, but it does have AttributeError for accessing a property that doesn't exist.
For .NET there is a sweet middle-ground called Dapper[0]. SO uses it and they have great performance.

[0] https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
That's very kind of you to reply arcturus17 -- no question human nature hasn't changed since the days of the Romans and we're certainly at each other's throats but I'm telling you the tank commanders are more sentient than they were in 1989 by all accounts they're millennials just like the rest of y'all
Full and High speed really did confuse consumers and still confuses product designers. Throw in some OTG too.
I design stuff that uses type A to type A cables, how else am I supposed to make it work with stuff that has micro/mini/B/C ports? tell my prospective users to buy adapters? Then again, I'm not writing USB on my devices or paying their fee.
I think with the success of systematic scientific understandings, we look past other, previous ways of knowing things. Medicines (eg antibiotic containing "witches brews," pain & fever relieving tree bark, etc.) existed prior to scientific medicine.

People arrived at this knowledge somehow. Ritualized copying is how knowledge was transferred, not attained. A lot of knowledge of complex processes to utile nutritional and medicinal resources probably predates our species... The knoweldge was possibly attained by means that we don't understand anymore.

In any case, compound bows are bows. Bows were invented, reinvented and refined, & spread many times. The composite bow (made of wood, horn & sinew) is a complex design using ancient materials, each with different properties. Even the simplest wooden bows, if important, usually embed quite a lot of knowledge about material selection, treatment, and construction. High powered crossbows and such utilizing spring steel were the last "prescientific" burst of innovation, taking advantage of newly abundant materials.

It's not really all that different from the modern incarnation of that particular type of machine. When that guy was doing it in the 1960s, we know how he invented. He used knowledge of physics to calculate force, stored energy and designed for specific optimization. What was the Scythian bowmaker doing as he selected glue to attache sinew to his radical new bow design?
I guess part of the problem is Stack Overflow just got too big and now everything gravitates around it.

Maybe it would help if Stack Overflow would explicitely link to alternatives, at leadt when they rejected a question?
The shift has already happened and pork prices are politics bro -- if we're to reduce the argument back to roman days, pane et circenses rules the day
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Well, the party has stated loud and clear that China will fight America (and the evil West) no matter what, at all costs and to the very end.
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Who benefits?

We do, simply because it's less cognitive overhead to read log/blame output when it's less chaotic. This doesn't mean that there's zero chaos in the commit history of course. But less than when we'd just never fix simple mistakes right away.
Im looking forward to seeing what great companies are doing out there...
Fuel prices need to go up a lot for that. Over 100,000km an EV costs around €3000 - €6000 less to run than an efficient ICE. Increasing fuel prices will also mean people scrap perfectly good but inefficient older cars.

Governments need to make EV ownership more appealing (in my country you can drive in bus lanes, so avoid rush hour traffic), increase incentive payments, or charge higher taxes on new ICE vehicles.
Ignoring the specific case, it's totally reasonable to say "I want to donate to nonprofit X because of thing Y that they do that I value, but I'd like the money earmarked for that thing only, not for all their other activities, which I may or may not support".

(Quickly googled example: https://www.nonprofitissues.com/to-the-point/can-earmarked-c... )
nice try skynet.
I was a USB-C advocate until this point. I only had problems with the non-compliant devices, and if I buy a cable I have to label it what it capable of.
I didn't have a problem that I have to know even if my mouse has a USB-C port it won't support DisplayPort alternate mode, but I reasonably expect if I connect my laptop to a monitor it will be compatible
Do you have a source for this claim that Beijing instructed her to not give in to any demands?
So - Skynet or WOPR?
Not really defense experts either though, eh? Maybe "morons" is more fitting.
The fix as submitted by the Chinese author was secure, but it triggered a compiler warning because it was not standard conforming C.

A kernel maintainer applied an incorrect fix for this warning, which ended up defeating the purpose of the fix.

I don’t think you can blame the author for the bad fix.
I was a bit disappointed that while they did cite this they didn't link to it.
They aren't using grid power, they are using solar so you need to consider the capital cost over the lifetime of the system.

And remember that my figures assume that you extract all of the water from 100% humidity. But you don't have that and anyway a condenser would work perfectly well if you did.
I didn’t say I didn’t like it, just that the results are indistinguishable from random. Reminds me of http://tiffzhang.com/startup which used a pseudorandom number to deterministically generate start up websites w/logos.
That might be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Do you really want to be near a nuclear weapon that is controlled by an opaque, unexplainable process? Even without the insane unobservable complexity of machine learning, do you want to be near a nuclear weapon co9ntrolled by a simpler, theoretically explainable expert system "AI"?

Safety critical systems - including nuclear bombs - need to be simple, with realistically-understandable deterministic behavior. The answer to "what would our nuclear weapons do in ${any_hypothetical_situation}" should never be "I don't know".

Even worse, if an "AI" is involved (by any definition of "AI"), that means the control system involves a Turing complete language. Asking questions about the behavior of the control system for a given set of inputs probably shouldn't require solving the Halting Problem.

edit: I suspect these so-called experts need to read the report[1] from the Therac-25 investigation.

[1] http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
> you've probably done something hair-brained else-where.

That's not my experience.

I maintain a relatively unremarkable but bespoke online discussion forum, which has hundreds of queries, few of which could be composed by an ORM, let alone composed and run performantly. The median complexity query in my code base probably has two or three joins, two or three subqueries, and some kind of aggregation or window function.

The result is a typical page runs around two or three queries total—one query to authenticate the user and load everything about their profile and permissions, one to load the entirety of the data being output on that page, and occasionally one to update a statistic somewhere.

(The authentication query runs on every page because there's absolutely no persistence in the application layer. The authentication query goes three layers deep in subqueries and includes half a dozen joins. It hits perfect indexes when it runs and takes only a few msec round trip.)

> People hugely exaggerate this IMO.

In my experience, people who think an ORM can do most things are simply under-experienced with SQL and set theory.
I think humans have become less prone to cruelty over the centuries. Bear-baiting was a common sport; these days, I bet most of you will have to look up what it even was, and will be horrified to learn about it. War remains horrible, but it is no longer fought within grabbing range with great big hammers and sharpened pieces of metal. Humans aren't just genetics: We're culture and, perhaps, epigenetics as well, and culture plays a big role in psychology.
The article on Letters of Last Resort made me think how absurd democracy can be at times.

It looks like PM May wrote her Letters of Last Resort, and then Johnson did the same. But from the looks of it, new Letters of Last Resort could be written pretty soon. Just thinking of those sub commanders, receiving new letters last week and then getting another set of letters just a couple of weeks later.
I had a look at it and there appear some good opportunities to make a quick buck ... How high is your bank roll altogether? Mind sharing a few details?
Not... quite.

Thunderbolt 3 did not carry USB 3.x over its bus, it's just PCIe and DP signals. All the Intel TB3 controller chips used in enclosures have a PCIe switch and a USB root hub attached to that. This switch was ... not flawless ... to be diplomatic. It was utter shit, to be less politicaly correct. TB3 eGPUs famously struggled with their occassionally lagging and hiccuping USB ports so much so that the Visiontek Mini and the Razer 2 has two TB3 controllers to avoid this mess with the second TB3 controller solely providing the USB 3 root hub and almost all other eGPUs just gave up on them.

USB 4 will carry 10gbps USB multiplexed with PCI Express and DisplayPort, native USB instead of hotplugged controller. Simpler.
So, is this the first step of making windtraps[0] a reality?

[0]: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Windtrap
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) addressed this method. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Wait. You think wanting the government to change (democracy) is a legitimate demand, but wanting them to stop calling protests riots is unreasonable?
Really? It seems like everyone is here. Got an old IRC story? The other party will pop up. Got a question about some old software? The first reply could be from the person who wrote it.
Hong Kong case should be something kids learn at school.

People have the power to make a change no matter how impossible the situation seems to be.
They probably thought they're pulling a number on GDPR compliance, but created the best news reading experience in process...