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Perhaps but they are happy with the results.

They tried it their way for a couple of years, and there were performance problems and outages.
Thanks for the video
yeap! very good videos
I think this phone has two main appeals. One is the smaller form factor, and the second is the nostalgia for those who owned a Razr back when it was the big hit item.
As a developer I rarely use the function keys, I only need it for debugging purposes. I much prefer ergonmic keyboards, so I rarely use the one on my laptops. But whether it's Windows/Linux/MacOS I rarely require the function keys. As a mechanical keyboard enthusiast I have them in a different layer for the rare occasion that I actually "need" them. I have far less gripe with having my mousehand of the keyboard when debugging than I do when typing regularly.

You can easily use a tool like https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ or `brew cask install karabiner-elements` to remap fn + number keyrow to be the function keys.

Offtopic: Typing this on a Redox Wireless keyboard, it's great for developing on. It's a split ergonomic columnly staggered ortholinear keyboard, the [] keys are in the middle of the split parts. And you have thumb clusters.
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The thing is, these topics have already been discussed by philosophers! Questions of authenticity, human subjectivity, reproducibility etc are not new. But for the average joe and the non-philosophically-inclined techie, the thing has to actually exist before they start really talking about it.
When the original Razr first game out the price was also ridiculously. $1500 in 2000s money. The design was literally cutting edge. Laser cut keypad as sharp as a razor. By mid-2000 it had been commodified and you could get one free on most 2 year contracts.
Too much time and not enough things to do.
Not automatically. If a merchant does the work to support Apple Pay they don’t get Google Pay “for free”. But if you’ve done the work for Apple Pay, you’ve covered a lot of the ground necessary to support Google Pay, for example.
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A Libra Wallet Proof of Concept
Hi there I would like your opinion on a little proof of concept we have been working on. It is called Yello and it is an easy and social wallet for the Libra network. Although Libra has not been launched (if ever) you can already use Yello on the Libra testnet. We will launch Yello next week but you can already take it for a test drive using this link: https://yello.social/?access=canihasaccess
Right, the environments are not uniformly distributed. In fact, the paper actually defines not one single intelligence comparator but an infinite family, parametrized by a hyperparameter which is, essentially, a choice of which environments vote and how to count their votes. Crucially, this doesn't change the truth of the structural theorems (except that some of the theorems require the hyperparameter satisfy certain constraints).

Other authors (Legg and Hutter, 2007) followed the line of reasoning in your comment much more literally. They proposed to measure the intelligence of an agent as the infinite sum of the expected rewards the agent achieves on each computable environment, weighted by 2^-K where K is the environment's Kolmogorov complexity. Which seems as if it gives "one true measure" of intelligence, but actually that isn't the case at all, because Kolmogorov complexity depends on a reference universal Turing machine (Hutter himself eventually acknowledged how big a problem this is for his definition, Leike and Hutter, 2015).

My position is that any attempt to come up with "one true comparison of intelligence" (as opposed to a parametrized family) should be viewed with skepticism, because relative intelligence really must depend on a lot of arbitrary choices.
> It's not laziness...

If/When Medium decides to add more popups, tracking or advertise over your writing and you'll eventually have to move off the platform, you'll probably regret not having put in the work up front to own and publish your own content.

Also, if your project/article is interesting, people will share it after some minor promoting on social medium or on HN, regardless if it's on Medium or not.
> When young people exit the education system and are dumped into the real world, which is not the world of Britney Spears, they

That’s the next sentence, which makes the preceding sentiment seem even worse. Is the teen world the “world of Britney Spears”? That’s a ridiculous thing to think. Are teens talking to each other often talking about pop celebrities? No, saying so would be a cringe inducing generalisation.
> Game NPCs don't need AI

> ... more cost effective is to just fake it!

Many players complain in story heavy games that their choices have no consequences to the story - this is largely because building stories with meaningful branches isn't economically feasible.

A game that could make NPCs react to the what the player does dynamically while also creating a cohesive story for the player to experience would be absolutely groundbreaking in my opinion.

This is more in the realms of AI story generation but I haven't seen any work on this that generates stories you would ever mistake as coming from a human (please correct me if I'm wrong) so it would be amazing to see some progress here.
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My pet theory on teens, and one I'm brainstorming for my own kids, is that they don't have enough meaningful responsibility within their families or communities. Somehow I want to find them work that is critical for the family and let them be in charge of it.

Whether they are more competent than we assume is an interesting angle, but I look back at my teens and feel like I was both competent enough for most work but also utterly useless compared to what I am now.

Edit: I'd reform school to add in lots of responsibility for older kids to teach and care for younger kids. Also perhaps get them helping with food production in gardens, farms, grocers, restaurants. What other meaningful work could we find for teens?
At a high level that’s literally the first idea that came to me for a creaseless design. The ultra thin hinge becomes a huge stress point, but flip phones prove it’s still reasonable.

However, the real issue is implementation. Trying to get the screen rigid over a void and fit all the components into a very confined space. IMO, this is what should be patentable not the idea of a void. Aka. Is it a viable phone or just a nifty demo.

PS: And looking at the patent that’s actually a big part of it. Their hinge design is has some very interesting tradeoffs, which might make this viable.
Unsure if this is a joke and I'm about to be wooshed, but for anyone who doesn't know:

Unfortunately, IA-64 is already taken for the itanium architecture. That's why the Intel Software Developer Manual names it IA32-E and not IA64. IA32 is x86, IA32-E is x86 Extended, or x86_64.

Thanks intel, I guess.
Land-line telephones are awful because the majority of people who will pick up the phone during the day on Monday-Friday are old or disabled, i.e. easier to manipulate. I don't think I have received a single legitimate phone call during that time. In fact, legit callers know this and know that if they do call for a good reason, the person at the other end will distrust them.
I'm not sure that brick buildings in London get pressure washed very often - if ever.
Smart phones had to wait for better wireless connection tech, electric vehicles have to similarly wait for infrastructure improvements. Once that happens, it’ll be just as overnight as it felt with phones.
I'm really sad to see the GR8 gone from the world.

A while ago I was building some cool products designed around it. It was just so neat and did all the tedious, not-fun things of board design.
Why do these two need to be related in the first place?

First of all, the media you mentioned does not even rant against immigrants. Second, there actually are certain reasons for these rants.

But again, this is unrelated to Assange and does not need to be mixed up. All of which is happening to Assange is a disgrace but unlikely to change as it is the will of the people in power.

Instead of storming Area 51 people should gather and storm Belmarsh to liberate Assange. Not going to happen either of course.
A script for bash is a shell script. I've never understood this tic some people have about writing shell scripts executable by strictly minimal POSIX-compliant shells: nobody needs that level of strictness. Everyone has bash. Everyone can easily get zsh too. Why should I spend one minute of my time worry about whether ksh93 or dash or something can run my script when I can just put bash in the shebang line and get access to a much richer feature set? It makes no sense. Portability for portability's sake is a waste of time.
We already teach them to sniff USB sticks
>Let me ask the opposite question: is the owner of a website entitled to sell my privacy for their own (debatable) convenience?

Well yeah, they are, you're accepting that by using the recaptcha widget. Don't use it and then nobody will sell your data.
That's intriguing enough that it might stick with me. Thanks!
>You can only do that effectively if you have the mental capacity to keep all that info in your head at once, I think.

Yep, plus all the different perspectives from other endeavors. Extending human memory will be a really great accomplishment with brain-computer interfaces.
We have or had in Europe something else under the meqning of "dowry". The groom asking in mariage a bride had to prove that he had the means to provide and usually had to have a household (or at least land, in case of peasantry) ready for the future family. The inner items of a house however, had to be provided by bride's family, usually with the pitched idea that the (textile) items done manually were a demonstration of bride's skills and a proof of her ability to contribute to her future family.
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It's a joke ;)
Yeah. I only trained addition. Actually exploring the impact of training a net to perform a range of operations on the minimum plausible neuron count would be quite interesting

I don’t see any reason why it would be significantly harder to do, however

You’re right about accuracy. I didn’t let the model train enough to push the error low enough to guarantee exact results over the input range. But then again this was designed as a toy experiment, not something people should rely on
it depends on the kind of applications / loads you are performing, so really it's not possible to put a static value to that. best is just to test it with some benchmarks yourself to be sure how it impacts you. some people report losses of like 20%, others 1 or 2%...
If this is supposed to replace Microsoft Excel - Would an enterprise be willing to pay $500 / month for this thing instead of getting an entire Office Suite?

I don't want to demean this amazing work but I think the user persona and the price for the tier seeming to be a mismatch.
Look at codebar.io and then adjust your priors for what you consider a "right wing caricature". In particular read https://codebar.io/student-guide#eligibility (straight white men not eligible) and the preamble on the first page.

No reasonable lefties spoke up against this. Indeed they defended it as necessary and proportionate, as they did when the company started discriminating against men in other ways.

People didn't just suddenly start killing jews in nazi germany

Comparisons to the Nazis are especially stupid in this context because you're right, they didn't just start killing Jews. They started by banning them from various high-status roles and jobs, describing them as the source of problems, hypothesising a Zionist Conspiracy to explain why so many Jews were running rich companies etc.

And that's exactly what we see happening today against ordinary white guys. These days if we're CEOs/on company boards/in high earning jobs it's a problem that needs a "solution" (sound familiar?), it's the result of a conspiracy of the patriarchy, and the solutions start with banning white men from educational opportunities, speaking opportunities, replacing them on boards and so on.

No reasonable lefties spoke up about any of this in Germany either, because the left is fundamentally built on narratives about oppression by one identity group of another. It always has been. It gives people easy excuses for their situation in life. Whether it's the proles vs the capitalists, Jews vs the Aryans, women vs men, blacks vs whites, LGTBQ vs straight white men, if there's a way to treat people as lumpen groups and pit them against each other then you'll find the left doing so as much as they can. The 21st century is no different.
I suspect the only way to develop a method that stops the onset of symptoms is to detect the symptoms really early and figure out what to do from there.

Otherwise there is no way to distinguish between someone who never got cancer and someone who did but had the progression stop before it became a problem.
> The "locals" who service the place commute from outside of the town.

Fascinating.

> It was only one I was well out of the older parts, and well away from the tourists did I see the sorts of things I visit foreign places to experience.

Fascinating, you walked out of historical Venice (famously surrounded by lagoon) that has been mostly the same for centuries? Must have been a wet walk...

>I have no idea how these real places are fairing, but I suspect much better because the walls of the canals were higher.

Fascinating, you were carrying around an altimeter and doing measurements on the height of the water. Was it high tide? Spring tide? Do you even know what a spring tide is?

>It's gritty, real and nowhere near as pretty, but I remember my walk through there far better than I remember Venice itself.

So really, you walked out of St Marks and ended up in "real" Venice? It's the most famous city surrounded by water on Earth, did you think you were going to come on HN and make up lame bullshit?
But I bet their traffic increased. I see quora often in searches.

I might be pessimists but I think they knew exactly what they were doing and are happy with results.

And I am guessing new SO leadership wants the same.
Ask HN: Why Decentralization Matters?
I keep reading about the decentralized internet, internet monopolies, data privacy, ability to control the protocol, the network and that the pioners of the internet had a different vision.

I feel that it's an important topic to explore and have a thought process around it.

But, I am missing the key building blocks for the idea and I am not able to build a narrative about the importance of decentralization or do we really need it?

I want to understand the topic from the first principles and the conflicting philosopihes around it.
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She was the guest speaker on Le Show podcast last Sunday. If you enjoy her book or this video, the episode is worth a listen.
The King Edward St side of the building is more than just a facade. Some of the original stairs and rooms are preserved, and are connected to the early 2000s Merrill Lynch Financial Centre building. I've worked in a lot of offices in the Square Mile and the Wharf, and MLFC is one of the best.
I said it elsewhere in the thread, but I think you've keyed in on it with "responsibility". It would be interesting to study teens that have younger siblings that they have to take care of. Surely they hate it, but I would bet dollars that those teens turn out better than those of us with no responsibility for actual family/community needs.
That’s not what the 99% means. Most Americans live in a city. Relatively few people love in rural areas.
I think it's the LoRa version for $300 that is unique.

If you want a linux PC in your pocket, you can just install Debian on many Android phones.
It has two cameras, a 16MP front-facing camera and a
5MP camera for selfies. See the specs highlighted in the Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20963294/motorola-razr-n...
Not another.. BAT is Ethereum ERC20 token: https://etherscan.io/token/0x0d8775f648430679a709e98d2b0cb62...
I started to work instead of doing a PhD and I think it was a good decision. The sad part is having less time and progressing more slowly with research (outside of one's job, whatever it may be) but maybe it's better than not having a job and also progressing slowly doing a PhD full time.

As an aside, if you have a clear research interest already (which many PhD naturally take a long time to find) then I don't think it matters that much anymore whether you have the actual qualification. In Mathematics it could be easier to go the direct path to research than in Biology, though. Two papers can these days even be converted to a PhD with minimal additional work.
Well, if “most people you talk to” think it isn’t good and all of the new Star Wars movies (except for Solo) have done well, have you thought that your anecdotal survey of people you know may not be relevant?
Multiple dispatch is a little more than just overload. In C++ if you have a base class Animal with two derived Dog and Cat, and you have an Animal * pointer to Dog or Cat and do animal->walk() it will dispatch to either the Dog or Cat method (single dispatch). If you do animal->meet(animal) it will dispatch to either dog.meet(Animal * ) or cat.meet(Animal * ), not dog.meet(Dog * ) or cat.meet(Cat * ) like multiple dispatch languages do. You need a visitor pattern in C++ (or apparently templates) to get double dispatch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern#C++_example
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The spotted dog is the best example imo. Seems like they thoughtfully integrated old with new. But wtf is that atrocity on calendonian road?
Ted Chiang wrote an interesting novella, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, about that very subject

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
For example from March 2019:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=spec-mel...

I think there are some further in-depth benchmarks with multiple generations of Intel and AMD, but can't find the link.
Don't sell the JVM short. Using modern concurrency models (e.g.: Vertx) it will outperform go in throughput and latency.
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Sony made a tablet like this ("Tablet P") some years ago, even made sure that their builtin apps (email, calendar etc.) would recognise the two screens and split the UI properly. I had one of those tablets and it was fun for a while, but ultimately was a total flop.
I don’t think all papers are pointless but it’s been shown that many are not reproducible, so those are worthless and pointless. There was that guy a few months ago who tried to reproduce the results of 130 papers on financial forecasting (using ML and other such techniques) and found none of them could be reproduced and most were p-hacked or contained obvious flaws like leaking results data into the training data. An academic friend of mine who works in brain computer interfacing also says that a large number of papers he reviews are borderline or even outright fraudulent but many get published anyway because other reviewers let them through.

So I definitely wouldn’t dismiss all papers as pointless, but there certainly is a large percentage that are, enough that you can’t simply accept a published papers results without reproducing it yourself.
So if I understand you correctly, you deem the price for the annual license too high? Could you elaborate on what you mean by 99% open source and how that relates to your perception of the price?
Sounds like she values a rock over you, don't negotiate with terrorists.
I use baby shampoo for everything. It's face wash, body wash, shampoo, shaving gel, etc, and has no perfumes.
Well, seeing that you actually put Apple in that list shows a skewed perspective.

As far as getting big or getting crushed - both Blumhouse and Tyler Perry Studios make movies that get wide releases with budgets between $5 and $10 million.
But you already can do that. You can register multiple U2F keys and give it to a family member or put it in a safe. You can do the same with recovery keys.
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> Vapor or EM or even air curtain-like heat shimmer generators, anything that obscures line of sight...

I’m reminded of The Diamond Age, where nanomachines form barely-visible curtains to keep other nanomachines out. A dome of them could work as a two-way mirror of sorts, letting insiders look out but blocking things from looking in.
That's a good point- the revolution could have happened in 1980 if the tech was there.

I think it still is much longer away before mass adoption happens
Yep its clear that the NFLT only apply if we consider all possible environments equally.

In practice, we are indeed not interested in every imaginable environments, only in "realistic" ones.

It was not clear for me if the paper addressed such concerns for AGI, e.g. when writing:

To achieve good rewards across the universe of all environments, such an AI would need to have (or appear to have) creativity (for those environments intended to reward creativity), pattern-matching skills (for those environments intended to reward pattern-matching), ability to adapt and learn (for those environments which do not explicitly advertise what things they are intended to reward, or whose goals change over time), etc.

But like I said, I only skimmed it.

In general (not talking about the paper there), I have the impression that this is something that may be missed (sometimes even by researchers working in the domain), and I agree very much to your point!

This is why I think the NFLT gives us an interesting theoretical insight here:

Making a "General" AI is not actually about creating an approach that is able to learn efficiently about any type of environment.
I'm old and my vision is not what it used to be. Most sites optimize for young people's vsion in portrait, making them dificult to me, so I usually browse in landscape. Super long and narrow phones for me are a big no-no, I don't want to read articles 2 lines at a time.
That would be funny. An arms race of cancel-out fakes.
Thanks for the warning, I cannot even play Minecraft. I wish Carmack had tackled motion sickness in VR/Games before switching to AI; he did talk about it in the interviews as being a limitation though.

There's a need gap[1] to solve Simulation Sickness in VR and First Person games.

[1]: https://needgap.com/problems/7-simulation-sickness-in-vr-and...
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Larger discussion on the techcrunch article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526284
Can you explains why even Boomers were moody teens before all this happened?
That's the one.

I searched the web archive and found the website I had in mind above. It has plenty of info on MMP, as well as downloads of extra music styles.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070222062521/http://www.musicm...
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I have to wonder... Is it that the ingredients are that different? Or is it that they simply have different labeling standards where some things don't have to be listed on the ingredients label.

I'm an expat in Germany until December. I've absolutely noticed a change in the food quality. To me it tastes worse, has less flavor, has less things like salt, etc. So there is an ingredient difference.

But that doesn't mean it will be on the label. For example - Beef in Germany tastes more gamey. This is because of the way they treat their cows and what they feed them. Also their lack of salt and spice.
I saw atleast two companies with employees in Asia.