skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking their characterization, a definition for relative intelligence is immediate--it writes itself

A definition, but not a concrete and practical way of determining the relative difference between two agents?

Come on, bring this into reality. We're mostly a bunch of coders here. Stop talking about ultrafilters, concepts that are complex and thus render those of us not familiar with them unable to understand what you're saying.

Answer the question.. How can you take two real agents and, in finite time with finite resources, and in a completely general way, compare their intelligences?

The answer might be "the paper doesn't get us any closer to that." So just say that. Otherwise you're being misleading, because you start out by presenting the problem in a simple way. Then you get complex when you answer it.
No one made that dichotomy, idk who you guys are arguing against.

If you don’t want Apple products cool. I personally have no need for Ethernet, sd card readers, and USB A 24/7. Like I said elsewhere this is a non problem for me.

Obviously if it is for you you can buy a giant dell laptop with 20 ports.
Carmack is only 49. I'd agree with your interpretation if he was 10+ years older, but he is still young enough to take a real swing at this.
Intel recently announced price cuts for the 9th gen Skylake X series processors to match the upcoming 10th gen versions. I don't think resellers/vendors have caught up yet, this was only a few weeks ago. They pretty much cut the price in half for all of the processors in this category. I haven't seen them available at these prices yet anywhere.
The GC isn't very good yet, but brute-force sequential code can keep more state on the stack where it doesn't matter. (Just please codegen that instead of expecting everyone to read it.)
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> There are no decent small (<5") phones on the market,

True.

> and haven't been for half a decade.

The iPhone SE is less than 5 years old, and it's terrific. I've had mine for nearly three years and I just got the battery replaced. I'm not sure I'd buy an SE new today if I needed a new phone, but I'm going to hold onto it until it dies or another good small phone comes out.
Not any more. It used to be a no brainer, but they switched to cloud based subscription at great cost increase, loss of some features, and dark-patterned the native app into invisibility. Native is still available apparently, but you won't find it from the homepage, unless they were persuaded to change recently. Report an error in the native app, and they suggest switching to cloud subscription without addressing the error at all.

When my current native install of 1pw stops working I'll be migrating elsewhere.
The Ordinance Survey digital maps are great. But, yeah, I carry an external battery pack, often even a spare smartphone, and a paper map. The paper is mostly just a backup but I don't want to be in a situation hiking where a dead phone puts me in a bad position.
But isn’t this exactly the point of the thunderbolt ports? You can buy your external SSDs and get as fast (even faster if you RAID them) access to your data.
What displays do you use for in the dark? For paper you can shine a pin-point of green light and read it. That works for old-style LCD like a CASIO watch but I've not seen it work for a display designed to be backlit like a tablet. And you'd need a specially adapted display that used an IR backlight to use with night vision - I haven't seen something like that in practice. My smart watch has a night vision mode, but that's an LCD.
I hope it does. I have for years thought about the two possible post-fake worlds we can end up with, either everyone learning gradually on their own how to tell truth from fiction and learning how to efficiently do their own research, or a mass-surveillance system designed to 'protect' those that 'cannot determine truth from fiction themselves'. I guess we'll see faster than I thought.
Part of the driver of IPC is how many layers of logic you can fit between each pipeline register. We’re not talking density we’re talking logic gate delay.

Each process has different delay, setup, and hold times. On one process I might be able to fit 15 layers of logic before I have to add a pipeline stage. On another I might be able to fit 20 at the same frequency. Pipeline stages are also not free with each adding additional overhead.

This determines how advanced I can make things like my branch predictor or cache pre-fetcher while still meeting timing requirements. For example I might want a larger lookback buffer but I can’t use a larger memory - not because of how much area it takes but because it simply takes too long to do the look up now.
Moto filed in 2017. These phones have all been in development for longer than that.
You can just clone Jekyll Now: https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now/ That gets you yourname.github.io instantly.

There is also https://habr.com , but there is always a risk that they go the way Medium went.
Percolate Queries in Elasticsearch Make Alerting a Breeze
I'm convinced that learning how to navigate with a map book, made me less likely to get lost.
Bitwarden IMO beats LastPass and 1Password. Very polished, hassle free experience
I like the idea of these tiny computers, but really anything with a blackberry-style thumb keyboard is just a non-starter for me. It looks cool, but if I sit and think about actually using it for even a second I know I wouldn't like it. It's a shame I don't see more of these kinds of products that utilize a foldout keyboard like the thinkpad 701C and instead roll with the thumb keyboard, but then again maybe the moving parts of having the pop-out bits is failure-prone and not worth doing either.
For those keeping track, Dashlane is developed in Paris FR and NYC.
I'd expect there are far, far more servers than there are developer machines. There are probably many more servers than hardcore gamers as well, and maybe even more than all gamers put together. It'd be nice to see some hard stats on this, however.
Be an effective way to get some money.
I recently chatted about the potential use of DeepFake in future propaganda with other HN readers, and apparently it's going to be here soon. You may want to follow this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21269150

But in short,

Several observations...

* A major threat is end-to-end VoIP/telephony encryption. Currently, the most common way to verify one's public key and ensure that no MITM wiretapping is going on, is reading a hash (encoded to words) aloud in a phone conversation. It's used to many protocols, such as Signal, or ZRTP by Phil Zimmermann et al. There is no real security, but it's considered a shortcut with reasonable security for most people, the assumption is that voice synthesis cannot be done in real-time yet. But with DeepFake it's disastrous for cryptography. Now, this shortcut is going to be blocked soon. Full verification, like signing your VoIP key with your long-term public key, or asking security questions (e.g. OTR's SMP algorithm) is needed (perhaps not to everyone, but it's now required for a lot of people to a greater extent).

* KirinDave suggested that, in additional to signing, timestamping will also be important. If automatic synthesis of video and audio becomes widespread, one way to prove the authenticity of the material is to timestamp it as soon as it's recorded, or even timestamping it in real-time if real-time forgery is a serious threat (I hope not). This is one of few use cases that a blockchain actually makes sense if you want minimum trust over 3rd-parties.

The final thought is that it's time to rewatch Ghost in The Shell (the TV animation series, not the movie). Released in 2000s, it portrayed and predicted our world remarkably well, and it'll give you a lot of inspirations of what would the future society look like. In one episode, the protagonists realized a government conspiracy aimed to intensify a military conflict that involves nuclear weapon, and they had the following dialogue.

> "How do we stop it? Can we post the video footage online?"

> "No. Video footage is seen as completely untrustworthy today."
At some point, we are all just going to blame deepfakes for all of our foibles.

"Honey, I sent $20k to that camgirl because I thought she was you! Deepfakes!"
Yeah, I'll carry a paper map for mountain biking out where I may not have a cell phone signal, as a backup to any maps stored on the phone.

That said, I remember saving up a bit of money as a kid to get 2 or 3 USGS topo maps. Now, I can get pretty good topo maps of the entire world for free from my browser. That's a beautiful thing.
Which monitor did you buy? I've been looking for one with USB-C support as I also have an XPS13. I have a 9360 and I know it uses a neutered TB3 PCIe lane (or something of that nature) so I'm concerned about being able to use a 4k 60 fps display with it. Have you had any issues? I use both Ubuntu and Windows on the machine, have you tried both with the monitor?
I hear ya! Mine is obsessed with eating cobwebs.
To be fair the most sensible way is as a resistive dump load (which as you mention doesn't care whether it's AC or DC) or as someone else mentioned skipping the electrical step altogether and going with a simple solar water heater.
Selling tech to law firms: who to sell
The computability problem can be addressed by using Levin complexity instead of Kolmogorov complexity, an approach which you can read here: http://users.monash.edu/~dld/Publications/2010/HernandezOral...

It still suffers the problem that it's highly lopsided in favor of simpler environments. Of course you're absolutely right that environments too complex to exist in our universe should get low weight. But it's hard to find the right "Goldilocks zone" where those ultra-complex environments are discounted sufficiently but medium-complexity environments aren't overly disenfranchised, and where ultra-simple environments aren't given overwhelming authority.

>There was me thinking I'd had an idea of my own one time!

I wouldn't give up. Although it's such a long paper, Legg and Hutter 2007 actually has very little solid content: they propose the definition, and the rest of the paper is mostly filler. There are approximately zero theorems or even formal conjectures. One area I think is ripe for contributions would be to better articulate what the desired properties of an intelligence measure should be. Legg and Hutter offered a measure using Kolmogorov weights, but WHY is that any better than just randomly assigning any gibberish numbers to agents in any haphazard way--what axioms does it satisfy that one might want an intelligence measure to satisfy?
I agree, but I think if you do that, you should accept the employer having the right to potentially be able to see that information.

In practice, from doing many of these investigations, no one bats an eye or gives a single shit about what kind of non-work activities you're doing. The visit to the ticket website would just be a few entries in a long list of other web visit entries, which we'd quickly scroll past while trying to find the thing we're actually looking for (usually malware-related traffic).
Bitwarden didn't allow Android fingerprinting when I used it a few months ago (limitation in one of their electron libraries) which pretty much ruined it for me unfortunately. Not sure if this works in IOS.

edit: I'm wrong, it didn't support touchID in OSX https://community.bitwarden.com/t/touch-id-support-for-macos...
I think most countries can't solve the authenticity/signing problem until they admit that a central trust/PKI database is basically a requirement. Some countries vehemently seem to oppose such systems and will do so for a long long while, for a good reason with all these real issues without? We don't know yet.

There is at least some hope for EU citizens, that they wouldn't have to worry about these authorization/identity issues, because the entire European Union just recently created the legislative framework required for solving this problem in the entire EU. With national trust/PKI services there isn't any need to resort to insecure ancient methods (phone calls, fax) that can be spoofed or intercepted, with increasing simplicity. It is somewhat sad how long it has taken, nearly 20 years later the EU is following Estonia's practice/example! I might be biased about how good such systems are as an Estonian, but it isn't bias speaking that the system seems to work - issues like identity theft and account takeovers generally don't exist here. The fact that we have to specifically teach people how to use mostly foreign services safely, because none of them can provide really secure authentication and identification together, says quite a lot about the differences.
Not ideal for video calls. That's a serious design oversight.
Reminds of when some scammer bilked Google and Facebook out of $100MM through fake invoices. I'm not sure deepfakes is really likely or a differentiator here.
A slightly more on point title would be "John Carmack steps down as Oculuc CTO". The rest is pure hype.
Forget microarchitectural issues. If you have user memory paged out (or not present for accounting reasons, etc), you can try to access it in a transaction until the cows come home and it will never work — to make progress, you need to update the page tables either via a page fault or manually.
@dang

What are the browser and operating stats for HN?
> Instead we get feeble excuses like "it doesn't make sense to compare a two-year-old-generation to this one," well yes it does if I'm considering an upgrade.

You don't get that excuse from AnandTech. We do our best to keep a long history of benchmark data for users to peruse: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU-2019/2224

The main limiting factor on how far back our benchmark database goes is software updates. When we have to update the OS or CPU microcode for Spectre, Meltdown, etc., or update GPU drivers, that invalidates results, and re-testing a large pile of older hardware takes a long time. Historically this has mostly been a problem for GPUs since their drivers are such a moving target, but the past two years of CPU vulnerabilities have been a hassle.
5- Check in together with someone else who is carrying less.
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Mine gained the nickname "Cupcake" (alongside his variety of other nicknames) when he licked the frosting off a cinnamon-spice cupcake that was out on the counter for a party we were hosting once.

He also licked the powdered sugar off half a box of linzer cookies another time.

The frosting, I can definitely see being for the fat...the powdered sugar, I'm baffled by.
1620.

Hey, you're the one that cited that page. Now you're saying that the page is wrong? And even if right, it didn't seem to support your position. I'm a little confused about your train of thought here.
I know at least with Web App for Containers, Microsoft suggests explicitly not to use in production because it's in preview mode. I've used Web App for Containers and it's almost unusable and nothing has changed in the last 4 months.

I have to agree with Microsoft here, Azure is still not completely Docker-ready.
If you asked me about 1password a few years ago, I would agree with you. Ever since they went to the cloud, I stopped using and recommending them to friends and family.

I now use Keypss, which is free and doesn't require the cloud.

The only reason they went to the cloud is because most people were buying one copy and sharing it with multiple people. It's a way for them to make more money, which is fine, but I really don't think a cloud-based password solution is necessary.

Edit: The 1password employees must be down voting me. It's ridiculous that I get down voted for a specific opinion about the topic.
You only learn when you reflect
> ... The birds proved to have a remarkable ability to distinguish benign from malignant human breast histopathology after training with differential food reinforcement; even more importantly, the pigeons were able to generalize what they had learned when confronted with novel image sets. ...

> ... However, when given a different (and for humans quite difficult) task—namely, classification of suspicious mammographic densities (masses)—the pigeons proved to be capable only of image memorization and were unable to successfully generalize when shown novel examples. ...
Then I guess a foldable like Samsung's is perfect for you. Smartphone pocket size, tablet screen size.
My point is, even with quantum computing™, all you need is simple email server with 3 attempt before user lock. If you can't manage this, public key is not the answer. I Have seen only <10 scenarios when private key in the user hands solves the problem. None were scam related.
Why or why is Apple keychain so limited.

It is strictly for website address/passwords, so doesn't work for a more diverse robust security password manager.

And the sync is very flaky (when I create items within the setting application, they don't show up on my phone). And its multi steps to simply launch keychain since its not a true native app on MacOS nor iOS.
So long as ISPs are centralized, it doesn’t matter if everyone has their own IPv6 address because ISPs are gatekeepers that can censor requests.
The timing aspect is an important part of PoW, but it's not the entire purpose. The Bitcoin whitepaper itself goes on to say, "The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making." That is, PoW also solves the problem of deciding which consensus rules to enforce, not just when.
the Mac client doesn’t support biometric login (TouchID), which we’ve only had on these computers for about four years...
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The code has to be logged at Amazon warehouse though so it can linked to your amazon account number. Manufacturer -> Distributor -> Customer. Otherwise I could buy one real product off Amazon, copy the code onto my fake product and sell on Amazon marketplace.
You're right, but from what I remember the RAZR was the phone that ended Nokia's popularity in the US. I had a Nokia 6133 flip phone (better than the RAZR in every way), and at that point I was the only person I knew who still had a Nokia. Everyone else had a RAZR, LG Chocolate, Samsung, etc.
React _requires_ that you know Javascript. The better you know Javascript first, the better you'll understand React as you learn that.
This subthread is entirely about the allegation that Amazon engaged in a repeated pattern of actively promoting wire fraud (a RICO predicate offense) as a commercial enterprise.

They haven't previously been charged with a RICO predicate offense, but RICO doesn't require you to be separately charged with a predicate offense (either before or concurrently with RICO charges), only that the required relation to a predicate offense be in the allegation supporting the RICO charge. In fact, the central point in RICO is to allow charging people/orgs involved in schemes to promote predicate offenses for commercial benefit who might not otherwise be able to be charged as principals of those offenses.
> mandatory gig economy of social care?

More likely the Ring camera will spot someone that's not in the national Amazon facial database and urge you to report them to ICE.
One way to defeat this (kindof) is to institute a callback on the internally shared number.

So it would have went like this:

1. scammer deepfakes CEO voice
2. demands X dollars transferred elsewhere
3. Employee hangs up and calls back using pre-shared phone#
4. Gets confirmation

Of course this can be somewhat thwarted by sim-stealing attacks. But this is just another layer of defense, that stops another 99.xxx % of attacks. Enough of those and these attacks would be infeasible.
The problem is that you don't know if it is counterfeit until you get the item and scan the code. That's only marginally better than the status quo -- most counterfeits on Amazon are rather easy to spot once you have it in person.

With Amazon's program, they can do it when they accept the shipment and potentially destroy the entire stock of the seller's wares.
I have a slightly hard time believing all possible responses could be regenerated or done on the fly with a true deep fake. Maybe possible with great planning.
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>The best reading, this is a case what we would call "whataboutism". Do note, packaging companies and excessive use of single-use plastics is horrible and absolutely should get fixed.

Not sure I necessarily buy that. Easiest fix in many cases with the lowest impact in terms of lives to directly change should be happening higher in the industrial chain to start with.

There is little or no point to trying to change things in the immediacy of the end consumer until the upchain effects of getting industry in check have settled out, as the situation then may have completely changed from the current day to day consumer reality.

>Protip: more things can be done at the same time, than just 1.

Yes, things can be done in parallel. No, there is a certain point where if you start pushing the pain on the consumer first without reining in industry, you'll end up with the better environmental cost delta amplifiers (industry) creating more problems for the consumer to have to fix/compensate for.

Example: People want alternate ways to heat water, therefore tanks/plumbing systems supplies capable of making solar based heating become more popular. The parts to make that consumer change possible though rely on an industrial process that ends up outputting more carbon than people save through the solar water heating system.

What you want is:
Figure out ways that industry isn't mitigating carbon debt in satisfying current demand. Tweak those to rein things in and figure out how the consequences propagate out and how it impacts consumer behavior. Then rinse and repeat.

Remember, if you create a hole through consumer behavior changes alone, all it does is signal capital into the most expedient form for utilizing current technology to try to create new demand from the change of the economic landscape. If your current technology was part of the problem your consumer behavior change was meant to remedy, you just ticked off a bunch of people when the actual figures come out saying you didn't realize the payoff, and you further hurt your credibility in suggesting additional changes. Once you have everyone playing to the same tune industrially, the societal approach to conservation and what can or can't be done fundamentally changes.

I hope that makes sense.
I don't necessarily know their validity one way or the other, but the points that tend to be made are:

- In today's world, Amazon isn't just a marketplace, it is THE marketplace. For many brands, not selling on Amazon isn't a realistic option.

- Amazon's marketplace makes it very easy to counterfeit due to co-mingling, the difficulty of holding foreign sellers accountable, and the prevalence of fake reviews.

- Amazon has done little if anything to combat counterfeiting.
> They delivered value to the business. That's the only thing that matters.

But this bit isn't true during the interview process.