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> Because it's an extremely dishonest take on a highly political issue

It is also plausible.

Burying the head in the sand to avoid getting political is part of the problem, not of the solution.
I'm surprised I haven't seen more fashion/clothing startups (maybe I have just missed them?).

Specifically I see great potential in just-in-time production of garments using 3D scanning, motion tracking, "curve" fitting algorithms and automatic manufacturing. I would LOVE to be able to walk into a store and buy a pair of jeans that actually had a great fit. Would definitely pay premium. Tailors doesn't scale well.
actually that's not true. It's more complicated than that[1]:

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Rule 104:

This is there to prevent the address of a function from being calculated at run time. i.e. the use of pointer arithmetic to calculate the value of a pointer to function is prohibited.

The reason is that an error in the calculation of the address could lead to a system failure.

Rule 105:

This is to ensure that a function pointer is only used to access functions that have the same return value type and formal parameter list. i.e. the type of the function pointer and the function to which it points must be the same.

The reason for this is to keep the use of the pointer consistent. If it is not, it is possible for the programmer to supply the wrong number of parameters when a function call is made, as it might not be clear which function the pointer is pointing at.

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FWIW I have used function pointers twice in my career. From my personal experience you can improve readability by avoiding function pointers.

[1] https://www.misra.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=240
Yup. Looks like the system is working pretty well. Plus I'm pretty happy that I've got an explanation for the email I got!
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I'm not sure what you're getting at. There are free countries with tight gun control laws and tyrannies with high levels of private gun ownership. There's no connection between the two things.
Lets just say I am hoping. I am clearly projecting my desires onto people I don't know and have never met, but at least it is a nice goal.

(yes of course they and I would get bored of a life of endless luxury - but I would like to at least try it and see how long I can hold out ;-)
Wikipedia, because it's free, and I use it daily, as do my kids.
if that combination is interesting to you, this is what I'm working on (on the side from my main job):

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler
I don't understand how being under Google vs being under Alphabet changes that.

They're still fundamentally one org sharing data with itself. If anything, I would think the company segregation would make it more complicated and difficult, wrt logistics, legality, and internal politics.
Self driving cars are not realistic in that form that general audience understand. Most people think that autonomous car is a regular car with some AI but that not the case. Not the solution for general problem. Regular cars are not advanced form of horse-powered carriage, they are much more different and complex that people could imagine because “car” is a part of extremely complex infrastructure that completely replaced old one ~70 years ago. Gas stations, light poles, traffic rules, changes in laws, education etc etc.

Autonomous car must introduce a new global infrastructure that will be (inevitably) incompatible with current one. I think that man-driven vehicles won't be allowed on AI-roads. AI-driven car doesn't require optical sensors to detect road signs, traffic lights etc, these things will be replaced by multiple invisible RF-modules. And so on. AGI is just not needed here, look at ants/bees, they are “dumb” but build and maintain complex things.
> but not one where you don't get a word in at all

So no podcasts/radio-or-tv shows then?
Why is the distinction important? We don't want school shootings, regardless of whether one or more people die in them.
Sorry, but that is a broken analogy. Wikipedia's revenue model and cost structure is nothing like startup's.
It's OK for a human to take over in those cases for level 4. Maybe you have some fold-out control pad to drive at low speeds through the complex situation or a remote driver controlling many cars as needed.
Just awaiting the ability to install ublock!
Evidence wasn't hard to find though...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dirty-war-over-diversity-ins...
Why are you trying to make a perfect car rather than just better enough than typical human?

People wouldn't spot unsecured cargo more often than not until it falls on the ground.

The big problem in legislation is that we just don't know how bad drivers humans are typically. Legislation is loose for us but somehow machines are supposed to be perfect.
It's very confusing, they start off saying C++ is too complicated and then go basically reinventing C++ with (IMO) absolutely awful syntax.

I think they're missing the point of why people use C - there's no magic. It's pretty much the wysiwyg of high level -> asm. If you want a systems language with magic there's C++. If you want a safe one there's Rust.

Personally if I were going to make C better, I'd add a better macro/template feature so you don't have to write generic code as a define block with slashes all over, something like Go's defer, and some low level stack unwinding support. Maybe tuples as struts with numbered fields, but no magic syntax sugar. And that's it. No crazy operators, type theory things, or anything that doesn't do exactly what the code says. Because then it's not C.

But what do I know?
Not entirely Merck's fault. It wouldn't have happened (at this time) if Russia hadn't used their weaponized exploit.

There's also something to be said for being the first large-scale victim of a category of catastrophe that is known to be a real threat, but hasn't happened on this scale before.

But you do have a point. There were probably security or IT ops people who warned about this, and if Merck's shareholders take the full hit, organizations will properly feel the risk and adjust their backup & restore processes accordingly. Not so if insurance pays the full damages.
If you cannot trust any of your existing infrastructure anymore, including servers, desktops, storage systems, directory services, and the backup systems themselves, you will not be rebuilding it all in a day...
They're working on an endowment afaik
If your intention is to improve you are probably better off spectating than playing. Playing against stronger players of any game is an interesting experience but observing stronger players is more educational since you can do so from an emotionally detached position and you don't have to dedicate the majority of your concentration to playing your side of the game.
I agree about moving the goal posts on animal intelligence but we don't have AGI, not even close.

And it has nothing to do with human pride or not facing the facts.

I mean by that same logic you could argue we solved AI when we invented the calculator. Because it's far better at calculating than us.
IMO the one thing we really need is some reliable way to do online learning. If we can get NNs to the point where you can just say, somewhere in code, "make this decision NNly, based on this set of features" and get reasonably good decisionmaking if the decision is in some sense approximable as a function of the features, I think GOFAI suddenly becomes feasible again. We would then enter an area of risk where we don't really understand NNs and we don't really understand the algorithms we can build with them either, but these algorithms could still have a lot of power.

The aphorism used to be "hard things are easy and easy things are hard". Ie. arithmetic with large numbers is trivial, but opening a door or recognizing a label is the most difficult problem in the world. We're starting to close in on reliable, possibly prepackaged solutions for the latter; on the other hand, understanding the logic of intelligence turns out to have some teeth after all. Reality would do us a great favor if building genuine intelligence required actual understanding and knowledge of how to build reliable cognition; unfortunately our precedent suggests it's mostly done by kludging a half-baked barely-debugged motivation system onto a big heap of instinct-driven neural networks.

I'm worried some spark will get the bright idea to combine some approximating variant of AIXI and a neural network for theory selection...
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> user mistakes

The first 2 points in GP's post were Amazon's bugs. It's not a user mistake if the user fails to fix the vendor's bugs.
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

It is not true that "Over half of the board is elected by the community of editors".

The WMF board is composed of ten members:

Four who are appointed by the board itself;

Three who are selected by the community encompassed by all the different Wikimedia projects

Two who are selected by the local chapters and thematic organizations

One emeritus for the foundation's founder, Jimmy Wales.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Board_of_...
Fascinating! I figured it was something like this, but didn't bother digging into the science. Thanks!
This is where each of us is unique mix - I couldn't care about improvement in things I do for fun. If it comes naturally, great, if it doesn't, same great. I know many people who aren't like that, especially competitive ones (which I consider a rather big disadvantage in life if one of your goals is to be a happy content person).

The only reasons I do it - to have fun and relax - is already there, it doesn't get better the better I get since there is not top level cap. One example - I do climbing, in & out. If I climb 4c (french grade, which is very beginner level), say after some accident or other longer time off, its the same type of challenge as climbing routes at 5c/6a level after some training period. It really doesn't change anything for me, the challenge, fear of fall/death, pushing through it and sense of accomplishment is the same.

Maybe not the best mental wiring to achieve most in life in measurable aspects like career or net worth, but sure as hell I can be happy with little. It is great. I wish more people were like this.
right, because you pay for traffic (or results of traffic) and not just having the pages online.
You can't say "one is bad, therefore the other is good." They can both be bad.
> transmit data to nearby cell towers

You can turn that off.

> probably hacked by multiple foreign services

Source?
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What if initially the AI could just hand over control to a remote human agent temporarily when it finds itself in an unsure state?
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Your first points is obscured by snark. The second seems to be based on a misreading. The third is merely the observation that empirical reasoning is non-demonstrative.

As for number four, I see that you are another pro-gun poster who is unfamiliar with the absolute basics of firearm safety. That doesn't make a great case for private gun ownership. Here's what the pinky leftos at concealednation.org have to say (see point 2): https://concealednation.org/2013/11/the-4-rules-of-gun-safet...
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Re: "In the case of insolvency I don't think the board will have much choice"; this is a key point to understanding my essay. Imagine someone winning a huge lawsuit and the WMF not being able to pay. Or imagine a really bad scandal (something like The New York Times publishing conclusive proof that the WMF is a front for ISIS) and donations drop through the floor, followed by the WMF continuing to increase spending until they run out of funds. None of these doomsday scenarios are likely, but they are not impossible either.
>> This is the very definition of an accident

How is something deliberately planned and executed, by a military intelligence agency, for weeks or months, an accident?

And how are you so sure Merck's IT team didn't fail to have backups, redundancy, security patches, etc. to prevent an attack of any sort from being such a big deal?
Just create a dummy-non-profit-company which operates under command of the profit-company. Buy WMF and sellout relevant parts to the profit-company or transform WMF into a profit-orientated organization for the sake of surviving.

The could sell ads, but also edit-permission to articles or cleaning of content, usage of licensed content, user-data, or a gazillion other things which are for the average user harmless in the beginning. Heck, I could see stupid influencers paying $100 for getting their own wikipedia-entry.
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> no kids are going to be POKEing, not even on Facebook

If they can be tricked into executing random JavaScript in the Chrome debugger on Facebook we're actually pretty close. The difference is that the C64 dumped you straight into it and you would have to load your first website using the debugger command line.
> she signed a contract agreeing to repay the costs of the courses if she left the company before a certain period of time had passed.

I had a similar clause in my first contract. Since the team I was hired into was a Perl shop and I hadn't done any Perl before starting there, they sent me on a week-long Perl training early on. The contract said that if I quit within the first year, I would have to reimburse them for the cost of the training (going down progressively by 1/12th of the price per month that I'm staying with the company).
Isn't this always the case with open source / "free" platforms? Loads of volunteers put the effort in, while someone somewhere has enormous financial benefits off of it?
By the sound of it your intent was to win eventually.

Eventually we all die. It's fun to play anyway.

In a less philosophical mood: standing against an overwhelming force can be exhilarating. I've felt something like that windsurfing in strong wind conditions.

Down to the specific question, losing always against someone you can't defeat is very good training for winning over others.
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Also, we don't have the same kind tolerance to deadly accidents as before, look airplanes it was rather dangerous to fly (5.2 deaths per 100,000 hours as the 50s) but there was still industry around flying.
That's fine for short haul or business class but if you're squashed into a seat seemingly designed with a child's dimensions in mind for half a day, Wi-fi is the opiate that makes flying bearable.
Unless I'm dumb, the 2.25 increased hardness from 768 bits to 795 bits would suggest a 2.25^(1/(795 - 768)) hardness increase per bit. That is roughly 1.0305. Taking 1.0305^(1024-795) yields something like a 970-fold increase.
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How does it compare to dragster.io?

https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster
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What can an every-person do to help keep Wikipedia free and open? Thank you for the essay btw.
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I suppose all nodes would have to be in sync with a parent node, but indeed that is a good question. What happens when one goes rogue and starts bending the truth. There is nothing stopping criminal governments around the world from doing it, in such a set-up.
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Yeah sure, just like sanctions and tariffs are a economic way of doing war. But how do you response with counter cyber attacks or sanctions and tariffs.
The National Internet Exchange of India shouldn't be a foreign entity for holders of .in domains.
That's a strong accusation.
Do you have a reference to any 'unpaid benchmarks', so we can judge ourselves?
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21700802 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

Re: "Here's another view of the WMF's runaway spending", that same graph is part of my essay, but the version in my essay has links so you can see the sources used to create the graph.
import { timer } from 'rxjs';

function App() {
const ticks$ = timer(0, 1000);

return <div>
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}
I've had a look round there website and I can't see anything about an API. Can you point me in the direction of some documentation (or anything really)?
I've found that is not true... I've been able to recruit amazing people for less pay in exchange for working with great people, working on hard problem, and creating an environment that is not stressful, if flexible, and generally makes their life easier.
The Internet Archive has been spamming me every year since I've donated. They've apologised once after the first spam (last year) which is fair enough, but just yesterday I've received yet another spam asking me to donate more despite never opting into any of that, and no apology this time.

I highly recommend not donating to an entity that can't even be bothered to respect your time.
School children do occasionally stab each other using scissors (e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-47474896). Depending on the context, removing large scissors from the school premises is not obviously an overreaction. The ones pictured are much larger than required for most crafty purposes, and have sharp rather than rounded ends.

This is a red herring in any case, since schools in the US would be perfectly entitled to remove scissors, guns, machetes, etc. etc. from their premises if they chose to, regardless of the 2A.

Moreover, to the extent that items such as scissors actually are banned in any significant number of UK schools (I doubt it), this is a new development that has nothing to do with gun control. There has been no significant change to gun control legislation since the mid 90s, whereas I can attest that scissors were certainly available in UK schools into the mid 2000s.
you are confused because you thought we are talking about a worldwide scientific consensus?
Yes.
Zig is, however, unsuitable for interactive media or scientific computing due to the unfortunate lack of operator overloading (which is touted as a "feature"), rendering it less general purpose than I'd like.

Other aspects of its design look good however.
The important thing is Foone prefers writing them that way. There's a comment in thread here with a link to a more detailed explanation.
I was reading up on this article the other day and was wondering if Li-Fi can be utilized for ATG or Satellite to Plane transmission. Will this increase stability of internet connection on the plane?

https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/lifi-trialed-commercial-ai...

I have personally experienced very slow and unstable connection even on the premium WiFi plan of American Airlines, Alaska, Etihad and Qatar Airways.
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With Fargate Savings Plans and Spot Instances, the cost of running workloads on Fargate is getting substantially cheaper, and with the exception of extremely bursty workloads, much more consistently performant vs Lambda. The cost of provisioning Lambda capacity as well as paying for the compute time on that capacity means Fargate is even more appealing for high volume workloads.

The new pricing page for lambda ("Example 2") shows the cost for a 100M invocation/month workload with provisioned capacity for $542/month. For that same cost you could run ~61 Fargate instances (0.25 CPU, 0.5GB RAM) 24/7 for the same price, or ~160 instances with spot. For context I have ran a simple NodeJS workload on both Lambda and Fargate, and was able to handle 100M events/mo with just 3 instances.

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Certainly it feels like that :D
I don't see any mention of a court; the TLD manager (NIXI) probably took the initiative based on said erroneous information.
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Assuming you can learn anything from the experience. What you might learn is weird idiosyncrasies and futile tactics playing from desperation. You might learn to not lose so quickly, but that's not the same as winning.
Orchestrating a workflow, which is what Dagster does, is just one part of Metaflow. Other important parts are dependency management, cloud integration, state transfer, inspecting and organizing results - features that are central to data science workflows.

Metaflow helps data scientists build and manage data science workflows, not just execute a DAG.
Ebay started using not so nice tactics to cash on the number of sales by automatically enabling the "Make offer" option, no matter if disabled by the seller, at every posting renewal at ridiculous prices, often half or less than half the initial price, so if I have say 20 items for sale at already a very convenient price, they will renew with the make offer option enabled (regardless if I explicitly disabled it) at half or less that price which of course mean I'll receive loads of offers at prices that sometimes won't ever cover the shipping.
I can understand their motives: more sales = more sales fees, but that's not fair at all. As of today I haven't found a way to keep the option disabled and have to get online in time at every renewal and disable the option on all items, or refuse all offers and politely contact the users explaining the reason.

This makes me angry; although I have been an extremely happy Ebay user for over a decade, we badly need other options because the lack of competition is giving them too much power.
Admittedly however, Ebay works well enough so far, which is why it would be really hard to compete against them.
The neatly written prose is an example of Elizabeth's idiosyncratic hand. Standards were a little different (far higher) back then.

I really hesitate to do this, as I hate linking or even acknowledging them, but the Mail are often good and heavy with pictures. As they prove to be in this case:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7735885/Quee...