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OP here, again. Thanks to everyone who read and commented! To answer a couple of questions:

Mimix doesn't force to you reveal everything included in your work ("how the sausage was made"); it's simply there if you want to. This feature is mostly for you, the author, to get to your "ah-ha" moments as Vannevar Bush called them. Right now, we don't have software that does a good job of connecting facts inside documents.

MSL is a language for building tools which we hope can eventually replace the word processor. We are at an early stage with that software which will be open sourced once it's ready.

The hybrid database on which MSL relies could be viewed as the ultimate version control system because it allows rewinding any single variable (a semantic assignment statement) to any value it had in its history.

Mimix certainly draws from the semantic web, but that's not our secret sauce. Today, Google and Stanford already have good libraries for figuring out what is a noun, what is a verb, etc. Where MSL shines is, as @MiniMax42 pointed out, in marking up that text so that it can later be analyzed or transformed in ways that are difficult with word processing documents.

While we hope to see this technology become ubiquitous, the best early use case is high-value documents like medical, scientific, legal and financial papers, as @jpalomaki said.

Thanks again!
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I see duolingo as a kind of modern equivalent to the language textbooks we had in school. You aren't going to seriously learn a language using it, but it gives you enough of a taste that you might be motivated to decide to pick up a language after using it.

I do think that using duolingo too long is an inefficient way to learn a language even at beginner level, I wouldn't use it for more than a few weeks before graduating to a SRS like Anki.

For intermediate to advanced I really love clozemaster. It's especially good for learning grammar, you probably want to supplement it with some pure vocabulary in an SRS.
I am learning Rust at the moment. I used to use that repo to try new things out. For example, to play with GitHub's API(the github-gitlab-stars.md file was created using a bunch of Python scripts, requests library), or learning branching and pipelines(Currently I am using Travis CI to build mdbook from another branch), etc. Initially, when I didn't know about GitBook or Static Site Generators, I made a Django App with search functionality and stuff out of those links.
I’m no ZFS expert, but it must have been incredibly stressful, if not mildly terrifying, going that far down the rabbit hole with customer data on the line.

I have a bad feeling someone is going to read their write up and tweet at them, “Why didn’t you use -xyz switch, it fixes exactly this issue in 12 seconds”.

Indeed it appears that the option they needed existed, but only in a later version of ZFS than they were running, and part of the fix was moving the broken array to a system that could run a newer version of ZFS, which apparently was itself not trivial.
> just don't use xargs

the whole point of my example was to show how easy parallelism is. You create a list of tasks, then you pipe the list to xargs or gnu parallel.
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Proxomitron can use OpenSSL to MITM the TLS connection and filter "encrypted" pages too. Of course you need to do some certificate setup beforehand, but once you do that it works very well.
Wow just wow. What an incredibly awful piece of writing. Where are the facts to support any of his claims. Most of them are provably wrong. Economists study these things. Picketty for instance wrote a gigantic books showing that rates of return on Capital vs productivity growth are a huge reason for inequality. We can see that as a huge percentage of the wealthy inherited their money. We have extremely low rates of productivity growth in the US right now by historical standards. We have huge rates of corporate stock buybacks that outpace research and development for the first time ever. Startups are not representative of the economy. In fact we’ve never had a period with fewer startups than now. New business creation is at a low peak in the US. Paul graham may be a great tech investor but he clearly has no understanding of macroeconomic trends in the US.
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i m not "the tech community" , but i created my own: https://pinplz.com . I use it to store things to read later or lists of things i m searching for.

How it differentiates: single click save - keeps track of the referer if possible - show a QR code - keeps a cached copy
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I'd assume that all of these hubs are using DisplayPort though?

HDMI alternate mode hasn't really caught on, especially since it uses all high-speed lanes on USB-C. This leaves no room for USB 3 ports on a combined hub.
I’m running 32bit windows apps using the Crossover by Codeweavers. I just bought the lifetime license, figured it was time they get some reward for all their hard work.
Yes, I have come across that one too! Acoustically speaking, tones are actually really interesting. Are you associated with that site?
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This is a very historically-ignorant view. Every culture and state since the beginning of time has manipulated information to suit its needs.

We don’t even need to back that far: the beginning of the Iraq war, not even twenty years ago, was rife with “fake news.” The fact that the buzzword didn’t exist doesn’t mean that the phenomenon didn’t exist.
> how long are people going to let those guys get away with this?

I’ve tried organising support for shifting New York law from its current “clear and convincing” standard to one requiring criminal conviction before seizure, as in Connecticut [1].

It’s hard to get people to show up, call their representatives and generally provide an electoral incentive for going through the difficulty of changing the law. Because most people don’t see themselves as potential criminals, and thus at risk of such seizures, it tends to get second fiddle to more pressing issues, e.g. wrapping up the war on drugs or healthcare.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...
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He didn't say he saw it with his naked eye though.

However, at least by some metrics, the human eye can detect even a single photon. So if he shut off all other sources of visible light in the room, and sat there for a bit, he should start seeing the light (assuming he's young, red light perception decreases the older you get).

But then, for this to work, the only detail you need on your side is proof that only one atom is emitting light.
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Apart from the keyboard layout (no £ or example) another difference is the local salex tax, that's lower in the US.

You have to pay customs at the UK airport for any item over £390. https://www.gov.uk/duty-free-goods/arrivals-from-outside-the...
>If anyone, it could well be Apple that can catch up with Tesla's self-driving capabilities.

Wait what? Tesla is not even in the top 3 of the autonomous pack. Why would Apple be trying to catch up to a distant 4th or 5th?
Alchemist Camp has good video tutorials https://alchemist.camp

Also this blog post helped my understanding http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/05/20/minimum-viable-phoe...

Phoenix LiveView [0] is really exciting to try out in Elixir. I'd recommend building an auto updating dashboard.

I had a micro controller that had various sensors on it that I connected to over a serial port using circuits_uart[1]. I then read the sensor values and displayed them on a LiveView dashboard. Totally pointless but super fun :)

[0]: https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...
[1]: https://github.com/elixir-circuits/circuits_uart

Sidenote. If anyone has any Elixir freelancing work I can do send me an email. Email in my HN bio.
https://pinboard.in does exactly what you are asking for, additionally it keeps an archive of the pages (Similar to archive.org) and you can see public bookmarks of your "friends" on the service.
I'm not sure what the latter is based on. Up to 5m people may have left Wuhan before the city was locked down.

What's more is that Hong Kong has still not restricted travel, while offering free medical care to anyone. As a HKer, that makes me especially nervous.
Every old model I've used had a water level selector. Small, medium and large. Even going back 50 years.

Now the modern washers don't trust you to make the proper selection, and often don't get your clothes completely wet.
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I wasn't really aware of cockroaches possessing spinal cords.

Flippancy aside, rats are sophisticated mammals with basically the same set of higher order functions as ourselves, although of course in different quantities.
First there was no background playback on iOS because Google needed to show how bad iOS was at multi-tasking, even with all of the relevant API's for background media already in place. Now they degraded the Android user experience to match that so they can sell what could have been possible from almost the beginning as an upgrade.

I guess YouTube finally smothered all the competition with unlimited free money from Google and can now start to squeeze it's userbase.
I built a tool to let me do this: https://www.homepagr.com

It is intended to replace the “new tab” page of the browser and works really well!

When I first “launched” it had a minimal set of features and scratched my own itch. I wanted to charge $12/year. However, I discovered that nobody even wanted to pay $1 per month!

I’ve since created designs for a new UX, which is what you see in the screenshots, and put up a landing page. All out of the startup playbook. However, nobody has expressed an interest in the product, so I haven’t opened up access for others.
I write about personal things, fiction writing, and tech over at https://www.wildmind.io. It's been a minute since my last post because new job, new city...

Also built in Hugo and deployed to Netlify. I keep going back and forth rebuilding it using Pelican or Nuxt.js; it's hard for me to leave well enough alone.
Subtitles can be out of sync due to a variety of causes including latency introduced by Speech-To-Text on live streams or manual rectification within the post-production process. Subaligner provides a one-stop solution on automatic subtitle alignment based on Deep Neural Network and Forced Alignment.
Yes. Sorry: https://kivy.org/#home , https://kivy.org/doc/stable/ (docs) & https://github.com/kivy/kivy .

It's not branded as an actual game framework, but it's based on OpenGL ES and that's pretty much what it is - I mean, even their first tutorial is a mini game https://kivy.org/doc/stable/tutorials/pong.html .
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Woooo I have a feature in this release! Contributing to standard tooling feels good.
> if you reject a dude he can just make a deepfake porn video with you and release it as revenge

But the woman in this example could take the same video and put the faces of a thousand other people on the person in the video.
Where was he clinically observed to be deficient, if at all?
It could of course try to find an OS camera just like it allows you to "attach a hardware keyboard". Not sure why they didn't do it.
Does Duolingo have Spaced-repetition? Spaced-repetition tools like Anki are quite customizable too.
And now their postmortem blog post is down with a 503 error. Doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence about their abilities.
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Everytime I log in on SSH, there's a message encouraging me to try Ubuntu Livepatch, which is an optional premium feature to install kernel updates without rebooting. Free for personal use, just gotta sign up for a Canonical account...
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I don't have hundreds customers, but I handle hundreds of TiB of data (for a science lab).

Issues occur from time to time, and I can assure that these times are very stressful. I am grateful to rely on ZFS, because yet I have never lost any data from people (datasets are often around 10TiB).
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True, insofar as there's no such thing as an 'ethical human being'. And yet, no one would claim that nullifies the pursuit of behaving ethically.

In "Life 3.0" and his recent lectures, Max Tegmark repeatedly stresses the pursuit of safe AI requires that we articulate the world we want to live in.

In his concluding crie du coeur, Tom Chatfield writes,

> give me the capacity to contest passionately the applications and priorities of superhuman systems, and the masters they serve

If Tom or anyone else wants a seat at this table -- to participate in developing and defining ethical AI -- by all means describe the world you want to live in.

Until then, it's just tantrum-throwing.
> Why are they making these so complicated...

I think part of it is that vendors all through the supply chain have learned that churn caused by obfuscation is good for their bottom line.

If consumers could clearly understand what they needed and were able to select the right product for themselves, you would end up with a small number vendors selling solid, good quality gear. That would be bad for the chip vendors and resellers.

Monitor makers need to get their act together as well... do we really need VGA, DVI, HDMI, mini-HDMI, DP, mini-DP, thunderbolt, and USB-C all existing at the same time as ways to connect your monitor to a computer?
Can we pause for a moment to appreciate the manifest destiny of a name like Severin Hacker?
Given the ease of creating accounts here, no evidence against sockpuppet accounts, and the general understanding of Sybil attacks makes the claim that the behavior is unfounded ignorant of reality.
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only the language runtime and operating system
would be allowed to raise exceptions

So you still need all the exception machinery, but "normal" code can't use it? Seems like a terrible situation.

Also, who's in charge of deciding what's "language runtime" and what isn't?
>The video medium is incredibly powerful, and the damage it can do is huge.

I fully agree. Even if rationally, one rejects a video is fake, it does have the potential to influence the subconscious.
wonder if this works in real life without additional training phrases for an FAQ ?
Why even bother posting links from websites offering no new details on stories everyone has heard already. Stop karma farming and go take a walk.
The web version of Duolingo used to have detailed explanations for each lesson that explained a lot of grammar, they seems to have disappeared recently
Yes it does that. A bit too much actually, Duolingo is painful if you already understand so vocab.
The ambiguous "drop" in this context really annoys me.
this seems like a joke ...
How does Wine compare to Parallels in perf for mac? Parallels doesn't support DX11 which is really painful.
Yeah, i automatically assumed they meant released.
I thought it was understood as courtesy to not name the epidemic after the city, which will forever become a blemish on local tourism?
Cvx solves a relaxed problem trivially in matlab and then you can heuristically round to integer. http://stanford.edu/class/ee364b/lectures.html Under L1 convex cardinality
Some more info on (part of?) the problem on the CodeWeaver blog: https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/12/10/ce...
This problem isn’t going to go away, largely because there’s no such thing as a single set of ethical principles that can be rationally justified in a way that every rational being will agree to. Depending upon your priorities, your ethical views will inevitably be incompatible with those of some other people in a manner no amount of reasoning will resolve. Believers in a strong central state will find little common ground with libertarians; advocates of radical redistribution will never agree with defenders of private property; relativists won’t suddenly persuade religious fundamentalists that they’re being silly. Who, then, gets to say what an optimal balance between privacy and security looks like — or what’s meant by a socially beneficial purpose? And if we can’t agree on this among ourselves, how can we teach a machine to embody “human” values?
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My understanding is animals die very quickly from halal butchery. Compared to animals twisting their ankles walking over metal grates, or people stomping on baby chicks with work boots, this seems like a weird thing to focus on
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Kinda like single thread async vs thread pooling...
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This is no different in principle than a photo of a starry night sky, where the size of the pixel is far greater than the actual angular size of the object from our vantage point.
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A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit the vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website, for example, by sending an email.

All supported Windows desktop and Server OS versions are impacted, Microsoft said.

This IE RCE zero-day is also tracked as CVE-2020-0674.
When you say describe the world you want to live in you mean describe in terms of defining its rules or something else?
The story itself is not the thought-terminating cliche, labelling it as such (especially with no attempt to engage or correct the poster of it) is.
That's pretty cool these guys get to put 1950's math to work in real life. In my experience, I was never able to sell this idea to anyone based on the (potentially justified) excuse that it was completely unmaintainable without a math guy around.

Edit: I can personally attest that potential bootstrappers would find fertile ground making a service to do this stuff for transportation companies. I know of many who basically don't try to solve this problem because they don't have the talent and don't trust their ability to maintain something bought from a consultant. They need a service they can offload it to.
Ugh I tire of "Ethicists" who cleaely know jack and shit about the field they are rambling on to sell books. The actual ethics for "AI" revolve around application with incomplete understanding just like well everything newly discovered. And how you use it like any tool - if you use AC to electrocute puppies it says more about you then AC power.

The penultimate paragraph deserves calling out and outright ridicule.

> “What,” Morozov asks, “drives and shapes all that technology around us?” If we cannot open up such questions for democratic debate, then we risk turning “technology” into little more than a “euphemism for a class of uber-human technologists and scientists, who, in their spare time, are ostensibly saving the world, mostly by inventing new apps and products.”

That is a fundamentally stupid statement and Morozov should be deeply ashamed of it. It is the "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" writ large. Individual intellectual efforts are not up to democratic debate damn it and it is a good thing. This isn't unprecedented - being genocided or pogrummed is also not up for a democratic debate - it is wrong period.
I find genome sequences fascinating, life's binary code has only 4 opcodes, a, c, g and t. I wonder if any computer VM will ever be able to actually fully run it. Still, the massively parallel capacity needed to run it "realtime" is not quite here just yet.
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Looks terribly dangerous with people walking around the counterweights
This isn't a prisoner's dilemma: you benefit from preparing even if no one else prepares.
Finally, a sensible argument _for_ telemetry.
I honestly stopped bookmarking for real when firefox introduced the awesome bar. Just typing any fragment I recall into the address bar made them pretty much obsolete for most of my use cases.
Every time I'm forced to use chrome for some stuff I am surprised how unusable the browser is without this feature. I'm sure you can fix that with some extension or other but I don't see why it wouldn't be a default.
It seems like you want to do string-like standard library operations on byte arrays. Python 3 is clear here. You can do string stuff with strings only. If you want to do string stuff, you must decode the bytes.

The world is not only about English and ASCII.

People who want these shortcuts usually don't understand what problems Unicode and character encodings solve in general. And that's exactly what produces software that won't allow me to properly enter my Hungarian name as it is, with diacritics.

It's utterly inexcusable and lazy and stems from an annoying sense of Anglo superiority.
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Oh gosh, the official recommendations from FEMA are massive. I counted 25+ checklists and it includes bullshit such as “protect documents and valuables” which is great advice for getting killed. Nothing more than expected that most people will ignore that.

https://www.ready.gov/
So it's not a problem w/ openoffice.org, cups, or the brother printer drivers. It is a bug in the `file` utility, and documented at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619.*
Some recent links and models and code, updated early 2020 Q1

https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab ("More than 95% of deepfake videos are created with DeepFaceLab. DeepFaceLab is used by such popular youtube channels as Ctrl Shift Face, Sham00k, Collider videos, VFXChris Ume")

https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap

https://faceswap.dev/

https://forum.faceswap.dev/

https://dfblue.com/

https://pub.dfblue.com/pub/2019-10-25-deepfacelab-tutorial
Many of the Arab countries are now in a state of permanent disaster. Something like three million refugees are now spread across Turkey and Europe. 200k dead there won't even make the news.

Not something that stockpiling food in the basement would have helped with.

Across the Atlantic, Puerto Rico is in a disaster state again, and the flow of refugees is from Honduras and Guatemala. Part of the news response is complaining that not enough of them are dying on the way.
Subpixel anti-aliasing I suspect is technology that will go the same way as video interlacing...

ie. "It works great, has a positive benefit on the user experience, but adds so much system complexity, limits other operations, and is so hard to implement right, that it fell out of use"

Today subpixel anti-aliasing is implemented mostly for text only - we've given up implementing it for 2d/3d graphics.
Type/creator codes were any 4-byte OSType, actually. ASCII values were commonly used, for obvious reasons, but not required.