skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Intelligence is situational — there is no such thing as general intelligence.

Not sure about that. But certainly human intelligence is far more general than goldfish intelligence similar to how a turing machine is more general than a finite state automata.

> Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole.

I could lose an arm and still be as intelligent. Stephen Hawking lost his ability to walk and he was still as intelligent. Turing could move to Princeton from england and still maintain his intelligence. Sure your body, environment, culture, etc helps you develop and informs who are, but certainly it is the brain that ultimately matters.

> “Recursively self-improving systems, because of contingent bottlenecks, diminishing returns, and counter-reactions […], cannot achieve exponential progress in practice. Empirically, they tend to display linear or sigmoidal improvement.”

But evolution and societies doesn't work in a "recursively self-improving" manner. I'm rather partial to the idea of punctuated equilibrium. Momentum builds and we have a sudden exponential progress until we arrive at a new normal. Evolution and societal progress isn't that of continuous linear or exponential growth. Rather it's a series of peaks and valleys.

> “Recursive intelligence expansion is already happening — at the level of our civilization. It will keep happening in the age of AI, and it progresses at a roughly linear pace.“

I suppose but historically this isn't true. No human society or civilization progressed at a roughly linear pace. There are periods of stagnation or even decay followed by burst of creativity and progress. Otherwise, all societies/civilizations would remain relatively equal to each other.

How does linear progress explain the sudden rise of europe in the last 500 years to dominate the globe? Or the sudden rise of french as lingua franca and the equally sudden rise of english? The sudden economic growth with the discovery of oil. Or the sudden burst of human population?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-since-10...
I've been using it for all my programming units for a number of years. Whilst I don't use all of the features the main bonus for me is making the students commit code regularly and see the progress (or not!).

It also has a number of advantages, I have lost count of the number of times I have been sent screen shots of error messages (even camera photos of a screen). I now insist that all errors a reported via issues.

This means I can fix / push code for problems and track what I have done.

It also helps with plagarism as I can usually see the progress of students work with regular commits rather than one project that appears straight away via normal submission processes.

For group work there are a number of tools to do analytics on who did what etc so it make seeing how well the group has worked.

Now we are moving to online, I'm thinking of adding some of the CI / IDE features that are being introduced to help with Lab exercises, however in our area (Animation and Games) this is not ideal as a lot of what we do is visual / interactive.
1.29 MJ/kg * 1kWh/3.6MJ = 0.3612 kWh per kg, or 361kWh per metric ton?

For comparison, you get about 5 tons of CO2 produced driving 12,000 miles in an 22mpg vehicle.

361kWh * 5 = 1,805kWh, so maybe $100 of energy cost? Seems totally economical to offset the CO2 from a full year of driving.

Now what I am wondering is if there’s any reason we won’t see a typical logistics curve / cost reduction pattern like we see with most tech whether it be solar panels, battery cost, etc.

Is there a law of thermodynamics that puts a ceiling on how good this can get, and how close to the theoretical maximum are we currently?
10:33 actually I made up the term

10:35 object-oriented and I can tell you I did

10:38 not have C++ in mind

10:41 [Applause]

10:49 so the important thing here is I have

10:54 many of the same feelings about small

10:57 talk

https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/a02suz/the_forgotten_...
Looking exclusively at death rates is silly. There are many diseases which otherwise don't kill but make life terrible for those affected and result in huge costs to healthcare systems.

This virus doesn't just kill or leave people unscathed, it also leaves people with long term damage or knocks them out for a couple of weeks. Sitting in bed for weeks is not appealing at all to most people.
It certainly encompasses nearly everything, and thank you. To be honest I wish more people appreciated just how hard of a job it is, and the stress involved. It's a job where if you're not stressed out at least a little you're doing it wrong, and it can really wear on you.

The few times I've done product/food photography it's been nice. You can take your time, you don't have people to direct or kids that can cry... I envy you, at least a bit.
> bundler can't do that either. You can't depend on both rails 5 and rails 6 in a single package. Most languages can't do that.

You're right. Originally I was speaking about package versions which deno does solve, but then I brought in node versions w/o explicitly stating so.

That's managed/wrapped at rbenv's level which I hope deno can come up with a way to solve it. But looking at deno briefly, it appears the packages are still stored locally which leaves the deno version mismatch a possibility still.
How does this compare with just planting trees?
I think American's must ask: Why do the police continue to be over funded, in a time when our healthcare system is one of the worst among developed nations? How is it that thousands of police in riot gear and PPE materialized out of thin air, when our nurses and doctors struggled to find even basic protective gear?
That's great and all, but people don't really care - they want to run the applications that they want to use. They want it to support their hardware.

OSX and Windows work because the make it easy for end users to use them; and run the applications/games they want to play.
I have an ergodox and all the "middle" button are brackets, [],{},(). Its amazing. You can also set shift to type a letter (such as a bracket) on stroke, but be shift on hold.
> I think other countries should take a page out of Tegnell's book and instead of trying to exorcise dissent and label opponents, admit to uncertainties in their policies.

Sadly, the discourse affects the results. When everybody believes a lockdown will work, it does. When about half the population isn't sure about it, it just wastes money.

It would be great to have some countries go all-in in one strategy and others all-in in another, and compare results later -- but when people talk, you end up with lots of countries effectively doing something in the middle, without the advantages of either extreme but essentially all of the costs.
It exists for some retailers, like Home Depot. It doesn’t work like I would expect though, in HD’s case it looked like it was routed through a Salesforce extension.
Did they not ask about the title, and did the compensation talk not reveal this?
That's a great question. Added it.
Website needs javascript to even display something -> ignored.
Proving theorems. I will nominate Cauchy's Residue Theorem. It has already been formalized so a neural network or any generally intelligent agent should be able to do the same: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~wl302/publications/itp16.pdf.

Complex analysis in general is one of the more fun parts of math and I doubt it's getting automated any time soon. It also has a lot of application in signal processing (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-application-of-complex-ana...) so any automation improvements in complex analysis can be carried over to those fields.

More generally, I don't think AI is the scary monster people make it out to be. It's another tool in the toolbox for automation and intelligence augmentation. I don't fear hammers so I don't see why people fear AI and the benefits of extra automation that AI enables.
SMS is considered as really obsolete in Europe, even older people use WhatsApp. I think I have not sent a single SMS in the last 2 years. In Asia there are other services like WeChat (China) or Zalo (Vietnam) that are really popular, it really depends on the country. Sending an SMS feels like sendig a fax.

Regarding iMessage, I guess it's the same as BBM in the late 2000's, if you don't have it people might consider you are not cool enough to talk to them.
I found training a bunch of birds to take notes to people for me to be much easier. I am in the process of training them how to use the printer and scanner too so i can text people who on my computer too.
also worth reading: https://www.mpd150.com/faq/
Ok, so a comment on the actual content of the article rather than iMessage in general: I do the kinds of things that the author describes in the article (digging into private implementations of things) and I while I believe all of iMessage is a bit obfuscatory it's not nearly as bad as the author has described it. Really, it's one of the places where Hanlon's razor actually applies: the AppleScript bridge sucks because AppleScript in general sucks, as Apple has let it decay until it stops working entirely. The iMessage team for macOS is already kinda eh, and it shows in the app's architecture and lack of new features for years, as well as its fairly strange usage of a web view (actually the long-deprecated one…) for the main content. The rest of the stuff about private frameworks…I mean, I don't really know what to say. They're not meant to be linked against, they're undocumented, they change and disappear between releases…you really cannot complain about them. They're not Apple making it harder for you, they are just a side effect of how Apple writes its applications and the fact that the entire OS is proprietary. Some do venture into that realm (such as the author and I) and find meaning, but I disagree with the characterization that Apple is fighting against reverse engineers by making you dig through class-dump output and figure out how to marshal your arguments through the right function to make it do what you want.
What you are saying make no sense.
The protesters you talk about were against lockdown. it's valid to say they endanger public health if you believe shutdown is protecting public health.

> For people that are against the shutdown, this reaffirms the purely political nature of the policy

What does that mean? What is the nature of the policy and how is it purely political?
(Obviously any policy is political, because it's a choice effecting the population)
Would have been nice to know what doses have been given.
It was heartening to read the handwritten addition:
"We all committed our lives to the idea that this is America — we will stay true to that oath and the American People".
The federal government was supposed to only execute its enumerated powers, which could be expanded by passing amendments.

Instead the federal government can do anything it wants. It's why we have the drug war, DEA, huge national debt, broken medical system.
Sure you can, that is the whole goal of PyPy, IronPython, Jython, Python on GraalVM, Python on OpenJ9, CircuitPython and plenty of other attempts.

Anyone that understands compilers knows one can write language X in X.

In fact, "Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python" does exactly that.

We can nuke CPython and there is plenty of Python code that would still run without problems.
More to the point, anyone doing compiler validation work would a) always have a full test suite as their first line of attack, b) always have a well understood developer pipeline in place, to ensure a consistent understanding - coding rules, code review processes, etc. and c) always looks at what the compiler is actually doing, compared to what they think its doing - i.e. is able to navigate code -> assembly and all the stages in between, with competence.

Anything less is asking for trouble.
> Right, that's another word for police.

I guess we agree then: more police so we can stop targeting minorities in street-level busts and instead target the big offenders: white collar crime that destroys minority communities and keeps them in perpetual bondage. If you want to haul the rich and powerful out of their homes with tear gas and tanks, who am I to disagree?

> No, but that didn't cause gangs, and you know it.

Now we're getting somewhere. By itself, no, it didn't. Institutionalized racism in the forms of employment, education, and housing discrimination carried from the 1960s caused largely-minority communities to remain segregated and poor while at the same time, white flight took money from the inner cities and moved it to the suburbs, leaving behind an underfunded and broken education system [0]. The Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act are relatively recent developments: 1964 and 1968, respectively -- just a little over 10 years before your father got to LA. By the 80s, increased class stratification and tough-on-crime initiatives from the federal government meant minorities and the poor faced even more disproportionately aggressive policing and incarceration. With little hope of achieving the same success as their more affluent counterparts in the suburbs, many individuals turned to crime as a mode of survival. Then came Iran-Contra, crack cocaine, and gangs.

Of course, if you're talking about true gangs in the US during this time, we can also discuss the American mafia, white supremacists like the Aryan Brotherhood, the KKK, or even the gangs depicted in the film, "Gangs of New York" in the "Five Points" area of NY (but this is an example of some of the first gangs in the US, around the late 1700s -- thought some historical context would be interesting). These gangs, however, have faced less scrutiny because of their close connections with law enforcement and government.

[0] For a heartbreaking account of the devastating long term effects of this, I highly recommend Jonathan Kozol's 1991 book, "Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools"
> you're in a situation where the only people with serious weapons are criminals and police

Isn't this what the administration of virtually every major city have been working for decades to create? So this is an experiment that matches current conditions. Somehow I don't see most folks arguing that we don't really need police also being for unrestricted firearms ownership and repeal of the myriad of barriers that exist between the law abiding citizen and gun ownership right now. So maybe start with that if you want less police?
a good rule of thumb is that most things Trump says are false.
Those are excellent tips for ADHD. No matter how hard you push, after attention depletes it's an uphill battle to stay productive. I just chill now and recharge, no more burning out! Better results as well, more things to show for my time in the mid term.
As has been mentioned many times in the other comments, those force you to download something, perhaps make an account, make sure everyone has it…whereas 90% of the people might already have an iPhone, which might be better than the number for anything else.
Interesting product in fman. May I ask what percent of the <20k came from one off sales (18 euros) vs paying for the ongoing updates? Trying to figure out how a license a product of mine. THanks
At the small end, a juniper MX204 is a good example of a current-gen router that has enough RAM to take multiple full BGP tables, and has a sufficient number of 10 and 100GbE interfaces.
People do absolutely use SMS.
Almost a decade ago I used to do this too. When the current browser window got too messy and I wanted to clean up I would just drag the window on the second screen and start a new browser on the primary screen.

Browser updates and accidental reboots (this was Linux and I accidentally typed “reboot” on the local machine instead of the remote server) were fun.

Nowadays I just don’t bother. If something is truly valuable or needs to be addressed I will bookmark it otherwise I let it go.
Something like the Brazo (radiation tracking Sparrow) would've been nice.
Its one if those things where you could probably game the metrics to justify half a dozen different answers. For example ISRO doesn't have many launches, but they do a lot of rideshares so I wouldn't be surprised if they're #1 or #2 in terms of individual satellites launched last year.

It also depends a lot on what you consider a commercial launcher. In recent history, the Chinese Long March rockets have been dominating the numbers game (around 25 launches last year, vs around 20 Soyuz and 15 Falcon 9s). But the Long March family is a lot more diverse than most rocket families, so they're probably not #1 if you're comparing specific configurations. You also probably don't want to count rockets that missed space and ended up in the middle of a village, which hurts China's totals.
On iOS, that's not by any fault of WhatsApp.
In Rojava (anarchist autonomous region in Syria) there are been efforts to replace the police with a better institution. More information: http://hawzhin.press/2020/06/01/how-to-abolish-the-police-le...
This article is from (2010)
I don't know if its cool to recommend a hacker but I promised to drop the contact of this pro hacker Arthur Vitali who helped me hack an entire cellphone with just a phone number. IF YOU NEED A HACKER, YOU FOUND THE BEST. Email- Quickarturhack AT gmail,com WHATSAPP +17025301177
I had access to all social media accounts, SMS, pictures, videos, Camera, GPS tracking and an option to tap into phone calls and listen. Arthur offers a lot of other hacking services like hacking schools, hospitals, website and criminal records databases.
Totally agree. I am mostly typing the symbols @#()[]-+=<> for a great part of my day. Also, why do we need to restrict the keyboard to a specific size or a specific number of rows. Why not have more than 4 rows ?
> Those over retirement age by definition can choose where to go during the day.

You somehow left out the fact that people can't see where the virus is or who carries it. Thus if you are, say, in a retirement home operated and visited freely by those you claim that have nothing to worry about then what chance do they have to avoid being exposed to the virus?

And all it takes is one exposure to get the virus to spread like wildfire within the retirement home. That's been observed in Italy and Spain.

The problem is even more serious if elderly live with family.

Additionally, you also left out the fact that your reference shows signifixant excess deaths in the cohort 46-64yo representing an increase of about 18% wrt the baseline.
Rumors say this might be planned for an upcoming iOS release.
>a sonic sub-pixel fingerprint reader

Just hope nobody who steals your phone puts a screen protector on it.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/10127908/samsung-galaxy-s10-sc...
It is asynchronous communication, like emails, the recipient can listen to it when they are available, but you don't need both to be available in the same time.
I'm not associated with them at all, but Fathom are worth looking into if you want an analytics platform that respects user privacy: https://usefathom.com/
a notoriously shit job where they haze you worse than boot camp

That would indicate a leadership problem. Regular people just won't stay around when everyone from the top down is bent, even if the salary is outrageous.
Sure, but the point is that it's possible for a market to be dominated by a brand- or, in our original discussion, by a way of thinking or governing- that might be inferior to a lesser known choice.

There are a good number of hackers who would consider Linux superior to the dominant OS's, which is why I made that arbitrary comparison.
I'm not saying it's impossible or that you shouldn't do it. I'm saying it's not the first thing you should improve.

If you compare switching to colemak the other improvements I listed, it's by far the most effort. I am practicing colemak which mentally exhausts me a few times a week and I'm only up to 18 wpm. Picking up a split keyboard will take maybe an hour before you are back up to speed and you will gain the benefits instantly.

When you're "back up to 30wpm after a week of training" you're still typing at crippled speeds. It takes a significant amount of effort to learn a new keyboard layout.
As someone with most of my coding experience in JS/TS, what would you say is a good alternative to explore?
Yeah, agreed. The whole point of shutdowns was to prevent hospitals from being overrun, and with the exception of the few states in the U.S. that compromised their nursing home population by sending sick patients back there, the vast majority of hospitals experienced lower-than-average patient count for the past 3 months.
I wouldn't call that "taking off", especially in a time when I'm sure every other communication platform is seeing massive growth as well.
There's a tongue-in-cheek view that Elon Musk is a lonely alien just trying to get home. His Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic is on the blink, so creating a privately-operated interplanetary transportation programme from first principles was the next best plan.

Alternatively, view these interests (grid-scale batteries, solar panels, underground excavation, autonomous vehicles (cars, rockets, spacecraft), hyperloops, benevolent AGI, low-latency satellite internet &c &c) as essential infrastructure technologies for derisking survival on Mars and even beyond, thereby increasing the likelihood that the humans will survive even the gross mismanagement of their current planet, or a passing Vogon Constructor Fleet, by metastasising across Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.

Which is to say, that:

> SpaceX's overall trajectory

is a Hohmann transfer orbit, or a nice hot cup of tea.
This is going back into the dark ages (we were taught on electric typewriters!) but when I did a typing course I was told only ever to use my left pinky for shift and right thumb for space.
I’ve been wondering if you take population density into account where that would put the figures as UK has much higher population density than Sweden
That's only assuming we never get a vaccine or an effective treatment. If we do, then the number of people to die before that point matters a lot, because we would get a sharp decline after.
It still exists; Apple themselves uses it for support and I hear some third parties have adopted it. (Though I haven't heard of many people actually using it…)
First Amendment and fair use issues mean that lots of deepfakes will not be illegal, in case we were interested. There doesn’t seem to be a way to prepare except to start distrusting things now, which just accelerates the era of distrust.

Any ideas for preparation?
I was pointing out that you would have to increase CG rates by a lot if you wanted them to be higher than OI rates (and you count SS and Medicare in the OI tax rate).

If you do that, you would want to increase the rate on OI as well, otherwise people would play games because of the rate differential (take money out of a business as salary instead of CG, for example).

And lurking in the background you have the timing/inflation issue, which is that OI is taxed every year and CG is taxed in nominal terms upon sale. So you end up potentially paying lots of tax on nominal increases in value that are actually just inflation. The fact that CG is not inflation-adjusted is one of the rationale for having a lower CG rate.
I wonder if there are surveyst to be found about IDE usage from those times... IDEs were common in some circles in the early 90s but less so in others. Java wasn't a very high level language even in those days - we had Perl, Tcl, Python, PHP, etc used for web and non-web things. And on the low level side we had C. IDEs were less used with those languages.
Formatting is fine. Take a look at `Intl.DateTimeFormat`[1]. Then there is a proposal for `Temporal`[2] which will make handling a lot easier.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2]: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal