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Yes, you're breaking the rule against using HN for political or ideological battle. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Accounts that have been created to do that are low-quality accounts that soon accrue moderation penalties and eventually get banned—not because we disagree with the politics but because this is the main form of flamewar destroying this site. HN is a place for intellectual curiosity and curious conversation. If you want to do ideological warfare on the internet, that's a different game and you need to play it elsewhere.

Your comment didn't get removed. It did get detached from its original parent. That's standard moderation when the top comment gets replies that don't respond specifically to what it says (a.k.a. topjacking).
Personally, it feels to me that maybe AGI is possible, but a computer capable of it would look nothing like the computers we have today. And, most critically, I'm aware of no highly-progressed research into major new physical hardware systems which more closely resemble our neurons.

There are billions of neurons in a brain. There are billions of transistors in a CPU or graphics card. Somehow, somewhere along the line, we convinced ourselves that brain neurons and transistors are fungible.

At some layer of abstraction they probably are. But, it seems to me that the sheer number of transistors necessary to emulate a neuron would lead to tertiary negative impacts to the overall system. Imagine, for a second, it takes a billion transistors to emulate one neuron; given we're quickly approaching the physical size limit of the universe in our production of transistors, this means you'd need many chips, and actually many computers, to emulate many neurons. Introduce many computers, and you have to introduce network latency and communication problems; both problems that the brain really does not have. And while you could argue "ok, the simulation will be slower, but it would still work", maybe, just maybe, the latency of communication between neurons is actually a critical component of cognition. In fact, that seems likely to me.

Many people are trying to build a brain on tensorflow with their nvidia graphics card originally designed to make unreal tournament run 20% faster. Google was among the first groups with the insight that custom silicon would make training and running these intelligences faster. But, what we're talking about here isn't "running faster"; its running fundamentally differently. We buy supermicro motherboards with PCI busses, plug in silicon that's just a little different than the silicon I use to play Doom Eternal; is it really any surprise that very little progress on AGI has been made?

I don't know what chips to truly, more accurately emulate a neuron would look like. I suspect no one knows. I suspect that, if anyone figures it out, it won't be Google, or Microsoft, or Apple, or China, or Russia; organizations with so many processes, procedures, and immediate-term outcome expectations that selling an idea as wild as "we can't use any of the pre-existing computing theory out there, we need to start from scratch" would be impossible, in favor of "can't you just make the Tensorcore V2 20% faster?" If it will be invented, it will be invented by one person, in their garage, with a unique insight and decades of work.

But I also suspect that it will never be invented. If we can't even solve alzheimers, or psychosis, or even depression, brain disorders which impact hundreds of millions of people every year, what level of hubris is necessary to think we have even 0.1% understanding of what goes on in our heads? We live in a society which refuses to even address, let alone help alleviate, mental illness, and you think we're going to be able to build, let alone maintain and debug, a simulated brain?
When I worked at Google over 5 years ago, mobile device options for accessing company accounts were a company-provided and company-owned device with a company-paid phone bill, a personal device with company-provided mobile device management (and sometimes cell phone bill expensing if you for example had on-call duties), a personal device with only limited browser-based work account access, and no account access via mobile.

The first of these could sometimes have implications for ownership of personal projects created using the device, which was one of many reasons I picked the second option, but it was absolutely permitted at least for any case where the company cared about you having mobile account access.
All purely binary logic. It can't be anything more --- this is all the hardware understands.
"Another risk is similar to why you should require a password to be re-entered in order to change a password."

you know that google asks your password when you want to change your password right?
Association is a form of expression. To uphold the freedom of expression is to uphold others' right to stop associating with people. To "cancel" them, if you will.
The issue that I have is that the Catholic Church has enormous assets, something like 30 billion in net worth globally. I'm feeling like the church had options beyond lobbying for relief.
Samba is also an Active Directory Domain Controller[0]. While its not a perfect implementation of the system, it's sufficient for many usecases.

[0]: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Acti...
I remember running this (way earlier than 2011, like 2003?) and it was really cool but it’d slow down the real time clock on the ‘host’ (co-habitating?) Windows install. I figured that was due to the clock being tied to cpu cycles and Linux stealing some of those. I’m not so sure about that explanation anymore, but I don’t have a better hypothesis either. Funny how that little detail stuck with me for almost 20 years…
They have used Belt and Road to expand their influence. They have extended loans and goodwill to bring various countries in Asia and Africa under their influence. They are way more aggressive and assertive than they used to be. Chinese companies and investment firms have been aggressively buying companies throughout the world. The list goes on. Without commenting on the values of it, at the very least it's a challenge to the current world order and we'd expect countries to at least push back a bit. In fact, I was surprised it took over a decade for countries to start pushing back.
Congrats on the revenue!

I would possibly be worried if revenue wasn't coming in faster that my product wasn't really a hit.

Perhaps you could consider a better angle or target a more specific audience? I like the idea of charging companies that need employees (they are always hiring) rather than job seekers that need a job (they are rarely looking).

Examples of good angles:

Key:Values [0] (1 person, ~$30k/mrr) matches job seekers with company values, levels.fyi [1] (2 people, ~$5k/mrr) matches job seekers with salaries, and there was a job board posted here for "old programmers" (don't know the link). KV and levels don't need a "critical mass" of job seekers, they need a critical mass of companies that are hiring, so it seems to me like a good angle plus a small pool of company profiles could be pretty effective for building a jobs business more rapidly.

[0]: https://www.keyvalues.com/

[1]: https://www.levels.fyi/
HBO seems to be able to consistently churn out hits, and not just "hits" but cultural touchtones that ripple throughout pop-culture.
I'm a teacher with 15 years of experience and an edtech entrepreneur. I've reviewed thousands of secular homeschool programs for accuracy and quality. We're working on developing unbiased reviews of all of our favorites, but here are a few great all-in-one programs to get you started. All mastery-based, all secular and aligned with state standards. In general, these also combine hands-on projects with online learning, involve little to no prep time and minimal parent involvement in learning, with some element of personalization.

Critical Thinking Co
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/criticalthinkingco

Oak Meadow
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/oakmeadow

Time4Learning
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/time4learning

Moving Beyond the Page
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/moving-beyond-the-page

It's usually good to supplement with a math program, if your child is gifted or has special needs. Here is a review I wrote on what I consider to be the best math programs out there for parents doing learning from home.
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/the-best-math-programs-...

And here are my 50 favorites:)
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/50favorites

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For a sufficiently large project (let's say 100k issues+), I think it's totally reasonable for some vanishingly small percent (say 0.003%) of issues to be really quite hard to reproduce/debug/fix without breaking other things. I don't think that in any way implies the maintainers don't care, and to not submit reports because you fear you'll end up in the 0.003% rather than the 99.997% is a bit silly if you ask me.

I maintain such a project, and most bug reports I can fix in a few minutes. Others take a few days. Still others need to be deferred until some large refactoring is completed in coming months. Others still are involved to the extent that I'm not sure I'll ever fix them. But I value them all, and there are many more in the former categories than the latter.
The really useful lesson that I'd like to highlight here is:

In 2020, even if you're a smart hardworking person and enterprising and so on, it's surprisingly hard to make a buck, much less a living.

Now, if you've worked at GCP for 10 years as an enterprise architect and your books is like "insights into using GCP" - that may not be very hard. You could make real money fast. But it took 10 years to get there, to accrue those credentials - essentially, to build your business.

10 years in, you might be able to make over 100k, on your business. But it took 10 years to lay the groundwork.

Now, of course, anytime anyone has an idea, it could be good, or bad. As a business, it could be a good business, or a bad business.

But seeing the forest for the trees here is recognizing that you're going to have to cycle through a surprisingly large number of ideas, and fight off a lot of other people who are trying just as hard as you are, in 2020.
> voluntarily

I don't remember apps listing the SDKs they use. As a humble user, how do I voluntarily choose whether to download an app or not based on their usage of Facebook's garbage?

Edit: You can't have it both ways. You can't remove a bunch of power and information from the user in the name of "safety" and "UX" and then claim that users are making a bunch of choices they can't possibly be informed about "voluntarily"
Students can be taught using the standard library printf() or whatever.

It's not as easy as "just round" though, because you don't know where the digits start to repeat. A smart function would also print 4.1249999999999 as 4.125.

A fancy unicode version could even include the mathematical notation to print 3.333333333333 as 3.3 with a line over the trailing 3. Or 4.2525252525 as 4.25 with the bar over the 25. Might be asking too much of a simple print function though, this might end up being an extension of the halting problem.
If your "political engagement" is slandering someone to their employer with the express goal of having them terminated, then I think that should come with consequences. But I wouldn't materially punish someone for simply having these kinds of abhorrent beliefs. In other words, if you believe it's okay to harass people for wrongthink you shouldn't be punished, but if you actually do harass people for wrongthink, you should be punished.
And most SDKs are provided as static frameworks. You have to be technically competent to know how to wrap a static framework as dynamic, and then use dlopen to load them properly with a rather high one-time runtime cost. A mess.
India: Neyveli power station suffered a boiler blast resulting in 13 deaths
The person I replied to wrote:

> and then pay 50% of everything that you make in taxes for this wonderful protection

about employees.

I don't see how corporation tax is relevant to that.
Do I think it is reasonable to feel unsafe around someone just for supporting the candidate that 63 million people supported in the last election? No, no I don't.
In this case maybe the loans should not convert to grants, should not be forgivable. Let the Catholics repay the loans with interest.
"Indigenous Nations" are ethnotribal-pseudostates. They are racist and problematic. Claiming that some land is "Native Land" is the same as claiming some land is "White land".

This is not flamebait. The reservation system is a relic of a time when both the white European settlers AND the Natives saw themselves as separate enough to be unable to live together in a single Nation.

It is time we undo these artificial racial separations.

As for my claim that asserting the existence of Native Land is equivalent to asserting the existence of White Land, well, if we choose to treat people equally, why would certain prohibitions applied to one race not apply equally to others? If we decide that White land is a racist concept, which it is, how can we not apply that same reasoning to everyone else, unless we are racially targeting White people?
For the first image I much prefer the jpeg decoded image to the de-noised one. The de-noised one just looks like it was sent through a low-pass/median filter and loses contrast, detail, and texture. If you flip between the full-sized images the jpeg2png looks like vaseline on the lens.

The naming is also odd. I don't imagine it would do well with text (which are the sorts of images I associate with png) that was jpeg encoded then decoded with it.
Do you believe that most people getting "mob cancelled" right now are overtly advocating extermination? If so, can you provide a few examples so I can better understand your position?
"This was all much easier in the blackberry days for them to control"

And indeed, that was Blackberry's big sales pitch.

BYOD creates many, many wonderful consequences, however it also has tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs are not for the faint-of-security.
> Native File System API

Great, so there is light at the end of the tunnel!

> store that data on the server

Well, we talked about that already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23793541
Ask HN: How Does Stripe Generate Such Beautiful Documentation?
I've looked through many documentation packages and have not found anything generating as beautiful as Stripe (e.g., at https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata). Do they custom-generate this or use a package for it?

Nothing I've researched (e.g., Swagger + various packages, ReadTheDocs) produces something so beautiful.

I know this is silly to say, but I have a sublime experience when interacting with both their website and their documentation. I leave the site happy, soothed, and calmer. I'd like to do this for my own product.
What It’s Like to Work at Studio Ghibli
I saw a lot of people saying things like "tax them".

Why would you tax a non-profit institution that has like 5K hospitals and more than 10K homes for the elderly, orphans and those with special needs?
I actually want to see most of the lines you cite removed. Property lines are not arbitrary they are contractual. Now where the ruling body politic set those contractual lines might be arbitrary but that is beside the point.

You’ve constructed a straw man. You say your view is practical and mine is idealistic. I say yours is idealistic and mine is practical because mine will allow people to practice more freely.
You seem to be heavily involved in the PWABuilder website. Can you explain why the PWA needs to register a pushManager? I'd like to publish my app without setting up push notifications.
Camera pixels are pretty real to me
> selling point is their DOCX/XLSX compatibility.

Which they fail to deliver, given that LibreOffice manages to be more compatible with docx than they are.
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In that case, pass laws forcing disclosure and you still let the users decide.
Evaluating words without context doesn't work. You have to evaluate the words people say in the context in which they say them. Language is socially constructed and the meanings of words change over time. "We must secure the existence of our people" doesn't really sound particularly ominous on its own, but I want to avoid someone who says that because there's a nonzero chance that association with them will put me in actual, physical, danger.
There's no good explanation except that US healthcare orgs tend to misuse staff and clinical providers. Super-specialized doctor with untold postdoc training in faculty at my academic medical center? You've got to encrypt your personal phone to standard and install several required apps. No it is not expensed.
Oneplus phone X ray vision camera banned
Knusperli is similar: https://github.com/google/knusperli

Instead of trying to smooth the entire image, it reduces blocking artifacts by finding plausible coefficients that reduce discontinuities at block boundaries (jpegs are encoded as a series of 8x8 blocks). "jpeg2png gives best results for pictures that should never be saved as JPEG", but knusperli works well on normal photographic content, since it only tries to remove blocking artifacts.

> A JPEG encoder quantizes DCT coefficients by rounding coefficients to the nearest multiple of the elements of the quantization matrix. For every coefficient, there is an interval of values that would round to the same multiple. A traditional decoder uses the center of this interval to reconstruct the image. Knusperli instead chooses the value in the interval that reduces discontinuities at block boundaries. The coefficients that Knusperli uses, would have rounded to the same values that are stored in the JPEG image.
If in your location shutdown policies are preventing you from getting healthcare, they are doing their shutdown wrong. This is very sad.
>Sorry if I missed something obvious

The fact that they aren't doing anything that FB isn't already doing. The beef the USG has is that the CCP will have access to the data, not the fact that they are collecting the data at all.

The privacy hawks have been warning about this exact situation and people are now "surprised" when someone gets access to the data that they might not like.
It has happened as recently as last month with a relative of mine. On that phone, the messages would get delivered only when Signal was manually opened; if Signal was not the foreground application, messages for it would not get delivered (but WhatsApp delivered messages correctly on the same phone). It's as if the Signal server had lost the association between the Signal account and the GCM token used to deliver the notifications.
I think I read it here on HN that google has/had an entire team dedicated to making sure you never ever got porn unless you were very specifically searching for it.
You're basically saying that we should be non-interventionalist. So if a country gets taken over by a dictator, no big. If they kick out our companies and take our tech, no big. If they develop nukes so that they can hold us at ransom, no big.

Naive view of the world to think what happens outside your neighborhood is of no concern for you.
> When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman—and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones—then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.

You've called this a dogwhistle, a "harmful and dangerous trope from half a century ago". Do you have an actual, substantial response that isn't "this person is secretly a wrongthinker!", though?

You seem to offer one of "it works if you just make the bathrooms gender neutral like in SF", but to me that says either 1. allow all men to enter the same bathrooms as women, but stop calling them "women's bathrooms" or 2. make a separate category of bathrooms for trans women, which we call "gender neutral bathrooms". I think JK Rowling would say that #1 is not actually a solution, and many trans people and activists would call #2 an unacceptable difference in treatment.
They're devices that are under Amazon's MDM. So if the device was enrolled with their MDM then it applies.
Samsung could follow Apple in killing the in-box phone charger
You don't need to register a push manager; only if you want to send push notifications.

If you're referring to the PWABuilder analysis page, yeah, we hear your feedback. We're going to be revamping that page in the coming months. We'll deal with push notification score when we do that.
That screws up your default account order if you have multiple google accounts for work vs personal
And those rules are...?
> It is very subtle.

Subtle doesn't even begin to describe it...
> go talk to penniless lottery winners

You are just proving my point. They have no money.

To buy happiness you need money. It's obvious on the face of it. Do people who were rich in the past and could buy all the food they could eat... suddenly no longer need to eat at all? Or because they used to live in a nice house, they no longer need shelter when they are old?

No one is saying that it's impossible to have a bad day just because you have a dollar in your pocket.
Scachs D’amor (2009)
If the laws are not strong enough for them to be forced to do this in bigger markets, then perhaps the laws should be changed?

Depending on companies to self govern is not sustainable even if Uber does not exploit this, the next company will. Such loopholes need to be closed, putting on pressure on some companies is just band aid if they actually change, if not just effort wasted on the wrong thing.

I don't buy regulatory capture as a valid argument either.

To make sure companies do the right thing strong regulations and laws need to be in place, to make sure regulatory bodies and lawmakers are not influenced, people should have more power in government than money does.
My opinion as a father of two: Putting up roadblocks to accessing these materials is good. Some things really are damaging to young minds.

However, I'm not stupid. At some point they will get exposed to this stuff and if my children put in the effort to learn how to bypass those roadblocks, then great, at least they learned something in the process.
Not exactly the same, but where I used to work someone had turned on "wipe the phone after x incorrect pins" without notifying anyone. Lots of people with kids got their phone remotely deleted.

After that I've never allowed an employer to control my personal devices. Not that I actually did before, didn't know activating that stuff had so bug implications. I just wanted the calendar on my phone.
Drivers are not bound in any way to Uber, Uber won't send slave hunters if they leave the app.

If people continue to drive for Uber, doesn't that mean the app is still a net positive for them, or do you believe people would pay to work?

Your comment is a great example of what the parent comment is saying, the belief that people are too damn dumb and they need protection.
> The tide might lose steam if Biden wins the election.

Are you suggesting Biden will increase corporate taxes? Because if so, I seriously doubt it. Biden agrees with Trump on 70% of the issues if not more.
I also took a pre-ribbon exam for Word in high school, and I’ve had no trouble applying those concepts to successive versions, even though I’ve never been a heavy user. I dare say most software doesn’t change quickly enough for intensive early use to become totally irrelevant.