skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we follow this pattern, once every country has lifted itself up by the bootstraps, the end-game would not be some poorer nations providing the subsistence-wage labour, but the poor population of each country providing subsistence-wage labour.

Nah, it's too politically unsafe to hire cheap in your own backyard and there'll always be country-level wage gaps on the bottom end, I'm just glad they're (slowly) reducing. No need attempting to run the simulation to a hypothetical end because there either is no end or it's unpredictable (could just as easily be a rise in extreme protectionist tariffs to discourage offshoring thereby re-widening the gap).
Sorry of my brevity caused you any frustration but I find it’s usually easier to ask questions and seek mutual understanding and clarity rather than make assumptions and accusations about intentions and torpedo the conversation before it’s even got going.
Some ideas are best conveyed through richer media. Don't hesitate to read Indigenous People's History of the United States, and stop demanding bread recipes on fortune cookie slips.
I could not agree more there is no evidence of any kind that there is some process that is human-intrinsic from perspective of neuroscience and computer science. Furthermore learning is just subset of intelligence, it seems to me most arguments are about concept of intelligence where such concept has different meaning for each participant.
Wonderful! But now how would one organize it into a coherent structure like the Köppen climate classification?
Manufacturing is not just about cheap skilled labour it is about resources aswell. India lacks both cheap "skilled" labour and mineral resources. They do have low and unskilled labour in high numbers though. Also India is just about as democratic as Putins Russia.
The article on knödel on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knödel is a hot mess. I was curious to see a distinction between knedlik and knodel so I looked at this and, aside from its over-reliance on German terminology, it seems to contradict itself internally. I grew up with English terms for the dumplings that I ate, which were primarily plum dumplings (very rarely with other fruit) and bread dumplings. In my limited experience, knödel is just the German word for what Czechs call knedlik, but I just eat them, I'm not an authority.
This assumes that low cost labor is the only necessary condition for an acceptable geography. Likely, it is not. Surely companies such as Apple, with their army of supply chain professionals, has given deep thought to many options, including and beyond what the armchair analysts here on HN can dream up in the 10 minutes this topic catches their fancy.
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A friend of mine was the project manager for a project to develop one of the first color matching systems for paint stores. My friend is colorblind. At least for him, the project was very much a matter of programming knowledge that he could not possess.

I've gotten color matching done at Home Depot, to get paint for repairing my house. It's uncanny.
I'll have to try this some time.
Yes, it's a rerun of Dreyfus.

A more useful question is "what can't machine learning do"? Each generation of AI technology has solved some problems, then hit a wall. (I had the unfortunate experience of going through Stanford CS in the mid-80s, when expert systems had hit a wall but the faculty was in denial about that.)

Is there some way to get "common sense", defined as "knowing if something bad is going to happen before you do it", from machine learning? So far, no. DARPA is funding work on it, though.[1]
The Allen Institute even has a competition.[2] Both are verbal, though; they work on text statements.

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/program/machine-common-sense

[2] https://www.tau-nlp.org/csqa-leaderboard
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How long until we can write DNA as easily as we do Python?
It's not though. If we think about Result as an example, `1`, `Success(1)` and `Failure(1)` are different values, not just different types.

I think the point you're making is that Standard ML has certain restrictions in its type system that are necessary to make type inference possible: there are no union types, no subtypes (more recent work has found a way to make subtyping compatible with full H-M), polymorphism has to be introduced explicitly with `let`, and there are no higher-kinded types. And in some cases you'd argue those restrictions might incur more code overhead compared to a language that loosens those restrictions at the cost of less reliable type inference (e.g. Scala).

That's sort-of-but-not-really true: in my experience union types and subtypes are always bad ideas and there are better alternatives for any use case where you would use them. You never actually want "String | Int", you want a type with meaningful semantics (like `Result<String, Int>`).
So... ?

Problem is people dont trust software. People want a hardwired fix.
If the sensor is physically getting power, the light is too, unless the wire is broken. They are on the same circuit. It is not a firmware thing, its basics circuits Physics 101. The light could be burnt out, yes. The wire could break sure. But it can't be hacked (minus pulse modulation, not giving the light enough time to light up). But if you power up the camera, and something isn't physically broke... the light comes on. I know the privacy incident has already happened, separate argument. I think people are missing the hardwired point. This discussion should be focusing on the fact that if the camera has powered on, and we see it, it's already too late.
Believe it or not Capitalists love Communist countries as manufacturing hubs, they can circumvent labour laws, unions etc. Vietnam Is an ok destination for skilled labour but is hardly the resource heaven than China is.
I work in a high paying plush job. I will also not work in fields growing crops, neither in a call center, not even in a software service company paying me meagre ₹35 lakh/a. But what doed that mean?
since you mentioned Zettelkasten ,apart from Zettlr, if you are on mac, you can try this https://zettelkasten.de/the-archive/
And we will NOT know what knowledge we have unless we program it.
Nexus-6 just needs to get better at hiding from the law.
It is appalling how despite the availability of information online, people still choose not to verify what they hear on the MSM.
Here is the link to the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 on GOI website. It's only a 2 page document.

http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf

It was amended to accommodate persecuted minorities from *neighboring countries" of India. It has nothing to do with the Citizens of India.
Try this as well https://www.zotero.org/
Just because the genocide didn't fully succeed in exterminating every last Native American doesn't mean it somehow wasn't a "systematic mass genocide", for the same reason that just because Nazi Germany didn't successfully wipe every last Jew off the face of the Earth doesn't mean that wasn't a "systematic mass genocide", or how just because the VRS didn't exterminate every last Bosniak doesn't mean the Bosnian genocide wasn't a genocide.

Like, there's nothing mixed about that message at all. The United States systematically displaced or outright exterminated countless Native Americans, and yet some did survive and will hopefully have a chance to recover from that genocide and reclaim some of their lost lands.
Listen people, Reverse Engineering Brain like Reversing Windows. Yep, some guys did it but still not far from perfect.
I work in this field and Jesse's death pretty much halted gene therapy research for almost two decades. It's been absolutely remarkable to see the resurgence of research and the positive data that has come out of the field.

We certainly aren't out of the woods yet. Several gene therapy companies are struggling to work out the kinks. With AAV vectors targeting the liver, the immune response can kill any therapeutic effect and even if it doesn't, some gene therapies are seeing limited durability.

It's truly a golden age for gene therapies. You're seeing patients who were absolutely crippled by their disease for decades (hospital bound, can't go to school, can't work, need constant home care), and with a single administration are effectively cured. What's interesting, is now a big problem is the psychosocial issues - what do you do after you're given a life you never thought you'd have? I've actually heard of patients who refuse such treatments as they would lose an identity they've had since they were born.

I'm stealing the quote, but it's the closest thing we have to the resurrection of the dead.
Interesting to see where the zeros show up on the distance matrix (aside from the diagonal). The similarity between manti and shumai (siomay in the article) was quite a surprise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(food)#/media/File:Ouzb%...

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shumai#/media/File:%E7%83%A7%E...

But that's also where I noticed both guotie and wonton were on the list, although guotie is basically a generic term for "potsticker." It's usually a fried jiaozi although sometimes a fried wonton is also called a guotie.
Absolutely, but that process is absolutely not data driven.

“Feeling” about a show, and connections to the people running are the two major factors driving those decisions.

Data driven shows tend to be forgettable and ignored by newer generations, who are the ones holding their parents’s credit cards, and therefore, a major audience for hit shows.
> English isn’t an ethnicity.

That’s pretty clearly not true, though the boundaries of that ethnicity will be perceived differently by different people.

“The English people are a nation and an ethnic group native to England who speak the English language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ('family of the Angles').”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people
Is it not clear that they're not complaining about the literal situation of credit card breach, but rather using it as analogy to being informed of a breach after the fact?
One thing humans, and living things in general have, is enough complexity to be self aware on some level.

There is US, our parts, and the rest of the world, and OTHERS.

A computer, brain in a box, lacks that.

Maybe one embodied in such a way as to be capable of "the self" may display emergent properties similar to how we and the animals do.
This is the way to do it.

I always used to say I don’t cover the webcam on my MacBook Pro because any hack sufficient to activate it without my knowledge would mean the attacker already has root, including my bank login, etc, and I’d just be closing the barn door after the horses have left.

In the Covid era, however, my threat model is no longer unlikely malicious actors with root , but more plausible bugs in my conference software. I’m not worried that a statistically implausible attacker has a zero-day on my webcam, but that Zoom has a bug that will default the camera to on despite my settings as I join standup coming out of the shower. If there were a firmware-based gesture to explicitly turn the camera on, I wouldn’t need the tape.
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As an example, Southern Athabascan speakers(e.g. Apache, Navajo) only migrated from what is approximately modern day Canada to the American Southwest within the time frame that Europeans were already on the continent(~1500 AD).
I think the goal of running native speed compiled-ish code on the browser in a sandboxed way would be great if it worked. CSS and HTML for "apps" has always seemed like a hack to me. The problem is every single attempt to do this in the past has resulted in a bloated mess. Maybe this time will be different...
He's right. Google spent millions of dollars to beat a chess player, and what a waste of money to fool kids to get into AI.
LEDs don't burn out in regular usage conditions
Just speculation on my part but... On Android, the default (Chrome) is good enough that most people won't think of trying something else, and on iOS Safari is really your only choice anyway.
That's exactly the same hypocrisy the OP is complaining about, just from the other direction. One faction of the West ignores Saudi's role in killing Yemenis; The other faction ignores Iran's role in killing Syrians. One faction ignores domestic repression in Saudi Arabia; the other ignores domestic repression in Iran. One ignores theocracy in Saudi, the other ignores theocracy in Iran.

Both countries and both rulers of said countries should be international pariahs.
IHNJ, IJLS "eigendumpling"
Discussion 10 days ago (600+ comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 "California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste"
Absolutely, manufacturing requires

1. Cheap Skilled Labour (India has unskilled labour because skilled abour is expensive in India)

2. Mineral Resource (India doesn't even have anthracite deposits for steel production) leave alone oil and other minerals for manufacturing.

3. India does have a good mix of software and other Engineers.

I think the best manufacturing countries for expansion out of china are African countries which do have Unskilled labour and Mineral resources. They can hire the rest from outside.
It's usually a result of the webpage doing stupid stuff to try to explicitly block password managers. There's a lot of banking and government websites that believe this makes things more secure somehow.
It rarely fails for me in the browser, but it fails on me regularly for apps.

The ones that particularly annoy me are the ones that haven't updated to the new Android biometric API versus just supporting the old fingerprint API. I'm looking at you Chase mobile app.
I have no issues with those things on preview now. It has been a tiny bit unstable but it's getting better
This statement has a number of issues.

First, you have to trust Apple that the indicator _really_ can't be disabled. You also have to trust that there isn't a vulnerability Apple is not aware about that could allow rolling the camera without the light coming on. This has happened in the past [0] and there are known Apple products that are vulnerable, yet the statement never mentions this making you believe it's impossible.

Second, once the camera light is on, the data has already been captured. The light just told you about it, not prevented it. The plastic cover or a piece of tape does prevent it even if your laptop security is compromised.

Third, in a world where remote conferences are more and more common, more and more software doesn't do a very good job at letting you know when it's about to enable your camera. You might click on a link to an all hands conference to listen in while you're changing only to have the software helpfully enable the camera and broadcast you for the rest of the company. I believe in big conferences organizer may sometimes control other ppl's camera as well. You can totally imagine a scenario when the organizer misclicks and enables the camera for the wrong person instead of a scheduled presenter.

Camera covers solve all of those problems.

[0]: https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36569
They aren't of sufficient complexity and robustness to self identify.

Our bodies offer a closed loop, very robust and complex feedback system.

Our intelligence can process that and learn all sorts of things. Can learn what is "them" and what is other.

Without those things, a computer, as we have constructed them so far, really don't have a childhood.
I can barely figure out how to use the GTK+3 open dialog

- why is "recent items" first?
- why are the folders down the side random paths?
- why is there no place to enter a path?
- why does it do a recursive search when I type in the window?

how to make an open dialog was pretty much perfected by MS 20 years ago
> My friend is colorblind. At least for him, the project was very much a matter of programming knowledge that he could not possess.

Being unable to perceive color and color relationships does not equate to being unable to have knowledge of color and color relationships.
This is exactly the sort of conflation of completely unrelated concepts as I found in the article. What on Earth has healing got to do with reasoning? You even say our bodies do it without conscious prompting, in other words it’s a completely irrelevant issue.

Yes computers aren’t biological, they aren’t life, but so what? Why does that constrain their ability to interact with and learn from the world?

AGI is defined as human like intelligence, human go to the toilet, computers don’t go to the toilet, therefore AGI is impossible. See? It’s easy to “prove” AGI is impossible. That’s really all their argument boils down to. I kept reading the article expecting to hit some essential argument, not to find one. Very disappointing.
Getting 70% from digital is still superior to the 55% you'd get at retail.
How do you know? How do you know how the LED is implemented?
I know a lot of teachers, and not a single one has ever mentioned these things as values or design goals. I've never seen anything like this in any discussion of curriculum or pedagogy.

It's not plausible that they're all managing to keep it a secret. Someone would have spilled the beans, for example some early 20th century teacher writing a memoir, or something like that.

So, a fair guess is that if it's true, it's an example of a system that has evolved away from its original goals.
Date is actually pretty good.

* If you're reading UTC dates from the backend and displaying them in local time, new Date(year + 1900, month, day, hour, minute, second) works great.

* It's also easy to calculate repeating intervals in local time by using that constructor with getYear(), getMonth(), etc.

* Send it back to the server with .toISOString(). Add a .replace('Z', '') on that so .NET binds a DateTime with the right Kind.
They also claim that if you add a (MFI-compliant) case to the iPad, and close it, that this similarly disconnects the microphone. The simplest mechanism to do this sounds complicated enough that it reduces my confidence in the mechanism. The point of half the comments in this thread is that a hardware interlock mechanism needs to be dead simple. This sounds like a step in the wrong direction.
There's a long history of that. AT&T used to have a stranglehold on communications and had some seriously bad practices.

But they also produced some really cool tech. Unix being the obvious one to bring up on this site.

That era is romanticized to hell (including by me), and Ritchie, Thompson, and the like are folk heroes. Despite being engineers at the subsidiary of a giant monopolistic entity.

Ultimately, for people who think the tech is cool, it doesn't matter where it comes from. In 50 years people will be romanticizing the era of the FAANG companies (more than they already do) the same way we romanticize bell labs.
But they just stole the land in a similar manner that Europeans stole the land from Natives. If someone steals your car, and then has that car stolen from them - it would be strange to set up a movement to have the car returned to the penultimate thief instead of the original owner.
If you live in SF, you have the chance of tasting one of the best dumplings in the world: “dumpling specialist”.

I hate giving out this gem because it’s such a small place and it sucks when these places go popular. But holy shit this is next level.
Is there anything specific that you find Rust is missing in this regard?
> Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than China.

It's already a booming manufacturing alternative center to China. It's also a center of booming tech manufacturing. Samsung has invested a huge amount of money into factories there.

Their GDP has gone from $35 billion in 2003, to $261b in 2019. They've had one of the fastest growing economies for the past decade.

US imports from Vietnam have climbed from $14b in 2010, to $30b in 2014, to $66b in 2019. 371% increase in one decade. The US imports more from Vietnam than France ($57b) or the UK ($63b) now.

US exports to Vietnam by contrast are a mere $10b, so we're pouring an epic positive trade surplus (surplus for them) into the country. The same exact way China developed. US investment is going to build Vietnam into a middle income country in the span of 20 years. We'll probably soon have nearly a $100b trade deficit with Vietnam. If they keep on the right track, they'll develop very rapidly.

The Communism isn't a problem. The US wants Vietnam to develop so it can help be another strategic counter to China. The people of Vietnam also hold the highest opinion of the US of any people of any nation.[2] The US also doesn't have to worry about Vietnam becoming a superpower competitor, so they don't pose a China-like strategic threat. They're an excellent ally accordingly, we have many shared interests.

"40 years after fall of Saigon, Vietnamese see U.S. as key ally"

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/30/vietnamese-...

"84% of Vietnamese people view the US favorably"

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2017/06/26/tarnished-amer...
Alright. Just wanted to make sure I was following your train of thought.

Thanks for taking the time to elaborate. You have a good one.
Really? What kind of tape can damage a MacBook? I've never heard of this before
Who owns the laptop you’re currently typing on?
I was subjected to christian homeschooling and christian private elementary schools. What he says is accurate.

Addendum: One of my wife's oldest friends is a christian who homeschools all of her children. She buys both secular and christian science curriculums so she can explain to her kids what the christian materials get wrong. But hey, I'm sure you read an article about this stuff once. =)
MTXs and season passes aren't going away in games that deploy them. But they may stay away in AAA games that haven't been infected with them yet. I don't understand why you think games have been dumbed down though.
> My only disagreement would be in regards to government being the only institution with the economic incentive to do invest here, long-term.

If not government what other sort of institution do you think has the ability to make such civilization scale investments, with the associated short-term risks? Corporations won't do it, nor will venture capital, private equity, investment banks, retail investors. What's left?

> From my understanding of the federal governments involvement in agriculture subsidies, the government seems to be much more in support of the entrenched, large-scale industrial farming systems.

Which kind of demonstrates that it's capable of supporting a long-term investment in agriculture, but that it is perhaps putting that support behind the wrong approach considering the threat of climate change.
Current Gentoo user. I find the opposite. Using unstable, things just work. Sometimes package updates fail to compile but your system is still fine, and the package will get fixed eventually. Never had an update break my system on unstable. Stable often had issues, which I presume is due to devs mostly working on unstable.