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>So the main argument is that humans have intelligence that is impossible to express through reason or codification. In other words, humans have a literal soul, divorced from physical world

No, in other words, humans have tactile, empirical, emotional, social, etc intelligence that is perfectly physical but not available to mere software in a computer.

It might be available to software running in humanoid robots, that can see, walk around, hang with other humans to learn, etc.

But even in that case, it won't be codified in any axiomatic way "through reason". Think more of neural networks and less of an 1960s AI program...
Even the land that was occupied by what we call "natives" was previously occupied by various flora and fauna. The previous settlers had no right to migrate to the area anymore than the Europeans did.
But in those few moments between when I notice the light and when I close the app/lid, my data has been stolen already.

If I'm in a compromising position, I don't want ANY footage of it to be created. If it is a so how frame or multiple seconds, I'm not okay with it. So being told that the notification light is equivalent to covering the camera entirely doesn't line up for me.
> Even with u2f, if the browser lies to u2f device or to you, all bets are off.

With WebAuthn / U2F if the browser lies it can result in you authenticating to a different system or under different circumstances than you expected, but nothing else, which seems pretty far from "all bets are off".

In particular a compromised browser could tell you that you're signing into Facebook, when the actual authentication performed is for GitHub, for example.

But because the User Presence detection happens in the physical authenticator it can't fake that, it does need you to press the button, tap the sensor or whatever.

And the credentials obtained this way are inherently one-use, when you take your Security Key away, bad guys can't get any further credentials from the compromised system you stopped using. As we see in this Google example that might not stop them, but that's an application security design issue not an inherent flaw in U2F / WebAuthn.
Awesome! You have a url or blogpost about it?
Now put it on solar :-)
And what if you see a green light? And you're not the one using the camera?
Ill argue that you don't need it for a small company - just don't overcomplicate your life by using technology that's designed for big companies.

Stick to simple systems like elastic beanstalk or app engine + RDS and something like snowflake and you get powerful, manageable, auditable projects. I'm also finding great benefit in launching each project in its own AWS account. This means you know exactly what project costs how much!
I read those blog articles as they came out, and bought into the same kool aid as you did, but when time came to use it, it just didn't work as well as menus.

The contextual toolbar is one of the better ideas though.
Does England not belong to the English, given that the Anglo-Saxons displaced the Celtic Britons during the middle ages?
Are these ballooning development costs caused by constantly pushing fidelity? I guess it's highly subjective, but fidelity is such a small motivator for me and people I know. We have passed the point of things being gorgeous long ago. The masturbatory quest for 8K textured HDR ray traced photo realism seems so gratuitous and wasteful. It's a valid niche to push things, but it almost seems mandatory for big titles.
I can see Jony Ive's head exploding: "Sullying my perfect, smooth, invented-new-aluminum-machining-technology-to-make-it-possible masterpiece with some latch?! Why don't you go work for Dell."
One way to imagine this space is as an indexed bank of light switches. Each switch starts out unset, and our goal is to find a configuration on a finite number of switches which will satisfy our search. The search can only check one switch at a time and must commit after each check. This allows a basic nemesis to compute a configuration by running the search repeatedly and rescuing it after each time it fails by checking the last switch checked.

A gorgeous immediate consequence is that each search is looking for a solution to a SAT problem! Each SAT solution describes the edge of a region of Cantor space whose elements all have the searched-for property. And thus, while the search can proceed in finite time, it must sadly be NP-complete.
I don't follow you. Lots of people put stickers over their cameras, not just hacker news posters, and furthermore, I think we all agree they have good reason to do so, it's not just posturing to look cool. (Also to me, "I bought a $2700 computer and I can't even trust it not to photograph me" is the opposite of cool, but I digress.) Also, I trust my chair, my bicycle, my car to a great extent (made in 2001 though), and quite a few other kinds of technology. So I don't understand what you're saying here.
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I think people have read my comment as though I hate Trump and I'm gloating that FaceBook is turning against him. But I don't think that's a fair reading.

I am trying to describe what "is" and not "what ought to be."

In this instance I am making a point that I believe is underexamined: if you look at FaceBook through the lens of political positioning, it can be very powerful.

If it was the case today that Democrats had been in power for decades and there was some kind of realignment towards Republicans (as happened in the 90's), I think you'd see the reverse of this: FaceBook elevating conservative voices to moderation positions, or advancing a message of pure neutrality.

I've worked at Bay Area tech companies. They are usually very attuned to the climate they're in, and maneuvering to be in a better position.

The average person can be like bah, who cares? I'd rather live my life, enjoy my freedom. But a tech company has a lot more on the line.

And, in my experience, companies like FaceBook have even more to gain, or to lose. Millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions. Possible anti-competitive lawsuits and actions.

So, for them, a defeatist attitude of "it's all unfair so why bother" isn't good enough. Some ambitious lawyer or exec will advocate "I can do better than that - here's how" and lead their company in a different direction - and that's true for FaceBook also.

I'd also make the observation that FaceBook is trying to get regulatory approval for a cryptocurrency, and that's a delicate thing. For that, being viewed favorably, even by individual politicians, matters.

So for all those reasons (and please don't view it as a criticism of FaceBook), I think it makes sense that some of the things issuing out of HQ now are motivated by the political climate we find ourselves in.

Remember, FaceBook is a famously future-facing company. They invested in WhatsApp years before social was dominant, seeing the future 10 years in advance. And people believe they're not paying close attention to the next 3 months?

It's in their DNA. It's part of how they grew to be such a giant, successful company. And if you examine their actions, fairly but objectively, the evidence is there to see.
It seems to me that the only powers we have are the ballot box, our wallets, and bullets. And in the USA, I'm not so sure about the former, what with all the corruption.

Want to see real change? General strike. Shut it all down and watch the powers freak out.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."

You're not wrong about TikTok, but 244 years and 6 days seems like a long time to consider a particular set of values "shoe-horned".
Huh, even MySQL and postgres are not apples to apples - we are just now launching a service in MySQL instead of our standard postgres because MySQL has features that postgres doesn't (better connection pooling, potential data partitioning)
120%. I used to work in an industry where a developer was killed in a drive-by shooting, after he reported certain code to the regulatory agency.

Generally speaking - as developers type away on their packet handling or authentication code, they all too naively believe they won't be a target of a new friend or bribe.
Please note that mobile users - due to my bad mobile layout - will find the solar stats at the bottom of the page (lot of scrolling).
We think things that aren't computable. Probabilistic quantum nature of superposition. But I don't think that means that "Turing machines" can't have AGI.

What I think what the article is talking about, is the idea that AGI must be embodied. That a widely unrecognized aspect of HI is its embodiment (read The Power of not thinking), and that without a body machines cannot be in the world, and therefore cannot have AGI.

I tend to think however that machine AGI will be possible even without putting them in robot bodies. They already have their own world, the internet. Just get them to explore that with a virtual analogy of a body. Worth a try anyway.
I would like to create/see robots that seed and plant Miyawaki style dense mini forests in urban areas.

I don’t live in the right zone, but I tell my friends in the lower hemispheres that when they have a child, they must plant at least 1/2 acre of forest. Or a fruit orchard or a hardwood grove. Why? Because at its worst, it’s Ag but is green and income producing. And at its best it’s green, Carbon sequestering long term..medium benefits for a hardwood grove with ebony or teak or rosewood that are super slow growing and will grow with the child..leaving them a legacy and an inheritance.

If anyone wants to collaborate for such a project, please reach out(my handle at gmail). I am still researching for the northern hemisphere.
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> With PWAs, you have to write apps in HTML, CSS, and JS, which seems worse than natively compiled languages like Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, etc. This, I feel, is a fundamental problem.

Flutter supports compiling to PWAs

https://flutter.dev/web
Problem solved, absurdity not solved.
Yuri Yakovlev: “Oleg Antonov Had Subscription to the ”Sport Aviation“ Magazine”
Let's be clear, there are plenty of AAA games that do not nickle & dime you. There are also a bunch where they do sell additional material, mostly additional campaigns via DLC, that is no way necessary. Just off the top of my head, Witcher 3, Doom 2016/Eternal, Last of Us 2, Spiderman, Uncharted 4, Bloodborne/Sekiro, Last Jedi, Persona 5 (Royal), FFVII Remake.
This is something you can use OverSight for, it opens a permission banner each time the camera/mic is accessed, with an option to whitelist apps. https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
It depends actually what is your purpose.

If you intend to learn about stock trading for personal finance reasons you can follow a lot of blogs or podcasts in the FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) community. Some examples are the stock series of JL Collins (https://jlcollinsnh.com/stock-series/) and the Mad Fientist (https://www.madfientist.com/, the blog is a bit tax focused, but it goes well with the Podcast).

If you want to learn about active trading then you need vastly different resources and not really my expertise.

Just wanted to mention that there are basically two philosophies here and based on either what knowledge you want to gain or how much risk you want to take as an investor you will need to choose what to learn.
Personally I think a hardware switch that disabled the mic and camera is the best route. Engineers would have to be honest in actually connecting the switch directly to the camera rather than resorting to some firmware tom-foolery. Then you could wire the indicator to the switch as a visual reminder that your camera is attached to your PC.
A simple bandaid placed over the camera works well and is thin enough to not interfere
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We have worked with dozens of customers over the past 8-10 months trying to migrate from Stitch Labs. We can be an alternative as we cover most of their features and more. If you are a manufacturer we might be an even better fit than having to use Netsuite.
> If the content was good folks would watch it, Whether in quick bites or not.

Agreed. "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" anyone?
How often are you rolling back production deployments that you need a Slack command to do it? Perhaps I am missing something but this does not seem like a good use of time for whoever put it together.
And Right On Cue, here's a great counter example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-b...

Read that, and you tell me: was Blake Neff canceled? Sure seems like it. Mainstream journalists found "vile" material in his online history, showed it to his employer, he's canned (well, resigned it seems like, technically).

So are you going to defend Neff? Please do. Or if you won't, please tell me why your carefully curated worries about "cancel culture" somehow don't apply to this case.

Because I can tell you why: because "vile".

So now tell me why your personal, entirely subjective definition of "vile" is more important that those of other people with different priorities. Because that's the only difference here.
> putting their logo on the videos which is something I haven't seen before.

Woooooooorrrrld staaaaaaaar

Also if you ever see a 7 second vertical video, sleep well knowing you just watched a Vine (not really a logo, but association all the same)
You're right, it's not a precise line of reasoning. I was considering only computable functions (else "runtime" isn't a meaningful concept) and treating the input domain as actually being the Cantor space, where 0.9999... and 1.0000... are actually distinct values. I just found it helpful to think about the Cantor space in terms of the unit interval.
Would you notice it if it was one frame every 15 minutes for example?
As for the second point, sure. In theory. If there’s no bugs or vulnerabilities or backdoors
Thank you! I didn’t even know this was possible.
That's interesting. It's back down to #11 for me now. So it seems then like it is personalized to user to some extent.
It the Pi is providing a useful service that people are paying dollars for, that it then uses to pay for its 5G subscription, why introduce intermediate steps of converting its money to bitcoin, gold boullion, or pirate treasure, in order to pay someone?
I suspect it might be dependent on whether someone is stronger visually or spatially vs textually.

I find ribbon interfaces highly irritating anywhere I find them, which is rarely - they haven't really caught on outside a couple of MS apps, AFAIK.
Honestly, unless you're cheating on your SO, society is growing increasingly tolerant/indifferent of most of the other things you could see on a webcam
So you're saying everyone should always be staring at their webcam to make sure the light is not on? It isn't like there's a subfield of Human Factors studying Cognitive load[1], saying that people don't do a good job at what you're saying people should do. Also, have you ever heard of a rootkit?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load
You are brushing off the systematic, mass genocide of native people and dispossession of their land by essentially saying that its happened throughout history, that it’s normal. I’m not really sure how this argument justifies anything. The colonization of America is recent. NA indigenous people are still alive and have special designated land that they were forced to move to. They weren’t even given citizenship by default until 1924–less than one hundred years ago

> continual occupation is just not a thing

I’m not sure where you are getting this. At what point is an occupation over? When the genocide is complete? That hasn’t even happened yet, NA indigenous people are still alive. Do you just expect they to submit, assimilate, and abandon their culture completely?
That's a bit of a straw-man. It does not follow that the existence of knowledge that isn't derived from formal principles of reasoning proves the existence of a soul.
Yeah I've thought about simplifying the icon or at least making it look less sinister. Maybe take away the red eyes or something. Appreciate the feedback!
Ran a business that started on stitch. What a painful piece of software that is. We had a heavily custom integration to their api and very high order volume. Moved to NetSuite, built many a customization and integration. NetSuite is great, but expensive and you will find the developer experience painful. As an ERP without investing heavily in customization it does a great job.
Are you seeing the indicator light go on when you aren't actively using the webcam?
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...
I recently uninstalled Dropbox after years of use. The upgrade nags were over the top, and the number-of-device limitations on the free plan made it no longer usable for me.

I like the app, and would happily have paid something for it, but as a mostly private user, the lack of a plan between 2 GB / free and 2 TB / $10/month just didn't make sense. $3/month for 5 GB would have been an easy choice.

Now I'm using SyncThing, which I don't love, but gets the job done, is free, and doesn't limit me to a couple devices. I have a folder that syncs to my web server that replaces me sharing things on Dropbox, which works, but is a little cumbersome. (That said, sharing links might be a fun thing to hack into SyncThing.)
It is 100% going to be Microsoft. Google is laughably bad at enterprise software and Microsoft really has no meaningful competition at this point. Teams is now crushing Slack in market share for the exact reason he mentioned - enterprise IT managers do not like the Unix approach of small targeted tools. They like product suites. Office 365 is as every bit as dominant today as Windows was 20 years ago.
If my phone gets stolen I need to be able to disable 2FA without having to pass 2FA
Because that wording is used in the land acknowledgement that I'm most familiar with:

> I/We acknowledge that the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire occupies the sacred and ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples. I/We honor the land of the Ojibwe and Dakota Nations.

The posted website specifically calls out the map's purpose in fueling land acknowledgments,[1] so my comment is exactly on-topic for the posted content.

I purposefully didn't take the topic into flamebait territory with some parallels I could draw to growing anti-white animus with certain slurs that are tied to that (and other) words.

[1]: https://www.whose.land/en/whyacknowledge
Because it can damage the laptop?
Every theocracy did it, and most non-theocratic governments did too. It's not a new trend.
I would probably say MySQL and Postgres is apples to apples just different types of apples (granny vs delicious). Their differences are not as big as a regular relation DB vs. a columnar DB.
maybe i should create alternative on withoutjs.org without js but i don't know is it worth.

¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

( yes, i am owner of this domain )
They should, but when the types are all inferred, it’s easier to hide that complexity.
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"Appropriate technology"

https://www.appropedia.org

I believe we are of similar understanding here. Great to read your responses here. Here's to the wish that we could share a conversation at some point. Trade notes.
Basecamp will only honor requests for data from a US law enforcement authority
The original iSight camera had a leaf shutter. It's not a foreign concept to them.
I always notice when the light goes on, because it's close to my screen, and effectively a form of movement in a place I don't usually see it. It's also quite bright on Apple computers. Is it different for other people?
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PWA = Progressive Web Apps

A progressive web application is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using
common web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
By the time the light comes on, the horse has left the barn.
Xfce Classic Brings a Choice for Those Who Don't Want Xfce to Become Gnome Light
Those youtube comments are gold.

"It really is hard to belive she's in her 80's! Amazing."

"Do not listen to Rhonda... she's a shill for big broccoli!!"
Wow it's actually really neat. Here's a picture if anyone is wondering:

https://i.imgur.com/HrF8jjk.png
Hard sign-up walled :<

https://i.imgur.com/mSk4uiI.png
We don't usually talk about politics here, but this is open and blatant corruption and needs to be remembered. Whether we allow these defining moments in American government to continue will have long-lasting implications, especially in the tech sector - so it's quite relevant to all of us, even if we don't want it to be.
I'm going to guess you're on iOS where you don't actually have Firefox (or any other actual browsers besides Safari). Firefox on iOS (like all iOS browsers) is required by App store rules to basically just skin Safari.

On Android, Firefox is the MOST usable browser.
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I'd also add that my laptop camera is pointed at me[1], and has a decent view of most of my room, whereas the vast majority of the time my phone's camera is pointed directly at my desk or straight up at the ceiling. I'd find my laptop's camera being compromised far more intrusive.

[1] Or least _was_, until I disconnected it - I needed to replace the screen anyway, and I _never_ used the camera, so I just popped the camera out at the same time
what happened to the stock, it's lustlacking comparing to other high tech stocks.
I have serious doubts as the viability of Quibi, mainly from my experience with sci-fi short-story compilations.

Sure there have been some great short story compilations, but paradoxically, the better they are the worse they feel. As you just get invested in a great story/world only to have it end a short time later.
> But TikTok associates itself by putting their logo on the videos which is something I haven't seen before.

It's just content watermarking.

Watermarking is essential to preserve your brand online. I assume you remember eBaumsWorld - and how they put their watermark and footer on all image-content that they rehosted: because those images would appear verbatim in FW:FW:FW... chain emails and shared over AIM,YIM,MSN,IRC, etc.

Back in the day, eBaumsWorld and others were criticized for putting their watermark on content that they rehosted, especially when they didn't own, produce, or commission that content. At least the vast majority of the content on TikTok was directly uploaded to it, and TikTok's watermark includes the username of the relevant account.

Their animated logo is obnoxious and distracting - but when I compare it to the DOGs on American TV news channels it isn't so bad, it's actually unobtrusive in comparison.
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False. There’s no such thing as “squatters rights” or anything or a statute of limitations. At any point the neighbor can sue you to protect his land.
Further, when either property is sold, a survey will show the discrepency.
Now that Glenn Greenwald has been marginalized at The Intercept which produces really inconsistent articles these days, I find the Grayzone is excellent for doing investigative journalism.

Some sampling
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/01/us-conspiracy-theory-on-c...

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/26/forced-labor-china-us-nat...

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/05/world-uyghur-congress-us-...

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harve...

https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-i...