skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embodiment being a killer feature for AGI seems weird to me.

For the record, I have just argued in a different thread, that this stuff is not needed for "AGI", at least not the way I perceive it as being defined. And I believe that way is consistent with others in the field.

But... if you'll allow my use of the distinction between "human level" intelligence and "human like" intelligence, then I will say that I think embodiment is important to the latter. Why? Because I believe a lot of our learning is experiential, and especially the learning that yields a lot of our very basic "model of the world" ideas. Take our "intuitive metaphysics" - there are objects in the world. Objects can't be in two different places at the same time. Two objects can't be in the same place at the same time. Etc. etc. And likewise our "intuitive epistemology" which we use to decide what things are true, and so on. I believe that it will be very difficult (although perhaps not impossible) to give an AI very human like equivalents to these things, as well as "intuitive physics" (things fall over when they're off balance, you can't stand a pencil up on it's sharpened point, etc.) without having it "experience" a lot of these things.

Now the really interesting spin on that is whether or not a virtual body in a simulation would suffice to a degree. If you built a really hyper-realistic "fake world" using a really advanced game engine with somewhat realistic physics and what-not, and "put" the AI "in" that world... maybe it would learn some, or most, or even all, of what we learn. I doubt it would be "all", but who knows?
Aquarius builds an engine others only dreamed of
Ask HN: Good and slim web CMS software (à la Wordpress)?
I set up a WP website some time ago for a relative. It is basically just a bunch of static pages, the only functionality WP adds is editing, which is essential.

It has served its purpose well, but said relative is unable to self-manage the site without bloating it or slowing it down to a crawl. I have no intention of managing their website, so I'm interested in a platform (free preferred, paid is also fine) that would allow them to modify content on their site / rearrange pages in menus etc. without giving them the possibility of messing up too much.

Thanks for reading.
You train the model locally and push it for inference to the cloud?

What exactly are we talking about here?

Couldn’t you build a dual NVIDIA 20XX / 32 core / 64 GB for a sub $5k and then save money while training/developing faster?
This is really great. I'm so glad that someone took the time to explain what is really going on. Thanks...hopefully you'll do more!
> my single use case for explicit types in Ocaml was data deserialization

Data deserialization is where types are most useful
When you write an iOS app you're constantly interacting with Objective-C. The moment you're using JSONSerialization–and unless you're shipping your own JSON parser, you're not avoiding it–you're getting back a nice Any that you are almost certainly going to work with, possibly implicitly, using AnyObject. My point was that switching the SDK to use Swift would not help fix this issue, and I think I've shown that you'd run into similar issues even without the use of the force unwrap operator as you implied previously.
Otherwise, it’s amazing. Exactly what I was looking for and the folders are something I didn’t know I needed but love.
Trump confirms US conducted cyberattack against Russia in 2018
If LibreOffice is offering a paid version for extra features / services, considering what they are already offering, I would certainly paid, or at least have a strong interest.
You still have a silent mode toggle on your iphone. I think apple can figure out how to add a hardware switch for a camera/mic to a laptop without compromising thickness.

It doesnt need to be a hardware cover, just a hardware killswitch to the circuit.
A couple hypotheticals here:

A way to overvoltage/current and burn out the LED. Probability low, but nonzero.

More plausible situation: There are times when the camera is pointed at me, but my head is not pointed at the camera. Perhaps I left the laptop on in the corner of a room while it's playing music, or a myriad of other things.

A cover is a simple, foolproof solution to the camera issue.
Isn't everything digital to a point, since we can't ever measure anything smaller than the Planck length?
Exactly!

Apart from that, I would be absolutely amazed if there isn't at least one failure mode of the led itself that allows the camera to turn on despite no light being emitted. Probably too rare for most people to worry about, but still.

I really get why people want a cover, and I think Apple are being a bit disingenuous trying to convince people they don't need one.
It's fine they warn about the danger of cracking the screen, but that entire "we protect your privacy spiel" was rather terrible, and also quite misleading as you so clearly pointed out!
Still, sync is unreliable and playback is glitchy. Do not recommend unless you are a FOSS or decentralization zealot.
Chuckled when I read they had a difficult time trying to talk with car companies. In Detroit 2020 isn't different than 1950 in one aspect: not big believers if not-invented-here. However if they can steal the idea like intermittent windshield wipers they'll adapt the idea, but not quickly.
I was looking at the gross profit figures, since we’re explicitly talking about the cost of making video games - not marketing or executive/corporate costs.
> Activision Blizzard annual gross profit for 2019 was $4.395B

But, even with “only” $1.5B profit they’re doing pretty amazing - that’s just shy of a 25% profit/revenue split. That’s better than Google, which I’m sure you realized.

And if billions of dollars of profit isn’t “hand over fist” money, I don’t know what is.
I didn't realize that Windows 10 is immune to ransomware and viruses.
hella explanation! Even I can understand
Vision Fund had no vision fund. Their portfolio companies were useless right off the bat
Actually I had a problem with that map too if you are referring to the one posted today showing ancestral tribal lands. There is no mention of the Karankawa tribe who lived along the Gulf Coast. Interestingly enough they are one of at least two Texas tribes known to have practiced ritual cannibalism, the other being the Tonkawas.

I lived in Houston for nearly 10 years and totally agree with the poster you replied to, that area is a shithole that is really unpleasant if you don't have air conditioning. The local tribes were mostly naked and covered themselves in mud to avoid the mosquitoes so they had workable options they employed.
Vision Fund had vision. Their portfolio companies were useless right off the bat
It can't just all be a UBI scheme for...

Every one of my travels to western states and every conversation I've had with other cattlemen there and elsewhere implies that it is exactly that. Perhaps once upon a time it was something else, and as the situation changed our government didn't keep up. I imagine that numerous bureaucrats at BLM and other agencies have some personal interests in the disastrous way that things are done. Some call this a "principal-agent problem".

Likewise, the various stupid wars we in USA fight aren't at all about our security or saving democracy or any of the other myths. Those are "UBI schemes" for armaments manufacturers and their employees in politics and the media.
Why do they like product suites? This is alien to me.
We can and absolutely have proven things to be impossible.

What would you consider to be an example of that? And how does that square with the Problem of Induction which is the hole in our entire system of empirical knowledge generation?
> You still have a silent mode toggle on your iphone.

Yes, and it's one of, what, three moving parts left? Even the home button on the iPhone 7, 8, and 2020 SE is fake, it doesn't actually depress.
Are you also opposed to automobiles?
If the the camera indicator light is enough, why did ThinkPad bother to adopt the camera shutter.

Built-in camera shutter is a great design that really cares about users' privacy.
It's not quiiiite as polished, but I like this website a bit more:
https://native-land.ca/

Informationally, it has more layers, including treaties, languages and territories.

It's stewarded by a dedicated [and now native-led] Canadian nonprofit, as opposed to a short-term funded collaboration that whose.land is. Also, it's partnering with other groups like https://nativesintech.org/

(If anyone feels supportive of projects like this, and otherwise empowering indigenous communities, NativesInTech has a Slack team and is very welcoming of non-native contributors :) https://forum.nativesintech.org/t/welcome-to-natives-in-tech... )
If I were anyone relying on China right now I would diversify to other countries as fast as possible. Everyone should ask: what if I get cut off tomorrow? And have a strategy for that.
The original iSight had a hundred times more depth and also happened to be an external camera. Bringing it up here is irrelevant.
Is there something like this but fast forwarded to now?
> an idyllic, quiet small farm surrounded by nature.

That sounds more like a country house — or a tax dodge— than it does a working farm.
Can't digital download a map printed onto a piece of fabric tho :D
You're saying: they not perfect. And I agree with you. But who's perfect?
Personally I make it a habit to vote first thing in the morning, before going to work. Lines are negligible, and I've never had an employer complain about me showing up a few minutes late wearing an "I voted" sticker. But YMMV.
The sticker price is a psychological barrier and the studios have figured out a much more lucrative way around it. So they never have had to challenge it.

But they totally could, and should. These games are the cheapest and longest form of entertainment around. The market can bare more, it is just a matter of time before shareholders force studios to put that theory to the test.
> police have other duties like maintaining public safety

In the US it is not legally correct to claim that the police have any duty to provide any specific police service. (Warren v. District of Columbia)

But pedantry aside, they could monitor twitter and whatnot for violence outbreak without collecting any identifyable information.
On MacBooks the disconnect is done without the T2 being involved.
Right. Because if a carbon based / biological machine like a human can be an AGI, what reason - in principle - is there to say that the same can't be done with a different (perhaps silicon centric) machine? To suggest otherwise feels, to me, like indulging in a form of mysticism which holds up human life as something being "beyond" science.
That's such a big pile of yikes, I'm morbidly drawn to see that codebase.
Show HN: Fast UIs for ML
It would be ideal if they could connect with French girls their age. I know some if you want an intro:) duo lingo is a good app for free language learning. I can also recommend some good tutors (volunteer or paid) if that’s helpful. I used to run a french language school so know lots of great people. Contact me through contact page on modulo.app
Ballots don't need to be secret, they just need to be anonymous. If you get rid of the secret constraint, it becomes fairly easy to produce a trustworthy voting system:

1. Immediately before identifying at the polling location, each voter takes a nondescript strip of paper out of a large container of numerous strips of paper, each with a unique identifier printed on it. (No one but the voter knows which identifier they took. No one can force a specific identifier.)

2. The voter fills in the identifier on a Scantron-style paper ballot. (Easily digitized, with a paper trail.) The ballot box scans the unique identifier and spits back out out any ballot with an identifier that wasn't generated for that polling location. (Ensuring no one can force a specific identifier.)

3. A list containing the entirety of every ballot is published publicly, including the unique identifier. (The voter can look up their ballot later. It becomes difficult to coerce a voter because they can say any one of the published ballots is theirs.)

4. A list of names of people who voted is published publicly. (Registered voters who didn't vote can check if a ballot was cast in their name. This is already done in many places.)

You can also have mail-in ballots with user-generated statistically-unique identifiers (requiring only several rolls of a die, so anyone can do it at home), but you can't prevent voter coercion that way.
Android does this too. On neither platform does it work 100% of the time, especially in browsers. That's why almost all clipboard managers also have a "copy to clipboard" feature from the autofill view.
And some of them that had intermarried with whites and slaves and had mixed blood passed themselves off as Black Irish or Black Dutch to avoid being labelled Indian and sent west. This allowed them to keep the homes and businesses their families had founded and maintain their places in white society. They just needed to look believably white.
Getting linked to the argument between ddevault and wm4 over the latter’s hate of XDG directory spec made my night; thanks.
I also really like those refills but hate the pen body.

Pilot V5 RT refills fit into the Everyman Grafton pen ($35)

I used that for a while but found the pen a bit too large.

Nowadays I either use an Energel [2] or the classic Pilot V5.

[1]: https://everyman.co/collections/frontpage/products/grafton-p...
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0776M8VY1
Happy to help in any way I can. Feel free to reach out through modulo.app
A fiction piece isn't a great demonstration of anything, really.
It's the same argument against allowing Congress or the Supreme Court from legislating/ruling on new tech when they don't know how it's used because they don't use it themselves. Age cohorts do actually matter in apps that live or die based on network effects.
> It's additive: blasting alarm indicates that something is wrong, but lack of warning doesn't mean that everything is right.

In which case surely the warning does more harm than good - if the warning is sounding you need to check, and if the warning isn't sounding you... still need to check.

> Shallow end. Like stall warnings, airspeed indicators are also known to become unreliable relatively often. It's like loss of cabin pressure, bird strike or a blown tire. Every pilot can reasonably expect it to happen to them

Sure, which is why it's something that should be practised under normal conditions, rather than something that you do only when it's icing.

> It goes opposite to their training and the flying instinct that every pilot should have.

But how is a pilot supposed to develop that instinct if they're not hand flying often?
The Huawei Mate book X Pro has a key on the keyboard that when pressed flicks up a camera. When it is down it shows a black hole inside the keyboard. When it is up it shows a great angle directly up your nose and typing when in a video call shows your hands really clearly. But it is still an interesting way to do it.
One of my favorite resources that develop the HM algorithm from scratch is Ben Lynn's[0], who treats it like a series of interview questions, because really type inference algorithms match up two trees into constraints, which can contain concrete types or type variables, then solves those constraints.

[0] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/lambda/hm.html
Ah, so you’re suggesting we ignore the opinion of the only woman who showed up in this thread? Ironic, isn’t it?
The article doesn’t include any commentary related to students that were mis-predicted in the other direction, i.e higher-than-expected scores. If the results stand, they’ll be an interesting case study in the predictive value of IB scores on college performance.
Actually it would be a huge security risk if everyone posted their CC numbers publicly. Attackers could use their numbers to make purchases, and by the time the purchases show up on the statement the money is already gone.
Wanted to put solar powered sparse mesh networks in forest as emergency trackers..
What's the problem with the following? Why are y'all complaining?

> Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper
Maybe the people doing the lauding are different from those doing the criticizing? I'm inherently suspicious of statements which treat a discussion forum as monolithic.
Every project is a global rounding error environmentally, that doesn’t mean they’re harmless. The real yardstick is simply a cost vs benefit equation as we can’t mitigate everything. On that scale a project trike this is extremely harmful as the benefit is nonexistent and the harm is real.
They probably don't do that because it implicitly says "we don't trust our software to be secure"
I think I know computers well. But I have no idea what "body" and "childhood" computers have. Can you please explain?
Have you ever considered the possibility that you're mistaken? I try to myself, which is why I want to discuss with people who hold opinions other than mine, in order to understand why they do and whether I should change my view. You've communicated clearly that you disagree with me, but I'm not sure what else I could get from your comments.

Is there any substantive argument that you'd be willing to engage with? I'm not sure why you keep responding if not. You can't actually believe that nothing happened here, unless you believe that nothing happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis because the missiles never flew.
Why can't PKI be used?

If I sign a vote with my private key, and my public key is used exactly once, and is registered with the electoral body, and a list is printed of signed votes by candidate, I can validate that my key was used to sign a vote for the person / issue I voted for, and we can also know that everyone only voted once.

Key distribution could be based on the current registration system we have in place now, and you could use the key they send you to change your key pair so the state can't forge your vote. One could even automate this, even with an open source app we could all inspect.

It seems conceptually simple.
Yeah, why wouldn’t the hacker wait until the user logged into their 1Password manager start stealing passwords that way?
You're putting words in my mouth as a red herring.

I pointed out how practically everyone is living on conquered land - yes, even the native americans who wrested it from each other, though you cast shade on this inconvenient fact. So does whose.land, which rationalizes the overlapping amerindian borders like so: "Often, boundaries between territories overlap because the Indigenous Nations were continuously sharing the land and negotiating agreements through their own diplomatic and legal systems." Hmmn...No mention of war or genocide - everyone just got along diplomatically apparently.

Reality check: incidents such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre evidence my better judgement on this matter.
For every Spiderman, there’s a FIFA. For every TLOU II, there’s a TLOU2 Elly edition being sold for over 4x the entry price.

Even the Witcher 3 sold a season pass for $30 prior to any expansions being released. And Cyberpunk 2077? There’s a $260 edition and a $400 edition. There’s no official word, but it’s looking likely that there will be a season pass sold for it as well.
not true at all. keep shilling, though. we'll be taking care of you folks soon ;)
This article did not age well for Dropbox.
> Covering the built-in camera might also interfere with the ambient light sensor and prevent features like automatic brightness and True Tone from working.

I don’t see the LED come on any time I’m not actually using the camera, so I’m guessing the True Tone sensor is near the camera and it doesn’t actually use the camera. So as long as the sticker only covers the camera it should be ok?

Also, my Mac has a lip around the edge of the screen which is probably thicker than most stickers.
That reminds me of a quote about chlorine trifluoride:

"...It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride that protects the bulk of the metal ... If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
I think the opposite is where things need to go.
Having a wide SIMD ALU quickly accessible from your CPU core is very useful, especially as it shares the same memory system and a much more flexible programming model that allows you to do everything in a single source.
Why didn't Microsoft go with something like this for WSL, instead of using a VM for WSL2?
Tu maldita voz en mi memoria
Thanks, those are very, very nice! It's true I have no need for such a hat, but I appreciate your sharing them and hope some other HN reader does.

If I think of an occasion that calls for a specific hat, I'll try to keep her business in mind. :-)
> "the author is wrong because of their identity" or rather "the author is not only wrong but evil/hateful/racist/otherwise-deserving-of-cancelation because of their identity"

Nitpick: this is not about the author's identity[1][2], but about incidental physical characteristics[0] or (charitably) aesthetic preferences[3].

0: ie, the person making the 'rebuttal' is themselves racist/sexist/etc.

1: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

2: http://web.archive.org/web/20200623015648_/https://slatestar...

3: see [2] and search for "Tribe is most classically typified by" and "code word for the Red Tribe".
I don't see how Apple could do anything for you in that case.
Or at GameStop. Despite that, criticizing GameStop and wishing it would go out of business seems to be a favorite hobby of many HN'ers
I suspect nobody is willing to go on record about that.
Same. I dye mine black with a marker so it doesn't stand out so much.
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How are mail-in ballots protected from fraud? I keep hearing that fraud is not a problem, but I'm wondering (a) how do we know there is little fraud; and (b) what mechanisms make it safe from fraud?
The proposed solution and criteria at the bottom of the linked page seem to do exactly what everyone in this thread is asking for.
> In many ways it functioned as a testing ground for some underused concepts that could substantially improve the health of the Apex scene.

> The possiblilty of bringing corporate sponsorship to broader competitive Apex is interesting on its own. As bigger games like League of Legends get in-game ad banners, I’ve been wondering about the giant banners that cover Kings Canyon and World’s Edge. This is fruitful virtual space for advertisers to use, as ESPN’s Arda Öcal pointed out on Twitter the other day, making the comparison to hockey’s use of board space for ads. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see both more sponsored tournaments in the future, as well as creative use of in-game space to promote products.

Is this what 'health' means? Ads, product promotion, commercialization?
It is from a Playboy centrefold with full nudity, although that part is cropped out of the commonly used version
You search the first couple times you need something, then you memorize where it is in the menu. If you keep using it repeatedly, you'll learn the shortcut, since it's displayed prominently every time the menu drops down.
Banks don’t transfer money to CC merchants immediately - it happens later after the hold period is passed.

Also transaction can be reversed via chargeback.
Ask HN: Has TikTok been auto-installed on your phone?
I am not sure if it was Samsung, Google (Android), or my cellular provider (Verizon), but something auto-installed TikTok onto my phone. Has this happened to anyone else?