skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hint: The answer is in Marcuse. His theory of "repressive tolerance" holds that freedom of expression can only be afforded to the left. Right-wing (and perhaps insufficiently left-wing) voices and opinions must be quashed if we are to bring about a fair society

I cite Repressive Tolerance a lot, and it's best to read it as a directly political rather than theoretical text. I also find some of his reasoning quite convincing. Nevertheless, although Marcuse and Popper were academic enemies of sorts, the concept gets a look-in through Popper's paradox of tolerance. Marcuse goes into quite some detail surrounding the justifications and function (at least in his time) of the "free speech principle". Marcuse's argument for censorship is based entirely around his assumption that there is limited or little capacity for rational discourse in the public sphere. The title, as with the other two entries in the book, refers to the idea that tolerance itself contains an element of repression - not that we should be repressively tolerant.

Marcuse was also writing in the context of the state (and the establishment around it) having no hope of adopting truly emancipatory goals. This is somewhat under question today, at least more than it was in the 60s. Besides this, there are quite a few good philosophical arguments for the regulation of speech or even against a free speech principle as a whole. I'd be happy to share them (some are linked in some recent comments of mine here.) - I think Marcuse was right on the money in terms of his diagnosis. His prescription is debatable.

Finally, what is attributed to Marcuse and the Frankfurt School as a whole tends not to be based around the one essay which he wrote for a book on concepts of tolerance, but rather something much more abstract and dark: that the School existed to destroy Western civilization through progressive ideology. This is not only a shaky charge, but it has little to do with Marcuse. The right-wing attacks on the School today from the pundits mentioned earlier in this thread actually focus much more on Adorno, Horkheimer, and Benjamin, and even non-School thinkers like Gramsci.

And the claims that Marx was an anti-semite are almost comically overblown; there's plenty of scholarly work on this topic from both within and outside Marxism.
In fact, it is "our" land, by right of conquest. Just as England belongs to the English by right of conquest.
On the other hand, an equation of the form y = a x + b is a linear equation. If you have Celsius and want Fahrenheit you accomplish that by applying a linear equation (F = 1.8 C + 32), so I certainly can't fault people for saying that the transformation they are doing is linear.

I wonder what people would say for something using an equation of the form y = a x^2 + b x + c to transform something? I can't say that I've heard anyone talk of quadratic transformations. On the other hand, I can't think of ever transforming anything with a quadratic equation, so never had the need t speak of it.

(Also, he called it a linear conversion, not a linear transformation).
FAANG companies have thousands of engineers working on their main products. At that scale, you cannot manage everything with that many people in one binary nor one database. Thus, business logic and data gets siloed into separate services which individual teams own hence the rise of microservices and different database systems for different use cases.

They also have billions to tens of billions of dollars worth of hardware costs per year so what can seem like a waste of time to optimize can end up saving millions of dollars worth of hardware a year.
Bingo. It's a lot simpler to just allow the user to physically block the lens, which vetoes everything[1], rather than trust or verify that all that stuff is implemented correctly and reliably.

[1] Yes, yes, assuming you can block all frequencies the camera is capable of detecting.
> From a game architecture perspective, there is no difference between connecting to someone else over the internet, and connecting to someone else over a LAN. As far as the networking stack is concerned, the difference is that in the second case, you're most likely using IP addresses that are reserved for non-internet use.

Well, but you're assuming the server software is actually designed to be run on end-user PCs, and not some proprietary server architecture that also hooks into a bunch of other company stuff.

> You could just... NOT require a registration when connecting to the internet. Remember what I said about requiring a serial number? Try thinking of a more iconic, prototypical example of DRM.

So I guess the question here is, what is the purpose of buying DRM Free games?

To me, it's the knowledge that as long as I can find compatible hardware, I will always be able to run a game, no matter what external server somewhere someone decides to take down. This is very powerful, and it's the difference between truly owning an experience, and renting temporary access to one.

As long as an external server is required, all of that goes out the window. Any game that uses that model is inherently a rental. And there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, if the experience couldn't exist any other way. I buy tickets to movie theaters, and Broadway shows, and plenty of other "temporary" forms of entertainment.

If the multiplayer already requires an external server, what does it matter whether or not there's a serial number? To me, it makes absolutely no difference.

> No, they're not, this is just false.

What single player / local multiplayer games on GOG have DRM?
This article is a muddled, ridiculous mess. I read the first few paragraphs and couldn't motivate myself to do any more than skim the rest. As far as I can tell, there's nothing new here, and the author's argument that "AGI will not be realized" might be true if you stick to his ad-hoc definition of AGI, which seems to conflate "human level" intelligence and "human like" intelligence.

Yes, it's probably true that AI's will not have "human like" intelligence, for some of the reasons cited. Lack of embodiment and the associated experiential learning is the chief reason that I would personally cite for why this is true. However, that line of reasoning is completely irrelevant unless A. make the mistake of conflating "human like" and "human level" OR B. you very specifically demand that your AI must be "human like."

Everybody else realizes that the goal is to build an AI that is as general as human intelligence, not necessarily to build an artificial human.

Edit:

To go back to the embodiment issue for a moment... I think embodiment is important. I've been playing around with building a trivial little shell to pack some AI research in, that can be carried around (initially), and "experience" the world via a variety of different sensors. And I do think, again, that embodiment will probably be necessary to get an AGI that can "act human". I just don't see that as being the goal. Yeah, yeah, Turing Test, blah, blah, I know. As much respect as I have for Turing (and it's a lot, obviously) I don't actually consider the Turing Test to be very interesting, vis-a-vis evaluating an AI. In fact, I think focusing on it could be harmful, because it seems that getting an AI to pass it amounts to teaching the AI to lie well. This seems counter-productive to me.

As for why I think embodiment would matter to making a "human like" (as opposed to "human level") AGI: it mainly comes down to experiential learning. Imagine, if you will, what you know about the meaning of terms like "fall", or "fall down". How much of your knowledge of this is rooted in that fact that you, in your body, have fallen down? And how does that play into your ability to construct metaphors involving other things "falling"? And so on.

But I don't think any of this stuff is necessary to make an AGI that can operate at a human level of generality and solve useful problem on our behalf. And by "operate at a human level of generality" I mean something approximately like "the same AI software, with appropriate training, can do anything from playing chess, to driving a car, to coming up with new theories in physics and chemistry (and so on).
Yep, entirely different risk profile. Netflix already had a brand, platform, and customers, and they already offered TV shows and weren't experimenting with a new format. The House of Cards risk was all in execution, not brand, concept, product, talent, etc.
For one, the clipboard snooping problem.
If you’re using a password-manager (like we’re supposed to!) and use it to copy passwords (say, your Amazon employee internal credentials...) while you have TikTok open, the TikTok app would see it and could upload it somewhere.

Your password should never be in your clipboard at least with iOS. If you’re using either the native password manager or a third party password manager, the password manager is directly integrated with the keyboard and would auto fill into your app.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/05/password-autofill-in-ios-1...
> They haven't been "caught" doing that

They settled out of court. Must have though the case against them was pretty strong.
If that's not an admission of guilt...
> political leadership isn't simply in the pocket of the mafia, they are the mafia leadership

If the mafia becomes the government, technically you can't call them the mafia anymore, because they have become legitimate once they gain political power.
I thought it was due to the timer's frequency being programmable, and both operating systems setting and assuming different values. It's been a long time though and my memory is fuzzy.
Vinyl static-cling stickers work pretty well.
Great info for those of us who enjoy working on platformers. That's said I still have a lot of fondness for the unforgiving 80s style game mechanics where the jump and the approach has to be timed just so. Miner Willy series games being the prime example.
You're right, of course.

Games also exploded in popularity, the industry is huge now, games can make a billion dollars in a matter of days.

AAA doesn't need a price increase, it makes it up in volume... and fucking IAP.
Sorry, there seems to be a disconnect here. Yes the difference between back stage and front stage is a gray-scale. However that was not my point: Making selfies is an act of front stage, not because there might be other people around, but by the mere fact you are making a photo of yourself with the purpose of it being seen by others. The performance is that what we see on the photo, not the conditions it is made under.

The conditions it is under might make it into more of a front stage, but given that the selfie itself is front stage the fact that you are not hiding making it is very hard to see as "authentic" back stage behavior.

People might use selfies to practice (back stage behavior), but you will normally never see those and what they do present is obviously fit for front stage.

Yes you might walk into someone practicing with selfies, or accidentally see some practice selfies, but that in itself does not provide better or more reliable information than any other incidental back stage information like seeing someone in the shower.

Now if your point was that selfies invite us to perform too much and practice too little than we are in agreement.
For what it's worth, EFF has privacy stickers which are easy to re-apply multiple times and should be thin enough to close the laptop fine. I've been using them for a while.
I wanted this, but I wanted the WQHD display more.

Lenovo didn't allow you to configure a T480 with both the high-resolution display and the plastic slider, it was either-or. The high-resolution display was their premium option that omitted the slider and added two more IR cameras for Windows Hello support.

So in addition to not getting the slider, I also had to disable the IR cameras.

I'm half tempted to buy the version of the display bezel with the slider and see if it'll fit as a replacement.
I have MacBooks with big dents in them. I'm pretty sure a piece of tape isn't going to break my MacBook.
I’m at the same point too. My Dropbox personal expires in a week and I’m not going to renew for $120/year. They’ve really priced themselves way too high for me. I just need a 100-200gb for photo backups from my phone. With Amazon, Google and even MS offering better pricing I really have not reason to stay.

MS in particular has great pricing. $99/year for 5 copies of Office and 1tb of storage. I can’t see the value of Dropbox any more.
> The FaceTime HD camera built into your Mac computer is designed with your privacy in mind and uses a camera indicator light that glows green when the camera is active. So you will always know when the camera is on.

Erm, the whole point is that you can't trust this kind of indicator on an OS that's completely closed source.
I don’t use the sliding cover. I put black electrical tape over the camera. I keep a roll in my computer bag in case of an unusual scenario that I would need to use the camera. As soon as that is over I replace the tape. If it leaves a sticky residue? Oh well. Sorry. I have a phone if you absolutely need to see me.

Also- why isn’t the iPhone camera engineered the same way as the Mac? How many apps/websites would love to have footage of compromising moments?
Python has optional typing though.
> Just that the people who spread the views beyond just the "anti-Semites and white nationalists" seem to be both themselves.

I think Boghossian, Pluckrose, and Lindsay did more to spread antagonistic views toward critical theory than Breitbart or even Peterson. And they're center-left university professors, or they were until they started challenging the narrative after which I guess they became alt-right agents provocateurs?
The relevant file of source code has, "Copyright (c) The University of Glasgow 2001", which jibes with my memory of having used Dynamic in GHC in 2004 or earlier:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/src/D...

Also notice that Dynamic is in the Haskell Package Repository's "base" package, described as containing "Basic libraries", not part of an ancillary area for user-contributed libraries:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0

There exist type systems of which great grandparent is an accurate description (the most well-known of which is probably that used by Typescript) but the type system of, e.g., Haskell, Ocaml or Rust is not it.

(Now I am getting curious what specific programming language's type system great grandparent had in mind.)
Speaking of window decorations, the arguments from GNOME developers on this issue are nuts. Do they really not understand why games etc need this, or that literally every other desktop environment (including Windows and macOS) provides an equivalent facility?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
Everyone has their own learning style. I found that coding books are quite boring for me too, but working on a practical project can be enjoyable and educational at the same time as you learn things along the way as a part of the journey.
Because they designed it poorly without understanding end users?
New job nearly doubled my salary and a side-project I had going benefitted tremendously from this COVID stuff.

I think I will likely see a 1/3 decrease in my take home in 1.5-2 years.
I don't think so. First of all ability text has never been worded in a way that is ungrammatical and doesn't make sense in natural English. That's a hallmark of ability text, that it's correct English, rather than gibberish, as this bit of text.

Then, this "ability" references some kind of activation. In M:tG, things that can be "activated" are activated abilities. Blocking is not an activated ability, so it doesn't make sense to say "whenever you activate one or more creatures block" you are blocking with the creatures. But then- why is it using the word "block", that is only used to denote, well, blocking? This creates a lot of ambiguity and another hallmark of M:tG ability text is that it's very carefully engineered to remove ambiguity.

So this is just gibberish that doesn't make sense, not a new, fancy wording of an old ability. Which makes sense because like the author of the article says, there are very few examples of M:tG cards' ability text to train a neural net to generate good quality new ability text.
In high school they taught us Lotus 123 spreadsheets, oh my do I feel old! Never used those again afterwards. I agree about the proprietary software gripe, but it could have been worse.
And Mark Shepherd at New Forest Farm.

http://newforestfarm.us

His book "Restoration Agriculture" details his system, which can be likened to agroforestry.
Overtime pay exists, even for many salaried positions. Short of that, if you routinely put in extra productive hours you should expect a higher salary. And you could always take on a second job, switch jobs, or do some work around the home yourself instead of paying someone else to do it for you. There is no shortage of opportunities to trade some leisure time for extra cash.
I'm imagining that the Pi is an independent agent, not owned by a human, and therefore can't get a bank account. The Pi is paid in Bitcoin to begin with, so no conversion is necessary. The assumptions are that there is a 5G service that can be bought with Bitcoin and that the Pi can supply a lucrative enough service to get paid enough to reproduce itself.
> Do you believe that support of Trump should be without consequences?

Yes.

You do realise your position violates multiple UN human rights?

Take a read through the lot of them. Please.

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

People have died to maintain these rights. Please stop trying to tear them down. You're not woke. You're asleep.
Not for grade schoolers, but I just started this program (https://busytoddler.com/) for my 3-year-old. Gives you a lot of ideas and a specific schedule to follow which helps a lot!
Production costs have increased by several orders of magnitude. Just look at the credits of a modern game vs something like those 80s Activision titles that were developed by a single person.

A larger video game market has created economies of scale that make larger development budgets viable.
If Apple makes such high-end stuff, and is marketing on privacy, why can't they spring for hardware switches? Pine64 does, and they're by no means high-end. Not by price, anyway.
same too, at first I reckoned it was stitchdata. alas, so many stitches.
I am the Cofounder and CEO of Zentail (S12), I'm not sure exactly what you were looking to achieve with stitch, but we offer pretty robust backend ecommerce infrastructure and we integrate with all of the major storefronts and marketplaces. Happy to chat to see if we could help, also happy to answer any questions here

[Edit] (we do offer a pretty robust api)
I don't think the feds are going to allow a suicide again.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that this isn't true - the timeframes and exact rules differ by jurisdiction, and there are many actions an owner can take to prevent it, but there absolutely are scenarios where you can build on property that is not your own and end up owning it.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/adverse-possession-t...
Was that in 2010?
The World That Twitter Made
If you want data integrity I would avoid butterfs at all costs. It deals with it, by not having any.
I wonder, do the ThinkPads with that feature have a thicker lid than Apple laptops? I suspect they be thicker anyway because of the touchscreen, which would then provide a few millimeters more room for a shutter. But I'm completely speculating.
Mob rule is assembly. Decisions have consequences and are action.
The Oregon vote by mail system lets you get a notification when your ballot is received by the counting center. I'm not sure exactly how it works but the counting might be observable from that point.
Surprised no one has tried to build a GANN to do this (remove JPEG artifacts).

Denoiser in ray tracing are quite a success, and this strikes me as quite similar.

In fact, now that I think of it, you probably don't even need a GANN, since you can create an infinite training set for quasi-free.
Stephen Wolfram got $5-10M in PPP loan?
Any word on why those apps do what they're doing? Why copy from messages?
I don't think the price of a hardware switch would be a concern for Apple, but the size would. A hardware switch would take up space. Apple broke their keyboards to shave a couple millimeters of thickness off their laptops.
The deleterious effects of cannabis during pregnancy on neonatal outcomes
Right, so there are two reasons that C++ templates hurt compile times:

1. C++ templates don't require you to treat the type variables as opaque; depending on what the body of a template does with its type parameters it may or may not type check depending on how the variable is instantiated. By contrast, in OCaml (and most languages) generic functions cannot assume anything about their type parameter. This means that the compiler can type check the body of the generic function once and be done, rather than having to essentially check it at every call site.

2. Aside from type checking, C++ templates generate separate code for each instantiation of the type parameters. This (generally) results in faster code as it is specialized to the type in question, but it means more code is generated, which of course takes time (and it can also bloat the executables). This is probably a bigger deal than the type checking part. By contrast, OCaml only generates one copy of the code for a function, which simply doesn't care about the types of its arguments. This is also a common implementation strategy; Java does something similar.

Note that Rust also suffers from (2), but not (1).
Great resource. Glad to have stumbled upon it.
I think people just wanted a cloud solution to store and retrive files.

Dropbox was one of the products that grew during the PC and digital wave. Then came "Google Drive" and nobody turned back to Dropbox after that.
This is a good point, but I will add, from close discussions with Dreyfus, his position was that it's impossible because it's fundamentally impossible, not because it's intractable. (see my other comment for more)
Right. In what way is a human embodied but not a self driving car.
This, plus the inherent blessing and curse of computers -- if you can do something one time, it's usually very easy to do it 1000 times. If you want to tamper with one precinct or one county, you have to write some exploit. If you want to tamper with all of them, still, one exploit.

However, if you want to tamper with a whole state of paper ballots, you have to stuff a thousand ballot boxes. The chances of getting caught are far higher.
$ swift
Welcome to Apple Swift version 5.3 (swiftlang-1200.0.16.15 clang-1200.0.22.41).
Type :help for assistance.
1> import Foundation
2> // IIRC this used to throw an exception.
3> // Now a respondsToSelector: check is silently inserted and we get a surprise nil.
4> (Int?.none as AnyObject).count + "call Swift's bluff".count
Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value: file repl.swift, line 4
2020-07-10 18:03:43.815959-0700 repl_swift[73029:930570] Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value: file repl.swift, line 4
Execution interrupted. Enter code to recover and continue.
Enter LLDB commands to investigate (type :help for assistance.)
> Hm... I'm not going to say the problem of radicalization isn't real, it most certainly is, but I think we need to have a clear definition of what qualifies as radicalization.

Goodluck with that, the only side radicalizing anyone right now is the left.