skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is possibly the worst article I have ever seen in Nature.

It is barely at the level of an undergraduate essay on AI (or AGI or ANI, as the author prefers). A hand-waving argument about "computers not being in the world" that relies on not bothering to define "computers", "being in" or "the world". Convenient avoidance of almost every more subtle anti-Searle/anti-Dreyfus critic (notably Dennett). Almost wilfull narrowing of a much broader argument about the nature of reality and the connection between causality and conventional parametric science, when these things lie at the heart of the author's argument (such as it is).

It is amazing that Nature chose to publish this.
> Discoverability. Users browsing Play Store might see your app in related apps list or in search results.

Since when anything in Play Store (or Apple's App Store, for that matter) was discoverable? I can't find anything even remotely relevant to anything i want using these stores, i always have to use 3rd party sites (or just google something like "<something i want> for android", sometimes even adding a site:reddit.com at the side if there are too many results, just to see what others are suggesting) and then if there isn't a Play Store link, i have to write the app's name exactly in the store's search, otherwise it will never appear on the results.

Discoverability has been a joke on these stores ever since they got more than about 1000 apps - and they still are designed as if they only have about 1000 apps.
This is not the same at all and you misunderstood the argument.

Your biker example would be the same if one could show a software entity completely mastering bike dynamics in its first try by reason, pure deduction from first principles.

On the other hand, if you 'train' a bike program - eg let it fail million times - first, that would be a perfect example of tacit knowledge. Nothing to do with reason, just pure experience building on itself. That is actually what a human would do although we lack the ability to be copied.
I never liked TikTok or this kind of random videos or pics people share. No matter where they came from (it used to be a site called "Dumpert" in the Netherlands before which is also on my "highly annoying" list). I'm just too polite to tell them to piss off with their videos :P That's really the core problem here.

But TikTok associates itself by putting their logo on the videos which is something I haven't seen before.
For amazon if Tiktok does it , it is state funded corporate espionage. Amazon is not in position to sue and win over a Chinese company in China if they copy their IP. If LinkedIn does it and MS launches something copying their tech , amazon can sure use in US court and likely win so they are not concerned at the same level
A critical component of those modern mechanisms is that land claims can be put to rest. That after a border's acknowledged for a long time, it becomes the border, and everyone has to respect it even if we can't condone the process that created it. Under a standard where territorial claims can be resurrected at any time - where Mexico can declare it owns California, and Britain can declare it owns the Eastern Seaboard, and the US can declare it owns Phillipines - modern mechanisms won't function.
Freud was wrong with almost everything he said. He had merit from a philosophical point of view, he coined terms extremely well, but he is definitely not a scientific, was dangerous for his patients and his theories are still dangerous (your child is an autist because you, poor mother, did not pay enough attention to him! and other rubbish about children rape fantasy and other). Lacan, at least, was not as dangerous (but still a pseudoscientific).

Psychoanalysis is still very much a pseudoscience and is based on even less that the new psychological trend with microexpression and all that jazz.

> limited ambition shown by the 1-2 latest generations
If this is really a thing, then the generation prior would have shown more entrepreneurship, is this the case in the US? It is really to opposite in Europe anyway, so this should be wrong.
This is why unfettered "free speech" is nonsensical. There have to be bounds at some point.
Let me genuinely ask: why do you believe this?

Because Apple said so? I simply don't have this level of trust.

Because someone disassembled their MacBook and reverse engineered things? And that person is trustworthy and competent? That is better, but even if it was true for the MacBook they reverse engineered, suppliers make tweaks to parts all the time. Can I be sure that my MacBook still has the exact same camera?

Because you opened up your MacBook to confirm? Maybe then you can trust it.
I was being factitious, but seriously, how would you get around an in-person interview requirement? Let's assume that Google isn't doing anything stupid—you can't just stay logged in forever, and whatever process the Google employee does on their end is reasonably protected and audited.
100%. The bank I used to work at had a part of the employee handbook dedicated to what happens if you're kidnapped. We're just being naive and casual as we are wont to do. Bro don't worry have another free granola bar.

And in fact one of the devs was poached by a shady bunch of foreign looking suits who would have fit right in with big brother.

In all fairness you have a split second between the light coming on and the video stream initializing to err hide your shame. What are you doing in front of your computer with no pants on? Naked yoga?
That's also true of solar power :-)
Which, as I said, us hardware prevention. It stops someone from recording you, it also stops you from knowing someone tried to record you (i.e. hardware detection).

The hacking consequences I care about are having my bank accounts drained, not having my picture taken.
It kills me that Slatestarcodex was deleted but this was published in Nature.
Corporate espionage is potentially more lucrative yes but the opportunities are much less. There are millions of MacBooks out there with significantly more people jacking off in front of them than discussing lucrative corporate secrets
My team has worked with their API and had a lot of grievances with it.

Regarding API openness vs flat file.. we in the OMS space have our hands tied by the WMS, ERP and EDI world. Investment in an open API doesn't really have any ROI it's actually more of a money pit than anything. Most of the high value integrations are with antiquated systems where all of the connectivity is flat file CSV, XML, EDI type thing. It's awful.

There's also very very slim margins the shipping / fulfillment middleware market. It's incredibly costly to maintain these legacy proprietary connections, mission critical to the business so near constant customer service requests with complex "we're on fire" troubleshooting, and nobody wants another expense lumped onto their shipping costs so it's very hard to justify paying a premium.

Not surprised that any company in this space backed by VC is getting dumped by their investors like a hot pile of bricks. OMS is about consultation and pain endurance, not venture exits
An indicator light is good and well but, you kinda have to be present to monitor it in order to stop it. Someone can record all the video they want if you’re not around to notice.

And that still leaves the possibility for it to snap a photo of you present at the computer before you can react to stop it.

So far it has stopped me once or twice from picking my nose on camera. So not totally useless. /s
Oh yes! Developmental biology is just bonkers tough.

Take all the hard parts of bio normally, and now add in a ton of mitosis, long range movement of cells, hard to detect chemical gradients, cell-to-cell junctions, and pure random chance. All just going bananas fast for 'normal' bio processes.

It is a crazy tough field to get work done in. No wonder no one uses mammals to do anything.
You have to do marketing to get readers. Readers don't just show up out of nowhere. I've been blogging for over a year, search traffic is like 30% bots.
That sounds awesome! Do you have a writeup about that somewhere? Would be nice to share! I love self-sustaining solutions.
Marginal cost has gone way down as well as there is often no physical copy (and no physical store, etc...)
For fundamentals, this resource by Varsity (kind of like Robinhood of India) is pretty good. It uses India's stocks as examples and deals in Rupees and not in Dollars.

After learning the basics, I would recommend "The 80/20 Investor" book. The book has very good advice how to buy stocks, market bubbles and building the circle of competence.
Just pick a material that's opaque only in visible spectrum.
I never understood the fascination with Meg Whitman. The PayPal acquisition did not generate nearly as much value as it could and eBay is terrible, could have been what Amazon is today. I see Meg as greatly benefitting from a rising tide, not great leadership. Maybe her lieutenants have a different take but this is what I see from the outside.
Good ol Apple always telling you how to use your hardware that you paid for.
With a REPL, you can connect to your running system and run code / edit existing functions, objects, etc.

In a Python shell, for example, you can't redefine an existing function and see how it affects your system.
Very cool project . Not to be pendatic , there is lot network equipment between request and the cluster which still very much run on non renewable power.

Once starlink is live , perhaps requests between two phased array clients can make networks truly solar .
That's true in the market for e.g. rides, but then that's good, customers get lower prices. Meanwhile their competition in the market for labor is mainly the likes of Walmart and Starbucks. There is no plausible mechanism for Uber to "outcompete" Walmart by offering cheaper rides because Walmart isn't in that line of business to begin with.
And they actually do have an extra high security option, with warnings that if you're not careful you could lose access permanently.
There are multiple dimensions you can use to measure success. Market capitalization is certainly one of them, but it is at best only tenuously related to engineering quality.
"Booth babes" are not a mark of progress.
But sadly this is not something Google and Microsoft would collaborate on. I would rather expect them to ready the lawyers.
Yes, modern pagers do operate on the same tech (pocsag/flex) for the last few decades. And for the most part, are clear text. There are posts on HN about this in the last year.
I agree. Neither do top industry execs, top sales personnel, etc. It seems from most of the comments that even in lieu of a work phone, compensation for a mobile plan is normal and expected most places. I may be mistaken, but the culture of large healthcare orgs does seem to promote an expectation that the employees be more altruistic then would be expected elsewhere, even within the employer-employee relationship.
Ah, tokenism at its finest.
Never heard of "reveddit", I've used "removeddit".

https://removeddit.com/r/linux/comments/hnoksv/mpv_devs_cons...
... and of everything you will ever plug into the USB port on your machine, including cables.
I don't think there's a public blogging software unless you count Sharepoint but I doubt that would scale well. Still Microsoft has a number of web products that could be used instead of Medium. A lot of the smaller Microsoft weblogs use Azure websites with Wordpress and the bigger ones are part of Micrsoft's in-house multisite.
I'm sure if they did, it's not from real rationalists.
Yes there are totally pager networks alive and kicking.
Hey, I’m the CEO of TradeGecko.com - and we’ve been focusing on solving this problem for a long time now.

We’ve got an open API and a sales channel SDK, happy to see if we can help.

Cameron at tradegecko dot com
If I were forward thinking enough I wouldn't have to do that. But you cram the lint in like you're loading a musket every time you plug a cable into the port.
drones are used to disperse corn moth preditor larve in germany, and cv is being tested on mobile platforms that can target spray or dig plants.
Indeed, I'm a little surprised Apple didn't follow the Thinkpad approach of simply having a sliding piece with an aperture that extremely obviously blocks the camera. Surely Apple can't seriously think their users would be confused by this and complain... I don't think my desktop computer's webcam is likely to get hacked either but I'm still going to unplug it when I'm not using it.

Complex systems are hard to secure.
Now that is impressively artful. Excellent.
Can't say I'm surprised. Been a customer for years. Had many issues, was regularly frustrated by support and by the software rewrites.

This feels like if they were more customer-focused and more circumspect about raising money (they raised $23M) they would have had a nice, profitable business.
If the microphone is built into the laptop it should have a hardware switch. That still has problems as you note, but it is far better than the current state of affairs for most devices. And it still requires trust in someone (or opening the device yourself).

A better solution would be to have the microphone be physically removable, but even then it could have an internal power source and storage...
We use MDM for a lot more than that, though we don't block any apps. And it isn't all about security either.

Some of the things

- Auto app installs: We have a lot of apps people need for work, like the VPN, Outlook, Teams etc. And apps they need for their specific location or job role. The MDM takes care of installing those so the user doesn't have to figure all this out.

- Autoconfiguration: There's a facility called AppConfig where you can push config settings to apps that support it, making things easier on the end user.

- Network (and other settings) configuration: Pushing all the certs people need to connect to our wifi. And we push Per-app-vpn settings for the apps that need it.

- Security validation: Do people not have outdated company apps or OS? Do they have the security app (Lookout)?

- Security settings management: Make sure people have their phone encrypted and a pincode set so important data is not lost in a taxi.

In fact wiping is one of the things that happens very rarely. Especially as we enforce encryption and a decent PIN, it's not as much of an issue anymore to wipe a phone as soon as we can. A lot of users get hung up over our ability to do this, but on Android we can only wipe the work profile anyway (and even on Apple we don't normally wipe the whole device, just the company apps). Unless they call us and ask us to wipe it because they lost it :P But a lot of them seem to think we're just sitting there all day wiping phones for fun.
Is it safe for other drivers to use this kind of paint on your car?
The link you posted sources all of its images from Ars. As in, the src of all of the images is literally pointed at Ars Technica's CDN. "ICrowdNewsWire" is probably just publishing Ars’s RSS feed. If you click around most of the pages on the site are obviously just stolen from elsewhere. It's obviously a link farm.
"They also were exposed and survived just fine"

That's true and all but I wouldn't downplay the devastating effects of pornography addiction during adolescence through college and into adult life and how this unfettered all-access pass to sexual media can start to effect your social life and education negatively when your prefrontal cortex is constantly lit up to get that sweet dopamine fix from moving pixels on a screen.

Why go out into the real world and put in the work to be rewarded in the flesh when you can get 10x the novelty and fantasy of anything you desire at the click of a button? (generally speaking). Our brains never evolved to handle the onslaught of readily available hyper-pleasurable vices (e.g. drugs, alcohol, social media likes, porn, etc) that create positive, self-reinforcing neural pathways for addiction that are extremely hard to extinguish on your own and offer you an escape from reality and discomfort.

Not saying everyone experiences this, but it seems irresponsible to let young kids create and reinforce these addiction pathways in their reward centers of their brain before their brain and pre-frontal cortex is fully developed in their 20's. I know I struggle with this stuff from an early age after stumbling on magazines and VHS cassettes at a too young age to understand what this was doing to my young brain now looking back, the hooks have set in deep.
Imagine a Raspberry Pi secured onto a tree somewhere being powered by a solar panel and serving a website over 5G.

Imagine that Pi is running a SaaS product that generates revenue and pays for its own 5G subscription.

Now imagine that Pi is earning Bitcoin, pays for its 5G in Bitcoin, and puts up job postings online to get people (paid in Bitcoin) to provision and set up more replica Pis on other random trees in town.
If you build a garage on your neighbor's land, and he doesn't do anything about it, in about 10 years it becomes your land.
what's that other company? starts with an A?
They went the wrong route with programming. Instead of top quality content with A/B list actors, they should have dumped out a lot of cheap reality show content. That stuff works well 10 minutes at a time on network TV (between commercials). Think Real World, Blind Date, Cribs. It’s cheap to make, appeals to the target market for Quibi, and would have required a LOT less funding at the beginning from the investors who now seem likely to lose all their money.
Have the power requirements of the ground units been published yet? That might be chewing through a lot more power than a terrestrial ISP.
That is true and addressed as an issue in the blog (to be transparent). It's a problem low-tech magazine also faces and wants to improve.

I'm in an apartment and my solar is in a terrible spot. The solar array is crazy over-sized to provide enough power to sustain the Pi and charge the battery.

I think it's easily doable for a person with good solar to put the entire chain Pi-switch-modem on solar.
Note, is not in the the flagship journal, it's an affiliated journal under the Nature imprint. There are about 40 other such: https://www.nature.com/siteindex (see under "N").

It's a Springer joint. Note that the counterpart journal, Science, is published by the AAAS, and is not for profit the way Nature is. If you're interested in science, Science is a great one-stop shop and it's about $120 per year.

Sometimes one wonders whether the chase for exciting stories affects some Nature publications.
> I can see that a camera cover works

Well, I don't mean to fuel your paranoia, but there are materials opaque to the human eye but not necessarily fully opaque to a CMOS sensor, especially one without infrared/UV filters.

It would be quite possible, trivial even, to design a web camera with a nice built-in black camera cover -- which is transparent to the camera.
> So much bull crap stuff. The fastest way to find something is to search for it.

Faster to search for "save" or press Ctrl+S? Faster to search for "save" or click the save icon at the top of the screen? Searching is slower, clearly. Even if searching was always faster, it doesn't refute "bull crap stuff" because there was no claim that the Ribbon is the fastest full stop, it's a balance of discoverable and usable; search requires you to know the right search terms to use, and it suffers the problem of the old Office self-customizing menus - the results aren't always in the same predictable order - and if what you want is not in the top few results, you don't know if the feature doesn't exist, does exist by another name, or is in the hundreds of results you aren't going to read. And it has no way to surface features and make them discoverable.
I use electrical tape on mine (not a macbook).
Is there a good resource for this comparison plus the many streaming/ETL permutations. It's a bit confusing even just what the various Apache products do (beam, kylin, etc, etc).
- You can't see.
I'm sorry, I was nodding along when I stumbled over the 'bitcoin' word. That's a big no from me and the reason is probably not hard to guess in light of this project.
You expect someone to take apart the fused display assembly and modify the intricate power pins to both the LED and camera while you’re having dinner?

I hope you’re a billionaire with secrets because otherwise this is pure paranoia.
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>"It only started a bit of a fire in this case" is obviously not a good argument, especially when the fire department showed up to contain it.

You didn't contain anything. You didn't even respond to the subthread where people were were actually starting fires. You just threw a warning at me after most of the conversation already played out. Not only did a fire not happen, you showed up after most people left the premises.

>I'm sorry, but I have to pull rank about this,

Go ahead and pull rank man. You can even ban me if you wanted to, it's your right. I'm not trying to say anything to the contrary. The servers are based in the states, but they're private property so you are 100% in your rights to do whatever you want.

>The issue is the expected value of the subthread

No offense, but your "years of experience" or "expected value" is equivalent to your "biased opinion" because, as other people in this thread and I have shown, we had another "biased opinion" on what that probability distribution for the expected value looked like. To me it doesn't look like flame bait and it looks like their's plenty of flame retardant as well. Either way, none of these predictions or opinions really matter in the face of what actually occurred.

The expected value of a post is a moving target that eventually coalesces into the actual demonstrated value of the post.

The actual value of this post demonstrates that no flamewar occurred. So you were wrong while other people and I were right.

Whatever... if you want me to add more "flame retardant" next time I'll add it. It doesn't change the fact that for this thread you showed up onsite with a firehose to put out a fire that never occurred.
Not really - there are lots of times when you will not be present with your laptop (think airport security).

It's orders of magnitude easier to get access to a mobile device than to setup a camera in every possible location a target might move to. But they'll helpfully carry the device with them.
Using something as hard as a metal for a screen cover like this seems to be asking for trouble?
Contextual Meaning Matters
Humans are great at resolving linguistics ambiguity, context helps. 'playing' sport is different then 'playing' violin. http://bit.ly/38Lqxdn
This looks like it would be super useful in making phone photography look better. I can’t seem to find, is there a way to run this yourself?
You probably don't need any lubricant for an exceptionally long time.

Some of us old-timers where pretty grumpy when bicycles switched to sealed bearings. They aren't perfect (more rolling resistance), they don't last forever, but they do last (stay greased and unfouled) a hell of a long time and require less skill to replace.