skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree, but it's rather interesting to see how the evolution of social acceptance has changed the blackmail game.

So in intelligence circles, just being gay int he mid-20th century was enough to blackmail a person, but because most people, even conservatives, have adjusted to it, it no longer serves as enough of a blackmail. This is why in the blackmail world it moves progressively towards more repulsive actions.

Honestly an analysis of Epstein shows he was more trying to get his foot in the door in SV (as his backing of a few tech ventures confirms) but it lends me to believe he didn't have "the real dirt" on SV.

When you look at which intelligence agencies were running Epstein though, it becomes more clear that they certainly already have a huge presence in SV, and they are certain to have deployed the blackmail networks for quite some time.

So yes, aside from those things you mention, we should be relatively ok with whatever... but the problem is the blackmail system will move towards those things if they know that, and they do so.

I've tried to explain this progression to others, and it applies across the board to politicians, businessmen, etc. Bribery comes first. Then comes blackmail. It starts with the after-after party, and the target is in the back room doing drugs. Got it on video. Next it's a prostitute. Next it's an underage prostitute. Next is abuse... and it progresses into places most people on HN wouldn't want to know. If you do want to know more, lookup the Dutroux scandal, aka the Belgian X-files.

I would venture most of SV doesn't have to progress past the bribery stage, and that includes manipulations of national identity (national security).
Even in cases where there's no meaningful danger, possession of selfie sticks seem to correlate with narcissistic behavior like standing still in the middle of a crowded thoroughfare.
Look at USB 3.2 SSDs and NVMe enclosures. They go over 1000 MB/s for sequential reads.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14661/usb32-g2-portable-ssds-...

I'm pretty sure they are limited by the USB <--> NVMe controller, not USB itself.
You can request persistent storage that isn't cleared.
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The article title makes an unqualified claim about realisation, and so it was what I responded to, but the article itself also makes the same strong claim:

> A closer look reveals that although development of artificial intelligence for specific purposes (ANI) has been impressive, we have not come much closer to developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). The article further argues that this is in principle impossible, and it revives Hubert Dreyfus’ argument that computers are not in the world.

This is not an argument about cost - the article argues that it is "in principle impossible".

Any argument about cost I think is also irrelevant: We know from the existence of the brain and how a brain is produced that it is possible to produce one relatively cheaply via biological processes.

It seems highly unlikely that our ability to produce an artificial brain will not eventually approach the cost of growing one, because the "worst case" scenario is for us to find ethical ways of growing brain matter via biological processes and hook them up to computers, and it would seem unlikely that we will not eventually find cheaper ways of doing so than growing full mammalian bodies with it, and that we can not find any ways of optimising the process.
This answer makes sense, thank you.
Apple earns a lot of money from China, so difficult for them to do something which irritates the Chinese government.

Google behaves the same way, even though they have no income from China right now, but I think they are secretly hopefully of dragonfly.
The author explicitly stated that the main point is that the goal is fundamentally unachievable, regardless of economics or budgets.
It's true that we have more data, but actually the public record is usually more than enough data to cast doubt on most such insinuations. The trouble is that the insinuators don't do the work of searching or checking, because the connect-the-dots activity of the mind feels so compelling. (There's sample bias here though: most people who do bother to either search or check will soon find that there's nothing convincing there and drop the idea. Or they might find a genuine pattern, in which case what they have is more than mere insinuation, and in that case they should send it to hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. This is in the site guidelines: Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

To pick an example from a different domain, when one commenter accuses another of being a communist shill for China (a ridiculously common recreation), it's easy enough to look at the latter's history. Frequently you'll find that that user has been posting about, say, Julia programming, and house prices in Boise, since 2014. (I made that up but this is typical.) Could they still be a communist agent? Sure they could, but this kind of thinking quickly becomes madness.

Occam offers a perfectly good null hypothesis: people just disagree. HN is a large enough population sample that you're going to see users from every background and disagreement about every topic, including on every big tech company, which many users have strong feelings for/against. For some reason, though, internet users aren't satisfied by that and crave much more sinister explanations when things they dislike show up in the forum.

There are cognitive biases underlying this (I've written about them at [1] and [2], if you or anyone is curious), and I'm not seeing any information in your comments here that isn't easily within the normal range of such biases. Real astroturfing and other abuses exist—you can look through the endless history of [3] to find plenty of times where I talk about that and a few cases where we actually find it. But there's no question that real abuse is dwarfed by the imaginary abuses that internet users love to speculate about. Therefore the rule is: if you're to going to bring this up you need something objective to go on. It can't just be based on memory and feeling, because memory and feeling are entirely unreliable on this.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716395

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
this is a great point. how would you define a platform?
From what I read, I think the issue is people keep claiming it does all this various "spyware" stuff, when it sounds like it's doing nothing that any other app could do, given the (what appear to be) lax permissions of android/ios.

If people are so worried about what tiktok can be gathering outside of the app, that is a problem for apple & google.

For this, I think it's 100% overblown what people think tiktok is doing. It just doesn't make sense. If it was really some kind of massive spyware, I agree apple/google would be all over this.. but they aren't.

This comes down to a lack of trust in China obviously, and I don't think there's anything really more concrete than that.
> The problem is compounded by companies that sell inexpensive "support" for LibreOffice, but which are not involved in its development and are not really able to provide that support. Those companies "file all their tickets up-stream and hope they are fixed for free". Companies working in that mode have no problem pricing their offerings below those of the companies doing the actual work (and thus winning much of the business that does exist). In addition, they simply call their offerings "LibreOffice", which actually looks more authentic than services from other companies, which are trying to build their own brands around LibreOffice support.

Is this not a cut-and-dry case of trademark violation?
> 1. Because the app stores don't serve a single country.

There are country-specific Apple app stores and apps that are only available in some countries
> Okay, but then you aren't disagreeing with me

I wasn't trying to disagree with you. I just think the issue is oversimplified into forum sized bites and needs to be approached holistically.

> If you want to have a separate conversation on whether false speech is prosecuted in the United States, we can do that. But this isn't really relevant to the discussion at hand, which is how is "cancel culture" at odds with "free speech."

False speech being 'protected' in the sense that it doesn't result in any harm to person committing the act is, in my opinion, extremely relevant. Free speech isn't free if those who would cause you harm are free to do so at the slightest provocation, and without fear of punishment.

> All it asks is "is it okay to share information about an accusation, even if you aren't certain it's true?"

My answer is "Yes, if you're willing to accept an appropriate punishment for libel/slander/defamation in the event you were wrong." One added thought though, what if the person accused can no longer afford a decent lawyer because they got canceled? That could result in catastrophic harm to an innocent person, just like the [0]4% of death row inmates that are supposedly innocent.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230
Microsoft does the latter, so it wouldn't surprise me if Amazon does likewise.
> We really, really aren't.

Which rock have you been under?

In the last year I've seen 3 collegues fired and 2 have to issue public apologies on twitter.

For publically supporting trump.

Which then got turned into "I dont feel safe working with this person."

This is all pushed by the stasi level initiatives that comes out of our D&I team. Its hell to work under but I dont feel like chucking my career over it.
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I've done a lot of research on this topic, the short answer to your question is https://artofproblemsolving.com/

But during my research I came across the idea of "Computational Math/Thinking" which throws away the entire concept of learning Math/Science in the normal order

Pre Algebra > Algebra I > Geometry > Algebra II > Trig > etc

It takes more of a real life problem solving approach, which I understand isn't exactly innovative in and of itself but prioritizes using the computer for the calculation part of math.

Of course the process of using a pencil and paper to calculate an equation in probably 90% of the work in traditional curriculum. When you outsource this tedious part to software (like you would in real life) that leaves room for setting up bigger problems that literally cannot be calculated by hand.

https://www.computerbasedmath.org/ is a great resource for more info on this "computational" education
We know now that they didn’t really have that data at the time. They just heard Fincher was available and bought his idea unseen for a lot of money so no one else could get to propose to him.
The clojure REPL is nice, don't get me wrong. But I think the reason people rely on it more than in other languages is because of clojure's slow startup time. If you could just make a change and run tests immediately, you'd see much less REPL abuse.
I don't know why you think the halting problem is relevant here. The halting problem equally applies to human computation, and it does not preclude our existence.
> China regularly arrests dozens of foreign citizens on bogus charges every month

Care to list the 25+ people arrested in June?
> Because computers operate on the rational numbers instead of the real numbers, they can never be embodied. They are always in a simulation...

I read the exact opposite argument yesterday but not from an AGI perspective: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-new-theory-explains-how...
Why would you need to be able to afford 2 phones if your employer is requiring you to have a mobile phone for work? That's a situation in which the employer should provide the phone. I've been on-call or mobile-connected for over a decade, I have never had an employer even suggest that I should foot the bill for a work device. Either they've provided me a phone fully paid for work to be returned if I exit, or have covered the cost of my phone bill for my personal device in return for accessibility outside business hours.
I tried Pinboard earlier this year. I found it too slow and was having issues with just general timeouts trying to categorize my bookmarks.

I requested a refund and got it straightaway. Along with a kind reply from the owner. No issues. (I think I had paid via PayPal so I was hardly worried). Also... $22.

Must everything be a free trial? There’s a lot of issues and costs associated with that for businesses (and increasingly regulation).

Now that I see this post from the owner, I’m inclined to sign back up again. I could have been one of those actually attempting to do a mass import when he was fixing it. And him being on 10-year old tech probably greatly contributed to my personal experience.

As the product itself goes, I think it’s worthy and useful. Having it be mobile-friendly will be helpful not so much for me but when I want to share a list of links to some other people I know who haven’t used a full-size keyboard in five years.
This is pretty analogous to the reasons why Scott Alexander from Slate Star Codex[1] used anonymity and the reasons he shut the blog down recently.

1: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
This is slightly different (worse IMO).

If you have a valid 2FA authenticator, you should be able to edit your 2FA Device List for any of your authenticators. But to do that, I would still expect the site to re-authenticate the user with one of their 2FA options in order to make the change.
Aha! Someone must have read my comment on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616288. Where's my citation lol
And that's why I never setup email on my personal mobile device when I worked for AWS.
Belgrade is pretty nice man; I didn't mean to imply Serbia is terrible - just that it has fallen behind. It used to be that Serbia was the neighbour we looked up to; nowadays... it just doesn't seem better anymore.

Also - Bucharest is terrible, compared with its potential, because we've had extremely shitty mayors. But if things change now (and it's not out of the question!), it can really take off. The GDP of the region is already way higher than Belgrade, I believe (but, the natural setting is way worse, that much is true).
This article will not age well. That's my future prediction.
> I'm more surprised Amazon (or any company, really) employees using an employer-managed device would have TikTok on them to start with, to be honest.

I am too. Many years ago at my employer, someone fat-fingered a command and wiped every single iPhone/iPad that an employee had configured to connect the company email system. Even after restoring a backup, the devices would just wipe themselves again unless the owner managed to remove the MDM profile before it reconnected to the internet. A good fraction of my coworkers were affected.

I'm not giving anyone access to do that to my personal data.
The offender I hear most often now a days is trying to use Quantum Mechanics to bring free-will back into play. The idea being that if any part of nature is unpredictable, then that could be a mechanism for where free-will might come from.

Except that would be like saying your phone is conscious just because it gets bombarded by cosmic waves that sometimes cause bitflips. Just because the machine isn't 100% predictable, doesn't mean that those cosmic waves have any specific goal in mind.
I've recently come across a situation where somebody couldn't log in with their AD credentials, turned out the account had been renamed... and nobody knew who (or what) did and why.

I don't know if AD comes without audit logging, or it was just disabled in that installation, but that seems to be a pretty big no-no for a central part of your authentication infrastructure.

(Granted, it's an anecdote, but too many WTF anecdotes make me not like a thing as well).
pgAdmin 4 is not an electron app. It is a real web app, written in Python and Flask, and Qt browser engine bundled together.
K12 CS Framework (ACM, Code.org, [...])
https://k12cs.org/

Computing Curricula 2020 (ACM, IEEE,)
http://www.cc2020.net/

Official SAT Practice (College Board, Khan Academy)
https://www.khanacademy.org/sat

http://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/software-development#... (TODO: add link to cc2020 draft)

Programmer Competency Matrix: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/ , https://competency-checklist.appspot.com/ , https://github.com/hltbra/programmer-competency-checklist

Re: Computational thinking
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-15454421

Coding Interview University:
https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university
I don't really mind people not having photos of me after I am dead. I don't think I will care much by then. We are maybe not just that important and even if you are, a Wikipedia article is a better legacy than any picture of your face.
Most people don't need to be on call 24/7 so they could just divorce themselves from off hours work and live like in the ancient times.
Interesting idea! Future Me: A computer became better at my job, but I might still claim that it is not generally intelligent because it does not have the same kind of relationships to humans I have.
Corporate taxes alone are 34%, one of the highest in the world.
Because it's no different than running tests in a language with a fast code/run cycle. Clojure by necessity, needs to have a REPL, without one it would be unusable. The reason: Clojure startup time is pretty bad.
> False. I'm arguing the difference between direct, automatic outcomes of speech, and outcomes that only happen because of the evil that was already in someone's heart.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to argue any more. Where did the evil come from? Maybe it was learned by upbringing. Maybe it was born out of traumatic experiences. Nature vs. nurture and all of that.

So can you expand on what you see as the material difference between speech, the source of that speech (evil heart), the source of that evil heart (upbringing?). And how any of that makes a difference to the end result?

What do you say about someone who unintentionally and with good meaning aligns themselves with hate (e.g. the All Lives Matter folks)? The things said may not be born of evil, but the end result is just the same.

You haven't successfully clarified what exactly you're trying to argue.

Edit: I should clarify - I think it's useful to examine the evil heart, and the source of that, as it helps us understand where the speech comes from, but ultimately, none of that changes the direct or indirect result of the speech itself.
Every 2FA I have setup has this. Kudos to GitHub in particular for strongly insisting that you save the backup codes somewhere.
The Microsoft guys did more than providing a CI. They cleaned up in regards to windows, whatever devs using Linux only did. Also they spent some time tuning the stack and continuous updates to the stack.

Zend had nice marketing, but had been only one contributor under many. Far from owning PHP.
This also makes sense (in addition to another answer that I said made sense). I didn't look much into the spyware scandals. "This app isn't any more spyware than many other popular, accepted apps, and people focused in on this app and made a big deal of it" is believable to me because I've seen it before.
At my company, you have to provide your own device, but the phone number/plan is either (a) paid for by the company, or (b) you get a $40/mo stipend for cell service.

It turns out that I can use our 2FA app without MDM, on my personal. And nowadays, I rarely use slack or email from mobile, and I don't get calls.

I am pretty strong in the "don't put company stuff on personal devices" camp. Even if they don't control your phone by policy, they do technically. They put root certs on the device, and though they can't see individual app data (depending on config) they can see a list of installed apps, and enforce certain baselines.
As a society, we really should think of "the poor racist who can't make a living" rather than simply making them a persona non grata and discarding them.

Do you think destroying someone's livelihood and reputation is the best way to change their views? Do you intend to punish, or to rehabilitate? Maybe you don't care about redeeming a racist (or some other deplorable) because you just want to send a message that such views are unacceptable. But all that does is create a radical with nothing left to lose.
Thanks for clarifying, makes sense. This sort of behaviour really gets my goat. Just like trying to get my 2FA keys out of Authy so I could switch to Aegis involved having to use a third party tool written in Golang on my PC, to extract them using the API, or use some js hack on the deprecated Chrome extension to write them to the console.

Recently I was trying to switch my wife away from the free Keeper app to the one I use and backup to our own storage, they make it impossible to get your passwords without paying them or rooting your phone. I hand copied them one by one from her old to new phone. Honestly, screw any company that does this.
I would like to know what US laws TikTok has violated first.
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therefore, see point 2.
> Is this just a cash grab by the company that took them private?

Absolutely. My uninformed ex-Rackspace-employee take is that Apollo Global Management just wants to raise more money to further run the company into the ground.
You're making a lot of negative assumptions about me personally and my professional experience; I won't respond to those.

Of course if someone has built their career on open source work then their Github profile matters, but that's less than 1% of all developers.
> But there is an existing system for funding things with widespread benefits to society. It’s called the government.

Not if you ask the current ruling party. Even a cursory glance at the state of the Union should make it obvious there's nobody left who cares to fund things with widespread benefits to society.
Don't know how accurate this website [0] is but it shows a 68.17% employment cost versus 31.42% for sweden [1]. Wow that is a lot if it's true.

[0]: https://papayaglobal.com/countrypedia/country/brazil/

[1]: https://papayaglobal.com/countrypedia/country/sweden/
Yes, the problem is too many skip the tests because "they already tested at the REPL".
Where do you find good replicas?

(There are a few paintings I would love to have nice replicas of on canvas, but I haven't yet tried any of the online replica factories for fear of poor quality)
Surely the burden of proof is on someone claiming something is impossible? I skimmed the article but I didn't see any support for his argument beyond pointing to the limitations of existing technology, and asserting that these limits were insurmountable.
Also homeschooling, also not trying to compete with academics for "complete" education.

I try to make sure all aspects of the person are engaged:

- Creativity

- Intelligence

- Athleticism

- Philosophizing

- Failing well (edit: aka encouraging ambitious goals)

- Exposure to novel things

Kids direct themselves, I help them find resources and help them stay on track.

For example, to think (philosophize) well, you need history. But not just the history from the perspective of the victors. Not just what is "accepted" truth.

We read history books that are not really covered in curriculum (Mongols, Islam, China, India). We cover religions. We watch Ancient Aliens and talk about what obvious explanations they are missing.

But I would have never gone down this path for them had I not stopped going to high school myself, because it was a fucking nightmare.
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