skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is, people in stone age had no idea what nuclear fission means. They might have believed you, albeit superstitiously, if you told them that there will be food everywhere one day.

Interestingly, the examples you cite seem to be in a decreasing order of difficulty, with several orders of magnitude more of effort required. AGI is gonna be much easier than living forever, which seems should be easier than travelling faster than light.
"For pictures that have been reencoded to JPEG multiple times I recommend shred." (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shre...)

That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
But would it be impossible to have artificial “skin in the game”? Is there no robot body that could serve this purpose?
Single node Kafka still needs Zookeeper, though.
> when it was discovered that electronic computers are not just number-crunching machines, but can also manipulate symbols

The first sentence shows that the authors know nothing about computation. So, there is nothing substantial to read here.
Here's a cute follow-up: what are all possible outputs of the following program?

import random

class C:
def __hash__(self):
# return 0 or 1, with equal probability
return random.randint(0, 1)

x = C()
d = {}

d[x] = "foo"
d[x] = "bar"
d[x] = "baz"

print(len(d), d[x])
I'll admit I don't know the specifics beyond what was tweeted.

I'm with you though... If an employer wants to manage my device, they can provide the device.
Interestingly, I have a hyper-individualist background, and I similarly think that the tendency to care about pedigree over content is likely to mislead and misinform you. In theory, this means reading The New York Times with the same level of skepticism as Breitbart; in practice, the correlation is strong enough that I end up avoiding Breitbart, but the principle helps me pick out bad reporting from the Times _constantly_).
As long as all those reals are computable ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
/chirp

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algor...
Proponents of these types of laws are anti-porn. If fear of sharing the required PII with porn sites reduces the number of visitors to those sites, all the better in their mind.

The 'save-the-children' vibe is a smoke screen for banning porn.
It's long past time to retire Lena as the canonical test image in CG.
Active Directory is a Microsoft product, which, last I knew, only runs on Windows.

Active Directory implements LDAP, and there are serveral other LDAP implementations. Other OSes can use Active Directory as an LDAP server, sure.
How will you debug this?
Not everyone can afford 2 phones, but their employers expect them to be online all the time anyway. This is particularly true of people who work in US hospitals.
I actually had just read this blog post prior to posting my comment. There's a lot of good insight on HOW to publish but I didn't see any compelling evidence on WHY to publish (specific traffic numbers, etc).
>Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of that speech.

It is though, it's just that we as a society define which consequences you are free from as the speaker (ex. some legal consequences). The internet, and social media in particular, has profoundly changed how we think about the topic. In my opinion we'd be better off as a whole if we reevaluated our perspectives when presented with new information rather than avoiding discourse entirely in favour of dogma.

>and then not "punish" you for it? If you tell your wife she looks fat, she's probably not having sex with you that evening

This isn't a punitive action, it's a personal choice of your wife. AFAIK you are not entitled to sex with your wife whenever you so choose. A scenario in which a contract is terminated based on something said on social media (when there's no clause in the contract covering that particular thing) is fundamentally different, for example.
I think you missed the main point, replicated economically. Given unlimited budget, I think simulating the human brain might be possible if one could use a powerful enough computer for evey neuron.
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Which ones and what is your threat model?
Anything from SAP
This is just flipping the burden of proof around. What is your proof that it can be done? "But planes" is not proof.

I'm of the opinion that we don't even know what questions we are trying to answer.

What is intelligence? What is consciousness?

Can you explain them in concrete terms that are acceptable to everyone and don't have any notable exceptions? That's going to be the first step to being anywhere close to realizing general a.i..
Except that doesn't address any of the other reasons they preferred Rust...
IIRC it has a very short reauth delay, but not zero (i.e. I can look at two or three passwords in a row, but not more)
From my estimations they could not release Episode 3 as public hype eclipsed anything any game studio could produce. The anticipation became too strong as people expect nothing less than perfection. They used Alyx to re-anchor expectations

Edit: I believe a similar phenomenon occurred with Disney's Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, objectively some mistakes were made, but the sheer outcry from fans is an order of magnitude stronger than the mistakes made, imo this is caused from the mismatch of the idea of what Star Wars can be/means to you versus what you can concretely produce (with technical and cultural constraints)
It always mystifies me to what extent people insist on trying to hold on to this fantasy of free will, while remaining unable to define free will in a way that does not devolve to "magic" or some attempt to obscure a deterministic description behind smoke and mirrors.

At least some of the latter (e.g. a portion of compatibilists etc.) will if pressed admit that their "free will" is an effect or illusion of mind layered on top of determinism, but for a lot of people the very idea that they don't have actual agency seems entirely impossible to accept.
Etrade does this, drives me nuts; I can't delete old 2FA devices because I no longer have them. Where's the security benefit in that???
Good point, they don't! I've updated the post
I was hoping to find an actual plan towards making the software better, more usable, and desirable. Instead it’s just a “marketing plan” about splitting apart something that lags behind.

Where’s the vision?!
I've been thinking a lot about the Satanic Temple recently. The supreme court has been ferociously eroding the separation of church and state lately. I wonder how they, and the public, would respond to public funding for a Satanic charter school that openly discriminated against heterosexual teachers and forced heterosexual students to undergo gay conversion therapy...

Edit: to be clear, I don't think that it would be a good to do. But for all the fearmongering about the "gay agenda" to make your kids gay, there's a well-documented "straight agenda" that results in a high rate of suicide (and very few enduring conversions) of its victims. If we are equal in the eyes of the law, zero or both must be valid.
Is your problem digital logic? Analog computers predate digital computers. I doubt that's the sticking point but if it is, it's not an impossible hurdle.
"Art forgery" what a joke.
One of the early boarding houses for consumptives was founded in 1882 by Emma C. Bangs, who arrived from the east with her ill daughter

The belief about a better climate/cleaner air in the southwest persisted a long time after that.

Relocating to the SW was what my great-aunt (b ~1900) did with her ill daughter (who had TB or COPD, I can't remember the details), moving from the Buffalo area to Mesa, Arizona (about 6 hours from LA) where they believed the "better air" and warm climate would be help her improve (the daughter lived for about another 10 years). Her husband had done something similar when his TB had become severe shortly after WWII, driving to a VA hospital in Tuscon but returning to Buffalo a few years later, where he died.
> False negative rate maybe?

Yes, thanks, fixed.

Check out Table 1 in this paper. It isn't very encouraging. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25971
Samba is SMB/CIFS, a file sharing implementation. How does that relate to Active Directory, other than file permissions?
Sorry if I missed something obvious, but if we're at the point where the U.S. government is even contemplating banning TikTok, how come it's on Google and Apple stores at this point? They seem to be at least somewhat vigilant about spyware etc.
I'm a big fan of REPL programming and miss it a lot when I work with compiled languages. There is definitely a 'right' and 'wrong' way to do it though. REPL programming doesn't replace the need to write tests and it actually allow you to write those tests faster as well as build more realistic faked versions of upstream or downstream dependencies.
Author of linked article asserts that computers cannot achieve general intelligence by: redefining general intelligence as precisely and only the specific experience and behavior of human beings.

Author has incorporated the argument's conclusion into its premise, a tautology.
So then you weren't asking the question in good faith. When I asked you to clarify you dodged the question. I wouldn't ask if I knew, I asked because I didn't know what you were referring to.

If you want me to talk to you then make a direct point instead of confused remarks about what I know and don't know and conversations I had with other people that were unrelated to you.
Thanks just watched the provided youtube video. Interesting case. Less greedy and it would have worked perfectly. As someone with 0 idea about the art world it was really interesting to see how well an approach of "fake the history by altering the archives" + medium skill level painting worked. The lady that flew in from France basically already told them "these are pretty bad forgeries" and got the reply "yeah but the documents are legit" and had to go through all kinds of trouble to prove the documents are fake.

In my worldview these scams only worked with perfect and amazing forgeries that require some sort of high tech color-analysis and canvas analysis to uncover...alas just faking the chain of trust worked quite well.
Aren't taxes the way to solve that? Isn't it easier to give everyone the money and then when Tax Season happens you just tax it back out of the people who didn't need it?
Is there a strong argument against the fact that every approach to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) eventually becomes ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence)?

In other words, as soon as a facet of AI (NLP etc) gets a specific name and context, it is no longer considered part of AGI.
Nice, I like the way Microsoft chose to ignore the bad blood with Google regarding its apps for Windows Phone and has embraced Android.

PWA collaboration seems to be a step in the right direction, especially since Edge is using chromium and Microsoft seems to be building great PWA apps[1].

Although I'm not entirely sure about Google's end game with PWA[2], I hope these kind of collaboration motivates industries to build more PWA apps and put pressure on Apple to properly support PWA APIs in Safari; then may be, just may be one day we'll have fair grounds for new mobile operating systems to compete without this Playstore/Appstore duopoly.

[1]https://www.bing.com/covid/

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23574697
Mattress Company Stiffs Some Lenders
There's no trouble, we don't know everything. We default to assuming there is nothing we can't explain, doesn't mean that assumption is truth. Our job is to keep pounding the universe for truths until it gives them up.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the bitter lesson is wrong, just that it's not bitter, it's actually how a whole bunch of stuff progresses.
Both A and B are very easy to abuse and in practice they are often both "bad" because in bigger groups there are always conflicts and personal interests, and some people that will do whatever to have it their way, and most often there is no "adult in the room" (someone with no personal stake in the conflict with power to moderate the group behavior).

A turns into war, bulling and tyranny, B turns into toxic cesspool of blame and playing a victim. Especially that there's a mechanism of self-selection, and people fed up with the group tend to leave.

If you're a parent you see a micro-versions of both almost all the time in kids interacting with each other.

Most people with reasonable life experience must have been involved repeatedly in groups with both A and B cultures, some of which worked great, and some of which were terrible. The difference is not in A/B but in particular group dynamics, their morals etc.

IMO, A healthy, well-rounded adult should be able to encompass and integrate both cultures and fluently switch them depending on the context and a need at hand, and not fall into worst version of any.
I think the focus is more on a masculine (A) vs feminine (B) divide rather than sex. It's just that the majority of men lean towards more masculinity than femininity and vise versa for women. I find this aspect to be very essential to the topic at hand, which I believe to be the societal pressures to pick one of the sides and abandon individual thought.
Apple should remove it for being spyware.

Google should remove it for being competition.
I wouldn't. I'm an ASP.NET Core dev which is a MSFT technology and it runs better on Linux.

I still choose Windows for development.
I'm French and moved to Japan last year.

Every time I see a news about my country, it is for bad things, and that makes me sad. But I made the right choice.

There were many reasons for this.

The most notable thing in my experience of moving to Japan is the shock when I actually discovered what freedom and a liberal economy means. I now seriously view my country as communist.

The taxes are insane. For example, if your company pays 2000 Euros for your work, 1000 Euros goes to taxes ("charges patronales", social security, pension and dozens of useless stuff that nobody understands)
Then you have city taxes are usually about half a month of salary
If you are a landlord, you have to pay a second tax to the city (about half a month of salary too)
Then you have the "impot sur le revenu" which is an annual tax that is roughly 1.5 month of salary for an average salary. The higher your salary is, the higher the tax percentage is (up to 75%).
There is a 20% VAT on almost everything, and there are hundreds of other different taxes on anything you could imagine ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_imp%C3%B4ts_et_taxes... ).

Public services are shitty.
Justice and security does not exist anymore.
There are so many dumb laws and regulations that is it very hard to innovate without doing something illegal.
There are hundreds of useless government entities that consumes millions of euros every year, and whose only activity seems to be to harass companies, entrepreneurs and rich people.

The standard of living in France is by far inferior to Japan in my experience (on almost every criteria).
What do you think about the right to "Cognitive Liberty?" Freedom of thought, specifically made legal.
> I got on my machine that had already authenticated and setup a new 2FA.

I've had this happen to me a few times and I was so glad this is how it was done with google.
Most people I know check their work email from their personal phone. Work either doesn't buy them one or they don't want to carry around two phones.
"We know that machines with AGI are possible - humans are such machines."

I believe, it is disputed, whether humans are just machines.
But it is mostly a matter of definition, I believe.
1. Because the app stores don't serve a single country.

2. People don't use the app store at the pleasure of the US government.
My wife is thinking about teaching on Outschool. What has been your experience with Outschool teachers, and what were the criteria for choosing a teacher?
Grounding Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Actions
“LibreOffice is at serious risk”
People also forget the huge network of Catholics who contribute their own personal time for the benefit of the local communities (and also the non-Catholics they activate with their local events).

It would be hard to quantify, but in the analysis you posted that's not included.
I think this is a very long-winded way of saying that you should really just be thoughtful about the terms you use in the workplace. This, to me, is symptomatic of a larger issue of taking buzzwords and using them willy-nilly without careful thought put into it.

I've been on teams saying they're building a "platform," when what they're building isn't a platform at all. I think the same can go for tech debt. Like the article says, tech debt is purposely using a suboptimal solution to the task at hand for the sake of efficiency, with a known understand that the debt needs to be paid back later. If what you're doing doesn't fit that definition, it's not tech debt. If what you're building is a CRUD web app, it's not a platform. If what you're using is a library, it's not a framework.

I'm ranting a bit here, but stuff like this is a large part of why it's so difficult for young engineers to develop into more senior engineers. It's frustrating when every team uses the same terms for different things, especially when it seems as if those terms should have a more precise definition. It really limits a dev's ability to map out the project, what's doing what and why.
This sounds very complicated. Maybe the future of medicine is in simplifying the human biology and possibly even "upgrading" it to something that is less susceptible to illness and injury.
The tide might lose steam if Biden wins the election. Though I doubt there will be any carnage similar to the dot com bust. For one, interest rates are super low and I don't see them rising anytime soon, even if the Fed raises rates, the ceiling will be around 3-4%.

The Covid induced tech euphoria might die down but I am willing to wager that won't be the case. People's habits once changed are very hard to fall back, especially when the new habits have a net positive economic impact. Time saved in commuting, air travel etc. The events industry might totally die down though. So there will be some negative impact as well. Other than these specific verticals such as events and tourism, I bet the market will favour tech innovations now more than ever.

So yeah, this is probably the right time for any tech company to go public, not just those with mediocre metrics.
Yes, I've long wanted a floating point print function that understands that 3.999999999999 should be printed as "4".
How in pulsar do they get around the fact that adding a new broker, data needs to be moved over before that broker can start serving data? This seems like a basic law of physics type limitation to me.
XR Talks: The What, Why and How of AR Commerce
Hackernews had a collective O-face about some guy's talk in which he analyzed programming languages through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Background: Lacan was the psychoanalyst that made other psychoanalysts go "knock it off, you're making us all look bad". A plagiarizer and narcissist who used his psychoanalytic ramblings to manipulate women into his bed, his psychobabble was even more inscrutable than the usual Freudian stuff.

But Hackernews has a strong contingent of advisors to the Emperor. When a story bubbles up about the Emperor's fine outfit, they go nuts.
At what point am I allowed to fight back? If someone advocates exterminating me, do I have your permission to suggest that their speech should have consequences? Or do I have to wait until I'm dead?
China is Apple's second largest market. They are not removing it from the US App Store unless they are legally obligated to do so.

They have no reason to add wood to that fire. Apple's best bet right now with this particular issue is to play neutrality.
Right. Instead of debating the headline, this is the real question. The current behavior is that "someone on a 2FA authenticated session can disable 2FA". OK, so what?

Google is intentionally leaving this route open to lessen the impact of a lost authenticator. Probably this is a very significant cost savings for them -- although I don't know what their account recovery policy is for "lost" 2FA.

I'd say one risk factor here is that if someone is able to piggyback your session (e.g. CSRF) specifically into the 2FA Settings API, they may be able to get your 2FA disabled in a way that meaningfully exposes your account to a wider attack.

Another risk is similar to why you should require a password to be re-entered in order to change a password. The user is already in an authenticated session, and yet, it's still considered best practice to prompt for the existing password at the same time. This can't merely be as a second layer of CSRF protection, right? If your CSRF is broken, fix your CSRF.

I would assume the theory is to prevent an opportunist attacker with a small time window of access to your session (keyboard) from getting longer term access to your account.

Particularly for accounts that have long-lived sessions that don't have to use 2FA very often because of the cached session, you might not notice for quite some time that 2FA is no longer active.

As with most things in security, it's a double-edged sword.
I don't see why you're responding that to a comment about allowing non-phone number identifiers?
>Any article making such a claim need to start with explaining what evidence they have that human brains are not computing devices that can be replicated or simulated.

If X and Y appear dissimilar, the burden of proof is on he who would argue they are similar.

If one contends a brain and a computer and the functions of each appear similar, then one is being disingenuous.
The Halting Problem definitely puts bounds on what an algorithm can know about another one. At least this should backup the empirical evidence why analytical approaches haven't gotten so far yet.
tiktok is controlled by CCP, don't you know that?
I thought I was going crazy reading these comments.
The threat model of the US government, or a US company spying on a US citizen is, to the citizen, about as harmful as the Chinese government spying on them.

Actually moreso, in the case of the US government.
I would have put it in a virtual machine to play windows games more easily. Gaming on windows server 2019, how fun is that!
Forget countries and governments. Don't they serve the users, at least to some extent? Forgetting the political issues, there have been multiple spyware scandals here, right? Or did I get the wrong idea?

Of course these companies have selfish corporate interests, but I've seen both of these companies show at least _some_ level of care for their users. Even if it's part of keeping up appearances out of concern for their corporate interests.
When I look at pictures of me when I was younger, I am like "Wow I looked different at the time" for two seconds and then I move on with my life cause it did not learn me anything and I don't really know what to make of it. I guess I havent much interest in my past looks. I have a pretty good idea of who I was at various stages of my life and even if I had not, those would not help much. So I guess I am uninterested in pictures in general.