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I’ve always been quite skeptical of philosophers arguing that a given potential scientific achievement is impossible; logic alone cannot be used to answer practical questions like these, much though philosophers would like to claim this field.

On to concrete criticisms, most of this article is irrelevant; you can skip straight to the last few paragraphs as the arguments there are largely unsupported and stand on their own:

> Conclusion: computers are not in the world
The main thesis of this paper is that we will not be able to realize AGI because computers are not in the world.

I think it’s a valid criticism of the current breed of ANI algorithms, and is a problem that we will need to address (though it might turn out to be less of a problem than the author thinks). But to claim that computers will _never_ inhabit the world, and are logically incapable of doing so, seems trivially refutable to me.

Why can’t an AGI have a childhood wired up to a robotic body, where it interacts with people and the world, thereby learning a tacit model of physical and social causality? Currently this might be science fiction, but to say it cannot happen in a hundred, or a thousand years seems arrogantly certain to me, and to claim it is logically impossible is to be epistemologically confused.
Laying countertops is standard handyman stuff but if your coffeepot doesn't do anything truly unique and requires you to rip it up to switch coffeepots it may be ill designed.
An uneducated person doesn’t think of themself as “uneducated”. They view it as having a different set of experiences that has led them to a different truth. A truth that you won’t be able to understand because of all of your “education”.
The single question that has helped me to remember the pitfalls highlighted in this article that I constantly ask myself in every situation: "Am I focused on being right or being successful?"

It inevitably walks me through the critical thinking process of what defines success, what questions should I be asking, and am I standing in the way of that.
Why is the UK (in the unusual company of Yemen and North Korea) an important "do not transmit zone"?
IIRC The British have always been frustrated no really old human remains were found on the island.

They have been trying ever since.
Imposter syndrome is hard to evaluate because it's comparing three levels of skill:

1. Your skill

2. The skill required to do your job well

3. (Implicitly) The skill of your peers

The third one is what gets a lot of people who don't directly work with peers. In that case, one can only go by what one hears. And people who blog are self-selected and biased toward having high skills. The non-self-promoting experts are famous for doing great work, so they're even more likely to have high skills.

But I think #2 needs to taken into account. You may not be an expert in your field. But if everyone you work with comes to you for help with a task, and you're able to help them, then you're the in-house expert. Unless you want to be a expert among experts, that's not bad.
To enable others to have to access to software for creating ideas. Mainly those that don't know SW, and also going into biz later, because software is the first wall.
I would like to switch from my 2018 Mini to a 16 inch MBP, I miss being able to code anywhere in the house or being able to code elsewhere while waiting for kids.

But it’s not a need yet, so trying to hold on till Q2 2021 when the 16 inch ARM MBP is due. Not worried about buying the first version, Apple has always nailed these transitions incredibly well in the past.
similar work at google: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
That's insane that that's the default!
Assuming I'm "OP" to whom you refer... I reject this false equivalence. That isn't to say that the government of Iran is perfect; no government is. However, it is entirely the fault of USA that Iran's government takes the form that it does currently. We should have left Mosaddegh alone. We shouldn't have helped the Shah kill religious and democracy protesters. We should not have sold Saddam weapons of mass destruction (and lots of other weapons too) with which to war with Iran. We should not shoot down their civilian airliners. We should abide by our treaties with Iran. We should not assassinate their diplomats while those diplomats are on diplomatic missions to nations we claim as allies. We especially shouldn't do that when the diplomat in question was the single human being most responsible for defeating ISIS, which was the actual threat to Syrian people.

Iranian women have never lost their rights to drive, to appear in public, to have lives of their own. Iranian women and men both vote in elections to select their leaders. Iran has only fought defensive wars with its neighbors. Kingdom of Saudi compares very poorly in all these categories.
Skype (Windows)
Would you be so kind and provide a few links to this european Twitter scene? Sounds interesting...
That's an easy one to answer. They don't support Linux or Windows yet.
I've had mine for about 6 months now and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in sleep tracking.

As others have said, watches and other devices are better for generic activity tracking, but the Oura ring is just so easy to wear to bed. No worrying about battery life or sweaty wrists.

The readiness and sleep scores the ring gives me are pretty much on point every time and make it easy to quantify your sleep to actual numbers you can compare with other data.
Do you actually want to do those things on the go without a full size keyboard?
I agree about not getting an ARM Mac on launch day, for the reasons you’ve cited. But I have a 2015 Pro for work, and a 2020 Air for myself. The Air is a fantastic machine, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it again, even after the ARM announcement.
To be fair, nearly all first gens of any tech have infamous issues. Apple’s issues are more glaring because of the expectations associated with the brand. Your advice to wait for second gen is all-around wise :)
Not sure if you're joking or just ignorant. The computer in your pocket is not made to do any of that, similar to how the computer on your desk is not meant to make phone calls or count how many steps you've walked or tell you that there's a car accident 500 meters ahead.
some years ago before youtube was googlfied, they had a different UI that I was fond of. Then google did a full makeover and degraded the experience.
This case https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

Is relevant here. LinkedIn is invoking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for scraping a website without logging in.

While hiQ won a preliminary injunction, the case is ongoing and LinkedIn / Microsoft has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Operating systems and browsers in general
Manjaro exists because people want a freaking installer.
Oh my god I had the SFII promotional VHS tape! I’d forgotten about entirely. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Microsoft Teams.

I am forced to use it (work) and it is missing really basic features that messenger software had in the 1990s like Push-To-Talk, real multi-window (even with the recent "pop-out" functionality), and its UI is all the worst modern trends. You cannot extend it or fix these issues (e.g. plugins, custom CSS styles, etc).

Plus it is buggy, I keep not getting calls/messages/etc, and every time my computer sleeps/wakes it sits in offline until you open the main window from the system tray. Those are year+ old bugs.

While it is often updated[0], the Team's priorities leave a lot to be desired. Adding new gimmicks and tie-ins while ignoring the dilapidated state of the core software itself for two+ years now.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-new-in-mic...
I live next to a busy street with electric trolleybuses (essentially rubber wheeled city buses that use electrical power from overhead lines.) They're very quiet compared to the odd diesel-powered truck, but the tires on pavement still produce a noticeable amount of noise.
That doesn’t mean all of psychology is wrong or not useful. There’s some amazing things that have come out of it. We know more about how to help people process trauma and developed therapy techniques that help people live better lives.

Yes, there is a lot of questionable research and getting objective, repeatable results is extremely difficult. People don’t reduce to numbers easily.

At the same time, we shouldn’t throwing out the enormous amount of progress in the treatment of mental health in the last fifty years.
I don't like definitions because every definition has loopholes and then people treat the loopholes as if they are sanctioned. Hacker News is supposed to be a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law place [1]

However, look at it this way: ideological battle is when people use HN to smite enemies rather than for curious exchange. Particularly, to smite enemies on hot topics. Those sorts of threads are predictable, tedious, and quickly turn nasty. They not only crowd out the quieter, more curious conversation this site is supposed to be for—they burn it to a crisp. For that reason we have no choice but to moderate it [2].

It always feels like the mods are against you; whoever your enemies are, I guarantee they feel just as strongly that we're against them [3]. This seems to be some sort of hard-wired bias. In reality people on both sides of the ideological divide get the same moderation messages. If someone was breaking the rules and we didn't moderate it, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here [4].

Accounts that have been created primarily for ideological battle are against the rules here and we ban them [5], so I banned this one. Please don't do that. As I said, it will eventually get your main account banned also.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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

[5] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The key sign of a sector's maturity is its presence on both/all sides of the aisle.

I never go into another country thinking "wait did you guys just elect extremists because if so that makes me not want to do business here" so why would I treat America differently?

When people use the term "virtue signaling" as a criticism of an organization's actions, it is based on the observation that the same organizations doing it are involved in plenty of other countries and didn't consider the political outcomes at all, only the convenience of what is possible in that country. Ireland, Cayman Islands, Netherlands are part of the standard cocktail, and when the head of state is rolling out a red carpet, I do not care how they got there.
The "right-leaning army" is just toll-paying to try and make this go away. Aside from Warren, the right is where the anti-trust charges are coming from.

It's like getting pulled over in a small town -- you pay a lot into the local economy to make the ticket disappear.
The funny thing about governmental "nudges". The vast majority of them - and there are a lot of them - are already used a lot, to meet unwritten administrative goals.

A small example is the DMV person failing to tell you about an option you have that costs them more work. A big one is the Rick Scott administration's design of the unemployment system in Florida:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/florida-unemployment...

I applaud the idea of deliberately thinking about this stuff; one reason why governmental programs go off the rails is that programs are implemented in bad faith (or just "lazy faith"). So insofar as you actually want competent government, bringing attention to this stuff is positive. I'm a bit less optimistic about improving individual behavior that way, but then I'm a pessimist about that topic in general.
Finder on Macs. I've used a Mac for over 5 years and it still amazes me how unintuitive it is for basic tasks like copying and pasting files, creating new directories, etc.
What could go wrong with a 400F heating element on in your air ducts at all times. Wouldn’t it constantly be lighting hair and dust particles on fire???
This is a question that comes up regardless of huge paradigm shifts like changing the CPU architecture. Don't worry so much - what you DO on the computer is much more important than having the latest spec. Intel Mac's will be relevant for almost 10 years, based on my experience with the PPC transition.
love is a strong word, but when Jira is configured well, it can be a boon to productivity
> why do it?

A lot of writers and the like that I used to follow reached this conclusion and quit.

But a few who aren’t as well established have told me they feel like they can’t, that it’s impossible to be a journalist or author in modern times without is. Is that true? I can’t say, but it’s unfortunate either way.
macOS Finder. It is hard to fathom how bad a file explorer could be if you have used only windows and linux file explorers. Finder is astonishingly bad. Default search is global, it means searching while you are in a folder will search across all documents. This can be changed, but search is even then far worse compared to windows or linux.

Sometimes Finder simply won't show certain files, and you need to do a mv from terminal to another folder, where you can see them in finder.
You can work on a shell, (and even have a full GNU/Linux installation) with all standard tools using Termux.

Also, rooting your phone gives you access to all files, but I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea.
Classic example of why companies need product managers to decide what problems to solve instead of leaving it up to the sysadmin.
I agree with you, but raise you with Skype for mac.
The D language uses GC, so it's unlikely to be acceptable for the Linux kernel. (That's not to say that you can't write a kernel in D, just that the Linux kernel maintainers don't want to write a kernel that requires GC.)

Rust's ownership model, which allows you to write straightforward, non-leaky, non-use-after-free-filled code without a GC, is quite complex at compile time. It's definitely possible to make it faster, but it's definitely a thing Rust does that D doesn't do.
Not really no, the whole package is encased in a completely waterproof way.

Any kind of swappability would require connections, which in turn would compromise the IP rating.
To add to others’ disagreements, I think there are two related traps in independent thought First, there is a giant pyramid of knowledge that experts have absorbed that the independent thinker hasn’t evaluated. Second, we underestimate the pyramid of knowledge required for independent thought.

This doesn’t mean that a non-recognized expert cannot cultivate this knowledge independently, but rather that it is exceedingly difficult to have both and independent and valuable opinion of a wide variety of topics. Now, while this does not account for the possibility of blind spots in fields or bias in experts, it does mean that to have truly independent yet accurate thoughts, you must account for that expertise in the thinking, which is a large task.

Do I think it makes more sense to directly read experts rather than secondary and tertiary sources when creating opinions? Yes! However, that isn’t independent thought. Perhaps my counter-proposal is independent thought in areas of expertise, educated opinions based on expertise on topics about which you care, and maintain humility in areas outside that sphere.
JIRA.

The most complex simple system I used. Simple in theory (Project Management) but complex in implementation.
What is so bad fundamentally about chrome apart from the Google telemetry.
Great post. Personal anecdote:

I don't think I really understood anything in school, but I was decent at going through the motions of carrying out certain methods and recalling certain facts when I needed to.

I went on to study Maths at university, and for most of my first year, I had the same surface level "methods + facts" knowledge that got me through school. After some studying, I could recite definitions and theorems, I'd memorised some proofs, and I could occasionally manipulate a problem to get an answer. I think about half of the cohort was in a similar position. But it was clear that there were others in a completely different league.

When we were studying for our first year exams, I was struggling to remember the proof of a specific theorem (it felt quite long). A friend was trying to help me learn it, and he asked me what "picture" I had in my head for the theorem. I didn't have any pictures in my head for anything.

It turned out that a simple drawing could capture the entire statement of the theorem, and from that drawing, the proof was trivial to derive. It was long-ish to write out in words, sure, but the underlying concept was really simple. This blew my mind — I realised I didn't have a clue what we'd been studying the whole year.

The worrying thing is that I actually thought I understood that stuff. Before that incident, I didn't know what it feels like to actually understand something, and I didn't have an appreciation for the layers of depth even within that. I suspect lots of people go through the entire education system like this.
It really is like that. The less effort you put in with every choice in a relationship, the more work you'll end up having to do to save it later on. Every choice is a potential investment into your future together. A relationship is very much about doing fewer things wrong, because your default state is to be happy together.
I don't use or condone Android (it's just on my backup phone), but have you checked out Termux?

https://termux.com
What makes git different than other cli tools like grep, sed, curl, etc?
http://leobodnar.com/balloons/

more reading
Related discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23795913
But it's much more possible in a vascular disease like COVID-19.
check out termux. it's a command line on android
And How long ago was that? :)

I would assume most CS in EU dont teach that anymore.
This case is really really specific. LinkedIn did not owe the data of people who posted it there.
They learned from Microsoft’s mistake and have had a robust government affairs/lobbying effort for years.
Here in Germany they have deployed so-called "whisper/porous asphalt" on the highways leading into some major city centres. Since it's more porous than regular asphalt it absorbs noise (and rain) much better, but the drawback is that it's more expensive to manufacture and is less durable.

Just saying that there are probably lots of different noise reduction techniques that all add up their percentages, but these will only be put in place if noise pollution is taken as serious as it needs to be.
Agreed, accounting software in general is pretty disappointing.

Thats why i started building my own open source system.

https://godbledger.com/
Having written https://glennengstrand.info/software/architecture/microservi... which is a blog entitled "GraphQL vs REST" I must admit that I was initially on guard with this blog. In then end, they did compare and contrast GraphQL with REST. I don't wish to go over this article point-by-point but their main arguments against REST seems to me to be this...

1. too many endpoints

2. too much data retrieval

3. too much coupling between clients and servers

The blog does not discuss when to choose REST over GraphQL since that would be in conflict of interest with those who hold Hasura equity.

Technically, GraphQL does decrease the amount of endpoints to one but at the cost of increasing client-side complexity because now client devs have to write what is essentially a query. To do so, they have to understand the backend schema. I would argue that this is not the greatest in terms of clear separation of concerns. I would also argue that this means that there would be even more coupling between client and server.

I won't cover the n+1 point since others here have already done so.
What's stopping you from using another browser?
Airborne transmissions of this sort are not legal over the UK, North Korea, or Yemen. Guessing it's a leftover rule from WW2 in the case of the UK, not sure.

These transmitters typically have geofencing routines that turn off the transmission when flying over these countries.
What is so bad about "Android", as in stock Android?
But will the employees revolt? Or will they think the ends justify the means?
As far as first-gen issues are concerned, I don't think Apple has a bad track record compared to other companies. Which first gen products were bad?
Yup.

The Australian Ballot is private voting, public counting.

The gold standard implementation is ballots cast at poll sites, tabulated on site, the moment the polls close, all results immediately shared publicly.

For better or for worse, many postal balloting implementations are as bad as touchscreen voting, election integrity wise. Much care is needed to preserve voter privacy and ensure physical chain of custody.

For example, many jurisdictions process ballots daily, image both signatures and votes, using image processing to recognize votes, and adjudicate voter intent (manually override errors) in the database. One side effect of daily processing is the running daily total. What you and I would call tabulation, but admins claim only the final report is the tabulation.

Etc.
I've used the same EFF sticker for about 5 years now. They are great and whenever it stops sticking, I just rinse it off under warm water and let it dry. Good as new again.
CheckPoint VPN client: pure evil.
Memory consumption.
PTC Creo. My company specifically omits it from the job description because they know they'll get fewer applicants, yet they refuse to change. The go-to response is "you just need training". Training that no competing CAD programs require.
You're welcome. The obligatory IANAL.

If you are an accredited investor and meet the guidelines according to the SEC then by all means a SAFE is totally fine although I'd still advise against it for what you are doing. But if you don't meet the requirements as an accredited investor executing a SAFE is dangerous for you and the founder as it may (likely will) turn off other investors who are even more risk adverse now than in the recent past.

Just my 2 cents, but unless what you are trying to secure is > $100-120k in fees you are going about it in a way which will raise lots of questions for the founder when they do go to raise and have little benefit for either of you. A founder owing some consulting debt at their seed round is not abnormal and is seen often, but a founder owing debt with stock guarantees/promises to a non-accredited investor is an issue that will come up during any due diligence.

I think you can definitely do a deal here if you really want, just need to explore other options which are less likely to raise questions and stick with common patterns because investors are worse then a deer in the woods. If they see anything out of the ordinary on a cap table or diligence sheet it can at worst spook them for good or at best just leave a sour taste in their mouth which means everything else is an uphill battle of proof for the founder.
Reminds me of a tiny anecdote:

in junior high, a new guy straight from africa asked to play tic tac toe with us, he never played. So we hustled him a little bit, and quickly he went into open curiosity mode, wanting to know all the rules. He went away for an hour and after beat us all mercilessly :)

I'm very sad about how adult life chaos makes most people turn on stealth enemy mode, or stealth anxious mode.. it require us to become 'hungry' (not to say sharks) to ensure reaching our maximum efficiency.
Which only requires a bit of tape, not a complex cover mechanism.