skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Windows and macOS only provide one API to create a window and could switch to CSD-only tomorrow without anyone noticing. In a way they already have since they work differently anyway (no server/client architecture).

So they are a bad example as they went the toolkit-way, which GNOME also wants.
You should look into stainless steel frets and either non-nickel or coated strings.
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Even if I agree that he would “probably” go crazy, I just need more than 0 of my millions of AGI candidates to successfully navigate the perils of their relative sensory deprivation in order to have achieved AGI.
> and what we call a British or Irish Dumpling served atop a stew.

The other name for them for them has since become a slur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)

According to Wikipedia, Beef Wellington and pasties are classed as a dumplings too, which I find surprising: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dumplings

They’re certainly not colloquially thought of as dumplings.
“To put it simply: the overestimation of technology is closely connected with the underestimation of humans.”
I use web-based teleconferencing almost exclusively. Safari asks every time for permission to use the camera.

It would, of course, be better if camera access could be configured to require a Touch ID every time, controlled in T2 obviously. I would trust that.
"...then what?"

That's the problem I ran into, as well.

When a social network is so thin, you need some way to bootstrap it. On the internet, a lot of that was random people making websites that were basically shouting into the void. A lot of it was bad, but some of it was interesting and it gave you enough reason to hang around long enough that you found other people or other people found you.

But on HAM, broadcasting is not allowed, so you can't shout into the void. Maybe there's some other way to get a baseline of chatter going on?
And what is the level of coverage of Russia's equivalent of RTI? (assuming they have one)
The graphical user interface components of macOS are proprietary software, as are a bunch of other libraries included in macOS that software packaged for macOS is likely to use.

So if this was a goal of PureDarwin then they’d have a lot of work ahead of them in order to implement those APIs.

This wiki page on the repository seems to indicate that they are not intending to do that:

https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin/wiki/Graphics

> While Darwin is the operating system underlying Mac OS X, the graphical environments of PureDarwin and Mac OS X are very different. This is because most graphical aspects of Mac OS X (especially Quartz and Aqua) are proprietary, closed-source software and are not available for PureDarwin. Hence, PureDarwin uses a more traditional UNIX-like graphics system (X server), waiting a better alternative.
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Genes and family are biggest predictor of academic success
I'd think container shipping is so cheap that 2 will almost always outweigh 1 and 3.
This summer I was supposed to go on a week long backcountry hike with a youth group. The youth would be split into multiple teams and they wanted an adult with a ham radio to be with each team. I volunteered to get a license since there was only one adult who already had his license and was experienced with ham radio. Getting the license was interesting. I’ve never studied engineering or electronics and a lot of the test was things like being able to read circuit schematics, understanding how inductors/capacitors/tranformers/etc. work, learning ohms law and the power law and being able to solve equations with them, learning laws around ham radio, etc.

What you don’t learn as part of getting a license is what do you do after you have a license. Where do you buy equipment? What kind of equipment do you need? How do you use a radio? What do all the buttons on the radio do? Etc.

I asked someone about this and they said I needed to join my local club to learn this stuff. But, I don’t want to join a club. I have a family, 2 jobs, home remodeling, and various hobbies (woodworking, drawing, reading, board games, baking, gardening, etc.) The last thing I have time for is to join a club ;-)

So I’m in this weird spot where I have a license, but don’t actually know what to do with it. Due to the pandemic, the youth trip was cancelled. But it may be rescheduled for a future year. I’ll need to figure all this stuff out before then.
> When Google manages to x y z

When pigs manage to fly. FTFY

If your premise is that Google will stop being so frequently incompetent at product and deliver a killer competitor for Zoom, then it's far more likely that Zoom's future is a bright one.

> Zoom really strikes me as the Dropbox of 2020 ... Zoom will probably suffer the same fate

Nobody killed Dropbox either, they have continued to expand year after year. Dropbox has grown its business every year for the past decade plus. You act like the competition wiped them out, when nothing like that has happened at all: Dropbox doubled the size of their business over the prior three fiscal years (2017-2019). I'm pretty sure that reasonably qualifies as thriving.

Zoom is growing even faster than Dropbox did, they'll be larger than Dropbox in another few quarters. So how many years will it take for the competitors to catch up in a way that considerably slows Zoom down and how large will Zoom be at that point?
In the past, this was exactly how it was done. Here's an article on the FBI doing it with an Apple webcam six years ago [0].

Should be noted that was after Apple went to the effort of making a hardware delay to try and force the LED to turn on first, but it was still worked around.

[0] https://www.smh.com.au/technology/researchers-activate-apple...
Haha, Spot on!
Should still work on modern macs if you chain together a FireWire 400 -> 800 / FW 800 -> ThunderBolt 2 / TB2 -> TB3 set of adaptors. Off to eBay…
Now that's cool!

But rocketry is also pretty tightly-regulated in my area. So that's two high-attention hobbies, and it starts to seem like a bit much.
This seriously sounds like the plot of a dystopian sci-fi movie!
Definitely. I think there's a pressure between outward expansion to secure resources, and the risk of annihilation through the conflict that results.

I guess it's interesting to think of the effect of this "evolution pressure" on successful strategies for small groups. I wonder if looking at small-groups today...they have selected for strategies that worked...over a long time, by this knowledge sort of being passed along somehow. Or if, in a sense, every small group is re-learning the lessons of others from the past...

If a small group survives for a long time, I think it has to either become large, or it has to, as you say, go somewhere to survive. Which could just mean, "going underground", and hiding in plain sight in terms of "secret groups" that are persecuted.

Maybe the same can be considered for small companies. Do we expand to compete with others for new market share and take on the risks that might involve (including, I suppose, taking on VC money...), or do we stay in our niche.

Certainly, probably as Thiel says, the best strategy for a small group at the start is as you say "go someplace there's nobody to fight", and dominate that small area. Interesting to think of Thiel as a survivalist...I suppose that's what he is...

Thinking about what you're saying more, it does seem that small groups have an incentive to co-operate as well. Band together to survive. I guess just the risks for small groups, even in co-operating (such as being double crossed), are probably greater, because a small group is easy to annihilate.

Conclusion: life is hard for small groups.
> Every laptop Apple has manufactured in the last ten years has an LED connected to the same circuit which powers up the camera.

At the very least, I need a citation or an official statement. Because clearly, this has not always been the case [1]:

We describe how to disable the LED on a class of Apple internal iSight webcams used in some versions of MacBook laptops and iMac desktops.

[..] our investigation of the iSight revealed that it is designed around a microprocessor and a separate image sensor with an indicator LED sitting between them such that whenever the image sensor is transmitting images to the microcontroller, a hardware interlock illuminates the LED. We show how to reprogram the microcontroller with arbitrary, new firmware. This in turn enables us to reconfigure the image sensor, allowing us to bypass the hardware interlock and disable the LED.

[..] iSight webcam [was] found in previous generation Apple products including the iMac G5 and early Intel-based iMacs,MacBooks, and MacBook Pros until roughly 2008

Whatever reason Apple had to design the camera system this way back in 2008, is probably still a valid reason (cost, hardware simplicity, spacial constraints etc.). It means Apple and others have incentives to build camera systems that are easier to compromise. It's enough for me to worry.

[1] https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
I think the third point is especially strong argument for having the cover. It gives you a second physical layer of security rather than possibly a button you might automatically click away and it gives you the opportunity to join the call first and then decide to actually share (e.g. if the setting is more formal than expected or if the other side isn’t sharing).

Relying on the light going on after the fact is a much weaker protection, the user may have opted in to always letting an app use a camera and between the 15 or so UIs that the conference apps have the user might miss that it actually turns the camera on unless the button is clicked.

Now if apple were to release an os Level protection that automatically pulls up a screen showing what is shared from the view of the camera and asks for that approval, that would improve this situation.
Maybe, but don't forget that Foxconn is Taiwanese, so there could be an idiosyncratic political angle to this, too.
> What’s to say the same companies don’t alter the circuit board

The realities of modifying hardware. Is it possible? Sure. Is a company going to do it routinely at scale? Highly unlikely, because unlike software modifications, this would be pretty expensive. Are you aware of any companies that routinely do _hardware_ modifications on employee Macbooks?
Yes, completely agree and was thinking along these lines as I read. I'm really interested in a good argument against AGI. Turing had the right intuition in thinking that if our brains are processing information then they can be simulated by a Turing machine. Everything points to our brains doing information processing at all levels.

The article still has a point about general intelligence without a body, but I think this can be solved by developing robotics and AI together, and I've seen some research in this area (I think Japan).
That clause is really weird. IANAL (maybe it has specific meaning in law), but why is it even included as a clause rather than some comment / reminder saying that the licence doesn't make otherwise illegal things legal?

In practice nothing would change if they skipped it, right?
The main thing those numbers are telling you is that Foxconn is really big.

I think your link is also relying on data which is several years old, this is more recent and listing average hourly wages of $3.60 in China:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/chinese-wages-rise-made-in-c...

But that's still less than a third of $100/day.

The real question is whether the required number of employees is off too, which if the numbers are from years ago and the theory that automation is increasing is true then it would be, and then as you say, how that plays out in terms of labor per unit.
“Secondly it seems plausible that a person locked in a room with a radio to communicate with the outside world would eventually acquire intelligence without ever fully experiencing the world.”

Strongly disagree. If that was all he experienced in his life, the brain would not host a mind we would recognize as a healthy human.

A human is not a computer. A human life is not decomposable to purely language. This is not a ‘spiritual’ statement, it’s merely an observation that the mind takes in input and processes it far beyond in ways which we are able to describe in terms of language. Any modern terminology, at least. The mind needs experiences.

On lack of human contact: they’ve tried this in orphanages. Babies that don’t get human attention generally wither and die.
Most of the time, I have an external monitor connected to the laptop (with the laptop still open) and I usually wont notice if the camera is on just by looking at the LED.
> If I were anyone relying on China right now I would diversify to other countries as fast as possible.

I suspect even more are asking whether they are going to be cut off from American tech.
Getting rid of employer-provided insurance and just giving people the money so they can buy health insurance themselves.
Both are dumplings.
They trust the physics, simplicity and verifiability of a cover more than they trust the invulnerability of Apple's black-box software & hardware implementation.
I do not really understand what this means. Something like given y : yt and let x = y we can infer that x : yt?
I wonder if the TrueTone sensor (which is most likely similar to a 1-pixel "camera") can be used to determine if the user is near the laptop, then only turn the camera on when you think they're not paying attention.
Electrical tape with a flap so you can move it back and forth works extremely well.
It sounds like they are basically ceding the lowbrow to encyclopedia dramatica, which I think I’m fine with.
This is post-facto legitimization of the logic of partition.

Why shouldn't we undo partition (if possible)?
After going to mixer I'm not sure we ought to take Ninja as the authoritative voice on social media platforms
Replace dog by CDs, you will break your microwave. The macbook just wasn't designed to puy something over the cam. I don't get all the excitement.
> I think Cobol programmers get $60k in Austin, which is about $20k a year less than the lowest paid Java developer gets in the area

On top of that they tend to be stodgy old corporate companies that developers hate, where you have to wear a suit to work and being seated by 9AM is more important than doing your job well. Then there's the fact that it could be career suicide to spend so long on tech that fewer and fewer companies are using. And you'll need an exit plan because it's used at become companies that do regular mass layoffs, they've probably fired more cobol programmers than they'll ever need. They should be paying a hefty premium to get people.

The language itself and surrounding systems can't be any worse than the standard enterprise XML DSL rubbish can it?
Not aware of any that do that for laptops but I know 2 personally that do that for phones. They have a collection of devices (phones) trash to go, so it’s not as unscalable as I initially thought because they re-use the devices.

So I’m assuming if some do it for phones, must be some doing it in laptops.

Again. It’s all about probabilities. 1/ What’s the likelihood of the company doing that? Close to none.
2/ what would be the severity of the issue if they were doing that for me? Very high.
3/ what’s the effort level to prevent that? Very little.

This ratio ultimately tells us what to do.
No. It's not. It's possible for people to forget themselves logged in on others machines, happens to the best of us. Requiring the user to reenter their password when changing it but not requiring 2FA when removing 2FA is silly.
You don't have to do amateur rocketry to have fun with high-powered long-distance wifi.
Vietnam for the most part stopped the anti-America propaganda in the nineties. Sure, everyone learns about the American war in the history books, but they're also exposed to the huge amount of movies, tv shows and music from America. Vietnam also had a decade long border dispute with China which started with the war of 1979 (funny enough, this is rarely mentioned in school), so hatred of China is common. In recent years Vietnam and China have clashed multiple times on the issues of South China Sea (the Vietnamese call this the "East Sea"). The enemy of my enemy is my friend, that kind of thing.
If they take the efford to alter the circuit they might as well place a camera somewhere else, listen to all your network traffic, install a (hardware) keylogger and what not.

I think you are taking this too far.

People who fear to be tracked buy a laptop in a random store and don't use a provided one.
How are you definitely sure of this while simultaneously claiming you don't know very much about the Varna system as the Vedas outline it?

You're also missing my point - of course people have abused the Varna system, but that's not how it has been described that it should be so.
TFA has gnocchi and matzo balls, so I think spätzle ought to be admissible as 0-dumplings (where a filled dumpling is a 1-dumpling). Proper dumplings would then be those dumplings with at least one layer of filling. Are there any 2-dumplings or higher, the dumpling equivalent of turducken?

(future work: classification of dumplings with handles, immersions of Klein Dumplings in cooking oil, ...)
"If you manage to find a vulnerability in this system, I don't think I even mind, "

Taking a quick photo doesn't illuminate the LED for long enough for a human to reliably notice.

"because you've also broken physics "

Or merely recognized the role of the human element. A shame, Apple was once good at this.
How can a music app "not work"?
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Sorry, to which pretense?
PWAs are worthless for me until full networking access is provideded(i.e no CORS, set custom headers etc). Until then PWAs are just bookmarks of websites.
https://www.gog.com/forum/northgard/warning_gog_galaxy_is_re...

Well this suggests it's a bug, at least.
If the accelerated asylum process does not apply to Muslims (including Rohingyas and Ahmadiyas), why is that not discriminatory? Why is the plight of a Buddhist in Pakistan more urgent than that of a Rohingya in Myanmar?
Maybe? But only if it ran on a tree and was powered by the sun
CQ field day, CQ field day!

Did the same thing when I was about 13... that was a blast -- camping in a big field with a bunch of other hams... Great memory! -- KA3TMV
From how I read it, this reduces the probability that the data gets deleted due to low disk space / garbage collection:

Persistent storage can help protect
critical data from eviction, and
educe the chance of data loss.

Are you sure this keeps the data when the user deletes their browser data? To me it sounds like it does not:

Persistent storage is not deleted by the browser,
even if storage is running low. It will only be
deleted if the user chooses to remove it via
their site settings.
It is likely in relation to running macOS on non apple hardware, as the Darwin kernel is often distributed with hackintosh tools. This would give them a reason to send a cease and desist otherwise legal software.

edit: wording
Also:

https://theorg.com/org/facebook

https://theorg.com/org/amazon

https://theorg.com/org/apple

https://theorg.com/org/microsoft

https://theorg.com/org/netflix
A friend of mine went to a doctor, and after the medical lab the doctor told him you either have malaria or typhoid.

This trend seems to be everwhere
Someone in my local area told me about them. Apparently you normally have to go to a community college for 2 days of classes and then take the exam in person. But they did the classes over zoom and the testing over zoom too. I didn’t even need to leave my home to get my license. Nice.

The exam system was figured out by some group in Texas. Their system was approved by the FCC so my local group piggybacked off of the Texas group to do the online exam.

There was a zoom call at a certain time. You had to do certain things to your computer ahead of time to get it ready. When it was time they had me turn the laptop all around to show my room to prove there was no one and nothing other than a plain sheet of paper, a basic calculator, and a pencil nearby. I had to prove the paper was blank and the calculators memory was wiped. I had to have all family members leave the house during the exam. There were five other people on the call all watching me over my camera while I took the test. The proctor took control of my computer to see what I had running and to start the exam. Then I took the exam. I missed one question, but they can’t tell you which one you missed. I really thought I got them all right and it still bothers me not knowing which one I got wrong ;-)

Afterwards the Texas group was given my information and they submitted it to the FCC. I got my license a few weeks later in an email.
Because you can’t play that game with information asymmetry. Your attack surface is too large to defend. It just depends on if you care or not.
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> that AI will eventually include bodies and it won't take long to integrate software intelligence and embodied intelligence to get something greater that could resemble AGI.

Probably but there will be at least two really difficult challenges:

- the hardware part (building the actual body) is far from easy, and still out of reach as of today.

- the “intelligence” needed to control a “body” is super super hard too. Having children gives you some insight on the relative difficulty of problems. Facial/object recognition is learned in months, body control requires years to learn. And we're talking about fundamental problems for living animals, so you'd guess it's been pretty well optimized by natural selection.
> Secondly it seems plausible that a person locked in a room with a radio to communicate with the outside world would eventually acquire intelligence without ever fully experiencing the world.

Without fully experiencing the outside world, such an agent will still have gaps in intelligence. Knowing the specific wavelength of the color red (564–580 nm), and how the optic nerve processes color is different than the experience of seeing a red flower in the world for the first time.
You are right. 'die' refers to falling apart.

I am not an expert but I believe the reproduction of a virus is more 'chemical' than 'biological'.
Sure, the Cantor set is the set of real numbers in [0,1] with trinary expansions that do not contain 1 at any point.

A Cantor space is any set that can be mapped to (and from) the Cantor set.

The Cantor space is the set of infinitely long bitstrings; instead of a trinary number 0.200220222200..., you'd conceive of the same entity as the string "100110111100...". The mapping is pretty obvious.

0.99999... and 1.0000... are neither of them bitstrings, so it's not really clear what cvoss was thinking of. But it's certainly true that "0999999..." and "1000000..." are distinct strings.

Going back to the Cantor set, you'd usually represent 1 as 0.22222222... for obvious reasons of consistency (that is the only format matching the representation of the rest of the set). It would be weird to represent it as 1.000000000...; that would look like you were considering the left end of the Cantor set in [1,2] rather than the right end of the Cantor set in [0,1].
Pareto Distribution
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