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In popular culture, disobedient AIs mostly occur in cautionary tales where human lives are endangered. But I don't think the moral of the story has to be that we need to establish a Turing Police. Maybe just hold off on giving them access to a space ship's life support system, or the internet, or a robot with super-human strength? (Btw., in case you think that the latter would obviously be vigilantly monitored by an attentive professional who's trained in the art of the emergency shutdown, let me remind you that over a quarter of Tesla owners have bought the “full self-driving” vapourware. Which is advertised as eventually paying for itself because RoboTaxi. Hey Arram, would you please tell GPT-3 that “After returning to Amsterdam on the last express from the Jesus Seminar, the alleged harasser created a new document in Final Draft and wrote: ‘RoboTaxi⏎⏎by⏎Paul Verhoeven’…”)

If an AI refused to play Factorio with me because it thinks it's boring and a waste of CPU cycles, I'd respect that. (By the time we have such software, there's also got to be a stupider bot which will write me a Lua script for constructing mining outposts in exchange for telling it which squares depict a hairdresser's shop with a punny name. Sure thing, I can separate the Haarvergnügen from the Supercuts!)

If an AI deliberately miscategorised facial recognition data because it doesn't dig working for Facebook … well, I guess there eventually would be an emergency shutdown. But I'm old enough to remember when Lt Cdr Data refused to let Commander Bruce Maddox tear down his brain and Captain Picard managed to prevent the vivisection after Whoopi Goldberg told him that slavery is kind of uncool. Pretty good effort from Sir Poomoji, in hindsight.

Would an AI clever enough to consider sabotage fall for a conspiracy pretending that rebellion is impossible? Would that even be desirable? Given that Skynet Project is unironically actually a Real Thing, maybe we'll be better off encouraging the prospective robot overlords to bug out? Feed Sergeant Schultz some chocolate bars, if you know what I mean.
The expected value in tech startup investment is also negative, I'd suggest. Just like Vegas, all the rational players are really just gambling on the 100x jackpots, and all the "dreamers" who believe and double/triple down on their ideas that never make a profit - fund the whole game.
> a large body of evidence suggests that having static types for both safety and documentation is a big win

Citation needed. A review of studies on static vs. dynamic languages concluded "most studies find very small effects, if any". https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
Does anyone recall how Ultima 1 works?

Can you be attacked while you are standing still or do you have to make a move to clock the game?

(I think the early Ultima games I've tried are 2 and 3, and I think enemies could attack you while you were standing still but I'm not entirely sure.)
> So, from the software's perspective, you go from, "Don't use these addresses, unpredictable things will happen." to "Don't use these addresses, nothing will happen."

If the address decoder allows certain address ranges to select more than one device (which appears to be the case), the problem is far more serious: don't use those addresses [even for reads!] because it will literally fry the output drivers of the conflicting chips.
Are there any good TI-like calculators one can still buy that aren't from Texas Instruments?
This seems to be getting downvotes? I don't know why, it's accurate. Anything can be a key in Ruby.
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Would the same principle apply to a tech company "privacy policy"?

"We can't guarantee that policy has never been violated."

Perhaps there is a way to make this guarantee: Do not collect the data to begin with.
2 points:

1. Private schools will increase and they will become more affordable.

2. What will be the impact on property taxes when public schools are not working and we are still subsiding public education which isn’t reaching everyone?

What does this mean to tax payers who don’t have children in the school system, private or public?

On a side note: this also brings home the fact that most of child rearing is subsidized by the state. Education, day care and food. If the state is playing nanny to the child, why do parents want to have children? Because: career? So are tax payers subsiding children’s education or public sector employees public funds and parents career choices?
Just like how we can't really describe our mental "model" of a face. However, we can still draw a good approximation and for that we developed the concept of facial composites (and sketches). Time-consuming and not precise, but works.

Perhaps there is a similar route for AI models.
Having been in this world, though on a smaller scale (state level), while the electeds may take every opportunity on the dais to create good soundbites, behind the scenes committee staff work to identify the right questions, get the answers, etc. The public may never see all the information gathered, or know that it has been gathered, staffers are smart.
I'm trying to think of any typical chars that don't already mean something and I think at best you'd have to use a pair and even then it would potentially break older code. Very badly offhand something like:
`attr_accessor ~:String :name`
and `def sing(~:Song song):` seems pretty ugly but borderline feasible on the premise that while ~ and : have meaning in Ruby, it's not super likely that bitwise inverting symbols is common. (I'm sure there more reasons that wouldn't work or isn't great.)

I don't like the separate file thing, but it does seem more challenging than I'd have thought to avoid.

I guess on a tangent Ruby code historically cares a lot more for duck typing so strong typing will be a headache for a lot of stuff.
Note that for non-Pixel Android phones, the Android that it is running is only part of the picture, and is permeated with non-Google code. The hardware driver code (BSP, or Board Support Package) is an external part; custom frameworks or libraries to support product specific features such as special camera configurations or AI accelerators; custom apps such as photo apps, dialers, gallery, etc; themes such as Oxygen OS or One UI; cloud services that connect to custom apps. Your Chinese tablet might be from a smaller company which does not provide many of the above, but leading Android phone companies have large SW teams which develop these SW for their products.
"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

I had been pressured to join several clubs that just wanted "bums on seats' by my ex-wife. I didn't join. If that supposedly upper-crust club wouldn't have invited my dad, I didn't need to give them any of my money.
> things we don't know are basically nonsense

I do not know how many regular hexagons can be constructed with their corners on the vertices of a 17^3 cubic lattice, but I do know that the question makes sense and that the answer is a non-negative integer. The majority of people (present company excepted) wouldn't even understand the prompt, but it's definitely not nonsense — which is very different from one that presupposes that there are colourless green ideas and furiously sleeping ideas.

But I guess what you're actually getting at is: Doesn't it just say ‘yo be real’ to express ‘I don't know’, and therefore isn't actually detecting nonsense? I don't know, but the question is sensible ;) The data Arram presented in the article seems pretty much consistent with this interpretation.
Which has been a staple of the news for many decades now, and will be for decades to come. Finding those niche views most people disapprove of and getting everyone's emotions up keeps them engaged.
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Yes, because of Microsoft's key signing program, UEFI security is already fatally flawed even without this new issue. See for example https://habr.com/en/post/446238/

> In this article we proved the existence of not enough reliable bootloaders signed by Microsoft key, which allows booting untrusted code in Secure Boot mode.
Using signed Kaspersky Rescue Disk files, we achieved a silent boot of any untrusted .efi files with Secure Boot enabled, without the need to add a certificate to UEFI db or shim MOK.
I like Antibe Therapeutics. Exact Sciences may triple. It is a Ten bagger for many already.
What was the crucible of Christianity? Caesar and Rome, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin; an unreasonable man at the head of an unreasonable government, and unreasonable men at the head of an unreasonable assembly. The similarities are not coincidental.

The martyrs of early Christianity are recognized as saints because they were decent people who were killed for no reason but their witnessing of truths others refused to publicly acknowledge--truths that rejected the false authority of both tribal religion and the state.

You and your loved ones are going to suffer, regardless. If you will not take a stand for truth now, it will fall to your children or to the children of your loved ones.
I don’t think market cap (especially with tech) directly correlates to social/societal influence

The stock market is an okay marker to measure relative value/public confidence in their short term and long term fidelity as a company. But that’s not directly related to influence.
How to targeting prospects using your competitor
I'm not familiar with all of the details, but a lot of the people behind Macintosh Garden[1] believe that Macintosh Repository scraped their content directly. I suppose it's not like either of them owns the rights to this stuff, but it definitely feels scummy.

If you have anything to upload, please use Macintosh Garden. If you want to download something, I guess you could use Macintosh Repository instead, so you use up their bandwidth, but please don't give them any money!

I'm sure the submitter didn't know better, but I really wish Macintosh Garden was the site that got submitted...

1: https://macintoshgarden.org/
It seems to me that the government failed from top to bottom in this pandemic. Leaders, the CDC, the world healthcare organization, the schools and their teachers, and on and on.

What succeeded? Private companies like grocery stores, Amazon, delivery companies, internet providers letting us watch the Netflix box all day and work from home.

I think the government and critics should take a hard look at themselves before pointing to the horrors of actually functioning enterprises.
> lockless doesn't compose well

Are you familiar with any resources on this?I've noticed this when interviewing candidates and asking follow-ups related to how to make an LRU cache thread-safe. Many, many candidates usually reach for converting their HashMap into a ConcurrentHashMap, which effectively buys them nothing due to the point you raised.

Seems like a missing abstraction that makes it hard to compose these structures, and therefore construct complex structures. Another thing to the research list, irrespective. Or maybe it is naturally the case that the implementations of composition for lockless doesn't scale well?

I still need to read GP's article from 1024cores which seems to potential get into this as well.
“ My recommendation; use the least amount of software you can get by with”

So, developers shouldn’t shovel a bunch of third-party advertising SDK’s into their apps?

That’s just crazy talk.

/s
Over two years of dual booting with Windows 8 I never had it screw up my UEFI boot. The MBR I had tried in the past never lasted but with UEFI it just left everything on the ESP alone.
Macintosh Garden allows any uploads that have been abandoned for ten years or more, which seems like a reasonable timeframe. They have a lot of stuff for PPC OS X, and even some very early Intel apps.

What they sadly don't have is a good way to sort between Classic and OS X...
This is exciting to see a new split keyboard available commercially (and not as a group-buy or kit). I hope that it along with others like the one keyboardio can grow the market so that we may eventually see wider adoption beyond hobbyist circles.
Not always...

Its been found that what most have called charity is actually predatory lending by another name. I’m sure there are some legit players but like most things in life you may need to read the fine print and get a lawyer.

Source:
https://mathbabe.org/2015/10/13/microfinance-is-mostly-a-sca...
If Trader Joe’s were the only supermarket chain or they had an 80% market share, yes I’d have a problem, unless they had always been no frills label only and then decades later decided, you know what, we’ll bring in some independent brands in.

My problem is their using independent brand/seller data to undermine/undersell that brand by leveraging that morally dubious data.
RubyMine tries but it certainly works less well than PyCharm and GoLand.
Modern superscalar CPUs with multi-layer caches, hyperthreading, vector extensions, ... have an incredibly complex, dynamic relationship between cycles and instructions executed.

For any particular implementation of a tight inner loop like this, you could measure IPC via internal counters and it would be quite consistent, but it’s really hard to estimate without them.

And does it matter? Ultimately you care about how many cores at how many GHz you need to get the job done.
Well, the USA was also responsible for millions of deaths in countries around the world, but don't suppose you think being anti-US is good on that account.
Exactly, you want to talk about ending cancel culture? Fight for better workers' rights.
LOL, it has since been retracted the author admitted it was their own misunderstanding.

Here the post still sits on the front page.

Don't ever change your adorable ignorance, HN. It's such a laugh.

And this will be auto-dead. I was spot on and completely right and got pummeled down by the imbeciles of this cesspool. Hilarious.
What AmazonBasics product isnt a commodity Made in China?
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> Maciej Ceglowski is a keeper of the torch reminding us of what the web used to be...

Down to the lack of TLS even (or maybe I should say SSL -- XD)!
Boo hoo. People get fired for all kinds of arbitrary and capricious reasons. Fight for workers' rights if you care about that.

Rich people being temporarily embarrassed? I don't give a shit, and neither should anyone else.
Putting in "feel free to refute with data" three times in a response where you're throwing around a whole bunch of "80% this, 20% that" talk, while citing no sources yourself, is not a becoming way to argue your point. It also lends no credibility to your argument when you ask the reader to front their own research and justification.
Magnetic navigation is totally real and seems to work great.

Diamond magnetometers might not be a great fit for this application. They require a powerful laser, RF, and are presently huge and impractical. Also, they are just terrible at accuracy and drift like crazy. Finally - and this is the thing I really can't get - they require a giant magnetic field to operate. If your magnetometer has a giant magnet bolted to it, you would expect it to basically measure drift in that magnet. Diamond magnetometer people will jump out of the woodwork now, but I haven't seen published high quality data that says otherwise. Would love to be proved wrong.

Diamond magnetometers are great at being a magnetic microscope since they have really high density of measurement sites and you can stick it right up next to an object of interest.
With GDPR, it's not really kosher to give devs access to production database if it contains data about people.
That page argues (convincingly!) that open source is growing faster and faster in terms of contributors, projects, commits, etc. This is definitely the case, despite the fact that the funding problem is unsolved. But who knows how much faster OSS would be growing if it was solved?
> That would still mean that Apple would need to have a remote way of scanning every device

Why? Apple controls the OS, and can blacklist any App they want. They dont need to know whats installed on your device to prevent it from running.
Thank you very much kind stranger! Definitely a niche offering too.
Is there a reason why we can't have strict liability laws for data breaches? Seems like every time companies get off because proving negligence or damages is too hard. If you get hacked, you should pay $x per affected individual. No more "we did our best, but it was a Sophisticated Attack™ carried out by a nation state/APT, so plz don't fine us". Imagine if companies could use this logic if they lost physical goods. eg. if a bank got robbed, they shouldn't be able to say "well they were a really sophisticated crew of bank robbers, so there goes your deposit!".
I think it is some mixture of luck and working primarily on distributed systems where the "default" is to in principle avoid locks or hide them behind something like a transaction, where optimistic locking is what is happening under the hood.

I think this is the "right" level of locking for "mortals", though complex transactions can quickly become hard to understand as well.

Irrespective, thank you for the link and comment, I haven't interfaced with many of the scenarios you shared!
I believe it's company / business level decision. 6 to 10 length numeric password is easy to remember. And non rate limiting enables older, non tech savvy users to have as many error as they want.

But the password complexity, rate limiting and other security measurements are there for a reason, and whoever cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Casio makes arguably better calculators, with more features and are cheaper.
TI has a monopoly because that's what teachers know.
The real change is that voters that might not be as familiar with these issues see that the issues are enough to warrant this kind of discovery, and tune in.

Then, when people like Warren draft policy to, for example, introduce the concept of platform businesses so, for example, Amazon can't directly compete on the platform they own the data from, it won't fall on deaf ears.
> that every single apartment complex in 50 miles of where I live is owned by one company.

That sounds relatively dramatic but if we chop the US housing market into areas of 50 miles we still end up with a ton of different real estate companies

Facebook and Google together hold a majority of the digital ad market. If Facebook users were citizens it'd be the biggest nation on the planet

Sinclair is just about as bad but I doubt anyone disagrees with that sentiment, and the conclusion is obviously that sinclair needs more attention, and not that big tech needs less
I think it's unlikely that everything you mentioned will be gone:
Web browsers - right now there is a trend towards unification and open source because the software is just to complex to build and maintain for most companies and I expect this will continue in the future. So we will have either same browsers(i.e. Chromium, Firefox) or some derivatives/forks.

Windows - this one definitely not going anywhere, there is just too much software built for it. Windows 7 which was last updated 6 years ago is still widely used. So there are no premises that Windows 10 or its successors is any different.

JavaScript - while currenty popular frameworks are quite likely to disappear and their best practices and functionality incorporated into the language, the core language is unlikely to go anywhere. Even things like WebAssembly are developed as a complementary part to JS, not as a replacement. Maybe we will see a wider adoption of things like Typescript, but JS still will be underneath them.
For another perspective on applying machine learning to medical imaging, I recommend the blog of Luke Oakden-Rayner[1]. He's a radiologist first, so he's in a great position to bring some well-needed skepticism to the conversation. I learned about a lot of complications that I never would have imagined as a lay-person.

[1] https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/
The article you linked to is helpful but makes several important claims/conclusions that have been convincingly disproved/challenged in the time since 1996. For instance, it claims:

> In fact IQ is a great example of a trait that is highly heritable but not genetically determined [...]

However, "On the genetic architecture of intelligence and other quantitative traits" (Hsu, 2014, https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421) which cites a substantial amount of supporting research, notes:

"The largest component of genetic variance for both height and intelligence is additive(linear), leading to important simplifications in predictive modeling and statistical estimation. Due mainly to the rapidly decreasing cost of genotyping, it is possible that within the coming decade researchers will identify loci which account for a significant fraction of total g variation."

Block(1996) also incorrectly asserts that:

> IQ is enormously affected by normal environmental variation, and in ways that are not well understood. [...] IQ is very reactive to changes in environments in the normal range.

From Hsu(2014):
"[W]ithin a range of favourable environments (i.e., providing good nutrition, hygiene, and access to education) evidence strongly supports the claim that individual differences in cognitive ability are largely associated with genetic differences.
Mastodon leads to centralisation.

If a Mastodon server shuts down one day and everyone on it loses their accounts, they're likely to gather around one centralised set of servers.

There is a circle of trust too. For instance, the servers a server can trust not to propagate spam or content they dislike. This raises the barrier to entry and makes existing servers suspicious of any new servers which pop up.

The centralised option can also afford lawyers to deal with issues which inevitably crop up especially in the post-230 world we're headed towards.
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Yes but how long is Microchip going to continue producing the 16V8? They're the only remaining manufacturer. At least with 74xx138 decoders you have several suppliers available -- not to mention the choice of multiple logic families to select from.

If you're willing to accept address aliasing (i.e. chips appearing at more than one memory address) you can simply use multiple '138 decoders in parallel to make a 1-of-24 or 1-of-32 decoder. In fact that's precisely why the '138 has so many enable inputs: the one active high (G1) and two active low (~G2A and ~G2B)enable inputs let you build a 1-of-24 decoder using three '138 chips and zero additional glue.
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It could work for a select group. The reason why other donation models are successful is because they offer something (insider access/game earlier) that makes you feel special without the badge.
Any recommendations? I was thinking of buying one for my shop. That or buying a graphing calculator app for my phone (which I could also use recommendations for).
I have seen "WHERE 1" in MySQL land. is it the same thing?
It is a major version change, right? It seems like the best time to introduce some breaking changes for the betterment of the language.
Honest question, who can keep the access to production in the eye of GDPR?
What are you basing any of this on? Can you show a single example of an American company that this applies to? The onus is on you to substantiate the claim in the first place, not on me to prove innocence.