skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple got over having a "camera bump" on their phones years ago. On laptops they have way more options--the most straightforward would be to put a matching notch in the bottom-case for when it closes.

Finally higher quality build-in cameras are being included in iMacs. I hope very soon they start making their way into their laptops.
Hello fellow Nepali :)
Two thoughts:

One is that frequently verifying availability is going to get expensive quick with iops for coldish storage systems.

Secondly, iirc symmetric encryption isn't really vulnerable to quantum algorithms, as far as we know (and maybe even proven not to be?). It's asymmetric crypto that's at risk.
> Figure (8) shows a screen-shot from an iPhone after Siri, Apple’s AI ‘chatbot’, was asked to add a ‘litre of books’ to a shopping list; Siri’s response clearly demonstrates that it doesn’t understand language

So his conclusion is based on Siri, an AI assistant I would agree was 'stupid', but not representative of SOTA. It's unfair to judge AI by Siri, Siri is a mass produced system with scaling costs, Apple can't host GPT-3 for everyone yet. Not even Google can use the latest and greatest neural nets in mass produced AI systems because they don't have the hardware and it would not make economical sense.
When in doubts, do the right thing.
I don't entirely disagree that we're progressing towards AGI. For me, the most disappointing part of machine learning is complete lack of systems that can extrapolate.
"Majority of New Yorkers were not infected" is not enough to say they don't have herd immunity.

Wasn't there a study showing 40% of people have generic coronavirus anti-bodies from prior colds and it is believed that these help? Though the extent might not be known.
Wow. I think you're political leanings have beaten out utilitarian reasoning.

10k suicides < 200k covid deaths

We certainly have the money to support millions of people losing payroll, but stimulus payments to give people room to properly isolate are a bargaining chip.

Quality of life in a crisis??? Are you kidding me? How far from the "Greatest Generation" can you get when you can't ask people to wear a mask and skip the gym for a while to save lives?

An extra few months for geriatrics??? Again, wow. I'm sorry you hate your gramma. But, we still don't understand the long term consequences to people to have been sick, or the lasting effects it will have on children that contract it.

You're the one that's not rational, and I expected the HN crowd to be better at digesting statistics.
> or whatever it is that Apple does with that money

What they primarily "do" is have an identity to sue or pursue in case of issues. That keeps everyone in line.
Certificate Authorities trusted by Microsoft for the purpose of Code Signing would need to issue you a certificate with the appropriate EKU (Extended Key Usage, saying this is for Code Signing). Technically a user could add some CA you span up for this purpose to their Windows install, but if you're going to all this bother you could just get them to click past the warning of course...

The CCADB can tell you which CA roots are trusted by Microsoft for this purpose:

https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/microsoft/IncludedCACe...

You're looking for a CA which has Microsoft Trust Bits including Code Signing, and Microsoft Status of "Included"

Price: A couple of hundred bucks per year. Vendors with very well known brands like DigiCert's "Symantec" brand (famous despite the fact Symantec actually ran their CA so terribly they ended up selling the brand to DigiCert... the CA they'd operated was distrusted) maybe $500 and year and higher. But your users don't care about the brand, so pick a cheaper product like Sectigo's they work just the same.

It's a little more expensive if you want "Extended Validation" aka "EV Code Signing". If you write Windows kernel drivers you need this, otherwise it might only make the UI shown to inquisitive users nicer so don't bother unless you hate money.

NB. Yes ISRG (the people behind Let's Encrypt) are trusted by Microsoft but no they aren't trusted to provide Code Signing certificates, even if they wanted to, which they do not.
Number 2 here, use Mac as my day job, Windows for side jobs/home, Linux for server and things like media boxes. I prefer Windows.
Where are you getting your data about suicides? My impression is that an increase of tens of thousands is quite an overstatement. See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/health/pandemic-coronavir...
Yep. This is the dream, IMO. Serverless functions that can await for arbitrary spans of time. It's incredible to me how much effort we spend working around this limitation. Cadence/Temporal are pretty close to this ideal, but I need to look into what Conductor has going on.
The majority of people is fine living their lives as to ensure to destruction of all organized human life on the planet, just when it comes to the climate. Thinking of history, all the darkest hours of it involve a majority thinking they're right automatically, by virtue of being the majority, and persecuting minorities, or doing all sorts of stuff that in hindsight is just evil, embarrassing and gross.

> Free thought requires free media. Free media requires free technology. We require ethical treatment when we go to read, to write, to listen and to watch. Those are the hallmarks of our politics. We need to keep those politics until we die. Because if we don’t, something else will die. Something so precious that many, many of our fathers and mothers gave their life for it. Something so precious, that we understood it to define what it meant to be human; it will die.

-- Eben Moglen

If people don't understand that it takes away from them, not from the importance of the issue.
Glad to see AWS finally embracing Kubernetes too. Google did a similar thing a while back - https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/ So I guess this solidifies Kubernetes as the defacto standard of Cloud Platforms.
Hate is a very strong word, something which I wouldn't give a private business luxury of buying from me.

If you could give a justifiable answer to what you've quoted from me, I'm all ears.
Yeah, I was surprised to see the article start from a clearly true starting point and then veer way off into left field talking about not having enough talent or coordination (the founder's problem) instead of the actual issue of VC expectations.
Whats even worse is if Amazon gets all your driving data to toy around with and advertise to you based on places you visit and other things it may know about you by your car habits + your online habits. Some sites do feature Amazon ads.
It's not weird at all. A prime use case for this is to use Kubernetes itself for the compute layer and orchestrating peripheral AWS components using Kubernetes as the common control plane.

You can orchestrate entire application stacks (pods, persistent storage, cloud resources as CRDs) using this approach.
Do adults these days not know that wall(1) doesn't work unless you have a proper login session and tty, which a reverse shell as OP used certainly does not do for you? :-)
Sharpe is mostly considered invariant to leverage, but it's not strictly true. Volatility drag starts to eat more and more into your returns as you lever up.
The problem is that AI doesn't actually understand anything. We don't know what understanding is, but we know that an AI doesn't. But because we don't know what understanding is, we don't know how to make an AI do it.

We're seeing AIs that can kind of hide their lack of any kind of understanding by means of more and more sophisticated behavior. But unless understanding = "not understanding, but in a really sophisticated way", that road isn't going to get us to AGI, ever.

Personally, my bet is that understanding != "sophisticated non-understanding". I can't prove it, of course, because I don't know what understanding is either...

[Edit: I suppose the other alternative is that understanding is real, but AGI doesn't actually require understanding. That seems improbable to me, but it is at least theoretically possible.]
This is absolutely crazy. You are arguing the point of the comment that you say you don't believe.
Indians actually donated a lot of money from their salaries specially PSU sector workers but somehow the donated money is now a private fund.

For anyone interested read "PM cares fund"
> it's not as hard as a lot of people think

It never is after you've done it once.

It's hard for people to scope an unknown task - especially dealing with bureaucracy. Is it going to be easy peasy, or will the rabbit hole just keep getting deeper.

Additionally, the ROI for an employee to investigate things like this is not very high, or could be negative. Imagine a poor H1B person - whose life and future depends on a company - trying to chase little things like this down. ("it's ok, I don't need " an ssd; an ergonomic chair; a 17" monitor is fine; etc...)

you're doing good work.
Of course it is. That's why I used words like "intentionally" and "believe"
Orchestration tools are the way forward especially when it comes to on-demand video compression - it's helpful to have the tools to be able to spin up 100s of servers to handle peak loads and then go down to nothing. Kubernetes is so helpful in this.
I'd say a 2% mortality rate to ship chicks is unacceptable. We've practically shut down the entire world economy because of a 0.5-2% mortality rate from Covid-19.

It's a symptom of a bigger issue. These hatcheries even under the best of circumstances are creating lives that will be hard and short just to turn a profit.
Yes. Anyone with more than one child will know that the main thing we know about kids is that "no two are alike."
Too quick to create a new language?! Rust was started in 2006 and announced in 2010. Its improvements are based on research done before and after C/C++ existed.

If you're the only person smart enough to solve the $64B problem so everyone can start writing safe and backwards compatible code in C/C++, please, go right ahead.
I've been using Bayden SlickRun on windows for years. It's near-instant, though it doesn't have support for external applications such as sessions. Otoh, I can easily launch putty and Firefox sessions with cli switches; I'd imagine to filezilla has similar. Discovery isn't an issue for me--I know what my profile are called, as I intentionally gave them short, memorable names.

I've moved on somewhat to using jumplists instead for common programs. Some programs don't support jumplists still, either because they're too old or the developers just don't care; for programs like Hyper-V manager, you can use Jumplist Launcher to create a jumplist for it by manually entering the command lines for the main program and each jumplist entry.
According to the Federation of American Scientists:

> Uranium-235, while occuring in natural uranium to the extent of only 0.71percent, is so fissionable with slow neutrons that a self-sustaining fission chain reaction can be made in a reactor constructed from natural uranium and a suitable moderator, such as heavy water or graphite, alone.

https://fas.org/issues/nonproliferation-counterproliferation...

Also, anyone who can build a Farnsworth Fusor could generate neutrons suitable for enrichment. You are overestimating the difficulty of obtaining and producing dangerous quantities of radioactive materials. This is a convenient falsehood as it breeds a level of comfort in the population, but it is certainly not true.
> PWAs are terrible

Why again? In the world of silos and proprietary platforms it's an absolute godsend that PWAs even exist.
> Measuring wellbeing by consumption is the standard economic perspective

Behavioural economics has long focused on more sensible sets of metrics.
I would have gone to kindergarten in the early 1970s, but my mom put me in first grade instead. She told me years later, jokingly, that it was because kindergarten was only half a day but first grade was all day so she would have more free time. I'm pretty sure the half day vs. all day part was true even if it wasn't her real reason (her real reason was that she knew I'd be bored in kindergarten).
Oops, you’re right. more-itertools has `peekable`, that’s probably the most readable
Yeah, and then the same Judea Pearl also admits that "we didn't expect curve fitting to work so well".
And consume massive amounts of a small startup team's highest skill expertise for weeks to have any chance of getting.

And have a known death valley and cash flow issue unless you have other investment already.

But they're a nice to have for sure. Just not enough to keep moving for long enough to get most hard tech startups funded.
And the God is just a function. Who is there to tell, that curve fitting is insufficient for AGI?
You thought that tipping was mandatory?
What is your point? People make bad calls all the time too. I got a ticket for parking my car behind a sign saying "no parking beyond this point."

As a secondary point, I suspect youtube's classifier is a bag of heuristics they are constantly fiddling with. Any failures of it are no indictment of the futility of developing AGI.
The system is actually very insensitive towards such people and guess what? When these people struggle hard, clear all test - they go for robbing the nation with corruption and their justification for that has always been "when I was struggling and poor, no one came to my rescue now it's my turn and I deserve all the money accured through corruption" and it creates more poverty.

Poor people don't study to join Google or Facebook in India. They study for government jobs like customs officer, railway officer, Indian adminstrative service, Indian Police Service etc... all jobs where you can accure vast sums of money.

The amount of money these officers make offrecord is going to eyewater even westerners. In some cases, the wealth they posses rival even high end executives at Google and Facebook.

Most people understand and acknowledge this system. They know the only way to out is through it, they stay in system - stay hard, make connections then proceed to benefit from corrupt system.
The Native-American Origins of Gumbo
I doubt your sincerity. This is obviously different from the seasonal flu.

However, I do want to address the young and increased social isolation and mental illness. Took my toddler for an annual checkup recently and asked about all this as he's been out of daycare since March and had concerns about development.

The pediatrician's answer, which I found compelling was: this is a big deal, and it's going to have an impact, and therefore we should be a little lax to help create some comfort around the house. That said, all the psychologists in the world are looking at this and starting to work on the impact and how we get kids back to "normal" or ease the harm this has on them. There is going to be expertise and guidance on this.

Of course, that likely doesn't apply to the anti-science crowd.
This is straight out of pentesting 101! Extremely common trick, practically the #1 thing everyone does after they get code execution.
So the solution to the possibility of ballots not being delivered, is to increase the likelihood that ballots will not be delivered?

If the anecdote you linked were the driving concern, then addressing that concern would result in constructive action instead of sabotage.
Ed Thorp's book had an entire chapter explaining that "Joe Sixpack" is poor because he spends all his money on beer and cigarettes. A similar narrative emerged in the British press during Ireland's great hunger. It's a recurring theme. Utterly false, but recurring.
So is it mAP of 0.956 or 95.6? Why not 956?
perhaps understanding = sophisticated non-understanding + (being unaware that one does not understand || having a belief that one understands)
We just released an operator with similar goals, but it works across clouds. More details here: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-kubernetes-operator/
You don't need immunity if you exterminate the virus, which some countries have done..
if you can't feed don't breed what's so hard?
They should definitely have anyone abroad strictly quarantine for at least 14 days upon entering the country. Herd immunity would slow it to a crawl but it seems like it could pop back up in odd pockets of previously unexposed people. We also still don't know how long immunity will last- scientists are hopeful that it will last until a vaccine is produced but that's not a guarantee.
Depends how you parse it.
I feel like the author has unreasonably strict expectations with some of his examples. Humans sometimes crash cars, misunderstand grocery lists, or learn to say things just as racist as Tay did - surely he wouldn't argue that any human who does dumb things lacks phenomenal consciousness.
>Hasn't wage growth been even with inflation?

Definitely not: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
It's like a conspiracy that Americans didn't land on the Moon. Maybe a few decades will pass and people will be surprised to learn that on a leading technical forum people entertained ideas of absence of progress.
Past performance is no guarantee of future performance.

The rate of automation is increasing.

Forgive my harsh tone - but this is such a false line of thinking "It's always been this way therefore it will always be this way" that has been around for literally thousands of years, that it deserves condemnation as it bares no reality in history.

To dismiss fear of automation as some resurgence of ludditism is reductive in the extreme. We already see examples of automation killing jobs and seeing workers turned out on their ear because their jobs have been automated.

It's called the Rust Belt for a reason. The manufacturing jobs didn't just skip off to Mexico and China: they were automated away as well. The USA manufactures more now than it did in the 80s, but factory jobs are far fewer.

Most of those factory workers now live off of benefits and Walmart, because their jobs disappeared, driving the income disparity.

The US middle class is dying from automation but you blithely claim "hey at least they're still getting McDonald's jobs".
$100 isn't going to do much. You think these people have no money but it's not the case - these people did have money, they lost it because the system is corrupt.

Many farmers have lands which they sold to pay for engineering degrees for their daughters and sons. Now there is no job for them! Your land is lost and the degree is worthless which you traded the land for.
Nice! That's what I was hoping for but it's not going quite like that.

We're on day 3 of virtual kindergarten.

* Day #1 was a "minimum day": class from 08:35–11:50am, with a break from 09:40am–10:20am. That was okay, except for a technology fail: the (awesome) teacher has two pages of kids, so she doesn't always see when someone is "raising a quiet hand". And growing pains as kids learn the classroom etiquette. After class, we dropped off our kindergartener at the preschool where his younger sister goes. That gave him play time with other kids without exposing our family to another group of people, and it gave us some uninterrupted work time.

* Day #2 was similar, except there was a long gap between the end of the morning Zoom at 11:30am and the "circle time" at 1:45pm–2:00pm. The teacher used this to start meeting families one-by-one; the other families didn't have much assigned to do in that time. The gap was frustrating. Day #4 and #5 will be like this again, except our kid might be absent from afternoon circle time...

* Day #3 was an "asynchronous day" similar to what you're describing. It went pretty well.

Next week they're supposed to be on Zoom in the afternoon until circle time, too. I'm not looking forward to this at all, even though the afternoon time is supposed to be some of the most fun stuff (music, art, science).

It sounds like our teacher is not the one deciding all this, but I'll pass along your message anyway.

I don't know how parents with less flexible work arrangements manage this at all. There are a couple programs to support them, but I think they involve a bunch of kids in the same room in different virtual classes on different schedules, not enough adults there to help them focus, and no reason to believe it's any safer than regular school. I imagine they're quite horrible.
According to reports, 1crore 70lakh jobs in organized sectors have been lost.

Middle-class is in no way lucky, they are overburdened by toll taxes, income tax officers harassing them, local goons not letting them carry on business, politicians and public servants asking for money.
> There are probably workplaces where it is possible, but I have never seen it done properly.

I'm pretty sure that the idea here is that "double PhD types" like you would be the ones to build a workplace where this is possible and breaks the mold.
Have you heard of a scintillator? They are much more efficient than a GM tube and can be constructed from various materials. You can construct them out of silicon, but the energy resolution is poor and does not allow for isotope identification. Using a NaI(Ti) crystal would have allowed them to both measure absorbed dose as well as identify the types of radioactive materials present. As there are commercial products today which are the size of an iPod and detect radiation, I see this as a feasible product.

You would want the tight integration if you wanted to steganographically store the recorded information for covert exfiltration. The agencies driving this have a high level of paranoia and may have deemed this necessary for a variety of reasons.
Okay that makes more sense and is just my bad then. I hadn't even looked at the index thoroughly as the minified JS correlated to the `workers-site/worker/script.js` and I didn't realize the index.js was responsible for generating that based on content mismatch.

I generated my worker the second week of May so it's totally possible that this wasn't in the release I generated with. Thanks for pointing out that the template had been updated.
List of States of Matter
I know what understanding is...
To clarify, your original argument was made in bad faith. You don't like sacrificing for the greater good, so you'll make arguments to appear substantive, but really, you want to 'mingle'.
https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/01/17/avxfreq1.html

> There is a transition period (the rightmost of the two shaded regions, in orange14) of ~11 μs15 where the CPU is halted: no samples occur during this period16. For fun, I’ll call this a frequency transition.

It stops executing for 35 thousand cycles. I call that a "lockup" "as it shifts".
There is no certificate involved in ad-hoc code signing. It's just a hash with no identity or chain of trust involved.
We have all been surprised a few times in the last years by AI advancements, not even experts could predict AlphaGo or GPT. Why are you so sure you won't be surprised again, this time by human level understanding?

The missing piece for real understanding is embodiment - we can act on our environment while GPT-3 like models can only see a fixed training set. This means an AI could construct its own hypothesis and test it if it were embodied, but can't do that otherwise. Understanding comes from playing 'the same game' with us: sharing the same environment and having aligned rewards.

Imagine if a scientist were kept locked up all her life and only had access to a video feed showing the world. Would she gain anything by coming out of the cave and actually seeing and interacting with the world?
Mostly Ages 50+
Not sure that those states are "doing fine". Per capita, they have a much higher number of cases and the number of cases are also rising in comparison with states like NY and NJ that had things worse but were aggressive in handling the situation [1].

I mean those states are nowhere near the front lines of where COVID would first strike or spread, but the complete apathy to the threat of COVID is going to have consequences. The numbers are already beginning to show that.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona...
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