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I mean, I think it's great Windows ships with a PDF viewer, so that you don't have to install a PDF viewer just to read the manual for some other application.

But I've definitely felt the support burden of having three different PDF viewers on a given client PC, along with multiple configurations between them. (You can turn on and off the PDF viewers in each browser, and often embed Adobe Reader into the browser, for instance.)
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We do know when it might not appear

No, we don't. The progress in AI has been exponential. Anything exponential is hard for humans to estimate. This is perfectly illustrated by statements like "decades of AI research tells us ... that we aren't close". Every significant AI breakthrough has caught most AI experts by surprise (chess, IBM Watson, Imagenet results in 2012, Atari games, Go, GPT-2/3). If you made a poll of AI researchers a year or two before each one of these breakthroughs has happened, you would get estimates that would have been overly pessimistic in their timelines. We had no idea that scaling the original transformer would lead to GPT-3, and we don't have any idea of what's going to happen if we scale GPT-3 another factor of 100x.

if Google had AGI

We have no idea what an "AGI" would look like. More precisely, any ideas you might have about it probably came from Hollywood. For example, you seem to believe AGI will be superintelligent, even though it simply needs to be as intelligent as a regular human to be considered "AGI". It might be superintelligent, but we don't know.

Your statement is non-falsifiable

Relax. We are not proving a theorem here. Yes, it's unlikely Google has AGI. But I wouldn't be surprised if it does (ok, maybe a little surprised). But I would be very surprised if we don't have AGI within next 20 years. To me it's more likely we have it already than we don't have it within our lifetime.
The "Corona situation" isn't going to be "over" in our lifetime. The first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s, but the most recent had polio epidemic was this past September, almost a year ago. Taking a more nuanced view, it's already "over" for many people in lots of countries - offices, restaurants, hair salons, and bars are open. Places where people aren't wearing masks because they don't need to, and no one's getting COVID-19.

In a sane world, the government's reopening plans aren't dictated by the local restaurant owners, but rather by health organizations run by scientists. In such a world, concerts won't happen again before it is actually safe to do so. Surprisingly, there are some places in the world where that is actually the case!

The question though, isn't if a particular drug is safe or not. That's a very important question to answer, and one of the hurdles to pass, but in this context, the ethics are around exposing people to a potentially fatal disease, without actually knowing if the vaccine being tested successfully protects against the disease. If we inject people with a vaccine, and then with large amounts of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and they develop COVID-19, then we can say that the vaccine being tested on them didn't work in that case. Unfortunately we directly injected them with a potentially lethal disease, possibly resulting in a life-long disability.

It's that last step that most hospital ethics boards aren't willing to take.
What's needed is more cryptography. Build keys into sensors to sign media and use something like blockchain to broadcast the signature at time of capture / time when the device returns to the internet.

Won't be perfect, but it would be a hurdle. Also, for things like audio and video if you know the location on the planet then there are certain artifacts that are hard to fake with mere AI. The way sound bounces off walls in a room or shared environmental noise that other devices in the area would detect, like a plane flying by.
Thanks for the meta-analysis link! Looking at the other measures, it does mention HCQ in duration of symptoms.

> Hydroxychloroquine might be the most effective in reducing the duration of symptoms. Remdesivir has intermediate effectiveness and lopinavir-ritonavir could have intermediate effectiveness. The main limitations of the evidence are risk of bias and imprecision.
I use Firefox on Android and got a push notification about those changes coming. I sort of rue the day when it comes because last I heard it removes the feature that I most care about: being able to not load images when not browsing on WiFi. Do you know if that's part of this release or a later one? I only offhand some HN discussion a couple months ago that mentioned Firefox for Android changes which included that.
You're not focusing on the other side of his statement, where costs for housing, healthcare and education have also skyrocketed, along with the development of the two income trap.

What he said isn't controversial for most academics studying this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap

https://medium.com/@6pranavk/insight-of-the-day-cost-disease...
Who said you can't learn? I'm not understanding your point there. Is planning an activity that removes learning?

I'm not claiming anything that's not well understood: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/38632866300

Planning upfront takes less time than not planning up front, in all cases. You can plan to do a prototype, you can change your plan later, the activity of planning itself produces clarity.

Reducing the argument to "planning away" is the same as me saying you're "flailing around like an amateur". It's not what you're saying though, so I wish you'd see this thread as a discussion rather than something to win with gotchas.
This video might be interesting for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDlSORhI-k
Even the redwood park society released a statement saying the park was "gone."

They were referring to the buildings.

Ironic?
It was my first time working with Bash. My focus is algorithms and I use C++.
No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda..
Are you kidding? Why should we waste time with this propaganda piece while there are real scientific papers available?
No methodology, anonymous authors, no peer-reviewing, related to the account @covidanalysis, which is known to push pro-hcq propaganda..
Are you kidding?

Some smart French guy debunked this site
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1284493669895041024.html
And c19trials, another disinformation piece from the same authors..
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1291126570392924160.html
> but if you want to write applications for the web you have to awkwardly shoehorn it into one.

No, you have to treat it like a render target. You can write your applications with another UI toolkit, you just have to be able to render to DOM.

To go back to the terminal analogy, the terminal is the end-user interface. It's not a framework or a toolkit. What you're complaining about isn't that the terminal is a bad UI toolkit, you're just complaining about supporting the terminal in general.

> I strongly support the idea of an alternative.

The only way that alternative would be easier to work with is if it didn't force you to render your visual state to a pure-text XML-based UI. But getting rid of that requirement would be bad for the end user.

It's annoying on purpose, because the default render target for not just your documents, but also your applications, should mostly be a pure-text XML-based tree representing your current state. It's a user feature, not a developer feature.

I mean, I can think of a lot of ways to make web programming easier if we don't care about the format of the end-user UI. It would simplify things dramatically if we didn't need to care about stuff like responsive design or resizable text. But the beauty of HTML is that by default, the easiest way to build a web application just happens to be the way that supports screenreaders, adblockers, scraping, graceful degradation, responsive layouts, etc...

HTML encourages even junior developers to fall into a pit of success by forcing them to think about the accessible text interface first, before they're allowed to think about what the pixels on the screen will look like.
My feeling from a decade in large companies is that fraud is actually more common than non-fraud; for every real project I saw that was interesting, there were two or three that were nothing but tissue-thin propaganda.

So assuming the politics of every day life apply to the world at large, I can totally see fraud as completely rampant without batting an eye.
> doctors gave HCQ to healthier people

It would be interesting to see someone build an IPTW model to estimate the average treatment effect of HCQ in all these non-randomized studies. My guess is that the effect would be statistically indistinguishable from zero.
I get your point. I just think it’s completely wrong.

The moment government is allowed to say what is not “protected speech” it will be abused.

Only one viewpoint will be allowed.
Voting will be meaningless when only one side can get its message out.
Well sure, I guess I would. And I have been on parental leave for all of my kids. But being a stay-at-home dad for several years in a stretch would not suit me so well. Just as I feel that working full-time doesn’t suit me either. I want to find a middle ground.
A simple google search will bring up hundreds of articles linking alcohol consumption during pregnancy to birth defects. It is a well established relationship.

In the US we even have warnings on all alcoholic beverages that say pregnant women should not drink alcohol.
Yeah, users have very little choice when it comes to where to get software and so "choice" in Apple's garden doesn't actually translate to user choice but developer/publisher choice since users will have to buy from wherever the software is sold.
yeah, the article seems to paint a pretty clear picture of a guy who figured out how he could crash-land a plane and get paid for the experience. he probably would have done it for $5.
> Converelsy, what I have tried to instill in my parents as they downsize their belongings is that I want the practical stuff they used every day.

Amen! The most useful thing my parents handed down to me was the dishes we used for my entire childhood. They're just pretty basic stoneware dishes made in the ol' US of A but they held up for 30 years, starting from before I was born up until I got my own place after college. Then I used them for the another 10 years, and apart from some chips on some of them, or not having a complete set due to the few that broke, they look like they could be only a few years old.

It was kind of neat watching my son eat off the same plates that I ate off when I was his age.

We eventually got some new plates but have the old ones packed away. I'm curious to see how long the new ones last, I don't know if they make them like they used to.
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The vast majority of it is not actually valuable in any way. Have you ever tried to liquidate the estate of a deceased boomer generation relative? North America is awash in consumer goods. Nobody wants 10, 15, 20 year old used household furniture and items. Very little of it actually has any value. It's a burden, not an asset.

Unless you are lucky enough to have an uncle who left an Apple Lisa in its original box on a shelf in his garage...
"Wall Street" is such a broad term.

Places like Jane Street and their like obviously pay technology employees very well. But they represent an absolutely tiny, tiny, tiny slice of the pie.

The vast majority of SWEs employed in Wall Street work for various firms big and small that you'd be fairly lucky to break 200k-250k TC decades into your career. No, 200k isn't a small income, but odds are you could match that number at any number of middle tier tech companies, earlier in your career, while enjoying a much better work environment and various other perks.

And of course upper-middle to top tier tech companies (culminating in FAANG) can offer multiples of that amount - and again, probably with much better working environments and other perks. Your odds of making it into FAANG or similar caliber tech company are probably much higher than your odds of making it into a Jane Street caliber financial firm.
Yeah. Text captcha/Recaptcha can be solved by spammers. The more advanced the more cpu time it burns up but it still does little to stop them. It just makes it super inconvenient for me to solve. Sometimes they aren't even human readable.
Right? Like I don't understand how the comment said "no demand is being made here". Like, so just one person will return to the office and everyone else can stay home?
It's definitly a lot faster than before on my one plus 6. Espacially pages with a lot of images, or when rendering a video. A welcome improvement.
DuckDuckGo isn't the best search engine. I really want it to be. I use it a by default and I use it often. However, especially when I'm searching for products/things to buy I end up on google search. DuckDuckGo is more like old school search, think Altavista - tons of results but not much useful.
Most of the time, people do not know (precisely) what they are talking about
About as Scottish as James Doohan. And reads like it was written by him.

The internets canna take it!
I think that it may also be shifting cultural values. I frankly do not want to become a caretaker like that.

I grew up in a house with expensive furniture, and it wasn't the most awesome experience. There were a lot of strict rules to follow. As much as I like having nice things, I don't want my own children to grow up in an environment where they're not allowed to have free access to art supplies, for fear that, in the course of normal play, they unwittingly commit a couple thousand dollars' worth of property damage.
The owner of Segway:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39377851/ns/world_news-europe/t/se...
At least for EU citizens the GDPR requires this to be an opt-in, with the option to decline without service degradation.
I'm surprised that there isn't a way to do PGO when compiling from scratch. A way of telling the compiler exactly what parts are, but build it into the codebase so that one could get the best of both worlds.
Apparently, HN is this user's version of book club. Rather than discussing the merits of the article, they'd rather discuss the style of the prose.
> The reason why most startups don't start this way is because many successful founders have an intuitive understanding for what the problem is and what the right solution should look like. And the reason why they are successful is because they are right.

And the reason why the fail is because they're often wrong.

It's exceptionally rare that v1 is right and targeted at the right markets and positioned right and priced right. If $hours of talking with potential customers saves weeks or even months of wasted time, money, and effort, the ROI is easy.
Go to Estate Sales on the weekend. You can get great older furniture and quality well-made objects for cheap.
I've had to toss out/donate a number of inherited antique items (furniture, silver, china). It was sad to see something that once held value to someone no longer be worth anything. However, it does give me some perspective that just because something is old doesn't mean it's valuable or important. Similarly, just because something may have taken a lot of hours of craftsmanship to produce doesn't give it value either--which might be related to my developer mentality.

My parents have decided to unload most of their furniture rather than wait for us kids to inherit it. They don't want to burden us with being attached to a bulky item that doesn't match our lifestyle or tastes. I think I'll do the same for my kids.
.... i know man. feels bad. but i guess not as bad if i had wasted time with further education in a low income major
The new Kindle Oasis is incredibly fast on page turns - feels almost instant coming from a Paperwhite
I disagree with that philosophy completely. "One of the brightest undergrads at Caltech" with a "PhD offer at Berkeley", sounds like someone with an incredible high IQ and work ethic to match. This person really thinks that with their incredible talents they can't do more than a few million $ lifetime worth of "good" in the world by following their passions instead working in algorithmic trading? I think they are selling themselves short.
If you are within a certain distance you can stay outside of the weapons engagement zone for missiles. Retreating at that point presents a target for a short range missile. Missiles are great in themselves because they force your enemy to stay out of your WEZ while you are slotting in for a guns kill.

If they try to extend out for a better turn rate you hit them with the missile. If they turn too hard they lose energy and you can gun them. The fights tend to end earlier because it's so much easier to make a mistake.

Also with missiles, countermeasures can be employed which are pretty effective. Can't fit much brain in a 40G missile that is mostly solid rocket and explosives. Missile warning systems and automatic countermeasures are remarkably effective. Not so much against 30mm
There was a number discussed, it just wasn’t final, hence not written.
The single result it gives is a link to VKontakte. Given that it's largely a walled garden, I think that's a reasonable result to give, with no other input.
reCAPTCHA v3 is supposed to be frictionless so there would be no use for this as the user does not need to solve anything.
How do you make war between habitats?
Exactly. Planning accordingly is the right answer.

Assume anyone can destroy your infrastructure at any time (by mistake or otherwise). This could be done with cloudformation, terraform, API calls, and essentially any automation(with different levels of safeguards).

Be prepared for that. Be careful with your data. Not so careful with individual servers - they should be cattle, not pets.

EDIT: If this is a production system, one could take away any 'delete' permissions until they are needed again.
My company basically restricts those sort of positions for business people that learn Python and R. They are very hesitant to promote IT people into that type of role.

I'm getting tired of implementing/coding other people's solutions or just copying legacy processes into new tech. It would be nice to actually work on the problem and the processes that would most effectively solve them.
I had a kindle keyboard and it had 3g. It worked in a bunch of countries--slowly though. I remember reading blogs where people were taking the sim cards out and tethering using them.
Often it is not.

But smaller/cheaper competitors might have more downtime (hard to quantify in advance), problems to keep their kernels maintained, less predictable capacity and product lifetime. So it's not without risks going for cheaper options.
A square person's foot is a funnier image than a square yard, taken literally. Though if you don't think it's funny explaining it probably isn't going to help.
> The moisture is being sucked out of some places and falling to others.

I would like to learn more about this, can someone post more information?
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It's extremely expensive to pay to train residents, so somebody needs to pay for it.. We incentivize 'teaching hospitals' to use their most expensive and valuable employees spending time as mentors to train the next generation of physicians by paying those hospitals to host residents.
If you define GCD this way then writing gcd(a, b) = c is an abuse of notation :)
So you'd need a bunch of GPT-3+ stuff to corroborate the deepfake, exciting! Where do you determine the "troll-line" in a trust network? You can build it over time I suppose? Though that kind of leads to similar echo-chamber stuff, right?

As an anecdote, I know real humans who do truly believe deepfaked political videos. They were genuinely surprised to know that Pelosi can talk like a normal human.
You can pass a PGO flag to the build system [0], but IIRC from when I was there last, Mozilla puts some serious machine hours into PGO cycles for each release and that isn't easy to replicate as an individual developer. The profiling captures things which are very specific to the actual build being optimized, so inlining that information into the codebase wouldn't be so helpful. Though there are already static optimization hints spread throughout the code (off the top of my head, MOZ_LIKELY/MOZ_UNLIKELY for marking conditionals).

[0] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/pg...
Url changed from https://hyscale.github.io, which redirects to this.
That magnitude of price increase translates to about ~3.5% annualized increase, which seems indicative of a relatively healthy inflation adjustment. Many parts of the Midwest have been accustomed to stagnant home prices due to decades of economic underinvestment and declining population. For a variety of reasons, this is turning around.
I think it stems from an unreasonable reverence for the printed word. You never own a book, you’re just its custodian for a period of time!

I’m only really calling it vandalism with my tongue firmly in cheek–obviously anyone can do what they like with their own books :)
> We now have things like Chromebooks that are little more than an OS with just a browser attached.

Which makes sense because a browser is basically a set of abstractions over some normal OS functions that blends remote and local actions (even if only a subset of them).

Java wanted to be a universal VM, but browsers actually achieved this through HTML and JavaScript. They're going even farther with WASM.
It sees it was already used for windows: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/10/making-chrome-on-windows-f...
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Medical misinformation :
Malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus. For Lupus or RA hydroxychloroquine helps through its anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties.
Sumatra is good for viewing, though unfortunately terrible for printing.
It's not really the media though. It's respected doctors and their ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gy.

Trump isn't pushing sound science.

He's hoping to buffalo people (like you) into thinking he's on to something. AND THE MEDIA IS SO AGAINST HIM. EVEN THO IT REALLY HELPS THE FAKE NEWS JUST WANTS TO HURT HIM. BECAUSE THEY LOVE HILLARY
> What’s so funny about it?

Well, the person had explained that they juxtaposed a different image based upon a more literal / different interpretation of the phrase, perhaps triggered by the similar phrase in their native German. That is basically the root of all humor.

As an aside, I would think the phrase "demand for square footage" more appropriate and common. "Square feet" isn't often used in the more generalized context, but rather for specific measurements (i.e. 1900 square feet), at least in my neck of the woods.
How would such proper checks look like? I don't know of a country which I would trust to protect such data from misuse in day to day policing. Even more concerning is what happens if the country becomes less democratic but the surveillance infrastructure is still there.
It's not mentioned in the article, but one benefit of this approach would be as an A/B test to see which group was more successful in life - the successful applicants or the rejects. This would allow the college to see exactly how much value they are providing.