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Name one of those projects that didn't take in huge amounts of money from the government? He did those things because they were initiatives of the US federal government (including autonomous cars, see DARPA challenge).

Thank uncle sam for putting in the effort to create the markets that Elon plays in.
Is this not obvious?
Exactly. I don't understand people not having an ad blocker... Otherwise pi-hole is a good option for your local network.
I’m currently experimenting with FreeDOS as a possible OS for an offline home computer. I want to have something to write on (poems, recipes, journals), code on (using BASIC or something else completely usable without using the web for libraries or docs), and to play and make little games.

If it turns put to be really useful and fun, you probably wont hear about it online.
The inconsistency thing is likely just different teams/people working on the API.

I’d bet very few people who work there know all the APIs that exist.
If I had a friend who jerked the steering wheel around like that, I would not ride with them anymore. That is practically an SNL skit about a bad driver.
Copying files in general, no.

Someone having written a game, spending tons of money over 1 year or more, paying a team, graphic artists, sound guy, etc, hoping to sell it, and then taking that game against their wishes and giving it for free with them not seeing a penny sounds like one.

And the "those downloading the pirate version weren't going to buy anyway"-excuse is bogus. Some weren't, some would - if there wasn't a pirate version.

When you pirate you don't only cater to the poor and the perpetual cheapskates who'd never buy, but also to people who would.
Jump shit to somewhere that isn't incredibly f'ed.

This sounds like mass stupidity and ego, not moral superiority.
Yes, this is achievable with bit-buckets in iptables or QoS on a capable router. The WiFi in a microwave or faraday bag won't work because you just wouldn't be able to connect period.
Thank you. I'm already in bed, but tomorrow I'll adjust the colors
My vote is for a big old Cylon eye in the windshield.
> Reduce can do all of the above, but must return a lower dimension result from its input.

What do you mean by this? You can accumulate just about anything into the resulting object, including a copy of the original array.
The number of companies that seem to be charging forward towards AGI is small. Most of the companies are doing what you might call "realistic AI": some definable goal (like self-driving) which everyone agrees will eventually happen (and probably will) but no one is quite sure how to get there in every detail.

I try to be an optimist, mostly because of how many counterexamples you see from history. Didn't some newspaper claim that human flight "may be invented in the next several thousand years" shortly before Kitty Hawk?

But for some reason, rich people keep coming to me with what they're trying to do. My advice is the same: you're going to lose your money unless you bet on proven techniques that exist today.

Take AI dungeon as the prime example. That is what I would call a grade-A idea. It was incredibly obvious that it would become a company (now Latitude) and that it would be successful, if someone was willing to put in the effort to make it so (which Nick Walton did). Once AI dungeon worked, and it had a "minimum viable working thing," the rest was a matter of execution.

But a lot of the ideas seem to fall into the category of... Well, for example, someone came to me saying they wanted to build a "virtual universe, filled with virtual people that you can talk to."

It sounds lovely on paper. But what are you selling, really? There has to be some specific value proposition. So strike one is that it's an unproven market. You yourself want a virtual universe. But is that virtual universe going to lead to something that will solve a lot of people's problems? And we haven't even begun to discuss how you're going to get there. What do you mean exactly by "virtual person"?

It's easy to pick on some of the outliers. But unfortunately, the problem runs much deeper. There are people who genuinely believe that AGI is within reach within our lifetimes, or perhaps within one generation. But whenever I try to corner them into giving specific details on how precisely to get there, the handwaving begins.

This is now a complete tangent, but, I found myself excited and enthusiastic to pursue AGI after a long conversation with a certain someone. They had "fresh eyes" -- a new way of viewing the situation, unlike anything that people were currently trying.

Unfortunately, after throwing myself into that mindset for several weeks, I had no choice but to conclude that their chance was closer to zero than 1%. And I was really trying hard to find that 1%, with all my mental effort (such as it is).

So what choice do we have but to let people pursue impossible dreams, and return to the work that we feel we can make an impact on? Live and let live. And of course, there's the likely outcome: our predictions will be incorrect, and we'll be talking with AGI in a virtual universe sooner than we think. But I wouldn't fall in love with their dream.

(I also think you were unfairly jumped on, and that you had a fine point, for what it's worth. Thanks for the prompt.)
How is this different from the entire Japanese mediascape? 50 year old men paying young women to say their words.
I didn't get that from this webpage. It seems like his extension just accepts all cookie requests and doesn't delete them.
I am an introvert, therefore biased about extroverts.

In my experience managers and the persons who plan those "fun zoom activities" are extroverts and think that everybody else wants to have fun the same way as they do.

My take is: you get paid to get your work done. If you wanted to do all those fun things you would have run away with a circus.
Why do you think that? Do you think those at the top who set the national strategy are mediocre? China's present position could not have been achieved by mediocre members.
Bad devs don't read docs.
Good devs do.
Good devs might like this feature and find it useful.
> Everything Elon has said he was going to do, he has.

True, as long as this excludes everything he still says he is going to do but hasn't yet done. But of course, he will.
Maybe that would stop this specific malware, but I'm guessing they could adapt and start incorporating a lightweight (SPV) node which can connect to the P2P bitcoin network and keep track of the transactions associated with a specific address without downloading the blockchain (except for the block headers and the transactions you are interested in, mostly).
In the Ian Fleming novels, James Bond is clearly intended to be in his late 30s / early 40s. The same seems to hold true for all the movies. Bond is not a young man by any stretch of the imagination. He is a world-weary traveler well-versed in high culture, espionage, elite military tactics. His cultural knowledge is explained by virtue of his upper class birth and upbringing; its likely he served in the military before being recruited by MI:6, and of course the espionage is the hallmark of the latter agency.

That said... when Jonathan Goldsmith was auditioning for part of The Most Interesting Man in the World, the ad agency called his agent and said, "We really like him, but we think he might be too old," and she replied (quite masterfully), "How could the Most Interesting Man in the World be young?", implying it would take a lifetime to acquire the achievements.

So I guess the answer is, be old and good-looking, like Goldsmith, or Sean Connery.
Uighurs are not in a rosy situation because they have not chosen submission to the rulers and their directives. If they had, do you think they would have it hard?
Double edged sword. The shift from 20s to 30s also reduces attention from perverts and weirdos, just as it does from gentlemen suitors. And if someone joined a site back when they're a minor they often had to lie.

Or if someone is just privacy conscious about details that may be used to steal their identity, they may have just randomly chose January 1, 1970 or whatever was the top choice on the little menu.
Elon Musk's "two years from now" (or even "later this year") is everyone else's "in five to ten years." His 2 being everyone else's 5 is also appropriate given that he describes their level 2 autonomy as level 5.
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While I entirely agree with the sentiment of this post, I often find myself wondering - how does one effectively combat this attitude without making a full circle? How is anything to be established in society without some sort of "might", so to speak? Just a thought that resonated with me when I read your comment.
Honestly, I thought part of the point of the therapy is to ‘erase’ the most painful of recent memories, helping the person not fixate on such thoughts, since they are gone.

I have no idea what I am talking about, though.
Presumably Trump can afford to pay for a few servers. They could even be colocated.
Excellent. I hate having to constantly click through those.
As a marketing term yeah.
Most of the things he has accomplished have been accomplished before. I'm not saying it's easy and he doesn't deserve respect for it. But it's not like he's constantly achieving unprecedented things. Full self-driving cars, Hyperloop, Neuralink, people on Mars are just pipe dreams so far. And that wouldn't be a problem if he simply didn't claim for 5 years that FSD will definitely be ready next year and let customers pay for it and test it on public roads.
Indeed; footnote 3 on the sentence you quoted links to exactly that paper :-) This came up in the Reddit discussion on the post a few days ago. Specifically it works for reducible control flow. In the general case (irreducible control flow) I think it is still NP-hard, but I could be mistaken. (Regardless, the algorithms are nontrivial, hence the need for fuzzing!)
Here are some analytics from an HN hug a month an a half ago: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/front-page-of-hacker-news...

(Static sites should be fine, but many sites use dynamic CMS like wordpress, ghost or discourse, on very low-powered hosts, which really need a caching layer to hold up under non-trivial load)
Hush performs a similar function for Safari users.

https://oblador.github.io/hush/
Also, one would have to define "race" in genomic terms. Good luck to the person attempting to do that.
And that's a bad thing because...?

The Federal Government has consistently funded some of our most important projects. The Human Genome Project, for instance.
What is your proposal? Forget the browser for a minute. Just any way, short of airgapping, that a user could receive an app, want that app to perform maximally, but also not have information about the system being egressed?

I don't appreciate it because it's childish. You want to make this out to be a privacy issue when it's not. It adds nothing meaningful to how easily you can be fingerprinted, but removing it would detract significantly from how performant a browser-based application can be made. Without it, you're pushing developers towards having to build native apps instead, giving even MORE access to the hardware fingerprint, where they are now stuck having to pay fealty to the platform gods, while also gaining nothing in reducing fingerprinting in the browser.
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I think is because they're going for a full machine learning approach, the neural network tries to learn the best solution but is unable to receive simple instructions like "go in a straight line"
Maxrequestworkers, server limit?
I admire the work he does. But he oversells. FSD is one example. He has been promising it for half a decade and people have paid him substantial amount of money for a feature that he'll likely never deliver as he describes and certainly not on the time-line he promised. At the same time he is putting dangerously incomplete software out on public roads and marketing it as FSD when it's clearly not. It's endangering not only his own customers but also everyone around a Tesla on the public roads. If that's not unethical, I don't know what is.

He promised Earth point to point travel, which would require rocket safety to improve by a factor of a million.

He has been promising ridiculous things from Neuralink but with literally nothing to show for it.

Look at this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/88805317515594957...

Does that really indicate no personal commitment? He touts that he's received government permission to build a Hyperloop, NY to DC in 29 mins.
Ok, it goes to existing retina, not substituting but adding some input signal gain, am I correct?

So there is still no "interface" to connect to an optical nerve directly for people who do not have functional retina...
That's really neat - fun use of VR, and entertaining without it too. It took me a while to figure out that you could click on the dancers and see it from their viewpoint though.
OP probably meant "cherry picked" in the sense of R&T picking a purposefully-nonrepresentative video of the "average FSD experience".

The video is genuine and real but it shows a completely different experience from pretty much almost every other drive-through FSD video I've seen (which have overall been mostly flawless, with a couple other ones sprinkled in that have also been pretty bad at times).

It's important to report on outliers and worst-case scenarios though, especially when the outcome could be death. Obviously this beta has a lot more work to be done before it can graduate into widespread use.
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LOL, yeah many around the internet had never heard of HK as well!
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The devil is always in the details.

Problems that are conceptually simple can still be very complex once all of the details are added. Theoretically landing a rocket is a simple matter of turning it into a giant model aircraft and doing the math on how much fuel you need to reserve. Re-lighting an engine is conceptually easy too. In practice we know this is a huge accomplishment.

Self driving is a problem that starts out hard. Think about how you get a computer to recognize other objects, especially other cars, based on it's fairly limited set of sensor inputs. Once you add in the details, like dealing with unexpected road conditions, detecting vehicles that are partially invisible to your sensors, etc... and it's hard to see a future where the technology is viable, at least in the near term. All computer vision stuff currently has a sizeable false positive/negative error rate that you just have to accept. But on the road a false negative or false positive can be fatal.
Except Tesla kills 3x more of it's drivers than competitor cars. https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...

So depends on your measure. If you mean "on average" then yes. But it seems Tesla has a long way to go in other safety measures first.
It's human nature to want to look at young pretty women.
conversely, a screen recording does not allow for easy maintenance as this plugin does with its tours.
There used to be libre.fm and it looks like there still is. The API was designed to be a drop-in replacement for last.fm. Last time I checked it was missing some stuff. They also have a lasttolibre tool for migrating your data. If last.fm goes away, this is where you go and what you use to do it. Or don't wait and move now, if you want.
This is damn interesting but the podcast narration is damn boring. Great writing though.
Agreed. The take you're replying to is logical and true but with sympathy and not empathy. In practice, the kids making these decisions have no business making them, full information or not. The numbers are so foreign and the outcome so distant, while they haven't even ever left home.

Further, not all kids making these decisions have strong families or networks that can help set them straight. Instead, all they hear is "college is critical" and accept on faith there's an ROI.
>Also, running inside a VM, and sharing resources with my development toolkit, it's still more responsive than anything else I've tried.

One of the memories I have from adolescence is of a laptop that one of grandparents' friends showed me in around 2010.
It was a decade old at that point, and ran both Windows and Office 2000.

I remember booting up Excel, which loaded almost instanteously, and immediately started entering formulas into the cells with no input lag whatsoever. Word 2000 was a similar experience.
Keep in mind this was on late 90's to early 00's _laptop_ hardware - maybe an 800MHz single core Pentium at best, and was an order of magnitude more responsive than Office 2010 on a then-current 3.33Ghz Core2 Duo.

It seems things have become even worse since then - IM Apps that chew up 2GB of RAM (and I'm not just talking about Slack), email apps that cause games to lag if they're running in the background, and websites that scroll at 10fps.
> It's far better than this.

I don't know what you're referring to. Any links?
So you mean, if I am a state actor able to kidnap the child of an Intel high level employee... say I m Joe Biden, I can ask Intel to... remote unlock my CPU and read arbitrary memory block ?

Or you mean Intel had to physically handle your CPU with a debug cable or whatever ?

Cause I really dont feel it s okay that the only safety we have from a newly discovered exploit is that there needs to be another newly discovered exploit :D
Well, I'm grateful.
The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly just reading an article). Cookies might be one technical means to assist with that, but it's not the only means.
Not GP, but Eurojank is normally referring to games like Metro 2077, S.T.A.L.K.E.R etc.

Made by European studios (usually east Europe), with grand ideas, but missing some of the polish you would expect from a AAA game. I be clear I think these games are fantastic, and personally consider the missing polish an asset rather than a detriment to these games, but it certainly impacts game play.

Interesting you could put forward the argument that Cyberpunk 2077 is a Eurojank game as CD Projekt Red is a polish developer, and well, Cyberpunk has more than its fair share of bugs.
Cassava is just the African name for manioc.

See also potatoes, tomatoes in European cuisine.
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Did you read the first paragraph of the page by any chance?

“If you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser, websites will ask for that permission again and again, and it will soon become very irritating to click the same I agree buttons every day.”

The extension doesn't claim to delete cookies (and GP doesn't suggest that it does), but it's clearly targeted at people that are using technological means to deal with the problem rather than clicking "pretty please don't track me" and hoping for the best.
I have ad blocker. I block all ads at the DNS level. I don't think you can block some of the ads on YT. Is that possible with browser plugins?
"I can't claim fraud just because I didn't understand/read/validate the contract language." is absolutely not true.

If you create a contract with intent to mislead people and having them sign it with the expectation that they won't understand/read/validate the contract language, then the other party definitely can claim fraud afterwards and (depending on the circumstances and evidence) may win such a claim. Contract law is about intent above all, the actual contract language clarifies and documents that intent, but in circumstances where the contract language and intent clearly diverge, any adjudication must and will take intent into account.

To be specific, "intent to deceive" is a key part of the limitations in contract law in pretty much every jurisdiction. Fraudulent misrepresentation, which explicitly includes withholding information as well, can invalidate the whole contract if you (for example) tricked someone into signing it i.e. 'fraud in inducement' and in such cases the harmed party definitely can claim fraud even if the contract language explicitly said that they will lose their money, if the other party mislead them into thinking otherwise.
You don't need to use them, but since they are valid ways of positioning things in CSS, Tailwind has utilities for them. They're as 'dangerous' as they are in handwritten CSS. You can get by with only using flexbox and absolute utilities and that's great.

You're still using CSS...just more efficiently.
> I wouldn't trust Google translate because one of my son's hobbies is looking up the original Japanese (and translation notes, etc) for anime and other works to figure out what in the heck went wrong with the translation

These are meaningless differences that only people who don't speak Japanese notice. Because once you do, you'd know that the text being in English instead of Japanese is already such a large difference that picking at individual words doesn't mean anything. (And honorifics definitely don't mean much. Even if you "leave them in" for "correctness", that actually means leaving in the ones the kids know and taking out the ones they don't.)

Actually one of the translators for a lot of popular works recently left Twitter because kids kept harassing him because he was "wrong" because the official work didn't match rumors they'd started based on their incorrect Japanese knowledge. Hope he's not doing that.
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Nothing against the original post (which just says what they found), but this seems to be really overblown. Yes, of course Intel has instructions to update the micro code, since that's a thing that they do. Neither is it particularly surprising that they didn't bother to document operations that only they would ever have reason to use (in their eyes). If, as sibling comment notes, you have to be in a specific unlocked state to use this instruction, it should be perfectly safe assuming someone hasn't compromised other layers of security. So yes, this is certainly interesting, and it could be used as part of a chain of exploits to do some really nasty things, but by itself this seems like barely news?
I,ve made a point of clicking every single one, and sometimes ,,signing up,, for the ,,wealth builder,, webinars. I think of it as paying the creators while also studying landing page UX.
Javascript has gotten so good with ES6 and beyond. But there's still no nice way to do something n times without a C style loop.
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“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”

- Steve Jobs, 2011
Sandy Munro was invited to SpaceX design review session, so he has some first-hand comments about that on this video (@6:17): https://youtu.be/S1nc_chrNQk?t=377
Could you give an example of "conceptual understanding" that humans have which is necessary for safe autonomous driving? How does autonomous driving differ from, say, playing poker when it comes to implementing a machine learning solution?
I've been using barbly[0] which I wrote to scratch my own itch. It uses a JSON format for describing the menu bars which I found easier to work with. It's aesthetic is slightly different as well.

[0] https://github.com/luke-clifton/barbly
You don't say ! Electric Jesus would have exagerated ? Probably a one off ...
I don't mind Julia's Unicode support, but definitely share the gripe about how the Unicode standard doesn't yet support a complete a-z set of sub/superscripts!
Same here. Can't load the page.