skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you say is true but coarse statistics doesn't reflect actual situation. You would have to compare 737 MAX deaths per mile to OP car deaths per mile. Maybe taking into account that hopefully OP doesn't speed, drink, text, watch harry potter... Don't know if deaths includes pedestrian or bikes killed by cars, could be irrelevant if you only compare your odds to be alive after journey.
I'd also expect a recent car with good safety to have a lower rate than average and maybe 737 MAX higher than average?
I have a proof of concept for that :) (the db is PostgreSQL of course)
This is how we learned Ruby at bootcamp. The problem was that once we got to the more complex Rails parts, the instructors didn't have the time to fully explain it so it was explained as "Magic, don't worry about it too much" which was extremely frustrating
I've been working on a way to implement this into my own shell (murex). The shell already has a builtin support for known "safe" commands, that is commands that are generally safe for background execution. The reason murex has this feature is because it supports executing the pipeline to generate more relevant autocompletion suggestions (eg when picking out nodes from a JSON or YAML file). Thus implementing an `up` like feature should be a pretty easy addition....however I ran into a bug that stalled the development of said feature and it's been in that stalled state for the last ~2 years.

The reason development stalled for so long is because personally I'm not sure this is something that should be widely supported. Even with murex, which has an internal catalogue of known safe(ish) commands, the dangers of tools like this is pretty high. Running this against a regular shell which doesn't even do that seems like potential suicide.
I could have sworn I spotted one last night above Perth, although I was under the impression all the iridium satellites were gone
I think the most important point here is missing. When Google collects data, it's the basis of their whole existence. It is the source of their main stream of income.

When Apple does it, I'm sure it helps, but that data is not the reason Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world. And that is why I use iPhone.
You know anyone can push a commit "authored" by any GitHub user? And the GitHub UI will happily show as that user

Gpg signature's are the only way of having any verification at all on who wrote a commit
> I think the premise of an intelligence explosion usually starts with human programmers creating an AI that is at least slightly better than they are themselves, at at least the task of AI programming. If the author subscribes to the refutation that I quoted, then I think it follows that they also wouldn't believe this premise is possible to begin with.

The author is quite explicit about this: he is contradicting that the singularity must be real, not trying to claim that the singularity can't be real. If you agree with his refutation of the arguments for the singularity, you'll be left with the claim "the singularity may or may not happen, we don't know", not with the claim "it's impossible for the singularity to happen".

> > This ability of humans to build on one another’s work is precisely why I don’t believe that running a human-equivalent A.I. program for a hundred years in isolation is a good way to produce major breakthroughs.

> As the saying goes, if I'm going to spend ten hours cutting down trees, I'd spend nine of them sharpening my axe. Just as a society of humans can develop tools to improve their capabilities, so can a single human, as the author's own example of Isaac Newton shows. If the AI is going to be locked in isolation for a hundred years to write software, why doesn't the author think it will spend some of that time on tools to improve its own productivity?

I think a better argument against the author's claim here is that thinking of 1 AI as 1 human is probably wrong. Since an AI can be trivially copied and run independently, it's more useful to think of 1 AI as 1 society.
I miss being able to type “IP” into google and have it just tell you your IP address above the first result.

Now, all you get is a bunch of spammy sites that block you with a captcha then fill the page with ads.

Hopefully his thing rises to the top of the results.
Oh, I get it. You mean install some sort of interpreter that is called by the OS for that language. Sorry, I live in real world, where customers don't allow you to install a gazzilion files just to run your application, they expect a proper installer that is under strict supervision by their admin team and you only deliver executables.
An argument isn't just a series of contradictions.

Yes, it is.

No it isn't!
This isn't how FLOC works though, the EFF persists in the misunderstanding of this technology.

A FLoC is a single ID per browser and it's not human readable, the algorithm to determine this will run in the browser so your data will never leave it. There's no real way for someone to "reverse engineer" the ID, it's just a random set of bits not "people-who-like-shoes".

Last, and I may be wrong here given this announcement, FLoC isn't part of Chrome until Chrome 91 in june, at least I think this is what the Chrome team said Tuesday at the W3C meeting so I'm not sure what this refers to, but it shouldn't be the browser side.
Just recently I thought I could use a live checking tool for regexes but without the horrible UI of the typical website made for this purpose.

I will definitely try this and see how it combines with ripgrep/rg.
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Do you mean underlies instead of belies? I'm having trouble parsing the meaning of your first sentence.
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Well, it's a pandemic. Gotta break some rules to save the world. /s
Hard to say.

In some places it's clear: LLVM's error messages were head and shoulders better than GCC's, and it was immediately obvious to everyone that GCC had to improve. And they're much better now.

But I don't believe GCC has made substantial improvements to its compilation speed since LLVM was introduced. In fact I believe it to be the opposite; as a Gentoo user I generally notice that compilation performance gets worse with every major GCC update. It's only due to hardware upgrades that compilation gets shorter.

LLVM is inherently much more modular than GCC is, which makes it a very attractive target for a language backend. It's a very large amount of work to shoehorn a language into GCC. The modular nature of LLVM is quite useful for lots of purposes, it is the back end for the syntax highlighting and error highlighting module I use in emacs. clang-format is a godsend for me, and unlike most other autoformatters, it formats based on semantics instead of syntax, which is a huge boon. The static analyzer and llvm-mca are also closely tied to the modularity of LLVM. It's not immediately obvious how one might implement these features based on GCC.

So yes, I 100% agree that LLVM is a hugely beneficial contribution to our digital society, even though it's not my first choice for a compiler.
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I would have loved to have that when working on building AMIs for custom Linux systems, e.g. https://github.com/cogini/buildroot_ec2 and https://github.com/cogini/nerves_system_ec2

I spent a lot of time looking at console screenshots of machines that would not boot and iterating to figure out the problem.
Viruses can't do anything without an ecosystem of hosts to parasitise.

It's the ecosystem that's doing the computation, not the virus.

From that POV we already have AGI. We're just not aware of it. And it's not particularly sentient yet.
Well, he did just spelled out why his entire business failed on Twitter. So I don't know how you conclude that he is being arrogant.
Generally, they either:

1. Use low-cost consumer hardware with zero centralized management, and set it up with the same expertise and judgment as your typical residential deployment.

2. Have one admin person with the wherewithal work with web UIs, and wants a simple setup-and-forget system. UI not much more complicated than a single-AP residential deployment, user management workflow no more complicated than adding a G-Suite user. If they can use the default password for the admin system, they will (which e.g. Meraki and Aruba don't have in any meaningful sense).
Thanks. I was a bit puzzled earlier why AWS was so insistent about enabling object locking, my specific use case doesn't profit from remote versioning at all. But I can see how this would mitigate log integrity concerns. I'll definitely enable it for that.
I'm particularly tired of military PR.
No, you can't really do any of that. A single FLoC ID, while having access to no other identifier, is not gonna say anything about your past history to anyone. It's just useful to correlate to actual advertising campaign performance.

Most traditional adtech, used to targeting attributes, is quite puzzled at how to use this at the moment given they'll all need to invest in machine learning because these IDs aren't interpretable.

The specifications of this stuff are all in the open.
Josh the web developer has probably experienced slow down animating shadows, whereas you're just guessing.

Maybe give the author the benefit of the doubt, or make an example disproving his theory.
There are plenty of css performance gotcha's you wouldnt expect. Changing gradient backgrounds on body (or a big div, I forget) everyframe is fine, but changing it on html (for ios safari's outside-the-body app colours) is horrendously slow and actually causes visible tearing when animating.
We could just assume theyre "the same", but with experience, you find they are not.
Ah, that makes sense. So it's not really that you think markets will not go up, and more about no longer thinking markets will not go down? (That is a complicated sentence but also the simplest I was able to make it after several attempts.)
Searching for the value to prepend or append that causes a hash collision is exactly the same as finding a nonce value at maximum difficulty (not less than the difficulty value, exactly equal to the target hash).

Mutate and check.
Wow I literally just thought about building a tool like this yesterday! Spooky.
As an iOS and Mac user, I use Safari now 100% for browsing. It has basically all of the features I need.

I think Firefox has improved significantly in recent years as well, but I haven't used it in a while.
I think you're overstating it. There's a vast difference between "terrified that NONE would work" and "wanted to maximize the chance of at least one working vaccine."
Also they outsourced many integrations to third party developers.

So Asana is terrible for software development as it lacks the deep integration for Github/Gitlab etc that you get with Jira. And all the third party offers is a basic sync between Asana Tasks and Github Issues.
The beta of st4 is available if you have a license.
I had a ResMed CPAP that came with a wifi attachment that plugs into the machine. However the machine also had an SD card slot and recorded the usage data and some diagnostics to the card; the data on the card provides proof that the patient is using the machine. There was no requirement to use the wifi attachment. I never used it. All the physicians I have seen always ask for the SD card. If you have Windows you can download the ResMed software to read the card yourself.

Are the newer machines not using SD cards anymore?

Also I have always wondered if anyone has opened up and tinkered with the ResMed wifi attachment. Perhaps it could be used as general purpose hardware.
Fun comment section on that site

> This girl is one of a few 757s that Delta uses exclusively for charters. Lower cycles on them. 31.5 years old and still chopping up birds. Love it. Long live the 757!!

http://avherald.com/h?article=4e52aeea&opt=0
Well if you have experience in C and Pascal than really Go shouldn't feel that alien to you. The only thing it brings that differs from them is more verbose error handling, green threads, interfaces and channels. And of them, only the error handling is unique to Go -- everything else is borrowed from other languages.
How? How would fingerprinting use this? It's formed by data used in the past 7 days and the bigger the space of FLoCs the more likely it is that it changes frequently, for example every day if not more frequently.

The fingerprinting would fail to recover the same code at least once a day unless you always visit the exact same sites every day and never visit a new one.

fingerprinting needs a stable state from the browser to work, not something that changes arbitrarily.
I intentional refrained from ranting about the medical profession’s protectionism in Australia.
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I would like to add that by introducing too many "special features" into browsers and such, you are making your fingerprint really unique.
I just started using toothpaste with nano-Hydroxypatite after a recommendation from a friend. Obviously I can't say much about its effectiveness long-term. But it feels amazing. Feels like there's a protective layer over the enamel - hopefully there actually is!

Apparently, nano-Hydroxypatite is even more effective than Novamin (which is still good):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121804/

If you're in Australia and struggling to find toothpaste with Hydroxypatite, Chemist Warehouse stock "Healthy Care Sensitive Propolis Toothpaste". So far, highly recommended.
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Asana, the company that crushed them literally spent considerably more than they earned and beat them.

The story is not 'save your money' frankly the story is 'have the most leverage'.

There's probably a lot more to it obviously, but it doesn't matter what this CEO did, he was going to be outgunned most likely.
I highly doubt it as this is about a commercial app infringing on the copyright of a small open source developer.

They will only send letters to people who cannot defend themselves.
Anybody got the channel name?
That's funny you really couldn't think of a solution? Don't join the mafia seems like an obvious one.
I remember reading about a project that let you "preview" the effects (e.g. file changes) of terminal commands by using ptrace to intercept the syscalls and just logging them instead. Maybe you could do something similar here to prevent accidental file deletions.
The odd thing I notice is how English speakers always want to put a stress in the middle of Japanese names (naRUto). Japanese pitch accent is different in different dialects but the standard one is always at the start.
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I'm wondering if GDPR would cover this.
Is buying the device already an act of consent to the collection of data?
This makes several basic errors which more or less invalidate the entire argument.

First, the analogy with humans attempting to "increase the intelligence" of other existing humans is missing the point. We wouldn't increase human intelligence by operating on existing humans, we would increase it by making new humans who are smarter than the last generation. (Let's ignore the politics there, it's a bit of a distraction.) This may not be _practical_ but it is obviously _possible_.

Similarly, an AI would not necessarily be attempting to improve "itself", to whatever degree it has any sense of self; it would most likely be designing a better successor (in the ML paradigm, designing & training). As 'jbay808 mentioned in another reply, this only requires that we make an AI that's at least a bit better at AI design than we are.

The digression on c. elegans is cute but irrelevant. We've already created narrow AIs that match or crush humans on tasks that were regarded as unlikely to be solved by AI for decades (Go, protein folding, text-to-image generation, many other many-dimensional optimization problems such as server farm cooling schedules, etc). I don't see an argument presented that "design AI" is a skill (or set of skills) which we can't optimize for.

I'm not sure what the next argument is supposed to be about except some special pleading about civilization, as embodied by a collection of distinct individual agents, being necessary for "breakthroughs", which are unachievable by the "average" programmer. This is asserted without any particular thought as to how a human-level AI might be scaled further than just 100x the speed of a human programmer, such as, uh, horizontally (which means you can have a civilization if you really want it; I don't think that's how it'll end up playing out, but let's put that aside).

There's some time spent talking about how you can't bootstrap compiler optimizations to infinity, which, yes, obviously, and is also a trivially invalid analogy.

Then for some reason he ends his argument by assuming that when we create human-level AIs we'll be receiving AIs with distributions of skills at random, such that we'll need to create thousands of them to get one that's above-average on a useful axis, which is frankly a bizarre claim. Even if you take for granted the underlying "civilization > breakthrough" thesis, this is already not how ML works today, and I don't see any reason to think it'll move in that direction in the future.

Meh. I'd strongly recommend reading one of the three (excellent) books he cites early on: Nick Bostrom’s “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,” Max Tegmark’s “Life 3.0: Being Human in the age of Artificial Intelligence,” and Stuart Russell’s “Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control” for a more rigorous treatment of the subject.
If it's just 'random set of bits', how Google plans to use it? For it to be useful, they must have a way to decompose it to back to those categories mentioned in grandparent post, otherwise how are they going to sell it to those advertisment parasites, I mean companies?
> dream scenario of a new location registry of every move of the population

Not only politicians, I assume entities like Rundfunkbeitrag, Schufa, conuntless Inkasso will pay fortune to access such data.

> Very low corruption at the lower level of society [...] Incredible high amount of corruption and incompetence in the higher spheres

This is incredibly shocking for an newcomer to Germany. One swiftly hits the ceiling of 3-4k EUR net monthly and mortgage of 400-600k EUR with nowhere else to go, while watching enormous amounts of money being shuffled, fortunes hidden in idyllic villages, faceless dynasties owning chunks of industries, >1mln EUR apartments being purchased.
> optimize for revenue. I think it's nonsense and even dangerous.

As with everything, there are caveats to the kind of doctor you are talking. The key distinction is that most dentists keep the residual income: the difference between the fixed costs and income. It can be a quite large sum and high % of dentists' earnings. So a dentist has a very strong incentive to increase it. Overtreating patients is the easiest way to do it since increasing the prices is not an option due to competition.

Who isn't keeping the residual income? It's the doctors who work only for a fixed salary. They can't earn more by overtreating. In fact, if they have less work, they are at profit since their salary is fixed. They don't care about increasing the residual income since they don't get it.

So, this is not some conspiracy theory. It is based on economic facts. I've analyzed this in more details here: https://documentation.denther.com/docs/industry/inefficienci...
well i mean, even that is just a bifurcation of a bifurcation of a bifurcation lol. that's part of it too. almost like a wave of sh*t roaming across the land. i agree with you too.

like the past few years i started going through history, from the 30s through 1990 (cuz most of that i lived through) and just started mapping out these long trends over 20-40 years. noticing the differences in what happens and so on. and it's kind of funny, you go back 20 years and it's limp bizkit burning down woodstock 99 to break stuff, and 20 years before that you get the sex pistols.

and then you fast forward back to now and it's literally aging johnny rotten screaming his love for trump on television and zoomers burning down anything they can, and having an intergenerational fight between those two camps. i think beyond all, it was that combination that most explains the events that have been going on. the sort of generations of goal post moving, the polished nature of diversity that is both a waste of time and ends up tokenizing the trend vs mavericks like roddenberry. and then you mix that with the sort of careless attitudes because so far we've equated freedom from government control, with freedom from any kind of civil order or basic ethical values.

when i was a kid, and this isn't that long ago cuz i'm barely in my 30s, if i got caught even considering any of the stuff i read in this article, somebody would've probably kicked my ass or gave me a stern talking to and rightfully so. you shouldn't have to NEED to feel something to do the most minimal of things. we shouldn't NEED to have some crappy surveillance state and have to pay a bazillion park service people to keep an eye on things. people should just do it. hell, go plant a tree or something and go insta that, go read a book, even go to a Broadway show or listen to some Jazz. that was the ethic that glued together this country, and now it's gone.

i've been watching a lot of the old generation, the pre you know stewart brand types. and the crazy thing is the bookchins and the ayn rands actually if you really look at it - hated them. because they thought they were too careless and merely wanted to just pick whatever sounded good or mostly plausible to run with it.

like this guy was right there along with brand and SDS and all them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd73MYOBV-k

i'm a big quality over quantity type of person. i think most people drift towards that, but we're habitually lazy. when the social ties reward that, i just don't really think that's a good idea.
Do the improved pop up and autocomplete mean language server support?
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Make the device accessible over a TOR hidden service only

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That's true.. though you could also look at it the other way which is that they didn't capitalize effectively enough to stay competitive with Asana. The niche is not always a safe place to hang out.
You could do that, technically there are other APIs like Trust Token API to protect against malicious clients, but one client in a giant cohort is unlikely to cause much damage anyway so it doesn't matter... And this is anyway going to be machine learning driven so unless you poison all of the FLoCs a lot it may end up being discovered or the FLoC simply not considered performant by a specific ad campaign.
So they have 20x better informed decisions in their development processes then. Good!
I have used an rmate (1) compatible extension for remote editing in st3. Not as polished as the vscode solution I imagine.

(1) https://github.com/textmate/rmate
Do you want to do this as a business or a hobby or something else?
I found mention of "program primes" and "cleanroom" in the index of this book [0], but they are rather far apart from one another.

[0] https://svkarthikwinner.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/practica...