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> let's say a car is used 1h per day.

Just because the car is used, does not mean everybody unlocks the self driving mode.

I would not be surprised if you could unlock it unlimited fir a one time price.
there is also the almost-definitely-true idea that the mind is an emergent property of the body. We can't understand emergent phenomena using reductive approaches, in the same way that we can't understand quantum phenomena using classical approaches.
Pirate? Robin Hood would be a more apt analogy.
What did you test-drive? Regular Tesla auto-pilot, or the limited-access FSD Beta?

They are radically different experiences.
Funnily, you can find various somewhat-Linux devices in stores mostly, except they're called 'Chromebooks'. This is the same device series that uses Coreboot as a boot loader and usually had an internal screw to remove to disable firmware write protections and fully unlock the device, as well as other visually and auditory (they make a large beep on boot) tamper-evident 'developer unlock' modes. Nowadays instead of the 'unlock screw', there's a mandatory security chip that can be unlocked into a less visibly tamper-evident mode in which it is disabled via a special USB-C cable for sale on the open market with a reference schematic available as well, which is a much more fun solution to assert physical access. [1]

Many older models also would run mainline Linux fine, and the default Chrome OS install usually has a container and a Wayland to Chrome adapter behind a toggle.

[1]: https://unrelenting.technology/articles/FreeBSD-and-custom-f...
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You can get that by using a Chinese iPhone.
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> New typewriters out of China run about $200,

Yeah, I was curious about that when I saw the caption on the article's leading photo:

> [...]. The last typewriters in the world were made in India.
The papers that the cuckdowncels were constantly quoting to justify their insane policies werent peer-reviewed. Just Saying.
This is why I ended up moving over to Linux many years back. I had run it on an off since about 1998 but about 5 years back there, I had blown away my install of Windows and for reason in particular I simply never reinstalled it.

It is just one of those things were very rarely I realize that I am running (by ratio) a fairly rare OS as just a daily desktop. To that, don't try and force your self onto Linux, eventually you may just sit with it and never go back to Windows. If you do, that's fine if that works for you. If you stay on Linux, cool power to you.

Happy hacking!
something like this was a plot point in one of the Neal Stephenson wrist-breakers [0]. <elided plot spoilers>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
On the one hand we don't have data still for how eradicating mosquitoes would disturb the ecosystem, there are just too many complex interactions. There are probably plenty of species specializing on preying on mosquitoes out there that we don't know of.

However currently humanity is killing off a lot of insects without targeting a specific species, so potentially disturbing mosquito based ecosystems doesn't seem terrible in comparison.
He most certainly is. I'm glad he's back.
The hobby angle is so powerful. Software engineers are relatively rare so being able to automate and build for any hobby field is wildly lucrative. That's where I've found my projects' greatest success.
hooray another article that focuses on the heavy tail of severe addiction and generalises it to the general public who uses drugs. humanity really needed this!
Yes, only interesting if this is for an Uber like service without ownership. Didn't read that part.
This isn't very relevant to the current discussion, though, as you don't need root or an unlocked bootloader on Android to do that.
You need to very carefull to apply Kelly Criterion to stock market, as you cannot precisely calculate the p of your investments. If you assume a too high p then you will overbet and its only a matter of time to go bust (see N. N. Taleb MOOCS on Kelly). Thus the Kelly Criterion should be your UPPER bound for real-life investments with uncertain p, stay well below the betting amount what Kelly Criterion would suggest so that you stay longer in game.

Related to this, the best investors in the world are quite old guys. Why? Because they lived long enough to accumulate enough wealth to be of public interest.
When Social Engineers become hackers?

To me, a hacker is someone who exploit a RCE or something like that.

I recall in 90's we had this kids who got access to ton of companies all around the world. They would have conquered the earth along with the FBI.
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> For someone who only occasionally needs heated seats, this is value adding.

No, for someone who only has a 3 year lease on a BMW, this may be value adding (or value subtracting).

The money you save by not paying for heated seats when you buy the BMW does not go into your pocket when you sell the BMW without heated seats, as whoever buys the BMW from you will pay less for a BMW in which heated seats are free than one in which heated seats cost $100/year.

For a car with a 20 year life, you'd profit if 1 year of heated seat rental costs less than 1/20 the price of heated seats if bought up front. This is true whether you own the car for 1 year or 3 years or 20 years. It does not matter how long you personally plan on owning the car.
> With your own car you can bring as much stuff as you want, stop where you want, leave when you want, go wherever you want at your destination, bring whoever you want, listen to what you want on the radio, stop where you want for side trips/tourist things along the way etc.

Also, you can get blocked in a traffic jam when you don't want.
I'm not sure I really agree with the entire concept of "going bust" in these terms. To nit pick, you don't go bust if you lose 99.97% of your money. The real point is from whereever you start 5 losees will take away 99.97% of your money and it's asymmetrical- after those 5 losses you don't need 5 wins to make back your original sum of money because now your wealth is much smaller so you need far more consecutive wins to regain your wealth. It's counter intuitive because most people don't really think about the implications that you're betting a fraction of your wealth and your wealth at each timestep is a compounded function of the previous timesteps. They think of wealth as a constant where it's not.
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its for the clicks.
you would think that at least they would say 'hey we are cool, we reported on this before, you should trust us more'
but no i think 'hey new discovery, you are living in the future now, we have it first, click here' seems to sell more.
It wouldn't just be facebook though, it would be all facebook's apps (Messenger, WhatsApp, etc), plus all Google's apps, Amazon, Fortnite, Spotify, etc, etc. A single 'Freedom' store with all that on it would have huge pull and would completely undermine the effectiveness of the App Store's privacy policies. No thanks.

This doesn't happen on Android because Google has no interest in enforcing strict privacy policies on the Play Store.
If apple actually implemented these changes, I would ditch my current phone for an IPhone and never look back. I would also help make the switch for family members and anyone else I cared about.
yeah, also they made something like capture a screen recording with the desktop sound a thing that it's not for everyone.
Transferwise (Wise). If the country you're sending to is not supported, then WorldRemit.
I agree that ideally the code could be organized a lot better, but think about it like this:

It is the fully working safari UI in only 1000 lines of code. Additionally the declarative approach of SwiftUI together with the type system makes it certainly correct in many ways: no rendering bugs, no invalid states, probably no memory leaks, no cyclic dependencies creeping in.

Try to build this in Java Swing, UIKit, Html/Css/Js or any other UI library.
Flutter might come close, react/vue/svelte as well, if you assume sensible predefined components. But they work similar to SwiftUI and the resulting one-file might look pretty similar.
> Where are the parents? Who is giving kids phone instead of something else?

The parents might not know better.

> Also, why should kids tinker with computers if they can explore art by painting or music by learning an instrument or literature by reading?

They should be given the chance to do so, as they should be given the chance to explore art or craft or a lot of other things.

> What makes it important for them to use Unix

I don't see how mentioning Unix is relevant here. They should be given the opportunity to play and tinker with the devices, not only the preplanned path with games on the devices, that is all.
Classical computers also do things "at the quantum level"; CPU gates rely on quantum effects, probably the HDD does too, etc. But it doesn't prevent understanding because that computer part implements a simpler interface.

The brain probably isn't a quantum computer, or else we'd be able to factor integers quickly in our heads.
Thank you for stating what should be obvious.

I think there are two currently unsolved problems

1/ We have no idea what the reward function looks like that leads to AGI

2/ Deep networks are artificially constricted for computational efficiency and always optimized to solve the problem at hand;

Any solution that delivers AGI should rely imo on:

1/ reinforcement learning

2/ Happen with an unstructured reservoir of randomly connected neurons

There was a research trend towards reservoir computing and recurrent neural networks but this was mostly abandoned because progress in deep learning was amazing.

These techniques are akin to a 2D-plane in a 3D object, it's heavily simplified and circular references are prohibited.

I have some good ideas on what the reward function should look like in a reservoir setting and happy to discuss them with any active independent researcher in the field.
I still are worried by the possibility of a much more modern organism falling into a crevice and ending in a much deeper layer than its real time would grant. We need more answers here.
Yeah. I usually think that Americans have an insane tolerance for commuting, but 31 minutes per day is nothing! 15 minutes door-to-door to work is pretty fantastic — so fantastic that I too doubt that it's the average in the US northeast.

Does this average perhaps count people who aren't working as having zero commute?
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In your experience, what would be a better approach to dealing with “tightly-coupled concurrent state”? I mean, one that a “sufficiently smart compiler” can verify, not just hoping it works at runtime (as in C)?

One obvious approach is to de-parallelise the state (i.e. actor model) but that’s almost cheating (“we solved the problem by removing the problem”) and probably not appropriate for some applications that truly require concurrent state.

Also, are you aware of any codebase that I could take a look at, that is an example of concurrent state?
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FYI, "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen" seems to be widely translated as the English idiom "cracking a nut with a sledgehammer". Also, rarely seen but IMO much more amusing in the imagery it evokes, "breaking a butterfly on a [torture] wheel".
VW ships 3M cars per year

It's a lot more than that:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272050/worldwide-vehicle...
Stable storage mediums also work by refreshing data over time, eg DRAM. I can't think of one where data must be refreshed by moving it around physically, but surely there is one.
Well that’s not true. Let’s just look at game stores. It’s super fragmented because companies want to control everything.

They optimise for profit not end-user experience. On the other hand within the iOS ecosystem the store optimises for the end-user (more or less).

So enabling different stores will create a more fractured ecosystem. Something that hinders my experience. Why would I support this?

I’d only support it if:
* All apps from other stores are always in the App Store
* All apps still use the in-app payment functionality and not some 3rd party system that I’m not sure steals my data. I’m also okay if the apps are forced to use Apple Pay if they don’t want to use in-app purchase functionality.

With that said I don’t see how any of those can be enforced.

What is essentially going to happen is to lower the overall security of apps on the iOS platform.
Far fetched analogy; a woman laughs at your jokes to acknowledge that flirting is welcome, not as an involuntary response to your brilliant humour.

Does reading your documents really create value for others, or do you want them to validate and give your "more impact"?

You have to first make people curious about your ideas, or they will simply not care.
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I'm no expert on any of the selfdriving features (I still self-drive my 1984 Volkswagen with tlc) but from what I hear and see, Tesla is amongst the worst when it comes to selfdriving and e.g. Volvo or Volkwagen is way ahead.

Their marketing, however, is top notch, so whenever Tesla fails to deliver, people conclude that 'all selfdriving must be crap'.

Is there something called 'Law of inhibiting leadership'? In which an underperforming leader of a segment holds back the entire segment?
Boundaries are classic issues and often related to the definition of parameters like in this case.

Defining a time period with "not before" and "not after" means both ends are included.
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We should encode a message in their DNA that can't be evolved out. Think chirality. Something fundamental.

Maybe one day they'll evolve and get the message.
GitHub repo (Pascal 85.5%, C 13.3%).[0]

[0] https://github.com/Soldat/soldat
Hydrogen and time "enough" to reach general AI.
https://xkcd.com/1123/
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Dude, one gram of wax does for a year. I can’t imagine how awful doing half in one go would be.

It’s true though that concentrated sources like this make it technically possible to ingest amounts that weren’t feasible before, I suppose.
Nope, you're surreptitiously adding a righteous "the people will freely choose what suits them best" twist to the parent's post. That's a rich assumption, history proves that "the people" just want their shiny toy and will sheepishly accept whatever condition imposed by the manufacturer. Remember IE6?
This is a truly comprehensive blog post from Kian Nassiri, a Master thesis student, who wrote his thesis on this topic. It is very detailed, and well-presented. It's been a joy to read, and I wanted to share it with the HN community, because I know that data-intensive investigations are typically highly valued here.
It would relatively easily pass the constitutional court. The issue with the Mietpreisbremse was modifying existing ownership of land and buildings.

If you make new contracts to sell and develop land, as would happen in this case, you can put any clause you want in there. You could even make a contract that says the CEO of Deutsche Wohnen has to run around in a bunny costume over the Alex if they want to build on Tempelhofer Feld – they don’t have to sign, after all.
Why assume a consciousness requires a brain?

Why assume consciousness is necessarily linked and/or only a property of isolated individuals (vs a community, possibly multi-species)?

Do we define consciousness as awareness of
1 the general environment,
2 of the self as a distinct part of that environment,
3 of the (Freudian) ego as the self?

note that 2 & 3 especially make some pretty strong assumptions-- is it possible to separate something from environment (consider the impact of your microbiome), & for #3, is a person who has temporarily suspended ego (meditation, high-flow state, psychedelic drugs) conscious?

Former brain scientist speaking.
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> why am I digesting my food and not yours

haha :D

To take it a bit further, I am not sure if the first question makes a lot of sense either.
For visiting outside the city, you temporarily rent a vehicle outside the city, where space isn't a problem.

For moving heavy things: come on, how big of an impact on city traffic is this really?
Today, SAP exists so that SAP sales managers and, more importantly, SAP integration engineers, can earn lots of money. Oh, and the people who authorize the purchase of SAP, too: kickbacks and all that jazz, you know. Perhaps there were some other motivations, but today, that's mostly it.
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A new disease is hitting the US, the Chinese Flu. The biggest symptom is that you wake up in the morning with the urge to manufacture a smart phone.

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Ah the good year 2014, where a Chinese origin pandemic was simply a joke

Also, Lund means penis in my language, so there is that for a two-fer
Is there any public record anywhere of any auto manufacturer anywhere that is implementing or proposing to implement autonomous driving as a service? Isn't that almost an oxymoron?

If your self-driving system requires some centralised service to operate properly, it can hardly be fully autonomous under all conditions. How can it react immediately to an emergency situation if it's not running locally?

And if you're not talking about that but just ongoing development work and making updates available after the sale, there's nothing that means that has to be a mandatory service. Either the original version works properly or it doesn't (and in this case, if it doesn't, it shouldn't be allowed on the roads and the regulators should eat the vendors alive). Any subsequent updates that somehow improve the "quality" of the system could be made available at an extra charge, just like new products or new versions of software in a million other contexts, without any need for compulsory ongoing payments where the system stops working if the customer stops paying.
The 286 was a little before my time, although I did spend a lot of time in the early 90's hacking on a 8086. It is always amazing to me that even in the 80's, Unix used to be considered an astoundingly heavy handed OS. Now with it legacy mostly living on via Linux, it is considered the light weight alternative. Funny the path these things take.
So I recently started working in LE as an IT specialist. The biggest issue is that there's more criminals than there are LEOs/detectives. So often you have to choose between working a physical crime or a digital one. If someone gets robbed of $50 at gun point, that usually gets more attention than $600k stolen by hackers. The reason is that a robbery is deemed to have more impact on the victim.

So yes, not every crime gets investigated. No, it's not because they just don't feel like helping people.

Also, some people think there are different people working on these types crimes. But because every criminal has a phone, a lot of work in physical crimes is digital. Therefore the amount of people working on on digital crimes is small and they often work on really large cases, like Darknet markets etc.
Agreed, i hacked together something resembling a midi-sequencer UI in about 1000loc with JS+Vue.

I have an old editor written in Java/Swing that takes more and more willpower to work on every time because handling state update bugs is what i spend half my time on.
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If you are in the business of developing and running web applications there's a lot overlap between dev and ops in terms of knowledge. If you have to troubleshoot something you need to know HTTP Headers, CORS and related topics.

Who is in charge when the latest update of Chrome breaks your clients' websites? Wearing both hats certainly helped us fixing stuff easier by inserting headers through HAProxy although our regular job is programming.

What about performance optimization? Can that slow SQL query be fixed through tuning the MySQL server or maybe just rewrite the code?
The book's name is "L'archevêque de Cologne". Here's the link https://www.amazon.fr/dp/295155933X -- but it's in French...

It's also fiction (not a history book). I wanted to hear him talk. He's a horrible, but I think fascinating character.
You're not capturing all the expenses to car ownership:

Insurance
Fuel/charging
Excise tax
Parking
Maintenance
Cleaning

And most importantly, the hassel to deal with the above.
> So if one ups the dose and the liver processing is saturated a double dose can deliver much more punch than two single ones. The body has many non-linear features and extrapolating several orders of magnitude is often not possible.

Since we're talking about amphetamine here, this is actually the way Vyvanse works (it's bound to L-lysine and the liver splits it apart) and those nonlinearities are the reason it has such a longer effect life than Dexedrine/Adderall IR.

As an unfortunate side effect, you have to watch the pH of the meal you take it with, eg taking it with orange juice completely inactivates it.
> If Linus Torvalds was a teen today and there was no open PC standard, only a Mac, then it would not have been possible to create Linux the way it is today.

Torvalds didn't create Linux as a teen in his bedroom hacking on what he had. He created it at university studying operating systems. He would have created it on Raspberry Pi or some other platform.

Linux is widely deployed on x86 because x86 is available and open enough. It replaced Unix operating systems on dedicated architectures, like Solaris on SPARC.

> Sure Dell, HP and others could still make PC's, based on Intel or AMD CPU's or some ARM processor and then run Linux (or develop their own OS), but it's a hard sell

GNU/Linux was a hard sell in the beginning too. In the olden days, if you put Linux on a laptop you lost special features and you had very limited software support. Web pages were designed to work with IE only and you could only run Mozilla. Your major option for producing printable documents was special purpose programming languages like TeX or using Mozilla Composer. And good luck getting your winmodem/winprinter to do anything!

Today enough exists that you can buy hardware from companies that expect you to put Linux on them and then run them with full features and great intercompatibility. Your phone will be crap but it'll be good enough, and in ten years time it'll have a lot better features. Till then, if you want a great lowlight camera, buy a great lowlight camera.

The inversion of trust is a frustrating aspect of modern business, and it creates many social problems. But it isn't a technical barrier to oldschool hacking about.
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> I wish the expressiveness of tabular data representations was more obvious to more developers.

On the other hand, I wish spreadsheets exposed a more developer-friendly feature set. It wouldn't take much: a sane language for formulas, some form of procedure/subroutine functionality with document or sheet scope, separation of semantic content and graphics.

Part of what's infuriating about Excel is how it's a local optimum not too far away from an even better local optimum. I could see myself actually using spreadsheets more, even professionally, but those poor things are so badly misused it's nauseating.
Not bad! ;-)