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A collection of anecdotes on AI oddities
Because the fee isn't paid to them they don't notice or care.

Much of the "solutions" provided for apparent existing problems already exist. Some kind of analogy to the Dunning-Kreuger effect is going on - any problem I don't understand is simple.
I wonder how that's going to work for government security agencies. I remember at one point touring the Pentagon (many years ago) and them saying how they explicitly disallowed devices with cameras in certain areas. No idea if that's changed, but I could see Microsoft needing to have a separate security-version of the OS, or losing a lot of government clients.
And gets support for that rollback from a large majority of the community.

Given that level of community support, the same could happen in any PoW network.
Nope, the above still applies. That’s a software failure.

Of course that’s not an argument against improving Specs, but to do that they’d probably launch a new generation.
Free Event API
As of 2018-09-09 though:

> While Office 2013 and onward have full read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict, Microsoft has not yet implemented the strict non-transitional, or original standard, as the default file format yet due to remaining interoperability concerns.

From the very Wiki article you linked. I guess this means, that when you implement the standard to its fullest, you can still have issues opening MS Office documents, because they themselves do not adhere to the standard.
If they hadn't started collecting data, the age of their users would continue to be irrelevant.
> Your "possibly political" statement is conspiracy theory nonsense.

what does this mean exactly? could you (or anyone else who shares this sentiment) elaborate?
I completely fail to see how this "Validates your point".
With that in place, how can an interviewer discriminate against male candidates in order to hire a female developer?
It is a joke based on Aquinas' style of answering questions. He begins with a handful of "objections" that take the opposite position to the one he eventually lands on. To take a random example, "Whether a man is bound to give thanks to every benefactor?" (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q106.A3)
Wonder if they delegate the keystore to third party cloud services or that is one of those things they store in-house?
I am still on Win7 because I hate Win10 telemetry (MS tried to shove in 7 too, but in 7 it can be removed entirely, not just disabled).

Windows 11 is shaping itself to be extra-special regarding that, unless my workplace requires it I believe I will just stick with Linux after whatever reason happens force me to stop using Win7. My wife computer is already Linux-only, no dual-boot.
I runs a niche news site (not in English). Our traffic from search engine for keywords related to our niche isn't insignificant.
UK study with access to NHS patient records: Within 1,199,812 individuals with any acute COVID-19 code, 3327 individuals also had a recorded long COVID code, constituting 0.27% of COVID-19 cases.

Furthermore very few self-reports of long covid symptoms can be paired with a positive covid test.

How do you explain the difference in estimated prevalence of 'long covid'?

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.24.21259277v...
TBF, I'm bullish on Defi and crypto in general. A good argument against eth and dapps comes from "The Bitcoin Standard".

> As will become apparent from this exposition, the notion that a “blockchain technology” exists and can be deployed to solve any specific problems is highly dubious.

> It is unworkable for third‐party intermediaries to imagine they could improve their performance by employing a technology that sacrifices efficiency and speed precisely to remove third‐party intermediaries.

> Ethereum can be rolled back means that all blockchains smaller than Bitcoin's are effectively centralized databases under the control of their operators. It turns out code is not really law, because the operators of these contracts can override what the contract executes. Smart contracts have not replaced courts with code, but they have replaced courts with software developers with little experience, knowledge, or accountability in arbitrating.
Your conclusion misses the fact that those outraged people move the needle.

Studio Execs are very sensitive to outrage. It's part of the calculus.

Often, the outrage is perpetuated within the industry as well.

That said - Airplane would get made - they'd just adjust the jokes accordingly.

When they made Airplane, there were a lot of gags they didn't use because they just were 'too much' - or not funny.

So adjusting the content a bit is always something going on.

That said, the 'fear bar' is much, much lower for certain formats.

My canary for that is Tina Fey. And Judd Apatow. These are staunchly progressive people, but with serious comedy chops. They have been making some passive aggressive public statements lately with respect to this stuff, you can hear what they think on podcasts.

What we need is for Mel Brooks is to come back and save us. He's too old, but if he backed a Ben Stiller remake of 'Blazing Saddles' - I think it would be the funniest thing of the century.
The million dollar application is accounting systems like SAP etc. Where you have shares issued, the books, all incoming and outgoing transactions. And then every one of your partners is using a compatible system. In construction, a new building being built would be its own project that each firm interacts with. AP/AR/Inventory/Labor/Progress/ChangeManagement all in sync between all parties.

Autodesk will probably get there first, and everyone will pay to use a centralized system instead and then have to export the data to their legacy accounting system.

But, a group of collaborating firms, that still dont quite trust each other, or want to hide certain amounts of profit, are a use case.
cool, I'll check them out. I'm a bit wary of buying third-party controllers for any system, but if it's Hori, and $30 cheaper than the official Nintendo ones...
There are only so many seconds in a year, and if you know the PRNG and assume reasonable constraints for the password generator (length, symbols, numbers) you can iterate this space orders of magnitude faster than brute-force.

The proper way to do this for cryptographic purposes is use the RNG facility provided by the kernel, which mixes in local entropy. Or go directly to the CPU like Intel’s RDRAND instruction. But the kernel should be using this if it’s enabled.
Point is pretty much all democrasies do this and it's not only India(Not justifying). The fact that the OP had to come up with nations with population less than large Universities and tech companies as counter examples validates it.
Isolated VM is a decent way to use lower level v8, but replicating "fetch" and the other CF workers primitives is a big chunk of work: https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm

Deno is the best OSS out there for "faking" edge workers: https://deno.land/manual@v1.4.6/runtime/workers
"Welcome to our OOL!"
Implicit in the hypothesis, it seems to me, is the idea that the Roman Empire was the good and proper state of affairs, which its administrators could and should have maintained in perpetuity, if not for having had their brains pickled by lead.

As you point out, a whole lot of the Empire's subjects had a very different take on the matter.
The main issue is you generally want PRNGs, especially in terms of crypto, to be unpredictable. When you use something like the time, you've suddenly made the output VERY predictable.

In terms of a global password manager, it's extremely bad, you now can use things like "member since x" to guess a password. If, for example, a database with credentials are leaked, you've significantly shorted the amount of passwords that need to be brute forced for a given target (assuming you know what password manager software they are using)

A good approach would have been something as simple as adding the master password into the seed. (Master password + time). An even better approach would be using a more cryptographically secure random number from the system for either the whole thing or at very least for the seed. (On linux systems /dev/random). You certainly could combine all those approaches to make the password much harder to guess.
I really wish somebody would make a modern phone I could install netbsd on.
Most of those camera caps don't disable the mic though, which can also be problematic on its own...
They probably aren't willing to do outdoor work in the cicumstances, seeing as they have previously delayed a lot of gratification by spending time and money developing skills that now enable them to do work in an air-conditioned office in a field that they find intellectually stimulating, with good remuneration. If they hadn't made good use of the opportunities that life had presented them with, if they were dealt a bad hand in life, or if the developed world was plunged into a new dark age, then I'm sure they would be more than happy to till the earth, tend to livestock or perform tree surgery if that was what it took to avert starvation or penury.
You need an external list anyway just to keep track of where things moved around to across subscription services. I wouldn't mind the current segmented streaming market as much if the people that are selling their media rights around provider to provider would do any effort to guide your eyeballs to their work, but they don't seem to be incentivized to do that and would rather direct you to a buy/rent situation instead which makes the whole streaming subscription piece redundant. Right now nobody's running the job as the promoter where they do an end to end hype train, it feels like everyone's just leaning on passive advertising and waiting to sell media rights to the next group. With the direct to consumer digital media purchase option only becoming more prevalent it seems like the subscription movies are going to be in purgatory for a very long time.
To whet your appetite:

> " William Punch collaborated with physicists, applying digital
evolution to find lower energy configurations of carbon. The physicists had a well-vetted energy model for
between-carbon forces, which supplied the fitness function for evolutionary search. The motivation was to
find a novel low-energy buckyball-like structure. While the algorithm produced very low energy results, the
physicists were irritated because the algorithm had found a superposition of all the carbon atoms onto the
same point in space. “Why did your genetic algorithm violate the laws of physics?” they asked. “Why did
your physics model not catch that edge condition?” was the team’s response. The physicists patched the
model to prevent superposition and evolution was performed on the improved model. The result was
qualitatively similar: great low energy results that violated another physical law, revealing another edge
case in the simulator. At that point, the physicists ceased the collaboration."
Don't worry, the really obnoxious stuff will be part of teams, so no need to upgrade to get the experience at work
There are well-documented rising temperatures. TBH, it sounds like you've made up your mind and are unwilling to examine the mounds of evidence that exist to support that. This visualization from NASA directly contradicts any notion of a generational memory explanation:

https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine/

As a bonus, it also demonstrates that climate != weather. Even as the whole map is turning red, there's still a few cooler spots in any given year. There's just less and less.
I held my nose and then tried to breathe through a clenched fist and regulated the flow by clenching/releasing my fingers seems to work well
We're in the "feigning shock" stage of the climate disaster. Its where billions of people who've been being told about climate change for decades all pretend they had no idea. Exxon lobbiests are a useful distraction so no one has to think "well I was told this would happen when I was a kid and now I'm 50 and have voted against fixing it, it's happening".
Sorry, yes I know about the syntax. I'm just struggling with what exactly you would be plugging in. Like with respect to any of the example problems given, what would A and x and B be?
I think it has been over 10 years since I've seen a laptop without a webcam. Even the long dead "netbooks" had front facing cameras.
He wrote a lot about a variety of Big Topics in philosophy and theology, often getting things quite wrong, sometimes subtly, sometimes... less subtly. This has prompted much commentary, refutation, and further development toward better arguments.
I mean... is this a requirement for "Windows logo certified" laptops (they used to be a thing some years back, not sure if that is still the case), or will it be a requirement for the successful installation and functioning of Windows 11 on any laptop?

If the former, then I don't see the big fuss, but if the latter, then no thanks. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The evidence was most likely planted by the investigating government agency. This adds to the several cases of crackdown against dissent, activism and criticism against the government.
And they deserve it the same as any of us. We need to do the work so them having that same comfort we've enjoyed for over half a century doesn't destroy the environment further.
It's a matter of principle. Yes, the majority of laptops do have a front facing camera and that probably won't be an issue for the majority of consumers.

This is just an opening to put more and more biometric stuff into the OS itself. How will Windows 11 behave if I disable the camera via software? Will it just turn it back on? Will it throw an error or refuse to work if I tape over it? These implications are what actually concern me.
Nothing that I can stand behind and say, "this is the one". But you can start with looking up communication theory and then drive into each of the theories that are out there.

This one looks like a good intro https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Communication-Theory-Be...

And I read a much earlier edition of a book called "Gendered Lives" that had a big impact. Gender communication goes into how men and women communicate differently, why that might be, and it helped me understand other people a lot better. It made me feel less like a weirdo to know that everyone else is kinda the same :). Or, at least, that you're not alone in being the way that you are.
> are popular in telengana because of oppression by muslims

I am from Telangana. My grandfather was a card carrying Communist who was jailed by the Nizam's government for seditious activities.

Any pretense of Muslim hegemony ended in Hyderabad state after Operation Polo. That was 72 years ago. I have no idea what you're talking about.
> vaccine side effects always show up in the first two months

Uh, what are you talking about?

There are huge numbers of vaccine side effects that show up only many years later.

Many, many autoimmune issues are caused by vaccines.

Here's an entire textbook created by the not-crazy Wiley publishing firm, taught in medical schools around the country, about exactly this: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Vaccines+and+Autoimmunity-p-9781...

Stop spreading misinformation during a deadly pandemic, it's dangerous, and you're killing informed consent by lying to people about possible side effects.

To boot, even if what you said were true (which it's 100% false), then you'd be talking about an entirely different technology, that being, the various old categories of vaccines. These are entirely new vaccines with at least 3 brand spanking new medical technologies in them (if you count the LNP, which I think you have to).
There is a wide literature on this at this point. Please don’t make conclusive statements that also indicate you don’t have the faintest bit of background in what you are talking about.

At this point, this is not a complete black box, “novel virus.” There is a scientific understanding of the virus. There are known related viruses in the wild, just not anywhere near Wuhan.
There are multi-pathway paper trails linking this class of viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the people working there.

I don’t mean to be too harsh on you, the media environment around all this has been so bizarre, how various waves of suppression have ebbed and flowed. But if you’ve known where to look, are an independent thinker, not one who just repeats what the large media bullhorns are trumpeting, and can connect dots for yourself, there’s been discussion, discourse, evidence gathering of the very likely source of this virus since the beginning.
I thought the same, but my Rog Zephyrus doesn't have a webcam built in by default and it's available at big box stores.
part of me suspects this dearth of attacks could have been prevented had information security not been captured by leadership as a purchasing decision constrained by magic quadrants and trade magazine articles and instead were returned to IT as a technical process with audits by leadership.
Bitcoin is many things, but "good for the environment" has never been one of them. Staggering inefficiency has always been a fundamental part of the design. Back when it was a nerd curiosity nobody cared too much, but now that it is a major industry the pollution can no longer be overlooked.
Would the fork, accepting changes from upstream, also accept changes that originated from telemetry information?

I can imagine a principled stand which says the fork would not commit any changes driven or informed by telemetry data, though it is not clear how that could be done. Failing that, it sounds more like "don't track me, but I'm happy to benefit from those who are" (which is effectively the same situation as opting-out of the telemetry).
Seeding with the time makes the outputs predictable to an adversary. If your games are not moving real money based on your RNG (like online poker), you probably don't have any adversaries trying to guess your random numbers, so you're fine.

See here for an online poker game which actually had this flaw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207851
Stupidness of this requirement aside are there any laptops you can buy now days without front facing cameras?

Can't recall seeing any
In the old days at least we got something of value to society in exchange for pollution. Now we get nothing.
Like every engineering project, it boils down to pros and cons, it doesn't make sense to shoehorn blockchain into everything.

Do you need a decentralized, trustless, transparent and uncensorable system with adversarial participants and you can boil down your logic to a bunch of if/else conditions and some for-loops? Then blockchain probably makes sense and finance is the best use case so far.

But decentralization comes at a great cost, both in efficiency and actual costs. So do I want to train a ML model in a decentralized way? Probably not. Do I want to put my game on the blockchain where I relinquish any control? Probably not.

The hype means that people are trying to put blockchain into everything which in turn turns off a bunch of people because it doesn't make sense.
Thank you :)

You are absolutely right! Luna was our prototype with several issues – slow GUI, low compiler performance, and lack of extensibility. That's why we went into heads-down mode for almost 2 years to make a production version based on customer and user feedback. As a result:

1. Rendering Performance. We have created a custom WebGL-based vector shapes renderer which is really fast (we have tests of rendering over a million of points at 60 FPS on my MacBook): https://github.com/enso-org/ide/tree/develop/src/rust/ensogl

2. Computing Performance. We have rewritten the compiler from scratch. We used the GraalVM / Truffle framework under the hood as our core JIT framework, and we have added tons of custom optimizations on top of it (e.g. to efficiently support immutable memory, currying, etc). As the result, Enso is right now up to 80x faster than Python (benchmarks: https://github.com/enso-org/benchmarks).

3. Extensiblity. The new Enso is a fully polyglot language – it allows you to literally copy-and-paste code in Java, JavaScript, R, and Python (soon also Ruby, Scala, Kotlin, Rust, and C) directly into Enso nodes without the need to write any wrappers and with a close-to-zero performance overhead. You can even create closures in the visual environment and pass them as arguments to functions in e.g. JavaScript, which will call them with objects created in JS, which will be understood by the Enso nodes! See our videos and compiler section here to learn more: https://enso.org/language

Did I answer your questions? :)

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Thanks for catching the typo! Fixed :)
I have two issues with blockchain.

First, whenever I work with blockchain, I reach a point where I realize all my technical issues are because I chose that data structure.

The second is that outside of hype, your examples are remarkably poor uses for blockchain. Each can be solved more efficiently and effectively through better technology choices.
HN is a highly concentrated community of future-focused computing experts. You're right that it is also bearish about blockchain.

Which is more likely?

A) That thousands of progress-minded professional technologists are all wrong and ignorant, as you've suggested above...

Or...

B) That you are wrong, and there are people with huge financial incentives to pump up crypto platforms by misleading people about their capabilities

I'll ask you the same question I've been asking for 5 years without getting a good response:

What is a real pain that a dApp can solve better today than non-blockchain software?

Uber drivers auctioning their time is not one of them, because Uber drivers do want a benefit that's only possible with centralization: vetting/banning of passengers.
This is awesome.

Would love to see it featured in a "Launch" post, and perhaps featured more prominently as a permanent nav link.

IMO things like this bring balance back to HN being a place for thought exchange to spur creation - rather than just another reddit-like "let's react to the latest news URL posted".