skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear you're not familiar with Kurzweil's work in AI (or his background in general). He's written multiple books on the topic over multiple decades, including the seminal "The Singularity is Near". He's devoted his life to the study of this field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
I don't think this was a PR stunt. OF relies on the talent to bring viewers, so publicly signaling to your talent "your job here is not safe, you should explore other options" seems far too risky a move to make intentionally.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/lemon

lemon (n.2)

"worthless thing, disappointment, booby prize," 1909, American English slang; from lemon (n.1), perhaps via a criminal slang sense of "a person who is a loser, a simpleton," perhaps an image of someone a sharper can "suck the juice out of." A pool hall hustle was called a lemon game (1908); while to hand someone a lemon was British slang (1906) for "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one." Or it simply may be a metaphor for something which leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. Specific sense of "second-hand car in poor condition" is by 1931.

"You won't get a lemon… from Toyota of Orange." :-D
It seems like they intentionally throttle older models as a feature of the update.. They do it on their phones at least.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/how-to-make-iphone-faster_id...
Affordable but Marginalized
> - Put in a motherfucking scrollbar already.

You mean you want two scrollbars? One from the web page and one from the browser window. That seems like an odd choice.
I've been using Simple Note: https://simplenote.com/

It's good enough for me. I don't think I've ever used Evernote's advanced features because I'm too lazy to organize things into books. It seems like they have an Evernote Import feature?
Censorship is worse on YouTube. Think of how many affiliates YouTube/google/nbc has. I’d say more than Spotify. There’s a reason AM radio has more “extreme” content than FM radio. A wider audience means more people to appease; have to cater to the common denominator.
Yeah I know I stopped listening since the show went exclusive. I didn't listen to every single episode he did, but I did listen pretty regularly. I have not seen a single one since and don't really care to.

I won't get an account with a company just to hear what you have to say. If you require that, as far as I'm concerned your influence just waned a little. I'm steadfast and unflinching in this, it is a firm rule I have.
The audience here should know that where there is capability, there is abuse. Android and Windows are no exception.
When covid becomes endemic, (and it will) will you still feel that way?
Astroscale’s Elsa-D Successfully Demonstrates Repeated Magnetic Capture
> Nobody ever complained about the non-nativeness.

Noticed the same thing. Only devs care about "nativeness".
This is nothing new in terms of technology, ISPs have a legitimate reason to want to analyze traffic in that context. There is a fairly competitive market for software that ties it all together with DNS monitoring and metadata done through internet scans (Kentic, Deepfield).

The fact that ISPs are monetizing it and letting this data out of their control is utterly terrifying, and in the United States, specifically permitted by law.
imo this would only be relevant if there was no human verification or if apple as a whole went rogue
More contagious with the same relative lethality still leads to more dead and injured.
I think the problem is conflating being scientific with numerical. This paper is not very numerical, but is scientific. It lays out observations and a hypothesis that might explain those observations.
Right, but you were talking about "even if you don't have the Play Services on your phone", which is what I'm worried about - but OK, if it's just because there's a chance it might be running, then I'm not too afraid of that.
I know at least pmOS and Mobian have FDE.
Are you of the opinion that you can't get experience by reading books or watching youtube?

Do you think everything taught in an oral form (as opposed to hands on) is completely useless?

Are all military strategy books used by military academies a waste of time, since you can only learn by leading a real army?
What are some concrete use cases for this?
I'm curious to hear your thoughts about the layout on allaboutberlin.com. I built this website to be as pleasant as possible for the readers, but perhaps I've been staring at it for too long...
It fools humans only at the first glance. A few seconds later we make a correct assessement.

Typical CNNs miss this second stage.
Hah! I have to admit that I spent quite some time thinking about whether I wanted to use this or switch to a "real" language.

For all its shortcomings, I find that shell scripting is still the easiest way to put together a tool that needs to interact with a lot of other commands, no matter how large it ends up being. I love Python to death, but using `subprocess` for everything is the opposite of my idea of a good time.
I have never encountered a group as amenable to "Newspeak" as software developers. For example, note how many times developers describe things, including "startups", in terms of what they "are" rather than what they "do".
So is climate change real? Depending on the administration, you will get a different answer. My point is that if you start making it illegal to tell a lie, you may find yourself having to break the law or "tell the truth".

In my opinion, the bigger issue is that it is extremely profitable to amplify lies. As long as selling (faux?) outrage keeps the ads flowing, platforms are incentivized to amplify lies and push click-bait. Instead of of trying to outlaw lying, I'd prefer to tax digital advertising to try to make lying less profitable.
> Maybe look if data engineering is for you
At least in Bulgaria, lots of kids are now hospitalized with pneumonia from COVID-19, which wasn't the case until this month.
I thought it was obvious. Clearly it was not. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who has spent multiple decades researching this topic and has written multiple books on it. His bio speaks for itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
I wonder if you could hack that in with https://github.com/danielo515/TW5-contextPlugin ? I use it for this for backlinks.

ETA: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Customising%2520search%2520res...

Yup, totally doable
Your linked article is entirely about the phone. Do you have any sources about them intentionally throttling older computer models?
I mean yeah pretty much. We live in a world where you could sell a painting at a garage sale for $1 and someone could turn around and sell it for $10,000 the next day. That’s not any more “right” than a world where you morally and legally had to share any profits with where you bought it. I’d like to live in the more fair less cutthroat world thanks
A fresh install of Catalina was unusably slow on my 2010 Macbook pro (to say nothing of even trying Big Sur!). I had gone back and forth between MacOS and Linux on this machine over the years, and the Linux experience has been improving in comparison. Especially now that some apps are falling out of compatibility with High Sierra (the last version that ran acceptably on this hardware). And it's not as though you need to use a lightweight distro; regular Ubuntu works fine on old hardware. The focus on keeping everything lean and performant, while maintaining compatibility with older hardware, is a great advantage of modern linux distos.

Linux hasn't replaced my desktop workstation OS quite yet, but the last few years have definitely been "Year of the Linux Laptop" for me.
It is in keeping with the general theme of things.
The power connectors on that board are strange - it's almost ATX12VO but not quite. Does the motherboard come with the 24-to-4-pin adapter?

Assuming you need AC->DC an SFX power supply is probably your best option. It's hard to find generic power supplies that have power good, 5VSB, and remote PS_ON. The generic supplies of reasonable cost are almost certainly less efficient as well.
Absolutely! The whole handling of this pandemic is populist and political, not science and evidence based!
Why would the tech company need to provide managerial support if the CTO is also transitioning? It seems like the CTO and 4 SWEs could transition, hire local counsel to setup the entity, and hire an office manager to coordinate with the payroll provider, the landlord, etc. (all under the startup with the tech company merely making an intro to a competent lawyer).

Basically: get the ties cut as quickly and cleanly as possible if the goal is to get the startup to stand on its own two feet with the tech company becoming just a line item on the cap table after that. (The office manager would have to cheaper than staying tangled together.)

If that’s not the goal, perhaps leaving things as-is and extending the contract with the employees being billed at some markup is now okay.

If I were the startup and had a path toward growth and profitability, I’d want the transition to take 2 weeks for the majority and 2 months to complete, not 2 years.
yeah, that's what I thought the paper was arguing for, and got scared also :D
Ah sorry yes - my comment was made from an American/Canadian perspective - I know that other parts of the world have been significantly more progressive in the past.
Hi CerebralCerb,

I'm a co-founder of Appsmith. Thanks for trying us out.
Would love to know the problems you ran into while self-hosting? We are replacing the install script with a docker compose, so errors should reduce. My email is abhishek@ if you need help.
I downvoted you because it was clearly not a single lemon. There were two entire computer replacements, both of which also had issues.
I started on Mac in 2007, in 3 years I had 4 logic boards and hard drive failures. It was a White Macbook plastic edition. I was so impressed with the warranty in spite of the crappy heating issues, I later bought a Macbook Pro all metal edition. I got the 3 year warranty then and used it once when my logic board overheated. After that I held it for nearly 10 years until I replaced it last year.
> so the story here is (a) he got a lemon

Well isn't that misleading too?

The OP's experience includes two replacement computers, and the original "lemon" was replaced a little after two months after purchase.

Depending on how you want to look at the replacements, OP got a total of two, or maybe even three lemons, since the second replacement computer appears to have had its share of issues too.

Looking at the OP's issue history in the post, that seems to be a LOT of issues to have in that time span, no matter how good the AppleCare service is.
Now let's create one for the hash matching that Google, Microsoft, and other cloud providers use.

If your problem with Apple's proposal is the fact they do hash matching (rather than the system is run on your device), why is the criticism reserved for Apple instead of being directed at everyone who does hash matching to find CSAM? It seems like a lot of the backlash is because Apple is being open and honest about this process. I worry that this will teach companies that they need to hide this type of functionality in the future.
Yeah but if most people have services - I have three - then the most popular movies for that year will be on all the services almost. Endgame has been on all my services at some point over the last couple years. I've seen it probably 20+ times. Probably also the people who are most likely to want to watch Endgame have services.
Very impressive. Considerable competitor to some of the mapping programs available in GGPlot.
I did quit a defence company because they started working with a government I didn't want to work for. These things happen.

Then again, I find it strange to refuse working for your own government.
I use my own, simple CLI tool* (not only to track working hours, but also to track open source or hobby activiets). For many years I used Toggl, which is great and powerful - I just needed something that works offline.

[*] https://github.com/WojciechMula/timetracker
This site demonstrates no danger at all. Hash collisions like this are expected.

Anyone who claims this is evidence of danger either doesn’t understand how the system works, or is deliberately misleading people.
Former CEO of Palo Alto-Based Startup Headspin Charged with Securities Fraud
You don't need to clear trees and build roads for offshore wind. Nobody is denying that nuclear is concentrated. However, this concentration also misses one step - when calculating areal requirements you should also calculate land needed for waste disposal.
That's funny I recently upgraded a 2013 mbp and it's a bit faster now.
Yes, if the situation was completely different, then I would absolutely have completely different thoughts about the situation. I don't even have a problem with a civil lawsuit making a case that there is emotional distress. But the particular argument being made here is that the album cover constitutes child pornography and that the dollar bill portrays the infant as a sex worker. I'm not a lawyer, but that doesn't seem remotely plausible to me.
Oh yes, I agree. We will see a change in privacy policy before that happens. And Apple will lose a lot of us if that comes to pass.

For many years, it happened in the cloud. Soon it will happen on device and send a message about which item in the cloud is an issue.

I think it’s all about apple moving ML jobs (like Siri) to device to lighten the load on their datacenters.
Osmnx[0] is is one of the most interesting and academically complete packages I’ve come across!

[0]: https://github.com/gboeing/osmnx
I get what you are saying and appreciate it.

But when you are in a position to hire and there is no apparent benefit to hiring someone who wants more money vs someone with the same skills and relevant experience, why would you hire the person who wants more money?
> Cultures implicitly lay claim to information i.e. their cultural heritage, all the time.

They do? How do you "own" cultural heritage? It sounds like the first step before accusing others of cultural robbery when they wear their hair a certain way or have a tattoo.

I get the impression that anyone being in favor for that kind of thing hasn't thought it through. If your ethnic group can lay claim to some hairstyle, the dominant group automatically gets to claim all the stuff they introduced you to. It's a bad trade to get to decide who can wear dread locks, but have to give up all the benefits of modern society.
shhh... this is a thread for b*tching about problems, not actually doing anything about them ;)
Any notion of privacy is eliminated, if you can reasonably expect arbitrary photos to be selected and sent to apple for manual review (where selection could make up really any % of the photos you upload, and presumably you won’t be told which ones were flagged for review).

It’s getting a lot of attention because this trivially violates the last 5 years of apple marketing/branding, and as per usual, by depending on “won’t someone think of the children!” logic (which basically justifies anything and everything)
Worse than that - there are excellent reasons to oppose this system, but the debate is centered around misunderstandings and false claims rather than why the system is wrong. That’s not going to go well.
Thr optimiser in myself quails at the prospect of resource hungry crap like this being used.
This was actually the top story on the BBC Radio 1 news this afternoon. I'd never, not once, heard OnlyFans mentioned outside of niche internet communities before today. The "ban" was an excellent move by the marketing department.

I have a really bad feeling about further popularisation of porn, though. This is going to be so, so bad for society.
> We're supposed to ignore mortal insults.

What "mortal insults" are you regularly subjected to during the course of your job...?
Ask HN: What is the best stack to build a product that's easy to recruit for
Dear Hackernews! Currently in the corporate world, haven't been a developer for a few years as I'm currently in a senior business management role and I feel out of touch with the current state of technology. For various reasons I want to start tinker with a product idea on the side, mostly for fun but who knows how it will pan out in the end.

I'm looking for a technology stack that makes this process as simple as possible to get started with on my own but at the same time should be easy to recruit external resources in case I stumble over some funding for this project.

I've spent a considerable amount of time over the last couple of weeks deciding the best stack, and even installed a few but I keep getting distracted by all this nonsense (Laravel required an 1.5Gb installation of Docker in the name of "simplicity" and this was just to get started and the whole thing felt ridiculously bloated). It¨s been 10 years since I last touched PHP and I remember the speed to get started quite differently. I don¨t want to go back to a bare bone installation of PHP, I still want all the modern stuff with MVC frameworks, ORM¨s and front-end libraries. I just hoped it would've been, simpler...

I've looked at Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel as well as .NET Core and a few others, I've looked at TIOBE Index, Stack overfloew, various HN threads and other sources for input but the more I read the harder it is because clearly there's no silver bullet framework out there and all I want to do is get started with the hacking and feel a bit lost to be honest.

So please HN, help me out here, what tech stack would you recommend to get going? I just want something clutter free to build a web application with a cloud back-end. I'm not worried at all about picking up the programming language as long as it works on a MacBook.

Thanks!
It could flag you as a supporter of Free Hong Kong in China, women's rights in Afghanistan, or maybe just someone who likes gay porn in Russia.

Building these types of systems is antithetical to a free society.

Can you predict the US' political climate in twenty years' time? No? Then don't build this.
I assume you're referring to this part:

If the expectation of a superhuman AI takeover is built on five key assumptions that have no basis in evidence, then this idea is more akin to a religious belief — a myth

My problem is, even this is wrong. I do not find the "five key assumptions" he cites to be the foundation of beliefs that a dangerous "Superhuman AI" could emerge. So to me, this article simply fails right from the jump. The thing he is arguing for and/or against just don't, collectively, constitute a well-developed argument for the overall thesis. Not in my opinion anyway.

To go through them one by one:

Artificial intelligence is already getting smarter than us, at an exponential rate.

I don't know anybody making this claim, nor is it apparent that belief in this is necessary to think that dangerous "Superhuman AI" could be a problem in the future. I guess it comes down to what you think Kelly meant by "soon" in the preceding sentence.

We’ll make AIs into a general purpose intelligence, like our own.

It's the "like our own" part of this that I have a problem with. Yes, I think many people believe that we will create some manner of "general intelligence", but I also believe that a lot of researchers acknowledge that it may not be 100% "human like". But this may be my own bias showing, as I personally harp a lot on the importance of the distinction between "human level" intelligence and "human like" intelligence.

We can make human intelligence in silicon.

This is probably the most sound one of all, but here's the thing... saying "there is no evidence for this" is simply wrong. To hold to this is to completely ignore all progress made building AI in silicon to date. And while we don't yet have "general intelligence", I don't see how one can just ignore incremental progress completely and say "there's nothing there". I would argue that the null hypothesis should probably be that general intelligence on silicon is possible that that the burden of proof is on the people arguing the opposite.

Also, not everybody thinking about / working on AI is focused on the "in silicon" approach. The majority? Yes. But I'm sure there are a handful of people working on ideas related to DNA computing, chemical computing, growing synthetic brain matter, etc.

Intelligence can be expanded without limit.

To me, this may or not not be true, but it's completely irrelevant to the thesis at hand. The question isn't "can machine intelligence be unbounded?", but rather "can machine intelligence exceed human intelligence?"

Once we have exploding superintelligence it can solve most of our problems.

Again, this strikes me as mostly irrelevant to the question at hand.

So yes, this article raises some interesting points, but I don't see it accomplishing what it seems to purport to do.
Gravely in danger, for all 18+ (within the US at least) is a bit of a stretch.

You can find the current/last known address of nearly any registered voter with a simple Google search. I'm not exactly sure why or how, but you can.

There are also services, that aren't exactly expensive, in which you can buy the phone number or address of nearly everybody in the U.S.

If you think being able to triangulate and pinpoint the location of somebody via a dating app constitutes grave danger... Well, there are much graver dangers that can't be fixed by any $ bounty all around us.

I'm not trying to say that what happened with Bumble isn't bad, and it makes the company look somewhat foolish, but in 2021, finding the location of somebody in most developed countries, aside from your ultra secure OPSEC average HN user, is quite a simple task.
In my case, I used it to build an all-in-one tool for a local dev environment. It wraps all kinds of operations for starting/stopping things, extracting and modifying data, etc. while providing some useful tips when things go wrong.

At its core it's just interacting with existing software like docker-compose, git, and some internal tools, which I find is still much, much easier to do with shell scripting than "proper" languages.
A Maori corporation could "own" Maori data, as it would be Maori, owned by Maori.

It's obviously a racial thing, not about companies.
The backlash is because Apple differentiates on privacy. Users are understandably upset that Apple went back on their word and no longer puts user privacy first.
I think people are harsher over the intent more than the the hashing algorithm being used (it does exacerbate the problem, though)?
Humanity is an existence proof for human level AI, and it seems arrogant to assume that our brains are at the limit of what is possible.

Reproductive fitness requires many attributes which obviously compete with intelligence, and evolution is a blind hill-climbing search which cannot easily escape deep local minima.

To me it's obvious that the development of superhuman AI is inevitable assuming we don't wipe ourselves out before we have time to develop it.
make a constant water layer as a seperate process; this is a known pain point, land-use / land cover has some similar challenges
All we need a C++ build step to really achieve footgun criticality.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300234 which has the source article this points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Since the target image is chosen, this is a (second) preimage, not merely a collision.
And if 14 days isn't enough, it's 30 days when ordered online depending on the country.
Link disintermediation: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fac...
Sigh…
All these articles and demos are based on their old release, which is also emulated on onnxruntime. Who knows how they actually use it.

We should cool down a little and wait for the real system, before expecting anything from them. Let’s see then how bad it is, now we are just victims of speculation.