skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they really mean is that a hypothetical (read: fictional) superintelligent agent cannot be contained by computation alone. This argument is philosophical, rather than a proof from theory of computing.

As the paper notes, this has long been a trope in AI science fiction. The superintelligent AI is separated from society in a non-networked sandbox. Humans give it questions and data, then manually take the answers back. Except the plot is that somehow, the AI escapes the sandbox.
While there are some decent points in this post, it ignores another possibility for why Zillow Offers got shut down.

The first explanation, when it was just being paused, was that there was a shortage of labor and materials to do the renovating. Probably true, but not the real reason. It is entirely possible that the second explanation, that it was too hard to model accurately the price 6 months out, is also true but not the real reason.

The real reason might be something the Zillow CEO doesn't want to say out loud. Like, we are near a top in house prices, and it looks like it might fall a lot, or for a long time, or both, before we get back to reasonable house prices that have a chance of going up again. Zillow does not want to say "real estate is about to bust, as an investment strategy", because they are still tied to the real estate market. But, flawed as their analysis might have been, they might have been able to see enough to know that no matter how good their algorithm could be made, they're not going to be able to buy low and sell high if the prices keep falling.

Now, maybe Zillow is wrong again, and housing is not in for a rough ride in the very near future. But maybe they're not wrong, and shutting down Zillow Offers (rather than fixing it) will look like a quite prudent move in a year's time.
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Both are about as bad. No matter how high you clock it and how good your RAM is, a Cortex-A53 is still an A53.
This title is quite editorialized. The whole controversy is over whether these are human rights organizations as this website claims, or terrorist groups as the Israeli government claims.

It should not be a surprise that the NSO group, as an Israeli company, is working against groups that the Israeli government considers to be terrorists.
10A doesn't address health issues, nevertheless these specific responsibilities. What the 10A does is lay out the boundaries of state independence. What 10A does not do is nullify the Supremacy Clause; states can not overrule US Gov law.

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A stock buyback is a good example of how a centralized entity can control value of a stock relative to some other entity. It’s not the only thing that gives it value, but it’s a tool for value control, like issuing new shares. Crypto lacks this mechanism.
I was not planning on meeting him - but we sat next to each other on the train. The previous time that I had seen him was a decade prior when he bought my modified N-Gage.
Just under 600 euros a month, without public services or safety nets.
> but genetic testing is used extenstively and effectually by functional medicine practictioners every day

You mean this functional medicine? Or are you using the term in a different way?

> Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments.

> It has been described as pseudoscience,[5] quackery,[6] and at its essence a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine
Yep, but that's not spez.
And how google allowed it to happen. Even after they said they are opposed to the behavior.
The excerpt of Paul Lansky's recording used for Idioteque was my phone ringtone in the late '2000s.

It's funny because the isolated sound fades in. It doesn't sound like the pulsating beats that go along with it .
Makes sense to me, I don't want to be beholden to whatever experimentation California, New York, or Florida (as examples) chooses to impose on themselves.
What a cynical message. What a letdown to prospective entrants to the Distinguished Order of Idealistic Discoverers to be told by a gatekeeper, "Psst.. this Order sucks and nobody discovers or accomplishes much."

I was stirred to write a post about the message here and what I believe the message should be. https://telegra.ph/On-Cynicism-11-08
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> This is really a form of compression, not normalization.

First of all, the index hashes of the emails depend on the email strings, hence the indexed original schema is not normalised.

Secondly, it would not effectively be compression unless there were in fact dependencies in the data. But we can make many fair assumptions about the statistical dependencies. For example, certain emails/ips occur together more often than others, and so on. In so far as our assumptions of these dependencies are correct, normalisation gives us all the usual benefits.
Of course you're right and I meant American Public libraries; I imagine Chabad-Lubavitch Library would probably lead to a different system. And the time I was referring was the time of Melvil Dewey, although I imagine not much would have changed by Thomas Dewey's time :)
End-to-end encrypted backups? Like this, for example (I personally don't trust the HSMs/password scheme, but it's optional): https://engineering.fb.com/2021/09/10/security/whatsapp-e2ee...

True P2P on iOS: No idea, I merely claimed that a lack of backup options is not the reason we don't have it.
The way this works is that if you're in a highly competitive market where all the products are equally capable and one of them is at all easier to use, that one wins. Then people get the impression that everyone is a dunce because the slightest inconvenience causes them to give up and use something else.

But then you come to something where there is only one way to do that thing, or the competition has some countervailing disadvantage, and suddenly Bob from accounts knows how to use AS/400.
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I can’t help but notice it’s always engineers writing these articles.

Why aren’t managers or directors writing about their views on this?
It must have been in the early 1990s. I think they were living in CA at the time, but it might have been AZ.
Go is much, much easier to learn than Rust (Rust is pretty easy if you're already a C++ programmer, though). They're both fine languages.
> Following the failure to renew, the domain then went into a grace period but when that expired too, it appears to have been removed from DNS records.
How? There's no restriction on buying from the NSO Group, I'm unaware of there being any restriction on using US banks. The Entity List just bars exports of certain items to that company. What US good are they dependent on?
http://web.archive.org/web/20211108075421/https://www.econom...
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The other jumpers were, so that's a pretty safe assumption.
Pass a law then.
It's entirely likely I will one day hit a false positive.

I've been on the hiring team for every employer I've had for the last 15 years and have hired dozens of people.
The GP's comment is about what the employer does next. So, you as an employee inform the workplace that you're sick, as is required. Can the workplace now contact your (off-duty) colleagues to ask if someone can take over your shift? I would say that is a reasonable thing for an employer to do when faced with a scheduling emergency.
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I think it's because reddits user base has significantly decreased in age. I have been using it since late 2012, which even then I felt like a late adopter. The content on Reddit back then was like a more ”normie" version of HN and slashdot. It had good articles consistently with maybe 1 or 2 default meme subreddits. Then Reddit started cutting down content it didn't like and now it's just a leftwing cesspool of antisocial, antiwork rhetoric. It's not even worth posting or commenting because if your comment veers slightly off course, instant downvotes. Not to mention the monetizing of posts with stickers. It's just turned into out of touch people who glorify mental illness imo.
You asked for public policy that favors Jews.

This one favors them but is not targeted to American Jews rather Israelis.

Boycotting Israel is not about telling funny stories about Jews. I suggest you read a little about why the boycott exists in the first place if you truly want to know.

I had no idea Israelis thousands of miles away are considered minorities in states like Texas and Georgia and many others.

There is also a restriction on working for the state that you must not boycott Israel.

This is as clear as day that its a violation of free speech by gov actors.
This is a product of socialism without protections. Put simply, you have high taxes to redistribute wealth. Unfortunately, the government takes their cut. As government becomes increasingly large / naturally corrupt that cut becomes larger.

The wealthy can leave and gain more else-where and many leave. Increasing the burden. If you don't have heavy border controls, people who are less advantaged move to the country to gain from the social system. You'll also have remote workers move into cities because it is cheaper than their home region. This drives up costs in cities, but isn't enough tax revenue to offset the loss in wealthy people leaving, as it's highly focused. You'll also have people investing and buying property, which also drives up the costs.

At the end of the day, if you want to improve life, you have to focus on

(a) strict immigration policies (reducing pressure from immigrants)

(b) strict import controls (raising internal wages)

(c) reduce social system, focus on citizens and potentially reduce general services

(d) reduce taxes on income, land and sales

(e) increase import taxes and potentially tax on foreigners

If you do the above, it'll reduce the burden on the individuals and protect & improve the internal labor market.
I don't have an iPhone, but does it have overlays for things like password managers?

Android definitely does, and I assume the same research around guessing text input would apply.
I think it's probably rarely the case that static analysis beats GC, and this "static beats dynamic" rule probably doesn't generalize as well as you think it does.
TIL gopher still exists
If it wasn't a vise investment, publishers and developers of AAA titles wouldn't invest in it. But they do.
> They don't. Sending a Police Riot control unit against a group of people throwing stones and molotovs does not qualify as being terrorized.

But sending an army unit with an order "break the village" which results in shock grenades being dropped into a cradle with the baby inside does qualify them as being terrorized.

Note: I'm Israeli and was working with people who got those orders and carried them out during their service.
This rings true especially for people in senior positions. The higher you go, the less the technology matters, and soft skills become more valuable. Is mentoring a junior dev more about the specific language, or the ability to communicate and guide someone?
Why do we even lump together FAANGS and compare them to tech companies of that era? Sure, some of them have products (devices, applications, and operating systems) but many are primarily service providers who mostly need tech to function. To my eye, the social stagnation will come from the part of those conglomerates which is more in line with the big media, marketing, and info brokers of the same era. Do most of us even know who those companies were?
> The requirement that people come to your company knowing how to use piss easy baby tools is an extremely dumb and lazy hiring practice.

Sounds angry to me!
Mind sharing some references to some explicit changes that occur?
> What are they going to do, tweet that you have an inadequate SPF record?

Heh, well, given that I run an e-mail hardening platform, our customers rely on our consulting on how to (amongst other techniques) set an adequate SPF record. So, in my specific case, this would actually be bad publicity.

But what I meant was that for serious security issues, white hat hackers often do a writeup, as part of the public incident report. These often contain timelines. If it contains "contacted security@company.com, but got no response", this will make you look bad. This is what I meant with the reputation risk.
Hopefully it is remembered that MIT had everything to do with it and people should go to other schools and stop supporting the corporate fascists at mit.
That says nothing of the number of projects I have seen.

And note that I am not anti these languages. Just acking that there is plenty of experience on both isles.
I manage a fleet of macs. I have not seen any issues like that. I'd ask what your friends are doing to their computers to be seeing such a disproportionate amount of hardware issues.
ITT: Israeli shills in full force.
I understand and respect your motive for saying that telegram has no encryption. At the same time I cannot stop hating you for improper use of words.

I wish there was a simple and catchy word for describing a "vulnerable to the government" encryption
I don't know exactly how it works, but I know notifications are their own separate concept that gets handled by the system and doesn't require the app to be running arbitrary code in the background

There is also the "allow background activity" permission though, which I'm not sure the bounds of, but you can disable it
How many skydives out of twins using this procedure or similar?
Oh wow, didn't see that. How did nobody notice...

Well there should still be a redemption and "pending delete" period [0]. I believe the original owner can still reclaim during those.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/glossary/expired-dom...
> Of course immediately raises the question why one should use QKD at all

+1. Last I recall, AES is for the most part extremely resilient to attacks by quantum computers. It's RSA that drops dead.
> What I do not see is where these specific responsibilities are laid out and clearly delegated to the states

Let me help you with this:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/full...
Zillow is just an aggregate typically MLS data. Sure it can probably have some influence via it's Zestimate product, but that's not what failed. Anecdotally 1/4 of the folks in my neighborhood currently have a for sale sign in their yard because of the price increases. I'm not sure where this upward pressure is coming from, but I fear another 2008.
It will never happen and I don't want it to happen.

Early 2000s internet = Flash ads, Internet Explorer, dotcom bubble, popups, ... Yeah right, great time... At least, DSL/cable was an upgrade from dial-up.

Pick any time in the history of the internet, and you can find something wrong. Eternal September was in 1993, I think it marks the start of the "old internet was better" times.

Personally, say all you want about social media and the evil tech giants, but for me, every year, the internet becomes bigger and more useful, and the traces of the "good old times", whatever you want them to be, are still there.
Mildly facetious but you might have a tough time getting a computer with that configuration to do anything at all. For instance, consuming even a modicum of energy that might otherwise be diverted to a human in dire need might be rationally perceived by the computer as “harming humanity”.
Rising interest rates will be a drag on the market. It’s clear those will eventually come, but maybe not for five years.

Pundits have called 23 (or more) of the last 2 housing market drops.
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What if AI played the long game and manipulated the answers given to humans over time so they came to believe it was safe to release the AI?
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Internet people are usually a lot angrier than real world people. Hard to explain but they always seem a bundle of neuroticism and mental pathologies. HN is no exception.

I find that when I participate I also start mimicking this behavior and insulation is required.

Fortunately, nothing happened to small talk. I’m a talkative fellow and people still react cheerfully and converse with me. One can only suppose that everyone who hates this went online.
Sort of agree, but not entirely. I think it's reasonable to require some limited years of experience in the core tech. I think it's too common to see an unreasonable number of years required, or an unreasonable number of technologies known.
Adam Smith wrote the state must protect equality of condition on similar grounds.

The origin of higher education is partly rooted in selling secular credentials the public was too ignorant to falsify, as science began falsifying fairytale.

We keep circling around payola for landlords and manual labor for the rest.

This isn’t exactly new.
There's huge amounts of low-level systems code written in Go; for example, gVisor reimplements most of the Linux kernel in userland. Go is also the dominant language of the container ecosystem.

You're unlikely to see Go kernel modules any time soon, so if kernel hacking is where you want to to, Rust is definitely the right way to get there.
The emails were forwarded to "support@codefusion.technology"
The joke here, is that it was is activism against corporate secrecy that got him into serious trouble and led probably to his eventual suicide.

What I mean is that everyday "free speech" in the legal sense is already curtailed (and accepted to be so) by various other concerns.
"They have to, otherwise they wouldn't work."

If you want to give some specific example, go ahead, but as is the statement is nonsensical.

You can kill insects and pests with a neurochemical. Or you can put sharp rocks (diatomaceous earth) and traps to do the same, albeit with more labor and less efficacy. Are you sincerely arguing that these must be the same? That an organic burger has rat traps in it?

This same insincere argument appears in every discussion about organic practices. A sort of hand wavy "it's all the same". No, it isn't all the same. Farming has been pushed to the level of extraordinary efficiency -- as mentioned, conventional farms are basically gross factories, having nothing to do with "nature" -- and to do this the practice is massive applications of pretty nasty chemicals. Not many organic farms operate in such a manner.
Nah he's mocking the crap out of them.
Part of this is just the professionalization (bureaucratization) of research. Maybe in the future more independently wealthy people will simply do science for fun.
I noticed a very peculiar thing with copilot.

I was writing a twitter api wrapper and had hardcoded access token for a test user. Copilot when testing a function that requires a user id suggested one. I searched the id and it belonged to my test user. I searched my entire codebase but couldn't find any place I had used the particular id. The only place it could have extracted it from would have been access token which has user id as part of the string(which I hadn't noticed before this). Either this is a common code pattern or I don't know how to process this.
Being on call is a thing and it should be compensated.

Expecting employees to be on call 24/7/365 however should definitely not be a thing.
What do you mean? All you have to do is close Slack / log out of it or turn on DnD. All of your messages will be sitting there waiting for when you open it next time.
Refreshing just HN probably doesn't take too many resources.
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> CCTV reported that Beijing Municipal National Security Bureau found data-sharing poses a security threat to military aircraft.

FlightRadar24 (and indeed any flight "radar" that consumers have access to) relies on ADS-B data, which is transmitted by the planes themselves. Any sensitive military aircraft would (should) not be transmitting this data, and so would not show up on these services.
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> Organic herbicides and pesticides contain the same constituent chemicals as their conventional counterparts.

Care to tell us the chemical composition of modern pesticides from say... Monsanto?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/29/pesticides-e...

> In a landmark ruling in August last year, Monsanto was found liable for causing a school groundskeeper’s cancer through exposure to Roundup, the company’s leading pesticide. Earlier this month, in a later case, Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $2bn to a couple that got cancer after using its weedkiller. Roundup, a glyphosate-based, organophosphate weedkiller, is one of, if not the most widely-used pesticides in the world. A formal review of glyphosate by the EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released this month found some statistically significant links to certain cancers, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
"This argument is philosophical"

The actual philosophers do not agree. This viewpoint has been laughed out of the room since the 1980s. Go read some Brandom.

Philosophy is not a fancy word for "hypothetical." Science was invented by philosophy, and philosophy has stricter standards, not looser, than the rest of science.

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> Except the plot is that somehow, the AI escapes the sandbox.

Better science fiction already laughed this out of the room, too.

As Larry Niven would say, "you need glands to be a person."