skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take your pick

- We won't achieve AGI because the goalposts will keep moving every 20 years. Everyone would have a stronger/higher definition of GI as we achieve each milestone.

- Possible doesn't mean it is feasible in finite time. Not all problems are feasible to compute. It could be akin to a NP-Hard problem for example, there is no mathematical certainty that convergence is possible and also in a reasonable time (within the life of the universe).

- It will be possible to build a machine to pass the Turing test, one that can very closely mimic human behaviour, each generation they would come closer and closer and no human can distinguish between the two, True AGI is well beyond that, we maybe able to create something like us, we may not be able to create something better than us.
There's nothing wrong with WiFi technology. The problem is the traffic is passing over someone else's network (the shared building WiFi).

If I were a corporation looking to hire a law firm, this would be a serious down-check for them, as I don't want the details of any cases they're handling for me exposed on a shared network.

This could also be considered weak protection of client-attorney communications, and get the state Bar Association involved.
Check the post again. We made a repo with a full end to end vulnerable app and POC
I never knew Halley’s Comet was heavier than 6e10 grizzly bears
LevelDB: https://github.com/google/leveldb
> organisms aren't driven by a single scheduler and a bunch of processes, why should an OS be

Sounds like neuromorphic computing, or clockless circuits in general. Really interesting stuff, I'm working on a programming language based on macro-expansion and dependency resolution with a scheduling model of "do everything as soon as you can, and not a moment sooner!"

Have you happened upon Andy Clark's book, Being There --
Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again ? It was very influential to me in how to think of computers as organisms that can process parallel stimulus.
Mesh WiFi is digital cancer. It is the ultimate in selfish asshole technology. Let me explain. Elsewhere in the thread others have touched on WiFi channels being a shared medium so I'll skip over that.

My neighbor has mesh WiFi. Correction - my neighbor THREE HOUSES OVER has mesh WiFi. How do I know this? Because his multiple access points show up in a scan with ridiculous output power, at nearly the same power as the AP in my own house. WiFi packet captures show these things are enormously chatty, constantly occupying the channels with management traffic to perform their mesh thing.

You want to live out in the country with no one around you for half a mile? Have at it. You live in a dense neighborhood with many APs where channel selection is limited? Fuck anyone and everyone that uses mesh WiFi in this situation. Literally everyone around you suffers so you can have your "very very low latency and super reliability". It's like lighting up a cigar in a crowded train car with no regard for anyone around you.
Spring has sprung: breaking down CVE-2022-22963/CVE-2022-22965)
Agree.

If the options are:

- kill more people to end the war and return wheat supply

- send more people to potentially die while killing more people to end the war and return the wheat supply

- or pay more to get wheat to where it needs to be to ensure other people don't die of starvation during this war.

I truly wish that the answer was:
- pay more people to get wheat where it needs to be
All programs, not just CS, have widely varying quality levels, probably leaning toward "bad", on average (there are a lot of colleges and universities in the US).

Fussell (and probably many others, but I've read him) blamed the rapid, great expansion of colleges and universities when the GI Bill injected a ton of money and eager new students into the system after WWII. He wrote that in 1983, but the system still seems to be reeling from that, and it may simply have stabilized (perhaps unavoidably, hard to say) at a much lower average quality level than before. Generally, institutions that existed before the war are still very good. Ones founded or converted (from, say, teaching colleges) after are much more hit-or-miss.
Consider the following scenarios from a Bayesian perspective:

- an outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city

- an outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city with a virus lab

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that is genetically similar to RaTG13 occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions and contains samples of RaTG13

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that is genetically similar to RaTG13 occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions and contains samples of RaTG13 and conducts gain of function research on coronaviruses collected from the wild

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that is genetically similar to RaTG13 and infects humans through the ACE2 receptor occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions and contains samples of RaTG13 and conducts gain of function research on coronaviruses collected from the wild, with the goal of creating viruses that can infect human cells through the ACE2 receptor

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that is genetically similar to RaTG13 and infects humans through the ACE2 receptor and has a furin cleavage site (not present in RaTG13, SARS, or other similar coronaviruses) occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions and contains samples of RaTG13 and conducts gain of function research on coronaviruses collected from the wild, with the goal of creating viruses that can infect human cells through the ACE2 receptor, and is funded by a group (EcoHealth) which has filed grant applications for research that attempts to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-like bat coronaviruses

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that is genetically similar to RaTG13 and infects humans through the ACE2 receptor and has a furin cleavage site (not present in RaTG13, SARS, or other similar coronaviruses) occurs in a city with a virus lab that studies coronaviruses under BSL-3 and BSL-2 conditions and contains samples of RaTG13 and conducts gain of function research on coronaviruses collected from the wild, with the goal of creating viruses that can infect human cells through the ACE2 receptor, and is funded by a group (EcoHealth) which has filed grant applications for research that attempts to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-like bat coronaviruses, and multiple years later no animal reservoir of this novel coronavirus has been found, despite the massive incentives for this. In fact they seemingly haven't even been able to fake it by infecting some wild animals deliberately and claiming that they found the zoonotic origin.

I could go on and on but I think you get my point
Eigen Tutorial (2013) [pdf]
> Amazon is complicit in shady behavior on their platform

Bought some wireless earbuds a while back, they sent me a horrible knock off. Contacted the store, he said the delivery guy made the switch, took forever but sent me new ones. Left a review stating all of this and warning users not to buy from this sketchy store, my review never saw the light of day.
Another study re: psychedelics and mental health:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-022-01301-9

"Repeated lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) reverses stress-induced anxiety-like behavior, cortical synaptogenesis deficits and serotonergic neurotransmission decline" (in mice)
Agreed, and that cheap chinese wheat would be a massive problem for US hegemony on which many, many things in the US and adjacent economies rest.
I think you would be surprised to learn that more developers love TypeScript than Python these days, according to one popular survey.[0]

All of this is subjective, of course. WASM isn't going to make Python the language of choice for browsers any time soon.

[0]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
Human ancestors evolved larger and larger brain sizes until they reached the limits of what we can calorically support and by what fits through the birth canal. It seems unlikely to me that these limits just happen to line up with general limits on intelligence. An AGI will be easier to scale further up without these biological limits.

(And even if those biological limits coincidentally lined up with general limits on intelligence, just the fact that AGIs will be able to duplicate themselves or share knowledge directly would itself be a huge practical increase to their intelligence over us.)
We finally have a fully complete human genome
"AltWinDirStat" could totally be a German town.
Wyden seems to be ahead of the loop on this kind of stuff - is he normally this far ahead of the game? My understanding is that he is basically the only person in congress that actually bothers to understand about these kind of threats but reading this article it seems he is even further ahead than I would have expected.
Don’t forget that it also was the catalyst for Executive Order 9066.
Because it's a just-so anecdote?
> I wouldn't say either side covered themselves in glory.

heh. that's mostly fair, though DARE waged a propaganda campaign entirely unmatched by teenage druggies, who are mostly just people trying to get by.
If cords are for old people, then I'm old. Everything in my house that has an ethernet jack on it is wired. I have two switches for everything and I live alone.
Hmm, yeah idk about the industrial agriculture market either. But a lot of the papers about these argue that this stuff is necessary to prevent climate change driven zoonotic diseases. So I guess the "market" would be governments. The lack of clear legal framework might stop some countries from trying this stuff out but probably not all of them.
Good job Randall and Boot didn't go on strike before they developed the magnetron.

British Leyland went bust about 16 years before I was born but the legacy lives on eh
Outside a national system/portal (wherein you can implement all the security you want) it doesn't seem solvable. You need law enforcement and the judiciary to sign on though, since actual fake warrants will be their next target.

The prospect if using certificate signed email is an unrealistic tech-nerd dream, the average rural law enforcement personal can barely use Word and has poor or no on-site IT staff. If it is harder to use than Gmail, you may have well forget it.

Could a centralized portal get hacked? Absolutely. But the security spend can be significantly higher, and entirely fictional police departments almost entirely eliminated.
This feels like an unreasonably nasty and condescending response to an article about how anyone can make mistakes in the moment. I thought it was a pretty good article about how easy it is to sit at your computer and look down at people who fall for scams, but that scams are effective precisely because they take advantage of mistakes and the fallibility of people - even knowledgable ones.

I feel like this comment misses the core thesis of the article - that condescension and expectations of human perfection are not effective ways to prevent social engineering attacks and that building systems that anticipate human error is a better approach.
Hey friend! Thanks for writing such a friendly, helpful reply.

You’re 100% right that I need a new bank. I spent more than an hour on the phone this morning with them and by the end, cryptocurrency was looking pretty good…

I’m going to do an experiment and actually take cash out of some different banks’ machines then check my account and see how much I actually paid. That’s a neat idea - if I don’t actually get charged the fees, that completely changes the game.

Thanks again - I enjoyed that a lot!!
If it has nothing to do with scale, then why doesn’t Serle us a realistic example of a vast room, why a book not a library, why a man not an army?

I’m bringing up scale because I’m pointing out how it’s being used.
Really liking the LisaFrank one
Yes, of course. Though most people who understand that are already doing things to mitigate exposing these devices to open internet access. My comment was targeted more towards anyone who might not have considered the risks, or might not be comfortable with virtual segmentation vs. physical segmentation.
ahh yeah, like this one:

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/docs/common/JackTrip.html

i wonder how well it works...

also, since we're going down memory lane, who remembers the album isdn by the future sound of london?

the name comes from the fact that they used hardware that was designed for musicians to jam over isdn digital calls (or more likely high latency high quality calls for audio distribution, given the state of audio codecs at the time), to produce the album across a large geographical area, if i remember right..
The author mentioned that (1) they have had many poor experiences with Wells Fargo and (2) they don't have much experience with Apple but the experiences they have had weren't positive. I personally have had to deal with my fair share of janky and badly designed support systems (especially in health and banking), sometimes they are worse than startups. So it's not outside the realm of possibility that giving the support rep the auth code was simply the best solution they could find given whatever poor and legacy systems they had in their backend.
> a car is making decisions with a trained cloud of intelligence that can't explain itself

Actually the AI is mostly just for object recognition, and the navigation and decision making are simple rules-based systems.
My money's on yes.
Thanks, it's appreciated. I'll give it a shot sometime.
Ah gotcha. I think there was one a few days back estio or something, I forget
I ssh into an insane desktop machine, which has a wired connection. Effectively, this is WiFi for the shell commands, and wired for the actual heavy lifting.
And yet, drug task forces seem to have no problem getting warrants pretty quick to search a car that is stopped.

“The system is broke” feels like a poor excuse for arbitrarily handing over all of someone’s data without notification
This seems like saying since a person's individual neurons can't understand Chinese, then a person can't actually understand Chinese either.
Few things in the security world:

- Blaming people for accidents is stupid. Throwing them into prison for accidents is even stupider.

- Proper security is designed in a way that people can make mistakes and it doesn't mean the end of the world.

Him knowing better about this isn't really a response to OP's initial comment of being against a lengthy prison sentence.

The prison sentence accomplishes absolutely nothing. You're just ruining a person's life as they were retiring and breaking a family apart. Makes no sense if this was indeed an accident.
I see this from people who expect that quantum computing will be an essential component of building AGI…

However a lot of these people are throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks when it comes to selling whatever quantum computing related tech or service they are working on. So it comes with a pile of skepticism from me. However the philosophical point of quantum computing being necessary if any of the “quantum dualist” type theories of consciousness turn out to be true.
They haven't figured out what spaces are. I have just been putting a space before and after the @ for years. No spam problems. My guess is that spaces are so prolific that having to parse out every space in a page and then whether they are near special characters or keywords just isn't worth the trouble.
The parent of this thread being is about systems languages and how GC languages are rarely the right tool.

Then your comment about having experience that the GC doesn't really matter in critical environments, which I personally find not to be true at all but am interested in which domain your comment is based on.

So please answer the original question.
Here's the link to the blog post about it

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/31/time-to-get-on-trend-f...
Well, one could imagine some small inconvenience if Gmail disappeared...
Sales tax in Florida (no income tax) is lower than California's.

Property tax rates are somewhat higher nominally in florida but homes in California are about 4x more expensive than Florida, so the total amount paid in taxes in Florida is much lower (both in total and relative to median income).

I don't think your comment is correct generally-- yes, the difference isn't quite as large as you might guess by looking at the bare rates but no income tax states still have significantly lower tax burdens.
“ The Secretary of State has authority to authorize and authorizes herself, obviously.”

I agree that according to EO quoted above this is true for declassifying information originally classified by the State Department. I would appreciate if you can point me to the laws/EO/… that authorizes Secretary of State to declassify the information originally classified by another government agency (e.g. CIA).

“ Here's a minimum viable authorization.”

Could you please provide pointers that confirm that some kind of authorization by Mr President took place? I would accept pointers to verbal quotes from either Mr President or Hillary. Bonus point - have this authorization happen before classified information was leaked to unauthorized personnel or systems.
Interestingly enough, the man who coined the term "AGI" (Ben Goertzel) has always shared that same skepticism about ML, Deep Learning, and other forms of "Narrow AI".
This seems like it’s positioned for a very specific use case, understanding obfuscated code. But it seems like the same capabilities could be exceedingly useful for a lot of more mundane code analysis tasks. Determining actual code paths accessed and possible types at runtime in JS is challenging even if you manually provide a lot of that information to eg TypeScript. Getting even confirmation of a subset of that information and additional insight into the dynamic superset from real runtime JIT analysis could be invaluable for understanding a codebase if it’s inscrutable, and even for designing static optimization tooling.
> Personally, I haven't (I hope that doesn't mean I'm the toxic person).

I wonder if that's because there are interviewing processes in place that weed these people out. Possibly even ones that have been standard for decades or longer?

> I think those people are rare enough that they can be filtered out at the very end of the process when there is already objective evidence that the candidate is competent.

This sounds like a real good way to open yourself up to legal liability for exactly the type of discrimination you are worried about. Even if there isn't any discrimination.

> I think they may even be best filtered out in a paied trial period with some kind of commitment to hire them unless there is a problem. That way the decision can also be made by the people who will work most closely with the candidate.

Suppose you hire a candidate who benefits from the interview process you describe (maybe the "deferred culture fit"?) You seem to mostly be concerned with non-white people, so let's assume they're that. In 2022, who wants to put themselves out there and accuse a non-white person of creating problems in a progressive workplace? Nobody, that's who.

> I'm against the idea of testing for cultural fit because I think that leads to less diversity (including less diversity of thought and opinion) which I believe is harmful for teams. I think we work best together with people who are different from us, as long as we are still nice and respectful to each other.

I'm against the idea of assuming that anybody who isn't a "straight, white, Christian male" is going to be discriminated against at every turn during the hiring process. ESPECIALLY not in Silicon Valley or NYC.

Somehow everybody in these coastal cities is highly aware of and sensitive to ism/phobia, and still very ist/phobe.
> Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had urged Fauci privately to vigorously investigate both the lab and natural hypotheses. He was then excluded from the ensuing discussions—learning only later that they’d even occurred. “Their goal was to have a single narrative,” Redfield told Vanity Fair.

Wow
The White Darkness: A solitary journey across Antarctica (2018)
I think it's important that we don't, in under any circumstances seek punishment here (if there are culprits). This is too politically charged and complex for that. But we can work to make sure this doesn't happen again (it could be worse next time).
Show HN: I Set Up Git
Why can’t you “pull data real quick”?
Archived: https://archive.ph/HRotg
100 Rabbits – Philosophy
i wish it was permanents
Wire is pretty good as far as chat apps go. But for discoverability it's gonna require either an email or phone number I think.

But if email is an option, why not just spend the 10 seconds it takes to open a new gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc account?
Politicians assume that their constituents with children are going to prioritize cigarettes, booze and drugs over food, clothing, and school supplies. Family values. Oh, and not working.
Journalists aren't supposed to take what a "whistleblower" says at face value. If Krebs were a journalist at the NYTimes, for example, they would've done a lot of background research to corroborate the insider's story before publishing the quote. And then either would not have run it or at least have been clear about how little he knows about the "whistleblower".

And the bigger issue is, once the truth came out, he should've done a retraction and discussed what he knows about "Adam" and how he was likely the hacker who did the extortion.
There’s no way you can believe that’s a good indicator of real housing supply.
My main gripe about AGI is that everyone assumes a general intelligence will somehow be able to self optimize towards a more and more improved state never reaching a plateau. I think it's much more likely that the optimization landscape when searching for "higher intelligence" is full of local optima and does not have these "singularity" style ramps towards infinite intelligence that any self optimizing system could just discover and ride toward infinity.

There are millions(?) of human researchers (and orders of magnitude more computers) doing gradient free optimization through their research in this direction, and the progress is painfully slow, I know because I'm one of them. There are billions of years of optimization (evolution) towards this goal, and a total of (1) species has achieved any kind of notable intelligence. We are collectively giant parallelized optimization.

We already have "AGI" orders of magnitude more capable than any single human in the form of billions of people networked through the internet searching for fulfillment, money, power, fame, etc. for the next big discovery or supporting this effort by providing everything the entire global "machine" needs to run. The idea one little box running the right program can have access to the energy to beat this effort and exponentially improve things seems laughable in comparison.

The global "AGI" formed by all of us, the internet, and computers, is more likely to destroy society in the next 20 years in some catastrophic event than some paperclip machine.
It's not clear how that handles local functions that are redefined or that have multiple definition sites.
I’m not especially well versed, but as I understand it they believe we don’t know the essence of the non material part and in fact it being unknowable is sort of the point.

This sort of reminds me of the people who claim the Big Bang is incoherent because we don’t know what came before it. Why is I don’t know not good enough?
P-51 mustang was delivered from scratch to England in just 102 days.