skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the same argument. There's nothing that assures us automation itself is an unbounded exponential.
I'm not exactly sure how what you said contradicts my comment. Threats from families are "in addition to," not "instead of."
That’s essentially what Google does. The outside-most network is not a security boundary.
Wi-Fi is surprisingly bad. Sitting less than 10 feet from my access point (802.11ax) with a clear line of sight, my ping to Google.com varies from 7.4 ms to 88.6 ms. SSH-ed into my router, which is connected directly to Comcast fiber, it varies from 5.74 ms to 5.83 ms (less than 90 microseconds jitter).

Wi-Fi is a shared medium in a crowded and noisy spectrum environment. I can see a dozen networks from my house, and I'm in a (dense) neighborhood of single family homes--it's much worse in a high rise office building. It can have decent bandwidth (almost a gigabit when it gets going) but reliability, latency, and jitter are bad.
The code itself isn’t the only risk factor; it’s weighted by others, like discoverability, which are asymmetric in time. If the white hats fix an issue in version n+1, they’re going to make sure people know. If black hats (or normal devs making a mistake) introduce an issue, no one will tell you about it.

I.e. even if both strategies win just as often, min-version pulls ahead by taking less of a hit from losses.
The article seemed to go out of its way not to mention any specific package manager or ecosystem. So I think comparing to Rust is completely reasonable.
Following to the original Reuters article

The figures include sales of apps, in-app purchase and *app store ads*.

I would also prefer that Google have more tolerable support for publishers (and users), but it looks like those at the helm might be thinking it's irresponsible to see publishers as important customers. The publishers are not the ones providing the vast majority of the revenue - that seems to be advertiser.

The attention economy is addictive for those pushing it as well.
Dual meaning two, right? Material and non material. As far as I can tell not one of them can describe what the second non material thing in dualism is, or what any of its properties are. Even they seem to have no idea what they actually believe.
My social anxiety prevents things like this, I never pick up the phone or willingly chat with someone for longer than a minute.
I was thinking much the same as I wrote it, but didn't want to overburden an already long comment. Here though, I'll say that large cattle consume about 30 calories for each single calorie their meat will provide. Poultry seem more like 10 to 1.

I'll own up to some level of hypocrisy on this as I am not a vegetarian, but I also won't complain much if further population growth makes meat consumption unsustainable when it means people starve. (I don't think we're there yet: world hunger right now seems to be more about other factors, economical and otherwise. I'm open to opposing viewpoints on it though)
I don't think it's right to suggest that an absolute level of generality would be necessary for that kind of self-improvement.

If we assume a future where humans are able to create a human-level AI, then it would have at least two substantial advantages over us:

* It would probably have substantially more insight into how its "brain" works than we have of ours, because it would know how we created it. This suggests it could at least make small improvements.

* Unlike our relatively fixed brains, it would be able to remake itself over and over, either very quickly, or at least over comparatively vast timescales.

The obvious conclusion from those two factors is that it would likely be able to start at human-level, but rapidly accelerate up a curve and go far beyond our intellect in probably a lot less time than it took for evolution to come up with us.
Is there any way to hack the firmware on a Wyze cam so it can be used as a camera accessible through local intranet?

Hmm, this looks promising https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
> If you’re not convinced, just look at the empty highways at night.

This part threw me off because it seemed to contradict your argument. But I’ll try to get past that.

What your saying here is that demand for roads will always be fixed at X cars per minute between 7am to 9am, for example. So if a road between a city and a suburb was built to handle 1.5 * X cars per minute, then there would be no traffic jam between the two places from 7am to 9am.

But that’s assuming this new capacity won’t encourage city dwellers to move out into the suburb especially if the latter is cheaper, has more access to greenery, etc.

In addition, there could be commuters who, realizing that said road now has greater capacity, will start commuting within the 8am-9am period instead of earlier/later because it’s more convenient.

In both cases, wouldn’t that, in effect, be a case of induced demand?
> I don't have firsthand knowledge but I would guess there are ~0 high paying jobs for APL programmers.

Apparently some APL-influenced languages are used in finance/quant applications and can pay very well. Though even there Python is also in active use.
My daily is also an 88. It's running very standard Bosch of that era. At some point I took my 93 (same model) and swapped it with newer fuel management, ecu, etc out of a 2005 Saab. Same valve cover allows you to the stock coils and setup, a timing sensor solves that, and boom, good to go.

Well sorta, turns out the 88 is far more reliable and consistent - except for a few hard to find parts... namely the distributor is a total piece of crap after that many years... and it's not very efficient. I get 50% more performance and 50% more gas milage on the uprated one.

Difference in reliability is probably... once every 25k versus once every 50k though.

Those bosch systems were all over volvo, saab, porsche, VW, Audi, etc and are dead reliable but not very hackable.
If you have direct reports, ask yourself as to what you can do to better prepare them for life after FAANG, in terms of career development, opportunity, etc.; from that, you'll distill your own answer.
If you end buying the product wireshark can capture USB data and then you'll be able to see exactly what data is sent to it when you use their flash util. On windows you'll need to also install USBPcap to capture USB traffic, but if I remember correctly it is bundled with wireshark and just unchecked by default.

Otherwise you might try binwalk with the --disasm option (you'll need capstone installed for it to work) then it will attempt to search files for assembly for any of wide range of processors (obviously would fail if the firmware is encrypted, but I doubt a cheap product like this would bother). I'll also just briefly say that even though RCDATA is microsoft's recommended way to embed a file into an executable I've seen plenty of software that embeds files in other creative ways, so I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the firmware is somewhere else in the executable, binwalks entropy analysis mode can sometimes work firmware that is otherwise hard to locate.
Right, if you setup the intelligence and the brain to be computational in nature of course they will appear seamlessly computational.

But there are obvious human elements that don't fit into that model, yet which fundamentally make up how we understand human intelligence. Things like imagination, the ability to think new thoughts; or the fact that we are agents sensitive to reasons, that we can decide in a way that computers cannot, that we do not merely end indecision. We can also say that humans understand something, which doesn't make any sense for a computer beyond anthropomorphism.

> If intelligence is actually just information processing, then a computer intelligence really is doing exactly what our brains are doing. It’s misdirection to characterise it as modelling it.

Sure, but if it's not, then it's not. The assumption still stands.
It's gotta be the Gorillas right?
This guy Staffs
> there are few people going out into the field to rescue them

>So there is obviously no bottom-most robust safety net, as plainly evidenced by the homeless situation

What is your perspective on schizophrenia?
How can police get data without a court order? Shouldn't there be a 24/7 court number, where the police can request one, and then use that?

What happens if the police abuses this system (and not the hackers)... does anyone get notified that "p.o. John Doe requested your data on 1. 1. 2022"? And why not? If it's a life or death situation, and you're still alive, you'll either be thankful they used the data to save you, or your laywer could get a lot happier, because you'd be suing them, because they faked such a situation.
DasiyDisk is insanely faster than the rest, it can scan my HD in about 30 seconds
> Modify bugs in ways that could be seen in nature and explore vaccines and treatments.

There are no reasons to believe the mutants created in laboratories will arise in nature nor that the vaccines or treatments will be effective compared to what nature does. Added to the fact that GOF research never produced any kind of meaningful treatment or response so far and given how they are dangerous and leaks happen all the time; they should be outright banned.
Shameful self-plug for a small project that I stopped improving as soon as it became useful for me: https://github.com/alanbernstein/treemonger

The subdivision algorithm and display style are intended to mimic the old version of spacemonger. For whatever reason, that was always my favorite way of visualizing disk space, and I wanted to use something similar on Linux.

I wanted to replace the Tk renderer with an SVG one using SMIL [1],but got discouraged when I learned it was deprecated. Looking it up just now, I see that the deprecation is apparently suspended, so maybe I'll get around to that after all...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...
Chances of AI singularity happening in our lifetime x devastation caused by AI singularity

Chances of climate crisis happening in our lifetime x devastation caused by climate crisis

Which one do you think is higher?
They believe it's not possible to explain human consciousness as a purely physical concept. I don't see why they need to explain what it is that isn't material to make that claim.
>The lapse was considered so minor, partly because Secretary of State has final say on classification level anyway

This seems a very similar argument to one suggesting that a supreme court justice can never be charged with a crime.
"Truth" is where you look for it; provided you're willing to do the proper preprocessing of your data. Zeroth law of Science anymore.
> ... people keep saying it can’t work, and they keep being proven wrong.

It's impossible to prove wrong all those saying: "AI is not AGI" until you eventually end up with an actual AGI. Nobody is proven wrong.
Thanks, sorry I should have used different wording. I agree that the president has the power to classify/declassify anything. My example was that the president on the last day in the office followed the procedure to declassify documents highly important for him instead of taking photos on the phone and posting on Twitter ;)
It's not - in my experience reading HN - that AGI-sceptics (like me) don't think it will happen, just that we have developed a healthy contempt for the hype-merchants and their wide-eyed followers who despite years of "machine learning this" and "deep learning that" and "gpt-3 the other" have nothing to show for it in terms of something resembling human-level intelligence, or even any sign of understanding how we think.

It's perfectly reasonable to see that and still be confident AGI will happen - just not with current models.
Latency is a few tens of ms (milliseconds) larger. It's not that much, but it matters to me.

It's like keyboards, as measured by Dan Luu [1]. I can totally feel the difference between some listed on that web.

Stacks are adding up a lot of latency, and I'm trying to remove as much as I can from my configuration.

An extreme comparison is to run Emacs in text mode with Ethernet, a good wired connection and USB Magic Keyboard vs Emacs on a heavy desktop environment, WiFi and a laggy wireless keyboard. Night and day difference. On the second one, there's a lot of lag.

[1] https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
It seems like the Chinese room argument is incompatible with a materialist world view. To a materialist, what could the brain be but a computer? Some sort of physical process is taking place inside that is is processing information, and at some level of abstraction that process will look like "dumb" symbolic manipulation. Yet we achieve "understanding"
Okay, is your view unfalsifiable? Like is it is possible to be proven wrong at all? What would that entail
I have never heard of that, so thanks.
Evolutionary pressure to adapt quickly is even more profound in a situation where the rate of change in the environment is proportional to the accumulated quantity of change: the claimed exponential curve of the singularity.
I genuinely don't know why there are fewer instances today, and the question at the bottom is literal rather than rhetorical. (I don't even know whether there are fewer instances today -- maybe they're just happening in less legible domains, or something.)

That said, I'm somewhat skeptical of the safety argument, which I often hear. For example, 60 workers were apparently killed during the construction of the World Trade Center[0] -- 4x more deaths than occurred during the construction of the Empire State Building. Nor is it a priori clear to me that safety and speed would necessarily be in opposition -- maybe better planning causes both more safety and more speed, for example. I'd certainly be interested in a more comprehensive investigation of this question.

I'm also somewhat doubtful of cost-of-labour explanations. Wouldn't it be rational for some organizations to pay a lot more to get people to work longer hours if that's all that's going on? (It would almost certainly be cheaper to do that than to have the project take twice as long in total.) And why did many of the instances enumerated on the page happen in relatively high cost (for the time) locations, like New York, DC, and San Francisco, rather than in cheaper places?

I do believe that state/military intervention clearly plays some role in a few, but there are certainly plenty of examples of remarkably slow military projects, and many of the projects on the page have nothing to do with the military. (Empire State Building, Golden Gate Bridge, Boeing 747, NYC Subway.)

So, I haven't found a satisfying explanation, and I'd be curious to read other analyses or diagnoses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_the_World_Trad...
The best images for showing the scale of the smallest drive are from the comments (on the AppleFritter site).
Yes, one response to the thought experiment is "the whole system understands Chinese". I don't find that response convincing. Do you really think a book with instructions in a room plus a man to carry them out understands Chinese?

The thought experiment hinges on the concept of understanding. If you want to argue against Searle, and you can, your best bet is to attack that concept, to argue that "understanding" is an illusion or that it's nonsensical. This is what philosophers like Daniel Dennet have done.
Policy a bit but mostly market, I think it can be done. People already show with their wallets that they prefer to get either "meat products" where the origin of the meat is dubious and hidden so you are probably getting scraps and meat from factory farms, and on the other end they want free range no antibiotics products. This pathogen vaccine thing doesn't make sense in factory farming and would "polute" free range, and for a good reason.
"mishandling of classified information is a political question, not a legal one."

I think we often understand we are under a rule of law. We are. But not them.
A paper from 2008:

Synthetic recombinant bat SARS-like coronavirus is infectious in cultured cells and in mice

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0808116105

One of the listed authors is Ralph Baric.
Why assume that the activity is purely electrical?
When I hear music, I think about actual fret board and instrument playing because I have never played any sort of music video game for any significant portion of time.
Disneyland when it first opened also did not look like Disneyland of today, so a direct comparison is meaningless
The current practice of having a $3 part that fails after 40,000 miles, then needs $2000 worth of labor to replace, makes me want to murder certain vehicle line execs at certain companies...glares in the direction of Munich...
It seems that ships need to be specifically fitted out for something like grain transport as well. I'm sure there can be some reworking of things but it's bound to take time and resources and further boost cargo prices, and slow down on/offloading at ports and create additional bottlenecks.

I'm tentatively optimistic that this situation isn't going to mean mass famines, but there will be a significant monetary cost and likely some human cost as well.
> Overall global research did in fact prep us for SARS-CoV-2.

Didn't feel like it.
It's pretty hard to believe that being able transfer knowledge between digital brains (something that seems arguably inevitable) as well as having faster access to more knowledge in general (because you can make a bigger brain with more memory) it's just pretty obvious that AGI will beat humans. If all they had was human brains but could transfer thoughts faster they'd still beat us.
Show HN: Attnam.com April Fool's day website skin
I learned APL at the Hampshire College Summer of Mathematics in 1979. We programmed using the full character sets with overstrikes and everything. I still remember the Domino Operator (matrix divide, represented by a box character overstruck with a ÷ character. Those were the days
> If your code is sufficiently clear there will be nothing left to say in the comments

Incorrect. The code can never tell you WHY. That's what comments are for.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. This question is appropriate, but currently, and perhaps permanently unanswerable.

One thing I wonder about is, if we are in a simulation, and the simulation is using some sort of data compression, then if you increased the entropy of the universe such that it became less compressible you might cause some sort of error due to exceeding the storage capacity of the host, which would cause our universe to basically BSOD.
Only if nuclear weapons would evolve by its own, and on insanely much higher speed than what you can invent.
Because 7 ate 9?
This. It’s ironic the very first email she sent from clintonmail as SoS was congratulating Petraeus as CIA director.

And that’s why Benghazi wasn’t about Benghazi, but getting her server. He remembered, and played it well.
There are a number of projects aimed at delivering low-latency audio over the internet, I think some were started or used by musicians trying to be able to play together remotely
>The reality of Swiss knives is that they don't excel in anything of the things they do.

Except the one thing that do excel at: being swiss army knives.
There are a lot of responses to the philosophical zombie argument. Some of which cut it off at the legs (they don't know to aim for the head! sorry bad pun). For instance some, like those descended from the work of Wittgenstein, argue that it relies on an inside-mental vs. outside-body type of model, and by offering a convincing alternative, the entire premise of the skeptical position the zombie argument embodies, is dissolved as irrelevant. (I'll add that the AGI argument, often also relies on a similar inside outside model, but that'd take a lot longer to write out.) My point being, the zombie argument isn't some checkmate most people think it is.

The wiki page has a lot of the responses, some of which are more convincing than others. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie#Respons...
> it seems like almost no one else does

Nope, I do basic stuff like this too. And it's basic stuff. As in, can be defeated by simple wiretaps in infrastructure outside your control.
If you use a external pallete (one that is not coming from the pi digits themselves) I don't think it's that interesting. With any random set of data you can find a pallete that approximates the desired result
> This is not the law. EO 13526 doesn’t make exceptions for Cabinet

They aren't necessary given that the underlying statute is predicated on the idea that the person accessing the classified information was unauthorized.

> retention of NDI

It's always hard from the reporting to find exactly what someone is being charged with, but I assume it's https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1924.

... and we're back to the authorization issue. The relevant proviso in the law is "without authority." The Secretary of State has authority to authorize and authorizes herself, obviously.

> I am sure there is a form one needs to fill in.

There really isn't for a Cabinet secretary. You have to remember the underlying purpose of state secrets: to allow the executive to do its job in a world where secrets are necessary for that to be done. Whether the job is being done ultimately rests on the decision of the President (and, by delegation, the Cabinet).

Here's a minimum viable authorization.

"Hey Hillary, sounds like your IT guy might be privy to state secrets. Is he authorized to view them?"

"Yes Mr. President."

"Okay then."

One could make the argument that violates his EO because it doesn't follow the formal, documented protocol... Except it's his EO. Whether it's violated rests with the judgement of the President.

On this topic specifically, it really is up to the President whether the Secretary of State has mishandled classified information. The back-stop to that is impeachment of said President and the judgment of the American people (the People were, apparently, dissatisfied with Clinton's behavior on this subject, and she was not elected President. Justice done).
One downside of such pinning of versions is that if one of your transitive dependencies has a security vulnerability affecting your package, your package will remain affected until you update.

As I understand it dependencies-of-dependencies are fetched from the config provided by the library that includes the dependency, in the case of a transitive dependency, everyone between you and the vulnerable package needs to update, and they need to do so in order (i.e. if you depend on A, A depends on B, B depends on C, and C fixes a vulnerability, then first B, then A have to update in order for you to pull in the change).
I am guessing this point is totally unnecessary based on how overall well-informed your comment was, but in case you weren’t aware, it is frequently helpful to run a wifi analyzer of some sort to figure out which channels are heavily utilized in your area so you can set your router to one with less interference. I used to use the Mac network utility that I think may have been deprecated, but it worked like a charm. I do this for my friends all the time and it dramatically improves their network performance in 90% of cases. The only places I found it was pointless were in the middle of nowhere and my own apartment not too far from MIT’s campus, where I assume I was surrounded by equally (probably much more) knowledgeable nerds so the neighboring networks were surprisingly evenly distributed across the available channels.