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The United States is still the richest country in the world. There is plenty of money, they just don't want to give it to people because capitalism.

It's ironic as well given how they spend a trillion in the military which seems like an unprofitable investment. They coax kids into joining the army to get or pay for an education, instead of the much cheaper and more profitable option, just pay the kids' education directly.
As far as I can tell, it's a question of having or not having whizbang bloated apps like Slack, but we had perfectly acceptable word processors, spreadsheets, 3D modeling tools, etc a long time ago. The current gen, JS-powered versions of those tools (Google Drive, Quip, Notion) all feel slower. Sure, there are fewer BSODs now so it probably evens out, but the extremely low latency UX of those tools back in the Windows 2000/XP days is lost.
Kestra: A Scalable Open-Source Orchestration and Scheduling Platform
I recently upgraded to 21.10, where in the process, snap was reinstalled and firefox was reinstalled as a snap. I did however just purge snap as I've done many times before, without any issue. Then installed firefox through flatpak, which is as of writing version 98.0.2, which looks to be the same as you get through snap.

So, in conclusion, it shouldn't matter one bit how canonical decides to distribute firefox, if you can just use the debian based apt, or flatpak.

I hope canonical goes away from the snap model, because I've had nothing but issues with it, until I got fed up enough to remove it, and then everything was great again. Issues were mostly related to read-only mounted file system, and otherwise the mess it produces. However, even if I had experienced none of those, the whole automatic updates whether-you-like-it-or-not... is one of the reasons why I'm not using windows or macOS.
Reminds me of the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_and_Lake_Powell_Rai...), which was a 117 km (73 mi) railway completely isolated from the rest of the US network, built with the sole purpose of shuttling coal from a coal mine to a power station. As a Half-Life fan, I mostly remembered it because of the cool name...
So you suggest that Jeebus struck them twice, and no one else once? Ok.

Even if there are no other else's that have ships that big, they controlled that they built ships that big at the very least.
What free market? There is no such thing.

I honestly just see a regular capitalistic market, where a company is trying to make money at the expense of other companies. By that I don't mean Amazon is outcompeting retailers and pushing them out the market. I mean Amazon is actively causing damage to well known brands by letting scammers sell those branded products to promote their own AmazonBasics brand which is free of scammers.

Even if the scams are unintended, there is no profit incentive to get rid of them.
Thanks for continuing the discourse.

I think it's very easy to make assumptions and it's good to have heuristics to make life easier. But it's not wise to double down on them.

(You're half wrong again. I dont think stoicism that Ryan Holiday talks about is the greatest philosophy. I have read a couple of his books but dont subscribe to him. Anyways I would love to buy you a copy of his work if you want to read and judge for yourself.)
Nah, most devs with be using their tablet playgrounds, as thin clients to Cloud OSes.
I'm sure it is a fixed problem and you can get faucet lead filters already, they're just not affordable because capitalism.

Also the $1 is linkbait; it may be $1 in materials, but especially if the housing was 3D printed, the actual cost would be higher.

That said, no reason this product commercially available should be more than $10, and/or given away for free along with refills to the people most impacted while they work on a more permanent solution.
Right now, we've robots and space probes working all over the Solar System with much more intelligence and reliability than any biological rodents.
Genuinely asking: what other alternatives would you consider? Open or closed source, either way. Grafana seems pervasive around me and I always like to compare alternatives.
I'll try a reply, but you might get more out of reading some of Gwern's essays. Especially https://www.gwern.net/Complexity-vs-AI and https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis

First, what makes you think that solving the Collatz conjecture is easier than AGI? Doesn't that beg the question? Just because a challenge is easy to state doesn't mean that we should expect it to be easy to answer. Fermat's Last Theorem was easy to state; open a random math textbook for many theorems that are harder to state, but easier to prove.

Second, quantum mechanics is totally amenable to simulation on a Turing machine. In fact, all of known physics is. You rightly point out that the question is rather how good modern hardware and software is at the task. (Btw, quantum computers would be really good at simulating quantum mechanical systems. And that would probably be their main use; right now we don't really know much else they are better at than classical computers.)

Third, you bring up the point that figuring out how arbitrary proteins fold is still rather difficult. I agree. So an atom for atom simulation of the human brain would presumably be also rather difficult.

That doesn't mean that AGI is impossible. It only means that AGI via atom-for-atom simulation of a human brain would be rather difficult.

Simulating a human brain atom-for-atom is only one approach you can try to take to reach AGI. There are other approaches people are working on. Only one of them has to work.
We should ban Pi since obviously all the illegal images are there too!
it should have been `go mod init mything/mypackage` (without the `src/`) in the `GOPATH/src/mything/mypackage` directory,
and `GOPATH=$PWD` is almost certainly wrong. The `go` command in module mode assumes independence from GOPATH, so to build something, you have to be "in" the module (under a directory with a `go.mod` file).
Depends on the design. Roundabouts decrease speed (good) but if the cyclists follow the same path as cars they are more difficult to see in mirrors (bad). The Dutch solution is having cyclists follow a route about 1-2m from the main roundabout, which means cars and cyclists intersect at a near-90° angle again.
Yes. I was talking about a macroscopic wheel.
Artist Jeff Koons will permanently place sculptures on the Moon
or you can up-bundle airbnb. I would like to be able to pick "2 years in <nice place>" as a package that includes everything from home to food/gym/car etc
Eek pretty bad take on this. The reality is blame cultures are there such that you can be used as a scapegoat. It's nothing to do with defining problems it's there to have someone to fire when something goes wrong.

In terms of the $400k TC you'll be talking shares, that need to vest, and bonuses and suchlike included in that. Nice way to reduce that is to blame you for problems on a project that were out of your control.

I've worked in companies where the Project Manager always put too short a timescale on any project. This was pushed onto them by an exec but rather than speak to the devs get a reasonable time and try to cut scope or extend time they just put it straight back onto the devs. Often they'll cut some time which I always found weird. The reason that this happens is that these PM's know that there is no way they can ever meet these expectations and so rather than try they make sure it'll be late such that they can blame the devs. That way they don't need to actually manage the project and never get reprimanded as it's always someone elses problem.
I have seen a technique where they line old pipes with newer plastic, like pumping an inner tube into an existing line; is that possible with the pipes in the house or would that cost too much of its diameter? Could they make a <1mm lining like that (which may need to be reapplied every once in a while), or some other kind of treatment to stop the lead from leaching?

I mean that would still cost a lot of money and time to implement in every house that still has lead pipes, but it's probably cheaper than replacing all the pipes.
watchOS does not support executing LLVM IR, or runs normal ARM code with a somewhat tweaked ABI that’s generated from Bitcode.
correct, but that doesn't mean they'll necessarily be rolling out thousands of them around the world next year or even in 5 years time.

There are tens of thousands of fossil fuel power stations around the world, and we globally consume around 138TWh of non-renewably-produced electricity per year (and growing fast).

I used the words "industrially useful" very deliberately. The goal is not to produce one fusion reactor that can run continuously over unity, the goal is to produce tens of thousands of them and have them deployed globally. That is a project that will take decades.
Thanks for clarifying the point, I'm sorry I didn't make it clearer.

WiFi devices can support many devices in small spaces, but you will have increased latency and diminishing returns on throughput for the reasons I mentioned.

Downvolting radios will only get you so far.
Windscribe VPN has been acquired for 700m
Also the lockfiles are not recursive. i.e. they don't apply to the dependencies you install or their transitive deps.
Also have a look at rye and oats. They are both thought to be the result of Vavilovian mimicry.

> In plant biology, Vavilovian mimicry (also crop mimicry or weed mimicry[1][a]) is a form of mimicry in plants where a weed evolves to share one or more characteristics with a domesticated plant through generations of artificial selection.[2] It is named after Nikolai Vavilov, a prominent Russian plant geneticist.[2] Selection against the weed may occur by killing a young or adult weed, separating its seeds from those of the crop (winnowing), or both. This has been done manually since Neolithic times, and in more recent years by agricultural machinery.

> Vavilovian mimicry is a good illustration of unintentional selection by humans. Although the human selective agents might be conscious of their impact on the local weed gene pool, such effects go against the goals of those growing crops. Weeders do not want to select for weeds that are increasingly similar to the cultivated plant, yet the only other option is to let the weeds grow and compete with crops for sunlight and nutrients. Similar situations include antibiotic resistance and, also in agricultural crops, herbicide resistance. Having acquired many desirable qualities by being subjected to similar selective pressures, Vavilovian mimics may eventually be domesticated themselves. Vavilov called these weeds-become-crops secondary crops.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry
I think their point was that there is no selective pressure on the males to reduce their level of mating violence. From the males' perspective, the situation looks like a prisoners dilemma.
Executable format does not mean it is executed directly, rather the format used for the executable files shipped into the store, which then does the AOT compilation for the specific version of watchOS.

Better now?
Is a doomsday catastrophe likely? (2005) [pdf]
Mitre ATT&CK 2022 Evaluation
MITRE has published their latest Attack evaluation with all leading security vendors tested against two simulated APT groups.

The evaluation tested both detection and prevention capabilities
Thanks for your answer. I was wondering what kind of insects were eating plastic cables. Doh!
To a certain extent, yes.

The beauty of General Average is that (in insurance terms) the thing you are insuring is also the premium you pay.
Heh, in 2017 I was writing a C++ framework to use with my custom Wasm runtime (Gate). It was also called Spin. However, I abandoned the work as Rust's Wasm support improved.

I don't remember how I came up with the name - perhaps the "in" was for interface.
Ask HN: Companies innovating with WebAssembly?
It has always seemed to me like WebAssembly is a great technology, but I barely see any useful applications for it.

What are some interesting companies/projects innovating in that area?
The question is: we are further away from what? The goalposts differ wildly, depending on who you ask. From a 1:1 copy of the human mind we are very far, because we also don't have an idea what a human mind is, heck we don't even have a common definition or understanding. Is a soul part of the mind? Should the AI have a soul too? And the rabbit hole goes only further down. So while for some the singularity might be around the corner, for others it's lightyears away. I guess the only way to have everybody agree is if the singularity hits us Skynet-style and I'm definitely not looking forward to that.
I'm not an expert but 3 and 4 seem to have been answered: the point of GA is everyone gets X% of their cargo value back, and we decide what X is. Either you get X in cash, or you pay 100-X into the fund. So yes, your liability is limited to 100% of your cargo, and you wouldn't generally want to exercise any option to walk away from it. (Maybe you would in some edge cases around fraud, or financing difficulties, or where the market value of your cargo has suddenly declined).
Because all of what you refer to as "dumb AI" is actually machine learning algorithms trained for very specific pattern matching. They are approaching abilities of the human brain such as pattern matching in vision, hearing and language (which if you think of it probably evolved from a common system).

What seems to be constantly overlooked when discussing AGI is that we as a species still do not have a reasonable comprehension of how the rest of the brain works.

I would like to ask you, why do you think a bunch of eyballs and ears would somehow be able to end up as intelligent?
If I send/receive a bank transfer here in the UK, it's available within seconds if not minutes. International transfers from my US account to the UK or vice versa with Wise go through in a similar amount of time. If it takes 3 days for a transfer to go through somewhere, that's a specific issue with the local banking system, not a fundamental issue that only cryptocurrency can solve.
This update also happens to include a bug fix for an actual instruction selection bug in the compiler that miscompiled the Swift runtime libraries for certain devices. So if the security benefits didn’t convince you, consider making some mobile release engineers happy :)
For the last week Soviets switched tactics from attacking military targets to targeting logistic hubs/fuel depots/factories. Its high time Ukr did the same.
Not sure that is true in terms of the relevance of the newsfeed. Bloomberg is large trading platform, too.

Data these days comes from many places already, so Bloomberg is one of many sources a large bank would use.
And let's not forget to mention that their OCR is borderline useless. This does not render the whole device useless though, but if you buy it for that feature, then better don't.

Wouldn't recommend buying it anymore, got a ReMarkable2 myself, but the cloud subscription stuff was just not cool. But at least you can connect it via USB to your desktop and transfer your drawings directly, instead of getting them mailed.
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How is photoelectric effect explained in this framework? Why microwaves won't cause release of electrons then?
I suspect that once you decide to build a quality app the difference in development costs disappear.

VSCode is what people put forward as an example of a good Electron app but that has required a huge amount of work to be just about good enough.
I am confortable with plenty of stuff, which makes me not the target audience for Go.

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

The threads comment wasn't from me.
I suspect its a dig at terrible airline food.
My theory is it’s common law contracting systems combined with government and industry wanting to push time and cost risk down the chain of subcontractors as far as possible. This leads to a situation where market forces are aligned to generate epic amounts of bureaucracy and unwillingness to be flexible. ‘I can’t do that because this was supposed to be ready for me to start’ or a part that costs 3x more even though there’s an exact equivalent generic component from a different brand but the expensive one is in the specification and a contractor won’t suggest a substitution because then it’s thier design risk. As an architect I’m very cautious about specifying anything innovative, because when it goes wrong in my experience the suppliers always find a way to get out of any warranty promises and everyone tries to blame me to get my PI insurance to pay for it. I’ve been stung before by being too trusting of product manufacturer’s claims and this had poisoned the well for anyone coming after them with something new they want me to try out.
The full title of the article which makes things even more horrifying is:

"Mother, 33, is charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter with ketamine and the deaths of her two other girls over three years are now being investigated in Greece"

This is a crazy situation that's plaguing Greece for some months now.
And why should the AI copy the human mind anyway? By that definition extraterrestrial life cannot be intelligent because hey they are not humans.
This is a shot in the dark, but could it be Azure Virtual Desktop for iOS?
I do think some known weaknesses do make it problematic though; some intelligent behaviour might be not human; aka maybe the player is a generally super intelligent computer but it’s answers are so out there the other players do not recognise it as intelligence. Or the human player is so weird, the answers are mistaken for a computer. Or, the most likely and I have played this many times, lately with gpt3; human behaviour often is not intelligent, at all. And while computers are not intelligent, in a scenario against someone who just responds with emoji’s and such (so, a currently normal convo on the internet), the interrogator might appoint humanness to the wrong side many or all times. As we already know that people who do not know they are chatting to a bot, think it is a human.

While I do not think that is intelligence, it does making testing for it slightly broken. It will come down to ‘I will know it when I see it’ by elitists for exactly the above.

So in short ; I do think the Chinese room argument against it is quite a good one where even the elitist people can fall for if the ‘con’ is elaborate enough (as in; if gpt gets more data, more efficient learning and learns to know when it cannot answer and has to look it up, like calculations). Or maybe then it is intelligent? (To be clear; I don’t think so; I think we need a better tests and definitions).
If you're shipping "loads of containers every month" but you don't send them all on the same ship, perhaps you can afford to self-insure. Insurance is so cheap because only a tiny fraction of freight is lost.
All the 4 images posted by the author are located precisely at the begiging of a hexadecimal digit.

Since a hexadecimal digit is 4-bit long, I guess we should be able to locate 4x more Waldos if we allow solutions to be start in the middle of a hex digit?

> The pixel data in this gif are the 23,074,248th through 23,075,235th hexadecimal digits of π! (Equivalently, the 184,593,977th through 184,601,880th bits).

The author assumes a hex digit is 8-bit long here btw.
In his position he can't investigate where the virus actually came from. Absolutely all formal channels were blocked by widespread censorship, which is why the investigation was done by groups of anonymous internet users like DRASTIC, and relies so heavily on leaked documents. How exactly is a Senator meant to make that happen?

As a member of the legislative branch, Paul's role is fairly narrow: he can summon the people who actually do the work to ask them pointy questions, and try to build support for changing the law. If you look at how things are done in the UK Parliament or other legislative bodies in democracies, it's no different. The question of who is in power is the key one they focus on because they can't micro-manage the details of every possible government agency.
You could try xx.network. In my experience, however, it is especially difficult to let others use a new app in addition to all the other variants that people often already have.
I'm not sure if it's that rare. I've been strictly warned for clicking my own ads on my app. It wasn't a lot of clicks, perhaps $3 worth. But the way they dealth the warning feels like they have the right to shoot my tires out after running a red light. I switched to the Facebook ad network and everything went fine.
Gee mine then is clearly too long over 22 years multiple orgs and projects. I’ll trim it.
Also, if you have rocketry that's efficient and high-tech enough to push distant space rocks into deadly orbits, building a good ICBM arsenal is almost the same thing. Although dropping rocks at 50km/sec does save you having to build nuclear warheads, and you'd worry less about them getting shot down by missile defense.

But global-scale strategic deterrents do get kind of academic past a certain point. There are plenty of ways for a nation-state actor to end the world if they really want to.
I watch this at least once a year :)
Aaaah. In reference to my earlier comment here
Since no company owns WebAssembly I'd call this repackaging a win.
It's an awesome PDF reader too. I just got one and it's nice, large, a pleasure to handle. I opted out of their cloud though, I don't need any of the functionalities.
I am not sure about that.

You see, those probes deal with harsh environments, yes. But they don't have to deal with antagonists. No one is out to eat or infect them. Mars won't adapt its storms, Venus won't adapts its chemistry. They obstacles that don't care about our probes, those obstacles don't adapt against the probes.

Those radically different kinds of environments give you radically different designs of probes vs rodents. So I don't think we can easily compare the intelligence of probes vs rodents.
I doubt this is the reason. There is no value in the system, that's why people are moving out. As many IT projects they are trying to solve problems that do not exist.