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There are many industrial processes that use tons of power and are far less efficient than a human doing those tasks. Yet, they're still viable because they (scale / are faster / more consistent / etc than humans.

For AGI, it's really about replication, density, and easy-of-operation.

At the moment, we certainly can't mass produce "brains-on-a-chip" that provide a guaranteed level of human-like intelligence across various tasks.

But, imagine a world in which you could install racks of "brains-on-a-chip", powered via electricity (easily distributed/stored/fungible compared to food-powered-brains), and have a Moore's Law like scaling of "brain density". That would change everything, even if those brains consumed 1000W a pop.

Obviously, a literal brain is probably not the way this will pan out (hopefully not! "brains-on-a-chip" is rather creepy...), but you get the idea.
What you are describing is a sort of philosophical zombie thought experiment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

edit: you may also be interested in reading about Searle’s classical Chinese room argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
This comment is peak short-termism! It is comically absurd to refer to 25 years as a long time!

There are companies that have been around for 300 years, in fact prior to rise of venture capital moat companies were multi-generational family business and you would consider how a decision would reflect on your children.
> thousands of jobs paying over $500k USD per year to people who write python

wow, where would one find these jobs?
that's what the proxy infrastructure is for: retracted versions won't be selected by default if you're adding it as a new direct dependency, but if you request a version directly (because you need it as an indirect dependency, you have a fresh machine, etc), it will always return the cached code.
And the teenager is smarter, more capable of bobbing and weaving around traffic and neighborhood kids riding their bike.
> How can one turn the sinking, horrified feeling when one loses a love into a function?

… or into electrical activity in the brain.
typestates are great, but in rust i wonder if it would be more ergonomic and easier to get right if it was officially a feature instead of a pattern you have to implement...?
For starters, it's no longer politically viable to expect 11 people to die during the construction of a bridge. To avoid that, there's a lot of regulation in place. And a lot more that probably got in for other reasons.
Random people on the internet have also proven themselves to be untrustworthy. At least I know who the elected officials are.
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That was an arbitrary number, but I don't think that is true. It doesn't take much functionality before you will start needing the power of a server in the $500 range. Many apps today do a lot more than serve up static requests. I run a php server with just a few thousand daily active users and we need a $250/mo server.

You have your app, and database, and then your logging, tracing, and tracking stack and It all starts adding up pretty quickly.
That's true, but whether the understanding is worth the risk is questionable. It seems likely that we've managed to cause rather than prevent a pandemic with this particular research.
> In Bloom’s view, their disappearance raised the possibility that the Chinese government might be trying to hide evidence about the pandemic’s early spread. Piecing together clues, Bloom established that the NIH itself had deleted the sequences from its own archive at the request of researchers in Wuhan.

Wow.
Actually, its primary design goal is to make address sanitizers faster. Right now, all the code that touches a sanitizer-tagged address must be recompiled to understand how to place and remove the tag. These address-bit-ignore approaches can (ideally) allow you to just modify the memory allocator to hand out tagged addresses. Those addresses can then be passed around to code that doesn't even know it's handling a tagged address. It doesn't need to be modified. You don't need to recompile the world. Even when the sanitizer is on, you also don't need to be constantly stripping tags out of pointers before dereferencing them.
like when 35% of America cheered for 9/11? if anything an external threat would unify America.
This is my view as well. It's a little unnerving and it definitely starts to overlap with the whole "free will" debate, but yeah, I don't see any reason why we can't fundamentally replicate the behaviors exhibited by the brain. It doesn't violate any laws of physics.
We've had technology like poetry, art, and music for thousands of years, and yet no symbolic description of the feeling can contain the feeling of what it's uniquely like for me. Even though we could try and model the brain, say, functionalist models fail to capture qualia as it doesn't reduce to behaviour. To replicate the brain fully in a computer would need a full description of its chemistry and physics, along with that of the greater universe, which we don't have, and to describe it coherently to simulate it is a problem of the order of magnitude more difficult than ones we're going to be able to code for the foreseeable future.
Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms
I Called Q from Star Trek: Picard Using S2 Ep05's Phone Number Short
How are you using it over SSH? :)
> increase salary and benefits until enough people able to pass

More often than not, BigCo don't need A players, but average devs to keep
the wheels spinning and that's where the struggle with hiring is.
The nature of a technological singularity is you cannot predict when it will happen or if you are anywhere close to it. You can only notice it after it has passed.
> When discussing scams and social engineering attacks, it's easy for security researchers and experts to present information in a way that implies the victims of these attacks should have known better.

Uhhh, when I see any SE I assume it happened because the user / customer is making use of a giant beuracratic system and nobody knows how it works and what is supposed to be private data and what data needs to be sent where, along with government pointing gun at you to send 5 pieces of ID all over the place ASAP without you ever understanding which ones are needed for what purpose. The very reason these broken, impossible to understand systems exist everywhere is because "the user is too dumb, stop being elitist".

Imagine if you logged into runescape and instead of entering user / pass, it said you need to have your IP address authorized, then you need to get a runescape license, then they need a picture of your iris. But you also sent your iris to some pizza shop to "prove" you own your house, and you have no idea what steps that pizza shop took to secure your iris photo (none). Then to get your IP "authorized", runescape tells you to login to some weird website you've never heard of before, and send it two pieces of photo ID (which you also sent to a paint shop to order paint), and then that website says "please give us your phone number so you can open our secure phone app", and then you open the "secure phone app" and you have no idea what it just did or what data was sent where or what data about you it just assumed you're now supposed to keep secret. I don't know, is this concept like not obvious to internet people? It's called ungroundedness.

The reason I'm writing all this without burning my eyes on this stupid color theme, is because whatever typical bullshit narratives HN will prop up as usual in response to this article here are completely invalid. This classic "boo, hoo, you're an elitist" talking point is irrelevant nonsense because in most cases the user hasn't been tricked; he hasn't been provided with a system that allows him to use it properly. But oh wait I just wrote about this last week as the cliche was made again then. I actually WANT a system that makes "elitists" secure and doesn't care about unqualified people (and I know lots of people who also want this, it's what UN*X users like to think of themselves as): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780519
Show HN: Hacker News interface with thumbnail previews plus details about links
Letting police access Google location data can help solve crimes
If you think the USA is the most corrupt nation, you clearly haven't traveled enough. The corruption in the USA may be numerically the most, 5%~ gdp of the richest nation on earth lost too just healthcare corruption [1. But compared to literally not being able to drive down a road without a 'police officer' pulling you over for a bribe and all the roads having massive potholes because the tax money was 'lost' someplace. The USA pales in comparison. At least we have functional utilities in almost every city, the water can be drank, the electricity stays on, ect.
Thinking the USA is the most corrupt nation on earth is laughable.

https://infogram.com/mirror-mirror-2021-exhibit-3-1h7k230dkl...
Additional info about features and goals on the About page:

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> I wonder how USA would fare in the face of a real war on the scale of WWII or bigger

...or a major pandemic which is more deadly than most wars?
I think it's the opposite. Reducing the candidate to a pull request means that gender, race, etc. become completely irrelevant, as it should be. It also means you can assess many more candidate and don't need to sift based on CVs. It's the most inclusive option, with the trade-off that it makes the candidates feel worse and may mean you lose some of the most sought after candidate who have many other options.

All of the attributes you mention are subjective and will inevitably lead to bias influencing the process.
I think you are both right and wrong!

You are old enough (I assume) to remember really dodgy wifi but it has moved on and APs from nearly all vendors are really rather good. ISPs in the UK (I can't comment elsewhere obviously) have generally woken up to delivering really quite decent "hubs" instead of a shonky Thompson Rainbow type device. That said, even those have some mileage with a firmware change.

It's all about tools for the job. You know as well as I do what drywall/plasterboard does to wifi or what a skin of bricks does to wifi propagation, compared to generally wooden construction.

Yes, running a CATn cable will nearly always trump a wifi connection but it's fixed. I personally stick to CAT5e at home instead of 6 but I won't rule it out in future. 5e -> 1Gb/s over 100m. 6 ... which one? 6 is nominally 10Gb/s and 6A is 40 I think. 6A needs the shielding to be earthed properly.

I run most things over wifi if I can. My servers have fixed ethernet and things like my doorbell obviously get a PoE CAT5e connection. ... ... ... obviously!
The 2-yr/10-yr treasury yields curve has inverted
I specifically omitted "wattage" in my above comment and only said that I think it will be more efficient in "information density and inference speed". I expect the first AGIs will need many kilowatts to run, but I do think in the far future (>100 years), AGI will run on less than 12W as computational ability continues to scale and we discover new and better ways of building computers.
POTS calls had noticably lower latency... which made conversations feel more natural.

i often wonder if the popularity of sms and texting in general was largely fueled in the early days by the horrific high latency, lossy compression that made up early tdma, cdma, pcs and gsm mobile to mobile voice channels.

latency and mobile to mobile "hd calling" have improved, but i still think landlines were more natural. multihour phone calls were comfortable... now they're exhausting.
Show HN: Use your number pad to hike the Los Padres National Forest
I've made a basic conceptual website where you can use your number pad as compass directions to traverse from camp to camp in the Southern Los Padres National Forest.

Growing up I played a MUD called Revenge of the Jedi and my client let you use your number pad keys to move from room to room and I've always thought that would make for an interesting web navigation interface.

I also love hiking and backpacking and it seemed like a fun idea to combine the two things together.

This is a super basic website with minimal information, but I felt like I would share to see if people liked the idea of navigating a website map using a keyboard.

Enjoy and happy to collect any feedback people have of the idea :)

PS this website is not mobile friendly. However, I did try to make it as minimal and fast as possible.
Heck, why don't we let police track our phones in real-time and listen to our MICs so they can be sure that we are happy citizens, and they would hear it if we were committing a crime! YAY Technology!
I am not usually much of a conspiracy theorist but the giant bioweapons lab explosion in eastern Russia (accidentally caused by huge fires in Siberia) somewhere around November of 2019 always seemed a bit suspect considering the timing. I have not seen anyone else talk or theorize about this at all but given it was the same lab that ended up developing their Covid19 vaccine it seems (maybe) plausible that a virus was leaked during that time.

The only other person I found talking about this admittedly far fetched theory was a random Russian comedian - he made some jokes about it and the Russian government IMMEDIATELY came down super hard on him and he had take it all down.
> The windowing system needs to use the same 31MB before you start the browser up, after all.

every process needs its own surface for compositing though. If you open 200 4k windows you'll get 200*31MB, they aren't going to share the memory with the desktop one
Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets
I absolutely hate popups. Not going to be an issue. Good call.
> In order to do that, I needed to relay a confirmation code that would be texted to me.

Yeah, BZZZT! End of conversation. Hang up.
Other countries have mostly retail corruption. The US has, instead, wholesale corruption, wired into its institutions. China, even moreso.
There was a recent post on HN about big tech companies being scammed by fake subpoena requests from "police".
Using the actuarial value of a human life, those 11 deaths would add $83M-100M to the costs (assuming the costs aren’t already fully baked in to the cost added above), which would put the Golden Gate Bridge over its budget.
It’s amusing watching the people who say this is an overblown / exaggerated issue. Until we see how residents actually feel about it in these surveys and at the polls.
I agree that it'll be while before we fully understand the brain but I don't have any doubts that we'll get there eventually. I am curious though, why would we need to understand the greater universe perfectly as well?
Archived: https://archive.ph/5ONcg

Project homepage at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1950
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Isn't it so good?! The way he starts the class having you thinking you missed a reading or something, and then by the end of the lecture you have an aha moment. Feels like he crams an aha moment into each lesson too, so good.
The swing length, to first order, is independent of the period, as Galileo noticed while watching a swinging lantern during a church service. He timed it with his pulse. It's the period (or its inverse, frequency) which is characteristic of a resonance, not amplitude.

Interestingly, the period of the resonance is proportional to the geometric mean of the capacitance and the inductance. The proportional factor is 2pi, which is there because of the "rationalized MKS" units chosen. (If it wasn't for that, one Farad resonating with one Henry would have a period of one second.)

You're quite right: pushing every other cycle is analogous to pulsing an LC in phase every other cycle. This is done using a class C amplifier[0], which puts out short pulses at the input frequency. The parallel LC in the amplifier load resonant at twice the input frequency sees in phase current pulses in its inductor every other cycle, which add energy. That's how a frequency doubler works, and the technique works for higher harmonics, also, as you thought.

> LC circuit be tuned to half the signal frequency

In the case of a swing, that would work, because the child isn't there for half the pushes. But in the case of an LC tank, the "pushes" always inject current into the coil in the same direction, so half if them will be out of phase and cancel the previous one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_amplifier_classes#Class_...
Same I can't use it because of lack of ISO 27001 certification
That was fun! The first one I got wrong was:

"80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gorillas vs Saturn".

Good fun!
opportunistic reminder that hookahs are "100 times worse than cigarettes" for your lungs and the rest of your body!

the consumer protection on hookahs is absolutely broken, as the warnings practically don't exist and a lot of people that avoid nicotine cigarettes use hookahs think theyre unrelated and benign, health wise.
Unrelated but wanted to ask here since this forum may have the knowledge.

Recently I bought one of those 1) USB-C 4-in-1, 2) USB-C 7-in-1 (Anker) to attach an external monitor with HDMI. When connecting to a laptop is there details how to retrieve more details of all the capabilities and ports?

What might also be some easy recommended way to start understanding how something like this works. To start, just sending a "high/low" signal to a data pin either straight connection into HDMI port, USB port as a direct connection (and how about when using a multi-port)?

Thanks!
Sorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as "wattage" it's just power, measured in watts. For that 12 watts, the brain is extremely efficient at inference, ie. although computers can beat us a chess, a computer running on 12 watts would probably have a hard time beating Magnus Carlsen at speed-chess.
Can you explain what you mean by “totally made up?”

Are you saying literally no one at all wants this? Just that there are also other reasons to do the research? Something else?
Even if they get to set classification, they DIDNT do it. And using the wrong storage/servers (non governmental?!) should not be excused for any State employee. Leadership has a responsibility just as much as a new hire. Everyone is responsible for security
With costs of living skyrocketing everywhere and wages stagnating if not decreasing (remote work suddenly brings more competition) I wouldn't be surprised if otherwise legitimate people are tempted or even forced to do this out of desperation.
i hope you're right.
If you were a gamer in the 80's ; there was a series of games called "The Bard's Tale" -- EPIC games for the '80s...

The game had a square 'Town' map which was ~64 or 128 tiles...

With shops on the surface and dungeon entrances strewn about.

The movement was basically all numpad.

We played the games so much that we had each dungeon entrance memorized and didnt even look at the screen.

Felt like a Gaming Stenographer!

--

EDIT:

I didnt even read your statement, I just went to the site, tried it, and then came here to comment...

HAHA

I totally missed this:

*Growing up I played a MUD called Revenge of the Jedi and my client let you use your number pad keys to move from room to room and I've always thought that would make for an interesting web navigation interface.*

RAD

:-)
What does light a fire under your ass is when your product fails. Ugh... test test test or fail gracefully.
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> two old dudes that hate each other trying to get the other dude to say the thing that will give them their political win.

That describes a huge proportion of contemporary politics.
I don't know Prometheus, but I would imagine the answer depends on just how many clients you have. Probably doesn't matter if you're talking just a few. If it's a lot, then separate instances can be very expensive in terms of operational complexity and waste due to resource fragmentation. Multi-tenancy is good for bringing both of those back under control. Is there something about Prometheus that would negate that?
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> Reagan reduced marginal taxes from 70% to 28% by the end of his term.

And tax revenues rose.
Not the parent, but the big issue I've had with the Snowball (which I think is an issue with condenser mics in general) is that it picks up way too much audio, so if you don't have a very quiet environment and a good mic boom and shock mount then it will pick up everything. Breathing, keyboard and mouse clicks, a dog barking 3 houses away, a truck going past.

I've since switched to an AudioTechnica ATR2100X (cardioid dynamic mic) and have found it sounds much better for the environment I'm in.
I think his point was that it's difficult for a system to conceal the tones from the other party while not interfering with normal speech.
I can't really say I haven't really tried Parallels since that experience. In the past I likeed the idea that I can share VM images with VMWare Workstation colleagues. At my work back then Parallels wasn't popular under the Windows-based developers
Reminder that Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who's been giving police full access to the Ring cameras without a warrant.
I'm talking about the prospects for growth in the next 25 years, not the last 25 years.
The singularity is anthropocentrist fiction.

We can't even pin down a definition of sentience among the existing species on earth, how are we to identify it in circuit boards? We still struggle to define alive/dead! Who's to say these concepts - sentience, aliveness - are even meaningful distinctions?

Fine, say the singularity is possible and it's here. And in accordance with the singularitist's religion they are (rapidly!) incomprehensibly smarter than us. Why is their next move to dominate us? Surely humans are uninteresting to such great beings. I didn't go and dominate the ants with my big alive sentient brain, I'm pretty sure they're all still under my stoop. What would killing them accomplish? What does thinking about them at all even accomplish? The ants don't matter. And neither will the humans.
YES

This is the same feeling I had playing RotJ.

Having made this website and hiked a good amount in the local area, I am pretty adept at navigating around this site without looking as well.
Where does the brain get its inputs from? These computational models are based on an ontology where the brain is an isolated box separate from the universe, which is only one of the many philosophical outlooks argued over. For example, most schools of Buddhist philosophy would regard this separation as entirely the wrong picture of the world.
Direct means that your code actually imports it directly instead of transitively. It has nothing to do with the version of that dependency being selected in the go.mod file.
By your logic, is it possible for you to prove to me that you are conscious? No, it's not. There is nothing you can say or do that can prove beyond doubt to me that you are subjectively experiencing reality with a similar consciousness and sentience as me. I also cannot prove to you that I am conscious. That said, both of us have still mutually agreed that we are conscious!

This is because consciousness is a fundamentally unfalsifiable thing (within our current understanding of it, at least). The only way we can "prove" anything or anyone is conscious is by observing its interactions with its environment. Thus, if a robot can mimic the way a human interacts with its environment well enough that it appears conscious, then it is conscious.

What I'm trying to say is that there is no functional difference between consciousness and the appearance of consciousness, so any distinction you try to draw between them is arbitrary and semantic. If a robot that could perfectly mimic human behavior possessed a body that looked just like a human's and were to hold a conversation with you, you would be none the wiser. You would treat it like it were sentient -- because it would be.
Try reading the article, he received well over $50m.