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> First, a fusor is a bench-top nuclear fusion device. The main downside is that no one has figured out how to get more useful energy out of it then we put in. So probably not what you had in mind.

> Of course, it's also a completely ridiculous design that approximately no-one would want to use in practice. Especially when you already have more conventional nuclear fission reactors.

Right, and that's the point.

There are three logical leaps here, and proof is missing for all three.

- One, that AGI is something we can replicate in a Turing Machine.

AGI might require a specific effect in quantum mechanics to work, for example. Light refraction is completely understood, but still extremely difficult to solve for a single case -- computing power is getting there, but it took about 60 years from it being understood to us being able to compute it reasonably, and even then it's only an approximation -- our best rendering farms about around 5 F-stops. That's nowhere near the human eye's ability.

Another example, the 3-Body problem solved for N-bodies. Or how about, protein folding. Folding@Home is remarkable, but even with the combined GPUs of hundreds of volunteers, it still takes Folding@Home months, years, to calculate the folds of a single protein. The brain has billions of them.

- Two, that we will figure out the solution to Turning Machine simulation in our lifetime.

This can stand on the arguments of one. I'd just like to add that there are many really simple conjectures that are as-yet unsolved within mathematics. The Collatz conjecture is a good example here, but there are hundreds of thousands of others. Despite it being probably the simplest problem to teach, it's been about 90 years and even proof theory machines haven't made too much headway. Erdos, probably the greatest mathematician to ever have lived, stated "Mathematics may not be ready for such a problem". In that, subject experts doubt our ability to solve it within our lifetime.

Why should this be any different for an exponentially harder problem?

Perhaps a reference to the fact that it took about 150 years to go between "neurons are in the brain and influence our actions" to "we can do brain surgery, kind of...". And probably about 200 more years until we can say we actually "understand" the brain in a meaningful way?

- Three. That the resulting device will be practical, useful, and will be able to understand itself enough to replicate a better version of itself, within a reasonable timeframe.

I think you argued this sufficiently yourself! The fact that we can build something doesn't give it use. We can build machines that extract energy off of graphene. At no point does it make it useful to do so, however.

And yet, despite all of these unsolved problems, we are supposed to be able to simulate a machine to replicate the brain? In the next 20 years, no less?! Is it not unreasonable to think that this is a preposterous assertion whatever dimension you look at it through? That so many people have thrown themselves into wishful thinking, and cults at that, is beyond me.
Here's the org-mode tables introduction:

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/tables.html

After that, google for filtering, sorting, etc. It's all possible.
It seems fairly straightforward to me..when it is expensive to procreate due to restricted resources, procreation becomes picky. Birds are mostly monogamous because flying is very energy intensive and the male parent doesn’t want to waste resource on fledglings that isn’t his..obviously, exceptions exist. It is very costly to raise the young. Parental investment is high.

It is different for birds that don’t fly. Water fowl especially have a different reproductive system. Because they don’t fly. This is true for all flightless birds. Even for birds like geese that only fly for seasonal migration. They get their food from the water. Ground dwellers have plenty of food and don’t have spend as much energy foraging for food as a bird that flies. Very few of them mate for life.

Further: Galus Galus has different design than geese and ducks. Castrated roosters are called ‘capons’(French)…produces a nice soft fat capon for Sunday lunch. It’s genitalia is less developed than say..geese.

As a chef, I knew how to sex identify geese/duck. water fowl genitalia is different than fowl. Most farmers know this as sex determination is key to raising animals for profit. With the exception of Pilgrim/Emden/White Italian and some Chinese geese where the autosexing is straightforward with feather colouring and down colour, most have to be identified while they are still goslings.

Goslings can be gender identified as early as the first week and also when they are adults. Male adult penis is invaginated and like a corkscrew. Female organs has genital eminence. The breeding ratio is 1:3 or max 1:5. So it’s important to separate them as early as possible.

Mammals are different..example: feline penii is barbed and most copulation results in kittens. A female cat can have a single litter with multiple tomcats. Male cats will kill kittens ..probably those that aren’t their own..because a lactating mother cat won’t go into heat.

With insects like bees and mantii, the male often meets his end after sex. It comes down to energy needs and availability of resources.

P.S: [..] Birds, she thought at the time, didn’t have penises. In her two years studying them at Cornell University, a world leader in avian research, she’d never once heard her colleagues mention a bird penis.[..] Huh! Really? Cornell university scientists don’t know what a farm child picks up during one farming season? The article is full of red flags for clickbait lies.
It’s an unknown in the sense that it hasn’t been verified experimentally and we lack many details, but there are still quite a few things we know. The fact that we are not certain is not an excuse to claim that god did it and it is a failure of science, or that it is unknowable.
It isn't anything Things did.
Some legal rights but not all.
It's not stopping up the entire global supply chain like Ever Given was, so I bet there's not nearly the same effort going into freeing it.
You said that you don't trust stablecoins because one particular stablecoin is untrustworthy. That's a classic strawman, plain and simple.

You took down the Tether strawman, while pretending that you took down the entire concept of stablecoins.

This conversation is going way off track from your original claim that you don't trust stablecoins. Your perception of the community's perception of Tether is neither here nor there.
I think the moment AGI is possible, we won't have it because it would basically be slavery to own something really comparable to a human.
I have a go thing I wrote that I hadn't touched for years but had the misfortune to need to modify it recently, and the way to migrate from $GOPATH/src/ to go.mod is not really clear (to me at least). To build this thing, the only go code I have, I used git submodules to put all the dependencies in ./src, so I had ./src/github.com and a load of 3rd party modules in there, then my code was in ./src/Mything. To build it, I ran "env GOPATH=$PWD go build Mything/MyPackage" and it did the right thing, with the final binary appearing in the current directory.

Now this gives an error "go.mod file not found in current directory", but if I add that file, go build says "unexpected go.mod file found in current directory".

Luckily, for now, I can use GO111MODULE=off to keep pretending everything is fine, but my eyes start to glaze over when I read the migration guide at https://go.dev/blog/migrating-to-go-modules - it's one of those moments where I start to wish I'd used a different language :(
Sorry to sound cynical but it's a question of priorities. Michigan just gave General Motors $2 billion to build two EV battery plants, one in Lansing and the other in Detroit which will create 3,000 jobs.

The billions are coming from Federal COVID money. The state caused Flint's problem by discontinuing water from Detroit and pulling from a local river without adding a required chemical.

This decision was made by an emergency manager appointed by the then governor to save money. This manager took power away from the elected mayor and city council.
If you implement client machine certs, then only corporate imaged machines can connect to 1 in the first place - wired or wireless. 2 and 3 are a bit same-y from my perspective, but the selling point might be “you get a bigger share of the office pipe than the totally open guest network, and fewer restrictions” for 2.
I'm the opposite: I'm writing Go for a living and I hate everything about the language itself, but I found the de-facto toolchain ok-ish and probably the least obtrusive thing about the whole thing.

Imho, many languages would massively benefit with the kind of tooling Go has out of the box. I heard Rust's tooling has some great stuff too and it's in my immediate plan to learn some Rust.
Going to add one, as a proponent for the lab-leak

- an outbreak of a novel coronavirus occurs where the closet natural resivoir sharing a similar bat virus population is between 800 miles (Yunnan province) or > 1000 miles (Laos)
What is AppleAVD? Audio video decode?
Company of about 25.

We use runbooks written in Notion to give step-by-step guides for when things go wrong (which they do, a lot). We're getting better about making sure every alert has a runbook linked, and improving them over time.

What I really want is to use something like DeepNote to have runbooks that automatically gather context from databases and logs.
Does anyone have a reputable resource for how General Average actually works under today's international law?

Some questions I'm curious about are:

(1) What constitutes an "emergency"? If the ship is stuck but not otherwise in imminent danger, would GA apply? It would appear to me that Evergreen could safely transport the cargo off the ship, but would rather just throw it overboard to save time and effort. Doesn't that just unnecessarily pass the costs on to cargo-owners?

(2) Many places refer to the idea that GA only applies if jettisoning cargo actually saves the ship. It sounds like the ship is really stuck - if they jettison cargo but the ship still doesn't budge, would that nullify GA?

(3) Is the GA liability limited by the declared value of your own cargo on that ship? What happens if the total declared value of the "saved" cargo is less than the value of the "discarded" cargo?

(4) Do cargo-owners have an option to say "you know what, I don't really want my cargo anymore" and avoid paying GA?

(5) What country would have jurisdiction over any litigation in this instance? Would it be the country whose territorial waters this happened in, the flag country of the ship, the country of ownership of the ship, contract-defined, etc?
Wacom have had solid *nix support since even before that. In the mid-late 90s the company I worked for was using Wacom tablets on NeXTStep and Solaris workstations without any problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAn_7vutwxM

Do not understand the explanation. Just put a space will get the hn act. And copy is just right click or touch-hold. Am I missing something ?
Those links are returning 404. Is it a private repo?
Evolution does not claim to explain the origin of life - only the, well, evolution of modern day species from primordial ones.

The origin of life - that is, how the very first ancestor in the chain came to be from simpler chemical processes - remains an active open area of research.

This isn't some faith based, moving the goal posts etc argument - its simple scientific fact: we don't yet know the chemical processes that can start with inorganic compounds and lead to a living cell. We will, some day, but we don't now.
So, we need to do more research until we will find an ultimate weapon against viruses.

As an alternative, we need to stop development of new viruses, both naturally and in labs, including Russian and North Korean labs.
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Most likely, there is no origin of life. As in, there is nothing you can point to that is clearly alive and came from things that are clearly not.

Although it is complicated, we know a bit about the chemistry of self-replicating molecules. Things like prions and viruses also show that the boundary between alive and not-alive could be much more blurry than what most people have in mind when discussing such things.
Eh, you've got to be an absolutely awful developer if you can't have a website render properly in a browser that follows 99.5% of the same standards as the "relevant" top dawg.

I guess all the people who made sites work in fucking Internet Explorer have moved on to better positions or retired :D
Okay sure, perhaps we've stumbled onto something big here in the Hacker News comments section. You want to do the honors and alert the media?
Heat for the Streets Toyota Debuts First-Ever GR Corolla
What do you mean by plain English? Will it support colloquialisms? Regional dialects? How is a Left Join expressed in English, distinct from a Full Join? Will it accept synonyms and contractions? Or will the Query Language require Structure?
I know!!! I am on an M1 pro myself and a lot of modern apps feel more sluggish than this.
Violet – Python VM Written in Swift
For Windows systems I'm a big fan of this freeware: Scanner.exe (one executable of 478 kB) –http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
I’m pretty sure the migration is just

1. Go mod init in your code’s root dir
2. Done..? Go get ./…?
Same bug on macOS, along with an Intel graphics driver issue: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213220
“We might as well put these boats to some good use,” he said. “After all, the royals have a rich history of taking things that don’t belong to them, and never giving them back! But don’t quote me on that.”
Haha
Because errors are just return values in golang, and it's not possible to write a linter to guarantee that they're handled, there's always going to be the possibility of them being overwritten by accident. Not to mention due to the lack of composability, you end up with even more hacks like what gorm does, making it even easier to mishandle errors.

> Go does not have a concept of errors

Exactly the problem. There needs to be a notion of error handling in the language.
What if the requirement was pinned specifically to 1.0.0 in order to avoid a bug introduced in 1.0.1. With a package that also requires a minimum 1.0.1, that should be unresolvable set of requirements and your package manager should fail to make a lockfile out of it.
Public now. Thanks for pointing out.
This article gets close to nailing the problem with web3, but doesn't quite nail it.

What we are dealing with here is the apotheosis of crypto bros believing their own hype.

You would think that a technology whose only successful use is crime or greater fool farming would have acquired some introspection ability by now but apparently not.
It is recognized by the united states as morocco. The rest of your comment is basic polisario propaganda, and does not reflect the reality on the ground. There's nothing "left" to normalize and there is no reason to give any credibility to a foreign backed separatist group that has basically done nothing for the Sahraoui people. A part from betraying it by waging a proxy war benefitting only it's algerian puppet masters, while holding it's own people hostage in Tindouf.
At the very least, it doesn’t follow from the fact that it’s infinite and nonrepeating.
This kept reloading on mobile for me so I wasn’t able to scroll. Not sure if that was part of the April Fool’s joke.
hnrss.org does a good job of this. Of course the topics are RSS feeds. There's one that will let you search for anything, and I have quite a few of those.
> What happened here?

three things, I think:

1) people saying (and believing) that CPU, RAM, and disk are fast enough and cheap enough to be effectively infinite, and no longer worthy of concern. put another way: developers feeling that their target platforms are no longer constrained.

2) many software developers simply stopped caring about performance and began implementing all kinds of things extremely naively. new developers do this continually for many years early in their careers.

3) JavaScript. the places this language is used today, where it should never, ever be used. excruciatingly slow language. and JavaScript is EVERYWHERE, even on extremely constrained platforms, doing work, when almost any other language would have been a better choice.
Consciousness is something, I cannot explain at all with statistics (or any other mechanism).

True AGI by my definition would require consciousness, but as far as I know, there is also no general accepted definition of consciousness either.
Nope. It actually works.

Also March 31st was the 25 anniversary of Doom, so it felt more appropriate than April 1st.
Yeah, overwhelming majority of people don't do either. And people are way more likely to be in position to act on empathy then to do elaborate study then cause systematic changes of something.
Thanks for making my defend my viewpoint. This isn't my field but my rationale in saying this is because their system was not externally breached and they also said no customer data was accessed or even targeted. That's reassuring in that I don't think my (home) hardware is in danger. I do have the log in from cloud with credentials feature turned off from that I recall and changed my local password. I think it's hard defend against an internal bad actor but you are right he could have sold hashes or left a backdoor or something.

I do agree with the anti-SLAPP comments having read more about this since I posted that.
Even if scientists are competent, virus can be leaked because of someone else stupidity. For example, look at blast in «Vector» lab, Novosibirsk, RF, Sep 16 2019, where Russian first responders entered into biosafety level 4 lab without protective equipment, then opened every door checking for fire and stole some equipment. How you protect your lab from that?
> You shouldn't read so much into a single sentence

I disagree. That sentence is unambiguous. Either that sentence is blatantly incorrect or an EDR does imply life or death. The two possibilities are mutually exclusive.
JIT makes things like the JFR possible.
A book to help you become a CTO
You're right on the tables part, but these are the words of the guy who worked on BMW for 14 years, who's on the video.

And, as a person who's doing simulation coding, I tend to behave to him about that.

The relevant part starts here: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand...
Why not use a external keyboard? A cute little mechanical isn't only a eye catcher peace but also light and kinda mobile.
Diogenes holds up a plucked chicken and proclaims "Behold, a man!"

The hypesters are defining AGI (and even General Intelligence) like Plato defined man, "A featherless biped". Either they know this, and they are hucksters, or their thinking is that shallow, and thus have nothing meaningful to say on the subject.

General Intelligence has drivers, like curiosity, hope, a sense of fairness and injustice, and hunger, pain, pleasure, fear. And those things probably drove the refinement of intelligence, and as such, a housecat is less like a simple machine than a earthworm is.

I think AGI is possible. Ultimately we're all machines, and I don't believe in a free will particle, but it is fairly obvious that an earthworm merely acts, while a cat acts interestingly, pulling in qualia unavailable to the worm. A worm is either active, or its dead, while my cat is clever enough to cut corners, to seek efficiency or pleasure, to be lazy.

And humans are even better at it. Therein lies the rub: people working on AI don't seem to aiming for real intelligence, they want their convenient action machine, more like a worm than a cat. And the hypesters (and doomsters) hand wave and say "suddenly, it will become self aware and magically motivated." Suuuure. We're far more likely to be thoughtlessly killed off before a machine muses, "I think, therefore I am".

Just because it "am", does not mean it thinks.

To be intelligent is to be able to consider "why?" and "how?", to be able to fool one's self, even in the face of cold reality, to yell "no fair!", "I don't wanna", and to wonder how one might take short cuts or avoid tasks at all.

Which is how and why we're chasing AI, but nobody is working out how to make it cry. The cart will be build, and the horse will suddenly appear, all haltered up? The rain will follow the plough?

No. That's magical thinking.

It took about a billion years of massive parallel organic computation for evolution to synthesize general intelligence, and we're to believe that some malfunctioning quine machine is going to break out, 75 years from the starting gate?

Not by accident, and certainly not be design.
Is there a such software that can do this on network shared folders?
Open Bulletin Board wants what now?

Oh, other openbb. Gosh I'm old.
This treats people who help a little worst then those who don't help at all. In such system, doing nothing at all is best strategy for everyone.
You just don't remember 20 years ago. The modern OSs at the time were sluggish too, as they were pushing the limits of their hardware. Your computer today would be pretty quick if it only did what your computer of 20 years ago did and in only 1024x768.

OSs today do a lot more than 20 years ago at about the same speed as 20 years ago.

Now, we can debate if all the extras are necessary, but that seems like a different debate than speed.
That doesn't really matter. It's doing a different job and if it provides enough value doing that job then people will buy it.
> Eggs are much larger and take more energy to produce.

>Females are super careful about picking a mate because they spend months making an egg.

The prevailing science was that females - assuming we are talking about humans - don’t make eggs rather are born with a finite number that reduces over their life time.

Only in the last couple years has the science begun to be questioned with the possibility that women do in fact make new eggs during adulthood. However, as far as I know that is still an open ended question being studied, whereas you offer some very specific facts about the required energy to produce eggs, which would suggest that in fact studies have not only confirmed women do actually make new eggs during their lifetime but there is further understanding about that process.

Could you link any studies about women producing new eggs “every couple months” and the energy required that you reference?
Evolution is just a fancy word we put on what we see in living things, but there is nothing magic in DNA or RNA. In an abstract sense, the emergence of some specific complex molecules from a bunch of precursors also is selection of the fittest (most stable, with the lowest energy of formation, etc). These are things at play in the production of amino acids in thermal vents, for example.