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'Major milestone': Harbour Air completes another electric seaplane test flight
> Deliberately designing a 2+ class system for a government imposed process is pretty weird when you think about it.

And it's not just PreCheck - the price of your ticket gives you privileges as well.

I could not personally believe when I first saw that First Class and Business travelers got their own separate line for security. The brazen unfairness of it is incredible.

The amount you paid for a ticket should have absolutely zero to do with Federal Government managed security. If the wealthy and corporations were forced to wait in line with the rest of us, the security theater we have to deal with would suddenly become a lot less moronic.

That was the first time I personally observed the influence the wealthy have on the government. I knew it was true, but up until then I hadn't ever experienced it myself. It's disgusting.
I switch between several keyboard layouts, some of it custom made using Ukelele.

> Ukelele is a Unicode Keyboard Layout Editor for macOS

https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
I think you are overestimating your knowledge of design and UI. Mainstream software has been rigorously researched, tested, and proven to work. If we left UI design up to HN users we would end up with some plain text directory listing with vim keybindings.
CEQA is one of the most NIMBY anti development laws ever enacted. It really should be repealed
It's an (over)simplified example to illustrate the point (he admits as much near the end), if you want better examples it may be good to look up "corrigibility" with respect to AI alignment

But abstractly the assumptions are something like this:

* the AGI is an agent

* as an agent, the AGI has a (probably somewhat arbitrary) utility function that it is trying to maximize (probably implicitly)

* in most cases, for most utility functions, "being turned off" rates rather lowly (as it can no longer optimize the world)

* therefore, the AGI will try not to be turned off (whether through cooperation, deception, or physical force)
You get used to it
Except it is pretty naive to extrapolate like that. A high order polynomial looks flat if you zoom in enough. You can't extrapolate far beyond what you have empirical data for without potentially running into huge problems.
I am aware of the differences. My goal was not to recreate dtrace 1 to 1, it was to extend it with trade-offs. I've heard the argument made many times, my system is not meant to be deployed on end point user systems. A recreation obeying the same constraints of dtrace could be constructed, it would simply involve swapping the scripting system for another.

If your argument is that loops are unsafe, please go look at ebpf, which has loops. If you think user defined functions are unsafe, go look at ebpf again - it's nearly C. If your argument is shipping code from user to kernel is unsafe, go look at ebpf byte code, I could easily implement signing to validate only trusted plugins can load.

Your argument is close minded. These are trade-offs, and can be easily changed to obey different constraints. My system open sources previously undocumented kernel interfaces. If you dislike the constraints I chose, fork it and go rebuild dtrace exactly, it's not that I'm not solving a real problem - I'm just solving one you fail to understand.
By 'lose the land', really they'd be forced to sell or go bankrupt/accrue tax debt.

Which is pretty terrible if the folks are little old ladies settling down to avoid the cruel harsh world, and now need to find somewhere else to live when they are least capable of doing so (being on a fixed income and all).

The 'can't put old widows out of their homes' scenario is why California's Prop 13 came to be, btw. Even without Georgist taxation, property taxes got too high to pay. I imagine a lot of folks in Texas and other less dense areas are going through this right now due to the rapidly increasing property values and less controlled changes in taxation.

It does cause change and turnover instead of stagnation in an area though.
Nothing wrong about being obsessed with work and wanting to do well
Going to be? It isn't already?
Ask HN: Why has Lastpass extension started inserting an empty div on every page?
This element is now getting inserted to every document:

<div style="position: static !important;"></div>

It usually isn't visible to the eye, but it is on some pages (e.g. example.com).

I know it's from the Lastpass extension because it goes away when I disable the extension.

This is on Chrome, Desktop
I am sure Michael Larabel knows what he is doing, given how long he has been benchmarking. I think both devices have soldered memory though, so the amount of installed RAM isn’t flexible.
Fork/exec & wait for "do your thing" notice is the pre-threads co-routine/continuation equivalent. Although, system("program to run") call allows better separation with less coding effort.

Don't think concurrency in C would have been included per unix philosopy of program does one thing well. Would have been program to feed data to named pipe, program to read data from named pipe.

Closest K&R C related example: Duff's Device & Simon Tatham's coroutines in C using macros. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
Convenience. Renting from a rental shop involved ordering online using a bad UI, showing up at an office, waiting in line, getting told the car you'd requested isn't available, would you like this instead, would you like to buy more insurance, make sure to bring it back with a full tank, and you're paying for a full day, even if you just need groceries from costco.

Zipcar involved looking for the nearest location in the app (typically a few blocks away, if near SF), picking your car and timeframe, showing up, and driving away. Fuel is included, just use the included credit card. No human contact or upselling required, and you can return the car at 3am.

If you only need a car for a few hours, Zipcar is much more efficient than a traditional rental.
Compensation is negotiated up and down marginally by the cost of hiring someone else, but bounded above by profitability. You could be the best price:performance employee in the world for a small business, there's just not all that much they could pay you. A huge mega-profitable tech company can pay whatever it takes for top talent and also get away with sometimes inefficiently overpaying rest-and-vesters.
Gato is just one tiny glimpse out of many, and the combined research effort both from academia and industry and the level of success has never even come close throughout history to the things we are seeing right now.
This game plays the "Popcorn" tune as the background music. It is quite catchy! To listen to the background music, play the original 1983 PC Booter version of this game here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Digger_1983_1983

It took me some time to find an MP3 of the original Popcorn music. Finally found a copy of it archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20000903025158/http://www.popcor...

The MP3 above was available at the Popcorn website which has now disappeared but we can visit archived copies of the website at: http://web.archive.org/web/20001013001516/http://www.popcorn...
Input for dates has many issues with styling, cross-browser compatibility and various formats/locales.

Meter has a nonsensical data model and no standard way of styling it.

Dialog is a half-assed element that's useless without large amount of styling and code. For its sake they've added an additional form method, which will likely break many older JS libraries.

Mind you, we're talking about controls that have been faked or implemented on the web by developers for at least two decades. This is pitiful.
Your issue is "what if someone owns huge chunks of land and doesn't try to make any money off it?" Then Hollywood gets built somewhere else where someone does want to make money. And eventually, those improvements may make the land the other person owns worth more money anyway and they'd be unable to pay the taxes.
I thought that the app itself could monitor keystrokes, too, if not recently then at some point in the past.
How the Chile Became Hot
> Mostly from X drawing commands being a shit way to represent modern UI's and toolkits.

This is really fundamentally wrong. X drawing commands are still just fine for representing modern within-app UIs and toolkits.

The two things that have changed are the underlying GPU technology, which has shifted towards abstractions and APIs mostly targetting gaming and video, and desktop level UI stuff, which is expected to include compositing these days.

However, it's not as if the other remote desktop systems have really changed much to reflect these developments either.
I tried and rejected ZipCar for exactly that reason. But more recently, Free2Move is offering point-to-point rentals (in Portland) that seem to work well. I tried it once and was happy with the experience. The price wasn’t much less than an Uber, though.
Why would anyone want to prevent this? America is free for people to work as many jobs as they want.
Ask HN: How to Talk Tech?
Ive been a developer for over 10 years primarily working in agencies and every place I’ve worked I’ve always just been a worker and never had a mentor or never really involved on the business side of things. I got a role as an associate director of technology and I’m just trying to step up my game. Does any one have any advice on how I can level up on the business side of things?
Sounds more like mindfulness. idk the juxtaposition here feels a little forced
I used it across the tubes! ;)

I support my in-laws and my daughters running Linux on their laptops and it worked fine and was pretty quick.

By the way -- we are all running various fairly recent versions of Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. The oldest being mine: [Release Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 64-bit].
DeSEC – Free Secure DNS
I would imagine the problem with this model is that there isn't actually a whole lot you can do if you rent time on a satellite. Given an orbiting sensor suite, all you can do is log the sensor data and send it back to earth - you can't really run experiments or anything. So the company that owns the satellites can do that, and then try to . . . sell the data? That's basically the business model. That works for satellite imaging companies, but what other sensors might that work for? And how many paying customers could you reasonably have?
It's not; Qt helpfully started the polling automatically when a QNetworkAccessManager was instantiated. Which is needed for network access via Qt, such as fetching ads for the free version.
> Can someone please explain like we are fifteen why AGI is impossible, at least right now

Probably not. I did attempt to give a high level explanation in another comment but I think there is this naive belief that complex problems can be distilled into terms that laymen can understand. This is such a complex problem that is so ill-defined that experts argue. I'm not sure there's really a good "explain it like I'm an undergrad who's done ML courses" explanation that can be concisely summed up in a HN comment.
Haven't thought about Digger in decades. As soon as I saw the title, the music started playing in my head... funny how that works.
You don't need sentience to have self-preservation.
> It's finicky to get working.

ssh -Y remote-host
...
% x-application-name

What's finicky?
> probably due to neglect since it's a kind of functionality that not many people seem to be interested in these days

X11 is at its heart an asyncrhonous distributed systems protocol (quite similar to Erlang Dist) that happens to output to the screen as a side effect, but a lot of libraries and toolkits (including xlib) provide synchronous abstractions on top. When applications use synchronous abstractions frequently, you end up waiting for many roundtrips and the UI gets painfully slow. Some app developers regularly test with remote X over high latency and/or low bandwidth links, and some don't, and it's pretty easy to tell which is which. Some apps are painful even on a LAN, lots of roundtrips add up.

If there was appetite to do the work, one could imagine an extension to push client-side rendered window images across in a compressed format, but xorg developers have mostly moved on. There's nx and other external compressors, but there's a missed opportunity, IMHO. Maybe waypipe will fill this void eventually?
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<Mass> hey does anyone know what the song name is by Frankie Lymon that goes Uhhh uhh uh uh uhahhhhh uhh uhh uh
Covid’s Harmful Effects on the Brain Reverberate Years Later
How does one do that? And how much does it cost?
I'm a fan as well but the money would have been better spent on upgrading the existing lines so passenger traffic could be a first class citizen of the rails.
Example from the doc. Probes not being allowed to call other system routines to avoid reentrancy. Dtrace avoids this architecturally, as your link says. I disliked this, so I chose the alternative, which so happens to be mentioned in the same document. My system detects reentrancy and avoided calling probes when it's determined the caller was itself a probe.

I simply chose different constraints. It 'not being secure' is a facade. It's not meant to be, I could make it so though, if I wanted to. I bothered with the entire rust + wasm implementation specifically to show that this argument of not being secure' because I didn't use the D language was untrue. Browsers themselves execute untrusted code via wasm. If the concern is the halting problem, then just use wasm with bounded loops.
Fellow AI researcher here who personal agrees with OP, there are some of us that are believers ;). I agree that most people in our industry are generally not very bullish about near-term AGI, I think it just comes down to how you perceive the complexity of the problem. Personally, I think it's solvable because passing a lengthy, adversarial Turing test reliably is all it would take to convince me of sentience in a model, and well, GPT-3 is already close to that (though I want to clarify that I do not believe any present-day models possess any inkling sentience yet).

I think the main three obstacles in our way are imbuing models with (from least to most difficult):

1. continuous execution, which would be necessary for a real-time "stream of consciousness"

2. discreet short and long term memory and the ability to use it productively

3. plasticity at runtime

1 is just a matter of finding more efficient architectures and cheapening compute, both fronts we're constantly making progress on. 2 is a little more muddy, but there are already some really impressive models that have retrieval mechanisms which allow them to search through databases to help them contextualize prompts which I believe is a step in the right direction. 3 is probably the hardest in my opinion--I think we need several fundamental breakthrough discoveries before our models are anywhere near as plastic as, say, a human brain. My hypothesis is that exceptional plasticity is necessary for sentience, but obviously that's just my own personal opinion.

Anyways, thought I'd chime in with my two cents. I'd love to hear others' thoughts on the feasibility/infeasibility of near-term AGI.
The route makes fine sense. It passes through every significant city in the state and travels between the principal urban areas in a time competitive with air travel. If it did not serve Fresno, Bakersfield, etc then it does not accomplish the decarbonization goals of the project.
fair, and it is a pretty interesting post
I read open platforms as not just Android. I was thinking more traditional compute vs mobile
As past threads on this topic have shown, iPhone users prefer Apple be the controller of the device than the device owner itself. It is somehow understandable, but it is position I've often seen espoused.
Does Tor use SIKE/SIDH? The proposals I've seen for PQC Tor all seem to run a PQC construction alongside a conventional one (the only sane way to do this right now), and so, no, a break in the PQC wouldn't let you recover sessions.

Yes, this impacts all of SIDH.
Ask HN: What's the Color of Your Dreams?
This article stated that only 12% people claimed their dreams were in black and white only. But this number of 12% seems too small, so I'd like to check with everyone here whether it's a reasonable conclusion.

https://www.verywellmind.com/facts-about-dreams-2795938#:~:text=Not%20All%20Dreams%20Are%20in,are%20those%20most%20frequently%20chosen.
> all of the bulls were physicists, philosophers or Deepak-Chopra-for-the-TED-crowd bullshit artists who have never written a line of code in their lives

One of the cofounders of DeepMind (founded in 2010) wrote a blog post that year saying his estimate of time till AGI was a lognormal distribution peaking at 2025. While I haven't personally seen any of his work, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg sounds pretty technical.

If you'd written "nobody I was paying attention to said this", that would've been reasonable.
I think these folks did that: https://www.kubos.com/
If you don't have language support for atomic operations, you need to rely on assembly language library functions provided by the OS; or code your own. Those in turn rely on hardware features provided by the CPU manufacturer and usually bound to special machine instructions.

On simple-enough machines, it suffices to control when interrupts are enabled. More complicated machines with multiple out-of-order cores and fancy cache systems are enormously more fiddly.
The people who first create (and control) superintelligent AGI will control potentially thousands of galaxies.

Better make sure evil people don't do it first.
Just slightly biased here, but workwithindies.com curates interesting roles working for smaller teams in independent games.
To be fair I think it's a pretty distinctive song. Still, a fun memory.
Richest Silicon Valley Suburb Says Build Anywhere but Here
It "makes sense" only so far as it's an option. Most people with crap credit probably shouldn't be taking advantage of this.
Immersive Real World Through Deep Billboards
"High latency nature of the protocol" is a bit misleading.

X is distinctly asynchronous. You don't send the server a command and then wait till it ack's that before doing something else. The actual delay between the client sending the command and the result appearing on the server's display can be extremely fast (dependent mostly on network performance), and by most definitions that is a "low latency" system. However, if the app on the client needs more synchronous behavior from the server, that's when you start to see things slow down and demonstrate "high latency"
> To summarize my point, there's all sorts of genetic stuff that will end up completely unrelated with being autistic, but will end up correlated with getting diagnosed as autistic.

It would be interesting to see, of the people that share these de-novo mutations, who have the genotypes, but not the phenotypes – or see if some people have been treading water as undiagnosed autistic their whole life and give them some insight as to why navigating a neurotypical world is so difficult for them.
How do you know what the function looks like? Unless someone shows that this scaling behaviour breaks down, it is definitely worth pursuing, since the possible benefits are obvious. Everyone who just says it will break down eventually is almost certainly right, but this is also a completely trivial and worthless prediction by itself. The important distinction is that noone knows where the breakdown happens. And from what we can tell today, it's not even close.
Samsung gives its new foldables a performance mode with better battery life
This reasoning that regulation is the cause for the price is way too simplified and isn’t a serious argument. Also even if things are cheaper to purchase without regulation doesn’t mean it’s cheaper for society, hence the entire concept of externalities. Please stop.
I don’t know that the consensus is right but the OP’s confidence of it being far off made me think they were unaware of the recent shifts (not just in consensus, but the upstream capabilities.)
My work setup (in my house) has been entirely based on RDP for a few years now, and I have to say it's great. I basically never physically touch my work laptop unless I'm not working from within my actual office.

Two of my three monitors run fullscreen RDP to my work laptop. I run Slack and Teams on the other one (on my personal PC) because audio/video over RDP is the one thing that doesn't work well. I can even copy/paste images across.

At one point I tried using a dock. It required me to physically switch the cable as well as switch inputs on one monitor (to still connect to my PC's GPU). Though a multi-hundred-dollar KVM could have "solved" this, it was still occasionally glitchy, comparatively slow to switch, and, frankly, just not as convenient. Doing it 100% software is just better.

I wish I could get the same experience doing this to a linux or mac system. In my experience, remote macOS over VNC is a punishingly bad experience, while RDP to a system even sitting physically next to the mac (same internet/VPN/LAN connection) is entirely usable.
Yeah this is a good point. I've been taking the bearish position of HLI here but that doesn't mean I don't think HLI is impossible. I very much do think it is possible (I'm not sure there are many researchers who think it is impossible) but just how close we are. But we don't even have good definitions, so really this is just laymen being privy to expert arguments. I also think there's this naive belief that complex topics can be distilled to laymen terms while maintaining accuracy. That's definitely not true here, as even our "in-group" doesn't have a consensus. But that's cutting edge research for you.
I've been watching out for a library or app that does something like this, but with no attempt at graphics. Currently I use Flight Radar which is totally not that. What I hope to eventually have is something where I plug in my coordinates (as already the case with other apps, unless it's automagic of course) but then gives a text or text object with the info that I can then put on my dashboard while each plane is in range of my location.

Basically I just want a text object that says something like Chicago->Toronto, the plane itself, and it's call number. But no maps, no graphics. Basically the info you get when you click on the plane represented in the graphic, without graphics.
You can just flag it as a dupe.
I know how to operate a hose! How hard can it be to manage a large stream? It's "just" more water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNM4DGBRMU
You can run ML algorithms on imagery in space, and do a bit more than just downlink sensor data. There is already one satellite that works as such an experimental platform:

https://www.groundstation.space/esa-funds-12-new-experiment-...
I'd agree with you, but I have yet to come across a salient, non-circular definition of "meaning" in this context that makes it somehow unobtainable by robots. What is the meaning you speak of? This isn't meant to come across as snarky either, I'm genuinely curious to hear your thoughts.
I don't have a ton of familiarity with the project or the region, but the section of rail in the linked article certainly looks like it makes sense to me. A high-speed connection including the airport and downtowns of the two major metros seems like a decent project.
Newer HTTP versions solve some some things but are not magic pixie dust.

For example:

* If you have file A requiring file B requiring file C requiring file D you still get a chain of requests.

* Compression works a lot better the more data you throw at it, especially similar data which is usually the case for JS/CSS. SDHC was supposed to solve this, but it was never adopted by any major players besides linkedin (and google itself).