theferalrobot

What if our replacement hinges are dropping when stationary too?

> preach lower conscientiousness, lower agreeableness

How conscientious and agreeable of you

I’m seeing 5.0% most places (see ally bank). Still higher than its been but not pushing 6% by any stretch.

Anyone else here have the annoying hinge issue where the laptop screen won’t stay up? I even got new hinges and the problem remains… maybe just bad luck. Between that and battery life though I would exercise some caution OP.

I love the framework ethos and plan to continue supporting them but imo they do have kinks to work out.

I think the point is more that dwelling on wheather or not to call what a submarine does, ‘swimming’ is a pointless debate, only based on how you define the word. Certainly there are interesting conversations to be had around the subject as you point out, but arguing semantics probably isn’t one of them.

I think you are completely missing what I am saying and you also seem to be fallaciously appealing to skepticism (are you a global skeptic [0]?). Sure you can say ‘but there is so much we don’t know’, I’m not arguing we know everything. That is not in any way what I am saying.

I am saying it is pointless to appeal to such things. If we always appealed to skepticism science would never advance because everything would be too unknowable. We get to define what words like consciousness means, so we can intentionally define to be within the realm of scientific inquiry. Most people probably define consciousness outside of scientific realm of inquiry (notions of a soul etc) and that is fine, but at least in the first definition there can be scientific debate.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_skepticism

>but people who suspect that's not the full story, well that's pointless to debate, they should use my framework for discussion

You can believe whatever you want, use whatever framework you want (religion, spirituality, science etc). I'm just pointing out that it is pointless to debate between the two because they fundamentally disagree about how to inquire about the world and answer questions like this. Everyone in this debate is talking past each other without acknowledging that they are starting from two very different positions and sets of definitions.

I feel like everyone taking a hardline stance on this is being disingenuous - consciousness as it is used in pop culture is a largely non-scientific (and in my opinion a useless) term.

If you claim 'consciousness' is just an emergent phenomena of complexity (something I happen to agree with) then sure neural nets are potentially slightly conscious, but that isn't how most people view consciousness unfortunately.

Most people view 'consciousness' as some 'pie in the sky' component of biological life that has yet to be discovered by science, but this line of inquiry is completely outside the realm of useful dialog, so it seems pointless to debate such things.

These are the two general views of consciousness, the first at least provides a useful framework for discussion, but the two camps will vehemently always disagree with each other.

> "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

Slightly off topic but... as someone that is moving out of the city and even a few states over does anyone have any advice on home buying? Would it be better to buy now or rent for a bit and then buy? Is that like asking what stocks to invest in or is it more predictable than that? I have zero experience with this sort of thing.

That seems at least a bit hyperbolic - AMD has pushed intel a lot in the past four years but it wasn't until the past year or so that they have potentially started outperforming Intel (depending on workload) in what is likely to be a 'who has released more recently' kind of competition for a while.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

Latest benches have AMD and Intel winning in about the same number of tests.

> Are the vaccines really free in the US or will hospitals still catch you with copay, deductibles and other stuff?

Yes they are free and there can be no cost sharing of any kind in the USA - insured and uninsured get if free. Same goes for most countries in the EU.

> 250x less water

Compared to what exactly and for what crop? Rain is free and is all that is needed for plenty of crops

Totally agree, design today takes itself way too seriously to the point that it all looks like it came from the same corporate hell hole. This is a breath of fresh air.

Like all things with the oxford vaccine - that is only if you look at one slice of the data (in which there were no elderly)... why they didn’t include elderly is beyond me but of course there aren’t going to be severe cases in vaccinated patients 18-55

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/23/ox...

And presumably they would melt down a few plants in the Nevada desert nuclear sites before launching... there’s an obvious difference between testing and deployment

You could say the same thing about Linux. Standardization is helpful - there are so many companies with an interest in chromium it’s not just a google project anymore it is a huge community project.

> Human judgment needs to be a part of the process if a good experience is desired

Yeah just to second this I think that a lot of us coming from software backgrounds like to think of laws as being code, fully definable, automatable and capable of covering all edge cases. This isn’t the case. Judgement is required.

Not to ruin my own metaphor but I actually think there is a lesson about software as well. Software is not something capable of perfection. There is no perfect code, everything is a bodge, some bodges are more useful than others. You can’t cover every edge case. Software evolves and has flaws much like the product of natural evolution.

> In total, 650 million books were locked up just in public libraries alone. Because of that, we felt we could, and should, and needed to make the digitized versions of those books available to students

Libraries also have movies and music... should they have put those out for free too? I love wayback machine but I’m not sure I follow the logic on this one. I’m no legal expert but that seems like pretty iffy reasoning.

I’m 99% sure that that is already the case (and has been).

Most app backups in icloud are end to end encrypted. If you choose to backup your entire device in icloud (rather than automatically on your local mac) that backup is not end to end encrypted.

I agree it should be but that doesn’t seem like a huge deal especially considering the alternative platform (android) doesn’t even have a comprehensive backup solution (only individual apps via gdrive etc).

Per OPs comment - it isn’t about a compromised system for me at all at least. If I’m in a video conference at 6am in my pjs I’m just a button click away from everybody seeing me. Camera cover let’s me know I can’t accidentally do this (and it has saved me on multiple occasions).

Not OP but I can speak with a small example from my previous field - coral reef ecology. It used to be standard to collect video footage and hand annotate small portions of the footage to draw up some statistics about the reef progression. Today we can collect the footage and let ml annotate the entirety of it to get much more accurate and precise statistics about the progression/recession. Not only that but we can do that on an organism basis and also see do highly local analyses. This wasn’t possible 10 years ago. I think the applications for ML outside of consumer tech are far larger than within but everyone here seems focused on that for some reason.

Everyone always looks to consumer tech but at least where I am at the far more successful and interesting domains are outside of that (and frankly most serious jobs too).

I used to work for a lab doing coral reef sea floor mapping to track reef progression year over year, this was only possible because of recent advances in ml. This is just an example of course.

There is tons of work being done (and successfully used today) in healthcare domains, weather modeling, wireless rf tech, geospatial remote sensing etc etc etc.

My point is AI is being leveraged a lot and is moving forward quickly but the applications for average consumers that are both cost effective and highly useful are growing thinner.

If you want to see consumer tech examples that have been at least moderately successful I think some highlights are Google photos image recognition, current speech to text processing in most places (Apple google amazon), image processing in most smartphone cameras (wrt ml especially night photos) and unfortunately (IMO) a lot of content aggregation algorithms (YouTube, Facebook etc) optimizing for engagement.

> These secondary sanctions are not based on international treaties and trade negotiations

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about - these things don’t just happen overnight cause the US says so.

Sanctions in this case have been discussed and formalized by multiple groups and organizations including OECD, FATF and the UN Security Council.

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Lol the article you list was published before the documentation cited was presented (and before my articles were even published) - additionally you are moving the goalposts - the op claim is that the nsa hasn’t foiled any terror plots - not about metadata collection

You didn’t even read your own article.

A panel member claimed the phone metadata collection program hadn’t saved any lives/foiled any attacks - not that the NSA itself hasn’t.

Additionally they present this as being at odds with the Obama administrations documentation, not a refutation (they didn’t find them to be false claims).

> Sounds like the NSA who couldn't point to a single instance of stopping any type of terrorist attack/operation despite collecting anything they could get their hands on.

This can’t be true - there are plenty of sources citing foiled plots and we see similar publications from other governments (EU and beyond) citing similar justifications. A quick google yields:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nsa-director-50-potential-te...

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-leak-keith-alexan...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gchq-foiled-terr...

You are referring to things that were agreed to in international treaties and trade negotiations - again these sorts of things are super common

For Europe: see GDPR

It’s entirely common for countries to have codes that affect those outside their borders - especially ones that were agreed upon in treaty or trade deal. What is unique here is a country demanding that a non local company engage in censorship outside its territory. These two things are nothing alike

You can be an advertising company and also make some contributions to tech at the same time