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JonnieCache··on Hyper 1.0.0
Pretty sure iterm does all those things, except maybe the collapsable output.
JonnieCache··on Why a Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like “Mad Max”
Threads has to be the most upsetting film I've seen.
JonnieCache··on Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker
I started watching that but then I realised I hadn't seen a lot of the films, so I turned it off for fear of spoilers.
JonnieCache··on Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker
>I don't want to turn this into an essay on screenwriting.

Can you anyway though?

JonnieCache··on Using the 2016 MacBook Pro as a development machine
There are loads of other laptops with a higher pixel density than the macbooks. The real advantage they have is OSXs superior hidpi support.

Unless you're talking about the color reproduction which I can't really comment on. Not really important for devs though.

JonnieCache··on Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool
Thanks very much, I spent hours yesterday looking for a specific description of how the VHDs and VSS interacted and couldn't find it. A bit ridiculous really.
JonnieCache··on Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
What fanless mini PC should I use to run a VPN gateway at line speed? I see a lot of random boxes reccommended on aliexpress, but which one should I buy? Should I just get whatever one, as long as it has the right AES instructions? Or are some of them awful?
JonnieCache··on Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool
Like I said in another comment, it's the ACL impedance-mismatch that's the problem with cygwin :(
JonnieCache··on Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool
Ah I'm confusing it with rsnapshot. I'd assumed they were the same. I'm confusing incremental with differential I guess.

Are you running rdiff-backup in cygwin? How do you find it deals with the ntfs ACLs? I'm looking for a way to do incremental full-disk backups that leave the files on disk in a "natural" state, with their original pathnames/ACLs/ADSs and not in some weird archive format. Although I suppose rdiff doesn't count as "weird" being as its open source and well supported.

TBH I'm quite liking the look of the windows built-in backup function, I like the idea of the shadow copy service and storing disk images as VHLs. Booting into the backups in virtualbox sounds cool.

The problem is that the "Previous Versions" get stored on the primary drive, not the backup drive, eating into my free space. Unfortunately one can't set it to use the empty space, it wants to preallocate. You also can't set a time interval, only a percentage of the volume.

As far as I can tell consecutive VHL images don't get stored as diffs or anything, they're separate, meaning I'd really only get one at a time.

Oh, come back Time Machine, all is forgiven.

JonnieCache··on Dolphin Progress Report: November 2016
It's also to do with the homebrew scene not wanting their code to be used by pirates, and wanting to be seen to be actively preventing that, to try and protect themselves.
JonnieCache··on Ln – NTFS hard/symbolic link command line tool
The standout for me is --delorean which is basically rdiff-backup for windows. There's a wrapper script for it here with some extra options: https://github.com/International-Nepal-Fellowship/Windows-To...

Also this page badly needs a ToC.

JonnieCache··on DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman says general AI is still a long way off
The NHS definitely uses a fancy wizard system to asses and diagnose patients and to decide what doctors should do in frontline cases. It's basically exactly what you're describing, an expert system, except that there isn't really any AI involved: it's just a massive network of IF-THEN rules for healthcare workers to carry out, to make sure care is standardised and best practices are followed and kept up to date with research. As you might imagine, there are codes for absolutely everything. The code system is called snomed, and you can download the full dataset somewhere.

What's more, its definitely open to the public, except it isn't really promoted at all (it's only open in the interests of openness, you're not really meant to use it.) As such I can't find the URL for the life of me. Perhaps they closed it.

Any doctor or nurse will know about it, perhaps someone can post the link.

JonnieCache··on No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems
While this is framed here as a "radical" technique, it's just BF Skinner's Operant Conditioning, which has been one of the foundations of behavioral psychology for nigh on 100 years.

If you're wondering if it really works, yes, it does. One of the key elements of it, especially when using it on people, is accepting that the subject is likely to execute the behavior badly for the first few iterations, but you have to positively reinforce it just the same as if they'd done it perfectly if you want them to get better. If you can't manage this, and you get angry at them, you're jeopardising the whole thing.

There's a nice clip from one of Jordan Peterson's lectures here, talking about these techniques in the context of intimate relationships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VM1UA0pCMQ

JonnieCache··on This AI Boom Will Also Bust
Isn't this just shifting the ambiguity into your choice of state definitions, rather than the states themselves?
JonnieCache··on Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
Very nice. Xpath is the saving grace of dealing with XML, so I'll definitely keep an eye on this.
JonnieCache··on Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
Fun Fact: json is a subset of yaml.
JonnieCache··on Young blood does not reverse aging in old mice, UC Berkeley study finds
If anything, once you've cheated death amassing more personal power might feel like a bit of a waste of time. Waste of time probably isn't the right phrase but you get my drift.
JonnieCache··on Uber Now Tracks Passengers’ Locations Even After They’re Dropped Off
Apparently they have simply observed that users are more likely to pay the surge pricing when low on battery, and they claim not to factor it into the surge algorithm itself.

Makes sense to me, afaik the driver UI shows surge pricing based on an area and not individual users.

JonnieCache··on A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace
It's not obvious that this couldn't have been produced by any other intensely novel experience at that stage of life, eg. foreign travel.

An intense psychedelic trip could be a good shortcut though.

JonnieCache··on Young blood does not reverse aging in old mice, UC Berkeley study finds
His interns must be breathing a sigh of relief though.
JonnieCache··on Confessions of an Instagram Influencer
Life has many disparate potential sources of meaning, and the urge to systematize everything along one dimension represents ideology at work and should be avoided.

Those who go around proclaiming everything to be only about sex or only about money or only about power wish to make it so.

Of course natural selection is true, and we ultimately strive to pass on our genes but the mechanisms we've developed that motivate/enable us to do so are absurdly complex and admit much more than mere power games and peacock strutting.

JonnieCache··on Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image
>50,000 blue ray discs' worth oughta do it.

By this logic, the handful of megabytes of unicode making up War and Peace in the original russian should be enough for a non-russian speaker to fully grasp it and all its meaning and implications. It isn't even enough for a native russian speaker to do so.

Humans aren't raised by simply looking at their surroundings, they're raised by interacting with people, who were in turn raised by interacting with people, going back for the whole history of humanity, or arguably mammals. That information isn't all in the genome, although natural selection has put some of it in there. The bit that we don't know how to describe information-theoretically is the bit that isn't in the genome, because we don't know how it's encoded.

I don't see how you'd even try to put bounds on it: this is essentially the problem posed by post-modernism/post-structuralism/literary theory, once you strip away the marxism, and science's response has understandably been to reject it but it can't do so forever if it wants to create AGI.

Or maybe I've misunderstood your point.

I might be pursuaded that a 2 year old could come sooner than we think, via brute computational force as you describe, but I'd argue that a 2 year old with the capacity to become anything more than a 2 year old is much farther away than we think.

EDIT: if, as you claim, we are close to having the computational power to simulate human children, then why aren't we already successfully simulating much simpler animals? IIRC the best we can do is a tiny chunk of a rat, or the whole of various kinds of microscopic worms, and those are just computational models, not turing test-passing replicants.

JonnieCache··on Artificial Intelligence Generates Christmas Song from Holiday Image
>hide... inside of your compiler.

Not to mention the rest of the ecosystem. Look what happens to humans when they grow up without being properly embedded in the family, with its hundreds of thousands of years of historical contingency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

We can't even begin to describe the amount of information encoded there.

JonnieCache··on Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
All it would really take IMO is picking a nice colour for the links to give the site some kind of recognisable brand/theme/personality. Perhaps move the other text away from pure black to decrease the contrast slightly.
JonnieCache··on Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’
There is one: https://microg.org

It's very much an alpha however.

JonnieCache··on Slack client for Commodore 64
See also: twitch.tv chat running on a SNES, injected via an ACE exploit in pokemon red.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-h...

JonnieCache··on Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
It'll never top the KLF burning a million pounds.
JonnieCache··on We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs
I'm not talking about wars - I'm talking about the holocaust and the deaths from internal repression in the soviet union and maoist china. One of the preconditions for such things to take place is the corruption of truth in the public discourse.

I'm sorry if this seems like exaggeration or scaremongering but I find these stories terrifying far beyond the election of donald trump.

>the governments regularly shouted "fake news"

This is another aspect of what I'm talking about. Once you break the good faith assumption of truth speaking in the public sphere, it becomes a vicious cycle as nobody is incentivised to speak truthfully.

Of course the press has always been used to manipulate the public, but this seems categorically different. The people who are writing these stories are shamelessly fabricating them, as opposed to uncritically republishing information fed to them by authority figures. This breaks down interpersonal trust in society in a way that simply pushing the government line doesn't.

JonnieCache··on We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs
This is utterly offensive and this man is utterly corrupt. He claims to be doing this to discredit his foes, but there's no evidence that he's done any of the "public denouncing" which he gives as his justification for polluting the public sphere with his lies. He does however admit to coining it to the tune of six figures.

If we've learned anything from the twentieth century its that corrupting the public discourse like this can lead to the slaughter of millions and the downfall of whole societies. This man and those like him deserve harsh punishment.

There's a similar interview here, with another left-winger who claims to be making "satire" and is more outwardly racked with guilt than this man, but who is also still cashing the adsense checks:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11...

JonnieCache··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
Posting "fuck /u/spez" has become something of a meme, and every time you write out someone's username like that, they get a PM. This, combined with the accusations of paedophilia that the lunatics at /r/pizzagate were making, understandably seem to have caused him to snap.
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