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We wouldn't want those harmful conspiracy theories being discussed. We need more moderation to keep them out!
If no institution that ever participated in bigotry, racism, and/or violence is allowed to take a stand against those things now, there will be no organizations left.

If the United States tries to pass laws against those things, are you going to point out that the US had slavery 160 years ago? BMW made equipment for the Nazis.
I think this comment is too easily conflating "the internet" with "the web". Specifically, gigantic billion-page websites that people now call "platforms". The architecture and capacity of the internet we now know allows for them, but they are not an inherent property of the internet.

Web != Internet
Not really.

Yes, really.

Dynlinking solves a memory resource problem we had in the 80s. These days the only people with the problem are the very smallest embedded systems.

Definitely not true. Every bit of memory that's not available that could be shared memory instead is a reduction in memory available for filesystem caches, etc.

As for "high multi-tenancy" there's nobody out there with server occupancy as high as Google's (see the recent Borg scheduler traces for concrete data) and they statically link everything.

Cloud vendor computing models are not generally the computing model of the rest of the world. Comparison to their environment is not relevant to the general populace.

I worked for a "big iron" OEM vendor until late 2017 and the savings were definitely still significant then both for their customers and the vendor themselves.

There are numerous benefits to shared linking, that doesn't mean it's always the appropriate solution, but is not correct to claim that there are no performance benefits.

Especially on more memory-constrained consumer devices, the shared memory benefits of dynamic linking are still significantly beneficial.
Couldn’t it just be a normal, non-collapsed star? I’m sure they thought of that, just curious how they ruled it out.
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wow
How much research have you done in political space? This sounds naive.

Far better to spoil the milk (like in that STNG episode) and prove the data gathered to be nonsense or at the very least useless. Fund a few white papers that say such a thing. Best in a few different disciplines. Research is going to be far cheaper and efficient and effective than political pressure (of which I suppose you have none to use).

Also, making this happen will take at least one hyper-charismatic individual, probably an older white man, several tens of millions of dollars to fund it and a fleet of students to make it happen. Just throwing those numbers out there, no research to back it up.

> simply ban

????

like simply asteroid mining?
One issue I haven't heard much about is what misconceptions people have about AI/ML in general. This kind of thing only makes it worse.

There's a lot of ways an ML system can go wrong, and it won't be obvious to everyone who uses it. Dataset badly sampled? Cop ain't gonna know that. In fact, from his POV he's using fancy new equipment that the department has paid some highly qualified consultants for.

What I worry about is we have actual data scientists like the guys at top unis who teach and know how the sausage is made.

And then we have some consultant people who kinda know how to shove some data into a model and get a result out. I'm not saying they're totally incompetent, but their incentives are misaligned. They want the data to mean some things that it can't mean, in terms of epistemology, or in terms of level of confidence. You could very easily bake a false correlation <> causation into this kind of thing, and use it to arrest whoever you like. This is especially true if the guy you're selling it to also has wrong incentives.

And the guy at the bottom using this model ends up thinking that he has a magic box that tells him who is gonna be a criminal in the future. When he arrests someone, it's a very deep explanation why it isn't the way he thought, something I could see the judge not getting.

That is not to say such a system is never going to work anywhere, but if you're operating a predictive system you need to know a bunch of stuff about it to do so responsibly.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Facebook ad that wasn’t trying to get me to do something, to go to some page or to click through to a store full of tracking garbage and buy something. Surely for all of those you can very easily measure RoI?

I’d understand this argument for something like YouTube where most ads seem to be TV style and not trying to get me to click away to buy something immediately, but Facebook ads seem to always want me to go do something they can trivially track.
This American Life had an episode, Tough Room, in which Act One [1] was chronicling how jokes get whittled down. This was from 2008 - don't know how freelancers' jokes fit in but here the writers' jokes weren't submitted over email but read out loud, one after the other, in a room where your coworkers unemotionally approve or ask you to move on. It's worth a listen.

[1] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/348/tough-room/act-one
If someone threatens you with arrest, they are threatening to send a group of armed men to your house. If you don't let them in, they will break down your door. If you don't let them physically restrain you with handcuffs, they will grab you and perform pain compliance holds, pepper spray you, or tase you, then chain you up with handcuffs or other restraints. If you resist to the point where you threaten their life, they will shoot you. Then they will physically remove you from your home and put you in a cell. Is this not violence?
I prefer rockets to elevators: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-353
For proof, look at the average pay for EMTs (less so paramedics). Oftentimes it's minimum wage, and if you make more than $12/hr on an ambulance, you're in the minority.

While a lot of the transports done are not at all critical, I know in my time as an EMT and paramedic of all the people that would not make it alive to the hospital if not for EMS.

And I started at $9.60/hr 8 years ago as an EMT trying to get patient contacts for paramedic school.
Yeah, agreed.. I guess that's what I tried to hit at by saying society but the issues run deeper.
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Do you not remember the wretched hive of scum and villainy that was Usenet?
Reading this on the new Facebook Dark Mode seems fitting.
At this point of time I seriously think we only have a few conclusions: (Special note to 4, please address)

1) Recognize that we have sufficient "small" scale studies (note the quotes) that are short term, and providing similar results, which necessitate longer term studies. i.e. studies that are ~30 years, so that children can grow up completely under this environment and live through their dependent years (<25 years old) under these conditions.

2) The experiments provide enough evidence and this warrants attempting this on a much larger scale for the presumed future. i.e. institute a UBI (obviously we need to determine WHICH kind of UBI we would institute).

3) There are major flaws in the studies that need to be addressed and we need to refine them. (Personally with the many variations of these I've seen I do not think this is an accurate conclusion, but I am open to being wrong as I am not an expert studying this topic)

4) While the benefits are real, the cost is too much. This is one I'd particularly like to see addressed. Pretty much every time we see UBI experiments come up we see: 1) little to no earning wage increase (which is difficult to say if it is because the short time periods or not) 2) lower hospitalizations 3) higher sense of self worth 4) more children are finishing education 5) more children are reaching their dietary needs. The issue I see is that these have (unclear) economic values tied to them but are not discussed. I ALWAYS see the economic cost discussed, though understandably this is a much easier thing to calculate. But aren't economists supposed to be estimating these difficult concepts? As a voter I would like to know what the economic benefit is to these programs as well as the cost. This will allow me to make better judgments (e.g. even if UBI costs more economically maybe my personal moral utility value makes up the difference between the numbers). It is a shame that this is not discussed.

The issue of UBI and all its variations is complex but I believe that the conversation is frequently being framed in ways that is difficult to make real judgments on. We see the economic costs, but not the economic benefits. But we do see moral benefits, but this isn't enough. Legitimate excuses are given (for and against), but no one is making new experiments that address these concerns. We need a serious conversation with less surjection.
Wear a mask and do social distancing ... jeepers it is not difficult.
Dozens is also affected (besides the others mentioned in this thread)

Though they seem to at least have a plan:

”In addition, unlike some of the other fintechs who are affected by this crisis, we also have a primary membership with Visa that lets us connect to their network directly, without an intermediary. We had planned to transfer over to our own Visa cards in Q4 2020, but will now look to expedite this together with Visa and our other partners.”
I bought an Xbox just for gamepass. 200+ games, may not have everything I want to play but it always has something I fun I do want to play.

(Also xbox sales are often very good. I'm ok paying $10-20 (sometimes less!) for games).

I suppose it helps that my backlog is 6 years now; up until last week I was still playing games on 360/ps3.
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I can’t really say that I disagree with anything on a meta level in recent history that the military has done or that military generals have said that wasn’t a direct result of incompetence, greed, or just wrong headed ideology by the civilian government.
I’m hardly on Facebook, but I hardly notice this. I use Twitter significantly more frequently, but I also notice significantly more divide on politically charged topics, especially on Tweet comments.
You're right, I was thinking of 7nm. They still have agreements with GF for 12nm+.
Sheryl Sanberg: We don't respond to boycotts! We are guided by our principles.
Mark Zuckerberg: Today we announce we are changing our policies.

Funny how that works.
My basic takeaway from all of this is MOSTLY that society isn't (on its own) capable of a real democracy. YET. I'm optimistic though. I do agree in general that we don't want any single "arbiter of truth", but given that too many citizens are being duped by objectively inaccurate news in far too large numbers, I think there's probably a comfortable middle ground we'll all be relatively comfortable with until humans no longer need this "oversight".
Even a firefighter. I asked about life insurance on my personal policy, mentioned my career.

"That's fine. As long as you're not a smoke jumper." (parachute into isolated wildland fires to get ahead of the fire).
Physical products are so very different to virtual. Life is relatively easy when you can just ctrl-z, quit-without-saving, git checkout --, or redeploy. A friend has been working on this idea for the last couple of years.. it's been interesting watching him work through the process.

The game is pretty fun too!
Absolutely. Also user base outrage. At some point if enough people quit FB it would be a problem because advertisers need an audience. So far the numbers show it hasn’t happened despite all the posts on hacker news about it, but it’s a concern.
FYI, only applies if coming from high-risk states. This included nine states originally. Not sure if further states have been added.
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Certainly the problem can be seen as one of clients. The "modern web browsers" are instruments for fueling the dumpster fire. For the web, I wrote my own "user agent". A client that has zero intelligence however it is fully under the user's control. The intelligence lies with the user, not the third party authors of the client (with their business purposes and conflicts of interest).
If you removed the voting and moderators, then the site culture would rapidly change. It wouldn't surprise me if it rapidly approached the culture of other tech sites with similar systems. If that's fine with you, then you could use those sites instead now.
I would challenge the idea that you must continuously learn. It's entirely possible to have become a Java/Spring specialist and continue to remain employed into 2020 and likely well beyond.

The churn you're alluding to happens mostly at the very thin frontier of innovation and applies largely to engineers who want to retain high compensation.
Why not disable search suggestions? Having every keypress sent to google doesn't seem great.
The book, _Sh*t My Dad Says_, by Justin Halpern also tells a similar story. Before knowing his deal I thought he was a lucky bloke cashing in on his dad's humor, but I was floored by his discipline to get up and just write jokes day after day. This Twitter feed involving his dad just happened to be the one to blow up.

Sorry your publication didn't take off - it's entertaining.
>It has made everyone, if not smarter then, better informed

I don't agree with this. While it's made it possible to be better informed, it isn't the case that everyone is, and in addition it's meshed with the bugs in our code (confirmation bias springs to mind) to allow disinformation to spread, and people to seek sources that confirm their beliefs rather than actually inform them of the truth.
> I also want to add that this is also the default mode in academia especially at freer places like the University of Chicago.

My wife is a historian. Her PhD is from arguably the best program in the country. It is not the case that administrations have this as a default option. Look at how hiring works in history departments. Americanists out the wazoo. In both hiring and tenure review, even the best programs still struggle to include analysis beyond traditional western civ style work.

> If it means preventing disputation on the basis of a person's identity/affiliations, disavowing empiricism and heavily favoring narrative untethered to basic standards of evidence, inserting overt agenda into what ought to be neutral arms-length investigations

It doesn't. And spending any amount of time around academics would make it really clear that these concerns are just BS peddled by people who make a living complaining about pinkos in the academy.
> Then there's the WIN32 mandatory file locks issues, which prevent updates / replacement of files that apps are using.

I should point out that this is not actually a blocker, if somebody at windows actually gave a fuck they could abuse winsxs to do blue/green symlinks to get around the file lock issue. Meaning the update could happen in the background and take effect next boot without anything needing to happen at boot time. Most could be done by just restarting the proper system service.

Its just microsoft has decided not to give a fuck. Rather then work on why people want to deferrer and delay updates, they have decided... well, whats that meme? "no its the kids who are wrong".
Tor is a pretty centralized architecture-the client using tor gets to choose its path through the tor network. It needs to know all the nodes in the system in order to construct a valid path
I hear you but... nothing. We can't force drug users to not own drugs. If you have a gun, keep it, don't comply, rebel! There's no need to force it from you. Forceful removing comes up a lot but gun control isn't about eradication, like polio!

The point about gun control is that it's not owning the gun, it's _using_ the gun. There'd be additional penalties if you shot someone!
I think you are being disingenuous to equate something talking about a "we're going to change the law" with "will be met with serious force."

Yes, the use of force is implicit in all law, but the other is a direct explicit threat of force.

Is proposing any law a threat of force? They're all backed the same way.
I think what is implied is the inciting of people to commit unlawful acts of violence.
While I agree with this, is there any long term experiment even in proposal? We'd really need at least 30 years to see how children develop through their dependent years (<25). I see "it was time-limited" often stated in response to UBI criticism (it is a legitimate complaint that these are time limited!) but I have yet to see a proposal that tries to remedy this. Is there one?
In Scott Aaronson's paraphrased words...

Quantum mechanics is just statistics, but operations preserve the 2-norm instead of the 1-norm. Instead of case weights (probabilities) adding up to 1, the squares of case weights (amplitudes) add up to 1. Everything else (the uncertainty principle, measurement mattering, no cloning, Bell inequalities, etc, etc, etc) follows.
Ditto and I run Privacy Badger in tandem.
It's turned into what most people are.

Too bad that most people are a 'terrible neighbourhood'.
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As someone with a PhD who works in industry, that’s certainly not what I meant.

There is a massive, massive oversupply of PhDs. We can argue about the magnitude of the oversupply, but the reasonable range of discussion is between “huge” and “gigantic”.
Shouldn't we hold police to a slightly higher standard than what random-sally-with-a-gun is expected to do? Isn't that the whole point of having police in the first place: that we trust them with powers we don't give to ourselves?
> What's wrong with QM? So far nothing!

Yeah, well the fact that the correspondence principle and the concept of "measurement" is basically a lot of hand wavey horse shit seems wrong to me. But then, nobody else seemed to think so, so I went on to a productive career in the business world.

GRW theory is a fine thing to look into; if it's right, or something like it is right, this would be a very big deal. If he's wrong, people who think "shut up and calculate" is clever will continue to be smug about it. I had always thought these sorts of tests would be done with mesoscopic physics and amplifiers, but whatever: at least someone is looking at fundamental measurements instead of masturbating about imaginary quantum coherent states of matter nobody knows how to build, or whining we need another synchrotron so they can play act like Alvarez or Lawrence.
I've been seeing more and more talk of how global opinions of the US have really taken a hit in the last year. With that in mind, do y'all think as quickly as it went down it can recover?
Given the seemingly random nature of the compression "artefacts", versus the more predictable compression artefacts with other algos, I wonder if this would limit use of such images in scenarios where the resulting images had to be relied on in court as evidence of something?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655876 :

> >"If you don't believe this you're in the minority now" has never in history been a good argument for anything

> I hear you. I originally had "and you don't really like minorities do you?" but thought it was a bit below the belt. I guess without the cruel dig it's not as relevant though.

> I'm not confident that evidence will change the mind of someone who continues to deny systemic racism though. But social proof is very powerful even if it isn't evidence. I don't mind if people believe the right thing for the wrong reasons.

There are plenty of minorities I don't really like. Such as police officers. Or sociopaths. But that's not because they're minorities, and given a choice between a belief that's popular and false versus one that's unpopular and true, I'll pick true one hundred times out of one hundred, and only grudgingly comprehend the distinction.

Anything that can make people believe the right thing for the wrong reasons is just as effective (and usually more so) at making them believe the wrong thing for the wrong reasons, and needs to opposed regardless of whether it happens to have invoked "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" at the moment.
> The people that can avoid these neighbourhoods will, which leaves only those that can't.

You’re describing people who are stuck in impoverished (correct me if I’m mistaken) where but gentrifications refer to the restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.

Gentrification has a lot to do with location in proximity to a city center, transportation, waterfront, etc. Just because a neighborhood is safer doesn’t necessarily mean wealthy people will move there, drive up property values indirectly forcing out the poorer residents.

Look at Japan, the country has a universally low crime rate and poor areas are still relatively cost effective for low income residents. https://www.quora.com/Which-part-of-Japan-is-viewed-as-the-p...

I’m not saying this won’t accelerate gentrification of desirable areas currently full of crime in-turn currently avoided wealthier people. But a cost effective solution which results in a net decrease in crime (not a zero sum game where a neighborhood gentrifies and the crime just shifts elsewhere), would likely benefit mostly lower income individuals then most.

Obviously solution nothing is universal beneficial and there is the obvious concern of humans progressing being enslave by black-box AI systems but it has potential to be very beneficial if rolled out in a publicly auditable way.
Children of rich parents who never work do fine.

Having a child is hard work. It's just not valued by modern liberal society, which doesn't value people, only their value they can sell.
as it should be in a civilian society.
If someone has a better way to reduce the mental load of reconciling all experimental data physicists will no doubt adopt it. Until then they are wise to mostly just muse about foundation as personal passtime rather than engage in ideological wars.
If I ever saw a text-rickroll, this is the one. The “how” is nowhere to be seen after 10 page scrolls or more.
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Contrast something like Sprig with Tso Chinese Delivery in Austin:

1. Instead of getting millions in VC funding off the get go, they started small as essentially a family business.

2. Chinese delivery is already super familiar to most people, so they just took it a step further: just a kitchen, no sit-down restaurant, developed their tech to improve delivery efficiencies.

3. They kind of got "lucky", if you could call it that, with Covid, in that most traditional restaurants were killed but a takeout-only business thrived. They also got a ton of goodwill for giving away free meals during the shutdown in TX.

4. I saw news that they recently got VC funding to expand their business.

I.e. they started small, proved their model, then used capital to expand, instead of getting millions thrown at them with hope that they'd eventually improve on a "lose money on every sale but make it up in volume" business model.
It’s probably almost identical. In the Army the investigating officer does not have to be a higher grade to run the investigation, but a higher grade preferred because UCMJ requires a higher grade to charge an officer with a crime.

Yeah, witnesses and the accused have always been very straight with me because, as you said, their careers are in my hands. I believe if somebody were being hostile or deceptive with me I would dig deeper.

My biggest learnings from these is be careful what you wish for. If somebody is reporting a crime or requesting an IG investigation I will be completely objective and impartial. However, when you start digging into people like that all kinds of incidental unrelated private things can shake out from discovery, and if any of those things are a violation of ethics there is now grounds for a separate additional investigation.