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> I have no clue if they realize they are doing so with their full identity on display to the world (a lot of people have no sense of privacy settings and so their entire FB profile and posts are there for the world to see).

I believe they are aware, because I sometimes read various country's leaders and diplomatic corps on twitter, and it's very clear that some of them word things in ways that show they're speaking to a global audience, and some of them word things in ways that show they're preaching to the choir back home.
no - a corporation is not the same as an AI that effectively maximizes profits.

An AI that is more intelligent than a human may be able to come up with plans for profit maximization that no humans can come up with.

A corporation is only going to be able to come up with a plan that a human _could_ come up with.

A corporation is merely a sociopathic human intelligence that is hell bent on profit-maximization.
Almost all the trouble with a standard contract such as the house-painting example is establishing facts, such as "the work was done correctly and on time". And smart contracts have absolutely no way to verify such facts automatically.

Nor are they remotely capable of capturing the multitude of possibilities the real world throws at courts. If, say, you agree a penalty for late completion, a judge will laugh you out of court if you provoke a delay by keeping the gate locked for a week.

That's one of unlimited possibilities, each of which has caveats of their own. It's neither possible to capture the space of possible outcomes in code, nor to match reality to whatever model you come up with.
Nevertheless, you are still free to do it. Maybe join the Amish, for starters (although afaik they don't shun all technology).

In any case, you can get together with a group of friends and live the way you imagine. There are enough people who dream of that kind of lifestyle, that you should be able to find a group that is large enough.
> Specialization is for insects.

Was going strong right up until this.

Figured he was going for jack of all trades, master of one. Attacking specialization outright is just silly.
> Low culture becomes more valued as time passes and the distinctions fade.

On the other hand, things that are worth preserving tend to survive longer thanks to the effort put in preserving them. In other words, while age and cultural value correlate well, it might be cultural value to cause longer survival times and not the other way around.

It's also a good thing to make a distinction between cultural value in an anthropological sense (any relic is an historically important testimony of the past, but that doesn't make it good: a milk carton from today could be invaluable to a historian from 2000 years in the future) and actual craftsmanship and beauty.
Thanks for the information.

Nevertheless the claim that only Unions can reduce work hours is simply false. People can negotiate their contracts. Many people work less than 40 hour work weeks.
It's really easy to get upvotes, so if someone is posting in an honest and unbiased way I'd expect an upward trend, regardless of whether some challenging posts get downvoted. If someone's total is stable or dropping over time, I bet it's significantly more likely to be caused by bad behavior.
> "do only, what only you can do"

This also reminds me of the famous Theodore Roosevelt’s quote “do what you can with what you have wherever you are”. This ties quite well with the letter too, it doesn’t make much sense to dream about bigger deeds, problems and achievements instead of really applying yourself to the things at hand.
I have a very personal/weird opinion on this issue. I'm type 1 diabetic, so I must have insulin or else I have a couple painful weeks to live, at best.

On the one hand, yes, modernity keeps me alive, at far greater than "half-life," thanks to control theory and hi-tech sensor technology. But on the other hand modernity was the very thing which caused my t1d in the first place -- environment is thought to cause t1d, with rates much higher in developed countries.

This issue is one of those 'what does it all mean' type of issues, for me personally.
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How does this work? It's a visual programming language that uses photos to represent python code?
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I think there is a genuine difference in how men and women interact, online and off - different tolerances for confrontation might be part of it.

More confrontations can lead to trolling or unnecessary flame wars, but also avoid the kind of misunderstandings that lead to festering resentment. I think bad behaviour is a human universal, but how it manifests might be quite different from community to community.
Paywall. Not cool.
Seems you want proof that something _isn't_ happening, wouldn't it be more appropriate for you to provide proof that something is happening?

Innocent until proven guilty and all that yadda yadda
JSON Schema is no official standard.
The efficient for whom par is clearly stated all along, with even a direct mention:

> and (for the business) efficient

Otherwise on the bigger point about competition: it doesn’t seem to me the landscapes are that tight, except when you’re in the efficiency game.

If your target is Amazon, you’re in for a ride and can leave your ethics in the closet. If your goal is to find a viable niche where you can grow with your customers, you won’t be in a zero-sum, drive the prices to the ground kind of rat race.

Finding that kind of niche if of course far from easy, now I’d argue a rat race to become the next Amazon isn’t either.
I don't think that neural networks are the right framework to achieve general purpose artificial intelligence (AGI). And indeed, the AI field may need a paradigm shift to achieve higher classification goals. I believe that probabilistic neural networks may be an interesting extension toward general purpose AI, even though this kind of networks need even more data.

If we take the example of a puppy, it seems to generalize pretty well using something like one-shot learning, but is it? I cannot confirm for sure how much data a puppy has already digested before being able to do what we could call "one shot learning". So maybe, the exposure to data is already there, waiting for a specialization toward a particular task.

Giving the ability to a network to be probabilistic enable it to do inference using uncertainty, which is clearly a neat feature when you are gravitating toward AGI for scene understanding.

In the case of video compression, scene understanding may introduce more artifacts IMO: Even if the scene is captured with high end cameras, on a pixel level basis, the edges will never be perfectly neat. I think this will decrease the ability of any network to "understand" which object is at the edges, this results in low classification rates on them, resulting in bad compression/decompression quality (?) for features that are important to the human eye.

All in all, I'm not sure that NN are the right tool for this kind of problems. But we are diverging from the main subject VVC, Thanks for the very interesting comments :)
Completely agree - but that wasn't the point. Standard contracts can't verify facts automatically either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Olympic_Games
What happened to Firefox Send?
It’s in those websites interested to allow bing to index them. bing respects the robot.txt
Thanks for the info. Article doesn't mention the reasoning behind Ford's move, though.

I still think the whole demand is completely backwards.

Article also mentions the info workers who work 12 hours and more - well they do it because they make good money that way. They'll retire by 40 and have the last laugh.
> It's a bit awkward to write directly. For example, to set a 32-bit register with an immediate value requires setting the upper 20 bits followed by the lower 12. Similar with PC jumps, etc.

Yes, IIRC the standard description of the RISC-V ISA includes assembly macro-instructions that can be programmatically expanded into sequences for things like those. Similar to how "mov" is actually implemented as a special case of "add immediate".
Is it possible to write a kernel module which will blow the PC speaker?
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Because they are recommended or have been explored by a lot of people. Would you buy a product off Amazon without seeing the number of reviews? How do you know it is "quality content".

More votes than comments = something worth reading and seems to be valid content.
Less votes than comments = seems to have invalid points with a big dicussion.

HNs "quality index" for each post can be "calculated" by everyone. Without these numbers you don't know these kind of informations. The title of a post should always be in the focus, thats for sure. But thats why it has a larger font.
Annoying paywall, how is businessinsider.com even allowed on HN nowadays? Here is the full article: http://archive.is/1oTMU

> While Istio is an open-source project — meaning anybody, anywhere can contribute code

Seems the meaning of open source is getting more and more perverse as time goes on. Open source never has meant that anyone can contribute code, it's just about you being able to use/modify the code as you wish. In no way does open source projects automatically means they have an open governance, although those two licenses/methods are often combined together.
Increasing efficiency does increase productivity, but to increase productivity you don't have to increase efficiency. You just have to add more machines.

But when those machine can't eat anymore, you'll see productivity decline.

Related: https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Study...
You can block them in your robot.txt if you desire... it’s not the same thing, websites want to be indexed
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It's not so easy for the individual to do that. The skills necessary for pre-modern life are only taught by being raised by a group who lives that life. Nearly all such groups have been destroyed -- and even if you wanted to, you couldn't go join a tribe at the edge of civilization as an individual.

Not to mention that in many areas, it's not possible to make life by hunting and gathering because biodiversity in the natural environment has been destroyed. So, it's not really possible as you say.

Even though it's not really possible, such bullshit is worth giving a bit of thought, at least.
I know it's great that engine efficiency is getting better, but this is still working using old, crude principles. Combustion engines are the equivalent of analog in computing and engine makers still need to reach their digital "Eureka!" moment.

The gas turbine is [226 years old][0]! Computing on the other hand has seen significant change from [Charle Babbabe's mechanical computer][1], to vacuum tubes, transistors and (hopefully within the next 50 years) quantum computers.

Hopefully with progress in batteries and clean energy generation, we'll see the death of the great polluters before the end of the century. We can (and should) do better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine#His...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#First_computing_devic...
Yes, it's not a very compelling argument to register in Germany. I posted it more to point out that other countries are worth to consider and that running an open source non-profit in another country is more than a theoretical option. There advantages and disadvantages.
True, but there's 0% chance corruption wasn't a factor. For what it's worth, the former president of Lombardy, in charge till 2013, has been condemned for 9 years for criminal activities. It's just how the system works.
I don't disagree with your premise, but I disagree with the claim that Rust doesn't automatically manage memory. Rust absolutely does automatic memory management - that's one of the main motivations behind the ownership/lifetime system. For instance, when you create a vector, the standard library will automatically allocate, re-allocate, clone and/or deallocate the buffer when necessary.

What Rust doesn't do is to decide for you how to pass or share that memory between different parts of your program - it just provides you with options. One could argue that this should also be under the automatic memory management -umbrella, and I wouldn't necessarily disagree. But I don't think it's fair to say that Rust doesn't have automatic memory management.

I would also argue that for many simpler programs you can get away with basically paying no attention to memory management. If your program is a simple pipeline which reads some input, applies some processing and produces an output, your code might not look substantially different from any GC-based language. That doesn't mean Rust is an easy language or even a good idea to use for these kinds of programs, but I would argue that a developer proficient in both Rust and Python could write the same (simple, pipeline-like) program in either language with comparable time and effort.
> Completely agree - but that wasn't the point.

No, it's a rebuttal to the point.

> Standard contracts can't verify facts automatically either.

Standard contracts don't pretend to automate the reactions to facts, and so don't need to verify facts automatically. That's why they rely on human action for execution and the legal system to verify and correct execution.

That reliance is what smart contracts purport to fix, but if they can't verify facts automatically, they don't fix it.
Thats why I read the title first, decide whether it is important or relevant to me, if so I check it out. If I like it, I upvote it and if I have something to throw into the discussion I add a comment. Personally, I use the numbers to indentify "quality" and "valid facts". Invalid posts have a large number of comments and less upvotes.
I think the basis interface of Hacker News prevents some people from participating in discussions on this website. That is a double edged sword.
Speaking as someone who does scientific computing all day long, in part with FEM simulations, even for me AVX512 isn't usually worth it in terms of wall-clock time.
Unsupported by valgrind still. Not sure about qemu.
Don't use.
Related to this and discussed quite a few times on HN ([1],[2]), 'In Praise of Idleness', an essay by Bertrand Russell: https://libcom.org/files/Bertrand%20Russell%20-%20In%20Prais... . I return to it every once in a while, if not to regain a bit of sanity, than just to enjoy clarity of thought and style in his writing.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21509144
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015092
Egress costs of AWS are straight up robbery. 0.05 per GB (assuming you use that much bandwidth, otherwise it is even higher) adds up very quickly when you have a lot of users and page clicks.
> without much affecting the quality of the doctoring / nursing

In England "registered nurse" is a protected title. The requirements for being a registered nurse have changed over time. You used to be able to qualify then register, or work then register without getting the qualification. So we have a natural experiment with older nurses in England. Some are qualified and registered, some are unqualified and registered. We see from research that the qualification helps with patient safety.

I hope you can see that there are significant differences between learning a language and treating patients.
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For the abhorred vacuum before the Great War, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...
and the Creel Report. (it was not novel at the time, "Remember the Maine!" having occurred in the previous century)

Orwell's "two minutes hate" was descriptive, not predictive. (His wife did work in the Ministry of Information during WWII, after all.)

p.178 of The World of Yesterday https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1...
describing germanophone Zwei Minuten Hass in 1914:

> "Limited in their experience of Europe as a whole, and living entirely within the German circle of thought, most of our writers believed that their best contribution was to strengthen the enthusiasm of the masses and support the supposed beauty of war with poetic appeals or scientific ideologies.
... Poems poured forth that rhymed Krieg with Sieg and Not with Tod. Solemnly the poets swore never again to have any cultural association with a Frenchman or an Englishman ; they went even further, they denied overnight that there had ever been any French or English culture. It was insignificant and valueless in comparison with German character, German art, and German thought. But the savants were even worse. The sole wisdom of the philosophers was to declare the war a “bath of steel” which would beneficially preserve the strength of the people from enervation. The physicians fell into line and praised their prosthesis so extravagantly that one was almost tempted to have a leg amputated so that the healthy member might be replaced by an artificial one. The ministers of all creeds had no desire to be outdone and joined in the chorus, at times as if a horde of possessed were raving, and yet all of these men were the very same whose reason, creative power, and humane conduct one had admired only a week, a month, before."

(sometimes two minutes hate doesn't pay off: Bismarck used the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ems_Dispatch#Incident leak to sucker[1] the french into declaring war, in much the same way that a toreador waves the cape to citar, to provoke a charge from the amygdala, not the cortex, or the same way that Kenobi suckered Vader by turning off his light sabre)

[1] in his student days, Bismarck practiced provoking the attacks of a single opponent. Baiting nations in his mature career would then only have been a matter of scale.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck_als_Student#...

Schlagerpartys > Schlägerpartien. At least they're much less of a sausagefest.
ARM/RiscV with many cores...that's what i wrote, if you don't need a gpu you don't need one, if you need SVE you integrate it or use a co-Processor :)
Or Fujitsu A64FX?
It's by no means pretty, but my university is using it and from a students perspective it's working decently well, and better than the systems from other universities I've attended. It also handled the increased load from the online semester quite well. Not sure how much customization they did on top of it, and judging from the screenshots on the official website it's definitely not the latest version.
How does this solve the power problem that GP is talking about?
I think anarchism with like-minded people is the only system that would really suit me at all. I don't like giving or taking orders, and have no desire to accumulate property beyond what I'm personally using. It's unfortunate that we are forced into systems that we have no interest in, but that's the nature of power and those that wield it.
Even with those filters, there seems to be a pretty consistent tendency given scale, or topics, or simply social interactions with time, that leads to toxicity, or stasis.

I'm offering this not just from 30+ years of online community experience, but from observing and studying histories of other groups --- offline / IRL, epistolary communities, clubs and organisations, shared. housing situations, families, neighbourhoods, academic departments ....

Look at long-lived groups, and how those are structured and function. I'm not saying this from the position of "I have done this and I know what works", but from a strong suspicion that at least part of the solution (and many of the pitfalls) will be found there.
It’s weird that you didn’t mention the elephant in the room: corruption. Please don’t forget that!
Could you not use TDP to melt the snow ;)
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

I don't remember where I read or heard this one.
No, exccess deaths in Sweden are actually lower compared to Finland, and on pair with Denmark.
And lower then Scotland.
I do that too from time to time. I hate drying dishes, but washing has the same effect on me like you describe.

However, I love having the option to just start the dish washer and do other stuff instead.
Think of what it would take to produce a phone, for example. A single person could not possibly know enough to do so. Our cleverest work their whole lives just to know enough to design some small part. There's just too much to know, too much to orchestrate, coordinate. Even to build one, let alone a million.

Yet, a single corporation is intelligent enough to do this.

I think we already have achieved super-human intelligence.
Yes, because the missile doesn't need to worry about what happens after it gets a positional advantage and goes boom. It wins, game over.
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Perhaps a nitpick, but a corporation might act to combine the profit-maximising virtues of a number of different humans, to give a result that no single one of them is capable of. Combining the innovation of one with the amorality of another, for instance.

Related to this, on the morality dimension, corporations can introduce a diffusion of responsibility [0] and enable a collection of humans to commit to profit-maximising acts that no single one of them would do. Less ominously, teams of cooperating researchers may do something similar on the innovation dimension: their combined efforts act as a 'super researcher' beyond the ability of any single human researcher.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Crazy i don't see a paywall, are they turning the paywall of if they have many hits without logins? Maybe??
There might not be one, but all major C, C++, Hotspot, Graal and RyuJIT compilers do it to some extent.
That's not fact, but opinion.
The playground is rather slow, is it possible to run this locally much like how go's tour can?
He did a collaboration with Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) a few years ago:

https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t...
>what else can you do

Either follow the suit or cater to subset of customers who value quality.
If all cores see a single unified and consistent memory image (some scratchpad memory excepted), it's best if they all share the same basic ISA (and not implemented instructions trap to process migration or software emulation)
MSL, CUDA and SYSCL are C++ with extra topping.

Also one of the reasons CUDA won developer love is that it fully embraced polyglot programming on the GPU.
People with power. They’re all being hated by someone. Jobs, Gates, Musk, ... It seems to be a pattern. I wonder if you can be a good human being AND get into a power position.
Not having a steep learning curve does not imply it‘s a good first language. I‘d recommend python to get started and then switching to a staticly typed lang. Rust requires you to have quite some experience to know when to use what.
It’s quite amazing these days there’s enough free data and software available you can create such a tool on your own! How do you plan to make it pay the server costs though?
is dang paid to do this? how does it work?
I agree that there's too much focus on FP, but SIMD is not all about FP. Every new SIMD ISA extension has something interesting for integer.

Here's an article about JITing x86 to AVX-512 to fuzz 16 VMs per thread:

https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_e...
You're purposefully misinterpreting the parent's point to discredit them in a way that fits your agenda.

Every single one of your examples represents the ideal outcome of the use of modern technology, as if most people's diet during Winter is more nutritious than dried or pickled meat and produce, or as if the only alternative to driving your kids to a friend in an SUV is to let it do hard manual labor on a field.