skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And once you start probing the nether regions of transhumanist thought and run into concepts like Roko's Basilisk—by the way, any of you who didn't know about the Basilisk before are now doomed to an eternity in AI hell—you realize they've mangled it to match some of the nastiest ideas in Presybterian Protestantism.

I wish every discussion of transhumanism didn't have to involve Roko's Basilisk. It's not something anyone takes seriously (and very few ever did), but it has enough quirky weirdness that everyone seems to want to talk about it.

Here's a quote from "Lesswrongwiki":

> Roko's argument was broadly rejected on Less Wrong, with commenters objecting that an agent like the one Roko was describing would have no real reason to follow through on its threat

> [...]

> Less Wrong's founder, Eliezer Yudkowsky, banned discussion of Roko's basilisk on the blog for several years as part of a general site policy against spreading potential information hazards. This had the opposite of its intended effect: a number of outside websites began sharing information about Roko's basilisk, as the ban attracted attention to this taboo topic. Websites like RationalWiki spread the assumption that Roko's basilisk had been banned because Less Wrong users accepted the argument; thus many criticisms of Less Wrong cite Roko's basilisk as evidence that the site's users have unconventional and wrong-headed beliefs.

- https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Are you sure there isn't a cheaper way to get the same effect? Doing a giant useless action just to set an example to others for whom it's not so useless doesn't seem like the obvious first choice.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it out.
They also have a history of reverting back to poor worker treatment. I forgot the statistics, but the accident rate for their workers is quite high. I recently read an article about the lead safety engineer being told that Elon Musk doesn't like the color yellow, so that's why they couldn't paint yellow safety lines on the ground. Just think about that.
I have never seen the video and I don't know enough about it to declare it a murder, sorry. The main point of my reply was to assuage the fears of the parent that they would have gotten desk duty and been put back on the street without weeks of protest.
I had a post-surgical “thing” (details spared for the squeamish) early in the year that took a daily use of supplies for a few months. Decades of recycling, bicycle commuting, and EV ownership seemed wiped away by the shear amount of waste generated each and every day. And I had time to come up with alternatives as I laid there with my restricted activity, and came up with no alternatives. I mean, can you even get corn starch alternatives sterile without watching them melt? :-)

So, yeah, I’m confident medical stuff will be on the exception list. At the same time, I know of folks that need continuing supplies for their care, such as wound care, but know none personally. Even my thing eventually ended.
a) it really isn't.
b) yes, COBOL developers are also highly paid. does not make the language amazing.
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> It saddens me greatly that person who was so forward thinking and was only looking out for the future of humanity was taken away so young.

You can justify anything by claiming you are "looking out for the future of humanity."
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How about we hold off on yet another telescope until we have appropriate colonists in place? On Mars or elsewhere, it really doesn't matter at this point.

Really ought to get to work on a space elevator too, but that'll take long enough that we shouldn't delay other important projects.
My DAW (digital audio workstation) seemed to have fewer audio stream dropouts once I got rid of GeForce experience.
> If Assange leaked Chinese intelligence secrets, would he be free right now? I expect so.

Probably not, because he's made enemies of pretty much every country or nation state. Maybe Russia would take him in or something but the amount of geopolitical enemies he has is enormous.

> "China is uniquely evil"

I don't think anyone has expressed this. I think it's more, China is totalitarian with little respect for free speech, the rule of law and human rights, and often, arbitrary enforcement of laws. Before you say, "the US does this too!", it's true, but that's also a tu quoque" logical fallacy and is just gaslighting.

I really don't think the West has, currently, anything similar to their concentration camps or lack of religious freedoms.
> While this is certainly true for bleeding edge nodes, hasn't the NRE become significantly lower for mature process chips? I would guess that EDA tools and a greater availability of IP blocks would drive down the real dollar cost of designing your own ASIC on a node 1-2 generations back.

Honestly, I'm not familiar enough to have a nuanced opinion, but from what I understand, that's probably true.

However, in the battle for cloud VPS and PC CPU sockets, using a 1-2 generation old process doesn't appear to be a winning strategy.
We need to realize we know very little and mother nature is the authority. Many of us, myself included, find it hard to come to terms with basic ignorance.

We are very ignorant about CoV19 right now. It will take a long time to get smart, have the understanding needed to live as we used to.

You don't even know you had it, or which strain. Think a little please. This is about US, not just you, or me, or "those other people."

Failure to grok that has severe consequences. Revisit these thoughts near end of year. Seriously. There is real ugly ahead.

Immunity is proving to be a thing that does not endure.

We are also finding second and third infections play out differently.

This virus won't just go away. And we are a long way from potent treatments.

Sadly, I had it too. Was a very rough month. I must be honest: scared the shit out of me. My whole fam struggled through. I came just a shade from being in the hospital too.

Worse? I am currently priced out of health care insurance. Literally everything is on the line and I am very far from alone in the US, which is going to become a very tough place to live in just a few short months.

Nobody gets to live life the way they want because everyone is impacted.

All humans are exposed, all humans are under threat, at risk, until all humans have access to remedies.

Should you get it again, say 3 to 5 months from now when whatever immune response you have going on right now fades away, your symptoms run a good chance of being much, much worse.

How we lived is over for a good long while.

And because the risks endure, escalate easily, and are serious, we are very likely to see the majority of humans enforce living differently for the common good.

I am one of them. New day. I hate it.

And I am sorry. We, as a species, could have, should have, bit flat out just didn't.

Now this thing is in the world and for now we cope and learn. One day we can live again, and ideally learn a tough, expensive lesson.

I sure hope so, because this all sucks hard.
> "How do you see the forest when you’ve been born into it? You chop down all the trees around you."

Once everybody does that, the forest is gone and then, well, game over.
They should be defending their client?
I think that there should be regulation requiring a minimum level of compensation that includes the drivers time and vehicle depreciation as a result of mileage. Drivers generally lack the sophistication to do financial modelling for depreciation of their vehicles. Large corporations like target know this and shamelessly take advantage of it to the benefit of their own shareholders. Just because someone is willing to let themselves be exploited doesn't make it okay. It's pretty despicable IMO.
How many of those 15 deaths are in a car that costs as much as a Tesla, and therefore can be expected to have the same safety features? How many are in 25 year old cars? If you claim that driving a Tesla on autopilot on a freeway is safer than a 30 year old $2000 clunker, I won’t challenge that. If you say it’s safer than a $50,000 Audi that’s highly debatable.

Not only that, but how many times would autopilot have caused a fatal accident if the human driver hadn’t intervened? Tons of YouTube examples would suggest quite a few.
Funny, that's not the same as the quote I responded to. Something about nobody caring about improving FP performance outside of benchmarks.

Which of us is quoting Linus accurately? It can't be both of us, unless Linus is slipping into his dotage.

Also:

"640K is enough for anyone."

"Who needs MMX? Just give me more superscalar execution units."

"Who needs 3DNow? Nobody uses floats. Integer SIMD is fine."

"Who needs SSE? Nobody's even using 3DNow yet."

"Who needs SSE2? Only astronomers need double precision."

"Who needs SSE3? I don't even know how to use SSE2 yet."

"Who needs SSE4? I don't write codecs."

"Who needs AVX...?"

When has this line of reasoning ever proven correct in the long run?
Prosecutors routinely get away with worse every single day. You just don’t hear about most of them because they don’t usually target rich kids.
You mean centralized authorities on both sides? If so, that's probably true. Anybody who wants to be in charge has a baby totalitarian in their chest wanting to get out...

If not - can you clarify?
You're leaving out the part where management at Intel has been a complete shit show for over a decade.

> In ten years, the US won't be able to make electronics in volume.

Quite possibly, but if this happens, it'll be Intel's fault. Expecting their 500% margin on x86 to last was complete lunacy. They've had 40 years. Anything they manage to invent on the architecture side will not maintain their margin in a world where ARM is good enough. That margin is never coming back.

They need to get their act together, swallow their pride, and learn how to become a foundry like every other state-of-the-art fab on the planet.
The numbers: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

>I thought they're made of renewable lumber and compost better than plastic?

All of which is irrelevant to climate impact. Taking oil out of the ground, turning it into plastic bags, then burying it is carbon neutral, if we ignore the energy required for processing. This is fair because it also takes energy to process pulp to make paper bags. Composting actually causes co2 to be released, so that's actually counterproductive.
Oh. Yeah - that makes sense.
IPtables does 0.1% of what Haproxy can do.
> It is similar to the current June events in the US (unrests/protests), but sans looting of random businesses, just burning of the PM office (instead of a police precinct).

Wikipedia claims 2000-3800 deaths during the Albania crisis, in a country with population of <3 million; US protests have 26 deaths (again from wiki), with US population being >300 million. That is like 4 orders of magnitude difference there.
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Most crashes aren't in difficult situations.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Change tracking is not a fully bitemporal scheme, though. A bitemporal table tracks _two_ timelines. One is about when facts in the world were true ("valid time" or "application time"), the other is about the history of particular records in the database ("transaction time" or "system time"). Change tracking can only capture the second.
> At the time the prosecutors claimed that Swartz could’ve faced at most 7 years.

From what I can find, "at the time" here means at the time of the plea bargain offer, not at the time he was charged, or at the time they added more charges.
My thought exactly :)
MIT pushes for charges, not JSTOR, according to the following accounts.

> After his arrest, JSTOR released a statement saying that though it considered Swartz's access to be a "significant misuse" committed in an "unauthorized fashion," it would not pursue civil litigation against him;[16][38] MIT did not comment on the proceedings.[39]

> Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. "JSTOR signed off on it," he said, "but MIT would not."[50]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
>I think that there should be regulation requiring a minimum level of compensation that includes the drivers time and vehicle depreciation as a result of mileage.

That's not going to fix it. If you artificially raise the compensation rates, you're going to increase supply (i.e. incentivize more people to be Uber drivers), leading to more downtime for Uber drivers because the supply of drivers outstrips demand for them. So the per-hour salary isn't going to go up for the drivers. Uber would have to limit supply or create some sort of tiered system - but those aren't perfect solutions either.
It reminds me a lot of Boeing: they get an entrenched market that is very profitable and then get lazy.

IMHO the problem is in the C suites, period. The executives have not provided enough leadership, nor have they recruited others to do so if they themselves are not able.

We still have a ton of great semiconductor design. AMD, NVidia, and Apple's semiconductor division are here. They just don't fab here.

What we have seen with China is that if manufacturing leaves eventually R&D and design will start to leave too. The manufacturers realize they could own the whole shebang if they stand up their own design, product, and marketing, and the US has no talent monopoly.

I am waiting for a Chinese laptop that is built to Apple quality or better, has a fast ARM CPU, and can run either Linux or Windows on ARM. That could be disastrous for the domestic PC industry or what remains of it, especially if Apple flubs the ARM switch.

Edit: Samsung could do it too. They have a sleeper line of ARM laptops, but they are underpowered. Put out one of those with 16-32 cores, 16-64GiB of RAM, 1TB+ SSD, a (maybe optional) high end GPU, and that can run ARM Linux or Windows and Samsung could have a customer. If they invested in helping Linux desktop work very well on the machine they could take a lot of developers from Apple... or if MS removes their head from their posterior and stops stuffing Windows with shit. MS could offer a reasonably priced "no BS edition" without foistware or needless telemetry and I would consider it.
You do get it for black-box vs white-box testing, though. So, is it racist?
Having a completely free choice whether or not to take a job is a luxury afforded to very few people.
> What is the advantage of building this into the database, instead of adding your own timestamp columns e.g. 'created_timestamp' and 'expunged_timestamp'?

If it's present in every table, the database can be optimised for it.
If you agree the words are powerful I would hope you agree they should be used carefully.
I get that.

I'd be quite content to concede renaming master/slave in the linux kernel if that was the end of it. I think what I want to fight against most is the amount of distraction/canceling/fear involved in ever-changing semantic rules. The reason people like me get very hesitant to concede any ground is for fear it would empower even more fear of job security at work (over constantly changing correctness rules).

So you can understand where I'm coming from:

- I worry that this is a slippery slope, and if some places do it, then all places will feel pressure to do it, and be called out on twitter if they don't, and create a huge amount of distraction from actually building good products for the customer

- I worry that this is a slippery slope, and that more words might be included (class, caste, abort, kill, black, white, race, male port, female port, dongle)

- I worry that this is a slippery slope, and that these words in other contexts won't be allowed (mastery, pop culture Britney Spear's Slave4U song, BDSM, Master's ranks in videogames)

(I've seen this in my own lifetime with the word "retard," which used to be the most correct medical term for certain mental deficiencies, and due to a constantly shifting correctness window is now basically worse than "Fuck.")

Now traditionally "slippery slope" is sometimes considered a philosophical fallacy. But perhaps you can say, if the momentum kept going would you be against it? Because if that train didn't stop, I think all the consequences I listed would be much too high a price to pay.
> 2) Landfills are on scarce land which will run out oneday, making waste disposal more expensive.

Case 2 is an interesting case, it's a startlingly widespread fear yet seems ridiculous when you think about it for more than a few seconds. Slate Star Codex concluded it's alarmism sparked in the 80s by the media's coverage of the Mobro 4000 trash barge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000

Point 5 ("5. More And More Trash Piling Up Until The Whole World Is Just A Giant Mountain Of Trash"): https://web.archive.org/web/20190102054648/https://slatestar...
> Does anyone not? Anyone who doesn't run uBlock Origin, I mean.

Well, youtube-dl is technically not the same thing as uBlock Origin, right?
> There are, of course, whole sections of philosophy that are bullshit.

I'd like to see how you approach design thinking aesthetics is bullshit. I'd be surprised it's any good. Anyway, you should consider the simpler explanation: it's just over your head so you call it bullshit.
Unfortunately the Qt demos all take 8-10 seconds to load on a phone for me and several of them fail with out of memory even on high end devices like a Pixel 4 XL. Certainly I'd expect a Pizza Ordering app to work on mobile (and to not show a flash style loading spinner for 10 seconds).

WT is doing all the logic server side so the client ends up being lighter weight and will work on more devices, and with better performance.
Interesting is that dinner was 2pm to 5pm. When I was a kid in Nordics, the school lunch was 10:30 and dinner usually 17:30 when both parents were home from the work.

As far as I have seen most Western countries follow a later schedule.
I think 3 is flawed in general, since 5% price increase often does not result in 5% salary increase. Wages have not kept up with inflation/CoL especially at the bottom, for decades. Instead, consumption would probably drop, especially for non-essentials. If consumption is low, prices would also probably remain low, or possibly lower, especially for non-essentials. For high-demand essentials, probably supply/demand is more likely to create higher costs, than inflationary sources.

Right now I think a lot of people are in hunker-down mode. Without outrageous consumption to increase demand, reduce supply, raising prices and CoL to force increased salary demands, I don't think this self-fulfilling inflation will happen.

Maybe the danger is people being overly-flush with cash after COVID-19 passes, but that looks like it'll be pretty far down the road, and I think we're also due for a bubble to pop on Wall Street, which will probably also hamper inflation.
If we took this to the logical conclusion, nobody in the US would be able to afford faster CPUs because of the high price of domestically manufactured textiles and vegetables harvested with domestic labor.
When a worker complained of being called the N-word at the Fremont factory, Elon sent out an email saying that people need to grow a thicker skin [0]. IMHO this is a stain on his reputation that he cannot erase even if he wanted to.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2018/01/12/577565279/tesla-faces-complai...
How exactly does it help "substantially"? Please elaborate on any concrete problems solved by changing long-established terminology in technical context that describe the relationship between things in an objectively correct way.
There's a feature that I really like in Sandboxie, which is that it can preserve certain folders from being deleted.

I use this feature when I run Firefox in a Sandboxie sandbox while preserving it history and bookmarks. I find it pretty annoying to have those cleared whenever I delete my sandbox, so much prefer to have those saved.

It sounds like the win10 sandbox can't do this.
Yes, the simple fact is that an optimal capital structure in the current environment benefits heavily from debt because a lower cost of debt means a lower cost of capital.
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then why do you need 10k/month to support traffic for 20k users. Their numbers really don't make sense on either side.
You'll still come out better than minimum wage. People seem under the impression that most people make minimum wage, but it's not true. A very small fraction of people make minimum wage, with most menial labor jobs probably paying like $10-$15/hr. After subtracting expenses from driving, Uber drivers probably make somewhere around that.

In regards to your question about cars, there's tons of gig workers in NYC that either bike or walk. It's pretty rare to get your food or shopping order by car, at least in Manhattan.
Plastic bags used to be sturdy enough to be multi-use, and I still have a collection of them that I reuse. I'm old enough that I remember when they were introduced, and how much better than paper they were, and definitely didn't think of them as disposable back then --- unlike paper ones.

I think the problem is ultimately the "disposable attitude" of most people, which drove the manufacturers to make them thinner and weaker until they're barely enough for a single use (and also for more profit, of course.) I see biodegradable in the same way as planned obolescence --- the manufacturers can both guarantee that people will keep consuming, while also exclaiming how environmentally friendly they are.

Perhaps most people just don't like reusing things?
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Tesla injury rate is now lower than any other US auto manufacturer per their recent 2020 report.
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I don't think the comparison was to AI as a super intelligence. AI doesn't have to be a super intelligence to be AI or to be dangerous.
> I am trying to point out that suicide is not a reasonable response to the situation Aaron was in.

No, you're not. Nobody is claiming that suicide was a reasonable response to the situation he was in; that's not what you're trying to rebut. What you're arguing against is the suggestion that the overzealous prosecution should bear some degree of culpability for his suicide. Whether his suicide was a reasonable decision doesn't really matter to that question. People do "unreasonable" things all the time, and it is quite ordinary in many circumstances to expect other people to account for that possibility.
The article contains a large number of assertions and numbers derived from public records. Instead of a middle-brow dismissal, how about you attack something specific?

The author talked to an expert about a subject that few people understand, and this is portrayed as a bad thing? I guess it's better to speculate out of thin air?

Maybe you were an expert on warranty accounting before reading the article so you didn't learn anything. But I doubt it because if you were you would have had more concrete criticisms of the article. But even warranty accounting experts would probably appreciate the author working out the claims capacity ratios for almost a dozen different companies.

The article is obviously days of work from the author. It may be worthy of criticism. If so, please do so substantively.

Just a few of things I learned from the article:

- what warranty accounting is

- what warranty margins Tesla keeps

- how that compares to others in the industry

- what will happen to Tesla's financial statements in the future if Tesla adjusts their warranty margins closer to their industry peers

P.S. There's lots of good discussion about goodwill in the comments to the article.
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