skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found a couple errors early on that dissuaded me from continuing to read.

One was the idea that the author could rule out the singularity because he wasn't aware of progress toward self-motivated AI that would be something like our own intelligence. This seems like a limited view to me because we wouldn't need self-motivation at all in AI to hit the singularity. Humans can supply the self motivation.

Suppose I'm using GPT-4 or GPT-44 trained on the corpus from sci-hub and it recommends experiments to me, or explains physics to me, etc. I could be the self-motivating part and the AI could be the intelligence part, and it seems we'd still hit the technological singularity.

Another problem I had was when the author characterized Elon Musk's "obsession" with the paperclip maximizer and described Tesla as a battery maximizer. It seems like the author kind of misses the point of the paperclip thought experiment, which is, broadly, that an AI's interests might not be aligned with our own and that misalignment may cause serious problems.

Tesla is clearly not a battery maximizer and it is clearly not a different class of intelligence from the humans and corporations existing today (though it may be towards the top of that class). Neither of those things would necessarily be true of an AI.

Given the position of my scrollbar it seems I was only starting to read this piece, but already finding what I think are significant problems as the author sets up the argument, I'm hesitant to spend more reading.
See https://simpleit.rocks/web/hostings/redirect-http-to-https-a... for example
Which part of your point 5 link should I be looking at? Doesn't seem to be related.
>And that's a high profile white hacker. Wait till you hear the experiences with them of poor/black/latino folk...

I'm sure if Aaron had been poor/non-white he'd have double-suicided due to his extra-special-bad treatment provided by the federal prosecutors. What whacky me-tooism. Federal prosecutors treat everyone like shit. First time i've heard Aaron Swartz referred to as a white hacker, too. Maybe white-hat. Honestly no one i've ever hung out with cared about his color enough to label.. But you keep shaping whatever narrative you want.

RIP. I miss you.
Remember that Brexit hasn’t, for practical purposes, happened yet. Most people didn’t anticipate that the UK would request, and be granted, so many extensions, a few years ago.

However, time has now run out; the last realistic opportunity for a further extension passed a couple of weeks ago, and Brexit will now happen in some real sense at the end of the year. It likely won’t be pretty.
Your comment (and your links) miss the point of mocking references to "Roko's Basilisk". Whether it's actually a widely-held belief of the Less Wrong/greater rationalist community is irrelevant, it's emblematic of the eye-rolling nonsense that they engage in.

It's the exact secular equivalent of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"[1], which was also not an actual accepted topic of medieval religious scholarly debate but an illustration of the usual absurdity of such debate (e.g., there was an actual centuries-long scholarly discussion of whether angels were sexless or had sexes).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_t...
I still find it hilarious how we were going all in on "Ban All The Single Use Plastics!" over the past year, then the pandemic hit, and everyone pretty much threw the whole idea out the window.
Now reusable anything is seen as a disease vector, and banished.

Makes me wonder what'll happen when the pandemic situation finally winds down.
Recommending a five year short position is about as anti-Buffett methodology as possible. Buffett has been pretty explicit that the risk reward ratio of shifting doesn’t make sense. And options have a huge time expense over five years.
Most secure would be Qubes VMs. I use pfSense VMs in VBox. So nested VBox internal networks (yes, multiple NAT) leads produces nested VPN chains.

Also, you can include a Debian VM running Tor and OpenVPN in a chain. You configure OpenVPN in TCP mode with "socks-proxy 127.0.0.1 9050". So you can route through 2-3 VPNs, then Tor, and then 1-2 more VPNs.

Or you can include a Debian VM that crudely emulates Tor (very crudely) by periodically switching among random chains of multiple VPNs.[0]

0) https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains/
Roko's Basilisk – RationalWiki
Lie to them. They want you to lie to them. They are DEMANDING that you lie to them. They will PUNISH you if you don't lie to them.

So lie. It's what they want.

And if you don't, someone else will.
You have misread the paper. It says that cloth masks are worse than medical masks, and worse than "standard practice" which seems to be mostly medical masks but not worn as rigorously. They didn't test against no masks, which would be insanely dangerous in a hospital.
Yes, make clean all, cargo clean build.
Not sure why all the traditional car makers haven't caught on and put DRM on the oil system. They could take cues from both the inkjet printer industry and Tesla.
There's obviously cases where prosecutors or bureaucrats in general go way beyond what they need to do in which case individual responsiblity or morality matters, but in general lawyers and federal employees apply the law, they don't make it. What you identified as relativism I think is actually impartiality, which is a good thing. The problem with principles, like empathy is that they tend to be unevenly applied, often in activist manner. Which is why we demand of officials that they follow procedures, rather than inherently subjective judgement.

I think at the end of the day when it comes to stories such as Aaron's the buck stops with everyone of us, because we're responsible for keeping these people employed and the rules in place.
In the middle of a pandemic he suddenly realizes why everyone was wrong and now he is right. I totally believe him ... not.
The long term effects of the virus are still unknown, if infected have long term immunity is unknown.
The officers would have faced no consequences if it weren't captured on video. The Minneapolis PD initially gave the classic "resisting arrest" excuse:

"After Floyd got out [of his car], he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress."
This wouldn't be such a big deal if the landlocked countries joined an African Union or something like that.
Baring some grand miscalculation on my part, I'd likely win the wager that you don't actually know their mother or the comorbidities she might have that lead them to that conclusion. They are likely overestimating her odds of death, but your flippant response without knowledge or her situation is more than certainly underestimating it.

Humans overvalue perspective lose to themselves, it's one of our worse traits. That said, we also presuppose knowledge we can't fathom to have. I believe both were on display just now.

And for $deity's sake, we're living through an unprecedented pandemic, this person is worried about the well-being of their family, have some compassion.

To the grandparent poster: I worry about that as well. :/
I have rarely felt so identified with a blog, for a huge part it's like I'm reading my own story. Thanks a lot for sharing!

I'm going to read the book you mentioned and I'll consider taking magnesium as suggested here.

Thanks!
Conviction rates for one.
This review[0] has SPEC2006 scores for the A12X in the iPad Pro 2018. The same review estimates the per core power at around ~4W.

This review[1] compares the SPEC2006 score of the A13 to high end modern desktop chips. The A13 is very close despite its power consumption being much lower.

[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13661/the-2018-apple-ipad-pro...

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
Corporations are nothing but a group of actors working together to achieve some outcome, part of which may be profit, and it's absurd to think that they are a 'Modern Era', or even Western concept as every single land-owning farmer, artisan, banker, merchant in history was de-facto a form of 'corporation'. Moreover, many institutions with origins in antiquity (schools, governments, NGO's) are close enough to the organising principles of corporations that they could be regarded in the same, broad, social categorisation.

His 18th century definition of 'Corporation' fits perfectly with the notion of 'Petit Bourgeois' of history - minor land-holding families, technical guilds, larger artisanal groups. Do we think Athenian 'Trireme' warships were built by a guy and his assistants? No, these were built by well organised groups with specialisation, paid for their work, aka 'Corporations'.

The most interesting thing about these talks are actually social: what kinds of ideas and memes will rise to the fore among people who are aspirationally antagonising, like social anarchists (I don't mean that in a negative sense, I mean that would be the closest technical 'ideal' that defines the a group like 'Chaos Computer Club'). Mohawks, anti-estabishment statements such as 'ardent atheist', and hints of softly anti-corporate ideals.

"Life-span of corporation is shorter, largely due to predation (totally unsubstantiated), corporation's are cannibals, they eat one another (that's an interesting way to describe mergers)."

"For the first century and a 1/2 they depended entirely on human employees" - no, actually, the Industrial Revolution was literally about harnessing the power of fossil fuels via machines to automate that which would have been done by people (or animals) before. Neither humans nor horses moved those trains.

And then of course the dehumanising of governments and corporations as AI: "What do our AI Overlords want?".

I don't believe there is really any relationship between 'corporations' and 'AI', it's a neat idea. What we have here is an intelligent, creative guy with an antagonists worldview, working in a field wherein he's free to make up loose associations and hint at them as they are facts, ad he's subsumed an interesting ideal from CS into his own world view.

I mean, it's great to try ideas that bends our minds a little bit, but I think it's clear he's a writer of fiction.
Could be I have no way of knowing that.
It's still around. I have been involved in that kind of stuff for almost 40 years. It's just that there's a lot of noise made by "the other folks," so it seems like there's no one left that cares.
U.K. To Use Drones to Deliver Covid-19 Tests to Scottish Islands
There are a couple of KVMs that supposedly do USB to PS2.

ATEN CS82U and IOGEAR GCS1722 are two I looked at. About $55 on Amazon.
I've done some dead simple forwarding/load balancing work, and if you can do it with nat instead of a proxy application it'll use a lot less memory, in addition to less cpu.

That means fewer load balancers needed, or smaller machines (or both). So I'd say that means anytime you run out of capacity on your proxy machines would be an opportunity to look for other techniques. Haproxy is probably easier to use though, and would tend to need less work to get the features you want, though. So there's an opex/capex vs development time argument.

Hyperscaling Haproxy is a lot of fun too, though. There's a huge difference in connections/second between a normal config and a totally tuned config with haproxy and kernel patching on the table.
Postmortem Documentation
sounds like a liberal wet dream
You can buy assets.
"they have no function". They limit and control the amount of smoke. Provides a more consistant experience. I read your #4 source as proof. It talks about how cigarette companies tried coming up with a filter to reduce death but stopped because the filters were reducing the taste/experience. That doesn't tell us filters have no use. Include that link it tells us that in the 50s cigarette companies offered filterless and filtered versions. Customers preferred the filtered versions. You made the mistake of thinking the only purpose of filters is less death. Filters prevent tabacco from fall out, better taste, more consistant smoke, nevermind you need somewhere to hold the cigarette as it burns and without a filter you throwaway more tabacco.

#5 Most cigarettes butts are not brown at least in my megacity. White is more popular.

Cigarette butts can take upto 10 years to breakdown at the most.

https://uhs.berkeley.edu/tobaccofacts

Single use plastics take 1,000 years.

One will breakdown in your pets lifetime the other will take a millennia.

We need to ban single plastic use. And perhaps dig a little deeper before making assuming associations (if cigarettes are bad the filters must be destorying the earth / meanwhile the coffee lids you get every morning is really the problem)
Are you saying that the sentencing guidelines changed during the trial?

Suggesting that Swartz was threatened with a 35-year sentence requires some extraordinary mental gymnastics.
The nostalgic world wide web
I know this sounds boring and old-fashioned, but whether government debt is a good or a bad thing, would depend a lot on what it was doing with the money it borrowed. If it spent it on repairing aging dams that were about to burst, bridges that needed repairs, and roads that have become unable to bear the traffic they are meant to, they could be a very wise decision. If they are used to build dams where none are needed, bridges to nowhere, and re-pave roads that are already fine, then they are not good. It is not so much the amount of debt that matters (for a sovereign state like the UK that is able to borrow in its own currency), but what the money (and thus the labor and real materials the money is used to purchase) is used to do.
> They could itemize deductions.

The AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) phases out itemized deductions for higher incomes.
No, it's not. But you can have an okay life, assuming you don't have a family.
Instead of setting an example we could just pay for waste management programs in Asia and Africa and be done with it. Would be cheaper, faster and more convenient than the current ban all plastics movement.
ah, my bad. I was thinking of the 3700U.
I'd avoid using Japan as an example for things like this. I won't even mention the whole homogenity thing. It's the culture. Culture is the most important thing. Japanese people, or people who live in Japan, on average more likely give some shit about other people, or the overall society. Shame is also big in Japan, while not a thing at all in most Western, individualist societies. Shame alone can make a Japanese person or someone living Japan think twice about littering. Shame alone makes a Japanese salaryman clean up his own vomit off the street after spewing his guts after a long drinking night. You will never get most Americans to do anything on this level. Hell, they take pride in not giving a fuck about others.
Gassée is focusing on the wrong things. "Thermal envelope"? Bah.

In the block diagram of the SoC for the new Macs, Apple very clearly signaled what they are doing. They are working towards Steve Jobs's long-term vision.

Onboard "advanced audio processing", "enhanced camera", "neural engine", "AI processing": this is about making Macs that support development of the next generation of software for iPhones.

Mobile phones right now are stuck. Apple wants to make them more useful to their users, and the way to to that is to make them context aware, continuously listening and occasionally looking around. so the phone knows what's going on.

Context-aware phones is what this is about. "Siri, write minutes of the meeting we just had, and email them to everyone."

Users will never accept a phone that's continuously uploading everything in their lives to Apple's servers (or anyone else's), so all of this capability has to be on board the device.

Intel is incapable of making a SoC that will support this, and no-one else has the capacity, so Apple has to do it themselves. (Also, Apple wants to keep the IP to themselves.)
When the MBA guys and Wall Street starts drinking their own cool-aid and believes that finance is what creates money - you have a problem.

Lee Hutchinson of Ars Technica once wrote that a junior engineer now at Boeing has no viable path for promotion towards the C-suite. The middle rank engineering teams have all been divested and the only way to rise up the ranks is to actually leave Boeing, work at a different company, rise up the ranks there and come back a decade later.
is this a distinction without a difference? Networks like LinkedIn exist for the purpose of building real social capital and that's how they're used by 99% of their users. I don't see the incentive for someone to use a fake persona (other than scamming).

All those private firms are in many ways identity providers just as real and official as governmental ones.
Neither Amazon nor Apple are buying off the shelf ARM chips. They are both designing processors to meet their needs. Amazon bought Annapurna labs and Apple bought a slew of companies specializing in processor design.
a) It really is. b) I didn't say point (a) is why modern C++ is amazing. But it is one of the motivations for learning modern C++.
Magnesium had zero noticeable effect for me until I tried Magnesium Glycinate. I later tried pure Glycine without magnesium and realized that it was the Glycine that helped my insomnia, not the magnesium component. There are several studies showing positive effects of Glycine on sleep induction.

Magnesium is harmless to try at low doses, but be warned that there is a substantial amount of low quality information about Magnesium on the Internet lately. Despite what you might read, it is possible to consume too much magnesium. Magnesium accumulates in the body with a very long elimination time (days or weeks) which means overdose can occur after months of supplementing at the same level. Anecdotally, Gwern recorded a subtle downward trend of cognitive test scores over time during both of his Magnesium trials.

If you choose to supplement with magnesium, keep the doses low. Don’t escalate dosing in an attempt to capture greater effects. The high doses used in studies are for proving a point on a short duration study, so long-term dosing is likely lower than clinical study dosing. Also be careful to note the difference between magnesium salt content and pure elemental magnesium content of the supplements you’re taking, because the two measurements shouldn’t be confused with each other.
The first country/company to develop properly biodegradable plastics with similar properties to existing ones will be very rich.

But the market won't create that solution unless regulations create the problem to be solved: no more single-use non-biodegradable plastics.
Ask HN: Concepts the modern tech industry falsely believes it invented?
To rephrase, it would be something that someone new to the tech industry might falsely assume is an invention of the modern tech industry (ie in the last 10-20 years) but has actually been around for much longer.

EDIT: Removed my initial list of examples because people were making fun of them (and rightly so, the lists in the comments are far better!)
> "For the last 6-10 years, racists and misogynists have become increasingly bold, and their insidious 'arguments' poison all discourse."

Being a minority myself who opposes these pointless language changes and seeing plenty of black/minority comments with similar opposition, may I point out that "everybody who disagrees me is a racist" just doesn't work particularly well as a rationalization?
Minimum wage limits "options". If we assume that minimum wage makes sense, then a higher minimum wage for people using their personal automobiles also seems to make sense.
Just realized that while the ARM transition makes technical sense it probably increases the odds of Apple being commodified. Using X64 makes it at least somewhat harder for a competitor to do this by offering competitors fewer choices and higher component costs.

By pushing the PC, the nucleus of all development, to ARM they are helping push the whole software industry onto a heavily globalized platform with many vendor choices and generally available IP.
We're building Eduflow (https://www.eduflow.com) – a light-weight LMS born out of some of the same frustration aired in this thread: LMSs are to enterprisey and seem to be designed with somebody else than the actual end-user in mind.

(Plus, we were in YC batch S17 with the predecessor to Eduflow – Peergrade)
"It's not meant to be purely democratic. The founders were students of history and recognized the inherent instability of pure democracies."

Many of the founders were also elitists who didn't want anyone but landowning white men to run the country. They were wary of "mob rule" (ie. direct democracy), and preferred to have the elites rule. The jury's still out on whether they were right or whether direct democracy is actually better. Considering how much power and wealth is being concentrated in the hands of a tiny minority in the US, I'm siding with having more direct democracy, not less.

"I get that it's easy to point out the hypocrisy of the phrase "all men are created equal" when slavery was still a thing in half the states, but it was a very tenuous situation to go against the crown of England in 1776."

The existence of slavery in the US wasn't just about 1776.. it lasted until 1865. The US was one of the last countries to end slavery.

"All of human history is filled with bloodshed, tyranny, endless wars, conquering, slavery, piracy, vandalism, raiding parties, human sacrifice, religious battles and authoritarianism..."

"Interning the Japanese Americans was of course wrong, but when you're fighting a world war and tens of millions are dying at the hands of Japanese (they slaughtered Chinese by the tens of millions)...it's very touchy isn't it? The lesser of two evils in that particular war was certainly the U.S."

The point of my post wasn't to say there weren't reasons (some might say excuses) for the US to behave the way it did (extreme, widespread racism against minorities is one such reason and excuse), nor to deny that some countries were just as bad or even worse, but to recognize that massive, serious oppression did in fact happen in the US, despite it being some sort of a democracy.

Oppression in the US is still happening, is likely to continue, and will probably be greatly enabled by the easy availability of identifying information on the people within and without its borders.
Are you going from their own blog post? I would be suspicious of any claims by Tesla. Also, it has been reported that they underreport injuries.

Musk continually pulls the same tactics that Trump does, except that Musk is applauded for it. The methods are the same: lie, confuse, insult, make grand claims.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-factory-injuries-incom...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/07/tesl-m07.html
MacOS is built on Darwin, just like iOS.
I'm not sure what your argument is at all beyond trying to assume someone doesn't believe the influenza virus can be deadly too.

Influenza can mutate to become even deadlier. That's why we have vaccines and take action to track the disease so that we can keep it under relative control. We approach it with great care because it's deadly.

So why are you afraid of doing the same thing for the coronavirus? It has a lot more unknowns and things we simply do not know about and without a way to treat it, the best approach is one with extreme caution. It's already killed far more people than your average influenza season in less than half the year. It seems like you're attempting to downplay how dangerous this virus is and trying to compare it to the flu.
Reddit is a modern equivalent.
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