skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This person is saying that on an individual level, they are not willing to cede control to an “average” AI when they know (or believe) themselves to be above average.

You’re talking about it at a societal level, as if everyone switched over to robot cars at the same time.
The Agora tries to be client-agnostic; in that sense it can be based on whichever client/editor you prefer :)

Having said that, logseq is very promising as it's based on precisely the same architecture that the Agora uses now: Markdown in git repos. I would love it if [[sign up]] could be just "click here to start a digital garden in logseq and have it show up in the Agora".

Unfortunately the format that logseq uses to encode blocks is not compatible out of the box, as they use Markdown headings instead of nested lists -- but I've spoken to them and IIRC they have an issue open to support nested lists as a block encoding convention, which I personally believe makes sense (there is a tradeoff here, though).

https://anagora.org/node/sign-up
> it still is super slow for what it does

I disagree - it's much faster than any IDE of equal strength that I've come across.
Lol what a crazy position to have. My own Volvo XC60 was built in China and it's the most well put together car I've ever had. Especially compared to my previous German-built Mercedes where I can guarantee you there wasn't a single plastic that didn't rattle.
No doubt the excellent book it was based on had an overwhelming contribution to the overall success of the movie.
A contract implies consent as consent is the basis for a contract to be formed.

Note also that in the text you quote there is an important word, "unnecessary". So the question is whether the data Facebook collects is unnecessary. The specific circumstances are key here. One argument is that what Facebook collects is necessary since it is the very business model here: you get access and in exchange Facebook shows you targeted ads, for which the data are necessary.

I have never been clear about the basis for claiming that consent is not freely given if it is linked to accessing the service. To me that negates the very nature of contracts, which is an exchange. People freely agree or they don't.

Sometimes it seems that 'freely' is interpreted as meaning 'gratis', but that would not be what is typical meant by 'freely given' when discussing agreement or consent, which usually means 'without being coerced or misled'.
> There's a somewhat pervasive idea that advertising and brand recognition are coercive tools that will ultimately die out, replaced by better objective information about products. I'm kind of partial to this idea myself.

Based on what? Are people investing less in marketing than before?
I use Fakespot, and I wonder about its accuracy. Seeing a 5-star product given a `D` rating is shocking. If Fakespot is reasonably accurate, then Amazon is inexcusably bad at removing fake reviews. Amazon has orders of magnitude more developer talent and user information than Fakespot to tackle accurate ratings. But I suppose that's the reality of differing incentives...
Chobani Yogurt CEO Hamdi Ulukaya Is a Pro-Employee Billionaire in Expansion Mode
It strikes me that a useful analogy here is the adoption of automatic elevators in buildings. In some ways, it's amazing that pretty much everyone in industrialized countries is OK with being locked in a windowless box controlled entirely by a computer, hanging over a hundreds of foot deep shaft, and in fact many people were terrified of that when Elevator operators were first replaced with computers. Some places even had operators employed to simply stand there and push the buttons to provide confidence that an trained expert was there, even though they didn't actually contribute to safety.
Eventually, autonomous elevators got common enough that people will look at you really funny if you're not willing to ride in one, even though they are still responsible for ~20-30 deaths per year.
Most TSA employees are actually not law enforcement officers, if I understand this page correctly (and if it's correct): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini...

EDIT: see this: https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2016/07/03/tsa-myth-busters-do-tsa-...
Apple and Google require developers to have some info and a persistent profile to publish an app. Every app has a publisher and I can see what else they publish, how long they’ve been around, etc. nothing extensive just letting me know that they exist and at least a mailbox or url for support.

Amazon doesn’t do this. Many of the seller pages are bogus or hard to see what they sell. I assume that since it sucks so much Amazon doesn’t care or they specifically don’t want me associating sellers with their own brands.
I see :) and thanks for the signup.

I don't know much about digital art, I am just an Art History hobbist.

The only thing that I notice regarding the modern web is that in my opinion many illustrations on landing pages lack of dynamism... I find them very "static" and remeber me the advertisments of the '50 during the Marshal Plan in Europe

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7f/a0/8b/7fa08b82c3d42e2f5558166aa...

instead illustrators should bring more dynamism in the modern web

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rubens-F...

just my 2 cents :)
yeah ha, it's not your everyday weather map bluescreen.
>even doctors and nurses don’t want it.

What's the source on this?
You hint at this being a downside, but (speaking as a Prosody developer) this is one of the things that makes Jitsi extremely powerful and flexible.

For example, Jitsi delegates authentication of users to Prosody. Prosody already has a bunch of authentication backends ( https://modules.prosody.im/type_auth ) and Jitsi benefits from these without needing to reinvent the wheel.

I've seen the Jitsi+Prosody combo integrated into many kinds of platforms. People also implement things like custom access control, logging, notifications and provisioning at this layer. These things would generally be harder to customize in a monolithic off-the-shelf system.

Meanwhile a simple self-hosted setup is still easy enough to pull off in a spare afternoon ( https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu... ).
Driving in a whiteout blizzard is one thing. But people do need to get around in northern states in the winter and they absolutely sometimes have to drive in snow (and sometimes snow happens mid-trip or you have to get home from another location). I certainly don't go out of my way to dive in substantial snow (and fortunately I don't need to commute any longer) but it sometimes happens.

If it's just the autonomous system that doesn't work that's fine but now you really can't depend on the car unless there's a competent licensed driver who can take over.
Do commands have to go through a server? Maybe using WebRTC to send commands directly to the other players is faster (like video/audio does it)
Sunsetting Blender Network in 2021
Why is a film focused website still using gifs for displaying sequences? Video on the web is a solved problem and it's better then gif in every possible way, especially for full color full motion live action.
Researchers: NSO's use of real data violated the privacy of thousands of people
This experience is alien to me. I order from Amazon all the time and everything I get is generally fine. Occasionally something breaks after a while or is missing a part but that can happen anywhere and Amazon has extremely generous return policies. If anything I've come to trust AmazonBasics as a reliable brand if I'm deciding between products.
Because human lives are not fungible. If some guy somewhere else was gonna die and you make an intervention where I'm more likely to die then that doesn't work for me. I will oppose it to the end of my being (after all, the alternative is the end of my being).

That is, if you take all the deaths from sleepy drivers, drunk drivers, angry drivers and replace them with random chance then I can no longer increase my chances of survival by not driving at night, not driving on holidays, not driving during commute hours, and avoiding shoals.

Instead now you've taken my ability to increase survival and moved it into the base rate. Nope, I think I'd accept maybe a thousand other arbitrary people dying before I'd accept myself dying.
I’ve only seen the movies, but my understanding is that they reasonably closely reflect the books, at least in terms of major themes and plot points. Based on timelines, my guess is that Chiang’s novella was inspired by Sagan’s novel. The stories are far from identical, but there are lots of similar themes - aliens sharing knowledge with us, the challenges of deciphering their language, world governments and extremists acting somewhat as antagonists, the interleaving of the protagonist’s personal life/family with all this.

I could easily be wrong too, but I certainly got Contact vibes when watching Arrival.
Training a neural net to generate Wojaks
That does seem somewhat of a rational response. It doesn't really make sense because pirates would provably use free burner/throwaway accounts.

The thing is, it probably comes down to an architecrural flaw on Deezers part that they think would cost more to fix than the actual losses due to piracy.

But I just wonder if Deezer could run into legal trouble because of this... I can't imagine that the artists/labels would want their music available like that but maybe Deezer is "too big to be held accountable" as well?
Busses are generally much safer because they are bigger and heavier. Except in mountains. But I only encounter that on holidays and on holidays we take a lot more risks.

And I do think twice about taxis.
Risk is proportional to usage. My point was that using aspirin (or driving, since you brought it up) is more common and more easily to use incorrectly than a vaccine.
Turn Your Raspberry Pi 400 into the Ultimate Amiga
I’ve dabbled with OpenBSD and FreeBSD for personal projects for a long time, but have never had the opportunity to use them for anything “serious”. I am trying hard to figure out a path to change this.

ZFS, Jails, VNET, and the stellar security track record are very enticing. In-kernel wireguard support was the last missing piece for me.

The elegance and simplicity of the BSDs are becoming increasingly apparent in contrast to the Linux world.

As an example, compare the jails UX to say, LXC/LXD…
While I appreciate having healthy doubt, I'm concerned with the amount of people who would say "no" if they were offered a vaccine.

Everyone has been eagerly waiting for a vaccine, but now that it's here, most people don't want it?
The Urgent vs. the Important
People confuse 'verbose' and 'clear'. Long names make my eyes glaze over as a reader.
My mac did not come with a working native JDK, I had to install the Azul one built for M1.
The book is even better. As great a science educator as Carl Sagan was, I think he was a better science fiction author. I only wish he wrote more of it.

Ellie makes a mind bending mathematical discovery at the end of the novel that puts the whole story in an even vaster context. The movie skipped it. It's almost as egregious as Peter Jackson skipping the scouring of the shire.
Spirals, Snowflakes and Trees: Recursion in Pictures
Journalists have never operated an ecommerce company.

In the same year, they'll publish a story about how requiring manufacturing information enables them to steal secrets from sellers.

You can't have it both ways.
IIRC, getting that variant of the flu also increased the risk of narcolepsy.
Let say I'm a healthy 20 years old. What are the odds of me getting infected from covid and suffering bad consequences (death or chronically ill). How does it compare with a "bad" vaccine in recent history? I'm curious about the order of magnitude of risks involved.
Tiny robots could be disease-fighting machines inside the body(2018)
I haven't used scraper too much. I personally find the predicate approach of select.rs [0] easier to use. However in this case the selector approach just made more sense.
Standalone html5ever can be a bit cumbersome to work with directly, scraper is basically an implementation of the html5ever's `TreeSink` trait, where as `select.rs` uses the hmtl5ever `RcDom` to parse the document but stores it in a more convenient way. If you look for a minimal approach you should at select.rs which basicially only depends on html5ever

[0] https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/select.rs
> “[...] the very important never feels urgent. Instead, most things which feel urgent are important for someone else, not for you.”
Cancel GitHub Workflow Action for failed jobs
Colonoscopies do create an opportunity for treatment, the removal of polyps.

It's among the most effective anti-cancer interventions we have, so worth being clear that there is potential to benefit from treatment during a colonoscopy.
That stat seems to be very untruthy. Fatal crashes seem to be distributed much more evenly than I would've guessed.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/crashes-b...
There's no wrench in the gears, no mucking up of the normal function of enzymes. It's just ribosomes translating like they normally do, and then the rest of the immune system going after the translated peptides.
Nostalgia for the days when the NYT and co. could lie the whole nation into some war (or rather the people who read the NYT).
> His big concern about AI [is] ‘that people will believe machines actually understand things’.

Right at the very beginning of the interview he has the same issue with human beings.
Well, in that case, I suppose it depends on the asset being collateralized, and what oracle is the input for the programmatic issuance.

If the collateral can be seized in an act of violence (as opposed to being custodied on a smart contract), and the math is unable to protect the asset, then I think it's strictly a collateral solution and not a mathematical one.
And Mac ! If you're doing a Mac port you may as well do a Linux one too.
Also, for IDE style completion:

https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe
>(FluMist, the nasal spray, does contain weakened virus, but the shot uses either inactivated virus or viral proteins), this doctor seems a bit out to lunch?

As personal anecdote, I get flu shot from Costco every year but this year was the first time I got nasal FluMist because they ran out of the needle version. This was also the only time I've gotten sick from it. Immediate runny nose and headache even before I left the store.
GOP Sen. Hawley Will Object to Electoral College Certification
https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&r...

If you had to look at this comparison without knowing; you couldn't tell which country maintained civil liberties. And yes there are countries that fared better, and countries that fared worse.

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&d...

Sweden's second wave seems dwarfed by both France and Switzerland in this comparison.. I mean if you have to squint and twist the stats to make Sweden look bad, then maybe we gave up all our rights unnecessarily.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Overall, they have the 25th worst deaths per million on earth, UK is 12th, USA is 14th and France is 16th worst. They didn't do badly. And most all countries that did worse, did so while stripping every right and liberty off their citizens.
Games Were a Lifeline in 2020
It seems that you have concerns about the recently approved covid vaccines, at least from allusions such as "I'm super against rushed, politicized pharmaceuticals" and "A majority of the forced vaccines have been tested for many decades".

To address those two points in particular:

The trials for these FDA-approved vaccines were not "rushed". They included all the usual phases for their usual durations. That's why we only get the vaccines now (even though developing them took far less than a month). What made the trials faster is that they started preparing the next stage while the previous one was still ongoing - which is not normally done, so as to not waste money in case problems are found.

As for the duration of testing: As mentioned, the set of stages before approval was not reduced. Vaccines are indeed monitored after being cleared for use, but having to wait decades would not make sense. I understand that this is different for other vaccines that are "forced", but you admit yourself that this is not true for all of them in the first place.
There will always be a long tail where the machines fail in scenarios a human can handle. We're just going to write off those deaths as an act of nature?
It only makes me feel safer if those systems are substantially safer than humans.

If the systems are broadly as safe as humans _including_ a significant set who are drunk / high / distracted, that feels subjectively much less safe even though the statistical number of accidents is the same.
Just started learning Lisp (Emacs Lisp), and I am planning on doing a deep dive in Common Lisp. Using Python and Pandas for my day to day scripting. Common Lisp does not have the ecosystem in terms of packages compared to Python (or JS / NodeJS), but hacking Lisp feels extremely good. I intend to use it for prototyping, for all kinds of hacking that does not involve using available packages.
Whats your project about?
I bet Soviet Russia issued similar declarations in 1920, only for heavy industry, or something. What a joke.

If everyone left the EU like the UK did, there would be hundreds of billions of dollars more left to invest.
Copies of 50/60's engines from France and Russia?
That is not the point, which is, again, about the level of income where additional money no longer makes much difference.

I don't dispute that 70k is a very good salary but I can tell you that 70k is far from being the level at which additional money no longer makes a difference. 70k is indeed "low" in that respect, especially with a family.

An example: a good private school costs circa 16k a year. It makes a massive difference compared to your local state school. To be able to spend £16k a year cash you need to reach around this £70k income level before tax for both parents... For a single child. So IMHO, in the UK the level at which extra money no longer makes a difference to way of life or well-being is quite higher than £70k.

I do agree that claiming that $70k (£52k) is not even a living wage in some western cities seems outlandish...
It's like it's 1937 and you're complaining about bias against Volkswagen
Let’s say you hire a chauffeur to drive your kids around. You find out they’ve been drinking on the job and speeding recklessly. When you confront them, they pull out stats that they’ve been actually less drunk than average. Do you fire them and find a new chauffeur?

When it’s a robot chauffeur, you have to evaluate it like you would a human one.
My personal experience is that many brands had a high markup on brand recognition and I used to be able to find better quality and value through no name brands that made good products. The internet is supposed to spread information well and with perfect information I should be able to differentiate true quality vs just a known brand signaling quality.

I think the problem is that places like Amazon distort information (eg, tolerate crappy reviews) because it makes them more money. The bazaar model is supposed to have some positive feedback loops to incentivize positive events, but that’s drifting away.

So I used to think that effective marketplaces would replace brands with disintermediation and perfect info. But not so much now.

This is sort of a tl;dr for why I buy Apple. They have a huge markup for brand name, but it’s exhausting to me to try to evaluate what’s the best laptop this year and I can trust Apple to probably be pretty good.
Penrose’s model of the brain needs to be more powerful than quantum computation, so that it can actually solve NP problems in P time and similarly amazing feats.

If you’re interested in CS and quantum physics and whether there could be any relationship to the way the brain works, do check out Scott Aaronson’s book “Quantum Computing Since Democratus”. It’s a great read, it’ll get you up to speed on quantum mechanics and complexity theory, the book is conversational, and it’s written by an expert in the field of QC. It also discusses Penrose’s arguments about consciousness and other fun digressions into philosophy. Great and fun book!
Very interesting, thank you for the data.
"Gloom-for-clicks". I'm stealing that phrase. It's perfect.
my contribution to save our planet, less bytes to send
Nice snark, but what I said applies to the bulk of the US northeast and midwest as well.

(As for Google Fibre, that's a fun one as I actually worked on that product, though of course I couldn't get it...)
Orwell's take on language was at once frustrated and nuanced. He mentions Esperanto, as a made-up language, in his essay New Words" [1] - but not as an absolute negative. The essay, in fact, argues for deliberate invention of language/words - but to improve understanding between people, rather than to diminish meaning and so kill concepts, as happens in his Newspeak.

The essay is long, and he expresses his dissatisfaction at his inability to say what he wanted to in it, before finishing with:

To most people in any case the whole idea of reforming language would seem either dilettantish or crankish. Yet it is worth considering what utter incomprehension exists between human beings — at least between those who are not deeply intimate. At present, as Samuel Butler said, the best art (i.e. the most perfect thought-transference) must be ‘lived’ from one person to another. It need not be so if our language were more adequate. It is curious that when our knowledge, the complication of our lives and therefore (I think it must follow) our minds, develop so fast, language, the chief means of communication, should scarcely stir. For this reason I think that the idea of the deliberate invention of words is at least worth thinking over.

[1] https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/words/english/e_words
Any time I put a less than 5 star review, i get contacted by the seller, who many times offer to send me a free replacement, a newer model, or another product I may be interested in, if I change my review. I have refused, but I imagine many others did that.
I do. Feel free to ask any questions, I will try to answer them if possible.

In summary: I think SBCL is the most sophisticated Lisp compiler around and it is even free :). It is not as polished as some commercial solutions, which also come with IDEs, but in the setup of SBCL+Slime+Emacs, you have a professional Lisp setup which will go a long way. (I have done professional work with this setup).
If you do that we will launch missiles. You will not survive the attempt. See, this is the thing with stuff like this. "You can't prove it!" doesn't work.

If a Russian terrorist cell (state sponsored or not) did this to American vehicles on the road, Putin will be on the phone begging to not be blown up. The leaders of a dozen countries will be on the phone begging us not to blow him up.

It's like America's power supply. Notoriously easy to destroy, but if you do destroy it, hell will rain down upon you.

Because it turns out the devices that make the peace don't operate like the devices that operate in the peace. So you can't break them that easily.
I'm working on creating a face-to-wojak model using PyTorch CycleGan/Pix2Pix [0] and found some of my outputs to be outrageous yet somehow relatable. People are into it so thought I'd share on HN

[0] https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix
Unfortunately, that seems to be the only way to get people to care. No one cares about the treatment of prisoners and the abuse of law enforcement until it affects them. It’s sad, really. Videos don’t convince people because “everyone has an agenda” and they’re “isolated incidents”.[a]

[a]: Not actual quotes; they’re paraphrased from what I’ve heard previously