skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We Will Soon Have Sentient Sex Robots. Will They Be Able to Consent?
That's what I said about Bitcoin at $1 (groan).... I'm heavy into Urbit now, learning their programming language, Hoon (more mindbending than Brainfuck).

I just checked on opensea.io; you can get a planet for 0.04 ETH--around $50.

Urbit is the Next Big Thing--I haven't seen anything like it in 40 years; it's a "computing platform" blank slate! I don't think it'll ever go away because there are enough tech people to keep it going. I can also see academia using it.

Setting up your own planet is a real hassle. Soon, you will be able to "rent" your own planet for a monthly fee (like paying for an ISP), and the provider will take care of all hardware and software. On the other hand, you can put your planet on a server for $10-$20/month.

Look into it; it's going to be a wild ride!
That absolutely makes sense. Correlation is not causation.

I would probably be characterized as one of the "health-nuts," so between the cold showers, moisturizing twice a day, trying to perfect my indoor air pollution, and literally eating raw spinach and a bowl of fruit for lunch... Who knows what contributes to what?

I probably have health anxiety. I wouldn't characterize it as extreme, but it does force me to do anything I hear is healthy for me.
Amazing book, although terrifying. In a similar vein is "The Doomsday Machine", Daniel Ellsberg. Reading this in conjunction with C&C will truly make you appreciate the insane run of luck we have had as a species in avoiding nuclear catastrophe (so far).
I agree with your point here - this reminds me the "that girl in college who bought fast food for homeless people because she's a good person... and then told everyone how much of a good person she was for doing it" meme.

Charitable donations are great, more people should donate to private charities that benefit their communities as I strongly believe many of these organizations genuinely do more good than government programs! However, her blog screams "look how much money I gave away" / "I'm one of the good rich people - please don't kill me when you decide to pillage the rich".
You seem confused. The ideas that you say above, that workers should get health insurance and shouldn't be timed on their toilet breaks (workers shouldn't be exploited) are quite literally "leftist" ideals.
> Having an opinion you strongly believe in is not enough to make it true or right.

Of course it isn't enough. That's why the media outlets in question will make up facts, or really slant things to appear to carry sufficient factual weight, and then the reasoning from there comes out to the desired conclusion. Not that there is usually much reasoning going on, it is mostly emotional arguments.
So, your position is that a business can ban anyone. AT&T can ban you because you like candy. Yes, candy is evil and destroys millions of teeth.

And if someone is not satisfied, we should just scream at Dorsey until he caves.
Anyone else found the color contrast absolutely terrible to read? i suspected this and then ran a lighthouse check and.. yup. contrast check fail. you can also use https://color.a11y.com/Contrast/

There's no point pontificating about the next generation of static blogging when you forget the basics - make the writing easy to read.
Person C threatening to no longer communicate with person A, is different than person C threatening to do additional work to not conduct business with person A. This kind of weaponization of everyday business does not lead to anything good. And just like we would condemn shop owner refusing to sell to a customer based on race/hair color/ clothing style we need to condemn twitter refusing service to sci-hub, to Trump, or even to actual murderers like Xi/Putin/Aliyev.

Even your example of deplatforming is a very questionable practice, for instance it is often used by cults like Jehovah Witnesses to disallow followers talking with family members who leave the cult.
Can you give us example of how much money there is?
Metallica Sucks Napster Scandal (1999)
Yeah, they might have mentally flipped Bogota and Medellin. Bogota is a lot like SF's climate, but even steadier throughout the year.
You can get a Mirage starting at $13,995, yet Toyota’s cheapest car comes in at $19,925 a 40% price bump. Companies really do avoid the segment.
Why isn't “random” a euphemism for “we don't understand the cause yet”?
Why is radioactive decay a random process? Subsequently, why isn't “random” a euphemism for “we don't understand the cause yet”? What prevents us from ever being able to predict the radioactive decay of an atom, regardless of technological progress?
> He's still able to speak

Does not matter. This is still the definition of censorship, according to the relevant authorities on definitions of words.

Basically every definition that you find will agree with me that private companies can censor people.

> should be able to force

Who said anything about force? I am just saying that private companies can censor people, according to basically every definition of the word. You can have whatever opinions that you want on if censorship is good or bad.
I've seen many of my peers, friends even (which hurts to see) openly calling for mass bloodshed and rejoicing in the deaths of those who were shot or died on 1/6.

Hatred and malice spreads like a viral wildfire on social media, no matter what your political ideology.
8 Can't Wait caught on. It isn't incendiary. It does fit on a protest sign.
So you would rather gamble human civilization on the chance that it might not be true, with a psychopath that has shown he is willing to do anything to stay in office?
Did you find any body weight videos, books, or articles that you would recommend?
Eh, investing in something like a Mars mission could return on investment many times here on Earth, that might solve those problems quicker. E.g. vertical farming tech.
By your logic, the President’s spouse is co-President.
I’ve been building a set of web based tools for making little multiplayer (and single player) games.

https://www.miniboss.gg

All the tools, including programming, art, and sound are baked in. I’m reworking the editor now and hope to have a proper release this year.
Oh yeah I suppose that might be an option if the power fails completely. I wouldn't use one instead of regular heating though :)
Try being a 5' 100# woman walking home alone at night. Technology, in the form of a reliable and compact weapon, is the best way for her to bridge the very real divide of physical size and strength against her most likely attacker.

I know it's 2021 and it's sacrilege to even mention that men and women differ in very real and impactful ways, but.. there it is.
Read the article. It doesn't.
How? We are already investing in vertical farming tech. What has Mars got to do with it?
That’s not cynical, that’s real. I loved it.
To me, it was always the case. I think TV was set up to be the most powerful propaganda delivery mechanism. That's pretty clear, when you look at how the BBC was created.

But - for more info, so that you can confirm this is explicitly the case, you should look up 'Operation Mockingbird'. Or the way that the CIA sponsored arts and culture.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...

The media being part of governance is not a conspiracy.

UPDATE/EDIT

And, in other conspiracy news, I am unable to reply to comments below. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." This will probably prevent me from replying for a few hours (last time it was 3 hours). Understandably, people will think I'm flaky and unable to defend my position, where I am happy to have a meaningful interaction and share a different point of view.

Ask yourself, should I be able to say what I have said, in a free society? Did you think HN wasn't part of the problem?
I am talking in a more general term. And also they do want ability impose sovereignty upon the narrative. That include the ability to prevent Silicon Valley companies propagate narrative that is not compatible with the sovereign.
I was already fairly active before COVID (distance running 4-5 times/week) but actually became even more active after picking skateboarding back up a few months into quarantine. Several of my friends also started exercising more, though the ones that lifted lost some gains but broke through plateaus once they were able to get back in.

Echoing other sentiments here, if exercise is important enough you'll carve out the time for it no matter the circumstance.
I'm not arguing that there is more "hatred" for Pence coming from within his party than outside it, in a general sense. I'm arguing specifically that "hang Mike Pence" is coming from the far right, and only from the far part of the far right.

If you find this odd, you should read some far-right forums. I read these social media circles (as well as far-left ones of various sorts), not because I agree with them, but because I think it's useful to understand what the "other side" thinks. The one I was reading today had multiple memes of him as a traitor - one had him photoshopped as Brutus assassinating Trump-as-Caesar surrounded by Romney and others, one had him next to Benedict Arnold, etc.

Meanwhile, at some point in the NYC Women's March four years ago, when folks were chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go," I tried to lead a "Michael Pence has got to go." Nobody really joined in.

And in any case, my original point is that there is a large number of folks, Democrat and Republican and everything in between, who do not agree with "hang Mike Pence," and it is on those people's beliefs that we can build common ground. I don't deny that there are protestors with megaphones who shout extreme positions, but my exact point was that you should not extrapolate based on who shouts the loudest.
> Tuna's global state is persisted in a database, rather than held in memory.

Very interesting. In addition to micro-services, this could drastically ease the pain of developing workflow orchestration systems.

How do you plan to handle code updates in the context of global state?
> Indeed I never omit any optional tags while writing my blog posts or blog layout.

Do you type <tbody> every time you write a table? That is an optional implicit tag that can be left out just like <html>, <head>, and <body>.
Another example (same speech):

> And I would love to have if those tens of thousands of people would be allowed the military, the Secret Service and we want to thank you and the police and law enforcement great you're doing a great job, but I would love it if they could be allowed to come up with us. Is that possible? Can you just let them, please?
Only one branch of the HTML family tree was ever XML compatible. I was a heavy user of XHTML in the day, so I'm sympathetic... But it's misleading to characterize non-XML variants of HTML as questionable shortcuts.
One of my ex-GF had this as well, she's a pianist (that's why)and for her it got away. So I guess there is hope.
I think that last implication is more of Asimovs weakness then Orwels one. It is 2021 and we don't actually have those robots. We have cheap workers.

It is also stretch - not making robots did not mean you are not able to imagine them. It means they are not necessary for story. Asimov was not too good with humans, which would be fine. But the idea that it must be robots is weakness of his critique.
You don’t seem to realize that your post only applies to xhtml doctypes and your concern is extremely outdated to boot.

Use an html parser to parse html.

You also are extremely off on your estimation of how common xhtml is on the web since you thought this would be a useful PSA and you seem unaware of what <!doctype html> means here, as it specifically is not xml. I’m not tying to be mean, but you came in with guns blazing with weird advice and it seems very mislead.
UPDATE:

Qube Money and Envel.ai seem to be the most similar competitors after searching for a bit.

Here's an article on Qube Money's website: https://blog.qubemoney.com/leaving-simple-bank-heres-why-qub...

In that article, there's a link to a Google Sheet that someone on Reddit created comparing alternatives: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1Etr8dGtviSRpdAjR...
HN content and discussion quality has gone down drastically over the last few years. And future also looks bleak. These days I spend more time on lesswrong.com community because articles and discussions quality are way better than HN.
I don't think it's hard to argue that. When countries like China censor, what they do is make companies delete anything they don't like. Now it is the company directly who decides to censor which in my opinion is worse.

Why worse? Because you don't get to elect those who run the company. In a democracy you have the chance to change the government but that can't be done with a private company. Now, when you have a few companies that control most of the communication channels and they can censor indiscriminately anyone who they don't like, you're absolutely doomed.
gpt3?
Okay, okay, fine HN. I'll go exercise. I was just about to!
We'll call it nutbaggery as soon as you explain why Trump's campaign manager was caught funneling internal campaign data to a Russian intel officer during the 2016 election [1], while they were busy hacking Trump's opponent's party, and sending spies to meet with Trump's son and son in law at Trump's house (meeting which they welcomed enthusiastically, they lied about, and did not report to the FBI) [2].

[1]: Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election, Volume V.

[2]: Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, Volume I.

> The Senate Intelligence Committee assessed that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services" was a "grave counterintelligence threat".[15] The foremost individual was Manafort's employee Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian.[15] The committee identified Kilimnik as a "Russian intelligence officer"; describing that Manafort and Kilimnik had a "close and lasting relationship" even through the 2016 election.[18] Manafort repeatedly tried to "secretly share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik", including "sensitive internal polling data or Campaign strategy".[18]

> The Senate Intelligence Committee introduced a new allegation regarding Kilimnik, that he "may have been connected" to the Russian military intelligence's hack and leak of Democratic Party material. However, the report's discussions on this topic are redacted.[19] Manafort's connection with the Russian hack and leak operation is "largely unknown", but possible, given "two pieces of information" the committee found; the details of such information were also redacted.[18]

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

BTW, this report was released by Senate Republicans. As soon as this matter is cleared up, you can call it nutbaggery.
The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing
Is this technology going to identify anyone Twitter won't? I mean, correctly identify because it'll probably belch up a lot of false positives, too.
not gonna happen as long as 'deep learning' is still in fashion.

That fake "AI", with its gigantic dumb models, is too artificially stupid to know what's it's doing.

Sentience is going to be perpetually '5 years away' as long as we keep yak shaving our gradient descents.

But I for one welcome our attractive overlords when the time is ripe.
I recall a science show (Quirks & Quarks) here in Canada explaining this. It's not just that neonicotinoids cause harm to bees but the bees actually prefer it. Bees go out of their way to collect pollen on plants with neonicotinoid pesticides on them.
Thank you so much for your work on this and keeping it up to date.
This is like Feudal Era. All the warlords in different lands are fighting each other.
I was more intrigued by this part:

[..] A California-based cult group UNICULT started a fundraiser for a sex robot brothel that allows customers to only have intercourse with robots after they’d used a relevant app to converse with them enough. The robots would always consent to sex after the points were earned, so the consent model in question only put forth an illusion of choice. Another sex-robot creator named Sergi Santos made Samantha, a sex-robot who can say “no” and activate “dummy mode,” becoming lifeless if she is touched aggressively, bored, or tired. The problem here is that this doesn’t stop the person who owns the robot from raping the robot.

This is why philosopher Robert Sparrow argues against designing robots with the ability to consent, as it allows the fulfilment of a rape fantasy if consent is denied. In the International Journal of Social Robotics, Sparrow writes, “Even when the intention is not to facilitate rape, the design of robots that can explicitly refuse consent is problematic due to the likelihood that some users will experiment with raping them.” He explains, “[I]t will not be possible to rape robots unless the designers of robots make certain design choices.”[..]

It seems like somewhere along the line, the creators of sex robots have lost the plot. The goal is to have sex that money can buy. Or something like that. What am I missing?
I think the problem is language. English offers a far wider platform to engage people, but it also means that discussions/engagements will be dominated mostly by Americans. Computer use also favors using English. As a result, American influence is kind of inevitable. At the same time though, America also feels the influence from all those other cultures.
So advocating for Senators and representatives to vote in a particular way is a problem?
longevity has many evolutionary benefits, the biggest one being that older generation can pass on survival-essential knowledge and skill to the younger generations.

this process exists not only in humans, but in most animals, and the improvement is continuous, it never stops.

furthermore, the longest-surviving individuals (with the tightest bonds) are able to pass on the most survival knowledge to their descendants, creating an exponential effect.
Trump can't just pick up the phone can give a sub commander a direct order to launch the nukes (in particular because the boomers are incommunicado, so he needs to follow a certain protocol). There will be a number of officers on land who will need to relay his orders. And those officers will refuse to do so.
It really is a staggering amount to give. A hospital near me is naming a wing after a person who gave $10 Million in recent years- by all means a massive amount of money. It's just hard to imagine that, times four thousand
The addresses of those websites do not make them look very professional, in my judgement.
Thanks! We just fixed a major bug where you would sometimes take far, far more damage than was correct, especially with bots.
I left my job a few months ago due to getting depressed from working from home so much.

Since then, I’ve been searching for ways to “fill up the day”, as I’m not working for 8 hours anymore. I’ve been searching for some other “anchor” activity to base peripheral activities around.

I’ve tried a bunch of things, but what seems sustainable so far is mostly doing physical activities. Between basketball, swimming, yoga, lifting, stretching, and skating, it’s a nice platter of (solo) things to do. This is the stuff I did all the time in my teens. I basically did none of it in my twenties. But after a decade, I’m getting back into it.

It helps that’s I’m currently based in Florida where gyms are open.

I view this time for me as a UBI pre-trial. What would I be doing in a world where I don’t have to work anymore? It’s a good question to ponder.
That's an interesting way of moving the goal posts. I would assume a forward looking statement about the cost of a vehicle would include inflation.

Also, they sold the $37.9K car from day one as well, next to the $35K car, but they never delivered a single $35K car. They cancelled every order.
> I think I’m smarter than the average person, and can discern the truth from multiple conflicting claims. But a little introspection shows me that no, this isn’t really true. I’m not hunting down original sources for everything I think I know, I’m mostly relying on gatekeepers (experts) to tell me what is true.

The least thing Twitter could do is allow us to see who started a specific hashtag. Hashtags can be pushed using Tweetdeck through private accounts.

In 2016, @jack asked which feature we want to see https://twitter.com/jack/status/814537990366228480

I replied with "ability to see who started a specific hashtag" https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/814720800024621060

@jack thought it was interesting and mentioned VP of Product at twitter. https://twitter.com/jack/status/814721829273292804 I got excited, but nothing happened.

I got excited because I thought I would in no time be able to, not discern the truth, but identify whether I can trust the source. After all, there is a name for content which does not identify its source: Grey propaganda.
If I was the leader of a country, why would I let Silicon Valley companies potentially censor my speech?

Other authoritarian leaders are likely thinking "If Twitter can deplatform the President of the United States [which has more power than my smaller country], they have the power to deplatform me. Better reduce that risk and start blocking services to maintain control."

Not saying it's right, but I understand their point of view.
> This was because Parler leans right and some messages by some users encouraged violence.

This had nothing to do with Parler's political leanings and everything to do with Parler's wildly inadequate content moderation combined with top users calling for the execution of public officials with impunity.

Facebook's userbase is very right-leaning and has arguably just as many calls for violence, but they at least have a fully staffed moderation team.
You're older than William Shakespeare?

There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend
On the topic of "quiet" donations, it's always worth remembering how Jeffrey Epstein's donations to MIT were marked "anonymous" by still-president Rafael Reif, after sending the convicted child rapist a personally signed thank-you note for them.

In which case this recent discussion on HN is worth highlighting again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25442060

As well as how a thank-you note from former president of France Francois Mitterand was similarly used over the course of 30 years to help pedophile prize-winning author Gabriel Matzneff avoid prosecution for his writings on how much he enjoyed sexually molesting multiple boys in bed at the same time as young as 8 years of age on his trips to the Philippines:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...
> I did not mean to imply features would be left out but rather I would use more than the one oop feature

Awesome, we are still getting somewhere. What other oop feature would you be using
Interesting, why two instead of one? Not really complaining or anything. Just curious. Release announcement didn't explain either.