skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd label the potential risks as "AP" as in artificial psychopathy, but that would be OUR fault, because we set the conditions for the emergence of those.

I'd say we're at a decent risk of something worse than your scenario happening.

(This is not original to me) I think it is useful to consider the non-human intelligence that we've already created: The Corporation.

They tend to act (especially as they get larger) in a sociopathic fashion, primarily because of their reward structure: making money. They inflict great harm upon the environment and populace because things like pollution are usually not realized on their balance sheets. If a corporation can quietly dump toxic waste out back, while raking in the profit, it will often do so.

Only the humans in the system act as a check on the corporation's activities, and often they too are blinded by the desire for money. Just bribe the regulator, and maybe the corporation can continue dumping for a while longer. Even if they eventually get caught, the smarter humans will already have taken their profits, and moved out of the situation. There is not nearly enough being done to claw back these gains from people and corporations inflicting harm on others and the environment.

If we incentivize AGI the same way we incentivize corporations, expect the same results, only faster.
We're living on a boat. We have 600W solar and that's sufficient for most of our power needs. Of course living off solar means on some days you'll not be doing GPU intensive stuff on the computer (which tends to turn it from a low-power, quiet machine into a hyperventilating 90W monster), but that's fine. We usually have enough power left to run the 12V watermaker.

Biggest problem is crap software. Everything seems to be designed to be online all the time and expect you to have unmetered high-speed internet. We often have various combinations of metered, slow and unreliable (packet loss, high latency spread, interruptions). Nobody even tests their software for this scenario anymore.

Obviously you can forget about using Xcode with its multi-GB updates every couple weeks. Or any cloud software. Even MacOS gets annoying, as it wants to verify an app before starting it and if the connection is flakey it can take a minute before that request either goes through or is detected as offline and your app finally starts (yes, I know you can turn that off).

Websites with dynamic forms often don't work, as the programmers falsely assumed their XHR always goes through and never implemented retries or network error handling. Download pages that generate dynamic URLs are a big sin too, so when you try to continue from a partially downloaded file you can't because your URL is no longer valid.

What works well is keeping data offline but occasionally syncing it, like IMAP for email, Unison file sync, etc.

Piracy is also important, because when you travel from country to country, geo-IP blocking is a constant problem. Suddenly the TV show you were in the middle of watching is no longer available in your country (because you sailed to another country) or the entire service is blocked (Amazon Prime Video). And it's safer to use cracked software that won't suddenly stop working because it couldn't contact its license server in a while or demands you to download a multi-GB update. Or software that doesn't require such nonsense.

Hardware is less of an issue, if you keep it dry, which requires some care, but so does the rest of boat life. I've had a keyboard die from circuit board traces corroding away, but am still on the same 8 year old laptop. Had one netbook get accidentally wet once, but managed to save it by immediate taking apart and rinsing out with alcohol. External drives are kept in waterproof plastic food containers.

Backup is offline only and consists of two external drives in another waterproof box, which go with the grab bag (the one you take with you if ever have to abandon ship). There is no real need for off-site backup, as the nature of life on a boat means either you and your grab bag make it off the boat, or neither (in which case you won't be needing your data anymore).
This CloudPundit article makes the case that AWS is a second-tier ISP and thus has to comply with upstream Acceptable Use Policies. Otherwise they would be in a position where their Internet connectivity could, theoretically, be shut down. So they enforce the "inherited" AUP policies, perhaps tightened even further by their own lawyers, downstream on their cloud customers. Who, in turn, have to enforce them on the end-users. Which is what Parler refused to do.

The overall picture painted is that Internet access is widely self-regulated and limited by this complex network of AUPs, and that it is difficult or impossible for any single ISP or cloud provider to act independently and set their own terms. What do Hacker News people think? Is this true?

https://cloudpundit.com/2021/01/10/terms-of-service-from-ant...
Quine: "no entity without identity" & "to be is to be the value of a bound variable". IMHO the neatest summation of a rigorous approach to the interface between mathmatical logic and ontology. That's why "Quine is our hero", as one of my lecturers back in the 80s, Jeremy Butterfield, used to say.
Why does the JavaScript date month argument start from 0?
Why isn't Keybase included in most of these matrices? Is it related to some kind of "messaging" definition?
I'm not sure I'd go with the "never before" piece. Lots of people have been banned off lots of plaforms.

Take payment companies for example. If Visa and Mastercard decline to do business with you (as they did with Pornhub) you're basically stuffed. Lots of individual sex workers have also had this experience. You can't make money if the payment companies won't work with you.

Also if you look back at the history of censorship you'll find loads of examples where people were effectively de-platformed. One I was reading about recently. In 1970's UK a reggae artist called Judge Dredd held the record for most songs banned by the BBC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dread).

In those days, that's effectively de-platforming that artist and there for the great crime of ... double entendre.
> Ouch. USB-C is even more fucked up than I thought… How does that even works with USB wall chargers?

If they want to supply more than 5V/3A, they need to support the power delivery protocol too.

> There are plenty of USB-A outlet everywhere (airport, trains, hotels, etc.), and most recent Android phones have only an USB-C port…

Exactly: These are USB-A outlets. These are possible to implement using only a resistor network to announce the maximum charging current and always supply 5V, which is much easier to implement than variable voltage and the power delivery protocol. USB-C can do this too, but only up to 5V/3A.

USB-C devices are usually backwards compatible with all three of these when using an A-to-C cable or adapter: Legacy USB-A current identification via the D+/D- pins, USB-C resistor-based current identification via the configuration pins of USB-C and USB power delivery.
Would you think that moderators are hiding evidence for murder threats by deleting posts?
Total currency supply is the only metric that really matters in terms of true inflation. Velocity of money is a mostly useless metric in our current highly unequal society. High currency supply and low velocity means high fragility... That money is just waiting in people's pockets to be released back into the market. The more money there is sitting around in everyone's pockets, the more prices are going to fall when that money finally comes out of their pockets (and panic means it tends to be all at once)... We have a tiny number of massive pockets. The entire financial order ends up depending on the reliability of a handful of high net worth individuals to play along with the current scheme. It's no surprise then that governments ends up wanting to control and limit how these high net worth individuals spend or invest their money.

If you get an unlimited amount of something without having to work for it, of course it becomes worthless to you.

What's happening in the economy today is like what would happen if we played a game of monopoly and one player ended up with all the money and the bank started loaning people new money to keep everyone playing... So the richest player would just keep getting more money because the dynamics of the game cannot change... In the meantime, fairness is thrown out the window - Money loses all correlation with value creation. Then there is a point when one of the players grabs the board and flips it over.
This is a strange outlook, many of the metrics in the linked article actually use inflation-corrected numbers. There are obvious pitfalls about not adjusting for inflation which economists are aware of. It's also not difficult to find economic analyses critical of the "powers that be".
Comparison matrix is inaccurate about Telegram in few rows:

> Service runs its own server [no]

Telegram uses own servers

> GDPR compliance [no]

There is @GDPRbot, https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-about-gdpr
That's correct, but ... there's a reason why he chose to use a different last name :)
And what about when those web properties are monopolies? What about when those monopolies regularly collude in broad daylight so as to lock out persons and companies from being able to host products in marketplaces, infrastructure, and even process payments or access banking?
Exactly. If you have the skill set to find exploits like described here or even more complicated ones, would that payout tempt you do this fulltime? If you live in the US then I would say no. It ends up being much lower pay than you could get in other areas.

For brilliant hackers in other parts of the world, then this might be a nice job. But I don't know if these bug bounties are available everywhere.
Carrier grade NAT puts thousands of users behind the same IP address - that's what it's for.

You can't put 10k people behind each IP and not have problems. That's 6.5 ports per person, you need one for each connection. Pretty much any website will have issues with that little connectivity.
That's a weird question. My position is that there is no such harm, and thus it is impossible to find it, since it doesn't exist.

If someone asked you the question: "if there is a possibility of harm from oak trees, how would you find it?" How would you answer that question? Is there any reasonable answer to such a question? Or for the sake of argument, how would you answer the question "If 1+1 = 3 how would you prove that"? I just don't see any reasonable answer to the question "assume a position you don't believe has any evidence for it, now provide the evidence for the position you dont believe in". If i was able to provide the evidence or even concieve of some way to obtain it, i wouldn't hold the view that the position is indefensible.

That's not to say its impossible in general. If you asked, "if arsenic has any harm, how would you find out" i could easily answer with, eat a bunch and see what happens. But i can't generally create evidence for something just because i assume the proposition is true in a thought experiment, and i firmly believe that the onus is on the proponent of a position to provide the supporting evidence and theories.
No. Citation needed.

Seriously this is why the money supply is actively managed. When people aren't spending, more is created. When people spend a lot, it gets removed from circulation.

> We have a tiny number of massive pockets. The entire financial order ends up depending on the reliability of a handful of high net worth individuals to play along with the current scheme.

High net worth individuals by the way? They're absolutely not sitting on dollars, they own assets. Real estate, stocks, bonds, and some nutters, crypto. That means inflation is irrelevant to them, and all that matters is the performance of their investments relative to the benchmark rates.

> It's no surprise then that governments ends up wanting to control and limit how these high net worth individuals spend or invest their money.

Not really, no. Fiscal and social policy control the distribution of wealth. Progressive taxation and redistribution reduces inequality. This applies equally no matter what we're using as currency. If we switched to BTC, to sea shells, to zombie killing ammunition, fiscal and social policy would apply just as it does now.

Monetary policy operates on a lower level, it controls only the supply.
Good point! I'm actually aware of that, but didn't want to touch it.
Fun! But why only TSLA, FB, AAPL, NFLX, AMZN, GOOG, and SPY?
> What hope do those people have then? Especially for future generations?

None, that's what I'm getting at. These areas are in a long term terminal decline and there is no fixing it. It's an international economic trend, nothing US politicians do will make a difference.

> That's not a tough sell, it's a non starter.

The best you can do is manage the decline, anyone promising anything more is lying. All the last 4 years have done is squander the power they have as a political block, this is also waning.
They're loyal, brilliant and quick.

Or in one case I saw they were the friends and relatives of the new CEO.
> I think you're missing the central point, which is that computation is observer relative. Anything can be interpreted as a computational process.

This is completely wrong. The opposite is true: computation is a mechanical process, it does not depend on an observer giving it meaning. It's true that the same mechanical process can be interpreted as different computations, but they will have the exact same computational properties (e.g. complexity), only the result will be interpreted differently.

In particular, it is extremely unlikely that the wall is implementing Word Star, because WordStar is a highly structured computation. The wall MIGHT be implementing some very simple additions, and essentially any process is implementing any one step computation.
Well, Maxwell is Lorentz invariant. Schroedinger equation is not.
> simple, obvious

That's a little bit of a stretch, don't you think?

I mean, here are questions about the SE I've so far never received simple, intuitive answers to:

- Why do we need complex numbers in the SE, what do they bring to the table and how does that tie in with physical intuition?
- How was the equation derived, intuitively?
- The laplacian in there feels like it's a "diffusion" term (as in the heat equation, things tend to spread and smoothen over time). Why isn't there ever a intuitive explanation in text books about this?
- [edit]: Many book trumpet that classical mechanics is just an approximation of QM, but unlike in special relativity where speed going to zero obviously gets you back to classical mechanics, I've never seen a clear example of a system where the quantum behavior "transitions" to classical behavior as a variable (e.g size) increases or decreases.
- the list is long
Quite often these systems are "immutable" and the post is available to the admins if required. This was found in the Parler hack, for example.

The question is kind of moot because the police don't ask for evidence and don't pursue these cases. Can you dig up a case where the police made this argument?

Edit: oh the hilarity, here's the same discussion 22 years previously on the "decentralised" system USENET: https://www.wired.com/1998/03/canceling-the-evidence-on-usen...

I believe AOL lived to cancel again.
I should have added that fairly liberal use of type aliases also helps.

using B64String = std::string;

B64String encode(const std::string& text);
std::string decode(const B64String b64);
Why Elector is bad btw? I haven't used it, but just curios, since I want to.

For small apps it seems okay?

I'm in the same boat as you, I'm a javascript developer but I want to also promote my app to desktop.
I had the exact same a couple of years ago. However, another interesting that happened is that since then, I've also been aware of how far we've come in just that time. Like, yes, our bicycle infrastructure was good, but it's still continually improving with renewed insights and refined legislation.

For example, the city I live in has really doubled down on the bicycle (and walking) being the primary method of transportation. So not only are all road maintenance jobs required to comply with updated requirements, but roads are being actively transformed to make them more bicycle-friendly as part of a multi-year infrastructure plan.

Which just goes to show: you can make great strides by improving the situation iteratively.
Its seems today, at least at the C-Level, the "actual business" just a interchangeable widget...

Business is the business all businesses are in, and if you manage one business you can manage all businesses... So say the MBA
TWTR sold off because Trump is their biggest attraction. Note that they put out the news of his ban after 4pm on Friday, which is what companies do when they fear the market's reaction.

Trump's use of Twitter to rally the hordes has been a major factor in his ability to motivate and steer public unrest. His absence from Twitter is going to have an impact on the platform's engagement numbers and public relevance. Meanwhile, Wednesday's insurrection is another piece of evidence that S230 isn't sufficient to foster a healthy public conversation.

Twitter's reluctance to silence Trump in the past four years alienates the Left, while their decision to do so last week alienates the Right. Trump's absence from the platform disengages both groups, as well as whatever paid propaganda apparatus exists to bolster certain ideas on Twitter.
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Yea that sounds toxic ! And to "brag about it" !

I once worked for a company, there were some "grievances" between the programmers and CEO (nothing major) but enough to elicited a "meeting" between all the devs and the CEO to "smooth" things over and build a better path forward, we will all in high spirits for the meeting and optimistic.

The very FIRST opening line from the CEO in the meeting was:

"How extremely lucky we(programmers) are to be working there..."

It all kinda just went downhill from there... 6 Months most of the programmers quit.
In country where I live it is prohibited by law to promote fascism. So I think you are not right by saying company can do business with fascists (i.e. to promote fascism) if they like so. Such company would be dragged to court and owners would probably go to jail.
One reason would be to educate through compassion and understanding, instead of further increasing their paranoia. People need to realize this is what they did, they censored, burned books, and later started killing. Why even take the first step in that direction? How would we know when we're not the other side if we do the same actions?
iPhone 7 successfully booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full GNOME Shell desktop GUI
If you’re not an expert why would you link a manuscript to stir up a thread?

CLD is real and even if it’s over diagnosed, it still doesn’t take away the many real diagnoses that exist and a vaccine would eliminate its potential permanently.

If you are posting in good faith...more recent studies are centered around making the findings in the European strain viable in the American one.
A great insight in this from a Canadian in Amsterdam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMed1qceJ_Q
You simply cannot ignore the wider context here. The new leadership is moving development to cheaper regions and, if the interviews and comments about "entitlement" etc are to be believed, you can bet they are not fussed about hiring the best talent in the new regions - they are going to be hunting out the "good enough" agencies and/or employees, which is most definitely going to reduce quality.

I'd like to also add that from my own perspective Ubiquiti gear and software is/was _exceptionally_ good. So converting to "just another network gear company" level of quality is going to have a much greater impact on my perception of the company compared to if this news of off-shoring came from say cisco.
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I like others I know find Amazon and others behaviour in this matter wrong not because of their actions but because of a long history of inaction there appears to be a very obvious bias and selective enforcement of their so called policies and rules. This is politics and public companies have an obligation to shareholders to be apolitical, if this wasn’t the case Amazon wouldn’t do business with the CCP
There are many angles to this, I'll just look at one in the hope that it helps.

> I hope it's not "the company is declining because the company moved talent to countries where developers are cheaper"

We probably agree the cost of developers varies considerably in different locations.

Companies operating in markets where local developers are expensive (I work near London for example) sometimes decide to outsource development to locations where it is much cheaper (e.g. India).

What I have seen (admittedly just anecdotally, not carefully studied and subject to bias) is a correlation between companies that don't value high quality software development and companies that are happy to dump a substantial part of their development efforts on cheap developers overseas.

Such companies don't care about their existing team - developers who are expensive but have built the software and understand it, and are to some extent understanding the end customer (often filling gaps left by product managers in smaller organisations). They just see their development team as a huge cost that needs to be reduced. Or they have trouble hiring locally.

When the daily rate of developers overseas is substantially lower, the company also doesn't care about those developers. They will want to outsource the least creative and satisfying work to them. They want to just fire and forget: "here's the spec, go and build it". Lower productivity is less of an issue if the "resources" are cheap. I'm over simplifying and I'm sure some companies try to work more in equal partnership but you get the picture.

Also, the move to outsourcing is often done suddenly; it's more like wielding an axe than an organic growth or shift in development model. Companies don't tend to invest in overseas developers as individuals.

In my view it's not great for either set of developers, or for the customers of that company. Perhaps when done right it can be more beneficial and I hope things will improve overall.
If the vaccine proves effective, you could do a test before and then vaccinate on negative knowing you test positive afterwards for a while.

It's very different to a false positive to _another pathogen. That leaves you blind, indeed.
The Silicon Valley blacklist is real.
Facebook targets “stop the steal” content ahead of Inauguration Day
Wouldn't you, comparatively? It's not like your quality of work changed, it's solely location-based.
Zing. You got me :-)
"Facebook is working "24/7" to tackle content including "stop the steal" from spreading across the network ahead of the US Inauguration Day."

Nothing quite like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
A great breakdown - thanks for the insight! I often panic when I look at the amount of money printing thats going on but I always forget about the velocity! I think this might be because it's rarely talked about.

What are your thoughts about the rapid asset inflation (stocks/housing) vs the stable consumer goods side of things? Surely they can't stay disconnected forever?