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But, what good is technology for the sake of technology if it’s detrimental to people’s well-being? Technology to conquer ills, yes. Technology which alienates people, no.

It’s kind of like the goths vs the romans or the inuit vs europeans. Is the value of progress more than the value of self-worth?
Yeah, I would argue "long term relationship" is a sign of commitment.

I'm more talking about shows and movies that make it seem like non-committal hookups and switching sexual partners rapidly for any reason is cool and totally normal:

- How I Met Your Mother (Barney)

- The Office (everyone has slept with everyone by the end)

- Game of Thrones

You could argue the "good" characters like Tyrion typically showed more commitment in their sexual activities than "bad" characters like Theon who just knocked up random women for fun. But even then you have instances where the "heroes" like Arya have one night stands with no consequences (because HBO wanted to be edgy).

- Friends
And a failure of the US government to protect itself against people like Singer.
I don't know John McWhorter, but is this the "second languages are hard" argument? I tend to get annoyed when people compare the relative difficulty of learning a language they spoke 1636518 hours vs ... 18 hours.
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It's better economically and for productivity for people to not have HIV, Syphilis, etc.

Stop this. It isn't an economics issue. This is a moral issue. Your tract of reasoning is precisely why the world is growing so untenable for the human element. There needn't exist laws or programs or any other edifice by which regulation is effected. People need to be made to realize that they're being wholly indiscretionate and their disposition to do so comes at a cost, and it should be personal to make the point manifest.
I do believe there is some moral value in the survival of the human race, or life generally. But the extent to which that applies is very situational.

For example, as a concrete scenario that could cause the world population a few decades from now to be a few million lower than it would otherwise be, consider an education or economic development initiative in a poor country that causes its residents to want fewer children on average. This would not meaningfully hurt life's chance to survive or spread. If anything, it would slightly reduce the likelihood of various non-human species being driven to extinction due to habitat loss or pollution or whatnot. So I would consider the reduction in population due to such an initiative to be morally neutral, or positive to the (small) extent that it saved species or improved others' quality of life. Meanwhile, the education or economic development itself would of course be morally positive.
3 cases don't make a frequency, yet
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As soon as you justify canceling elections for one crisis, you can cancel them for any crisis. You'll manufacture a crisis if necessary.
Crazy I missed another boat there. More will come down the river and I'll jump on the right one eventually.
You may enjoy reading this press release, then.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2008/September/08-at-...

Unfortunately, there aren't too many of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_convicted_of...
> will likely just result in technological stagnation.

I believe that is the goal of the legislation. By stagnating the field of AI within the EU one can encourage any negative effects to happen in other countries, so they can suffer and discover the potential downsides.
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> These are uploaded to crashlogs.whatsapp.net [...] Using the strings tool against the dumped heap data, one can easily identify plaintext conversations, and more interestingly Noise protocol key pairs, encoded in base64 form.
Given the stained, with the blood of innocents, history of law enforcement in the USA I'm infinitely skeptical of every action they take that sets new precedent for expansions of their powers. I recognize the need for law enforcement and largely support those involved, however they have earned their reputation with decades of bad decisions and will continue to be the subject of criticism, condemnation, and distrust until they can find it within themselves to relinquish unnecessary powers, right their wrongs, modernize their culture, and prosecute the numerous bad actors in their ranks.

As far as warrants go, I don't expect anything with "national security implications" to be denied, ever. Have you heard of the fisa court?

>11 denied requests out of around 34,000 granted in 35 years – equivalent to 0.03%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...

I'm not saying we need to burn down the internet and start over. But couldn't we toss 5-10 billion a year to leaders in the software world to design a secure os and hardware from first principles? Is humanity too vulnerable to individual whims like greed and lust for power ends prestige to accomplish such a feat? This country landed a person on the moon with computers less powerful than my cell phone, or laptop. We made the atomic bomb. Humanity is up to the task, I believe our leaders have lost their way and this article is more evidence of that.
Yes, it would be great to not have people spread bullshit information. But how would you accomplish it? By having "official fact-checkers" censoring information, but that's an appallingly terrible idea, many times worse than the current state of affairs. So the imperfect situation we have now is preferable to another many times worse.
Assuming that's actually true, what an amazing picture it paints of him just being a complete fucking dick. It's not like the money he was making from that mattered at all... he did it just for shits and giggles. What an unbelievable asshole.
Well, that, and no one wanting to update the orthography. Though speaking of lingua franca, that language also has a very outdated orthography.
Originally, OP had written "Sigh, ..." at the start of his post's title.
DIY is the best route. Anything proprietary is going to end in disaster when they just decide they don't feel like supporting it anymore.

It can be cheaper than off the shelf NAS units too.
One of the first instances I stumbled upon was this guy. Your mileage may vary.

https://videos.martinezperspective.org/videos/trending?a-sta...
> Maybe the overwhelming majority of users will continue to download only on the App Store, with a tiny minority of power users going to alternatives.

That's absolutely what will happen, there's no evidence of otherwise.

But this is all beside the point. The argument is, if there existed a app store that was as large as Play Store / iOS store, it would have similar moderation issues. The old headline implies that these companies aren't trying to moderate, rather than realizing that moderating content at scale is a REALLY hard problem no one has solved.

No Google/Youtube, not Apple, not Amazon/Twitch, not Facebook, not Twitter, not Microsoft, no one.
The time I lost faith in the banking system by borrowing $300k for 10 minutes
Yeah in the US CashApp/Zelle/PayPal works great. FB/Apple/Google messenger apps support this but adoption is relatively low especially compared to something like WeChat
The whole point I'm making here is that you can sue an entity without personhood.
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That’s a different question. Even if you think certain technologies are overall negative, you may be forced to adopt them in order to remain competitive with other nation states. Nuclear weapons are probably the classic example here. AI seems similar to me.
You still shouldn’t trust anyone expert or not. If they write a paper read it and incorporate its findings into your understanding of the world but don’t take what they say as gospel. This is what most people get wrong about experts.
A dissenting opinion. If those in power really cared about global warming, the WH would have codified work from home into law. Right now the big corps are pulling workers back to offices, so millions of office workers are going to drive back and forth again. Obviously, the media prefers to talk about the bad bitcoin instead.
One of my past bosses had a supercar as his daily driver. He had a specific law firm on retainer purely to handle speeding tickets. He'd call them when pulled over, and apparently they knew what to say to discourage cops from writing the ticket. People with the kind of wealth to routinely retain services like that effectively play by different rules than the rest of us in the US.
You still need c for “ch” so perhaps, like Indonesian, you can just use “c” in place of “ch.”

Oh, and Indonesian is my favorite lingua franca. Super easy to learn for anyone and also simple, phonetic spelling.

I had only ever learned Indo-European languages (ie English, Spanish, French) and a bit of Japanese (also unrelated to Indonesian), but I was able to pick up a useful amount of conversational Indonesian in about 3-4 weeks. Indonesian is an Austronesian language (actually a standardized variant of Malay) and totally unrelated to my mother tongue (American English), yet it was the easiest thing to pick up. Sounding out new words in Indonesian is actually easier than English to me.
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We have a hardship process as well. If there were a way to design a perfect financial instrument we would - we get as close as we possibly can.

You have to construct a chain of what-ifs to generate a scenario as bad as what is the default everywhere else (and it’s still better), yet you are constantly yelling about how evil we are. Perhaps just re-examine your priors?
With all due respect, the first half of comment is literally prefaced with "the moral argument". Personally I believe that argument should be enough, but you gotta play to the audience.
A lot of journalists just assumed that Israelis unlocked the phone. They should do some introspection as to why they had that assumption.
My perspective is that our technological advancement has well outpaced our ability to adapt to the changes or bring our legal and social tools effectively to bear on them.

A decade or two of stagnation would be frustrating for those in the field but probably overall a good thing. Plus I don't think this would affect research at all so not even.
I think people are less concerned about his research, and more about the media machine around his research. It comes off as if he’s puffing up a lot of smoke, in lieu of a flame.

To make a comparison that a lot of people use to justify fringe research, Einstein came up with general relativity mostly by himself, and it was a fringe concept, but it came with a set of predictions that could be verified with observation. Eventually those predictions were tested, and his idea “won”.

Until Wolfram’s ideas come bundled with refutable predictions that deviate from the standard model, it’s a smoke without a fire.

To restate the comparison, Einstein wasn’t writing pamphlets, going on speaking tours, or writing books about his “universal laws” for years before actually presenting the idea in a refutable form.

Einstein waited until he saw flames, to raise the smoke alarm, I’d that makes sense. Wolfram has been raising the smoke alarm for a while, but not providing any images of the fire.

It’s not a very good look, IMO, but reasonable people can disagree.
Maybe I'm the one that needs to slow down and read more carefully :)
Do we need YouTube if we can host media (in this case MP3 and animations) ourselves (and through CDNs)?
Naive related question from a crypto n00b that a lazygoogle failed to answer:

I just plotted some Chia. I left my laptop open to do this. Usually I would just put the laptop in power save mode all night.

My understanding is that to actually make any Chia, I would need to wait ~1 year with my one 100GB plot with full-power mode enabled. Vs mostly with the case closed, as it is now, while I do other things.

And this doesn't even account for the rare elements etc needed to fabricate my hard disk.

So, general naive questions:

1. Vs Proof of Work, just how much better are Proof of Space/Proof of Stake/$HDOS_SUPER_AWESOME_PROOF in terms of energy consumption but also other standard measures of environmental impact?

2. How much worse, if at all, are they vs the null hypothesis of "modern" pre-crypto finance?

Has anyone run credible numbers on these things?
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"I think it's a bit confusing that datalog is always discussed in the context of databases and as a "query language" etc."

It is a reflection of the way that SQL is so ensconced in the developer's gestalt as "The Way To Query Data", such that Querying Data means SQL and SQL means Querying Data, that most people are not capable of coming at something like a logic-based database layer as a first-order element on its own, but can only conceive of it as an SQL layer.

Further observe how there's a category of databases called "NoSQL"... when you have a category of something defined by its not being in some other category, that really shows just how large that category looms in the developer's mindset. NoSQL is slowly cracking the SQL consensus, but it's a long and slow process. You'll know it has really made it when we give a positive name to that category, or perhaps more likely, 3 or 4 names to the several types of databases within. "Document store" is getting close to being the name of one of the styles.

My particular reason for speaking this way though is that this specific technology manifests that way. You'll note I called for this to be made a native query layer, because I'm personally pretty much over SQL and ready for the next thing to come out. I'm tired of it being the 1970s again every time I speak to a database. Unfortunately, it's such a task that it has killed everyone who has tried it so far. AIUI FoundationDB got the closest from anyone I've seen. I'm not sure how they're doing; a cursory web search suggests perhaps they aren't as dead as I thought.
AD: So this has been downvoted without refute... any takers? Or is it just bots...
I see that "duty" as avoiding using YouTube and encouraging others to do so as well, until YouTube goes the way of MySpace and Yahoo and every other service that's lost their way.

Eventually even Google in general.

MySpace was part of the social fabric, too, at one point.

No one is too big to fail or at least become irrelevant. No one is sacred.
Indeed, usually hobbyists don't buy professional gear since they are not professionals. Same goes for many other industries too (TV production cameras too expensive for hobbyists and so on).

OP-1 is a tad expensive even for professional gear, but it is also a neat little machine. Elektron gear is maybe more powerful, but it also costs more. Cheaper gear exists as well. Up to each musician to decide what is too expensive for them in the end.
Funny thing about China:

> Lee's programs in Singapore had a profound effect on the Communist leadership in China, who made a major effort, especially under Deng Xiaoping, to emulate his policies of economic growth, entrepreneurship, and subtle suppression of dissent. Over 22,000 Chinese officials were sent to Singapore to study its methods.[90]
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Yep, I thought I recognized at least one of them from 1041uuu: https://1041uuu.tumblr.com/post/104751238713
How is this different from healthcare as it is set out now or in the past? (Pre existing condition? Too bad. Too expensive to keep you around. Pay out of pocket.)

Hypothetically, you don’t need healthcare if you live/lived a near fundamentally perfect lifestyle. Accidents happen but then maybe don’t use knives or ever leave your home too.

Be a bubble boy.
About 2,000 concurrent students.

We are not profitable, so if it’s a scam it’s not a very good one.

Nothing about Lambda School is predatory and I have never lied.
I'm not sure I'd describe C&W as a "top" hospital trust, but I thought this was interesting.
Slightly off-topic, but: why doesn't this site support zoom?
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It's not unusual, it's commonly called tetris effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Two or three connected Volcas are a great start into making music with hardware as well, so much fun.
Hmm. Frankly, no. The idea is to remove as many layers of complexity as possible. Presumably, you already have a phone number and messaging app that you use all of the time. No app downloads, registration or other configuration required.

Definitely not for everyone. But I find myself failing at maintaining a writing/blogging habit too often. I couldn't think of anything simpler.
Why try to stop it? Pretty sure a sufficiently enabled and incentivized prosecutor will be able to find the actual culprits. "Discovery" exists as a legal process after all.

Sham boards/executives only are issues if the prosecution itself is a sham, more concerned with the appearance of the thing than deterrence.
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I'll never understand this kind of framing. Why not "How cyberstalkers are using a WhatsApp status loophole"? I mean it's not like WA added the loophole in an enthusiastic attempt to "aid" cyberstalkers.
>>imagine a society where people are actually held accountable for spreading bullshit disinformation, wouldn't that be a net good?

That largely depends on who is choosing what is "disinformation", normally if government (or corporations) is involved "disinformation" normally becomes "things that we do not like" which would not be a net good
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See the Fauna endpoint: https://71q1jyiise.execute-api.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/dev/f...

See the code: https://github.com/upstash/latency-comparison/blob/master/ne...
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My hope would be mainly that this can get datalog into mainstream use, and soon get more (and more mature) libraries created by the community. That is in itself very exciting to me though.

Would be pretty awesome if we could have logica (or something similar) for dataframes (including pandas), and so could build pipelines of transformations-via-queries on those.

(If there is anything like this already implemented, I'm all ears!).
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Note that the promotion of this FBI-vs-Apple narrative benefits Apple.

The FBI didn't need to unlock the phone, most likely. All iPhones in their default configuration back up the ~entire contents of the phone to Apple each night, with Apple keys. Apple can decrypt this without the phone, the user, or the passcode at any time, invisible to the user.

Apple preserves this vulnerability for the FBI, at the FBI's request:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

Apple turns over this data without a warrant frequently (over 30,000 users in 2019) according to Apple's own transparency reports. They also turn it over in response to warrants, as they have plainly stated that they did in this case.

You don't need access via the front door if you have it via the back door.
> The mechanism you are describing is the mechanism by which every speculative investment works.

That’s not true. Most speculative investment promise revenues if they succeed.

For your last sentence, why would that be true? In the case of bitcoin, the early investors have been led to believe that later investors will need to invest. But this can easily be false.
The good old crash of 2008, the only one who went to prison is the one who swindled the rich. All those who stole from normal people got richer and free.
Agreed 100%. I appreciate the hacker mindset, but when things approach society-altering scale, "just because you can doesn't mean you should" should be the mantra, not "move fast and break things".
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Do you have reason to believe it can be done better than how Youtube does it? Again, there are two approach:

1. Limit who can post content

You'll end up with only the powerful being able to push content, you're taking the voice away from the masses.

2. Try to gradually improve content moderation and live with the rare false-positives or false-negatives.

This is the current approach, and while not perfect, I personally much prefer it to the former.
Why would an association of the wealthiest capitalists in the world not give a rat's ass about democracy as long as the $$$ is flowing? Is that what you're asking?
I'm more concerned about these two aspects of it from the reporting:

> Experts said the rules were vague and contained loopholes.

> The use of AI in the military is exempt, as are systems used by authorities in order to safeguard public security.

Sounds like it's keyed to build stagnation in public tools, but state-actor tools can go right on ahead becoming more sophisticated (and harder to understand or predict).
Here's DuckDuckGo's announcement, on their Spread Privacy blog: https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/
those laws are best for regular people, it's meaningless for country to be "rich" if only handful people are the rich ones in it.
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As I understand the main idea, that information propagation through space and time can be described by a computational model like cellular automatons. So instead of describing the movement of particles via a wave function or field equations or similar, it's described by computational steps of a (preferably simple) cellular automaton.

As some automatons are computationally complete, and some of the functions we use to describe physics are computable, I would not be surprised that some descriptions of the world coincide.

Wolfram's idea is, that all particle behaviour, etc., can be described this way, instead of the field equations we're currently looking for in physics.

I don't know whether Wolfram has a model of information propagation that is so much more useful than wave functions and field equations but they will agree for the simple cases.
Changes to written representation of languages tends to be much more conservative compared to the changes in the spoken languages they're based upon. This is often due to the desire to preserve continuity in the ability for people to gain literacy without having to relearn a new system and retranslate all works that were written in the previous system. This generally lasts until the difference between speech and writing becomes bad enough to hinder literacy, at which point script reforms may happen. Many of the more "phonetic" writing systems encountered in continental European languages were due to the fact that they had relatively more recent script reforms that made spellings closer to how their words were pronounced in their modern languages. Written English, on the other hand, still tends to conserve spelling that reflects older pronunciations.

An example of a language that has it worse than English is Tibetan, which hasn't had a script reform since 800: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btn0-Vce5ug
I find the opposite.

It is too easy to fit Really Hard Problems into one, seemingly innocuous, sentence.

The 'reasonable' requirement is a tough one to get people to agree on, especially if they don't have a firm grasp on what is possible.

For example, I've seen one sentence requirements like

"Let the user import legacy data".

Depending on the systems, that's either a one liner script or an entire industry.