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It's nice but it frustrates me when people use digital toys rather than real ones. Blocks, Lego, trains, dinosaurs, books - real, tangible, pickupable items are waaaaay better for kids.

In my humble (yes, and old fashioned) opinion, most digital tools like this are made for parents, not kids. It's easy (keeps the kids quiet for a bit while parents relax) - and that's one use case, but "easy" is not always a good reason to choose something.

If you want really, properly creative kids, then it's the hard work of realworld toys, games, books and art making tools.
Which one is the original to you? Kelly's new interpretation of the information rate? Or Bernoulli's new theory on the measurement of risk? Or one of the other seminal papers describing different aspects of the Kelly criterion?
> Whenever I've a problem with and OSS dev, it's either Microsoft, Google, Instagram, RedHat (in that order).

> Apple, Amazon, Facebook (minus Instagram), Netflix OSS devs are entirely unproblematic and often even actually nice.

Interesting. I understand that you wouldn't want to name devs, but could you share which projects form the context for your experiences?
I am pretty sure you are regardless of the hack. If your Tesla hits someone your at fault not Tesla. Laws would have to change a lot for that not to be the case. In that world, do I even need car insurance or is volkswagen liable? If you're talking ethically, you have a point.
Immunocompromised people can safely get the vaccine, but it might not work, leaving them still vulnerable to the virus.

In recent studies something like half of organ transplant recipients did not produce antibodies after being vaccinated, and there have been a few cases where a group of vaccinated transplant recipients caught Covid (e.g. from a vaccinated nurse who had an asymptomatic infection) and had severe symptoms including some deaths.
Interestingly Bitcoin can’t really “fail” in the conventional sense. It won’t go bankrupt and isn’t beholden to profits. It will be an interesting experiment
Actually if the $8.5 per hour subscription shifts the responsibility in accidents from the driver to Volkswagen, it becomes worth it. But I doubt it will do. I think you will still be responsible to take over very quickly despite not being focused on driving.
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Maybe that's just not the resource efficient way going forward. Maybe in the future people will laugh at the idea of buying 2 tons of steel to sit around doing nothing for 95% of it's lifetime.
Kids dont prevent you to read the doc on the clock. Wanting to go he dont prevent reading doc before you go home either.

If you spend on the clock.time coding, you can spend some of it reading.
Apple hired that developer a long time ago
Those screenshots invoke a lot of good memories from when I was in college and hanging out with friends. It's really weird how the design choices stuck with me as a trigger for that.
Maybe not, but the problem tarnishes the brand and erodes trust in claims that X is not a problem.
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They celebrated on reddit.
> How much of the cost of a flight is fuel?

Better question: what fraction of airline's margins could one explain with the variation of passengers' weights? Airlines' pre-tax margins are low [1]. Almost any factor, meaningless or meaningful, will look tiny relative to revenues or costs.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/225856/ebit-margin-of-co...
Is this satire or sarcasm or something? Genuinely asking, as it is not clear to me.
I found reading the code cleared up a lot because it's well commented and is really two functions, and a bit of boilerplate for reading/writing files.

'collect1' collects pairs of (name, address) and puts it in a table called 'collect'. Then 'process1' finds any names and substitutes the address found in the 'collect' table.
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Makes sense, just as the US abandoned English once it declared independence from Great Britain.
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That sounds like a problem with the pandemic, not a problem with remote work.
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English is the new Lingua Franca. ;-)
When the US, after decades of engagement, leaves the Middle East (if they are foolish enough to do so) they'll be leaving a political power vacuum of Shai-majority citizens for Iran to control by proxy - which doesn't support the US ally of Israel. That, and the Taliban, the Sunni wahabists schools that enabled 9/11, are protected by the Saudis, which the US has been getting cosy with for a while. It could be argued that being friendly with Saudi Arabia by diplomatic means has been more useful in quashing the fundamentalist wahabi jahadist threat, than has been any fighting in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
Ah yes, artificial artificial intelligence.
Would probably do a considerably better job than actual autonomous driving for the foreseeable future too.
My understanding was that congestion on highways is mostly caused by bad drivers.

A train isn’t affected by people randomly braking or weaving around different lanes because they lack driving skill. A train also isn’t as affected by inclement weather.
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> Wolbachia are also spectacularly manipulative and can alter the fertility of their hosts to ensure they are passed on to the next generation of mosquitoes.

is this a nice way of saying "the end result is more mosquitoes, but without dengue" ?
Yes, it's easy to be convinced on either side, the arguments write themselves. Yes, eventually a learning system might learn enough to be indistinguishable from intelligence. Or this might be entirely the wrong path and detracting from genuine new innovations in how we think about AI.

We won't be able to tell whether it's AGI or just good enough at trained tasks to trick us.
But it's not the world coming to a halt: It's just the next engineer going "uh what the heck is this".
In our team, nobody talks and it sux too. Because in writing they dont explain context. Plus they write very terse documents, because writing well takes too much effort.
I understand your point.

I am wondering how humans may or may not understand this point regarding their self-described "life's purpose".

Legit wondering upon myself.
Infinite scroll is not a dark pattern. Dark patterns are explicitly designed to conflate or deceive.

Infinite scroll just gives people more of what they want. Turns out, most people, most of the time, want the gorbage.
To clarify a bit, if you've already had dengue once, the vaccine is recommended since it makes you less likely to catch the other strains of dengue and it reduces the odds of severe complications.

However, if you've never had dengue, the vaccine is not recommended since it increases the odds of complications.

This rather odd effect is known as antibody-dependent enhancement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement

I had dengue once and got vaccinated afterward, since I live in a dengue hotspot. However, not many do, the cost and complexity (~$300 for 3 shots over 18 months, generally not covered by insurance) also dissuades many.
Yet neither of those are the problem. The problem is carbs and lack of exercise.

American bread is basically cake. We serve fries with everything. Ketchup, which is basically red sugar paste, is a go-to condiment. People drink fruit juice “to be healthy”, etc etc.

Even in big tech companies, nearly all of the snacks are carb dense potato chips, sugar glazed nuts, candy, instant noodles, and more.

Everyone eats like they work 10 hours of calorie-intensive labor while barely moving at all. It would be a wonderful if the only thing Americans ate was chicken and steroid milk exports.
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I can envision a scenario where you will pay a lot of money for specifically buying a "ready 4 autonomous drive"-car, only to have this feature unavailable for months because some other person had a crash which involved this system.
Netflix isn't on your phone. The app is a portal to their servers & content. If all of the hardware & software is already in the car, which you bought, then they are renting your car back to you. There is no marginal increase increase in their own costs. You already "own" everything needed to make it work. This is more like having an iPhone with a bunch of videos you already purchased downloaded on to it and then having to pay a fee to watch them.
The math behind quantum mechanics, even though working nicely in practice, doesn't fully connected to the real world because the measurement problem has yet to be solved. I would say this reason is the main source of confusion.
Two comments:

(1) A friend of mine who works as a doctor in one of the vaccination centers in South Germany told me that re-infection rates with problematic outcome after full vaccinations are ~5%. This is what they tell their patients in the information talk before the shot. Note that my friend could not give me a higher resolution of the data (age, etc).

(2) I think I wrote that in one of my prior comments ~ 9 month or so ago -
Another medical doctor aquaintance of mine that was working in the local health department Corona group told me that in the town of Tuttlingen (pop ~ 100K) there habe been 9 re-infections with the SARS-CoV2. At the time there were only 7 known cases in literature.
I guess you're talking about a physical, actual train, but it would be cool to tack onto the back of a conga line of cars, and let some AI take over maintaining the gap and alignment with the vehicle in front, while grabbing a nap.
> The Fed's goal is to maintain inflation at 2% for reasons more complicated than I'll discuss here.

It would be amazing if you could make the effort to explain the complicated reasons why the Fed's inflationary policy is a good thing. I have yet to hear a sound argument why sound money is worse for the people, than an inflationary currency. I can see how it would benefit the government to hide the true cost of taxation via inflation, but why does it ever benefit the individual to have their wealth diluted by the process of inflation, even if it is "only" by about 2% per year?
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Some goods have gotten cheaper as they've had more capital invested in their production processes, but many goods do not. Automobiles are a classic example. Ask your grand parents how much they paid for their first car. Yes, the goods are different, and cars today are better, but it's not clear that we shouldn't still compare the socially equivalent car of today with the one of 50 years ago.

A steady, low inflation rate is necessary for a healthy economy. Otherwise you'd get a Bitcoin situation where everyone is busy HODLing and never spending.
I hate to look at things like this, but by getting a WSJ article and likely other press coverage our of this, there's a fairly good chance that the charity could view the loss as "fundraising" and see a positive return of investment.
My experience too. I guess most people are just not wired to read documentation.

I love learning by reading, but most people just want to sit in a classroom and be spoonfed like you say.

I think it's also company culture, and most companies have a "let's meet and present slides" mentality. So as long as there is no meeting, there probably is no need for you to know.
Ask yes, exploited human intelligence.

Though also, at the same time the liability questions would quickly become... Complicated.... With that model
Well, entire generations were brainwashed not to eat good foods, and to substitute more harmful foods in their place. Remember the food pyramid? Many of my schoolmates are obese and well on their way to an early death due to diabetes, from being told to avoid fat and to eat plenty of cereals and grains.
As someone said: every time you kill a spider you're selecting for faster, sneakier spiders.
I hate to quote the article so directly, but to make the headline a little less click-baity:

> Put it this way: The neurons that represented the smell of an apple in May and those that represented the same smell in June were as different from each other as those that represent the smells of apples and grass at any one time.

> This is, of course, just one study, of one brain region, in mice. But other scientists have shown that the same phenomenon, called representational drift, occurs in a variety of brain regions besides the piriform cortex. Its existence is clear; everything else is a mystery.
Or maybe they’re just not that smart or have mental bandwidth? I’m surprised more people don’t acknowledge that a lot of engineers in a lot of companies probably have at best average IQ if not lower.
This is my experience as well. Companies are aiming for equality of outcomes even though WFH and office employees work in different environments.

I think it is totally fine for an employee to make the decision to work from home and obtain greater freedom at the cost of worse promotion outcomes.

The problem is that if employers say “hey you can work from home, but you are less likely to get promoted than your peers working in the office” they open themselves to discrimination lawsuits. What if there is a strong correlation between those who choose to work from home and a specific demographic? Well it turns out that women may be much more likely to WFH given the choice. Does this mean that the WFH policy is sexist given that women are much more likely to WFH and WFH employees have worse career outcomes?

I believe that this isn’t discrimination by the company because non-women who WFH have similar career outlooks to women who WFH, but there may be a case there and nobody wants to put that case to the test. Instead we get these WFH policies which bring everyone down — to accommodate those who made a choice to sacrifice their career prospects by working from home.

Disclaimer: I love working from home

Source: https://hbr.org/2021/05/dont-let-employees-pick-their-wfh-da...
Yeah this is cool as an option. but don't make it as a default. A lot of people actually love the automatic feed. Of course they're not here on HN reading stuffs. So you won't know what actual majority of user want.
I already hate not being able to repair my phone, own my music/movies, etc.

I own my home so that I can do what I want with it, and I own my car so that I can take it off road, leave my stuff in it, and work on it.

Rental services are bland as fuck. I can organize my music and movies way better than Spotify and Netflix so that it meets my exact preferences.

No. I don't want to live in the rental economy future, and I find it hard to relate to those that do.
I think you mean, “it does matter”, since you describe different outcomes. Even in the case where those were pathogens, they may subsequently lose the competitive pressure to be good at fighting. Then when they re-encounter a robust environment, they may be totally annihilated. In certain types of bio research, we now have to protect the species from humans, rather than the reverse, since they have been without that competitive pressure for so long and become optimized instead for growth and production.
Two things:

- No one is fooled by a penny. Do it in increments of $400,000.

- You need to prevent your thefts from being tied together; as soon as someone notices that you stole a small-time $400,000 from a widow AND another small-time $400,000 from an orphan, you've become a big-time $800,000 thief.
Had a similar experience with IC3 and FBI though for a much lesser amount. It's nice that both exist but neither seem helpful for amounts that are meaningful to a small business, tens of thousands, but not meaningful at their level. Do any entities exist to try to help find justice for these smaller electronic financial crimes?
As a EU resident, you have the right to open a bank account in any EU country, no questions asked.
If inflation goes up as a result of low inflation rates, debtors benefit. Which is why all the bankers are complaining about the possibility.
> On Feb. 25, nearly a month later, the FBI assigned a special agent to the case. On March 3, the agent emailed Ms. Williams to say the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco had declined to open an investigation. He didn’t explain and the FBI hasn’t been in contact since, she said.

More and more people finally realizing the police don’t help them, one crime at a time.
latency might be an issue though
There's a future for all these gaming addicted youths after all.
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Wait isn’t any Turing complete programming language sufficient to eventually reach general AI
I always heard the punchline as

"...to account for running around in circles."

The little tau angel on my shoulder always whispers "but it's only half circles!"
This happened to someone I know with a reasonably well-run but not super technical small business. Someone compromised the email account of their accounts receivable person, silently monitored it for a while, and then used it to send a few strategic requests to change the payment account. By the time my friend noticed and politely asked their customers (mid-size businesses all) “Why haven’t you paid this $50,000 bill?”, the hackers had made off with a few hundred thousand - a big deal to my friend, but not so much to law enforcement, who pretty much shrugged and said “Sucks to be you.”

Luckily, several of those customers theoretically had policies against changing payment directives without phone confirmation, which were not followed, so they are taking some shared responsibility for this.
> 1.2 Bitcoin investing is a negative-sum game

Bitcoin on the day this was published was trading around $7,500. It's now trading at $37,000. I'd say these guys got it wrong. *at least so far*.
Like in Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. Poorly paid actors in boxes acting as voice assistants.
I guess things are slowing down at DeepMind. I have tremendous respect for David Silver and his work on AlphaZero and Richard Sutton as a pioneer in RL. But the cynic in me is that this paper is just a result of Goodhart's law with publishing count as a metric. Any proof of the type of emergent behaviors that they mention from RL with an actual RL experiment would go a long way. Showing an RL agent developing a language would be extremely interesting. It makes me think they tried to show these emergent behaviors but could not and thus ended up with a hypothesis.
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Not to mention connectivity
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Which airlines? Any in the US?
Intelligence would be produced in any Turing complete automata. But the universe has a frame rate of 10^34 (based on Planck constant.) We don't really have the tech to just run "evolution" of a universe or of even a psuedo biological substrate.
You don't have a 1/4 chance of losing all your money if you repeatedly bet half of it on the trillion-to-one coin flip.
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A 777-300 has a maximum take off weight of 660,000 lbs of which 312,000lbs can be fuel.

So an extra 100 lbs on every passenger is a drop in the bucket!

https://courses.washington.edu/ie337/Boeing%20Tour%20Facts.p...
Yes, there is now a Screen Time API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceActivity and it allows you to do things like block other apps: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ManagedSettings, but there's nothing like a background mode that will pop up outside of either your app or the app you're managing.
In Finland, it's popular to take your car in a train from Helsinki or Turku in the south to Rovaniemi in the north overnight. There are also cargo trains that carry trucks from the coastal harbours to inland railway stations.
Link for the uninitiated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068820
Almost certainly satire.

The way I'd explain it, is both ownership and privacy can be boiled down to some simplified abstract terms to show that society benefits more when they are traded away for convenience or price.

However, in practice and in history, this is not the case, and those tradeoffs almost always result in a worse quality of life and economic standpoint for the individual, and more profit, power, and control for the governments and corporations that took those benefits away from the people.
Where does the Fed get the money to be a lender of last resort - by printing the money and generating inflation? If so, then how does this inflation impact the purchasing power of these last resort dollars?

I often like to take things to a logical extreme. Since the Fed can simply print all this money into existence, is there a limit to their ability to print? I mean couldn't they simply print their way out of any economic crisis or would this result in another Weimar republic situation? -- genuine question.
I strongly suspect that incredibly cheap lean protein (aka chlorinated / acid bath / steroid chicken) is net positive for American health by offsetting the low-quality processed carbs that would replace it.
I don't know the term for this, but in-person contact is important for metagroups/in-groups at work. People who are coworkers, but also friends as well, to an extent. People that you trust more than others not part of the group, and who you might even become friends with outside of work. I've found developing relationships like this impossible while fully remote.
I've actually seen the opposite where I live. A lot of stores have moved to smaller candy bars than in the past. But i suspect that's to increase profits as they still cost the same.
Salvadoran here. Salvadorans are definitely hopeful, this government is light-years ahead of previous ones. It's had a some bad press internationally but overall it's a refreshingly competent leader.
>How much of the cost of a flight is fuel?

In terms of flight operating costs (FOC) per hour, about 16-36% according to the numbers for a 737-500 across for Continental/United/Southwest a few years ago.

It's very dependent on utilization. Fixed ownership (i.e. depreciation/leasing) costs start to dominate at low utilization rates.

Boeing 737‐500 FOC per block hour (~2017):

Crew Fuel Maint. Ownership Hrs/day
Continental $510 $430(19%) $ 651 $698 3.9
United $927 $487(16%) $1048 $510 4.3
Southwest $388 $537(36%) $ 251 $350 8.2

https://www.icao.int/mid/documents/2017/aviation%20data%20an...
A couple of months ago I did a similar thing by making a "Before COVID is over" todo list of projects I wanted to complete and goals I wanted to accomplish before some kind of "normal" life came back. I got an insane amount of things done. I'm finishing the last item on that todo list today.
Not all weight is fat. If you are 1.90m tall man and naturally big, you can easily weight twice as much than a 1.55 woman even if you are fit. How are you going to account for natural weight vs being overweight. Even BMI is very crude.
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It boggles my mind that reddit escapes the scrutiny from the media that Facebook and Twitter get when it's nearly as influential and just as full of blatant propaganda.
English is already the de facto auxiliary language of the world. The point of a language, above all others, and especially so for governing a union of countries, should be maximising the ease of communication.
Technically the Kelly criterion suggests you should take this bet if your wealth is greater than $1.23, so it does depend on your current wealth.

However, this might still look dumb, and it's because my calculation assumes you could pick a smaller stake for the same bet, which isn't necessarily the case. If you can't, the calculation gets a little bit more complicated, but sure, the Kelly criterion can deal with that too.