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> This is so distasteful to me that I haven't been able to watch much fencing. Fencing is fast enough that it would take a lot of viewing to really understand what's going on.

Yea it's terrible.

Now imagine going to summer nationals, or JOs, or any of other big circuit tournaments, and going near the saber section, where there's like 40+ consecutive bouts going on all at the same time, with each person yelling and screeching every 10 seconds.

> Do they scream like this at practice?

no

> Do they practice the screaming?

no

Fencing really is a terrible spectator sport. Second probably only to bullseye target shooting without electronic targets lol.
But removing javascript from browsers will just make more walled gardens. Browsers are not walled gardens, unless your OS prevents you from installing other browsers (see iphones...).

It doesn't matter what you say you support if the consequences of what you do hurts that goal.
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I'm interested in knowing more about this, could you provide pointers to more information? I will be moving to the northern hemisphere after finishing my academic duties, and in my possibilities I consider the US, France or Germany. From what I have read on HN, Europe seems to be better if you are an employee, and the US better for entrepreneurship.
Yeah, the tone is harsh. He’s trying to deal in mass with a whole pile of cranks wasting his time. Compare with his “how to become a good theoretical physicist”:
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....
I’m not the original poster, but I would expect sales to correlate with “busy-ness”. To your point though, I guess if everyone was doing takeout, sales could still go up and the place could be empty. Where I’m located though, it seems like businesses have been open for dine in for months and people are filling the dining rooms
Which still isn’t a good argument for underpaying them. It just means you can get away with it in that market
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> We’ve been told from the very beginning that the vaccines only reduce symptoms and only marginally prevent you from getting COVID in the first place.

No, we’ve been told that the mRNA vaccines are, based on the current evidence, both “ highly effective against hospitalization and death for a variety of strains, including Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351), Gamma (P.1), and Delta (B.1.617.2)” and that they make the vaccinated
“less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others”, though they have “lower effectiveness against confirmed infection and symptomatic disease caused by the Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants compared with the ancestral strain and Alpha variant.”

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
zloirock is probably my least favorite person on Github. I'm surprised he's not been banned yet for some of the things he's said to people.

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/936#issuecomment-...
Summer camp is even a working class thing. The YMCA runs day camps for way cheaper than day care.
Except the discussion here is truck drivers (lag: 60 days) and restaurant workers (lag: ~ 0 days).
Honestly I simply need an autotagger. I tried doing one a few time but never finished.
My main paint, which I mention in many of my posts about this topic, but sometimes forget to include, is that there are peculiar signs in the data, and that these signs have to be acknowledged, followed up on and investigated, and some conclusions have to be drawn by people with the expertise to do so, and they have to be transparent about how those conclusions were drawn.

Instead everyone is sticking their head in the sand, except right wing pundits, who I think are all idiots and drawing their own incorrect conclusions because they aren’t experts.
That's how I felt too. Most of the article is trying to pull us with an emotional attachment (mostly to racist things a computer will do if tasked to do important things). While that criticism is welcome, it's not specifically meaningful towards an argument against AGI. The only part that was seemed to be that statistical inference is not a path to AGI which is somehow backed up by the emotional stuff.

What deep learning seems to step into more and more is time-based statistical inference.

AGI is not:

seeing that a girl has a frown on their face.

seeing that a girl has a frown, because someone said "you look fat"

seeing that a girl has a frown because her boyfriend said you look fat

seeing that Maya has generally been upset with her boyfriend who also most recently told her she is fat.

But keep going and going and going and we might get somewhere. Do we have the computer power to keep going? I don't know.
Warren Buffet also.
> Effects of warming are guesses.

No they're not, though you betray a deep ignorance of the science and success of climate modelling by making use of this well-worn rhetorical falsehood.

> stopping cold turkey rights now will very likely result in economic depression, blackouts, inability to heat homes, and death.

Yup still a straw man.

> The main question is, do we invest in a future mitigation or to get off carbon emissions now?

And now it's a false dichotomy.

We can and should do all the things: carbon emission reductions now aiming toward net zero, including transition to renewables, efficiency improvements, carbon capture, etc. We should also start scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere, planting trees, and whatever else it takes to get atmospheric carbon levels down.

And much of that will help buy us time for societal adaptation: moving folks from coastal areas or regions where the wet bulb temperature will become fatal, making changes to our food supply, etc, etc, all while continuing to decarbonize.

BTW, I wouldn't waste time replying. My main goal was to ensure anyone coming across this thread saw a counterargument to what you're putting into the world. It's pretty clear based on you comment history that you won't be moved by some rando on the internet so there's little point in continuing this discussion.
Gusto, Rippling, Deel etc. provide PEO services now, which are basically corporations that will "hire" the remote employee for you and deal with benefits and such, and you pay them through that corporation. Seems to be the easiest way to deal with this.
https://www.techradar.com/news/popular-chrome-ad-blockers-co...

If I recall correctly they backtracked, but it was a big deal for awhile.
Latin to be introduced at 40 state secondaries in England
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As another commenter mentioned, TrueNAS is my go-to for general storage and phone/PC/Mac backups; it's dead simple to setup and is extremely capable, not to mention it'll run on just about anything (barring the ZFS cache RAM requirements...). Personally, I keep a 'master' home folder on there that gets auto-mounted in whatever OS I boot into; this way I never have to go hunting around the NAS for files, for instance I just have a single "Documents" folder that effectively 'syncs' across my Mac, *nix, and Windows. I use CX File Explorer on Android to access the NAS, add a WireGuard VPN (which there's a great plugin for on TrueNAS) and you've got access to your files anywhere.

GDrive I was able to replace more or less with LibreOffice and Collabora, I rarely need to share documents outside PDF or print, which makes compatibility a non-issue for me (and even when I need to, saving as a .doc usually maintains layouts, fonts, etc.).
> The phrase is "reduce -> reuse -> recycle". Recycling was never meant to be the foremost part of our sustainability efforts.

The thing is, "recycle" is the only one that preserves the economy, so that's what everyone jumped on.
Did you mean "survive"? Because I enjoyed the distopian pun of "servive": living to serve to live to serve.
they say that those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it, data driven algorithms provide statistical guarantees of repeating it.
Your impression is correct. The mercury is quite chemically bound.

The caveat is that when it is removed, it may not be so bound.
If it's that important to employers, they'll pay them during the training period.

This used to be standard practice. It's a modern development (80s on) that businesses demanded workers come pre trained.
I took it to mean people used to wear clothes longer between washes, not just that we do more frequent, smaller loads. It would be interesting to see a comparison showing how much longer an average person should wear the same clothes in order to make hand washing time commensurate with machine washing time.
> An employer can just raise their prices until incoming orders and delivery capacity align. That’s a sustainable situation for the employer.

In practice, this will reduce incoming orders so much that the total profits from them won't be enough to cover the company's fixed costs anymore.
In the U.S., yes. In the rest of the developed world, no.
The word "could" was removed from title.

Even original title is a little misleading. From the statement: "Indicators of long-term inflation expectations appear broadly consistent with our longer-run inflation goal of 2%. If we saw signs that the path of inflation or longer-term inflation expectations were moving materially and persistently beyond levels consistent with our goal, we'd be prepared to adjust the stance of policy."
>Does HN have a policy against straight-up actual false, scaremongering COVID public health statements like the "I know many people with long-term VACCINE complications. Get the Vaccine and you will suffer for it" one?

Unfortunately no. They also allow straight-up actual false, scaremongering COVID public health statements like the "I know many people with long-term COVID complications. Get the vaccine or you will suffer from them".

See the problem? They could both be false, or they could both be true. But if they're both true, what your suggesting is the censorship of not misinformation, but the actual account of a real life vaccine injury.
A subtle point that might be missed is that Murray's reports of the Alex Salmond trial and Salmond's innocence lend weight to the theory that Salmond's accusers may have been part of a coordinated political attack. The big government machine is striking back.
Definitely not just a rich kid thing. The camps are usually run by small-ish organizations like the local church. And considering the point is to bring in children, there are often options for those who need financial assistance.

Besides, rich kids go on overseas vacations during the summer.
Covid is a bio-weapon. Fauci is the dealer.
sorry, it just seemed a bizarre thing to comment on: yes the sales may have been higher, and anecdotally you may have seen longer pickup lines (at what times?), but you gotta understand why it reads as a joke, because regardless of above, in-person business is almost universally likely to have been lower, restricted to pickups clustered at specific times
If you type in chicken it will give a different annunciation.
> The Olympics in London cost 11.3 Billion and generated revenue of 3.3 billion which doesn't exactly seem hugely beneficial.

Except it is one giant international PR and brand recognition event for the host country. TV ads cost in aggregate billions too and don’t bring any revenue immediately, doesn’t mean they are a waste of money.

Not to mention Olympics getting people interested in doing sports, which amid a global obesity upsurge, could also be worth more than nothing.
The link mentioned that a lot of it was "contaminated" recyclables.

Contaminated recyclables are just garbage. Countries are getting fed up with the EU and US sending supposedly separated recyclables because it's pure garbage falsely labeled as usable plastic. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48444874
> But removing javascript from browsers will just make more walled gardens

What new walled gardens do you think would be created if JavaScript was removed from browsers?
As someone navigating this right now - it's a mess. Business is in a no-income-tax state, I moved to 4% state, and it was deemed easiest to be personally responsible for paying quarterly estimates so the business isn't on the hook for paying business taxes to a state it doesn't do any business in. Some states, however, decided now was a good time to declare a single remote worker in their state means that company has a nexus there, and thus owes all corporate taxes to that state.
I think he's doing a bit of bait and switch there. Knowing reliably whether arrests are genuinely racist or if winks are flirtatious is superhuman intelligence.

> But the idea that if we just get better at statistical inference, consciousness will fall out of it is wishful thinking.

I'm a mostly disinterested spectator in current AI research, and even I know that it's not all about that. Just google "AI alignment" for an example, and god only knows what's going on in private research.
Yeah, fair as does depend on country (and region)
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I would refine your statement about phonics as the mistake is HOW we teach phonics, not that we use phonics in itself.

Phonics at it root is about decomposing a written word into its sub-units, and then applying rules to build back up to the whole word sound. The alternative to phonics (as unreliable as it is) is basically rote memorization (granted that English requires significant rote memorization anyways).

Here's an article (it was previously on HN I think) that talks about the whole word vs phonics "debate" https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-ho...

I found it really interesting.
Usually people's writing style on these topics come across as extremely pretentious, hollow broetry. I appreciate that yours seems really authentic. Ordered a paperback copy!
Registered just to comment I found the energy explanation of money very insightful. Not sure who you are or why you get to be a judge of intellect but that sentiment was not quasi intellectual gibberish, it was actually a highly nuanced and great visual representation of how money flows and is used. Stop gate keeping.
Disrupting HomeServices
As a Real Estate developer, there is a huge problem in the home service space that Angi, Homeadvisor and Thumbtack can't solve although help massively! These companies generate millions of leads that they can't even unload all of them. There are so many customers that the market can't meet the needs. Ive built out the concept of HomeLux where we become an All-In-One Home Service solution, especially for Luxury markets where they are not price sensitive. Instead they want someone to just show up on time, get it done and they'll pay a fair price. The margins in this space are amazing once you get scale and the cross-selling in our strategy gives us a potential to look at the life time customer value in a different way than most companies.

I'm looking to find co-founders and also learn some insight into how we can turn this into being a VC Backed venture. Im committing 500k to building it and we need about 3M seed money to grow rapidly.

Looking for insights.
‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
Anecdotally from myself, colleagues, friends, blogs, and random forum posters, 4 solid hours of knowledge work is right on the nose.

I work on my own time, starting almost immediately after waking up with the sunrise. I get in 3-4 hours while the world is quiet leading up to lunch time; then I'll cook some lunch and go training. Post-lunch work is autopilot admin or operation tasks. There are days where focus is amped up to 11 and the brain fog doesn't set in—but those days are rare.

I'd say that your feelings of "cheating the system" are ingrained by a culture that doesn't apply to your profession.
The comment I replied to didn’t mention truck drivers. They brought up a hypothetical widget factory as an analogy for the economy at large
They where also tried and convicted by the US government, Trump pardoning them was a political stunt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executi...
Is the charge/discharge range really an issue? 45-75% vs. 10-90%. I'm not an expert but from what I've read seems hi-speed charging is more relevant regarding battery life.
> Will be on the lookout out for "it's actually a good thing!" posts like the Twitter one.

Covid outbreaks are not a good thing, not sure why you would claim that? Even when they demonstrate the relative effectiveness of the vaccines.

> you know what would be way more impressive? If the vaccines actually stopped the spread of COVID-19

Again, I'm no sure what your point is. Given that we have 80% effective vaccines, what should we do, use them or not?

> Guess we won't be able to blame the unvaccinated for recent spread anymore.

To be clear, are you suggesting that _lower_ vaccination rates would result in less spread of COVID? Yeah, have another think about that.

The rest of the diagram is just arithmetic. The results are counter-intuitive, but it's not calculus.

FYI, No point in linking to The Daily Mail UK, it is not in any sense a serious publication. Wikipedia wont take it, we shouldn't either.
In the past, the systems that thought they knew top down what is "valuable" and what isn't in the economy and society in a more granular level didn't work out so well.

Maybe the only reason we are spared extermination by some alien enemy is because our videos are so great (I think there is a short story from Philip K. Dick simikar to that).
Not really adjacent to what we do today.

I view A.I. as dual to "neoliberal M.B.A. culture". Just as the business schools taught that managers should be generalists without craft knowledge applying coarse microeconomics, A.I. that we have created is the ultimate pliant worker that also knows nothing deep and works from statistics. In a bussiness ecosystem where analytics and presentations are more important than doing things, they are a perfect match. Of course, a bunches of statistician-firms chasing each other in circles is going to exhibit the folly, not wisdom, of crowds.

I think solution is to face reality that more people need to learn programming, and more domain knowledge needs to be codified old school. https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/ I thus think is perhaps the best application of computing, ever.

Training A.I. to be a theorem prover tactic is a great way to make it better: if we can't do theory and empiricism at the same time, we can at least do meta-empiracism on theory building!

I think once we've codified all the domains like that and been running A.I. on the theories, we'll be better positioned to go back to the general A.I. problem, but we might also decided the "manually programmed fully automated society" is easier to understand and steer, and thus less alienation, and we won't even want general A.I.
The paper industry ranks #5 in carbon intensity and is responsible for something like 9% of global CO2 emissions.

Do you honestly think that industry uniformly manages their forestry in an environmentally friendly manner?

You could use renewables but the fact is that most of the input energy into paper mills is natural gas co-generation because you need both heat and electricity.

Petrochemicals are used in 90% of the regular every-day items we live our lives with. Clothing, furniture, our homes, cars, personal belongings… banning single use plastics isn’t going to change that.

I’d rather plastic waste in landfills than more CO2 emissions.
Consider Wikipeidia. Open and free service that is incredibly valuable to the world. Ethical revenue model that still makes lots of money. I've thought before that would be a cool place to work.
Disposable plastic versus disposable paper is the wrong choice. Buy half a dozen reusable cloth bags and leave them in your car, and you don’t need either.

We’re obsessed with finding the best disposable option, trusting our ingenuity to find a way to make our conveniences responsible, rather than starting with responsible stuff and trying to make it convenient. As the article covers, we’re failing at that.
> I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI

- I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think that we're remotely close or even on the right path in any way.

- That doesn't make me a skeptic towards the current state of machine learning though. ML doesn't need to lead to general AI. It's already useful in its current forms. That's good enough. It doesn't need to solve all of humanity's problems to be a great tool.

I think it's important to make this distinction and for some reason it's left implicit or it's purposefully omitted from the article.
I think people are just exhausted and numb to what Hollywood, etc has to offer.
Iphone users aren't allowed to install Chrome. They want chrome, but all they get is a shitty chrome skin on Safari. It does trick a lot of people into thinking that they actually have chrome though.
That's what I thought of as well, but then realized it was "Bees! Not the bees!" and not "A lot of bees"
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A simple text file works great for me. Sometimes things get asterisks (or whatever other sophistry I'm hoping in vain will help me actually prioritize according to some sort of 'master plan'), but in the end what's done just gets "//" in front of it and goes in the archive.

I feel it does help me combat feelings of low productivity and/or worthlessness at least a little when I can look back on all I've completed. Otherwise it's more of this vague impression of 'not enough' and the resulting general malaise which can all too often become a tar pit.
Thank you Mr Weekend Secure Programming Expert. strncpy() has equally dangerous semantics, though.
Yeah. This is approximately as bad as Ice-9. They really should stop before someone continues to an organism that can reproduce.
Not OP, but I have. I'm currently typing this answer on Firefox, have been using google Docs, Calendar and Youtube for years, never had major problems.

(Of course this is all anecdotal.)