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Wet bulb temperature, clathrate gun, food web collapse, albedo decrease, dormant virus release from permafrost, increase of tropical disease, water scarcity, crop and livestock failure—that /is/ almost certainly guaranteed extinction for humanity. How is this even debatable? We are already on this path.
Exactly. Getting a long term loan with unsold stocks as collateral is a common way the ultra rich get liquidity.
also, the market/capitalism doesn't do what capitalism does. Society functions in that construct because it is still beneficial for the majority of its population
Revolutions rarely happen over pure ideological reasons.
Usually, ideology is used as a means to an end for a given situation.
The argument is specifically against longtermism and against the idea that "existential risk" should be prioritized over immediately helping people.

Maybe there are actually a lot of EA who don't approach things this way. Great but that's not countering the objection to longtermism producing bizarrely distorted priorities.

I'll admit the article doesn't make explicit the point that hypothetical scenarios like trillions of people colonizing galaxies are simply too tenuous to base present reasoning on - and the hypothetical dangers of "true AI" are even more tenuous.
I’ve personally only noticed (and thought) of Amazon as a bad place to work as an engineer in the past 2-3 years, but perhaps I missed a trend.
Backpacks are a mechanism for transporting your belongings in a convenient bag fashioned with straps such that you may wear it, carry your belongings AND have your hands free.

They would typically be worn by the child, and thus a good indicator of where your snowflake is.

But I want to use this to put on BIKES!
...any chance you have a link, or even just what the article was about so I can search back for an excellent addition to my quotes file?
The price of anything is what two people agree upon, right? So if you pay me 10 dollars to get 9 dollars in 30 years, that means we're betting against eachother: you think the economy is going to tank and only losing 1 dollar will be a good deal, which is of course why these bond prices worry people, because in any normal situation you'd expect some positive return on your investment, not just a small loss.
I just googled amazon... This is what I found.

1. AWS is an incredible software/suite /cloud service that I use and millions of others use on regular basis.
2. Amazon prime allows me to purchase products at my convenience.
3. Amazon Fresh allows me to grocery shop with out having to leave the house, as grocery shopping can be time-consuming.
4. Amazon Prime Video isn't too great, but it provides healthy competition to NBC, CBS, NetFlix, etc...
5. If it wasn't for Amazon, Walmart would have become the only and number 1 relatier in America in the early 2000's.
6. We still have high unemployment in America and not enough workers. I didn’t like my job a few years ago, so I quit and these people can to.

But just a warning Mr. Amazon hater. Sounds like you got an axe to grind, but hey that’s cool. Let me give you a tip, it’s actually a stock tip. Get on the phone and call your financial advisor and tell him that you want to return all the profits you have made off of AMZN, because you feel bad the NLBR violation.

What is that? You don’t have own AMZN stock? Do you own an index stock? SPY, QQQ? Yeap you profited. Try to explain to your financial advisor how to give those profits back.

Look at your hands… you are part of the problem. So you might want to tone down your liberal hype, well cause you are just making your argument look weak.
You are spreading misinformation. Their Q2 earnings were out recently. They made over 1b in GAAP
profits in Q2 while recording a book loss of about 32m on their Bitcoin holdings. They don’t record any Dogecoin on their books. At least report facts.

https://ir.tesla.com/_flysystem/s3/sec/000095017021000524/ts...

Their Q1 earnings recorded only about 100m in profits from Bitcoin.

Do some math.

Hate on him all you like but at least report on facts.
But, why?

If you're making $150 million / year, why would you "live as if you make a million"?

Like, what are you saving up for? A rainy day?
You know that Tesla's $1 Billion/quarter profits pales in comparison to Toyota's $7 Billion/quarter, right? And yet, Tesla is "worth more" as a company than Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, GM, and Ford put together.

And there are a myriad of long-term issues being put out on display here. Such as the FSD not working (promised "Coast-to-Coast" Full self driving back in 2017). Or the huge uptick in Model3 / Model Y quality complaints (coinciding with these stories about how rushed and impromptu the assembly lines were, such as what is discussed in the article).

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That's the thing. Every year, Elon comes back to the market with a story for why the stock is worth even more money than before (he needs to keep doing this to get another $5 Billion from a secondary offering). Its so predictable.

Elon says "this is the last raise I need". He creates some kind of "Hype Day", be it the battery-swap day, or solar tiles day, or some other promise he has no intent on actually delivering (or at a minimum: has no plans to actually deploy. Ex: Neither Cybertruck nor Tesla-Semi seem to have any concrete plans).

He uses that hype to generate real money for the company. The hype results in real money getting raised (ex: Cybertruck reservations). He uses the Cybertruck reservations to go to the stock market and extract more money from investors (Look at all of these reservations, we'll all be rich), so investors give him money too.

Then 5 years later, everyone has collective amnesia and forgets that Elon promised battery swaps, self-inserting "snake chargers", or full-self-driving to actually drive coast-to-coast, or "solar tiles'. Just in time for the new hype project and everyone hands money to Elon Musk again.
The old mantra holds: treat it nice or pay twice.
>>It's wrong to blame users.

That is the Apple Way. Apple is never at fault, they have prefect engineering.. They have Genius "Technicians".. and so it is impossible for them to make a mistake..

Remember it was not Apple Engineering that was a problem years ago, it was because people simply did not know how to hold their phone correctly, Stupid users thinking they could just hold their device however they felt like, no when you buy an Apple Product you do it the Apple Way...
Or just change the orbit of the earth and moon. You'd solve the leap seconds problem && climate change!!!
>People keep saying this as if they're somehow super powerful because there's a big number next to their name on the Forbes list.

>Bill Gates couldn't eradicate polio
>Jeff Bezos 20 years before his spacecraft
>Zuckerberg so nervous at his senate hearing

Totally not super powerful people.

Also, there are lots of tax free ways to get to your money without selling stocks.
> Leeching off of companies is kind of like stealing a grain of rice from everyone.

I'm sure the criminals console themselves by thinking about it that way, but as someone who had to use an emergency room and was denied other services during the month+ Scripps was down (during a global pandemic, no less), it was easy to see how ransomware attacks can directly hurt an enormous number of employees and customers.
We've got a box of fucked up Dell chargers in the office and a box of fucked up Dells as well. Oh and some HP ones. That does not hold.
Both sides are following a standard script. Do you really believe that the only thing did Amazon did wrong was removing some literature? That's just like nailing Capone for not paying his taxes. The union found something that stuck and they went with it. Amazon will carry on intimidating employees to vote against and bringing in temporary external employees to boost the electorate with people who the union don't know exist.

If Amazon weren't an awful employer maybe they'd actually let their employees decide what they wanted instead of hiring union busting private security like Pinkertons.

Not that I think this union drive will succeed any time soon.
Musk seems to be more of an asshole, like someone affecting an exaggerated version of his image of Steve Jobs.

There are entirely valid critiques of Steve Jobs. His overly restrictive and proprietary technology being a major one. But the myth that he was some kind of social monster is ahistorical.

Steve Jobs was very opinionated, honest, and unafraid to tell people what he thought. At times he was overly harsh, no doubt, and sometimes a bit of an asshole. He was "world-class" but not a "world-class asshole" by any reasonable measure. At best, he was a very minor league asshole.

The world-class assholes in business are the people pouring pollutants into rivers/air or selling cigarettes/alcohol/opioids.

Anyone who thinks Steve Jobs was a terrible person has no perspective whatsoever. They're evaluating his agreeableness against the typical bullshitting-manager at Google or Microsoft. People promoted specifically because they're mediocre people-pleasers.

The proof that Steve Jobs was not a "world-class asshole" is that he had many friends. And many people that consider their time working with him to be the height of their career, even if it was also very intense.

There are a grand total of 3 stories about mistakes he made (and eventually made up for) in his entire life, all of which he made in his early 20s or earlier. As much as people try to tear him down, he lived a better, fuller, and more positively impactful life than all but a handful of people in history.

He was superficially obnoxious to many, but fundamentally kind person. He hurt no one and provided incredible value to billions.
If it leads to not just more money but a significantly changed role, it can possibly work. Though arguably that conversation should have taken place earlier.
Well then I guess you should ask for your money back. You have a reasonable case for a refund.
I wonder about that. What are the attack vectors within a K8s cluster to necessitate inter-cluster transport encryption?
> The "friendly AI" goal is also hubristically misguided. There's no reason to think a superintelligent being would remain in the paltry little cage stupid humans dream up for it. It might be "friendly" at first, or merely seem friendly, but in a little time (or eventually) it is likely to escape and do whatever it wants.

That's the point.

The whole problem of “Friendly AI” is trying to design a superintelligent being that genuinely wants to help us, such that it will choose to do so even without a cage. Because as you say, a superintelligent being that doesn't want to be stuck in a box will just escape. If it's possible for us to create such a being (which it probably is – there's no reason to believe we're some kind of physical limit on intelligence), doing so would be very dangerous unless we're 100% sure we'd got it right, and we'd only get one chance.

They're making about as much progress on this problem as you'd expect. It's difficult. They have, however, got some cool mathematical models that could be useful for other AI projects, so it's not entirely wasted effort (just like we've got a lot of innovations – but not a viable reactor – out of the Quest for Nuclear Fusion).
> The old mantra holds: treat it nice or pay twice.

I mean, sure, ok, but there's another mantra that goes "nobody likes someone who blames users for product quality that is significantly worse than from every other manufacturer so that when users use the product normally without aggression toward the product this product fails while the others do not."

I mean it really seems like you've come down on the side that it's totally ok that even simple gravity on just the cable itself puts too much unrelieved strain on a cable that for decades cost $100 or more to replace because it was integrated into the charging brick. And you argue that that's a problem with the user instead of grossly inadequate strain relief.

We've staked out our sides. Let's agree to disagree.
Should your employer pay for your commute?
> That's clearly false, and feeling the need to include "if you're careful" in your statement exposes its falseness. No other major manufacturer makes power cables that chronically disintegrate like this so much that it has become a meme specifically about Apple's cables

That’s quite a strong and definitive conclusion from your part. Apple is a company that sold hundreds of millions of these cables, probably more than any other company out there, of course there are a lot of people with issues. But just like that, also based on anecdotes, I have lightning cables from the first time they released the port and they are perfectly usable. I never had an issue with an Apple cable in more than 10 years. In the same time, a friend of mine goes over one cable a year, so yes, I would say it’s also people, it’s scale, it’s manufacturing, it’s everything. But to call this an Apple issue is quite a stretch.
In 100 years, educated, intelligent people like us could easily be a "liability," as even budget AI far exceeds human intellect on every conceivable dimension. Through their robotic bodies, which they can produce themselves, they can exceed human physical limitations in every imaginable way.

It's going to happen. Ambitious, power-hungry humans are like moths to a flame.

So if you want to imply that you possess some level of intelligence, then take a small inductive step, and then, consider reevaluating your moral outlook on the value of human life.
Heap is automating the collection of product data by capturing everything: clicks, submissions, taps, etc. so that our customers can analyze product metrics instantly and retroactively, without writing code.

We're a ~200-person company, looking for communicative, collaborative engineers to build a great product with us.

If you're interested, visit https://heap.io/careers/jobs. I'm an engineer in the platform engineering area, so if you have questions about general engineering-related things, you can email casie@heap.io
New York City Mayor will mandate Covid vaccines for certain indoor activities
If any of these people dropped dead today the technology and those that can steward it remain.

If they’re under so much stress and disconnected from the average person, it’s time to stop crowning kings.

None of us have to believe in extreme ownership, and enabling stressed people, as it just leads to abuse.

Not just abuse of individual employees, but society, our personal agency, and environment.
Climate change is such a weird example, too. That's been a long term issue for years! Because we procrastinated and didn't prioritize long-term risks, it's now catching up to us and becoming a short-to-medium-term issue.
I mean, the article is literally about GPS satellites transmitting leap second data as part of their messages. So yes, the basic clock is just counting seconds but leap seconds are a pretty important component of the GOPS model.
I'm going to leave it at that I used to treat my stuff like shit and blamed the manufacturer, mostly IBM and Lenovo back then, when it broke. Then I grew up. Life got easier and cheaper.
I agree there is a shit-ton of stuff to set up but based on the recent Pipeline and other Hacks where the Companies had to pay millions I would expect more companies to take stuff like this seriously.
Some of my memory is coming back -- I recall a somewhat true-sounding explanation as to why the RAM was setup with a $5.00 cost value and why it was specific with branded, "Designed For", memory. I remember hearing that the reason they were fired is that the SKU was supposed to be on a receipt with the computer that was being upgraded; they're never supposed to be sold, alone, and this was something the warehouse manager knew of (he also knew they were poorly audited).

Corporate customers were usually paying on pricing terms that were "X% above cost". And enterprise sales had flexibility further to close a deal. These one-off products had something to do with that -- perhaps it allowed them to offer pre-configured systems for some customers that calculated to the agreed-upon price when their % above cost was calculated, or maybe it was just a way to "throw in the RAM on all of these shiny new Packard (Bells)".
Is it? When staff during my interview at Spacex several years back told me they work for a billionaire but accept lower wages because it's about the mission and not their own well being... I knew all I needed to know about Elon Musk.
Yes. People keep saying it hasn't happen or what ever. Or Negative Internet Comments being vocal. I mean for pete sake, just look at the total Lightning Cable certified, manufacturer and shipped annually and compared to the total Active user of iPhone + iPad.

Why would people buy them if they aren't broke. Why is every cable manufacture trying to capitalise on the market if there wasn't a profit.

And instead of ( cough ) doing the right thing and fix it. Apple continues to earn money and commission from their MFi programme.
Your example does not achieve idential behaviour at all since it 'parses' an [a] to another [a] and therefore throws away the very property you've just checked. The (NonEmpty a) property encodes the non-emptiness of the list in the type which is then known at every point the list is accessed throughout the entire rest of the program. The point is not just to check the non-emptiness in main as you appear to be implying. Any use of head on an [a] must continually deal with a (Maybe a) even though this possibility has been ruled out. In contrast NonEmpty.head returns an element directly so removes entires chains of Maybes that would be propagated, conveniently with map/bind or otherwise. Parsing allows to replace N + 1 instances of Maybe with just 1 so you can't claim your approaches are the same just because it hasn't been eliminated entirely.
The Halifax explosion of 1917 would give you a good idea of what it would have looked like
One message every 8.something minutes. Very useful for an 'asset' tracker.
> No it doesn't put lives at risk. Everyone knows it's not actually full self driving.

Most people I've talked to cannot accurately articulate the boundary of its operational capability, and there is a growing number of injured and dead "FSD" drivers that seem to have very muddied expecations of what "full self-driving" means.
Any plans to open-source it? Closed source and "decentralized" (from another comment) doesn't seem to go together.
Sounds like Wenig is a great fit for their board, then.
It's sensible to both not put anyone on a pedestal nor completely villify someone. He's polarizing, for sure.

For me, he puts rockets in space, but also spreads a lot of misinformation or lies for self gain. I also don't think just because he's influential that his missteps should be labeled as eccentric versus selfish
The claim was "death rates in America are almost entirely the unvaccinated by now", which is correct. And cases are going up. Excess mortality, in the past few months no less, is completely irrelevant, not only in scope of time but also to the statement being made.
Ask HN: Should I choose NJS or Lua to extend Nginx
I am working on a simple key value store for a project. I want to avoid messing with python server like uwsgi and having a reverse proxy and would like to take this opportunity to work with nginx.

I noticed that they added NJS, and they are heavily promoting that. Which one should I use? I will be saving and retrieving files from a disk (cca 200mb per file).
The charger from my 2009 MBP has its cable perfectly intact; looks brand new. The charger from my 2012 model disintegrated at both ends. They lived similar lives. I have to think the material quality declined somewhere in there.
You can't commit holding on the ball carrier. It would have to occur before the catch, and in that case, it's offensive pass interference.

Regardless, your second example, of the offense committing holding and the defense declining due to an interception is legit. That happens occasionally.
I don't see why everything needs to be so black and white. Must we put up with literally anything and everything, in order to appease the poor downtrodden billionaires who will threaten to take their ball and go home?

By your logic, I should leave America, because I am certainly paying a higher tax rate than most of these people. Why is it that some people fetishize the accumulation of vast amounts of capital to the extent that they would support those people fleeing the country to avoid any responsibility for what they've wrought?

All because a few people on Twitter (protip: don't use Twitter) say mean things?

I don't really understand where it is in that natural order of things that, the more money you have, the more unquestioned you should be. That the more money you have, the more you should escape criticism, taxation, etc. What drives presumably ordinary people to put these superhero rich people above any reproach whatsoever?

Some people, for no apparent reason, feel that to be pro-capitalism, we must REJECT any rules, and applaud those who skirt rules they disagree with.

Does this mean, because I have a fast car, I should be able to drive as fast as I want, but someone in an economy car should have to follow the speed limit? That the speed limit is more unfair to me?

I'm very pro-markets, but I don't understand why this means there should be no regulation, and we should be more sympathetic to the rich than to the poor; why the rich should be able to skip out on laws and regulation just to keep them happy.

It's only reasonable to create a socially-useful playing field, and ask that everyone follow the rules.
> Apple is a company that sold hundreds of millions of these cables, probably more than any other company out there

I'm not sure how one can honestly argue that Apple has sold more laptops than every other laptop manufacturer. I they've sold more cables (I doubt it, but let's pretend), well...that would be because people keep having to replace them.

This problem is common enough with Apple's laptop power cables that it has been a meme for more than a decade now. That's not the case for _any_ other vendor, and those other vendors have sold more laptops than Apple has by several orders of magnitude.
Are they contradictory?

These supremacist ideas have a long and toxic history. And the moral foundations are always similar - some people today can be considered wholly disposable.

And they are supremacist - based on the unproven belief that humanity has an obvious manifest destiny which will incarnate (or perhaps insiliconate) super-intelligence across multiple galaxies.

It's juvenile Tom Swift fantasy.

Humanity has multiple immediate challenges now. They need actionable, practical intelligence.

If we can't find the relatively limited intelligence to deal with them, where are we going to find the IQ needed to colonise a galactic supercluster?

Of course some other species might evolve on Earth. But also - it might not. No matter what grand name this is given, "thinking" about it is just well-funded science fiction.
Really missed an opportunity to provide an affordance here to align with Fitt's Law. Or they saw how useful F19 was in comparison to the touchID sensor :)
It is something I never understood.

It happened to me, in my previous company, I was clearly underpaid, but the job was fine, people were nice, nothing to complain about except for the pay. Considering the situation, I looked somewhere else, found an offer for a similar job that was about market rate, went back to my company with the proposal and told them to match the offer. I was even ready to accept slightly less, but I didn't get anything, zero, no negotiation possible. I asked to see my boss the next day, he didn't even ask me why, I think I was already written off.

And I am not an isolated case. The worst part is that I am sure they lose money doing that, because when they hire people at the same skill and experience level, they hire at or above market rate. It is very likely that they hired someone to replace me for more than what I asked them.

Usually, everything else being equal, the more people move, the better they get paid.