skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could say you work remotely as a consultant.
>Male-identifying speakers use swearwords in casual conversation more than female-identifying speakers

The appearance of "identifying" in that sentence also reflects a recent sea change in the use of everyday language.
Ooh that pushed my buttons. When someone responds to me with one of these phrases, it gets my hyper-logical dander up!
Not implausible at all. Mutation rate is proportional to the number of infected. Third world countries have barely even started vaccinating. There's a lot of room for nightmare scenarios.

Which is why I think it was a bone-headed move to not suspend patent protection on the vaccines. Thanks Bill Gates!
Maybe they just had the dog on leash so it wouldn't run off.
Yes, you understand correctly. The minimum amount to withdraw is an amount that would cost 1000 USD to buy. When withdrawing that amount, you would get 350 USD
> None of this was difficult nor illegal nor expensive.

Is giving a false name to the CC companies not illegal in some way? At the very least I'm certain it is a breach of contract.
My landline here near Seattle is around $60/mo. I don't know why... back when I first set up a land line here, it was $25/mo. The quality of the line has deteriorated so bad, there's noise on it, they won't bother to fix it. A few years ago the line had a physical break somewhere between my house and the DSLAM. They switched me to another pair of copper. I have 3 pairs of copper coming into my house, but now one is totally dead, and I will never be able to use it again. Apparently our street is at full capacity and they have no plans to repair or add more lines.

The other problem with land lines is the amount of robocalls you get on them. The phone companies offer no way to truly block them. Every blocking service they offer relies on Caller ID, and with the robocallers spoofing Caller ID and randomizing numbers, the blocking is totally ineffective. I literally get 5-8 calls a day. They used to offer a call blocking service, where a machine would answer, and tell you to hang up, or press 1 if you wanted to connect. This service no longer exists, and the other call (ineffective) blocking services (they offer at least 3 or 4) each cost about $6/mo each. My belief is that they are making tons of money allowing unauthenticated calls into their network, that they have no desire to actually block any calls.

Also the relatively small number of landlines left leaves a rather small audience of people to complain. So most people don't even know this is a problem.
It's much more insane that so many laws don't allow or discourage people building a shelter from.
> Roblox provides opportunities previously unavailable; it is up to the individuals to decide if they are worthwhile to invest time in.

Oh boy. I think we've all heard that many times before. Every exploitative business will use this line as its defense (see e.g. every controversy about employee/contractor status in the gig economy), so taken alone it isn't much of an argument.

For example, individuals can be mislead as to whether the opportunity is worthwhile to invest - with enough trickery and unsophisticated target group (e.g. Joe Random Uberdriver who never before calculated depreciation of their car), the business can exploit people for many years before they wisen up as a group.
Thanks for sharing those two posts. These might be instrumental in helping a (more rationalist-leaning) friend and I move forward in a years-long debate about ethics, lmfao

This part particularly resonated with me:

> Your trust will not break, until you apply all that you have learned here and from other books, and take it as far as you can go, and find that this too fails you—that you have still been a fool, and no one warned you against it—that all the most important parts were left out of the guidance you received—that some of the most precious ideals you followed, steered you in the wrong direction—

> —and if you still have something to protect, so that you must keep going, and cannot resign and wisely acknowledge the limitations of rationality—

> —then you will be ready to start your journey as a rationalist.

My trust broke years ago, and I found the rationalists, and then I realized, unlike Yudkowsky (I guess?), that I didn't have something to protect. So, my personal goals are in that sense very different.

In my experience with the rationalist community as well, I found that most people I met didn't have a specific personal motivation beside their beliefs surrounding x-risk, and I personally find the set of axioms required to accept rationalist beliefs on x-risk a bit... difficult to swallow.
Too true. For example, compare the 2-meter long root ecosystem of prairie grass that holds water exceptionally well to that of wheat:

https://images.app.goo.gl/PHmVUNRwwBg8oUKv7
Will increasing the concentration matter? Obviously I know nothing on the subject, but drinking 10ml of poison in 100ml of water must be as harmful, and thus toxic, to me as 10ml of poison in 50ml water, right?

Or we're assuming they don't drink all the water, in which case 20ml of the first solution will be less toxic than 20ml of the second.
These kinds of non-level playing fields are what the ethereum community hopes to replace with open protocols and non-custodial property rights.
One of the best features of a jailbroken iPhone is the ability to hide all ads on YouTube / Spotify / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok.

I feel impervious to social media advertising & you can too if you just go through the effort.
>Businesses don't have the right to make compliance optional or inadequate if it doesn't work for their business model. They have to pick a business model that can be compliant.

Not to be snarky, but isn't the the SV business model. Facebook 'are not a publisher', because editors cost too much. Uber are 'not an employer', because proper benefits cost too much..etc ad infinitum
I believe it is like Forex but with a really bad spread. You can buy Robux for $X USD, but when you sell robux you only get $.35X USD.
Right which is why achieving any meaningful level of herd immunity is now effectively impossible. Thus we're all likely to get infected eventually.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing death for all variants.
I actually don't think bandwidth costs are responsible, nor DSP effects.

I suspect the lousy audio quality in modern voice conferencing software is to compensate for people with lousy internet connections or underpowered devices: someone using an older phone in the car on 3G cell service with cell tower handoffs, or a crusty laptop using lousy coffee shop WiFi, etc.

It's a tough problem to solve. Everyone on a call can be affected by one person with a lousy connection if the software isn't very sophisticated.

People are generally willing to tolerate lower bitrate audio if it means less dropouts, and lowering the bitrate for everyone is easy to do (if a bit lazy), and solves many problems.
Statistics.

The query planner has decided that it's going to have to visit a lot of pages regardless, so rather than reading the index AND most of the table it can get the job done with less by just scanning the table.
> My guess is that more educated women are less willing to be stay at home moms and that correlates with your demographics. When you have a degree and dreams of a career, giving up on them is harder.

That was pretty much my point.
What goes wrong in ones life to end up with a mindset like this.

If what you say is true, then you too very much don't matter at all, and the billionaires should quickly exterminate you as you're simply a waste of the planets finite resource of which they require.
sed -i "s/day/month/" parent
Apple has not announced anything about E2EE, you are right, that is speculative. I think this intention is telegraphed by a few recent actions they’ve taken, from strongest to weakest evidence:

1. The fact that they built device-side scanning in the first place when they could have done it quietly on the server. They invested significant engineering time into the advanced cryptographic algorithms used, such as the private set intersection and threshold secret sharing. They had their work vetted, in public, by well-known cryptographers from academia. This is all leading-edge cryptographic engineering, most of which I would bet is being deployed in a consumer product for the first time ever.

It only makes sense that they would do this if they intend to cut off the capability for this type of scanning on the server altogether.

2. They recently added more account recovery options, a necessary step towards helping the average user avoid catastrophic loss of E2EE data if they need to reset their password.

3. They announced well outside of their regular cycle of product announcements (June, September). This is unusual for Apple and could mean they plan to announce something else like E2EE in September. In their public statements they have indicated that this is one component of future unspecified plans.

iMessage, FaceTime, iCloud Keychain, etc. are all E2EE. It is not completely unreasonable to think that they would endeavor to encrypt more content. If there were political hurdles to doing so in the past (as reported), these might be mitigated by the new features.
Unicode helps to ruin your software
Twitch has a "Recommended Smaller Communities" section on their user frontpage now.
I didn't downvote, but what does this have to do with what I wrote?
Yeah that all makes sense. I called myself a "rationality consumer" in a LW post a few years back, and I think that roughly still holds. Though I will say that being part of a community where wrong beliefs are corrigible through argumentative persuasion is an immense social relief for me.

(Also, AI X-Risk makes a lot more sense if you're already habituated to thinking of the mind in terms of algorithm. 40% programmers: not a coincidence.)
As far as I know there aren't any sanctions against individual Iranians. This might seem like splitting hairs, but since you're framing it as the US "punishing" individual Iranian citizens it's an important distinction to point out.
Hrm, I think I understand what you're saying.

Perhaps a better way to formulate it is: let's say we take a model and add a regularization term that penalizes/rewards some part of the data, which when trained makes for a morally/ethically biased model. I think you're exactly correct, the source of moral/ethical bias here is in the model.

Good point.
Expanding on this point, you have a choice of goals you want to model, and you have a choice of success criteria. Each model has outcomes which are factually neutral, but the choice of model and way you use the results reflect a value system.
Ground strikes can kill entire herds of animals with no visible signs of trauma.

I couldn't find any strikes during the time period where they were hiking on

https://www.lightningmaps.org/

map.blitzortung.org doesn't appear to have historical search. But it doesn't mean it didn't happen, just that lightning network didn't record it.

I didn't see any seismic activity nearby either. Thinking that maybe a poison gas flow might have been started by a small earthquake.
i feel like the common denominator between all four would be consumption of water (edit: well and the hike itself). My first suspicion is some kind of poisoning.
Different family configurations appeared in many societies throughout history. The nuclear family is encouraged by capitalist states because one parent (the mother) staying home allows maximum flexibility for the male to be at work making money for the bosses. Importantly, the work the stay-at-home parent does is free, meaning the ruling class can pay them as little as possible. Nuclear families take up more real estate too, earning more money for banks and landlords.

The liberal feminist movement in the 1970s changed this equation somewhat. Now two parents work constantly, can barely afford their lifestyle and no one cares for the kids (or the latent gender role of the mother requires her to effectively work two jobs at full capacity)! The ruling class again wins at (again) the expense of the future as the family configuration has become biologically insufficient to reproduce. The additional workers contributed by women also makes the labor market more flexible for employers, another win.

Basically, we should ALL be doing less work and getting more services. Some poorer people are again looking at alternative family configurations because the nuclear model isn't sufficient to sustain life under these conditions.
> A study demonstrating the mechanism for Delta ADE in vivo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34384810/

Not only is that article not a study but rather a letter to the editor, but also in their last paragraph they explicitly state that ADE in SARS-CoV-2 has never been demonstrated in vivo. Here is the relevant quote from the letter:

>[...] Although this potential risk has been cleverly anticipated before the massive use of Covid-19 vaccines6, the ability of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies to mediate infection enhancement in vivo has never been formally demonstrated. [...]
Oh, it was used to generate art all right, just not the art the creators wanted.
articles like this would do better to actually spell things out.

What is the cut. They say it's worse than other platforms, but nothing stops them from actually saying what it is.

edit: the cut roblox takes for themselves is 30% at transaction time, and 65% at withdrawal time.
The fact that the right uses probably, might, and not exists is the real problem. When something is an indisputable fact, yet an entire group of people dispute it, that is a cause for alarm.
> now we are in a situation where Starlink accounts for half of all encounters."

Aren't Starlink satellites now something like half of all active satellites in LEO? It's not surprising that they would be half the encounters.

Even then, there's only been one encounter that anyone considered a close miss.
You could say you're working a modest remote job.
Too late, we probably already paid for your K-12 education.
Even 'on the spreadsheet' it is borderline a wash. There is a very slight advantage to not paying it off depending on which state you live in and what their tax rates are. Thats if you can get the hypothetical 2% loan and 8% ROI per year. Many people forget taxes in that mix.

If you are comfortable with that go for it! Seriously. But paying it off simplified so many things in my life. I am now getting to a point where I could think about helping others with it. Which in and of itself is something you need to put thought into.

Also if you have a huge sum of cash you want 'safe bets' and 'gamble bets' and 'medium bets'. Buying property is usually in the 'safe bet' area. 'safe bets' you can realistically borrow against if something goes wrong with the other two catagories.
> Is there not room for a middle ground here?

Probably difficult. If I would do <something> it would trigger some sort of chain reaction => probably difficult to keep it contained => I would have to try to at least act slowly & do stuff step-by-step.

Personally for me it would be really hard if not impossible not to tell my parents, hehe.

But once a bigger audience would become aware of that, e.g. cousins, then it could start getting very complicated (e.g. if I would end up donating $ to cousin X because s/he has financial problems or I just want to be nice, then cousin Y or nephew W might want to know why s/he's not getting anything, etc...).

People to whom I donate money to might end up quickly losing it (bad investment because of multiple potential reasons, most famous one just not being used to have to deal with such an amount of money), then once they lost it they might come back to me asking for a "replay" (e.g. "pls. save me, you gave me $$ but I screwed up and made debts - you've done it once so can you give me a 2nd chance! Pleasepleaseplease!") and saying "no" will make them angry and because of the whole situation (which would basically be something which I triggered) I might end up feeling like I own them something, with the final result that the relationship would suffer even if originally it was good (all all $ would be gone).

All this is not irrealistic - e.g. I saw in the past some short documentaries about NFL and soccer players screwing up their lifes because of all the money they got all of a sudden.

Personally I think that I would probably try to create some kind of "cover story" (e.g. something involving having "earned" it the hard way - because just saying e.g. "I won it" might make people start to think "s/he got the $ easily therefore chances might be high that s/he'll easily share some of it with me" but on the other hand that's probably less likely to happen if I would say "I had to 100 hours a week during the last 5 years") and I would probably say that I got a lot less (e.g. 3-5M $) which would just be fine to give me a chance to raise a bit my standard of living and stop working after having paid taxes but not to give out left&right money for free. Even the question "stop working?" might not be easy to answer (maybe just do something part-time, otherwise by not working at all I would feel disconnected from all my friends & colleagues)

Even if I would manage to keep everything absolutely secret and not to do anything with that $, my bank WOULD call me asking what I plan to do with the $M that are parked on my account, probably asking for an appointment to tell me about many interesting investment opportunities => that's a difficult situation for any person who's not used to deal with this stuff, e.g. people might not want to admit (or just would not be aware) that they don't understand the risks linked to some investments/financial products/whatever. Saying "no" is often a lot harder than to say "yes" :)
But he is CTO of a company trying to become Roblox which takes half the money from kids the article/video talks about, and he's CTO of a 30% app store which takes the other half of the money from kids the article/video talks about.

Why does his C-programming ability have more weight than his obvious conflict of interest weighing in here? He may be being geniune, but since he works in this exact area, it is too tainted by that to take at face value or especially to take on authority.
Afghanistan and End Times Prophecy
> I always felt their coffee sucked

Most independents will be better, if there is any around.
This kind of thing is what makes some software engineers think they can solve problems or have an informed opinion about almost any other field :)

Sure there are experts in every field who really know their stuff, but 95%+ of the people we run into day-to-day just aren't that good at their job and don't pay much attention to what they are doing. So with a bit of research, experimentation, and logic, we can figure out stuff that should be other people's job that they can't seem to do. (... but the average software engineer probably isn't any better ;)
> Indeed, who else would possibly manage such a thing? This is tantamount to saying that private corporations should have no business deciding how to execute their business

No business is allowed to discriminate against protected groups. That's arguably a third-party standard for fairness, but I don't think this qualifies as central planning.

I see no reason why other types of third-party standards would be impossible or infeasible for machine learning applications.
Lawnmowing for a neighbor takes about an hour and earns maybe $10. Making a Roblox game takes perhaps 100 hours and is almost certainly going to result in earning $0 for everyone except the Roblox Corporation.
I don't understand the obsession with prequels outside of recycling known characters. It's set ten years before TOS, with Pike as captain, and it will mess the canon because it's made by people who ignore it.

For all the hate it got, Enterprise was a prequel that respected canon, expanded it sensibly, and brought new characters instead of reusing old ones.
I'd rather have a $1200 GPU than dick around with triple SLI.
Noob her!
why use a 6502 versus another 8bit cpu like Atmel AVR?
Is there any advantage?
Does it consume less electricity while running at similar speed ?
Easy. Just dab it on a cut with a bit of cotton wool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_(antiseptic)
genetic sequencing is pretty cheap these days.
It seems like someone could do us all a public service by combining a few of these lists and making a very public and hard to take down website with them all listed. Create a forcing function for a replacement.

Not recommending anyone do this as it's obviously illegal, but..
Thanks for the Israel-Palestine comparison.
New England preps for first hurricane in 30 years with Henri
i mean, roblox still makes money off of the kid's effort and labor and work, and engineered the system such that they take large amount of cuts for that work.

I highly doubt the amount they take as a cut is necessary.
I stand by my joke, as everything is dated according to the current pharaoh, but it’s not like they signed their letters with the position of the planets - the dates relative to today are reconstructed in various ways as one pharaoh being so many years after another.

The wiki on Egyptian Chronology explains various scenarios where the dates have had to be changed sometimes by hundreds of years according to new evidence: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_chronology
So obviously the most apocalyptic predictions are wrong. Life on planet earth can and will survive this. My view is life on planet earth can survive most things we're capable of throwing at it, but the question isn't will we sterilize the planet. The questions is will it be a bad time for humans and yeah rapidly changing the composition of the ocean will be bad for humans. How bad I don't know, but pretty clearly bad
> existing vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies against only one of them

Is this true for the J&J vax as well?
I Beta Tested OpenAI's Codex, and the Results Are Spooky Good
No, that's what I meant to link. Melee damage was accidentally doubled for 2 whole weeks and not and nobody noticed. Those players play extremely close attention to stats and such.

The post goes on to talk about how and why many changes and behaviours can go unnoticed, and I think the whole episode disproves the parent posters initial point.
Yup. Starlink has launched 1740 satellites, and before starlink there were only about 1500 active satellites in LEO total.
This is a misrepresentation of the situation on the ground facing allied forces.

Though with full 20/20 hindsight, we can dig up historical facts and adjust our historical conclusions, Allied forces were obviously not privy to the immediate situation with respect to Soviet forces.

Moreover, to suggest that the instantaneous destruction of major bases and cities the likes of which history has never seen shouldn't bee seen as a primary impetus in Japanese decision making is irrational.

Japanese Imperialism was effectively a mass murdering machine let loose on the entirety of E/SE Asia and America, and the Americans did the necessary fighting leading to the weakening of the Japanese regime which put them in a state where the threat of some Soviet antagonism would even be a real problem.

If the US had not entered the war against Japan, the Soviets wouldn't be much of a real threat.

The dropping of the bombs was easily justified, and thankfully, since that moment, there have been fewer and fewer major wars.

The odd logic trying to paint the US as somehow antagonists in that situation is anti rational on it's face, it's just petty.