skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main threat model is a Yudkowskian rapid takeoff where artificial general intelligence recursively self improves far beyond human intelligence, making it like a god with absolute power compared to us. This corresponds to the agentic model of artificial general intelligence put forth by Bostrom.

Yudkowskian AGI might fail in the long term since it would run into Gödelian problems it would never be able to solve but infinitely loop on.

That humans are immune to those and can behold contradictions testifies to a Penrosian supra-turing-machinic aspect to the human mind.

Man has a transcendent aspect even if we may not be meta-cognitively aware of it at all times.

AGIs could possibly be destroyed through the use of such problems, akin to magical spells wielded by powerful magi.

A secondary threat model of mine is based on a world of non-general, non-agentic strong AI with many discrete “tool AIs” with superhuman ability in one unique area.

The secondary model is mostly harmless except for military AI. The genius of Andúril Incorporated lies in their creation of drones designed to destroy other drones.

This future is still very dangerous, and I hope that the security state will take action to prevent it’s arrival.
It's not a problem that can be realistically solved with technology. The problem existed before electricity had been discovered[1][2] and continues to exist[3] in a significant way regardless of the presence of computers and the Internet.

I'd guess that the intent behind client-side scanning is to force child abusers away from mainstream technology towards niche technology[4][5][6], increasing the signal-to-noise ratio for finding and targeting child abusers. At present, there is nothing inherently suspicious about someone using WhatsApp, which means child abusers can hide amongst millions of other users. If CSAM is instead pushed onto Tor and a little-heard-of encrypted messaging app with servers located in eastern Europe, the theory is that it becomes easier to target just these niche users. If they're using Tor, they must have something to hide and therefore further investigation is warranted...?

A key problem with this approach is that, as has happened in other criminal circles, criminals find increasingly clever ways to remain 'boring' and not inviting of further scrutiny, or to otherwise remain hidden in the masses. For example, 9/11 hijackers communicated using boring methods, without encryption, using a coded language to make messages appear innocuous[7]. Even if general purpose computing was prohibited, would it be realistic to prevent users from using spreadsheet formulas to implement encryption and display of images[8][9][10], without impacting other users?. Another key problem is that innocent people will likely be targeted and harassed by association with niche technologies, which also wastes resources that could be used to limit child abuse via more effective means.

It would be possible to implement something that looks like North Korea's Kwangmyong[11] and largely solve the CSAM-sharing-via-computers problem, but at that point you've essentially banned computing altogether. This is actually a decision some countries have made[12] (not for CSAM reasons though) but good luck convincing the modern world that it'd be a good idea to eradicate the last 40 years of technological advancement whilst other countries continue to leap ahead technologically with the help of open and unrestricted access to general purpose computing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi

[3] https://europepmc.org/article/nbk/nbk554624

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

[7] https://hcgroups.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/july-2001-communic...

[8] https://poisonninja.github.io/2016/12/07/AES-in-Google-Sheet...

[9] https://www.iacis.org/iis/2017/2_iis_2017_103-112.pdf

[10] https://github.com/takacs/pixel-spreadsheet

[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Burmese_protests#Internet...
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WHY comments drastically improved my code.

I’ve similarly been paying much more attention to convey INTENT which I think is massively missing from computer science. The code might suck, but if the intent is clearly defined, it helps to refactor later.
I half suspect this is because of Austin becoming the new sv. They don't want you guys, they want to stay red. This will scare a lot of people off.
>"what if it labeled Jewish people as rats"

Shit man, if only.
Migration of people from SV to Austin will change the political landscape and stop stuff like this from being passed.
I have had many debates with libertarians over the decades and have yet to meet one who believes in either practice or theory to "literally to let everyone be themselves".

Libertarianism fails really hard in situations where you have a lot more overall prosperity if you limit everybody. Libertarianism misses these opportunities because of its blindness to anything but individual freedoms. In economic terms it mostly refuses to deal with the tragedy of the commons. And it likes to pretend negative externalities don't exist, or that the most free markets would make negative externalities magically disappear.

Let's get concrete with a real life example.

Air pollution will very likely shorten my life by a couple of years (if the science is to be believed). A very moderate libertarian might be willing to discuss preventative regulations, but the vast majority of libertarians' response is "oh well, you can only sue after the damage has been done". Which puts the entire burden on the victim and after preventable damage has already been done. It's too late.

It's far cheaper and more effective for me to support a government that stops them from damaging my health and stops them from inteferring with my freedom to breath clean air. The complaint from libertarians is that I'm interfering with their freedoms using the threat of government force. Damn right I am! Because the only thing that has worked over the decades to clean up the air I breath is government regulations interferring with the freedoms of car manufactures, and the freedoms of consumers to buy and operate excessively polluting vehicles. Along with government interference in other polluting industries. Government inference 1, free markets 0. If I could find viable candidates who would intefere and regulate at a much faster pace, they would get my vote. Because it increases a freedom I deeply value.

Libertarianism would be a lot more interesting if the libertarians I talk to were actually interested in my freedoms and priorities (which are often collective freedoms to enjoy a shared resource) instead of only being interested in maximizing individual freedoms and their own priorities.

As far as asking "woke stars on their views of libertarianism" can you give examples and sources?
Yes, that's mostly why I did not want one. But unless we go open everywhere it gives us all a worse experience and anxiety to think about. First of all we need phones to change as those are, well in my opinion, worse than TVs. But I agree: why not a smart TV with fully FOSS Linux? Using the browser and vlc and such, it would be quite perfect for most people if packaged right.
What you’re describing seems to be ordinary, popular liberal values. Wokeness regresses toward segregation and race essentialism.

For example, a white Dane is unfit to translate the work of a Black poet because a white person cannot understand the experiences of a black person—the difference between any white person and any black person in the 21st century are far greater than the 21st century Dane and the 15th century Shakespeare whom the Dane regularly translates without controversy.

Or similarly, a school board decides that an eminently qualified white man is unfit to volunteer because he can’t possibly empathize with the experiences of minorities.

Or the woke demande to dispense of standardized tests because these tests only judge us according to “white” strengths (literacy, reason, etc) which blacks or other minorities don’t possess. https://mobile.twitter.com/JamaalBowmanNY/status/13765200627...
Taking 8 months off doesn’t help as much as you think. I think change jobs you may find you get all the rest and rewards you need. Otherwise drastically change career or location and see what happens.
> OpenAI had decided to put emphasis on larger neural networks fueled by bigger computers and tons of data.

So is the answer here both?
Are you going to be pearl clutching over Rosa Parks not just being "an ordinary" bus rider next?
How hard would it be to filter out those items though? Shouldn't there be a way to "delete all data from this IP". It sounds like a lot of work to have a set of rotating IPs and act as multiple different people to get this done.
Isn’t this like half of central Africa?
Since even FireFox mobile did not offer reader mode to me, i used EinkBro to make it readable. Strange name but a nice alternative browser to have on Android. Got recommended here on HN.
YMMV: I see lots of job offers for Angular, just mostly in the Enterprise sector. The sort of places that also use Spring Boot on the backend.

Outside of that sector, I personally don't know anyone who would choose either - but it's definitely still a significant market segment.
And they took away the ability to block specific sites from search results, so you're forced to wade through all the search-term-harvesting spam sites. The best example is the ones that simply republish StackOverflow content. Screen upon screen of them.

Oh yeah, and Google got rid of the "+" sign that used to let you require the presence of a word in results, allegedly because of their "Google Plus" crap. Now that that's dead and gone, did they restore the "+" operator? Nope. Now you have to discover (and bother with) the "allintext:" prefix.
Yes on all accounts. For users that want such.

QEMU exposes the transistors. There are even better OpenFPGA grade simulation tools that we are making to even more detailedly model the transistors. Many chips have very extensive debug interfaces we can use to expose the inner workings of systems. Users should have access.

We should absolutely expose the system libraries. On Android this has been an essential tool for many users to improve their daily existence. It's a huge point of controversy that Google has hired the Magisk developer who did just that, and that now the library is giving up some of it's former skills to help users manipulate system libraries. https://9to5google.com/2021/08/29/magisk-android-changes-goo...

Yes, we should definitely expose the source code. I'd love it if more programs were actively debuggable. Debian for example makes it fairly easy to download debug packages, with all the debugging symbols. The kernel should be accessible. Treating users like end users is not cool & keeps humanity from getting good, from learning & understanding the world. Even if few do take up the option, the option to explore the world about us is something computing ought value.
This conversation could be a whole lot less acrimonious if we were to acknowledge the core conservative position: the intact nuclear family is the primary locus of children's rights.
Texas is close enough to flipping blue that it wouldn't take a whole lot. A few more votes in a few more districts.
I’ve enjoyed using the Kubernetes environment on Docker Desktop for Mac. It’s been pretty good.. paying for it is not an unreasonable request.
You stole my thunder! I was about to come here and say, “well damn, I’ll bet the Knights who say ‘NI!’ are pretty pissed!” but here you had to go beating me to the punch (line)… :-)
I'm not sure we agree. But I guess the question comes down to what you and I mean by "intelligible".

antirez provides several examples where the code without the comments would be much harder to understand and/or maintain. Whenever this is the case, I would argue that comments are a must and without them the code is at least barely intelligible.
You're going to have to clarify, because right now it seems like you're suggesting that "anti-life" folks position is "force abortion even if the person doesn't want it" and I don't believe that is the case. Or do you mean something else?
x100 on intent!

Even something simple like “if the function starts with “is” it will return a Boolean has helped me organize things that return status codes and have side effects. Small thing, but I like it.
If you can so that in C all the better.

I know there exists a formally verified secure C compiler. Ideally you would have a similar compiler which guarantees low energy uses.

In my experience Rust already does a great job there but I’m happy to behold whatever evidence exists for C being more energy efficient.
I’m not sure I follow, are you saying that there is a ‘anti-life’ group that believes women should be required to have state required abortions? I’m not being saracastic; I would like you to elaborate on the ‘anti-life / anti-choice’ group.
> So If I don't like the shoes of the person in the protected class, I can refuse service?

Yes. However, if there's a disparate impact on protected classes based on your shoe discrimination, that can be illegal. You can't just deny service to, say, immigrants and say it's because of their shoes, while letting other people and their shoes slide.
Native Americans of the Pacific coast who saw bountiful years more often than not also engaged in rituals of conspicuous consumption, typically by burning the excess.

This is something that would have been taught to anyone taking an anthropology class in college from at least the 1960s, and if you've seen these displays in person, they're fairly impactful.

That's what I've always associated Burning Man with. It's an effigy and totem of our ephemeral human-ness, enabled in a harsh and hostile environment by the excesses we've accumulated over the whole of human history. We pause briefly to remember that how we live now is not the only way and reflect on the loss of our common pasts, and that one day this too will not exist.

The human sacrifice angle feels like the kind of contrived pop-culture interpretation someone who's watched Temple of Doom too many times and hasn't read enough local history would convince themself of.
The same issue came up regarding Reddit recently. If you build something cool that becomes popular then big businesses will try to buy you. I think if you want to be taken seriously as a non-profit and have people contribute to your cause on that basis, then you should be able to guarantee that you will remain a non-profit, and free from external control.
It's probably obvious, but you can do this when you have a legitimate business reason for it. Hooter's is within its rights to hire only women with a DD+. More germanely, a casting director can put out a call for actors only of a specific race.
Sexism is not defined as things that disproportionally affect people based on sex. Are tampons sexist? Is the vagina itself, sexist?

Whether or not questions around abortion "disproportionally affect" women is not the question. Abortion also disproportionately affects aborted babies, if you believe they're alive. 1-year olds also disproportionally affect women. Should we be able to kill children until the age of 5? Why not?

I think your take from the perspective of categorization is one that tries to blur things intentionally. It may be the case that an organism does or does not "objectively" belong to a race. But that does not mean that the specific attributes of that organism are themselves not objectively measurable. You're just talking about what definitions are being used.

I think that argument is an attempt to derive ethics from words - rather than discovering the scientific process, deciding ethically what is appropriate or desirable, and identifying the language which should be used to describe it. It's backwards.

At some point a fetus goes from necessarily relying on the mother, to being self-sustaining (if fed) even if removed from the mother. That's a knowable thing. If the baby is removed it will either live or die and that is our answer. Call that life, or independence, or whatever. The lens you choose may change where the line is for you, but not when it is crossed.

I would say that if you believe that children should not be killed post-birth, then you are already cognizant of some kind of threshold that exists which is eventually crossed and cannot be undone, after which adults are obliged to attempt care and continued life of the child.

Because we don't have a way to test exactly when a fetus becomes independent, we use heuristics. For the most part, the first trimester we consider dependent; the last trimester we consider independent; in the ambiguous middle trimester we err on the side of the preference of the already-living, and in some places allow abortions through this time even though there may be a chance that the baby is alive and independent.

But these are just heuristics. "The Texas law is far more restrictive." Yes, it is. But you also said "Go from there" and that is what they did. Texas narrowed to a specific criteria that its people perceive to better approximate the threshold for life. "Life" being in this case a catch-all amalgamation of lots of peoples' concepts that mostly approximates the ability to self-sustain under care. It would seem on the surface at least that an organism without a heartbeat is dead-on-arrival while one with a heartbeat at least has a chance.

The way past this for a place like Texas is to propose a new testable threshold and explain why it is not possible for a self-sustaining baby to be exist before then.
I mean it’s pretty much always a mistake to use your political opponent’s framing. It’s a variant of accepting the premise of the question.

I would absolutely expect someone who is pro-life to describe people who oppose them as anti-life. That’s their chosen framing of the issue. Pro-life sounds good — who could be anti life?

Same with pro-choice — who could be anti-choice?

It’s the reason why you don’t see people using the term “race realists” and just calling them racists.
> It has human DNA unique from the mother and, in this case, an independent heartbeat.

I don't know why people use DNA uniqueness as a qualifier of anything. Are identical twins and clones not alive? Heartbeats aren't a measure of life either and, at 6 weeks, there is still no functioning heart. So despite the colloquial usage of the term, there is no heartbeat.
Plus, the Russians in Estonia came there during Sowjet occupation. They saw Estonia as a colony of Russia and their kids went to Russian-speaking schools.
I doubt this is the first fossil fuel-free steel, even in modern times. Here in Argentina one of our biggest steel factories had a very big eucalyptus forest just to make coal. From https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceros_Zapla_S.A

Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com/?tab=TT#es/en/Aceros%20Zapla%20...

> "Aceros Zapla" (ex- "Altos Hornos Zapla") was a steel forest mining complex located in the department Palpalá province of Jujuy, Argentina. It was the first steel center of Argentina [...]

> It had 15,000 ha of a forest of 30 million eucalyptus trees to extract the necessary coal in the process, [...]
Mainstream news outlets have been caught doing this. Australian ABC News (government funded) deceptively edited a Navy ceremony that showed the Governor-General & Navy Chief ogling over young women twerking [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/15/australian-nav...
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Parallel computing's actually progressed pretty far. Virtually all GPU-based applications (unfortunatly, cyptocurrency mining being the most notable) are massively / embarassingly parallel.

As far as practical applications --- the set is vastly smaller, especially where there's a human in the REPL loop.
I miss Zozobra. Been some 20 years since I lived is Santa Fe. Don't recall it being covered on TV like this back then. Seems like more attending too.

But yeah, I suspect the idea for burning man must have originated with Zozobra.
The other option is not to trust any of the parties and look at the evidence they present.
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I don't think crimestoppersusa.org actually has direct tip submission on its site? It looks to me like it links primarily to other crime stoppers programs (which do have tip submission).

Your argument definitely stands though: there's not much difference in private information that's requested on a crime stoppers form[1] vs the right to life form[2].

[1] https://www.p3tips.com/tipform.aspx?ID=458

[2] https://archive.is/zspjG
I wrote a little tool to make creating and interacting with systemd-nspawn containers easier (on Arch Linux only right now):

https://github.com/b0o/arch-lwc

Not intended for any sort of production. I personally use it to run Firefox inside a container and for testing.
If you believe the world is flat, you would likewise attempt to separate teaching physics from less potentially challenging subjects. I don’t believe that makes physics not part of education.

Just because you (or Texas) thinks abortion should be illegal, doesn’t miraculously make the information not part of knowledge other people believe is educational.
I agree with others, code commentary shouldn't be a novel. Comments should only provide info that the code can't make easy to understand. Why it was done this way, what it's intended to do, complex or nonlinear interactions that aren't clear from the code. But adding things that make reading the code sound more like English isn't helpful, it's extra work and prone to getting out of sync.
Flowers Make a Nice Gift
There's no such thing as a democracy in a gerrymandered representative state. One of the reasons we have a Constitution is because the Founding Fathers didn't believe that states were capable of fully independent democratic governance. It is there to protect the people FROM democracy at a local level.
> Everything that applies to a fetus also applies to a coma patient dependent on life support

Except that coma patients are not dependent on another specific individual to stay alive. If one needed your kidney to live, but you refused and they died, you would not be responsible for their death.
If you thought that Austin was progressive but weren't aware that voting in Austin is futile, here's your wakeup call.
> (It hasn't been acceptable to do that for several decades.)

Really? Gender neutral text is something recent for me, I'd say in the last 10 years. And most of what you can find around still use most of the time males as examples, as a default, etc. I'll add that "avoidance-of-sexism" could be seen as political correctness depending on who you're talking about.

I agree with the idea of gender-neutral text in general though.
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Is there anyone who really calls themselves "anti-life"? I think such a label would have to have the meaning you suggest, if it were consistent with the others.
The problem is that there is very little historical evidence that governing in terms of "morality" has any kind of success at creating favorable outcomes.

When you rely on subjective standards, you risk very bad outcomes if you have a bad actor making those subjective judgements.

It's perfectly reasonable to have concerns over handing over the governance of online life to companies which are not democratically accountable, especially in an era of increasing consolidation in the technology space.
This is where pulling up a stack of old Wired / Omni / Popular Science and similar magazines, as well as Gartner hype-cycle predictions and forecasts would be handy.

"Hot technologies of <YEAR>" should be a good keyword for search.
> I can see him telling her bedtime stories before going to sleep

Is that a typo, or an endearing role reversal?
Yep, which is why I said call center. If the customers can’t see the staff then it’s hard to argue blond hair is anything but a proxy.