skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They said the USPS lost x mil. Dollars. By the danke token, the military lost x tril. Dollars.

This was my cynical suggestions for a consistent terminology.
Yudkowski likely doesn't think those things will matter if the AI risk isn't handled properly.
Tylenol (paracetamol) is also the leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States and Canada [1]. The toxic dose is very close to the active dose, far more so than pretty much any other OTC drug you run into. It's also even more toxic when combined with alcohol.

[edit] > "It is the most common cause of liver injury. Period. Full stop," said Dr. Michael Rieder, a pediatric clinical pharmacologist at Western University in London, Ont.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/acetaminophen-toxicity-health...
Not if you're moving to El Salvador!
the structural integrity is indeed provided by the capillary action of the plant tissue drawing up water and stiffening the stems
By the time I managed to get my hands on an SE/30 (borrowed from a college) the price was 'down' to $3500. Instead I settled for a IIsi (20MHz 68030 instead of 15-2/3MHz, same RAM, less expansion, no L-2 cache).

The IIsi killed its floppy-drive because the fan sucked dust through it. It was then that I discovered that in 1991 a replacement 'Superdrive' floppy cost $400 (~ price of iPhone 12 Pro today). I wonder if Bukowski's IIsi died that way.

[https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukow...]
After you wrote

> The same is true in deeply personal matters such as affairs of the heart, and confessions of moral confusion and even complicity in crimes.

what came to my mind is the conversation I had with someone who confessed they would rather tell their secrets to Amazon than their neighbor, because Amazon is more distant. What I didn't consider then is that distance is a proxy for strangeness in humans, and that's why such inversion may feel natural. We indeed know very little about the people in Amazon, but where it fails today is that megacorps and their constituents know (or can know) a lot more about us than the neighbour.
The US phone market.

Typing this from a Nokia phone.
Totally not like turning your house plants into Borg drones.
the article in passing mentions the key difference. People in Portugal don't pathologically question every source of authority. If you had trotted out a military general in uniform in the US talking about the war against vaccines one hour later every talk radio host would have started ranting about how the military has been undermined by the deep state and so on.

Conspiracy logic cannot be argued with because if commitment is strong enough everything that is seen as contrary evidence is just incorporated. "Oh great, now they're pretending they're apolitical!" etc. You've seen it already with other military personnel on different issues.

Also the culture in continental Europe vis-a-vis the military is entirely different. It's not that it's less political but more so, a lot of European countries even in very relative history have been governed by military authority at times. one only needs to look at the shocked "army in the streets" articles after every terror attack in the english-speaking press. I don't think this can be transplanted to the US.
When you buy a company you buy its debts and liabilities also, be it sexual harassment issues to be settled, or dumping toxic waste all of this has to be factored in to the risk of acquisition.

On a side note, without knowing the details, its a bit unfair to lay all this at the CEOs door step. It very well could be he was given the boot, and as part of his exit, he is given severance with a non-disclosure agreement.

Sells his house, buys a boat, and walks away, it seems more like he was pushed than it would be, I just got tired of dealing with it.

Wouldn't be the first time a CEO got ousted because of a failed acquisition.

I have no knowledge of him, or who he is as a person, just saying we don't know the current narrative is accurate.
things i didn’t expect to learn on hacker news… thanks :)
if tylenol was a newly created drug, there is no chance it would have so few restrictions on its usage.
That kind of sounds like the british "arse" in my mind. Better than the SS one though. I am not trying to be negative, my intention is to provide feedback.
I think that this is one of the lessons from the pandemic as well. A lot of people have underestimated the meaning and impact of loosely coupled/superficial relationships. The small conversations we could have with co-workers and strangers that was impossible because of lock-down or which was avoided to keep contact to a minimum.

I know that some people prefer to keep to themselves, but as this study also underlines, the majority of people are social creatures and we thrive on interactions - even with strangers.
but that would disenfranchise all The illegal votes.
I recently got a hard to find graphics card(GeForce 3080) and at work and friends got mad at me for not immediately opening it up and putting it in my computer.

I waited like 6+ months for it(to not pay scalper) and then when I had it. I waited another 1 or 2 weeks before installing it.

I've developed a weird habit of not opening things I've ordered for many days or even weeks.
Its not really intentional or I'm not fighting back any urges.
It does feel a bit therapeutic and it helps keep perspective on importance or value of things.

I'd definitely recommend people trying to disconnect the instant gratification for things that aren't immediately needed.
And it was this encounter that made them realize they're privileged, even though it must've been pretty obvious for all sorts of reasons, not to mention living in one of poorest countries in the world as an US "expat".

Still thought, must be quite a story in some circles.

In any case, wandering the busy streets late at night with a drink is a recepy for meeting new people. That is certainly true
Never heard of that experiment. Just read up on it, though. Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
There are some issues with artificial sweeteners, but I don't believe that most of them cause an insulin spike. However, there have been studies indicating that some types of artificial sweeteners may make you more sensitive to real sugar, even in smaller amounts. There are also a lot of hypothesis about affecting gut biome and appetite.

This article from a Dr does a pretty good job of clarifying. https://www.imaware.health/blog/artificial-sweeteners-and-in...
This is extremely concerning since the two obvious alternatives, aspirin and ibuprofen, are already considered unsafe during pregnancy.

Without a decent alternative, the best we can probably do is to limit the dose and duration of use. This policy is probably the best for any medication during pregnancy and childhood.
I'm not sure why this is an example of positive use of IP law. I maybe agree that it's an example of IP law not being ridiculously abused (however I really don't have enough information). It might be positive to arm shareholders as well, but generally positive to society? You say that removing ip laws would harm legitimate business models, sure but having IP laws also harms legitimate business models, which ones would be more "legitimate" or "positive" is not straight forward to say.
My layman's understanding of introversion vs extroversion is with regards to how people feel energized.

The commenter above might really enjoy talking to strangers, but it might be exhausting and require some alone time to recharge.

Separately, one-on-one conversations fit well with the "introvert" label, as opposed to socialising more in a group setting.
US education system yes, everywhere else not much.

Here in Germany they tend to stay on some corner being increasingly reduced until someone finally buys them.
Are you under the impression that people pulled over for speeding are immediately removed from their cars and taken to jail? As opposed to, say, being stopped for 15 minutes, given a ticket, then allowed to go on their way. How’s that end up any differently for those poor mothers and their prams in your little GTA fantasy?
Facebook can cause a Brexit (see cambridge analytica scandal). FB (and other FAANGs) provide the data to put whistleblowers in jail. They have more money than some countries. They can put a price on your life’s information or tax almost every transaction you make in certain spheres. They can almost completely avoid paying the taxes governments impose on others. They can make you pay every month for life to hear the music of long dead composers and artists.

I agree corporations don’t claim certain rights that governments do at present - the right to kill citizens (sometimes without trial), the right to tax their income (though they do impose transaction taxes). So they are limited at present but not so much as you imply.

Information is powerful and exerts huge control over our lives.
The user (supposedly) read the (smart) contract and agreed to it as it is.
So how is that resolved then?
Nitter link: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/RARohde/status/144389061943324672...

A related study of how human fossil fuel use compares with plant growth (a/k/a "net primary productivity") was done by Jeffrey S. Dukes in 2003. A write-up on the article is here:

https://plus.maths.org/content/burning-buried-sunshine

The paper itself, in PDF form: https://www-legacy.dge.carnegiescience.edu/DGE/Dukes/Dukes_C...

As Dukes notes:

- "one litre of petrol is the result of 1.1 x 10,750 = 11,825 kg of carbon from ancient plants."

- Humans are burning fossil fuels at about 5 million times their rate of formation.

- Each present year of fossil fuel use (as of ~1997) equates to 140 years of ancient total biomass growth.

(The difference in rate and years of growth comes from the fact that not all ancient biomass growth was converted to fossil fuels.)

As the Twitter thread in TFA notes, half of all human carbon emissions have occurred since 1990. As a handy reminder, this is what is implied by "doubling time", "exponential growth" or "continuous percentage growth". If a trend shows a doubling time of n years, then in the most recent n years period, half of all usage or production has occurred.

You can derive doubling time from percentage growth, or percentage growth from doubling time, through the rule of 70:

t2 = 70/r

Where:

- t2 is doubling time

- 70 is a constant (derived from the exponential growth function)

- r is the growth rate, expressed as percentage

So a 31-year doubling time gives a 2.3% annual growth rate.

For equations covering exponential growth, see:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/exponential-growth.html
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Shipments doesn't mean being sold.

Some of those landed here in German stores, where they usually get reduced every couple of weeks until finally someone buys them.
If we're talking about job hiring, meritocracy is just defined as hiring the person who is going to be the most competent in the role. That's what people mean when they talk about meritocracy.

This leads to the best outcome for the org and is the most fair for candidates since it means people aren't being discriminated against on irrelevant dimensions (such as how much Asian ancestry they happen to have).

The old status quo of hiring only men was decidedly not meritocratic, given that less competent men were being hired over more competent women by virtue of gender.

In higher education, when people talk about meritocratic admissions, what they mean is selecting students based on dimensions such as intelligence, character, capability for leadership, etc, and straying away from irrelevant dimensions that colleges currently consider such as race, how famous the parents are, etc.

If we're critiquing meritocracy, we should adopt the definition that proponents themselves use, which is the above.
Yes, but a trade has to go both ways. I can receive the information early, then send a trade to act on that information. But if my connection varies enough on sending to make me sometimes faster, but sometimes slower than the competition, I don't see how you could come out ahead.
I was in Portugal last week and was surprised by how safe it felt.

Everyone still wears masks indoors and in built up areas, sanitiser was available everywhere, people checked our vaccination status when sitting indoors.

They're not major points but it definitely felt like people went out of their way to be conscious of others and the virus which is different to how I feel people in the UK treat the virus now (eg mask usage on the tube is virtually non existent).

Most of this is largely anecdotal on my part but I feel countries that continue to do a little now will get long term benefits (eg mandatory mask use in public transport)
Back to the 80's.

The PC only happened because Compaq managed to screw IBM with their clean room reverse engineering.
I am fully capable of attending a gathering and socializing for hours or having long conversations, but it exhausts me and I need a lot of recharge time afterwards.

Definitely prefer six out of seven nights a week at home with just my family. Partner definitely likes getting out more, so she routinely walks with friends, etc.
Same here, two children (2.5yo and 3wo), both exposed to Paracetamol in what I now hope were low enough concentrations. I'm very concerned, to say the least.
Nobody except the 'bank' in this case lost money. In fact, Compound also has a treasury that can and has been used to pay out users affected by bugs. Some small percentage of every loan on compound goes to fund the treasury. It's quite a good system.
How to make Web application support multiple browser windows
Aside from prickly, politicized discussions about gender and identity... it might not be a bad thing altogether to reduce our fertility. We're exhausting the resources of the planet enough as it is.
I won't consider us fully open until all public spaces allow me to go there fully naked!

I don't think many people would consider having to wear a mask to an event/store to mean that the event/store is closed.
When senator's nephew became governor, when only family member can inherit a seat at NYSE stock exchange, you know the problem is not in higher education. But don't worry, there are enough brains imported every year from the countries all over the world to take care business, who cares about the high education especially the undergraduate. It's only a show business, instagramization.
I don't know whether this is a truly serious paper or can be filed under "Spurious Correlations"[0] - paracetamol is widely enough used that links to the mentioned "issues" could be tenuous at best.

[0]: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
I found it very frustrating you cannot buy paracetamol in Japan. I wonder if the know something we don’t…
An article that doesn’t only tell you what to do, but goes out of its way to explain the reasons and discusses your doubts before you even knew you had any. Well written.
> what happens in the year 100000

We'll think about it when we get there :)
I didn't know that Docker desktop could be an issue.

The "app" I have the most problems with are Google Chat, and that just runs in the browsers.

One other issue I've seen is window server eating 150% CPU when using an external monitor. For some reason it works just unplugging the monitor and plugin it back in.
I don't know if you're really out of date, but the current crisis is that populations in the developed world are about to collapse, and nothing good is going to come of it.

But there are 5 billion people in the developing world about to become middle class... you having fewer kids is going to accomplish nothing. We're already going to have to engineer our way through this.
This is not that different from a bank error where they deposit few million dollars and take it back

It is not income if it's error and you return it.
It would work. However since the product is a laptop with the key word being lap... manufactures actually have to throttle beyond what would be required from a physical standpoint. While laptops can and do emit heat from the top & bottom of the chassis that is actually a negative since you have to prevent the user from causing discomfort/getting burned.

Although this is a somewhat recent development/concern, you could fine and maybe still can find non-Apple laptops from the ~2015 era that will have extremely hot surface temperatures. Any many more laptops were just designed poorly so as the regular cooling solution gets less effective due to dust the keyboard and bottom will become exceedingly hot.
Thankful that the authors have found a way to thread the needle and have just said “we use women and men to mean cisgender women and cisgender men” so they can just deal with it once. I’m sure someone will complain though.
Of course your response is sarcastic. It amazes me that people on this forum routinely claim that there are certain things onöy a human can do well.

Robotic sanding and milling is certainly trivial for today's automated systems to achieve.

There are YouTube videos going back to at least 2017

https://youtu.be/H2Sf4uu-JLM

Whether it is cost effective for a small body shop to have one is debatable but the technology exists.
Yes, it's true that in case you are in the legendary fascist state that steals your money but allows you the hide your money in crypto currency it can be useful ;) it reminds me of https://xkcd.com/538/ (note that I do not count government taxes in democratic countries as stealing, while I do think tax avoidance is stealing in that case).
Thought about that too.

Maybe because they use a different set of IPs for the proxies and expect them to stay cleaner.
My father put together a (vacuum tube) Heathkit tape recorder in the late 1950s and made recordings of my great grandparents (on both sides) in 1959 and 1960. They talked about their lives growing up, how they met, and some of the hardships they endured. They were probably 35-40 years younger than the gentleman in the video, but they also described a time before automobiles, electricity, radio, and telephones were commonplace.

I converted those recordings to MP3 about 15 years ago.

It's amazing how far we've come in such a short time.
Exploiting SNMPv3 for Router Fingerprinting
unless you live in 'deep poverty' https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-deep-poverty
"It is the most common cause of liver injury.."

That may well be true, but that doesn't mean it's especially dangerous. The number of people injured by a paracetamol overdose is tiny compared to the number of people who take it. Other drugs are significantly more dangerous when you consider per patient injuries.

This is compounded by the fact that paracetamol overdose with alcohol is a common way for people to attempt suicide - all those who are discovered and rescued will end up with acute liver damage. Doctors (in the UK) usually recommend that people who have damaged their liver in this way avoid drinking alcohol for about a decade afterwards.
The argument you'd heard basically boils down to turning all power dynamics into moral categories: those who have power reinforce their own power by building systems that make sure there's no repercussions for their own actions if they harm someone under their power. The extension comes when people make it universal instead of specific: defining all human relationships in terms of power and its abuse. Those in power are inherently immoral, and thus under power are inherently moral.

There is certainly truth to this: normally, we would call such a relationship 'corruption of power', and as the adage goes, power and corruption tend to go hand-in-hand. The argument then goes that if you are not in power, the only way to return the relationship to a morally right state is to break the rules the corrupt powerful have put in place to purportedly retain their own power. If you grant the premise of the powerful making /all laws/ and /all institutions/ solely to preserve themselves and oppress others, the conclusion must follow.

The issue in my opinion is one of 'divined intent' - there is an implicit premise, that there is either direct intent built-in to those oppressive structures, or that there is indirect intent that carries the same amount of guilt for the powerful group. But that paints with far too broad a brush, and is really unfalsifiable, since we cannot fully know the mind of those creating and participating in those structures. Yet all too often, the argument boils down to an assignment of malign intent that vindicates any and all action in response. This is usually done with a motte-and-bailey: make the sweeping case that all powerful people think something, then tip-toe around individual examples when confronted, unless it's a cherry-picked target.

There is also the issue of the universal: this holds true of many systems, but not all systems, and not all people within those systems. The argument works by making the claim apply to /any/ relationship involving power.

Lastly, there is the issue of vocabulary. It's a cute trick to redefine words to apply only to a subset of what the words originally refer to, but the goal is confusion of language. You create new words to describe subsets of phenomena, but that's not what's been done in that argument: it hijacks the original meaning to generate confusion, often with the goal of saying, for example, 'if you are against racism [original definition], you will overturn all existing systems [modified definition].' There's equivocation going on in there.
We are also allergic to anything else that brings memories from pre-1974 days.

If someone would try to make too much of right wing kind of stuff, "April never again" would be chanted on the streets.

Unfortunately, when my generation is gone, that kind of resistance will be gone as well.
Hi Edwin,

I tried to rewrite it below in what I think would be a modern colloquial way. (This is a difficult question because some things might be different based on region or social class, not just because of the time when it was recorded.)

Quite a few years ago, I'd rather not say exactly how many, but, well, I was born in the first half of last century, so you can guess how old I am.

And now I'm in the, eh, pretty far along in the next century.

Oh yeah. We live in a world of change.

The trees are just like they were when I was a boy, only bigger.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

But when I was a boy, we didn't have the telegraph and we didn't have a telephone.

Of course, none of the electric lights, or any of the other stuff that's popped up to annoy us, or help us.

The good old days had a lot of good things, you guys shouldn't think you're somehow living in the best time in the history of the world.

We're safe, but it's no better than what our parents had, and I don't think it's much better than what our grandchildren will have.

Yep, that's Hudson over there. Nice little city.

Well, I remember very well, looking out my window. I'd see anywhere from 10 to 20, almost never less than 10, sailboats on the river. Now I don't see more than one every three months.

Very few steamboats. Whenever anybody went to New York then, if they wanted to go the modern way, they'd take a steamboat. If they wanted to go cheap, they'd go on one of those river sloops.

Do you know what work is? You don't? Well, work's doing something you have to do. When you're doing something you want to do, like to do, that's play.

And now I exercise a little, but I don't call it work. I don't call this work. This is play. You see how nice that is?
Wishing there was a way to filter stories from the Atlantic. Doesn’t matter what substance there is in the article, their headlines are always inflammatory clickbait.
There's some poetry in there
To add, information management changed drastically in that period too.

Vertical filing system, c. 1900 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filing_cabinet#Vertical_file

"information science" as a field c. 1895 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet

punched cards + tabulation machines c. 1890 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine