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Ignoring the false equivalence of wasted candle light to stolen WiFi bandwidth, as has already been pointed out...

It’s an unspoken(?) assumption that one can’t apply for a remote job unless one has access to internet. Doesn’t matter whether it’s yours, stolen from a neighbor, or sipped from a coffee shop, so long as it’s reliable and of sufficient bandwidth. That’s the remote work deal.

Having the privilege to work remotely for a non-remote job requires the same deal, an your employer seems even less responsible for providing bandwidth in the latter case.
> It's pretty simple really. You just seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an NFT actually is.

People keep saying this, but I'm pretty sure I know what it is. But what I'm asking is: what in god's name is it actually good for, other than scams?

> Just because there is a ton of hype in the technology and people are making get quick rich schemes left and right with really low effort collections, please don't rule out the tech entirely.

But this is precisely what you're doing with it too! Your service is just creating generative art and minting an NFT for it, from what I can tell, with the sole intention of convincing people to pay for the NFT so you can make money. From the sounds of it, the NFT is just the authentication token, perhaps signing some set of parameters that determine the "unique" generative algorithm that the user "bought". Sure, fine, whatever, but you could have done that with boring old certificates and a database. What value, other than NFT hype, did putting it on a decentralized trustless blockchain do for you?

People keep trying to sell this as some revolutionary technology and I just don't see it.
steam deck allows you to install whatever you want and ships with an arch-based distro (steamos 3.0)
LLVM relicensing update and call for help
> Engineers aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” when building bridges and buildings. Doctors aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” in the OR or when calculating dosages. These mistakes are grave and should be costly. Pilots aren’t allowed small fuckups when flying planes.

That's BS and you know it. Any system that relies on humans being perfect fails rather quickly.

While major incompetence is generally punished, all of those systems you describe have ways built in to deal with routine human failures.
I think any argument against the possibility of developing AGI is going to have it. The argument has to be either:

1) there’s something non-material about human intelligence (basically, there’s a soul), or
2) something about the processes that created a completely material human intelligence is impossible in principle to reproduce, either implicitly or explicitly.

(1) has the obvious religious angle, but (2) tends to be what’s trotted out when (1) is too overly religious.

With (2), the usual supporting reason is that the conditions are too complex. The problem is that the fundamental rules are just those of physics, which are “simple”. And we have to remember that the initial conditions of the universe were also “simple” and not intelligently set up in a way that could be predicted to create intelligence. It was just a bunch of initially formless matter evolving over time.

By closing the door on even implicit use of physics (which created our own intelligence), which we don’t know enough to rule out completely, there’s the feeling that there’s some kind of magic dust that has to be part of the process or the initial conditions. That would disagree with our current understanding of the laws of physics and early development of the universe.

Ultimately, the real motivation is the desire to maintain the feeling that humans are somehow “special” in the universe.
How about the PiBoy DMG? It's sold out / discontinued but maybe you find a source for used devices.
no one's arguing that we can't (or shouldn't) have any criticism during brainstorming, only that negativity (which can also be read as aggression) reduces psychological safety, which in turn reduces creativity. people do pull back (consciously and subconsciously) when the sting of (negative) criticism looms.

idea-focused criticism (rather than people-focused) can hone decision-making, but we still need that psychological safety to get the best outcomes. these things can both be true at the same time, and we can both succeed and fail at fostering either or both and not get the best outcome.

just as we might criticize an overly safety-oriented decision-making process, criticism-oriented decision-making processes tend to degenerate into contests of aggression, which tend to produce inferior outcomes. dogmatism in any direction doesn't help.
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Ironic, considering that Stephen Wolfram insisted in the 80s that Lisp was 100x slower than C, and so a fast mathematics package could not be written in it.
My exact thoughts as I was reading the OP: "This guy doesn't know how talented he is at writing".
Digital vehicle temperature control is just infuriating. There are only two settings: blast the driver with freezing air until the rest of the car cools down, or roast the driver alive until the rest of the car warms up.
I tend to think in similar terms. There's so much going on under the surface with even the simplest creatures in the natural world that the physics and computational fundamentals seem really intimidating here. That's not to say that we could never get there -- certainly, many hold out hope for our abilities continuing to compound over time. But it's kind of a bummer to think about the glimmer of true AGI only materializing much further along an exponential growth curve that, to me, doesn't seem guaranteed to continue indefinitely.
>a good PC is a long term investment that pays off if you really like gaming

Yeah, that used to be true, but then 2020 happened and GPUs became unobtanium. Not to mention they've been seeing a steady price increase in MSRP since a few years before covid. I fondly remeber the days when ~$400 was enough to buy you a wicked high end GPU, like a GTX 1070, that would play all games at high settings and would last you a few years. Those days are gone now and even when the supply chain gets fixed, it looks like the hiked prices will be the new norm and are here to stay for a while, as the nvidia-amd duopoly realized there is enough demand even at these price points. Or at least until the next crypto bust (which, IMHO, can't come soon enough).

The "major advantage" of consoles running super locked down walled gardened SW is that miners can't use them ... yet. So at least in the EU you can still buy the lastest gen consoles for MSRP if you're willing to look around hard enough.

GPUs for MSRP? Hell is more likely to freeze over before that happens.
Ransomware before crypto was locking down individual desktops until they went to a gas station to buy $500 in Ukash or paysafecard vouchers. The ability to demand millions at once (and to actually receive it) is a huge change that has massively expanded the industry.
>> What happens when interest rates are unable to fall further?

We are there. QE is the next thing. I think they understand now that raising interest rate quickly will kill the housing market like in 2007. So they need inflation while slowly raising rates.
Sure, but why would anyone want that? Why would I want to buy and sell access to some entry in a registry that ultimately means nothing?
I partially agree with this. But then why all the bullshit? Why don’t people just come out and say that it’s all about in-game items for the metaverse rather than all the talk about owning media?

Nothing suggests that existing NFTs will be relevant in that world even if the technology is.

It’s also not obvious that a distributed ledger has an advantage over a centralized one.
It sounds like we have very similar beliefs. I think the FSF should acknowledge that microcode updates and such are odious but tolerable moral compromises and that we should continue to work for a future where we have complete freedom to modify, repair, and otherwise use our machines as we see fit.

However, for fun, I'm going to do my best to steelman the FSF position: The use of non-free software when no free alternative exists is tolerable. The material difference between firmware that comes with the hardware or microcode that comes with the CPU versus a downloadable update is that the update is voluntary, and thus involves a willful violation of the principle of freedom. By doing so one becomes actively complicit in the erosion of freedom.

I also agree that they shouldn't be jerks on mailing lists and IRC, but have some empathy for persons that aren't so fortunate that they can eschew all non-free software.
Speaking of, can someone explain why the TSA security theater does not include body temperature measurement (or any other screening for COVID symptoms) nowadays? The whole airport situation is weird: mask enforcement in the environment where people can plausibly socially distance (airport terminal) is hardcore, yet when they are stuffed into a plane like sardines for hours without any distancing they can take the masks off to drink or eat. Or even sneeze, as the case may be. And _nobody_ screens for even the most obvious symptoms of infection. You can sneeze and cough your way straight to the plane flying a domestic flight, and infect everyone inside if you wanted to. They should run a "red team" to show that.
In that case you also probably think that everyone on HN who reads your post owes you compensation for your opinion on this matter, even though it was unasked for, you provided it for -your- own benefit, no terms were set and agreed to, and this isn't a context that normally is paid for.

In short, no.
I tried finding a comprehensive list of failed companies who named stadiums.
Found this article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2010/01/20/The-Stadium-Curse:-Naming-De...
Do you suppose that if someone’s hot apartment heats a neighbor, that likewise someone’s cold apartment cools a neighbor?

The neighbors have to spend more energy to maintain the temperature of their apartment because of this person not heating their own.

I could see an argument for theft.
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We don't have very good general intelligence.

What we have is a fairly loose mix of categorisers and recognisers, biochemical motivators and goal systems, some abstraction, and a lot of externally persistent cultural and social programming. (The extent and importance of which is wildly underestimated.)

The result is that virtually all humans can handle emotional recognition and display with speech and body language including facial manipulation/recognition. But this doesn't get you very far, except as a baseline for mutual recognition.

After that you get two narrowing pyramids of talent and trained ability. One starts with basic physical manipulation of concrete objects and peaks in the extreme abstraction of physics and math research. The other starts from social and emotional game playing, with a side order of resource control and acquisition. And peaks in the extreme game playing of political and economic systems.

So what's called AI is a very partial and limited attempt to start climbing one of those peaks. The other is being explored in covert collective form on social media. And it's far more dangerous than a hypothetical paperclip monster, because it can affect what we think, feel, and believe, not just what we can do.

The point is that it's a default assumption that the point of AI is to create something that is somehow recognisable as a human individual, no matter how remotely.

But it's far more likely to be a kind of collective presence which doesn't just lack a face, it won't be perceived as a presence or influence at all.
to bring it full circle and tear apart the original argument above, one could argue that the relatively simple laws of logic from philosophy give rise to all of digital computing (like... what is directly expressed in digital logic design). yet the emergent complexity of all computerdom is far beyond the complexity of the basic rules of logic coming from philosophy.

more to the point here, computer science and mathematics are very similar to philosophy in that authors invent a set of abstractions and then construct rules for how they interact in a self-consistent manner.
It's more like Maxima is a programming language. Its syntax is weird, archaic, and clunky, and different from anything else you've ever used for no reason except that it dates back to 1968, before C, before Pascal. Assignment uses ":", blocks of statements use "(" and ")", etc. Aside from the syntax, its features are mostly pretty basic and standard, and apart from mathematics quite limited.
PDP-11 was a bit heavier design, and while it started in 1970s, it was evolving and built with newer designs till 1990s at least (I think last manufactured units were late 1990s). 1801 line is curious in how it was single chip while the "original" LSI-11 was 2 chip at the time. Meanwhile 1801 was small enough that there are pocket calculators built on it, that a sufficiently deranged EE student can turn into Unix machine.
> Doesn't MMT just tell us that we should focus on inflation instead of The Deficit?

While this is roughly aligned with some of MMTs talking points, I don't think you can reduce MMT to just this. At a minimum these talking points have some other implications like:

1) Our current congress is capable of reigning in spending

- I strongly disagree that there is any political will power to do this regardless of inflation. The last time we ran a budget surplus was 2001. Interest payments + treasury spending + social security / medicare pay as you gos are currently 111% of all tax receipts. So even if we want to reduce spending it's not really clear how you do that without putting SS/ medicare payments on hold because the Federal government is running a deficit EVEN IF YOU ELIMINATE 100% OF DISCRETIONARY SPENDING FROM THE BUDGET. And that still implies that if you wanted to have just a decrease in the deficit you would have to spend less on defense which is never going to happen. Yeah you could cut veterans spending, transportation or education (probably not in reality) but it wouldn't matter, they are a margin of error of the deficit.

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts...

https://twitter.com/lukegromen/status/1359529371875356672

2) That the timeframes of tax policy decisions exist on the same time scale as would be necessary to use tax policy decisions to regulate inflation.

- This is the core fallacy of MMT, even much more so than point 1. Maybe congress can figure out how to reduce spending, maybe if for no other reason than spite by a congress controlled by a different party then the president.
But the idea that there is any feasible way to fine tune taxation to manage inflation on a fast enough timescale to be useful is beyond the pale. We get maybe one meaningful tax plan per president and even that is a battle every single time. so we are talking about maybe on average a meaningful change to tax policy every 6 years.

Yet how fast did inflation just jump? We went from a CPI of nothing to 5+ in a few months. Who is this magical bureaucrat who just jumps in and fine tunes the taxes to account for this? It simply does not exist and will not exist any time soon without a major political revolution in America.

But the problem is the policy is justified based on the idea that micromanaging velocity and money supply is possible but any time I've heard an MMTer questioned on this point, they openly admit that this part would need to be worked out when the times comes.

Anyway, no obligation to agree with me. But as I said, be sure you know what you're talking about if it's your own money on the line.
I've seen all the sentiments, but hadn't thought it was so divided between the BTC/ETH crowds. It's interesting!

(Of course generalizations are never 100% accurate, but they can highlight a theme which is interesting to observe)
Yea, I was really happy with it until recently.

my dog ate part of the interior. it needed a new mass air flow sensor and water pump this year and probably a new traction control unit before the winter gets bad.

its supercharged, so the transmission is being run into the ground. it's started to not shift correctly, so that's probably gonna be curtains once that goes.

but overall and extremely smooth ride and up until recently had quite the pickup.

I'd get another, but they really don't make them like this anymore. I believe the newest column shifter/boat type thing you can still get is a 2013 chevy impala with a nice trim package.

After that it's floor shifters and touch screens. very sad.
>I read this entire thread and wholeheartedly agree with marcan_42

and you are free to do that and i would not say that you are a part of marcan-worshipping-cult or following some dogma

>deceiving myself into believing it has been achieved by ignoring anything below a certain level

if you are stating that this is what FSF believes then you are in fact spreading a falsehood and fud. this is what marcan has been doing regarding FSF the whole time during this engagement

>Just because I choose to amputate my ability to update firmware does not mean a malicious party might not be able to do so. Anyone with physical access to hardware will still have that ability by using extra hardware. Handwaving the firmware away does not work against an evil maid attack.

Unless FSF is claiming that GNU Guix is secure by design, or is free from such attacks, this is just a strawman argument
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I don't know anything about Wolfram Language, but Stephen Diehl's "Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 2 (Term Rewriting)" [0] says it's based on a term rewriting system.

The blog post describes term rewriting systems using Wolfram Language in its examples.

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic02.html
The best way I can describe my project to you is the difference between owning a room and owning a picture of a room. You cannot enter the room, only see it from a static angle based on the picture.

This is the fundamental difference between what my project can do and what a static image does. My service does not interact with the PNG, it interacts with the space that my program generated, and took a picture of. The user can connect their wallet, select their art, and explore the "room" generated with it.

To do this in web2 infra, like I said, is a much more complicated problem and would involve probably non-user friendly DRM. It's simply a different technology, and really if you don't understand it I hope there are more projects out there that come out in the next year that change your mind.

You can write off my project as a get rich quick scheme, but that is from a point of ignorance from someone that probably hasn't tried to create something on their own and market it. I'm creating a project, charging a very reasonable price, for interactive art. I don't really care about your opinion on if you think I'm trying to make money for providing a product.
> What makes the iTunes MP3 marketplace valuable? What makes the Amazon Kindle text file marketplace valuable?

The law. Copyright law makes acquiring these works via other means slightly more difficult. Like NFTs they are just a failed attempt to force artificial scarcity into a post-scarcity space.

> Why does itunes and Kindle not bother you?

They do, but they don't have scammers constantly trying to sell their shit as some kind of revolutionary new future you have to get in on before you get left behind!!1!

> Does the convention and reputation-based open source nature of Web3 disturb you?

What disturbs me is the shift from people viewing artificial scarcity as a desperate grasping at straws from people who can't deal with information post-scarcity to people touting artificial scarcity as the glorious technological future.
Thank you for posting this article. I'm in charge of the electronics package of a Formula SAE team, and our wiring harnesses follow many of the practices found in this guide. I personally have been astounded by the fact that many of the assumptions we make with hobbyist-grade electronics go out the window when designing for motorsports. You can expect to find that at some point, water/fuel/oil/brake fluid will fall on your wiring. Seemingly sturdy connections will only misbehave under specific conditions such as high-speed cornering, making them difficult to debug.

Another thing I've also found shocking is how quickly the expenses can rack up. The Deutsch Autosport connectors listed in the article almost universally start at around $30-40 per connector. Heatshrink products are also very pricey, with the additional downside that if you make a mistake in the manufacturing process there is no way to re-use them once they've been cut off.
> reading the full excerpt seems to put the reason for rejecting 6300 onto Errata 734

Well there are two reasons. The first is Errata 734, and the second is that the fix for Errata 734 requires loading different microcode than what was baked into the processor at manufacturing time ("6300 series CPUs have buggy microcode built-in, and libreboot recommends avoiding the updates"). I didn't mention Errata 734, because I'm focused on the second reason.

Working back from their reasoning, Errata 734 seemingly does not apply to the 6200 series.
"EU’s Margrethe Vestager Confirms That Google’s Planned Removal Of Third-Party Cookies Is An Antitrust Concern" https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/eus-margrethe-vestager-c...

seems like google cant win
There's an old episode of the Simpsons (can't remember which), but something is wrong and Moe's Tavern is suddenly filled with noxious fumes. Barney inhales it and starts getting loopy, and Moe says something to effect of: "Hey, hey, I'm gonna have to start charging if you guys are getting high off this stuff!"
He was wrong then and now, but the crucial speedup of Mathematica vs Maxima was difference in modeling of data and how Mathematica could piggy back on fortran libraries for numerical solving, while Maxima focused on symbolic solving.

This meant that for many cases where numerical method was beneficial, Mathematica easily won on speed.
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Perhaps you could give an example by defining “matter” or “reality” or whatever you believe is the underlying territory?

(Without circular definitions or those involving consciousness, of course.)
I agree with this, I've seen it repeatedly. There has got to be a term for people who aren't aware of how they are suffering yet still say everything is fine. The only term I can come up with is "complicit in their own oppression." :)
Scroll about 1/3 of the way down - there is a picture of a guy in full cycling spandex, waiting for a giraffe to clear the road. It's such a huge juxtaposition - modernity ancient, urban and rural.

Just took my breath away.
kind of weird to see this posted -- it's not a release announcement. Just some change notes from trunk (you can see on the page it's still versioned 2.5)

It does look like they've added a few nice little features (i wonder if per listen options means we'd be able to listen on a unix socket?)
Perhaps they could be united in some way for defense while preserving localised governance.