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> It's interesting you pointed out that Facebook is evil, but by default, a carbon capture company couldn't possibly be evil "at all".

The key word I used was "particularly" -- meaning that it doesn't stand out among any evil things a company might do. Nothing in particular about its product is evil. It's essentially an air-cleaning company.

> Does a company's product or service determine whether they're evil or not evil?

Yes, of course. It isn't the only factor, but it is obviously a factor.

> What if the carbon capture tech company builds something great for the environment, but has dependencies on a supplier that uses exploited labor in the developing world? What if that same carbon capture company has a "significant" wage gap between the average employee and the executive level?

I think you're getting really stuck on the trivial, hypothetical example I gave. Any company in any industry can be evil.

You are absolutely washing away all these shades of gray by saying this discussion isn't productive. All companies are a little bit evil, but there are distinctions that matter.

And no one is trying to tell you or anyone else what morals to apply to companies. I'm only taking issue with you wasting the time to tell everyone else here that they're wasting their time. If you're so bogged down by the subjective issues here, fine! Lots of people are. Just move on and don't try to shut other people down.
While I understand your reaction, I wasn't really diminishing anything. The OP I was responding to was saying other languages should do generics like Zig, and I basically just replied that other languages have done it that way (or rather, that Zig did it their way), and also pointed out some common pitfalls.

Zig may of course have found a better set of tradeoffs to make this feature more ergonomic, but I think this is more due to comptime than generics specifically. comptime would restrict the expressiveness that would normally lead to undecidability when reifying types as values, if I understand its semantics correctly.
depends on the phone
This weirdly works in some other places. Iirc one of the Amazon's seller login pages accepts the 2FA code appended to the password to avoid having to go through another page.
Yeah this is a backwards way to think about things. The vast majority of "deals" that I do on the buy side are done with significantly less friction than even email, and I place a high premium on that convenience. If every newsletter I subscribed to required a phone call to close the deal with me, none of them would have my business.
Natural Intelligence -> Natural Selection

Artificial Intelligence -> Artificial Selection?
> I can’t say this is really productive.

This is equivalent to saying, "All companies are evil; everything is subjective; let's just give up."

It may not be what the commenter intended, but that's what comes across.
The problem is there is a research bottleneck with inadequate development of existing ideas, and relatedly a coordination problem where there aren't enough "rich artists" who want to get rid of accidentally complexity simply because it is the beautiful and correct thing to do. Stuff like Linux us funded by marginalist types who too often just chase after the current paper cut, and miss the forest for the trees.

At this point, we can't switch hole hog to a new OS very well. But as I argued in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697474 I think we should dump a bunch of funding getting CloudABI or something like it (WASI with WASM, don't care what it's called) over the finish line in multiple OSes.

I argue this is a very "non-reformist reform"

- Easy to incrementally adopt e.g. for socket-activated services

- Nonetheless narrows gap between Unix and cool stuff like Fuschia/seL4 and WASM's future plans

- Narrower syscall API that isn't just legacy lowest common denominator will allow multiple implementations of the same interface, which in turn will "unstuck" the whole R&D life cycle:

-- Narrow interface means research experiments can better run real programs

-- Research experiemnts can show better promise, especially to "practitioners"

-- Developing research projects into production systems is cheaper less of a jump

This will restore the much needed "fluidity" where there is a continuum between research protypes and production systems, and multiple competing production systems.

----

The good news is that "library OS" type designs are finally kinda going mainstream on the research end of things. Going back to "competition" bucking the current winner take all trend (LLVM > GCC, Linux > other unix) will be prohibitively expensive unless we start reusing code.
not truly powered off then
I entirely agree. But OSS maintainers could have product vision too. We just need the right incentives, like better business models.
Yeah, I agree. Appreciating = great.

I would certainly hope that there is fairly large and self-evident gulf between appreciating and fetishizing.
Elon Musk criticised after China space complaint to UN
I guess we can at least take shallow pleasure in the irony of an article entitled "How To Think" written with the style and substance of LinkedIn Spam.
Cannabis sativa

https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/223/rec/2...
I understand this viewpoint, but some counter points:

1. We originally tried raising money for this from VCs/angels, and got turned down by everyone. We also tried partnering with other headset manufacturers to help us put Simula on their headsets, and also got turned down/ignored by...everyone. So Kickstarter has allowed us to go direct to consumers to help fund it, which is a pretty cool use of the platform.

2. We're actually going to ship our headsets, leaving an extremely clear paper trail of weekly updates behind us for the duration of the whole project.

I know, I know..you can't actually know this for sure just by me claiming it. But basically: we have been working on Simula for years, putting in tons and tons of sweat to get the stable Linux VR compositor we have now. Also: our software is already testable right now on older headsets like the Valve Index and HTC Vive Pro (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula). We've staked our reputations and life's work into this, and are not going to let it go to waste by failing to ship our headsets.

With that said, our upcoming Kickstarter is only the first step in this process. We already have plans for a second headset iteration after this one, which we will start working on after these ship. If you wait for that iteration, you'll have the proof of us shipping the first one, and won't have to wait as long for us to bootstrap the manufacturing process on top of a pre-order campaign =]
This phenomenon is quite old. I still remember early 2000s craze with payed ringtones and text chats and what not that no tehchie would ever use
It was exactly the same in the original game, that what made it difficult to play back in the days
That’s a great question. One idea would be for Alice to generate a machine-checkable proof of her claim (e.g. in Coq or something). Instead of playing the typical game where she distinguishes graphs, we just do a secure two-party computation to check the proof, where Alice’s public input is the claim, and her private input is the proof.
The entire medical R&D field seems to have the world's flattest bell curve. Half the people you meet would sell old ladies allergy pills that make you go blind for $500 a pop and the other half would rather have ten thousand pancreatic cancer patients die in screaming agony than risk ten percent of them developing restless leg syndrome.
That, or the meme just rubbed them the wrong way. Jokes are often down-voted.
Yes, I have all three:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kstenerud/

https://github.com/kstenerud/

https://www.technicalsourcery.net/
Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters
Can you add action buttons? The directional buttons were easy enough to infer, but not sure what other types of input are possible. (I’m on mobile)
What crashes are you getting? If you post an issue in our Github Issues or Discord, we can help out.
Already has happened. Microsoft had to take it's chat AI offline a few years ago because it became a racist asshole almost instantly.
Could SpaceX say, “if you put your satellite up with us, you can use this nifty, cheap module to link up with Starlink satellites in orbit, then we’ll forward your data directly to your terminal; no need for any radio permitting.”

?
I always posted the job location, compensation range, and essential requirements.
The federal government had super strict emission laws for vehicles starting in the 70s. This was before computers were cheap and reliable enough to stick in average vehicles, so the way automotive engineers got it to work was to have vacuum lines to send signals to the carburetor and distributor. They probably could've done it with analog electronics, but you already have a free source of vacuum (the intake manifold), and there isn't an simple way to convert an analog voltage to a linear position, while you can do that with a diaphragm and vacuum.

For a good example, any American V8.
Isn't this just another way of saying that working for a mediocre company isn't a negative signal unless you stay there a long time?
Instead, I merely think that my interlocutor has perhaps not fully considered what negligence means, in this particular very complex context, and what it might take to fully avoid being judged as being "negligent", and how truly difficult that is.

I think I have given my interlocutor a fair shake. Perhaps you do not. I respect that.
I’d like it better if those were the only things it ever did.
I don't think top level comments should be jokes that don't contribute anything meaningful.
No, it is not people who can't interact with a human being for 20 minutes, but with tens of them. If it were an agent / talent model, where it is a somewhat large amount of interaction with a single individual, that would be one thing. But interactively sharing the same information with 20 different recruiters is just a waste of time that has nothing to do with an inability to be bothered to interact with people.
Incredibly hard to play on a phone. The fact that swipes on a screen actually does something is impressive nonetheless.
Doing a self breast exam also has a much higher rate of false positives than real positives.
Are there details about this? I've read that nvidia drivers would actually patch game code by replacing functions at runtime.
Tap on the screen at diagonals. It’s location context aware.
The university I went to still had a modem bank around 2007. Pretty wild.
"High" and "low" are relative adjectives. The meaning of "high-level language" has changed. C was considered a high-level language, and it is now considered a low-level language. Not by everyone, of course. There are still a pair of definitions for "high-level language" and "low-level language" that draw the line right above assembly. I won't say "nobody" uses those definitions anymore; lots of people learned them and many still use them. I will say that it is pointless to act as if those are the only definitions of the terms anymore.
It doesn’t know what it’s doing, but I wouldn’t say that’s related to the terminology. Today’s AI is infinitely more capable than what was called AI in the 1960s, and if hypothetically we manage to create a true general intelligence someday, there’s no reason to think that won’t also be called AI.
My printer makes unexpected noise once every 2 or 3 weeks -_-'
That is all cool, but the issue here is, "the de facto standard technology stack is ossifying upward", as nicely put in http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/

I think person is now, in fact, getting paid to redo the firmware as desired, but while commonplace firmware might be uniquely disgusting, the bigger monoliths with even less competition are still the operating systems. Something still needs to be done there.
Clothes dryers - please elaborate. Why are they dangerous? (serious question)
What region or city?
If you click on your username in the upper right hand corner, there should be a "showdead:" option that you can set to "yes" in order to see these posts.
We're taking both comfort and heat management into account for Simula's design (note also: the compute pack driving our headset is detachable). We are planning on writing a blog post about this at some point in the coming weeks.

With that said, we will definitely look back in 5-10 years in horror at how large and bulky our VR headsets were. Keeping weight down will be a critical factor in driving up "all-day" usage from knowledge workers.
Right, this makes sense for the person doing the selling. And it's why it makes sense to have a strong bias against people treating one's career as a sales engagement.
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I suppose it wasn't fixed...
Owned an ISP. When we started we used USR Sportsters at 28.8k then flashed these up to support 33.6k. They were hooked up to Portmaster 2's.

As we went digital we used PM3's. I saw some 53k connections but it wasn't very common. Most common was 48k to 50k.

The PM2's were an amazing machine. We never had an issue with them in years of service. The PM3's were buggy until the later years. Eventually the firmware got good and they were very reliable. Rocky start though.
Morality is orthogonal to religion.
I thought so too, but then I started keeping a diary. I also stopped, as the past 20 months really have been extraordinarily busy.

Anyway, if you write stuff down, it turns out you mostly just forget most of what you did, and tend to misremember or mix up times and dates.

tl;dr - you're probably more awesome than you remember.
Is Tesla actively marketing FSD as AI?
40-70% efficacy is basically as good as the yearly flu shot. My point being is Covid is going to wind up being endemic and we just need to control it to a point where deaths, transmission and strain on healthcare are comparable to the flu -- we can't go on with our lives on pause forever. We'll get our shots every 6mo to a year and plan around it and influenza on the medical side. Exterminating this before we return to 'normal' is starting to look ridiculous to me and I was someone who locked down pretty tightly over the last two years.
If a large deal ($25,000+), this is only the case with the largest tech companies (most customers would order $25k of Apple products online but not buy new expense management software without a call).
Do you have any stats on that? How are those disease frequencies compared to 2019?

I found this page, which suggests a relatively normal flu season so far: https://www.icuregswe.org/en/about-sir/nyheter/influensasaso...

I don't see any cold data. Though I found a chart for australia: https://www.iqvia.com/-/media/iqvia/images/body/blogs/2021/1...
I mean I get what you're saying as an as-long-as internet user, but that's a bit like saying "I know how unsafe cars are so that's why I don't have one"
We don't have final numbers for our weight, but will make an announcement when we do. (Note our compute pack is detachable though, which can help mitigate weight.)

Agreed RE neck pain though. Our goal is to make a VR Computer (VRC) so good that it completely replaces laptops/PCs, but we can't do that if the headset is too heavy.
Yes but those are small deals. Most people will not buy a car or a house this way, although that is changing slowly.
no idea but I would be glad if they stopped marketing their 'FSD' as FSD because it deserves that label about as much as Alexa deserves to be called intelligent (of whatever kind)
Those hemispherectomies were done on children.

Strokes or head traumas can produce very specific loss of abilities in adults.

I am not quite sure why this is being "debunked" now. Perhaps in part as status jockeying, i.e. "I'm ahead of the curve and not stuck with knowledge that was en vogue 10 years ago and all the Discovery-watching plebs has internalized" and in part a strange new dualistic movement that seeks to mystify the brain for some reason, perhaps in service of blank slatism.
Only by storing (a hash of the) previous state client-side and comparing with the audit log for the current state, i believe.
Meme'ish but an interesting comment. There's a nice essay in that.
The Quest doesn't support Linux, so we had to make our own headset.
Your assertion was that GP's statement is not beyond all doubt because Jesus only manifested to a small group of people. [1]

I don't think your reason for your assertion is valid. Jesus only manifesting to a relatively (relative to all of humanity) small group of people doesn't invalidate or cast doubt on anything.

You might have other reasons for doubting His divinity, but I don't think the one you've professed is a good one.

[1] "Beyond all doubt" is doubtful since, taking your assertions for granted, he only manifested himself to an infinitesimally small cross-section of humanity.
> an Ivy League humanities prof

...whose most popular professional contribution appears to be lamenting his own irrelevance from the comfort of an ivory tower with an endowment whose safe withdrawal rate is larger than many country's GDPs.

> STEM thinking doesn’t carry over well to social systems

1. Apparently is does. Otherwise the newspapers full of humanities folks would've won the advertising wars.

2. What the hell is "STEM thinking"?

2a. Is Philosophy "STEM thinking? OP mentioned philosophy, right? Although I can't pretend surprise at the notion that ignoring 1 of 2 examples counts as close reading these days in humanities departments.

2b. Is Geometry "STEM thinking"? Geometry has certainly been included in the western definition of liberal art for longer than Economics has been a science. Or a field. Or a word.

2c. Are esoteric prognostications on the nature of transubstantiation "STEM thinking"? What about (other) extremist propaganda that flames religious violence (today instead of far long ago)?

> Hayek

Even hard core leftist scientists would probably agree with Hayek's critique of the social sciences, none of which fall under the STEM umbrella.

Also, have fun with the ensuing flame war this is sure to trigger.

My contribution: Hayek always struck me as a very crisp thinker, but in terms of intent more of a high brow propagandist than a public intellectual. The Google ad engineers don't really give a shit about how you perceive various humidifiers, but do sincerely want you to click the ad. Hayek was the google ad engineer of his age, and was quite good at his job. Which isn't to say he didn't care. He did care. A lot. He was just a bit of a tool. But, crisp thinker. Good tool. Comfy life from it, too, and well-deserved. No judgement here.
Volume buttons please.
Systems research has become like orthodox economics, doing various marginal empirics but missing the bigger more qualative macro picture.

Maybe the megacorp that is going to hire you wants to see some benchmarks improved, but frankly, that's not what the world needs, or even what would best benefit the megacorp?

Economics at least has its uncooth grandfather in Political Economy. Computer systems needs to discover it's equivalent, something that is not afraid to go full qualitative and tackle the daemon of accidental complexity head on. There is still great work to be done auditing "supply chains" in dependencies and bootstraps, characterizing bad abstractions and proposing better ones, etc. etc. Per what I wrote the top level comment about capabilities, I think this work can be "practical" in offering realistic incremental improvements and not just more baleful essays like this one, too.
Indeed it's not. Its purpose is control and extending copyright law way beyond its indented use by making breaking DRM itself illegal and then slapping DRM on anything that requires that control.
This isn't "a deal", it's a job that someone will spend a huge portion of their time doing for multiple years. Thinking of it like selling a car is exactly why the approach is so problematic.
I've been ordering from Jet Pens for about a decade now.

Best selection of Japanese fountain pens, fantastic notebooks, always a great experience.

Solid article, and glad to see them on the front page of HN.
Nice! One thing we forgot to mention is that the IPD adjustment is per-eye, which is helpful on faces which have non-symmetric IPD measurements (like mine..).
The Geography of IQ
I just spent the last five minutes playing this with a huge grin on my face. Thanks for the quick trip down nostalgia lane.
Well, we could argue till the cows come home about what things kids should or should not be exposed to, but the guy I was replying to suggested you should have just educated your children to know what things to believe or not believe, which doesn't work under a certain age.
i just tried it on mobile and i am very impressed.

the movement controls are very intuitive. they don't hit accurately but they work in an intuitive way. i tapped the four directions and four quadrants of the play screen. and the character responded as i expected.

i am with you though. i have no idea how i will use the sword when i get it.
Most of that cleverness requires generics + something else, usually some kind of subtyping. This is the case at least for Java, Haskell, Scala and Rust. Generics alone typically do not admit Turing complete expressions.

In Zig and dependently typed languages where types are ordinary values, you typically have the regular looping/recursion available, and so Turing completeness follows naturally unless you take steps to mitigate this. Zig makes a hard distinction between runtime and comptime which might solve this, and dependently typed languages have termination checkers which extend this sort of distinction in more flexible ways.
I mean, regular old intelligence was used to create the original message that this artificial intelligence then repeated.

Also, if people are worried that a person would fall for this challenge, then clearly intelligence doesn't always catch this misinformation.

So since both regular intelligence and artificial intelligence can be fooled by this, I don't see how you can determine that artificial intelligence doesn't know what it is doing any more than regular intelligence also doesn't know what it is doing.
https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.intell.2008.01.004
Hmmm... That piqued my interest.

So, the next best thing is to get one, hack it, whatever. Beyond that, making one.
It's artificial but not intelligent. AI doesn't exist. Alexa is a glorified text-to-speech and NLP engine.
I'm guessing fire risk - https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-too...
I come here to get my tech news fix. Instead, I am getting thanatophobia reading about how so and so died.
More like a senior Japanese car mechanic saying they've seen 25 years of companies building stuff that breaks where it shouldn't, or is impossibly compact to service without hauling the whole engine out of the car. Sort of like a small Audi repair process: step 1) remove car
Very well-said.

I certainly do not mean that Japan is "just a place" in the sense that the nasty, slightly unkempt area behind my garage is "just a place." Japan is the sum of thousands of years of culture and achievement. I truly marvel at many things about Japan.

I did my best (in my admittedly hurried and casual post) to be clear that fetishization is what was to be avoided, and not appreciation.

Often, particularly in the 90s/2000s, one would see Japan fetishized as some sort of magical place of technical advancements, weirdo tentacle porn, cute and submissive women, etc. That sucked for a number of reasons too obvious to type out. That's the sort of thing of which I'm dismissive, not the sort of informed and genuine appreciation you expressed.
Ambitious smart ring hopes to one day monitor chronic illnesses
I bet that is confirmation bias. You probably don't notice all the times it gets it right, but really notice when it gets it wrong.