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>Then what?

Growing tomatoes is less efficient than buying them, regardless of your metric. If you just want really cleanly grown tomatoes, you can buy those. If you want cheap tomatoes, you can buy those. If you want big tomatoes, you can buy those.

And yet individual people still grow tomatoes. Zillions of them. Why? Because we are inherently over-evolved apes who like sweet juicy fruits. The key to being a successful human in the post-scarcity AI overlord age is to embrace your inner ape and just do what makes you happy, no matter how simple it is.

The real insight out of all this is that the above advice is also valid even if there are no AI overlords.
Yes, clearly the iPhone was just an IBM Simon[1] with a "bit more polish". Probably took just one or two weeks of engineering effort. Unclear why the IBM sold 50k and the iPhone sold 6M, perhaps just due to marketing budget?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM%27s_SweetSpot_sm...
Rado from Slovakistan is certainly not a conman. https://www.tachyum.com/company/board-of-directors/

Sims, ok, fpga, ok, but the Elbrus part not.
I have no cultural or genetic connection to England or western Europe outside of growing up in an English speaking country. Might have helped that I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a child though!
CEO jobs aren't plenty like standard SWE jobs.

CEOs typically don't apply for jobs, they can't walk into a company's Career page an apply as a CEO; they are headhunted by specialized headhunter.

Yes, CEO is desperate to keep their job because if they were to let go, they won't score a much higher profile job than their current; they'd be gone to a lower rank companies bidding their luck.
Oh wow – I remember battle chess! I played it as a kid and loved it. Thanks for sharing this.
Wait till you find out all of physics is just linear operators & complex numbers
Related:

Beautiful Racket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17033533 - May 2018 (53 comments)

Beautiful Racket v1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13881535 - March 2017 (58 comments)

Beautiful Racket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11220237 - March 2016 (53 comments)
I reckon that'd be because it isn't relevant to the topic at all. I'd say most things that advertise written in Rust is because it's a valid upside, not all but definitely most.
Even if Musk wouldn't fire him immediately Musk's management style likely will be quite involved and no fun if you don't align with Musk's goals and ideas.
Linus' law being, if something can be dropped it will be dropped?

(This is a joke)
You're assuming it can get any worse than it already is
> Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E54uAhMBA1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q_d-rfzZPM

Note that the 1st video is from 2010.
> If there's no supported mechanism for how acupuncture works, it's really not a good sign

Acupuncture works as well as sham acupuncture (inserting needles at non-acupuncture locations). Which suggests to me that acupuncture works on the same basic principle that your doctor giving you sugar pills with a fancy name and strict instructions to take one every four hours with a glass of water works.

> I think back to how much "data" we had in the 50s that tobacco was harmless.

We had pretty good evidence it was bad for you, especially during pregnancy. This is maybe a better example for talking about peer review and conflicts of interest - which is still a real problem.

We can never say "is dangerous" or "is not dangerous". What we can say is X esposure leads to Y harm. Water in sufficient quantities will kill you.

Acupuncture, in a sterile environment, is pretty safe. We also know that skin deep needle penetration is pretty safe given that lots of people get tattoos. It still requires hygiene, but it is a safe activity.

I'm totally sympathetic to "we should be doing health inspections of acupuncture, like we do tattoo shops". I think some areas already do this. It's probably a good idea.
> 3. According to the article, at least one submillimeter telescope was important. But submillimeter is infrared, isn't it? I thought infrared was blocked by dust, and if there's one thing there's a lot of at the centre of the galaxy, it's dust?

It's the opposite actually! Infrared light is able to go through dust.

> Another reason [to look at the universe in the infrared] is because stars and planets form in clouds of gas and dust, and this dust obscures our view. Infrared light penetrates these clouds and allows us to see inside.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/webb-conversations-its-...
And what do you think an operating system is?

It doesn't need to run on hardware, as most Linux-based OSes run on hypervisors. It doesn't need to have multitasking, since DOS is clearly an OS. I would say it's just something that runs apps.
I’m Canadian, they seized bank accounts and used emergency laws to crush protesters.

Democracy is already crumbling.

And American has the NSA!
I absolutely agree. It's just that, if Putin has these unrealistic ideas of what threatens Russia (like an independent Ukraine), and Putin has stated that Russia can use nukes if it is threatened, and Putin is the one who gets to make the call about whether Russia is threatened enough to use nukes... then I really don't like that one man, disconnected from reality, can start a nuclear war.
> There is so much propaganda in this war it's borderline impossible to get anything but a cloudy view on things.

No, this is incorrect. You can definitely get a pretty good picture. Saying that “you can only get a cloudy view” is a common Russian propaganda tactic aiming to neutralize the target.
> when it was clear it would never be a currency

But it IS a currency.. It is uses for daily payments and legally considered a currency in multiple countries today. I fully expect that list to balloon up over time.

You're talking about USA in 2022 and not the rest of the world or the future.
It remains to be asked, just why this causal, counterfactual, logical reasoning cannot emerge in a sufficiently scaled-up model trained on a sufficiently diverse real world data?

As far as we see, the https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis continues to hold, and critics have to move their goalposts every year or two.
Just make all the benefits universal, so they never go down no matter your income. This is the right solution mathematically. Politically though it's divisive because it also makes the programs harder to repeal in the future.
twitter is the successor of irc, it's one giant channel with a firehose of information. in the same way #yourfavtopic on your fav $irc_server, community can be the point or the problem
The gold window is closed.
In that case, maybe Python should just directly transpile to FORTRAN and save some C bridges? Python's syntax does resemble FORTRAN some days.
The statement that "this work is very carefully designed not to break multithreaded code" is difficult to reconcile with some of the ways it potentially breaks multithreaded code that are explicitly called out down in the "compatibility" section.

In particular, the design document's observation that "some C API extensions need modifications to protect global data structures that were previously protected by the GIL" serves as a direct confirmation that this change was not able to avoid breaking at least some multithreaded code that relies on the GIL to provide thread safety.
I spent a lot of time with a Pixel 3, and I'm happy with my Pixel 5A. The latter has a headphone jack; the former doesn't.

With my Pixel 3, I replaced the fancy headphones several times, at a cost of about $30. I really did like the Google-brand headphones (they stay in very well while running), and I didn't find it inconvenient to be unable to charge while listening.

But I really like being able to use very cheap earbuds. They break or get lost, I buy more. And they're available anywhere, while the USB-C ones are a specialty item.

I also use the USB-C port a lot, when I'm driving, and that works really well. I never did find a set of bluetooth earbuds that worked well enough when I was running.
wages are moving up at levels that are unsustainably high and not consistent with low inflation

Oh, good to know. Housing prices in my corner of the nation (Western MA) are completely unaligned with wages, and no raise in sight. But Powell is correct, there is too much money chasing too little stuff. The current state of affairs is a demand-pull, which would requite competent industrial policy. So - no end in sight for the misery.
Conflating two wildly different things seems like it should be a formal fallacy. “I don’t go out without an umbrella because of the risk of it raining or an asteroid wiping out my town.” for example.

Car drivers kill thousands of people walking on the street every year. Kidnappers don’t.
This follows the official line on who did what when, in ancient Egypt.

A good series on YouTube channel Uncharted explores cracks in that line.

IIRC Khafre, who gets credit for making the Sphinx, left a stela leaning on it boasting of his repair work on it. The water erosion evident in the walls around it is inconsistent with the official age.

The author strangely describes the pyramids as crypts, when no evidence suggesting interment in them has ever been found. Was the word "cenotaph" (a deliberately empty crypt) invented specifically for the pyramids?
Same reason why there's a "gay island" I guess?
So you think people should starve rather than use bitcoin?

What about using it to support democracy in Russia? https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/navalny-ally-urges-dono...
for example

select id, count(...something complicated) as complicated_count
from ....
order by complicated_count

would help
Sleep isn’t any different than it used to be.

“pmset -g assertions” will show you why it thinks it’s awake, it could be a silent video playing in a web browser or something. (and of course, if you can ssh in to run that it must be awake.)
yeah, makes sense since so much anime content (or at least, a signifigant proportion more compared to western animation) already includes pretty explicit content. The line between something like Kill La Kill and kill la kill R34 is already razor thin.

part of it is also community. From a quick glance I recognize that r/hentai is in anime island instead of R34. But the moderation of r/hentai has (or used to have) many moderators from other anime subs, and some regular posters will alternate between r/hentai, r/manga, or r/animemes. That can play a part in which communities decide to form and comingle.
I know that there are a lot of very lightweight niche distros out there.

But the majority of them are very niche, quite obscure, and often don't live long, or splinter and factionate.

I know that it doesn't _have_ to be like this.

But Linux is most definitely not a model of lean mean software design, and it _can't_ be.

Among my favourite OSes that I've used as my primary platform at various points in the past are...

• Acorn RISC OS (fast, productive, GUI multitasking on an 8MHz ARM3 with 1MB of RAM and a 20MB hard disk)

• Psion EPOC16 (rock solid stable multitasking keyboard-driven GUI OS on an 8086 wirth 128 kB of total system storage in early machines)

• Psion EPOC32, AKA Symbian (again, very solid Internet-capable touchscreen GUI on a 16MHz ARM with 4MB of total storage

• OS/2 2.0 (pre-emptive multitasking PC OS, usable on a 25MHz 386SX in 4MB of RAM)

• BeOS 5 (gorgeous rich media OS, fast and stable on kit like a 133MHz Pentium in 128MB)

In the UNIX family, I'd point at Plan 9, Inferno, and Minix 3 as OSes far lighter and yet richer and more capable than Linux.
I don't think it's necessarily about consciousness per se, but rather about emotions or "irrationality".

Life has no purpose so clearly there is no rational reason to continue living/existing. A super-rational agent must know this.

I think that intelligence and emotions, in particular fear of death or desire to continue living, must evolve in parallel.
>"try to imagine superintelligence but without consciousness."

The only thing that comes to mind is how many different things come to mind to people when the term "superintelligence" is used.

The thing about this imagination process, however, is that what people produce is a "bag of capacities" without a clear means to implement those capacities. Those capacities would be "beyond human" but in what direction probably depends on the last movie someone watched or something similarly arbitrary 'cause it certainly doesn't depend on their knowledge of a machine that could be "superintelligent", 'cause none of us have such knowledge (even if this machine could go to "superintelligence", even our deepmind researchers don't know the path now 'cause these are being constructed as a huge collection of heuristics and what happens "under the hood" is mysterious to even the drivers here).

Notably, a lot of imagined "superintelligences" can supposedly predict or control X, Y or Z thing in reality. The problem with such hypotheticals is that various things may not be much more easily predictable by an "intelligence" than by us simply because such prediction involves imperfect information.

And that's not even touch how many things go by the name "consciousness".
> I'm very much in favor of prolonged human existence.

Serious question - why?
The other day I was walking my dog and saw a pack of kids on a walk from their daycare, and I thought my friend's kid might be among them.

I slowed down and started looking through the kids, till the proctor(?) woman noticed, at which point I said my friend's kid goes to your daycare and then we found him in the group and introduced ourselves, joked around a bit with her, and I took some pics of his kid to show my friend, said goodbye, and went home.
Not familiar with Zig but doesn’t colourblindness lose you control over the binding points of the computation? This can be key for optimisation.
Good catch! I got it twisted around.

I always struggle with a free tier. Most people never upgrade but some still need customer support. As an indie dev this takes too much time :/

That’s why I offer 7 day money back guarantee at the moment.

Any idea how I can bridge the gap?
That's not true. MS-DOS and Amiga supported ANSI escape sequences, I remember that very clearly. Through MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2 would have had some form of support available. No clue about the ST
When I read the headline, there was no doubt in my mind that it was a man. I'm quite surprised, too. I guess the over-protectiveness has just continued advancing. Not a huge surprise.
It’s a useful skill. Anyway, you don’t actually need a second hand to get sub minute precision as a minute hand should be continually sweeping through the range.

Which is why people in the thread are talking about the feel of time. You can get an intuitive feel of how much you need to speed up etc.
A fast-charging phone is to a standard USB port as a space heater is to a standard wall socket.
Alternatively, they could cease to become landlords, by ceding the properties to someone who will actually rent out the units, or buy it and actually live there.

Obviously 1M/day is ridiculous, but even in that obscene case there are conceivably financial institutions that would be willing to take the real estate off your hands - or you can gift it to the federal government, which can sell it to someone who actually wants to live there rather than contribute to the constriction of supply.
Realistically, I'll go where the conversation is happening. I mostly use Twitter to follow municipal politics and YIMBY activists in my city and province.

I also follow a bunch of artists and creatives see their work.

So I'll stay as long as that continues.

But a shitload of those creatives I follow are trans. More, now that a lot of them took the dead times of COVID shutdowns as an opportunity to transition in private. And if Twitter abandons its policy of blocking users that engage in hate-speech, I think a lot of those trans artists will be exiting the platform.
We've tried that - assholes are determined. As I said - if not crypto, it would be something else. Beanie babies, pokemon cards, ocean front property in Arizona, etc
Supporting 802.11g means scans are send at 1Mbit. 802.11a bumps it to 6Mb/s, so not much better. This means that every time you want to send a beacon you have a pause equal to the duration it takes to send a packed at 1-6Mbit, not to mention scanning all the channels.
America changed after Iraq war and 9/11 - the US administration found it useful to keep their population in fear to achieve their goals in foreign soils without criticism. Fresh immigrants to the US are trained by the media and system to fear the police and never confront them (the police can shoot you) and not deviate from American culture and rules (the system can snatch your kids away from you, the system can deny access to your resources using forfeiture laws). Policing and searching in school (now allowed because of the school shooting) psychologically teaches kids (especially those of immigrants) to fear and listen to the police / authority.

Osama may be dead, but the erosion of rights that US has seen because of 9/11 did strike a big blow to US democracy and he partly achieved his goals.
You’re damn right. My answer was completely out of line. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31358958

> Bit of a pet peeve to me -- the older people get, the faster people will jump to say that they shouldn't do something new. Not that you were necessarily saying that, but it happens quite often.

I am also old and I am always trying things that take me out of my comfort zone. My answer was specifically meant for someone who wanted to be on track to work as a programming professional (which was nowhere near what OP mentioned). Age had nothing to do with my answer, by the way.
I still use my Pebble Time; I can't understand why you'd buy a watch with a battery that lasts less than a week.

(I've had people tell me that you just put an apple watch on the charger overnight. Then why does it have a sleep tracker app that requires the watch to be on your wrist?)
Communications with others are expressed as a written or spoken number. But then calculations with that number (eg. "how long do I have?") have to be done with arithmetic. It's fairly rare that I wear a watch, but when I do, such as at a conference or similar, I prefer an analogue face. In this kind of case I prefer to visualise the time on the clock face. Then I can "see" the time remaining without doing arithmetic.

> If the latter, why does skipping that extra conversion step by using a digital watch feel worse from your perspective?

I'm quite capable of doing it either way, but my preference is to do the single required conversion to "analogue" so that repeated comparisons are visual and do not require repeated arithmetic. I also find it easier to remember a time visually, whereas single-digit errors in remembering a digital time can result in a greater error.
Think pipelining ...
This was an inevitability of the right-wing "cancel culture" narrative. If you want to keep people from being fired for being bigots, but you want to protect the right to fire people for any reason at any time, there's nothing you can do other than to make "bigot" a protected class.

I'm waiting for people to self-identify as bigots, or for it to be a choice on the census under race or religion.
The opposition to vacancies in real estate is one of the most absurd memes I've seen recently. Imagine if you went to a supermarket and all the shelves were empty. That's what zero vacancies in the real estate market looks like! There's nothing wrong with available stock.
> So what is the conclusion? I have no idea how to fix our collective resource waste and it is hard to assign individual responsibility and I'm deeply dissatisfied by the whole situation.

I think the most likely conclusion is that once OSes are guaranteed to have a modern-enough browser engine (this is close to being true for Windows since they introduced WebView2), Electron could update their framework to use the system's native webview (or at least make it available as an option for the developer). This would bring back the problem of having to test in multiple browsers, but I'd rather test against an old version of Chromium, or even Safari, than have to test against the old Edge engine in WebView1.

Edit: Did some more reading, and the way Electron discusses WebView2 doesn't seem to imply that they're interested in integrating with it: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/webview2

But regardless, I think all it would take is someone else making a framework that uses native webviews and implements enough of Electron's APIs/tooling to be close to a drop-in replacement. (Then again, how many people are using Preact?)
personally I'm very sick of the "perma-trending topics". "COVID-19: News and updates for $YOUR_LOCATION" still pops up in the sidebar here and there, and it's on the full trending topics list probably forever now?? like, guys, it's over, you can pull it now, I'm good thanks
They can certainly be lost, anyway.

"A strange game: the only way to win is not to play."
> Colloquially when Americans say “government” they are referring to the entire state

Very consistently, when anyone (including Americans) talks about parliamentary systems, the number of governments or changes of government refer to the same thing as the number of administrations or change of administration when referring to the US system of government.

There are other contexts where there might be ambiguity, but this is one of them.
Yeah, this is viable, but the cost is quite high if you're paying a skilled software engineer for their time. The company driving the language can probably spend that budget better elsewhere. (For example, on online documentation that is more easily incrementally maintained and grown.)
TL;DR: The world wasn't ready to monetize and mass-produce short clips at Vine's time.
You might be underestimating the complexity of being a good CEO (not to say he is) at a public tech company under a lot of global government scrutiny.
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Something to experiment with ... I hope to have time in a few days.

Thanks.
Actually it was nothing to do with adding/removing blood, the treatment worked with synthetic serum albumin[1].

[1] https://www.lifespan.io/news/recombinant-serum-albumin-incre...
At the time of writing 24 hour digital clocks were very common in UK train stations. All rail services in the UK are always in 24 hour form.

So there’s a good chance he just picked 15:39 as a familiar train time.
Excitement alone won't help us.

We should ask our compute overlords to perform their experiments in as open environment as possible, just because we, the public, should have the power to oversee the exact direction this AI revolution is taking us.

If you think about it, AI safetyism is a red herring compared to a very real scenario of powerful AGIs working safely as intended, just not in our common interest.

The safety of AGI owners' mindset seems like a more pressing concern compared to a hypothetical unsafety of a pile of tensors knit together via gradient descent over internet pictures.
Propagation delay isn't purely about distance: it's about the time needed for the output to settle in reaction to inputs. That includes capacitive delays: containers of electrons having to fill up.

Say we are talking about some gate with a 250 picosecond propagation delay.

But light can travel 7.5 cm in that time; way, way larger than the chip on which that gate is found, let alone that gate itself. That tells you that the bottleneck in the gate isn't caused by the input-to-output distance, which is tiny.
It won't be that exact syntax, but, yes, the goal is to offer that kind of functionality but integrated more into the language.
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