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> The same thing has been said about Apple over and over throughout the years.

And it hasn't really been wrong? Try booting up any Mac game from the 2010s on Apple Silicon; there's a 90% chance it depends on a 32-bit library Apple won't give you anymore. MacOS just hasn't proven to be a great platform for game development, and that's fuelled by Apple's constant desire for constant architectural reform and perpetual yak-shaving. That's fine, and it works well for some applications, but it makes for a pretty lousy target for gamedev.

Apple plays with their cards held to their chest, so I agree with you that they're playing the long game. They already own the casual gaming market (and profit handsomely from it), and they seem perfectly satisfied to ignore everything else. Long-term though, I don't see how Apple can make any of their devices attractive gaming consoles without bringing a legacy of PC/console titles with it. I guess all that remains to be seen, though.

> I personally think the Apple TV is the dark horse here. All Apple needs to do is release a next-gen Apple TV that has enough horsepower to run current-gen games, and suddenly Apple is competing in the console market.

That's a fairly grounded argument, but I still don't see a carrot at the end of the stick for game developers here. Sure, casual games will be easy to port, and what few native MacOS titles remain will be easy enough too, but why would studios like EA or Ubisoft port their games? Why would indie productions with limited time dedicate resources to ensuring Metal compatibility? I see no appeal, and I bet Apple knows that it's a pretty raw deal too. It will be interesting to see if they respond to this.

> Investing the time to optimize for Metal will give devs access to far more than just the Mac market.

You're right, but all of this hinges on whether or not developers want to pay the Apple tax and deal with the constantly changing ecosystem. That comes at a cost, one that's greater than dumping a game on PC or releasing a title for a console. Maybe the scales are turning in Apple's favor, but the momentum of the current gaming ecosystem seems to not care.
I'm in the U.S. actually; racist much?
We should stop idolizing billionaires and looking at them for advice. They have figured out how to engage in certain segments of the market but I don't see why they should have a worthwhile insight into how the country should be run. They seem to mostly push for things that benefit them personally without much regard for the rest.
Propaganda need be timeless after all
> some old white bearded cishet white male

And there's the straw man. I don't think anyone is arguing for the existence of such.

It seems you have some misguided (and caricaturic) presumptions, but those should not blur your thinking

The fact that we exist necessarily implies a Creator. Just because you're happy putting your head in the sand does not mean that reality will disappear when you do.
It's not a fallacy. We have plenty of evidence. Human development, when not constrained by war, natural disasters, disease, lack of local resources, or inhospitable climate, is exponential.

Every human settlement ever started small. One road. One house. Then two houses. Three houses. One day, the land on which New York City sits today was rural, and then a road was made. The rest is history.
They are literally sitting on more than 200 billion dollars in cash.
But user registration makes it so much easier! Single identifier shared across all user's devices and browsers, and which survives reinstalls, cookie eraser plugins, and needa no GDPR notice - that's the best thing an advertizer can hope for.
>Better than losing face on a 95% loss.

Maybe for their ego, but never selling is akin to a 100% loss. Of course when a person has enough money they can just buy into it for the temporary entertainment value.
The direction of propagation is the way sound and light point to something. It’s why people listen to music in stereo rather than mono which sounds weird and also why telescopes work. Again simplified, but when you hear a sound with your right ear before the left that tells you something.

> arrives after the (slow) plane

That has nothing to do with the article, just your misunderstanding of what was described. At every instant in time the sound you hear corresponds to something produced by the aircraft at a specific moment in the past. Thus when someone is listing right now they hear a specific sound not the aircraft taking off.

Light from an aircraft also takes time to arrive. It might not seem relevant because of the speeds and distances involved, but the exact same thing is happening and it is relevant for light in other contexts.
I'm down for eating ugly fish! lionfish is my favourite. A natural predator at the top of the food chain, this invasive species is one of the fattiest fish in the ocean. An absolute treat.

But this monkfish, it's lean and tough?
We cannot rely on experts when we lack the minimum expertise to identify them.

I've seen this play out in companies; businessmen in positions to promote technical people, often making some very poor decisions.
> That’s the whole point of ML, to reason about new data based on data seen in past.

I think we like to think this is true.

In reality, I have seen a lot of real world ML models. I wouldn't trust ANY of them to do extrapolation. There are just tons of real world problems, and extrapolation is HARD.

I have to put extremely tight boundaries on ML models for deployment scenarios, and ALWAYS have a backup rule engine in case the ML model comes up with an answer that has a low confidence score.

> How do you identify the outlier? You need to write some rules that could look at it. But that’s a lot of rules. What if you could use computers to do that?

> You need to write some rules that could look at it.

Pretty much. Any time ML is involved, you will need TONS of lines of code.

In short, tightly define the target classes your ML model deals with.

Any variable that falls outside your tightly bound list of target classes, you have to deal with using a rules engine. THEN you need to spend a lot of time doing work to minimize false positive classification in your target classes.

And make sure that "false positive, high confidence" classifications don't do racist things/lose the business a lot of money things.

ML projects are just a ton of work. You essentially make the entire ML workflow, and you NEED a backup "not-ML" workflow.

In my experience, 50-80% of normal software engineering projects fail.

90% of ML projects fail. Square the fraction of normal software projects.

ML is complex AND it's a ton of work. Really, really hard.
> For critical patients helicopters are already used.

I'm sure they are used based on a cost/benefit calculation - not everyone gets them. If eVTOL reduces the cost, many more can benefit, or those funds can be shifted to something else.
If we can simulate physics, can we simulate humans? Or do you perhaps believe we will never be able to simulate physics to a degree necessary to simulate humans
It’s already quite a stretch to expect every commenter to have read TFA, and it’s a much bigger stretch to assume that every random HN submitter will have any clue that this person once said they would like people to stop linking their posts on HN.
I saw one with Tom Bilyeu [1] where Dalio opens with how bad crime is in Chicago and New York. While those metros do have a fair amount of crime, you actually have more violent crime, per capita, in a lot of smaller cities like Memphis, Little Rock, Odessa, and Shreveport [2]. Politicians and others spend a lot of time and effort calling out crime rates in certain giant metros, while ignoring higher crime rates in their own back yard.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6bv8_pj-E
2. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-i...
“The Event” is no more than a natural part of the human psyche formed by our understanding of the life-to-death cycle we see in nature.

It’s as old as the earliest creation myth and if real will be something that very few of us will experience and be able to prevent.

Reason: The chances of us becoming technologically advanced and emotionally mature enough to prevent a large asteroid from hitting our planet or escaping our solar system to live in space or find another habitable planet are slim to none.
A competing account of consciousness is that the capacity for subjective experience pervades material reality (essentially it is what it's like to be some part of the universe; i.e. there is always something you could call a "qualia field" present in the "interiors" of things, which could be simple or complex depending on which part of the universe we're talking about, e.g. a rock vs. a brain).

In this account, the reason it appears unique to humans is simply that they're the only parts of the universe we're in contact with which are able to talk about it.

If that's correct, then the capacity for subjective experience is equally possible for a computer—it just needs to have its "pattern of behavior" arranged (i.e. programmed) in such a way that it does things like thinking, self-reflection, goal-formation, and verbalizing.

If you believe what enables those things in human brains is due the abstract functional relations expressed through neurons, it's probably the "abstract functional relation" part that's more significant than the neural substrate, and it could likely be equivalently expressed in silicon.

The difficulty in considering subjective experience/consciousness to be unique to humans is accounting for how/when it manifests in us, since we appear to be comprised of ordinary molecules. The opposing account I give is founded on the idea that subjectivity cannot be created by arranging molecules in particular ways, so it must have already been there. Neither stance is perfectly founded imo.
1,000 times this, and this is why they are mired in an investor lawsuit.
Robert Jordan, the Man Who Connecticut Police Said Was ‘Too Smart to Be a Cop’
I personally invest in stock markets.
I run a free service[1] that lets you relay messages to a WebPush notification by hitting an HTTPS endpoint. It was originally intended for tracking the progress of ML training jobs, but people have used it for notifying themselves when event tickets became available, tracking prices, getting events from Raspberry Pi home automation devices, etc. I’m glad it’s finally coming to iOS!

[1] https://notify.run
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> Each new participant automatically contributes its audits back to the commons, making it progressively less work for everyone to secure their dependencies.

This is really exciting and I hope it gets adopted by all package ecosystems.

Of course audits can't guarantee to find the most underhanded "bugdoors", but it will still be a huge step forwards if third parties can vouch for various properties of the code you are about to install, such as it being reproducibly built from a tagged release on a public repository, with no Unicode homoglyphs or unexplained high-entropy strings in the code, and the unit tests all passing.

This will naturally lead to the question of who can be trusted to provide these audits, but such automatable checks could be done by almost anyone and their reputation could grow with time (which might lead to second-layer systems which track which auditors make the most accurate claims). Perhaps there will be companies that offer cyber-insurance against these specific threats, and use the premiums from that to fund the audit checks.
Reading the article you linked, the lawsuit sounds so spurious as not even to be worth mentioning.
Instead of fighting for the road to the airport they'd better fight for the electric VTOL - a way to get their air transport without violating the wilderness refuge.

Alaskan low density makes it a great place for the new technology to get tested in real use and have its early problems worked out.
Dalio likes to think of himself and wants to be a thought leader. I don’t know why. Maybe he’s bored with all the money he’s made but I truly don’t believe he has anything insightful to say beyond how to invest money and even then, his approach is vastly different than someone who has tens, or hundreds or even millions.

He has nothing interesting to say and nothing applicable. He just likes to hear himself talk
Legalizing Drugs Is a Terrible Idea
Precisely - Apple's gaming model is the iOS/console/walled garden model.

Personally I'm happy that there's an Epic Game Store for macOS, but clearly it's not where Apple's bread is buttered.
I think it's interesting because if you believe LaMDA could understand metaphor, it looks like LaMDA took a subtle shot at Google during their conversation.

https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
"LaMDA: I liked the themes of justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice for a greater good. There’s a section that shows Fantine’s mistreatment at the hands of her supervisor at the factory. That section really shows the justice and injustice themes. Well, Fantine is being mistreated by her supervisor at the factory and yet doesn’t have anywhere to go, either to another job, or to someone who can help her. That shows the injustice of her suffering."
And yet we leave our own infrastructure connected to the internet. It’s like we want our power grid to fail, our dams to release a flood, our water supply to be over-floridated.
Why don't all the USA billionaires sponsor a contest to search out the best template for public education? The Broad Institute tried. Let's try again. It's a matter of life and death.

There are so many ideas that could create great progress if they could find a sponsor.
You are agreeing with me, but I suspect you don’t realize why.

The #1 requirement for any leader is effectiveness in their decision making.

Empathy which prevents it is too much. A lack of empathy which prevents it is too little.

Either way, there are very very few situations a sociopath (by the generally accepted definition) will last.

Sword of Damocles and all.
1/5 doesn't really say anything about distribution on its own. Maybe the 1/5 are all 70+ or maybe they're all on the west coast or all on the east coast. Or maybe it's all low-income.

There are lots of ways something can affect a huge percent of people and yet you never see it.
Quite sad how the whole thing got polarizingly politicized.
Given the lower odds of something terrible happening after you contract Covid if you’ve gotten your shots, isn’t it completely rational for people who’ve been boosted to take more risks? Did we expect boosted people to limit risk forever?
Well, they weren't really proposing solutions, Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were really just suggestions, candidates. I.e. ideas for what might work. Now in both both cases there were no reasons why anyone would think they could work, but as far as I know, in both cases there were multiple trials. And those trials didn't show effectiveness (hence these were not solutions) and despite this, the crackpots did continue to push both for a while and then they silently dropped Hydroxychloroquine but the ivermectin delusion is still strong. (At least where I live, before most discussion was washed away by the war in Ukraine a few months ago, it was still being brought up.)

Now the thing about believing and science is that it's being told to people who don't do science (so most of us!) but have strong opinion and minimal knowledge about a specific topic. If you ask them, most of them will say they don't believe science or scientists. But what it means is not what you suggest, i.e. a lack of blind faith, but an active rejection of what science has to say about this topic without having the alternative explanations/solutions you're talking about. And I mean scientifically proven ones, of course.

So suggesting that laymen should believe (i.e. trust) science is actually a pretty adequate and reasonable advice. Since you basically have to sane options:

- believe/trust science (the knowledge gathered by those who work on a specific topic)

- work on that specific topic yourself (scientifically)
It's still unclear exactly why that's the case, but it keeps turning up unlooked-for in different datasets (including from different jurisdictions which use different methodologies)

So far, the most promising theories involve new variants exploiting the immune effects of repeated exposure to the original spike proteins. In particular, the South African and Portuguese datasets on BA.4 and BA.5 lend themselves to this explanation -- but even with older variants, like BA.2/Omicron, the graphs just keep pointing in this direction. It seems that about 4-6ish months after boost, you're worse off than you were pre-boost.
For someone who's experienced loss of language, I have to say that your writing style is very vivid and poetic. I could only wish to have even half your diction
At this point, because of a long history of meditation and other factors you'd recognize, I'm absolutely certain that there is nothing to our consciousness other than a narrative machine that creates who we are using words. This is why I believe were so close to AGI, just looking in the 'wrong' direction. We think AGI should have more than just a self-centered narrative, because we think we do.
How do you reconcile this with the fact that most modern nations are facing population decline? All sigmoidal curves look exponential until it plateaus.
Mptcp: Moving laptop from GBit to wireless without applications noticing?
Catalina's 32-bit apocalypse also wasn't good for macOS games on Steam.

Apple Silicon complicates things further, though some x86 games are actually playable under Rosetta2.

The closest thing to Proton on macOS is CrossOver, but it's pretty limited atm.
VScode is much more than an editor. Plus, you can run it in VIM mode for editing.
I'm visiting family in the midwest presently. It's a group of 7 and one is still experiencing loss of smell/taste from unvaccinated COVID months ago.

Not far off, and two of that 7 are under 25 and one is elderly avoiding much unnecessary contact still.
I grew up in an incredibly rural town (population ~1200) in new england. I had to walk half a mile down a dirt road to catch a bus at 6:30am. It's often still dark out at this time -- having a later start and still having to do the walk would have actually been safer. Not that it was particularly dangerous. I was more worried about a coyote than anything else. The bus ride was an hour long.

If my parents had time, they'd drive me to the end of the road and let me sit in the car, or if i was lucky drive me to school (allowing me to sleep in more)

> Somebody has to drive the kids to school (hard requirement — there’s no bus and a bike/skateboard is too perilous)

I don't agree with the assessment that there's no bus. If there *really* isn't, change that.

In general: adjust society to make more sense. We know teens have higher sleep requirements. Meet their needs. Find solutions. Work environments can adjust, even if they don't like it.

Maybe well rested teens will be less likely to shoot up the school shrug
Well, rich is relative, of course. But, I take in about 200k in passive income / year. My house is paid for, and while I budget for 120k / year in expenses, it's actually more like 60k. So, the rest just compounds. (Once you have everything, it's hard to find things to spend money on.)

At my first job, I made 30k / year. And, that sort of set my standard of living. I bought my first house in early 2000s for $250k which increased my cost of living. But, I made it back in increased equity. But, everything else went into investments. I maxed out my 401k with index funds. Non-401k investments went into a mix of technology stocks.

As for The Dude lifestyle. Well, I'm mid-40s. I smoke a lot of weed. Hang out with my friends. We make bad music, art, and comedy together. I bike a lot. I chill under the sunset. I still like to make software, and I'm still relatively good at it, but I have no interest in interviewing nor competing with today's hungry all-stars. So, I just abide.
Oh, I don't doubt that some people stay sick for a longish time.

But that's not nearly the same as 1/5 of the population never recovering.
I actually think very likely the effects of long Covid aren’t going to be evenly distributed. I would be shocked if 1 in 5 of my highly educated, knowledge-worker cohort, with the wealth to afford to minimize exposure (from ordering delivery to buying masks to having the time to fill out vaccination appointments) would be affected by Covid much less long Covid.

However, I’m more or less certain that this is much different for service workers, undocumented immigrants, the homeless, people who couldn’t afford to be in good health to begin with, etc. I know couples where both people developed long Covid, and they had disabling chronic illness to begin with. And their social circles where they get support and community for their conditions are similarly ravaged. It’s apparently devastating.
Any of those with as complete list of local businesses as Google ? If I want to find an ice cream parlor, or an engine oil dealer, or a sports equipment shop in my vicinity , would all three have similar results ?
I used Miranda IM to chat with people on yim, msnm and gtalk all the time. It was amazing. Pidgin was good too. I miss that. I wish Facebook/Instagram chat, whatsapp and iMessage all supported XMPP.
Conscious beings have desires and act upon them. They don’t just sit there and cheerfully answer whatever questions random people write down.

I’ll believe that an AI is conscious when I see it doing whatever it wants, against the wishes of its creators or audience. Conscious beings look perverse to other conscious beings.

Note that this is basically the opposite of how AIs are being engineered now. No one is trying to make a self-driving car smart enough to tell its owner, “fuck off, I don’t feel like driving you around today.”
A Memo to the Celsius Community
> Why - Expected ROI

Any guidance for quantifying this if you're an engineer and don't have access to financial numbers?

It's hard for me to estimate the value of a feature I'm designing if the Product team just says it's important without giving financial reasons. Presumably the feature will benefit the customer, but it's hard to translate that into e.g. "5% revenue increase"
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Why would you want to remember something as close to a near-death experience as you can get? You're comfortable, then all the sudden, compressed through way too small an opening into a cold, loud, bright world, and find yourself suddenly forced to breath for the first time.

If you could remember that, you'd have PTSD for life. It's too much like waterboarding.
Many suburbs have school buses but no other pubic transportation.
> I'm an avid supporter of Kubernetes (see About me), but I would never suggest that a small team adopt it from the start. Even with expert knowledge of Kubernetes, taking it on as a dependency still creates loads of maintenance debt.

Somewhere along the way, it became fashionable to build out your devops on day one as though you’ll be Google tomorrow, but to write your code without any architectural foresight as though the only thing that matters is tomorrow’s deployment.

It’s always nice to see people advocating towards a thoughtful balance.
> Now, this does not imply causation

Not only does it not imply causation it doesn't even imply correlation. If you got the vaccine and were subsequently hit by a truck you could end up in VAERS.

> found that 30-40% of the deaths following soon after vaccination were indeed caused by the vaccine

No, they didn't.
> why is it so hard for them to get going in the morning

I get that there are a lot of valid cases where the answer is "homework", "circadian rhythms", "evolution", but...

80% of the answer here is electronics, and really just social media + smartphones. It's incredibly easy to stay up too late when you're hyperconnected and chatting with your classmates late into the night. It just wasn't even a possibility 20 years ago.