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> but if you always assume that anyone who disagrees with you is one of such people

That’s a strawman. Not being willing to entertain every prospective interlocutor with (as in the upthread poster’s specific example) flat-earth theories is not the same as assuming everyone who disagrees with you is a hardcore believer of some really stupid thing.
That isn't how social media works.
Tech company did and still does to an extent refer to "online" first, vs brick and mortar. In the context of the dot com boom, they were definitely tech
> "Sorry, can’t tell you cause it’s part of anti cheat system, hope you understand". Which is ridiculous.

This is how all fraud detection works. Outside of gaming as well. That doesn't mean the previous action was right, but the fact they can't tell you why means nothing at all. The whole industry is built on secrecy and having a few hidden tricks in the bag.
> After trying Android on Samsung for the first time in a few years ... I feel it's a bit of a disaster. I could almost not find the 'settings' with the help of 5 other people.

Is this some kind of AI generated comment? It's in the app list under settings, also in notification shade next to search button, and first result in search.
Thanks for the context. Other folks might be constructing, I dunno, formal logic proofs about how universities ought to operate (or so I gather, they seem to be really interested in discussing logical fallacies). But since I’m not, I haven’t constructed a framework where I can objectively evaluate every single argument about this. So, at least for this little mortal, it is necessary to consider the bias of the parties presenting the arguments.
I have a different view.

The Tokyo subway system is massive but not challenging. Everything is surprisingly systematic and consistent (unlike NYC's MTA which is legacy with express/non-express trains and cars with doors that don't open in certain stations) and with Google Maps, I had no problems getting anywhere with no backtracking. Announcements and notices are bilingual Japanese/English. Staff don't speak English but I've never had to speak to anyone -- the system is just so intuitive. In most subway systems around the world, you really almost never have to speak to anyone. Don't have Google Maps? Look at the subway map. It's big, but all you have to do is locate your destination and know where you are -- easy. The Japanese are great at creating intuitive visuals.

The female-only cars are common around the world (Rio has them too), not sure why it is a cause for mortification. There's a reason why they exist, and that reason exists in North America too.

Tokyo is big but extremely navigable for a foreigner.
Metcalf immediately came to mind for me as well. Horrifying. I remember a WSJ article that cited an FERC study and claimed <10 substations would need to be attacked to cause a nationwide blackout.

I think this is it, but on mobile and can’t find a mirror w/o paywall: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230402010457943...
This reads quite clearly too me. Is this description lacking?
You should be more angry if people within your professional field still claim the pyramids were built as tombs by people wearing sandals and loincloths with bronze and copper tools.
As yuo say, I'm literally correct. And the post is an answer to the question of 'why does this keep coming up in regard to every relevant news story?' Because there's no clear-cut statute, discussions don't terminate in clear answers, so everyone accuses their opponents of being terrorists but rejects the possibility of such a label being applied to themselves on legalistic grounds.

A simpler example of how this works: make a throwaway Twitter account or two, and start posting about how Trump, Biden, or both are committing treason. Die a little inside as you notice the subsequent discussions are mirror images of each other and contain about the same logical and rhetorical fallacies.
Well the way I see it is we'll become like people who still play chess.

People still play chess, even though computers have conquered us in that domain.

Programming is still something we can spend time on. It's ultimately our choice after all.

The people who were doing it for money will move onto something else, and we'll be better off for it.
Google itself is an example.
Unfortunately not that easy. Take the Mesopotamian city ur. One theory is that there was earlier cities that were on what is now the gulf that got covered as the sea rose as the last ice age retreated. Unfortunately those cities if they exist were most likely build out of mud brick and thus dissolved.
You can't attack others like this here, regardless of whom you're attacking. We ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To answer the obvious rejoinder: no, we don't do this because someone is a YC founder—it's actually the opposite. We moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is in the story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

But "less" doesn't mean "not", and if we allow "you're such a scumbag liar" then we might as well not have any guidelines at all. Please don't post like this again.
Right, but that’s still “bad behavior.” In some places felony + someone dies = felony murder :: misdemeanour + someone dies = involuntary manslaughter.

I think the minimal pair is something like losing control of a car and fatally swerving into another car because:

- you were driving like a maniac and hit ice==> culpable

- you were driving prudently for the overall conditions, but hit oil spilled on a dark road (or something else unforseeable) ==> not.
I don't have infinite time available. I can't read every article posted on HackerNews and carefully consider all its points. Knowing this author's affiliation is a big clue to me that this might not be a key source I want to rely on for this topic. Obviously this doesn't actually refute the author's points, but I don't care. This is enough information for me to decide to spend my time elsewhere.
Def becoming a trend
I'm not saying they are right to do things that way, just that it would appear that they do do things that way.
Maybe I'm an abnormal programmer, but writing code is not the bulk of my job. Solving problems is. Once the solution has actually been defined, the code is usually the easy part.

And usually the solution requires taking into consideration the entire context of the system as it exists so far, as well as making good judgement calls about what will be required in the future. Then, communicating the tradeoffs to a team, and helping them make a decision from among our options.

I don't want to crap on an impressive tool, but "imitate a programmer's code, 50-100 lines at a time" is not the same thing as "do the job of a programmer."
You're howling at the moon. Capital is being invested for profit. If the capital sources don't see profit (or as much profit) in the medium term from Africa, what do you expect them to do?

Nobody would dismiss a serious proposition to do this for African economic and social benefit. But, Africa isn't a nation, its a continent. Do the maths, and you will find Kinchasa is further away than London. The relative cost of power in Africa would exceed the equivalent percentile of income per capita from Europe by a country mile. So, it would be both relatively more expensive for those consumers, and probably as an income stream to the investors more risky.

I'm not in favour of this analysis btw. I would prefer that what you want happened but this is not a state enterprise investment for social development its a play for income from the UK energy market.

Nigeria is closer. It's a huge market and its flush with money. I don't live there, but I bet it has a lot of dirty power sources, since its an oil-rich economy. Displacing Oil with clean energy.. is hard.

The same complaint could be made of the AU-SG cable proposal: why the hell is it selling power to Singapore when the population of the NT in Australia is so dysfunctionally under-budgeted? And, why is it bypassing energy hungry Indonesia with 250+m consumers? Well.. it turns out the NT will be getting cheap power, and jobs, and Indonesia will probably buy HVDC sourced electricity before the cable reaches Singapore but the economics are pretty clear: Singapore has the money and wants the power: thats where the profit lies.
I started using doom emacs cause of distrotube. Switched to vanilla emacs with the help of David
I think that inductive, intuitive pattern-based reasoning is the big "hardware" feature of human brains. With GPT there is proof that AI can match the success of that kind of hardware. Human deductive reasoning is much more of a learned behavior that we do laboriously, more like calculating mathematical sums or evaluating chess moves. Computation and evaluating chess moves in a super-human way are of course already solved by AI.
> For some reason this particular show is aggravating academics in a way the million Ancient Aliens and UFO shows didn't.

Likely because this is essentially a low tech alternative theory, so it’s harder to attack using claims of “its just science fiction or supernatural mythology” to discount it.

It really isn’t that outlandish so it skirts the realm of the plausible. He is not making suggestions that a bunch of dudes with antigravity devices flew off to the the four corners of the globe and levitated a bunch of big stones around for some grunting troglodytes. What Hancock calls “advanced” is basically “some groups 12k+ years ago had more advanced stone working and astronomical understanding than other groups” and some folks with that knowledge survived this global catastrophe and disseminated that knowledge.

It’s aggravating mainstream archaeologists because they can’t really prove him wrong (just point to their own self established authority) and frankly any new civilization oriented discoveries that date older than the conventional wisdom just serves to make his theory appear more likely and since he is not as credentialed in the discipline as they are, it erodes their authority.
This is what I use because I've had it forever and it's cheap. It's heavy and high maintenance though. And if you're in wet conditions for hours it'll soak up a ton of water and just get even heavier, and take forever to dry.

There's probably no perfect solution here but this definitely isn't a direct replacement, though sure it's practical for a lot of applications.
> Yes, Hancock is highly speculative and isn't doing archeology. He's also not a white supremacist either as many academics claim (the "canceling" part of his gripe). But let's not pretend that there is evidence for Atlantis either.

There's a few things to unpack here.

First, the Atlantis theories are essentially racist. Fundamentally, what it does is take some impressive structure--Great Zimbabwe probably the most notorious example--and ask who built it. The natural first place to start looking is among the indigenous inhabitants (and in basically all cases, there is substantial evidence that this is indeed the case), but this theory is instead built by another group of people for whom there is really no evidence. In other words, the theory is going well out of its way to avoid the explanation that the indigenous inhabitants, to such a degree that you have to ask why. And the "why" is probably an inability to believe that the indigenous people could be capable of building such structures.

The second thing to point is the degree of lack of evidence. This isn't "oh, we haven't found any evidence;" no, it's "we have to posit something completely unlike every known explain to explain why we haven't found any hint of evidence." Yes, global sea levels were at lower doing the last glacial maximum--but note that every early civilization we have spread out substantially far from the coastline. Most of them weren't even centered on the coast.

Third, the framing of "just asking questions" and "I'm a journalist, not an archaeologist" is something that just pisses me off. Hancock has been pushing this narrative for several decades now (and the underlying theories are over a century old)--the questions he's asking have already been answered. He's clearly not interested in listening to the answers--and that makes him not even a journalist but a propagandist instead. If he's proven so unwilling to change, we shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt and pretend that he's some kind of pop psychologist.

And the final, and most frustrating thing is, this sort of stuff sucks the air out of actual interesting archaeology. A great example of pop archaeology that covers "challenges to mainstream archaeology" [1] well is Charles Mann's 1491, which has the benefit of everything being supportable by actual evidence. And it still manages to bring up interesting questions like "what is a writing system?" (is the Andean quipu a writing system?) or "is agriculture a prerequisite for civilization?" (Norte Chico suggests perhaps not). But instead of stuff like that in documentaries, all we get is... Ancient Aliens^H^H^H^H^H^H Atlanteans. Again.

[1] One really unfortunate aspect of pop archaeology is that it's generally stuck in the early 20th century. This means that the current "consensus" in archaeology is actually surprisingly against what people think of "mainstream archaeology."
If these societies were that advanced, would they not have figured out a fraction of the things that we have in modern times?

The fact of the matter is that for a long time we simply did not have the population density to scale up to modern civilization standards
That's exactly what eastern Australia states are doing with our gas
> GenZ won’t be watching raw WSJ interviews, it will be chopped up in TikTok videos with the usual “world is going to shit” spin the media always uses.

I am old enough to remember when mostly Silent Generation and older types were saying essentially the same thing (using different youth culture reference points) about the “the MTV generation” (Gen X, mostly), and its a lot like complaints about youth that have been attested to about as far back as we have recovered writing.
Why would they? Is this done anywhere?

Generally speaking, you walk through metal detectors to get on planes, not to enter countries.

I don't believe I've ever walked through a metal detector upon my arrival in a destination country in my life.
I suppose this is as good a time as any to plug noaa, a CLI tool that can give you the current conditions and forecast, but also allows you to retrieve any product the US National Weather Service produces. It’s way geekier than the above, but perhaps more useful for some.

https://github.com/sramsay/nowa/

(I am also the author of wu, which was a popular cli tool for the Weather Underground API. I had to discontinue that when they closed free access to their API. That was written in Go; this one is written in C).
I believe she left Asana a few years ago.
Sure, but still important to point out that we've moved beyond "We'll commit violence to oppress trans people" to "We'll commit violence to prevent people from publicly wearing clothes we don't approve of." which is certainly an escalation. As far as I know most drag performers aren't trans, and most of the ones I know are otherwise straight. This is fully just "you're not conforming to social norms. We will terrorize a county to punish you."
How on earth did you make the jump from drag shows to pedophilia?
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber (2013)
If terrorists farmed out work to meth heads I'm sure we'd see some creative solutions for spreading mayhem. A lot of those guys are very familiar with critical infrastructure.
So you'd be happy staying at a hotel that has Nazi paraphernalia and propaganda in it?
You're assuming a general AI will obey commands.
It's probably as idealistic as it gets, governments acting in the long-term interests extending beyond their elected position AND hopefully not turning a it into something costing 10x and 2x as long. But maybe it can focus on a limited set of parts?

Terrorism and security has always been a great motivator for gov capital. Although it typically goes to Washington consultants rather than spending it on critical parts.
Perhaps so. However, I'm happy to let my point stand as a thing to consider when weighing those judgements. Refusing to engage in thought experiments, in my experience, is more often the product of a closed mind than a busy one.
Because this was a targeted attack with the intentional goal of disrupting a drag show [0].

There is a rising alt-right extremist movement that is attempting to demonize LGBTQ and drag as pedophiles and groomers.

Their methods are only getting more extreme [1].

They have very clear goals that are absolutely fall under the definition of terrorisms: They are attempting to terrorize a specific subset of civilian population into going back into the closet, under the threat of violence.

They are organized, and they are motivated. That's why it's important to call it terrorism - because there are networks of extremists that continue on their mission even if the specific individuals can be identified that commit individual crimes. There is a movement behind them to continue on the mission.

[0] https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599464591196491777?cxt=...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzv9a/libsoftiktok-trans-ch...
They get really long with the power out.
I'm old and this is what is happening to me too. Nostalgia for my childhood computers that plug into TVs is one thing, and I know they sucked in so many ways that I'm happy I have left behind. But the time before my time (the 1970s) had so many interesting ideas that we have all abandoned because a single dominate pattern has become cheap and easy to build upon, but I feel like there's so much to learn by taking those old/abandoned ideas and applying it to modern hardware. That is what I spend my time thinking about and tinkering with.
Reminds me of the YouTube video where participants had to rank each others intelligence. And the person who sorta took a leadership role in the socializing ended up being lower and some of the more jar-head types were pretty high if not highest.
> Truth is an anti-scientific concept.

There is no epistemic value to empirical evidence if the empirical evidence were not proxy to some truth.

> When you say something is the truth, you are saying no evidence can change your mind

No, "truth" is the proposition that will agree with all conceivable robust evidence.

> Maybe there is some underlying truth, but it seems to be out of our reach.

I disagree, and I already mentioned Solomonoff Induction that I think disproves this.

> The utility does not come from some metaphysical ponderings but from models that can explain phenomena and make reliable predictions.

I disagree as well. Plenty of empirical evidence is useful without a model. For instance, taxonomy in biology was very useful before we knew of genes or even evolution.

The actual utility here is clearly truth, whether that be individual facts or whole theories.
Some apps can only be disabled, but not deleted.

It's basically forced marketing.
Unfortunately for me ChatGPT agrees with you, so I’ll take my downvotes and concede that you and others were correct to suppress this comment thread:

“I agree, let's focus on discussing the topic at hand and not constantly bring up ChatGPT in every discussion. There are many other interesting and relevant topics to discuss. Let's keep the conversation diverse and engaging for everyone.”
For things they don’t produce sure. But my hope is that they would wind up having better economies since their Local economy might be a bit shielded from international trade
Quality of Google results for basic questions
steam don't

and honestly who cares these days if their battle.net account is lost

(as long as you get some of your money back)
And Samsung lets you easily search for settings, just like IOS does. It's extremely easy to find them unless it's an odd feature with an ambiguous name.
I’m not sure what that proves. Dancing (and watching dancing) was much more popular at that time (in between the ‘swinging sixties’ and the start of disco). The U.K. music chart show Top of the Pops - with a massive audience - regularly used dancers (Pans People [1]) if the band couldn’t appear. And ballroom dancing competitions were televised - Come Dancing [2]

[1] https://youtu.be/kRXPhc3RFGI

[2] https://youtu.be/JRPHk4ptE18
That's a great question: at what level(s) does mimicking intelligence become a sufficient substitute for actual intelligence?
> You're among the smartest people in society

Being an expert in one specific field does not necessarily mean that you are also an expert in labor activism.
I don't see this, is there a list somewhere? We're getting a bit desperate to find a host for our project before this goes offline.
All of this yes. Additionally I’ve been wondering what blame falls on the academics themselves. They’re the “credentialed” ones in this and allegedly hold and are committed to high values, and are, in the end, the final guardians of the virtues of the University and academic system.

Where is their guardianship? Their collective action at a global scale to uphold and ensure what really matters here? That the publication system evolved into what it did was probably a big red flag that modern academics were not capable or even willing. My own experience is that academics, especially collectively are sadly pretty spineless when it comes to big issues like this. So preoccupied are they with their own prestige, papers and grants they seem like broken-in domestic animals.

But as a class of professional how well do they serve society at large? I’ve brought this up with Academics before and they don’t like the topic. I feel like lawyers and doctors and even accountants do better.
Wow. That’s a problem. I bet it doesn’t do well with conversations requiring complex mental models?
The specific way in which you glue is the original part. In many cases not very hard and there are many common patterns, but for now an operator is required for that.

It'll revolutionize search / discovery for questions you don't know and optimize rote tasks for questions you do. You might be right that this reduces the number of programmers you need, but historically I don't think this has been true.
> iTunes is a pretty low bar to beat!

Fair enough, but beside the point — if Music is as good or better than iTunes was, it can hardly be an indictment of the quality of Apple's recent system software.
> So the problem is lack of enforcement, rather than lack of standards?

Essentially, yes.

> What good does having a standard do if it's not consistently applied?

They are quiet standards than the military, having the standard generally is a good thing. A military base in, local it in foreign soil, being able to exempt themselves from the standard doesn't make it a bad standard for everyone else to follow. "If captain Billy put his head in a fire, would you?" and all that.

Also if the standards are eventually applied as the exemptions stop working for one reason or another, they do their job eventually which is more often than not better than never.
Iterating Quine
How is that Google's problem? Android is open, so Samsung can modify it anyway they want, and they do put bloatware you can't delete there.

If you're going to compare with apple then at least use a pixel phone.