skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No one with wealth and power is going to cede authority to software, or allow it to take away even some of their wealth and power, no matter how "smart" it is. No VIP wants AGI dictating their diminishment. And any AGI that gives primarily the powerful and wealthy more power and wealth, or maintains the status quo, is not quite what we'd describe as a technology that, as OpenAI puts it, benefits all of humanity."

And yet Altman calls humans "stochastic parrots". Apparently the unwashed masses are allowed to be diminished but not the chosen elite.

Keep that in mind the next time you think AI is going to benefit "all of humanity". The definition of "all of humanity" is going to be shrunk. It's a big club, and you're not in it.
Using redhat before yum, meant visiting rpmfind.net and manually collecting what you needed.

In some ways, RHEL is still like that, because popular packages are usually a major version or two behind if they're even there at all. You have to hunt down an EPEL that has whatever you need.
Now I want an experiment regarding how slow is too slow?

For example, can we get a 30 second, 600FPS video of milk lusciously pouring onto some Frosted Flakes to see how people react?
Software is riddled with harmful by design features, dark patterns, invasive surveillance, etc.
Again, I feel like you're being quite overly dramatic with your language here. No one is being abused.

Also, you said "OP is perfectly fine to just focus on the degree and know the world will continue on while OP works." but the post you're responding to never said anything to the contrary. They were just speaking about marriage in general - at literally no point did they tell OP not to focus on their degree.
Because environmental orgs have been captured. They are more interested in CO2 and pushing people to buy corp's EV's as a cure-all for the planet.
The only response I see there is hand waving the issue. Instead of talking about how this derailment is different from the other 999 that happen a year. A large percentage of derailments happen in train yards, in a controlled situation / enviroment.

Pete just hand waves the issue because the people affected didn't vote for the _right_ people.
This lighting circuit was default in my apartment - the overhead lighting in the kitchen is induction.
Good read. Interesting how there hasn't been a connection made between his stimulant abuse and clear manic symptoms -- high emotion, sex drive and narcisissm.
The children could not consent, and there is a real danger for various side effects while the benefit was very dubious. The method was also sloppy and didn't produce exactly the intended result but slightly different edits, which again is a recipe for more unintended effects.
This seems like a flip dismissal of a pretty serious challenge to the ontology of the grandparent comment. Soldiers can also present threats and competition to government (this is literally what a coup is). Soldiers also retire and go into various fields, including science, engineering, sales, and politics. And almost everything the military does is dependent on external contractors and public/private partnerships and, indeed, university research. So it's an awfully broad conspiracy to add value to infantry grunts, who play a shrinking role in the conception of U.S. military power.

And also every other country in the world has to opt to engage in the same conspiracy, otherwise all the benefits accrue to other countries that are willing to allow the technology to be exposed to civil society (e.g. when the average Chinese university graduate has the benefit of CRISPR super brain, it's going to add much more value than if Fort Hood has a bunch of Captain Americas sitting around).

In total this seems to involve a massive and sprawling worldwide conspiracy involving the coordination of opposing actors who have reasons not to coordinate in service of unclear benefits that don't seem to stand up to much scrutiny.
It's specifically the idea that it is based on the idea that we only use 10% of our brains, which is utter bunk. I can't see it as anything but fantasy because of that.

I agree the idea of a drug that could turn us into super intelligent beings is an interest concept to ponder, and agree with you about good sci-fi and what it leaves you with. For Limitless I just can't get past the specific premise they wanted to use.
Hi, I'm the developer of OpenAirportMap and just got hinted to this thread. Thanks for the tremendous amount of interest and feedback.

One thing that has been suggested in this thread is that the map shows all airports -- this has been realized now.

I would love to hear your ideas how to improve the application. Let's improve it together. :-)
> find a society

in that mythical utopia that all bitter saps long for?

Yes, let's not EVER lay an ounce of blame on other corrupt institutions in the culture or wack government policies designed to debase humans instituted over the past 60 years for the rise in divorce. Let's not blame drugs or pharma or fiat funny money or anything else for the stress and troubles that normal people endure. Marriage is clearly the problemo.

This boring demoralization effort bores me. If I didn't know insufferables IRL that talk just like you (I'm sure you're lovely IRL), I'd say you were astroturfing because this is so lazy and on the nose.
> Wait, what? So if I'm paying my doctor in cash, then my doctor is not bound by HIPAA rules?

Only if the doctor does not accept any insurance payments at all (ie, from other patients). If they're "in network" with any insurance provider, they're generally required to abide by HIPAA for all patients. It's possible to get around that, but most independent providers aren't going to bother, and neither are larger health systems. Smaller practice conglomerates (e.g. the for-profit startups you see advertising on social media) are the ones most likely to be be taking advantage of this.

The main other case where you see this come up is outpatient therapy or psychiatry, because providers in most other contexts are not 100% self-pay, but many mental health providers are 100% self-pay.

> it would mean that HIPAA isn't just weaker than people think, it's extremely weak.

HIPAA is extremely weak. It's better than nothing, because the few protections it gives are important, but it's nowhere near sufficient.
Huh, it was just accepted as the mainline fork in Homebrew last week! Been trying it and it seems to have all the features that the rowanj fork had! https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/141659
Four years is a long time. Maybe this was your first significant partner. Those breakups can be hard.

Open yourself up to people around you. Friends. Colleagues you trust or admire. Have and make dinner with them. Be social. Be vulnerable to people who seem receptive.

Keep a good routine. Don't let it get out of whack but don't overwork yourself into isolation.

You'll be okay in time. HN is rooting for you.
The 6526 (CIA) was the first chip I could fix by replacing the broken one to another functioning one. Those CIAs are at high risks, because they are directly connected to the 2 joystick ports of the C64. You just need to touch some pins at the port and you probably grill your CIA with static electricity.
Unfortunatly the CIAs getting rarer and rarer, because the cannot reproduced by FMPGs until today, so you need to get a space CIA from another machine. Maybe in the future this will work with replications.
Woman with tuberculosis ordered to jail for refusing treatment
Interesting. What kinds of software get this level of audit scrutiny?
I'm sure that is a real concern, but I've run across several stories recently of people having a good experience with arbitration.
It's a problem for most government institutions we rely on to protect us. There is a revolving door between them and the companies they're supposed to keep in check/regulate when it comes to those in high positions.
This sounds fine, but I don't trust Qualcomm one bit. They are going to try to extract fees out of others using this.
I wonder if it's because of export. If one puts an env var into a command alone then it should be OK. For example, `MY_VAR=1 my-commmand.sh` should leave env vars unchanged for everything else.
I’m a bacteriologist who uses CRISPR every day, and the biggest problem with CRISPR editing in eukaryotes is off-targets effects, ie, cutting a gene you didn’t mean to. In fact, there’s still a lot about CRISPR we don’t understand at all, like why some sequences seem to be great sites for CRISPR to cut and others don’t seem to work reproducibly.
> a kind of new matter with unusual property

There should be more planets with photosynthesis than intelligent life. Better first step would be to accumulate a long list of planets with anomalous oxygen levels and then focus on those targets for radio analysis or similar.

Oxygen is very active chemically and without photosynthesis you don't get much of it in an atmosphere.

Theoretically some civilizations could be strongly exhibitionistic or perhaps try to spread a religion or just otherwise be very attention seeking. Just like some human individuals are. If you wanted to gain the attention of every astronomer for thousands of light years, right now we have the tech to dump a couple hundred tons of some weird elements into the sun and for "awhile" until solar wind blows it away the sun would suddenly glow ridiculous anomalously brightly in argon or whatever nonsense element. There was a scientific paper on this general idea and I can't find it. There's a little bit of everything everywhere so if you have sensitive enough instruments you could in theory detect stuff in the sun. I mean, this is literally how we discovered helium... and the astronomers would completely flip their lids if suddenly out of nowhere a hundred tons of iridium instantly appeared in the solar spectra for no apparent reason. Also they'd be able to tell it was relatively pure refined substance, if it was a mere huge asteroid it would have normal asteroid composition, but WTF here's 99% pure ball of I don't know, krypton ice. An extremely exhibitionistic civilization could also dump some kind of organic dye into the sun. It won't last long and there won't be much signal, but it'll look weird as heck in spectrograms for a little while.
"2010: The Year We Make Contact" is a much more accessible movie that holds up pretty well. It also feels like a payoff after investing so much time being confused/bored by 2001.

I was 11 when "Logan's Run" came out. Yes it's kinda loaded with 70's sex tropes for the first act, but it's also equal parts goofy and a really good film.

The original "The Day The Earth Stood Still" holds up.

"A Boy and His Dog" is a bit crude here and there, but might resonate with a 12yo.

"Quatermass and the Pit" (aka "Five Million Years to Earth") is both intense and fairly tame.

A lot of old TV series hold up - Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, UFO, Space 1999, Star Trek TOS, etc all have some excellent episodes.

I absolutely love "Dark City" and "12 Monkeys" but I'm not sure they'd have held my interest at 12.

Doctor Who, both old and new are excellent. Though I'm partial to the Tom Baker era.

The Stargate franchise is pretty good.

"Moon" (2009) is a bit cerebral but a good SF story.
Also one additional comment is that you are setting precision in number of bits, not in decimal digits. It obviously runs much faster when it is only computing log2(20000000) not 20000000 digits of precision.
Children can't consent to being born, what parents they get, or any crucial early decisions in their life.
So you’re saying they’re just chasing street drug dealers
Just a note, but the movies from the other guys are a bit different Resolution and the Endless are more lovecraftian (which is why I got into them). Something in the dirt is similar to synchronic but I didn't like it as much, and it's done in a more documentary style. Only one I've still to see is Spring which is a horror/love story.

Needle in a Haystack is also a great timetravel movie IMO, and it is unlike any I've seen before. I really recommend that if you like time travel. It's focused around a romance but it works really well.
> Great way of ruining your child's relationships.

I had a similar conversation with my wife a few years back. Her sister's teenage kids insisted they needed iPhones "because all our friends use them."

And my wife explained this to me like this was a perfectly rational reason.

I started laughing and told her "If our kids said that to you, they'd get a long discussion about how that's a 'follower's mentality' and you're letting people who don't have your best interests at heart control your life for superficial reasons."

That being said, I think it depends on where OP's child is "at" mentally. It may be important enough to the child to still buy an iPhone simply because you don't want your kid to be miserable. But if that's the case, you should also try to have a conversation with the kid saying

"That's fine--it's obviously important enough to you right now, so we'll get an iPhone. But you might look back on this when you're older and think the brand of phone wasn't as important as you thought."
...and what would those look like?
BlackRock and other landlords just convert owner occupied units into rentals, making it relatively more affordable to rent. If they are the problem, then prices would be too high but rents would be too cheap. But if both prices and rents are becoming unaffordable, then lack of overall supply is the underlying problem.
Much depends on what a "Russian Android phone" means. If it means using alternative apps stores, an alternative search engine, etc., and hardware built in China, there are plenty of examples to follow and plenty of device integration shops in China that can localize and integrate a Russian-centric phone OS around the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). I expect that phones like this are already sold into the Russian market. Making sure the chips used are sufficiently 3rd tier to fly under sanctions radar will result in a working, but terrible phone.

If it means Russian companies making the software and hardware, good luck with that.
I wanted to but it seems they do not like me. I am stuck at infinite loop "Verify your email, We sent an email to: blah, blah, blah ..., resend email". The email never comes even though I did try few different email addresses.

P.S. Ok I finally managed to try it indirectly, frankly it is even worse. It was insanely over patronizing with little actual substance. But I admit it makes one hell of a clueless manager who knows nothing but buzzwords. In this case it achieves human like quality
https://www.kcci.com/article/erin-brockovich-returns-to-east...

Front page: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/
Best seems to be when you can transition between various representations smoothly and intuitively; between iterative development, isolated builds, containers, deployment and so on. The design difficulty is how to craft a good user experience along the way.

We're always looking for better ways to tell this story; what would be a good way to demonstrate this value? what is a quick demo that would convey the message?
> Unfortunately, big pharma talked to their congressmen buddies to limit the action of the DEA. (see Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act)

Yet again with enough _protection money_ the feds go after the low hanging fruit.
I think there's a difference between doing it in theory and the actual implementation in this case. He Jiankui did it using relatively imprecise editing technology with unknown potential issues. That's pretty difference than a theoretical method that would prevent a child from having a disease with a guarantee of no side effects - that's the sort of thing people generally support when polled.
You may like xonsh

https://xon.sh/

No need to fire up a python repl.
There’s a pretty vast gap between coca tea and refined cocaine, isn’t there?
No AI here, thanks very much
This is one where Sagan’s book has the opposite conclusion.

In the book a team of international people are selected to go (rather than just one) and it ends with them doing science to gather evidence to prove their story (whereas the movie ends with an emotional speech about accepting her story “on faith”)
>We aren’t perfect either. Why would this be expected of an AI?

When a human errs and causes negative consequences, a human is punished. When an algorithm does the same thing, either nobody is punished or a human is punished.

If we're going to elevate code above humanity, maybe it should be held to a higher standard. After all, it's supposed to be better, faster, more objective, and cheaper than us. Demanding more is literally the point. So demand perfection.
The controlled substances act is not a constitutional amendment.
About ten years ago an article on supplements was followed by a list of what the doctors took personally. They didn't take much but 4 out of five took 2000iu of vitamin D a day. My experience is, if you have gout start taking vitamin D.
> giving in to bullys is not an acceptable solution

Of course it is! It’s called picking your battles and sometimes you give in and sometimes you don’t. Everybody loses sometimes.
Russia isn’t forced to pursue the war. They could withdraw and that would be a good thing.
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That's not what that character believes.

It's more that a nation of law and order is very desirable, but to maintain that society, those who threaten it must be fought by any means necessary.

I don't know how true that is, but I can't rule out that that is how the world really works.
Mathematica is both closed source, and very idiosyncratic. It is primarily useful as a way to check things, but I have never seen anyone in actual research use Mathematica.
Poke around and find out how much oil is used in mining, processing, making, transporting, and replacing uranium fuel pellets. Nuclear power isn't "carbon free" by any means but they've been saying they are for years.

Truth is, the world runs on oil. Even the "green" world.
The DEA is evil. They drag their feet in allowing FDA approved medicines to be approved for sale. There was a law passed recently that they had N months to schedule it because they kept taking so long. If a single person in a study says a medicine gives them feelings of euphoria it can be subject to scheduling, which makes it an epic pain in the ass to acquire. They don’t allow electronic prescriptions to be sent for some drugs, and at least for mine, they can’t be for longer than 90 days.

For example, I am basically forced to take Vimpat, a DEA scheduled anti-epilepsy medicine. Due to the scheduling, I can only pick it up 2 days before it’s due for refill, and otherwise have to have a doctor provide me an early refill request. It’s like they don’t expect me to ever go on vacation or have a life. I feel chained down by this. The DEA treats me like a pleasure seeking drug addict. The sad thing is I am a drug addict, I just take it to stay alive, and don’t get any pleasure from this drug. If I don’t get it I’ll probably withdrawal and die. Also, who the hell is going to use a drug that costs $1400/month for pleasure?

I. Hate. The. DEA. For some of these epilepsy drugs the scheduling seems cruel and senseless. All it does is make life difficult for doctors, pharmacies, and patients. For what??? No one wants to take these drugs. It’s a joke that this stupid agency would even consider these to have some recreational value. Sure the benzos, but for the majority of them, no.
Do you think to port the code to C++ or do you think to keep it in Python?
One problem with this theory that ASCII killed off octal is that ASCII was introduced in 1963, while octal was popular into the mid-1970s. The real reason that hex beat octal is 16-bit words. It's trivial to break a 16-bit word into two bytes with hex, but it's a mess in octal.

To make this concrete, suppose we have the bytes 1, 2, 3, 4 in 16-bit memory. In hex, this is 0102 0304. In octal, this is 000402 001404. Hex makes it trivial to see the bytes, extract them, byte-swap, etc. In octal, you need to sit down and think. I've worked on a 16-bit octal machine (Xerox Alto) and after about 2 minutes it's obvious why hex won.
See the "inhibitors" in Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space" universe.
The first time I visited England when I was 19 the people I was visiting showed me all this, and consequently a lot of my cash was turned into "shrapnel".

Later I wanted to buy some vodka, and someone wanted chocolate milk, so imagine the look on the cashier's face as I pay for ONLY vodka and chocolate milk with spare change.
I empathize with Taiwan on this dilemma. They such a vulnerable target to such a huge volume of foreign influence for the same reason that press freedom is even more critical than most democracies.
It’s almost as if the incentive structures were meant to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

If houses get cheap I know for sure I still won’t be able to afford even 1
Incineration is how you get rid of dioxins in soil. It's the only way!

But mostly I am baffled by the public response to this incident. The thing about America is there are zillions of highly polluted sites in this country, we make more of them all the time, it takes us either decades or forever to clean them up, dioxins are a very common contaminant, and there are already hundreds of communities waiting in line for EPA actions to clean them up. So the idea that EPA actions will promptly remediate this site is somewhat ridiculous. If there are high levels of dioxins, and so far there is no evidence of that, relocating the people out of this town is the only action that can be timely taken.

Example: a site contaminated by high levels of vinyl chloride, the same junk that was spilled in Ohio, in the center of Oakland, California, has been polluted since 1960, identified since 1995, on the "national priorities list" i.e. Superfund, but no meaningful remediation has taken place and no responsible party has even been nominated yet.