skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dante's Inferno described astrologers in one layer of hell, with their heads turned backwards and taking small steps forward.

Astrology requires heavy, recursive and intellectual effort to describe events in the world. Whenever a new fact or piece of novel information is introduced to the initial interpretations of symbols, you have to go back and rework your understanding of the relationships between symbols.

It can be interesting and stabilizing of your feelings and emotions because you're constantly filtering down interpretations of character and meaning into symbolic pockets, but it also is an incredibly slow process that is reactive to new information. It is definitely a net negative on participant's ability to move forward in the world.

The ability to predict entirely depends on how the astrologer fills their symbolic pockets with particular meanings and then lays it out across time. Due to the sheer quantity of interpretation one can invest in this process, and constant refinement of it, the setup of one astrologer is not communicable to another. Studying the past astrologers is a curiosity at best, fuel for the fire at worst.

Astrology never comes to a final end. It doesn't have the completeness of a religious book, nor the ability to begin new events itself. You just interpret forever.
Searching for the address on the Contact Us page returns a plethora of what look like template sites

Note that the contact us address isn't the TPLink address presented on all the other pages of that site.
dagster.io is an open source Python library for building data pipelines. When using Dagster your project may depend on other Python data analysis and warehouse libraries like pandas, snowflake, pyspark and so on. Each org's requirements for their data orchestration will be different. When executing the pipelines in Dagster Cloud, we need to replicate their Python environment.
How do you know it’s unlocked upstairs when you are downstairs?
I read through one of the papers and a key assumption that the energy mix powering the grid will more halve its co2 output over the next 10 years and cites Germany as the baseline trend. This is a crazy optimistic assumption to make
Given the recent EU cybersecurity directive requiring code to be audited it's not so weird. However they will partly break this model with their AI regulation directive that is in the works.
I wonder if older iPhone software counts now as archive targets?
Yes, I'd love to read more about how it improves on the existing migrator.
> What's the advantage to having the government be the competitor?

Voters choose management instead of shareholders. Maybe they'd make different choices. Diversity is good.
80s, 90s, not sure we need to make a big difference there.

Since then I think what you're seeing is more of a fracturing than an overall increase or decrease in prudishness.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/t... This talks about the small-screen stuff (and indie film) and dicks like you link out; but also points out the shift in mainstream cinema.

There's no more dicks or even breasts in tentpole blockbusters or the increasingly-adult-embraced "kids" films than there used to be. Even your R-rated stuff tends to have less of the sort of "coincidental" not-central-to-the-plot sex scenes than you would've seen a few decades ago. But what's left blockbuster film has found a place in "prestige TV" and by being moved less front-and-center, take-the-family-to-the-theater, it's been able to be amplified since entertainment as a whole is more fractured and it's less one-size-fits-all.
But they're generally not actually beliefs, in the sense that they wouldn't stake any substantial value on them. They are "performative" beliefs that are indicative of belonging to a certain subculture. What's interesting is when those performative beliefs collide with factual consequences (eg, COVID deniers dying of COVID). Nobody has died of "belief" in astrology as far as I know. I imagine most astrology fans would cop out if there were real consequences involved.
It’s federal spending. The Social Security Administration’s website clarifies that misconception [1].

[1]: https://www.ssa.gov/budget/?tab=0
We are living in an artificial scarcity world is more of a problem than us not having enough capacity to sustain retirement and increase leisure time of the pre-retirement demographics.

Technologically, imho we have been beyond a post scarcity level for quite a while - its our economic system and its poor allocation of wealth and resource allocation that is antiquated, irrational, and constraining the system. Austerity is just giving up at actually building the system in the ways needed for more people to retire or even live out their lives avoiding things like climate change.
Translation requires editorial discretion and necessarily changes the meaning from the original language. Variation occurs between different translators of the same source material.

Editions frequently include new or updated information on the topic, not just corrections.

This is a disingenuous argument and I suspect you know it.
2. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"; "measure twice, cut once"; "it's easier to fuck it than to unfuck it"; etc. Not exactly novel
China Favors Chips, AI Executives over Internet Tycoons at Top Political Meeting
As far as I know there is shamefully little research on corporate behavior. Most research I hear about has to do with gender pay gap and only in jurisdictions which mandate it (I wonder why this is).

I think our best estimate of corporate behavior is to look at union contracts, and union demands. Almost universally union contracts prohibit workers from working outside of set number of daily, weekly, and monthly hours. Usually there are some clauses for extraordinary circumstances, but I’ve never worked under a union contract which had less than 11 hours mandatory rest between shifts (even in an emergency) which effectively prohibits all nighters. I’ve seen contracts that go down to 7 hours if absolutely necessary (and every hour infringing on 12 hour rest is payed with 90% penalty) but never 0.

Why do unions demand this? My best guess is that this is a common exploitation tactic by corporations, and thusly a common complaint from union members. Thus we can reasonably assume that many (most?) workers who have worked unreasonably long hours have not seen their just benefits for doing so and felt exploited.

Now it would be nice if corporations kept statistics on this, or if there ware regular surveys by governments or impartial research centers so we could get a more accurate picture, but as far as I know, as it stands, this is our best method, and it is not in favor of this practice.
He's too fragile and prone to overcompensation for that, nice try. Of course he's going to back track after getting mercilessly mocked for it and then claim it was just a joke.
We've done that quite a few time, it never changed.
It does. Google mirrors every commit to LLVM in their monorepo, builds and tests the whole monorepo with a fresh Clang nightly, and (ideally) one of those Clang nightlies is released as the new stable compiler for all users of the monorepo every week. This helps keep Google at HEAD and helps keeps LLVM upstream stable.
Because it doesn't actually understand much of anything.

It uses statistics and pattern matching to produce/mimic plausible language but in terms of actual knowledge or intelligence --- it's pretty dumb and really can't be trusted.

There is no guarantee of any kind with regard to results. It's a toy whose best use is entertainment.
> In my very suburban neighborhood, I can very easily walk to a 24hr supermarket in about 5-6 minutes, so I often do

some anecdata as a counterpoint to the "everything being super close to you in urban areas" narrative: i live in a pretty damn urban neighourhood ("old" or "core" Hollywood, CA), and it takes me ~15 minutes to walk to the nearest supermarket (just under 1 mile).

historically, there were a number of closer supermarkets but those large buildings & their parking lots tend to be eventually razed and replaced with luxury apartment buildings.

huh, actually i just checked and it looks like there is not a single 24-hour supermarket within any kind of reasonable walking distance of my home (2-3 miles). i am pretty sure the local VONS was 24hr before COVID, i wonder if that is why? now all the local VONS or Ralphs or what have you all close between 11pm and 1am.
> and contribute nothing to the system

This is an ageist perspective and foundational to what you've written. Older people have a lot to contribute and it's unmeasured.

The same goes for partners who stay at home with young people instead of working. They're DEEPLY contributing without pay.

You're going after old people in a faux-scarcity world. How about you take on the collective issues, like capitalism choosing to gatekeep resources behind labor?
Please capitalize it as Effective Altruism.

The generic terms "effective" and "altruism" are both very important terms, and this doesn't follow from combining them.
> I’m simply not convinced that a few edits to pop culture novels will lead to the downfall of free human society.

Of course not. This is just one nudge, one of many, not towards downfall, but towards change, in whatever average direction those in positions that create or edit culture push. It's just your history, slightly altered, one little lie at a time. So slowly you won't even notice. They used to make new works for this purpose, but now they've moved on to editing old ones. The slippery slope is a fallacy only until a trend line emerges from the data.

[W]e’ve kind of got to tell a lie: we’ll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn’t have been, and we won’t dwell on that. We’ll say, ‘To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we’ll summon it forth.’” - https://www.themarysue.com/steven-moffat-on-doctor-who-diver...
Some of that is just typical cult behavior. Scientology and Ayn Rand followers have had similar problems. Drugs usually make it worse.

AI safety is a real issue, but look at what it looks like so far.

- "Machines should think, people should work". That's Marshall Brain's "Manna". It's also working at an an Amazon fulfillment center, where the computers tell the humans what to do.

- "Paperclip maximizer". A corporation is a paperclip maximizer. If you take Milton Friedman seriously, that's what a corporation is supposed to do. As I point out occasionally, most of the ethical problems foreseen for AIs are known ethical problems with corporations.

Those are the classic problems. As the technology advances, we're discovering new ones in the large language model space. Those issues are well known here.
>13 years is immediate?

Yes. Please tell me the alternative solar or wind solution which can provide us with a carbon free grid in 13 years. There is none. You have to hand wave and pretend that maybe the next 13 years of battery technology will be fundamentally different than the past 30 years since the invention of the Lithium ion battery. Even if we had the battery solution today we don't have the global manufacturing capacity.

Solar and wind go online fast and turn stable grids into pricy unstable ones as you increase their share of production. Meanwhile Nuclear is ready, today. And if you cut down on some of the regulatory burden it could be built sooner.
>So we have real, actual harm hand-waved away by reference to a hypothetical.

Yes, because that harm is not even close to the same order of magnitude as the harm that rationalists are focused on, even if you discount it by a moderate likelihood factor. It doesn't matter if the "real world" sees AI doom as a "quaint and somewhat interesting hypothetical about a far off future" - unless you're actually agreeing with me that this is primarily a PR issue.

When rationalist sexual harassment starts threatening the survival of the human race (in a way other than raising the probability of AI doom via bad PR for rationalists), the tunnel vision critique may become more than laughable.
One of my favorites:

I was working a large project for a wafer fab company, and occasionally the compiler would crash during full builds with SIGILL (illegal instruction, for those who aren’t familiar with the signal). Compiler bugs are never fun, and this was particularly vexing because it was so inconsistent.

It took me awhile, but eventually I got around to thinking: What could cause the compiler to execute an illegal instruction? What could cause an illegal instruction at all?

I removed the outer case from my computer, and sure enough, all of the fans had died. The CPU was overheating during intense, long-running builds. Replaced the fans and the “bug” went away!

*This is my first comment since I created my account in 2009. I hope I did it right! ;-)
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I really don't buy this and I will explain:

> There are open standards for browsers to communicate with software deployed in web 3, regardless of what an isp would care about doing.

There are older, and more widely open standards for browsers to communicate with web servers.

Doesn't prevent isps from meddling which is the whole point of this discussion.
Bluetooth is terrible (unreliable, slow to connect, extreme latency, bad sound quality), but wireless is great. Currently they are one and the same mediocre user experience, so I’m hoping UWB or something else can fix these problems sometime soon?
I would love full transitions to be easy enough to work. DNS64 breaks DNSSEC without updates to the spec, so that's not going to fly for me today. A competent DNS configuration would fail to resolve my IPv4 domains at the very least (though all of my public domains have an AAAA record, obviously). The only solution is to do DNSSEC validation at the DNS64 level which in my opinion defeats the purpose of DNS security all together.

For internal networks, IPv6 seems like an obvious choice. If you already have company wide subnets, you may as well set up some ULAs/GUAs and use IPv6 internally. Full IPv6 may be better but people worry about adversaries mapping internal networks for some reason so NAT66 may be necessary to placate those fears.

The problems you still keep around by using some kind of dual stacking (DS-Lite being the cheapest) ensures compatibility with servers and entire countries that haven't even begun upgrading their networks yet. You incur the IPv4 penalty, for sure, but only towards services that don't have IPv6. This provides an incentive for the world to move on without breaking existing infrastructure entirely.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_astronomy#:~:t....
Just because the bombs haven't fallen, don't prove that the Nuclear treaties are useless
[the year is 2028]

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I'm not sure where this thought comes from - on our explanation of benefits there's always a line item for how much they negotiated down and it usually never amounts to much.

Insurance profit margins are pretty tiny. We (or our employers) pay a ton for insurance because healthcare costs are beyond ridiculous in our country.
I read Hasania's article hoping for some solid material to make me feel better about the point a few years when I first discovered Less Wrong.

Instead, I just read one of worst articles I've read in at least a month, so full of not just poor (and transparently polemical) writing, but poor reasoning and blind dismissal of opposing viewpoints, regurgitation of unsubstantiated bullshit, and more.

If that truly represents the best anyone can do in defense of Less Wrong / EA, then it would appear that the complaints about both are substantive.

I hope that is not the case.
Ok. You are probably right, in which case you have my apologies!
Also setup costs.
> Most user groups have tons of reports of issues, they seem to need to fuss with it every update,

I’d say issues are a pretty small group of people, it’s just that it has a lot of users.

> they seem to need to fuss with it every update

Updates are seamless almost every time?

> and if you aren't careful with lots it can burn out some SD cards.

Cheap SD cards don’t like Databases, expensive one’s still might have issues. But you are neither forced to use SD cards, nor an rPI with HA. I used to have a PI4 with an SSD, and nowadays a VM on x86 hardware.
To clarify— I mean the rationalist reference to angels and demons. It seems to be more than metaphorical.
Astrology is a tricky one. Any competent astrologer could look at a chart and say any number of objectively false things that are simultaneously true within a given field of archetypal possibility. It's ability to narrow the scope in this way is astounding, and also what makes it "true" even though most predictions might factually miss the mark.

Without a sophisticated understanding of the house system, no skeptic could possibly understand. I've given up trying to explain it. Those who know, know.
My parents have a Dell color laser print from ~10 years ago and it's amazing. It has ethernet and can scan-to-email with an auto document feeder. A full set of toners on Amazon was under $50 last time I bought some (they don't go through it much). I actually wanted to buy a new one for myself, but Dell are long out of the laser market and it doesn't seem like there is anything equivalent.
There is only so much wireless spectrum.

Multiple companies are allowed to lay fiver. It’s not regulation that prevents overbuilding but economics.
> Most people just want what they're already accustomed to.

People with more resources and more power have taken larger living spaces for centuries, the idea of wanting more space isn't some creation of post-WWII America.

Nowdays we talk about trains in the US as a "let's get away from suburban development" but the train itself was a driver of suburbanization from London, historically - people opted for more space and a train commute when they got the option.
> Translation requires editorial discretion and necessarily changes the meaning from the original language.

This is exactly the kind of excuse I was talking about. An honest translator tries to preserve meaning as much as possible. A dishonest one uses translation as an excuse to tweak meaning to their liking, and accuses objectors that it's either that, or a "nonsensical, word-for-word literal translation".
I think a big mistake was too many major net neutrality advocates in the US tried to bundle too many things under the "net neutrality" label.

Net neutrality should have been this, and only this:

> If an ISP customer has a plan that purports to give the customer B bytes of data per month and a data transfer speed of S bits/second, then

> 1. The ISP will not limit (unless legally required to) what sites the customer can use those B bytes per month with, and

> 2. The ISP will not throttle the user to below S bits/second when using those B bytes/month, except when necessary to deal with congestion.

If the ISP does that, they satisfy net neutrality. If they also give you access to their own services without counting that against your B bytes, or make deals to give you access to certain sites without it counting against your B bytes, that may be anti-competitive but as long as you still get your B bytes at S bits/second it would not be a net neutrality violation.

If it is anti-competitive it should be dealt with through the large body of law that had been extensively developed for more than 100 years to deal with such things: antitrust law. Trying to shove a subset of antitrust law into net neutrality just because a particular behavior that might be anti-competitive happens to involve in internet service makes no sense.
The standard I like to apply is - imagine if they did this will phone calls or emails
Electricity grids have two parts -- the infrastructure that moves the electricity and the actual power.

Before home generation, everyone needed both. The cost of the infrastructure was amortized over all of the customers. As it turned out, rich people used more power, so by having a single charge just based on usage but that covered the cost of both usage and the grid, rich people subsidized poor people.

But the home solar came along, and the rich people started getting it. So now the power companies have a problem. They still have to maintain all of that grid infrastructure, whether you're connected to it or not, and they need rich people to subsidize it.

The could have simply split the bill up and put the infrastructure on the property tax bill and then just charge people for their actual usage, but that would be complicated and would reveal how much they pay for each part.

So instead they lobbied for laws that don't let you go off grid and force you to pay a minimum "connection fee" each month.
They probably don't want this AI turn nazi in less then a week, like the one they put on Twitter, thanks to the "learnings" it gets from users.
>“Only people who agree with me are capable of rational thought and discussion.”

I find this paraphrasing somewhat uncharitable.
Really depends on the country. In Germany the payments you get out of it are related to the ones you put into it and are separate from the taxes.
What could possibly go right?

Read the comment about NZ. Or refer to Sweden.
Bell Canada or Telus?
2nd most massive landmass.
You should try LXD containers. They are secured by default and very fast to spin up down. Can also snapshot
There have been people for a long time who think the world is going to end. We can use your argument to dismiss anyone who fears any existential risk like asteroids, nuclear war, climate change, AI, etc...

And since the world exists every group will be wrong except one.

I think the risk of human extermination is much lower than many in this group believe because I think AI is much more compute bound than algorithm bound. So I think a hard takeoff is very unlikely. But while the median case for climate change is probably worse than the median case for AI. The existential risks for AI seem much higher. And it's a concern worth taking seriously.
Why HTTP/3 uses UDP protocol under QUIC instead of TCP
Marketing Veteran here.

To give you direction I’d like to understand the purpose. If you’re familiar with software engineering you can draw a parallel between vastly different approaches eg FPGA programming vs native app development.

Are you looking to understand strategic (brand/integrated) approach to marketing or tactical (eg performance marketing)? Are you interested in understanding marketing to help specific objectives or to assist a business at different stages? (Aided Awareness or conversions). Are you interested in targeting consumers or businesses.

Let me know and I can provide some directional guidance.
they money in the printer is the ink. this is why HP try to block you off of third party ink.
On the other hand, we and we alone live in a time where a grapefruit-sized weapon could obliterate a reasonably sized town, AND when such weapons are increasingly in reach of non-state entities. I would imagine the chance of apocalypse rises as fewer people in agreement would be required to enact it.
This was quite literally the motive for this article.