skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an account of someone who worked with him. These thought experiments are interesting. You can judge for yourself what they might be after:

To give you a picture of where the culture eventually ended up, here's a list of some things I experienced by the end of my time there:

1. 2-6hr long group debugging sessions in which we as a sub-faction(Alignment Group) would attempt to articulate a "demon" which had infiltrated our psyches from one of the rival groups, its nature and effects, and get it out of our systems using debugging tools.

2. People in my group commenting on a rival group having done "magic" that weekend and clearly having "powered up," and saying we needed to now go debug the effects of being around that powered-up group, which they said was attacking them or otherwise affecting their ability to trust their own perception

3. Accusations being thrown around about people leaving "objects" (similar to demons) in other people, and people trying to sort out where the bad "object" originated and if it had been left intentionally/malevolently or by accident/subconsciously.

4. People doing seances seriously. I was under the impression the purpose was to call on demonic energies and use their power to affect the practitioners' social standing.

5. Former rationalists clearing their homes of bad energy using crystals.

6. Much talk & theorizing on "intention reading," which was something like mind-reading.

7. I personally went through many months of near constant terror at being mentally invaded. S. I personally prayed for hours most nights for months to rid myself of specific "demons" I felt I'd picked up from other members of Leverage.

If this sounds insane, it's because it was. It was a crazy experience unlike any I've ever had. And there are many more weird anecdotes where that came from.
Who, Piketty?
This page has an auto-playing video.
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Pretty nice, I have two questions:

1. Comparing to something like GitPod (which lets you run on your own instances as well), where do you think Hocus shines?

2. Given you're leveraging Firecracker for isolation, and Firecracker doesn't support GPUs, I assume that adding GPU-enabled machines isn't on your near-term roadmap?
This is nonsense. You might as well say "if literacy can improve your odds of success, then there is something fundamentally wrong with that occupation".
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All my objections to Tesla were validated after I took one for a test drive. It felt cheap, the ride was fine but nothing special, and the control scheme (with that touchscreen) was awful. I also can't agree with you at all on the handling. It certainly handles better than a Honda accord, but nowhere near a 911 unless you're driving in a straight line. Teslas are hard to beat in a straight line thanks to the torque from the electric motors.

Also, as a practical matter, you have to ride the accelerator pedal in a Tesla because the car will roll to a stop in a very short distance if you don't. With most other cars, you can hover your foot over the brake to prepare for an emergency. I assume that some fraction of the people whose Teslas "accelerated out of control" when they were trying to hit the brake didn't realize this.
>The US wait for equivalent of GP is like next 1-2 days

Again, I'd like to see the stats on that. I wanted to see my Dr for an annual checkup and was told it was a 2+ month wait and if I didn't want to wait I could see some random nurse practitioner.

There are 2nd world countries where it is incredibly cheap to call your doctor's cell phone and have them come to you in a day or two.
When pop came out, there was a lot of speculation that System76 would find that rolling their own distro was more of a challenge than expected, but they seem to have pulled it off. I have it running on my main personal laptop and have been really impressed. It feels more specifically polished for running as a desktop OS on a laptop than Ubuntu while still getting the whole ecosystem of software.
Do you have a full-size working prototype? Have you tried this on a real shipping container ship? And can't Maersk just copy this concept?
Run me through your back of the envelope calculation here. It seems to me like you have plugged in -infinity for the utility of heart disease which is an example of the scale insensitive reason you are currently accusing people of.
I don't care about licensing costs just the final total cost. And I absolutely don't care that it is "politically nonaligned", bah.

I care because David Patterson is a badass who was right about everything. :)
Sometimes it does, but I asked ChatGPT (not 4) to give me song lyrics for a song that it should have had data for and it gave me entirely wrong lyrics. I asked again and it gave me me more bad lyrics, not even close, and it didn't even pretend it didn't know, the lyrics would have been convincing. If I didn't already know the material I wouldn't know it was confabulating.
> I don’t think it matters to their business or customers. So while they may well be taking a stance without even knowing - no one cares.

If Google came out and said "Dokdo is Korea territory" I absolutely guarantee there would be a complete shitstorm in Japan, probably ending with Google getting banned from Japan. You have absolutely no clue what a hot-button issue that is between those countries.

Your initial assertion is just wrong. Businesses stay out of politics all the time.
Better to start by cutting the number of chat apps being released in a given year? Probably pay for a lot of staplers hmm?
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Return means return to the rightful owner. Who is the rightful owner here?
You beat me to it by one minute. The problem with bad Solaris translations exists at least also in German.
Audio has always been a tough spot for Linux in my experience. That said, I also have problems with MacOS too so my problem might lie somewhere between my chair and keyboard.
Here I am in Marseille, 3rd city in France, with shitty ADSL... Sure I can choose between 4 carriers, but none offer fiber.
> RISC-V is the open source answer

This particular CPU is not open source.
Yeah, I'd say that kites would be far more practical considering that automatic piloting should be easily solved (trivial compared to e.g. driving cars or landing rockets) and structural changes to the ship would be so much smaller.

But https://skysails.com have completely given up on ships (full focus on stationary electricity generation), and they had already been at the point of operating an installation on a real life freighter. But at least it's not clear that their goodbye to ships was due to technological challenges: it might be because of unrelated business events, e.g. the shipping company they partnered with was already on the course to failure (chances are from their perspective the kite project has been a desperate hail mary from the start), and are some point the not-electricity part had mostly pivoted to shopping management software and that part was eventually completely separated from anything kite related.
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It's an econo shitbox sold at premium price with dubious software to increase their margins, with removals decided on a whim by an egomaniac idiot.
Do they? A large chunk of the market is held by retirement accounts. My 401k doesn't care about staplers, and I would very much value long-term gains over short-term savings.

Collectively, 401k holders don't have much of a voice. I suppose Vanguard might, but even so, retirement accounts are specifically balanced such that they have less short-term risk the nearer they come to fruition, and Vanguard's motive, in theory, should be to provide me with better long-term gains, not short-term savings at the expense of a worse retirement.

I think I want to see a stronger argument for "the shareholders" … and/or these sorts of (idiotic) decisions (that we see far more companies doing than just Google; cf the McD's article that trended earlier where McD is laying people off while beating profit expectations!) would seem to fall squarely on bad management.
I want to use somebody else's gpt-4 API token because I don't have gpt-4 API access.

I asked for whitelist access, didn't get it yet and now I won't get it because my country banned openai an openai closed my pro account.
Because WFH didn't work for them.

My opinion as someone who's never been a megacorp exec: WFH should work, but they long ago set themselves up around some kind of over-collaboration with too many cooks in the kitchen, then with WFH they just introduced a big latency factor to it without fundamentally changing how they work (which would've been too risky).
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One wonders how large that line item could possibly be across literally the entire company.

Running a quick Fermi calculation, multiplying my personal rate of staple usage over the past year by the number of employees at Google we get... $0 spent on staplers.

This may be an underestimate.

Still... here's 5,000 staples for 4.29, with no particular effort put into price shopping: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/749601/Office-Depot-B... which yields 1.2 million staples for a cool $1000. In reality I'm sure bulk buying could push that down even more.

I'm finding it hard to believe even Google goes through much more than that in a year. But even if I'm wrong, does it go through 120 million staples per year, necessary to get up to even a semblance of one employee's salary?

What an astonishing message to send to stockholders and investors.
As you said, most managers haven't even heard of "Theory Y" management. Mangerialism (and here I'm using it as defined by Spender and Locke) is the dominant paradigm in most parts of the business world. This is not a problem with one individual's company. It's way larger than that.
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Might makes right ;)
Whew boy -- the reminder of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is powerful on this one.

I can't imagine it would not be more than a few minutes of downloading the image from archive.org and running it on any VM - I would be a bit surprised if this had any kind of sophisticated VM countermeasures in it.

Meanwhile, I can believe there is some 4 million line code of something (maybe it was written in assembly!) - in any case a horrible unmaintainable mess that nobody at this software company wants to deal with anymore. Rather just rewrite it in some web based shit like half of this site does for a living.

Also on actually reading TFA - it's rife with errors - at no point in history was the DECTalk the only game in town for speech synthesis - let alone 1999! - and the idea that it was the only one with controllable pitch is hogwash as anyone with a early 90s Mac can attest.
A problem is that after the "environmental disaster du jour" there is always a lot of humans that write online a variation of the phrase "we humans are the worst, and we should all go extinct".

Very popular response and very wrong speech to train a machine that can't distinguish cheap virtue signalling from what people would really think or want
One could run the benchmarks with the new version of the software under concern and report back
There's a handful of objectively valuable things like air, water, and food which I literally cannot live without. The value of pretty much anything else is imaginary because it's subjective.

The value of cryptocurrency is just far more imaginary than dollars, euros, or even gold.
xorg can use PipeWire, PulseAudio, JACK, and/or ALSA.
I'm not sure if this is what you are getting at or not, but Yudkowsky is a fiction writer and of course Hubbard was known as being a science fiction writer who pivoted to claiming his new writings were literally true. I can see similarities there as Yud is essentially pointing at various science fiction concepts from the last 100 years about AI and proclaiming those things are actually going to happen on our current path.

That said I don't think any of his ideas offer much new thought and his schtick is mostly alarmism, so suggesting he's a "genius" is going way too far.

Oh man, see this comment for more L Ron parallels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429692
Yes, I can't say that we have absolutely everything figured out so far, but we have a decently complete model. Windage, changes to draught, and GM are already factored into our models at the root level, and while we may need to still tweak things we aren't waiting to be surprised by their effects.
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Absolutely correct. Reading my post, I realize my conclusion was unclear: each successive elimination of corruption within Ukraine, starting in the 2010's, was more and more threatening to Putin and his oligarch cronies until pressure on their theft of oil revenues become unbearable.
A friend of mine worked at a public airline and whenever they had a bad quarter, things like coffee would get cut so people would feel it. But those types of industries operate on razor thin margins.
What a find, thank you...
OS level "closures" are something I think about, and then the idea of composing said container/env closures into larger ones. I don't know if it's stupid or useful.
Maybe you know something I don't, but switching to an entirely-virtual provider in response to a difficult-to-execute physical threat seems a bit misguided to me.

Google also has notoriously nonexistent customer service. It does not instill confidence that anyone should rely on them for something as critical as identity management. The threat of them fucking you over when you need their help far outweighs the threat of hackers and scammers.

(Virtual money was supposed to be more secure than physical coin. That experiment didn't work so well either.)
A matching or best-effort decompilation would be quite slow and difficult to complete successfully, especially if the program was obfuscated. I'd think the source code is effectively lost, except if someone puts the time into recreating it off the binaries.
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> now there are lots of good options available and it's no longer necessary to put up with this

Tesla has its battery supply chain nailed down to a degree its competition can only dream of. That’s slowly changing. But they likely have another half decade of margin advantage before the majors begin to seriously bite into their volume.
Yes they are catching up, but also cost more and get you less.

In NZ base ioniq5/ev6 cost slightly more, but you don’t get panoramic roof, autopilot, app, leather seats, heated seats, electric tailgate, storage.

What Tesla is missing tho is v2l, buttons, carplay.

Overall people here seem to like paying a little more just not to be seen driving “flashy Tesla”…
To me this looks like an experiment that demonstrates primarily : GPT4 as an assistant would happily translate user’s ideas into a lot of text.
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Hm, April Fool's? When will Bard burn things down because its metaverse stapler hasn't been returned?
No, the argument is not flawed from the start.

The burden of evidence is on whomever asserts the positive. There is a dramatic lack of evidence that these mastermind groups lead to success. And therefore we should view with suspicion anyone who says you should pay many thousands of dollars for something with no evidence of effectiveness.
I don't understand what I'm expected to think of articles that are just "look at this variable name!"

If you're not going to go through the trouble of finding out what the line of code actually does, what's the point?
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AUD$35,000 for small subcompact is not cheap.
I'm assuming you can see who is offering to do the job and select someone else. If that's not the case then you're right.
SkySails which is the company knew tried kites seems to have given up ships and changed focus to land-based power:

> SkySails is the pioneer of wind-assisted ship propulsion systems based on kites. The technology was successfully proven on board of sea-going vessels between 2004 and 2012. However, in order to make the biggest possible impact on the ongoing energy transition, SkySails decided to focus on the dynamic energy sector with its SkySails airborne wind energy systems for power production for the time being.

> The SkySails propulsion system for vessels is therefore currently not marketed anymore.

https://skysails-marine.com/ | https://skysails-power.com

Back in the days they even had some commercial orders: https://www.surfertoday.com/kiteboarding/norwegian-ship-orde...

Not sure I buy their reasoning of discontinuing the shipping angle. Seems likely it was a hard sell.

I always though it seems like a cool idea, given that the automatic controls were robust enough. Hope airseas have more luck.
It is obvious to you and me. It is not obvious to them. I would agree that it's terrible that this is the dominant management paradigm is one that seems terrible to a lot of workers. Whether or not these people "have no business" managing doesn't really matter in that they are broadly in charge. Denying the reality isn't going to change the situation.
> Since when?

Its what the courts in many areas have generally ruled.

If you make a report, and those reports are valid but ignored, they can be sued and the city or organization becomes liable because they were negligent. A judge decides damages which impact ongoing budgets.

> Karen is guilty of violating these laws.

Yes, but how difficult is it to prove intent. How often do defamation suits win? Will a prosecutor ever really go after someone that claims a plausible excuse?

Don't they have more important things to devote their resources towards?

What about the harms caused to the parents, and the children, very hard to quantify. A report is self-enforcing because the police have a duty of care to respond to reports.

Litigation would only ever actually occur civilly, and outside of extreme circumstances that demonstrate clear bad faith its a grey area that goes unenforced and unpunished.

So who in the end actually gets punished, and is that punishment coercive. The courts generally don't recognize it as such since the accused (the person reporting it) has good faith protection. Its very hard to prove they did it in bad faith.
Litigation would only ever actually occur civilly, and outside of extreme circumstances that demonstrate clear bad faith its a grey area that goes unenforced and unpunished.

So who in the end actually gets punished?
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