skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably an advantage many places would have over somewhere like the US which is quite fragmented and struggles to consistently coordinate in solving broad problems. I always remember just 2-3 years ago, driving onto a toll road in the eastern USA and there was an attendant at the booth. You paid them in notes/coins, and the attendant got the coins in their hand, leant out of their box and deposited them in a payment slot to raise the boom gate. I'm sure there was some rationale, but it was pretty bizarre.
I definitely see the logic in your statement (and it seems like tech/logic-oriented people tend to agree with you and me), but I lament that most of society operates on a much more "feelings-based" basis, and thus they generally see something like "$Person engaged in a detailed $deepTaboo simulation with computer using the $SoftwareProduct" and start looking around for someone to crucify (usually both $Person and the owner of $SoftwareProduct) for 'promoting' $deepTaboo -- without asking "who was harmed?"

Even if the constitution is actually consulted and the parties are spared pearl-clutching prosecution about it, the court of public opinion will punish the company just as hard, pressuring gatekeepers like Apple to ban it, etc.

And thanks to the deep, disturbing taboos that can be involved, it's super hard to find someone who will stick their neck out to challenge all this. I know I wouldn't, because I know I would be immediately branded as "Joe Bloggs, Fan and Advocate of (Insert disgusting perversion)"

I wonder if this is something more advanced societies would come to terms with. I know ours is not equipped to handle it in a smart way.
> Apparently our culture is so weak that it can’t stand up on its own and needs the entire edifice of government to prop it up.

It's interesting to me that I live reasonably close to the Canadian border on the US side and yet literally the only Canadian media I know of is Trailer Park Boys / Letterkenny.
Nah. It’s the same thing as every culture naming themselves “the people”. Every species names their planet after the thing from which life grows and they stand on, ie “dirt”
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About air safety: the pilots cabin has much better quality air than the passenger section.
Cool, but it's notable and important that the idea is coming from a US military officer in a MIT thesis. No ideas are purely novel.
Bitcoin is very useful.
I shutdown every pc
The thing is I want to make a dissent account against certain country’s Government and I don’t want anyone else in trouble because of my tweets.
That was my gut impulse, too.

But then I realized that I've got three laptops. One for personal use, and 2 for jobs.

And I think I have my previous two phones in a drawer.
But the Pixel 2 got its final update in 2020 and doesn't get security updates anymore, right? I'll take security over performance if it's my daily-driver and I'm doing things that might actually make sense to protect (banking et al), but threat models vary of course.
And I make no apologies for having never heard of either of them! Just not interested in music that's made from the ground up just to stick in people heads for a few days, personally. The art is gone, they follow a pretty basic formula. And they usually don't even write their own music except for the lyrics. And if you're lucky you might even get to hear their actual voice!

Might as well just listen to generative music at that point. At least that will have interesting moments in it when it enters the uncanny valley.
There's so much to unpack. AI could be a memetic prion for our brains. The LLM could be a virus that shortcuts notions of critical thinking and original ideas.

On the other hand, if society is fair and just, we will have AI act as a contrarion and skeptic. We will be able to fly through multiple context layers in an instant--at least as fast as our eyes and ears allow.

What are your thoughts on the "social issues of power?"
Yes if you are dependent on Google or Google integrated apps, simply deactivating it on a standard OS may not be a fit option for you. Graphene has built shims to make most apps work, but you might have a problem with another OS. I deleted my Google account many years ago and have not had Google Play on my devices since then. I use very few proprietary apps anyways.
I get taxing companies for things that cost taxpayers money, but why do this based on recyclability? It seems like more of an economic problem: if recycled plastic costs more than new plastic, then why is it better? Charge companies for packaging that ends up in the landfill instead, otherwise these companies are essentially being subsidized by taxpayers to package things however is more profitable without having to account for that cost.
agreed. why are we washing and transporting plastic. just bury it and if it’s worth something later dig it up.
Anything with a locked bootloader should have lifetime support. Even with an unlocked bootloader 3 years of software support is not remotely fine. Most phones with decent care can last 6 years fine. Realistically even with unlocked bootloaders a lack of perpetual android updates is going to result in waste.
I understand the sentiment but it's not a solution. The only solution is to prohibit plastic packaging or force companies to use types of plastic that are easy to recycle. I believe it's easier to regulate the company producing the waste than try to get the entire population to agree on and behave in a certain way.
The same thing that compels them to go to meatspace war.

Control of scarce resources.
Tom7 back to his usual madness. This time, exploiting floating point rounding, first to allow a neural network activation function to be linear (except for rounding errors), then expanding until ultimately making a 6502 emulator and proving that linear operations + rounding errors are Turing complete.
Google isn't carbon neutral. They are neutral-ish. They still use coal and natural gas based energy generation to power their DCs. They just buy an equivalent amount of energy in other locations as 'offsets'. If all coal and natural gas generation went offline today, Google would have an outage of their datacenters.
Best of luck in your search!
They are not synonyms.

Location means being close to things you like. Those things can be, but are not always other humans. you might like a location because it is beautiful, by the ocean, mountains, or a short commute.

I might like a location because it is close to a high paid job, but hate the population density. That is to say, population density can be a negative attribute of a location.
May Day does not really mean anything in the US.

You can offer people help but, you can't force them to accept it.

They have the resources to get all the drugs they want, iPhones and better camping equipment than I have.

A lot of the crime in the area seems to be driven by organized crime groups. Helping homeless people won't stop that.
So I work in the energy sector, and you are correct. The method we use for pricing power at a grid level is "local marginal pricing" - this is a price that is based on the location, the demand for power, and the ability for us to get the power across constraints (that is across a power gradient). It is often uneconomical to transmit power great distances, and loss factors are not insignificant. Not sure about Bhutan's grid, or who they can interchange to, but there are frequently wind farms in TX that have to take a loss to generate power simply because they are forced to generate power, and there is no demand for power in the region, and the buses (power lines) are congested. Also stranded hydropower is common the world over - it's easy to generate that power but difficult to build grid and interconnects to transmit that power - the line losses would be too high. For other types of generators - typically nuclear, often times ramp times for them are in the months, so turning up and turning down power is often difficult which is why an application that is passive, droppable, and can withstand latency is ideal to consume such power.
Is this science? This is a human made up calendar, not how many protons are in a gold atom.
I live in Washington (a couple hours from Vancouver). Should I apply or are you only looking for Canadian residents?
the distinction is real in the model of the turing machine, and it's close to real in many of the machines and programs we've built so far. It's not real in nature, in brains. Code is data and vice versa. A memory is a program that runs and reinforces itself.
Related (though not a sator square). A while back I made an implementation of 5x5 word squares, following an example from Knuth: https://row-major.net/articles/2020-05-12-interactive-word-s...
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Bitcoin makes people's lives better. A lot of people use it as a savings account. That's really great, especially for people living with a hyperinflationary currency.
Sentience and self-awareness are not unique to homo sapiens at all.

Humans became more intelligent due to developing oral and literary traditions that allowed the preservation and accumulation of knowledge. Everything that made a modern human "intelligent" is a direct result of that accumulation of knowledge, not some sort of biological miracle.
It’s astounding to me that the bulk of replies in this thread are supportive. Yay big government! Yay Brave New World!
I was never much of a VICE follower, but their This Is What Winning Looks Like [0] special on the US' war in Afghanistan seemed like pretty solid journalism.

Wish they'd continue producing content like that... Hamilton's Pharmacopeia was fun as well.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI
Galaxy brain: write a single news release that is simultaneously responsive to computing industry layoff trend, and LLM/AI trend.
Also a 20/40 year warranty is what manufactures guarantee.

There is every likeyhood panels guaranteed for 20 years are still in use decade(s) past their warranty.
I suspect this is the preferred solution for the legislature. At no effort of their own the problem has disappeared. And disappeared in such a way that nobody can participate. (Dup)
I think there are over 40 churches descended from the teachings of Joseph Smith now (someone knowledgeable once told me this, I don't have a source). Most of them are very small.

An initial split occurred before leaving Missouri with a large number of followers including Joseph Smith's mother and other family members (as I recall) choosing to follow James Strang to Beaver Island instead of Brigham Young to Utah.

That settlement was forcibly broken up, but it's an interesting story. You can google James Strang, (The King of Beaver Island) to read more on it. That church is still around as well and claim to be the true inheritors of the teachings of Smith.

https://www.ldsstrangite.com/
I'm not sure what you are getting at. The half-thrust test had very little damage and was more force than every other rocket on the planet.
I'm Canadian and view it as a net negative.
My read:

Person A was potentially discriminated against, which combined with the previous incident of discrimination understandably got the author's hackles raised.

Person B may have been fired for any number of reasons, very few of which are any of the author's business. I've had to fire people who were viewed as great by their peers because they were browsing illegal porn at work, or because they sexually harassed a coworker, or they flagrantly and dangerously violated InfoSec policy, or they were observed not once but twice shooting up heroin in the work locker room. HR isn't going to share any of those reasons with nosy coworkers, and the person who was fired is also unlikely to admit to it.

After that it sounds like the author made themselves a completely unbearable coworker. ~50 person startups have code quality issues, bad documentation, lack of formal processes, etc, almost as a rule. If the author was making as big of a stink as it sounds like they were about it, they were demonstrably doing their job poorly.

While their involvement in championing person A may have absolutely factored into the decision to lay them off, so could their (potentially) inappropriate prying into the decision about person B, or their general unwillingness to help the startup meet their ship dates. Or the company could've done layoffs purely based on project need, compensation, and role redundancy (how companies are supposed to do layoffs), and the first 90% of the article could've been irrelevant to the decision.
Seriously. Looking around, I would not be surprised to learn we have already passed the end of the world and have moved into hell.
Ironic comment considering world population is 8 billion
What was the rationale for not requiring plates? California is also the only state I've driven in where the freeways don't have mile markers. How are people supposed to report the location of an accident or breakdown?
Controversial to no one. This is something we wanted.
Yup. So complain to Qualcomm and apply pressure to your device manufacturer on their forum, social media, your blog, the media, a YouTube video. Right To Repair didn't gain traction by nerds preaching to the choir. They're a corp. Threaten to hit them where it hurts: bottomline, and negative press causing damage to the bottomline.
TLDR: Researchers solved the Mayan 819-day count mystery by finding that 20 cycles of it align with the planets' recurring positions in the sky over a 45-year period, connecting it to the general Maya calendar, the Tzolk'in.
>Could you really be confident you understood how it worked by just running experiments on it as a black box

the human brain is a black box, we can certainly learn a lot about it by prodding and poking it.

>Things look like magic especially when you can’t look under the hood.

imagine we had a 100% complete understanding of the mechanical/chemical/electrical functioning of the human brain. Would knowing the magic make it any less magical? in some sense, yes (the mystique would be gone, bye bye dualism), but in a practical sense, not really. It's still an astonishingly useful piece of grey matter.
Those previous, now unused, devices didn't become waste in 2022. They became waste when you stopped using them and don't end up ever re-using them.
What's the strongest evidence you have? The example provided isn't very compelling in my view.
> Disregarding the Court is a constitutional crisis.

Then a constitutional crisis there shall be. Words don't scare me. If a "constitutional crisis" means the government _doesn't_ default on its debt and some politicians and pundits cry foul, and nothing else changes under the heavens, then let's have a "constitutional crisis".

> On the other hand, we have the President unilaterally overruling the Congress and the Court. One is a check. The other a coup.

Congress can impeach and convict if it's such a big deal. Until they do...
I don’t understand your point. Destitution is the outcome of the various factors you’ve just listed, not the cause.
What happens when costs get high? People innovate! When demand for bitcoin increases, more money will be invested in cheaper and more abundant power sources.
I don't think this is always true. Centralized services have practical benefits, and federation is a compromise between fully decentralized and centralized.

Federation frees individual users from key management (a trivial issue for HN users, but a big pain for less technical users).

Instance admins can handle spam and abuse for entire communities, and what is acceptable varies between communities.

Data can be aggregated per instance instead of independently fetched per user. For example, previews for external links can be cached per instance, since you trust your instance. In a fully distributed system it'd be either vulnerable to manipulation (since HTTPS doesn't offer a way for others to cryptographically verify data originates from a URL, without contacting the origin server) or every user would have to fetch a link preview themselves, which has DDoS potential and tracking risks.
Sounds like something Cobra from GI Joe would do. But in reality, it would have little value to anyone other than the intended bearer.
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All of these things are true. Jobs was clearly brilliant and creative and also ultimately a shrewd (and somewhat ruthless) businessman.

But he was right about the transformative power of building things yourself.
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It's easy to understand when most popular streaming services here are foreign owned and have created a terrible image for themselves by producing barely any tax revenue for the country.
Calculators are not smarter than humans. Don’t be obtuse. He means the same thing anyone means when they say something like “Alice is smarter than Bob”.
All warfare is a waste of resources, but those who decide to become pacifists are eventually out competed and subsumed by those who maintain the art of war.

I'd love to know if you've found a solution to this dilemma.
it's only been a year since 2012? Man it feels longer, must be all the bad news
Vice News (Owned by HBO!) is still incredible!
well no because according to what these 20+ year veteran medical professionals with published credentials stated in the very extensive neurological-focused research manuscript they, being highly accredited MD professors with literal PhD's in neurology, neurophysiology, heck one is even a neurosurgeon who studied neuroanesthesiology, wrote about, because, well, it's kind of their, how to say, area of focus and specialty, or, well, thing,

> All four patients were comatose at baseline (S1) with no evidence of voluntary behavior or any overt consciousness during the last 24 h of their lives; their Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores were of 3 (Pt1, Pt2, and Pt4) and 4 (Pt3). Due to poor neurological prognosis and upon approval of the patients’ family members, life support was ultimately withdrawn from all four comatose patients.

if the words stemming from a group of literal badass neurologist's badass study - https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216268120 - isn't enough to do it alone, this article - https://hyperallergic.com/720694/science-confirms-that-life-... - should work to further refute your lackadaisical claim, maybe even pique a little interest along the way.

all i am saying is, we're part of something. something much much bigger. if not, oh well! :)
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Reforming "flagging" to make it less open to abuse and brigading is obviously overdue.
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The black market is around 12% in Australia despite the high taxes because Australia is a country isolated on all sides by ocean. Compared to somewhere like New York where the taxes are equally punitive but smuggled cigs make up 50% of consumption. It's a problem in that Border Force (a ridiculous name for a border inspection agency) look for it but in general there's not an easy way to smuggle cigs like taking a uhaul full of them from NH to NYC.
Check your financial privilege buddy. You may think that because you get paid in the world reserve currency with low inflation. Others are not as lucky, and this won't always be the case. Heard about de-dolloraziation?
Wind farm in Germany is being dismantled to expand coal mine
Destitution can be solved with charity or job offers. The other factors can not.

Writing destitution as the problem leads to useless fixes.
Your argument sounds like (and correct me if I'm wrong) something along the lines of "he chose to do X, and afterwards X was the correct choice, so he must be good at choosing correctly."

Isn't that ad hoc ergo propter hoc?

That argument would also support the statement "he went all in with 2-7 preflop, and won the hand, so he must be good at poker" -- I assume you and I would both agree that statement is not true. So why does it apply in Geoffrey's case?
100%

Flagging stuff because "I don't like this" "it's critical of me or my friend or something I like" should be punished
What made you think there will be improvement?