skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Objectively speaking the non-capitalist systems have failed in this area too. The UK’s NHS is not capitalist and it is surely isn’t succeeding better than the US healthcare system.

The NHS has been effectively privatized as much as the Conservatives could get away with. It is constantly underfunded. It is not an example of a system the government wants to make work. In fact making it not work is the goal.

Yet when a family member of mine needed a life saving operation, they got it promptly and it didn't send them into any debt, whereas in contrast there's something like 50k preventable deaths a year in the U.S. due to lack of healthcare and people of poor means actively avoid visiting the hospital, so the NHS still works better for the vast majority.

Yes, for us in the tech industry and for elective procedures it's not so great, but that also perhaps isn't what regular people need.
Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020)
To be fair, I did edit and make some adjustments. Their critique was valid as of my initial post.
In that chart, gas stoves are only 51-70% even in Illinois. The 89% label you’re seeing is percent of electric stoves in nearby state of Tennessee.
Right now one party is to blame for the debt ceiling not being raised.

That might change in the future, and if it does I'll be the first one to blame the Democrats. But today, right now, it's the Republicans screwing up.
You know the vast majority of history is nothing but death and despair right? You can’t expect other people to solve your problems for you. At some point you have to accept that waiting for life to come to you will result in poverty, that is true of the 99.99999999% of people in every society ever. I get that it’s not fun to confront the harshness of reality, but your comments really do make it seem like you’re expecting people who don’t take initiative to just have things handed to them(to be clear I have no problem just handing people basic necessities such as food and healthcare, but good jobs are a privilege, not a right).

Acting like being in small town America is an economic tragedy is a gigantic insult to the millions of people who sacrificed everything to migrate to the developed world, and those people are largely extremely good at lifting themselves out of poverty when they arrive. Why are locals less economically mobile?

There has never been a more prosperous time to be alive than right now in western countries, we need to continue to work to make life better for everyone society, but there is no magic solution other than hard work.
Sounds like instinct at play. Woodpecker found a food source, came back and it was dried up, and naturally, it started digging to find more where that came from.

But what do I know, I'm just Monday morning armchair ornithologist!
The horrors of the Y2K bug are so easily forgotten: some web sites displayed "19100" as a date!

Truly the official paranoia over "are we ready for Y2k" was far more bothersome than the actuality of the bugs that needed fixing. For allt he hype about "the world will end" it was easy to see that even in the worst cases we could roll the damned clocks back and continue to get things done.

No one wanted to talk about that because the Apocalypse is so much more fun.

Right now, just the same, people really want to talk about "AI is going to kill us all" but not "AI isn't "intelligent" even with recent advances . The question of "just what is 'intelligent'" is one we want to avoid, lest we are forced to include some higher mammals and exclude some less able humans.

I agree people are seeing the same thing; an opportunity to panic in a fun, safe way, over possibilities that common sense strongly suggests will not have severe consequences.
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Honestly, while I believe a lot of the perspective shared, there always seems to be a huge lack of objective assessment of options for these folks.

In tech there are many incredibly high paying jobs - taking control over your situation has a low bar.

if you don’t like your manager, taking the view that if you escalate a formal complaint to HR (in doing so lose all trust you manager and HR may have in you), you’ll be vindicated and live on happily ever after… it’s a fairytale. Go work somewhere that makes you happy. Leave toxic environments - it’s not your job to fix them/right wrongs.

There are certainly real victims in these environments.

There are also in my personal experience a lot of people who make noise/complain about immaterial incidents in the hope of claiming some group control over their situation or with some sense of justice around fixing things. This thrashing can create a toxic environment for those around in itself.
The “Location Off” switch on your phone is a lie
So Nazis were conscious of race because they wanted to commit genocide. Left wingers are conscious of race because they want to eradicate social inequities. Yeah, personally I wouldn't waste my time trying to downplay this sort of discourse as a joke.
A common issue in my house is that someone says "Hey Google, Stop!" which of course turns off the music/video that is playing on the TV rather than the blaring alarm. Because having the keyword do something different for the one command that doesn't need it is a really smart move.
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That is not true (well we can argue how we get to likely I guess), markets expect the rate to be lower than today in 1-2 years:
https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/
I had to patch a ton of systems for Y2K. The only fear involved was that I would be working long hours and responding to whatever fallout we missed. I am happy to mostly get to skip the Y2K38 bugs and the handful of date related bugs after that. I might just have to set an option [1] on my XFS volumes for my personal nodes.

LLMs and AGI are a big bag of unknowns. I have no idea what glorious and malfeasant things companies, governments and people will do with them. Perhaps they will continue the path of manipulation as currently done on the social media platforms and tuning their algorithms get rage clicks and other aspects of manipulation and misinformation. I have no emotions for it either way as they are just tools. I predict that lawyers will see the most action from the AI fallout especially due to the lack of audit trails and attestation of ingested data sources. Their emotions should be excitement and visions of $$$$$$.

[1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XFS#Upgrading
> If they were elected by a public election, there's no way you could have a neutral figure.

Ireland proves that isn’t true.

The Irish system works by allowing the public to choose the President, but having tough nominating criteria. Anyone overly political or controversial is not going to get through the nominating process, and so won’t be able to run. The nominating process produces a shortlist of 2-6 respected figures, and the public gets to choose which one they respect the most. If Italy adopted the same system as Ireland, including the same tough nomination requirements, there is no reason why Italy couldn’t get the same outcome.
> Catholic dogma classifies Protestants heretical Christians

No, it actually does nothing of the kind.
Funny tangent, I quit vaping on 2 Jan 2020 after the worst flu I have ever had (after a flight abroad.. early COVID?) and while I was finally successful after a decade of quitting, it killed all my motivation and energy.

Then I got diagnosed with ADHD, got stimulant meds which restored the energy and then some, and it was clear I had been self medicating all my life with nicotine and I was completely lost without. If one day I lose access to stimulant meds, you better believe I'm back on the patch and/or the vape.

But in general dude, do not joke about nicotine. You are 3 years clean, it's incredibly hard to quit. If you done it once, it doesn't mean you'll do it twice. Maybe avoiding Parkinson's by vaping is a terrible excuse. You've never known addiction if you believe this time you'll be able to control it.
I have done social service instead of military in Switzerland where we have the same system. In fact we have to do 1.5 years of before we are 30. I worked in at least 5 (old people homes and hospitals) different positions. In not a single one of them is it true to say the system couldn't function if not for the civil service workers.

Simply paying normal people to do that work would be perfectly reasonable.

> is far more valuable to society than the taxes they would pay doing some minimum wage part time job waiting tables

Yeah but most people don't actually work minimum wage jobs. Me as a Software Developer spend 6 month cleaning windows. While this was reasonable fun and low stress not sure my window cleaning experience has this great benefit for society.

> not experienced workers who need to be pulled away from their well paying jobs

You start your job one year later and therefore spend 1 year less doing it before retirement, not sure how this is difficult to figure out.
I don't dare take my real smartphone or laptop with me when I fly domestically in the US. I certainly wouldn't take them with me when flying internationally, either.
A fun fact is that there is a monorail station built in the middle of a residential building, so it might also be literal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liziba_station
So presumably you can wander out into town in the evening after work? Maybe you should try doing that next time.

Even bog standard tourist bus trips in literally every country have obvious levels of orchestration designed to show you a face of that region which lacked any warts.
Or there's lots of people who click the flag link
> Let's put deep learning aside for a second. Can anyone here name a single academic in any other subfield of computer science who had a string of groundbreaking research works where every one of those works is from 1980 or after?

That's because of the nature of the field. CS researchers are kind of like NPCs or bureaucrats. The technical stuff we do is not interesting to the general public, but it enables other people to do more interesting stuff.

You mention deep learning as an exception. I, as a researcher in another CS subfield, cannot name a single person who has done fundamental work in it.

The "tragedy" of CS is that it's too relevant in the short term. If someone makes a breakthrough, other people will probably commercialize it in a decade or two. Afterwards, history books won't remember the person who discovered the thing but the company that commercialized it or the product launched by the company.
I would guess for people who want Redis? As I recall Cloudflare KV is more limited and wouldn't be a suitable drop-in replacement.
“pseudonymous”?
have you considered lego? "L gauge" is a fun standard, plus having the extensibility and parts via lego is pretty amazing.
Time itself stops along with the last atomic vibration, violently disrupting our universe's existence in this dimension. Since matter can be neither etc etc a new universe is immediately created to occupy the void. In this scenario absolute entropy would be a paradox.
I am currently developing an option that offers identical quality and features but at a significantly lower cost. Unfortunately, you will have to wait for approximately a year until I complete the development process. However, I believe that the wait will be worth it, and you will be pleased with the outcome.
Were you not aware you could transfer that cash to a normal checking account?
And who says there isn’t?

If this AI is so much smarter than us, who of us is to say it can’t completely solve carbon-based biology or something like that.

That's also why I said "as long as". Writing that to define the criteria for when it would be OK.
>Family structure is itself a class issue.

Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, both very poor parts of the world on average, have a higher ratio of married couples with children to single parents than do the United States and Canada:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/286433/women-worldwide-single-m...

David Drummond, former head of legal at Google and recipient of $47M in total comp in 2019, had a child with a woman who he abandoned and abruptly cut off:

https://www.businessinsider.com/david-drummond-earned-47-mil...

I can provide more anecdotes and data if you like, but my strong sense is that family formation isn't as nearly as tied to class as you think. If anything, low-income people save relatively more money by co-habitating.
… but you have to ask - why can’t this person find a job? Surely not every employer is non-inclusive. There’s smells of a partial story all through this.
This is going off topic, but originally I was replying to this comment: "The modern era has dramatically reduced civilian casualties compared previous generations... Precision munitions contribute heavily to this reduction.". I was trying to explain that the cause of excessive civilian casualties in WW2 was not due to technological limitations. It was fully intended. It was the goal.
Where? As far as I know, all the Deutsche Bahn Tickets for regional traffic use the Deutschlandtarif, which is accepted in all "normal" (excluding heritage trains and the likes) regional trains in all of Germany.
The second part of the title, after the comma, says the opposite of what your quote says.
It just needs to be married with a research and development program. Today in the U.S., most research is done with public grant support. The government puts out a call for proposals in a given area, researchers submit their ideas, their peers evaluate them and decide which should get funding relative to others, and private companies take advantage of these findings with more translational work (or the researchers themselves form a startup or license a patent). In a sense, we have a "communist" system of allocating research money to novel ideas already in the U.S., and it works so well that other nations try and replicate the grant funding models of our NIH, NSF, USDA, DOD, DOE, or other agencies. Of course, these systems were very nascent compared to what they are today back before the 1990s during the cold war, but today, I would think the context today is different than a soviet union facing global embargo half a century ago, especially with all of this published information being available to anyone with an internet connection and not those with physical access to well funded university libraries.
GPT is almost a deterministic text generator. Its "free will" is contained in the tiny RNG that randomly selects the next word. Imagine a world government that blindly follows the advice of its GPT that, in turn, obeys its quantum RNG controlled by god knows who. It will be a nearly perfect way to hide the true master of the world.
Sounds like a resurgence of Marshal protocol.

My autoimmune condition Sjogrens (similar to RA)was initially diagnosed (later confirmed) specifically because symptoms always improved on antibiotics. Was an old
optha-neurologist doctor who had noticed this trend over his life time.

I later found the marshal protocol. But modern doctors have no interest in bacteria as a cause of problems.

https://mpkb.org/home/patients/protocol_overview
I think there's a software engineering bias. Unless you work on critical systems you can generally "move fast and break things." But in the rest of the engineering world this kills people and is often illegal (e.g. aircraft). You're legally liable.

We can even notice this with the difference in software on more critical systems vs non-critical. Compute systems on cars are not the same compute systems in your computer, and are way under powered in comparison. These systems don't fail often, but are slow and most complaints are about how they lack features. On the other hand, my laundry room app has washers in a semi-randomized order (room order 4,6,7,3,11,9,...) and the programmer clearly doesn't know about the sort function. You don't see planes falling out of the sky because of computer issues despite the whole system being fly by wire and that planes mostly fly themselves. Same goes for cars. But you do see washing machines and Twitter fail all the time. These things have different objectives and when you compare you have to consider the different goals.
You can ask it. You can explain your problem and ask how it might be able to help. You can discuss and narrow down with some back and forth what it is you want to do.

I could tell a chat bot I am finding the horizontal split in my editor is annoying because I have a wide monitor, and have it tell me there's a setting for that and ask if I want the default changed.

With a gui I might have to go through the files menu for settings, check if it's in edit-preferences, check tools-options, before maybe having to find out online it's if it's in some settings file.
And here I am wondering how I-5 in CA or I-75 in Atlanta having more lanes in one direction than most states have going in both directions even in their busiest of areas is blue states getting it or red states not getting it.

Also, tying in gun control or enforced Medicare-for-all is a good way of convincing people who are on the edge of public transit to not support you politically if they are a package deal, which right now it appears to be.
Oh, that's funny, I wanted to create a whole religion where the greatest sin is to increase the universal rate of entropy without good cause. "Thou shalt not hasten the heat death of the universe"
You're conflating two issues here.

I believe that car accidents cost lives, that power tools can take off my fingers, that illnesses like coronavirus can kill me or give me chronic lung conditions.

I also believe that it's worth driving, woodworking, and interacting with people in public despite those risks.

Most people, excluding the rare nutjobs, are like that. If you force them on an issue and don't accept variants of "I don't care" as an answer, they might come up with a bizarre explanation, sure.

It's hard for a lot of people to simply be honest and say - yes, sure, but I think it's worth it, instead of trying to deflect.
Well, what we do have in our heads is a human brain, which I believe is not more powerful than a Turing machine, and is a working proof-of-concept created by a random greedy trial-and-error incremental process in a not-astronomical number of generations out of a population of less than one million primates. That tells me that we're probably not a warp-drive distance away from finding a working software implementation of its critical elements. And each time a software problem goes from "unsolvable by a computer, yet trivial for the human brain" to "trivial for both", it seems to me that we lose more than just another CAPTCHA. We're losing grounds to believe that anything the brain does is fundamentally all that difficult for computers to do, once we just stop being confused about how to do it.

This has happened very frequently over my lifespan and even more rapidly in the past 12 months, so it no longer feels surprising when it happens. I think we've basically distilled the core elements of planning, intuition, perception, imagination, and language; we're clearly not there yet with reasoning, reflection, creativity, or abstraction, but I don't see why another 10 or 20 years of frantic effort won't get us there. GPT, SD, and Segment Anything are not even extensions or scaling-up of AlphaGo, so there are clearly multiple seams being mined here, and very little hesitation to explore more widely while cross-pollinating ideas, techniques, and tooling.
I will have to look into this more. It sounds like it's not as simple as the project website makes it sound.
There are also small shaped like walk-in sticks working with small propane bottles and they are perfect for driveways, walkways stone patios, etc…
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I’m not arguing Hinton is wrong. I’m arguing that Hinton doesn’t really matter here. The “godfather of AI” doesn’t make him particularly prescient.
Can they run kubernetes?
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but your website states

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Are you distributed within San Francisco? :)