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>just make your own <financial infrastructure/cutting edge neuroscience/road> bro

The companies don’t let you get access to the latest research… we get terrible 6b models while they get the best. Trained on our stolen data.
I like that, but I'd also like info included for chips that have an iGPU.

Intel's G1/G3/G7 was better than nothing, so of course they killed it after a generation or two.
Good point - much more risky.
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Learning synths and music production workflows.

I’m a Front end engineer / manager by day and things have been slow. Rather than try to move on I’m just embracing spending some hobby time during the day. I should probably figure out what I want my next role to look like, but I like all these noises I’m making so far.
Sure.. it also has to have sensors that outperform humans and require very little maintenance, or is maintenance that the platform can do itself without any renewable items, or with items that it can craft itself.

It has to have a power density which outperforms humans with a reliable source of charging that it can defend, maintain and repair if necessary. Fatigue is an issue here too, if you can cause the machine to use more power in an interval than it could possibly regain by charging in that same interval, you've got them entirely on the back foot.

Communications are an issue. Reliable distributed RF communications requires constant network coordination. These would be particularly easy to disrupt and for transmissions to be highly frustrated.

Finally.. we have nuclear weapons. Detente is a real strategy.
Interesting how its more like a bouncing ball easing off the bounce, instead of a pneumatic hammer.
The relationship between the VR beings and the creator (us), would fall into one of the three scenarios:

1. They don't know about anything outside of their VR world. They could have made up fairy tales or religions about what could have possibly created their world. They would be completely unaware about our existence. This could be our case - we ourselves don't know if we're living in a simulation.

2. They have been able to infer enough from the peculiarities of their reality to suspect they are living in a simulation, and that there are beings which have created the simulation.

3. They know they live in a simulated world, built by us. We made contact with them and told them all about our world and how we made their world.

You can argue that, in the first scenario, something that "does not exist" is not "material" or "natural". But this would be strictly their ignorance or misconceptions. It does not change the reality that both we, and them, are material beings. In fact, if you insist on this argument, you might already be assuming that our world is not entirely material, because it would follow that our subjective opinions define reality.

Scenarios 2 and 3 clearly allow the possibility of them perceiving us as equally material beings.
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The majority of the people elect the majority of the representatives?
The IEEE places plaques in places where notable events occurred in the history of electrical engineering and computer science. This is an article from Dartmouth university describing the plaque placed at the Collis Center commemorating the birth of the BASIC programming language.

The Engineering and Technology Wiki has more about the plaque, though it appears to have been written before the plaque was unveiled:

https://ethw.org/Milestones:BASIC_Computer_Language,_1964

The plaque reads: "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) was created in this building. During the mid-1970s and 1980s, BASIC was the principal programming language used on early microcomputers. Its simplicity and wide acceptance made it useful in fields beyond science and mathematics, and enabled more people to harness the power of computation. -February 2021"
Current state of nuclear threat is not even remotely comparable to Cuban Missile Crisis.
We need Uber for Public Transit. Enter you destination and it tells you which bus to get on in real time, when to transfer and deducts payment automatically at the end of your trip.

The Uber experience on transit would make lots never riders and occasional riders use transit more often.

The mental load is a lot of some people at the end of the day, driving is just easier.
I can't sleep with either AC, simple ventilation or windows open. Too much noise. In rural environments too, just a single cricket is capable of keeping me awake.

Sometimes in very hot weather I do leave the windows open at night but it's due to heat, not air quality.
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Do you have any particular articles or blog posts or anything you'd care to share? I could search of course but I'm not sure if there's a canonical article.
I don't know the first thing about autonomous weapons systems, but nothing the GP said sounds technically infeasible. And what does the game theory look like once one party has AI that can make decisions without humans? Wouldn't that be a huge "advantage" in combat?
Emphasis on _was_. Florida doesn't have any coastal areas left that are less problematic than Brownsville in terms of population, wildlife management areas, and other protected lands.
Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures)
> where corporations run the government

Are you sure about that? In this state, at least, a politician cannot get elected without union endorsement.
"it will be interesting to see what kind of synthesis between traditional logic and neural network paradigms can be achieved"

Ben Goertzel talks about his work on something like this at around the 16 minute mark in this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWzwIg4Adw
You’re or supposed to comment like that on here.

I’m from rural Upstate NY fwiw.

What about you?
> But I don't understand what closing the windows all the way vs leaving them open a crack does for security?

Because security is about having slightly higher security than the other person.

It is a game of "you don't have to outrun the bear / swim faster than the shark, you just have to be faster than the other person".

And open car window lets someone easily get in without breaking the glass and attracting attention and the cracked open window may give them the idea to try it in the first place.

The locks on your door are also nearly useless against someone with any lock picking skill at all, and your windows can probably be easily broken, but thieves are more likely to come in through an unlocked door or open window.

And these days with immobilizers, the cars that have them aren't often being stolen by hacking the CANbus, they're being stolen because people leave them idling in the driveway with the fob inside the car and the thief just hops in and drives off--possibly with the kid in the backseat.

If you lock your doors, roll your windows up and don't leave your keys in the car you will have left problems with theft and burglary. You won't eliminate it, but that doesn't mean those precautions don't work at all. Security isn't a binary either-or where you either have perfect security or none at all.
Hope there will be advancement for RA. It took my father away, doctor, at 71 years old. RA led to lung fibrosis which ultimately gave him a heart attack.
We only have musk's word that tag was used to measure visibility. Wouldn't a random sample with users of different sizes and types make more sense for that?

Even if it was, that could have the same effect. If they test every change and only keep the ones that don't harm Musk's visibility that is in effect making the algorithm consider Musk specially.
It's super annoying that there's no way to set these up for families. My friend recently got one for his car, and asked if I thought he should set it up on his account or his wife's. I told him that one of them will get "you're being tracked by an airtag" notifications, and they just have to decide which one of them it will be.

It would make so much sense for this to be part of family sharing (and would actually get us to set it up, if it worked that way). At the very least, there should be a way for you to tell your iPhone to ignore a particular airtag that's following you, since it belongs to your kid/spouse/car/etc. (You'd want to be able to undo this selection later, if you broke up with your spouse and didn't want them to be able to surreptitiously track you with an old airtag.)
I used to go foraging for mushrooms with a close friend. That friend developed depression due to his perceived failures to keep up in the rat race of career advancement, and committed suicide last year. I know this because of some pretty explicit conversations I had with him about feelings of inadequacy due to money and career path. So now I don’t have a friend to forage mushrooms with. I can do it by myself, but that doesn’t really address the alienation issue.
They're not bundled together. I'm not sure what the criteria are for getting added to those alphas - I already had Plugins access and then the other two options just showed up for me one day.
It is important to point out that on his speech (and the book) he tells people to work on important problems (always on the plural), and that he never say not to work on non-important ones.

In fact, I remember the book having a very clear assumption that you can't work on important things all the time anyway. But well, there has been some time since I've read it. But it is a very sensible and nuanced advice for highly ambitious people.
Thanks for the example. I can see how a temporal/stochastic dimension can be important for some domains, but it seems like a crime to overload the relational FK semantics to support it. Just add one more layer of data abstraction (e.g. Org/Person <- temporal Customer profile <- Sale, or temporal Attributes -> Customer <- Sale), the RDBMS is made for this after all... Or use a DB with proper temporal support.
> Not many of those show arbitrary web pages.

If I'm not mistaken, it is the renderer for many arbitrary pages like PDFs and Preview documents. Could be wrong though.
This macOS update took < 30 seconds - opposed to most regular macOS updates which at the fastest are still 5+ minute operations
If someone’s looking for a fun project to do on a weekend.

Going through and implementing the nips for nostr is really fun. You can make a mvp version of a client in a afternoon.
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Perhaps these rings exist because an event happened recently on the cosmic scale and had yet to devolve/evolve.
While Japan has regional ticketing systems and companies, they did standardize nationally on supporting 3 major prepaid transit cards (pasmo, suica, icoca) so most rapid transit and regional transit are low friction enough to just tap in and tap out. China has done the same with T-Union.

I suppose with NFC contactless payment, a plausible future state is just supporting credit card payments everywhere, though of course this doesn't solve the monthly pass problem.
I wish it was easier to just do authentication based on self-signed client certificates instead of passwords. Instead of cookies saving your login, do key-exchange of temporary client certificate. If it was done properly, it has the bonus security that it's completely immune to XSS stealing your authentication on the website - even if the website was subject to some XSS, they can't steal your authentication cookies, and the client certificate is inaccessible to JavaScript.
They were also incentivized to launch on 4/20 specifically

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/spacex-starship-launch-d...
I don't think that people are "inexperienced" in conversations nor that the negative socialization comes that much from not sharing a common ground. A lot of negative socialization can come from people not having an interesting conversation, or being too self-centered, or repetitive, or convoluted, or not knowing when to just leave the other person alone.

I am also skeptical of the fact that "the working class is growing more isolated by the day". Looking around my environment, it seems that the advent of social networks (FB, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc) has made it far easier to keep in contact and to organize meetings with people. I know that I would be socializing far less if the only means of communication we had were the phone and letters.
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The amount of malinvestments made in the economy during this run of nearly free (0%) money is something that will haunt returns (and retirements) for decades to come. Many of the excesses (and confusing financial incentives) in Wall Street and Silicon Valley have their upriver source in the free-money fountain which was pumped by the Fed. Similarly, we see downstream effects in housing bubbles and other asset bubbles.

People say this is obvious only in retrospect, but people were warning about it forever. And if you don't believe that, just listen to Congress, the President, and Real Estate agents talking about Fed pumping more today ... they are still all for it.

I'm not bullish about the US economy anymore. I think it has become politically untenable to run the economy without this free money pumping. There's too many parasitic sectors in the economy now. They require the economic body to continue to bleed to survive.
With modern cars you can just drive them off without a key.

Absolute geniuses decided to make keys not required and instead just broadcast an unencrypted password 24/7
My only time ever seeing and using client-side certificates was when I used StartSSL's service to get a free server certificate. It was an interesting experience and radically different from the usual experience of registering on a website with a username/email and password. Looks like the author says quite a few things about StartSSL's practices too.

Just like the article laments, the UI for managing client-side certificates was very basic and not user-friendly; I was using Firefox. I do wish this technology was explored deeper by both webmasters and browsers; I prefer to have one or a few private keys instead of hundreds of different passwords for each website. I want to be immune to password keylogging and server-side database leaks.
Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit?

You broke the rules pretty badly here, and also in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35766457. We're trying to avoid flamewars to the extent possible. You can make your substantive points without doing that.
I wonder if something like space colonization/resource extraction would reverse or change the trend toward lower interest rates? I imagine (perhaps excluding some sort of sci-fi esque replicator robots) such endeavors would be very capital intensive.
Also, commercial real estate. You can’t fill empty buildings with jeremiads in the Wall St. Journal demanding lazy, entitled workers get back to the office.
Sure, but when people say decades they generally mean an amount less than multiple centuries, or they would have said centuries...
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Are "many Westerners" really expecting China to be a dystopia? I'm a westerner and my impression of the Soviet Union (and now Russia) was intuitively dire (probably exaggerated compared to reality) but my intuitive expectations of China isn't really.

I feel like "westerners" today treat China like they used to treat Japan in the 70s/80s, not like they used to treat the Soviet Union. There's plenty of positive reporting about how things "just work" in China compared to the west (especially constructing infrastructure) and strong economy development.
Here is one interesting manual for Viewpoint (which I called Basic Work Station in other posts) that was the rewritten version of Star that it was open to others writing apps. It’s a good document with examples or the Mesa APIs for usage. This is from 1986.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/viewpoint/programming/610...
U.S. military is tracking another mysterious balloon
If the US healthcare market isn't capitalist, then no country's healthcare system is.

It's rare to find a way to "no true Scotsman" as hard as communists, but you've managed it.

But to address your point: contrary to what you're implying, Medicare spending is actually lower on average relative to spending on 65+'s in other countries; in e.g. the NHS, they're 18% of the population and 40% of the spending[1]. i.e. per-person spending is much higher in retirees. Contrast this with the US where per-medicare-enrollee spending (13k) is almost the same as the average spending (12.5k), because the non-socialized (capitalist) part of the market pays so much more than in other developed countries, that it doesn't bring down the average despite the younger cohorts having many fewer health problems.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/01/ageing-brita...
Communism is a process leading to a utopic state. Even Marx makes this clear in his manifesto.
We're from different places, clearly - where I live (in a mid-sized Canadian city), there are no HOAs. In fact, I'm not sure they're a thing in Canada more generally. Here, property standards are part of municipal bylaws.

Many of the neighbourhoods in this city are quite diverse - in Canada more generally, I've never noticed the sudden, obvious changes in socioeconomic status that you notice after crossing a street or railway in the US. Along with that come wide variances in the degree of effort and care that people put into their properties. When the amount of care falls below a certain (legally defined) standard, then I do think those bylaws are helpful.

My next door neighbour at my last house was a cop and at some point he just decided he didn't care any more about his property, and his front yard was all weeds and his backyard was all dog shit. There was no amount of "sense of community" that was going to get him to keep his property tidy. He just...stopped caring.

There is also a legal (not to mention moral and ethical) requirement to clear snow from the sidewalk in front of your property within 24 hours of a snowfall. This is generally complied with, but the ~5% of people who do not comply make travelling along city sidewalks hazardous for the elderly and handicapped in the winter months. A "sense of community" is not sufficient to ensure prompt snow clearance, and once again, enforcement measures are helpful.
> I'm pretty sure the companies and people who held their money in First Republic would survive losing the money they had with them

Depositors shouldn't have to do due-dilligence on their bank. It might be something worth doing if you're going to park a large amount of money in the bank about the $250k insurance cap, but otherwise it shouldn't be necessary.

The investors should be doing this. And if they get wiped out, too bad.

There are also ways to spread money over $250k so it stays insured. What we have here is essentially making the $250k cap meaningless for these "too big to fail" banks. The problem is nobody really knows if their bank is considered a "systemic risk" or not. Nor should they have to care.
We didn't do an update on that, because that post got us into big trouble with inland revenue (Dutch) in 2017...
Marquette firm works to remove space debris
If a successful resolution of the problem depended on pilots making the right abstractions from their training for prior versions, then that would, in itself, establish that it was a serious error to withhold information about how MCAS operated.
As part of the Cube team, I have to admit that all descriptions in the sibling comments make a lot of sense. Of course, the "semantic layer" thing is quite known to data engineers/analysts and other data folks in general (they also know things like "metrics store", "headless BI", etc.) but not that well known outside of the data space. Probably, it would be best to describe what are the major use cases Cube is created for.

1. Embedded analytics — you have your data somewhere (data warehouse, database, etc.) and you'd like to embed it into a data app. Cube would provide connectivity to data sources, data modeling to define the metrics, caching to make your analytics fast, and APIs and SDKs to deliver them to the data app. E.g., if you decided to add a chart to your front-end app, fetching the data from the API would be as easy as sending a JSON query to Cube.

2. Semantic layer for the internal BI — you have your data somewhere and you'd like to provide access to insights based on that data to business users. Cube would provide connectivity to data sources, data modeling to define the metrics, access control to make sure only ones who need access to metrics have it, caching to make sure every dashboard loads instantly, and APIs to deliver the data to BI tools, notebooks, etc. E.g., if you want to create some dashboards in Superset, Metabase, Tableau, or Power BI, you'd just need to connect Cube's SQL API as if it was a regular database and start creating charts/dashboards.
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I sent you a mail last month. Never heard back. Would appreciate atleast an acknowledgment/rejection response.
I'm working on a mod for enabling user self-governance in online games, initially with Minetest: modpol.net
This is why at Xata we have developed our own ORM-like SDK for TypeScript and we store migration files in the repo. The SDK is very lightweight so it runs in any serverless runtime. It also means we can create DB branches on the fly for each PR, with whatever schema is in the repo, and when the PR is merged, the `main` branch gets migrated automatically.
Large corporations like Google have a lot of resources and connections to really mess up a single persons life if they really want to, with expensive legal action and PR campaigns.

Yeah, they might cause their reputation some damage by going after the wrong person, but let's be real here.. the worst outcome for Google would likely be miles ahead of the worst outcome for Hinton.

Edit: Note that I'm not actually saying that I think Google and Hinton have this level of adversarial relationship.

I'm just saying that big companies may come after you for speaking out against them regardless of if you've accepted hush money or not.

Given that, it's usually worth
being tactful when talking about former employers regardless of any payouts you may have accepted or agreements you may have signed.
They fell over by not having a Next.js type solution and could have spent more time on DevRel.

Their pricing structure change didn’t help either

If there was a Netlify framework that leveraged up the platform that got you started quick I bet they would have more mindshare
Bunch of links from the website:
- https://cube.dev/use-cases/embedded-analytics
- https://cube.dev/use-cases/semantic-layer
- https://cube.dev/use-cases/real-time-analytics
Always use a nornalized schema. The ability to see the future is invaluable in a database.
> Google obviously did go slow with their rollout of AI, to the point where most of the world criticized them to no end for "being caught flat footed" on AI (myself included, so mea culpa).

they were criticized because they are losing competition not because of rollout, their current tech is weaker than ChatGPT.
Fantastic and positive vision for the future. Well done Sal!