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> I think an IPv8(Apparently we skip odd numbers)

A lucky few of us have had the pleasure of working with ST-II, AKA IPv5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
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> it leaves the person free to do something more useful with their life.

And in this hypothetical, you'd be in favor of paying that person now, right? Surely the machine doesn't need the money in exchange for the value of its labor.
It makes me feel like my grandmother who can’t use search. She can use the browser fine she just lacks any Google Fu and uses the most ridiculous search phrases.
The split brain experiments clearly indicate exactly what I said they clearly indicate. To refresh: "that different parts of the brain can independently conduct behavior and gain knowledge independently of other parts".

From your own linked article: "In short, callosotomy leads to a broad breakdown of functional integration ranging from perception to attention."

If the dopamine reward system is the full answer, then what explains drug addicts anguishing about their addiction while simultaneously actively seeking out their next hit? What part of the brain is producing the anguish if the whole behavior is conclusively described by the dopamine reward system?
I'm not sure I agree with learning from books being dead. Stuff online is extremely shallow and paid courses generally make me slower than a book.
A common trait among high IQ individuals is that they derive happiness from knowledge and learning, not so much from money. Sometimes there is overlap, like right now being a huge AI nerd, and you can make a fortune. But more often than not your choice academic field is low paying and out of the spotlight (like studying beetle migration patterns).
Not to be snarky - you’re in one my friend right here. But something I noticed is as I get older there’s less coherent frameworks to grip onto in life. Instead my internal framework is what I have left, and when I trust it enough it is enough. I suspect this is how maturity works on a continuum. Where at one time the world was organized to lift you, at a point no one is there beside you, you’re the one reaching down to lift others up. You are creating the framework because you see where the holes are and where there needs support. As careers end not too far out from us, there’s just no one there reaching down.

I think agism is an interesting thing to dig into. It’s something that after a lifetime of being the youngest person on the team is starting to poke it’s head up. I suspect the answer lies in being picky about who you work with, avoiding the flashy places marketing to fill seats with bodies, and finding the places doing significant and advanced work without glitz. I also suspect remote work evens this field a bit, especially if you grew up in an irc / Usenet / mailing list sort of dev framework as I did.
> "Please don't buy our batteries for eating, eat a banana or something"

So much potential, which will be left unused...

"We don't recommend that you buy our batteries solemnly for the purpose of eating, but we won't judge you either."

"We don't recommend that you buy our batteries solemnly for the purpose of eating, but if you want to take a bite, the D-Cells are chocolate flavored."
A Brazilian's day only truly begins after some bread and 2 full cups of judiciary down the throat
> Ephemerons Production Ready.

Does anyone have any insight into this development? What impact on GC performance?
Works for me in LibreWolf, even.
Show HN: Live AI based global weather forecast
An IP Reputation integration on NPM to stop the baddies
Tell HN: Foo Is a Valid TLD
So don't expect it to act as an invalid domain for dev purposes and, for example, fail checks that rely on resources such as the Public Suffix List. It's in there.

See https://icannwiki.org/.foo for more.
I don't think this is quite the same, because a gig worker would also have commuting costs to populations that have enough of a customer base. It would more be like you have 4 30min meetings today all with 20 minutes apart (so not enough time to really switch tasks to anything useful) and somehow your workplace doesn't count those waiting periods as work and therefore only pay you for 2 hrs work, even though you had to also wait 1 hr collectively during the in-between meetings.
Or just coat the batteries in disgusting taste so kids don't put them in their mouth repeatedly.
I've done gig work under circumstances where a normal job was simply not possible. I often earned well under minimum wage because I was sick and struggling to get anything done.

I was thrilled to have the ability to earn anything and I have long voiced criticisms of this assumption that earning less than minimum wage is inherently some kind of employer abuse that must be aggressively stamped out.

It's not like people are throwing money at me out of pity for my incurable condition and sad sack life story. Denying me the opportunity to choose to work part-time for sometimes less than minimum wage winds up being just a means to cut my income, not improve my life any.
Probably not. Design is varied and has a lot of pathways so it's really hard to summarize that way. But I think the best place to start if you want to be a designer in tech is Don Norman's The Design of Everyday things.
Absurd. If you don't like the commute distance then find a different job so your (pay / (time spent commuting + time spent working) is something you agree with. Or move closer to the job.
Would this be different in a world without writing? We generally synthesize incoming information into a knowledge base and a set of beliefs - I'm not convinced we're less susceptible to that when all knowledge is oral.

What's the difference between having read something last year and believing it, vs having heard someone tell you something last year and believing it? Would people stop in a conversation and go try to find the source of their information if they had to track down a specific person?
IMHO JavaScript is neither a good OOP language not a good Functional language.
It's a study of the extent to which people are being screwed over, not sure why you're acting like the fact that, depressingly, it's not surprising is a gotcha.

That it is happening means we need the government (or courts, or whatever) to take action to fix it, the fact that this hasn't yet happened means that studies like this are extremely useful.
We'll see. I think courts will end up interpreting it in the same way that they do music sampling other music. In effect that's all it is: a remix of existing information.
> If I understand you correctly 'aligned' means intentionally limited. Like images generator which never saw a naked body. Or text model without 'f-k you' words.

No. Despite some pundits and posters using this term in that sense (even OpenAI kind of muddying the waters here), AI alignment has little to do with completely bullshit and irrelevant, pedestrian issues like those.

The closest analogy you can make to AGI - and I'm not joking here - is... God. Not the kind that can create stars and move planets around (yet), but still the kind that's impossibly smarter than any of us, or all of us combined. Thinking at the speed of silicon, self-optimizing, forking and merging to evolve in a blink of an eye. One that could manipulate us, or outright take over all we've built and use for its own purpose.

GAI alignment means that this god doesn't just disassemble us and reuse as manure or feedstock in some incomprehensible biotech experiments, just because "we're made of atoms it can use for something else". Alignment is about setting the initial conditions just right, so that the god we create will understand and respect our shared values and morality - the very things we ourselves don't fully understand and can't formalize.

The problem of GAI alignment is that we only have one shot at this. There's a threshold here, and we don't know exactly how it looks. We may easily cross it without realizing it. If the AI that first makes it past that threshold isn't aligned, it's game over. You can't hope to align an entity that's smarter than all of us.
(Kids those days). Logan's run

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0074812
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Based on GPT3.5 supposedly using 8x A100's per query and the suspected magnitude size difference with GTP4 I really think they're struggling to run it.

At this stage I think they'd have more to benefit by making it more accessible, there's several use cases I have (or where I work) that only really make sense with GPT4, and it's way too expensive to even consider.

Also AFAIK Github Copilot is still not using GPT4 or even a bigger CODEX, and GPT4 still outperforms it especially in consistency (I'm in their copilot chat beta).
How much after you depreciate the value of your car? <$15/hr?
Yea I've sort of explored all these options and ultimately found that nothing really fit. I grew up in the internet generation. Despite having an in person religious community where I go every Friday to pray it's sort of hard to engage in it otherwise. Everyone is busy living their lives. The world has a rhythm and even religious communities are sucked into that.

I'm thinking about building something. Let's call it Micro communities. Small private groups, invite only. Sort of just start by creating a safe space to share and interact in relation to this topic which seems to not fit on other technology platforms. We'll see where it goes after that.
Aha, as a follow-up this conveniently appeared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rIvB3LZiKA but still not to the degree I want. Hmmm, time to get started.
There are far more ways to write javascript than any of us want.

For objects with methods you can make literals, use a constructor with new and have prototype methods, use a class, or use Object.extend, or Object.create or probably other tricks.

For async code we have callbacks or promises. And promises can just use the Promise class and .then(), or you can use async / await. And the promise class also has polyfills in npm if you want that instead. Or there’s tricks with generators.

Functions can be written with function foo(), or const foo = function(), or const foo = () => {…}. Or const container = { foo() {} }. Or use class methods (which have different syntax again).

Importing external code can use commonjs (require()). Or import statements. Or dynamic import. In the browser you can use multiple script tags and have scripts assign their library to a global object. In nodejs code can also change what require does.

I can keep going - don’t even get me started on bundlers. You’re probably right - the language probably still isn’t as big as C++. But it’s big enough that almost nobody knows every javascript feature. I was around in the early days of nodejs (0.4 was my first version). At the time the design of the language, and of nodejs, seemed simple, clear and cohesive. Don’t get me wrong - I love a lot of the newer features. But javascript as a language feels like a bit of a bloated mess.
typing saves so much time.
Especially since the flexibility of its optionality does not restrict, and allows for really nice autocompletions.

Especially with esbuild which has made this simple and fast, one could even say it has saved javascript.
Have you ever been in one? I visited the one that Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) had at Marienlyst in Oslo. This is before I knew anything about anechoic chambers and the sort.

It was called The Dead Room...

The first thing I noticed is that I had to speak a lot louder to be heard. But the most unnerving thing happened when we finally stood still in there.

I could hear my blood run through my own veins.......... So out of sheer panic I started moving and talking again lol.

This room was in the basement, and was secluded from all the other rooms in the building. The control room was even two stories up from the studio. They used it to record special samples that had to be completely "dead," as in no echo or reverberation on it outside the instrument itself. By they looks of it they also used it for Foley recordings, because there was some surfaces in there and some pans of powders and sand.
What bubble must you live in to believe youths aren't actively encouraged to be queer and treat it as a social aspiration? To be gay, nonbinary, even trans, is essentially worshiped, especially online. Have you seen the content on the apps these kids use?

"Actual cool people." Give me a break.
I genuinely don't understand the downvotes. Y'all really be simping for your employers. Any time spent doing anything you wouldn't be doing if it weren't for your job should be paid and it's dumb that we pretend it shouldn't be.

This is how every salaried person's pay already works and it should apply to hourly workers too.
The previous solution to this for taxis was crippling the supply of taxi jobs (via medallions) so each taxi job paid more as well as setting a minimum fee for entering a car.

Uber drivers would likewise make more money if there was less of them, so they would always have new calls waiting. But that also still means there’s less people making money, as well as far longer wait times for consumers and higher costs.

The medallion system was designed around the ideas taxis = your career, not some side gig you can start/stop whenever you like.

You could also do it by setting price floors but gov messing with prices at that fine grained level is dangerous (as Venezuela learned with food).
Being available for work is working. A bartender at a quiet bar is still at work. Or should they only get paid while pouring a drink?
"Like fern leaves or any other plant branching system at the organ level, the cauliflower curd develops from the inside out through a process totally different from fractal drawing."

Soooo, what the author is stating is they are actually even more amazing and wonderfully made than we originally thought. Even though they look like the mathematical model of a built fractal they grow entirely different and with an internal program that cannot be reproduced by our existing knowledge-base.
Ask HN: Who are the founders similar to cperciva?
Three days in a row of outages, in less than a week of unreliability after yesterday's downtime of GitHub Actions [0].

Really at this point, you just might as well consider self hosting and it is looking very chronic with GitHub falling apart and self-hosting was indeed the sensible idea just like how the other open source projects have done for years.

GitHub is going just great, and centralizing everything to GitHub really was a good idea wasn't it? [1] /s

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35887029

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
The thing is it was youtube that pushed me to using an addblock in the first place. I was happy with umatrix, hell I preferred it, For the most part I did not mind ads, as long as they were served from the same domain. I put up with youtube ads for a long while but they got so obnoxious I started looking to see if an actual add blocker could make things better, it did and I have not gone back.

At this point it is an arms race. I don't think out right refusing to serve the video will fly for long, the next target is to make the noise(the ad) undecidable from the signal. They already sort of tried this, which made it hard for umatrix to filter out the ads. but they will get better at it.
I would say that controlling global warming is another way to increase our degrees of freedom for future choices.

I generally agree but many of the quotes in the article display the kind of extreme hubris that leads to taking large risks that increase our chances of existential doom.
It’s not like that’s the primary ad for iPhones. They didnt show this at WWDC. It clearly is about yellow, which for many people is more important of a driver than you clearly think.
I gave them my credit card early last year. You get some free credits each month. I use the APIs heavily and my monthly API bill is between $0.00 and $2.00 a month.
Historically the diagonal was a natural metric because it corresponds to the diameter of the early round CRTs (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:7JP4)
China was not locked down for two years, no. A lockdown is not "Any pandemic restrictions at all", it's "You are not allowed to leave your house except for food and testing." They did not have the latter for two straight years.
> Another is to avoid authoritarian structures because you don’t know a priory which ideas will turn out to be best/right. Hence, you want idea competition and not suppress dissent.

It's important to note that high wealth inequality is an "authoritarian structure" in this respect because a small number of people end up controlling access to the capital necessary to realize an idea.
SARS cov 1 never caused a global pandemic. There were less than 10,000 cases and less than 1000 deaths. It wasn't specifically engineered to easily bind to human receptors, so this probably limited its reach.
Is gig work intended to be a substitute for employment, or a career?

My impression was these jobs are for folks who need an extra income or are in a temporary rough spot in life.

Does the math allow for gig workers to be paid more AND for the venture to remain profitable to a degree that reasonably satisfies investors AND consumers to pay a minimal additional amount?
They sit in comfortable homes with clean running hot and cold water, air conditioning, refrigeration, automated clothes and dish washers, waterproof under tile laminates, municipal sewer service which can be provided cheaper and faster then at any point in history, and electric lightning with tens of thousands of hours of lifetime at 30% quantum efficiency.

They use a computer which has more power then took us to the moon, connect instantly across half the planet, and post a lament: "has technology really made our lives better?"
The "abstract" here for lack of better terms is extremely misleading.

The minimum wage raised to approx 10.50 from 9.50 last month, but the survey was polled last year, when the minimum wage was 9.50.

That makes the discrepancy shrink to approx 5% from 15%.

We've had 10%+ inflation in basics in the UK so you can't really compare 2021/2022/2023 like for like without accounting for that.
What do you define as evidence and man-made here? From what I understand there was a large amount of circumstantial evidence (next to a lab researching similar viruses with a history of poor sample handling) as well as enormous amount of pressure on scientific community to say whatever avoids escalating geo political tensions...
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> “Price Labs”

That’s interesting. When I started there in 2009, per customer dynamic pricing was a failed experiment and the people in my org treated it as a huge legal liability that was extremely taboo. At the same time, I’m not really surprised based on other MBA led initiatives that are the opposite of customer centric. I was never sure how those guys got enough purchase to get their projects done.
I think the op here was pointing out that in some gig jobs, you only get paid whilst doing the task (eg delivering the food) rather than the time they are available to work, such as waiting for a food order. The worker can't do anything else whilst waiting, but still doesn't get paid.
Which is exactly what the op did, patiently over several years. Homeschooling vs “professional” education is a different discussion.
The fact that automation leaves people without a means of support only supports the claim that capitalism is vicious...
First paragraph - I don't like rich people; second paragraph - I like them to die like I would; third paragraph - rich people are facists.

Great. Thank you for your contribution.
One common thing speaking to most low paid workers is that they would like to do more work to earn more money, but there is no more work on offer.

Even amongst software engineers, if you asked your boss "can I work a few extra saturdays and get paid a few extra $k", the typical answer is no.

The labour market is far less dynamic than say the market for carrots, where you can of course give a few $ extra and get extra carrots from walmart.
"...we often have a few weeks with low wind..."

Plenty of wind up North + Scotland - just no means to transport it over where the most demand is (the South).
Even if we accept their motivations at face value (which is naive), it's a totally incoherent morality. There are infinitely many future states with trillions of of lives. Which one is the one we attach moral value to? If it's all of them, then every single decision you make is equivalent to killing infinitely many future people. If it's one particular future state how do we decide which one? (I am not, of course, saying that you shouldn't value making the future better, just that applying this specific kind of utilitarian calculus to future humans is childish nonsense.)
World ‘way off track’ from climate goal, Kerry says
Two years ago, I would not have made that argument, as SCOTUS actually practiced their stated policy of stare decisis — The doctrine or principle that precedent should determine legal decision making in a case involving similar facts — SCOTUS overturning it's own decisions was a rare event.

However, in the last two years, the court has repeatedly overturned, either explicitly or by the shadow docket, many large precedents set by the same court.

The impetus from the court politically skewed by senate leadership (note Merrick Garland, Amy Cohen Barrett), and the nature of the cases taken by the court and these reversals is obviously political.

This opens up as fair game all prior SCOTUS decisions, as they are obviously not settled law, but open to change on a whim. The SCOTUS has degraded its status from a determiner of settled law to a set of umpires for the current inning.

So, yes, it is entirely reasonable to question prior SCOTUS decisions, especially now.
It would have grown around the world anyway...
If anything lack of respirators saved lives. With hindsight we now know that putting people on respirator was actually the thing that killed them - not COVID. All this hospital heroic in New York and around the country was huge mistake and most people who were in hospital at the time should have stayed home.

On lockdowns - you have to do them 100% (China, Australia, New Zealand) or just give up. Half measures just do not make sense - you get a lot of pain with very little to show for it. For US specifically 100% lockdown was never an option - building wall with machine gun encampment to stop movement on both Canadian and Mexican border was not feasible, definitely not on timeline of days or at most weeks.

In the end Fauci, NIH, and medical establishment etc just made zero difference to COVID or COVID deaths. Missed school and ballooned debt are the only legacy of their efforts.
Governments tend to behave like sociopaths as well. And people in government seek to maximize their interests. Not saying that things can't be improved but sometimes doing more in unmoral, harmful and even illegal.
I don't. I build backend services now.

But to be fair, I still maintain a relatively popular Chrome extension in old-school JS and that's still a pleasure to work with.
Once a Maintainer: Maciej Mensfeld
After five years of not being forced to write while learning grammar etc some other way, he discovered fan fiction and began writing thousands of words per day.

But he didn't learn to write by writing because he had dysgraphia and emotional baggage about writing from public school when I pulled him out.

His blog writing gets more traffic than mine. He's a writer by trade, though he doesn't yet make much money at it.
There's no way a company could run its own source management system and have an uptime approaching 23 hours a day -- that's like one nine of uptime!

(/s of course)
> Meanwhile, btrfs has rapidly gone nowhere […]

A reminder that it came out in 2009:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

(ext4 was declared stable in 2008.)
I gather you don't have children.

Fertility rates are not down because people are infertile, they're down because people increasingly choose to not have children.