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The thought experiment is about a superintelligence, which either wouldn’t need humans and could build some kind of robots or something even more effective that we haven’t thought of, or manipulate us into doing exactly what it “wants”

Also it’s a simplified example, it wouldn’t literally be paperclips but some other arbitrary goal (it shows how most goals takes to their absolute extreme won’t be compatible with human existence, even something that sounds harmless like making paperclips)
Neat. Sounds like I gotta explore what's available there now. The parent comment's issue sounds like a pretty good feature to add to an app... thx.
HVDC and HVAC transmission lines already only see single digit transmission losses over hundreds of miles

This has bigger implications in reducing wiring (and weight) costs in things like electric vehicles. Instead of fat finger diameter 20' copper cables, you could replace them with tooth floss.
We have 5 badges in total, and 1 of them to points to our integrations test passing. And the integration test do serve an important purpose in making sure we are compatible on multiple different os and don't make a change that would break WSL for example. More info here https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex/tree/main/.github/workf...

The others are the current latest version, python version we support, how many people are on our discord (A metric to see community activity), and a badge that points to our docs. I think all of these are important but open to suggestions on ones you think would serve a better purpose.
The simple truth is that we need a mixed economy: a free market to give people what they WANT, which is then taxed to provide the things people NEED.

Instead people pretend we should either ALL or NEVER do "social" work.

Social democracy is the right answer, but everyone is either a communist or a libertarian because those are so much simpler and people prefer simple, wrong, answers, to complex correct ones.
I don't remember the details (or outcome) but there was a lawsuit a few years ago involving CAD or architecture software and whether they could limit how the output images were used because they were assemblages of clipart that the company asserted were still protected by copyright. Something like that. A lot of "AI" output potentially poses a similar issue, just at a far more granular level.
I don't live there, but I'm familiar with Tysons corner (it's an enormous mall serving most of nova). that station probably functions more as a park-and-ride than something you would actually walk to.
Because the linux drivers might not support all the power saving states for all the hardware in the device.

For example: I bought a Dell XPS 9 months ago. With the earlier Fedora 37 kernels, it didn't put the Nvidia card into power saving mode, causing battery life to be less than an hour. Now it seems to work correctly and battery life is 3-4 hours for me.
How God and übergeek Ron Crane saved 3Com's bacon
Shame (especially as a thing one might cultivate for social engineering purpose) is always tied to fear, though, you can’t really separate them.
> But honestly, it freaks me out that Google might someday disable my account.

I moved my email to Fastmail over a year ago. I was able to do this easily because I used GSuite with a custom domain, so it was just a matter of updating MX records and moving my old mail.

But it doesn't have to be a huge chore even if you have an @gmail.com email address. You can register a domain, and sign up with Fastmail (or some other mail provider where you are actually the customer and not the product), and move things slowly. Set up forwarding from your GMail account to your Fastmail account. Start using the new email address for new accounts. Slowly start changing the email addresses on old accounts. You don't need to do it all at once; just maybe set aside 15 minutes a day, or maybe an hour on a weekend, and gradually change things. Focus on the important things first, like financial accounts. Eventually you'll stop getting email that you care about through the GMail address.

I'm now worried about my other Google-held data, like photos and documents. Some of them are backed up, but I still haven't made sure everything is.
This used to be a thing, with open mail servers making it trivial to send emails to your friends masquerading as whitehouse.gov for instance.
Surely you don't think slavery is an attempt at striking a balance?
Gotta get that white power following somehow I guess?
This is a pretty expensive present not a free lunch. Please note if you work for a regulated industry you may be liable to report this as well and may even price-wise be well above your allowance
It's more like: any assets taken by civil asset forfeiture should fund civics classes so that the people that are having their property stolen know just how anti-American that is.
I’m not sure why you’re 20 comments deep on HN, but we forbid (like most companies) GPL software. It’s no harder to profit off GPL than it is Apache, but GPL is a disease that plagues the technology world. There’s a reason we convert our code (and release most code) under Apache and that’s because it’s true FOSS. GPL has strings attached just like BSL.

Clearly we hurt your feelings somewhere on the past, but let’s not go around spreading falsehoods.
Here’s a study showing how chatGpt’s math deteriorated.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.09009.pdf
> SSN is voluntary. USA passport application has a spot for SSN and it may be left blank or may accidentally contain rando numbers (I have done both). TSA full body scan is also voluntary, along with voluntary showing ID at their (Soviet era) checkpoints.

I had to do a quick check on this TSA scan just to confirm that an opt out was possible, seems they changed the language back in 2015 https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy... (page 3) to make it less optional. Basically it sounds like you can say NO, but they can override your NO for whatever reason..

"TSA is updating the AIT PIA to reflect a change to the operating protocol regarding the ability of individuals to opt out of AIT screening in favor of physical screening. While passengers may generally decline AIT screening in favor of physical screening, TSA may direct mandatory AIT screening for some passengers as warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security."
https://archive.today/YA6CW
By the time the atom bombs were used the 60 or so major cities in Japan had been destroyed by the firebombing. Whether it was done with one bomber or dozens didn't really matter. Japan didn't have the capacity to stop either at that point.

On the Japanese side there were multiple factions. Everyone in leadership understood the war was lost, but a large fraction still had hope of making things costly enough for the US to negotiate a conditional surrender that preserved the Emperor.
I think the reality as simulation camp gets one thing right - reality is virtual. Space and time don't exist, there is only information and relation.
That's a great suggestion, we are planning on adding cash prices! It's a bit harder to collect them as we have to manually call all these places (not covered by the regulation).
Well, at least there's one less person willing to sell their entire digital soul to a singular big corp. Shame OP had to learn it like this.

This of course if s/he don't just make another AppleID, because fool me once and all that.
Why would anyone do such a stressful job for that money? Especially now that education is so costly. I made more than that as an electronics engineer, and later as a software developer, and I was able to go home every single day of my career knowing for certain that nothing I did or didn't do had killed anyone.
Well, it's understandable. If you talk about it with other linux-on-MacBook tinkerers I'm sure they'll be more sensible to your cause.

But generally, if you pointed that out to me I'd say the same, picking that hardware puts you in a harder path. Also, I'm not sure if Linux users in general have any interest in winning people over.
The allocation of ill gotten gains is irrelevant. This is theft. These are assets that belong to honest citizens. It’s unacceptable that they would lose their honest gains to the whims of a cop.
I know nothing about the theory of superconductors, but purity can affect electronic properties. For example, pure silicon is quite a poor conductor. If you dope it with a little bit of an n- or p-type dopant (an impurity), it conducts better. Add a bit more, and it conducts more. There are other effects, too.
Ah yes, you should be free to rewrite the fictional work I wrote or add one chapter to it and be free to sell it under your name magically implying that you are the author. Screw the original artists, right? Why should they deserve anything.

Thankfully your opinion is an extreme opinion and will never come to pass. Tough shit indeed. :)

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I really like hackernews but recently I've been seeing a plethora of "your rights don't matter, you own nothing" bs spreading around.
This announcement is not about the IRS pre-filling income tax returns, a topic that is discussed regularly on HN.

This is about handling all the other activities surrounding tax filing, such as getting copies of 3rd-party information returns (W-2s, 1099-Rs, etc), receiving and responding to notices regarding errors or questions in the previously filed tax return, etc.

California FTB (tax agency) set up an online system for taxpayers starting five or more years ago, with continuing enhancements since then. IRS is just now catching up, by providing the ability for a taxpayer (or tax practitioner with permission) to create a secure login account with access to their personal information.
> I'm surprised the prediction markets don't seem to be reacting.

Which way would you have the prediction markets go? Is this evidence for or against room-temperature superconductivity?
Another advantage of Thunderbird is that I already have a downloaded copy of my past emails. If I ever get locked out, I can change my MX records and start over elsewhere with minimal disruption or data loss.
Shoelaces are allowed, without proving that I am a skilled shoe player. So the rest is just bullshit make-works projects.
It was tried before and it was a disaster. Things like culture and timezones kind of get in the way.
In theory, I agree; it wigs me out. It feels almost racist when I describe their social credit score -- but, sorry -- facts are facts.
If it doesn't hold we won't be able to continue the conversation so I hope that we can extend that 80 years. Proxy wars are still wars though, and proxy wars always have the possibility of escalation built in to them.
For the record, at time of writing, an electronic Clarkesworld subscription appears to be $2.99/month, increasing to $3.99/month in September.
> Do Apple services have an equivalent of Google's Takeout?

Yes, it's one of the services at privacy.apple.com.
So your suggestion is that the cops should seize everyone’s property then reallocate it at years end?
lol, there are literally hundreds of billions of performance focused ad dollars a year chasing returns. If there is some hidden secret to running high-ROI ad campaigns without using the data that is locked up by Meta/Google etc, it's a miracle nobody has figured it out yet.

(p.s. Citing 12 year old research on advertising makes you look clueless, most of ad targeting barely existed then and the performance was absolute shit compared to modern ad platforms)
It does not change in any substantial way, but you do get a boost to various stats in subsequent universes. You can also get "artifacts" by navigating the different universes which give some other significant stat boosts.
Annual in-state Tuitions (not counting room/board, so roughly 2x-2.5x if you add these) for a handful of VERY good public universities:

- University of Maryland, College Park ~ $10k a year [1]

- University of California, Los Angeles ~ $15k a year [2]

- University of Pennsylvania, WOW $56k ... that's .... CRAZY for a public University.

Obviously this is not at all a good sample size but I picked public universities in populous areas in states that cover a lot of the population. And I'm picking better known ones. Someone else probably has a lot of good, statistical data on this, like the US Gov Department of Education.

1: https://academiccatalog.umd.edu/undergraduate/fees-expenses-...

2: https://admission.ucla.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees

3: https://srfs.upenn.edu/costs-budgeting/undergraduate-cost-at...
Only if they can afford to, which means their jobs were already in those cities.
>You're not exactly refuting them, just pointing out that there are other forms of effective theft not considered criminal.

Correct. The point was to raise the question, if that, why not also this?
How many videos on vine do you watch these days?

How the companies, where you consume content, monetize is very much relevant to you. You have a choice though - you can choose to not watch the content and you won't get advertised to.
Did the dog survive?

It clearly had a model of what it could get away with too. ;)
> And Google Chrome's new client attestation API has everyone freaking out.

I know quite a few people (many of them technically-minded and/or software developers) who don't like Google and don't like ads, and know that Chrome is just Google's way to get people to see more ads, and gain more control over the web itself.

And yet, when I suggest they switch to Firefox (or something else), they just start making excuses.
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That's not the point they're making. They're replying to their parent comment.
Well done HN reddit is not responding.
It should say "up to 110K".
The way I understand it, in a linear system with discrete measurements where you move and measure your position, averaging last 3 measurements, you are effectively lagging 1 step behind your actual position.

What Kalman filter does is that it estimates your position and then averages measurement with that, in essence bringing the value closer to where you are at the moment.

Having a delay in a feedback loop may cause oscillations. If you react way slower than you measure, you might not need Kalman filter. Proposed GPS example is relevant here, because position updates come in slowly.
Ok, 4% is like, CD rates. Basically it's a CD without the maturity date; withdraw at any time.

There has to be a downside to this, like, if your Apple Card gets used fraudulently, they cancel your iCloud and take your money.
It's not parasitism, it's mutualism. If the country nurtures, the city pays the bills. I would not want to live in a country without both. Heck a country without cities probably would not last long except as a vassal.
I’d enjoy reading about this more if the page wasn’t riddled with ads.
It looks like they've at least discovered a novel high temperature (relatively speaking), low pressure superconductor. That does lend some credibility to the original claim, and perhaps reproduction of the result is trickier than originally thought.
My only wish for this is that it didn't just cobble a bunch of existing web stuff together behind the scenes and put an python interface + code generator on it.

Installing all the python deps (250mb), and node_modules (500mb) , plus a package size of 3mb of js isn't a great look.
1. Especially for a niche business, contextual ads should be great. Appear in search results as well as content pages related to your niche. Relevant by default and requires zero personal data.

2. I'm afraid it's too late. The centralization has already happened. Most people consume content from a handful of mobile apps (youtube, social networks, etc). AI will escalate this even further. Small websites outside of big tech can't really monetize content reliably, exceptions aside. Likewise, your content has to be extremely special for people wanting to pay for it.
Cloudflare problem perhaps: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
I think not caring about living in a wealthy country is a perfectly fine value judgement to make for yourself, but as someone with just a modest amount of experience living in poor countries, I highly value wealth.

Maybe my value system that blames wealth is misappropriating the value to wealth when really it's things that correlate with wealth? That's possible of course, but with such consistent correlation I have to imagine it's hard to separate wealth from the society that I most prefer living in.

Happy to be wrong, as equity is a lot more palatable emotionally.
What's important about the recordings is that they were stunned at the news about Hiroshima, and declared it impossible. Heisenberg's own calculations had predicted a much larger critical mass. If they were acting, apparently they're amazing actors.
Such a commonly parroted fallacy.

This assumes that all the talent in the world has a cheaper, equally skilled counterpart in India. This is not true, and even if it was, why wouldn't talented Indians leave the country in search for better wages?
The initial claim was speculated to be room temp and ambient pressure superconduction. 110K is a far cry from that.
Most of the Nordics (if not all) uses timber extensively for construction, even for 10+ stories apartment buildings.
Having a website, showing up in search results.

Being in the yellow pages.

Putting a flyer on a community board or telephone pole. My city has special poles just for flyers.

Word of mouth.

Newspaper ads.

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Sure, some of those are advertising but they're not intrusive or unethical. There aren't as many options for ethically advertising online but that's very intentional, with companies doing the digital equivalent of limiting word of mouth and tearing down flyers.
> Employers would immediately start to consider the commute times of candidates before hiring them.

That's already a thing in Australia.

> Longer commute times is a feature of cheaper housing, so that would correlate to employers discriminating against candidates of lower socioeconomic standing.

The current system already does that also. Poorer people are traveling more for work, but they aren't getting compensated for the commute time.
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I think you are reading that backwards; the trusses allow lower costs, so can be more profitable with the same payload.
Filing amended returns electronically with the IRS (efile) has been available for several years. The ability to catch up with unfiled prior year returns by efiling has been available for even longer. (IOW, you can efile your unfiled 2021 tax return in 2023).
Why are people drinking borax cleaning powder on TikTok?
What about playing the music in a government building as elevator music, for example?
"Mr. Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz."

The hype train rolls on...
>have any tips
Unfortunately I don't. You raise a really good point though lol. Everyone's idea might seem good as these guys' to probably even experts in the domain itself. I have been profoundly lucky from my spawn point to my current career so I can't give any earnest advice about that. I did briefly work at a semiconductor startup company that similarly had a "crazy brilliant" research idea and did find some funding. It didn't go great.

Like I said, there's a reason I'm not in charge of any VC stuff and I largely don't invest myself lol.

I wish you the best of luck with your invention though, please never give up and never stop dreaming. People like you even if you never produce it push us ALL forward. Thanks for what you do
Technically indiscriminately selling literal poison with a very low LD50 to people with "somewhat" poor impulse control is a victimless crime, sure.

Of course, I guess, fentanyl et al. are a thing because more benign drugs were criminalized for so long. However in no way does that make hard drugs comparable to caffeine though... Do you believe that all substances must be legalized and widely available?
>>a cash-sniffing dog with the Dallas Police Department alerted on a suitcase that had been checked in at Love Field for a domestic flight to Chicago. Officers subsequently searched the bag and found over $100,000 in cash inside.

Likely alerted to the scent of drug residues on the bills, which is supposedly on essentially every bill in circulation.

So, perhaps the owner of the cash might have been better off by first putting it in a washing machine with soap, i.e. physically laundering the money?
However in practice such stories are widely tolerated, as long as nobody earns any money with them. Most see it as a win-win, as franchises benefit from fan activity and engagement
Can you post that list here?
> for people who don't understand what the S and G in ESG stand for.

They stand for Social and (corporate) Governance. I just looked it up myself. I wish these articles would explain that. Even the link on the word ESG is unhelpful.
Sure, but what's the likelihood that both your iCloud and Google accounts get disabled at the same time? Personally I would opt for something safer, like using a true backup solution, but convenience often trumps safety. Using two cloud providers with trigger-happy account termination policies is better than just one.
Not necessarily everyone with a smartphone becomes addicted and uses it all the time. Its true that smartphones and their app ecosystems have become detrimental to society - but it’s entirely possible to practice some self control and keep your phone a tool (or a phone!) and not an extension of your hands. Im not saying it’s easy or even possible for everybody, im just saying there is quite a few steps between the “not human” and “human” states the author talks about. For lots of people in the world, owning a laptop is neither feasible or practical and they rely on smartphones instead. Maybe an helpful guide could be written about “Living sanely with a smartphone”
This sounds pretty nice. In Lisp, this would be considered a "tree shaker" (mind I don't know how they're plan to use this).

Currently, we rely on the Java Module system to make reduced runtimes. It works, but is necessarily coarse.

You'd think you'd be able run the application for a "suitable amount of time, and a suitable amount of use cases" and monitor what classes were loaded, etc. and use that information to make the smallest runtime possible. The addition of the sealing mechanism is a bonus, most apps simply don't need to be that configurable and flexible. You could do that analysis once, and update it manually (so you don't have to do it all the time), or have some automated service that you run routinely.

I have a simple GUI program, getting ready to distribute. It's 5000 lines of code, and has a couple of windows. Admittedly, it also includes WebKit (which alone can be large), but with all the the distribution is 70M. That's tuned using the module system, so it leaves stuff out.

That's "good". Many other cross platform solutions are larger.

It would be great for something like this to knock that down to 20M (cough).
For my use, 99% of the time i just leave my iPhone set to silently reject all calls from unknown numbers, and that works for me.

it's pretty rare that there's somebody not already in my contacts that i actually want to be able to call me. they can go to voicemail, and i'll deal with it later.
I know, I'm just saying their test condition has a really high noise floor and once you dive into the noise floor there is no meaningful result.
transaction=voluntary=good is an extreme libertarian position, eg bumfights. I’m not saying you support bumfights, but your argument does. Or child labor etc. If there’s more nuance you gotta say it.
Do you value life more, or freedom more? The answer may change, generation to generation.