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> AGI is not, and there is no evidence that it is even possible.

We ourselves are an existence proof that minds like ours can be made, that these minds can be made from matter, and that the design for the organisation of that matter can come from a simple process of repeatedly making imprecise copies and then picking the best at surviving long enough to make more imprecise copies.

> People in 1000 CE could (and did) safely ignore all those things

Whereas the people, and specifically leadership, of Japan unsafely ignored one of them on the 5th August 1945. Some of the leadership were still saying it couldn't possibly have been a real atomic bomb as late as the 7th, which is ultimately why the second bomb fell on the 9th.
> My worst-rated comment on HN was when I suggested devs should spend 15m less on Twitter/HN

Because everybody knows that spending 15m less on HN will not give you better anything. It's like saying "working more hours a day you will have more code". It just leads to burn-out. Most programmers need some idle time between thinking. Or like saying "Want to have house? Eat less avocado toast and skip that starbucks coffee."
The point is that the world is large and there are many master carpenters.

This hypothetical carpenter would be competing with other carpenters at the same skill level.
Tech giants have successfully transformed live TV, simply by killing it completely. No one under 35 subscribes to any kind of live TV service today other than to watch sports, and in another decade that will be fully online as well (look at the inroads Amazon and Apple are already making in that space). Some of the best new TV content is increasingly owned by Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the like. Cable TV and any kind of non-sports/special events broadcasting is going to disappear as a concept within our lifetimes.
I don't understand why offering parents more choices in how their children are taught could be a bad thing. Maybe the public school system is failing its students. However, it always seemed unfair to trap parents who would otherwise have other options in a failing system. Yes, this does suck for the children of uncaring parents - but for the parents who DO care, shouldn't they have a means of meeting their obligation to their children?
I was recently on vacation where they had a roku TV and watched these. I watched some old Unsolved Mysteries episodes, honestly there weren't really that many commercials on this at all compared to my parent's cable subscription.

I recall that after well after I had cut the cord a lot of channels on cable had switched to just playing one show all day on some channels so the concept seemed to pre-date the roku setup.
She pleaded guilty to multiple crimes. This kind of thing is common: to prosecute the boss you need the testimony of the underlings, even if the underlings are also guilty.
> Remote-controlled light bulbs. Personally, I’d never buy these, because I’m fanatical about color quality. (It’s futile to start with low-quality photons and then try to arrange matter to make them look good.)

I am about to buy several Philips Hue lights. Does this statement apply to all LED-based lights or just the cheap ones?
Unfortunately many development managers have no visibility into technical debt and are more than happy to dig everyone down deeper in debt.

And those that do know about the technical debt will often say "We'll fix these issues after the release" which is either a bold-faced lie or they believe it even though it never happens.
I Keep Watching In-Flight Meltdowns
Just because lots of people seem to be getting confused, "pre-roll ad" isn't the right term for this. Pre-roll is one of those ads YouTube forces you to watch 5-30 seconds of before you can skip it, and when they play before the video starts. Mid-roll ads are the same thing, but interrupting the middle of the video. And Post-roll are ones that play after the video is over.

What you're referring to are usually called sponsored segments. They're ads, but they're just a part of the video file you're being served. They're not dynamically targeted or cycled out. So if a LTT video is sponsored by ASUS, every viewer will see the same sponsored bit about ASUS because as far as youtube knows, it's a genuine part of your video, not a slot for an ad bid.

They're still annoying, but it's not a pre-roll ad. You don't get those with Premium.
You can do approximate math from Series C, where they raised $130M at $1.5B valuation - announced in May 2021. The ARR multiples in 2021 was 50X NTM ARR. They potentially hit $30M by end of 2021 (raised sometime late 2020/early 2021).

Now even if they grew at 40-50% YoY CAGR (which is on the bullish side) - $60M-$70M ARR, approximately giving them a 10-12x ARR multiple for NTM revenue, put them squarely in the median to high-end valuation mutiple for PLG companies growing at 30-50% YoY (https://www.meritechcapital.com/benchmarking/historical-trad...)
Baffled by the number of people itt saying "I can't believe it costs that much and still has ads." It can't not have ads. It's cable TV, YouTube has zero control over whether or not it has ads. They can't broadcast the USA network without ads. Cable has had ads for like 40 years, and traditional cable providers are much more expensive than this. Are y'all 14 years old? idgi
>My 6800xt came alive and stutters are a thing of the past.

Potentially because of resizable BAR. 3** CPUs didn't support it, 5** did.
Cory Doctorow had a superb piece on our "immune system" for ads: https://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adapta...
By that logic, life itself can never be popular. Everyone in the world makes/has access to a non-zero amount of money, and where it goes is our collective human decision for how the world should operate. You're spending money right now, because of your opportunity cost!

Kagi v Google, in terms of "How do you operate as an organization wrt the world?"?

Kagi wins hands-down. I couldn't care less about the privacy angle, the QUALITY is amazing. It's like traveling back to 2008, and for $10/mo that's a sweet deal.
dotenv files are great as a piece of developer ergonomics. And that's fine. I use them for that purpose all the time. I would not willingly consent to using them to manage environment variables in production. But I would also not willingly consent to doing it the way that's best for production during development.

I think that's fine. 12-factor is a set of guidelines about what you do in production. There's a whole universe of things that are smart ideas for development and bad ideas for production. Leaving debug symbols in your binaries, leaving ports for connecting a debugger open on your containers, etc.
Unlocking the power of TLS certificate automation for a safer and more reliable
Oh, sure, the bulbs are still good, I just don't recommend buying into the whole system
A much simpler option is to decriminalize simple assault and let private “peer to peer” corporal punishment resolve the issue
I purchased a home assistant yellow and my experience was anything but “ready to use”.

You have to build the damn thing, which isn’t hard per se since it’s ultimately only 3 actual components, but it still took me some time and felt complicated since it involves attaching a heat sink with thermal compound on a CPU.

And then the software install process isn’t totally amazing either since it involves flashing a USB stick, but also needing to choose a few very non-obvious options.

Should I install HA on the EMMC and later move my data-disk to the nVME drive or install the OS on the nVME drive directly? Google random forums to find out what people think of this decision first I guess.

I mean I think it’s still a good product, don’t get me wrong, but it is still very much a power user thing.

Which is probably fine because setting up HA itself when you have an install isn’t exactly a picnic either.
You can subscribe to Sunday Ticket without signing up for YouTube TV.

See "NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube" or "NFL Sunday Ticket + NFL RedZone on YouTube"
I did a startup for five years that absolutely ruined me. Burnout on top of burnout for years on end. Now I work for an engineering non profit and I work 20-30 hours a week, sometimes less, and money is real tight but I’ll tell you - there’s just no way I can work more hours. I actually have a little time for side projects, and bike rides, and I never ever work weekends. Hell I don’t work Tuesdays either except on rare occasions. I absolutely love my job. It’s my dream job. But it’s not worth killing myself over. We have one life to live and I’m going to fucking love it.
MLB could offer a super pricy option to skip all the ads, but they wouldn’t because they can’t tell advertisers that their richest customers aren’t gonna be part of the audience. Advertising distorts the market for everyone.
This pretty much nails it. Im fit and on the muscular side, i'd say im pretty ok for a natural and i've always rode on the line of overweight on the BMI scale. But i never really cared, and nobody that is a bodybuilder cares either.

Like you said, the complaints are always from the population for whom it is accurate. They're usually in denial and typically vastly overestimate how much muscle they're actually carrying underneath their visible layers of fat.

Check the reddit/bulkorcut subreddit for some examples. If i had to spitball, i'd say only 20-30% of people that post their actually have a good idea of where they are in terms of BMI and body fat. There is an alarming amount of people that i'd consider their physique in the top 1% to top .1% in the world that believe they are fat. And there is an extremely alarming amount of people who are likely 25%+ and even sometimes 30%+ body fat that think they're in a healthy BMI range and ask if they should bulk.

TL:DR - BMI is more accurate than not for people who need the scale. And if anything, it underestimates obesity for people who may not weight enough to be overweight, but still sit at 30%+ body fat.
I guarantee you the snark originates from a hatred of JIRA.
I spent Kindergarten to 4th grade on Hanscom A.F.B. near Lexington, MA. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but it hindsight it had lots going for it:

- No such thing as unemployment

- A strong community (Hanscom was also a small, walk-to-school) neighborhood

- The schools were indeed good (had several computers in the 2nd grade classroom in 1992).

There is a self-selecting element to it though; if you lose your job you're out of the community. The line between personal problems and professional problems---I came to find out later---is much blurrier than in the "real world". Also health care is crazy cheap.

I don't know if it could, or should, scale society wide. The social benefits are nice, but the authoritarian bent isn't.

Neat article though, gets you thinking.
When I asked my vet about the efficacy of Lyme disease vaccine (which I'd read was mostly pointless, more risky, and not-long-lasting) I felt like a total anti-vaxxer.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

He wasn't the greatest vet, but I don't think he'd ever even considered the possibility that a vaccine wasn't simply the best (only) option.

Not an anti-vaxxer, but with the world of knowledge at our fingertips, we shouldn't necessarily hate people for wanting to "do their own research", despite how poorly they do it.
How does it prolong the suffering? Do patients under induced coma feel the effects of the terrible symptoms? Or do you mean something else? I was under the impression that the worst effect of the Milwaukee protocol was being unable to wake up from it.
> I got an interview I had end it and apologize as what they were looking for was a data engineer.

100% happened to me once. Wasted hours of my time.

> Some companies are just tacking irrelevant ML and AI stuff onto job descriptions.

Some of them do this deliberately. I have seen this practice in companies targeting junior roles and fresh out of college grads. They hire them with shit pay and promise them ML experience, and then make them do non ML stuff.
https://tecknet.com/collections/wireless-doorbell/products/s...

I removed the TECKNET logo with isopropyl alcohol.

The receiver has dozens of tunes, but the only one worth using is the Westminster Chime Melody. There's also a "ding-dong ding-dong", but it's annoying that it plays twice. The rest are just too long; it's a doorbell, not a jukebox.

The receiver remembers the tune and volume if power is interrupted, so that extra cruft doesn't matter after initial setup.
https://lumigo.io/blog/comparing-amazon-ecs-launch-types-ec2... You can now specify your launch type to be an ec2 instance. This has the benefit of lower cost but you are responsible for managing the instances ex: security patches, etc.
Ad-supported plans are more profitable per user than ad-free plans.

"Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery have recently said the ad-supported versions of their streaming platforms generate more money per user than their ad-free counterparts, as the advertising revenue more than offsets the lower subscription cost." -- https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-price-increase-ac...
Michael Lewis's book is such an embarrassment to him that it may permanently ruin his reputation. It seems he was completely taken in by Sam Bankman-Fried.
I don’t see why we need a complete plan of how to let people in before we can secure it. Secure it first, then figure out who to let in.

It’s as if you were in control of IT for a company and had discovered your networks were filled with hackers, but refused to do anything about it until you had a plan for how to allow future new hires access.

Secure the walls, kick out the unauthorized, then grant new authorization as needed. It’s obvious, really.
Full frame cameras typically perform better than "low light" cameras with small sensors. Everything else equal, bigger collection area trumps everything else, simply because more photons means better SNR under shot noise assumptions. SNR of a pixel scales with sqrt(average number of photons collected).

When your full frame sensor has 25X the physical area as a small sensor, that's hard to beat. You can't easily get a 25X increase in number of photons collected on the smaller sensor. There are only so many photons that hit it. You can engineer the hell out of the silicon, but the fill factor multiplied by quantum efficiency of the sensors is already much higher than 1/25 so there is no theoretical room for a 25X improvement even under ideal assumptions. You can increase the number of photons that hit it with bigger, larger aperture lenses, but beyond f/2.0 or so you start hitting limits with our current optical technology in correcting chromatic aberration and other issues, and it will take miracles to get a 25X improvement on the latest state-of-the-art optics.

Sony's full frame sensors also have the same back-illuminated design as their Starvis-branded sensors, by the way, so that part is not unique to Starvis.
It goes deeper too. Original programming (film / tv) seems to contain paid product placement with no disclosure.
TIL. Thanks for pointing that out!
Agile is evil
> Surely most of this testimony has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Yes; the prosecution's job will be to weave this into the other facts and bits of testimony they introduce as evidence. The trial will not hinge on one single piece of evidence.

> She is 100% not capable of washing her hands, she knew what she was doing.

She has already pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud, two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Based on your previous comment, the remaining 3/4 of students are all murderers, criminals, deviants, disabled, or with parents who aren’t concerned with their education; or some of those 3/4 of students are somewhere in the middle but had their educations diminished by the removal of the better behaved students.
T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans
Nice! Really good to know. We'll add that to our list of device/browser combos that might cause trouble so that at minimum we can warn folks. It's an early beta so we're enthusiastically collecting any examples (system configurations and also graphs) that cause problems, so if you see anything amiss we'd love to hear about it (feedback@desmos.com). [disclaimer: I work at Desmos]
This looks to be the 2nd edition. Can anyone comment on how the 1st edition was?
"all models are wrong but some models are useful"

You're not being clever by being pedantic.
> that only Ubuntu controls?

Anyone can create an AppArmor profile for the systems they use or packages they maintain. There's a package called `aa-utils` that includes a few utilities to create and refine profiles similar to SELinux's `audit2allow` tool. It is not feature complete IMO though, be warned.

> I'm struggling to understand how Ubuntu expects this to be adopted in open-source application.

Sys admins, maintainers and packagers will have to add in a new conf file to /etc/apparmor.d/ for each app that needs to call `clone()` or `unshare()` which isn't very common IMO.

> Is there no way for a system administrator to enable this and retrofit apps?

You can write a <10 line profile for any app to exclude it from the unprivileged user name space restriction. It's there in the blog [1].

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-23-10-restricted-unprivileged...
https://www.wlrk.com/docs/76660099_Final-Verified-Complaint....

This was my first search on Google, but there were many, many, many documents of this nature.

Is this doc sufficient? Or are you looking for something else? I'm aware of earlier docs but it gets more legalize and arcane the further back you go.

By the time the trials started, the argument from Twitter was incredibly strong and well documented. But the stock price of Twitter was still like $40 so you'd have lots of opportunity to make money on the trade (Musk promised to buy at $54.20 after all)
I stopped using any smartphones since Android 2.3 because they started to be annoying. I carry a laptop everywhere when I might want to chill, and I have a semi-stupid phone for listening youtube or podcasts everywhere anytime except when I am working. Also I do not find telegram a desired software on my hardware.
I disagree. Corporate taxes are a drag on the economy, and maximizing economic performance is probably the single most effective thing we can do to improve quality of life for everyone long term.

As an example, here's self-reported life satisfaction vs GDP per capita: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr.... Similar graphs exist for life expectancy, years of education, calorie consumption, literacy rates, and so on.

If we want to increase government revenues we should focus on efficient taxes that minimize economic disruption.
Not sparkling drinks, but sparkling water in general. In our country, sparkling water is way more stronger than most European brands like Pellegrino or Perrier, hence they contain a lot of sodium. In the range of 100-140 mg/l, just looking to two different brands’ bottles.
The truth is also way more nuanced than what Jobs is describing. I was just showing how ridiculous his argument is.
This is grug tier. He's criticizing midwit tier. Genius tier is some guy who effortlessly coded his own elegant and simple solution.
I'm not so sure about "always", at least not in its current structure. The likes of ESPN (And DIS by extension) are facing a reckoning because of cord cutting. Sports has enjoyed a privileged position where people were paying ~$10/mo in their cable bundle regardless of them caring about sports or not, but that's becoming less and less viable with cord cutting.

Eventually sports fans are going to have to pay their own way, and it may turn out to be a lot more expensive than it is now, or they'll have to restructure to pin down costs significantly.
Anecdata; I did. Best $10/mo I've spent in a few years.
Where does it say "unformatted"? All it says is that your logs should be sent to stdout.

You write your logs in whatever structure you want and have something in the runtime environment (k8s, systemd, file redirection in bash whatever) forward them to the eventual storage location. I don't see the issue.
Talking Watches with Ed Sheeran, Hosted by John Mayer
The "Judging Sam" podcast had some color on this from a reporter who was there. It felt to them like she was a bit overwhelmed at being walked into a packed courtroom with everyone staring at her then being asked to point out a guy who's appearance had changed a lot recently (haircut and suit/tie).

Personally, I can't imagine being very composed in that situation at that age.
> Why wouldn't she just blast him as hard as possible, as that's her way out

She pleaded guilty to seven felony counts. I don't think her goal is to "wash her hands" necessarily, the whole point of having her in the prosecution's pocket is to corroborate testimony and tell the truth
Note that they have added DRM to the ATSC 3.0 standard, and its being implemented quite widely. This means that you'll be unable to freely record time shift sports using applications like MythTV, etc.
Yes, but with traffic (or reliance on public transit, and the Bay Area's n different transit orgs), a 10 mile commute could easily be more than an hour each way.
> I think both products could even coexist

Fair enough, but developers and sysadmins don't want to choose between two great options. They want one obvious best option and a second option that is good enough and can be made better if option one turns evil.
As far as I can tell this is the standard way of doing things also in a kubernetes setup: The application gets its configuration from the environment variables.

Then in the case of a kubernetes setup. The application is wrapped inside a mechanism that gets the configuration from some where else.
I don't know, sending sensitive information over plain text doesn't scream security to me. So no, unlike a mail server.
The first time I read about this in the news it was 10 seconds, the second time it was 30, and now it's a minute.
> In early 2021, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange froze Alameda's trading account, and the firm lost access to approximately $1 billion in assets.

The anti-thesis of cryptocurrency.
The argument of "BMI doesnt account for muscles/height" always sucks because of what you said, they're just outliers. Realistically nobody that is TRULY an outlier takes BMI into account in anyway.
I think Little Joel is a treasure, personally

He still does long-form well-researched videos if you're into that, too
Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher
France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
I was reading about France first satellite [1] in 1965 (third country to launch a satellite with its own rocket). I'm not sure how much help they got but doing it all in about 2 decades is quite impressive for a small country.
Especially since at that time I guess there were not much recruitment of foreign experts, even within the EU. So they were on their own.

I'm just not sure how much help they got from the US or how many Nazi they could grab at the end of the war.

Now in the 21st century, the fact that Arianespace and the entire EU can't really figure out in two decades how to half the cost of it's launcher is worrisome.
Clearly those organisations, ability to coordinate or culture have dangerously deteriorated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ast%C3%A9rix_(satellite)
It's partially selection bias, yes.

But that's not the entire story. It's also the fact that not having to deal with the terrible kids helps the remaining kids. Fewer class disruptions. Less slowing down the class to pretend to let the slowest and least motivated keep up. Etc.

This comes at the cost of concentrating the troublemakers in other places, making them far worse for normal kids stuck there.
Man, it's not in the book?

It should have been, that's been well-known for quite some time

(per sibling commenter's point)