skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this applies in this specific case (or if this is covered in the article), but one of the main concerns is that privacy basically becomes something only the rich can afford.

Of course, this sort of thing happens in basically every other aspect of our lives, but depending on how the law is written it may or may not be legal. For example, the rich can afford safer cars, but there are still minimum safety requirements. Presumably a car company could release a cheap car without seat belts, ABS brakes, etc. The market may like this, but it may not be allowed under the law.

A company may charge whatever they want for non-ad or non-tracking plans, but if they are priced out of the reach of most people, they may not be following intent of the law or how it is written.

Of course there's also the moral argument as well, but I'm guessing you were thinking more of the legal/economic side.
I don't think (a) is a pure UI thing.

Think of the difference of using a single-user application to e.g. make mockups for websites or a collaborative environment like figma, in which you happen to also be able to have AI collaborate with you. Very different usecases and solving collaboration workflows, etc. is non trivial.

I guess for (c) both things will exist.
Local will be done for 2 reasons:
- data sovereignty (e.g. companies wanting to have applications that are purely trained/fine tuned on their own data; but that improvement is not shared)
- privacy (anything from an AI having access to all your email and calendar up to having intimate "friendships" with AI)
Art of the Frame – Why "keep it simple stupid" is bad advice
Singapore economy is a result of foreign investment aided by very generous tax benefits and a repressive regime that ensured for a long time a low paid and compliant work-force. Being also basically a city-state without natural resources, Singapore was always trade-oriented and as a commercial hub of course it is in an extraordinary position to engage in free-trade.

But believing that the same recipe could be applied for Argentina, South-Africa or Brasil takes a lot more faith

But what is funny about the Singapore example always abused on those conversations is that it begs the question of why people always cite a more or less tiny Asian city-state as the most prominent case of the success of free-trade instead of bigger economies like the US, China, Japan, South Korea or the UE.

And the reason for that is that all those nations have always engaged and still engage on protectionist practices while expecting less developed markets to open their borders. Subsides, Non-Tax Barriers, Direct government investments, taxes and fees, you name it, they did and they do it.
Homelessness and lack of steady work. They both led to the isolation I suffer. It’s a good thing I never cared about or appearances about being wealthier successful the other people or I would’ve had a much more difficult time with staying alive.

I’ve tried all the drugs, and none of them work to make me feel like most of you probably feel. The only thing that works consistently is Klonopin as needed. I think my major issue is a one of glutamate GABA imbalance. I can for sure trigger a mania with his little as 10 mg of Prozac.

i can cure myself but I lack the ability to do so right now because of my living situation. over the last four years I’ve had three periods of total remission lasting over three months.
Neurons that fire together wire together.

Edit: cybernetic corollary: neurons that we wire together, will fire together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

So steelmanning...

To the commanders, shooting the plane down was somewhat defensible at the time. It was well off course and -due to that- happened to enter soviet airspace not once but twice!

The pilot who actually visually identified the plane did actually see it was a passenger airliner, but passenger airliners are sometimes converted to military configuration. And seeing the flight profile, it could totally have been converted for a MASINT mission or something.

But the behavior of the soviet union during the search and rescue operation afterwards? I'm not sure how that can be excused quite so easily.
I'd guess it could often be a natural conclusion when faced with a declining quality of life and little hope for improvement. If it's a well considered decision, I don't think it's necessarily a "mental health" problem that needs to be solved.

I personally enjoy life and have never had suicidal thoughts, but I also don't want to live forever if my health declines to the point where I'm in a miserable terminal condition.
While I can't speak for all European cities, we know basically nothing about why a man in Dublin (who was white, btw) stabbed some kids. It's a little early to be deciding why that happened.
That was never a requirement nor an option. Of course we're not going to know we have a working life-extension drug until someone's life actually gets extended. The point is once we get to that point, you can now get FDA approval for that drug as a life-extender rather than as a treatment for a specific condition.
Lack of purpose, I would guess.

Old men are currently expected to sit in nursing homes and watch TV until they die. Given how painful those years can be, there would be a lot of downside and no upside.

Even if families care about their elderly, the best most can hope for is affection. Whether they deserve it or not, there's not likely to be much reverence in our culture; nobody's really going to listen to them. While it's doubtful they were ever the defining authority in a family, they may have at least been consulted in the past. Now they are more likely to be viewed (rightly or wrongly) as a burden that nobody would even think to ask for advice or input.
That meaning can be discarded doesn't imply it ought to be discarded.

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Morals/meaning have a shaky absolute foundation, in that deep down nothing probably matters and the universe is indifferent.

However I'm a person, born in modern society; everything has relative meaning even if the epistemological foundations are shaky.

I see Nihilism similar the mathematicians trying to prove foundational math [1], and similarly doubting it's actually fundamental.

Yet here we are using math to amazing things! Math doesn't need to be true for it to be useful. I find useful things valuable.

Meaning, in particular shared meaning, is similarly valuable and worth pursuing even if they can't be proven.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
Ah yes the crystal palace, yawn.
Tech people should really spend some time reading up on history, even if it's just very tech-relevant history like engineering disasters such as the Therac-25. Even origin stories are important: techno-libertarianism is absolutely baffling, as Silicon Valley and Internet were seeded by massive government/military spending.

Know where you came from. Apply lessons from the past.
I’m not sure allocations mean anything practical anymore. I recall OSX allocating ridiculous amounts of virtual memory to stuff but never found OSX or the software to ever feel slow and pagey.
You should understand your limit of how difficult a situation can be.

If you exceed it you can try one of my gotos:

1. Could be hungry, offer a banana, with their choice of ripening.

2. Could be thirsty, offer a banana milk, it'll diffuse or gross them out.

3. Could be overwhelmed, banana scented candle.

4. Could have no control, offer a banana fidget toy.

5. Could be alone, buy one of my banana shirts with banana motivational messages on them.

Honestly most problems can be fixed with a helpful banana-ing. As long as you're not an orange, you'll be fine.
You are going to be disappointed when you find out there's lots of architecture and CPU specific code in software libraries and the kernel.
It's too complex of a system to label the whole "good" or "bad".

There are a many involved parties and they're affected by it in multiple ways.

I think you're trying to say the consumer harm of increased prices of EVs is outweighed by the benefits to industry etc?
You're skirting around the issue.

> Try something contentious - e.g. homosexuality. Who has the authority to judge that?

Again. YOU do. I'm not saying that I would agree with your individual judgement if you believed that homosexuality was "wrong." But YOU have the individual, personal, moral authority to choose your value system and to judge accordingly.

"Judge" is not a dirty word. You judge potential romantic partners when dating. You judge the place you want to work. You judge the types of products that you like to buy. You do all of this according to your personal values and your sense of reason.

Law and politics is a completely separate matter from "judging." Law does not exist to enforce some socially agreed upon set of moral values and I think that's what you're getting hung up. There, you and I likely find a lot of agreement. Since politics pertains to how people organize socially, there are a lot of valid questions as to what should or should not be allowed/prohibited by "law." And people will and often do bring morality into that discussion, but fundamentally it's different from "morality" since I can think that, for example, abusing heroin is immoral but still think it should be completely legal.

> While morals can be based on analytic philosophy (which I'm personally a fan of) the fact remains that analytic philosophy may still be susceptible to Gödel's incompleteness and moreover, not everybody agrees with this approach.

You lost me here. My personal world view is that morality is a requirement of a rational mind. It is a code of values that guides you, the individual, when faced with alternatives. Should I kill the person I don't like or should I try and live in peace with the world? Should I inject heroin tonight or go for a workout? Should I obtain my wealth through fraud and theft or should I try and exchange value for value?

I don't subscribe to "universal" or "collective" morality. People may subscribe to similar codes of values, but they do so individually and independently. That doesn't necessarily mean that morality is "subjective". Values are objective in the sense that you can measure their impact on a person's life. But we are all individuals. We need morality individually because we have reason, and therefore our individual code of morality derives from our application of reason (or lack thereof if you, for example, subscribe to the belief that homosexuality is immoral).
Actually, as you pointed, there's a BIG difference between

- "this is free forever" (remember FaceBook moto), killing the market using this and then, when there's no nore competitor (on specific age class for example), saying "OK, now pay"

AND

- "this is a charged service, but you may access it for free as long as you respect some limitations" : in that case, from day-1, you know that either you'll have a basic service or you'll have to pay someday.

Note: in the second case, when a "free tier" is degraded to force people to pay, it's the same problem as Facebook...

In fact, I think that the real problem here - and what people are fed up with - is the bait-and-switch

1) I promise that I'll promise something for free forever
2) People trust me and invest in me... so I kill the market
3) Then, when there's no real competitor, I try to charge

Even for capitalist, this way of doing business is just: how to build a monopoly to evade the market competition

So yeah... let's sue Facebook... and make it a clear example for all businesses around the world that this way of doing things is definetly NOT OKAY
> a cackle of scientists

a gaggle, perhaps?
Assuming that most people who truly believe that the US is a beacon of freedom to the world, are, at the very least, mildly informed about current events, it is astonishing how they bend reality to fit these beliefs.

The US has one of the highest prison population per capita in the world. It also arguably has some of the most heavily armed, most unchecked, police forces in the western hemisphere. And here we are, with some arguing that saying nazi shit on Twitter is "proof of freedom".
> Can you prove

I am not going to prove anything to you. It's very well publicly documented, within 5 minutes of googling you can see hundreds of cases of russians targeting civilian infrastructure and civilians themselves. The only way you can deny it's happenning is if you decline to believe all of those cases, in which case there is no way you will believe anything anyone writes about the subject.

> the attackers were "aware" there were no military targets there? I can't - nobody can.

Except for obviously targeting civilians, they were for a period of time also targeting grain depots and even quite open about that, thus exposing your lie. A grain depot is not a military target unless the aim of the military operation is starving civilian population, which again is a crime against humanity.
I passed the test with `object` :)
You state without argument that effective altrusts optimise for one angle and disregard all other angles. Can you show some examples of this?
How are those non-tesla models selling used? I don’t think any of them are even three years old. It seems like a skewed comparison.
If they bring the heat, you bring it right back. If you let people bully you once it won't ever stop.
CropWatch: 160 Countries join China's tech war against the West on food
Indeed! In fact, I have a project [0] from last year that uses a GPT-style transformer to address that exact issue :) However, it’s hard to go far outside simulations in real home robotics without a good platform, out of which efforts came Dobb-E.

[0] https://mahis.life/bet/
This. Virtual production is an incredible savings on the cost of film production. It still has problems and expenses, but there was a huge push toward it during COVID. Film production is a big market world wide.

I would also guess that if you have really good technology for virtual production you have tech that is useful for other things, like tele-presence, simulation, image scanning and so forth.
Hey, do me a favor and read the last sentence of my comment. There are only three sentences so it shouldn't be hard to find.
Don't collect private info to show ads?
> With clever structuring, they can keep the profits but dump the debt

I've always wondered the degree to which these buyouts are legitimate last-ditch turnaround efforts vs front-running bankruptcy proceedings.
Absolutely all of that.

About a year of my enlistment in the Marine Corps was under a platoon sergeant who was one of the worst people I have ever met. Petty, cruel, and genuinely sadistic.
He had authority over virtually every aspect of our lives, to include things like random barracks inspections in the middle of the night (that was definitely not the worst of it). It was a nightmare.

It was a defining period and I got out vowing to never put myself in a position where someone had that much control over my life again.
Heartbreaking to hear that a company that's really helping moving things forward is struggling
Only a very poorly run org like Netflix would need four months to have a show start in season 4 instead of season 1.

Season 1 episode 1 was one of the best of the show... Netflix dumbed the show down later.
> They did't do anything with the cash except piling it up and multiplying. By all means they could do that - don't get me wrong again, but that doesn't make them heroes, does it?

They gave a lot of the cash to effective charities, thereby saving tens of thousands of lives. (I'd need to look up the exact number.)
>paradigms that ultimately get thrown out the window in light of new developments in society

The problem with this way of looking into things is it runs into the relativity of wrong fallacy, the shortest version of which is:

>When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

And while it's popular to cite Kuhn just by name and move on, Kuhn himself would be the first to say his legacy was terribly misunderstood, and if I recall he analogized it to trying to hold on to the tail of an elephant that eventually escapes.

The trouble is taking Kuhn's contributions and not turning them into an unconditional global skepticism of any and all knowledge, and so conversations tend to go in circles negotiating those boundaries (and those are the good ones! The worst ones uncritically cite Kuhn as if the very invocation of his name singlehandedly dismantles any concept of objective knowledge). The best updated, comprehensive assessment of conceptual change I would say is Paul Thagard's Conceptual Revolutions, which is at pains to integrate Kuhn with a notion of explanatory coherence that takes theory change seriously as more than a mere relativity of wrong issue.
If it's anything like companies I've worked at, you stick them in an unimportant fiefdom and give them raises, promos, and refreshers for decades.
It's community content and bandwidth can't be that big? can't someone mirror the backend too?
“About half of people in the U.S. live in an area without a mental-health professional, federal data show, and some 8,500 more would be needed to fill the gap”

The psychologists or psychiatrists that are accepting new patients have a 3-6 month wait for first appointment.

6-14 years of college/post doc/degree to become a psychologist depending on type and state.
12-16 years to become a psychiatrist and prescribe medications.
I would think that the same argument could me made for Managed Service Providers handling all IT work at any decent sized org.

MSPs have to be one of the juiciest targets, and recent history would indicate that they are.
>It's tone-deaf to be sure. But the assumption, only 3 meals is acceptable, is certainly debatable

I'm not suggesting that only 3 meals is acceptable. I'm just saying if somebody wants 3 meals, which has been the standard for some time, and can't afford it, that is not good.

If somebody voluntarily cuts back on food that is fine. That is not what appears to be happening.

>Not to say 'let them starve'. But folks decide to cut back on food instead of other things, let's look at the bigger picture. That's fair, right?

Frankly, we don't know if they have also cut back on other things and food was the last to be cut back on. You are making an assumption that food was one of the first to be cut back on.

Look at these quotes from the article

>Other compromises include not turning heaters on, borrowing money and not treating a health problem in the face of the rising costs.

>21% of the parents surveyed said they have experience at least one instance of "not eating enough" in order to feed their offspring
If you can afford to and you have a team dynamic where "everyone makes mistakes" you can give them more responsibility -- like other people being stuck until they actually fix the build. But that can backfire if they're very junior or the culture is very negative around making mistakes.

Otherwise asking them questions can help. Come from the place that you must be missing something and ask them why you can't get XYZ to work as expected. Make them figure out what the problem is. Really get in the mindset that you're missing something though, or it can come off as patronizing.
Study/methodology: https://www.iseecars.com/hybrid-and-electric-car-prices-stud...

(disclaimer: I am trying to pick up used undervalued Teslas for folks in my circle who are in need of a vehicle, hence my ear to the ground on this topic)
I don't think women above 75 have a good social support too. We as society just don't take good care of the elderly.
Because the positions being idolized are weak and cannot exist if they don't get everybody to agree. It's all built on moving sand, it cannot be a long-term proposition.
And if a majority of society would adopt the behaviors/values of the minorities being praised it would be in deep shit, especially for survival/reproduction. In the end, nature doesn't care much about your feelings...
Those things only happen in "good times", a period of ultra abondance where even the weakest is well off. It is not a coincidence that right-wing politics are rising everywhere. When times get harder, competition for ressource is increased and people collectively agree that they don't have time/ressources to celebrate the weak anymore...
There were some close calls during the Cold War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
I shadowed at the county morgue for a few weeks a long time ago. When there was not an autopsy to observe, I was given access to their case files, which were color-coded by cause-of-death (natural causes/homicide/suicide/etc).

I spent one afternoon going through a couple handfuls of suicide cases and while I don’t remember many nitty gritty details, the thing that surprised me was seeing a lot of older men.

Their suicide notes were also primarily instructions on what their family should be doing with their assets/finance talk, that part has always stuck with me 2 decades later.
What does the experience of being close to an attempt feel like?
Over the holidays, my family and I were discussing something like this… one of my family members had an interesting hypothesis.

He suggested dissatisfaction is probably at about the same level that it always has been, but people on average are more accustomed to and capable of articulating their feelings than before.
Argument from lack of authority?
Right that's the argument. I just think that people who say that are using a wildly incorrect function for altruistic efficiency.
Bad quality control is just one of the factors in the 1983 video game crash.

PC games also became popular later and being able to freely install any game from any publisher you like hasn't killed the platform. The amount of crap on app stores and digital console stores still is quite high, even on the Switch store from 'quality minded' Nintendo which doesn't put a dent in sales.

My guess is the other factors, most probably the early market saturation, panicking investors and competition from home computers have contributed a lot more to the crash.
I believe it’s simply that the performance gains from going to 3nm aren’t nearly as significant as going from 7nm to 5nm. Apple would love to show big performance gains between M2 and M3 if they could.

It was curious when they announced Apple Vision Pro would still be using 5nm. This sheds some light on that decision.
Both are arguably better than 'potato field'
Free will skepticism doesn't mean the future can't be altered by changes in present circumstances. Presenting arguments changes one's circumstances and so can change future belief states. Free will generally means more than just making choices.

I can't vouch for Sapolsky's presentation, but what science tells us is that branching dynamics, the substrate of choice, supervenes on non-branching dynamics. What that means for free will/moral responsibility isn't so obvious.
My 9 year old leaf is an S model and has none of that - it’s blissfully simple. Prefer it over the SL model also in the family.
Obviously, despite every form of advertisement that isn't on the internet not being able to collect private information about individual users, that could never work.