skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re a bigger problem because there are more of them and they’re easier to get. Which isn’t a metric that applies here. Analogies seldom map on every metric, they’re a tool for exemplification. In this case it’s like anyone having equal access to either a handgun or machine gun.

Even if the analogy were wrong, that wouldn’t make the point invalid. I know the point I’m making (and presumably so do you). Again, the analogy is for exemplification, it does not alter the original problem.
I think it's perfectly reasonable for CPR not to hand over a shipping container I claim contains my stolen property - but they should stop transporting the goods so they can be offshored.
The only real advance I've personally seen (and it probably existed back then) is microwave reheat buttons that actually work and whatever black magic our fridge has that keeps vegetables fresh - some ethylene absorber.
There’s a lot of worry about deepfakes and determining whether content is authentic. But I think the even bigger issue is that now, individuals and small groups will be able to have a similar influence as well-funded think tanks. I wrote about this more in depth here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/22/ai-deep...
I find the "it's just picking the next most likely word" argument to be not very convincing. If anything it makes me wonder if that's not all there is to my own intelligence.

Hell, try writing a paragraph backwards and tell me that you're not "just picking the next most likely word" as well.
That sounds about right. There is definitely nothing in the _design_ of the model or in the training procedure that is already and by itself intelligent, instead it is an intelligence extraction process. The intelligence is in the data and some of that apparently gets distilled into the model.

So we should stop thinking that the intelligence is the (untrained) brain and realize that it has always been the text.

I think it makes more sense to compare the current models to unconscious thought or intuition. So the result just kind of pops up as a result of a computation, just like unconscious thought pops up for humans as a result of a (hidden) computation. Humans do conscious reasoning by bringing their thoughts into memory and keeping them there, stretching the process out over time. In some sense LLMs being able to solve some things by being instructed to think step by steps reminds me of that. So perhaps adding some rumination will create a layer on top that appears closer to what we think of as thinking.
Ours has a little insulated compartment for making the ice. But most of the mechanics/circuitry/piping are outside of the compartment in the back of the fridge.

The ice maker compartment alone is responsible for a significant amount of cooling in the rest of the fridge, and it's very uneven as a result, but it works okay.

While the maker itself is super happy in these conditions, you will get problems if you do not regularly use ice. If you let the ice pile up it ironically is too good of an insulator and causes the stuff on the bottom to melt and refreeze. So you need to run that auger once in a while and make sure it doesn't dam up in there.
$100 is a little pricey I guess for an adapter but how much is it to get a wifi router that actually does 10Gbps in actual tests? For example I found this review for a “9.5Gbps” device that costs $1400 and actually hits like 1.5Gbps when measured.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/wi-fi-6e-th...

If they were actually hitting the speeds they market these things at, wifi probably would have “stagnated” 10 years ago.
Hence

>>Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
Giant cities are terrible. Everyone should strive to leave. I do agree that we remove building codes and ordinances that prohibit one from doing what he wants on his own property.
> Anarchy also has much lower baseline density.

I agree. I stated this elsewhere as "historically, coercive systems scale more easily"

> You can have anarchy between tribes in the Amazon or Far North, but not in a metropolis.

There is some evidence for this, but I don't believe it's a law.

Consider that the republican form of government was seen in much the same way prior to the American Revolution. At the time, it had last been tried in Rome. It's actually fairly difficult to find demographics for the Roman Republic, but their census seems to show approximately 250k males eligible for military service at any given time.

From there, let's say that until the ratification of the US Constitution the most successful republican state was the Roman Republic, with fewer than one million people living under it and it lasting about 400 years (from the overthrow of the monarchy in ~509 BC to Sulla being named dictator in 82 BC.

Today, the US has a population of ~335m people and it is 235 years old.

It's not unreasonable to think that a future implementation of an "anarchic system" might has something like the same level of success relative to historic precedent.

Personally I think this is not only possible, but likely, given the changes to human social behavior as a consequence of technology.

> Be wary that many proponents of Anarchy may be the criminally inclined types, so they don't actually have any magical trick to make anarchy non-violent - it's just OK for them to live in violent society because they'll be on top. Think Makhno band.

I literally couldn't agree more.

I'm an anarchist who views other self-described "anarchists" with approximately the same level of caution and distrust as law enforcement.

People who wish to impose their will upon others are drawn to ideologies that they believe will make it easier for them to do so. That's just a fact.
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Maybe because psychedelics wake up the part of the human psyche that understands religion
New research sheds light on a phenomenon known as 'false vacuum decay'
the first one is the funniest thing I've read in a while
I'm not making a claim that no one who pirates would have purchased. I'm addressing the reasoning behind "if you're not going to buy it, you should abstain". In the case that you've already decided that you will not buy something (e.g. because the version that's for sale will not work, or requires some unacceptable rootkit to run), then why still abstain? It feels to me like that's just appealing to some self-congratulatory puritan ethic. Why is it better to deny yourself the thing and go stare at the clouds because you don't "deserve" it? Literally no one is affected by your abstention. Sitting in a quiet room isn't going to put food on the tables of artists.
I want an electric kettle that can run off 120 and has a battery for quick boiling. Bonus points if it's a gooseneck for coffee. I've never found one though.
I've very late to the discussion, but this seems relevant anyway -- The issue isn't just the cost of getting/retaining customers. Businesses don't charge solely based on cost, they charge based on what customers will pay. Existing customers also are willing to pay more to not have to move. If customers are willing to pay more, then it makes good business sense to charge them more. For the owner, having an empty apartment is the worst, so it's worth it to do extra work and give discounts just to get somebody renting.

It isn't nefarious, and you do your part by being willing to move instead of pay the higher price. It's all just the way the capitalist market works.
Fair queuing in multi-tenant scenarios is also what describes what is going on in some financial trading systems: these queuing mechanisms are often opened up to regulators to demonstrate the fairness.
A huge health win, that was opposed by the religious right because preventing cervical cancer encourages teen sex. This is 13 years ago. The very women the GOP was arguing shouldn’t get vaccinated while campaigning for president.

Elections matter.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1800969/
maybe they could have Tupac teach the course
Having fewer footguns is a good thing. When you inherit a codebase, if it is written in a language that has fewer footguns than one that does, that can make a big difference.
I guess it's fair to say that "western standard" is what an average EU judge does to an EU citizen, not King Leopold's ideas.
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We had a kitchen redone with all "top-end" applicances. Sub-Zero fridge, wolf stove, Miele speed oven, etc. They are the most unreliable bunch of appliances I've ever owned, came out-of-the-box with defects.

The Miele oven failed _on_. I noticed it was hot when I walked by it one day, even thought the controls were all off. It took a call to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to get it fixed (and yes, they were very interested).
I saw a more recent Sub Zero refrigerator at a rental last summer and it seemed pretty terrible. Plus I have a coworker with a Sub Zero who has been out of the office several times over the years to meet repair people, and frequently complains about her fridge.

Meanwhile I have a $1k Samsung refurb that has worked flawlessly for 8 years. We’re thinking about re-doing our high-end home kitchen and it’s hard to figure out what brand will be good - but Sub Zero is mostly off the list.
> However, it's more difficult to get through the door.

Indeed. An expert-level knowledge of C++ helps.
> Why isn't there a smartphone that Richard Stallman can use?

> The reason is because no one built such a phone. People where instead complaining about it.

Librem and PinePhone exist as Linux phones, then there is GrapheneOS if you want to stay with Android. You can install spyware on it yes, but you don't have to. These are not things you just create over a weekend so there are rough edges yes, but they exist.

The problem you're describing is more about demand. Since it is niche corporations are still stuck in the old ways. For example I can't ID myself online without Google Play Services and it disgusts me, government institutions need to get better at supporting a bigger eco-system.

People don't care enough to jump through hoops, but that doesn't mean that the solutions don't exist or aren't being worked on.
I don't think it's double counting unless StatsCan's population estimates are way off. For example, look at the delta between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...
Build new

- Social networks

- Hardware

- Internet UI portals*

That are cannot be abused by corporations.

* The web is rotten to the core. No amount of regulation or activism can fix it at this point. We need something else.
Excellent find.

I heard perhaps urban folklore from an old-timer former journalist that the LSD trade was monopolized by a single criminal syndicate in the 50's. There are still some haunts with local regulars not overrun with suits, squares, or tourists.
by helping investigative journalists sift through large datasets to uncover patterns, like the Panama Papers or Snowden docs. essentially, finding leads for journalists to investigate.
> That's the consumer shift that needs to happen.

This line is really telling of our "digital feudalism" future. I get that the audience is investors and other people who regularly wear suits and that "needs to happen" is leaving unsaid "in order for this to be a viable business". Still, once upon a time the line was "the customer is always right" and here's how we'll be what they want us to be.
> Technically, voting with your wallet is a political statement

There is a strange thing going on where any agency by individual citizen is called political. My efforts are somehow not a valid market activity, they are politics, and should not go too far.

But any political effort by business, for example to undermine consumer safety, is ‘just business’ or ‘free market’. They should not be judged for doing so.
In Rust, traits can be used via a vtable, but also (and the vast majority of the time) as regular old statically dispatched functions.

That doesn't mean Zig couldn't do something similar if they want to, just pointing out that it's not always the case that it means dynamic dispatch.
it takes 4 minutes of free fall to reaach the ground from the cruise attitude. Luckily for you most crashes happen during takeoff and landing
How are they going to be sure you're not just farming cobras[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Yikes. This is a great illustration of why I've steered clear of Wayland, when even with wlroots you end up with that much code to do that little.

TinyWM for X is 50 lines.

> Sway also has a "reload" feature that preserves all open applications.

As far as I understand, sway's reload just reloads the configuration. If Sway crashes, or you kill Sway's process, there's nothing left holding the sockets to the clients open, or managing the display - that's equivalent to killing the X server, not the wm.

With an X wm, as long as your x session isn't set up to quit when the wm quits, you can brutally shut down the wm, or it can crash, and the windows stay open, and you can restart your wm - or start another wm entirely - without losing any windows.
I'm still using the Miele vac that I bought new in 1989 (from the Whole Earth store in Oakland or Berkeley - that was a weird spin off). I brought it in for its first cleaning this year to the local vac repair store (I got a free cleaning in exchange for signing up for their discount vac bag plan a few years ago and finally found the time) and the young folks were puzzled by the made in West Germany tag on the bottom :)

At this point the only thing that doesn't work is the speed selector indicator as the rubber band that connects the indicator to the selector switch failed and parts are no longer available. Compatible bags and filters, however, are still produced. Definitely not much in the way of planned obsolescence in this one ...
Interesting.

In addition to describing myself as an anarchist, I'm also a strident proponent of the individual's right to own and carry weapons.

I wonder just how much of my stance on that topic are a natural outgrowth of my belief in non-coercion.

I have some thinking to do :)
Switzerland operates on an entirely different plane of existence.
I mean can we really, in good faith, call Fox News “Journalism”? Let alone MSNBC or CNN
The solution is always web3 ;)
What a fabulous analysis! The serendipity is remarkably high!

I suppose penicillin might be a good addition to the list of powerful compounds discovered by happenstance?

Does this mean that innovation is basically a brute force calculation? Humans simply trying permutations until something hits?
There is a not insignificant amount of evidence pointing to psychedelics as playing an outsized role in the formation of religions.

A shaman brewing a mystical drink that gives you visions of supernatural forces is pretty convincing evidence of a god(s) to your any 2000 B.C. person. How else could you explain such a trip while having no concept of chemicals much less neurochemistry.
> broke so many things

I've been doing it for about 20 years, and I can't even recall anything being broken or not working, but maybe I'm not using services that connect like that. The most annoying thing I can think of is when I sign up using "example.com@my.domain" and it tells me "example.com" isn't allowed in the email address... but this is rare, and easily worked-around.

On the other hand I know several services that were either compromised or sold their email list. Back when email filtering was mediocre at best, it was easy to make rules to completely filter those addresses out.
This is one of many insights that hint at why biz-facing cloud architecture is so popular, wasteful, and profitable.

The incentives are designed to form an enormous cash siphon. From aggressively marketing toward fearful & liable (or maybe just tech-cost-illiterate) upper-management to the silencing effect that the low-rung experts experience when sounding the alarm.
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"We put a lock on the door of the side hatch," Fabian said. "It was installed when we got into orbit so that the door could not be opened from the inside and commit hara-kiri, kill the whole crew. [...]

I know this is mostly oral history, but that's just not what that means and the writer should have corrected or omitted it.

Hara-kiri means the act of self-disembowelment in a Japanese ritual suicide (seppuku). Not the suicide or the ritual in general, and certainly not killing everyone else in the process, which is Not A Thing in Japan. There were historically sympathy suicides by loyal retainers over matters of honor, but they were voluntary and permission had to be sought in advance. Killing a bunch of other people in despair over your own problem is just murder in Japanese culture, and doesn't have any social legitimacy or a special name.
Unfortunately it seems like businesses only wake up and asks for cost reduction on the infrastructure spend side once the problem is out of control. At that point, the level of operations effort to get it under control feels more like a "big rewrite" than a collection of small tweaks.
That people, in Germany, have not learned from the past of their country, is mind blowing.
People who think young folks who have sex (who are going to have sex [1]) should suffer for the decision are the challenge to be mitigated. You can’t fix the mental model (they are rigid, among other influences), but you can box it in with policy (with, hopefully, a foundation grounded in evidence). Tactical vs strategic considering the continuing decline of religion in the US [2] [3] [4] [5]. You're protecting today's youth cohort until the future arrives. In this specific case, you're literally avoiding cancer with the vaccine.

> In recent years, the fertility gap by religion has widened to unprecedented levels. But while this difference may comfort some of the faithful who hope higher fertility rates will ultimately yield stable membership in churches and synagogues, these hopes may be in vain. Rates of conversion into unfaith are too high, and fertility rates too low, to yield stable religious populations. [5]

[1] https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30297-5/full...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the...

[3] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decli...

[4] https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176206568/less-important-rel...

[5] https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/august-web-only/bi...
It's quite possible, because most appliances don't actually last that long, because the average appliance disposed/thrown away is likely still working (or could be with a minor fix).

The worst example of this is kitchen remodels; the average kitchen that is remodeled is not falling apart and absolutely unusable; it's usually a 7-10 year old kitchen that just doesn't "look right".

Cars are an appliance that is more expensive, but they last 20 years these days (average age of a car on the road today is 12 years).

It's actually informative to spend a day where everything you look at, you think about how old it is. This includes things like doors, windows, floors, etc. Most are much older than you might think.
Thanks. I'm not happy about the WindowManager class in particular, but it's slowly getting there.
Stevia? My wife has much stronger bitter receptors than most people (including me, and I thought mine were strong) but Stevia is fine for her.

Aspartame, though, she absolutely despises.

I think they're both fine, but I can pick up a hint of what she dislikes from Aspartame.

Sucralose is also fine for both of us.
At least for me, whenever I have Javascript enabled for that site, it automatically loads all the pages (sometimes with a slight delay) as if the article had a single page. It only appears as multiple pages when I have Javascript blocked, which is usually the case (I have uBlock Origin configured to block Javascript by default).
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Neither of those are unhooking the services from each other.
Only a mathematician could think that when people are arguing over a cake, the best solution involves giving everyone a knife (Stromquist moving-knives procedure)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/62052c52e90e0...

You probably want to tell that to CMA first.
I was never clear on how a Java bytecodes would be implemented on a register-based CPU. Efficiently.

The JVM is stack-based, right? So it'd be an interpreter (in microcode)? Unless there's some kind of "virtual" stack, as spec'd for picoJava.

I'm less clear on how Jazelle would implement only a subset of the bytecodes.

Am noob. And a quick scholar search says the relevant papers are paywalled. Oh well; now it's just a curiosity.

Stack-based CPUs are cool, right? For embedded. Super efficient and cheap, enough power for IoT or secure enclaves or whatever.

But it seems that window of opportunity closed. Indeed, if it was ever open.
A company that lets you "invest" in fine art. They sell shares in famous paintings & such that they buy, hold, and sell (and charge big fees to do so, naturally). I think they predate the NFT craze, but when they saw it happening they started running extremely aggressive astroturf / content marketing campaigns trying to convince people that fine art was an "alternative asset class" worthy of investment. These articles/posts had a bait and switch quality to them: you would start reading something that sounded conservative and reasonable about the importance of diversification and then BAM, they hit you with "alternative asset classes like fine art" and then you would realize you had been reading an ad. That's what I'm parodying here.
I did this at a previous employer. I leveraged a Lambda functions and tags applied to instances to determine when they should be and when they should be off.
Well, the non FSD autopilot always does this for me. It would certainly hit things regularly. It does recognize moving cars but it would have hit countless parked cars on the right side had I not intervened.
If you use the dumb http protocol, both cases should be equally fast.
It is largely a text-only model, but tiny amounts of information from other modalities are indeed represented in the text. The best example is GPT-4's drawing ability.

From text only it might theoretically be possible to infer to some degree how our physical world works, but it should be extremely difficult in practice. That's why we we'll need multimodal models obv. But my intuition is that understanding captioned youtubes with a transformer should work just as well as LLMs do, it's just a matter of scale. I think a 100-1000x GPT-4 sized video model could model let's say 50ms frame rate videos pretty well, in the sense that you can watch minutes of video (vs read minutes of text) and the video looks reasonably realistic and preserves coherence/context over the duration. We just don't have the amount of compute necessary yet, so we have to be smarter with multimodality.