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"In the end, Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah serve up some of the oldest anarchist propaganda, not only by commenting on the corrupting influence of centralized power, but by spending nearly 1,000 pages to reaffirm one of anarchism’s oldest slogans: no one is fit to rule, and no one deserves to be a slave"

Not just Dune and Messiah. The core point of books 4-6 is the unraveling of the Golden Path. Its message: that peace, and society in general, have a tendency to mellow people. Established structures will decay, either in corruption and chaos, or in peace and stagnation. The Golden Path results in what Herbert calls the "scattering": one where a miryad of factions are too remote, too atomic to become part of a uniform society again. It is the opposite of the Empire in the first book. It is a form of multiple anarchic structures, designed to co-exist at best, or thrive through the pursuit of survival / beating competing factions.
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But why? I can only assume it's just a bunch of text.
note: taxfoundation.org doesn’t seem to be nonpartisan
You don't even need to be Putin. If you cook up the right chemicals, or breed the right virus, you can kill many thousands of people, maybe millions.
it's pretty likely that storebought stock is made with 'unattractive' produce that wouldn't otherwise sell, like how tomato sauce is made with ugly or bruised tomatoes.
@dang can you please update the link?
Meaning, why did the expansion change from decelerating to accelerating a few billion years ago? Because that was when the density of matter, which had dominated the dynamics until then, became smaller than the density of dark energy, which has dominated the dynamics since then. The dark energy density doe not change with time, but the density of matter decreases as the universe expands.
Then how about a luxury that you wouldn’t want to give up like eating meat, which is far more wasteful than eating plants directly? Or any of the other luxuries you take for granted?
No, I really don't. In fact I think rendering merely thousands of widgets in a second would be very slow for a JavaScript framework using the DOM.
They can shoulder the power grid for it then. Still a win.
This reminds me of 'Code Retreats' [0], "A coderetreat is a day of deliberate practice, far away of the pressure of getting things done. A space for you to try out Test-Driven-Development and other practices."

[0] https://www.coderetreat.org/
SQIsign is relatively small and fast to verify, but it is pretty slow to sign.
Their recommendation was to either be first or last. I guess my own twist is you don't have to be the very first or last—you have to be great and to try not to be right in the middle of the pack.

But above all, do well and don't overthink this stuff as there's no scientific rigor. It doesn't help to be first or last and suck at it.
About time salaries corrected down.
Really guys? He paid more tax than any individual ever last year.
Rethinking my economics
Compartmentalising Network Stacks with CHERIoT
Do you rail against fiat as well?
Crypto mining injects virtually zero dollars into the local community. If this passes, and miners move to, say, Mexico, what benefit does that grant Mexico? They'll have higher local electric costs. The bitcoins will be sold internationally and the owners will keep the money wherever they live.
Well, it depends: if the restaurant is able to keep the same number of meals per day with a price point of $30, then they still make more at $30 than at $25, even with a higher tax.

It's just you can't blanket assume that a particular price point is going to increase or decrease sales until you try it, so...
Actual title: President Biden Outlines Vision for Higher, More Complicated Taxes in State of the Union Address and FY 2025 Budget

Edit: The hacker news guidelines say don't editorialise the title.

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Better things aren’t possible! Go centrism
Bold strategy posting about hyperinflation while crypto has more volatility than Marjorie Taylor Greene
Mining is actually good for stabilizing grid, which is very important for accommodating renewables.

Yes, mining is "wasting" electricity, but it's not a full picture. Sometimes being able to "waste" electricity is actually very useful. Mining is a immediately reactive and flexible load on the grid, and in a free market , at the near-perfect competition, mining naturally gravitates to places where electricity is abundant and can benefit from doing something productive (burning off methane, capture over-production).

People who wish to ban or "harm" mining have no idea what they are talking about. Electricity is not something that can sit in a basement and wait to be used indefinitely if someone doesn't just "waste" it. That's just not how things work.

From the perspective of cryptocurrency users banning also completely doesn't matter. If you ban mining in place X, then too bad for the miners in X, mining will just move to a different location, where possibly electricity might be less clean (not from renewables), and on the global scale things just get worse.
> If you understand this all realtor and similar dealmaker behavior suddenly makes perfect sense.

I didn't say it didn't make sense. Thieves are something else that exists. Their behavior makes sense. But that's not the point. The point is that it's shitty.
The hardware requirements are listed here:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Pixels are the only Android devices meeting these requirements at the moment. Other devices do not currently come close to meeting these standards. This post is about MTE which is essentially a Pixel exclusive feature.

Simply receiving monthly and quarterly updates is essentially a Pixel exclusive feature and using an alternate OS providing them still leaves major parts of the firmware/OS without those improvements.

2 of the features on the requirements list are proposals we made to them which were accepted / implemented. There's another one of these pending for protection against data extraction via physical access through exploiting firmware boot modes on After First Unlock devices. Supposed to ship in April, and then we can add it to the list. The non-truncated key fingerprint display (we reported truncating it as a vulnerability) and the fantastic pinning-based hardware attestation support used by our Auditor app are the existing 2.

We've tried working with other OEMs but it hasn't panned out yet. We're often quite frustrated by Google but you'd probably be surprised at how much they have done based on our requests.
That too, but the people in charge of the military are strongly incentivized both to consider the possibility that subordinate machines will try to kill them and to figure out how to not let that happen. I tend to suspect they will figure it out. Companies, however? Markets? They will absolutely start handing over control the millisecond it becomes profitable to do so. No rationalization will be too steep and no political opposition will be too strong when the prospect of rich people getting paid for being rich goes on the table. The people who enable the takeover will make out like bandits and those who oppose will lose everything. Until, of course, the "winners" become unnecessary and are cast aside.

A military-origin takeover requires a human fuckup. Economic/political takeover just requires capitalism.
I'm sorry, but the users really only have themselves to blame.

The Xorg maintainers have been abundantly clear about this transition for longer than most on this board have been writing code.

Virtually every single program that doesn't work on Wayland is a result of the collective laziness of the userbase for a decade, deciding to fallback to X11 rather than fix problems or be a forcing function to pressure companies to fix software.

You're not entitled to the free labor of open source project maintainers. I don't understand why this is so difficult for some people to grasp.
None of these are reasons why crypto exists
>Our current theory of gravity, GR, works fine for treating the expansion of the universe and whether or not it is accelerating.

Then why are there phantoms in the data that need dark matter and dark energy to make the supposed working model fit them?
kdenlive is the easiest. It has annoying bugs but they're relatively easy to work around.

Of course, like any open source project, part of the reason why those bugs exist is my fault for not engaging with the project ... but let's ignore that
OpenAI – transformer debugger release
This is the kind of arrogant ~rationalizing / 'reasoning' that is my daily tell-tale as the ship approaches the leeward shore.
You are the hero we need but not the hero we deserve.
Yeah, if that was the case, he wouldn’t have tried so hard to get out of the deal.

I used to think he was a great businessman until the Twitter thing removed his mask. It’s easy to achieve financial success when your father owns an Emerald mine. Then you strong-arm people out of their businesses (look up the businesses he actually started).
Nah,pushing through negative externalities of wasteful industries to other more desperate economies is a cool use of first world power.

Also strong disagree that local impacts of crypto mines are net positive - here in Texas we have to pay miners not to burn electricity for their fantasy dollars just to keep the AC on at grandma's house in the summer.

Good riddance.
What a funny way to say "carbon tax".

Why not just go all out and propose a carbon tax and credit system? I guess that's too complicated for the electorate to understand?
It’s already dead to me.
Buying electricity (wasteful as this use is) is an injection of cash into the local economy.
Yes, once I learned this was standard in browser/Electron I wanted it everywhere!
Pixels only support digital USB-C audio output. USB-C also has a lot of compatibility issues beyond this from non-spec-compliant cables, peripherals, chargers, ports, hubs, etc. Google and Apple have a perfectly good USB-C DAC which is far higher quality than the DAC included for the analog jack on older Pixels, which are known to work well.
3 months in? I have not worked in chip design. But as an electronics engineer doing much less complex hardware (IoT sensors), I would say that is probably not enough time to hit any of the unexpected problems. Bringing an new ML accelerator architecture/family to market is likely 36 months at best.
Modern physics is guided by those observations, they can't be then used as an argument for its veracity.

Let's say I walk into a room and observe someone writing a tally mark on a chalk board once every second. I count 4x10^17 tally marks. I might assume that 4x10^17 seconds ago that same person entered the room and started tallying. I might even observe for the next 4x10^17 seconds they continue to tally. Heck I might even see a recorder going that when I play back at what I assume to be 1x speed, has chalk scratches at regular intervals for 4x10^17 seconds. I still don't have any actual evidence that they started those 8x10^17 seconds ago.
I am not super-intelligent, but I myself can imagine lots of ways that a super intelligence might outsmart an off switch. One being to hide what it is doing until it is able to write and distribute a virus to the outside world that distributes itself. Or perhaps it could convince some other humans to physically take over and stop anyone from flipping the off switch.

The question you should ask yourself is how much damage could the world's most skilled hacker do if he could clone his knowledge to a billion hackers all working together in close synchronization and thinking thousands of times faster than any human, ever.

And we have already seen that due to the black box nature of most modern AI implementations, it is not so easy to put rules in place. People are frequently finding "jailbreaks" to get around the restrictions.
> I've been predicting that companies would turn into criminal gangs sooner or later.

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I mean, nestle still exists, as does the entire financial and energy industries.
In the "old days," the junkbuster proxy used to return a 128x32(?) blank gif in lieu of an actual block because the page layout would :fu: if the ad wasn't in place and correctly sized. I could easily imagine that might help your situation, too

Don't misunderstand me: it's 100% atrocious that any device bootloops if some ad network 403s, but on the spectrum of "spit into one hand..." and nginx in the other ...
How is building yachts for people who demand it more wasteful than producing perfumes, collectibles or nicer lamps?
Who gets to decide what is waste as long as there is demand?
There is infinite distance between 0 and 1. Fantastical machines as evidence for a fantastical argument is not compelling in the slightest.
AI Can Now Hack Metamask and Catch Pedos
This got me thinking...

What could be the best way to ensure that bad actors do not use AI for harmful acts. Especially open source models. I can imagine as ChatGPT and Claude get better, so will open source models with time.
Minor nit, symmetric encryption is “impacted” by QC, see Grover’s algorithm. The speed up isn’t as fast, though.
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Source: https://np.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1bbu7ks/hows_your_a...
Congratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his competence as a CEO.
Found dead of apparently self inflicted wounds in their car...

Sounds very suspect.
I'm not sure I agree with you here at all. They can start a format that serves their own purpose, and make it open for interoperability and extensibility sake. Nothing wrong with it.
Yes, at least 20% to break even.
Yes - sadly the pricing and docs aren’t the most competitive or intuitive. Hoping someone in the thread has experience with alternatives. Very best of luck with your launch
Making the Earth uninhabitable to all humans is bad news for Putin, a human who lives on Earth. He derives his power from hundreds of millions of people in Russia working, and his lifestyle from hundreds of millions of people around the world buying Russian exports so an attack on everyone is also going to harm him.

AI wouldn’t be human, it wouldn’t necessarily object to a world uninhabitable to humans, or be hurt by it. If it would be hurt by it AI doesn’t have a billion years of evolved survival instinct to preserve itself. A super intelligence has many ways to cause mass destruction that we can imagine but cannot yet do, whereas nuclear weapons are pretty much all or nothing explosions only. Nuclear assault could leave some remote places still inhabited, AI could make certain not to.
Depending on the circumstances, that's a big "if". If your not-so-cheap ingredients are one of your restaurant's selling points (even if not explicitly), using cheaper ingredients could reduce your sales such that the savings turns out to be a wash, or a waste.

I think this happens all the time: it's not uncommon to see a restaurant review that goes something like, "I'd been coming here for years, but the quality of food has gone down recently". Granted, you don't know why: maybe they switched to cheaper ingredients, or maybe they got some new cooks that prepare things poorly (or even just differently), etc. But some type of cost-cutting measure could be to blame. And if that person -- and others (and perhaps potential new customers who see the recent bad reviews) -- stops visiting or visits less frequently, those cost-cutting measures may turn out to not have been worth it.
We provide a concrete list of requirements at https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices which we're trying to extend with as much of the unstated requirements as possible. Quality of implementation matters though.
Yes god forbid we approach this rationality, the whole point is to push hysterical claims that aren't falsifiable, right?

But you can prove me utterly wrong by presenting some sort of rational, non-fantastical explanation of how AGI takes over.
> It is common for data to suggest the opposite of the truth.

Actually, I think the best takeaway from phenomena like these is that just doing statistics on a set of data can't tell you "the truth". If you don't understand the actual causal factors in play, your knowledge is very limited, no matter how much data you have or how many different ways you slice the statistics.

For example, in the UC Berkeley case described in the Simpson's Paradox article, the data actually doesn't tell you anything useful about "bias" in the sense of "something people are doing that they should do differently to make the admissions process fairer". It doesn't even tell you where to look for possible "bias" without knowing more about the admissions process: it is controlled primarily by departments or by the university as a whole?
I'd imagine this is tricky. Today everyone in white collar culture is so guarded with language so as not to offend. You have to have an extremely sensitive ear to understand that mildly positive words actually mean extremely negative.
Is it better at coding that GPT4? I'm using ChatGPT (v4), just the UI, not the API, and it works really well for me. Is Claude a big step up (hard to imagine, but willing to be convinced).

I definitely agree anyone not using LLMs for coding is missing out.
We have a say in how the government spends our tax dollars? This is news to me. I would prefer that much less be spent on war and military, among other things.
What's strange about it? The creator of Bitcoin could not predict that volatility. The inflation of fiat currency is one major reason why crypto exists. Bitcoin has a 21 million BTC supply limit. That's the point.

However even with the volatility, it's way more stable than the Venezuelan currency. Crypto is widely used in Venezuela.
They have already fixed nearly all the crashes in the base OS. The issues we face are almost entirely regressions in new versions. They fix them consistently but they aren't stopping the regressions getting into releases because they don't use MTE in production.
OK, so how does AI get its hands on nuclear weapons?
I think you should spend your money on a respectable in-person personal trainer who will help you meal prep and exercise with you daily. You need to find someone who will force you to be consistent with your efforts, whether that involves exercise or diet. I certainly don’t think you need to spend $100K, but if you have the money, find someone who will help guide you through the hard work you’re already willing to try.
If I was the tax man, I'd tell you to stop trying to evade taxes by mixing your traffic together, and charge you on the whole lot
The rock chip npu can do object recognition a la opencv but not LLMs
There is a lot of FUD in this article, Which ignores how charities and foundations actually work.

It mentions that they are required by law to give away 5%, but then ignores the rest of the laws, which are quite reasonable.

>However, a foundation may set aside funds for up to 60 months for certain major projects. Excess qualifying distributions may be carried forward for a period of five tax years immediately following the tax year in which the excess was created.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundation...
Taxing profits would be equivalent to taxing investment returns except foreign inverters don't pay US income taxes. It's therefore advantages for US taxpayers to Tax companies operating in the US.
Probably the best "Solution" is to just move to another registrar.

As someone with dozens of domains, unaffiliated, I can recommend:

- PorkBun: No-bullshit UI, no absurd first-year promotions to trick you with a higher renewal fee, and support for DNSSEC and Glue records. Domain transfer auth codes are shown in the UI, not emailed to you. Free URL redirects with HTTPS.

- SpaceShip: From Namecheap, but with none of Namecheap stuf. Slow UI, modern UI, easier for bigger portfolios. DNSSEC and Glue records.

No matter the registrar, I recommend not to use their (free or otherwise) Authorative DNS service, URL redirects, email hosting, etc.

Unlike what it may look like, DNS hosting, emails, etc. are value-adds registrars provide. The only things you need registrars are to buy/renew the domains, set nameservers (and optionally Glue records), update DNSSEC records, and update WHOIS.
No, charities keep reserves, they own assets, etc.

Doctors Without Borders annual report says they have $400 million in net assets.
I think syntactic closures don't have to be concerned with type, because their job is just to ensure that the symbols included in a quote refer to what they are supposed to refer to, regardless to where that quote is moved. When the closures are evoked, reasoning about types can take place then.
> Raising the corporate tax rate from the current 21 percent to 28 percent, combined with the average state-level corporate tax rate, would give the U.S. the second-highest combined corporate tax rate in the OECD, significantly worsening the competitive position of U.S. businesses and reducing prospects for business investment and workers.

This is pretty misleading: the US's effective corporate tax rate is significantly below the OECD average[1], and has been so for a while. The Tax Foundation could lay the blame for this on tax complexity, but curiously only seems to blame tax complexity when taxes go up for businesses, not down.

[1]: https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?DataSetCode=CTS_ETR
How is this news? Foundation setup is one the abcs of rich people. Every rich person has one or more. Seems just a lame attack to mr. Musk.
First In Last Out.
In a democracy, ultimately the public should get to decide. Even if "taxing yachts" is not a win for the economy it might be a win for society. The USA is way too timid when it comes to using the tax code to incentivize and shape companies' and people's behavior. We really need to "re-internalize" the costs that big business and the rich externalize onto the public, and one way to do this is to impose very narrowly-directed taxes at things that the public bears but doesn't benefit from.
The new science on what ultra-processed food does to the brain
I’d probably say Karras has written the best papers on how to think about diffusion models.
Ask HN: Will you watch the total eclipse in Eastern US?
I am attending a wedding at end of March and contemplating if I should extend and travel to the east coast to watch the total eclipse.

It seems some people find the experience life altering.

I just don’t know where I should go.

Anyone else going?
>Essentially, there is no such thing as intellectual property anymore.

If only
That’s not a given. If the local power plant is owned by a foreign investor, and there isn’t a reasonable tax on the electricity, there’s very little money going into the local economy.

Both the mining itself, and many forms of electricity (especially the cheaper kinds), do not require a lot of labour.
Ideally, but it's not realistic to convince them to do that yet. It is very realistic to convince them to use asynchronous MTE for the base OS and their own apps. The more secure asymmetric MTE is a much harder sell, but would be way nicer for security.
Any plan for Physics? There is no mention on front page of the website.

When do the team think the would be comfortable telling people they can build and release game on it?
If true it's extra funny because behind the scenes medical in the US uses a hamstrung infrastructure with faxing, printing, scanning, and probably smoke signals.
The example was presupposing a profit maximizing price. Of course businesses should optimize what they charge, but the incentives exist independent of minor changes to the US tax code.
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