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In an unlikely turn of events, you appear to be an actual human and not a bot (from a cursory look at your comment history). So I say, gently:

> because evidently your approach to life prioritizes your immediate gratification

Do you genuinely believe that this is a fair characterization of the sentiment of the person (or position) to which you are responding, giving the benefit of the doubt?

> Yes, it should be strongly encouraged in crowded places, not discouraged.

It boils down to this: encouraging an intervention in public places needs to be based on unambiguous evidence, supported by genuine, authentic science and presented in a way that is convincing to a scientifically-literate society such as ours.

Consider, for example, the evidence in favor of the use of seatbelts, condoms, traffic-calming infrastructure, or hard hats (the latter of which I acknowledge don't require RCTs to be validated).

These products have produced a reliable, measurable, significant change in outcomes to the extent that no reasonable person questions their efficacy impact (though even with these, there is some reasonable dispute regarding trade-offs in each case).

The intervention in question has fallen way, way short of this standard - so much so that it's difficult to make a viable comparison. Despite mandates across a literal majority of geographic landmass of the country, there is still no evidence of any benefit with regard to community transmission rates. And on the research side, only nine RCTs - and none at all regarding source control - have been conducted.

We've watched as a huge chorus of the world's experts have called for RCTs, and have been told by charlatan bureaucrats and profiteers that such a venture is comparable to a parachute RCT. Do you think that's likely to be convincing?

Meanwhile, the (typical, expected, obvious) extrapolation in the Cochrane review has been singled-out, and the waters muddied, for pointing out in sober terms what the RCTs actually said.

It has been reduced to "well, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence", creating an obvious catch-22 as the same data is puzzlingly used as an excuse not to perform further science on the matter.

Believe me when I say: we care about you. I wish you good health and am happy to take evidence-based steps to ensuring that the world is a healthy, vibrant place for you and people like you. But you go too far when you ask that others to ignore their own good-faith assessment of the facts at hand. And the facts are unambiguous: respiratory pathogens emerge every so often and infect nearly all members of many animal species. There does not appear to be a viable intervention to stop this, and it's not even obvious is stopping it is desirable, as these pathogens confer immunity to those infected. It's an equilibrium and part of a broader ecology in which we live.

You are loved, even by this stranger. Please don't see commitment to data-driven approaches to public health interventions as a hunger for immediate gratification; this is nearly the opposite of the reality of the situation.
Agreed - really conveys what is happening in a simple and effective manner. It's a great addition to the video.
I use .NET everyday.

My entire company is primarily a .NET shop.

Most companies have stuff in .NET, especially if they were windows based.

Modern .net is fun and easy to write. I’d give it another shot!
That's great. Why can't people be satisfied with those devices and use them then? Why enforce your style of computing onto other people's devices?

Instead of nerfing Apple and ruining a good thing, why can't open source loving hackers try to improve Linux and Android (non-Google) instead, to make people want to use and pay for those systems and devices? It worked with servers for Linux. More competition and more better products is better for everybody, not trying to ruin Apple systems for consumers because of jealousy.
The python ecosystem will require specific support, so at the moment we recommend using `flox` to get all of the other things that might not be managed by an existing Python package manager, and/or to install that package manager itself.

Being a general solution, `flox` cannot directly provide the same level of integration as a python-specific tool, but we CAN make it easier to use those other tools, and bring in others.
In the past when I was in academia, I saw a really interesting model: you have a faculty position at a university or a national lab. But you also set up an "Institute" which is independent from the U or lab. Instead it's an LLC owned by the faculty. The institute applies for grants ("wearing your institute hat") and the resulting grants are not subject to the university or lab overhead. Instead, that overhead goes to fund the admin structure for the institute, which can be far more minimal than a typical research institute.

With an approach like this you can get $2-5M/year in funding, hire 1-2 really good employees, and use the rest of the money to pay for cloud infra (or on-prem or other infra if that's your preference). And of course, any ideas you have, you spin off into startups that you have equity in.
Maybe eat some broccoli too? I agree sugar is terrible but be wary of extremes.
Not all universities are overfunded Ivy League.

A risk of proprietary research is that the company can hoard knowledge, exploitation thereof, etc. It's the suboptimal quadrants of the prisoners dilemma.
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That doesn't really matter. Nobody wants to pay more simply because they are rich. They may want to pay more if they stand to gain something from the investment. AI research is a poor investment for a university, because it's expensive and highly competitive. The university will likely gain more prestige by investing the money in other fields.
> calling the use of neural networks in statistical work "AI" is misleading at best.

Neural Networks are not considered AI anymore?

That just reinforces my thesis that "AI" is an ever sliding window that means "something we don't yet have". Voice recognition used to be firmly in the "AI" camp and received grants from even the military. Now we have that on wrist watches (admittedly with some computation offloaded) and nobody cares. Expert systems were once very much "AI".

LLMs will suffer the same treatment pretty soon. Just wait.
If the botting is profitable then it is trivial to build an interface for a fake controller and screen grabber to do the work.
Well, we get to use most of that for free.
Ha! Nice, we're in good company then!
I think it implies that schizophrenia has something to with the visual system or something correlated to it.
It’s unfortunate. They went about it honestly by doing it in the open, and that provided proof that they were dangerous.

If they had done it subtly, that would have proved that they had the power to do it too but if they weren’t caught it wouldn’t have blown up in their face.

Of course if they were caught it would be an even bigger deal.

Catch 22 for them.
Ageism is pretty much only talked about when it affects older people. Younger people - broadly millenials and younger - have just had to make piece with the ageism they've faced their entire lives and continue to face. I understand that one day I'll be old too, but my sympathies are limited and it'll be nothing truly new for us when people start dismissing us for being old, since people have been dismissing us for being young plenty. It'll probably hurt a little more since I tend to identify more with younger people than Gen X or older millenials, but in the end it won't be anything I'm not used to. So consider this me playing the world's smallest violin.
Contacting your representative to try to influence them is a fundamental part of democracy.

Democracy is not just voting for someone, a democratic government is intended to be directly influenced by the people continually. It's kind of the whole point of a representative democracy.
If the first amendment actually protects TikTok here, as may be the case, then the courts can strike this down.

On the other hand, perhaps the first amendment doesn't block this. In that case, that relevant consideration would seems to be rare broad bipartisan support (as evidenced by a very lopsided 352-65 vote, but we'll see what happens in the Senate) to limit the potential harm that can be done by the information warfare capabilities of a genocidal authoritarian regime with whom it is certainly plausible that the US will be at war with in the next decade.

It is really unclear, absent a successful constitutional challenge, why the free speech maximalism preferences of a throwaway account on HN should hold more weight than lopsided bipartisan vote by democratically elected legislators.
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Not only is the cart before the horse, its speaking from the wrong end.
Ok, this is interesting for two reasons:

First, once again, it was said in a sister thread, no mention of the workers. Especially the 13 who were exposed to up to 32 gray. Those were "heroes" at the time, they volonteered, and like all "heroes", were quickly forgotten.

I imagine getting those doses prevents you from being near a reactor, at a hospital or flying a plane, so they likely had to loose their jobs, but also be harder to treat at hospitals and endanger themselves when taking the plane for vacations. The fact that "only" one died and that none of the other yet suffer from anything is good (the report indicated cataracts and blindness are more probably than hyperthyroid, so that's great for them). I would like to know if they receive a pension and are now retired, or if they still work.

(also i think its evidence that privatization and subcontracting in the nuclear industry is the dumbest thing you can do. I can imagine doing that at 50yo for the country i live in. For a subcontracting company? please, let the administrators and the execs do that)

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Second, sorry it's my left brain who does that:

What are the plan in case another fukushima hit then? 2k people (between 1600 and 1900) died during fukushima evacuation. Mostly displaced ederly, but the panic killed small children. Displacement stress could have added up too, being on the ground could be view as a stigma (i've hear its less true than for the two atomic bombs and Chernobyl - where sightly irradiated people were pariahs - but still), and suicide are not counted on this stat, but the death count could be higher.

This is evidence than even without a core catcher and an old, pretty poor design, we have time to think and slow down the evacuation, take our time to do it correctly, and maybe redraw the exclusion zone once the reactor is stopped and data come in. In both direction: i wouldn't have minded at all making the exclusion zone on the shore and in the sea bigger, and the one inland smaller, as soon as 2013.
This is exactly the meme that came to mind when I saw the topic title, glad I'm not the only one who's had their brain ruined like this ;)
Given the detrimental health impacts of heat, I think governments should establish a "right to cool," similar to the right to drinking water. Humans have adapted to their environments so this may not have been necessary in the past, but as climate change occurs, those environments may get warmer faster than people can adapt, and we may see large numbers of deaths and illnesses unless we do something.
It means "tornado," referencing the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." The Kansan protagonist is transported by a sudden tornado to a magical land called Oz.
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This is the wrong argument. This legislation doesn't censor TikTok like China censors social media/the internet at large. It simply requires the ownership of Tiktok to be American in the US. This is the same thing China does (You can't operate in China without a Chinese partner to run your operation in China.)

You can debate whether or not it is reasonable or important to for the US to impose similar ownership requirements for businesses operating in the US, but couching it in argument of censorship the way China does it is a real false equivalence. Congress doesn't want to censor your speech on Tiktok (Which isn't how the 1st amendment works anyways) they want China to divest itself of US operations.
The NanoPi R6C/R6S as well.

The rk3588 is a nice chip, but support just isn't there yet if you want to do anything with the GPU. The "Panthor" GPU driver, which is the FOSS driver which supports its GPU, was just merged in to Linux and mesa this month[1] (yay!) which means you're probably gonna have to build your own kernel if you want it.

The old mali proprietary driver is borderline unusable on anything remotely modern, only really working on Linux 5.10 and special X11 builds with legacy features re-enabled.

It's crazy that the rk3588 has been on the market for many years at this point and is just now starting to be usable on Linux, but it's exciting that things are taking shape.

[1] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rele...
No, at least in this case, human reveals something, not "AI". Unfortunately people need to use 'AI' to get some attention (no pun intended).
This debate is a classic. AI has always been an overloaded term and more of a marketing signifier than anything else.

The rule of thumb is, historically, "something is AI while it doesn't work". Originally, techniques like A* search were regarded as AI; they definitely wouldn't be now. Information retrieval, similarly. "Machine learning", as a brand, was an effort to get statistical techniques (like neural networks, though at the time it was more "linear regression and random forests") out from under the AI stigma; AI was "the thing that doesn't work".

But we're culturally optimistic about AI's prospects again, so all the machine learning work is merrily being rebranded as AI. The wheel will turn again, eventually.
> I don't want to abolish time zones, I just want all the servers to run on UTC and all the apps to use standardized date/time libraries. Is that too much to ask?

Err, maybe you come from Windows?

In all variants of 'nix I'm aware of (and we are going back to the 1980's here), the kernel time is always UTC. You then set your TZ environment variable to reflect whatever timezone you are in.

Why? Well because back in the day we had time sharing as computers were far, far too expensive to be used by just one person. So from day 1 'nix assumed people would be logging in remotely, and when they did "date" had to display the correct time. In fact all time stamps were stored in UTC - including in the inode (eg, file modification times) and of course archive programs like tar used UTC exclusively.

Time moved on, we got PC's, and so the model moved to being one Computer was devoted exclusively for the use of one Person. DOS, and later Windows hark from that era and not surprisingly they too the opportunity to ditch all that UTC conversion complexity and store everything in local time.

But in a bizarre turn of events as computers got even cheaper they became so powerful they could services 100's or 1000's of people at one time, and with the rise of the internet it became cheap to connect them to those people. What's more it became profitable, as mum and dad just didn't want to handle the complexity of managing their own computer systems. Instead they pay someone else to do it. Fair enough I guess, but boggles my mind when youngsters here who evidently class themselves themselves as "computer professionals" say it's far too difficult to maintain computer hardware and systems, it should be left to the experts like AWS and Azure (at 10 fold mark up, thank you very much).

And so here we are, what was old is new again, and you are asking "please can we just store everything in UTC" because everyone shares computers.

Well, we did son. Then you young'ins came along and fucked it up.
Austin is still doing a hell of a lot better than the West Coast is!
I'm not arguing that blocking housing doesn't also cause a housing crisis. I'm just saying, given the choice of living in Manhattan in a single family home, or a six-floor walkup, I'm taking the single family home. And if everyone in Manhattan made the same choice, Manhattan would be ridiculously more expensive. The best parallel is probably Beverly Hills, but for the entire island.
> The value of a human life seemed to drop pretty low during the Depression, but it wasn’t that great before then either.

Very true. Every 10 stories of building height had an expected death rate attached to it. Same for every extra 100ft span of bridge.

When the Brooklyn Bridge was built and workers were being crippled or killed by the bends down in the caissons... the solution was already known from research over a decade before. But we're not gonna pay people to not work (decompression time) so they just let people get hurt.

None of those things were considered very newsworthy or a significant problem to be prevented.
At least in the US, an institution’s “facilities and administrative” F&A rate gets negotiated with the Federal government every four or five years.

I know of some institutions with F&A rates at or above 70%!! I presume that an institution trying to negotiate a higher F&A rate than this would have some significant pushback!
There was a time that's all we had when using Windows [1]. It was weird.

[1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5891/how-...
flox.dev/terms leads to a 404
Release the Panthor
The taxonomy of AI is the following:

AI

-> machine learning

...-> supervised

........-> neural networks

...-> unsupervised

...-> reinforcement

-> massive if/then statements

-> ...

That is to say NN falls under AI but everything falls into AI.
Ask HN: Similar College Essays Like Those from Ben Kuhn or Alexey Guzey?
Like this one https://www.benkuhn.net/college/?
Another entry in the 'marketing and technical terms don't mean the same thing despite using the same words' saga.
> Some of our oldest and most well supported laws revolve around limiting what a business can and can't say. For example, a supplement company can't advertise "This fish oil will cure your cancer!"

That's misunderstanding what law is. An individual can be tried for fraud just as a business. It doesn't have anything to do with freedom of speech.
It really doesn't seem like it could pencil out, as it carries only one blade at a time, that's three trips for each turbine - and most windfarms would have more than one. But I guess they think it does. Perhaps they can also deliver to offshore farms, which already have contracts. I know there is a shortage of the specialized ships to float their huge blades out.

Also, I hope they've done their homework on NIMBY pushback on land which is pretty effective against wind farms even with regular sized turbines.
The current usage of AI is a rather new market term.

Where would you draw the line?
Is prediction via linear regression AI?

Also language is fuzzy and fluid, get used to it.
good to know! I probably will hold out until I just port everythin to dark, but good to hear of yet another thing that gitlab does better than github.
So just be more in the real world? (I mean, IRL) Well, yes, but there are advantages to virtual worlds, as long as they're not designed to be simply addictive time sinks. And there are advantages to the real world.

The inputs to a computer game are more limited, you can't see people, their faces (and sometimes voices), the graphics are still a far cry from the more beautiful places.

Also, real life is full of responsibilities and large parts of it still, well, suck (bad jobs, exploitative practices, etc.). I think we're improving somewhat (greatly hampered by greed and power games).

If you have interesting activities IRL, like a great fulfilling job and hobbies (that are also potentially useful in other ways, like charity work), then by all means, but I think virtual worlds have their place in our lives.
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FTA:

> They’ll start at $199 for the Moto G 5G and $299 for the Moto G Power 5G.

How in the world can a $200 phone possibly be dubbed a "budget phone"? It costs as much as a low end laptop.
The number of $100 million+ buildings a New England town of 8,000 can have is staggering. The problem is the idle hands and minds these buildings house. The number of administrator looks like a make work project to create more jobs.
I didn't see this getting the coverage it deserved when it was published, and it's exciting news.
Some variants didn't show up in tests well. And being asymptomatic was/is really common. Why would you check if you don't have symptoms?
Or perhaps you have some immunity to it, for some reason ...

Humans have high variation. It's what keeps the species alive when things like pandemics come rolling in.

Your personal situation doesn't automatically apply to anybody else.
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> there's nothing to be afraid of from people who want some food

not OP but FWIW my roommate was followed into an ATM vestibule while depositing his (5 figure) casino winnings, begged at aggressively, and then the destitute person kicked his suitcase, I'd say that's definitely something to be afraid of. now I don't use ATMs with people sleeping in the vestibule.
AI changes the landscape alot.

Even as an experienced engineer the sheer amount of knowledge you get access to from a single prompt without having to read any tutorial or book can change a Junior into Senior very quickly.

I just hope it wont face the same issue google had:

- starting with good answers and evolving into mud
Also the building restrictions in a highly-populated area. I remember a person on here breaking down the costs of building multi-family housing. Basically in SF or LA you can only build high-priced multi-family housing to make any profit, otherwise it would be at a high loss and that is assuming something like rent controls, because otherwise the price would be driven up anyway.
Thanks. Encryption being all over the place on the github readme got me of on the the wrong foot.

Replacement is easy to understand indeed.
Almost all breakthrough in human history are not triggered by money but talent meeting opportunity. So why worried about someone wants to take a job (research or not) because he is getting paid higher?
Agree, totally valid points.

Also take a look at rare diseases and doctors [1], in which machines are already better at diagnosing thousands of different rare diseases. Is is fair to say that machines are better at diagnosing diseases in general, just because they diagnose rare diseases, which each one, every doctor will need to diagnose once or twice in his career? Not clear at all.

Right now we are constrained by data, but that constraint will go away in 5 years or so. Will AGI will be achieved by then effortlessly? I have my doubts. My sentiment is that, even if AGI is never achieved, every small advancement in reasoning ability, in context window, in multimodal sensors and actuators, will have a very broad effect on jobs, on the economy and the way we are currently producing anything.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6GhUjblqKg&t=826s
Likely yes: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination/agedisc (second paragraph)

I'm not sure what if means by "certain" applicants and employees, but my guess would be jobs where it's relevant, like physical labor, are excluded.