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Intel is a product of Shockley, which was a product of Bell Labs, which was a product of “punishing” AT&T for “being American”.

AT&T would have zealously guarded the transistor patent and never have licenced it out to Motorola, TI, etc. if they only cared about maximising shareholder value.
A "stock market boom" built on killing jobs is not a booming economy. That's why any politician who brags about or defends this morally indefensible "boom" is going to be in trouble politically.
> The notion that parents have much to do with how kids turn out is a myth.

This is honestly fascinating. It's obviously not true, just by taking into account the consequences of it being actually true.

Am I missing something? The study says, at some point "We would essentially be the same person if we had been adopted at birth and raised in a different family.".

Are they limiting this to the genetic composition of a person? It seems they refer to the character, behaviour, overall identity... which to me sounds unbelievably absurd.

I mean, being raised by a single mom vs. being raised by an Army dad MUST introduce some differences, right? And what about all the studies about the consequences of father absence? Oh, all criminals were going to be criminals regardless?

Come on.
A physician binding a book in the skin of his patient seems like a sick psychopathic power move. This is similar to the recent case of a surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials.

The removal of the skin binding is symbolic, and is a small initiative in the gestalt of righting historical wrongs and creating a just society.
How would you propose doing so?
> according to a well-sourced report by Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham in +972 Magazine, was in fact partly controlled by an AI target-creation platform called the Gospel

Don't try to "fake-news" it because it doesn't fit with your narrative.

Tech is being abused and combined with already authoritarian-fascist policies, is killing civilians en masse.
Are you saying the average american doesn't have a disposable monthly $100? That is demonstrably false - the statistics about current income and life costs paint the opposite picture: not only Americans but average people all over world are wealthier than they've ever been.

There are inequalities, of course, (like Europeans falling behind) but the Americans are doing very well indeed. So please stop with your propaganda.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/10/americans-have-neve...

Americans have that disposable $100. Now they may very well be deciding to throw it away on cigarettes, alcohol, weed, various entertainment (tv) or all sorts of crap - but that is a whole other discussion altogether.
It is a little curious that the skin was applied with consent, but not removed with it.

I was lead to believe that Harvard was where smart people were. The simple thing to do would be to remove the book from circulation, not destroy the thing that made it interesting.
Police in the us are more likely to be heavily armed and paranoid because they are armed, and are often trained to be paranoid.
>> The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked.

That's... a thing you can do. Yeesh.

Bet he was a Lovecraft fan in his final years.
the insane details

Really? I get the exact opposite impression - how little actual detail there is. It seems it almost completely consists of few thick brushstrokes, made with insane precision.

The Supper at Emmaus seems to be an exception. It makes me think it actually isn't his painting.
I agree, destruction of important heritage with absolutely ridiculous claims. Taliban level shit.
Were you new to Swift? It for sure has its issues, but lack of control wouldn’t make it on my list.
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Many commenters point out that Bluetooth MAC address randomization on phones mitigates most of the privacy risk, but forget that most other devices – even including the pressure sensor in you new car's tires – use a static address that allows you to be tracked.
Multitask Video Synthesis Without Fine-Tuning
You do not have the same problem, though. Sandboxing on mobile OSes is much more severe. No app can just magically access the rendering context of other application without elaborative million dollar exploits.
That sounds like the economic system was created for the benefit of society and it did so by incentivizing people to create companies in exchange for profit. If someone taxes carbon and that causes me to reduce emissions, is my action altruistic or is the tax?
i won't have time to read this until later, but here's a post by him on it: https://scottaaronson.blog/?cat=33
For some people this is a stable dystopia.
I think you meant “aren’t manufacturing” and you are correct. It’s not cheap labor, except for the lowest end manufacturing. It’s that you can’t build anything in America anymore.

The government needs to address that instead of subsidizing one off efforts.
We could repurpose the evil bit.
Likewise, I've unsubscribed from multiple paid Patreons and Substacks as soon as they started using AI to generate content. I'd rather see an amateur MSPaint scribble than some dall-e monstrosity at the head of a newsletter.
I assume that you do both. Layers of protection are necessary because each layer can leak.
To borrow terms from RFC 2119, "having a child makes people more responsible" is a SHOULD, but statistically, turns out to be a MAY. (#survivorBias: people are likely to acknowledge this, if they did turn out to actually be more responsible - "turned out GREAT for ME", emphasis added. The other case, not so much.)

However, I feel like the age of a parent is a factor, sure - but it's not an overwhelming factor...
I think it’s inevitable, but also not inevitably terrible

Firstly the slave driver thing. I understand there is evidence in Egyptian pyramids and chinese canal workers where the whip was a rota based position. If you are a group of canal workers you can get paid well to rope to a boat and drag it along the canal to get to market quicker.

And as it takes say a dozen fit young men to drag the boat, any one of them can shirk and still get paid. The whip was used by the workers themselves to punish shirkers, and ensure everyone was “pulling their weight”. Importantly you would need to be a skilled “puller” to work out who was shirking and who not.

(Please note I am not saying chattel slavery did not exist, that brutal punishments were made and violence used to keep slaves and workers under control. Just that in some cases the whip was a communal decision)

Me I hate timesheets. And I even have gone so far as to use my git commit logs as my own timesheets. I just see this as an extension of that.

We leave digital footprints everywhere. I expect a computer can pick up those footprints and provide me with a clear accurate description of my whole day.

I don’t think that is a bad thing. I can even imagine it being useful epidemiologically

But there is case for misuse. And that’s a different class of problem. It’s not ok to have delivery drivers think they need to pee in a bottle else they won’t hit their targets. But the measurement of a delivery driver around town is not the problem.

It’s who holds the whip - that’s the problem
(it turns out my wife's family took more generations to get back into the XVIII, so that line runs ~30 years per generation)
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const PlanetIndex = 1..9;
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No, companies don’t have to require them.

Agreed the loan behavior exacerbates the issue rather than mitigates it, but “the current solution is bad” doesn’t necessarily mean the same agent is able to produce a good solution. If you’re certain the government is capable of breaking it: how?
Implementing Tic-Tac-Toe Using Only Printf
>closing my startups month end books took days because file was too big and slow to process online

Whahuh?

Maybe what you say is correct ... but it sounds like you were trying to keep all your 'books' in a single spreadsheet for all time ... with maybe a lot of [poorly-written] formulae or macros running?

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Also ... this is why 'real' accounting tools like Quickbooks exist - a spreadsheet is not always the 'right answer' :)
It's a pity for preservation of history. The act was bizarre and probably incorrect, but it happened. Why not put the book on some museal status and restrict access to serious researchers?
The US Government could pass a new ruling requiring all chips in all military hardware (or even all hardware used by any government agency) down to the smallest IoT shit needs to be made in the US by a US firm.

I doubt Intel would need any money or other incentive if the orders start coming in.
I don't consider myself much concerned with my body after death.

But I'd feel some kind of way if someone flayed my skin off my cadaver to make a book cover.

Even being a skeleton in an anatomy class seems more purposeful.
> Also why are "AI" crawlers are worse than "normal" crawlers?

A search engine will index your content to bring people to it through search. An AI crawler will take your content to recapitulate it and sell it to others. Obviously it's more complicated than this, but this is how one might see it who wishes to use this file.

> Either way, this is an exercise in futility.

Not necessarily disqualifying. Laws against theft are also futile, in the sense that honest people don't need them and dishonest people don't follow them, and history since at least Hammurabi has been replete with examples of such laws not stopping theft. And yet. Seems worth the calories it costs to say "for the record, I do not give my consent for what you're doing".
Oh yeah I forget all the time to even start the first one :’D
Wouldn't it be highly undesirable to run a Turing complete unification process at the value level at run time?
What is your definition of authoritarianism? It can’t be “if you don’t get immediate consensus for a big change, give up and stop trying to fix the problem”. Just in this context, for example, many Americans have been trained to have a strong negative reaction to the word “tax” which leads to many things being done less efficiently using other mechanisms, but it’s hardly authoritarian to find a compromise position following the democratic process.
But why is the current value-set overriding historical curiosity owned by Harvard to the point that they effectively destroy some of its uniqueness due to current mores and focus on 'consent'.

I guess the real question is 'why do you think consent overrides everything else and, more importantly, should we disassemble pyramids, because they were built without the consent of its slave labor?'
Even weirder that people have forgotten about the concept of second order effects.

Which would cost the nation more?

a) Setting a modern precedent that any company doing business in the U.S. can suddenly be treated as if they’re somehow owned by the U.S. government and forced to make capital expenditures against their will.

b) A $8 billion subsidy that will eventually be recouped or at least offset by economic benefits.
In many ways it's a plus to have an entrepreneurial stint on your resume. You're basically taking all aspects of design, production, shipping, finances, logistics, legal, etc on your own shoulders, not to mention teamwork and management if you hire or team up with people (highly recommended).

All of these things are skills that employers will like, so long as you can demonstrate in the interview the valuable lessons you learned while doing them. It's all in the presentation. They want you to wow them with the value of your skill set and interpersonal skills, which have just been expanded greatly for free (from their point of view).

They will want to know:

- What roles did you fill, and what you thought about them (they want to know: how strongly do you feel about the position you're applying for vs other options?)

- How did you deal with the day-to-day, and with exceptional circumstances. Are you resourceful and resilient when things go bad?

- How well did you work with others? Do you behave in a professional manner? Do you play the blame game? Are your retrospectives honest, looking for learning points?
At least you show intent and can then potentially prove they are not respecting your wishes. It’s better than doing nothing.
What a crazy story. The comments here are crazier, though.
Just want to mention since many commentors on this seem to miss this, three important points about stock buybacks missed by the back and forth partisan talking points on this comment:

1. They only make sense when the stock is undervalued and aren’t purely driven by taxes. If the stock is undervalued, then investors benefit by owning more of the company for less. If the stock is overvalued, then investors don’t benefit. The overall value of the price compared to its long term real value is important. There is a basic problem with this, because company executives probably never want to admit that their stock is overvalued.

2. Companies with strong incomes relative to their price can afford to do buybacks or with strong cash positions are the ones that make sense to do buybacks. Companies like this might be overvalued. When you see companies internet companies with zero income doing buybacks it makes very little sense and only established companies. Companies with strong financial positions relative to their stock price are more likely to be undervalued.

3. Because of the discounted cash value of income model for dividends where the value of a stock is based on future income and cash flow, dividends generally have to be stable and regular to ascribe significant value to a stock, which is why companies that have built up large cash balances but don’t expect to regularly pay dividends opt for buybacks, because they don’t want to create the constant pressure to regularly pay dividends.
then put in a museum, solved.
I think it’s a reasonable explanation to a reasonable moral decision. Good for Harvard
I've been doing some reading on LLMs for protein/RNA structure prediction and I think there's a decent amount of work on SO3 invariant transformer architectures now
One second, let me google this.

e: Okay, this is funny.
You are correct that you can't create a stable, resilient grid just with intermittent renewables, you need storage.

But I don't think anyone has demonstrated long-term storage at grid scale, capable of storing power across seasons, which is needed in many areas. To be feasible the storage system has to be cheaper than maintaining some fossil fuel plants.

I haven't seen much about promising hydrogen storage systems.
A very apt reference to the story

The ones who walk away from Omelas

Dunno how pasting a link works but here it is:

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
Hey mcint, I appreciate it, but I don't think I trust myself to be well-behaved enough for an invite-only community, lol. I can barely stay within the rules here :) Thanks, though!
That's the theory. I have an internet facing box using ssh on a weird port with fail2ban on it just in case.

In over 10 years I've never had a single probe on that port with ssh.
They don’t. It’s literally a bribe to do something not in the company’s best interest.

Imho pretty stupid use of public funds. Somehow people don’t learn lessons from history, even recent history.
> Either way, this is an exercise in futility.

Is it really? Every drop of opposition towards AI in my book is a good thing. This robots.txt thing is a small drop maybe, but over time public hatred for AI can build and it might in fact be taken down. Especially outside the tech bubble, many people are ambivalent towards AI.

Yes, in modern society were are taught to value innovation and ignore its downsides, but the more vocal opponents are against it, the more those downsides will become apparent. Hopefully, it will bring the ruin of all AI companies and research.
Reminds me of the guy who created rolling traffic jams on google maps by pushing around a wheelbarrow full of phones.
Your RF knowledge is no-doubt sound, the people saying TV detector vans are impossible have no idea what they're talking about.

But, ultimately the tax isn't on TVs. The tax is applied to people watching broadcast live television and it's used to fund the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and also used to pay OFCOM which regulates all other media.
We are talking about human remains here.

If this was the skin of your grandmother’s grandmother, how would your grandmother feel about it being used a hazing ritual?

Using the balance of probabilities it is likely that the unidentified person’s family would not want that to happen and is likely they would want their grandmother back.

This being a woman is only relevant because, in that era it was more likely to be a woman, I.e. consent was not seen as important when do things to/with women’s bodies.
Companies never existed without shareholders. It's in the name: "company", ie a group of people. You're thinking about "ventures" or "businesses". Which would exist by decree of the sovereign, for example.
Semi-agree. I have my own office, my boss would still say something if I dragged a couch in here. This was the case before open office took over in the private sector as well.

Couches were always reserved for managerial class, since the 80s.
Wait!

You do "checks" before your commits?!?

#mustbenice ;)
Are mummies general kept in a general library where anyone can poke at it upon request?
Dorm rules mainly. Like I mention in a sibling comment, given the demographics and the arbitrariness of the decision it’s effectively ageism without being explicit.
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I feel like I've learnt about networking / TCPIP / DNS multiple times over the last 30 years and it never seems to stick. After a long support call with a cloud vendor today I feel like I need to relearn from first principals. Any suggestions for online books / youtube channels etc. I'm currently focused on private networking in the cloud environment but feel I need to improve my base knowledge. I'm even considering certification to force myself to retain some of this information!
In this specific case their shell game failed - they literally tried to bundle up all the lawsuits into a "bad" company and bankrupt it but federal judges unanimously ruled they couldn't.
OK, so my hypothesis was incorrect when it comes to your comment. But while you have convinced me that you feel quite strongly about it, I don't feel like you answered the "why", or maybe I just don't get it. You repeatedly told me that you would never consider it, and in the other comment you said that "if it were up to me I'd burn down the whole amazon jungle to make room for more production“.

The fact that this would accelerate global warming which will hit third world countries the most aside, why do you feel so strongly about this? I'm also not a vegetarian and I love a good steak, especially when it's served rare, but this does not form a part of my identity, so it's hard for me to understand.
Cool - not sure I'd want my prompt to be seen by others (which you can achieve by changing the incremental id in the url). Maybe use a uuid instead if you want to make it shareable?
The little remarked fact is that all these paramilitary groups are "proxies". No one ever mentions "whose proxy" is ISIS in the hn pages.
You can setup a VPN (or head/tailscale) and confine your "real" sshd there, and leave one of these tarpits in the open for fun and profit.
Have you read the report?
I think it's pretty important that unholy grimoires remain bound in human skin as a warning to the fools who might read the book, thank you very much.

Seriously, look up the book. It sounds like a polite description of a necromantic grimoire.
Web servers can check the user-agent and block the request.

E.g. nginx $http_user_agent
Just don’t front run us, ok?
Nationalizing is unlikely to increase productivity and innovation.

There’s multiple competing goals here and we need to think about how to achieve them.

If we think that Intel is fixed and unlikely to need to change, perhaps nationalize and then just operate it as it slowly declines. But that’s also going to make other chip companies less likely to invest in the US as few investors want their investments nationalized.

The purpose of these economic investments isn’t primarily moral justice (although I think that should be part of the calculation). The purpose is to increase US chip production.

It seems quite silly to think that nationalizing Intel would lead to greater US chip production.
who's museum? The British Museum?
You could do both!
cheapest Orin nano board is $499,a 7x difference?
I don't really get it how it works. I wrote down a bunch of keywords but what it spat out was a long sentence with most of the keywords and perhaps some related ones together.

Not really cool or useful to me.
That is a good idea. Maybe redirect them to massive datasets to cause the company mass embarrassment. There are already some image-modifying programs that generate poison images, and the bots could be redirected to such images...
Gaussian splatting, there is quite a bit of youtube about it and there are commercial packages that are trying to make a polished experience.

https://www.youtube.com/@OlliHuttunen78

edit - I just realized you want a mesh :) for which Gaussian splatting is not there yet! BUT there are multiple papers which are exploring adding gaussians to a mesh thats progressively refined, I think its inevitable based on what's needed for editing and usecases just like yours.

You could start exploring and compiling footage and testing and maybe it will work out but ...

Here is a news site focused on the field -

https://radiancefields.com/
That seems to rely on the assumption that human input is required to keep the dystopia going. Maybe I watched too much sci-fi, but the more pessimistic view is that the AI dystopia will be self-sustaining and couldn't be overcome without the concerted use of force by humans. But we humans aren't that good in even agreeing on common goals, let alone exerting continuous effort to achieve them. And most likely, by the time we start to even think of organizing, the AI dystopia will be conducting effective psychological warfare (using social media bots etc.) to pit us against each other even more.
Haha really? Can't tell if joking. Something else we used to do in the '90s was View Source.
This feels utterly symbolic and pointless, and part of a modern and misguided need to right the wrongs of the past (which is not actually possible to do) rather than just continuing to the make the present and future better.
That shitty site has so many ads it’s hard to locate the content
I was just going to ask a similar question recently. Ive been working on a side project involving xgboost and was wondering if ML is still worth learning in 2024.

My intuition says yes but what do I know.
I err towards saying that this isn't quite the full story, and the people involved are reasonable and sensitive to issues we aren't privy to.

If not, then it seems that academia has jumped the shark. It was fine, in their own worlds, for academics to turn themselves into reverent peal-clutching guests of the King, pathologically afraid of disputation, insult and offence (or, how extreme: challenging students).

But the world isnt theres...
> But I don't think anyone has demonstrated

Arguments like this really annoy me, if it's clear there's not a serious obstacle. It's just a "nothing can be done for the first time" argument.
Why assume everyone is dehydrated? Here's another ol' saying: in the middle of the desert, toilet water tastes like Fiji.
Germany will now include questions about Israel in its citizenship test