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Yay I saw Vi's video mentioning this old paper again recently :D

It fascinates me how many utterly critical foundational technologies have become specialist niches (while only ever growing more foundational and critical) over the past century. 8I

I'd have probably gone with "Apples and Orangutans"

"TL;DR" transformed into "TL;must be AI"

> but why, on a website called Hacker News, should I need to care about what most people choose to do with their lives?

Well, when the question is "why did the blogs go away" the answer might be difficult to investigate by only considering a narrow slice of the potential audience for said blogs.

This is the first time in history that I have seen the shovel-sellers convince a supermajority of the gold-miners that "amount of gold mined out of the ground" is less of an indicator of profit than "amount of shovels purchased".

Infiniminer is the "parent" of Minecraft, because Notch made the latter after he was inspired by the source-leak of the former to port the code from C# to Java.

Infinifactory is the "cousin" of Minecraft, because it was built using Infiniminer's engine directly by Zach.

Your explanation still presupposes that a "true signal" even exists in the first place to be able to internally interrogate, though.

Well, he invented both the parent and the cousin of Minecraft.

I mean, isn't that just NextDoor?

If only someone would just bump up the size of the address space, so that there would be enough to go around again.

I mean, it's kinda like Y2K, isn't it? We're stuck with this old addressing scheme that chose 32 bits per address back when that was a lot for any computer to comfortably handle. But today if we used up twice.. no, even four times as many bits no PC would bat an eyelash and the increase in address space would be truly exponential.

It's just a shame that so much built infrastructure expects the current addressing system that it would probably take a life time to phase out. Plus that if anyone tried to rebuild it from scratch they would probably forget to make it backwards compatible, and also change so many things about it that it becomes a nightmare for anyone to try to implement. It's like trying to pass a new law and it gets infected by death-by-a-thousand-riders as a prerequisite to passing. :'(

Well, primarily because surveillance is terrorism.

Terrorists are not mustache-twirling villians planting bombs in old-folks homes just to provide a simple target for the protagonist to foil.

They are simply anyone who uses terror as a means of control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

.. "NOBUS" AGI with a moat at all costs..

How much workforce do you think it takes to run a data center?

How on earth are you going to move the needle on "honesty or effort put forth by an LLM" at the logit-choosing stage, though?

To me that's like inferring that you can keep a GPS system from choosing suboptimal cross-country routes by affixing a camera to the grill of the car with sufficient visibility to examine the next fifty feet of pavement.

Erlang/Elixir coder identified :)

> There are quite a few machines connected to the internet right now with no owner. Boxes forgotten over time and power consumption not enough to matter.

They are on somebody's land, and unless they run completely off of solar or turbine then they are still drawing someone's electricity. Their access to the internet also must be mediated through a SIM card or a wire to someone's network. With no dispute from other possible owners, the owner of the related land, electricity, and network access (far and away these will all be the same party) is the owner of the internet-connected device.

I'm curious how good AI is at these.

We have plenty of them that humans even find to be pleasant to solve, such as Minesweeper :)

That.. makes it sound to me a lot like a VPN though

My understanding is that the threshold people mean are that the vampire kids would be fired for not having 1/4 million spend in tokens per quarter.

EG: That the entire conversation is juggled by the token selling shills, per usual.

Working with Windows 3.11 isn't even the problem there though, that is only a symptom. You could get one of the original authors of 3.11 in there and all they would get told by Siemens would be "no, you can't touch anything. You can't change anything, you can't install a new piece of software, even one designed for Windows 3.11. You can't fix this obvious bug, even if you are Chesteron. The absolute only thing we will allow you to do is to salve the very shallowest possible symptom that we never noticed until this week, and you can only do that by adding a new thing completely outside of the scope of everything that already exists and make the ball of pain larger."

I would be happier if it really could search and pick every unicode character. I would love to be able to nab "not equals", "approximately equals", "supsercript 2", etc.

So all I am hearing is.. Rust

I suppose you'd like to replace it with Email since that doesn't have any spam, hmm?

I am constantly amazed how few people understand that preventing spam is below the last thing the FCC is actually interested in.

First of all, the decision makers at the FCC profit from directly from spam, Christ.

Secondly, the indirect value of spam to the FCC is that it helps to justify initiatives to ruin the privacy of ordinary people via the constant push for KYC.

Just like "age verification", Flock cameras, license plate scanners, ubiquitous IoT with microphones and cameras, etc. Governments and corporations both profit from shredding every molecule of your privacy.

Compare and contrast "Saudi extremist holed up in Pakistan who has been targeting Americans for a decade succeeds in blowing up three buildings with large planes on American soil: Well, I guess it's time to invade Iraq and Afghanistan then" 8I

> Can, say, the Belgium government read along with all messages on Whatsapp?

There is something to be said for "our populace relies on tech built by foreign companies" though. Said foreign company is at minimum less likely to install a backdoor for a local government (or be as easily hacked by said local government) than if popular language issues leave the ground ripe for local alternatives to be more popular.

Learning to read must have meant memorizing vocabulary though, right?

A multiplication table is just a single-digit multiplication vocabulary.

Well I for one am always in favor of arbitrary humans having better ways to voluntarily attenuate their own fertility, full stop.

We may have a depopulation shock problem on our hands at the moment, but trying to encourage more accidental births isn't the way to solve that: we need to increase social and financial incentives for forming families and pull away as many of the social and financial barriers thereupon that we can. Not to increase population but to better slow the free-fall of it decreasing so badly that it upsets the actuarial tables.

While I have no way to assess whether better male birth control options would directly positively impact education in particular, I see zero ways it could negatively impact it.

If the purpose of a system is what it does, then what does the system of "not going to school" do?

If schooling and learning/education are truly mutually exclusive then who is the most learned and educated person you can point to that never stepped foot in a school? And how do those rare examples compare against the breadth of modern PHD holders?

There are a non-negligible fraction of kids that are kept out of school, homeschooled, etc. If school was as bad for learning as you suggest then one would expect those kept out of it to demonstrate higher-than-average aptitude.