There is no freedom freer than a techbro spitting out a venomous "freedom you're not gonna take my freedom just do what I fucking say and don't criticize me" between gritted teeth.
edit: said while writing a massive check to a politician, of course.
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edit: said while writing a massive check to a politician, of course.
2 sounds like a bunch of bullshit. WHICH more restrictive licensing rules? WHERE were the rules made, everywhere? There are no new rules where I live. HOW did these mythical rules impact things? WHAT the fuck is this guy talking about?
3 and 4 are: tastes change. People don't like sock hops anymore the same way they don't like raves anymore.
I was lucky, though, because ~25 years ago I took a college course for an easy A that covered the negative health effects of loneliness. And I remembered it.
There is not a single person on Earth who cannot spare one hour per week, which is all it takes.
One hour per week very quickly snowballs into buying monthly planners and constantly saying "I can't because I'm busy <doing something else with a group of people> that day".
When you tell people that every single zip code in the entire United States is full of groups of people who are doing things and constantly looking for new members to join, they will make ten thousand excuses before googling "upcoming events in my area" and putting a single one-hour thing on their calendar.
They refuse to accept the irrefutable fact that someone is out there looking for them.
edit: What pisses me off the most about articles like that are the pop pysch-/soci-ology bullshit statements about places like libraries being less accessible. There are more public libraries today than there were in the 1980s. They're being used at roughly the same rate. That makes them either equally or more accessible: not less.
I don't have a subscription to ft.com.
Is it "tastes change" or a sexier and clickbaitier mound of bullshit?
AGI is, among many many other things, inventing games based on random objects around you when no board games exist.
If you execute MuZero with no game to play will it, absent any direction, invent a game on its own and try to get others (people or other programs) to play it, explaining the rules and making up new rules on the fly to make it fairer or more fun, or will it just sit there idling and wasting electricity like a bunch of dumb tensors strung together by a bunch of people who think being good at Q*bert makes you intelligent?
Because there are quite a few people who appear, externally, to be somewhat intelligent who think that AGI is right around the corner when trillions of dollars in hardware and hundreds of terawatt hours of electricity can't produce anything of value-- except addictive social media distractions suitable as a medium into which marketing messages can be injected.
A constant feed of LLM trash writing and deep learning garbage images isn't AGI.
It isn't even close.
If anything, all of the brains being sucked into this vortex who are chasing "dat cash" because using GPUs to trick people into buying dropshipped shit is more profitable than actual research, has set back AGI by decades.
"But I don't want them to do it."
With all due respect, quit your bitching and turn it off.
"But I shouldn't have to."
The needs of the normal many outweigh the needs of the edge case weirdo few.
"But this is the first step in a long downwa.."
No, it isn't.
I consider 95% of all people in a population to be the "close enough please shut the fuck up about it and be reasonable for once in your god damned life" threshold where "everybody" becomes an acceptable descriptor.
What percentage of people will ever, in their entire lives, fly first class?
"This sounds the same as a movement where millions were forcibly relocated to be worked to death while zealots chanted slogans and firebombed political opponents and a wave of massacres swept the nation" -you
Chill out dude.
That, what you just wrote, your own words, not my, but your, assertion, literally and explicitly means that people don't care about quality.
>but airline B has slightly (and noticeably) better service than airline A. Most people will choose airline B.
This is demonstrably false and every airline that has tried has either failed or been subsidized by their national government. (Signed, a former Continental Airlines devotee.)
And Darn Tough would have a monopoly on socks.
People only care about cost. The #1 irrefutable indicator of this is airline ticket prices: if Airline A charges $117 for a ticket and Airline B charges $110 but will also kick you in the nuts and nickel-and-dime you for everything to the point that it actually costs more in the end than Airline A...
...people will choose Airline B every time.
The vast majority of people will search for a flight, sort by price, and buy the cheapest ticket no matter what.
The two versions written by one man as experiments and used by (by reasonable interpretation) absolutely nobody.
HTTP 1.0, the first "real" HTTP did indeed include support for images at some point prior to being finalized as RFC 1945.
Everywhere.
Give me a zip code and I will find an independent pharmacist near it.
Here's one in downtown Manhattan: https://www.elmdrugs.com/
Here's one in Fairbanks, Alaska: https://akfamilypharmacy.com/
Here's one 30 miles away from the center of Loving County, Texas, the least-populated (pop: 64) county in the United States: https://www.facebook.com/p/Hometown-Pharmacy-Kermit-10007757...
Just like with purchasing products made locally/sustainably, it is often a matter of convenience and lack of effort which leads people to believe that there are no other options than what is being marketed towards them.
I found them the same way I found my pharmacy-- the National Community Pharmacists Association pharmacy locator: https://ncpa.org/pharmacy-locator
This stood out to me because I have contributed quite a bit to the Wikipedia entry for MOSFET.
This illustration does not appear on the Wikipedia entry for a MOSFET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET
It only appears on the Wikipedia entry for "hydraulic analogy". People do not learn electronics from the Wikipedia entry for "hydraulic analogy".
I assert that it is highly likely that not a single human being on earth has ever used the Wikipedia entry for "hydraulic analogy" to learn electronics. It is likely that several people have used that entry to learn about the hydraulic analogy.
Then again, I learned electronics from 1988's The Way Things Work, which uses Wooly Mammoths, large stone edifices, and titanically large humans so maybe I was trained on analogy from an early age and learned to not become too attached to them when they start to break down (like how Wooly Mammoths don't exist anymore).
edit: oh goodness I just looked it up and the hydraulic analogy for a circuit in The Way Things Work is utterly magnificent, fantabulous, funny, and educational. No mammoths, unfortunately.
For the last thirty or so years ccc has mainly been a place for people to lie or exaggerate on stage in order to promote their security consulting firm or other freelance project.
So this is to be expected.
If replication in psychology is a crisis, the replication of results from hacker conference talks is an extinction-level apocalypse.
For example, UK's Ministry of Justice has 1/6th the financial resources of the US's Department of Justice.
One notable example of this is with child pornography prosecutions. Many countries do not have a dedicated child pornography specialist units capable of digital forensics and analysis where the US does. So various international ministries and departments of justice will team up with the US, feeding info back to Virginia and even permanently stationing personnel there to act as liaisons, during very complex child pornography investigations.
Additionally, many countries will threaten extradition to the US to gain plea deals.
Finally, you may have missed the final paragraph:
>The former finance officer of Terraform Labs, Hon Chang-joon, was extradited to South Korea in February, after serving four months in prison in Montenegro over fraud charges.
South Korean imperialism?
Some Dells have a "feature" where something, somewhere, in their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack will get corrupted and will stay wrong through power cycles until you physically unplug the servers from power and hold down the power button to discharge a capacitor and clear out the NVRAM where the corrupted value is.
Most recently this impacted a PowerEdge R7525 server we have where the iDRAC was enforcing a power cap of ~300 watts leaving the system to be less than 1/10th as performant as it should have been. Manually setting a new power cap did nothing except update the values displayed in the UI. Multiple six minute (because of their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack) reboots of both the server and the iDRAC did nothing.
Dell was less than useful except for the fact that they hosted the answer. After raging against their CSA script/LLM auto-reply bullshit for days an aggrieved user with the same issue looking for help in their forums finally posted that he did the cap drain trick and it worked.
Saved me tons of wasted time. Thanks, anonymous fellow frustrated dell customer!
None of them have children.
I do not blame any of them.
They are all educated professionals with stable careers, and they all pay more in rent than I do for my mortgage.
If decades ago I lived in the socioeconomic conditions in which they are currently living, I would have gotten a vasectomy in my 20s to avoid the financial terrorist attack that is having a baby.
My brain solidified late, in my late 30s, but it did eventually solidify and when it did something like a switch or circuit breaker flipped and I came to this conclusion
I'm going to pretend that I came to it independently.
I have more, closer, friends in my 40s than I did at any time in my life previously.
I don't even know how it happened, I think that I just stopped caring about any potential for embarrassment and I learned that a good conversation is equal parts statements and questions.
In the open.
With instructions on how to encode/decode messages using it.
And little slips of paper and tiny golf pencils right there encouraging you to use it.
This and the National Electronics Museum (colocated with the System Source Computer Museum [which also houses most of the DigiBarn collection]) about an hour north have more hands-on exhibits of actual vintage technology than practically every other museum in the country combined.
Based on his online footprint it appears as though he is obsessed with women's fertility to the point of derangement.
This is odd because an actual libertarian (and not just someone using libertarianism as a shield to deflect criticism of their fucked up views) would view the right of the individual to control their procreation as an absolute.
He's the kind of podcasting loser who claims to be an expert on masculinity despite having never done a single culturally-defined masculine thing in his entire life.
To him the problem with the medical system is that the insurance companies have more than zero regulations covering them.
Trying to have a productive conversation with someone like this has about as much value as trying to convince a member of Heaven's Gate that chopping off their penis is a bad idea.
And the evidentiary weight/correctness of his statements is the same as Heaven's Gates' on Comet Hale–Bopp.
"We are on the path to ruin. I have foreseen it. You are all blind sheep."
Bitch, humanity is fine. Get over yourself.
Please help me understand. Society isn't going to "forget" nuclear chemistry.
It is perfectly possible to design a container that will remain intact for ten thousand years.
It is also perfectly possible to find a location that will be geologically stable for ten thousand years. We've already done it.
Sumerian is 5,000 years old. We understand Sumerian. We are not going to forget Sumerian. A warning written in English is not going to be unreadable in 10,000 years.
Hell, write the warning in Sumerian. Or Esperanto. Or Toki Pona.
There is a strain of misanthropic doomsday fetishists who for the last two millennia have been constantly predicting the collapse of mankind.
I assume that they believe that humankind is stupid and destined to fail and that only they are smart enough to realize that in 12,000CE a neocaveman will try to dig up radioactive barrels like a moron.
I do not understand what they are basing their predictions on.
I do not understand why they have let the dystopian young adult fiction they read in their formative years infect their brain like a disease.
We are not going back to a hunter-gatherer society you (edit: deleted for "civility").
edit: And the entire "how do we craft a warning for the dumb future of idiotic humanity" makes even less sense when you spend even forty femtoseconds thinking about it. IF humanity has forgotten nuclear chemistry AND IF humanity has lost the ability to read warnings THEN it doesn't matter. They don't have the infrastructure needed to transport the waste long distances. Any pollution/harm will be localized to a deep-ass cave and the three people unfortunate enough to have opened the barrel. Fuck them. Who cares? It makes no difference.
Please, help me understand why so many people who outwardly appear to be intelligent waste even a moment thinking about this.
They remind me of the urban planners of the 50s and 60s who designed dense barren concrete monstrosities for the proles to live in as part of various urban renewal projects, from the comfort of their suburban garden estates.
I used the GI Bill and Army College Fund to pay for my bachelors.
I deployed to "tHe KiLl ZoNe" twice with C Co 1/503rd infantry and A Co 1/23rd infantry.
Now I design radar panel assemblies for weather satellites.
They're both a good living.
I fall almost exactly on the low end of this range: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-aerospace-engineer...
With 15 years of experience.
I'm at the low end of my peers.
Like I said, auctioning off access to your users to advertisers pays better than the European space agency.
You must be a US citizen to work for my company. No "US Persons" (visa holders) or foreigners allowed.
You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance. You don't have to get one if you don't want to as there is usually plenty of uncleared work to go around, but you have to be eligible in case that goes away and we need to put you in for a clearance.
We cannot find qualified applicants.
I've had this conversation many times on HN so here are some preemptive responses:
No, we don't make weapons for the military. Well, we do but not my part of the company. The most harmful thing the products I build do is quantify in precise detail how climate change is dooming us all.
No, our positions aren't ghost positions.
Yes, we are willing to train someone who is motivated. We won't re-teach linear algebra to a developer applicant but we will pay a tech writer to go to school nights/weekends to get a degree in engineering (me, I did that).
Yes, we have extensive high school and college work-study/internships and participants make $72k/yr. with full benefits for the duration of the program. That pipeline is actually successful.
No, you can't work remotely. You (even programmers!) have to touch the things we build in order to build them and nobody has an ISO certified clean room in their house.
Yes, we pay well.
No, we don't pay as much as Meta. We build components for satellites that have been sold to space agencies and purchased by various departments/ministries of the environment, not your personal information to advertisers-- one party has more money to spend than the other.
We have shortages in mech/EE/Aero, shortages in software, and critical shortages in engineering technicians.
One issue is that we expect programmers to remember linear algebra and have more than the ability to shovel frameworks on top of each other until a phone app comes out the other side.