rhyn00 · HackerTrans

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If you took time to read it you would find that meat packing and hazardous chemicals are still illegal under the new bill.

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The bill explicitly states packing plants are not allowed.

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Is AI the problem here, or is this story a symptom of a bigger problem?

This is a somewhat long comment, but just thought I would share my thoughts.

The concern is that someone who has worked hard to create art wants use it to leverage it to obtain security in their life, and they are at risk of losing that leverage with new AI technology. Well, first of all, plenty of people work hard their whole lives for low compensation because their skills are not unique, and often don't have the time/capital/energy to build new skills even if they wanted to.

I question the way we live our life, there is a lot of suffering in the world because we are focused on taking from each other (in some cases using violence, in other cases laws). In the first world most people are expected to spend their childhood preparing to work away their adult life to earn minimum compensation enriching someone else, and in the third word most people are in extreme poverty, which the first world is happy to exploit for labor, resource extraction, brain drain, strategic military advantage, ect.

Artificial intelligence is about to make a lot of things that required difficult and unique training trivial. Making many more people redundant, and no longer unique/needed even if we do end up creating copyright laws enforcing that nobody can use someone's work to train the AI. Do we really think that we won't become redundant just because it doesn't train on our art/code? So like the artist here, we should all be wondering what is to come.

I think reason people are so worried is because we have it in our heads the way to conduct trade, and ourselves is by extracting value from one another. Instead of a culture of giving gifts without guarantee of reward, fostering relationships and caring for and understanding each other, we are trying to take from each other to ensure our needs/wants are met. The ultimate way to achieve security under this way of life is to create a dependence, become the owner of the assets/capital that can be used to take value/labor from others want/depend on what we have.

We act like we have only a few choices when it comes to how to live, religion, capitalism, communism, socialism, and so on. But we have the choice to try and understand the people we meet in life, and reach out to those who we don't know. Knowing each others needs/wants we can help each other out. We have the ability to be generous when we can, foster relationships, so that in our time of need we might be helped, by someone that cares (because we're there for them too). It's just that we listen to the advertisements telling us if we want to be happy, to buy more and more things (possibly at determent of our own health/well being), we listen to leaders that would have us go to war with each other, we listen to society telling us to focus on making more money, exchange labor for wealth, and use the wealth to obtain security/happiness.

What if instead we believed the most important thing was to live with balance with each other and with nature, and to communicate with each other to see how we can help. We do after all live in this world together, and when there is an imbalance we see the effects like poverty, stress/anxiety, addiction, theft, violence, wars, exploitation, hate, not to mention the obscene amount of time we spend working (40+hr/wk for 40+ years) to enrich someone that doesn't care about us.

Are we not living in a backwards way? Most people are dependent on a few, by culture, or by force (think of how this force is created - if you don't obey those with power/authority, someone else who does will threaten you with violence or revoke privileges). If someone breaks a law, or threatens our livelihood, we'll just take away their livelihood (or what little they had to begin with) - how well has this worked out?

With the advanced technology to communicate more easily than ever before, and provide what we need/want with much less labor/skill as before, and the wealth of knowledge available, it's time realize, that by giving to each other and helping one another, we will all be better off. Well, maybe not the extremely wealthy and powerful powerful people - but even they don't get to live in peace because someone is always trying to take their spot - think about all the wars fought because one authority is threatened by another, or all the companies trying to hold their grip in the face of more desperate innovate companies.

I'm not saying doing something different is easy, or straightforward, but it might be better. I think we don't need to ask anyone's permission to do it, we just start doing it within our own networks - building up each other, making new relationships, looking out for one another.

If you want your security to come from laws and by taking instead of giving, how long that will last, just how secure is that anyways?

rhyn00

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Wow, I'd never heard of StarBook, but it does indeed look like a wonderful machine.

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I would add that the linux-ready boutique vendors like system76, tuxedo computers, framework are also options if you don't want to fuss with drivers and what not, but still want to run linux. I definitely agree that linux doesn't run super smooth on all hardware, but it's not hard to find hardware these days where it does run smooth.

I came across tuxedo computers randomly one day, and gave it a shot. Very impressed, and am extremely happy with my tuxedo pulse 15 gen2 - running their supported version of Ubuntu+KDE, that just works out of the box. Only thing I can complain about is that: speakers are not great (but I use headphones 90% time anyways), and KDE doesn't support independent resolution scaling (I need 125% for laptop display but 100% for external monitor), so it's a bit hacky to get scaling the way I want. However, everything else runs perfectly and smoothly.

It's best laptop I've ever owned for linux. It is quite, portable, moderate power laptop, for fair price. I gave my wife my Macbook air M1 over this one. While the M1 CPU/GPU is a little more powerful than Ryzen 5700U (8 core), I get more ram (32gb 3200mhz), bigger and faster disk (1TB 980 pro pci 4), more battery life (18hr idle, 10+ working) for similar price. It's also repairable, w/ removable standard components (not cpu tho). Linux running SMOOTH.

Basically with these type of vendors, you don't need to struggle or sacrifice (much) to run linux anymore. Tuxedo computers [1] has many more models worth checking out, like with high end GPUs or smaller/more portable (even one that support external liquid cooling and an rtx 3080ti lol).

[1] Tuxedo Computer (notebooks) https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note... [2] Pulse 15 gen2 : https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Notebooks/...

rhyn00

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Nice, that's pretty cool!

rhyn00

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Adding a few results:

Using OP's code for following

    php 1.8mb/sec
    python 3.8 Mb/sec
    node 1.0 Mb/sec

Java print 1.3 Mb/sec

    echo 'class Code {public static void main(String[] args) {while (true){System.out.print("1");}}}' >Code.java; javac Code.java ; java Code | pv>/dev/null

Java with buffering 57.4 Mb/sec

    echo 'import java.io.*;class Code2 {public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {BufferedWriter log = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));while(true){log.write("1");}}}' > Code2.java ; javac Code2.java ; java Code2 | pv >/dev/null

rhyn00

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Spectral decomposition is pretty cool.

Application 1 - spectral clustering - an alternative to k-means for nonlinear clusters. Get a Distance matrix of your data, spectral decomp, run k-means on your k top eigen vectors and that's your clusters.

Application 2 - graph clustering - (run spectral clustering on adj matrix!)

There's some tricks to getting it to work in practice like normalizing but it's a simple and powerful method. Also the matrices can get big so it helps a lot to use sparse matrix libraries for the computations.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/spectral-clustering-aba2640c0....

[2] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ddns/2020/4540302/

rhyn00

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Interesting, as they mention, it looks like the main advantage to an approach like this is that it can make use of "special events" (e.g. stop/starts, bumps, turning) which can null out the drift.

Combining this with other covariates/sensors could also provide more correction and better detection of "special events".

I wonder if something like this applied on top of traditional methods that incorporate the dynamics would make a better approach since you get the advantage of using the known dynamics + learnable "special event" corrections.

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