skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, now it works on my phone as well. I wonder if it is only when on/near my work campus. I was outside but they do have some repeaters for some carriers. (I often get a message saying my carrier has "disabled voice services" when on campus)
I first heard this clip on my headphones (some cheap SONY at the office). It was definitely "Laurel". Then while driving home I hear the bit on BBC about this and when it plays over the radio a hear "yanny".
So why not just use the existing legal system? What benifit does adding Satoshi’s Glorious Blockchain to the mess add? A nice thick layer of hype, speculation and outright fraud?

All code has bugs and unforeseen unhandled corner cases. When code is law, all bugs and unhandled cases become law too. Do you want your law to veer into unhandled territory because your developers didn’t consider some random edge case?

Ergo, smart contracts are a completely broken idea. Sorry.
All I'm saying is that their own analogy is alarmingly lacking in self awareness, not commenting on what I believe.

Frankly though, this is blown way out of proportion. Plenty of people will do business with them. The Daily Stormer is just the ultimate martyr. They have mastered the art of doing one thing and saying another. They absolutely incite violence and hate, but they're careful to also simultaneously distance themselves from it and play the victim when they wonder why no big company really wants to do business with them. There's a reason why 4chan never really had this issue despite similarly controversial content and the answer isn't just "politics."

No, in my opinion, the real problem is that The Daily Stormer as an entity, is an Asshole. And just like they would in real life, they're being kicked out. Nobody has really made a compelling case otherwise, everyone seems more concerned that big companies actually made a non-nuetral decision (something I wish they'd do more often in the era of fake news and large scale abuse, an era they facilitated...)

I see no slippery slope here. There's a balance to be had.
This is another problem with people who lie, it actually takes practice to be both truthful and tactful, and they don't even know how to do it. It's crazy to me that I have to say this, but as has already been stated in this thread, being truthful doesn't mean you have to constantly spew everything you are thinking, stream of consciousness style. You just don't mislead people.

What he should have done was a) coordinate a time with me when he was off work anyway or b) ask for a day off. He doesn't need to explain why, he could have said it was a personal day, it's not his bosses business. I don't expect someone to work two jobs simultaneously, we'd have easily worked it out.

I no longer run my own business. When I am looking for new employment, I do my current job, and do my job search when I can fit it in. If I need to take time off I take it. That didn't even occur to you?
What the parent describes is not ego death - that is meant much more literally - loss of a sense of self and dissolution of the barrier between one's identity and the rest of existence.
I did the same as you, but in my 40’s. It’s better to start with books that are “too easy” than those that are “too hard” (for your level, whatever that is).
I started with Ken stroud’s ‘engineering math’, then did calculus 1,2,3 and linear algebra at community college (online, with proctored exams), then used chartrand’s “mathematical proofs” to learn proofs, which you must know in order to learn, understand and enjoy upper div math (and Physics).
I’m now doing an MS in math and stats and loving it, but you need to pace yourself in a way that you can understand and enjoy the math and physics you are doing - and as many people have commented, that means doing lots of problems .
Feel free to message me if you want to chat
I don't see the relationship between abundance of counterfeit items and higher fees edging out low margin sellers.
One should start with, "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" [0] to know where this is coming from.

The best architected use of make is in the FreeBSD build system [1,2] If you want to experience "a system" please give FreeBSD a try.

[0] http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/portin...
This is why I think we don't have inflation. Very low loans, and for managers personal careers it is actually beneficial to do this. The more of this is done, the more others are forced to do the same. This then results in lower interest rates, which ironically make it cheaper to do this, and results in more below-cost and more capacity, making the problems worse.

But in reality many companies are producing/exporting under cost, because it results in cashflow. To "conquer market-share".

It also means that at some point interest rates will rise ever-so-slightly and boom the whole thing will stop in a matter of a few months and we'll see 10% inflation in quite a few products and an absolute disaster in the stock and bond markets.

But in reality inflation is already here. The money has been printed. Governments have given it to their favorite banks, and financed their own careers ahem I meant government programs with it. Banks have given this in loans to everyone (because governments demanded they do this), and those managers have "invested" it in growth.

In reality of course, the vast majority of those managers and governments have no idea how to grow the economy (in fact, according to secular stagnation theory it hasn't really grown, for individuals, since ~1980-1990 depending on where you are in the world). So it's just been invested in unnecessary capacity expansion, making products they have no hope in hell of selling at the normal price, or just outright into financial constructions.

These things will have to be paid, and they will have to be paid by the customers. So the cause for price increases has occurred in the past, but people have used loans to stave off the consequences of their decisions on a large scale. So inflation is already here, and done, it's just suddenly it will need to explode.
I had an odd experience where I would get hysteresis that depended on how fast I adjust the slider. Did anyone else get this?

E.g. if I start on the 'yanny' side and very slowly move it down, I hear 'yanny' all the way down to the 'laurel' side.

If I pause for a few seconds, I finally start hearing 'laurel', and can hear all the way to the other end too. However, moving the slider a bit more breaks the illusion.
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It's their job. But it's your ass if they don't do it.
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The fact that you talk about the "tray" on the Mac tells me a lot about how much you don't know about the Mac.
The problem (of overvaluations) is that there aren't enough ICOs. When there's more of them inflation will naturally devalue the scammiest of them. The best days for (scam-)ICOs are already over.
That's true; but I worry about the overall trend. Perhaps it's unfounded but my fear is that we are trending towards less liberality, rather than more, except in a few areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5FRPfGiC8
As a scary anecdote, that's not very scary.
Something is weird with this demo. I was hearing yanny the first time, slided towards laurel, which I heard, and sliding back in the yanny direction, I can't hear anything else than laurel anymore, even at the rightmost yanny position.

However, if I listen to the samples at https://twitter.com/xxv/status/996462632998711297 I can hear yanny.
I didn't make that claim. What I am implying though, is that in order to be a person of integrity I do believe it takes some forethought. In the heat of the moment, when you are very incentivized to lie, everything is going to be pushing you to take the easy way out and you will. If, however, you have thought about it, and made a decision before these moments even occur, you have a chance. Even then I don't think you will always be successful.

Certainly people can change and improve themselves. I don't believe "once an x always an x" for anything I can think of.

Turns out, what I am saying is all backed up by a study which took about a minute of Googling to find: https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4426#affil-auth

"Here we provide empirical evidence for a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty and reveal a neural mechanism supporting it. Behaviorally, we show that the extent to which participants engage in self-serving dishonesty increases with repetition. Using functional MRI, we show that signal reduction in the amygdala is sensitive to the history of dishonest behavior, consistent with adaptation. Critically, the extent of reduced amygdala sensitivity to dishonesty on a present decision relative to the previous one predicts the magnitude of escalation of self-serving dishonesty on the next decision. The findings uncover a biological mechanism that supports a 'slippery slope': what begins as small acts of dishonesty can escalate into larger transgressions."
But you would still have to decompress it. How much support for legacy systems do we need vs just making a slightly better version of a jar?
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China is lying about their emissions, not surprising since they are also lying about their GDP. A paper released a few days ago by the University of Chicago says they are overstating their GDP by 30% per YEAR. Stopping global warming never had a chance...
Yes I've heard of domain.com . In fact, we even used it for one of our products. We tried to purchase wildcard ssl via their control panel - the result was a delay from our go live schedule by as much as more than a week. It was the most horrible control panel I've ever used honestly. Feels like bug from the alpha release candidate V1 bugs list. there's this weird bug when it suddenly delete all our mailboxes for no reason. The moment we saw that bug we immediately stop using it.

The support? The first guy that tends to you will always be the most stupidest one. You almost always had to insist to get/ be forwarded to a senior level support with actual brain.

tl;dr Stay 100 miles away from domain.com .
By the way it wasn't me that chose domain.com . I would never buy from any website that looks like this.
There was mild discontent when the Data Retention laws [1] were being rolled out across the EU in the early 2010s. This was a legal harmonization of existing collection practices for law enforcement purposes. It did receive a lot of press coverage and some small protests (even though in reality the collection was already widespread).

In 2009, Malte Spitz (German Green Party politician) sued his telecom provider for all the information they had stored on him in the last 6 moths. He and others made a good (and spooky) visualization showing how it tracked his entire life [2]. He did a TED talk about it [3], which received a spirited applause and unfortunately minor press coverage.

I think many naively bought the idea that all this detailed data was only for LE (maybe a side effect of all the reporting on the Data Retention Laws?), despite constantly seeing clauses in their EULA's saying their data will be shared with third parties.

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People only care about these issues once they become evident and widespread, and they personally are affected. I remember the shock my friends had when Google Maps released the location history feature. Up until then, its just a theoretical concern.

Good demonstrations, hard hitting expositions and good press coverage are essential.

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[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention

[2] - https://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2011-03/data-protect...

[3] - https://youtu.be/Gv7Y0W0xmYQ
Student from the lab that originally developed Nengo here.

Yes! As far as I know, the company that develops Nengo (ABR) [1] is working on this with Intel [2]. Also see the presentation "Building applications with next generation neuromorphic hardware" from the NICE 2018 workshop [2] (video is available, password is on the top of the page).

[1] https://appliedbrainresearch.com/

[2] https://appliedbrainresearch.com/pressreleases/02-nice-loihi...

[3] http://niceworkshop.org/nice-2018-agenda/
This may not be common outside urban areas, but I have theaters from 4 different chains all within a 40 minute walk, and I've visited them all within the last few months. If I were asked to pick just one to subscribe to, I'm not sure how I'd choose.
This has been requested a lot after launching so will work in adding this in the future.

Thanks for your feedback!
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Oh cool. My thought process went pretty much the same way. Essentially we're just using time as units and dividing circumference by diameter.

The nice denominator is what makes this interesting at all though, so the question sort of boils down to why Earth's orbital radius is such a round number of milliseconds.
There has got to be a reddit sub for this, right?
Amazon Prime Video plays commercials now. How long until they start slowly introducing commercials into YouTube Premium?

It's just like the history of cable TV. I'm very pessimistic that it will just keep repeating.
i have tried it intranasally and it was certainly not the worst experience I ever had but I believe what I had to be of not the best quality as I went through 500mg in about 3-4 hours and didn't feel much other than a minor alteration. i think if it were still possible to find the original formulation of it, methoxetamine would be highly preferable, that was a very powerful experience when I got to try that out.
Thanks. That's the first recording that allowed me to hear Laurel.
Thank you, glad to hear you will use it!

There are no plans for adding text overlay in the immediate future but I will keep your suggestion in mind for future development.
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The original source sounds like it has much better quality than the ambiguous samples I'd heard so far.
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That sounds like a robot or a person on a very tightly controlled chat script. Both are bad choices.
>So unless you don't drive and walk around with a new rubber mask on every day you are still subject to the panopticon.

Gotta invent that Scramble Suit!
another example of a similar phenomenon:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/8jxzee/y...
I do the same thing, I would actually like a browser extension that strips the UTM code from my clipboard or from any sharing dialogue box. Sometimes this interferes (I have no idea why?) with link previews on social media, which is highly annoying.
Come to Firefox, we have actual human beings that look at the source code of new or updated extensions and a strict no telemetry policy (unless the user opts in).
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I would hardly say that people have ever had to make an active effort to know they are enjoying wine, or any well-made alcoholic beverage.
Thank you! Have gotten a couple of similar requests already so it seems like people want to make it easier to integrate this into one's workflow.

If that's a Slack plugin, browser extension or something I don't know yet but I'm definitely going to focus on this area in future development of the product.
Ceremonies that aren't critical have a higher likelihood of being skipped, forgotten or ignored...
I could have written this paragraph about 15 months ago, at the tail end of attempting to manage my depression with various cocktails of research dissociatives and nootropics.

I've been sober for over a year, and it's now amazing to me how completely terrible my self-perception was. I was laser-focused on measuring my mood and focus and completely blind to my intensely addictive substance use. I made a lot of dangerous choices. The same substances that can heal in small doses are recreational in large ones, and it takes a lot of self control to stay on the right side of the line.

I have had a lot of experience with psychedelics, stimulants, cannabis, and dissociatives. I respect the substances and value my experiences greatly. I believe there is no bad drug, just bad uses of drugs.

Here is a message I wrote to The Listserve in the middle of my using: https://thelistservearchive.com/2016/03/27/methoxetamine-dip...

And here's one I wrote after about 8 months of sobriety:
https://thelistservearchive.com/2017/10/16/oblivion/
> I'd suggest an option for forever-scroll presentation for the article list

As long as it's off by default. Infinite scroll is a major time sink.
You can raise your margins if you merely sell counterfeit items, because your input cost is less. Amazon raising their seller fees squeezes margins and forces suppliers/sellers to reinflate their margin via external means. If you squeeze out legitimate sellers, the sellers that counterfeit will be more robust and their margins will be what the old baseline was before the seller fee increase (at least.) I don't see how you can't see that obvious relationship.
I use domain.com and had TONS of problem. I've never had any problem when buying from anything that is not domain.com (even if i had any, it wasn't as fucked up as domain.com's issues)
I'm with Elon on that one, but to be fair he defended the autopilot mistake by saying how safe the physical structure of the car is.

But I agree, better to release something that isn't perfect but saves lives. (we hope)
I'm curious about what people appreciate in this essay. In the end, I don't think I learned anything valuable from it.
We noticed, but wailing and gnashing teeth doesn't achieve much. Unfortunately, without widespread education and outrage, nothing achieves much.

That's why I don't mind being "that guy" in social situations when these issues are brought up.
I have used drugs extensively-- good ones and bad. I'd be happy to answer any questions, but you're on the right track here except for the ineffable.

Drugs distort the pattern matching systems in your brain. You see patterns that are there, patterns that aren't, patterns of patterns, patterns of patterns of patterns. You make connections that you should and shouldn't. If I could describe my phsycelidc experinces--of which I've had dozens--It would be--"psychadelics break your brain intro a thousand pieces, hand you thebroken shard and say, "have fun putting this back together."

Genericaly, amphetmainish things tie you to the real world. Disscocitiaves the spiritual world. Psychadelics-- the self reflective at moderate doses and at high doses the "other side" (if that makes any sense at all).

I would not trade my expereinces for ANYTHING, but I wouldn't recommend it either. The spiritual experiences I've had on drugs have been profound enough to change me from an stone cold atheist to, well a guy who believes in what he's seen himself. I've floated through space and time, I've received vissions, advice, knowledge of the future. I've been
shown some of the secrets of the universe... but the most improtant
message of all was simply "learn as much as you can and be as kind as
you can to others."

There are some things that are indescribable-- ineffiable. Any description of the religious experneices ive had would be, inadequate. You've either had one, or they're complete fucking nonsense.

What im saying is--the world of faith is beyond that of experience. It may, or may not be real, but it sure as hell feels like it is.
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There seem to only be 718500 Aboriginal females in Canada and there are 8.5 million people in NYC and in 2017 there were 334 murders.

So 1 murder per 5000 Aboriginal females in Canada and 1 murder per 25000 people in NYC.

With those numbers it sounds like Canada's police force needs a lot of help in lowering that murder rate.
I’d be considered eccentric. It’s not discipline or the lack thereof. There is a piercing focus that overwhelms the demands of normalcy.

But I won’t talk about me. I’ll talk about a friend of mine. He stepped away from his role with the US Gov’t and spent the last year wandering through Africa and Eastern Europe. I don’t concern myself with him having a roof over his head, because he always will. He just doesn’t define himself by living in SF and putting a roof over his head; nor does he bemoan what could have been. He just is.
I wonder how similar that actually is, because I can't actually hear yanny when I hear laurel if I think yanny, but there I definitely hear whichever i think about.
I think it is instructive that while eBay was able to void the Craigslist poison pill provision in court, they have not been able to, for example, sue Craigslist into increasing revenue and profit by charging a per-listing fee on "for sale" items. To my knowledge eBay hasn't even tried that--no doubt because they know it would be futile.

The practical question is not necessarily whether Craigslist has a duty to maximize shareholder value, but rather, to what extent can shareholders use the courts to second-guess the business decisions of corporate management? As the links in the Google search above attest, decades of precedent seems to suggest: almost no extent at all.

To look at another high-profile example, Apple CEO Tim Cook--in a shareholders meeting!--said "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI. If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock." While it made some news, I don't recall a shareholder lawsuit forcing Tim out of Apple for refusing to maximize shareholder value.
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Speaking of the stereotype of 'mad genius', as opposed to the eccentric creative which this article is about, I would hypothesize that 'mad' is simply a mislabeling of the fact that those who are more intelligent are generally going to be less guided by social norms and more by their own logic and views. Being able to follow your own logic, without bounds, is something that is most people, for some reason, do not tend to do.

Einstein is the best example of this. Relativity, and its implications, are intuitively insane and absurd. Yet his logic led him there and he invested an immense amount of effort and energy trying to prove it. And it turned out he was correct. In a parallel universe where the laws of physics are more sane, Einstein would have been labeled as insane for even imagining such an 'absurd' idea might be reality.
I'm not sure what your point is. I know they are short on resources, which is precisely why they shouldn't so much time and effort on a story about scammy shipping on paper plates.
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How are the contracts expressed? The web page does not seem to provide any details on that part, which seems rather crucial. Are they written in some domain specific language?
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Indeed, I had a similar experience. Perception is strange.
Cynically, it moved the goalposts, but didn't solve the problem. This is still a positive outcome in the big picture.