skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with a “Patreon for porn” or an “iTunes for porn” or an “Amazon for porn” or an “anything else, but for porn” is that one of the primary things many porn consumers are looking for is anonymity and deniability. If the service is mostly used for other things, they can pretend they are only using it for those things. Once a service becomes primarily about porn, they lose that deniability.
You’re right, it’s the UK.
Or the FDA, or Justice Department, right?

Seriously. Regardless of reason, how many patents does Facebook get denied for?
It's not. Keep reading.
The presumption to all these discussions is, that we're actually capable of detecting intelligent life if its out there. Which is probably silly. We're looking for radio waves. If we were talking about this in the 1800's, we'd be looking for what? Telegraph signals?

In future, spacefaring civilizations will use something other than broadcast EM fields to communicate. Maybe soliton lasers through the interstellar plasma. Maybe highly encrypted light bursts that are actually indistinguishable from noise (like, you know, the internet does now). And our chance of intercepting point-to-point signals depends entirely on our planet wandering into the path of one of these signals (if they were so stupid as to even send it where they knew Earth would be later). And recognizing it as a signal. And we're way out on the edge of things, so not actually between anybody and anybody else.

Maybe, its a silent galaxy because nobody is talking to us.
I disagree that that is a fair criticism, that a person shouldn’t criticize the state of “physics” as a professional practice if they don’t have better solutions.

I read Lee Smolin’s “The Trouble With Physics,” covering similar terrain, and his book was not presented as a work of science: it was rather a book about the sociology of science, and how the structures in place controlling the resources for research were going astray, by continuing to support, professionally, work in areas that were not proving fruitful, and limiting resources that might go towards finding new solutions.

Lost In Math sounds very interesting, as the author has decided to speak with leading researchers about their work, at a time when the validity of that work is being questioned.

That’s a worthy topic.
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Taking a leap of faith option is probably the most common and orthodox solution. While religious themes comes to mind, it's not really limited to religion, tons of people find non-religious causes and beliefs to hold onto, like humanism, skepticism, trans-humanism, social justice, or other variants.

Common to all of these is a specific narrative, a foundational belief that deep down, once you wash away the topsoil, it all makes sense, that there is an unshakeable and unmovable bedrock waiting. Sure, there is sand and water shaking our feet today, but deep below awaits solidity and surety. That ultimately, Truth is our steadfast ally. And that the only real way to find meaning and sanity is to root yourself to that bedrock.

But what happens that day when we dig down and find nothing? When we realize that we are floating aimlessly in space towards nowhere, untethered from all meaning? If we have tied all our worth, thoughts, and values to that imaginary rock then we'll have nothing left.
Good news is that on Hulu you can pay more instead of watching 3 minutes of shitty ads per episode.
It's great that science is investigating new options, and as long as these experiments are controlled and safe and ethical, we can hope to find new cures and new answers. However this meme in the popular media about psychedelic drugs being a new magic cure is dangerous - I have personal anecdotal evidence of quite a few people who really shouldn't mess with their brain picking up drugs and damaging their mental health and their cognitive ability, encouraged by this trend.
Thank you for sharing your experience.

> Plus being afraid of being by myself; or alive even

I absolutely love being alone. I mean, I like to learn, read, watch, play, etc. which I can do on my own. Its when I am the least anxious. A rule of thumb is the more people around me, the more anxious I become unless I'm one of the many (not in the center of attention; though my odd behaviour can cause that). This is regardless of being in a state of psychosis.

After those 3 mild psychosis I had a long one in end of 2012 related to stress but not (AFAIK) to drugs. This one lasted for a total of approx 2 months. FWIW, the fact that I had those mild psychosis before, helped me during this time.

Is that the ideal way to threat a psychosis? I don't think so. The best thing to do -even if drugs are involved- is seeking professional help. Something I failed to do, because I distrusted that around that time.

Also, I can highly recommend mindfulness to cope with anxiety (and other negative feelings such as lack of focus/concentration, being/becoming oversensitive, even insomnia). I recently followed a course on mindfulness for people with autism and can recommend.

> I don't think you can control the psychosis, no - but you can teach yourself to get familiar with what is happening to you and therefore know there's nothing to be afraid of.

You can only control it so much, but the despair of feeling not in control is painful. It is a matter of accepting that and knowing that over time it will go away. What you need to do is focus on that long term. IMO it is a test of patience. As I said before, I feel like mindfulness can aid here. If you lack the faith though, do admit yourself. Right away.

> But my question is still that of: what if I, for once - could not directly control myself and would end up damaging or even killing myself?

During my psychosis I pretty much had no ego left, and could easily criticise myself without feeling any resistance or pain to that whatsoever. That is an advantage, one I feel the scientific community could indeed explore. I wasn't afraid of damaging/killing myself directly (if I was, I'd have voluntarily committed myself to a ward) but I was afraid of damaging/killing myself indirectly, getting in a worse state (after a while I slowly felt I was getting out of it). So I pretty much locked myself in a dark room with one laptop (on a decent brightness) and WLAN and a couple of bottles of water which I sometimes refreshed. The only time I went out of my bed was to pee (I barely ate; not hungry). I felt like I had that part under control though I must admit: it would've been more safe if I admitted myself at that point. In the beginning I could not sleep, and when I slept I felt like a waking dream. I had permanent headache. Both of that slowly progressed to a better state. I can also, regrettably, say that my brain was damaged; I felt less intelligent afterwards. With the correct professional aid and guidance such can be recovered till some extend, akin to with seizures.
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To give an additional datapoint for those curious about this (I grew up LDS, father was a bishop, family grew up in Utah but moved to the Midwest):

- Among church congregations, it was common in talks about the Word of Wisdom for someone to bring up modern studies indicating something harmful about coffee/tea, as a sort of justification for the doctrine. (Being nutritional studies, seems you can find studies saying that both X is harmful and X is healthy, for all X.)

- I wonder what the reputation of coffee houses was in early 1800s America. I know that in England in the 1600s-1700s, coffee houses were a sort of salon environment where people gathered to philosophize; a lot of Enlightenment-era philosophies were bolstered by such places. The focus on politics and gossip in such environments made them less-than-reputable among some circles. Perhaps some of the reasoning for the "hot drinks" thing in the WoW was a desire for the membership to avoid such places and ideological influences.

- The main 'reason' to follow the WoW given in my family was that it was an opportunity to show obedience. Essentially, it may seem arbitrary in some cases (though in other cases there's obviously sensible stuff in it), but learning to follow guidance is valuable even if it seems arbitrary.

- Pero (also known as Caro outside the US) is a non-coffee/tea hot drink that is common among some LDS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pero_(beverage) ) My mother drank it a fair amount when I was younger. Herbal teas also seem to be fair game, though I've only ever seen them drunk on an individual basis and not brought to like a ward activity.

- As for the question of iced tea/coffee, that seemed to be discouraged in general. I remember my dad saying that he chose not to drink them because he didn't want to acquire a taste for tea/coffee that would make it harder for him to keep the more set-in-stone guideline.

- Hot chocolate is fine and common on campouts.

- Caffeine was culturally thought of, particularly in Utah/Idaho, as the reasoning behind the coffee/tea restriction, but my devout Utah Mormon grandmother always had her caffeinated Diet Coke every day. Our family would jokingly call it her "vice," but none of us really felt like she was sinning or anything by doing so. The WoW occupies an interesting position of being half a "guideline" or good idea, and half a religious restriction.
you *could do recurring payments on Ethereum
The Fermi paradox concerns the galaxy, not the rest of the universe which is too far away to know anything about.
How would one go about getting an invite to the secret club?
Weirdly these same scientists who ask where is everyone? will deny Ufo stories without looking, on principle alone.
What I learned from this submission:

- people who start with their credentials, 'I'm experienced ..' - are making least sense.

- people who use the word 'FUD' are actually trying to shut down sensitive for them topic.
This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving
No. A conclusion saying that humanity is unique, even if true, is useless. The only thing we can take from this is that we shouldnt bother looking. Ill accept such defeatism only once im chatting by phone with my grandson who lives in another solar system. Until then the search must continue.
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I'll look into it with a lot of interest. Your catalog link is not very obvious in your navigation (only in text corpus). You could make it more visible in the orange bottom navbar?
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Maybe, but I’d out my money on the universe blinking out of existence after someone begins a local escalation of privilege on the hardware simulating it.
I don't like ads either. But you do realise that Netflix does extensive product placement, right? That's still advertising that rewires your brain. And you pay for it! Disgusting.
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Sounds like it functions as some kind of filter, whether intentional or not. ;)

"People who will look through every bit of advertising crap company x sends", vs those who don't.

Something, somewhere is probably making stats on that. ;)
This comment would suggest you would be equally OK with eating a human. Is that the case?
The Great Firewall of China: Beijing bans: my emperor, lifelong control, and 'N'
You're right they don't seem relevant to me, but I can acknowledge some things are not relevant to me but are still important. Take Baidu for instance, I get I'll never likely use it, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge its importance. Looking at software vendors in the EU, there doesn't seem to be any companies that offer a service I would ever want. There are a few large ERP vendors, and some Anti-virus firms, and what?

Seriously, this isn't meant to be mean, I just don't know any of them. There seems to be an unlimited array of talented euro engineers on twitter talking about specialized type systems and exotic data models and theoretical comp sci and then a net nothing on the software front. Do they all just leave and work in SV?

This is one of those cases where I would love someone to come in and set me right. I'd much rather a world where there is a huge amount of cool things happening that I'm unaware of, rather than just MS, Apple, and Google sucking all the engineers from their countries to Silicon Valley.
Given that it's someone's labour of love, they are allowed to do what seems like over-engineering to you, if they want to.
Brings back memories! I learned touch typing using two IBM Model M keyboards that my friends dad got from some bank office he was hired to clear out (the bank had closed, I think he drove half a trailer filled with those keyboards to the recycling center, would probably be worth quite a bit today!)

I took two, spray painted one black and switched over every second keycap so I had two keyboards with every 2nd key completely black.

Today I use a Logitech G413 mechanical keyboard at work, it's descent, but I still miss the old battle-tank Model M sometimes :)
DNSSEC validation is supposed to happen in stub resolvers as well as recursive servers.
YouTube isn't junk? Good god man ecelebs are the death of civilisation.
The issue is, as I understand it, that physics has taken as to the limits of what is controllable by humans. Results of almost everything that we can control can be derived from fundamental physics that we do have. We may not have compute / math to actually carry out analysis, so there is still room for progress, but it is just not fundamental physics. Also, we know what to do to test different new fundamental theories, but it requires ridiculous experiments.

From this one could reason, that the new fundamental physics would resolve issues that would have no practical significance. For example I don't know of any impact of discovering Higgs boson on engineering. But there is of course option of discovering something that we don't even imagine at this point and this could have practical implications.

Tl;Dr: If gathered resources of the whole world are not enough to test it, it may not have any practical, engineering significance.
Because it is talking about what they do differently from PfSense, and thus are not covering the basic router/firewall/VPN server functionality both have had forever. The table at the bottom gives a bit better impression of what they are about.
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Is money still flowing into crypto projects?
Now that corporates cannot sell more TVs, food, travels, loans, phones, they have turned to the good old business model of turning their customers into junkies.

Sustainable business model, extremely profitable and extremely anti-competitive, .... but rules are for fools.
As time permits doctors and psychologists will have their share of the spoils like tobacco.

Personally I would turn the tide and put cigarettes on par with heroin legally. 1 packet of cigarettes, six months to jail. Their profits were made by devastating our healthcare system and made people ill.

Why not try this again? This time they will sell drugs legally.

The crisis was never financial, we as humans went bancrupt.
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Having started typing on IBM keyboards before the Model M, and eventually struggling to adapt to non-“mechanical” keyboards, it’s now hard for me to understand why people want to use them. I didn’t want to go to the “soft” laptop keyboards but learned to love them. It turns out the springs on the loud keyboards caused me a lot of repetitive stress discomfort and actually slowed down my typing.
Developing a Bias for Action
The Drake equation assumes there are no limits to technology and that without some kind of great filter the Universe would be so permeated with advanced civilizations that signs of their existence is inescapable.

I find it more likely that the speed of light is the great filter and that interstellar travel is so difficult that the rare instances of life are unlikely to leave their star system never mind their galaxy group (which would require faster-than-light travel).
The rapid spread of animal and plant species around the globe when there wasn’t a supercontinent might be visible in the fossil record. We’d be a crank answer to the “How did potatoes spread from the Andes to the rest of world?” problem.
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What useful resources can you recommend to learn Metal for iOS development?
A person can only do 3km per day? Im about to walk to work..5km.
In France, school year starts in September and ends in June.
Another Aussie in Toronto. I’ve found the driving here quite a contrast to back home. Drivers tend to veer all over the road, and don’t really indicate. Love the relatively small number of speed cameras though, Australia is getting a bit out of control with the whole multinova thing.
Yeah. Streaming was basically the answer to TV piracy. Everyone was downloading the latest American TV shows and Japanese anime until Netflix and others showed up.
Some people might be interested in 'Das Keyboard' (German for 'The Keyboard'):

https://www.daskeyboard.com
No definitely positive effect from everything I've read. I just find it weird that with that the production and distribution of drugs is still illegal from that.

Baby steps I guess
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389842

The thing to keep in mind about the Drake equation is that the last two terms of it, fc and L, concern themselves with 'detectability'. I didn't have enough stamina to mine the treatment or modeling of these two terms from the paper, but relative to the entire universe the number of civilizations of our stature that we would plausibly 'detect' through spurious emission or environmental impact (aka transit spectroscopy) would seem vanishingly small. Detection of a civilization outside of our galaxy would likely be limited to Kardashev Type II and greater civilizations that are intent on making contact with ours.

So, if you find a way to squeeze the word 'detectable' in the title, you're probably closer to the actual findings of the paper (even though the paper itself seems to lose track of that term).
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Who is dismissing it?
This is a good point.

Two operational differences I can think of between humans and ML/CV systems:

1) Humans can explain themselves. Many ML systems are not designed to provide any explanation, even poor ones.

2) Humans are much more limited in the number of decisions they can make per second. A ML system could make millions of mistakes per seconds.

If a system is capable of making many orders of magnitude more decisions than a similarly tasked human, then I think it's fair to push for a higher standard of accuracy and error logging than the human would be capable of.

The point made, that both biological and artificial systems are susceptible to some of the same errors and bound by some of the same constraints, is well taken.
They also run Crossroads Cafe in SoMA if you're looking for something less fancy or just want to grab a coffee.
Well, there are all kinds of grey area stuff. One fairly obvious example is various security services, which have a wide variety.

Not everything is outright "likely to get banned" (eg pron things). ;)
There are lots of different type of mechanical switches, maybe you need to find the right one? Many are soft and/or silent, if that's your thing.
It sounds from the article they are sensitive to that. As long as they stay away from news I don't imagine it will be a problem for them.
The weird thing here is that inside google, support is great. Meaning that when people are building products for other google engineers, they go way above and beyond what is needed to help each other out. Somehow, they are not able to transition that to external customers.
I only record facts that I read in non-fiction (the mark-as-Q method from the article). I highlight them in Kindle while reading ebooks. I then transfer them into Anki flashcards after I'm done reading it.

I don't highlight analysis and commentary. I don't highlight how the author reached a certain conclusion, just the end result.

Some examples of what I am highlighting while reading On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins:

"This is the neocortex, a thin sheet of neural tissue that envelops most of the older parts of the brain."

"the neocortex is about 2 millimeters thick and has six layers,"

"Stretched flat, the human neocortical sheet is roughly the size of a large dinner napkin. The cortical sheets of other mammals are smaller: the rat’s is the size of a postage stamp; the monkey’s is about the size of a business-letter envelope."

I wish there was a good way to transfer these highlights from my Kindle into Anki flashcards automatically (if someone knows a way to do this, I'm happy to hear from you). It feels like a chore right now, so I often forget to do it.
There are important questions about the nature of social progress here.

The situation in Brazil is not all that different, ethical-relativity-wise, than the situation between, say, Iran and Finland. Iranian law requires capital punishment for many behaviors which Finland (which has outlawed the death penalty altogether) would not consider illegal or forbidden in any way.

There is a big difference in degree between those kinds of situations--size of community, scale of killing, et cetera--but the same fundamental questions emerge from both:

Are some communities codes (laws) "more ethical" than others? In other words: fiating that morality exists as a qualifiable (if hard to qualify in an agreed-upon way) thing, is it also quantifiable?

If so, are the "more ethical" communities morally allowed (or obligated, even) to encourage/demand that "less ethical" communities change their codes?

If that is so, is there a difference-in-degree below which "more/less ethical" becomes meaningless--i.e. is "group A sacrifices Emacs users to the Vim-dragon every day, but group B only makes the sacrifices on the day of the full moon; therefore group B is necessarily more humane" an instance of progress via incrementalism or false virtuosity?

What role does the massive power imbalance between the "more ethical" state in this instance (Brazil) and the "less ethical" groups (indigenous/isolated communities) play in determining how the conflict should be resolved? For example, if child-killing was practiced, say, by a large nation-state and the USA decided that, due to this practice, it would impose US law on that nation-state by force, would the situation be any different?*

* given the US's justification for some of its past wars, this is less than hypothetical.

Edits: typos.
I won't watch anything with adverts now, so Chanel 4 is out, I'll pay for a one off download rather than sit through ads.
Indeed, but is non-critical thinking a default, or the outcome of systems put in place? I.e. Which root cause is being assumed?
I'm in the middle camp: I have two Das keyboards, and I like them a lot, but I don't have a problem using my Dell laptop's (or my Mac book's) keyboard either. I don't see what all the fuss is about, both types seem about as comfortable to me.
At least in North America, torrenting is no longer mainstream. Netflix is too easy. Adults that were previously torrenters barely use a machine that offers a torrent client anymore, it's mostly iPads and phones for casual use.
What I find interesting about the paradox is its relation to anxiety.

Quoting Wikipedia:

"Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination. It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events, such as the feeling of imminent death." [1]

As well as -perhaps even more so- depression.

The expected outcome has a related effect on the psyche, but the fact is that in reality the prisoner has no effect on their death. Which means that the most useful way to deal with your last days (how many they are) is akin to the principles of carpe diem. [2] Which is something both anxiety and depression hamper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem