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oh boy it's the semantic web all over again. it's appalling the lack of citations of the copious corpus that exists and the fact that it's never named for what it is.

"what is really lacking — in my view — is research considering the human factors at play"

there you go, if someone is interested in the topic, some citation back from 2005 which should be enough to find more references and research http://kmr.nada.kth.se/papers/SemanticWeb/HSW.pdf (they even have a workable concept browser, go figure)
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Right. I'm also a fan of friction any time I hear an argument that "well, [bad behavior] is inevitable, so you may as well purposely include it and design it to be easy to do!"

We've seen that design can shape behavior in profound ways, and we have no obligation whatsoever to follow pressure toward a lowest common denominator if we think there are better designs that consciously resist that pressure.
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I'm surprised too about the licenses; just upgraded to a Bolt from the 510 and it's heads and shoulders better than the Garmin.

I need to pay attention to my HR when riding, and the LEDs are a godsend. Furthermore the screen is way, way easier to read being a transflective or something like that type. Adding to that, the ride synch just works - something I never, ever would accuse Garmin of.
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There's several browser plugins that work that way, I think the main obstacle is you need everyone on it. also that theres not a lot of activity spread across the whole web, resulting in stale discussions.

Google reader I think had this social thing built into it. It wasn't just an RSS reader.
Again, this is the first time I see freenode post anything related to this (did I miss anything earlier?), and in this post I'd say one paragraph is unnecessarily promotional, the rest seems fair to include (given that if they didn't mention something, they'd immediately be blasted for hiding it). Despite there being a bunch of occasions where they could have promoted it already.

The "coin drop" thing seems kind of bad, but I'll wait and see how they handle it, as with anything related to the acquisition. It's relatively easy to jump for us when necessary, see little reason for now.

Gotta say, I'm biased against actors that forced me and friends to spend noticeable time on spam defense for our channels in the past few days, and started with truly disgusting methods (assuming it's the same).
> Lion managed to disable a human player performing (what I assume to be) a move which shouldn't be interruptable

Fogged (the human player) commented on this and said he messed up. If he had shift-queued the spell, or just used it immediately after blink, it would've landed [0].

Cancelling an initiation with instant spells (Lion hex, Rubick lift, etc) does happen frequently in high level human play as well, where you continuously pre-cast the spell, cancel, walk back slightly, repeat, on the out-of-range initiating enemy, to have the spell interrupt the initiation as soon as the initiating enemy blinks in to range. I do agree that the bots have a solid mechanical advantage, just pointing out that this specific scenario does frequently happen in human play as well (albeit not on every single initiation).

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/94vdpm/openai_hex_wa...
Thanks, used the JSON files to quickly script a console version. Now I have a kitty giving me a nice quote with the time every time I open a new terminal :)
I am from Europe and I find that this is true for all European countries.
Kind of light on details. My own impression of Hyperledger is that it is like the ISO OSI network layers - there is everything in it.
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The anti-censorship thinking in me is not happy but when it comes to Alex Jones he’s one of the people on this planet that I wish I had omnipotence to remove his voice. He does much more harm than good. Perhaps a solution to his influence is educating people to think critically but alas I think for much of his “fans” (zealots maybe?) it might be too late.
Cooling the LNAs on the earth station? Yes. I doubt the LNA on Voyager is actively cooled.

I wonder if any feed components (prior to LNA) on the earth station are cooled? [1] does not indicate.

Read a paper recently on converting an old NASA earth station with beam waveguide over to a wideband feed. They had to put a rigid waveguide horn on place of the waveguide and actively cool it.
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Also, because people crave money. It is more difficult to extract money from decentralized systems compared to centralized systems. Therefore centralized solutions often have more resources available to pay developers, marketeers and founders (and investors), which leads to increased work on the product and (hopefully) more users. It is easy to see how this would lead to a virtuous cycle where the centralized systems capture the majority of the market due to having vastly superior resources and the decentralized systems capture mostly those users and developers who care about things other than money (eg censorship resistance, etc).
> reflects very poorly on the New York Times

The alt-right was on the verge of defusing the "racist" accusation as an effective weapon in the culture wars.

The NYT's Sarah Jeong stunt effortlessly made alt-right types literally crawl over each other to be first to accuse the NYT of "racism", in the process affirming the supreme moral severity of the accusation to themselves.

Very smart play on the part of the NYT.
Do you understand the meaning of those words "censorship or restraint""
Two very niche ones I follow on Reddit.

/r/CasualUK: Light-hearted UK chat, free from politics. Very wholesome if you're from the UK, and a great distraction from what a shit-show the country can be at times.

/r/bjj: The Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu subreddit. If you've ever been interested in taking up a martial art I recommend checking it out, and seeing if there are any gyms in your area.
Cool review! But I have to disagree with "As far as I can tell, the ELEMNT BOLT does everything the Garmin does, but about 10% worse" - the Garmin Edges might have a better spec sheet, but IME, the software/firmware just does not work properly far too often. Crashes, freezes, general jank. The Bolt has been a joy to use in comparison. A bit surprised it's just Android under the hood! Maybe it's helped them in adding features and fixes relatively fast?
\tangent does the formal proof make sense to a mathematician (as in, can they see it)?

Or is it more the hex of assembly of to the high level language of the intuition, in the semse that they can verify it, but not necessarily see it?
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Interesting. I will have to go down the rabbit hole again I think.. A lot of new and interesting stuff comes out of the Gondwana exiled regions, which is great!
Comments and feedback won't work for a site with a lot of readers or viewers, they don't scale. If just 20k people read your post, and one-quarter of them comment, you'll be flooded and not able to find anything meaningful. I'm already following some YT channels where the creator(s) has stated, "we can't read the comments, requests here are ignored."
How much effort would it take you to pay attention to whether or not you are goal or task oriented and to time a few things to see if you are being too focused on efficiency when you could just be getting things done?

If you posted about how you approached flying a drone and someone noticed something they thought could use improvement, would you ask for a source? Or just give it a try if their advice sounded reasonable?

Let's not get so enthusiastic about asking for sources and evidence that we insist on sources for things which we could quickly and cheaply experiment with on our own and find out for ourselves if the advice has any merit.
If I'm not mistaken Volunia search engine had this very features, it lets you join community and start discussing with other users on the same URL you're at the moment.
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How is that different from a wiki?

Every app is a CRUD app if you ignore enough detail.
Love the format and illustration, though I feel having a high-level comparison between different Hyperledger projects (especially Fabric versus Sawtooth) is probably important here. Happy to contribute/collaborate on this.
How high an IQ are you talking here? I have a moderately high IQ (~130) and being able to explain complex topics to family and friends in a simple enough way that they understand it is one of the things I enjoy most, probably because having a basic summary then the meaty material is how I best learn complex topics.

I don't think humility, empathy, and high IQ are mutually exclusive, though given some of my experiences with smart people I can see why you might think that way.
The other bit that people seem to neglect with BTC is that it is not immune to ordinary network analysis. Yes, it's a very clever system that creates a trustless layer of distributed storage, but it still works via IP. If you want to spend some coins, you still need to sign your transaction and submit it somehow to the network. Analysis of where that block came from (for example, by controlling the node where you submitted it, or even just simple sniffing of your connection) can correlate a physical location or IP address with a BTC address. Tor or similar measures can of course help with this, but you will probably always leak some information about your computer/OS/ISP/general physical location via things like packet timing, if you haven't accidentally leaked even more via things like forgetting to mask your MAC address.

In short, as always, it depends on your threat model. Are you trying to hide the fact that you forwarded sensitive nuclear secrets to overseas actors from a determined U.S. Government investigation? Sorry, you probably can't, at least without a bit of luck. Are you trying to fool Netflix long enough to stream latest season of Arrested Development? Probably doable.
Did you begin a parallel learning project for actually understanding the material?
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You can use Mastodon cross-poster[0] like Cory Doctorow[1] does.

[0] https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/

[1] https://mamot.fr/@doctorow/100397875390621221
Are they by any chance working with AX Dynamics?
A Facebook account isn't even a useful platform for the aforementioned funny cat pics, let alone more important and more complex content.

Hosted blogs can be better in theory, but in practice only an expert can use them for complex applications: for example, indexing a collection of cute kitten photos by tags and multiple criteria isn't the same as posting kittens without metadata and offering readers only titles and generic post listings.
I think it’s less likely to be intentional historical revisionism, and more likely that Hanlon’s razor applies:

http://machall.com/view.php?date=2005-04-06
I'm asking you about the details that make them different, and which you consider relevant for a "web with user contributions" in the way you described.
I've had some mixed feelings about SpiderOak in the past, but at least they did this right.

Props to them for making a canary and then following through on it.
As someone who is a big supporter and fan of public broadcasting - proper, popular public broadcasting like the BBC, I find it super ironic that both the American conservative and hard right, who seem to hate public broadcasting with equal force, are being denied platforms by private, capitalist enterprises who owe them no explanations or responsibility, and who have no true accountability to their audience.
The only ones against free speech these days are the far/weird-left. They have some twisted logic about not tolerating intolerant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). They are very selective whom they see as worth not tolerating.
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Main street is public. And as far as I know the owner of the land can kick you when they want, for instance in malls or such.

So Apple censoring is the same as a mall refusing you to hold a protest there, which happens all the time.
I'm sure people will use the "it's their platform they can do what they want" argument, but with Spotify and now Apple removing a certain person's content, can we call this anything but censorship?
16 ms for USB, versus 1 ms for PS/2, is a good difference. Though does this really make a difference in gaming?

I read of gamers specifically using PS/2 keyboards. Specifically I’m thinking of someone playing Esport games on 144 Hz monitors.
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Indirectly related. Not sure how many people here know of Father Coughlin, an American Fascist radio priest of the 1930s. He reached millions of listeners.

Was eventually shut down by Roosevelt and his local church parish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin#Cancellation_...
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Well, for the starts - I said it was an "infinitely small probability" (just as you've said it's zero), so I said "never" because it's more of a practical question.

With the same logic you can say that sha-256 is easily reversible by iterating over all possible mappings from sha256(z) to x. But it isn't. Purely because of the sheer scale of that number.

And to be clear: reversing sha-256 under the condition of sha-256 being a perfect hash function is the same as drawing 256 zeros from a purely random function.

The best way to go about the complexity of this algorithm is the runtime density function, where the total number of samples defines how many additional (false) iterations we'd need to do on average.
An Android based e-reader no less, the form factor is wild and the price point is super high but damn, this is cool.
Thanks, that's cool, but it's limited to graphing, can it solve geometric problems like the two links I posted?
I'm not convinced that slow thinking is related to the ability to respond quickly in a conversation, or that people that come up with seemingly deep thoughts in a discussion are fast thinkers.

At the beginning of my career, I have often admired how some of my (freelance consulting) colleagues handle discussions with clients, how they seem to have profound answers to any doubt or question. Over the years I came to realise that most of the questions that come up in such situations are similar and repeating. The difference between those colleagues and me is experience and that they have been in similar situations many more times before.

Sure, some have more talent and social abilities, but I believe it all comes down to practice and has much less to do with pure "thinking strengths or quickness".
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Have you read Vice? We can all argue who, if anyone, is right, but it certainly isn't unexpected that the twenty-something freelancers writing a puff piece about her weren't the shining example of professionalism. If they were she would probably have been a footnote, or uncomfortable in an entirely different way, as the article explores Chinese society.
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I can see this development as well, and I think it is the influence of postmodernism. As a philosophical thought the postmodernist school states (among other things) that all knowledge is sociol-culturally conditioned, so no bit of knowledge can be evaluated without evaluating the cultural context in which it is created. This leads to a situation in which all {opinions / stories / facts / utterances} are viewed as equally meaningful and important.

In the 1980s no one cared, because the discourse was purely academic in nature. By now postmodernism has gained widespread adoption in education, social sciences and political theory. And the citation from above is the direct result of that.
Of course "let's silence and remove everyone that disagrees with us!", i mean c'mon don't censor free speach, let the free market take care of itsef.

You could remove someone who is promoting child abuse, threats, racism (man oh man, did twitter let that NYT editor board woman account stay despite her racist comments), killing and so on, but if you disagree with someone like alex jones, congrats! now move on!
(not fan of him, but fan of free speach, i mean i know the price of it and it's not cheap)
I was personally hoping for something to come fmor Qualcomm's Mirasol tech.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...
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> Only because it was one part of the USSR though.

What does it change?

> democratically elected government of the country was overthrown by the riots

After shooting at protesters and killing over 100 of them you lose all the legitimacy that comes from being democratically elected as far as I am concerned.

> included bona-fide neo-nazis

Among hundreds of thousands of people someone had nazi flags. It's OK to shoot at that crowd, obviously.

It's sad how Russians lost all hope of a modern, civilized and free country and accepted Putin autocracy. I pity you. Nothing will change there as long as Putin rules. Whole country stopped in time.
I think the core disciplines are the same, sometimes just some "updates" are happening. Like AI or CV in the last years.

The big changes are happening in engineering (software and hardware).

Many things that were known for decades are now accessible for a broader audience.
Not everyone can publish on iTunes or Spotify. Is it censorship when these companies choose which content they want to publish?

If not, why is it censorship when they use the same judgment to remove something they had previously approved?
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Corporations get to choose who they want as customers, suppliers and partners. The whole system would collapse if they didn't have this ability.

It's a stretch calling it censorship as these people can host their podcast somewhere else or even host it themselves if they want to. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on podcast hosting.
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>Facebook is useless because the village idiot gets more say than the scholar, and that makes the content stupid.

This misunderstands the intended use case for Facebook as well as demeans most of the people who use it as intended.

Not every social media platform is, or needs to be, about curating "intelligent" content, any more than the web itself needs to be about sharing whitepapers between university peers, or phone calls need to be primarily about business. The problem with Facebook, specifically, is that it's curated too much rather than not enough -- people just want to be able to form networks with their friends and share content within that network.

> but just imagine what would happen if HN had its own eternal September and all of reddit decided to visit

It used to be so common to accuse HN of "becoming Reddit" that it was mentioned specifically as something to avoid in the comments. And... there is a large overlap between the HN community and Reddit. A lot of the content that gets posted here is posted from Reddit.

I hate to break it to you but a lot of the intellectual elites here are also on Twitter and Reddit and Facebook and sometimes they share pictures of their food and cats. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Also, complaining about Eternal September on the World Wide Web is a bit like cancer complaining about lymphoma.
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The people use products, which then implement some protocol. If you go down to the nearest supermarket and ask what people use to visit their news website of choice, I'm willing to bet that 99+% will name a browser or a phone type and a very very small minority will answer HTTP, even though technically all of them use HTTP. You'll get similar answers with email and SMTP.

The general public is just not very interested in the implementation details of technical products, as long as they work well enough and don't cost a lot. If you really want incentivize companies to implement open protocols, find a way for companies to make more money with the open protocol than with the walled garden, because companies is where most of the engineers are and they are the ones that will make it if the incentive is there.
Building a new internet, of course.

Humanity had built one in just a few decades. Yet, it hadn't managed to successfully enforce any particular human or group behavior in a few millenia. I'm not even really sure humanity has uniform idea about what honesty and transparency actually mean and whenever and how they should be enforced.
Thanks for the reply! It's a really interesting piece of research. Yes, you're quite right, the browser alone can't interact between all the programs, I was purely thinking of low hanging fruit for the browser plugin.

I watched a Google interview with Douglas Engelbart [0] where people asked him a couple of times if Wikipedia was what he'd envisioned for hypertext, he was very polite about it and said it "was a good start", but he'd clearly wished that we'd got much further by now.

What you're suggesting is definitely a step forward.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQx-tuW9A4Q
Your advice would be just as good as the advice I gave. Because it contains the most important part of my advice:

"Try timing a few things and see for yourself."

The point is that some things in life deserve to be looked at for efficiency improvements, and some things should just get done. Understanding the difference between the two takes some observation. And by observing people who are organized and efficient as opposed to people who are disorganized and procrastinate in the framework of goal oriented vs. task oriented I think it will become quickly obvious to the OP where the difference is.

Making that shift from task oriented to goal oriented hugely improved my own life. I was very focused on collecting long lists of tasks and then trying to optimize them. While I was determining the optimal route for collecting building supplies, dropping off the laundry, doing my grocery shopping, optimizing the cooking process, etc., my friends had already built the pool deck and were on the way to the supermarket... YMMV.

> why this opinion isn't worth a lot without strong evidence

Do you really need strong evidence for something that you can quickly and easily try yourself at home? If I suggest an improvement to your bike riding technique you want a scholarly study or you'll just give it a go?
Thank you for introducing me to CasualUK. This looks incredible.
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AI, machine learning, and neural networks are, of courwe, booming, but I consider them to be hyped.

I consider type theory and formal verification to be more promising (but more academic). Distributed systems and everything having to do with parallel and/or high-performance systems is a good midway between what the industry likes and what's interesting from an academic point of view.