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> And to offset environmental impact, every Thelio sold plants a tree with the National Forest Foundation.

In other words, they donate a dollar. Not that I'm against it, I guess. There's just something about the "buy our product for $X and we'll donate $(X/1000) to Y on your behalf" marketing ploy which rubs me the wrong way. I mean I guess it's better than them not doing it, but... it just feels bordering on sleazy.

I'd much rather see "We donate N% of our profits per year to planting trees". It's a subtle difference, but instead of a marketing technique, it feels more like a genuine company principle.
Shouldn't it be cooperative instead of corporation?
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> But when you can enough of them pointing in the same direction, it creates the chilling effect-- a business that's technically legal but can't get the services they need. It basically creates am unspoken private regulation well beyond the actual law of the state.

Yes, but this is how the free market works. That my $.25 artisanal dog cupcake business can't get the services it needs at the price I can afford doesn't raise complaints.

But when we replace dog cupcakes with Nazi chat rooms, suddenly we need the government to step in and subsidize a business which the market has shown is not worth it. In economic terms, the "distaste" of a client is an externality, and there is an increase in price associated with that externality. If the company can't afford it that's just the market at work. So the government providing a platform like this is just the government subsidizing business with negative externalities that the free market was correct tly pricing. It's like subsidies for strip mining or fracking or rhino poaching. But this is something you support in this case.

It's odd to me.

> I tend to think the answer might be non-profit or state-run "service providers of last resort" -- charter-bound to provide service for any legal purpose, no matter how distasteful.

And what if my distateful venture needs redis or windows 10 or a spanner like distributed database, or whatever other service your unflashy system doesn't provide?

Then either I can't get off the ground anyway, or you require that the government service maintain feature parity with all the others, neither of which seems viable.
The author states:

>"And yet, this coffee shop is packed. Here, you’ll find nothing but trend-hungry foreigners in search of familiarity and a neon-lit stage for their next Instagram post."

And then they go on to post a picture of "Bathtub Gin" as their favorite hometown bar.

This is a bar in NYC that is a generic "mixology" bar with exposed brick and velvet chairs in the trendiest and most hyper-consumerism neighborhood in Manhattan. This is the same high end cocktail bar you can find any major city. The author even refers to it as a "speakeasy" - a marketing term re-appropriated to describe a certain ready-made aesthetic. There is nothing unique or "local" about it. It's full of tourists who staying down the street at the Maritime Hotel. Needless to say there's lots of Instagramming goin on there.
Millenials have also enjoyed a decade of economic boom 2008-2018, so it's not a specific advantage that boomers had that millenials did not have.
It kinda works in KDE, except some applications like gimp breaking. and of course when connecting an external display everything is broken but thats just normal linux desktop experience anyhow.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12481700
Then why not just write

"Surprisingly few people cared" is a very poor metric to apply to a principle of rights and justice.

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The Paris metro has ingress / egress on opposite sides at at least one terminus. It seems to work very well.
> Are we about to venture into a trans-humanist discussion, or a spiritual one?

They aren't mutually exclusive.
The problem is that, although plenty of speech that is not a call for violence still causes harm, many free speech zealots (and hateful people, in bad faith) refuse to recognize it as such and consider it "spreading ideas".

Consider: "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us" aren't credible and specific calls for violence, but if I encounter an angry group of people chanting them I'm going to feel unsafe, and I'm certainly not going to do or say anything that makes me read as Jewish. This is literally the conduct on Gab that people are defending!

Unfortunately, hate speech creates a zero-sum situation: you have to choose whether to suppress the hate speech, or the people it targets. There's no way to choose both, and supporting Gab here just tells me that my speech doesn't matter. The law defines this narrowly because law must be black and white, but there's no reason we as a society can't see the (really, really, really dark) shades of gray here.
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Singapore also has absolutely massive fines for using your home as an AirBnB. In a well-functioning market AirBnB doesn’t matter much, but when supply is artificially constrained via zoning etc, the $150-per-night income from your $1500 per month home is hard to beat.
Isn't the question you want to ask: to what extent did the one tree really offset _the_ environmental impact, then we know whether the statement is true or a true lie. Oh no, we won't, because it didn't have the word "the". That was for us to assume, while they could tell us they meant "some", if ever pressed on it. Nice. Got it.
Containers may be a bit difficult, but every researcher should be capable of using a VM and distributing it.
"Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor" by Erik Dietrich is an interesting read. Erik talks about his experiences in office politics in large companies. He makes some interesting observations and analogies. Recommended. It would be interesting to get your thoughts on the book if you choose to read it frustratedmngr
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What's the problem with kernel updates on arch? I update my kernel on gentoo all the time and never worry.
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> Millenials have also enjoyed a decade of economic boom 2008-2018

Both the expansion after the 2001 recession and the one after the Great Recession were strong in aggregate terms but unimpressive unless you were in a narrow slice at the top when you look at distribution; this is very different from the post-WWII expansion (even the 1980s and 1990s expansions were better distributionally than the later ones, though worse than earlier ones.)

The expansion that centered
the Boomer experience and provides the experiential basis for the belief that effort is sufficient for success was different than anything Millennials (and even, to a lesser extent, Gen X) experienced.
>> being updated with the worst software practices you can think of.

I can believe that. I have seen code in academia and it was all one or two-letter variables without even linebreaks between statements.
There's no such thing as "your own nonfree software". If you wrote it then to you it's always free.
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I'm excited if I can get my colleagues to use version control.
Yep, it was a typo
Quats can be represented with (x, y, z, w). Rotors require a vector, bivector and angle (vec_x, vec_y, vec_z, bivec_x, bivec_y, bivec_z, theta). If you are storing or transmitting a quaternion it consumes less space and in 3D simulations or games a quaternion is therefore advantageous. 3D file formats would explode in size if rotors were used. And, more network packet fragments would be needed to encapsulate a world state update of moving objects, npc and players. That would waste bandwidth (therefore $), cause "rubberbanding" and increase latency.
1440p is getting pretty popular on desktop.
It didn't work in Europe. Just look at AfD. That in a country that goes so far in suppressing "toxic and hateful movements", its courts have the power to ban political parties, if their platform deviates too far from the norm.
We may have developed ICBMs, but at least we got GPS along the way.
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While I don't have a use for their desktop systems, I've very much been enjoying my System76 laptop; I just bought a Meerkat (mini PC) for my new home-theater system. I've had good support experiences and in general with S76 everything "just works", which is really nice for a Linux distro/system. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 but the new Meerkat will be 18.04 and I'll probably upgrade my laptop to that soon.
Centralized user names would also mean a single point of failure and authority which would defeat the main idea behind federation. It doesn't even solve the problem of owning you identifier as it is still externally controlled.

Censorship, surveillance even de-platforming are all back in the game then.
> the wedge product really doesn’t cut it

What about the wedge product together with the Hodge star, ie the language that tends to be used in Riemannian geometry?
Consumer rights protection/anti-monopoly law.
If you want to execute people for stealing money, you will find many people who think you a greater evil than the thief.

I don't care either way, but surely you are aware that in the Western world execution is considered highly inappropriate for non violent crimes?
This is a cool application of ML. Not to diminish the work, just to point out that humans are more sensitive to luminance than color (hence YUV encoding [1] and others), so it might make inaccuracies less visible.

For example, in "Interior of Miller and Shoemaker Soda Fountain, 1899" the colors from the counter and chairs blend, but the luma help our eyes to separate it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV
Thanks for sharing this. Awesome story and really gives context to the whole thing.
It’s certainly been an intense week in the department of “explorable explanations of how to rotate stuff in 3D”, with both this and the 3blue1brown/Ben Eater collab.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310788
The "paradox" of tolerance is trivially resolved. As stated, it is misleading, because it conflates two very different thing.

A tolerant society, to defend itself, only needs to be intolerant of actions of intolerance - e.g. physical assault motivated by some prejudice. It does not need to be intolerant of intolerant speech, however.
Serval is very dated, but the Gazelle is darn "close" to a nice modern look & feel... for a Linux laptop it's about as close to MBA as you're gonna get. But overall I'd agree an "across the board" update would be most welcome. S76 makes great hardware and their design aesthetics have been steadily improving, I'd keep an eye out here, don't discount them.
>We can't really compare them to the government until they have a standing army.

In Soviet Union families of political prisoners and people who publicly defended the repressed often found themselves unemployable because of blacklisting. That did not involve any use of military or police force. Does it make it okay?

To put it more directly: if a sufficiently large entity can create effects comparable to government repression, why should we reason about those effects as fundamentally different from ones created by the government?
Original source posted several times already:

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The car-centric nature is a consequence of filling the land up with single-family homes that have garages. Mass transit is only ever popular when it is more convenient than driving and parking a car.
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Off Topic: I love my S76 laptop, and just bought a Meerkat (mini PC) from them. I'm a fan. Hardware "just works" and I like that they respect my software freedoms. No disclosures, just a customer.
I don’t think strict control on ingress and egress solve the problem. It is probably add more delay.
Imagine in a train in Japan. There are hundreds passenger with different destinations. How do they line up to get on and get off the train?
No. Belgium is the prime target in Europe for decades.

It featured a NATO putsch, a CIA-backed fascist network that made it into government (a singularity in Central Europe), NATO, EU, Swift.
Plus the Dutroux coverup, exposing the criminality of the government networks.
Islamist terrorist networks should be the least of their worries.
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I'm curious about how much fan noise there really is. They talk about the Thelio looking nice enough to live on the desktop, but IMO the reason people put their Linux box under their desk isn't necessarily because it's ugly: it's to mitigate the fan noise.

I don't care much about walnut or maple; I just want quiet fans.
> [Muslims] have a fairly high rate of terrorism compared to other ideologies

that seems like a big assumption.
Peter Thiel should be more careful using that expression, considering his record.
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> they have a fairly high rate of terrorism compared to other ideologies?

This is untrue.
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Start paying people to find negative results, and you'll get negative results.

Unfortunately, you can't build a career out of doing QA for science. Nobody will fund you.
So precisely who is going to pay for all this, and the reduction in growth it’s going to entail?

Markets are levered if not overlevered, and maintenance of biodiversity is going to have both spending costs for the govt and resource extraction reductions (arguable), followed by compliance costs for firms.

Sure we save ourselves, but face it, our economic system is a rational system which at the end must put a finite price on a human life. Whether by market price discovery or by fiat, we are going to say, “there’s only this much we can spend”.

I’m really curious because I pretty much see a dead rock and humans under domes, in the far future.

Is there some other plausible outcome?

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Edit: people are correctly targeting the rational part of markets, but here’s the counter.

It’s very rational for business firms to lobby against externalities being priced in. It’s rational for ranchers to cut forests for economic gains. And it’s rational for the many many people who are being propelled up out of poverty to want better food, clothing and power.

That guy burning crops in India says “shit, sorry for the bad smoke Delhi. But it costs too much to do anything else. Sucks to be you.”

That’s why my point on our economy being levered. It’s not in anyone’s rational interest to halt growth. Every % of global gdp growth is millions of people out of poverty.

Which is why the question. Are people really incentivized to bell the cat - to actually price in externalities ?
That website will seriously screw with your browser's back button.
The Hodge star isn't so bad: It's just the generalization of the idea that you can describe a plane by its normal vector.
The problem with a single designated exit door is that on super busy trains, if you on the wrong end you'll cause more problems trying to get off through all the people who aren't. Japan has already solved this with a very low tech solution. The right hand side of the door is where people line to to enter, the left hand side is where people exit. As a commuter in the UK that can't remember when my train home was last on time, I find it hard to believe that it's the passenger fault when we are told it's either infrastructure failure or no reason is given.

I've switched to the tram train route that's just opened in Sheffield and that is seeing the same problems. Northern trains running late causing a backlog.

I really miss Japan's rail system.
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> Unfortunately, hate speech creates a zero-sum situation: you have to choose whether to suppress the hate speech, or the people it targets. There's no way to choose both

No, you can choose both (suppress both Nazis and Jews), just not neither.
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The US does that too; it's called sanctions, and secondary sanctions.
Fascinating. I believe that what you are saying makes sense to you, but you need to understand that it sounds something like: "raccoons aren't mammals because purple is wet" to the people you are saying it to.
That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period. Personally I'm pretty happy the societal and technological advances of the last 50 years have happened. The idea of living in the 1950s doesn't particularly appeal.
Hopefully they'd find something more productive to do than complain on the internet....

...Actually, that may mean they get more involved in politics, so that's kind of scary.
Are you sure you can sell it cheaper ?

It takes a lot of knowledge + time + connections to make the whole products worth it.
And remember that they will always have the advantage that the knowledge of hardware and firmware is in house, while you rely on their updates
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Making simple apps is simple, probably is much harder to do advanced apps

Wireshark changed from GTK to Qt
https://blog.wireshark.org/2013/10/switching-to-qt/

Linus Torwald, a C fan and c++ hater , decided to port from GTK to Qt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0

If you make a simple GUI like for a python script GTK is enough
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"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

Depressing.
Original title: "Exclusive: Twitter deletes over 10,000 accounts that sought to discourage U.S. voting" (5 characters too long).
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SFO is weird, because it's a United hub, but there's just enough competition from Alaska nee Virgina America and Southwest that I could see being tempted off United.

Unlike say, Denver or Salt Lake for United and Delta respectively.

I'd also put SEA in this category, especially with Alaska and Delta no longer playing nice in the sandbox.
I played a ton of this game on lowest resolution at the time because I didn't have a very powerful graphics card at the time. I can't wait enjoy its glory once again!
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<Capital in the Twenty-First Century> should be in the list. It's a pity that mainstream media still tries to dodge the most pressing problem in US.
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He eventually succeeded.
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Cool

So what happened with the youtube outage a couple weeks ago?
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Based on the ads I see when traveling in asia it's not even that competitive with jobs teaching English to kids in a medium size Chinese city.
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Trust is not just about understanding the model's behaviour - although that is clearly helpful.

1) The model may be applied to millions or billions of instances, humans can't check them all, or even a small percentage. Explanations appear extensive and general (it's using the right features) but it's very hard to prove or convincingly demonstrate that this is so - it could be using the right features or good features in a good way in this case - and then not in other cases.

2) Experts / owners are generally doing the checking; users are not victims, they should not have to simply accept what they are told. They need a means of protection and representation in the process to have real trust. If this doesn't happen adoption will be impeded, and I believe that once lost trust can be very hard to regain especially in systems with stabilisation mechanisms (memory)

3) Some users are less privileged than others, they don't have the freedom to make decisions about trust. Models are imposed on them, there needs to be a mechanism of wider accountability that prevents them from being abused.

I think that in addition to explanation three things are required :

- mechanisms for managing model development accountably and transparently; why were the decisions to use or discard data or techniques taken? What were the tests that were applied and when?

- mechanisms to manage models in production - what models are being used, where? Are they demonstrated to be being used appropriately? Can any harm that they do be discovered and repaired?

- Market, legislative and social structures that impose these requirements and penalise actors who fail to use them.

If not then expect AI to go the way of nuclear fission, airships and GMO.
Seems like a total failure of an empty concept of rationality if it can’t avoid extinguishing life itself...
This might sound harsh, but that is something you have to deal with in life (academia or non-academia). What you were tasked to do is present your work so other people made room im their calendars to listen to your talk. Finding an error is no reason/excuse not to present your work. BUT you have to make it clear upfront that there is a problem which might invalidate the results. And maybe already give an estimate how far reaching this error is.

If you have been working 18 months on a topic you will have substantial knowledge you can communicate to your peers and often some work inspires other work even if they are not using your findings.
A few days ago in the description of a paper found on hackernews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18346943) :

> We also noticed significant improvements in performance of RND every time we discovered and fixed a bug [...]. Getting such details right was a significant part of achieving high performance even with algorithms conceptually similar to prior work.

They call bugs 'details' which, I find, is a frightening state of mind for someone publishing an algorithm.
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Did you watch this recent video by the Telegraph? It's a quite interesting take on deepfakes: https://youtu.be/dDGcWDuZ2bA?t=260
I think Germany would be significantly more NAZI today if they hadn't been deplatformed after the war.

not deplatforming didn't go too well in the US. look at all the white power folks who are showing up, even though they kept their platforms after the civil war.
The Jubilee line on the Tube has platform doors which help; http://citytransport.info/Digi/P1170633a.jpg people queue by the doors until train arrives, safely separated from the train.

People stack up on each side of the doors and let passengers off through the middle before boarding https://i.pinimg.com/474x/19/91/b9/1991b9aa93463b7fa254e1d59...

Some stations have multiple routes to the platform to improve spread https://i.pinimg.com/474x/d0/75/91/d075917d0c293cf183461e99b...
I don't fully agree that a Linux monoculture, or even a POSIX one, is better for everyone.

Like every monoculture things either stagnate, or we start getting features just to work around botherom instead of actual innovation.