skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life and self awareness is great argument against this theory. But it looks like some dudes get offended by arguments like that for some (known) reason :). Actually the critical part of life in simulation argument is the First person perspective of conscious living things such as ... yourself. Simulation in our world is mathematical mocking of some physical laws, it works on information level, so it's not creating anything. The moment you say that a simulation created life/self aware beings you are not talking about simulation anymore. You're just talking about different creation theory which looks like a simulation except that it's not working with simulated objects but very real things and it doesn't matter here what you call this. I hope that people understand that self-awareness is strong enough argument that's capable of debunking many nonsense theories (simulation, illusion of freewill...).
A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)
Indeed. But the reflow and good readability trumps the few mistakes made.
Haecceitism
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> people-powered demonstrations seemed part of what political scientists refer to as a wave of democratization—a larger narrative about inevitable progress toward ever-greater freedom.

One could argue the opposite, that the governments around the world have only been increasing in size and power (see: surveillance has massively increased and speech is increasingly restricted), they’re not getting any smaller or more liberal, putting greater pressure on citizens freedoms. This could merely be a reaction to that, not some proactive ideological shift seeking greater freedom - just not constantly less.

There was a famous study showing that almost all the major Arab spring protests were initially spark by food prices and similar failures directly affecting peoples day to day lives, not simply changes in political world-views.

There’s also some claiming the policies of the World Bank and IMF have been a big catalyst for these “bread” riots since the 1980s. As they often pushed for greater amounts of food exports as a means of being economically self sustaining. What ended up happening was a top down movement which replaced normal food production with things like fruit popular in foreign countries and run by a bunch of mini cartels in each country backed by the elite. Which only increased the public’s dependency on gov subsidies for basic food costs as it cannibalized the farmers industry and did little to increase the average workers income.
Hmm, are you sure you're not just being a snob? (I'm not saying you are, just wonder if you've asked yourself the question.)

I've bought only cheaper bikes for myself and kids (often second-hand cheap bikes too). Whilst in comparison a bike for twice the price is a joy, they're certainly functional and I've never had one that has the appearance of being dangerous, nor has proved dangerous in regular use.

You'll want to avoid cheap steel axles if you're doing jumps, and be aware of other limitations just like you can't enter a toboggan run on a plastic sledge.

I'm in the UK, I'd have thought in notoriously litigious USA that supermarkets would be extremely wary of being negligent wrt safety of products they're selling?
My radar cruise control, on a Mercedes, fails with heavy rainfall. Warns you to switch to visual control.
No, the point is an anti-race equality rant which is intentionally blurring a few anti-elite and anti-dysfunction sounds so it would get published. If it were genuinely anti-dysfunction, it would include much lower hanging fruit like admittance practices focusing on wealth and wrongful terminations. If it were anti-privilege it would focus on that privilege and not on race protest or fads.

So yes, in abstraction, if you put on a facade long enough you forget you're wearing it. But that is not remotely the theme of the article. The one and only theme is that racial equality activism should stop on the grounds that it is being done by rich kids
There are FOSS DoH servers, and you're welcome to run your own, with a free cert from Let's Encrypt. You could easily run a logging-free DoH server for anyone to use, also. There's no lock-in here, and I can't see any way that lock-in could be introduced later, either.
Unless I’m missing something, there should be (3) these structures can be passed for evaluation immediately at runtime, linked to that runtime, including access to current activation record’s data, global symbols and so on. Without that, (1,2) is simply an ast transformer, and as far as I understand it, doesn’t count.

E.g.

var st = new IfStatement({
cond: new ArgExpr(1),
body: [
new AssignStatement({
dst: new LocalVar(‘a’),
src: new Constant(5),
})
]
})
st(true)
console.log(a) // 5

Both code and data may be a list, but also may be a struct/array hierarchy. With modern attitude though, eval(str) and non-local goto would seem as cute kittens when compared to this power.
An exercise that has you expend extra mental energy to think about your decisions results in you making better decisions. Duh.

I doubt the specifics of the exercise (thinking about it in the 3rd person) are all that important, except inasmuch as it takes more mental energy to think of yourself in the 3rd person.
From my experience, (Norwegian, but have spent a year or so in Germany over a couple of dozen visits), the Germans have found a quite good balance:

Drinking in public is OK.

Being drunk and a nuisance in public is not OK.

I wish we could adopt the same attitude back home - here in Norway you are likely to be fined for drinking in public (though the extent to which drinking is tolerated vary considerably from place to place), whereas you can be in a drunken stupor and mostly be left alone as long as you're not drawing a lot of attention to yourself.

Then again, our drinking habits are mostly a DDoS attack on law enforcement - everybody going out Friday and Saturday night at around midnight, bars close at 2:30-ish at which point thousands of drunk-as-can-be people crash onto the streets.
Your trial sounds expensive, maybe 50 times as expensive as the version where you just talk to people, for the same statistical power. So that's at least one reason not to do it.

And you still end up measuring something different from what you want. Just as in your theory about people committing to use their e-bike more when they've spent a lot of money on it, people behave differently when you give them things for free.
It's long been known that businesses that produce a lot of waste have lower profits. This is a large part of why businesses try to combat fraud, waste and abuse: For their financial health.

http://archive.knoxnews.com/business/companies-finding-less-...

I guess it's nice to see this well-known fact applied at a broader level. I haven't seen that before.

But it also makes me feel a bit like "We're dummies, no?" What pretty much everyone knows to be true at the micro level shouldn't be some kind of big news at the macro level, yet it is because everyone thinks capitalism is ruining the planet.
The non-teetotaler's bar... for getting drunk or otherwise mentally impaired.
The similar per unit (usually per g, per kg, per ml) pricing is a recent addition in UK shops, only in the last 2-3 years as I recall.

So while Sweden had this as a national law w/o EU pushing it, I rather suspect the UK now having the same is due to Single Market harmonisation - i.e. an EU rule. That is what the SM does.
Wonderful article, both content and style.

I’m in my early 30s and although I’m hardly lonely, I miss making new friends. The article makes me want to try visiting a few of my local bars more often.
How is this pseudoscience / anecdote loaded page relevant here?
I absolutely agree. Murray Bookchin did a lot of writing and activism about how to operate societies in an ecologically compatible way that also maximize freedom. See some of his writing on the subject here: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/libmu...
There used to be this thing called organised labour.
It seems that way at first. The problem is that each of those cannonballs is tethered to the canoe by a long bungee cord.
https://mate.bike/
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If we are a simulation of an advanced super being is it productive to anthropomorphize their desires? If a civilization is advanced enough to create our reality then they are living in higher dimensions and their motivations would likely be incomprehensible.
This statement implies 75% of federal judges haven't, so the odds are good.
Everyone's inner voice can be very vicious, as a lot of us (myself included) have internalized the outer critic (e.g. teachers, professors, parents, ...) into an inner critic to great success in some areas, such as our careers.

Perhaps practicing this habit (3rd-person self talk) so deliberately made this voice louder, but the way I dealt with this for myself was to journal. However, journaling is only possible if you use it as a CBT method. It can certainly make it worse if you use journaling to reinforce the negative internal vocalizations, a mistake I made for years when journaling.
> Your trial sounds expensive, maybe 50 times as expensive as the version where you just talk to people, for the same statistical power.

It is, especially if you do it with proper statistical power. Though I'm deeply convinced that it would do science a lot of good to do fewer more expensive, but meaningful trials instead of more meaningless ones.

Your concern is somewhat valid, as you can't "blind" the test, but by using similarly priced bikes you could at least cancel out a price bias. Still there might be a "new tech" bias towards e-bikes. But then we're at "this is the best we can do" and there are limitations of how good we can study things. The study quoted above is not even near trying to do that.
This reads like a BuzzFeed listicle. Vague references to unlinked studies, with no critical analysis. It's about as genuinely empirical as asking the local witchdoctor.

Edit: And it seems they're trying to sell some ebook "nutrition" guide for $20 a copy. This is garbage.
I wholeheartedly recommend the Waking Up meditation app by Sam Harris.

I’m not saying it will help, but not all approaches to meditation get the same result and this one might really address what you are experiencing.
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Almost bought it to operate a multiline BBS. The $99 price for a Unix like OS was astonishing. IIRC, my fellow SysOps and I ended up not going that route after contacting the company about the possibility of Coherent running PicoSpan and were told it likely wouldn't fit into the memory space. So we ended up using MajorBBS instead, which worked out fine.
My experience is that some churches are dying and some are growing. Unfortunately it's the ones I (and possibly you) would go to that are dying.

Churchgoers are moving from mainline Christian denominations to more extreme evangelical or fundamentalist denominations. Evangelicals have become a majority of all Protestants [1]. Generalizing, these churches are stridently political in character, and often have social beliefs unacceptable to most of us.

What we are seeing is many churches having reoriented themselves with respect to society: while before they were community meeting places in areas with nearly identical backgrounds and beliefs, now they define themselves in opposition to a diverse community and the changes it brings.

In other words, it's not just that people have abandoned churches (secularization); it's also that many churches have self-consciously abandoned their roles as third places.

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-1-the-changing-r...
There have been books written about these topics 100s of years ago, so that's why it's pretty well known.

Some describe that there are two voices, first is the thinker, second the proofer. The thinker thinks, the proofer proofs. But that's a very specific description.

What might be the difference is that some physically articulate and form words, whereas others keep it to their minds and thoughts, and many try to silence it entirely.

The book Siddhartha also gives this an interesting spin, although that's a novel.
Presumably you'd just not pay, and the non-compete, being illegal, would never make it to court?
I thought the article was really well-written, felt like a good mix of fact and emotion. I read it to the end which I don’t do with about 80% of HN stories...
The argument is that power dynamics (in their many forms) impair free will and therefore your ability to consent.
I'm not so sure...

Remember that the way they usually implement living will / vegetative state policies on these situations is to starve you to death, now bear in mind 'i was aware of everything'.
Perhaps it's time for a planet-wide referendum on whether to prove or disprove whether we're living in a simulation.
Ever heard of Tulpas? That would be an even more extreme version: https://tulpa.io/about
I had this discussion with my teenage child this week and neither of us are sure. Our state requires handsfree phone use but has the car touchscreen exception. Would operating Android Auto or CarPlay be illegal or does it fall under the allowed exceptions?
They didn't intend for it to be racist, that is the difference.

A few racist cops, or all racist robots, that is our choices, and it looks like we will be getting robots because of the outrage over a few people.
Their own letter undermines the very point they’re trying to make.

They say “there 144,000 internet users [ed: from where in the world?] on some of the worst dark-web child sexual abuse sites”.

Dark web. Tor. Not impacted by DNS over HTTPS whatsoever.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it was a couple of Harvard "scientists" who were paid by Big Sugar to put a knife in the back of cholesterol.
Sure, there is subjectivity in the ways researchers operationalize the concepts that they study. That doesn't mean that their research is not "real science". If the study is of sound design and the result is replicable, it ought to be called science.

Regarding the self-measurements influencing the results: the wisdom in the participants' reasoning (the dependent variable in the focal study) was evaluated by two independent hypothesis-blind raters. This seems like a pretty solid evaluation of the participants which should be immune to anything but the manipulation the researchers employed (the diary conditions). I am not sure what self-measurement you are concerned about.
I have one (but it was much more active when I was younger) and I found it very useful to go through reasonings.
However mine is not critical of me, it stops at pointing logical flaws in my reasonning (as others said, it might be a matter of self esteem).

Speaking with people who write, I found that roughly half of them can have a litteral chat with their caracters in their head, me included, I would not be surprised if it were correlated (people who cannot where chocked that it could be possible).
I don't think mental gymnastics are necessary. he's owner of an institution that has clearly played a huge role in his life, and that has been in his family for a long time. he strongly believes in the purpose of the business he runs, and the community that has formed within its walls. the purpose of the paragraph you quoted is to portray his own conflict with selling something that can be harmful. it doesn't sound like he's justifying his choices to me; it sounds like he's uncomfortable with the harm it's associated with, and is acknowledging it.

and as others have said, the neighborhood bar is unique in that the things you mention are things that people DO together, whereas the bar is a place where people simply BE together. I agree that those are places where you can make friends, but with those activities, what often happens is that mildly interested people come and go, and devotees form a hard social core that is difficult to penetrate. a bar--or a church, or elk's lodge or whatever--is a standing institution, whose main social function is community building of some kind.
Oh Renesas are ex-Hitachi; well that explains a lot how such a unfamiliar name is one of the top chip companies. Reminds me of the convoluted pattern where Motorola split into Freescale who were acquired by NXP who in turn are ex-Philips. Occasionally I feel the need for some sort of chart of the semi industry to keep track who is who.
Do you support corporations using their superior knowledge and cheaper capital to snuff competition?
"An enemy of an enemy is a friend."

As someone who uses HOSTS files and DNS-level blocking/MiTM proxy on my network to control what gets to my endpoints, I like how you think.
Isn't this the problem, why should it be down to you to challenge. If it's illegal why doesn't the government investigate and take the company to court?

If you get stabbed don't the police arrest the person and, the state try and convict them? They don't leave it to the victim to mount a case, surely?

A proper legal system would provide sufficient reward to make it always worthwhile to challenge companies _clearly_ abusing their power in that way.
This is why the Enterprise has buttons and sliders as its controls rather than immersive holographic displays.
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What if self awareness remains true as impossible to simulate but what is simulated is our physical reality?
commondreams.org is a propaganda outlet so it's not surprising.
The first thing to be cognizant of is that there isn't only one voice. And just because it comes from your mind doesn't mean that any of the voices are you.

The way that I view it, the brain is a cluster of neurons, but as you start to teach them to talk, sub-clusters start to talk. I view them as representatives in my mental congress (FWIW, I refer to myself as We when I discuss internally). Not all of these sub-clusters will agree, not all of them will be nice and most importantly none of them are you. You are the aggregate of them all.

The congress of your mind is not any of its representatives, and none of the representatives are the congress. Additionally, none of the representatives are smarter than the congress and the congress is not as smart as the smartest representative. The collective is more than the sum of its parts.

Every one has many parts of their mind that are toxic. Likewise there are many parts of your mind that are loving and generous. Those divergent sub-clusters of neurons don't get along and rarely agree. Like with good communication amongst people, the hard part is respecting those parts of your mind (even loving them as you might a toxic family member), allowing them to say their piece, acknowledging them without agreeing, and moving past their thought to more productive topics / view-points.

There are also parts of your mind that are not toxic, but they are negative. Its not always clear if negative leads to toxic or leads to benefit. For these, its helps a lot to reflect on their intention. For example, have you ever looked off a cliff or a tall building and "seen yourself falling"[1]? It can be easy to interpret that as being suicidal, however, digging deeper, while negative at first the intention is to save your life.

Allowing that thought to play out, you first feel the air, the cold rushing around you, eventually you get too close to the floor, or hit the floor, and the thought breaks. If you let it happen a few times, generally you'll find yourself still wanting the rush but find a better way to land. Can I hit the tree and live? Can I grab the power cables? What if I did a really cool roll? Eventually the pathways all converge and you always go splat. Then that part of your mind quiets, and it is clear to see the intention was to save you. And if you ever find yourself playing out a thought a few times and its generally toxic, flag it and apply the strategy for toxic instead.

I hope that was less of a ramble and ideally helpful.

[1] For the record this is very human, a lot of my very healthy friends and I all have this reaction, and it is not something to worry about at all.
Businesses so successful that they have no need to do anything weird to their employees are super rare. And non-competes are one of those things that very weakly impact a bottom line. So some Darwinian process with cities and companies or whatever is never going to select for, "No noncompetes."

The bigger question is if you really believe that the "laboratories" / Darwinian process of cities and regulations and states and whatever idea in the first place. It's a conjecture by some credible, mainstream public intellectuals. The biggest evidence for it is cities/states accommodating tax avoidance, which so directly affects the bottom line that it's basically an apples-to-oranges comparison with anything less concrete like non-competes.
I will never forget the first green beans I ate from a farmers market picked the day before at the height of bean season. Wow, so sweet, so yummy. I grew up eating canned green beans. Ugh, what a travesty that is.
I gave up tracking the delay a while ago but I think the macOS and iOS packages were lagging by six months at one point. Heck, even now the last commit with actual code [1] is over two months old yet the macOS app updated two days ago for me.

Uncommented code is dumped into the GitHub repo every couple of months after enough people complain. That's not what I would call open source.

[1] https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift/commits/master
"E-Bikes are relatively expensive. So if you buy an E-Bike you're probably relatively determined to actually use it."

Seems like you have the blueprint for the "perfect" counter-study: compare e-bikers only to people who spent about as much on a conventional bicycle and you select for moderate fitness nerds who will routinely output more power than e-bike and e-biker together and spend many hours per week training. The results will go through the roof in favor of conventional bikes! Utterly skewed, but nominally apples to apples.
⌘⌃D -- looks up whatever word the cursor is hovering over or whatever text has been selected. Works system-wide except (irritatingly) in Microsoft Office.
Single most important line:
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